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Uber-Uma is stepping lively
By Hanh Nguyen and Zap2It.Com
LOS ANGELES -- Although Uma Thurman received an Oscar nomination for her role in Pulp Fiction, doing the Batusi with John Travolta didn't prepare her for her first all-singing, all-dancing turn in The Producers movie musical.
Director Susan Stroman, however, was thrilled when Universal Pictures suggested the 6-foot actress for the part of Ulla, the leggy Swedish secretary of scheming Broadway producers Max Bialystock (Nathan Lane) and Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick).
"When I first met her at a restaurant downtown, she came in and she was dressed all in white. She had high heels on, so she was about 6-foot-4," Stroman says. "Then she sat down and said to me, 'Do you think it's OK that I'm so much taller than Matthew and Nathan?' And I said 'Yes, it is.' And, of course, it adds to the comedy, but also, she's really Swedish. She has a very famous Swedish grandmother named Brigitte. There's a statue of her in Sweden. So I thought, 'I've hit the jackpot here.' "
In the film, Max and Leo have just hired the perfect director for Springtime for Hitler when Ulla arrives early to audition for a part. She signs on as their secretary until the show is ready. Eventually, Ulla and Leo give in to their feelings for each other in the Rogers/Astaire-style dance number "That Face."
Broderick, who reprises his role from the Broadway musical, had to get used to playing the familiar part but romancing someone other than Cady Huffman, who won a Tony for playing Ulla.
"It was an adjustment to even think that it was gonna be somebody else. For a while it was Nicole [Kidman] . . . and then they just went right to Uma, and she said yes, like, instantly," Broderick says. "It was a real pleasure to learn those dances with her. We spent weeks together. She's a joy, she's so original, a unique person, talented."
It was Thurman's experience with fight choreography in Kill Bill films that helped her with the dancing boot camp she attended for her musical numbers.
"I was lucky actually that Uma had done those martial-arts movies. And because she had already been through rehearsal periods and learning body movement, she took to the dancing quite naturally," says Stroman, who won a Tony for choreographing The Producers on Broadway.
"Actually, when I asked her to slide across a desk or flip behind the couch, she had a light in her eyes," Stroman says. "She was never afraid, and that's half the battle too."
For Thurman, the singing -- especially her solo "If You Got It, Flaunt It" -- was daunting, but she's happy with the results.
"I wasn't really scared of dancing -- that's not so hard for me. But when it came to the singing, our musical director, Patrick Brady, helped me find a voice -- which isn't a recording-artist voice," Thurman says. "But the good news is that they're not having someone else sing for me. So it couldn't be too bad."
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The rat provides valuable and sometimes unique models of human complex diseases. To fully exploit the rat models in biomedical research, it is important to have access to detailed knowledge of the rat genome organization as well as its relation to the human genome. Rat Chromosome 10 (RNO10) harbors several important cancer-related genes. Deletions in the proximal part of RNO10 were repeatedly found in a rat model for endometrial cancer. To identify functional and positional candidate genes in the affected region, we used radiation hybrid (RH) mapping and single- and dual-color fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) techniques to construct a detailed chromosomal map of the proximal part of RNO10. The regional localization of 14 genes, most of them cancer-related (Grin2a, Gspt1, Crebbp, Gfer, Tsc2, Tpsb1, Il9r, Il4, Irf1, Csf2, Sparc, Tp53, Thra1, Gh1), and of five microsatellite markers (D10Mit10, D10Rat42, D10Rat50, D10Rat72, and D10Rat165) was determined on RNO10. For a fifteenth gene, Ppm1b, which had previously been assigned to RNO10, the map position was corrected to RNO6q12-q13.
The transposing element TEI contains the structural genes white and roughest from the Drosophilr X-chromosome. These genes are flanked by FB-elements, which are responsible for the mobility. At one occasion the TE, probably together with an adjacent segment in chromosome 2. has formed a minichromosome. This chromosome contains both the structural genes, the FB-elements,some centromeric and/or telomeric heterochromatin. It probably has a centromere as well, as it is transferred to the offspring at a high rate. From this minichromosome a smaller one has originated, probably through the loss of the region from chromosome 2 and some heterochromatin. This smaller minichromosome has been characterized in the following way: 1. Size determination hy pulsed field gel electrophoresis. -The chromosome turned out to be little more than one megabase. 2. y-irradiation of DNA from the minichromosome. ~ The aim of this experiment is to find out if the chromosome is circular or linear. A radiation dose which causes one break within a circle ought to accumulate DNA of the same size as the minichromosome. In this case no accumulation occurred and thus the chromosome is probably linear. 3. Cloning of sequences from the minichromosome. ~ A low melting agarose gel was run and a fragment was cut out from a region which contained DNA fragments of the same size as the minichromosome. The DNA was cut simultaneously by EcoR I and Pst I and ligated into the vector pBS containing T7 and T3 primers. The ligated DNA was amplified by the PCR method, which rendered several fragments of varying size. These fragments were ligated into the vector pCR1000TM. Positive clones are being analysed at present. With these clones we intend to construct a map of the minichromosome.
This paper presents the molecular characterization of attached bacterial populations growing in slowly flowing artesian groundwater from deep crystalline bed-rock of the Stripa mine, south central Sweden. Bacteria grew on glass slides in laminar flow reactors connected to the anoxic groundwater flowing up through tubing from two levels of a borehole, 812-820 m and 970-1240 m. The glass slides were collected, the bacterial DNA was extracted and the 16S rRNA genes were amplified by PCR using primers matching universally conserved positions 519-536 and 1392-1405. The resulting PCR fragments were subsequently cloned and sequenced. The sequences were compared with each other and with 16S rRNA gene sequences in the EMBL database. Three major groups of bacteria were found. Signature bases placed the clones in the appropriate systematic groups. All belonged to the proteobacterial groups beta and gamma. One group was found only at the 812-820 m level, where it constituted 63% of the sequenced clones, whereas the second group existed almost exclusively at the 970-1240 m level, where it constituted 83% of the sequenced clones. The third group was equally distributed between the levels. A few other bacteria were also found. None of the 16S rRNA genes from the dominant bacteria showed more than 88% similarity to any of the others, and none of them resembled anything in the database by more than 96%. Temperature did not seem to have any effect on species composition at the deeper level. SEM images showed rods appearing in microcolonies. The conditions at the levels differ in pH, temperature, redox and flow rate, and in content of sulphate, iron and sulphide. The presence of one dominant species in the laminar-flow reactors at each level indicates that the environments might have offered restrictive physical or physiological conditions difficult to adapt to.
For identification of ECS (``evolutionarily conserved segments'') between rat and mouse, 893 rat–mouse orthologous gene-pairs were brought together with zoo-FISH analysis. In total, 59 autosomal ECS and 4 X-chromosomal ones were detected. Combining FISH and zoo-FISH data, the segments were anchored on the rat chromosomes, providing an improved comparative map between the two species. Since chromosomal evolution is a slow process, it is reasonable to assume that the genome organization, including gene order, is essentially conserved within the ECS. In this way we assigned tentative subchromosomal map positions to 303 rat genes, for which no regional mapping information was available. Furthermore, the concept of prediction mapping was extended to unmapped rat homologs of genes, which in the mouse are situated inside or in the vicinity of an ECS. For a total of 6669 genes, we predicted a single rat chromosomal position, whereas for another 448 genes we could predict that they were located in one of two possible positions. Thus, our study has increased the number of genes for which there is positional mapping information in the rat almost fivefold.
The analysis of cell hybrids between malignant mouse hepatoma cells and normal rat fibroblasts has previously demonstrated the critical role of a deletion in rat chromosome 5 (RNO5) that was related to an anchorage independent phenotype. Those hybrids that were anchorage independent displayed loss of the entire RNO5 or an interstitial deletion in RNO5. These findings suggested that a putative tumor suppressor gene, Sai1 (suppression of anchorage independence 1), was located within the deleted region. To explore the molecular basis of the tumor suppressor activity of the Sai1 region, we analyzed the RNO5q23-q36 region with several genes and microsatellite markers that could be assigned to the region, as well as with new markers derived by representational difference analysis (RDA) or by microdissection. Dual-color FISH was used to construct a detailed physical map of the entire RNO5. These new data can be used to connect the physical and linkage maps in the rat, as well as to identify the details of the comparative map with other mammalian species including humans and mice. Using as FISH reagents genomic YAC, P1, or phage lambda clones corresponding to RNO5 markers, the order and unique positions of 18 markers could be established. The map provided a framework for the detailed characterization of the deletion found in anchorage independent hybrids. All markers within the bands RNO5q31.3-q35 were shown to be lost, including known cancer-related genes such as Ifna (5q32), Cdkn2a, -b (5q32), Jun (5q34), and Cdkn2c (5q35). However, the aberration in the deletion chromosome turned out to be more complex than originally thought in that we detected the presence of a paracentric inversion in addition to a deletion. The inversion led to the juxtaposition of the gene markers Tal2 (5q24.1) and Cd30lg (5q24.3). The framework map will provide the basis for the detailed physical YAC clone contig mapping of this region, and facilitate the identification and characterization of the Sai1 locus.
In the present study subcutaneous fibrosarcomas were induced by the carcinogen 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA) in rats from F1 generation cross breedings of two different inbred strains. Comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) analysis, which allows detection of DNA sequence copy changes, was applied to one of the tumors and it was found that there were increased copy numbers of sequences at chromosome 4q12-q21 in this tumor. We have previously determined that the loci for the hepatocyte growth factor (Hgf) and hepatocyte growth factor receptor (Hgfr/Met), a protooncogene, are situated in this particular chromosome region. Using probes for the two genes in FISH (fluorescence in situ hybridization) and in Southern blots we found that the Hgfr/Met gene was amplified in five of the 19 sarcomas studied, and that the Hgf gene was coamplified in two of them. Northern and Western blots and tyrosine phosphorylation analysis showed that the HGF receptor was overexpressed and functional in all five tumors, as well as in two additional tumors. In summary, both amplification and overexpression of the Hgfr/Met gene was found in about 25% of DMBA-induced experimental rat sarcomas, and HGF receptor overexpression alone was seen in two additional tumors. Possibly this reflects an involvement in paracrine or autocrine stimulation of growth and invasiveness by HGF. Our finding could provide a rodent model system to increased knowledge about causality and therapy, which may be applicable to the sizeable fraction of human musculoskeletal tumors displaying MET overexpression.
Mouse single chromosome paints were applied to rat prophase/prometaphase chromosomes to detect homologous chromosome regions. The analysis revealed 49 rat chromosomal regions ranging in size from whole chromosomes down to small bands near the limit of detection with this method, which was estimated to be 2-3 Mb. When all the painted regions were taken into account, the whole rat genome was covered with mouse-homologous regions, with the exception of small segments near the centromeres and the short arms of Chromosomes (Chrs) 3, 11, 12, and 13. These regions were shown to contain high levels of rat-specific repetitive DNA. The number of conserved segments between rat and mouse detected by our high-resolution zoo-FISH method was significantly higher than that reported in previous studies.
Endometrial, ovarian, and cervical cancers are three of the most common malignancies of the female reproductive organs and the most common cause of gynecological cancer deaths in the Western world. Approximately 80% or more of endometrial cancers are low-grade, estrogen-dependent, endometrioid adenocarcinoma (type I), whereas 20% are high-grade endometrial carcinomas (type II) associated with poor prognosis. Although endometrial cancer is usually diagnosed at an early stage, still almost 20% of the patients present with advanced disease. Thus, there is a need for highly sensitive markers that can distinguish between high- and low-risk endometrial carcinoma. To date, however, there are no validated molecular markers for endometrial cancer. Recent genomic and proteomic-based anaes show great promise for the discovery of new and more useful biomarkers. In this review, we will discuss the currently reported biomarkers that hold potential as diagnostic tools for endometrial cancer.
The rat has been the model organism of choice for many researchers, for example, in physiology, immunology, and behavior research. Unfortunately, rat genetics have been lagging behind (compared to the mouse), but in the last decade considerable progress has been made in the field of "rat genomics," as will be briefly reviewed below.
Selective gene amplification in mammalian cells is now recognized as a common cellular response to selection in a number of different toxic drugs, such as methotrexate (MTX). coformycin, PALA, hydroxyurea (HU), vincristine (VCR). colcemid (COL) and actinomycin D (AMD). Recently, we have studied SEWA murine tumor cells in culture exhibiting the pleiotropic drug resistance (PDR) phenotype. Cells subjected to stepwise selection in AMD, VCR or COL all develop double minute chromosomes (DM), which are a cytogenetic expression of gene amplification. These lines overproduce a 21 K acidic soluble protein and show a high degree of cross resistance, which is typical for the PDR phenotype. Other workers have shown that cells with this phenotype exhibit a shift in membrane-bound glycoproteins from 90- 100 K to 150-170 K. Thus, it is likely that several genes are involved in the development of the PDR phenotype. We have isolated a fraction highly enriched in DM from an AMD-resistant SEWA subline. DNA was extracted from this fraction, and several DM-specific DNA-probes were developed. These probes were used to study independently derived SEWA sublines resistant to AMD, VCR, COL, MTX and HU. The results showed that the investigated amplified DNA-segments in AMD-, VCR-. and COL-resistant lines exhibited a high degree of sequence sequence homology, indicating that basically the same segment was amplified in the 3 inductions. In contrast. the amplified DNA-segments in MTX- and HU-resistant lines that do not show the PDR phenotype, displayed no sequence homology to the probes used.
Considerable work with DNA amplification has been carried out in the murine SEWA ascites tumor cell system. In SEWA cells there is 'spontaneous' amplification of the c-myc oncogene, and transitions between different cytogenetic expressions of gene amplification such as DM (double minutes), CM (C-bandless chromosomes) and HSR (homogeneously staining regions) of the amplified DNA have been recorded during serial in vivo transplantations. In SEWA cells it has also been shown that the c-myc-containing DM will he lost under in vitro conditions, but are rapidly recovered if the cells are reinjected into animals. Additional gene amplification has been superimposed on the c-myc amplification in SEWA cells by stepwise selection in vitro, leading to resistance to different drugs, such as methotrexate, actinomycin D, colcemid and vincristine. Cytogenetically, DNA amplification is multifaceted and, in addition to the structures mentioned, it may also take the form of CB (chromatin bodies), which have been shown to be the carriers of resistance genes in hybrids between multidrug-resistant SEWA cells and Chinese hamster CHO cells. In most instances, DM are noncentromeric and distributed by a 'hitch-hiking' mechanism at mitosis; in one colcemid-resistant SEWA line, however, we have shown that the DM carry active centromeres. The molecular mechanism behind DNA amplification appears to be complex. We have shown that in four independently derived multidrug-resistant SEWA sublines the amplicons resided on circular molecules which were about 2500 kb long and carried at least five genes, including the three mouse mdr genes. Within the circles the DNA was unrearranged compared to the organization of the DNA in sensitive cells.
Previous studies have shown that cells of the SEWA mouse tumor contain amplified copies of the proto-oncogene c-myc in the aberrant chromosomal structures of double minutes (DMs), homogeneously staining regions (HSRs) and C-bandless chromosomes (CMs). DMs, and to a lesser degree CMs, tend to disappear from the cells grown in vitro and again reappear after transfer back in vivo, as if DNA amplification confers a growth advantage upon the tumor cells. We have now isolated five in vitro clones that exhibit different degrees of c-myc amplification. When we inoculated cells of the different clones into compatible hosts, we found that there was a positive correlation between degree of c-myc amplification, level of c-myc RNA, and tumorigenicity. Our results lend further support to the idea that gene amplification contributes to the higher malignant phenotype, and to progression of tumors.
The laboratory rat, Rattus norvegicus, and the laboratory mouse, Mus musculus, are key animal models in biomedical research. A deeper understanding of the genetic interrelationsships between Homo sapiens and these two rodent species is desirable for extending the usefulness of the animal models. We present comprehensive rat–human and rat–mouse comparative maps, based on 1090 gene homology assignments available for rat genes. Radiation hybrid, FISH, and zoo-FISH mapping data have been integrated to produce comparative maps that are estimated to comprise 83–100% of the conserved regions between rat and mouse and 66–82% of the conserved regions between rat and human. The rat–mouse zoo-FISH analysis, supported by data for individual genes, revealed nine previously undetected conserved regions compared to earlier reports. Since there is almost complete genome coverage in the rat–mouse comparative map, we conclude that it is feasible to make accurate predictions of gene positions in the rat based on gene locations in the mouse.
The rat genome database RatMap (http://ratmap.org or http://ratmap.gen.gu.se) has been one of the main resources for rat genome information since 1994. The database is maintained by CMB–Genetics at Göteborg University in Sweden and provides information on rat genes, polymorphic rat DNA-markers and rat quantitative trait loci (QTLs), all curated at RatMap. The database is under the supervision of the Rat Gene and Nomenclature Committee (RGNC); thus much attention is paid to rat gene nomenclature. RatMap presents information on rat idiograms, karyotypes and provides a unified presentation of the rat genome sequence and integrated rat linkage maps. A set of tools is also available to facilitate the identification and characterization of rat QTLs, as well as the estimation of exon/intron number and sizes in individual rat genes. Furthermore, comparative gene maps of rat in regard to mouse and human are provided.
Background The names of genes are central in describing their function and relationship. However, gene symbols are often a subject of controversy. In addition, the discovery of mammalian genes is now so rapid that a proper use of gene symbol nomenclature rules tends to be overlooked. This is currently the situation in the rat and there is a need for a cohesive and unifying overview of all rat gene symbols in use. Based on the experiences in rat gene symbol curation that we have gained from running the "Ratmap" rat genome database, we have now developed a database that unifies different rat gene naming attempts with the accepted rat gene symbol nomenclature rules. Description This paper presents a newly developed database known as RGST (Rat Gene Symbol Tracker). The database contains rat gene symbols from three major sources: the Rat Genome Database (RGD), Ensembl, and NCBI-Gene. All rat symbols are compared with official symbols from orthologous human genes as specified by the Human Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC). Based on the outcome of the comparisons, a rat gene symbol may be selected. Rat symbols that do not match a human ortholog undergo a strict procedure of comparisons between the different rat gene sources as well as with the Mouse Genome Database (MGD). For each rat gene this procedure results in an unambiguous gene designation. The designation is presented as a status level that accompanies every rat gene symbol suggested in the database. The status level describes both how a rat symbol was selected, and its validity. Conclusion This database fulfils the important need of unifying rat gene symbols into an automatic and cohesive nomenclature system. The RGST database is available directly from the RatMap home page: http://ratmap.org.


Our Local Intelligence Support Team (LIST) has worked with GP practices in Inverclyde to analyse the effectiveness of having additional healthcare professionals working in primary care.
The team carried out a multidisciplinary approach to introduce new staff members and professional groups into primary care to support the work of practices.
High quality, timely data had to be gathered to establish the effectiveness of the work of advance nurse practitioners (ANPs) in GP practices. The question was whether ANPs could take on a proportion of work from GPs while maintaining safe and effective patient care.
Five practices in Inverclyde were approached to be part of an initial study. They were asked to provide data about the activities of new staff members and an associated proportion of time. We then analysed the data and fed back to the practices.
During the course of the study, the use of ANPs as an alternative to GPs has saved 372 hours worth of time.
This has allowed GPs to spend more time in their practice and has been invaluable in helping to alleviate pressure.
Similar programmes are now proposed for all GP clusters across Inverclyde due to the programme's success.


Some wedding disc jockey folks have a list of songs they play and except for the bride and groom first dance, do not give you much choice. Our wedding DJ, for example, allowed us to choose up to 50% of the music, which is not the norm. Let your DJ be your guide as to what songs should be played. A good disc jockey reads the crowd and knows what to play. Also be sure they know what NOT to play, as well as special songs you want to hear.
Ask your DJ if they will accept requests from wedding guests. Your wedding disc jockey should be flexible with a wide selection, so requests from your wedding guests can be fulfilled. This step is VERY crucial, because your wedding DJ plays about 60 songs during your reception, and you want nothing but the best tunes to keep your dance floor crowded.
If the DJ needs to intervene and suggest a song, heed them as they generally know what they are doing and keep up with the current trends. You want a wedding DJ who can adapt to any crowd. The 'right' DJ will be someone who is very well versed in all areas music. Never try to give the DJ a tape, CD or a list of 100% of the songs to play for the night. You hired a DJ not a juke box operator. If they stick to your play list, I can guarantee you'll have an empty dance floor. Your musical taste is not the same as 120 people at your wedding. Let your DJ do their job and keep your wedding guests happy.


Take pictures of your puppies while you can, because they'll be puppies for approximately two more minutes.
1. Looks like she figured out that whole ear situation.
2. This duo has been fighting crime since the day they were born!
3. Puppy dog eyes are puppy dog eyes, no matter how old.
4. What's really amazing is that the toy lasted all that time.
5. Office productivity has increased enormously since she stopped napping on the job.
6. Finally old enough to get that driver's license!
7. Birds of a feather stay friends furever.
8. He's been working on his beach bod.
9. In this universe, the fox and the hound really did stay friends.
12. From a Bernese mound dog to a Bernese mountain dog.
13. Smile, pupper! You're a big doggo now!
14. These dingoes din'stay little for very long.
15. Her mouth is finally big enough for all that tongue.
16. This fluffy bundle grew ears and legs.
17. Not one, but TWO very rare pictures of a blue heeler at rest.
19. He doesn't know it's his birthday; he's just happy because everyone else is happy.
20. Full grown, but no less skeptical.
21. He grew out of his shirt, but not into his ears.
22. The mastiff before and after becoming a massive-tiff.
23. From adorable to handsome in the blink of an eye.


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Ben Ainslie
Ben Ainslie: Promotion Pack
Four Times Olympic Champion & America's Cup Skipper
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Four times Olympic sailing champion and the world's most successful Olympic sailor.
Skippered the 2013 America's Cup Winners Team Oracle to a famous turnover of Team New Zealand.
Sir Ben Ainslie CBE is Great Britain's quadruple gold and silver Olympic medallist and the world's most successful Olympic sailor. Having won medals in five consecutive Olympic medals, the last four being gold, Ben famously skippered Team Oracle in the 2014 America's Cup leading one of sports greatest ever comebacks from 0-6 to 8-8 and win 9-8 in the match races over Emirates, New Zealand.
Ben's father captained a boat in the first Whitbread Round the World Race in 1973 and when he was 8 years old Ainslie took an initial interest in sailing after being given a small sailing dinghy by his parents. Such was his enthusiasm for the sport that he quickly progressed. At 12, he competed in the World Championships and at 18, won the gold at the World Youth Championships as well as became British Yachtsman of the Year.
An Olympic speaker whose competitive edge is simply unwavering, Ben is a person of interest for thousands of athletes seeking inspiration and motivation. The last time Ben went home with only a silver medal was in 1996 during his first taste of the Olympic Games. In the following years, he amassed nothing but the gold each time he competed in his sport.
In 2012, he became the first person sailor to consecutively win gold medals in four different Olympic Games – in Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012. Ben has also won the International Sailing Federation Top Award more times than anyone else, being named ISAF World Sailor of the Year in 1998, 2002, 2008 and 2012. His enduring fondness coupled with commitment for the sport has made him a world-class sailor. As speaker, he talks about how physicality, skill, strategy and technique are equally important.
His autobiography titled 'Close to the Wind', covers most of his career including detailed stories of great races. He continues to train intensively despite having already reached the peaks of excellence and looks forward to his next conquest. For someone who once said that his greatest strength is never giving up, Ben indeed inspires and motivates as an Olympic speaker.
"A truly great speaker, Ben has the unique ability to inspire confidence, courage, and hope in people and learn about goal-setting, leadership, focus, self-motivation and commitment."
A truly great and highly experienced speaker, Ben Ainslie shows audiences exactly what it takes to become an Olympic Champion.
"Thank you for transforming our event and making it dynamic."
Ben Ainslie "Thank you for transforming our event and making it dynamic." SAP
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World-renowned Formula One engineering, technology, and teambuilding expert
Jason Leonard
Rugby World Cup Winner & British Lion with a record-breaking 114 caps for England
Paolo Nespoli
Italian Astronaut who took part in three International Space Station Missions
World Cup Winning Expert Speaker on Leadership & Building High Performance Teams
Braam Malherbe
Extreme adventurer, Eco-Warrior, and one of South Africa's Top Three Sportsmen
Ona Carbonell
Spanish woman with the most medals in swimming history, MasterChef Celebrity winner, and well-received author
#1 Conference Speaker on Adapting to Change and Bold Decision Making
Grant Lottering
Motivational Speaker, The Miracle Cyclist - Coming Back From Dead To Conquer The Alps
Helen Glover
British Double Olympic Rowing Champion & The World's #1 Ranked Female Rower
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World's 1st & Only Successful Row Across the Pacific Ocean
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Q: Draw 2D graphics object on Click base Here is my code below. It draw triangles on execution. I want to make a little change in it.
Change is
On execution there would be 1 triangle. but if i Click inside the triangle 1 then it draw other triangle. else dont draw.
I tried to do with the changes in  g2d.draw(triangle2);
But it have problem. It just dont show triangle but draw it as hidden.
public class Triangle_shape extends JFrame implements ActionListener {
    public static int x=0;
    public static  JButton btnSubmit = new JButton("Submit");
    public static  JButton change = new JButton("Change");
    public Triangle_shape(){
    }
  public static void main(String[] args) {

    TrianglePanel t= new TrianglePanel();
    ClickListener cl= new ClickListener();
    JFrame frame = new JFrame ();
    final int FRAME_WIDTH = 500;
    final int FRAME_HEIGHT = 500;
    btnSubmit.addActionListener(cl);
    frame.setSize (FRAME_WIDTH, FRAME_HEIGHT);
    frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
    frame.add(new TrianglePanel(), BorderLayout.CENTER);
    frame.add(btnSubmit, BorderLayout.PAGE_END);
    frame.add(change, BorderLayout.LINE_END);
    frame.pack();
    frame.repaint();
    frame.setTitle("A Test Frame");
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.setVisible(true);
    }

   public static class TrianglePanel extends JPanel implements MouseListener{
        private Polygon triangle,triangle2;

        public TrianglePanel(){
            //Create triangle
            System.out.println("From Draw "+x);
            triangle = new Polygon();
            triangle.addPoint(150, 200);
            triangle.addPoint(100, 100);
            triangle.addPoint(200, 100);
            triangle2 = new Polygon();
            triangle2.addPoint(200, 300);
            triangle2.addPoint(200, 200);
            triangle2.addPoint(300, 200);
            //Add mouse Listener
            addMouseListener(this);
            //Set size to make sure that the whole triangle is shown
            setPreferredSize(new Dimension(300, 300));
        }

        /** Draws the triangle as this frame's painting */

        public void paintComponent(Graphics g){
            Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;
            System.out.println("From Graphics "+x);
            g2d.draw(triangle);
            g2d.draw(triangle2);
        }

        //Required methods for MouseListener, though the only one you care about is click
        public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {}
        public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {}
        public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {}
        public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {}

        /** Called whenever the mouse clicks. */
        public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
            x++;
            Point p = e.getPoint();
            if(triangle.contains(p)  )
                 System.out.println("1");
            else if  (triangle2.contains(p))
            {       System.out.println("2");
             }
            else
            {
                System.out.println("Trianglhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhpoint");
            x--;}
        }
   }
    private static class ClickListener implements ActionListener {
    private int clickCount = 0;
    @Override
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
      if (e.getSource() == btnSubmit) {
        clickCount++;
        if (clickCount == 1)
          btnSubmit.setText("clicked!");
        else
        btnSubmit.setText("Inside Triangle " + x + " times!");
      }
        else {
          //JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(MainClass.this, "You must click at least once!",
           btnSubmit.setText("Error " + clickCount + " times!");
        }

        }
    }
}

A: Try the below code, its a sample created from your own code.
   import javax.swing.*;
   import java.awt.*;
   import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
   import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
   public class MyTriangle{
   static  JFrame frame = new JFrame();
   public static void main(String[] args)
    {
    frame.setSize(1000, 1500);
    frame.setTitle("Triangle Draw");
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

    //add panel to frame and make it visible
    Polygon triangle1 = new Polygon();
    triangle1.addPoint(100, 500); // first
    triangle1.addPoint(600, 500);//last
    triangle1.addPoint(350, 300);//middel
    addTriangle(new Triangle(triangle1));
    frame.setVisible(true);
}

public static void addTriangle(Triangle triangle1)
{
    frame.add(triangle1);
}
static class Triangle extends JPanel implements MouseListener{
    private Polygon triangle;

    public Triangle(Polygon triangle)
    {
        this.triangle = triangle;

        addMouseListener(this);
    }

    public void paintComponent(Graphics g){
        Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;
        g2d.draw(triangle);

    }

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Canterbury United ist ein neuseeländischer Fußballverein aus Christchurch.

Der Verein wurde 2001 gegründet und spielt in der gleichzeitig gegründeten ersten Liga mit, die New Zealand Football Championship heißt.

In der Saison 2005/2006 feierte der Verein seinen bisher größten Erfolg, als man bis ins Finale der Meisterschaft gelangte. Dort unterlag man Auckland erst im Elfmeterschießen.

United trägt seine Heimspiele im English Park vor durchschnittlich 335 Zuschauern aus.

Für den Start der neuen Championship-Saison Mitte November 2020 schlossen sich Southern United und Tasman United dem Verein Canterbury United an.

Bekannte Spieler
  James Bannatyne (2005 bis 2006)
  Andy Barron (2004, 2005 bis 2006)
  Jeremy Brockie (2004 bis 2005, 2006)
  Glen Collins (2006 bis 2007)
  Greg Draper (2005 bis 2006)
  Henry Fa'arodo (2006)
  Brent Fisher (2006 bis 2007)
  Jeff Fleming (2004 bis 2005)
  Ben Sigmund (2005 bis 2006)
  Batram Suri (2006)

Weblinks
 Offizielle Website

Einzelnachweise

Neuseeländischer Fußballverein
Sportverein (Christchurch)
Gegründet 2001

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There are both naïve and professional traders. The naïve traders might be eager to taste success, but the professionals like Singaporean traders would have! They would know what success looks like. They would know what success tastes like. But do you think they achieved success in a blink of an eye?
Even gambling cannot be done that way! So, success is not going to be smooth. If you are dreaming of a successful trading path you should bear in mind, the journey is going to be pretty tough.
You wouldn't be able to reach the success that simply. You would have to pass a lot of obstacles before you meet success. Actually, success is hardships personified.
We are not trying to scare you. We are trying to paint the real picture of trading. We do not want to give a negative picture that would fool you.
There are countless fabricated ideas about Forex trading. Most traders have entered the market due to such fabricated ideas. So, we don't want to create anymore lies.
Do you really want to become a successful trader? Do you really want to establish your career in the retail trading industry? If so this article will significantly help you to boost your profit factors.
Prior to trading the market you need to ask yourself whether you can truly handle the heat of this market or not?
For instance, you will always have to lose trades on regular basis and there is nothing you can do to avoid this. You have to adapt to the changes in this market and only then you will become a successful trader.
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So, you should do your homework before you find trade entries i.e. LEARN! Of course, you should learn to find good trade entries.
In the foreign currency exchange market, the major factor is the price. There is nothing you could do if you don't know the importance of price in the Forex market.
You should know that Forex is all about price. So, you should have the ability to study the price movement. You should be able to understand whether it is possible to the market based on the price movement.
Likewise, you should build a closer relationship with the market. This is one of the techniques to strengthen up success.
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If you want to become a successful trader you should be able to push away the odds based on your experience.
How can I analyze the transactions that are not worth the effort?


Apple sold fewer iPhones than expected in its most recent quarter but their higher price tag meant the tech giant still beat analyst forecasts. The firm said it sold 41.3 million iPhones in the three months to the end of June, up just 1% from last year. The average iPhone selling price hit $724, well above the expected $694. The firm said its £999 iPhone X - launched last year - remained its most popular iPhone model in the quarter and had driven the higher selling prices. Strong revenue growth of 31% from Apple's services business, which includes the App store and Apple Pay, also boosted its performance. Overall the tech giant's revenue jumped 17% year-on-year to $53.3bn, with every region except Japan reporting double digit gains.


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Masood Azhar's 3 nephews killed on entering India »
Pakistan advocates result oriented dialogue with India to resolve outstanding issues: Foreign Office
SOURCE: PTI
Pakistan has consistently advocated constructive engagement and result oriented dialogue with India to resolve all outstanding issues, including the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, the Foreign Office said on Thursday.
Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, however, accused India of vitiating the environment of peace between the two countries. At her weekly media briefing, Baloch was asked about Pakistan's position on ties with India in the context of a recent interview with a UAE media outlet by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif who expressed a desire for talks. However, the Prime Minister's Office later said talks are not possible without India revoking its 2019 actions on Kashmir.
Baloch said that the Prime Minister's remarks clearly articulated his perspective.
"Pakistan's position on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute…is very clear. Pakistan has always desired cooperative relations with all its neighbours, including India," she said.
She said Pakistan has consistently advocated constructive engagement and result oriented dialogue to resolve all outstanding issues, including the dispute of Jammu and Kashmir.
"However, India's unabated hostility and retrogressive actions have vitiated the environment and impeded the prospects for peace and cooperation," she alleged.
She said that Pakistan "believes the onus remains on India to take the necessary steps to create an enabling environment conducive for meaningful and result oriented dialogue."
She said Pakistan would appreciate if the international community, especially friendly countries, would convince India to take such steps.
India on Thursday said it always wanted normal neighbourly ties with Pakistan but there should be an atmosphere free from terror and violence for such a relationship.
India has been maintaining that it desires normal neighbourly relations with Pakistan while insisting that the onus is on Islamabad to create an environment free of terror and hostility for such an engagement.
The ties between India and Pakistan came under severe strain after India's warplanes pounded a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist training camp in Balakot in Pakistan in February 2019 in response to the Pulwama terror attack.
The relations further deteriorated after India in August 2019 announced withdrawing special powers of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcation of the state into two union territories.
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Agoda – firma specjalizująca się w usługach internetowych rezerwacji hoteli. Jest częścią notowanej na NASDAQ Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN). Główne centra operacyjne Agoda mieszczą się w Singapurze, Bangkoku, Kuala Lumpur, Tokio, Sydney, Hongkongu i w Budapeszcie.

Historia
Początki firmy sięgają późnych latach 90., kiedy Michael Kenny stworzył stronę PlanetHoliday.com. Przyświecała mu idea wykorzystania możliwości rosnących w siłę wyszukiwarek internetowych i wypełnienia rynkowej niszy turystyczno-informacyjnej i hotelowej. PlanetHoliday było jedną z pierwszych stron internetowych oferujących rezerwacje hoteli, która to branża z czasem okazała się być wielomiliardowym biznesem.

Michael Kenny we wczesnych latach 90. wyemigrował do Tajlandii, gdzie założył stronę internetową na wyspie Phuket. W 2002 roku operacje firmy przeniosły się do Bangkoku, a w 2003 do firmy jako strona partnerska dołączyła PrecisionReservations.com, której celem była sprzedaż rezerwacji poprzez strony afiliacyjne. W 2005 roku PlanetHoliday.com i PrecisionReservations.com połączyły się pod nazwą Agoda Company Pte. Ltd.

Akwizycja firmy
W listopadzie 2007 Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN) zakupił Agoda Company, co było jego trzecią międzynarodową akwizycją. Na chwilę obecną Agoda zatrudnia około 600 pracowników i operuje w 37 językach, zarówno azjatyckich, jak i w większości europejskich, w tym od 2011 roku również po polsku. Prezesem Agoda od listopada 2010 jest współzałożyciel firmy Robert Rosenstein.

Działalność
Agoda.com stawia za swój cel zapewnienie klientom najniższych możliwych cen na hotele. Serwis oferuje ponad 5 milionów recenzji hoteli napisanych przez klientów, które publikowane są w oryginalnej formie. Centrum obsługi klienta jest czynne 24 godziny na dobę, 365 dni w roku i zapewnia wsparcie w 17 językach przez e-mail, lub telefonicznie.
Agoda.com oferuje również aplikacje mobilne zarówno dla platformy iOS, jak i Android, które zapewniają pełną funkcjonalność serwisu.

Wyróżnienia
Agoda zwyciężyła w kategorii najlepszych stron oferujących noclegi w konkursie Travelmole Web Awards Asia 2008.

Członkostwo w organizacjach
Agoda jest członkiem PATA (Pacific Asia Travel Association) od 2006 roku.

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Agoda.com
 Priceline.com
 Travelmole.com

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A partial roof collapse would usually be a major setback for an art gallery already operating on a shoe-string budget. But while Neutral Ground's board of directors and members suffered some major headaches when that happened during the run of last November's exhibition Canada's Rectangle, the accident helped spur a major rethink of the gallery's operation.
If a disaster can ever be timely, maybe this one was.
"Neutral Ground had an ongoing committee that was looking for a new space," says programming coordinator Amber Phelps Bondaroff. "Some things about the old space weren't ideal. You had to walk up a flight of stairs, so it wasn't accessible.
Neutral Ground took over its old second-floor space at the end of a long hallway at 203-1856 Scarth St., in 1997. While the gallery isn't moving very far geographically (across F.W. Hill Mall, actually, to 1835 Scarth), the new space is a world away as far as visibility and accessibility go.
The new location also has a second window space that fronts the pedestrian mall.
Neutral Ground got its start as an artist-run centre in the early 1980s. For many years, the gallery programmed a regular schedule of exhibitions and other arts-related events.
Lately though, it's focussed more on collaborations with other arts organizations that typically involved special performances and concerts, along with festivals, film screenings and some digital media projects through its companion organization, SOIL.
Moving forward, the focus will shift back to more formal exhibitions, says Bondaroff.
"I think that being a bit more reliable visual art location is one of the things that will help us serve our community better," she says. "The changes were made after a lot of consultation with the membership and the larger arts community.
Bondaroff coordinated the 2016 Pop-Up project that saw work by eight local artists installed in select storefronts in downtown Regina, so she's excited about the possibility for Neutral Ground to engage more vigorously with the public.
And Neutral Ground's new ground-floor location offers all sorts of possibilities for public engagement.
And that might bring challenges.
During gallery hours, staff will be available to speak with people about the art on display, says Neutral Ground administrative coordinator Simon Fuh.
Neutral Ground will soon hold its inaugural exhibition at its new space. Phenomenal Hosts is by Vancouver-based, Regina-born artist Lucien Durey, and consists of paintings, sculpture and assemblage where he subjects the Regina home of his mother and stepfather to what gallery publicity describes as "an intimate investigation". There's an opening night vocal performance by Durey on April 7 at 7 p.m., and the show will run until May 19.
Great news about location change. Good luck moving forward!


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Serena Pitt calls out Mara Agrait, says she's 'obsessed' with the younger women
Wed Feb 16, 2022 at 3:27pm ET
By Brianna Sainez
Bachelor in Paradise alum Serena Pitt calls out current The Bachelor contestant Mara Agrait. Pic credit: ABC
If there's anyone that knows a thing or two about getting engaged on a television show, it's Bachelor in Paradise alum, Serena Pitt.
Having major objections to The Bachelor contestant Mara Agrait's recent comments on the latest episode, Serena clapped back saying age doesn't equate to readiness.
Serena Pitt calls out The Bachelor contestant, Mara Agrait
Speaking to former Bachelorette Becca Kufrin on The Bachelor Happy Hour podcast, Serena gave her strong opinion on Mara's comments regarding age and marriage.
While she understands her frustration in not getting time with the lead, Serena contested, "I do think Mara needs to kind of, get a little tough love there and hear that, maybe Clayton just doesn't feel it."
The biggest point of contention came from Mara's comments correlating age and readiness for commitment as the Toronto native added, "I really have an issue with her fixating so much on the age of these women and maybe that's because I was always the youngest."
"She seems to be really obsessed with these younger women and how they can't be ready for an engagement," the 24-year-old continued. "She is because she's 33 and Sarah's not because she's 23."
Serena has a strong stance on the issue, considering the 11-year age difference between Serena and Joe "Grocery Store" Amabile. Despite the age gap, the two have become one of the most loved-up couples of Bachelor Nation after finding each other on Bachelor in Paradise.
"People really like to equate age to maturity and readiness but Shanae is 29 or 27, she's in her late 20s and she was the one causing all the drama this season," she argued. "Mara, you're the oldest one in the house, you're claiming at this point, yet you're the one going and sabotaging other women's relationships."
What did Mara Agrait do on The Bachelor?
With the season dwindling down, so is the time to build a connection with Clayton Echard.
This week, the contestants took their love journies overseas and the dates had the beautiful backdrop of Croatia.
While some women have yet to receive their first intimate one-on-one date, Sarah Hamrick, the youngest woman in the house, was given her second.
Upset that Clayton is choosing to give attention to younger women, she told the Season 26 lead that she had heard Sarah say she wasn't ready and couldn't picture herself engaged, which Sarah in turn said was a lie.
Mara also cited Sarah's young age as the main reason she didn't believe she was ready for marriage, as she herself had not been prepared at 23.
The Bachelor airs Mondays 8/7c on ABC.
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ACADEMIC TALKS
Word Images: New Perspectives on Canícula and Other Works by Norma Elia Cantú
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs (Editor), University of Arizona Press 2017
"A strong collection that demonstrates the complexity and significance of Cantú's work to the fields of folklore studies, literary criticism, and ethnography."—Cristina Herrera, author of Contemporary Chicana Literature: (Re)Writing the Maternal Script
Rebozos de Palabras: An Helena María Viramontes Critical Reader
Ed. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs. University of Arizona Press, 2013.
"Rebozos de Palabras is the perfect guide for discussing Viramontes's incredible body of work. A number of these essays provide a sophisticated intellectual framework that allows readers to discover why she's an essential American writer."—Rigoberto González, editor of Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing
Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia
First Editor, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González and Angela P. Harris. Utah State University Press, 2012, reissued in paper back, 2013.
"Women in academia still face obstacles built up over centuries, but the contributors to Presumed Incompetent have taken a leap toward liberation. Their revelations will enrage you—and open minds and hearts."
Communal Feminisms: Chicanas, Chilenas and Cultural Exile
Lexington Books: Lindham, Md., 2007, paper back reissued, 2010.
Communal Feminisms breaks new ground in the breadth of issues covered and implications across disciplinary fields. One of these fields is psychology, with the issues on identity and self and other perception, issues that are part of psychology in general, but which often lack a global and intercultural perspective within that field. It has implications for Women's Studies, a discipline in which the word 'women' usually refers to the experiences and perceptions of white women and the experiences of Women of Color, especially in the United States, are often ignored. In the fields of Literature, Rhetoric, and English the stories of racial identity and of the rhetoric of diversity still follow a mainstream perspective; this book will challenge that perspective. In the field of Ethnic Studies, this book will facilitate discussions on the intersections of race and gender. The book also crosses fields of sociology, political science, and communication. It is a good resource for scholars and students.
— Yolanda Flores Niemann, Washington State University
A Most Improbable Life
a poetry collection, May 2003, Finishing Line Press.
Dra. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs


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The Xenophile's Dilemma: Ethan Zuckerman's "Rewire"
By Jacob Silverman
NINETY PERCENT OF EVERYTHING may be crap — as the science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon discovered in his famous "revelation" of 1958 — but what sort of crap, exactly? What are its peculiar qualities? Most of the numerous popular technology books churned out each year, many of which feel like PowerPoint presentations padded out to 250-plus pages, are guilty of the same offenses. Like a muddied color palette, the individual qualities of the books in this genre tend to run together, losing any sense of distinction. They usually promise some vision of a future that will never come to pass but is dramatic enough (in either a utopian or apocalyptic sense) to flatter the vanity of its readers. Light on research and well-stocked with opinion and dinner-party anecdotes, these books, with names like The New Digital Age and Who Owns the Future?, explain that we live in momentous times; they tell us that the internet is changing everything, and that we must respond accordingly by becoming more like the internet itself: non-hierarchical, well-connected, global in our reach. They draw on the writers' experiences consulting and working for large technology firms, but even when expressing dissatisfaction with the state of the tech industry, individual companies rarely come in for specific criticism (in part because Silicon Valley is a highly mobile industry; today's competitor might be tomorrow's collaborator). Rather, some hazy lack of "innovation" or "ambition" is blamed, and the perpetual punching bag of government receives its ritual beating. Although such books frequently consider issues that have political dimensions, realpolitik is brushed off in favor of a denuded liberalism spouted from a privileged corporate perch. In the cyberutopian future, such concerns will be incidental. Don't let the vicissitudes of reality stand in the way of a good prophecy.
Ethan Zuckerman's Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection seems like a reaction to these books, an effort to avoid their errors, though at times it skirts perilously close to their territory. Zuckerman is a media scholar and the director of MIT's Center for Civic Media as well as an entrepreneur. He was an early employee of Tripod.com, which began as an online publication and later became a web hosting platform in the vein of Geocities. His many other affiliations include membership on the boards of the Wikimedia Foundation and the open-source mapping company Ushahidi, and he is also a founder of the blogging and citizen journalism network Global Voices. He's lived in Ghana, and for years he has kept a hand in that country's development (his personal website is called "My Heart's in Accra"), working with various NGOs on programming and technology projects. In short, Zuckerman's CV reflects someone concerned with how technology can improve standards of living and give voice to cultures and communities who may be otherwise marginalized.
Zuckerman's book, his first, is a continuation of that laudable effort. He's excited by the possibilities the web provides for exposing isolated communities to the world, for making Americans more tolerant and culturally literate, and for connecting far-flung populations. The internet can, in his view, help make us all into digital cosmopolitans, xenophiles sampling the world's cultures while recognizing each one's unique value. At the same time, he's conscious of how "cyberutopianism" can undercut these possibilities, though he takes issue with the term itself, which, he says, "is an uncomfortable label because it combines two ideas worthy of careful consideration into a single indefensible package."
One of Zuckerman's concerns is that we have become parochial in our consumption of media and culture: that we are suffering from some form of what the internet CEO and activist Eli Pariser calls the "filter bubble." Zuckerman points to studies showing that most US media outlets publish fewer international stories than they did in the 1970s. He also tracks his own browsing habits and finds that, though he calls himself an Afrophile and often visits Ghana, he spends his time in the US mostly reading local news and mucking around online. We may aspire to be global citizens, but in practice, our attentions remain stubbornly local.
In illustrating the folly of this situation, Zuckerman brings up "Innocence of Muslims," the atrocious YouTube video that attacked the prophet Muhammad and led to riots in some Muslim-majority nations. Zuckerman correctly points out that the video was a hateful, amateurish production that unfortunately went viral after finding an amplifier in the Islamophobic pastor Terry Jones. It could've easily disappeared without notice (until Jones found it, it had). And while much of the media coverage focused on the violence that the video incited, less attention was paid to some more salutary repercussions, such as the thousands of Benghazi citizens who marched to protest the attack on the US consulate there. The US media was part of the problem, Zuckerman claims, as when Newsweek published an inflammatory cover of a Muslim crowd with the bold-faced title of "Muslim Rage," and then encouraged readers to tweet under the hashtag #MuslimRage. When many Muslim users took to Twitter with satirical remarks ("3-hour lecture tomorrow at 8 am. Why. #MuslimRage"), they were "trying to fight a simplistic narrative that obscures the larger transformation taking place in the Middle East."
This sort of media coverage, according to Zuckerman, "suggests we're getting a distorted picture of the world. This limited view, attuned to some narratives and not to others, makes it hard to anticipate and understand major shifts like the Arab Spring." Fair enough, and Zuckerman's heart is in the right place, but his treatment of these events is itself rather distorted. The #MuslimRage debacle wasn't the result of some vague "we" on the receiving end of a "distorted picture of the world." It was the consequence of lazy, racist journalists trying to provoke their audience — "trolling," in the rather exhausted parlance of the times — in order to sell copies of a failing news magazine. In other words, these were the actions of real human beings, who should be held accountable, just as violent protesters or hateful Florida pastors would be.
Yet in Zuckerman's account of the affair, a moral problem of people and behaviors becomes a technical problem of the internet and associated technologies. Agency and responsibility fade away; filter bubbles and networks that haven't been "rewired" for the modern, globalized world take all the blame. "We need to move towards a physics of connection," Zuckerman writes, in order to produce "an understanding of what's necessary to build real and lasting connections in digital space." New technologies and practices might help create this better informed world, but some rather basic intellectual honesty — practiced by journalists and readers alike — would also go a long way.
Continuing the theme, Zuckerman laments that Fiji Water's attempt to "go green" — no easy feat for a company that manufactures plastic bottles of water and sends them around the world on container ships — received more news coverage in 2007 than political upheavals in Fiji (the country). He remarks, quite rightly, that "we are increasingly dependent on goods and services from other parts of the world, and less informed about the people and cultures who produce them." But should we know more about Fijian culture and politics or, in this case, about the water company's practices in Fiji, where it's paid minimal taxes and cozied up to the military regime? And perhaps we should also know that the company has been sued for "greenwashing" its environmental credentials: it achieved its carbon negative label by essentially giving itself credit for trees it plans to plant between 2007 and 2037. Zuckerman leaves out these details, but they strike me as worth including, not least for their connection to Fijian politics.
The thumbnail sketches in Rewire sometimes exchange such complications for a simple narrative binary; in this case, the poles of politics and consumerism actually have much to do with one another. "Fiji Water is apparently more mobile than Fijian news," Zuckerman notes, a bit forlornly. But perhaps they simply have a better publicist, or some editors decided that readers are more interested in news about a popular brand of water than they are the troubles of a distant, tiny nation? The latter interpretation does not mean we have to accept that the choices news organizations made were the right ones — to the contrary — but it does at least offer a grounded explanation, one that considers the human actors involved and the competing priorities of media organizations. Zuckerman, instead, speaks in the language of computation, speculating that physical products somehow inherently travel better than information: "Could it be that atoms are more mobile than bits?"
This is all too bad, because Zuckerman does acquit himself as a pleasant, curious personality, thoughtful about the effects that increasing internet connectivity will have on developing countries. His narrative of his work with Global Voices is measured, interesting, and far from self-aggrandizing. He explains the various issues his organization has encountered in balancing expanding news coverage to underserved markets while also maintaining standards of professionalism. Perhaps most pertinent to the book's concerns, he writes about Global Voices' decision to move into publishing in other languages, including Malagasy, one of Madagascar's official languages (the other is French). The site now has more translators than writers and is available in at least 30 languages. Adding these languages involved more work and putting trust in inexperienced subordinates, while also sacrificing the internet traffic that comes with publishing in English, a global language. But it was repaid by adding to the site's linguistic diversity and bringing in loyal readers who were happy to be able to read news in their native tongue. This venture, in particular, seems like an exemplar of the kind of digital cosmopolitanism Zuckerman espouses.
I'm a little more puzzled by some of Zuckerman's other case studies, however. He writes of using volunteer translators for Global Voices — an understandable choice given the site's shoestring budget and its roster of amateur journalists. But he seems to have no problem with TED — the expensive, extremely popular ideas conference — using unpaid translators for subtitling its widely watched videos. These translators are credited and some are even invited to the conference, but it strikes a discordant note that someone who has spent so much time in the developing world would cognizance a well-heeled organization, one that caters to elites, using unpaid labor.
Elsewhere, Zuckerman celebrates "bridge figures," people who have lived peripatetically and are adept at both transitioning between communities and establishing bonds between disparate ones. Bridge figures can have "superpowers," Zuckerman says — a bit of hyperbole that may leave readers wary. Some of these figures on the surface appear rather admirable, such as the white South African producer who brokered Paul Simon's relationship with black South African musicians. The result was Graceland, and a new global audience for South African music. But while Zuckerman absolves Simon of the sin of cultural appropriation and notes that he paid his studio musicians above standard rates, he doesn't consider the other controversies that have attended Graceland, such as the charges that the American singer essentially stole compositions from African artists. (Los Lobos' Steve Berlin has repeatedly made similar claims, saying that Simon refused to share songwriting credits on the album's final track, and then challenged the band to sue him.)
Other choices are even less explicable. Zuckerman surveys the research of Ronald Burt, a sociologist and University of Chicago Business School professor who tried to help the defense contractor Raytheon integrate some of the acquisitions it made in the late 1990s. (The Gulf War was good to Raytheon, maker of the Patriot Missile, and sent it on an acquisition binge.) Raytheon had trouble making these homogenous companies cohere together and perhaps, Zuckerman indicates, we can learn from the defense giant's difficulties.
The Raytheon example presages the book's eventual tilt towards addressing, in very direct terms, business executives and members of the Fortune 500. "The world's biggest corporations are seeking cosmopolitan leaders to build world-straddling businesses," Zuckerman writes. They want CEOs with global perspectives — people like the leaders of Coke and Pepsi, "American institutions [that] are led by a Muslim from Turkey and a Hindu from India, respectively."
It doesn't seem to matter that there is little that is inspiring about Coke and Pepsi's actual business practices, and indeed much to criticize. Nor do these companies reflect the values that Zuckerman extols in his work in Ghana or with Global Voices. In Rewire, Indra Nooyi, the CEO of Pepsi, serves as a useful illustration simply because of her biography and ethnic background (Madras-born, educated in Calcutta and New Haven, jobs at Booz Allen Hamilton, Boston Consulting Group, and Motorola). "While she is not without critics," Zuckerman writes, "Nooyi is widely recognized as one of the most powerful and successful executives on a global stage." Status is its own reward and example.
Similar treatment is accorded Carlos Ghosn, "born in Brazil, of Lebanese descent, and educated in Paris," who ran the car company Renault before becoming CEO of Nissan. At Nissan, he shut down plants, ended some well-entrenched practices, and fired "workers who had expected lifetime employment." He also switched the company's language of operation from Japanese to English. He did so well that Renault, which has a major stake in Nissan, asked him to be CEO of both companies.
Ghosn may very well have rescued Nissan, but he clearly did so at some cost to its employees. And once again, there's the sense that Zuckerman respects him more for his multi-hyphenated identity than for his actual work.
These examples, and a number of others, shift Rewire's emphasis away from cultural cosmopolitanism toward economic globalization. Soon Zuckerman's offering suggestions for how "smart multinationals" should hire managers, and suggesting that occupying armies need to "employ as many anthropologists and linguists as explosives specialists," without noting, as one might expect from someone immersed in academia, that many social scientists consider it a violation of their professional duties to work with militaries.
Authoritarian, business-first Singapore is the kind of place global business leaders find quite attractive, and Zuckerman respects the country's decision to preserve a statue of a British conqueror who founded a colony there. This, for him, signals Singapore's "openness to connection with people from all nations, irrespective of previous colonial relationships." (Or could it just be white-washing?) Still, Zuckerman acknowledges that "one of the secrets behind Singapore's economic success is a system of government that's far from open. Building a state that's both open and attractive as a market state is an unsolved problem." Why is democratic government incompatible with being attractive to investors?
When it comes to the academic world, Zuckerman recommends that schools embrace students who may serve as bridge figures and "encourage xenophilia as a core skill." There's a strangely bloodless tone to this suggestion, as if developing an interest in other people and cultures is like studying calculus. This seems a far cry from the Zuckerman who enjoys sumo wrestling and poring over West African newspapers.
But then I recall an earlier passage in Rewire, in which Zuckerman warned that "without a way to build personal connections to people from other parts of the world, it's hard for us to take their perspectives and insights seriously." Empathy, curiosity, basic decency and respect for other people, a desire to experience different cultures and challenge one's own assumptions — all of these constituent parts of xenophilia apparently founder without a way to build connections (presumably, technological ones) to other people. Without the internet, in other words, we won't be able to take foreigners "seriously." It's a remarkable, and frankly baffling, slide from the first few chapters of the book, when Zuckerman waxed rhapsodically about Ghanaians' naming practices and the Chinese writers who translate that nation's media into English, allowing us to enjoy a more complicated picture of their society.
That's the Ethan Zuckerman whose work I want to read, not the one who advises corporations to "invest in spaces […] where employees can connect," or who writes, with a note of implied regret, that "the transparency that connection brings makes it increasingly difficult to wage war without attracting international scrutiny, as America discovered at Abu Ghraib."
The Ethan Zuckerman worth reading will be the thinker who forsakes the value-neutral language of management consulting and global markets, instead remembering that, even in a rewired world, the old problems of politics, ethics, history, culture, and sovereignty won't go away. In fact, these are the challenges most deserving of our attention, and the ones that someone of Zuckerman's experience and sensitivity is capable of addressing.
Jacob Silverman is a freelance writer and book critic living in Brooklyn and a contributing editor for the Virginia Quarterly Review.
Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection
By Ethan Zuckerman
Published 2013-06-17 00:00:00
W.W. Norton & Co.
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Erik (along with Manuela Müller and Christian Rödelsperger, also in the lab) explores the mechanisms by which developmental plasticitymight lead to phenotypic diversity. He does it in the context of examining a strange mouth-form polyphenism in our lab's favorite nematode, Pristionchus pacificus. In all inbred strains collected in the wild, a certain proportion of the population has a narrower, presumably bacterial feeding mouthform (stenostomatous) and the rest of the population adopts a toothier and wider mouthform (eurystomatous). Turns out, the toothier form is much better at killing other nematodes and utilizing them as a food source. To see this toothier mouthform in action, check out THIS VIDEO I posted a while back on YouTube. Even more interestingly, the ratio of each mouthform has been shown to be regulated by environmental conditions such as food availability and population density.
Erik started by doing a genetic screen for animals that lose the toothy eurystomatous mouthform. By doing so, he identified a dominant locus that seemed likely to regulate plasticity in mouthform and bestowed upon it the name eud-1. Turns out that eud-1 encodes an arylsulfatase that has a homologue in C. elegans, but we don't know anything about its function in that animal. Though we don't know the target, he was able to demonstrate that it acts in a dosage dependant manner… the more the expression, the more toothy predatory mouthforms you get in the population.
Being a good comparative biologist, it would have been strange for Erik to stop there. He additionally shows that this sulfatase functions similarly in multiple wild isolates as well as in the closely related species Pristionchus exspectatus. In P. expectatus, they were able to locate an inbred strain that does not produce any eurystomatous individuals and has very low levels of eud-1 expression. The species can be crossed, so he did so and was able to show that crossing with eud-1 mutants had no effect but crossing with wild type recovered the eurystomatoud mouthform.
Of course, I was most excited when they were looking at the expression pattern of the sulfatase and found that it is expressed in neurons. Some of the neurons are located where the cell bodies for some of the more important sensory neurons are, suggesting that possibly eud-1 is sensory-mediated endocrine signaling. Cool!
Previous work had shown that this mouthform is influenced by pheromone signaling. Erik was able to show that eud-1 mutants do not change their mouthform frequencies in response to pheromones.
In summary, Erik started with a system with a cool evolutionary novelty in the form of a mouthform polyphenism, identified an unusual gene (sulfatase) that is responsible for regulating this polyphenism, showed that it works across species and also showed expression patterns implicating the nervous system and possibly endocrine signaling. Nice piece of work, check it out HERE. Also, see the commentary by Volker Hartenstein and David Jacobs HERE.
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Freelance journalist Sig Conrad is shot in the head while elk hunting in the Oregon mountains. He survives but now his memory only lasts one day. A second man, Sig's old high school friend, is killed while swimming in Minnesota, the incident made to look like an accident. When Sig travels from Oregon to Minnesota for his class reunion, he finally starts to remember fleeting moments from his painful past. After another friend dies mysteriously, Sig's memory drifts back more vividly. Through the help of a former classmate and girlfriend, Sig starts to uncover a grand conspiracy of murder and political corruption. Clues lead to a fourth man who is running for the Oregon governorship—a man whom Sig had been writing about before he was shot. Will Sig recall everything before the killer finishes the job?


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Marvel Universe Live (Programme)
Posted: Dec 2015
Title: Marvel Promo (Misc)
"Marvel Universe Live!" is an arena-based spectacular action show starring Marvel's most famous heroes. Spider-Man plays a leading role, along with Hulk, the Avengers, and some of the best-known X-Men. On the side of the villains are Loki, Red Skull, Madame Hydra, Electro, Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus wielding the power of a reformed Cosmic Cube.
The show premièred in August 2014, and is now on a tour through 85 cities in the U.S.A.
The producers of this new show clearly have a more focused vision and a tighter grasp of budget than the creators of the ill-fated Broadway spectacular "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark". Feld Entertainment group have already proven themselves with their well-known and successful "Disney on Ice" shows. They also own The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. That's a distinguished pedigree right there.
This new Marvel show features bright costumes, acrobatic and fight-scenes, motorbike and car stunts, with plenty of fireworks. Nobody here is looking for an Oscar nomination. All these guys want to do is fill stadiums with happy working-class families, and sell them a bunch of merchandise before they leave.
Ain't nothing more American than that! THWIPP!!!
SM Guest
Summary: Oversized 11" x 15" Programme (Spider-Man Appears)
This item looks like the official programme.
It's huge and glossy (11" x 15", 32 pages) and it includes a massive 22" x 30" fold-out poster. Inside you'll find character profiles for all the show's super-stars – with enough info to give you a head-start in the unlikely event that you don't know who these guys are. There's a description of the Cosmic Cube as well, and a handy time-line for the show's set pieces, just in case you lose track during the hectic journey that is about to unfold before your eyes.
Tucked away at the back of the books are the credits for the creative team. There's no credits for the on-stage cast. I suspect that the cast might change from show-to-show (and probably wasn't even entirely settled at the time the programme was printed). I would expect an insert to be provided at the gate to let you know who was on the stage for that day.
With its hefty size and thick glossy paper, this is a hugely attractive programme. I suspect it comes with an equally impressive price tag. Certainly my copy set me back a fair few bucks on eBay.
Of course the content is very basic. There's quick profiles of all the classic characters and their powers. The "plot" (such as it is, being really nothing more than a series of running battles) is explained in advance. Loki builds a cube, Thor smashes it into three bits. Spider-Man introduces his "Lectro Link" that might come in handy one day. The heroes split into three groups and fight separately. The final battle looms, but Loki turns Thor against his friends. Spider-Man saves the day... using his "Lectro Link". Did you catch that earlier reference?
I haven't seen the show myself. It sounds like a pointless mess of silly fun, and I'm jealous I don't live in the U.S.A. so I can't take my kids to go see it. The reviews online seem to be enthusiastically positive.
Pure escapist entertainment, with a "bigger is better" glossy programme.
Issue: Marvel Universe Live Prelude (Promo Comic)
Issue: Heroes Aren't Hard to Find (Shelton Drum Promo)
Review: Marvel Universe Live (Programme)
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Our experts tell you how to protect your feet if you have diabetes.
For most people, a blister, cut, or scrape on the foot is no big deal -- an "ouch!" and a hurriedly applied bandage, and it's over. Not so if you have diabetes; meticulous daily foot care is as important as monitoring blood glucose, cholesterol, and blood pressure levels.
"Unfortunately, diabetes foot-health awareness doesn't have a colored ribbon or national voice," says foot care expert James Wrobel, DPM, of the University of Michigan Medical School. "If you don't manage them early, small problems that start in the feet can cause really big ones."
Show your hardworking feet some love by preventing ulcers -- open sores that can lead to serious complications like infection and even amputation. According to a report co-written by Wrobel, people who develop diabetic foot ulcers have a higher risk of dying within five years than people with some types of cancer, including prostate cancer, breast cancer, and Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Remember that what you can't feel might really hurt you later, especially if infection sets in. Uncontrolled glucose levels can lead to nerve damage called diabetic neuropathy, a numbness or tingling that may affect balance and prevent you from feeling hot, cold, and even pain. Nerve damage can also compromise your body's ability to sweat, which means skin on the feet can get dry and crack, opening the body's natural infection barrier. The foot's pressure-absorbing fat pads also harden and thin out, creating ideal conditions for foot ulcers to develop.
When cholesterol and blood pressure levels aren't controlled, narrowing or poor function of blood vessels in the arms and legs, called peripheral vascular disease, can reduce blood flow and circulation. Narrower vessels mean the feet get less oxygen and vital nutrients that fight infection and heal wounds. When tissue dies (a condition called gangrene), amputation may follow.
The lifetime risk that a person with diabetes will develop a foot ulcer may be as high as 25%. To lower your chances of having this happen and to keep your feet in tiptop shape, Wrobel recommends taking these steps.
Take care. Wash feet daily with warm water and soap, dry well, then soften with lotion, cream, or petroleum jelly, avoiding the areas between toes. Trim or file toenails into a shape that's almost square but with no corner points to break skin or cause ingrown toenails.
Be sure the shoe fits. Indoors or out, wear properly fitting, closed-toe shoes to protect feet from stubs and bangs. After age 40, when feet get wider, consider prescription orthopedic footwear for better balance and stability. Never go barefoot.
Wear socks. Clean, light-colored, and lightly padded socks will show blood or draining wounds so you can easily spot problems. Avoid slow-drying, 100% cotton socks in favor of synthetic blends that wick moisture away and discourage fungus.
Fight fungus. Fungus, which thrives in moisture, can lead to infection. Where can you pick up fungus? From carpet, showers, and gym floors. To help kill it, use medicated foot powders like Tinactin or Micatin, and spray Lysol inside your athletic shoes.
Inspect daily. Take a good look at your feet every day. A recent study of male veterans with diabetes found that more than half couldn't see or reach the bottom of their feet. If you aren't flexible enough to see your soles, ask someone to help or use a magnifying mirror to scout trouble spots like redness, bruises, and tiny punctures.
Shake things up. Give your shoes a good shake regularly. Seemingly harmless debris like coins and pebbles can fall unnoticed into shoes, injuring feet.
Don't go to extremes. Insensitivity to temperature means you could accidentally damage your feet, so avoid becoming too hot or too cold.
Heat can cause feet to swell and can burn skin, so don't soak your feet in hot water -- and stay away from hot-water bottles, heaters, and fireplaces, too. Wear insulated boots and socks in very cold weather to help prevent frostbite.
Don't be callous. Don't attempt any kind of "surgery" by cutting your calluses yourself. You risk getting ulcers or infections, so call your doctor for help.
Mark the calendar. Schedule regular foot exams with your doctor -- every few months, or at least once a year -- to avoid emergencies later.
Another critical aspect of diabetes management is staying stress-free. A little bit of stress can send your blood sugar out of control. Geralyn Spollett, NP, president of health care and education for the American Diabetes Association, offers these tips.
Exercise. "It's a great stress management tool. Walk on a treadmill or get out and hoof it in the fresh air."
Talk with a loved one. "Don't bottle it up inside. Find someone who will be sympathetic."
Get enough sleep. "You can't cope with stress very well if you're overtired. Get checked if you think you have sleep apnea, which causes snoring and abnormal breathing during snooze time."
Don't overeat. "Many times, people who are stressed like to eat because it's a comfort for them. But overeating can cause high blood sugar, so if you must, snack on carrots or rice cakes."
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Cam Newton: Patriots starting QB label is 'irrelevant' right now, says he 'absolutely' doesn't feel the job is his
Updated: Aug. 26, 2020, 2:35 p.m. |
Published: Aug. 26, 2020, 2:34 p.m.
New England Patriots quarterback Cam Newton (1) winds up for a pass during an NFL football training camp practice, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, Pool)AP
Chris Mason | cmason@masslive.com
FOXBOROUGH — Cam Newton is absolutely running away with the Patriots quarterback competition, but you wouldn't know that from listening to his Wednesday afternoon press conference.
Asked whether he felt he'd won New England's starting gig, the former MVP was direct.
"Absolutely not," Newton replied. "Every day is a workday for me, and that label is not important to me right now because I know I have so much that I need to get better at, so much that I need to learn, so much that I need to be comfortable with. And throughout this process, that's the last thing that I'm pretty much worried about. Knowing that there are certain things when I come to the line of scrimmage and it's just not as firing, mentally, as I would want it to be, rather than other plays that may be called.
"I see a person like (Brian Hoyer) go to the line, and he's just as sharp as it can be. From me asking him questions and he answered them and (Jarrett Stidham) and things like that, there's things that I know I need to be become better at. And until I get those things done, everything else is irrelevant."
The three quarterbacks opened camp by splitting the reps, but Newton has taken the vast majority over the past week. There also seem to be new wrinkles in the playbook that Tom Brady never ran, but are well-suited to the dual-threat.
There's been an open dialogue between Newton and offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels and quarterbacks coach Jedd Fisch, and it's commonplace to see the quarterback picking their brains after reps. That's extended to the meeting room, too.
It's a dynamic the veteran quarterback has certainly appreciated.
"It's been therapeutic for me," Newton said. "Just knowing that these guys have been as patient throughout this process (as) I would have wanted them to be. Obviously, learning a 20-year installment of plays, all in a short time span, has been challenging.
"But yet, I think it would have been more challenging if you didn't have the tutelage of a Jedd, the tutelage of a coach Josh and Jedd, and even the other quarterbacks. (Brian) Lewerke's helped me. Stiddy has helped me. Hoyster has helped me. Receivers have helped me. It's just been going back and forth.
"And obviously, there's been some things that haven't been implemented before with me at the quarterback position. At times, there is a dissertation, so to speak, of, 'This is how we're expecting it to be.' OK, now Cam — they flip it and say, 'Well, how are you expecting it to be?' And I'll say the same thing when we're in quarterback meetings."
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