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Constantine is being recognized for his research on aerosol transmission of the rabies virus and distinguished career in public health.
Constantine was an active-duty commissioned officer in the United States Public Health Service from the time he graduated from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in 1955 until he retired from service in 1976. In 1965 he completed a Master of Public Health degree at UC Berkeley.
Before he completed his DVM degree, Dr. Constantine had already published five scientific papers. He is internationally recognized for his research on rabies transmission and control, bat biology and the role of bats in the epidemiology of infectious diseases.
He helped define rabies infection in insectivore bats, and he hypothesized and scientifically demonstrated the airborne transmission of rabies virus from bats to other animals. Dr. Constantine's research has been documented in 90 publications, including two manuscripts completed last year on the effectiveness of sound-baited traps for capturing rabid bats and skunks.
In the 1950s, Dr. Constantine was in charge of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) activities at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, where he investigated the risk posed by large bat colonies to cavern visitors, and he also served at the CDC's Newton Field Station in Georgia. In 1958 he organized the Southwest Rabies Investigation Station in University Park, New Mexico, and served as its first chief. From 1966-76 Captain Constantine was detailed to the U.S. Navy as virologist and veterinary epidemiologist at the Naval Biomedical Research Laboratory in Oakland.
Following his retirement from the U.S. Public Health Service, Dr. Constantine held appointment as a public health veterinarian for the State of California Department of Health Services, Berkeley for 13 years, working to assure scientific integrity and proper implementation of testing standards for state and federal approval of rabies vaccines and other regulatory issues.
While he retired from the position of public health veterinarian in 1989, Dr. Constantine continues to carry out research in wildlife rabies control from California to Georgia and abroad.
MacLachlan is being honored in recognition of his scholarly dedication and significant accomplishments as a professor and researcher.
MacLachlan, a world authority on bluetongue virus, earned his veterinary degree (BVSc) from Massey University, New Zealand, in 1976. He completed an MS degree in microbiology (virology) at the University of Missouri in 1979, was board certified as a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists in the anatomic pathology specialty in 1982, and completed a PhD in comparative pathology at UC Davis in 1983.
Before he joined the UC Davis faculty in 1988, Dr. MacLachlan was associate professor of pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University.
Dr. MacLachlan was a collaborative developer of a recombinant vaccine against blue tongue virus. He coauthored a 2006 review article that resulted in the science-based decision to relax bluetongue non-tariff trade barriers for U.S. cattle imported into Canada for the first time in 37 years. He is engaged in collaboration with the Equine Research Center in South Africa and commercial partners to develop recombinant African horse sickness vaccines and carries out studies of equine viral diseases, bluetongue and African horse sickness pathogenesis, and spontaneous diseases of domestic animals. He has published numerous chapters and reviews on equine clinical techniques and infectious diseases and foreign animal diseases and has given invited presentations on emerging diseases such as West Nile virus, bluetongue and African horse sickness to international professional audiences.
Dr. MacLachlan has served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Equine Health at UC Davis; scientific review boards for competitive grants programs of the United States Department of Agriculture in the areas of animal protection, biosecurity and swine health; the External Advisory Board for the Colorado State University Center for Economically Important Infectious Animal Diseases; the United States Animal Health Association Committee on Bluetongue and Bovine Retroviruses; on the World Organization for Animal Health expert committees on African horse sickness and bluetongue; and as advisor to the European Commission on bluetongue.
Dr. MacLachlan served as acting chair of the Department of Pathology, 1990-91, and as inaugural chair of the Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology from 1993 to 2003. He has served as advisor in the Graduate Group in Microbiology and was the faculty commencement speaker for the School of Veterinary Medicine class of 1994. He received the Outstanding/Favorite Teacher Award from the classes of 1995, 2005 and 2008, the Norden Distinguished Teacher Award in 1993, and the Pfizer Animal Health Award for Research Excellence in 2003.
He has served as president of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists, chair of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians bluetongue diagnosis committee, and as a member of the American Society for Virology International Committee for Taxonomy of Viruses. He has also served on organizing committees for international symposia on bluetongue and related viruses, and as advisor to the European Union and U.S. Trade Delegation to the People's Republic of China on animal health and food safety.
McCloskey is being honored in recognition of his vision, innovation and impact on dairy cattle herd health, production medicine and food safety.
McCloskey earned his DVM at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1976 and completed a residency in food animal reproduction and herd health at UC Davis in 1981.
During the two-year residency he played a major role in changing the way herd health services were offered by integrating individual animal medicine, reproduction and epidemiological concepts into a comprehensive clinical program on several Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital client dairies. He received the Resident of the Year Award both years as a resident at UC Davis.
He then cofounded Herd Technologies, Inc., a Chino-based company dedicated to the expansion of the concept of ""clinical practice"" for the dairy industry that included data gathering and handling routines, laboratory support and consultation, interpretation, advice and follow-up to herd clients, and pharmaceutical clinical trials.
During the same time, as a dairy herd health veterinarian he opened a private practice that provided a comprehensive services approach to 42 dairies in the region, and acquired two dairies in Southern California, becoming a dairyman, himself.
In 1990 he established several large, progressive dairies in New Mexico. He applied a reverse osmosis procedure for partial dehydration and reconstitution of fluid milk to maintain milk quality while reducing shipping costs—an innovation that eliminates the need for production sites and markets to be located in the same region in order for dairies to be profitable.
In 1992 he served as founder and CEO of Quality Milk Sales, which marketed more than four billion pounds of milk produced by cooperatives that stretch through several states. He was also instrumental in forming the Texas-New Mexico Milk Marketing Agency, which controls the marketing and transportation of virtually all milk produced in the two states. It is viewed as a model for achieving supply and price stability for the processor and consumer while returning increased revenue for the producer.
In 1999 Dr. McCloskey cofounded Fair Oaks Farms, a showcase dairy/museum/amusement park/consumer education center in northwest Indiana that employs more than 400 people. The cluster of four farms, with 27,000 cows, models the highest standards of dairy management, animal husbandry, environmental stewardship and economic efficiency. The dairy center can meet the daily milk needs of Chicago and Minneapolis, and its Fair Oaks Dairy Adventure has received more than 200,000 visitors. Dr. McCloskey not only supports the role of the veterinarian in managing large, sophisticated enterprises, but also provides opportunities for employment and professional growth.
He is acting chair of the Southwest Cheese Company, a joint venture of Glanbia Foods, Select Milk Producers and Dairy Farmers of America. He also serves on the board of the National Milk Producers Federation and participates on the Federal Order Policy and Dairy Export Policy Committees.
Smith, who earned his DVM degree from UC Davis in 1970, is being honored in recognition of his contributions as a distinguished clinician, educator and leader in food animal medicine.
Smith joined the UC Davis faculty in 1972, after serving two years as a Peace Corps veterinarian in Honduras. He became a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 1978.
In addition to his role as educator and mentor to veterinary students and residents in large animal medicine and surgery, he served as chief of the Large Animal Medicine Service, 1983–87, and associate director for large animal clinics, 1987–94. He has served since 1994 as associate dean for clinical programs and director of the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, which today has a case load of 32,000 patients each year, and with 100 residents and 32 disciplines, is the largest resident training program in the nation.
Dr. Smith, an internationally known expert on Salmonella in cattle, founded and served for 25 years as director of the school's Livestock Salmonella Laboratory, dedicated to investigating the biology of Salmonella and methods for detection, control and prevention. Dr. Smith and his colleagues described how Salmonella entered, moved and persisted in a cattle herd using antibody tests they developed. The laboratory collaborated with Stanford University to develop a modified live, genetically altered Salmonella dublin vaccine for calves, which is licensed in the United States and available to veterinarians.
Dr. Smith has authored more than 85 scientific peer-reviewed publications and is primary author and editor of the textbook Large Animal Internal Medicine, now in its third edition in several languages. He has given scores of invited lectures to veterinary groups all over the world and is currently serving a three-year term as president, large animal internal medicine specialty, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine.
A compassionate leader and active role model, Dr. Smith was chosen by the senior classes of 1990 and 1995 as faculty commencement speaker, and has received both the Faculty Teaching Award and Norden Distinguished Teacher Award. He was elected by his peers as Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice and received the American Feed Industry Award for Salmonella research in livestock.
Dr. Smith has served as a consultant for the World Health Organization in Veterinary Public Health, on the United States Animal Health Association (USAHA) Select Committee on Food Safety, and as chair of the USAHA Salmonella Committee.
Wolf is being honored in recognition of her dedication to improving education for veterinary students, postgraduates and practicing veterinarians.
Wolf earned her DVM degree at UC Davis in 1976. She completed an internship in small animal medicine and surgery at Angell Memorial Animal Hospital in Boston, then completed a residency in small animal medicine at UC Davis in 1979. She was in clinical practice for four years, and became a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine.
In 1982 she joined the faculty of the Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University. In 1995 she became a charter diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners in the feline practice specialty. Since 2005 she has served as adjunct/emeritus professor at Texas A&M and chief medical consultant for the Veterinary Information Network, an online consultation and referral service that has 27,000 subscribing veterinarians.
Dr. Wolf has an international reputation as an expert in small animal and feline internal medicine. Her scientific contributions include studies in feline internal medicine, hematology and infectious and retroviral diseases, and she was a leader in recognizing the human-animal bond shared with cats. In addition to her research publications, Dr. Wolf has actively promoted continuing professional and postgraduate education, and has served on several national boards including the FDA Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee as the Companion Animal Medicine Representative, the National Board Examination Committee, Pets for the Elderly Foundation and Brazos Animal Shelter Fundraising Steering Committee.
Dr. Wolf has received, among many honors, the Texas Veterinary Medical Association Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Teaching, the Norden Distinguished Teaching Award, the Friskies PetCare-Carnation Award for Outstanding Contributions to Feline Medicine presented by the American Animal Hospital Association, the MSD-AGVET Award for Creativity in Teaching, the Texas Academy of Veterinary Practice President's Award for Service to the Veterinary Profession, and the Bourgelat Award presented by the British Small Animal Veterinary Association for outstanding contributions to the field of small animal medicine.


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D.C. voting rightsJanuary 3rd, 2007
It sounds as though some in Congress are again going to attempt to give residents of the District of Columbia Congressional voting rights. This is just so wrong. The Constitution explicitly grants the power to vote for members of the House and Senate to states. Explicitly. It took the 23rd amendment to permit D.C. residents to vote for the President. Why does Congress believe that it can do this without another amendment? If Congress passes such a bill, it will be yet more evidence of its disdain for our constitutional legal system. The federal government is a creation of the states — all elected federal officials are elected through states (excepting said aberration of the 23rd amendment), all amendments are ratified by states, not by citizens at large. D.C. is not a state. The only legal "solutions" to this "problem" are to either amend the Constitution, make D.C. a state or make D.C. residents citizens of a state.

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AUGUSTA, Ga. — The rain, the muck, the smell, Martha Burk ... oh yes, and Mike Weir.
To Canadians and left-handers, the 2003 Masters may always be remembered as the week Weir became the first portsider in 40 years — and the only Canadian male — to win a major golf championship.
Alas, the rest of the world is apt to recall what happened here 10 years ago in the cloistered environment of the Augusta National Golf Club for other reasons.
Weir's playoff victory over journeyman Len Mattiace, to many outside of his home country, will be filed alongside green jackets awarded in subsequent years to other unlikely champions, like Trevor Immelman and Zach Johnson and Charl Schwartzel.
But strangely enough, the Martha Burk fiasco — her failed protest, falling so badly short of the massive audience she hoped would show up to decry Augusta National's all-male membership — remains fresh in the memory, a decade later.
At the time, it was all kind of pitiful: the smattering of recruits that trickled off the bus from Atlanta to form most of Burk's audience, her protest consigned to a vacant grassy lot a half-mile from the golf club's main gates, downhill from the International House of Pancakes. The police cars that outnumbered spectators about three-to-one. The feeble shouts of "whoo!" from a handful of protesters whenever Burk took the microphone.
The various wackos who surrounded the protest site. The passing cars honking in support of locals protesting Burk's unpopular grandstand play.
Then there was the tall fellow who stood at the back of the small throng, holding up a sign that read "Make Me Dinner!" on one side, and "Iron My Shirts!" on the other, while Burk was speaking. As reporters, who also outnumbered the protesters, flocked to the man to get his name, he spelled it out: "H-a-y-w-o-o-d J-a-b-l-o-m-e" — and only after several seconds did we figure it out. At least one national publication missed the joke, and ran with it.
Like the four days of unrelenting rain that had closed the course on Monday and washed out Thursday's opening round for the first time since 1939, like the straw and drying agent the golf course's workers had spread in an unsuccessful bid to keep the spectators' walking areas from becoming a mud-bog, like the barnyard stench of the resulting quagmire, Burk's poorly-attended Saturday rally was the stage furniture that threatened to overshadow the play — and nearly did.
But on its 10th anniversary, it is no longer so easily mocked.
Burk's threats to shame the tournament's corporate partners may have failed to move the then-Augusta National chairman Hootie Johnson "at the point of a bayonet" to alter the club's invitation-only membership policy, but the facts are the facts.
Three years later, Johnson stepped down as chairman, to be replaced by the younger, more progressive Billy Payne, the former head of the Atlanta Olympics organizing committee.
And a decade after Burk began poking the bear, aided and abetted by the persistent badgering of the New York Times and Washington Post and USA Today and other publications, Payne announced that the club had admitted its first two female members: former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and business executive Darla Moore.
They'll be here this week, in their green blazers, like trophies on display for both sides in the debate to make of what they will: symbols of triumph, or of tokenism. Neither, I'm guessing, will rock the boat pushing for further inroads.
Weir's victory, the day after Burk's demonstration, really ought to have fared better as a milestone in Masters history, and maybe one day it will be recognized for what it was: a startling, galvanizing event in Canada, the first major win by a lefty since Bob Charles of New Zealand won the 1963 Open Championship at Royal Lytham and St. Annes.
No one saw it coming, despite the fact that Weir had already won the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic and Nissan Open earlier in the year.
"I did feel under the radar, even though I felt like I was one of the favourites in my own mind," Weir said on a recent conference call with reporters. "I think maybe because of the rain and how long the course was playing and obviously given the history of the tournament after they made the changes that a lot of the longer players were guys that were in contention."
In the interview room, prior to the tournament, a writer noted Charles's victory 40 years earlier and asked perennial Masters contender Phil Mickelson who he thought would be the next lefty to win a major.
"I can't tell if you're being facetious or if you really want me to answer that," Mickelson said.
"Very serious. Very serious," said his questioner.
"Well, I'm going to leave that one unanswered," Mickelson said. "I think we all know the answer to that."
Only Weir's true believers would have bristled at the remark. After all, it was soggy, a short hitter shouldn't have been able to cope with the demands of long irons or even fairway woods into some of the par-fours, necessitating a raft of longish, par-saving putts.
But Weir kept drilling them right into the centre of the cup, shooting a bogey-free 68 in the final round to get into the playoff with Mattiace, who had shot 65 but bogeyed the 18th to leave the door ajar.
In the playoff, at Augusta's 10th, all Weir needed was a three-putt bogey from 45 feet away to snatch the green jacket from Mattiace, who had made a hash of it. Suddenly, the little bantamweight from Bright's Grove, Ont., was hugging his wife Bricia and his father Rich, his brother Jimmy, his caddy Brennan Little — and then he was in the Butler Cabin, where 2002 champion Tiger Woods was holding up a green jacket in Weir's size, saying: "Way to go, Weirsy."
And a star was born. Within a few months, after a third place finish at the U.S. Open, Weir would be ranked No. 3 in the world. He would win the Lou Marsh Award as Canada's outstanding athlete.
And the victory came with the all-time perk: a lifetime invite to the most prestigious tournament on Earth, admission to the exclusive club of Masters winners and the annual Tuesday night Champions Dinner.
But none of it, or his $26 million-plus in career earnings, either, can replace the feeling he had that Sunday, 10 years ago, or give him back his foundering golf game.
A month shy of his 43rd birthday, Weir comes into this week injured (rib cartilage, this time) as he has been so often the past few years, not sure if it's wise to try to play, or smarter to save his health for the rest of his season, when he needs to make a lot of money to try to preserve his playing privileges on the PGA Tour.
Ten years later, Martha Burk's vision has come true. Phil Mickelson's, too. He broke through for his first major the very next year, and though he missed being its first lefty champ, he now has won three Masters.
Everyone, it seems, has gotten the last laugh, except Mike Weir.


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drive (one) to the edge
To cause one to reach a point of desperation. The fact that my dog still barks all the time, even after finishing obedience school, is really driving me to the edge.
drive someone to the edgeand drive someone to the brink
fig to drive someone almost insane; to drive someone close to doing something desperate. Your trouble with the police has driven me to the brink! The next time you are arrested, I will not get you out of jail.


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Blackburn Harkness necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 216 diseños de 43 diseñadores freelance.
Blackburn & Harkness Group
Looking for that special someone to give this team of headstrong real estate agents that certain edge against the competition. Before selling real estate, relationships are built. It's all centered around good people and honest, healthy relationships. The team is looking for the right person to add their vision to the face of the company.
The current target audience will be clients throughout the greater Scottsdale, Arizona area, as well as an extended network on the world wide web. Technology is relied on more than ever in the real estate market, and the team wants an image that shows that they are on top of the process. Most clients will be middle aged through retirees looking for their dream home, their starter home and even a second home.
Color should translate a "high end" image. Possibly Golds and Blacks, but very open to suggestions.
Keep in mind that your next project will be to translate this image into a cohesive BRAND.
Whatever life is formed in the Logo will need to be translated into many other items, including real estate signs, so the MESSAGE must be visible and attractive from the road. Keep it Bold and Exciting, Professional, but not too serious. We like to have fun here too!
Blackburn & Harkness Group's next order will consist of:
Web Page
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The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
Also note, these potential clients could invest a lot of money, so the image should convey that we can handle and respect that, but we have to catch their attention first.
Just like the relationships formed with clients, we are looking for a long standing healthy relationship with a designer.
Looking forward to our journey together.
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From the Both Sides Now Stereo Chat:
Sundazed is currently remastering the mono LP of "If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears," on vinyl only, as announced on their Facebook page. In response to a poster commenting that he thought the mono master was long gone, they replied:
"The master tape is NOT long gone... This was recently recovered from a U.K. vault... and we have first crack at it. Say 'hooray'..."
Hopefully someone will issue this on CD...
This makes me wonder whether the individual albums could be rereleased with another disc of additional bonus material. I'm no expert on what's rumored to be in the Dunhill vault but maybe they have enough material to flesh things out. There's always the Complete Anthology from 2004 that had a lot of unreleased material, but who knows.


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The Backstreet Boys claim they've been bad this year, but their new song is very good.
The boy band's holiday tune, "It's Christmas Time Again," is a bouncy pop gem that will get you dancing this season.
"We're so proud of this new song," Carter told AOL Music about the song. "There aren't that many original holiday songs out there — which is so crazy to say — and we really feel we made a timeless contribution to the season and a song our kids will be listening to."
Plus the song, available on iTunes, marks the return of Kevin Richardson, who quit the band in 2006. This is the first time all five members have recorded together since 2005's Never Gone.
For fans hungry for more music, the band is promising a new album some time next year, which will mark the band's 20th anniversary.
Listen to "it's Christmas Time Again" below and let us know what you think.
– Shannon Carlin, CBS Local
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In general, cameras operating in black and white mode always capture the RAW image in full color, and then apply a black and white filter to a rendered JPEG version of the image. Because Aperture is expressly designed to leave RAW masters unaltered, it will display the full range of color captured by the camera. If you want to work in black and white, there are several strategies you can use:
The Monochrome Mixer is a good tool that allows you to create black and white versions of your images, with precise control over the red, blue and green levels.
Color Monochrome adjustment allows you to use any color you like to tint your images. For black and white effects, you can use any shade of gray to create the exact tone you're looking for.
The Sepia Tone adjustment, although not strictly speaking black and white, is a good option for creating monochrome versions of your images.
If you wish to use your camera's black and white filter, then shoot in RAW+JPEG mode on the camera, with the desired black and white setting. When you import the images into Aperture, both the full color RAW images and the rendered black and white JPEGs will be added to your library. To work with the black and white images, highlight the thumbnails in the Browser and choose Images > New Version from Master JPEG. A new version of the image will be created next to the original RAW. Note that the thumbnail will appear to be a full color image, but when you click to show it in the Viewer, it will display as black and white.


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Jean-François Coche-Dury is one of the world's leading figures for the vinification of white wines. In 1972 he took over the domain from his father who built it up in the early 1920's. Over the years he acquired new wine parcels. His domain, which today covers just over 10 hectares, counts 8.5 hectares of Chardonnay and Aligoté. He uses a vinification that reinforces the natural expression of the terroir without changing it: gentle pressing, regular stirring of lees in oak barrels, 50% of which are replaced every year. His style is inimitable; he creates pure and elegant wine whose finesse and persistency are quite remarkable. His wines are renowned and sought after by connoisseurs throughout the world. All Chardonnay amateurs must taste these wines.
Domaine Coche-Dury's Meursaults have intense honey and lime flower aromas with a rounded and silky palate and a very long and lingering flavour of plum and hazelnut in particular. This toasted fragrance is Coche-Dury's olfactory hallmark. It is obtained through a gentle, controlled oxidation process.
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General :The «bio» designation covers certified wines produced by biodynamic or organic methods, sustainably produced wines, and «environmentally friendly» wines that are not officially certified.These designations apply to recent vintages (the date of certification, if known, is specified in the estate description).See the blog article for more information on this designation.
Biodynamic :The «biodynamic» designation is used for all estates certified as using biodynamic methods, as verified by one of the two official bodies, Demeter or Biodyvin. All wines produced by biodynamic methods are also certified as organic. This designation applies to recent vintages.
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Evironmentally friendly :The «environmentally friendly» designation refers to estates practising environmentally friendly wine-growing techniques, but that have not opted for certification or who are still in the process of converting to organic agriculture or biodynamics. These estates may have adopted biodynamic principles (non-certified) or simply no longer use chemical products. This designation applies to recent vintages.
Natural :Wines which are produced without any added sulfur (or almost any) and with no other inputs. However, given that there is no official body to issue the natural wine label, it is based on winemakers' statements.This designation applies to recent vintages.


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Lines of evidence: The science of evolution
At the heart of evolutionary theory is the basic idea that life has existed for billions of years and has changed over time.
Overwhelming evidence supports this fact. Scientists continue to argue about details of evolution, but the question of whether life has a long history or not was answered in the affirmative at least two centuries ago.
The history of living things is documented through multiple lines of evidence that converge to tell the story of life through time. In this section, we will explore the lines of evidence that are used to reconstruct this story.
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The bullpen is unable to hold onto the lead, as the Phils lose to the Mets in extra-innings, 9-5.
The Phils' bullpen loses the lead before losing the game in the tenth inning, as the Phils lose to the Mets, 9-5.
The Mets took the lead in the first as, with two men on, and with nobody out, David Wright hits an RBI single, knocking in Ruben Tejada, who had started the game off with a single, then stopped at second base on Daniel Murphy's single, giving the Mets a 1-0 lead, while sending Murphy, who had just singled, up to second base. The Phils took the lead in their half of the first as, with the bases loaded, via a walk to Jimmy Rollins, Kevin Frandsen being hit by a pitch, sending Rollins up to second base, and a walk to Chase Utley, moving up both runners, and with nobody out, Ryan Howard hits a grand-slam home run, his ninth home run of the year, knocking in Rollins, Frandsen and Utley, giving the Phils a 4-1 lead. The Mets cut the Phils' lead down to 3-2 in the fourth as, with one man on, and with one man out, Mike Baxter hits a two-run home run, his first home run of the season, knocking in Lucas Duda, who had started the inning off with a walk. The Mets would tie the game up at four-all in the fifth as, with runners on the corners, and with nobody out, Wright hits a sacrifice fly, scoring Tejada, who had started the inning off with a ground-rule double, as a fan interfered with the ball, then went to third on Murphy's single. The Phils retook the lead in their half of the fifth as with one man out, Utley hits a solo home run, his ninth home run of the season. The Mets retied the game at five-all in the eighth as, with a man on first, and with two men out, Kelly Shoppach hits an RBI double, scoring Wright, who had started the inning off with a walk. The Mets would take the lead in the tenth as, with a man on base, and with one man out, Ike Davis hits an RBI double, scoring Murphy, who had earlier singled, giving the Mets a 6-5 lead. The Mets then took a 7-5 lead as Duda hits an RBI single, scoring Davis, before moving up to second base on the late throw. The Mets then made it a 9-5 lead as Shoppach hits a two-run home run, his seventh home run of the season, knocking in Duda. That would end up being the final score as Bobby Parnell threw a scoreless inning.
Vance Worley received a no-decision as he went just four and one-third innings, giving up four runs on nine hits, as he struck out four. Raul Valdes piched one and two-thirds scoreless innings, striking out two batters. Josh Lindblom received his nineteenth hold of the season as he pitched an inning, plus a batter, giving up a run on a walk, while striking out a batter. Antonio Bastardo committed his four blown save of the year as he pitched an inning, giving up a hit, while striking out a batter. Jonathan Papelbon pitched a 1-2-3 inning. B.J. Rosenberg (0-2, 12.66) took the lost as he pitched an inning, giving up four runs on four hits. Chris Young also received a no-decision as he also lasted just four and a third innings, giving up five runs on four hits, three walks and a hit batter, while striking out two. Robert Carson, Ramon Ramirez, Josh Edgin, and Jon Rauch combined for three and two-thirds scoreless innings, giving up a hit (Edgin) and two walks (Ramirez (1), Edgin (1)) between them, while striking out three batters (Carson (1), Ramirez (1), Edgin (1)). Bobby Parnell (4-3, 3.02) got the win as he threw two scoreless innings, giving up a hit, while striking out two.
The Phils had just six hits in the game, with Chase Utley leading the team with two hits, a single and a home run, knocking in a run. Ryan Howard (Home Run, 4 RBIs), John Maybery, Jr. (Single), Laynce Nix (Single) and Erik Kratz (Single) had the other four Phils' hits, as Mets' pitching, especially the bullpen, kept them in check. The Phils also had five walks in the game.
The Phils (61-68, 3rd), will continue their three-game series with the Mets (60-69, 4th) with a night game tonight. The game will be played at Citizens Bank Park, and is to start at 7:05 pm EDT. The Phils will send to the mound Tyler Cloyd (0-0, -.–) who will be making his first major league start as he'll be pitching in place of Cole Hamels, who is sick. He will be out to prove that he's ready to become part of the Phils' plans for 2013. The Mets will counter with Matt Harvey (2-3, 3.75), who is coming off a no-decision against the Rockies on August 22, as he went six innings, giving up a run on three hits and two walks, while striking out nine, in the Mets' 5-2 lost. He will be trying to give the Phils fits. The Phils will be trying to even up the series.


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Federal Indian Law IISLN #: 20510
Course Prefix: LAW-704
Course Section: 001
Credit Hours: 3
Instructor(s): Clinton
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This course surveys legal issues surrounding the ownership and development of Indian lands and resources. Included in that survey are issues regarding treaty rights, property rights, water rights, hunting and fishing rights, natural resources development, and environmental issues in Indian Country. This course does not require a working knowledge of the jurisdictional questions surveyed in Federal Indian Law I, although some background, either from that course or review of William Canby, American Indian Law in a Nutshell is helpful.
Additional Information:
Credit Hours: 3
Grading Option: Letter Grade Only
Written Assignment: Maybe
Graduation Writing Requirement: Yes, With Instructor's Approval*
Flexible Writing Requirement: Yes, With Instructor's Approval*
Skills Requirement: No
Note: Only one of the above listed requirements can be fulfilled with this course.
Experiential Learning: No
Special Withdrawal Course: No
Final Exam Given: Yes
Final Exam Type: Take-Home
Paper Or In-Class Presentation: for writers
Participation Points: Yes - see syllabus
Attendance Policy: Per Statement Of Student Policies
Additional Attendance Policy: see syllabus
* The law school has a policy that Is used To calculate credit hours. Please see the Statement of Student Policies.


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Coarse Reels
A selection of reels for general coarse fishing, including reels from Nash, Sonik, Mitchell, Middy and Okuma.
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OAKLAND — The Alameda County Coroner's Office was evacuated for more than an hour Wednesday after 15 people were sickened following the opening of a body bag with a badly-decomposed corpse.
At least one employee of the office was taken to the hospital, fire officials said, with an unspecified ailment. None of those affected was seriously injured, fire officials said.
Just before noon, emergency crews were dispatched to the office at 480 Fourth St. in downtown Oakland after a deputy coroner unzipped a bag containing a badly decomposed body and immediately had an adverse reaction, Battalion Chief Emon Usher said.
Crews evacuated the building, set up a hazmat triage and evaluated the 15 patients suffering from complaints, including irritation to their eyes and throat.
The corpse belonged to a man in his 70s and was found on July 16 in his Berkeley garage in an advanced state of decomposition, Sheriff's Office Sgt. Ray Kelly said. The circumstances of his death were under investigation, he said.
When the deputy coroner picked up the body from a local mortuary, it had a strong, chemical odor and was covered with a powdery, deodorizing substance because it was so badly decomposed.
"When the deputy unzipped the bag he inhaled some type of toxic vapors," Kelly said. "The fumes got into his lungs and caused irritation, and then the vapors spread throughout the morgue."
Sheriff's and fire officials are investigating whether the chemical odor on the body came from the mortuary or from where the man died.
The hazmat team evaluated the deodorizer and determined it did not pose a health hazard.
After they also evaluated the air, checked the corpse and inspected the body bag, they allowed employees to return to work about 1:25 p.m.
Contact Natalie Neysa Alund at 510-293-2469. Follow her at Twitter.com/nataliealund.


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JeremieCL brauchte ein neues WordPress-Theme Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 66 Designs von 5 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Goodbye Paper
Our company helps traditional media companies to cope with the arrival of the tablets and e-readers. We think that paper as the support for printed content will be a souvenir within 10 years. Consumers will go digital! Therefore, we help these companies to change their overall strategy and to train their staff with new technologies/habits.
Of course we are focusing on the iPad for the moment, but not only. We think that lots of competitors will enter succesfully the market.
The purpose of our wordpress blog is to display:
- Presentation of the company
- News about the different tablets
- News about the different apps
- News about the printed Press and its coming challenges...
- News about the different changes in the Press jobs
We are primarly talking to the Press industry professionnals and secondary to any individual interested in News and new technologies around it (generally, he's more or less working in that industry).
We definitely do not target mass audience. We are B to B.
We want to appear innovative with our site. We want to show the transition from paper to electronic devices.
The companies we are targetting have difficulties to understand the current shift. They understand there's a shift, but can't just face it. Still, we want to make them understand that they have to switch rapidely, otherwise they will die.
Most of the people we are talking to are 45-50 years old executives. They are not very comfortable with technology. They use it, but don't know exactly how to adapt their companies and staff to it. So we want to convice them we can accompany them ; we need to make them safe with us : we are pros ; we know the challenges ; we've already helped other media companies ; we can help them now.
My current wordpress blog is here : http://jeremieclevy.fr/WordPress/
And there's a copy there with a different design : http://jeremieclevy.wordpress.com/
(it's a fotolia picture)
The themes are standard free themes and of course, I want to change that.
I don't care about the 2 columns style. I can keep it like that (central column with content + right hand column with additional contents) or it can be displayed in an other way.
In the design, I'm expecting at least : a logo for the blog ; an illustration header ; a nice background ; the css for the font, colors etc.


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Recall needed in Jacksonville Beach mayor's race
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – With all but the last provisional ballots counted in Duval County, the only race that is still in doubt is race for mayor of Jacksonville Beach.
"That is the closest (race) with 41 votes and will require a recount, but right now none of the other races appear to be affected by anything we do at this point," Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland said.
The recount will be held Tuesday.
The other close race -- for clerk of circuit court -- has Republican Ronnie Fussell finishing with 48 percent of the vote in the four-way race, nearly 2 percentage points ahead Democrat Brenda Priestly Jackson in the four-way race.
"The reality is that last vote counted is just as important as the first vote," Holland said on the fourth day of vote counting "Many people call elections, but we certify it when we count every vote that has been cast."
Counties must provide a preliminary report of election results to the state on Saturday.
Vote counting continued Friday in many other counties around the state, but Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner says that while some local and perhaps a Central Florida congressional race may require recounts, the presidential race will not.
The delay in calling winners -- particularly in the presidential race, where Florida remains the only state in the union left to declare a winner -- is blamed on many factors: lines created by the length of the ballot, tens of thousands of absentee votes turned in just before the polls closed Tuesday, and the laborious process of reviewing provisional ballots.
"We are going to take input from citizens. We are going to listen to party officials. We are going to determine what the best resolution is to eliminating lines," Detzner said.
Barack Obama already has been declared the overall winner of the presidential election, based on results in the rest of the country. With Florida's 29 electoral votes still undecided, Obama has won 303 electoral votes to 206 for Republican Mitt Romney.
At last report Friday afternoon, Obama led Mitt Romney by 60,767 votes -- 0.7 percent -- out of the 8.3 million ballots cast in Florida. State law requires a recount of any race with a margin of victory under 0.5 percent.
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One of the most creative and inspiring bands to come out of California's North Hollywood (NoHo) district is the powerhouse trio Magnetico. Recently voted by Music Connection Magazine as one of the Top 100 Unsigned Bands in the U.S.A., their sound and vibe are unique to say the least. Lead by guitar virtuoso and vocalist Rafael Moreira, whose accolades alone span the length of any of the many stages he has performed on, the group is sonically solid and are anchored by Corey McCormick on bass guitar and Joey K. on drums.
Best recognized for his appearance as part of the House Band for the CBS television reality show Rock Star: INXS and subsequently Rock Star: Supernova, Rafael's guitar brilliance has allowed him to support and play alongside some of rock and pop's most elite artists. Included are Paul Stanley (KISS), Steven Tyler (Aerosmith), Tommy Lee (Motley Crue), Don Felder (The Eagles), Dave Navarro (Jane's Addiction), Pink, Cristina Aguilera, Marc Anthony and Enrique Iglesias. Following the 2005 release of Acid Guitar, his first instrumental solo album, Moreira is proud and eager to promote his latest project in the world of music which he is so clearly passionate about.
Entitled "Songs About The World", Magnetico's 2008 CD release is highly energized with guitar-heavy song writing alongside meaningful lyrics. Produced by Moreira himself, the disk also features his unique and creative vocal talents as well as hints at synth, keys and bass moog on three of the album's tracks.
From the disk's opening cut "The Emperor", which is coincidentally also the band's first music video, its catchy chorus phrase "I wanna change the world, I wanna change your mind" hits you in the chest. The mid-song tempo change which houses Rafael's guitar solo and blistering finger-work challenges the listener to think outside the box. Filled with a bottom-heavy groove it is charged with expression and meaning.
The haunting "Nothingness" is cleverly written with its solid bass line throughout the verses below an imitating guitar riff accompanying the vocals. Guitar effects expand the boundaries of this song once again with Moreira's imaginative and edgy playing both in the solo and throughout the track.
Kudos must go out to Joey K. for his solid and superbly tight drumming on "Invisible". The groove set in the verse and his expressive playing in the chorus is brawny. His capabilities are clearly present on the disk as time-changes and fantastic fills appear seamless. Accompanied by Corey McCormick on bass this rhythm section is incredibly tight as found on the break in "Soldiers of God" where they give the band Extreme a run for their money mimicking "Color Me Blind" for its intense syncopated rhythm.
The album's ballad "Letter For A Friend" is refreshing, as its placement mid-record gives relief from the disk's otherwise thundering songs. The track shows versatility in song writing and is both passionate and powerful in its delivery.
Magnetico and their 12-track "Songs About The World" is truly about the music itself. No doubt created and intended for the true musician and thoughtful music fans to appreciate, it screams independence from the musical wolves howling out for their latest taste of manufactured monotony. There is no doubt that upon its first listen the creativity, expression and passion for music will draw you into the magnetic sound that is Magnetico.
For a further look into Magnetico and their music click on the following links below:
www.myspace.com/magnetico , www.magneticomusic.com , www.myspace.com/rafaelmoreira , www.rafaelmoreira.com


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Get packing …
Who needs what for which trip? Some people fill suitcases, others go for a trolley case or a weekender bag, still others swear by their good old duffel bag … luggage often tells you far more about travelers than their destination – a brief typology of travel baggage
The Queen once traveled to Paris with 147 suitcases. Stefan Effenberg has his case packed by a kit manager. Marlene Dietrich had a name for her trunk – she called it "elephant."
The first suitcase of the type we know today was invented at the French court, by a previously unknown young man named Louis Vuitton.
The suitcase is more than a mere utility object for the transportation of personal belongings; it is also a piece of home when we are away.
In Herta Müller's novel The Hunger Angel, the 17-year-old protagonist's suitcase is where remembrance resides for him in the Russian gulag; it keeps him alive, gives him hope that his journey into darkness will end sometime – because the essence of a suitcase is that must be constantly packed and unpacked again.
Nowadays, suitcases without wheels or a carrying strap are rare. No longer considered practical, their purpose is more decorative than useful – except for the elderly gentleman in the three-piece suit on the railway platform, who is traveling in style with hat, cane and suitcase. But maybe he is also just a time traveler.
trolley case
It rumbles and clatters, rattles and torments – at least anyone indoors trying to sleep as you pass by. Few items of baggage are hated with such passion and used as much as the trolley case.
One man in Austria was so driven to distraction by the racket made by a trolley that he threatened the woman wheeling it with a pistol. The trolley bag with the telescopic handle has been around since 1987. It was invented by U.S. pilot Robert Plath.
Since then, the trolley case – the lightweight polycarbonate Rimowa models that hold 105 liters but weighs just 3.9 kilos, for example – has stood for commuter flexibility.
Monday morning at half past six, suited men and women wheel them across airports toward their office. Thursday evening, they rumble across the cobbled streets of European old towns toward relaxation. The pet hate of gentrification opponents and the darling of seasoned travelers, the trolley case is a contentious piece of baggage.
This is the ideal bag for a weekend – too small for a whole week, too big for a single night. A bag for in-between, the baggage of the spontaneous traveler, the "let's head off some place right now" adventurer, who aims to be back in the office by half past eight on the dot on Monday morning.
In the classic 1960s movie The Swimming Pool featuring Romy Schneider and Alain Delon, a weekender bag can naturally be seen on the back seat of the sports car of the two visitors who soon become intruders.
The weekender brings it all together: the Côte d'Azur and Berlin's Kottbusser Tor, elegance and coolness, savoir-vivre and a cool drink at the kiosk around the corner.
Why? Because it's a resilient piece of baggage, especially the coated canvas models made by the Korean Gear3 brand, as well as being part-nostalgic, part-futuristic.
Men, in particular, favor it – as the handbag they don't have to call one.
Duffel bag
In 1958, an American soldier, who had already sold 50 million records when he joined the force, disembarked in Bremerhaven. He was Elvis Presley, and over his shoulder he carried an olive-green duffel bag.
Duffel bags are usually made of coarse canvas. It is the soldier's signature baggage, holds a great deal and is soon packed. Just as the GI became a star of pop culture – chewing gum and fighting for peace and freedom – at the end of World War II, so, too, did the duffel bag become and remain cool.
The best models are still found in sailing stores. And since the 1990s have been celebrating a comeback, you can now shoulder the two Hs of Helly Hansen again, too.
XXL backpack
The backpack is probably older than every other item in this baggage list. Way back, 3300 years ago, Ötzi was lugging a kind of frame rucksack, a contraption made of branches to which a bundle or pouch was fastened – the predecessor of the backpack.
For thousands of years now, people have been carrying their belongings through the world on their back, and crossing mountains and sand dunes to engage in trade or to satisfy their appetite for discovery and adventure.
In the 1970s, backpacking became a mode of travel in its own right. Always at the ready in one of the countless side pockets of a Deuter, Fjällräven or Tatonka – a Lonely Planet, the first edition of which, published in 1973, bore the title Across Asia on the Cheap.
And although backpacking has its roots in the hippie movement, more than anything it is a flourishing business today: backpackers bring Australia revenues of 3.5 billion Australian dollars every year.
No other item of baggage makes traveling from beach to beach with no fixed destination as effortless as the backpack. Just don't overfill it – you could squeeze almost more into a 75-liter XXL backpack than you can fit into your flatshare room at home.
china bag
The entire world has one of these. Few items of baggage have such an international presence as the square, red-and-black checkered PVC bag.
It is so cosmopolitan that it has not one but several names: In New York, it's known as the China bag because China is where it is produced.
In Germany, it used to be rather scornfully and disrespectfully called "Polish suitcase" or "Turk bag" because it turned up mostly in cities with a large migrant population.
In Nigeria, it's the "Ghana-must-go bag" since a particularly large number of Ghanaians had to leave the country in the early 1990s because they lacked the necessary papers. But most China bag owners probably bought theirs because of they are cheap and sturdy.
For Berlin-based graphic designer Chris Rehberger, the bag's defining quality is its internationality. He recently reinvented the bag in collaboration with Berlin concept store owner Andreas Murkudis and called it "Standard Bag." It's made of goatskin to survive a round-the-world trip.
For the self-appointed French Emperor, the basic essentials numbered 110 individual items. At the battles of Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau and Friedland, Napoleon Bonaparte was accompanied by a mahogany necessaire complete with soap boxes, licorice pastels, 12 toothbrushes, ivory tongue scrapers, razor blades, perfume bottles, china, silverware, sewing utensils and toiletries.
The necessaires of the 19th century were capacious enough to accommodate a traveler's entire household needs. These days, people make do with a plastic bag, transparent and designed to comply with the airlines' 100-milliliter rule for carry-on baggage.
It provides so little space for the traveler's toiletries that the bag is no longer dignified with the prefix "toilet," much less the Napoleonic moniker "necessaire." Go along to the Hermès archive in Paris and you can take a look at some of the impressive necessaires that belonged to his officers.
This story first appeared in Lufthansa Exclusive, the frequent traveller magazine. For more information about Lufthansa Miles & More offers, please click here.


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First look at the live-action feature based around classic children's character.
From the "jungles of Peru" comes the first teaser from the live-action feature based around classic children's character Paddington Bear, from Harry Potter producer David Heyman and StudioCanal.
It offers a glimpse of the character, created by Michael Bond in 1958, who has been rendered as a CGI character by Framestore (the Oscar-winning outfit behind Gravity) and voiced by Colin Firth.
The cast includes Downton Abbey's Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkwins as Mr and Mrs Brown, who in the original stories find the talking bear at Paddington Railway Station in London, sitting on his suitcase after stowing away in Peru.
Nicole Kidman plays an evil taxidermist determined to wreak her revenge; Julie Walters is housekeeper Mrs Bird; and Oscar-winner Jim Broadbend is antiques shop owner Mr Gruber.
The Weinsteins have acquired North American rights and will release the film under new moniker TWC-Dimension.
The director is Paul King, who previously directed TV series The Mighty Boosh and Come Fly With Me as well as 2009 feature Bunny and the Bull.
Studiocanal developed the film, is fully financing and will distribute in the UK, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand, and is handling international sales.
The film will open in the UK on Nov 28, 2014, and will be released wide in North America by TWC-Dimension in the first quarter of 2015.


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Molly Ringwald, "Except Sometimes" (Concord Music Group)
In her signature roles, she was the ingenue. And while it may not be fair to compare Molly Ringwald the actress with Molly Ringwald the singer, it is hard to ignore the genuineness seen in her characters that also flavors this collection of jazz standards called "Except Sometimes."
Ringwald's voice is unaffected, clear and, at moments, vulnerable. She challenges her range, and coaxes complexity from her honeyed mezzo-soprano. The strongest songs are those with minor inflections that balance her sunny nature, such as "Sooner or Later" and "I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)."
Her debut album is less even elsewhere. On "I Believe in You," her earnestness belies lines referencing "gin and vermouth." On "Ballad of the Sad Young Men," there is scant expression of sorrow.
Ringwald is backed by a skilled quartet that is beautifully arranged and gives full focus to her voice.
A surprise for the 45-year-old's fans comes at the album's close: a fresh interpretation of "Don't You (Forget About Me)," the melancholic theme for her 1985 film, "The Breakfast Club." It is impossible to not hear Ringwald as Claire, perhaps a more mature Claire, but an ingenue still.
Follow Michelle Morgante on Twitter: twitter.com/MMorgante


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I'm trying to make wz API export to jscript more straightforward using some Template trickery ; basically I'm providing a "wrap_(f, engine, context);" function that takes a C function whose argument are DROID*, STRUCTURE* (actually object holding id and player since it's what is used internally), int ... and calls it using argument found in QtScript engine and context, wrapping the result value in a QScriptValue.
For instance :
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static QScriptValue js_activateStructure(QScriptContext *context, QScriptEngine *)
QScriptValue structVal = context->argument(0);
int id = structVal.property("id").toInt32();
int player = structVal.property("player").toInt32();
STRUCTURE *psStruct = IdToStruct(id, player);
SCRIPT_ASSERT(context, psStruct, "No such structure id %d belonging to player %d", id, player);
// ... and then do nothing with psStruct yet
QScriptValue objVal = context->argument(1);
int oid = objVal.property("id").toInt32();
int oplayer = objVal.property("player").toInt32();
OBJECT_TYPE otype = (OBJECT_TYPE)objVal.property("type").toInt32();
BASE_OBJECT *psObj = IdToObject(otype, oid, oplayer);
SCRIPT_ASSERT(context, psObj, "No such object id %d belonging to player %d", oid, oplayer);
orderStructureObj(player, psObj);
return QScriptValue(true);
The goal is to separate the API function and the boilerplate code needed to make the function callable from qtscript side. This way it should be easier to add a new function to the API (just add a wrapper that calls wrap_ and register it), and since there is no qt code in the API function it should be possible to switch javascript engine without breaking anything and even provide bindings to other langages (python ? ruby ?) as long as the template mechanism is properly updated.
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static bool activateStructure(structure_id_player structVal, object_id_player_type objVal)
STRUCTURE *psStruct = IdToStruct(structVal.id, structVal.player);
BASE_OBJECT *psObj = IdToObject(objVal.type, objVal.id, objVal.player);
orderStructureObj(structVal.player, psObj);
return true;
static QScriptValue js_activateStructure(QScriptContext *context, QScriptEngine *engine)
return wrap_(activateStructure, context, engine);
There are however some drawbacks : for the wrapper to work the API function have some restriction : they must not be overloaded (the compiler has no idea which overloads to pick), they must not use jscript global variable (the mechanism is based on the function signature) and they must not rely on jscript engine to display message.
This means some jscript function must be modified to comply with these requirements : overloads must be renamed, global variable must be passed as argument to the functions and error message won't be jscript specific (ie they will be printed in the wz log not in jscript console). On the other hand the API should be easier to maintain and expand.
Are such modifications acceptable ? I think API breakage may require changing version number. On the other hand it may be incremental : compatible functions can be ported to this system and new can be introduced while the non compatible one may be marked as deprecated.


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Ivona Svobodnikova, Captain of Czech Republic
"We thought the result was going to be a 3-0 in favor of China. We are satisfied with our game but not with the result."
Wang Na, Captain of China
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Stanislav Mitac, Head Coach of Czech Republic
"Congratulations to China for a good game. There was a very little difference between the two teams. The key for the loss was that we didn't play good in the second set. It would have been different ahead 2-0 than tied 1-1. In the tie-breaker we made a couple of errors and suddenly were behind 4-1 and never recovered."
Qi Lixia, Head Coach of China
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|Topic: Simultaneous Evolution?
Dr Adequate
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He seems to have built an entire career on being wrong.
This is exactly why I recommended that you study examples of "simultaneous evolution" that would show up in the fossil record.
No. This is why you had to try to think up a question for which, by its nature, any answer no matter how correct would be unsupported by evidence.
Alternatively, your unevidenced speculation that DNA and RNA would both be required is nothing but an "escape device" for creationists; especially as we can observe (in RNA viruses) that RNA is quite capable of performing the function of DNA.
But after all what is creationism but one big escape device: "We can't think of a mechanism ... so God did it by magic!"
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"Precisely"? No, not even remotely true. As much as 80% of the primary sequence of a protein contributes only structurally; 20% or less of most proteins is the crucial "active site" that actually interacts chemically with the enzyme's substrates.
While there are 20 amino acids mainly involved in protein biosynthesis, they're easily grouped into about 5 or 6 groupings based on their acidic or basic side chains, hydrophilicity, nucleophilicity/electrophilicity, steric hindrance, and so on. Within those groups they're usually quite interchangable; an enzyme like a serine protease may be as much as 300 residues, but only depends on three of those being specific amino acids at specific positions (the so-called catalytic triad actually involved in the chemical reaction that the enzyme catalyzes.)
The fact is that proteins are incredibly non-specific for most of their structure, and specific to any degree only at the protein's active site. In fact, analyzing the same homologous protein across several species to find the most conserved (least varying) areas in the protein is one way we elucidate protein structure and identify active sites.
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Dr. Adequate,
I assume that you are not referring to the reproductive function of DNA; right? Because a virus is, by definition, "a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of organisms." Viruses are not considered to be life-forms. Why? Because they cannot reproduce, unless they attach themselves to a living organism, or, "host". This is absolutely, 100% necessary in order for a virus to replicate itself. So we find that RNA in viruses depends on the genetic material of living cells, further proving the fact that we have no in vivo examples of an "RNA world".
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No, I meant storage.
But we should note that RNA is capable of base-pairing just like DNA.
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Hi, Sac.
Since marking your own mistakes with "sic" is rather inexplicable, and since I can't find the word "catalyzer" anywhere else on this thread, I'm curious as to whether this is actually your own writing.
When other valid possibilities are brought onto the table, your assertion that RNA and DNA must have evolved simultaneously loses its automatically-assumed-as-true status, and becomes nothing more than one of the mere possibilities itself.
When autocatalytic ribozymes are known to exist, it's difficult to take seriously your argument that RNA can't function without DNA.
You're missing the basic point. What "necessary functions of life" did RNA have to carry out on its own other than self-replication?
A "ribo-organism" would have been nothing more than an autocatalytic ribozyme, a molecule that replicates in a pool of water. Such an "organism" did not have to do anything but self-replicate. It could become intermingled with DNA and proteins later.
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That doesn't mean they're not alive; that just means they're parasites.
Vaccines, as you may know, are made from dead viruses. How can you have a dead virus if it was never alive?
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The specificity of proteins is another example. But note how it is resolved..
of course not.. you might get pinned down..
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Heh. I did worry about that myself, but hoped it wouldn't lead to any difficulties: yes, that is my own writing. Apparently, the word "catalyzer(s)", is not found in the dictionary. But, I figured that given the situation I was using it in, the meaning was rather obvious. I hope that this will lead to no further confusion.
I may be nit-picking, but (here I go ), I wouldn't say that RNA can't "function" without DNA; rather, I would say:
Once again, let me iterate that all the postulation of an RNA world has come as a result of highly controlled experimentation, or, in vitro. Why is this a difficulty? Because we know relatively little about the functions and properties of RNA, so highly controlled experiments mean little.
And further, this hypothetical "RNA world" seems little more to me than pseudo-science, since, after all, science is the the study of the material world around us, or the environment that we see around us. Postulations about historical events (possibilities) through controlled experimentation has nothing to do with the environment around us. Hence the adjective "pseudoscience".
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One could perhaps say that, although biological textbooks that I have read refer to viruses as non-life. Personally, I disagree with the notion that viruses are life forms.
But whether they are alive or not really has no bearing on this discussion. Even if they are alive, they do not have the ability to self-replicate without a host cell, all of which contain DNA (in vivo).
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This is indeed an interesting thread, but it hasn't exactly generated the type of discussion I had in mind; particularly, I've been a bit of a loner (as on other threads). So I may not have time to respond to all posts, as I was not intending to spend a lot of time on this thread anyways...
Shalamabobbi said that I don't want to spend a lot of time on this thread for fear that I may be pinned down...
If you wish to look at it that way, then you may.
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"Catalyst" is the word you're looking for, I think - something that makes a chemical reaction occur faster or under more favorable conditions, but is not itself consumed in the reaction.
RNA has largely the same survival benefit that DNA has; it's an easily-replicatable molecule that can store the primary sequence of a protein. Also, unlike DNA, RNA is more reactive and capable of acting as a catalyst for some chemical reactions (aka "ribozymes"), and it adopts a greater diversity of physical conformations (due to its single-strandedness) that allow it to engage in some regulatory activity without any proteins at all.
DNA has the advantage that, lacking the 2' hydroxyl, it's considerably more stable and less reactive, making it more suited for its role in the cell as the genetic "archive".
Because RNA is both replicatable and catalytic, it's actually the easiest of the biomolecules to evolve on its own. In fact it's so easy to get RNA to evolve on its own that doing exactly that in vitro to produce custom ligands is a well-known lab procedure called "SELEX": Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment.
DNA can't replicate without proteins; proteins can't replicate themselves at all, they can only be synthesized from nucleic acids. RNA bridges both worlds and is therefore the logical precursor to both.
Evolution of information in a system subject to random mutation and natural selection is trivial. Under such a system it's simply inevitable that you will produce information that reflects adaptation to the selective environment. That's how SELEX works, by replicating and mutating RNA strands and then selecting them according to their affinity for a certain ligand.
Those are precisely the circumstances under which highly controlled experiments mean a lot, actually. That's why they're so highly controlled - to increase the value and quality of the information they produce. It's an uncontrolled experiment that gives you little to any useful knowledge.
But, come on. You may not know all that much about RNA but biochemists know quite a bit, actually.
Life didn't evolve in the environment we see around us. It evolved in the environment that existed 3.5 billion years ago, before living things had caused immeasurable change to the planet Earth. Other than that, I think you're taking "the material world around us" a little too literally. Science explains observations. Logically, that must mean that science is able to elucidate and study the past, since by the time you've made any observation, the observation you've made is of an event that occurred in the past.
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I'm not prepared to say that anything without a metabolism is "alive", but that's probably a function of the biochemistry I'm studying. To me viruses occupy an intermediate realm between living organisms and inorganic chemistry, a realm they share with prions.
I'm prepared to accept that opinions on this differ, I merely hope you'll consider a perspective different than your own.
Many species of intracellular parasite, for instance Rickettsias, cannot replicate or survive outside of a host cell, but Rickettsias are certainly not viruses (they don't rely on the host cell for all protein expression, for instance.) While there are no living examples of RNA-based cellular life (they were outcompeted by the superior qualities of DNA-based genetics), the very existence of RNA-based viruses implies that they must have existed at some point. If DNA has always been the molecule of genetic storage, expression, and heredity, all viruses would be DNA-based as well.
Evolution predicts that the fitter species will outcompete the less-fit ones, who may go extinct. It shouldn't surprise us that the robust combination of DNA-based genetics and protein-based enzyme chemistry outcompeted the organisms that relied on unstable RNA for both genetic storage and chemical catalysis. Especially given the marked advantage that DNA-based species would have had against an panopoly of viruses that, at the time, were based solely on RNA. It's certainly not a reason to reject the RNA world.
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What is the difference between a DNA virus and RNA virus that is seen today?
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RNA viruses, as the name implies, have no DNA but instead store their genes in the form of RNA.
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/ Wednesday, June 16, 2010 / 8 Comments / Appetizers and Snacks , Breads and Bakes , Vegetables
Kale Chips-Crisps
I finally got around to make some Kale Chips. I had bookmarked the recipe from The Food Librarian a couple of months back. It drew my interest as kale chips are super healthy, chocked full of antioxidants, and they taste great too. This is an easy recipe, after washing and drying the kale, simply toss them with some lemon juice, olive oil, and then season lightly with sea salt. Pop the kale in the oven for 15 minutes and there you go, a bowl of lemony kale chips! Enjoy.
Kale Chips-Crisps
(Printable Recipe)
1 Bunch (About 280 g) Organic Kale, strip out the center core or stalk, tear kale into small pieces, washed and dried
2 Tbsp Olive Oil
1 Tbsp Lemon Juice
Sea Salt
Preheat the oven to 350˚F.
Whisk together the olive oil, lemon juice, and season lightly with sea salt.
Toss in the dry kale and coat them evenly. Arrange the kale in a single layer of the baking tray.
Roast the kale for about 12 to 15 minutes, or until they are crispy. (You may need to turn the kale once or twice for even baking.)
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Angie, try blending this into powder and tossed into your buttered popcorn. Amazingly healthy seasoning!!!!ReplyDelete
@Quinn: Thanks for the tip! :DReplyDelete
i've seen so many people making this but have yet to try it out. I only used kale to masak lemak and they tasted just like 'paku'ReplyDelete
@ICook4Fun: Gert, "Paku" masak lemak is one of my favorite dish. I must try to make them with kale and thanks for the great idea.ReplyDelete
Oh yes please! These look fabulous!ReplyDelete
hello! if you cook them at 130ºC you might find that the edges won't have a habit of going brown :) you can even do it at 70ºC for a few hours to keep them REALLY green!ReplyDelete
I love love love kale. I usually do it with sesame oil and some garlic and ginger, for an extra Asian kick. :)ReplyDelete
I have been literally obsessed with kale chips this spring, since I find kale almost too bitter to eat prepared any other way. It's amazing how such a simple preparation can lead to such an interesting - and addictive - flavor.ReplyDelete


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