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TENTE Castors Ltd.
100 Papyrus Road, Werrington
Peterborough PE4 5HN
Email: info.uk@tente.com
Home Mobility solutions Design Montana
Designed to meet the highest standards and to embrace individual ideas.
Clean lines, 42 colours and endless possibilities – the famous Danish furniture manufacturer Montana speaks the language of design and opens the door to a unique world of shapes and contours.
The resulting high demands also apply to the castors which fit seamlessly into the design concept of the company and allow maximum flexibility given that they were adapted by us to meet the individual requirements visualised by the customer.
The starting point
Montana Møbler A/S offers its customers all over the world a range of different modular systems and occupies a prominent position in the market with its award-winning designs. Founder and designer Peter J. Lassen has made the company a worldwide name with his high-calibre team of designers and a workforce now exceeding 120. In his past life he was employed in the family-run enterprise Fritz Hansen A/S and worked with some of the best designers in Denmark, from Arne Jacobsen, Piet Hein and Jørn Utzon right through to Verner Pan-ton. Today, Montana is managed by the son of the founder, Joakim Lassen. The furniture manufacturer is known not only for the many different ways in which the pieces of furniture can be combined, but also for the unique range of surface finishes with a choice of 42 paint colours and three veneers. The Montana approach is to provide people with a system which allows them freedom and scope for personal development. They love the versatility of the furniture with its infinite number of combinations and are charmed by its purest forms, basic geometric shapes and clean lines.
Specific castor requirements
About a quarter of Montana office furniture is fitted with castors and the trend continues upwards. The company needs a solution which fits perfectly with the design language of the furniture manufacturer and which allows the furniture to be moved easily. It is also important to be able to match the castors to the individual brief in terms of colour because Montana also supplies its chairs, side tables, shelves and cupboards in the 42 Montana colours.
Our smart mobility solution
The castor which meets the Montana specification exactly is the TENTE Linea. Like the furniture made by the Danish company, its design has also won over the judges of many leading design competitions because form and function go hand in hand. As a twin-wheel castor it is the perfect choice for relatively heavy-duty applications. Its high-quality tread surfaces guarantee excellent running characteristics and minimum wear.
There were some details of the Linea, however, which did not satisfy the design demands of the furniture manufacturer. Instead of the curved contour of the regular cap, Montana preferred a more minimalist solution. The height also needed to be adjusted. We were able to satisfy both wishes with individual tailor-made solutions. In close liaison with the designers of the Danish company we developed a flat cap which fulfils the Montana design brief down to the very last detail.
The modified height of the castors also came to fruition through intensive consultation with Montana. Montana is supplied with the Linea in various sizes: 40 millimetres for its chairs and 65 or 75 millimetres for shelves, cupboards and tables. This range of castors also provides a firm base for the unique items in a broad spectrum of colours.
Customised design and supreme flexibility – just two of the many advantages of the TENTE Linea.
Andy Poulsen, Product Developer at Montana
Made-to-measure designs for optimum processes
The customised Linea represents the exact design ideas of Montana and provides the optimum solution for the process in question be-cause the cap can be finished in the required colour and can be fitted or replaced quickly and easily. The clip-in process is straightforward and the caps remain securely in place.
They do not fall out and can easily be removed if necessary. our solution therefore introduces a virtually unlimited scope for design, increases the efficiency of the manufacturing process and contributes to flexible and customer-friendly after-sales service.
With Disney on board - and TENTE on deck.


Our goal is to minimize the damages in any criminal matter. When it comes to expungements, the sooner you talk to an attorney at Helms Robison Lee & Bennett, PA about your case, the better off you will be. If the facts simply don't add up, we will work to have the charges dismissed. In many cases, we negotiate for reduced charges for our clients. We can also ask for a deferred prosecution that can later lead to a dismissal of the charges, expungement of those charges, and eventually, a clean record. Most important, our criminal defense attorneys have the experience it takes to fight for you at trial and tenaciously defend your constitutional rights.
Are you concerned about your child's future? When your child makes a mistake, it can have long-term consequences. College applications often ask if the applicant has ever been charged with a crime, even if there was no conviction.


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Q: Pandas - convert columns to grouped array coordinates I have a DataFrame of (x, y) coordinates that I would like to transform into array's to perform pairwise distance calculations on.
df = pd.DataFrame({'type':      ['a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'c'],
...                      'x': [1, 3, 5, 1, 3, 1, 3, 5],
...                      'y':   [2, 4, 6, 2, 4, 2, 4, 6]})

Desired output - A new DataFrame of grouped/aggregated coordinates in an array so that I can apply a fuction to each array:
grp =       coordinates
    a    array([[1, 2],
               [3, 4],
               [5, 6]])

    b    array([[1, 2],
               [3, 4]])

    c    array([[1, 2],
               [3, 4],
               [5, 6]])

Distance calculation I wish to apply...
grp['distances'] = grp.apply(lambda x: scipy.spatial.distance.pdist(x['coordinates'], 'euclidean'), axis = 1)

I can't seem to get the groupby function to do this. Any ideas?

A: create a new column with pairs x,y
df['xy'] = df.apply(lambda x: [x['x'], x['y']], axis=1)

groupby and aggregate into a list of lists
gb = df.groupby('type')
df2 = gb.aggregate({'xy': lambda x: list(x)})

this produces:
df2
    xy
type
a   [[1, 2], [3, 4], [5, 6]]
b   [[1, 2], [3, 4]]
c   [[1, 2], [3, 4], [5, 6]]

note that to apply your distance function you have to do:
from scipy.spatial import distance
df2['distances'] = df2['xy'].apply(lambda x: distance.pdist(x, 'euclidean'))

df2

    xy                          distances
type
a   [[1, 2], [3, 4], [5, 6]]    [2.82842712475, 5.65685424949, 2.82842712475]
b   [[1, 2], [3, 4]]            [2.82842712475]
c   [[1, 2], [3, 4], [5, 6]]    [2.82842712475, 5.65685424949, 2.82842712475]

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Maybridge church of St. Nicholas constructed 1944, 9 miles north-west ofArran; R.M. 331.
MAYBRIDGE — The church of St. Nicholas is the second church of the parish.
The first church was constructed in 1918 on a two acre site eight miles north and one and a half miles west of Pelly. In 1940 this church was destroyed by fire; in 1944 the parishioners constructed the present church on the same site. Bishop Andrew Roborecki visited the church and the faithful in 1956 and 1965.
The church is a wood constructed rectangular structure with two frontal towers apexed by cupolas. It stands on a low concrete basement; its walls are finished in painted wood siding and contain rectangular windows; the roof is gable in form and shingled. The church is west-east oriented with an east main entrance sheltered by a small roof shelter porch. The west elevated sanctuary has a north adjoining porch with an exit to the church grounds. Directly behind the main altar hangs an oil on canvas church patron painting, St. Nicholas (unsigned); the two nave holy images of the Holy Mother of God and Christ Who Loves Mankind, which are found on corresponding sides of the sanctuary, are glass mounted oil prints. The interior walls and vaulted ceiling are finished in donnacona while the church floor is constructed of wood. The church contains wooden pews seating approx. 40 persons; it is lighted by candles only and heated by a wood burning heater. The parishioners constructed the church through their financial donations and voluntary labour as well as the fire insurance funds received for the first church. In continuation of the church site lies the parish cemetery.
The first Ukrainian settlers arrived in this area in 1908 from Halychyna and Volhynia. The founding members of this parish were: Rev. Peter Kryworuchka, the Hubic family, the Ladubec family, Dmytro Perepe-liuk, Stefan Chorniuk (Chornook) and Nykola Todoruk.
In 1941 the parish had a membership of 14 families with 20 children (Prop. Knyha), in 1961, 20 souls (Directory), and in 1975, 6 families were accounted for. In 1976 the parish was under the directorship of: Rev. Zdzislaw Karcz, MSF, pastor, Michael Dedio, Michael Haydamacha, Michael Chornook, Olga Ladubec and Mary Dedio.
The Ukrainian Catholic parish of St. Nicholas, Maybridge, is under the pastoral charge of Arran.
Maybridge St. Nicholas Church and Cemetery
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Yorkton Protopresbyterate (Deanery)
Rac, Very Rev. Joakim, Pastor, Dean
Canora, Ss. Peter and Paul (Res)
Box 1137, Canora, SK S0A 0L0
Telephone: (Res) 306-563-5148
Email: joarac@sasktel.net
Antonivka, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Buchach, Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Chekhiv, Descent of the Holy Ghost
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Hazel Dell, Ss. Peter & Paul
Hryhoriv, St. Demetrius
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Invermay, Ss. Vladimir and Olga
Kovalivka (Tiny), Transfiguration of Our Lord
Kyziv-Tiaziv, St. Demetrius
Preeceville, Transfiguration
Rama, Ss. Peter & Paul
Vasyliw (Wasyliw), Ss. Constantine and Helena
Dungen, Rev. Warren
Kamsack, St. Josaphat
(Res)119 Nicholas Street,
Box 1628, Kamsack, SK S0A 1S0
Telephone: (Res) 306-542-2220; Cell: 306-590-7900
Email: wdungen@gmail.com
Arran-Vesna, Ss. Peter and Paul
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Kuroki, Ss. Peter & Paul
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Wadena, Descent of the Holy Spirit
Whitebeech – Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Yorkton Redemptorist Fathers
Yorkton, Our Lady of Perpetual Help
155 Catherine Street, Yorkton, SK S3N 0B9
Email: st.mary.yorkton@sasktel.net
Malkov, Rev. Leonid, CSsR, Pastor
Email: lmalkov@gmail.com
Zadorozhnyi, Rev. Yevhen, CSsR, Assistant Pastor
Email: zadorozh72@gmail.com
Beaverdale, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Calder, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Insinger, St. Nicholas
Insinger Farms, Ss. Peter & Paul
Jedburgh Village, Ss. Peter and Paul
Plain View, Descent of the Holy Spirit
Whitesand, Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Wroxton-Farms, Ss. Vladimir and Olga
Malowany, Rev. Basil
Administrator Ituna and Wynyard Districts
Ituna, Sacred Heart
(Res) Box 340,
Ituna, SK S0A 1N0
Telephone: 306-795-2411; Cell: 306-540-5102
Beckenham, Transfiguration of Our Lord
Bedfordville (Stanyslavstsi), St. Nicholas
Fenwood, Ss. Peter & Paul
Goodeve Farm, Holy Trinity
Goodeve Town, St. Michael
Hubbard, Holy Spirit
Hubbard Town, Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Kelliher, St. Vladimir the Great
Kelliher, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Melville, St. George
Parkerview, St. Nicholas
Wynyard District
Stephaniuk, Rev. Jeffrey, Assistant Priest
Wynyard, Sacred Heart
Wynyard, SK S0A 1N0
Email: jdstephaniuk@gmail.com
Foam Lake, Holy Eucharist
Holar, St. Demetrius
Krasne, St. John Apostle the Theologian
Model Farm, Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Sheho Farms, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Sheho Town, Christ the King
Wishart Farms, St. Michael the Archangel
Wishart Town, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Olivo Barbieri was born in 1954 in Carpi (Modena), Italy. He is considered one of the most important contemporary Italian artists. Barbieri creates imaginative landscapes and cityscapes, challenging the viewer's perception of reality and creating seemingly artificial viewpoints of our mundane surroundings. Utilising the technique of selective focusing, Barbieri suspends himself out of a helicopter 200 – 500 feet in the air over his subject. The result is a composition both familiar and unreal, which distorts reality and recreates the landscape into an artistic installation of Barbieri's conception. Works by Olivo Barbieri are included in public and private collections worldwide, as well as museum collections in Europe and the United States, including: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; International Center of Photography (ICP), New York; and GAM Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin.


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Rich was inspired to start the Strategic Thinking Institute by a single question a manager asked him during a break at a strategic planning retreat twenty years ago: "I had my performance review and my boss said I'm too tactical. How can I become more strategic?" He realized there simply wasn't a roadmap to help managers move from tactical to strategic. So, he created one.
As the CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute, Rich has helped more than 100,000 managers develop their strategic thinking skills through live workshops and virtual learning programs. He guides executive management teams through the strategy process, and provides coaching to senior leaders to maximize their strategic potential.
Rich has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX TV, and his work has been featured in publications such as Fast Company, Forbes, and the Harvard Business Review. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of seven books on strategic thinking including, StrategyMan vs. The Anti-Strategy Squad, which won "Best Strategy Book of 2018" (Axiom Business Book Awards). Rich has created more than 200 resources on strategic thinking in his mission to help people think strategically to set direction and create advantage.


Based on over 1,000 advertiser programmes in the European core markets of Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Benelux, Scandinavia and Poland, Europe's leading performance advertising network shows that mobile commerce is already living reality for consumers. In an annual comparison of 4th quarter 2010 to 2011, there was a 313-percent increase in revenues generated via mobile devices . In 2011, for example, more than two million transactions were made via mobile devices. During the process, a sales volume of 120 million Euro was generated in 2011.
Tags: Europe, mobile marketing, mobile strategy.
The moment Mail.ru and Yandex investors have been waiting for has arrived: Russia, at long last, has finally surpassed Germany to become the largest internet market in Europe.
According to comScore, the research firm, Russia had 50.8m internet users in September versus 50.1m users in Germany. And, luckily for those who bought into Russian internet stocks such as Mail.ru and Yandex at sky-high valuations, the market still has a lot of growth left.
With broadband penetration set to reach 60m people in Russia this year – a third of the population – there is still a large swath of the country where the internet revolution has yet to take hold.
GP Bullhound, a techonology-focused investment group, predicts there will be 93m Russian broadband customers by 2013. Of those customers, 71m will be using 3G mobile phones.
This is good news for big internet groups, such as Mail.ru and Yandex, which have spent the past year justifying their initial offering valuations.
Their share prices appear to be evidence that the two group's initial valuations were inflated. But actually the companies have been surprising the market with better-than-expected earnings.
According to comScore, Russia easily beats France, the UK and Italy for the number of its internet users. But it does not even enter the top rankings for the amount of time these users spend on the internet, falling behind countries such as the UK, the Netherlands and Turkey. While the average European spent 26.4 hours on the internet in September, the average Russian user spent just 22.4 hours.
Tags: Biggest market, Europe, internet, Russia.
EU takes its data privacy seriously; why won't the U.S.?
Last Saturday, Jan. 28, activists and lawmakers in the EU and Canada celebrated an event that got relatively little publicity here: European Privacy Day. It was the culminating date in a monthlong campaign to raise awareness of privacy and data protection issues faced not just by the EU, but globally.
In the United States, the National Cyber Security Alliance also celebrated Data Privacy Day on Jan. 28, but its efforts focused on consumer-level methods to secure data from threats like hackers and data-mining viruses or other intrusions. European Privacy Day took a more holistic path in calling attention to privacy and data protection, with meetings and round tables in several countries including Belgium, Sweden, the UK, Hungary, Germany, and more. Each addressed aspects of privacy and security from the consumer, business and legislative level.
Privacy Day-related meetings discussed topics ranging from the implications of smart metering for privacy, to free speech and freedom of association issues related to the workplace, to reviews and discussion on current data protection laws and new laws being enacted. In short, participants didn't just ask how they could secure our computers and data centers against intrusion; they discussed the real implications of the IP age on individual rights.
The expansive reach of the dialog on the rights of individuals when it came to privacy and protecting data that's collected about them was surprising in its depth, compared to the U.S. version of Data Privacy Day in which consumers and businesses were given the usual instructions to keep their antivirus programs up to date and to be aware of current laws regarding release of individuals' data.
Tags: Europe, Privacy Day, US.


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Industry is embracing new advancements and products in integration technology (the backbone for every organization) to meet the demands of their customers in this connected and fast-paced world. Companies need to be in constant touch with their mobile and social media savvy customers to deliver top quality products and services.
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Q: WP7 cordova example does not work I did all steps from phonegap.com/start to deploy to windows phone. When i debug default cordoba-1.7.0-Start project on my emulator is only black background nothing is visible when i run this app, but in console output i have info that app was launched and terminated :( What is wrong ?
'UI Task' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\CompactFramework\v2.0\WindowsCE\mscorlib.dll'
'UI Task' (Managed): Loaded 'System.Windows.RuntimeHost.dll'
'UI Task' (Managed): Loaded 'System.dll'
'UI Task' (Managed): Loaded 'System.Windows.dll'
'UI Task' (Managed): Loaded 'System.Net.dll'
'UI Task' (Managed): Loaded 'System.Core.dll'
'UI Task' (Managed): Loaded 'System.Xml.dll'
'UI Task' (Managed): Loaded '\Applications\Install\3B9113DD-7B84-4DC5-B767-33D200A5DC5B\Install\Cordova-1.7.0-Starter1.dll', Symbols loaded.
'UI Task' (Managed): Loaded 'Microsoft.Phone.dll'
'UI Task' (Managed): Loaded 'Microsoft.Phone.Interop.dll'
'UI Task' (Managed): Loaded '\Applications\Install\3B9113DD-7B84-4DC5-B767-33D200A5DC5B\Install\WP7CordovaClassLib.dll'
'UI Task' (Managed): Loaded 'System.Xml.Linq.dll'
'UI Task' (Managed): Loaded 'System.Runtime.Serialization.dll'
Updating IsolatedStorage for APP:DeviceID :: 000348be-f5cf-45c6-a4c0-7e6dce0244c6
Writing data for /app/www\cordova-1.7.0.js and length = 117960
Writing data for /app/www\index.html and length = 1100
Writing data for /app/www\master.css and length = 322
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GapBrowser_Navigated :: /app/www/index.html
'UI Task' (Managed): Loaded 'System.ServiceModel.Web.dll'
'UI Task' (Managed): Loaded 'System.ServiceModel.dll'
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ScriptNotify :: Info:document.addEventListener event named deviceready
ScriptNotify :: Info:Installing capture
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Log:"GotDeviceInfo :: 7.10.7720"
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Log:"onDeviceReady. You should see this message in Visual Studio's output window."
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A: Windows Phone Emulator requires a DirectX 10 or above capable graphics card with a WDDM 1.1 driver. I assume that you got an error message on first start of the emulator that your graphic adapter isn't capable for all functions the emulator
If your graphic adapter does not fully support DirectX 10 or doesn't has a WDDM 1.1 driver you will only see a dark screen instead of the rendered webpage. This also affects all controls using MultiScaleImage, including the webbrowser control. As far as I know there is no solution for this at the moment.

A: The app does appear to be loading, can you post the html that you are running?
BTW: Messages like this: The thread '' (0xf6a005e) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
Don't actually mean that the app exited, these are threads being exited, you can hide these messages in Visual Studio's settings.


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Magento Order Success extension provides you an opportunity to get all the order related information on the check out page instead of only the 'Thank you for placing order'-like messages. This easy-to-install extension enables you to view all your order details on the check out success page.
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Meets Magento guidelines and in line with the standard work flow.
Displays billing and shipping address as well as shipping and payment method on the check out success page.
Show items ordered and the entire billing table on the checkout success page along with the price, quantity and the total amount.


HBO cuts the cord: Is this the end of cable TV as we know it?
When it was announced that Austin would play host to the U.S. Grand Prix at the Circuit of Americas in 2011, many folks responded with, "Cool. But what does that mean?" Though it may seem like a glamorous activity for the world's richest playboys (which it certainly can be), Formula 1 also has a real economic impact on Austin and our travel, lifestyle, entertainment and leisure industries.
In order to prep for race weekend, which roars into town October 31-November 1, we're gathering the surprising stats and interesting facts to shed light on Austin's most glamorous — and most enigmatic — event.
Last year, 250,325 people descended on Austin to partake in three days of partying, concerts and, of course, racing. According to USA Today, those attendees brought an estimated $400-$500 million regional economic impact. (Figures from COTA place it around $548 million.) By comparison, SXSW 2014 brought in $315 million over 10 days.
The 3.4 mile long COTA track consists of 20 turns, including 11 left and 9 right — and it runs counterclockwise. For the U.S. Grand Prix, drivers must complete 56 laps around the track. That translates into 191.63 miles of driving and includes an elevation of 133 feet.
In 2012, Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel set a lap record, driving the 3.4 miles in 1 minute, 39.347 seconds. When Vettel won in 2013, he made history yet again as the first driver to win eight consecutive races.
Formula 1 teams bring in 30 executive chefs from around the world for the U.S. Grand Prix. While those chefs are crafting homemade meals with locally-sourced ingredients for the drivers and their teams, COTA attendees are chowing down on more than 7 miles of hot dogs and drinking 32,736 gallons of beer during the weekend.
Food trucks are also in high demand. More than 60 food trucks, mostly local, descend on the track for the weekend, serving up everything from tacos to French fries. And speaking of French fries, more than 12,000 pounds of the snack are served up during the U.S. Grand Prix.


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France Blasts Stance of US, Saudi, Israel on Iran Events
TEHRAN (FNA)- French President Emmanuel Macron blasted the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia over their hostile statements concerning the ongoing protests in Iran, saying it could lead to a war with the Islamic Republic.
"The official line pursued by the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia, who are our allies in many ways, is almost one that would lead us to war," Macron told reporters, referring to the statements made by Washington and its allies on Iran. He pointed out that, for some countries, this policy is a "deliberate strategy."
The French president said that it is important to maintain "permanent dialog" with Tehran to keep the balance in relations with the Islamic Republic while seeking ways to "increase international pressure" on Iran. By refusing to speak to Tehran, the US and its allies risk engaging in a "conflict of extreme brutality," he warned, adding, "otherwise, we end up surreptitiously rebuilding an 'axis of evil'."
Speaking about his planned visit to Iran, Macron said he is still determined to travel to the Islamic Republic, but only after the situation there returns to normal and respect for freedoms is restored, apparently referring to the ongoing protests. The French president's comments came after the French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian's visit to Iran, scheduled for Friday, was canceled.
Last week, a number of peaceful protests began in several areas across the country, with the participants calling on authorities to address their economic issues.
Those gatherings were, however, overshadowed when armed elements and vandals showed up among ordinary protesters and began to launch attacks on public property, police stations and religious sites.
The original protesters soon left the streets upon calls by the authorities so security forces could deal with the rioters and sporadic violence, which continued in some towns and cities for several days.
Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari downplayed enemies' military threats against Iran, stressing that the new sedition which showed itself in the form of recent unrests and riots in the past few days has ended.
"The enemies know that they cannot threaten the Islamic Republic of Iran in the defense field and they have spent all their capitals after the sacred defense (Iraqi-imposed war against Iran 1980-1988) to implement their cultural, economic and security threats against the Islamic Iran and they will certainly fail in these arenas too, with God's help," General Jafari said on Wednesday.
He referred to the recent unrests and riots during the economic protests in a number of Iranian cities and towns, and said, "Now we can say that it is the day when the (Iranian year of) 1396 (2018) sedition ended."
Warning that the US, the Zionists and the Saudi regime have ordered the ISIL terrorist group to penetrate Iran, he said a number of leading ISIL teams have been tasked with infiltrating the country to conduct sabotage and terrorist acts. "These leading teams of the criminal group are now fully under control."
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Pets caught in divorce fallout as spiteful couples hurt innocent animals
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LIKE a red rag to a bull, the newly acquired puppy leaps playfully from the car and into the marital version of World War III in suburban Australia.
A jilted ex-wife has just caught her cheating ex-husband and his lover at her house downloading a computer hard drive and has called police.
She pounces on the puppy in the driveway, threatens to throw it over a fence, but in her white-hot rage chooses to punt it a metre into the clutches of her former husband.
When her rage subsides, she recalls only "calmly passing the dog to the husband to ensure it left with him". Not surprisingly, her argument is found to be "unpersuasive".
The puppy case is sadly one of the more tame acts of cruelty uncovered by The Courier-Mail, with a rising number of animals ducking for cover in marriage breakdowns.
The threats to kill, strangle and maim pets are becoming part of the regular revenge tactics of warring couples as they share custody of children and animals.
"It happens fairly regularly where couples split up," Australian Divorce Blog author Stephen Page told The Courier-Mail.
"Many people have pets and it is very easy to fight over animals. There is nothing worse than having a woman and kids in a refuge who go back because the animals are being mistreated."
The RSPCA's Michael Beatty said an animal respite service helping pets of women fleeing violence was currently handling more than 100 animals a year.
"When we set up, we expected to have about five dogs a year," Mr Beatty said.
"Animals have a sixth sense and are very sensitive to the emotions of a marriage break."
Latest ABS figures suggest Queenslanders are more likely to be childless.
And with one in three Australian marriages ending in divorce, it is perhaps unsurprising that the number of divorce cases involving spats over animals is also rising.
Under the Family Law Act, violence against animals is a form of family violence, empowering judges to take a big stick to litigants who drag animals into a divorce fight.
It is often the case that a badly behaving pooch has driven a disgruntled spouse to the edge.
In one case, a 62-year-old husband was charged with domestic violence when he hit the pet dog with a broom to stop it urinating on the marital bed towards the end of his 15-year marriage.
Queensland-based Federal Circuit Court Judge Michael Burnett said the husband tried to "underplay" his "reprehensible conduct" against the terrier.
"The breed is well known and it's hardly of the kind to strike terror in the hearts of most able-bodied persons," Judge Burnett said.
There are plenty of examples in the Family Court of dogs being mistreated, with perhaps the worst being the beating inflicting on a bull-mastiff in 2012.
The dog had ripped some latticework from the side of a house and was beaten by a father in front of a child and mother.
The father threatened to "cut the dog's neck" while punching it in front of his screaming son.
Another violent ex-husband turned on a dog belonging to his ex-wife's new partner, attempting to strangle it in front of onlookers.
Another father beat the family dog in earshot of his children to "teach it a lesson".
According to the Family Court of Australia, animals are regarded as "personal property" in a marital split, which means they have to be valued.
In one valuation in Queensland, receivers were dragged into a dispute to decide on the custodial arrangements of a horse when the couple failed to reach an agreement.
In another recent property fight, an ex-wife walked away with nine pedigree dogs worth $30,000 in her split with her ex-husband after a 24 year marriage.
Animals are also often used in the toxic post-separation games played out by warring spouses.
In one hostile prank, an ex-husband broke into his ex-wife's home and replaced her couch with the dog bed and placed the television remote control beside it.
Another ex-husband had cried poor to the Family Court with claims he was "trimming the meat of the dog bones" to feed himself. The property pool had included a Volvo and a Range Rover.
Mr Page said property settlements often involved lawyers and litigants meeting at the marital home to split belongings, including the animals.
"People don't want to go all the way to court and spent $50,000 to argue over animals, so it is usually decided that one person is closer to the pets," Mr Page said.
But in some cases, it can all go horribly wrong.
For instance, a Queensland divorcee once organised to get the family dog "put down" before the property settlement, leaving lawyers to break the news to her ex-husband.
Another divorcee was brought to tears after learning of the death of the 16-year-old family dog weeks afterwards when their only child dropped it into conversation.
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Background Folding nucleus of globular proteins formation starts by the mutual
Victoria Harper Transferases May 31, 2017 Rabbit Polyclonal to OR52E2., TAK-715
Background Folding nucleus of globular proteins formation starts by the mutual interaction of a group of hydrophobic amino acids whose close contacts allow subsequent formation and stability of the 3D structure. in order to estimate the residues coding for the fold. FOD assumes that a globular protein follows an idealised 3D Gaussian distribution of hydrophobicity density, with the maximum in the centre and minima at the top of drop. If the actual local density of hydrophobicity TAK-715 around a given amino acid is as high as the ideal one, then this amino acid is assigned to the core of the globular protein, and it is assumed to follow the FOD model. Therefore one obtains a distribution of the amino acids of a protein according to their agreement or rejection with the FOD model. Results We compared and combined MIR and FOD methods to define the minimal nucleus, or keystone, of two populated folds: immunoglobulin-like (Ig) and flavodoxins (Flav). The combination of these two approaches defines some positions both predicted as a MIR and assigned as accordant with the FOD model. It is shown here that for these two folds, the intersection of the predicted sets of residues significantly differs from random selection. It reduces the number of selected residues by each individual method and allows a reasonable agreement with experimentally determined key residues coding for the particular fold. In addition, the intersection of the two methods significantly increases the specificity of the prediction, providing a robust set of residues that constitute the folding nucleus. Introduction As it has been enunciated by Oleg Ptitsyn in the early 90s, the code of crude protein 3D structure can be degenerate extremely, i.e. quite different sequences can possess identical tertiary folds, emphasizing that not absolutely all information on series therefore, (we.e. not absolutely all interactions) are essential because of this coding [1]. Consistent with this declaration, the present function can be an integration of two techniques, to be able to better decipher some crucial residues that may be regarded as a personal of confirmed globular proteins fold. There are many objectives in predicting such a personal. Kister & Gelfand demonstrated a limited amount of key residues determine the super secondary TAK-715 structures [2] and, if one has a sufficient number of intra chain contacts, the type of fold can then be predicted, according to Jones et al. [3]. It also improves the quality of the predicted models [4] or it may be a necessary condition to start a model with rigid secondary structures [5]. Besides, this knowledge can give insights into kinetics, because the strength and distribution from the connections in the native structure mainly determine the folding acceleration [6]. Prediction of intra string residue connections has after that been introduced like a category TAK-715 in the CASP competition (Important Assessment of approaches for proteins Framework Prediction, at http://predictioncenter.org), since it allows either filtering the versions generated by threading algorithms, or lowering the conformational space in molecular modelling [7]. It's been recommended that, for little proteins, just one single correctly expected contact for each and every seven residues will be enough to develop approximate versions [8]. Amino acids involved in a high number of intra chain contacts are generally buried in the interior of the globular proteins. One must make here some comments around the vocabulary, to distinguish between core and nucleus, as it continues to be proposed [9] currently. In the books, the idea of core is normally utilized to analyse the framework of the globular proteins: it includes all of the residues not really subjected to the solvent, mainly hydrophobic therefore, but not solely. Following Cramer and Rose, the core is certainly made up of residues that are faraway in series but close in space, recommending a thorough architectural program Rabbit Polyclonal to OR52E2. [10]. Determination of the hydrophobic primary in globular protein isn't trivial. Neither solvent availability, nor mapping of proteins according for some hydrophobicity size, are sufficient to accurately determine the group of residues essential for the stabilization and formation from the tertiary framework. Different approaches have already been developed to deal with this presssing concern [11C22]. Each you have defaults TAK-715 and characteristics, however the hydrophobicity or identification of residues are poor equipment for extracting details from proteins cores, rendering methods structured only on series alignments unsatisfactory [23]. The idea of folding nucleus identifies a couple of proteins, hydrophobic mainly, interacting through the changeover states from the folding procedure, and dispersed along the series eventually. The interactions of the residues, because of the thermal vibrations.
During organic infection by HIV-1, antibodies are generated against the spot
Victoria Harper Angiogenesis May 31, 2017 150 kDa aminopeptidase N APN). CD13 is expressed on the surface of early committed progenitors and mature granulocytes and monocytes GM-CFU), and osteoclasts, AZD8931, bone marrow stroma cells, but not on lymphocytes, epithelial cells, Mouse monoclonal to CD13.COB10 reacts with CD13, platelets or erythrocytes. It is also expressed on endothelial cells
During organic infection by HIV-1, antibodies are generated against the spot from the viral gp120 envelope glycoprotein that binds CD4, the principal receptor for HIV-1. these replies in uninfected people is unlikely to avoid infection by different viral strains [analyzed in (2)]. Just because a go for few monoclonal antibodies from HIV-1 contaminated individuals can successfully neutralize many HIV-1 strains, an attempt continues to be designed to facilitate vaccine style by determining the buildings of broadly neutralizing antibodies. Atomic-level characterization of their regarded epitopes allows the creation of immunogens that resemble extremely conserved viral buildings which elicit immune replies like the primary antibody (3-4). The well-studied neutralizing anti-HIV-1 antibodies broadly, 2G12, 2F5, 4E10, and b12, include unusual characteristics which have posed obstacles to eliciting AZD8931 very similar antibodies in human beings (5). Thus, furthermore to having wide convenience of neutralization, a proper antibody ought to be within high titers in human beings as this gives proof that such antibodies could be elicited in useful concentrations. To recognize AZD8931 such antibodies, we among others possess screened cohorts of sera from contaminated individuals not merely to discover broadly neutralizing replies but also to characterize those detectable in a considerable percentage of topics (6-10). One antibody response that satisfies these requirements is aimed towards the website of Compact disc4 attachment over the HIV-1 gp120 envelope (Env) glycoprotein (8). While accessible potentially, the Compact disc4-binding site is normally covered from humoral identification by glycan and conformational masking (11). To recognize monoclonal antibodies from this site, within a partner manuscript, we made resurfaced, stabilized probes conformationally, with antigenic specificity for the original site of Compact disc4 connection on gp120, and we utilized these probes to recognize antibodies that neutralize most infections (12). Right here, we analyze the crystal framework for one of the antibodies, VRC01, in complicated with an HIV-1 gp120 primary from a clade A/E recombinant stress. We decipher the foundation of VRC01 neutralization, recognize mechanisms of organic resistance, present how VRC01 minimizes such level of resistance, and AZD8931 define the function of AZD8931 affinity maturation in gp120 identification. These molecular information should facilitate initiatives to steer the maturation of VRC01-like antibodies from genomic rearrangement through affinity maturation to effective neutralization of HIV-1. Commonalities of Env identification by VRC01 and Compact disc4 antibody To get a structural knowledge of VRC01 neutralization, we crystallized the antigen-binding fragment (Fab) of VRC01 in complicated with an HIV-1 gp120 in the clade A/E recombinant 93TH057 (13). The crystallized gp120 contains its internal domain-outer domain primary, with truncations in the adjustable loops V1/V2 and V3 aswell as the C-termini and N-, regions which we'd previously found to increase away from the primary body from the gp120 envelope glycoprotein (14). Diffraction to 2.9 ? quality was extracted from orthorhombic crystals, which included four copies from the VRC01-gp120 complicated per asymmetric device, as well as the framework was resolved by molecular substitute and refined for an R-value of 24.4% (Rfree of 25.9%) (Fig. 1 and Desk S1) (15). Amount Mouse monoclonal to CD13.COB10 reacts with CD13, 150 kDa aminopeptidase N (APN). CD13 is expressed on the surface of early committed progenitors and mature granulocytes and monocytes (GM-CFU), but not on lymphocytes, platelets or erythrocytes. It is also expressed on endothelial cells, epithelial cells, bone marrow stroma cells, and osteoclasts, as well as a small proportion of LGL lymphocytes. CD13 acts as a receptor for specific strains of RNA viruses and plays an important function in the interaction between human cytomegalovirus (CMV) and its target cells. 1 Framework of antibody VRC01 in complicated with HIV-1 gp120 The interactive surface area between VRC01 and gp120 includes nearly 2500 ?2, 1244 ?2 contributed by VRC01 and 1249 ?2 by gp120 (16). On VRC01, both large string (894 ?2) and light string (351 ?2) donate to the get in touch with surface area (Desk S2), using the central concentrate of binding over the large chain second complementarity-determining region (CDR H2). Over half of the interactive surface of VRC01 (644 ?2) involves CDR H2, a mode of binding reminiscent of the connection between gp120 and the CD4 receptor; CD4 is a member of the V-domain class of the immunoglobulin superfamily (17), and the CDR2-like region of CD4 is definitely a central focus of gp120 binding (Figs. 2A and Table S3) (18). For CD4, the CDR2-like region forms antiparallel, intermolecular hydrogen-bonds with residues 365-368gp120 of the CD4-binding loop of gp120 (18) (Fig. 2B); with VRC01, one hydrogen-bond is definitely observed between the carbonyl of Gly54VRC01 and the backbone nitrogen of Asp368gp120. This hydrogen-bond happens in the loop tip, an extra residue relative to AZD8931 CD4 is put in the strand, and the rest of the potential.
Class switch recombination (CSR) occurs between highly repetitive sequences called change
Victoria Harper Aromatic L-Amino Acid Decarboxylase May 30, 2017 CCT129202, CD117
Class switch recombination (CSR) occurs between highly repetitive sequences called change (S) areas and is set up by activation-induced cytidine deaminase (Help). II (Pol II) substances was recognized at S areas indicating a stalling of Pol II substances (Rajagopal et al, 2009; Wang et al, 2009). CCT129202 During transcriptional elongation, GL transcripts type RNACDNA hybrids using the template strand revealing the single-stranded, non-template strand. The primary function of GL transcripts can be considered to CCT129202 promote availability of S sequences through co-transcriptional era of R loops and perhaps other structures that provide the substrates for AID (reviewed in Chaudhuri and Alt (2004)). In this context, it was found that AID-initiated mutations were detectable at some 150 bp downstream of I promoters, rise sharply at S sequences before falling off at their downstream boundaries, and are undetectable at C regions (reviewed in Di Noia and Neuberger (2007)). However, there CCT129202 is clear evidence that both DNA strands are targeted by AID (Rada et al, 2004; Xue et al, 2006). Therefore, AID must CCT129202 somehow gain access to the presumably protected cytosines of the C-rich template strand. How does AID achieve this function is presently unclear. Besides the hypothesis that transcription bubbles may be sufficient for AID attack, there are several non-mutually exclusive possibilities: (1) intracellular RNase H may CCT129202 degrade the RNA of the DNA/RNA duplex resulting in a collapsed structure in which misaligned repeats are exposed as single-stranded regions on both strands (Yu et al, 2003), (2) transient supercoiling of DNA upstream of elongating Pol II molecules may have a role for AID targeting (Shen and Storb, 2004), (3) other factors such as the single-stranded DNA binding protein RPA may target AID to non-R loop-forming sequences (Chaudhuri et al, CD117 2004) and (4) splicing of the GL transcripts may be involved in the collapse or destabilization of the DNA/RNA duplex (reviewed in Yu and Lieber (2003)). In this context, previous work showed that mutation of the donor splice site of I1 exon inhibited CSR to IgG1 despite normal GL transcription (Hein et al, 1998), (5) the antisense transcripts at S regions (Julius et al, 1988; Apel et al, 1992; Morrison et al, 1998; Perlot et al, 2008) may somehow contribute to AID targeting. In the latter context, the expression pattern of antisense transcripts appears to mirror that of their sense counterparts: they are synthesized before CSR, they are produced constitutively at S region, and they are induced at the same time and in the same excitement circumstances as the feeling transcripts at downstream S areas (Perlot et al, 2008). Many hypotheses have already been submit to take into account the function of antisense transcripts during CSR including advertising of Pol II stalling, stabilization of supplementary constructions upon potential collision of transcriptional complexes relocating opposing directions, and contribution towards the modulation of chromatin topology beyond basic transcriptional starting (Roa et al, 2008; Papavasiliou and Teng, 2009; Gearhart and Maul, 2010). In this scholarly study, we provide proof that antisense change transcripts are mainly dispensable for CSR and mice Initial observations showed relatively surprisingly no indication of immunodeficiency in pAp mice, which will be anticipated if V(D)J recombination and transcription had been completely turn off. To check of which developmental stage the mutation exerts its impact, we analysed B-cell populations in the bone tissue marrow by flow cytometry 1st. A 2.5-fold decrease was seen for the B220+ population in pAp mice (22%) weighed against WT controls (59%) (Supplementary Figure S2A). Two times.
The human G1m1 allotype comprises two amino acids, D12 and L14,
Victoria Harper Transferases May 30, 2017 PDK1, T 614
The human G1m1 allotype comprises two amino acids, D12 and L14, in the CH3 domain of IGHG1. donors homozygous for nG1m1 proliferated more strongly in the presence of the G1m1+ Fc protein than the nG1m1 Fc protein. PBMC from donors who were G1m1 homozygotes did not respond to either T 614 of the Fc proteins. This result suggests that the G1m1 allotype sequence is usually potentially immunogenic in nG1m1 donors and implies tolerance induction in the donors who carry the G1m1 haplotype. We did not T 614 consider the presence or absence of the G1m2 (or G1m(x)) allotype in these experiments. Figure 7 CD4+ T-cell proliferative responses to G1m1 allotype-containing Fc fragments. The G1m1-made up of Fc fragment purified from infliximab after papain cleavage (closed symbols) and the nG1m1-made up of Fc fragment purified from bevacizumab after … Processing of the Fc fragment of human IGHG1 by asparaginyl endopeptidase reveals a proteolytic clip site at the G1m1 sequence We reasoned that the unique amino-acid sequence at the G1m1 allotype might represent a proteolytic cleavage site that could alter the processing and presentation of the 1 constant region. Presentation of the CH315?29 fragment could result in tolerance induction or deletion of CD4+ T cells with this specificity. Alternatively, a unique clip site could result in modified processing such that the CH315?29 peptide fragment is not presented. Asparaginyl endopeptidase (AEP; legumain) is usually a proteolytic enzyme active in the antigen-processing pathway.28 Human AEP has been demonstrated to cleave immediately after both asparagine and aspartic-acid residues during autocatalysis to its fully functional mature form.29, 30 As the G1m1 amino-acid modification contains an aspartic-acid residue at position D12, an proteolysis was performed by us test using purified recombinant individual AEP. The AEP cleavage assay was performed on both purified Fc fragments (Body 8a lanes 2 and 4) and unchanged IgG substances (Body 8a lanes 1 and 3). We performed the assay on Fc and IgG protein that were built to be similar aside from the existence or lack of the G1m1 allotype in the CH3 from the continuous region. After digestive function with AEP, we observed a fragment at 3.5?kDa in the G1m1-carrying Fc and IgG proteins digests (fragment d, lanes 1 (IgG) and 2 (Fc)) T 614 that had not been apparent in the nG1m1 Fc or IgG reactions (lanes 3 (IgG) and 4 (Fc)). The proteins fragments tagged b (4?kDa) were apparently identical in both G1m1 and nG1m1 Fc digests, and and for that reason, mount proliferative replies towards the epitope peptide. As an identical percent of heterozygous donors as the nG1m1 homozygous donors are mounting responses to the CH315?29 peptide (40% for both sets of donors), but their overall magnitude of response is lower, our hypothesis is that only the high affinity CD4+ T cells specific for CH315?29 are deleted in heterozygous donors due to a lower dose' of the processed peptide. In G1m1 homozygous donors, most CD4+ T cells with specificity for the CH315?29 peptide are functionally deleted because of the increased relative dose of the peptide proliferation data with Fc-derived proteins do not support this hypothesis. The corollary to this conclusion is usually that G1m1 donors' non-responsiveness to the PDK1 Fc-derived proteins is usually therefore due to tolerance induction, which supports our hypothesis. That human constant regions are subjected to processing and presentation has been explained,33 and presentation of human G1m1 allotype-associated peptides is usually consistent with data from mouse models where murine allotypes can be encountered as antigenic proteins.3, 22 Finally, this hypothesis is consistent with the demonstration that changes of amino acids in the sequence of constant regions T 614 can result T 614 in an immunogenic Fc-based protein construct.34, 35, 36 Homozygosity of the nG1m1 allotype occurs only in Caucasiods, and at a rate of 40% (see ref. 8) The remaining 60% are heterozygous, or homozygous for the G1m1 allotype. The G1m1 allotype is found at 100% of the population in all other ethnicities. It would be logical, therefore, to construct humanized therapeutic antibodies using the most prevalent allotype. However, our result suggests that administering an IgG1 therapeutic antibody transporting the G1m1 allotype might provoke a CD4+ T-cell response in nG1m1 subjects, similar to responses to allotypes observed.
Altered expression from the individual ETS transcription factor gene impacts the
Victoria Harper Ion Pumps/Transporters May 30, 2017 FRP-2, GDC-0349
Altered expression from the individual ETS transcription factor gene impacts the amount of CNS serotonin (5HT) neuron gene expression and maternal nurturing. with GATA elements in vitro. Chromatin immunoprecipitations with embryonic hindbrain showed Gata-2 interactions using the orthologous mouse ETS cis-regulatory area. Mutagenesis of GATA sites uncovered that one or the various other site is necessary for serotonergic transgene appearance. Unexpectedly, dorsal and median raphe nuclei and provided additional insight into Fev/Family pet-1 function so. Comparable amounts of and adult dorsal raphe nuclei indicating that most mutant serotonergic precursors aren't fated to apoptosis. Nevertheless, B7 dorsal raphe cells had been distributed, suggesting a GDC-0349 job for within their midline company. Our findings recognize a primary transcriptional connections between Gata-2 and and a distinctive marker for brand-new understanding into function in 5HT neuron advancement. (Hendricks et al., 2003). In mice, regular numbers of serotonergic precursors are generated in the ventral hindbrain, but most fail to communicate tryptophan hydroxylase 2 (TPH2), the serotonin transporter (SERT), and additional serotonergic genes. The dramatically reduced levels of 5HT in deficient mice is associated with delayed respiratory maturation (Erickson et al., 2007), improved aggression and anxiety-like behavior in adulthood (Hendricks et al., 2003) GDC-0349 and a profound deficit in maternal behavior (Lerch-Haner et al., 2008). manifestation is governed GDC-0349 by a serotonergic transcriptional cascade that includes the proneural element (Pattyn et al., 2004), the homeodomain element (Pattyn et al., 2003), and the forkhead package element (Jacob et al., 2007) in ventral hindbrain progenitors and the zinc finger factor in postmitotic precursors (Craven et al., 2004). We showed previously that a cis-regulatory region upstream of is sufficient to direct transgene reporter manifestation to developing and adult 5HT neurons (Scott et al., 2005). Consequently, this region is definitely a target of upstream serotonergic transcriptional cascade. However, the precise location of cis-regulatory elements for serotonergic manifestation of has not been determined, nor is it known whether any of the recognized transcription factors in the cascade directly regulate encodes a protein that has 96% identity to and is indicated specifically in human being raphe (Iyo et al., 2005). Recently, we showed that both serotonergic and nurturing deficits in mice could be rescued having a bacterial artificial chromosome encoding (Lerch-Haner et al., 2008), hence demonstrating that is an orthologue of mice, as well as maternal care and offspring survival, depended on the level of gene manifestation. These findings display subtle alterations in manifestation can influence serotonergic gene manifestation and the quality of nurturing behaviors. Therefore, rules and function GDC-0349 may be relevant to disease pathogenesis (Rand et al., 2007). However, the mechanisms that control manifestation in 5HT neurons have not been investigated. Here, we investigated the cis-regulatory control of and statement that sequences surrounding the transcriptional start site are adequate to direct 5HT neuron-specific transgene manifestation. Two conserved GATA sites in this region are required inside a functionally redundant manner for serotonin neuron transgene manifestation. Finally, mind and show that these mutant precursors are managed but are aberrantly distributed. Our findings provide insight into the rules and function of conserved human being and mouse serotonergic developmental control genes and a transcriptional control map for upcoming identification of useful cis-regulatory variants. Strategies and Components Transgenes FEV2.2Z, FEV1.1Z, and FEV0.6Z A BGZA vector (Yee and Rigby, 1993) was initially modified to introduce upstream fragment was subcloned in to the modified BGZA vector. The vector sequences were removed to pronuclear injection with upstream sequences and transgene structure FEV2 prior.2Z was digested with distal site (GATA1) 5′- GGATGCGGGCAGAGATAAAGGGAGCAACGGCTGC-3′ and supplement; proximal site (GATA2) 5′- GGAAATTTAAAAGTGAAGATGCAGATAACGCAGCCTGGAGACGGG -3′ and supplement. The inserts had been sequenced completely, and fragment was extracted from RPCI-3304 and subcloned into pBACe3.6 using accession "type":"entrez-nucleotide","attrs":"text":"NM_017521″,"term_id":"56550101″NM_017521, accession "type":"entrez-nucleotide","attrs":"text":"NM_153111″,"term_id":"237858809″NM_153111) as well as the ECR web browser equipment (Ovcharenko et al., 2004). Forecasted transcription aspect binding sites had been attained using rVista 2.0 (Loots and Ovcharenko, 2004) and MatInspector (Cartharius et al., 2005). had been tested with the next biotinylated oligonucleotides (GATA theme underlined): GATA1 site, 5′-CGGGCAGAGATAAAGGGAGC -3′; GATA2 site, 5′- AAGATGCAGATAACGCAGCC -3′; and complementary oligonucleotides. Biotin-labeled oligonucleotides had been 60-80 FRP-2 and annealed fmol of double-stranded oligonucleotides had been incubated with ?1 g recombinant Gata-1 proteins (Panomics) or 6.4-12.8 g HeLa nuclear ingredients (Promega). Competition assays had been completed using 100-flip more than unlabeled wildtype or bottom substituted oligonucleotides (where the GATA theme was transformed to AATT such as transgenic research). For supershift tests, 5 l of goat anti-Gata-2 (Santa Cruz) or rabbit anti-GFP (Invitrogen) had been used. For both competition and supershift tests, extracts had been preincubated for 20 min in the lack of tagged DNA, accompanied by 20 min incubation with tagged oligonucleotide. Reactions had been electrophoresed on 6% Web page.
Introduction In pretargeted radioimmunotherapy (PRIT), a bifunctional antibody is allowed and
Victoria Harper Imidazoline (I3) Receptors May 29, 2017 SB-207499, Spi1
Introduction In pretargeted radioimmunotherapy (PRIT), a bifunctional antibody is allowed and administered to pre-localize to tumor cells. high-affinity scFv leads to considerably higher tumor retention of the 111In-DOTA hapten in comparison to pretargeted wild-type scFv within SB-207499 a xenograft mouse model. Conclusions We've engineered a flexible, high-affinity DOTA-chelate-binding scFv. We anticipate it'll verify useful in developing pretargeted imaging and therapy protocols to exploit the potential of a number of radiometals. [30]. Mice injected with 30 ug C8.2.5 bispecific antibody a day ahead of 111In-DOTA-Bn administration exhibit significantly better tumor uptake from the hapten twenty four hours later, in comparison to an analogous bispecific antibody containing the wild-type 2D12.5ds scFv and 111In-DOTA-Bn only (Amount 6), demonstrating improved retention from the 111In-DOTA-Bn at the website from the tumor for the affinity matured scFv. Fig. 6 Evaluation of high-affinity and wild-type scFv pretargeting affinity maturation of 2D12.5 within a xenograft mouse model, where we evaluate bispecific antibodies designed with the high-affinity C8.2.5 scFv as well as the wild-type 2D12.5 scFv (Figure 6). The comparative tumor uptake data display which the affinity maturation led to a SB-207499 substantial improvement in hapten retention within this model. These outcomes encourage the look of more complex research in mice including marketing from the injected dosage of bsAb and blockage from the circulating bsAb using SB-207499 a clearing agent. Complete research with optimized dosing will be presented elsewhere. While we've used a bispecific antibody that is clearly a C-terminal scFv fusion towards the light string of the IgG, various other bispecific constructs could possibly be designed with the C8.2.5 scFv such as for example diabodies [51], scFv-IgGs, di-diabodies, and scDb-Fc fusions (analyzed in [52]). While IgG-like bispecific antibodies are anticipated to bring about considerably higher tumor deposition than smaller sized antibody fragments because of slower bloodstream clearance [53, 54], a great deal of antibody will SB-207499 stay in the bloodstream during hapten dosing likely. Hence a clearing/blocking step may be essential to minimize hapten binding to residual bsAb in the bloodstream. This can be achieved using a DOTA conjugated dextran or albumin preventing agent, a frosty dosage of DOTA chelate, a galactosylated DOTA-dextran or DOTA-albumin clearing agent, or a mixture thereof. While three-step pretargeted radioimmunotherapy Spi1 is normally more technical than suggested two-step strategies [12, 55], it could bring about higher tumor dosages for confirmed quantity of bispecific antibody (because of a higher focus of hapten binding sites accumulating in the tumor) and feasible antibody reliant cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) and supplement reliant cycotoxicity (CDC) because of the maintained Fc domain. Predicated on the model outcomes, hapten retention is normally expected to end up being very similar for DOTA-Bn-Y using a 10 pM affinity and DOTA-Y using a 100 pM affinity under antigen saturation for extremely expressed tumor goals. That is a hypothesis which will be examined in vivo. Either DOTA or DOTABn could possibly be used in combination with this operational program; we've proven that 111In-DOTA-Bn clears quickly in the bloodstream lately, and isn't maintained significantly in virtually any body organ (K.D. Orcutt et al., manuscript in press). We've engineered a flexible, DOTA-chelate-binding scFv with picomolar binding to yttrium, lutetium, and gadolinium chelates and nanomolar binding to gallium and indium chelates. Our strategy comprised numerical modeling from the pharmacokinetics from the bsAb as well as the steel chelate for the treating both micrometastatic disease and vascularized tumors to derive style specifications, and proteins engineering via aimed evolution using fungus surface display to attain the preferred final result experimentally. We anticipate which the high-affinity DOTA-binding C8.2.5 scFv will prove helpful for pretargeted imaging with positron emission tomography using 86Y and single photon emission computed tomography using 111In and pretargeted therapy with beta-emitters 177Lu and 90Y. C8.2.5 can also be helpful for targeted MRI with multivalent macromolecular comparison realtors containing DOTA-Gd. SB-207499 Supplementary Materials 01Click here to see.(194K, pdf) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank Ioannis Papayannopoulos for LC-MS evaluation, the MIT Biopolymers Lab for HPLC MALDI-TOF and purification evaluation, as well as the MIT Stream Cytometry Core Service for techie assistance. We give thanks to Greg Thurber, Steven Sazinsky, Mike Margaret and Schmidt Ackerman for helpful conversations and Stefan Zajic for developing the outrageous type.
The innate and adaptive immune systems of vertebrates possess complementary, but
Victoria Harper G Proteins (Heterotrimeric) May 29, 2017 PF 477736, Rabbit Polyclonal to MED8.
The innate and adaptive immune systems of vertebrates possess complementary, but intertwined functions within immune responses. primarily by block duplications from an ancestral inhibitory receptor locus, with transformation into activating receptors taking place more often than once. Evolutionary selection pressure provides led not merely to a fantastic expansion from the CHIR cluster but also to a dramatic diversification of CHIR loci and haplotypes. This means that that CHIRs possess the potential to check the adaptive disease fighting capability in fighting pathogens. Synopsis The disease fighting capability developed to handle a diverse selection of pathogens, including infectious microorganisms. The detection of the pathogens by cells from the immune system can be mediated by a big set of particular receptor proteins. Right here the authors look for to understand what sort of particular subset of cell surface area receptors from the home chicken, the poultry Ig-like receptors (CHIR), offers progressed. They demonstrate that at least 103 such receptor loci are clustered about the same microchromosome and offer the first complete analysis of the region. The sequences from the genes recommend the presence of inhibitory, activating, and bifunctional receptors, as well as numerous incomplete loci (pseudogenes) that appear to have evolved by PF 477736 duplications of an ancestral inhibitory receptor gene. Multiple parts of high series variability had been determined within loci which also, as well as substantial development of the amount of these genes, suggest that CHIR polypeptides are involved in critical functions in the immune system of the chicken. Introduction Activating and PF 477736 inhibitory receptors containing domains of the immunoglobulin (Ig) superfamily are major components in regulating innate immunity of vertebrates [1,2]. These genes usually belong to multigene families containing several PF 477736 very similar members [3C5] arranged in tight genomic clusters [4C6]. Based on their features, the particular receptors could be grouped into three classes: (i) inhibitory receptors with an extended cytoplasmic site containing a couple of immune system receptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motifs (ITIMs) [7] or an immune system receptor tyrosine-based change theme (ITSM) [8], (ii) activating receptors having a transmembrane (TM) site containing a favorably charged residue which mediates association with immune receptor tyrosine-based activatory motif (ITAM)-containing adaptor molecules [9,10], and (iii) receptors like KIR2DL4 [11] and NCR2 [12] that combine activating and inhibitory features. The ratio of activating to inhibitory receptors varies widely between species. The human leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptor (LILR) cluster, which can be encoded inside the leukocyte receptor complicated (LRC), displays a balanced percentage of activating and inhibitory receptors [5], as the killer cell Ig-like receptor (KIR) cluster, which can be area of the LRC also, reveals an haplotype-dependent, more or less pronounced excess of inhibitory receptors [3]. This is in contrast to the situation in the mouse, where the LRC seems to contain mainly activating paired Ig-like receptor (Pir) and no KIR genes at all [4]. Recently, it has been shown that activating KIRs are frequently lost during advancement and a substantial amount of healthful individuals appears to be totally without activating KIRs [13]. Alternatively, there will need to have been significant evolutionary pressure to transform inhibitory ancestors into activating variations by co-opting historic signaling pathways because such transformations happened not only separately in several types but also inside the structurally different but functionally comparable killer cell lectin-like receptor subfamily A (Klra) genes of rodents [13]. For KIRs, this transformation dates back 13.5 to 18 million years ago, and especially the activating variants evolved extraordinarily fast [14]. This has resulted in a high amount of nucleotide polymorphism currently, but the main changes derive from exon shuffling [15], and participation in Rabbit Polyclonal to MED8. pathogen protection has been recommended being a generating force [13]. Relating to all these factors, the parallels between KIRs and activating Klras are stunning [16,17]. KIR homologs aren't known for the poultry, but chicken Ig-like receptors (CHIRs) were suspected to be LILR homologs [18] and they were initially identified by a database search with a mouse Pirb sequence [19]. However, the genomic business of the CHIRs closely resembles the organization of most two-domain KIRs [17] and significant similarity continues to be demonstrated on the proteins PF 477736 level. All ligands known up to now for receptors with CHIR homology (e.g., KIR, LILR, Pir) are main histocompatibility complicated (MHC) or MHC-related substances. Some are pathogen encoded [20] and mimic MHC appearance on virus-infected cells even. Several receptors are portrayed by natural killer cells but they are present also in different combinations on subsets of myeloid cells and T lymphocytes [21]. Recently, efficiency and appearance of the inhibitory person in the CHIR gene family members.
Persistent oxidative stress continues to be connected with carcinogenesis. a combined
Victoria Harper RXR May 28, 2017 also known as ZSCAN19Zinc finger and SCAN domain-containing protein 19), most ofwhich encompass some form of transcriptional activation or repression. The majority of zinc-fingerproteins contain a Krüppel-type DNA binding domain and a KRAB domain, Rabbit polyclonal to ZNF449.Zinc-finger proteins contain DNA-binding domains and have a wide variety of functions, thereby recruiting histone modifying proteins. As a member of the krueppelC2H2-type zinc-finger protein family, which is thought tointeract with KAP1, ZNF449 Zinc finger protein 449)
Persistent oxidative stress continues to be connected with carcinogenesis. a combined mix of pet tests and microarray analyses homozygous deletion of continues to be recognized as among the main target genes involved with iron overload-induced carcinogenesis. will be the further most inactivated tumor suppressing genes in individual malignancies frequently. Presently when infection is now sufficiently controlled worldwide iron regulation may be another target for human longevity. KN-62 will not induce irritation neither is it under legal control. However the pathology of iron overload is insidious it could ultimately result in cancer actually. Within this feeling iron overload is a tranquil "period bomb" really. Carcinogenesis and Iron Iron is ubiquitous no living microorganisms on the planet may carry out without iron. Iron insufficiency causes anemia but unwanted iron could be Rabbit polyclonal to ZNF449.Zinc-finger proteins contain DNA-binding domains and have a wide variety of functions, most ofwhich encompass some form of transcriptional activation or repression. The majority of zinc-fingerproteins contain a Krüppel-type DNA binding domain and a KRAB domain, which is thought tointeract with KAP1, thereby recruiting histone modifying proteins. As a member of the krueppelC2H2-type zinc-finger protein family, ZNF449 (Zinc finger protein 449), also known as ZSCAN19(Zinc finger and SCAN domain-containing protein 19), is a 518 amino acid protein that containsone SCAN box domain and seven C2H2-type zinc fingers. ZNF449 is ubiquitously expressed andlocalizes to the nucleus. There are three isoforms of ZNF449 that are produced as a result ofalternative splicing events. a risk for carcinogenesis because iron functions as a catalyst for the Fenton response thus marketing the generation from the unwanted molecule ?OH (Fig.?1). Iron shops in the body accumulate insidiously with maturing because iron intake surpasses loss no biologic systems can be found for excretion of iron more than KN-62 physiological requirements.(10) It had been initially reported in 2008 that KN-62 iron reduction by phlebotomy not merely decreased visceral cancers risk by 35% but also reduced mortality KN-62 in cancers individuals KN-62 by 60% within a supposedly regular population with peripheral arterial disease.(11) Regardless of some criticisms regarding design of the study that is an extremely significant observation helping other epidemiological research(12 13 and you need to not underestimate the function of iron in carcinogenesis. A couple of ample individual epidemiological data to aid the participation of extreme iron in carcinogenesis. Genetic hemochromatosis is normally a hereditary disorder of iron sensing and 4 hereditary types are known currently. Included in this autosomal recessive (OMIM +235200) is normally a significant KN-62 type.(14) A mutation in the gene encoding (OMIM.
The type of kinesin interactions with membrane-bound organelles and mechanisms for
Victoria Harper Beta May 28, 2017 HEY2, Nitisinone
The type of kinesin interactions with membrane-bound organelles and mechanisms for regulation of kinesin-based motility have both been surprisingly difficult to define. either with a (Hercules CA) confocal laser scanning microscope or with a cooled charge-coupled device camera Nitisinone (ORCA; Hamamatsu Hamamatsu City Japan) controlled by Openlab Software (Improvision Lexington MA). Images were processed for presentation in Adobe Photoshop (Adobe Systems Mountain View CA). All images shown in the same panel were altered for contrast identically. Microsomal vesicles were purified by homogenizing fresh bovine brains in 5 volumes of homogenization buffer (HB; 300 mM sucrose 10 mM HEPES pH 7.4 5 mM MgCl2 and protease inhibitor mixture [1 mM -4-(2-aminoethyl)benzenesulfonyl fluoride and 10 μg/ml leupeptin pepstatin and aprotinin]). As indicated HB was used without additions with NEM (0.1-5 mM) or with EDTA (5 mM) added to buffer before homogenization. For NEM experiments the suspension was centrifuged 15 min at 39 800 × pellet (V1) was resuspended in homogenization buffer by 10 passages through a 25-gauge hypodermic needle to disperse vesicles for further analysis. The 39 800 × supernatant was centrifuged 40 min at 120 0 × pellet (V2) was resuspended in homogenization buffer as described above. Vesicle samples were either processed for immunoblots or used for release assays. For quantitative immunoblots the Nitisinone supernatant (S) and vesicle fractions (V1 and V2) were probed for the presence of kinesin with the H2 antibody as described previously (Pfister maximum for 8 min to eliminate debris nuclei and mitochondria. Three milliliters of each supernatant were taken from each tube and centrifuged for 1 h at 200 0 × max in a Beckman Devices (Palo Alto CA) TLA.100.3 ultracentrifuge rotor. After recovering the soluble fraction the 200 0 × pellets were resuspended by brief sonication in 1.5 ml of HB. Protein concentration was measured by the Coommasie blue assay ((West Grove PA). The effects of hsc70 around the kinesin bound to microsomal vesicles (V2) were evaluated by incubating at a concentration of 1 1 mg/ml total vesicle protein with or without hsc70 for 30 min at 37°C in release buffer (HB plus 75 mM KCl). Hsc70 was used at concentration of 10 μg/ml for a molar ratio of 2:1 for hsc70:kinesin. After centrifugation over 600 mM sucrose in 10 mM HEPES pH 7.4 at 260 0 × BHK21 cells constitutively expressing GFP were fixed directly or extracted before fixation with either Triton X-100 or digitonin (Determine ?(Figure1).1). When set without removal GFP was maintained in the Nitisinone cell but also the mildest detergent remedies led to fast lack of cytoplasmic GFP departing only a little residual small fraction in nuclei. Evaluation between kinesin and GFP distributions in unextracted cells suggested these two protein didn't colocalize. GFP permeated the cell complementing well Nitisinone to cell limitations and width but kinesin immunoreactivity were more restricted probably enriched in chosen cellular domains. Body 1 Soluble GFP however not kinesin is certainly released from detergent-permeablilized cells. Fluorescent pictures of unextracted (A) 0.015% digitonin-extracted (B) and 0.1% Triton X-100-extracted (C) wild-type BHK21 cells (H2) or BHK21cells stably expressing … Digitonin removal before fixation uncovered more striking distinctions between GFP and kinesin localization (Body ?(Figure1).1). Practically all GFP was extracted from cytoplasmic domains within 4 min departing only a weakened sign in the nucleus. On the other hand the majority of the kinesin continued to be as discrete buildings that Nitisinone were Nitisinone frequently carefully apposed to microtubules in double-label research. Significant punctate kinesin immunoreactivity continues to be HEY2 even after even more strict extractions using Triton X-100 under circumstances where intracellular organelles start to end up being extracted (Ramsby and Makowski 1998 ). Although kinesin immunoreactivity made an appearance decreased with Triton X-100 treatment (Body ?(Figure1) 1 very much kinesin remained as punctate structures. Longer extractions and higher concentrations of Triton X-100 that disrupt inner membranes substantially decreased kinesin immunoreactivity ( Morfin pellet (V1) the 260 0 … Addition of NEM to homogenization buffer before removal alkylates.
Endogenous serine proteases have already been reported to control the reabsorption
Victoria Harper General Calcium Signaling Agents May 28, 2017 AMG-458, CDKN1A
Endogenous serine proteases have already been reported to control the reabsorption of Na+ by kidney- and lung-derived epithelial cells via stimulation of electrogenic Na+ transport mediated by the epithelial Na+ channel (ENaC). constant of 1 1 μM. Analysis of amiloride analogue blocker-induced fluctuations in INa showed linear rate-concentration plots with identical blocker on and off rates in control and aprotinin-inhibited conditions. Verification of open-block kinetics allowed for the use of a pulse protocol method (Helman S.I. X. Liu K. Baldwin B.L. Blazer-Yost and W.J. Els. 1998. oocytes have been cloned (Vuagniaux et al. 2002 These CAPs were predicted to be membrane-anchored proteins with extracellular serine protease domains. The importance of serine protease activity in ENaC regulation has been exhibited in renal epithelial cell lines (Vallet et al. 1997 Nakhoul et AMG-458 al. 1998 Vuagniaux et al. 2000 and main airway cells (Bridges et al. 2001 Donaldson et al. 2002 by serine protease inhibition. Vallet et al. (2002) reported that both membrane anchoring and proteolytic activity were required for CAP1 activation of ENaC. However the exogenous addition of chymotrypsin and trypsin have also been shown to activate INa in oocytes (Chraibi et al. 1998 and trypsin stimulates INa in fibroblasts expressing ENaC (Caldwell et al. 2004 Recently it was shown that the appearance of apparently smaller molecular weight forms of ENaC from MDCK cells heterologously expressing ENaC could be blocked by mutations that remove putative cleavage sites in ENaC α and γ subunits for the protein convertase CDKN1A furin (Hughey et al. 2004 These mutations were associated with a significant decrease of INa in oocytes expressing ENaC. Although exogenous proteases have no effect on the spontaneous INa in several native Na+ transporting epithelia trypsin enhanced recovery of INa following inhibition by the serine protease inhibitors aprotinin and bikunin (Vallet et al. 1997 Bridges et al. 2001 Donaldson et al. 2002 Therefore inhibition of the CAP pathway by particular protease inhibitors is enough to inhibit Na+ transportation in various epithelia. ENaC legislation by the Cover pathway could possibly be mediated by adjustments in the one route current (= + · [= = 2π· 10 · μM. The one route current amplitude (iNa) was computed as: (1) where INa may be the amiloride-sensitive current hence allowing us to look for the number of open up stations at AMG-458 10 μM CPDC as = specific tests ± SEM. Statistical evaluations had been performed with either unpaired exams when you compare across tests but paired exams when you compare across circumstances in the same cells. The P < 0.05 was considered significant. The P beliefs are reported in accordance with 0.01 and 0.05 in the figure and text message legends. Linear regressions were performed with Source (Microcal). Nonlinear curve fittings were performed with Matlab (Mathworks). Materials Unless normally stated all materials were from Sigma-Aldrich. RESULTS Effect of Aprotinin on INa Apical administration of 10 μM aprotinin resulted in a decrease of AMG-458 Isc. Short circuit current traces of the effects of AMG-458 PBS and aprotinin on A6 cell sodium transport are demonstrated in Fig. 1 (A and B). After a 25-30-min equilibration period following initiation of transepithelial voltage clamping PBS or aprotinin was added to the apical part for 50 min followed by 10 μM amiloride to obtain a measure of net electrogenic sodium transport mediated from the amiloride-sensitive sodium channel ENaC (INa). We verified that under these experimental conditions >90% of the ISC was amiloride sensitive (unpublished data). Therefore any switch in the ISC can be attributed to a change in INa. The Isc taken after the equilibration period is referred to as the control Isc. As can be seen aprotinin caused a time-dependent decrease in the ISC that was not observed in the PBS (vehicle control) treated cells. The decrease in Isc caused by aprotinin was apparent following a variable short lag phase of ~30 s. With this subset of experiments the PBS-treated monolayers experienced a control Isc of 8.4 ± 1.36 μA/cm2 (= 12) that was not significantly changed (8.9 ± 1.08 μA/cm2 P > 0.05) 50 min after addition of PBS but was reduced to 0.8 ± 0.13 μA/cm2 upon addition of 10 μM amiloride. Parallel experiments with 10 μM aprotinin added to the apical part experienced control Isc of 7.5 ± 1.25 μA/cm2 (= 12) that was reduced to 2.2 ± 0.55 μA/cm2 (P < 0.01) 50 min after addition of aprotinin and further reduced to 0.5 ± 0.12 μA/cm2 with the help of 10 μM.
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Top 10 Most Surprising NFL Teams of Week 18 (2022)
Before we get to this list, yes I know there's some teams that might not have been surprising or anything. This is kinda hard to make because some games were pointless in the grand scheme of the playoff picture so I'm judging these teams based on the results of their game, and the outcome they have from said game.
1 Houston Texans The Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas. The team competes in the National Football League as a member club of the American Football Conference South division.
Houston had the tank of tanks. They looked like the team that would claim the prize of the first overall pick but they just had to go for two. They won the game on a 2 point conversion. Houston I have to ask a legitimate question what the actual hell are you doing? You fired Lovie Smith after just one season like David Culley last year which raises the question what was the point of that to begin with? What coach is going to want to coach for you if you only give them one shot. Have you seen the state of your team? No coach is going to be able to revive that team in one single season.
2 Washington Commanders The Washington Commanders are a professional American football team based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. In 2020, Washington after 87 years got rid of the Redskins trademark due to it being labeled racist to native culture. It was named the Washington Football Team until February 2022, when the team was renamed the Washington Commanders.
Dear God I hope this is the last we see of Dan Snyder. That man ruins everything he touches anyway Washington may have been eliminated but they looked like the better team. Sam Howell outplayed Dak in a game that Washington had no business winning but either way they looked like they showed those flashes of talent we saw throughout the season
3 Dallas Cowboys The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's National Football Conference East division.
This game was the complete opposite of how I imagined it would go. Dallas looked Checked out and played down to their competition. Dak looked awful the pick 6 is one thing but only completing 14 of 37 passes for 128 yards and 1 touchdown isn't exactly inspiring confidence. The defense looked off the entire game to a THIRD STRING QUARTERBACK. And you can't even make the excuse they had nothing to play for they still had a shot at the NFC East and 1 Seed. No pressure but Tampa Bay will look a lot like that Washington team you got smacked by
4 Jacksonville Jaguars The Jacksonville Jaguars are an American professional football franchise based in Jacksonville, Florida.
Who would've thought that Jacksonville would be the ones standing atop the AFC South? It's the Titans and Colts division to lose! Well the Jags nearly lost it but luckily Josh Allen stepped up in a huge way to save their season. Jacksonville is on a bit of a hot streak right now. Trevor Lawrence is actually developing. Doug Peterson is back in the dance. This is honestly just a testament to how awful Urban Meyer was in every way. With how relatively young this team is they might be around for awhile to come. I'm curious how they will do. I am secretly rooting for them
5 Miami Dolphins The Miami Dolphins are a professional American football franchise located in the Miami metropolitan area.
Miami congratulations on limping into the playoffs this was one of the ugliest and worst games of football I've seen it's up there with some of the other horrible games this season. Somehow Skylar Thompson and Joe Flacco went head to head in a game with massive playoff implications. Skylar Thompson is really raw but he will get his shot in the playoffs since Tua is out in concussion protocol. Honestly don't be surprised if he retires with all he's been through this season alone. Just be grateful you were playing the Jets who were somehow even worse. Yinzers everywhere are kicking and screaming because this Dolphins team made it in while the Steelers did not
6 Los Angeles Chargers The Los Angeles Chargers are a professional American football team based in Los Angeles. The Chargers compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's American Football Conference West division.
All I need to say is Brandon Staley is an idiot. You knew before the game you were locked into the 5th seed with nothing to play for. So riddle me this, why the hell would you play your starters? You lost Mike Williams and Joey Bosa because you were a moron. It didn't matter anyway because you lost the game anyway. I'm just gonna say it. Brandon Staley should be on the hot seat. Yet if they lose to Duval, Justin Herbert will get blamed regardless how he plays.
7 Detroit Lions The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. The Lions compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's National Football Conference North division. The Detroit Lions are one of the four teams to have never been to a Super Bowl, and also one of the two teams in history to go 0-16.
Detroit had nothing to play for thanks to the Rams loss but the way they looked you wouldn't know that. They actually did have something to play for. Pride and respect. They may have been eliminated but they weren't about to let Green Bay make the dance. It was a gritty win. Never letting up. Jamaal Williams broke Barry Sanders' single season TD record set in 1991. The Lions at the end of the day had more heart and composure and they weren't afraid to twist the knife going for that 4th down pass. The Lions demanded respect and they certainly earned it
8 Seattle Seahawks The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football franchise based in Seattle, Washington. The Seahawks compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's National Football Conference West division.
Who needs Russ? It may have been an ugly win against a Rams team that was checked out from the beginning of the season but Geno Smith has made the playoffs. Seattle may have had a rough stretch there for awhile but it doesn't matter they were the ones left standing at the end of the day. Imagine being told at the beginning of the season that Seattle would make the playoffs and Russell Wilson wouldn't? You would've been considered crazy. I doubt they go anywhere especially playing the buzzsaw that is the 49ers but at least you made it
9 Green Bay Packers The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's National Football Conference North division. The Packers have won 4 super bowls and 13 NFL championships.
Green Bay losing an important game at Lambeau in January. It's almost like they made the playoffs after all. Green Bay had their chance. They controlled their own destiny and they failed. The Lions were a thorn in their side all game long and Rodgers wasn't able to deliver in the end. Also, Rasul Douglas got unnecessary roughness for batting the ball away from the Lions long snapper at the end of the half when they were going to kick a field goal. But if you thought that was stupid, then enter Quay Walker who shoved a Detroit Athletic Trainer which not only drew a penalty, but he earned an ejection because of it... for the 2nd time this season. Cry about it like a baby and whine in the tunnel all you want there's no excuses for your actions. What an absolute clown. Easy Lolcow of the week. Congratulations Packers, you failed to beat the Lions at your place. At least you didn't lose to the Niners again? Also, enjoy as Aaron Rodgers ponders his future with the team. He may have just ...more
10 Tennessee Titans The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee. The Titans compete in the National Football League as a member club of the American Football Conference South division.
There's no denying the Titans were in absolute free fall mode coming into this game. Yet they managed to hang around and make this game interesting. With journeyman backup Josh Dobbs. At least it was interestingly sloppy on both sides. To be fair this was a Titans team injured to hell and back and for awhile they looked like they were going to get away with it and sneak into the playoffs after all that is until Jacksonville stepped up and got a fumble recovery for a TD. Titans had a shocking 7 game losing streak to end the season. Todd Downing was a huge reason why. He deserved to get canned for that. Sorry Titans you can't save yourself this time. You blew this division that was basically gift wrapped for you. The Tennessee Titans did not deserve to make the playoffs whatsoever. The Football Gods showed mercy.
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