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Harvard student Pete Davis, founder of OurCommonPlace and participant in the 50th anniversary celebration of the 1961 Freedom Ride last summer with 39 other activists, gave a terrific speech at the Cambridge MLK Jr. Day Celebration in Cambridge, MA on January 16, 2012. With Pete's permission, here are his remarks, and audio available here [he's a great speaker]:
Hello, everyone — it is an honor to be here at St. Peter's Episcopal Church on my favorite holiday of the year, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. I'm happy that MLK day is the first holiday of the year, because you start the New Year with all these personal New Year's resolutions, and you say, "I'm going to cut back on the sweets", "I'm going to make time to go running everyday" and then right about around this weekend, two weeks into the year, you've given up on all them… and you're feeling down and don't know what to do. And then Martin Luther King, Jr. Day comes along and reminds you that you can start your New Year off with not just personal resolutions but community and citizen resolutions — like "I'm going to cut back on my pre-judgment of others" ,"I'm going to make time to go help out and speak out and act out more around school or church or my local community every day" — and those are resolutions that are harder in practice, but easier to fight for, because you're not just fighting for yourself.
But I'm getting ahead of myself — my name is Pete Davis and I am a student down the road at Harvard, and I am here today because I had the great pleasure of being part of a recreation of an important Civil Rights project when this past summer I rode with 39 other students, a team of PBS cameras and a handful of Civil Rights Movement heroes in a recreation of the 1961 Freedom Ride. And I'd like to take part of my time here to look backward and tell a brief, yet harrowing, story about what one Civil Rights project accomplished in the 1960s, and then take the other part of my time here to look forward and share what one young, wide-eyed college kid from a small town in Virginia thinks about what we might just be able to accomplish in the 2010s.
In 1961, a group of young people led by Congress of Racial Equality Director James Farmer wanted to test if a Supreme Court decision integrating interstate bus travel was being implemented on the ground. So, 13 riders — six white, seven black, including one future Congressman John Lewis — set out on Greyhound and Trailways buses down South. When they got to Atlanta, they had a brief reception hosted by the big man, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. himself. They wanted him to come on the ride as well, but he pulled a few of their leaders aside and said, "I'm not going to get on the buses with you, and if I were you, I probably wouldn't go into Alabama…The Alabama Klan is preparing quite a welcome." And, like good young people, they didn't listen to him and kept going on to Alabama. And like wise, older people, King was right. The riders were met with Klan violence, they were firebombed and some were even beaten with lead pipes. But they made it all the way down to Birmingham, Alabama.
The Kennedy administration got word of this, and Bobby Kennedy called for a "cooling down" period after this first round of Freedom Riders got home. But, a young woman from Nashville by the name of Diane Nash would have none of it, and she organized a set of Tennessee students to leave school – during their final exams – and become a new set of riders to bus down to Birmingham. One night, after brutal beatings in Montgomery, these new Freedom Riders packed into Reverend Ralph Abernathy's First Baptist Church and heard James Farmer, the great Fred Shuttlesworth (who passed away last year), and Dr. King, give rousing speeches as a mob gathered outside and threatened to attack the attendees. Dr. King had to get on the phone with the Kennedy administration to get the National Guard there for protection. These Freedom Riders were creating quite the ruckus.
They boarded a bus to Jackson, Mississippi and were promptly arrested and sent to the infamous Parchman Prison. The Mississippi Governor thought he had squashed 'em — they're now just stuck in Parchman Prison…what are they gonna do? Well, as one historian put it, they responded, "Fine, we'll go to Parchman, and we'll fill Parchman up, and we'll have Parchman be the next site of the Civil Rights Movement." And it became so. Hundreds of people across the country boarded buses, and headed to Jackson. They filled up the prison, and kept their morale by singing to their jailers, "Buses are a comin' oh yeah, Buses are a comin' oh yeah, Better get you ready oh yeah." They took 300 riders of different races, religions, different regions, different political philosophies…and turned Parchman into a University of Non-Violence…a place to become more committed, more tough…and as one guy put it, to become "the shock-troops of the movement." On September 22, the Interstate Commerce Commission issued its order: the "whites only" signs came down at bus and rail stations across the South. Two years later, President Kennedy — who had wanted to ignore civil rights and focus on foreign policy for his Presidency, who only had to start paying attention because, "those darn agitators" (as the Riders were called), had caused a ruckus — gave a speech in June 1963, calling on Congress to pass legislation to end Jim Crow altogether. The Freedom Riders — after arrests, beatings, and warnings to slow down by not only the Administration but also Civil Rights Movement leaders, themselves — had won.
And it was 50 years later that I and other college students had the great blessing of recreating the ride on our own bus…except, in this time around, the bus had Wi-fi and air conditioning; and lacked the threat of arrests and Klan mobs, fortunately. And I want to spend the rest of my time here talking about what I learned from this experience — one that involved seeing former Jim Crow cities up close and personal, talking with Civil Rights leaders new and old, and, most importantly, getting to know 39 diverse student activists from all across the country.
And I know what you're expecting: a heartwarming tale from me about how we students — black, white, and brown, 50 years later — held hands in a big circle, sang "We Shall Overcome," and declared racism over. Though we did hold hands at times, and though we did sing We Shall Overcome so many times that I was considering singing We Shall Overcome-the-singing-of-We Shall Overcome… that's not the tale I'm going to tell here today. Because we all know that resting too long on our laurels of the victories of yesterday is a recipe for not opening up our eyes to the injustices of today. So, instead here's Three Lessons from the ride with our sight set on tomorrow.
The first thing I learned on our Ride was that most people in the Civil Rights Movement did not have Civil Rights as their number one cause. Everyone, from Jim Zwerg — a white man who was beaten with a lead pipe in Alabama — to Diane Nash — the lead organizer of the second round of the rides — had an underlying loyalty that was the foundation of all their actions in their surface level causes: a loyalty to Non-Violence. When Zwerg and Nash spoke to us, they hardly focused on racial discrimination — they wanted to spend their time sharing with us their philosophy and lifestyle of non-violence.
To the Freedom Riders, to Martin Luther King: nonviolent resistance was not the absence of violence– it was the presence of what Nash called Agapic energy, from the Greek term 'agape', meaning brotherly, sisterly love or love of mankind. It was a belief that people were never your enemy– unjust political systems, unjust economic systems, unjust attitudes were your enemy. And you can attack those systems, without attacking the people that participated in them. It was a belief that oppression always requires the cooperation of the oppressed, and that it could end if only you respected yourself enough and if only you reflected enough on how you were participating in your own oppression and if only you were brave enough to stop participating,
They did not see non-violence or agapic energy as a 'lovey-dovey' 'give peace a chance, man' concept. They would not have liked to be known just as pacifists… they were activists! They would not have described themselves as having no weapons or as not waging war. They saw non-violence as a powerful, strong strategy, a weapon…the only weapon they had in this fight…and an energy that was not born out of thin air…it was based on a serious theory of how to win conflicts, and solve problems for justice… a philosophy that was put best when Dr. King explained that: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." And, indeed, they couldn't have won if it was a violent conflict — they were churchmen and women up against the state police and governments in the South, with their batons, and guns, and in the case of Sheriff Bull Connor in Alabama, tanks. But what they could do, is contrast their "dignified, disciplined, non-violent actions" against the other side's grotesque reaction of violence, leaving no way — for the millions who would watch on TV — to confuse their confrontations.
And when they learned that philosophy — in long training sessions for the Riders, where they practiced being beaten and not responding — and when they committed to it, when they put in the hard work and discipline to live by its principles… it worked. Out of that foundation, came more surface level tactics. Out of those tactics came victories. And if we want to learn from the Civil Rights movement to repeat their success today…if we only looked at those tactics, we might never understand what made the Civil Rights movement so successful — we have to look at their deep commitment and loyalty to foundational principles about how justice is won in history. And that's the lesson for today's justice movements: If we don't have an equally strong commitment to foundational principles in our movements — if we believe we're only fighting for environmental reform or gay rights or urban renewal… only our specific issues and not, also…, always…, at the same time… re-affirming our commitment to agapic love, to our civic connection our fellow community members — …then we are … like a sail without a mast… just flapping around in the wind…not harnessing energy to move society in any direction.
So, given that lesson…why don't we just do what they did? Why don't we just believe in non-violence and use their tactics…get on buses, start marching, provoke some confrontations with the police? Well, people have tried that. People have taken to the streets, people have had millions at marches in my lifetime. People have occupied public spaces and provoked the police. And yet, we have not had as big a victory for justice in my lifetime as King did in his. And I think that's because, as I learned in the second big lesson on my trip — a lesson that came to me as I saw the contrast between how the elders on the trip talked about the problems of their day and the students on the trip talked about the problems of ours — the second big lesson is that the problems of today are taking different forms than they did back in the 60's!
Back then, we had Jim Crow, explicit racism and segregation by the government. Today, segregation is not by law, but by structural circumstance, as segregation plagues not our drinking fountains nor our diners, but becomes a good way to describe how our justice system and our prisons work, when 1 in 3 black men will go be imprisoned at some point in their life. Back then, explicit racial discrimination in employment was commonplace throughout the South. Today, there's a whole division of the Justice Department to challenge explicit racism on the job, but, today, black unemployment still stands at more than twice the rate of white unemployment, with almost 1 in 5 black men in June 2011 being without work. Racism burbles up inside of us in unexpected places, as our focus on overcoming racism here at home might sometimes forget that it is also racist to believe that a human life is less worthwhile, more disposable — more collateral and incidental and less sacred — if it's an Afghani or Pakistani life or an indigenous person's life. We have struck a strong blow to the type of racism that allows leaders to make slurs publicly without recourse or state legislatures to write the word "colored" into legislation. But the problems of racial disparity remain, in new forms… that can't be overcome with the stroke of President's pen.
And the same is true for Materialism. In King's time, the environmental movement was just in its infancy, and the concept of widespread corporate watchdogging was just an idea in Ralph Nader's head. And today, we do see blowback against the incessant pursuit of material things, as community gardens, farmer's markets, car sharing, slow food movements, and lifestyles around living on less are cropping up, reminding us that there still is a live belief that people are more important than, as Dr. King put it, "machines and computers, profit motives and property rights." But, today we face unending advertising on half a dozen types of screens telling us that all our problems will be solved, all our insecurities will be vanquished, and all our deepest wants will be realized…if only we buy one more thing, use one more service. Today, our activists that are fighting to move our nation from, as Dr. King called them to do, a "thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society" are facing a steeper climb, as the monied interests grip ever tighter on the neck of our democratic institutions.
And the same is true for Militarism. In King's time, we had tens of thousands of American men and Vietnamese men, women and children killed in a grueling war. Today, we face no draft, and less civilian casualties in our militaristic pursuits overseas. But, today, we have even more trouble breaking the cycle of — what King called — the "madness of militarism" and the "self-defeating effects of physical violence" when wars are felt less back home, because the fighters are drones or soldiers from an economic bracket we never interact with.
Whereas Jim Crow and Vietnam was a tumor on a part of society, many of the problems of today are more like sicknesses in the bloodstream, unable to be pinpointed. There used to be a Civil Rights song, "O Freedom", where you'd sing about the specific thing you wanted to overcome… No Segregation, No Segregation, No Segregation over me…or No Bull Connor, No Bull Connor over me. But with problems as complex as today, what can we sing about in our O Freedoms? No more prison-industrial complex, no more prison-industrial complex over me…no more global warming caused by various forms of carbon emissions, no more global warming caused by various forms of carbon emission over me…no more deregulation of the financial industry…over me…you get the point.
In the age of 24 hours news blaring and blog posts and tweets and status updates whizzing around our heads…it gets confusing even knowing what's happening and feels with these multiple storylines going at once. Our time feels new and it feels dreadfully old. It feels like networked freedom and it feels like the old power structure is still in charge. It feels like a black president but more black people in poverty. It feels like a shiny new iPhone and a hollowed out Detroit. It feels like we don't know what the problem is and we all know what the problem is. It feels like the solutions were made 15 years ago and are waiting to be implemented and like they're just 15 years into the future out of our reach.
And for us who want to change the world, who want to walk in King's footsteps, we sometimes just don't know where to start:
Whereas our heroes knew their adversaries, ours aren't in a single form.
Whereas our heroes fought clearer, visual problems, ours are invisible and baked into institutions all around us.
Whereas they had a sense of what solutions looked like, we have trouble having a clue.
In the confusion about the content of the solutions, we latch onto forms of the past – we think to be an activist means to be a marcher, a rallier, a person that needs to use dramatic, direct action.
But what works for civil rights, for women's rights, for getting troops pulled out of Vietnam is not necessarily going to work to solve global warming, to fix our food system, to raise our neighborhoods out of poverty, or to invigorate our public schools.
What do we act against?
Where do we march?
They had all these signs up throughout our trip that say "Would you get on the bus?" But the question is less, "Would someone today get on the bus?" and more "Which bus should I get on? Darn it…all the buses are telling me they're the right bus!? IS this bus doing more harm than good? Oh no! This bus isn't carbon neutral!"
Oh, the postmodern condition…it's so hard to find something true to get excited about in such a time. We look back on Dr. King and part of us thinks, "wow that must've been hard, he must've been one brave genius." But then another part of us still whisper, "That was easy…Dr. King, get a load of today!"
So what do we do? How do we keep The Freedom Riders and Dr. King's dream alive? How do we take our agapic love and translate it into action in a world with new, confounding problems? Well, I learned on the ride that we have a choice.
Option 1: Give up. Escape from the confusion of our era into safe places. Some have made that choice: those who choose to be cynical, those who use irony to distance themselves from any conviction, who laugh at those who care too much; those who complain and yearn for nonexistent pasts when 'everything was better', who simplify and blame it all on the other; those who keep the wheels turning on the structures that have left us all so distraught so as to see what they can privately squeeze out of it; who ignore the great public problems of our time and reject the great life in favor of the big life; and those who throw up their hands, screaming "There's no such thing as truth and we don't now to do…so let's just watch some cat videos." There's a lifetime supply online…that's a live option. But, we don't want to give up.
So there's Option 2: Hope someone else takes on the great problems of our time and solves them for us. There is a certain quality to us that makes it easier for us to propose problems than to propose solutions. We all get riled up pointin' to why this is bad, and that's messed up, and that over there is being done totally backwards…and then we yell it out and hope someone else out there hears us and does something about it.
And my generation is particularly plagued by this quality, and the last few years for many young people, has been a great example of this option. In the Presidential Election in 2008, we young people had finally thought we had found someone who was going to solve all of the public problems we had been worried about throughout our lives. On election night in 2008 — when millions of young people around the country were cheering, singing and rallying together — I had thought that we were celebrating the first shot of a revitalized movement…. a launch party of sorts for the years of collective problem solving work we had in store for us. Barack was kicking down the door to a new era and we — the people! — were going to storm in!
However, after Inauguration Day 2009, the surge of youth engagement receded. The entire Obama youth movement packed up and went home, believing their work to be done, their mission accomplished. Instead of continuing to actively organize for change, we simply waited, expecting the Presidency that we had brought to the White House to solve everything for us. When it did not work out exactly as planned, the cynicism re-emerged as we were left wondering how we, yet again, found ourselves with most of the same ol' problems that we had before.
And there lies the problem with Option 2. History — and especially American Civil Rights history — teaches that we should not be surprised at all. Of course it is not the leaders we elect who bring major change to government policy. It is social movements and citizen projects from outside of government that force those leaders to act.
Lincoln penned the Emancipation Proclamation, but abolitionists provided the link. FDR signed off on the New Deal, but for the workers' movement, it was old news. Maybe Nixon proposed the Environmental Protection Agency 'cuz he was tree hugger at heart… or maybe he faced the biggest environmental movement in history!
Indeed, as historian Howard Zinn put it, "government, whether in the hands of Republicans or Democrats, conservatives or liberals, has failed its responsibilities, until forced to by direct action." Indeed, it was that 2008 Presidential candidate that we all fell in love with himself who put it best: "You are the ones you have been waiting for…you are the change that we seek."
The Freedom Riders of 1961 understood that extraordinary ordinary citizens had to hold leaders' feet to the fire if they wanted to spur those leaders to action. When the Kennedy Administration was asking for a 'cooling off period' from direct action by civil rights advocates, activists kept the Rides going, understanding that it was exactly direct citizen action in times of administration uneasiness that could lead to major societal change. Their success in convincing the Kennedy Administration to support bus de-segregation proved their belief true.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in D.C. is the only memorial that features a statute that is not free standing…rather, Dr. King's towering figure is emerging out of a large stone of hope. It's quite appropriate, because even Dr. King is not the be-all-end-all of the Civil Rights movement…his work and leadership only could emerge out of the tireless efforts of the tens of thousands that made up the movement. And that was the final lesson of my trip – that the real movers of American government and society are not the leaders, but rather the groups of unelected, extraordinary ordinary people who decide to commit to public action.
But there still remains the question of "What is to be done?" now…well, there's a final option: get to work, continue the struggle, know that if we collaborate and focus and work hard, we can figure out what's going on, identify and articulate problems, and imagine, experiment with and implement solutions.
Back in Dr. King's day, in the post-World War II era, America was prosperous, and Dr. King's battle was to include a group of people in that prosperity. He literally spoke in the I Have a Dream speech about a promissory note to African Americans that wasn't cashed, despite the fact that the "great vaults of opportunity" of the nation had enough funds to cash it. When Civil Rights activists sat in at the lunch counters, they were sincere about it – they really wanted to eat at those lunch counters. It was a great house his generation inherited, and he was fighting to have equal access to all its floors and rooms.
But, today, America isn't doing so well. The vaults of opportunity are defaulting on their loans. Most families are having a harder time finding the excess income to eat out at a lunch counter. The house my generation inherits has some pipes leaking and broken windows and failed expansion projects.
But the reason I say this is because, with the house in shambles, with the house due in for some remodeling…we have a shot. Every crisis comes with an opportunity. And America is going to be rebuilt, I'm confident of that. The question is, rebuilt by whom, and rebuilt in what spirit? There are people out there, like you in the crowd, who understand Dr. King's dream, who know agapic love, who can imagine what a world with less racism, militarism and materialism might look like. If people like you are not in on the remodeling of America, our nation is at risk of being rebuilt with the same ol' built-in problems, the same ol' built-in injustices. But, if people like you participate in this rebuilding of America, out of the Great Recession of the 2000s, and into the Great Revival of the 2010s – if people like you who understand the Dream put in the hard work to participate vigorously in your neighborhood and churches and schools and campuses and elections and communities small and big…if you craft solutions that make our problems that much more meliorated… if you bend the blueprints a bit more towards justice…if you put in the focus and hard work that is necessary to make anything that matters shake and move…then the dream lives to see another day.
But only if you choose to participate.
At my Father's graduation from Antioch College in 1965, a preacher by the name of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. put what I am trying to say best, exclaiming that: "Somewhere we must come to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with god."
Let's get to work.


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"Black voters will freak."
That's what the chattering class kept warning those of us pushing President Obama to endorse same-sex marriage. He'll lose the black vote and energize evangelicals all the way to defeat this November, they told us. And, of course, it would be the fault of the gay community for making such an unreasonable demand.
Then a funny thing happened on the way to the Alamo.
Obama came out in favor of gay marriage and the black community gave a collective shrug.
In a just-released poll by Pew Research (PDF), 49 percent of whites surveyed said the president's embrace of marriage equality did not alter their opinion of him. And among African-Americans, the number soared to 68 percent (with 16 percent saying it made them view Obama more favorably, and only 13 percent claiming less).
So while African-Americans may not support same-sex marriage to the same degree as whites (depending on the survey, black support tends to be in the low 40s), they still like Barack Obama. And no one should be surprised—the president did win 96 percent of the black vote in the last election.
So much for the notion that we should be feeling guilty.
The bigger question for Obama is how his decision will affect Democratic voters, independents, and the GOP base.
It's no secret that liberals were disappointed with the first few years of the Obama presidency. It wasn't so much that the president failed to win enough battles with the Republicans, it was the sense on the left that he simply didn't try—that Obama either never intended to keep his promises, or worse, was afraid to.
The turning point for many progressives was the repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy in December 2010. While the repeal was obviously a big deal to those of us in the gay community, I was surprised by how many of my straight friends on the left shared our sense of victory and elation, and by those in the media who characterized the repeal as a necessary first step toward Obama's winning back the left in 2012.
In that moment, the conventional wisdom shifted.
LGBT civil rights stopped being a ghettoized issue important only to a small (but noisy) Democratic constituency and started being seen as a core Democratic value.
The Obama campaign now regularly cites DADT among its top first-term achievements—and not just when speaking to gay voters and donors but to the public at large. Gay rights switched from being perceived as an albatross around the necks of national Democrats to an issue that could galvanize the party's base and, just as important, showcase the president's courage.
And that's the second important change that began with the repeal of DADT and was cemented with Obama's embrace of marriage equality. Barack Obama became a leader in the eyes of a number of doubting Democrats and independents (57 percent of whom back gay marriage).
The president who seemed almost afraid of change became an agent of change. The man we voted for was finally back.
As for far-right evangelicals, sure, they may get a small spike in enthusiasm from the news of the past week. But these are people who already have a visceral dislike of the president, and who "knew" Obama was for same-sex marriage even before he did. Nothing Obama did or could do would change their poor opinion of him, and he should give up trying.
Someone who is paying an electoral price for Obama's announcement is Mitt Romney. Coming on the heels of the self-deportation, the week before, of his openly gay national-security spokesman, in response to vicious homophobic attacks by the far right, Romney decided that the best way to respond to the president's decision was to move even further to the anti-gay right by retracting his earlier support for the right of same-sex couples to adopt.
The irony is that Romney has the same problem with the evangelical far right as Obama. They know that neither is their man, and nothing will convince them otherwise. Moderate Republicans and independents who could potentially vote for the Massachusetts Mitt of days gone by are still looking for proof of Romney's inner liberal. And in defiance of conventional wisdom, rather than moving to the middle, Romney continues to veer to the right.
The vote in November may wind up being close, but by pressing Obama to evolve on this issue, gays have only helped the president secure a second term.


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Sprint's iPhone-using subscribers will continue to have access to unlimited data service for the foreseeable future, according to CEO Dan Hesse. And that will include unlimited 4G LTE service, assuming the next iPhone is indeed compatible with the high speed wireless standard.
Sprint got its first crack at lucrative iPhone customers in October of 2011 with the launch of the iPhone 4S. The company made a reported $15.5 billion bet on the popular smartphone, agreeing to sell millions of the phones up front in order to launch the device on its network. Hesse defended that decision last month, noting that iPhone customers are more profitable than those of other platforms despite the high subsidy on the device itself.
Furthermore, the iPhone is attracting new customers to the carrier. For the fourth quarter of 2011, four out of every ten iPhone users were new to Sprint. The company's most recent quarter showed similar results, with 44 percent of the 1.5 million additional iPhone activations coming from customers who were new to Sprint.
Hesse told CNET that the carrier plans to continue to offer unlimited data to iPhone users, including LTE service if the next model comes equipped with LTE compatibility.
"I'm not anticipating the unlimited plan would change by that point," Hesse said. "That's our distinctive differentiator."
The company has heavily advertised the fact that it's the only carrier in the US to offer unlimited data to iPhone users. As many iPhone owners already know, the two most popular carriers in the US—AT&T and Verizon—both sell tiered data plans now, and neither offers an unlimited plan anymore.
"Frankly, it's a marriage made in heaven," Hesse told CNET. "We're clearly attracting customers from our competitors."


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We hope to modify the metabolic flux in L. lactis by using metabolic engineering on the level of:
– NADH oxidase (key cofactor)
– Enhancement of ALS gene
– Inactivation of LDH gene
So now we have to look for some als or NADH oxidase (Nox) gene from the orther organisms and insert to vector pNZ8048 in L.lactis and then transform it to L.lactis bacteria to do fermentation. That's why we need to do so many steps such as cultivation of the cell culture, isolation, purification, PCR, topoTA, digestion, ligation, transformation, fermentation, etc.
So i need to have some book to give us more information about the protocols, the troubles we're gonna face with during the process, why we have to do this step, not the other steps, and so on. And i want to have some books with questions and answers around this subject for instance the book will give us the questions and answers for: how can u design the primers for the sequences, why you need to do topoTA, or what are the functions of the substrates u use, etc.
That's what i wanna know, plz give me some advice because my teachers really like asking those questions during exams, presentation, etc.:-)


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(WASHINGTON TIMES) The head of the union for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents sent a letter to President Obama on Tuesday asking to be included in future meetings he has on immigration after the agents were left out of White House talks with business groups and immigrant-rights activists.
Chris Crane, president of the 7,000-member National ICE Council, said it was troubling that Mr. Obama had met with those pushing for legalization but the president hadn't asked the agents responsible for enforcing the laws to take part.
"These measures would have significant implications for interior immigration enforcement and I believe our officers — who risk their lives every day to secure the nation — have a crucial perspective to offer," Mr. Crane said in the letter, a copy of which was provided to The Washington Times.
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The sf writer cannot avoid man's problems; by the very nature of his craft, he must meet them head on. That is sf's challenge, and it is as big as the future of mankind.
Title: The Craft of Science Fiction: A Symposium on Writing Science Fiction and Science Fantasy
Editor: Reginald Bretnor
Year: 1976
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Here's one of those "advice on how to write from the writers themselves" books, which I picked up not because I have any goals of writing myself but simply because I like reading what sf writers have to say about their field. This is one of several such volumes helmed by the same editor back in the 1970's, and is a fairly interesting collection of essays for any sf fan who also likes reading works about sf. Strange fellow though, this Bretnor. His introduction provides some insightful thoughts on sf, but things get a little weird when he starts professing his belief that clairvoyance, dowsing, and other assorted woo is "proven." Uhhh, yeah, whatever. Anyway, who cares what the editor has to say? What's important is what the writers themselves have to share. Here's a rundown of their contributions and a few comments on each:
Poul Anderson, "Star-flights and Fantasies: Sagas Still to Come." This one's rather dry, with not much of importance to say.
Hal Clement, "Hard Sciences and Tough Technologies." A decent article on the use of science in sf and the importance of internal consistency.
Norman Spinrad, "Rubber Sciences." One of the best essays in the book; it covers some of the same ground as Clement, but from a different perspective. Spinrad says what's important in sf is plausibility, and not necessarily a rigid deference to scientific fact. He sums up by saying science fiction writers are….
… the poets of the future, the seers of human destiny. Hard science, soft science, or rubber are tools of the trade, means to the end of visionary insight and artistic creation. They should never be mistaken for the end itself.
Alan E. Nourse, "Extrapolations and Quantum Jumps." Focuses largely on that all-important fictional element, the premise, as well as other fiction basics. Solid article.
Theodore Sturgeon, "Future Writers in a Future World." This was a pure joy to read. Sturgeon does a better job than anyone else in this volume of getting across the sheer sense of wonder of science fiction, and his essay is full of enthusiastic inspiration for future writers and valuable advice on where to find story ideas. He also stresses the importance of connecting your ideas to real human concerns:
And whatever your idea or statement, gimmick, gadget or message, you will (to be read) encase it in love, and pain, and greed, and laughter, and hope, and above all loneliness.
Jerry Pournelle, "The Construction of Believable Societies." A good look at the need for social depth — what we often call "world building" — in sf.
Frank Herbert, "Men on Other Planets." Herbert makes some great points about sf's ability to escape our society's unexamined assumptions and play around with them. He also quite correctly warns the potential writer that there's more to writing sf than thinking up an idea — the development of that idea is the crucial thing.
Katherine MacLean, "Alien Minds and Nonhuman Intelligences." MacLean chose an intriguing topic, but her thoughts on the matter were scattered and unfocused and, to be honest, boring.
James Gunn, "Heroes, Heroines, Villains: the Characters in Science Fiction." Pretty self-explanatory. Solid article on the importance of characterization.
Larry Niven, "The Words in Science Fiction." On how to add some linguistic depth to your fiction. Interesting.
Jack Williamson, "Short Stories and Novelettes." A few words on the particular strengths and weaknesses of the shorter fictional forms.
John Brunner, "The Science Fiction Novel." And here's Brunner on the other end of the spectrum.
Harlan Ellison, "With the Eyes of a Demon: Seeing the Fantastic as a Video Image." A long and involved article on writing screenplays for television and film. I didn't find it that interesting myself, but I'm sure it would be helpful to anyone looking to do that kind of work.
Frederik Pohl, "The Science Fiction Professional." A rather tedious essay on the business aspects of being a writer — all about agents, publicity, contracts, and such.
Basically it's a few boring articles, mixed with a few really pleasurable ones, with a lot more falling somewhere in between. I'd recommend this book to would-be writers; for anyone else, it just depends on how much interest you have in this sort of thing.


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There are all sorts of high-level talking going on between the Mitt Romney and Ron Paul camps to make sure the Texas libertarian's troops don't disrupt the GOP convention.
Paul, for his part, has asked his loyalists to be dignified and respectful during the next week's gathering in Tampa — and the congressman's son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, is likely to be rewarded with a prime time speaking spot.
But Paul's sense of civility should not be confused with the passion of his backers. The latest example: The chair of Minnesota's delegation to the Republican National Convention says that Paul will receive 32 of the state's 40 presidential votes at the convention. Paul earned the vast majority of the state's delegates with a strong showing at Minnesota's caucuses earlier this year.
Marianne Stebbins, the delegation chair, told Lake MinnetonkaPatch that her delegates are "overwhelmingly Ron Paul supporters."
"I don't think Mitt Romney is a strong candidate," she told the local web site. "He represents old ideas and what the party has stood for over the last couple of decades, which is not necessarily what the voters want."
In the interview, she emphasized that Paul supporters are "not abandoning the party" in the general election. Paul's movement "is just getting started," she said. "Those are the acorns, the shoots, that will spread out."


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John Goss was fired after he was interviewed for an episode of Dispatches that claimed the low-cost airline's pilots are wary of raising concerns.
As well as planning to sue Channel 4 over the programme, Ryanair said on Thursday it "will not allow an... employee to defame our safety on national television just three weeks after he confirmed in writing to Ryanair that he had no concerns with safety".
The airline claimed Mr Goss had confirmed in writing on July 10 and August 13 that he had "no concerns" about the Dublin-based carrier's safety.
Mr Goss will not comment on his dismissal until he receives further legal advice, said a spokesman for the Ryanair Pilot Group (RPG), which is advising him.
He has been involved in legal disputes with Ryanair management in the past over issues related to union representation for pilots.
Dispatches, which aired on Monday, claimed that an RPG survey found more than 1,000 pilots, a third of the total, had deep misgivings over the airline's approach to their concerns.
Ryanair has disputed the legitimacy of RPG and the survey.
The survey was triggered by a memorandum to pilots by management following an earlier petition. Ryanair warned that any pilot signing what it described as a "so-called safety petition" could be sacked for gross misconduct.
More than nine out of 10 pilots who participated in the survey said they believed the airline was trying to suppress pilots from raising their concerns.
The IAA said all confidential reports are fully investigated and its oversight of Ryanair was comprehensive. Ryanair said it has two confidential reporting systems in place, and insisted the IAA had "no concerns over Ryanair's fuel policy".
The company has declined to comment on the claims, describing RPG as a "PR front for the pilot unions of competitor airlines".


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Get a life: Make work take back seat
Recently I read about a company with three full-timers whose only job is to make employee life fun. They plan outings, parties, raffles, all reportedly in an effort to "stave off headhunters" and to keep engineers working "12-15 hours days."
Here's a little note to the hundreds of employees at this company: Hello? Are you people morons? Why are you at a company that sucks up all your free time with work and then, as a bonus, sucks up the only hours you have left to sleep and shower? This is not an office with perks. This is serfdom. This is paternalism. This is the organization man of the new millennium.
If you're at a company like this one, you need to get a life. The only people who are willing to work at this kind of place have no life outside work. If you have friends who are not at the company, they're probably no longer your friends. If you have a family and you work at a company like this, you'll get what you deserve: Kids who have no relationship with you.
And do not, I repeat, do not tell me that you have to work at a place like this because of the incredible projects you get to work on. People who are truly talented do not have to suffer draconian hours and insulting "perks" in order to be assigned good projects. In fact, people who are amazing at their job are smart enough to live a life outside of their job.
You are surrounded by sub-par workers when you work at a place that does not respect employees' personal lives– because only sub-par workers put up with that.
What about the "paying dues" theory? That's an excuse you use for having someone else take care of your career path. Sure, you can play the law firm or consulting firm game, and put in long hours just because the rule is that you put in long hours to get to the next level. But you don't need to.
You can make your own path, which is not so far-fetched if you're good at what you do. You can freelance, you can work at a small firm, or you can become an entrepreneur. The demographic starting businesses at the fastest rate is 18-34. Now you know why.
My brother is a grunt at an investment banking firm. He has been working 20-hour days without anyone batting an eye. When he looks above himself, he sees people who don't have a lot of control over their workloads and they don't seem particularly happy. So he's leaving the bank for a smaller firm where people have lives.
This is why: The smartest people in the world are in a position where they have control over their work and room to nurture a personal life.
You might say, "But they paid their dues." I say, Who cares? It's a new world, and there's no reason to have to pay dues just because older generations were not creative or independent enough when they thought about their careers.
And wait. Everyone who is about to send mail to me about how "young people need to learn to work hard" think about this: There are many ways to work hard. Thinking rigorously and putting one's heart into a job are different from working long hours. In fact, I'd say of those three options, long hours is the biggest cop-out.
So work with your heart and your mind, and make sure you have time to use both of those in your personal life, too.


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Old Steeple welcomes first female pastor
The Rev. Jacquie Patt is just finishing up her first month as pastor at Old Steeple Community Church on Main Road in Aquebogue. A Michigan native, the Rev. Patt, 57, joins the church as the first woman minister in its 250-year history.
Faith had always been a part of her life, she said, but it wasn't until overcoming breast cancer that she knew it was her calling.
"It was found very early on, which the doctor described as a fluke and a blessing that it was found," she said. "I was helping others through that experience and I didn't know what the future held, but I knew that God was with me."
Prior to becoming a church leader, she undertook medical research at the National Institutes of Health. She worked for corporations in computer hardware and software support and served as a project manager for General Motors, overseeing about 20 people.
At age 48, she entered seminary full-time, deciding to leave her career for the church.
"It was a leap of faith," the Rev. Patt said.
Q: How did your experience with cancer affect your faith?
A: During my recuperation and recovery, I would sit on my couch and would think, "What brings me more meaning and purpose to life?" I had become a bit tired of my job. The things I liked to do were all related to the church — helping people grow, visiting people — and sometime during the following year one of my pastors said, "Maybe you are being called to ordained ministry."
Q: What do you hope to bring to Old Steeple Community Church as its first woman minister?
A: For me, I don't see it as being any different than as someone else coming in. I just want to help them learn and grow on their journey of faith. I'll use my previous work, personal and faith experiences to bring growth and learning.
Q: What was it about the community that drew you to Old Steeple Community Church?
A: "I was looking all across the country, and this looked like an interesting place. It was intriguing to me. When I arrived, the people were very welcoming, friendly. They have a long history of being together. It is a well-rounded, well-grounded group of people.
Q: Can you share something interesting about yourself? A fun fact?
A: I used to play a lot of golf, and I got a hole in one. It was at the second hole, a 97-yard par 3. I got it the summer after my cancer surgery. A couple of my friends were very focused on getting me back out on the golf course. It was part of my recovery.


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Unique gathering of so many women MEPs to pay solidarity and homage to Iranian women who are at the forefront of the struggle in Iran , on the streets and in prisons right now.
This meeting is unique in a sense that those who participated seemed to be of various political groups but for once united on the "Women in Iran" and free to comment on the fact that they are resolved to get "Freedom and Democracy" despite political controversy over so many differences in and among political groups inside and outside Iran. It seems that once united , people can do things !
MEP Norica Nicolai , supporting Iranian women in the strive for Freedom and Change for a better Iran
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WorldAlpha Sniper is the first of three minigames that will be a part of the social strategy MMORTS called WorldAlpha. Here is your chance to explore the planet of WorldAlpha, before the game launches in the summer of 2013. Each round is three minutes long, with 2 beautiful backgrounds including a city view, and a country-side military installation.
WorldAlpha Sniper has now been released. You can buy the Full iOS Version for only $0.99. Or you can play the Free Demo iOS Version or Free Demo Flash version.


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Welcome to Down On The Mile High Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the City That Rust Sorta Ignored: Denver, Colorado. DOTS has left Alameda, but that doesn't mean the series has to stop!
Even though it snows in the winter here in the Mile High City, the extremely dry air does a pretty good job of keeping the Rust Monster from eating many old cars. And there's no shortage of street-parked vintage iron here; I shot this super-clean Lark just a few blocks from my new house. Looks like it was originally purchased in Oregon, if this dealer emblem is correct.
This isn't the first Denver Lark we've seen; this somewhat rougher blue coupe lives nearby.


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what a day...
I'm still feeling kind of crappy with the head cold, but I managed to get quite a bit done. I visited with my dad for a few minutes today and looked in on little Peanut. She is very sick and has quit drinking and barely eats. My father is really struggling with the pain of losing this pet and knows that the end is near. If she continues to worsen, he will put her to sleep. This little cat warmed my father's heart--a man who always keeps his distance, even in family relationships. It's really hard to see him torn up like this. I am trying to give as much support as he will allow. On another dad-subject, you wouldn't believe the row boat he built. He gave it to me today--I will post pics of it when I get more time. I am planning to make a grumpy fisherman figure for the boat and return it to him as a Christmas present. I think he will like that. I would like to add Peanut (with some little angel wings) to the boat; having her eating the fisherman's catch, but it depends on how painful the end is for the poor little kitty. We'll see.
Hubby helped get the product tags done tonight and we went out and got some fabric to cover the tables for the show. Mom finished the shelves and I got some paint, lattice and stuff from Home Depot to finish the display. I haven't been able to get my studying in, which may prove to be painful when class rolls around Tuesday night. I will keep trying to get it all in. Work is going to be nutty this week, too.
There won't be much blogging over the next couple of days and none from Wednesday through Sunday because I'll be in booth #163 at the TACA fair in Nashville. Mom is the live-in zookeeper while we're away (thanks ma!). Come see me in Centennial Park. This is a big deal for me, so wish me luck. I'm nervous.
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text: Joint Medical Meeting (CMSC/ACTRIMS) Focuses on Stopping MS and Restoring Function Through Research and Clinical Care June 24, 2014 Multiple sclerosis was the focus of a joint meeting of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC) and the Americas Committee on Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ACTRIMS), held May 28 to May 31 in Dallas, Texas. Summaries of presentations (abstracts) from both meetings are available online (.pdf). The meeting focused on providing MS healthcare professionals with the most up-to-date information impacting the care of people with MS, and featured numerous presentations on research aimed at stopping the effects of MS and MS progression, and restoring function to people with MS using various wellness and rehabilitation approaches. In most cases, study results presented at meetings are considered preliminary. Many of the results will be analyzed more thoroughly, and then published in peer-reviewed medical journals. Confidence in a study's findings grows when it is repeated by others, with similar results. Restoring Function – Wellness and Rehabilitation Approaches Pilot Yoga Study Shows Benefits – Dr. Evan Cohen (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) and colleagues tested a yoga program in 14 women with MS and moderate disability. The 8-week program included two classes each week, teaching yoga philosophy, breathing, postures, relaxation, and meditation. Significant improvements, compared to individual results before the program, were found in tests that measured mobility, leg function, upper extremity function, fatigue, mental health, and social function. The results of this pilot study warrant confirmation in a study with a comparison group, to determine if indeed yoga can help people with MS to live their best lives. Read more about yoga for MS. (Abstract #SX02) Mind Over MS - Carrie L. Sammarco and colleagues (NYU Langone Medical Center, New York) reported very early results from The Mindfulness in MS program, a weekly program designed to reduce stress and enhance quality of life in 10 people with MS through mindfulness-based techniques, such as body awareness, breathing, progressive relaxation, meditation, visualization, and hypnosis. Participants are given educational material and are encouraged to practice during the week. Anecdotally, patients have reported improved ability to cope with stressful life situations and enhanced relaxation. They are being followed over six months, and results will be assessed via clinical measures of quality of life. (Abstract #CG14) Physical Therapy Collaboration in the Carolinas – The Division of Physical Therapy at the University of North Carolina and the National MS Society's Greater Carolinas Chapter reported on an evaluation of MS STEP UP, a program to educate physical therapy students to become MS-Certified Specialists. Participants tailored class assignments to focus on MS, observed MS-specialized therapists and neurologists, and participated in National MS Society events, board meetings, fundraisers, and self-help groups. Eight students who completed the program indicate that their MS-specific knowledge and skills changed from "below" to "above" average. Future research will evaluate effects on patient outcomes. (Abstract #RH38) Service Dogs to Help Ambulation – Dr. Cecilie Fjeldstad and colleagues (MS Center of Excellence, Oklahoma City) studied whether walking speed in 36 people with MS and mobility issues (but who were not using a walking aid) improved with the assistance of a certified service dog. Participants were asked to perform a walking test with and without a service dog. The researchers found that walking speed improved significantly with the aid of a service dog. (Abstract #RH07) Video-Chatting Increases Exercise and Much More – Dr. Lara Pilutti and colleagues (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) were funded by a National MS Society grant to examine whether video-chat sessions with a behavior change coach could improve the results of a 6-month physical activity program. The researchers had shown improvements in increasing physical activity and in reducing fatigue and depression at last year's CMSC meeting. This year, they report improvements in bone health and body composition among the video-chatting group (Abstract #RH24), as well as improvements in cognitive function in those with mild disability (Abstract #CG12). This team also analyzed the results of 12 previous trials examining whether exercise improved depression, and found significant improvement. (Abstract#RH19). Read more about rehabilitation research. Aquatic Exercise – Dr. Yasser Salem (University of North Texas Health Science Center) examined the effects of a 10-week aquatic training program on mobility function, strength, fatigue, and quality of life in 10 people with MS, compared with a control group of 10 people with MS. Participants in the exercise program improved in walking speed, balance, grip strength, fatigue, and quality of life significantly more than participants in the control group. This study shows the potential of aquatic training to restore function in people with MS. (Abstract #RH42) Read more about aquatic therapy. Exercise for People Using Wheelchairs – Dr. Yvonne Learmonth and colleagues (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) were funded by the National MS Society to explore the motivations and barriers related to physical activity and exercise in 15 people with MS who use wheelchairs. Many participants acknowledged improvement in fatigue, strength, mobility, everyday function, self-control and mood. Common barriers reported were symptoms, lack of motivation, the environment, and lack of professional guidance. The researchers recommend that physical activity and exercise interventions for those with advanced MS should be symptom-appropriate, include behavior management strategies, be undertaken in appropriate environments, and be delivered with professional interaction. (Abstract #RH44) Read more about incorporating exercise into life with MS. Finding solutions for mobility impairment – Several teams reported on novel approaches to improving mobility. Dr. Francois Bethoux and colleagues (Cleveland Clinic) demonstrated that rhythmic auditory stimulation (using rhythmic cues to facilitate movement) significantly improved walking cadence, and increased brain activation when participants engaged in mental imagery of walking. (Abstract #RH15) Herbert I. Karpatkin and colleagues (Hunter College, New York) tested a technique in which people take breaks during walking rather than walking continuously, and showed significant walking improvement in six people with MS. (Abstract #RH17) Read more about walking and MS. Stopping MS Symptoms and Progression, and Improving Care "Telemedicine" Improves Communication – Dr. Jazmin Torres and colleagues (VA Health Care System, East Orange, NJ) tested "My Health eVet." This free, online personal health record for veterans features a system for non-urgent communication with the healthcare team. All 28 veterans with MS reported increased communication with providers, increased quality of care, and found the website easy to use. They were able to order medications and review test results from home. All five providers who participated in the study reported that the technology was not burdensome, and helped to address patients' needs in a more timely fashion. This small study points to the potential of telemedicine to improve access to care. (Abstract #CC10) Less Medicine, Better Behavior – Cindy Walsh of The Boston Home, a residence for adults with advanced MS, sought to reduce the use of antipsychotic medication in people with cognitive impairments secondary to MS who exhibited behaviors that were difficult for caregivers to manage. The home incorporated a behavior management technique called "OASIS" into the role of all caregivers, which involves looking for triggers of behaviors and modifying the triggers, rather than reacting to the behavior itself. The use of antipsychotics decreased by 28% overall, and by 100% for individuals without psychiatric diagnoses. This training is now a standard component of the employee orientation. (Abstract #CG15) Read more about cognitive and emotional changes that can affect people with MS. Are People Complying with Safety Monitoring for Oral MS treatments? Blood monitoring is recommended by the FDA for people taking Aubagio® (teriflunomide, Sanofi Aventis), or Gilenya® (fingolimod, Novartis), along with eye examinations for Gilenya. Dr. Jeffrey English (MS Center of Atlanta) and colleagues reviewed medical charts to see who complied with these recommendations. For Gilenya, 81% of patients received the required blood testing, and 38% received follow-up eye examinations. For Aubagio, 42% of patients received over half of six required blood tests, whereas 58% performed three or fewer. The researchers concluded that adherence to monitoring was "poor," which could increase risks for those not receiving recommended safety monitoring. (Abstract #DX33) The Society helps people with MS work with their healthcare teams to make treatment decisions that fit their lifestyles. Read more. Marriage and MS Progression – Marriage has been associated with less severe disease progression in people with dementia and rheumatoid arthritis, so Dr. Jill Suttle (MS Center of Excellence, Washington, DC) and colleagues investigated whether marriage influences MS progression, with funding from the National MS Society. They analyzed the marital status and disease course of a group of 2,631 Gulf War–era veterans. Over a follow-up period of about six years, married veterans progressed significantly more slowly on a clinical scale measuring disability progression than those who remained single. Further research is needed to understand the mechanism by which marital status may influence MS progression or by which progression influences marital status. (Abstract #EP07) Early Awareness of Bladder Problems – Tracy Flemming Tracy and colleagues (Tanner Center for MS, Birmingham) sought to determine the presence of bladder dysfunction in 34 people diagnosed with MS within the past year, and to assess any connections with disability level. Thirteen people (38%) had abnormalities on bladder ultrasound, and all 13 subjects had early indicators of possible walking impairment. These findings suggest the need for early detection and intervention to address bladder dysfunction, as well as monitoring for disease activity that may increase concurrently. (Abstract #SX22) Read more about bladder dysfunction. Download summaries presented at the meeting.


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The results of a large number of experiments designed to examine the effects of elevated CO2 concentrations on crops have generally confirmed high confidence in a net beneficial effect of CO2 fertilization, up to some level. Sustained plant response under field conditions to concentrations beyond 2xCO2 would likely be dependent on species as well as water and nutrient status and is highly uncertain.
A mean value yield response of C3 crops (most crops except maize, sugar cane, millet, and sorghum) to doubled CO2 is reported to be approximately +30% (range -10% to +80%). There is reason to expect, however, that this value represents an upper estimate unlikely to be achieved under field conditions. Factors known to affect the magnitude of CO2 response in crops include the availability of plant nutrients, the crop species, temperature, precipitation, and other environmental factors, such as air pollution, soil quality, weeds, insect pests, and diseases (IPCC 1996, WG II, Section 13.2.1). Increased WUE is a result of elevated CO2 as well, though in many regions of North America, higher temperatures associated with elevated CO2 can be expected to increase evaporative demand and transpiration, resulting in minimal benefit from the increase in WUE (Brklacich et al., 1997b).
Changes in soils (e.g., loss of soil organic matter, leaching of soil nutrients, salinization, and erosion) are likely consequences of climate change for some soils in some climatic zones. Cropping practices such as crop rotation, conservation tillage, and improved nutrient management are technically effective in combating or reversing such deleterious effects (IPCC 1996, WG II, Section 13.3; Matson et al., 1997).
Livestock production could be affected by changes in grain prices, changes in the prevalence and distribution of livestock pests, and changes in grazing and pasture productivity. Livestock are sensitive to stress from warmer, drier conditions, as well as reduced range forage quality and water availability. Warmer winter temperatures may enhance winter survival of range livestock. Taking action to improve forage quality or water supply could benefit livestock. Analyses indicate that intensively managed livestock systems such as those in North America have more potential for adaptation than crop systems because of their mobility in terms of access to food and water (IPCC 1996, WG II, Section 13.5).
The risk of losses due to weeds, insects, and diseases is sensitive to temperature and moisture (including rainfall, humidity, and dew); the risk is likely to increase in subregions where these factors become more favorable for specific disease organisms but may decrease under drier conditions. Increased climate variability may provide additional challenges for pest-management adaptation to climate change.
Elevated CO2 levels may enhance the growth of C3 weeds, based on the results of controlled exposure experiments. Evidence also exists, however, that other factors determining plant productivity may be more important in controlling plant response in the field (e.g., water- and nutrient-use efficiency) than the differential CO2 response (Bazzaz and McConnaughay, 1992). There currently is little experimental evidence to directly evaluate the effects of elevated CO2 on weed infestation, insect pests, or plant diseases under field conditions. Less severe winters may increase the range and severity of insect and disease infestations. Temperature and moisture are critical to the spread and development of many plant diseases (IPCC 1996, WG II, Section 13.4.3). Successful disease development requires convergence of a susceptible host, a virulent pathogen, and suitable environmental conditions. Increased variability of precipitation, for example, could affect the host-parasite interaction positively or negatively, leading to more or less disease development (Shriner, 1980). Increased climate variability also could render less effective disease-forecasting models currently used to manage some diseases and require increased reliance on pesticides. North American agriculture will need to address these concerns in the context of increasing pressure on agriculture to reduce chemical inputs.
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Select Blocks Pinot Noir
This wine has seduction on its mind. It wants to bewitch you with spicy berry flavours and a little toasted oak. It's also a great keeper, if you're disciplined enough to keep a wine cellar.
This seductive wine can be enjoyed immediately or may be cellared for at least 5 years.
Tasting Notes
The Ara Select Blocks Pinot Noir exhibits succulent boysenberry and cherry aromas lightly seasoned with toasted oak and framed by long fine grained tannins.
Our favourite meals
Sticky Hoisin Pork.
Keep this meal light by serving along side some steam Asian greens like bak choy choy sum and gai larn.


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Rohrer & Klingner Ink – Morinda
Rohrer & Klingner continues its long tradition in producing inks with this assortment which also includes ferro-gallic inks.
In addition to the classic colors, there are now new colour tones which were developed specifically with calligraphy in mind. Rohrer's writing inks are perfect for fountain pens, steel nibbed pens, dip pens and other writing utensils which are used in calligraphy. Pleasant, high-quality dyes which are processed into the individual tones reveal a balanced intensity of colors in addition to the high brilliance in the ink.


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Peter T. Grossi
Adjunct Professor of Law
Peter Grossi is a senior litigator and former chair of the Litigation Group at Arnold & Porter LLP. He served as National Counsel for Wyeth in its Diet Drug cases, obtaining the first defense verdict in a Diet Drug jury trial, and thereafter tried 12 more cases to successful conclusions. He was also the senior supervising attorney working with other teams in the other 40 cases tried to verdicts.
Prior to his work on the Diet Drug cases, he defended a number of other pharmaceutical companies, as well as those in other industries, in product cases. Each year from 2009 to 2018, Chambers USA named Mr. Grossi as the "Senior Statesman" of the national product liability bar.
Mr. Grossi is a lecturer at Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School and has taught trial practice and product liability to national meetings of the Defense Research Institute, Yale, the AEI-Brookings Judicial Education Program and the ABA Section on Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution. In 2012, he recieved the Penn Law Award for Best Adjunct.
Prior to joining Arnold & Porter, he clerked for Judge J. Joseph Smith on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Articles and Book Chapters
Drug Product Liability at the Cross-Roads, The Oxford Handbook of Health Law (2018)
"Because I Say So," The Problem of Unsupported Anecdotal Expert Proof in Product Liability Litigation, EXPERT EVIDENCE REP. (2009) (with Barker).
Fraudulent Joinder in Pharmaceutical Cases: Time to Get Real, TOXIC L. REP., (2008) (with Miller).
Defense Interviews of Treating Physicians: A Proposal to End Plaintiffs' Misuse of a "Shield" as a Sword, EXPERT EVIDENCE REP. (2008) (with Browne).
Litigation-Driven "Medical" Screenings: Diagnoses for Dollars, PRODUCT SAFETY & LIABILITY REP., (2005) (with Duncan).
More publications can be found here.