"A Review of the Lethal Spiny Lobster Virus PaV1 - Ten Years After Its " by Donald C. Behringer, Mark J. Butler IV et al.
In 1999, we discovered that juvenile Caribbean spiny lobsters (Panulirus argus) in the Florida Keys were infected with PaV1 (Panulirus argus virus 1), the first naturally occurring pathogenic virus reported from lobsters. The virus profoundly affects their biology and ecology. PaV1 is probably wide-spread in the Caribbean with confirmed infections from the United States (Florida), St Croix, Mexico, and Belize; and anecdotal reports from the Bahamas and Cuba. Mean prevalence in the Florida Keys has been stable since 1999 (5 - 8%), but has risen from 2.7% to 10.9% in Mexico (Puerto Morelos), the only other country where it has been studied extensively. The disease is most prevalent (> 15%) in the smallest juveniles lobsters (< 20 mm carapace length) and declines in prevalence among larger juveniles and adults. Although adults do not present the characteristic signs of this disease, they can harbor the virus with PCR-confirmed infections of adult, fishery-caught lobsters of 11 and 50% in Florida and Belize, respectively. The virus is lethal; infected lobsters die over one to several months with more rapid mortality for small juveniles. Infected lobsters become increasingly sedentary and cease feeding, often dying of metabolic exhaustion. Routes of viral transmission include ingestion, contact, and for early benthic juveniles, transmission through seawater over a few meters. Recent studies show that PaV1 is not viable in seawater for more than a few days, but larvae and postlarvae can be carriers over potentially long distances. Lobster ecology is dramatically altered during the course of infection. Prior to infectiousness, healthy lobsters avoid diseased lobsters, presumably reducing their risk of infection and resulting in infected juvenile lobsters dwelling alone rather than in groups. Avoidance results in increased shelter competition between healthy and diseased lobsters, with greater predation on the increasingly lethargic and solitary infected lobsters. Little is known about the prevalence or impact of PaV1 outside of Mexico and the United States, but the disease threatens fisheries throughout the pan-Caribbean range of P. argus. Marine diseases are emerging at an accelerated rate and the tools and knowledge that we develop through the study of diseases such as PaV1 will be invaluable in addressing future epizootics.
Behringer, D.C., Butler IV, M.J., & Shields, J.D. (2010). A review of the lethal spiny lobster virus PaV1 - Ten years after its discovery. Proceedings of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute, 62, 370-375.
Behringer, Donald C.; Butler, Mark J. IV; and Shields, Jeffrey D., "A Review of the Lethal Spiny Lobster Virus PaV1 - Ten Years After Its Discovery" (2009). Biological Sciences Faculty Publications. 80.


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Q: How do ligature icons work in Material Icons? Using Material Icons, a plus icon can be added as follows:
add

The text add is no longer visible. Why does this happen and where does the plus icon come from? I know it's defined in the font file, but how?
If it's due to the word add linked with the plus icon in the font file, then why doesn't the following work in Bootstrap, with its Glyphicons?
\20ac

A: Material Icons. It is possible in a font to define special glyphs for combinations of characters. An example in English is the glyph æ, which is a combination of a and e. This is called a ligature. Other examples are special renderings of ff, ft and tt. Instead of drawing an f followed by another one, the two glyphs are drawn as a single connected glyph: f f versus ff. What the designers of the Material Icons set did is (ab)using this system to make it easy to use icons.
Let's take a step back for a moment. You'll notice in the usage of the add icon that it is possible to include it by directly using a character code that is mapped, in the font, to the correct icon.


This refers to Unicode character U+E145, which falls in one of the Private Use Area blocks of the Unicode specification. This means that no character is usually assigned to this position and every font designer is free to put any glyph they want at that position. Google chose to put the add icon at that spot. Thus, this character, with font family Material Icons, will render as a nice icon.
In addition to that, they created a ligature in their font family that says that the combination of characters add should be rendered as the same glyph. When browsers support ligatures in their font rendering engine, this will result in the same output as using &#xE145 would.
Google documents this very briefly as well.
In a nutshell: both  (U+E145) and the string add will render as  when using Material Icons.

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons"
      rel="stylesheet">
As character: .

As ligature: add.

Boostrap and Glyphicons. The Glyphicons font does not define ligatures, but referencing the correct characters definitely does work. This is exactly what Bootstrap does, by setting (for the plus icon from Glyphicons) content: "\002b";. This sets the content of the span it is applied on to the character represented by the escaped code point U+002B, which is the plus sign. The Glyphicons Halflings font family renders this as some sort of icon, just like Material Icons. The only difference is that the icon is represented by a different character.
Why does using \002B in a span not work, you ask? That's because escaping a Unicode character in CSS is different than in HTML. In HTML, you'd use + instead (or € to get the example you have in your question). You can read more about escaping here.
Thus, + (U+002B) renders as  and € (U+20AC) renders as  when using the Glyphicons Halflings font family. You'll notice that for the Glyphicons, they chose to use characters resembling the icons, whereas Material Icons use special, reserved characters.

<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
+ €

A: EXPLANATION
When you strip all the technical information, the answer is really quite straightforward, the font file incorporates a few tables amongst which:

*

*[MANDATORY] the list of characters

*[MANDATORY] the hexadecimal codes of those characters

*[OPTIONAL] one or more aliases/alternative names for those characters

The one or more aliases/alternative names are the 'ligatures' you are referring to and reside in the font file.
Essentially, when using a character/icon from a font file with ligatures, we have the option to use

*

*the 'regular' hexadecimal code: &#xxxx;

*or the alternative/alias/ligature name: ligature-name or alias
That is probably all the important info for a web designer to know.

EXTRAS
Go to CSS-Tricks: How do ligature icons work... to see usage examples and a brief explanation.
And if you want to mess around with your own icon font files I suggest you start using the IcoMoon APP:

*

*start the APP, select an icon and select 'generate font' (bottom right)

*Enable display of ligatures with the 'show ligatures'-button (top left 3rd button)

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Q: nginx-ingress 403 when accessing gRPC api running on http:*:80 without TLS I'm trying to access a gRPC api running begind nginx-ingress. gRPC is running on port 80 without TLS. Here is my ingress configuration:
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: ${AUTH_API_IMAGE}-ingress
  annotations:
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/backend-protocol: "GRPC"
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/grpc-backend: 'true'
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: "true"
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
    cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: letsencrypt
spec:
  ingressClassName: nginx
  tls:
  - hosts:
    - ${AUTH_API_HOST_NAME}
    secretName: ${AUTH_API_IMAGE}-tls-secret
  rules:
  - host: ${AUTH_API_HOST_NAME}
    http:
      paths:
      - path: /
        pathType: ImplementationSpecific
        backend:
          service:
            name: ${AUTH_API_IMAGE}
            port:
              number: 80

Anyone has any idea what the issue can be ?


Mondo Solitaire's beautiful, crisp graphics let you easily identify your cards and assess your current move, and it plays as beautiful as it looks.
Lest you think solitaire is old sauce, consider that solitaire is actually the most popular computer game in the world, and variants have been bundled on Windows since Windows 3.0. It's time for Mac users to get their due!
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This girl always is. She is nursing just as much as always, eating an ice cube of puree everyday, and has started munching on banana in this nifty little fresh food feeder from munchkin. The other morning while I was trying to keep her occupied, she ate almost a half a banana before Andrew made me quit feeding her. I wouldn't recommend letting her eat while you are though, not unless you aren't grossed out by baby slobber banana goo. It is so fun to introduce different tastes and textures to Scout, she is completely enthralled by food. We just got a tray for her bumbo seat and I'm excited to start giving her pieces of food for her to explore at her own rate.


Creamy Herbed Cauliflower Soup. Organic. Vegan.
Organic Cauliflower. I'll admit that I often avoid buying cauliflower simply because it looks a tad intimidating. Giant. White. Lumpy. Hard. And sometimes I talk myself out of buying it by saying: "well if I'm buying a cruciferous floret-containing veggie - I'll just buy broccoli. It's healthy green and easy." But when I saw this fresh, beautiful organic cauliflower on sale at Whole Foods, I decided to give in and make a creamy cauliflower soup - a perfect dinner on a chilly night.
"Cauliflower and other cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, cabbage, and kale, contain compounds that may help prevent cancer. These compounds appear to stop enzymes from activating cancer-causing agents in the body, and they increase the activity of enzymes that disable and eliminate carcinogens." They also comment that cauliflower may assist in the detoxification process. Read more about cauliflower's health benefits on WHFoods.
1. Place large soup pot on stove over med-high heat. Add EVOO.
2. Add chopped onion and saute for a minute.
3. Add in chopped potato.
4. Turn up heat and add in ACV, veggie broth, soy milk and chopped cauliflower. Add cauliflower in broken crumbled pieces. Cover with lid or foil and allow soup to 'steam cook' cauliflower for about 4 minutes.
5. When cauliflower and potatoes are tender, add in your dried herbs, pepper, mustard and maple syrup. Fold these items into the soup - let cook for another minute.
6. Turn off heat and remove pot from stove. Transfer soup to a large mixing bowl to cool for a few minutes.
7. While soup mixture is cooling, turn stove back on. Place your soup pot back on medium heat. Add your roux liquids and whisk in the liquid bit by bit. Try not to create clumps. When all the flour has dissolved into liquid to form a thick liquid, add in the saffron strands. Turn off heat, and set aside.
8. Carefully transfer soup mixture to a high speed blender - blend in batches - not all at once. I blended the soup in three separate batches. NOTE: You will add the parsley and optional nuts/seeds directly to the blender to blend with the soup.
9. In the last batch of soup you blend, add the roux. Then combine all the blended soup and fold gently. Eat at once, store in the fridge or pour soup back into soup pot to simmer until ready to serve.
Note: When re-heating, you may want to add a bit more soy milk or veggie broth to thin out the soup.


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RPG-a-Day 2021: Scenario
August 1, 2021 Ken Newquist Games, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2021
When I think of scenarios, I think of conventions. I think tightly focused, 3-4 hour-long sessions, usually with pre-generated characters and flexible, but straightforward, story arc.
I find scenario writing a very different exercise from prepping for my weekly campaign-style games. Most of our campaigns have been heavily serialized, with overarching stories that continue on from week to week. Even our more episodic adventures tend to take multiple sessions to complete. From a practical perspective, this means I don't need to write the whole adventure in one go, and the story itself tends to evolve over time. If nothing else, I know that I've got a lot of runway with which to work.
With scenarios, I still have a story, but the runway is very short. I know I've got 3-4 hours in which to bring the scenario to a satisfying conclusion. That means the plot should be straightforward and easy for players to pick up; players won't have a session to go fishing for clues. A good scenario should still be flexible – I've had ones that go in completely unexpected directions – but at the same time, everyone at the table comes to it knowing there's a story to be found.
Another challenge with scenarios are characters. In my regular campaign, the players bring their own characters. I've got a pretty good idea of what they're trying to accomplish, but I'm not the one providing their motivation. With a scenario, that's different.
For some games and scenarios, you can let the players handle it. If character creation is straightforward enough, you can allocate 15 minutes to start of the game for people to quickly build out their PCs. You can also invite people to bring their own characters which might work for a popular game like Dungeons & Dragons or Shadowrun but in my experience, it's problematic. People come to the table with widely varying characters that may or may not be appropriate for the scenario, and power levels can vary greatly even within the same level.
What I typically do (and typically underestimate how long it will take) is build pre-gen characters. At its simplest, these can be barebones characters – just stats and feats, with no background – but I rarely go that route. I'm much more likely to build out six to eight characters, each with at least a limited background, motivations, and connections to other characters (and the plot). This helps jump-start role-playing at the table and makes for a more compelling scenario, but it's time-consuming.
It's even more time-consuming when I'm running a new game. Suddenly I'm not just learning the rules to run the game, but also to build the characters and understand how they'll interact with those self-same rules. It helps develop a better understanding of the game, but it adds to development and writing time.
Truth be told though, it's been years since I wrote a scenario. My last one was SG-13: Double Tap, a Savage Worlds-based one-shot set in the Stargate SG-1 universe that I ran at MEPACON 2017 (our local gaming convention).
I got gun shy about running convention scenarios after that – not because it went badly (folks really enjoyed it) but because it took so much time to put together.
And it wasn't just the SG-13 scenario; I was working on two more adventures at the same time: a Pirates of the Spanish Main adventure for Savage Worlds and a Hollow Earth Expedition scenario. Those ended up not running, but I was prepping them up until the night before the con. Despite having written plenty of scenarios in the past, I completely underestimated how little time I'd have to work on the scenarios for this particular con. My daily life had changed from when my kids were young; we suddenly had all manner of additional commitments that ate into my scenario-writing time. It turned writing these adventures into a stress-filled slug.
That said … four years (and one pandemic) later, I'm itching to get back to game conventions in all their real-world glory … and get back to writing convention scenarios. There lots of games I want to play – Fate, Kids on Bikes, Monster of the Week, Alien, Tales from the Loop – that lend themselves to one-shot convention adventures.
I can see a few ways to make this easier (and more fun) for me:
Focus on games that require less character prep. Lightweight games like Fate or Tales from the Loop would be far easier to
Get lazy. Borrowing from Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master, I'd scale back my scenario writing to just what I need to run it, relying more on improv at the table to carry the game forward.
Run one game, not three. Maybe when the kids go to college I can go back to running three games in a weekend at conventions, but that won't be for a while. For now, I need to find one game that I'm interested in and run that.
This post is part of RPG a Day 2021, a month-long celebration of role-playing games. Join the Facebook community to learn more or read other Nuketown posts in this series.
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A few of the role-playing games that were mentioned in this post. Credit: Ken Newquist.
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COGNETA.ai is a cloud cyber security company I've been building over the last year. My goal with COGNETA.ai is multi-cloud cyber attack anomaly detection and attack correlation. COGNETA uses flow logs, threat logs, threat intel, and on-prem firewall logs (depending on use case) as data sources. One of the most important tasks I must execute on is customer traction. With traction, anything is possible. Early user traction produces strong funding numbers that make it worth you and your team's extreme effort it will take to make a successful exit. Otherwise we are all signing up for dilution.
There's little possibility for me (as a first time technical founder) to obtain funding unless I have users. I don't have a fancy name, family, or prior company I built to show a VC to obtain funding. How do I fix that? I need to learn how to gain early traction. How do you learn to obtain traction? You learn how to get your companies name out. I have built a cyber security cloud tool with Cogneta.ai, but it's useless if I don't have users. Without users, I can't prove I have a great tool, all I have is my favorite idea that I've spent hundreds of hours building.
That's how hacker finance started. This is a place to kill my favorite ideas You'll notice a lot of this website is rough. I'm not seeking perfection, but delivery. This website is a place to throw out my ideas, test the readership feedback on a topic. If I see a peak, I can spinoff a website where interested people can signup to be an early beta customer. I'll learn how to advertise along the way and drive traffic/eyeballs to those new startup ideas. If I gain early signups, I'll know it's worth pursuing the idea. Many successful serial entrepreneurs use this strategy. I'm missing a link in the puzzle, which is driving eyeballs to a new idea. The hackerfinance.com website I've done zero advertising for and obviously, zero eyeballs have been here. Over time I will learn how to get eyeballs here and will leverage the techniques I learn on every new startup idea I have. Then when one clicks and I have signed up users, we can move into business creation phase. Focusing on the one thing to make those users happy.
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// lights up the night with music, comedy and dance.
Blak Cabaret / is our star-studded gala to unleash Season 2015. A raucous addition to Southbank's inaugural SummerSalt Outdoor Arts Festival, we invite you to join us for a night of sparkling variety that assembles some of Australia's finest Indigenous musicians, comedians and dancers on stage in our forecourt and under the stars.
During the warm nights of February, Malthouse Theatre is hosting an open-air fiesta, with a pre-show barbeque, cabaret table-style seating and an outdoor bar that will keep the good times flowing throughout the night.
Fresh from a sold-out season at Sydney Festival, the unstoppable diva Constantina Bush (Kamahi Djordon King, The Shadow King) flips Australia's history on its head and blazes onto the stage as a forgotten queen from a distant land, taking no prisoners and claiming this terra nullius as her own.
And she's bringing with her blak royalty. Join Constantina and a host of Australia's most celebrated radicals including Kutcha Edwards, Deline Briscoe, Nikki Ashby, Bart Willoughby and Emma Donovan for an uproarious and subversive party that / lights up the night with music, comedy and dance.
Constantina Bush is not afraid to push the boundaries … Her demeanour – totally unaffected by her own jokes - was similar to that of Kim from Kath and Kim, and so too was the feigned ignorance to her own inappropriateness.
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Outdoor BBQ from 6pm (see menu).
Book a table of six and enjoy two bottles of premium wine on the house. Tables bookings via Box Office on 03 9685 5111.
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Feature Film Program
Desolation Center
Online sales are closed. You can purchase tickets at the box office starting at 7 PM!
$16 online or at the door
Add to Calendar 08/15/2019 07:45 PM 08/15/2019 11:30 PM America/New_York [Rooftop Film] Desolation Center More detail: https://www.rooftopfilms.com/event/desolation-center/ Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood, Brooklyn
Thu Aug 15 7:45 PM
The untold story of anarchic punk-rock desert happenings that sent reverberations through our culture.
Following the screening, there will be a live performance by Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) with suspended electric guitar, accompanied by the projected films of Leah Singer!
Stuart Swezey | US | 94
Desolation Center is the untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla music and art performance happenings in Southern California, recognized as the inspirations for Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella, paving the way for these collective experiences that have become a crucial part of alternative culture in the 21st century. The feature documentary combines interviews and rare performance footage of Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Swans, Redd Kross, Einstürzende Neubauten, Survival Research Laboratories, Savage Republic and more; documenting a time when pushing the boundaries of music, art, and performance felt almost like an unspoken obligation. Directed by the creator and principal organizer of the events, Stuart Swezey, Desolation Center is the true story of how the risky, and at times even reckless, actions of a few outsiders can unintentionally lead to seismic cultural shifts.
Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer
Lee Ranaldo and Leah Singer have worked together since 1991, combining film and music in a live setting. In recent works Sight Unseen and Contre Jour Lee explores "suspended electric guitar phenomena" and Leah's film frames interact with live shadow play. Image and sound, the drone of a guitar string, the flash of a film frame. Lee Ranaldo co-founded Sonic Youth in 1981, and has been active on the New York music and art scene for the past 35 years as composer, performer and producer; also exhibiting visual art and publishing several books of journals and poetry. His next LP Names of North End Women, a collaboration with Raul Refree, will be released in October 2019 on Mute Records. In addition to his own albums, recent collaboarative albums have been released with Jim Jarmusch, France's HiFi Klub, Greek band The Callas, and Brooklynites Oneida. Live performances with partner Leah Singer, Contre Jour, have been large scale, multiprojection sound+light events with suspended electric guitar phenomena that challenge the usual performer/audience relationship. Lee was a music producer for HBO's Martin Scorcese-Mick Jagger produced VINYL series in 2015-16. His artwork has been exhibited internationally. Hurricane Transcriptions (based on wind recordings made during Hurricane Sandy in NYC in 2012), originally written for Berlin's Kaleidoscop String Ensemble, has subsequently been performed by Sydney's Ensemble Offspring and by Brooklyn's Dither Electric Guitar Quartet at Lincoln Center in 2015. His most recent book is Some Writings on Music and Musicians. Lee is a longtime TriBeCa resident in New York City. Leah Singer is best known for her experimental films and videos, which are projected live in collaboration with musicians. She has performed at Centre George Pompidou, Reykjavik Arts Festival, The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Rotterdam Film Festival among many others. A selection of her work is part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Ubu Web archive and has recently been chosen to screen at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Her multi-disciplinary approach extends to practices in printmaking, publishing, photography and sculpture. Her self-published newspaper series of silhouette imagery called, copy, is collected by institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art, NY and has led to commissions from Nike for a running map of Central Park and artist billboards in Los Angeles supporting a local arts organization. Originally from Canada, she works and lives with her family in New York City.
Parlor Walls
Parlor Walls swim between chaos and restraint, straddling the line ofpost-punk and avant-garde and something else entirely. Alyse Lamb's guitar churns a thick anthem as she belts and commands the stage at full throttle (think Wire's playful ache coupled with Siouxsie Sioux's understated angst). Drums and synth propel, both delivered in tandem by Christopher Mulligan. One limb cranks industrial riffs while the other catapults dancing beats. Together the duo deliver a heavy dose of colorful, rhythmic urgency intended to push, pull, shake and ignite.
Live Music from Parlor Walls
Film Begins
Q&A with filmmaker Stuart Swezey, Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), and Bob Bert (Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Lydia Lunch Retrovirus, Wolfmanhattan Project)
Live Performance by Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) accompanied by the projected films of Leah Singer
After-Party
No refunds. Seating is first come, first served. In the event of rain, show will be rescheduled. No outside alcohol is permitted.
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Detroit Pistons Season Preview
Pistons Positional Breakdown: The Point Guards
The Pistons have a returning familiar face at point guard as well as a couple of newcomers.
By Justin Lambregtse@JLambregtse Oct 10, 2019, 12:00pm EDT
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Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports
The Pistons have long been a team that lives and dies by their point guards. When Reggie Jackson and Ish Smith were both healthy, which has not been very often the last few seasons, the team has played their best basketball. Whatever your thoughts are on Reggie Jackson and Ish Smith as players, they formed a very solid point guard rotation the last few seasons and replacing Ish Smith's departure was going to be tough.
Luckily, the Pistons were able to sign Derrick Rose to replace Ish Smith and Tim Frazier to replace Jose Calderon as the third point guard.
Reggie Jackson: The Known Commodity
At this point, most of you know what you are getting from Reggie Jackson. He is a player that thrives with the ball in his hands and is able to attack the defense with his solid handle and is always looking to score. He leaves a lot to be desired in the distribution department and defensively.
However, last season Reggie Jackson added a wrinkle to his game that allows him to fit with Blake Griffin better, that is catch-and-shoot shooting. He shot 39.6 percent on catch-and-shoot 3s last season on 3.9 attempts per game. Catch-and-shoot 3s also comprised 30.9 percent of his 3-point field goal attempts last season.
This allows him to play more of a secondary ball handler role with Blake Griffin as the primary ball handler, and allows him to fit the best with Blake Griffin in the starting lineup.
How Derrick Rose fits with Reggie Jackson
Dwane Casey is a coach who loves his point guards, so it is not only important to have multiple point guards who can be relied on, but also point guards that will be able to play together. Although it is not a perfect fit, especially defensively, Derrick Rose and Reggie Jackson should be able to play together. They both thrive with the ball in their hands, but Reggie Jackson showed last season that he can take more of an off-the-ball role with his ability to knock down catch-and-shoot 3s. That allows Rose to have the ball in his hands and Reggie Jackson to play a similar role he had while playing with Blake Griffin as the primary initiator. However, the viability of all three players playing together is questionable because there is only one basketball on the court.
Although Rose and Smith are not the same kind of player, he should be an upgrade over Smith. Both players are change of pace point guards who thrive with the ball in their hands. While Ish Smith is more of a distributor, Derrick Rose is more of an offensive threat who should thrive off the bench as the primary scorer. He probably won't push the pace as much as Ish Smith, but it'll be close, and Rose still be a change of pace from the more methodical Jackson.
Rose is also bigger Ish Smith, as he is listed at 6-foot-3. This should allow Rose to handle bigger guards better than Smith could and allow Jackson and Rose to play in the same backcourt and still be able to switch defensively. Dwane Casey loved his two point-guard lineups, and now he has the ability to do it in Detroit. The Rose and Jackson duo could even finish a lot of games this season.
If you look at Rose in a vacuum and ignore the potential for injury, you are getting a dynamic scorer who is a far better player than Smith, which improves the point guard rotation overall.
How Tim Frazier fits with the team
Although Reggie Jackson was able to play all 82 games last season, he still has a shaky injury history. As many of you know, Derrick Rose also has a storied career in injury rehab and the trainer's room. This is where Tim Frazier comes in. The Pistons have had issues in the past when one of Jackson or Smith were injured because they did not have a reliable third point guard.
The rotating gauntlet of bad third point guards includes the likes of Dwight Buycks, Jose Calderon, and Jameer Nelson. Tim Frazier is a player who has been around the league for a while, but has also spent a lot of time as a backup point guard. He should have no issues with stepping in if either of Jackson or Rose get hurt.
Frazier spent time with both Milwaukee and New Orleans last season as a backup point guard, he even started 17 games for New Orleans. His numbers were nothing special, but he shot 35% from 3-point range with New Orleans and 42% with Milwaukee. He can hit a few threes, run the offense (4.2 assists per game last season), and most importantly, not get run off the court while out there.
Overall, the Pistons point guard rotation is improved from last season. Simply having Frazier as the third point guard already made the rotation better, but a healthy Rose is also an upgrade over Smith. If the Pistons can get a repeat of last year's performance out of Reggie Jackson, especially his 2nd half numbers where he looked a lot healther, they should have a very good point guard rotation.
One thing that will be missed is Ish Smith's speed with the ball. He was not afraid to get out and run and it overcame some of the Pistons deficiencies in shot creating from their bench unit. Even if Derrick Rose is not able to replicate the speed that Ish Smith would play with, his ability to create his own shot should be beneficial off the bench and alleviate some of the issues with playing a bit slower.
The big knock on the Pistons rotation is obviously health. Derrick Rose has a history of random nagging injuries during the season, and outside of last season Reggie Jackson is in the same boat. If the Pistons are able to get a combined 150 games out of Derrick Rose and Reggie Jackson, they could have one of the better point guard rotations in the league and have a solid position for the playoffs. If both players struggle with injuries, it could be a long season in the D.
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Kuznetsk () is a town in Penza Oblast, Russia, located in the foothills of the Volga Upland, mainly on the left bank of the Truyov River. Population:

Administrative and municipal status
Within Russia's framework of administrative divisions, Kuznetsk serves as the administrative center of Kuznetsky District, even though it does not form a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the town of oblast significance of Kuznetsk—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the town of oblast significance of Kuznetsk is incorporated as Kuznetsk Urban Okrug.

History

 founded the settlement of Truyovo on the river  in 1699. It became known as Truyovo-Voskresenskoe and then as Naryshkino. An ukaz of Catherine II renamed the village as Kuznetsk in November 1780.

Twin towns and sister cities

Kuznetsk is twinned with:
 Gyula, Hungary (1970)
 Dimitrovgrad, Russia (1972)

References

Notes

Sources

Cities and towns in Penza Oblast
Kuznetsky Uyezd (Saratov Governorate)
Populated places established in 1618
1618 establishments in Russia

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Q: How to know the common characters in two Strings dart I want to compare two Strings either they contain similar characters to print the number of common characters

A: To find out the common characters between two strings you can use the below method,
void findCommonCharacters(){
    var str="geeksforgeeks";
    var str2="platformforgeeks";

    Set<String> uniqueList={};
    for(int i=0;i<str.length;i++){
      if(str2.contains(str[i])){
        uniqueList.add(str[i]);
        print("val : ${str[i]}");
      }
    }
  }

This will give you the common characters between the two strings.

Also, to match characters of one String with another you can use default methods of String like contains(), startswith() and endswith() method.

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Abstract : Predicting Quality of Experience (QoE) of end users from available network Quality of Service (QoS) measurements is of significant importance for today's network and content providers. This can be achieved by using application-specific QoE models that map the network QoS to the output QoE. QoS-QoE models can be built by training supervised machine learning algorithms with training data consisting of the mappings of the input network QoS to the output QoE. In most ML works on QoE modeling, the training data is usually gathered in the wild inside the core of the service or the content provider networks. However, such data is not easily accessible to the general research community. Consequently, the training data if not available before hand, needs to be built up by controlled experimentation. Here, the fundamental challenge is the sheer amount of time consumed in collecting the datasets needed to model the QoE. Considering this problem, we present here a framework of controlled experimentation based on active learning, that allows collecting rich datasets covering the experimental space intelligently. We perform a rigorous analysis of our approach and demonstrate the performance improvement over conventional pool based uncertainty sampling for a particular use case of YouTube video streaming.


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Jon Klassen  (born November 29, 1981) is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books and an animator. He won both the American Caldecott Medal and the British Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration, recognizing the 2012 picture book This Is Not My Hat, which he also wrote. He is the first person to win both awards for the same work.

This Is Not My Hat is a companion to Klassen's preceding picture book, I Want My Hat Back (2011), which was his first as both writer and illustrator. Both books were on the New York Times Best Seller list for more than 40 weeks; by April 2014 one or the other had been translated into 22 languages and they had jointly surpassed one million worldwide sales. Both books were recommended for children ages 5+ by the Greenaway judges. Klassen's "hat" trilogy was completed with the publication of We Found a Hat (2016).

Early life and education
Klassen was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1981 and grew up in Niagara Falls and Toronto, Ontario. He studied animation at Sheridan College, graduated in 2005, and moved to Los Angeles.

Career
In 2005, he made an animated short with Daniel Rodrigues, An Eye for Annai. He worked on animation of the feature films Kung Fu Panda (2008) and Coraline (2009) and he was art director for the 2009 animated music video of "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" by U2.

In 2010, Klassen achieved international recognition when he was awarded the Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration for his work on the picture book Cats' Night Out, written by Carolyn Stutson. He also illustrated The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood, the first novel in a HarperCollins series called The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place along with the second and third, and the first edition hardcover of the fourth novel in the series.

His first solo picture book was I Want My Hat Back, published by Candlewick Press in September 2011. It features a bear looking for his hat, who finally finds it and then off-page eats the rabbit who stole it. The New York Times Book Review named it one of the "10 Best Illustrated Children's Books for 2011". The book was published in September by Candlewick Press. Klassen said of the ending, which has been called a "subversive risk", that "there was no other way for it to end". It achieved considerable commercial success, and even became an internet meme when people started "posting their own versions of the story". Pamela Paul praised the book in review for The New York Times: "it is a wonderful and astonishing thing, the kind of book that makes child laugh and adult chuckle, and both smile in appreciation ... [it is] a charmingly wicked little book and the debut of a promising writer-illustrator talent." According to the Chicago Tribune, "the joy of this book lies in figuring out the explicit plot from the implicit details in the pictures." There has been some discussion of the ending, however: is it appropriate in a children's book that one character kills another without repercussion? A bookseller, who "need[ed] to go on record as saying I LOVE this book", reported that some customers love it until they turn the last pages. It was a runner-up for the American Geisel Award (books for beginning readers) and made the Greenaway shortlist.

Klassen modified the story in a companion book one year later, This Is Not My Hat (Candlewick, 2012). It features a little fish who steals and wears the hat of a big fish, whom the little one evades until the last pages. Finally the big fish swims back into the book, wearing the hat, with no sign of the thief. This one won the Caldecott and Greenaway Medals, from the American and British professional librarians respectively. According to the award committee, "With minute changes in eyes and the slightest displacement of seagrass, Klassen's masterful illustrations tell the story the narrator doesn't know." Klassen was also awarded with a Caldecott Honor that same year for Extra Yarn, only the second time that has happened. The Greenaway recognizes "distinguished illustration in a book for children", not necessarily a picture book. According to the British judges, "The format and layout work perfectly to convey the underwater location with the movement of the action flowing with the water from left to right. ... The juxtaposition of text and image works with perfect comic timing. Amazing expression is conveyed by the eyes and dramatic tension by little bubbles." The Greenaway is paired in a London announcement and presentation ceremony with the Carnegie Medal for children's literature, which recognized a controversially grim young-adult novel in 2014. According to the press release, "both winners independently argued that children benefit from stories without happy endings." Klassen said in his acceptance speech, "Making a book, you're kind of going out on a limb in the belief that what you think of as a satisfying story is the same as what other people think of as a satisfying story. This doesn't mean everything in the story turns out alright for everybody, but you, as a storyteller, try and make sure it ends the way the story should end."

Klassen illustrated The Dark (2013), written by Lemony Snicket, which made the Greenaway Medal shortlist of eight books alongside This Is Not My Hat.He teamed up with Mac Barnett again in 2014, on a picture book published by Candlewick, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole.

In 2019, I Want My Hat Back, This Is Not My Hat, and We Found a Hat were released in a boxed set by Candlewick Press as Jon Klassen's Hat Box.

Publications

As author and illustrator
 The Hat Trilogy
 I Want My Hat Back (Candlewick, Sep 2011),
 This Is Not My Hat (Candlewick, Oct 2012),
 We Found a Hat (Candlewick, Oct 2016),
 The Rock from the Sky (Candlewick, Apr 2021),

As illustrator
With Mac Barnett
 The Shape Trilogy
 Triangle (Candlewick, Mar 2017),
 Square (Candlewick, May 2018),
 Circle (Candlewick, Mar 2019),
 Extra Yarn (Balzer + Bray, a HarperCollins imprint, Jan 2012),
 Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (Candlewick, Oct 2014),
 The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse (Candlewick, Oct 2017),
 The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Orchard Books, Oct 2022),

Children's picture books illustrated
 Cats' Night Out, by Carolyn Stutson (Simon & Schuster, Mar 2010),
 House Held Up By Trees, by Ted Kooser (Candlewick, Mar 2012),
 The Dark, by Lemony Snicket (Little, Brown, Apr 2013),

Other books illustrated
 The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place – series of novels by Maryrose Wood (published by Balzer + Bray)
 Book I: The Mysterious Howling (Feb 2010),
 Book II: The Hidden Gallery (Feb 2011),
 Book III: The Unseen Guest (Mar 2012),
 Book IV: The Interrupted Tale (Dec 2013),
 (Book V: The Unmapped Sea (Apr 2015), , was illustrated by Eliza Wheeler)
 Vanished, by Sheela Chari (Hyperion, July 2011),
 The Watch that Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic, by Allan Wolf (Candlewick, Mar 2013),
 The Witch's Boy, by Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin, Sep 2014),
 The Nest, by Kenneth Oppel (Simon & Schuster, Oct 2015),
 Pax, by Sara Pennypacker (Balzer + Bray, Feb 2016),
 Skunk and Badger, by Amy Timberlake (Algonquin, Sep 2020),
 Pax, Journey Home, by Sara Pennypacker (Balzer + Bray, Sep 2021),
 Egg Marks The Spot, by Amy Timberlake (Algonquin, Sep 2021),

Awards
 2012 Honor, Irma Black Award
 2013 Honor, Irma Black Award
 2013 Honor, Caldecott Medal
 2013 Winner, Caldecott Medal
 2013 Winner, Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Best Picture Book
 2015 Winner, Irma Black Award
 2015 Honor, Caldecott Medal

Notes

References

External links

 Klassen at publisher Candlewick Press (Walker Books subsidiary)
 "I Want My Hat Back Book Trailer" – animation (video, YouTube, 5 July 2011)
 "An Eye for Annai" – animation (video, YouTube, 19 December 2005)
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1981 births
Caldecott Medal winners
American children's book illustrators
Artists from Winnipeg
Canadian animated film directors
Canadian children's book illustrators
Canadian children's writers
Film directors from Winnipeg
Governor General's Award-winning children's illustrators
Kate Greenaway Medal winners
Living people
Members of the Order of Canada
Sheridan College alumni
Writers from Winnipeg
Mennonite writers
Mennonite artists
Canadian Mennonites


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The holiday season is finally upon us. For us nerds, that mean new electronics, video games, and consoles! There were some pretty sweet Wii U, 3DS, and 2DS deals over the weekend too. Maybe you picked up a swanky new 3DS or 2DS for yourself or a loved one. Thinking of getting into Pokemon or introducing it to someone else, but don't know where to start? Don't worry, we're here to help!
The latest entries into the Pokemon series are the remakes of the Game Boy Advance games, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. Last year, Nintendo released Pokemon X and Y, which featured brand new Pokemon and a new region to house them. All four titles are current generation though and are the most up-to-date games. So, which one do you get? Naturally, I'd tell you to get at least one game from X/Y and OR/AS… but maybe you're on a budget and can only afford ONE game. This guide is for you.
Pokemon games are great in that they're perfect for almost any age. It's a simple enough RPG that anyone can pick it up and play with ease, but the underlying mechanics can make for a very complex and strategic game. If you're returning to Pokemon from your glory days on the Game Boy, you'll find that while much has changed, the overall mechanics have not. Your only real issue might be trying to tackle all those Pokemon (721), their types, and their strengths/weaknesses. Luckily, there are more than enough helpful guides to aid you if you get stuck.
For those returning to Pokemon, XY might be your best option. While these games take place in a new region and introduced 65 new Pokemon and the fairy type, they're really a re-imagining of the original games; going so far as to ensure you receive one of the original three starters early on in the game.
XY are very fast-paced games. The main story can be completed quickly, not only because it's short, but also because of how the map is arranged. Everything you do, for the most part, goes in order. You hop from town to town with very little confusion as to where you should be.
New mechanics, like Mega Evolution, are introduced… but never fully explored. You're eased into the concept of it so it doesn't feel overwhelming.
For those that want a more relaxed Pokemon game, check out Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. ORAS take place in the Hoenn region, which is covered by a lot of water. The path you're supposed to take isn't always a clear one, and that's okay.
ORAS, being remakes, feature most of the Pokemon from the Hoenn region. Most newer Pokemon, including fairy types, aren't really introduced until after the game is completed. So, if you want to get into Pokemon, but mostly ignore that other stuff, this might be your game.
There are new Mega Evolutions that are exclusive to ORAS.
ORAS feature nearly all legendary Pokemon available for capture, except those that are available to capture in XY; like Mewtwo and the Kanto birds.
ORAS not only features a main story, but there is a newly added Delta Episode afterwards that adds a few more hours worth of gameplay before you're actually complete.
Those are really the main differences. It's difficult for me to tell you to get one over the other. I loved XY when I played through them last year. The actual story, while incredibly short, is probably the more original and heart-wrenching ones. The starter Pokemon are all fairly awesome, and getting those Kanto ones early one made it even more exciting. The new Pokemon introduced, as well as Mega Evolutions blended a lot of the old with the new, but never felt overwhelming. However, once you're done, there isn't much to do aside from work on your meta game. With ORAS, it feels like a gentler game that doesn't want me to rush through it. You notice little things, like how the grass sways or the flocks of Pokemon that fly overhead. The story might be typical Pokemon, but it's at least fun to play through. The additional Megas, as well as the newly introduced Primal Reversion, make for a fun new element. There seems to be a lot to explore, especially now that I've completed the game. The map is crawling with places to explore. And if I guess correctly, there will probably be additional DLC later on to add more to the games.


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KNOWLEDGE REIGNS SUPREME™
"Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future."
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TRUTH HAS NO AGENDA
What is happening in this World: Yellowstone right now and other events
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Drugs By Design
Thanks to genetics, the pharmaceutical industry is exploding with new ideas
By Christine Gorman Monday, Jan. 11, 1999
It is the year 2025, and some things haven't changed. The sky is still blue. The Dow is poised to set another record. And Jose Rodriguez (Michigan State, class of '04) has just learned that he has colon cancer. But he's not too concerned. Thanks to the genetic revolution that swept over the pharmaceutical industry 30 years earlier, scientists have developed a variety of anticancer drugs that work far better, and with fewer side effects, than the old poison-and-burn treatments of the late 20th century.
The oncologist takes a few cells from Jose's tumor and places them on a microchip. Within minutes, the chip identifies five mutant genes that, like some kind of diabolical cheerleading squad, have pushed Jose's cancer to grow, grow, grow. Someday, perhaps soon, doctors will be able to fix the wayward genes themselves. Until then, they will have to rely on the next best thing: drugs developed by pharmaceutical firms that block the destructive messages generated by the errant genes. Jose's physician selects a combination of treatments that matches the tumor's genetic profile. Six months later, no trace of Jose's cancerous growth can be found.
That scenario is not as farfetched as it sounds. Talk to anyone in the pharmaceutical industry, and you'll soon discover that genetics is the biggest thing to hit drug research since a penicillium mold floated into Alexander Fleming's petri dish. Sure, scientists have long known genes play a role in almost every ailment from Alzheimer's to yellow fever. But it is only in the past few years that they've learned how to use that information to identify a multitude of new targets and pathways for drug design. Let's count the ways.
THE NEW MATH
Geneticists estimate that there are 2,000 to 5,000 genes that either cause, or predispose humans to, various diseases. In practical terms, that means there will be many, many more potential avenues of research than the entire pharmaceutical industry could possibly hope to investigate over the next 20 years. Each company has a different strategy for exploiting that bonanza, and most are more than happy to tell you what's wrong with the other guy's approach. But they all agree on a few key points:
–Drugs will be safer, more powerful and much more selective than ever before.
–Doctors will be able to consult your genetic profile to determine ahead of time whether you are more likely to respond to one type of medication or another.
–Computers and other digital technologies are going to play a much bigger role in evaluating new research and determining how patients should be treated.
To understand how this promising future might come to pass, it pays to review a little history. Back in the old days–which is to say just a few decades ago–the process of discovering a new drug was a lot like shooting a quiver of arrows into the air and then running around to see what they hit. Occasionally scientists would get lucky, as Fleming did in 1928, but most of their efforts were wasted.
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The odds started to improve in the 1970s and early '80s as researchers used recombinant-DNA technology to mix and match bits and pieces of hereditary material. Suddenly they had a front-row seat from which to watch genes direct the construction of RNA molecules, which in turn assembled proteins, enzymes and other biological molecules. Instead of shooting their research arrows into the air, drug companies could take aim at defined targets. Focusing on serotonin receptors in the brain, for example, led to the development of Prozac and its chemical cousins for the treatment of depression. Targeting histamine receptors in the stomach produced Tagamet and then Zantac to relieve acid indigestion.
By the 1990s, decades of work had led to the identification of 500 different biological targets for drugs. Thanks to the Human Genome Project, researchers expect to identify another 500 in just the next few years. Soon there will be more new targets than even the largest companies can handle. Then the trick will be to figure out which targets to go after first, and how.
One approach is to focus on the diseases that affect the most people–those associated with aging, say–and to do it by aiming for the targets that are the most accessible. That generally means designing a drug that affects the proteins and enzymes that sit on a cell's surface or in its cytoplasm, not the genes that code for those proteins and enzymes, which are usually tucked away in the protective nucleus of the cell. This is the strategy favored by such big, traditional drug companies as Merck, Pfizer and Novartis–though it is by no means the only game in town.
PLAYING WITH THE BIG BOYS
While the pharmaceutical giants are eager to exploit the latest genetic information to create new drugs, they don't see the need to reinvent the wheel completely. The medications they design will still be derived from chemical compounds, or "small molecules" in industry parlance, that happen to be biologically active. (In fact, most of the drugs developed over the past 100 years, from aspirin to Zoloft, are small molecules.) Among the advantages: small molecules aren't destroyed in the stomach, so they can be taken by mouth. Furthermore, they don't get noticed–or attacked–by the immune system. Two of the most active areas of small-molecule research are Alzheimer's disease and cancer.
In 1992 Dr. Allen Roses, then at Duke University and now at Glaxo Wellcome, discovered a link between a particular protein in the blood and the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. The protein, called apolipoprotein E, works like a cargo ship ferrying cholesterol around the body–a task that seems, at first glance, to have little to do with a degenerative condition in the brain. But 67% of Alzheimer's patients carry a gene that codes for one version of the protein, called apo E4, in contrast to 30% of healthy adults. So although most people with apo E4 never develop Alzheimer's, a significant fraction of them will.
Roses believes he won't have to figure out exactly why apo E4 increases the chances of developing Alzheimer's. As long as he can determine how the brain uses it differently from other versions of the protein, he should be able to develop a drug that either enhances or reduces that effect. The new drug may not be able to treat everyone with Alzheimer's, but at least it could help some.
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Finding a likely target, of course, doesn't guarantee success. Consider colon cancer: scientists believe at least three things have to go wrong for colon cancers to form. They liken the situation to a car accident. One of the genes that tells cells to divide (the accelerator) must get stuck in the "on" position. Another gene that tells cells to slow down (the brake) must be disabled. And the molecules that fix any mistakes in the DNA code (the repair crew) have to go on strike. In half of all colon cancers, the accelerator is a gene called ras, which makes a protein that stimulates cell growth. It was the ideal target for an anticancer drug.
Or so it seemed. "We banged our heads against the wall for 10 years," says Dr. Alan Oliff, head of cancer research at Merck. "We were on the verge of abandoning the project." Then Oliff's team realized something critical: the ras protein can't do its job until it has been activated by another enzyme called a farnesyl transferase. Maybe that would make a better target? Early word is that it does, but Merck won't publish the findings from its first human trials until sometime next year.
BUILDING A BETTER MOUSETRAP
Whereas traditional drug companies focus on developing chemical compounds, the biotech industry prefers to use biological ones–hormones, proteins and other substances that either already exist in the body or can be created from scratch. Examples include interferon, the clot buster tPA and the new breast-cancer drug Herceptin.
But even among the rarefied biotech elite, there are mavericks who think they have a better idea. They want to move one step closer to the gene by targeting the RNA molecules that transfer information from genes to proteins. And they have the perfect molecular tool with which to do it. By synthesizing strands of DNA that are the mirror image of the RNA they wish to block, researchers can produce a drug that is more specific than anything else on the market. Because it interrupts the "sense" that the cell is trying to make of the RNA molecule, the new technology is called, appropriately enough, anti-sense.
There are still some kinks to work out. For one thing, the body's own immune system often attacks the anti-sense DNA, mistaking it as a potentially harmful virus. For another, many cells in the body don't allow the anti-sense molecules to cross their membranes. "Nine years ago, everyone thought, wow, this is dynamite," says Dr. Art Krieg, editor of the journal Anti-Sense and Nucleic Acid Drug Development. "Then they ran into technical hurdles, and the pendulum swung the other way." Now, says Krieg, a few anti-sense compounds are starting to show promise. Among them is a drug called Vitravene, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in August and is used to prevent blindness in AIDS patients infected with cytomegalovirus.
GENETIC PROFILES
Genes don't just tell you how to make drugs. They can also tell you whom to treat.
All drugs have some side effects. By scanning a patient's genetic profile, drug companies may soon be able to figure out ahead of time who is most likely to suffer an adverse reaction. Case in point: Abbott Laboratories has an experimental treatment for asthma that triggers liver abnormalities in about 3% of patients. But it seems to work pretty well in everyone else. So Abbott has asked the French company Genset to see if it can develop a genetic profile of those patients who should never take the medication. The technology isn't foolproof, but it may give Abbott the tools with which to market its drug more safely.
Knowing what's in your genes could also take some of the routine guesswork out of medicine. If you're diagnosed with high blood pressure, for example, your doctor may have to try three or four different pills before finding one that works for you. That's because blood pressure is controlled by probably dozens of different genes, any one (or more) of which may be responsible for your particular condition. By screening your DNA and comparing your genetic profile to those of patients who have already responded to particular medications, your doctor may be able to prescribe the right drug the first time around. The money you save would come at the expense of the drug companies, of course, since they would no longer profit from any trial-run prescriptions.
IS THERE A COMPUTER SCIENTIST IN THE HOUSE?
Focusing on one or two genes and the proteins they code for has already started paying off in the search for new medicines. But the future of drug discovery is going to be centered on a better understanding of complex biological networks like the brain and the immune system. "The only way you can understand complex systems is to look at many genes and proteins at a time," says Lee Hood, chairman of molecular biotechnology at the University of Washington in Seattle. How many? Perhaps 1,000, or 10,000, or even 100,000.
Enter the microchip. Just as chips made of silicon allow computers to process millions of bits of information at a time, chips that process or even incorporate fragments of DNA will one day analyze millions of genetic sequences simultaneously. Patterns that would otherwise take decades to discern could show up in minutes on a gene chip. Doctors will use gene chips to screen their patients for thousands of genetic defects at once. Pharmaceutical researchers will use them to identify which genes are turned on or off in any given disease or system of the body and therefore might make good targets for drug development.
At least that's the theory. Gene chips are so far out on the cutting edge that even many scientists have a hard time believing they'll work. Steve Fodor, CEO of Affymetrix, is used to addressing such doubts. His company, based in Santa Clara, Calif., is widely regarded as the leader in developing gene chips. "We've had to define a lot of new technology, terminology and applications," he says. "But a fantastic new field has sprung up."
So how would you make a gene chip? Let's say you want to identify which genes get turned on, or "expressed," by the immune system in the first few weeks after the AIDS virus begins its attack on the body. First you download the sequences of perhaps 10,000 genes–every A, C, G and T of the hereditary alphabet–into a computer. Then, still using the computer, you figure out what the mirror image of each sequence would be. (DNA can mirror itself as well as RNA.) The aim is to transform the mirror-sequence data into actual strands of DNA that are planted like rows of corn on the glass bed of a chip. Each strand is built up, letter by letter, in much the same way the layers in a silicon chip are created.
Once the strands are complete, the gene chip is ready for use. You take a sample of blood from a patient who has just developed a raging HIV infection. Various genes in his immune system are churning out millions of RNA molecules that will assemble the proteins needed to combat the infection. You extract the RNA and break it into pieces, tag each piece with a fluorescent chemical and pour the whole mess over the gene chip. The RNA tightly binds only to its exact DNA complement on the chip. The fluorescent tag tells you where on the chip you have a match. Then you look up the sequence of each matched spot on the chip and read out a precise catalog of which genes are being expressed. By comparing the results from several patients–some of whom are more successful at fighting the virus than others–you may be able to identify targets that could lead to powerful new anti-AIDS drugs.
Such feats of computational biology are still a few years off or, in the worst case, maybe even a few decades away. The point is, we are just beginning to see how dramatically gene-based science can change the ways in which new drugs are discovered and developed. Blind luck will play an increasingly smaller role as scientists tease out the complex interplay between genes, proteins and the environment. There is going to be confusion–some setbacks and disappointments–at least at first. But most in the field agree that pharmaceutical research has finally entered its golden age.
–With reporting by Dan Cray/Los Angeles, Bruce Crumley/Paris and Alice Park/New York
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The National MS Society has joined 48 national organizations supporting $20 million in funding for the Lifespan Respite Care Act programs in fiscal year (FY) 2020 as part of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations bill. Thanks to the hard work of MS activists, the "Dear Colleague" letter supporting this program had 36 co-signers this year, 7 more than last year.
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Larry McReynolds Back on the Box for Jeffrey Earnhardt at Talladega
April 18, 2022 Jack Swansey
NASCAR on FOX analyst and two-time Daytona 500-winning crew chief Larry McReynolds will be in familiar territory when he returns to the top of the pit box next Saturday (April 23) for the NASCAR Xfinity Series Ag-Pro 300. The Richard Childress Racing No. 3 car will return to the high banks of Talladega with an Earnhardt behind the wheel as Jeffrey Earnhardt, grandson of the late Dale Earnhardt Sr., makes his 136th career Xfinity Series start — and his first with the team his grandfather made iconic.
On FOX coverage during Easter Sunday, McReynolds said he'd never used the word "retired" when he concluded his career as a full-time crew chief in 2000, and that next Saturday will mark only the end of "a long sabbatical."
He's back on the box! @LarryMac28 will be crew chief for @JEarnhardt1 and the No. 3 team for next week's Xfinity Series race at Talladega. pic.twitter.com/fUO609W3ax
— FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) April 17, 2022
In his 15 years as a NASCAR Cup Series head wrench, McReynolds scored 23 victories, partnered with drivers that included Ricky Rudd, Davey Allison, Ernie Irvan, Dale Jarrett and Dale Earnhardt Sr.
McReynolds and Earnhardt worked together at Richard Childress Racing in 1997 and 1998, and it was in the latter year when Earnhardt scored his lone Daytona 500 victory after 20 years of coming up short. Perhaps the most iconic moment of his illustrious career, the 1998 Daytona 500 was McReynolds' final Cup Series victory before he concluded his career as a full-time crew chief to join the FOX Sports booth alongside Mike Joy and Darrell Waltrip. McReynolds left the booth in 2015 but remains with FOX Sports as an analyst for its NASCAR broadcasts.
The 63-year-old is still expected to feature in several FOX segments during coverage of the Ag-Pro 300.
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Jack Swansey is an open-wheel racing editor at Frontstretch.com and co-hosts The Pit Straight Podcast, but you can also catch him writing about NASCAR, sports cars, and anything else with four wheels and a motor. Originally from North Carolina and now residing in Los Angeles, he joined the site as Sunday news writer midway through 2022 and is an avid collector (some would say hoarder) of die-cast cars.
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i can't help but think they're doing this to get butts in the seat for the saturday race(s). first is was jefffery in the 3, an earnhardt back in the 3. now he's got larry mac, who has been away from the sport for a while and yes, xfinity isn't the same car as cup, but it's still not what they were running when larry mac was sr's crew chief. and on top of it all JR will be in the booth on sunday to help call the race. they're playing the earnhardt card big-time this coming weekend at ' dega.
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Congrats to larry mac on being jeffery earnhardts crew chief .what a way bring back some earnhardt traditions .
NASCAR has gone to crap since my hero Dale Sr. died


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CRYSTAL PALACE have reportedly become the fourth club to express an interest in Diafra Sakho.
Sunderland have been heavily linked with the wantaway Hammers striker.
An £11million bid by the Black Cats is already thought to have been turned down for the Senegal international.
Sakho, who has scored 15 times in 43 appearances for the Hammers, refused to travel with the club for their pre-season training camp in Austria.
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Palace have so far signed James Tomkins, Steve Mandada and Andros Townsend, but Alan Pardew is believed to be keen to make forward additions.
West Ham have already stressed Sakho, 26, is not for sale unless a replacement is found.
Co-chairman David Sullivan said: "He is not for sale until we get players in.
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Former NOPD Detective and convicted sex offender in federal custody
Stanley Burkhardt in federal custody
By Kimberly Curth, Cody Lillich, and Tiffany Baptiste | August 9, 2019 at 11:57 AM CDT - Updated August 9 at 7:41 PM
NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) - A former head of the New Orleans Police Department's Pedophile Unit and convicted sex offender has been arrested by federal authorities.
Stanley Burkhardt was arrested by Louisiana State Police in July after he failed to register as a sex offender in Louisiana. After his arrest, a federal warrant was issued in North Carolina for violating the conditions of his release.
The Louisiana State Police investigation in July uncovered that Burkhardt commented on pictures of young boys on the photo sharing site "Flikr". The investigation also revealed Burkhardt added 117 pictured of young boys to his favorites list under an email account and under a user name that he did not register with authorities under part of his sex offender status.
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Burkhardt previously served time in jail after he was convicted of numerous sex crimes in the 1980s and 1990s. He was released from federal prison in March of 2015.
New accusations against Burkhardt surfaced when Richard Windmann filed a formal complaint with the NOPD stating that Burkhardt sexually abused him during his time as a sex crimes detective with the NOPD. Windmann told police that Burkhardt sexually abused him in the 1970s.
A second victim later came forward with similar complaints against Burkhardt. He told FOX 8 he was first raped by Burkhardt when he was just eight-years old.
Online records show Burkhardt was booked into the St. Tammany Parish Jail on August 1. Court records directed U.S. Marshals to take Burkhardt to the Federal Correctional Institution facility in Butner, North Carolina to await a hearing.
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Directional postcopulatory sexual selection revealed by artificial insemination
Postcopulatory sexual selection comprises both sperm competition, where the sperm from different males compete for fertilization(1), and cryptic female choice, where females bias sperm use in favour of particular males(2). Despite intense current interest in both processes as potential agents of directional sexual selection(3), few studies have attributed the success of attractive males to events that occur exclusively after insemination. This is because the interactions between pre- and post-insemination episodes of sexual selection can be important sources of variation in paternity(4). The use of artificial insemination overcomes this difficulty because it controls for variation in male fertilization success attributable to the female's perception of male quality, as well as effects due to mating order and the relative contribution of sperm from competing males(5). Here, we adopt this technique and show that in guppies, when equal numbers of sperm from two males compete for fertilization, relatively colourful individuals achieve greater parentage than their less ornamented counterparts. This finding indicates that precopulatory female mating preferences can be reinforced exclusively through postcopulatory processes occurring at a physiological level. Our analysis also revealed that relatively small individuals were advantaged in sperm competition, suggesting a possible trade-off between sperm competitive ability and body growth.
Titolo: Directional postcopulatory sexual selection revealed by artificial insemination
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ZANE, LORENZO
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PILASTRO, ANDREA AUGUSTO
Abstract: Postcopulatory sexual selection comprises both sperm competition, where the sperm from different males compete for fertilization(1), and cryptic female choice, where females bias sperm use in favour of particular males(2). Despite intense current interest in both processes as potential agents of directional sexual selection(3), few studies have attributed the success of attractive males to events that occur exclusively after insemination. This is because the interactions between pre- and post-insemination episodes of sexual selection can be important sources of variation in paternity(4). The use of artificial insemination overcomes this difficulty because it controls for variation in male fertilization success attributable to the female's perception of male quality, as well as effects due to mating order and the relative contribution of sperm from competing males(5). Here, we adopt this technique and show that in guppies, when equal numbers of sperm from two males compete for fertilization, relatively colourful individuals achieve greater parentage than their less ornamented counterparts. This finding indicates that precopulatory female mating preferences can be reinforced exclusively through postcopulatory processes occurring at a physiological level. Our analysis also revealed that relatively small individuals were advantaged in sperm competition, suggesting a possible trade-off between sperm competitive ability and body growth.