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' arrangements with a friend in power; late reformations are terms imposed upon a conquered enemy: early reformations are made in cool blood; late reformations are made under a state of inflammation. In that state of things, the people behold in govern'ment nothing that is respectable. They see the abuse, and they will see nothing else: they fall into the temper of a furious populace provoked at the disorder of a house of ill fame; they
never attempt to correct or regulate; they go to work by the shortest way: to abate the nuisance, they pull down the house.
* This is my opinion with regard to the true interest of govern'ment. But as it is the interest of government that reformation should be early, it is the interest of the people that it should be temperate. It is their interest, because a temperate reform is permanent; and because it has a principle of growth. Whenever we improve, it is right to leave room for a further improvement. It is right to consider, to look about us, to examine the effect of what we have done. Then we can proceed with con'fidence, because we can proceed with intelligence.'
' In my opinion, it is our duty, when we have the desires of the people before us, to pursue them, not in the spirit of literal obedience, which may militate with their very principle, much ' less to treat them with a peevish and contentious litigation, as if we were adverse parties in a suit. It would, Sir, be most dishonourable for a faithful representative of the Commons, to take advantage of any inartificial expression of the people's wishes, in order to frustrate their attainment of what they have an undoubted right to expect. We are under infinite obligations to our constituents, who have raised us to so distinguished a trust, and have imparted such a degree of sanctity to common characters. "We ought to walk before them with purity, plainness, and integrity of heart; with filial love, and not with slavish fear, which is always a low and tricking thing.'
* If we should be able, by dexterity, or power, or intrigue, to disappoint the expectations of our constituents, what will it avail us? We shall never be strong or artful enough to parry, or to put by, the irresistible demands of our situation. That situation calls upon us, and upon our constituents too, with a voice which will be heard If all the nation are not equally forward to press this duty upon us, yet be assured, that 'they will equally expect we should perform it. The respectful silence of those who wait upon your pleasure ought to be as powerful with you, as the call of those who require your service as their right.' Some, without doors, affect to feel hurt for your dignity, because they suppose that menaces are held out to you.
VOL. XII.-N.S.
* Justify their good opinion, by shewing that no menaces are necessary to stimulate you to your duty.-But, Sir, whilst we may sympathize with them, in one point, who sympathize with us in another, we ought to attend no less to those who approach us like men, and who, in the guise of petitioners, speak to us in
the tone of a concealed authority. It is not wise to force them 'to speak out more plainly, what they plainly mean.—But the petitioners are violent. Be it so. Those who are least anxious about your conduct, are not those that love you most. Moderate affection, and satiated enjoyment, are cold ' and respectful; but an ardent and injured passion is tempered up with wrath, and grief, and shame, and conscious worth, and the maddening sense of violated right. A jealous love lights his torch from the firebrands of the furies. They who call upon you to belong wholly to the people, are those who wish you to return to your proper home; to the sphere of your duty, to the post of your honour, to the mansion-house of all genuine,
serene, and solid satisfaction. We have furnished to the people . of England (indeed we have some real cause of jealousy. Let us leave that sort of company which, if it does not destroy our innocence, pollutes our honour; let us free ourselves at once * from every thing that can increase their suspicions, and inflame "their just resentment; let us cast away from us, with a generous scorn, all the love-tokens and symbols that we have been vain and light enough to accept ;-all the bracelets, and snuff-boxes, and miniature-pictures, and hair devices, and all the other adulterous trinkets that are the pledges of our alienation, and the monuments of our shame. Let us return to our legitimate home, and all jars and all quarrels will be lost in embraces. Let
the commons in parliament assembled be one and the same thing ' with the commons at large. The distinctions that are made to separate us are unnatural and wicked contrivances. Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people. Let us cut all the cables and snap the chains which tie us to an unfaith* ful shore, and enter the friendly harbour, that shoots far out
into the main its moles and jettees to receive us.—" War with the world, and peace with our constituents." Be this our motto, and our principle. Then, indeed, we shall be truly great. Respecting ourselves, we shall be respected by the world. At present, all is troubled, and cloudy, and distracted, and full of anger and turbulence, both abroad and at home; but the air may be * cleared by this storm, and light and fertility may follow it. Let
us give a faithful pledge to the people, that we honour, indeed, 'the crown, but that we belong to them; that we are their auxiliaries, and not their task-masters; the fellow-labourers in the same vineyard, not lording over their rights, but helpers of
their joy : that to tax them is a grievance to ourselves; but to cut off from our enjoyments to forward theirs, is the highest gra"tification we are capable of receiving.
The whole of this admirable speech, which will be found in the first volume of the present edition of the works, we recommend to the special perusal and study of our readers. It abounds at once with splendid passages and homely truths. The reform proposed was of so sweeping a character that it even throws into the shade all that has been hitherto accomplished by a reforming government. Mr. Burke proposed to abolish the Board of Trade, the Board of Works, the Colonial Secretaryship, the expensive office of Surveyor General, with the two chief justices in eyre,
the feudal services of the king's household, and the patent offices in the Exchequer; also, all subordinate treasuries; all ' jurisdictions which furnish more matter of expense, more temptation to oppression, or more means of corrupt influence, than advantage to political administration ; all public estates which are more subservient to the purposes of vexing, over-awing, and influencing those who hold under them, than of benefit to the revenue; and in a word, all offices which bring more charge than proportional advantage to the state.' • When the reason of old establishments is gone, it is absurd,' he maintained, 'to preserve nothing but the burden of them. This is superstitiously to - embalm a carcass not worth an ounce of the gums that are 6 used to preserve it. It is to burn precious oils in the tomb; 'it is to offer meat and drink to the dead; not so much an
honour to the deceased as a disgrace to the survivors.' (Vol. I. p. 239.)
The contrariety between sentiments and principles like these, and those to which Mr. Burke afterwards prostituted his eloquence,
is so total and violent, that neither the lapse of years nor the progress of events could warrant or explain it, apart from the change of party connexion which, in the mean time, he had undergone. Our object, in giving these lengthened extracts, has not been, however, to expose the inconsistency or to lower the authority of this great man, but to reclaim him from himself ;-to vindicate the fame of the political philosopher from the self-misrepresentations of the partisan ;-and, instead of attempting to prove that he underwent no revolution, to accomplish his restoration. Consistent in his political opinions, he was not; and upon this point we must differ entirely from the ingenious Author of this critical memoir, who fails in shewing anything more than that the character of Burke's mind remained the same under every change of his opinions. An anxiety to vindicate his integrity and pa
* Speeches. Vol. II. pp. 21–23; 88-90. See also pp. 231, 2; 254, 5 of vol. I. of the present edition.
triotism could alone, we think, have led the writer to attempt the establishment of what is more than a paradox,--an incompatibility, - the sameness of opposites. In other respects, his critical estimate of Burke is extremely discriminating, acute, and we might say, profoundly
, just. The analysis of the great orator's intellectual character is a fine specimen of philosophical biography; and the brilliant composition, sparkling with illustrations, seems to have caught a glow and richness of tint from the object of the Writer's admiration. We must make room for the following remarks upon the splendid faults of Burke's oratory.
A man who, with a very philosophical mind, has somehow or other become an orator, must always find it hard to struggle against the bias of his nature, especially if nature has been fixed by long habit; his mind will be sure to indicate its tendencies, and often just when they ought to be repressed; he will be fond of tracing particular instances to general rules, and of ascending from the particular circumstances of the case before him to maxims of universal application ; of doing this formally and explicitly, even where such a reference is already tacitly admitted; of entering into elaborate disquisition on the abstract excellence, beauty, and grandeur of such principles, and their mutual harmony Such disquisitory matter as this has become his delight, and he cannot refrain from it. To give it up, would be to do violence to all the tendencies of his nature and all the habits of his life; he would sooner hazard his success as an orator, than sacrifice his tastes as a philosopher. He forgets, or remembers to no purpose, that others have no sympathy with these peculiar pleasures ; that his intellect is, perhaps, the only one in the audience, which dwells with delight on such abstractions ; and that where the great principles which he is so fond of explaining and illustrating, are viewed only in their practical relation to the matter in hand, and not as subjects of speculative interest, any elaborate statement of them must necessarily be tedious.
The speeches of Burke, considered merely as speeches, are full of splendid errors of this description. He can seldom confine himself to a simple business-like view of the subject under discussion, or to close, rapid, compressed argumentation on it. On the contrary, he makes boundless excursions into all the regions of moral and political philosophy; is perpetually tracing up particular instances and subordinate principles to profound and comprehensive maxims; amplifying and expanding the most meagre materials into brief, but comprehensive, dissertations of political science, and incrusting (so to speak) the nucleus of the most insignificant fact with the most exquisite crystallizations of truth ; while the whole composition glitters and sparkles again with a rich profusion of moral reflections, equally beautiful and just. Indeed it may be said, that in adorning and illustrating a dry or common-place topic, in making even the most barren subject of disquisition suddenly and miraculously fertile, scarcely any author has even approached Burke. These very peculiarities, however, were often unfavourable to his success as an orator.
· But there was another quality of Burke's mind, almost as unfavourable to the attainment of the highest oratorical excellence, as his excessive tendency to philosophical speculation : we mean the exuberance of his fancy. Where this faculty is not used merely for the purpose of illustration, subordinated to the great object of conviction, it is sure to exert a pernicious influence; and where it is so used, it will be used sparingly. When a speaker indulges in very lengthened or elaborate imagery, a suspicion is sure to be engendered, (and, except in one or two instances of very extraordinary mental structure, that suspicion is uniformly just,) that he is scarcely in earnest ; that if he has an object, it is to commend his own eloquence, rather than to convince his audience; that his inspiration is not the inspiration of nature ; and for this
very sufficient reason, that it is not natural for intense emotion to express itself in the fantastic forms of laboured imagery. It has no business to go in search of remote or curious analogies. "It will often express itself figuratively, indeed, but the figures will be comparatively rare, briefly expressed, and in the condensed form of metaphor. Ulysses-like, the true orator is resolutely bent on pursuing his voyage, and the syrens of imagination sing in his ear in vain.
• When illustration is very abundant and elaborate, even the admiration it may excite will often be anything but friendly to the speaker's professed object, nay, the very reverse; the admiration will resemble that which is excited by a fine piece of poetry. If the orator be really successful, his hearers will be, at the moment of his success, quite unconscious of his oratorical merits.
• That it is possible to indulge in such exuberance of illustration, as to suspend the current of strong passions, and defeat the orator's avowed object, it is needless to
Such compositions, however beautiful the flowers of rhetoric which cover their surface, resemble some country brooks, whose beds shoot up such luxuriant vegetation, as almost to choke the channel of the waters. The rivers ceased to flow, said the fable, at the lyre of Orpheus ; and the music of the imagination will sometimes operate with equal power on the tide of passion.
· Burke's imagination does not often betray him into such excesses; yet it cannot be denied, that in his speeches it is often abused: the faults are of the same kind, they differ only in degree. It must at the same time be acknowledged, that the profuse employment of imagination is, in Burke, without affectation; he is one of the few above referred to, in whom prodigality of illustration was natural, and was perfectly compatible with intense emotion. Still, this does not affect the observations just made on his character as an orator. An exuberant imagination will produce the same effect on the audience, whatever the idiosyncracies of the speaker ; simply because they will judge from what they know to be the average of human nature, and not from individual peculiarities; they know and feel that such exuberance is not usually the natural ally of strong emotions. As human nature is generally constituted, it must be unfavourable to the exercise of intense passion.
• To illustrate these observations, it is only necessary for the reader to compare two or three passages of Demosthenes—who is universally admitted to be far superior to every other orator, and in nothing so much as in his sternly subordinating every thing to the great purpose


Although most often seen migrating at dusk here in Vermont, Common Nighthawks migrate at all hours of the day, often in large flocks, on one of the longest migration routes of any North American landbird. Many travel overland through Mexico and southward through Central America, while others pass through Florida and across to Cuba southward, flying over the water to reach their wintering grounds in South America thousands of miles away.
The Vermont Breeding Bird Atlas found that Common Nighthawks declined by 91% (23 to 2 survey blocks). Losses occurred in every biophysical region.
In the United States where most of them breed, Common Nighthawk populations have declined by over 60% in the last 50 years according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. In Canada they have declined by more than half. The Vermont Breeding Bird Atlas, a project of the Vermont Atlas of Life, found massive declines between the first atlas in the late 1970s compared to the recent atlas finished in 2007.
No one really knows why they are declining, but some of the threats to their populations likely include loss of preferred nesting areas, especially gravel on flat-roofed buildings; loss of upland openings due to succession, urban/suburban development; increased predation (crows, feral cats); pesticide use especially for mosquitoes; vehicle collision while roosting on gravel roads, and maybe other factors.
Get outside at dusk right now and watch for them migrating, especially along river valleys. With their long, pointed wings and bright white patches, they are relatively easy to identify. Keep track of how long you watch and an exact count of the numbers you see and add them to Vermont eBird, a project of the Vermont Atlas of Life, and help us track their populations and migration.
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The Retarded Trilogy
7 November 2005 by Chad 2 Comments
Editor's note: This article was initially written in 1997 in the tiny little video store where MCFTR was born. It has never seen the light of day on MCFTR proper until eight years after it was written. It's riddled with out of date references and is generally irrelevant today. But it's raw, crude, and still pretty funny, so enjoy it. Oh, and to explain a couple of things, we used to often make references to nonexistent essays by other MCFTRers and liked to work in a reference to Richard Donner being a pussy in everything we wrote.
THE MOVIE CRITICISMS FOR RETARDS ABOUT RETARDS BY A RETARD TRILOGY
by Chad J. Shonk
I. FORREST GUMP: GOING DOWN OLD HIGHWAY 21
Oh, how to approach this ultimate valentine to the mentally handicapped? I think I'll go through it, character by character, to illustrate how everyone in this movie is really a retard, not just Tom "I'll take that second Oscar, thank you very much" Hanks.
1) Bubba (Mykelti Williamson) – Alright, so he likes shrimp. WE FUCKING GET IT! Jesus Christ. How can you make so much food out of such a little fish? First off, we got a BLACK guy named Bubba. That's pretty fucking retarded. I kept waiting for the scene when the big ole redneck comes in and beats the shit out of him and says "Give me back my name!" Or something like that. And what was the deal with his lip? Talk about overplaying a racial stereotype. Why not give him a big ol' watermelon to suck on through the Vietnam segments? And maybe some collard greens. And some pig feet. I love pig feet! (See Friday: African-American Clerks or just plain funny?)
2) Lieutenant Dan (Gary Sinise) – Does he have a last name? In the movie we only know him as "Lieutenant Dan." That's pretty retarded. I'm not gonna make fun of the fact that he's handicapped. That's mean and uncalled for. I'm just gonna make fun of how retarded he is. I figure retards are open game. They don't really know that you're making fun of them, anyway. Kinda like the amish. You can make fun of them on TV cause they're never gonna know. And, as a retard, I can make fun of them. Kinda like black guys and the word "nigga", you know. It's supposedly an empowerment thing.
So Lieutenant Dan Something gets shot up in the jungles of Vietnam. But he gets pissed when Tom "I apologize for Joe Versus the Volcano" Hanks comes and saves him. Dumbass. "It was my destiny to die out there." Who's the real retard? At least Forrest had the brains to high-tail his narrow ass out of there!
3) Chris Farley – He wasn't in this movie; he's just retarded.
4) Jenny (Robin Wright) – Okay, Robin Wright's pretty cute. She was Princess Buttercup for crying out loud! Actually, her character's not retarded. She's fucked up. She's on drugs a lot and she's abused by her father and she dies of AIDS. That's not retarded. That's kinda sad. But what's really sad is that Robin Wright is married to Sean "Trying to get over that Mr. Madonna thing" Penn. I know that Chris Penn is fat and Michael Penn is a lousy singer, but did she have to marry Sean? He's real talented and all, but isn't he supposed to be a dick? And even if he isn't,why's she wasting her time on a guy like him when she could have me? I mean what does Sean "Dead Indian Running" Penn have that I don't besides looks and money and shitloads of talent? I can smoke three packs a day. I can beat up paparazzi. Please, Robin, I'm begging you. Choose me. I love you. So Jenny's really not retarded. I'm just a lonely, lonely guy.
5) Forrest, Forrest Gump (Tom "Everyone Keeps Calling Me the Next Jimmy Stewart But I Don't See It" Hanks) – Okay, Forrest is pretty damn stupid. And he has the dumbest dialogue in the movie. Yeah, life is like a Winston Groom metaphor: It don't make a damn bit of sense. But is he really that dumb? He's the only character in the movie to graduate college. Of course, they never tell you what he studied, but he graduated. In Vietnam, he was the only one to run like hell when the shit hit the fan. As soon as those tracers were flying, he took off runninG. He makes a shitload of money in the shrimpin' bizness, and he gets to sleep with Robin Wright. Where's the downside to his life? Sure, his mama is Sally Field, but we can't have everything. Did you know that in Punch Line, Sally plays Tom's girlfriend? That's kinda weird, huh? Not retarded, just kinda creepy. So even though Forrest is dumber than dirt and retarded and all he still has a pretty good life. And I think that's the moral of our story. It's not brains; it's heart. Heart is what gets you through life. As long as you're true to yourself, you'll be okay. As a certified genius, I think this is complete horseshit. But the sentiment is not lost on me. Maybe it wouldn't be that bad to be retarded. It doesn't make life meaningless. Plus, it could be worse. You could be Richard Donner (didn't think I'd get it in there, did ya?)
II: RAIN MAN : K-MART IS RETARDED
I would just like to start off by saying that Barry Levinson is a good director. Good Morning, Vietnam kicks ass. Avalon, The Natural, and Sleepers were good flicks. I heard that Diner was good (it has Kevin Bacon in it, how bad can it be?) We'll have to forgive and forget when it comes to Toys. I know that's hard to do with a movie that was capable of making Robin Williams NOT funny and that had LL Cool J in it. But be kind to Mr. Levinson. It could be worse (See my upcoming four volume series JOEL SCHUMACHER SHOULD DIE OF SYPHILLIS AND ROT IN FUCKING HELL, RICHARD DONNER IS A MOTHERFUCKING PUSSY, PAUL VERHOVEN IS A COCKSUCKING DUTCH HACK, and RENNY HARLIN COULDN'T DIRECT HIS WAY OUT OF A FUCKING PAPER BAG.)
On to the retard. Dustin Hoffman's Raymond is probably the best retard to ever grace the silver screen unless you count Quentin Tarantino. And I do. I really don't remember what affliction Hoffman was imitating, but he does it with startling accuracy. I guess. Okay, confession time. I know very few retards. I know I sound like an expert, but I'm not. I'm a fraud. I don't know what ailment Hoffman was portraying, okay? I've never met
anyone with it. I'm sorry. But I do know movies. And I know retard movies. And I know what I like. Raymond repeats everything he says and freaks out whenever he farts. If
I did that I'd be in a constant state of insanity. He only gets his underwear from one place and he thinks that everything costs a hundred dollars. That sounds like retarded. He answers questions a couple of hours after they're asked and always responds "yeah." Definitely retarded. He insists on being home every day in time for People's Court. That's pretty cool. I mean, his fascination for Judge Wapner is a bit misguided, for we all know that Rusty the Baliff is the true star of the show, but at least he has a taste for high quality televison programming. Raymond can also count really fucking fast and later uses this skill to count cards at blackjack. If that's being retarded, sign me up! You may be stupid but you can make a 'lot of dough. Dustin Hoffman is a good actor. It's just to bad he isn't a box office draw anymore. Tootsie. All the President's Men. The Graduate. Midnight Cowboy. Ishtar. Good stuff, all of it. Except for maybe that last one. Rain Man is the best performance of his career. Raymond is the spokesperson for the keepers of chromosome 21. He is just as easily exploited for other's gains just the same as anyone else. That is the true message of the movie. Equality. Retards are people too. And that lesson is worth more than an Oscar, more than Time's 1988 Retard of the Year award. It's worth at least a hundred dollars, yeah.
III. SLING BLADE : COCKSUCKERS AND RETARDS
1) I've been a Billy Bob Thorton fan for a long while. While I liked Karl, he was a vast departure from the ugly beer swilling foul mouthed mean ass gun toting rednecks that he played in Tombstone, One False Move, and Dead Man. When I go and see a Billy Bob Thornton movie, I'm not expecting sensitive mentally handicapped shit. I want vulgarity!
2) Karl kills Doyle. Not that he didn't deserve it. He was a real asshole and he was mean to Frank and his mom and he played lousy music and he didn't like cocksuckers or retards and he didn't like the Bible (well, that's okay) and he drank too much and he didn't like Karl. But did Karl have to kill him? Because, really, Doyle was awesome because he was a real asshole and he was mean to Frank and his mom and he played lousy music and he didn't like cocksuckers or retards and he didn't like the Bible and he drank too much. I think Doyle ruled. (Not to be confused with "O'DOYLE RULES!: A Critical Analyis of the Works of Tamra Davis" by Gnoll.)
3) Sling Blade ended. It's already a long movie, but I didn't want it to end ever. I wanted it to keep going until Karl died
from eating too many French fried potaters. I want a spinoff movie starring J.T. Walsh called THE QUEST FOR THE BIG BUSH and a situation comedy called FUNNY QUEER. Imagine it. John Ritter's return to television. It would be glorious! I also think we should have Doyle's early years and we'll call it REDNECK. It'll have to be on HBO or Showtime because Doyle says fuck and cocksucker a lot. Maybe Richard Donner will direct. He'll probably need the work after Assassins flopped hard core at the box office. These are really empty complaints. Billy Bob was really good in this movie and Doyle really deserved to die and the movie was just about the right length (though imagine the licensing possibilities for a QUEST FOR THE BIG BUSH action figure line). When I think about it, Karl is a much better retard than Tom "I was in Splash goddamn it" Hanks and Dustin "It was Warren Beatty's idea to make that fucking camel movie" Hoffman ever could be. He kills people (See OF MICE AND MEN: ENOUGH WITH THE GODDAMN RABBITS ALREADY!). He's a really nice guy. He puts mustard on everything. And his dad is Robert "I ain't got no boy" Duvall. I reckon that makes Karl the superior of this triumverate of the mentally challenged. Mmm-hmm.
All right then.
And the most important thing about this is… I don't know anyone that shops at K-Mart.
> Mystery Men (1999)
> For the Retarded Podcast, Episode VIII
> It's a Podcast!
> Dork Droppings Podcast Special Edition!
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I've worn lots o' shoes.
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Jesus is a very mentally retarded cocksucker altogether.
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Q: How to put the result from a column in the top of the result? I have this sql:
SELECT x, y FROM table WHERE x = 'a' OR y = 'a'

In the result it will show something like this:
NOTE: the letters bellow represents the value returned from the column x and y.
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I want to get the results from the column x first. Like this:
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Is it possible? The only way i found was to make two sql for both column and then use UNION;

A: You can use conditional logic in the group by:
SELECT x, y
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MySQL treats a boolean value like an integer, with 0 for false and 1 for true.  Hence the DESC so the true values are first.

A: Below answer is considering you are using SQL Server.
SELECT x FROM table WHERE x = 'a'
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in the order by clause, 1 represents first column. Alternatively you can replace it with column name.

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Charles Bonnet syndrome, otherwise known as CBS, is a condition that affects cognitively healthy—most often elderly—people with partial or total vision loss. Those living with CBS often experience very vivid, visual hallucinations that can range from simple to complex and can last anywhere from a few minutes to several hours, days, or even years. Although CBS affects people with vision impairment, it does not affect those born with vision issues—only those who have sudden vision loss or age-related vision issues.
Those living with Charles Bonnet syndrome know their hallucinations aren't real, so the disease has not been linked with cognitive conditions such as psychosis, schizophrenia, or dementia, which can also cause visual hallucinations. However, many cases of CBS go unreported for fear of being misdiagnosed with one of these conditions. Under-reporting makes it extremely difficult to determine the actual prevalence of CBS.
Because CBS is often linked to more serious, chronic disorders like stroke or macular degeneration, it's important to take charge of your condition and seek treatment at the onset of symptoms.
Illustration by Brianna Gilmartin, Verywell
The most notable symptoms of Charles Bonnet syndrome are visual hallucinations. People living with CBS may experience two different categories of hallucinations:
Simple hallucinations: These hallucinations can include shapes, patterns, flashes of light, and lines, among other non-formed objects.
Complex hallucinations: These hallucinations can be fully-formed and include images of people, animals, insects, scenes, repeating patterns, and everyday objects.
People living with CBS also report seeing their hallucinations in both color and black and white. And while the hallucinations are reportedly not disturbing, some may find it unsettling to see a person, animal, or foreign object in their home.
The timing, frequency, and intensity of hallucinations can vary greatly from person-to-person. Many people living with CBS, however, experience hallucinations upon waking and can identify a pattern in the timing and frequency of their hallucinations after some time.
Because CBS is brought on by other conditions that result in vision loss, it's important to look out for symptoms of the underlying condition, too. Strokes, macular degeneration, cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, and other common conditions can lead to the development of Charles Bonnet syndrome, among other serious disorders.
If you or a loved one begins to experience vivid, visual hallucinations following sudden or age-related visual impairment, be sure to note the timing, frequency, and intensity of the hallucinations, as well as any other recent health issues or events. This information can help healthcare providers rule out other disorders, and best treat the underlying health issue that resulted in vision loss.
Understanding the Different Types of Hallucinations
There isn't a single known cause of Charles Bonnet syndrome. As previously mentioned, CBS can be brought on by other health conditions that damage vision, including:
Occipital stroke
Surgical complications resulting in vision impairment
Although Charles Bonnet syndrome has been linked to certain health conditions, researchers still aren't sure why people with vision impairment can experience visual hallucinations—but there are theories. One common theory suggests that when a person's retinal cells can no longer send or receive images, the brain begins to create its own "phantom" images—similar to phantom limb pain reported by people who have lost limbs.
What Are the Causes of Hallucinations?
Because Charles Bonnet syndrome can be linked to more serious, chronic conditions, it's important to see your doctor at the onset of symptoms. Taking charge of your condition early on can help prevent other health concerns down the road.
When you go to your appointment, be sure to bring a list of symptoms, including descriptions of hallucinations as well as their timing and frequency, any medications you're currently taking, and information about any other health events that may have contributed to vision loss or impairment.
There isn't a single tool or test your doctor will use to diagnose you or your loved one with Charles Bonnet syndrome. Rather, they'll most likely conduct a physical exam and an eye exam, and ask for details about the visual hallucinations. Some doctors may request an MRI scan or memory exercise to rule out other cognitive issues.
Currently, there's no cure for Charles Bonnet syndrome. Most treatment options aim to alleviate symptoms when they occur and make the condition more manageable.
If you've been diagnosed with CBS, your doctor may recommend:
Practicing optimal eye care and regular visits to your ophthalmologist: Treating the cause of vision impairment and improving visual ability is one of the best ways to manage Charles Bonnet syndrome. It's been reported that effective treatment of vision loss can reduce the severity and frequency of symptoms.
Avoiding triggers for CBS: Some people living with CBS experience intensified hallucinations when they feel stressed, anxious, or isolated. Taking the proper steps to avoid these triggers can help prevent episodes.
Exercising your eyes—and other senses: Rapid eye movements and slow blinking can help alleviate the symptoms of CBS. Some doctors also recommend stimulating your other senses (with music, audiobooks, podcasts, or hands-on activities) during a hallucination.
Certain prescription drugs: Antidepressants and anticonvulsants are sometimes used to treat CBS, but are generally reserved for very severe cases that have not responded to more conventional treatment options.
Because several conditions can lead to the development of Charles Bonnet syndrome, treatment options for associated symptoms will vary greatly. Your doctor will determine a treatment plan based on the original cause of vision impairment (like a stroke), as well as medical history and lifestyle.
Always talk to your doctor or ophthalmologist before undergoing any kind of treatment for Charles Bonnet syndrome or its associated health conditions.
Like any condition affecting the vision and brain, Charles Bonnet syndrome can be a scary diagnosis. But it's important to remember that this condition is largely benign and occurs in physically and cognitively healthy individuals. It is, however, vital to treat the root cause of your vision impairment so you can avoid other health concerns down the road. Take good care of your eyes and visit your ophthalmologist regularly for the most successful management of CBS.
Charles Bonnet syndrome. National Institutes of Health.
Baba Awoye Issa and Abdullahi Dasliva Yussuf. Charles bonnet syndrome, management with simple behavioral technique. J Neurosci Rural Pract. 2013 Jan-Mar; 4(1): 63–65. DOI: 10.4103/0976-3147.105618.
Menon GJ, Rahman I, Menon SJ, Dutton GN. Complex visual hallucinations in the visually impaired: the Charles Bonnet Syndrome. Surv Ophthalmol 2003;48:58-72. DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6257(02)00414-9.
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This is such a mind-bogglingly useful thing to want that I'm astonished that I can't find such a tool. Does such a thing exist? My question is about the existence of a keyword density tool, not about which one is "best" nor about keyword stuffing, which I know is bad.
I'm trying to help a friend who runs a lawn service. It turns out the site's main page talks about "landscape maintenance" and not "lawn service." It needs to be rewritten using vocabulary searchers are likely to use. A tool such as was identified in the accepted answer will help me find those things over the site's dozen or so pages.
You are talking about a keyword density tool. The best free one is: http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword-density/ which allows one page at a time. I prefer ranks.nl which costs a monthly fee. It is far superior to all the rest and definitely worth the fee if you are in the business.
As a side note. Keyword density in regard to SEO is a myth. It is still a valuable discovery tool to really know what any page is about.
I know that there is a focus on keywords, which are important, and where and how to manipulate search using keywords. The reality is, those days are gone and never really existed the way SEO professionals liked you to believe. Today, there is a simple formula to follow and knowing how to focus your writing toward your audience. This is where keywords are important. Are you really targeting a specified audience? I use keyword density tools to know what any page I have written is really about so I know how to adjust (slightly) the page and how to present it. Not how to keyword load or manipulate my way into the SERPs.
Keyword Densities - do they still matter?
Do accented words affect page rank?
Is it ok to optimise my site for "freevideos" instead of "free videos"?
Did what I can to keep my website SEO friendly, yet newer websites are ranked better?


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Q: Query optimization needed, the original is taking to long when using 'IN' and 'OR/AND' in the query, I believe union will take even longer I am trying to get the best performance out of this query, the Table has 27 million records, but the result will contain only 160 records when I use the below where clause. This is a view. Original table is partitioned by emp_dept. Parallel reading is not application for my use case because this view's data will be refreshed everyday to get the data for past 24 months.
SELECT
a.fname,
a.lname,
a.mname,
a.emp_id,
a.emp_dob,
a.emp_dept
FROM emp.emp_profile a
WHERE a.emp_join_dt BETWEEN '2018-01-01 00:00:00' AND '2019-07-01 00:00:00'
AND a.emp_salary BETWEEN 0 AND 1000000
AND ((a.emp_id = '0000000024Z67089' AND a.emp_dept= 'INV' AND a.emp_div = '293')
    OR (a.emp_id = '000000008UK23197' AND a.emp_dept = 'INV' AND a.emp_div = '293')
    OR (a.emp_id = '000000006JF10942' AND a.emp_dept = 'INV' AND a.emp_div = '293')
    OR (a.emp_id = '5B103B51' AND a.emp_dept = 'IPS' AND a.emp_div = '640')
    OR (a.emp_id = '0000000016H79794' AND a.emp_dept = 'INV' AND a.emp_div = '293'));

I have tried using 'IN':
SELECT
a.fname,a.lname,a.mname,a.emp_id,a.emp_dob,a.emp_dept
FROM emp.emp_profile a
WHERE (a.emp_join_dt BETWEEN '2018-01-01 00:00:00' AND '2019-07-01 00:00:00')
AND (a.emp_salary BETWEEN 0 AND 1000000) AND a.emp_id in    ('0000000024Z67089', '000000008UK23197', '000000006JF10942', '0000000016H79794', '5B103B51')
AND a.emp_dept in ('INV','IPS')
AND a.emp_div in ('293', '640');

*This gives me the same count and better query time, but it is still over 1.5 minute.*

Union All will take even more time, I think, one which I have tired didn't gave me correct result.
Trying to get the querytime under 1 min, if possible.


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UBC Undergraduate Research /
Uncovering the working experience at the North Pacific...
UBC Undergraduate Research
Uncovering the working experience at the North Pacific Cannery : the canning line Westerhof, Alana
Despite the success of the North Pacific Cannery compared to other canneries in the area, the people that worked in the canning line at NPC were faced with racial and gender inequality. By looking into previous work done on this subject, and looking at the resources at the UBC archives, I was able to find proof of this inequality through differences in pay amounts, different hiring techniques, and other sources proving inequality in the canning line. I analyzed multiple secondary sources, and particularly looked at the Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company Fonds at the UBC archives. What I learnt was that there was discrimination on the Chinese workers at the NPC, and I also noticed that the women that did work at the cannery were mainly Chinese, and only worked inside the cannery. I was able to get an understanding of what the living and working conditions were like for the workers, mainly through secondary sources I read. Through this paper, the inequality of the workers at the NPC canning line are brought forward, in hopes of understanding what it was like to work at the canning line for the different races and genders involved.
Uncovering the working experience at the North Pacific Cannery : the canning line
Westerhof, Alana
University of British Columbia. GEOG 429
Arts, Faculty of; Geography, Department of
UBCV
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Home Chemistry The Scientists Separate Robert Burns' Original Manuscripts from Fakes Using Revolutionary Technique
The Scientists Separate Robert Burns' Original Manuscripts from Fakes Using Revolutionary Technique
Original manuscripts of Robert Burns' poems sold for £90,000 (£120,000), attracting a deceptively attractive prospect. Analytical chemistry has long provided a way to detect infallible nets but has now made it possible to detect high-resolution mass spectrometry forgeries that were previously very difficult to detect.
The same strategy can confirm or refute the veracity of many other historical documents and works of art. Barnes made a remarkable work in his 3 years, but within a century of his death in 1996, it really carried Barnes's poetry and was overwhelmed by two manuscripts written by others. Many of these were produced in the 1880s by Alexander Howland Smith, whose imitations of Burns' handwriting fooled most of his contemporaries. Smith went to jail for selling counterfeit, but by then many had started circulating and still came up for auction as the real thing.
Some fake isotopes have been identified to determine the age of content created using dating. However, modern forgers often stay on it. Even Smith, who must not know about radiocarbon dating, often used blank pages from old books to confuse his contemporaries (other times he simply dipped his products into a tea to give it an older look).
James Newton of the University of Glasgow applied infusion nanospray mass spectrometry to both paper and ink from confirmed burn roots and compared them to work from Smith. The amount of material required for these is so small and they do not cause any significant damage to the manuscript – unlike thin layer chromatography and liquid chromatography, the conventional techniques used to verify the authenticity of the ink are techniques.
Newton describes how he identified at least some of the chemicals present in Burns' manuscript and was missing from Smith's forgery, In Scientific Reports. The importance of this work extends beyond the willingness of the eminent poet to give a small fortune for handwriting.
The paper points out, "Documents Historical documents can be significant in many cases." "For example, they can give insights into the opinions of top people who have a profound influence on society. In some cases they may be of legal importance, owning land or valuable property."
Burns work is valued both for his influence in romantic poetry and for his position among Scots at home and abroad. Burns night held on his birthday has become the second Scottish national day. An attempt to estimate the value of Barnes' legacy in the Scottish economy brought the figure to £157 million (£207 million) a year a decade ago, and a small portion of it was influenced by fraud, but he was the only figure whose works were inspired by such imitations.
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Citi announces 250 jobs in Dublin and Waterford
US financial services corporation Citi is to create 250 jobs in Dublin and Waterford, which the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation Batt O'Keeffe called a strong endorsement for Ireland.
The positions are set to begin next year and will cover operations, technology, funds and product development.
The new jobs are supported by the Government through IDA Ireland and O'Keeffe said the announcement is a "strong endorsement of Ireland's financial services sector" and added that the employment boost demonstrates Ireland's competitive edge.
Irish presence
"More than half the world's leading financial services firms now have operations in Ireland.
"Citi's announcement today demonstrates that we can out-perform rival locations for major global investments in the financial services sector because we have the talent, track record and tax regime that makes global players want to hub here," said O'Keeffe.
The firm has already hired 300 workers in the past 12 months, including a number of graduates on the FÁS work placement programme.
Location of choice
Citi's global head of global transaction services, Francesco Vanni d'Archirafi, described Citi Ireland as a "centre of excellence for our global transaction services business" and the location of choice for "the pursuit of innovation in financial services".
"There is a wealth of talent, experience and expertise based here and, with the support of IDA Ireland, we will continue to grow our business and provide the banking products and services of the future from here," he said.
Citi has been operating in Ireland for 45 years and employs more that 2,200 workers and recently announced the creation of 500 positions in its Belfast operations over the next five years.
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There are many heads pointing to Google and another with an eye to the rest of the world, excited by the announcement of the next Nexus devices. The range is more open than ever now that Alphabet has dared to be assembler with Pixel C, at the same time that LG has removed from the race for being the preferred partner.
The last focus lights to Huawei. The largest seller of smartphones in China, which never stops growing and expected reach 120 million units this year, It has registered the name Huawei P7, reminiscent and much to the of your outstanding and expensive Nexus P6.
Since the beginning of this month, that name has been reserved for the Chinese gignate. The only thing that is known to science certain is that Huawei P7 concept is owned and refers to technology related to mobile phones, smartphones, smartwatches and all that commercial family. This is the document of record, achieved by Phandroid.
Despite the sequential similarity, the word Nexus does not appear anywhere. Starting could become in a disabled registration, leaving aside the Google brand leave the door open to Huawei would like to continue with this range without the collaboration of partner. If so, it would dare with a first level and pure N Android smartphone or introduce your UI Emotion in it?
If the deadlines are as usual, we have the summer ahead to find out what brought hands between these two companies and what will be the future of the Nexus or if this Huawei 7 p is in it.


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This page is about the Passive skill Desperation. For the Tactics Drills map, see Desperation (map).
B Desperation 1 50 SP — If unit's HP ≤ 25% and unit initiates combat, unit can make a follow-up attack before foe can counterattack.
Desperation 2 100 SP Desperation 1 If unit's HP ≤ 50% and unit initiates combat, unit can make a follow-up attack before foe can counterattack.
Desperation 3 200 SP Desperation 2 If unit's HP ≤ 75% and unit initiates combat, unit can make a follow-up attack before foe can counterattack.
Desperation does not guarantee the user a follow-up attack.
If the user can perform a follow-up attack, either by a speed check or a passive such as Brash Assault 3, the initial attack and follow-up will occur before the foe can perform a counter-attack.
Desperation changes the attack priority, or order of attacks, and therefore can be disabled by Hardy Bearing 3.


The American Red Cross is known for many different things – disaster relief, fundraising, and of course – blood drives. The blood collected at these drives supplies 45% of transfused blood nationwide. Being one of the only agencies in the country that hosts blood drives, it's a big deal when you get to host or participate in a drive locally. On February 22nd, at the drive we hosted at the Snohomish County chapter I had an experience that impacted my service and my life.
In high school, I was never able to donate blood because I wasn't healthy enough. That same trend continued through my college years as well. I had always wanted to donate but time after time I wasn't allowed. Lately, I have been making some changes in my life and I got interested in learning more about my blood type. I had no idea what it was and I figured that it was something I should know. The day of our drive I asked one of the nurses running it if she could blood type me, and she told me that she only could if I donated blood. I explained to her that I'd never been able to donate, but she convinced me to give the screening a try. To my surprise, I passed! I was in shock that I was finally able to participate in something I'd never been able to do. It was a rush of fear and excitement as they got me hooked up and drew my blood. A few days later I accessed my blood type and was told that I had type A-. A- is a rare type; only about 6.3% or one in 16 people have it! After getting my results, I did some research and I got to learn some valuable information about my health.
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Q: Javascript make object string keys enumerable I have a class set up with string keys, like this:
class MyClass {
    constructor() {
        this.id = 0
        this.data = []
    }

    "GET /data"(req, res) {
        res.json(this.data)
    }
}

The goal is to dynamically loop over the functions in an instance like this:
for (let key in new MyClass()) {
    console.log(key)
}

However, everything I have tried has only resulted in the keys id and data.
I can manually get the function and run it just fine:
let item = new MyClass()
item["GET /data"]()

But it does not show up in any dynamic enumeration I have tried.
Manually setting the enumeration also works:
class MyClass {
    constructor() {
        this.id = 0
        this.data = []

        // Here!!!
        Object.defineProperty(this, "GET /data", {
            value: this["GET /data"],
            writable: false,
            enumerable: true,
            configurable: true
        })
    }

    "GET /data"(req, res) {
        res.json(this.data)
    }
}

console.log(Object.keys(new MyClass())) // ["id", "data", "GET /data"]

But that defeats the purpose of doing it dynamically. Is there any way to either dynamically get the names of functions with string keys, or make every property enumerable?

A: There are two ways to do this
Object.keys(myObj)

or
for (let key in myObj) {
}

A: Object.getOwnPropertyNames(MyClass.prototype)

gives you
["constructor", "GET /data"]


Looking down on the shed from the balcony in the photo above. I have now cast some 19.5 inch x 30 inch coping stones to match some 18th century originals to finish off the garden wall.... The roof is now ready for battening and slating... (Update April 2013 - 50% slated, but run out of slates).
I was for a long time an active member of White Horse Morris Men, and also danced with Gloucestershire, the now defunct Herga and was a founder member of Gloucester Old Spot with Ken Langsbury and a few others in the late 1960's. (From 1967 to 1973 I was alternating between Gloucestershire and London every six months, as I did my engineering apprenticeship and sandwich degree course).


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Sethe's remains at the Broken Spire.
Sethe (pronounced "Seethe") is a deceased primal god worshiped by, and the namesake of, the Sethekk on Draenor. He is ancient enemies with Anzu and Rukhmar, the other major deities of the arakkoa. Sethe was cold-blooded and scornful. When he flew, the winds bit his flesh. He would sun himself on the mountainsides, but he could never taste warmth. His scales were frosted glass, and his children were the wind serpents. He is the source and namesake of the Curse of Sethe, an affliction that causes any arakkoa who touches the blighted waters of Sethekk Hollow to become broken and flightless.
Sethe's wings were short and leathery, and he could not fly as high as Rukhmar. He had an affinity to the shadow energies--the Void--that existed in the universe. For ages, the three largely kept to themselves, fighting off attacks from Primals and Breakers. Only Anzu dreamed of a better world for him and his feathered kin. He called on Rukhmar and Sethe to work together to transform Arak into a sanctuary for winged creatures of all kinds. As one, Anzu and his allies drove the children of stone and root from Arak. With the Primals and Breakers gone, Arak became a haven for winged species. Anzu, Rukhmar, and Sethe settled in as caretakers of the land and its varied species. Sethe ruled the smaller wind serpents and lived with them among the shadowy nooks and crannies at the spire's base. He did not treat his followers with the same respect that Anzu showed the ravens. Sethe was a cruel and demanding master of the wind serpents.
Over the years, Sethe became envious of Rukhmar. He coveted the favor of the wind and the warmth of the sun that Anzu and Rukhmar had. Sethe believed Anzu was also jealous of Rukhmar who looked down on them from the spire, and tried to convince Anzu to help him slay her, but Anzu was cunning and cared little for the wind serpents. In addition, Anzu had a secret affection for Rukhmar but never mustered the courage to confess his feelings. In the dark of the night, Anzu sent one of his dread ravens to warn Rukhmar of Sethe's plot. Anzu watched from the top of a mountain spire as Rukhmar and Sethe clashed. Thanks to Anzu's warning, Rukhmar avoided Sethe. She flew high, put the sun at her back, and dove at Sethe. With a flap of her wings, she split the sky upon Sethe like the crack of a whip. Sethe crashed into the spire where they fought with such force that it crumbled and fell around him, creating the Broken Spire.
Anzu felt Sethe's hatred coursing through him. His body contorted, his wings shriveled, and he became cursed without flight. His mind was wracked with painful visions. Anzu had contained Sethe's curse by taking it upon himself, and he would grapple with the curse for some time. In revenge, Anzu had his dread ravens slaughter Sethe's wind serpents; in one bloody night, Sethe's children were eradicated. Though Sethe's curse weakened Anzu, it also gave him new power: the power of the Void that Sethe had once commanded. As Anzu grew more familiar with his abilities, he shrouded himself in a realm of shadow to hide from Rukhmar forever, horrified at what he had become and how she would react.
Contact with the pools of Sethe's blood at the Sethekk Hollow curses an arakkoa into a broken, wingless state mirroring Anzu's own. Sethe's curse is also passed on through lineage, and arakkoa born of cursed parents are cursed themselves. So strong was Sethe's hate that it animates his blood even in the current day, eons after he was slain by his fellow gods.
The Sethekk eventually abandoned their worship of Sethe in favor of an unnamed Old God. When Draenor became Outland, the destruction of the Spires of Arak would have taken Sethe's remains with it.
In the time of the War against the Iron Horde on the alternate Draenor, Sethe's Sethekk followers are attempting to revive him. Anzu, still hungering for vengeance against Sethe, defeats him once again.
As a wind serpent god with blood themes, Sethe is similar to Hakkar the Soulflayer.
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Want to feel more connected and be part of a community? Could creativity and fun play a bigger part in your life? Are you curious about theatre?
From March 2019, on the first and third Monday of each month*, the Royal Exchange will host a day-long programme of events for older people including practical drama workshops, writing and play-reading activities as well as free activities.
Elders aren't just older – they're wiser. In a good society, older people are respected for their experience, for their knowledge and for everything they can teach us. The Elders is for older people who want to feel connected, learn more about theatre-making, be creative and have fun.
* Due to the Bank Holiday, there are no Elders sessions on 6 May.
Come and take part in FREE creative activity in the hall, meet friends, or book onto one of the scheduled workshops happening throughout the day (£6). No experience is necessary, just a curious mind and a willingness to try.
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"Coming here you've got a sense of purpose, it's about belonging to something."
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The future of bioinformatics is rapidly growing in India. Bioinformatics deals with the science which assembles and understands the complex biological data as genetic codes. The bioinformatics covers many specialized and advanced areas of biology such as functional genomics, structural genomics, DNA, medical informatics etc. The role of bioinformatics has revolutionized the needs of biological science and thus biotechnology has got beneficiary effects by bioinformatics. Sequencing of genome has thus happened with the help of bioinformatics which would have not been possible without that.
Leading industries and clinical research laboratories are looking for bioinformaticians, programmer analyst, and data scientist etc. with given qualifications, and computational skills. All aspiring candidates are hereby look out the below given list of bioinformatics interview questions and answers to get their opinions on various features of bioinformatics. The information which we have given you will be very useful while facing the interview and also for those candidates who want to pursue career in bioinformatics.
Question 1. What Is The Science Of Bioinformatics?
Question 2. Does Multidrug Resistance (mdr) Arise By Activation Of Stable Genes Encoding Drug Efflux Pumps Or By Mutations Of Genes Encoding Other Types Of Transporters In Bacterial Pathogens?
MDR efflux pumps began causing clinical problems relatively recently, in parallel with the extensive use of antibiotics in medicine and as supplements in animal feeds. However, our analyses indicate that these MDR efflux pumps did not arise through recent mutations in genes encoding transporters that changed their substrate specificities.
Instead, such MDR pumps are encoded within the genomes of virtually all microorganisms, so these genes are present and thus need only to be activated to become problematic. Moreover, lateral transfer of genes among bacteria has occurred frequently, particularly for plasmid-encoded systems, suggesting that such genes can be acquired fairly readily even if they are not initially present. Finally, although mutations that enable transporters to act on different types of substrate are rare, experiments and phylogenetic analyses indicate that simple point mutations can readily narrow or broaden a particular transporter's specificity toward a single class of compounds. These findings provide clues for developing strategies to control MDR among bacterial pathogens.
Question 3. What Kinds Of Metrics Would You Gauge To Determine The Financial, Strategic And Operational Health Of A Prospective Alliance Partner?
Several metrics are available in each sector you mention. To gauge the financial health of a prospective partner, I would look at product sales growth or I might look at whether they have met their milestones. To gauge strategic health, I would consider their market share growth or how well their customers have access to the company.
For operational health, I would again look to see whether they have met their milestones, how well they make decisions as gauged by the rating we give them and how quickly they resolve conflicts. Good evaluations in these areas suggest that the prospective alliance will be viable for both parties.
Question 4. Have The Proteins Of A Family Generally Acquired Distinctive Properties Within Each Of These Three Kingdoms For Ancient Families That Arose Before Bacteria, Archaea And Eukaryotes Diverged?
Proteins from 20 large ubiquitous families represented in all three domains to see if proteins from each domain exhibit distinctive characteristics. The archaeal integral membrane proteins are consistently smaller than their bacterial homologues, while the eukaryotic homologues are much larger. Moreover, among transporters in the three major eukaryotic kingdoms of plants, animals and fungi, the animal and fungal homologues are of comparable size, whereas the plant homologues are substantially smaller.
Although these surprising observations presumably reflect evolutionary pressures during protein sequence divergence, we do not know what those pressures were.
Question 5. What Is Protein Sequencing?
Question 6. Tell Me About The Mass Number Of Nuclear?
The mass number of a nucleus is sometimes more than and sometimes equal to its atomic number.
Question 7. How Will You Value A Biotech Company As Opposed To A Consumer Products Company?
Most companies are valued based on their growth prospects. That is what determines their stock price and overall dollar value, when they are sold.
Biotech companies, as are other pharmaceutical companies, are valued based on the perceived quality of the products in their pipelines.
That is what determines if they are going to have sustainable revenues and earnings. It is also why so many Analysts on The Street pay such close attention to FDA pronouncements.
Question 8. What Are The Limitations Of Blotting Techniques?
The major limitation of blotting procedures is the length of time needed and the fact that they can accommodate only one probe at a time. DNA microchip technology permits the analysis of thousands of genes at the same time. DNA molecules are attached to the wafers in an organized array and are called the probes.
DNA molecules taken from tissues are hybridized to the chips and are called targets, which are labeled with fluorescent light. The probes that have hybridized to the fluorescent targets are then identified by fluorescence microscopy.
Question 9. What Technique Is Used To Measure The Number Of Copies Of A Gene Or An Rna Molecule In Human Tissues?
Question 10. What Is Computational Biology?
Computational biology is an interdisciplinary field that applies the techniques of computer science and applied mathematics to problems inspired by biology.
Question 11. Are All Members Of Transporter Families Confined To A Particular Organelle Or To The Plasma Membrane, Or Are Some Family Members Found Throughout Cellular Compartments In Eukaryotes?
Mitochondrial carriers are restricted to certain eukaryotic organelles. Not a single one appears to be a constituent of the plasma membrane, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, or nuclear membrane. Instead, they are found in a subset of organelles, including mitochondria, peroxisomes, amyloplasts, and hydrogenosomes.
Are other families similarly restricted Some of them, such as members of the cystine transporter family, are probably restricted to the intracellular vesicular membranes of eukaryotes, whereas other families can be found in the plasma membrane as well as in various organelles.
Question 12. Did Shuffling Of Protein Constituents Occur Between Systems For Multicomponent Transport Systems Such As The Atp-binding-cassette Or Complex Protein Secretion Systems?
After analyzing numerous multicomponent transport systems phylogenetically, we found little evidence for shuffling of protein constituents during their late evolutionary divergence. We included several protein secretion systems, such as types I, II, III, and IV as well as ABC-type solute uptake systems. The protein secretion systems consist of many proteins that were often transferred laterally among gram-negative bacteria.
Although several such multicomponent systems may be found within a single bacterial cell, the systems apparently did not exchange protein constituents, even though they can be exchanged experimentally by genetic manipulation. One important caveat: phylogenetic analyses may overlook constituent shuffling between closely related systems.
These observations suggest to us that complex multi component transport systems depend on extensive protein-protein interactions, which probably arose through coevolution of the protein constituents.
Once any two systems have diverged appreciably in sequence, the constituents in one system no longer can interact properly with those in another, effectively preventing shuffling between the two.
Question 13. Did Bacteria, Archaea, And Eukaryotes Exchange Transporter Genes Appreciably During The Past Two Billion Years?
After analyzing dozens of large transport protein families, we find several examples of horizontal transfer between distinct kingdoms within these domains, such as between gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
However, we find little evidence of horizontal transfer of transporter genes among the three domains occurring any time during the past two billion years. Thus, although hundreds of members of the MC family are found in eukaryotes, not a single such member is found in a prokaryote.
Moreover, of the hundreds of sequenced homologues of the phosphoenolpyruvate, sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS), every one is in a bacterium, without a single example in an archaeon or a eukaryote.
Question 14. Can Independent Origins Be Established For Two Families Of Transport Systems Having No Sequence Or Motif Similarities Without Three-dimensional Structural Data?
Many integral membrane transport proteins contain 6 or 12 TMSs. For example, both mitochondrial carrier (MC) family members and the aquaporins and glycerol facilitators within the major intrinsic protein (MIP) family contain six TMSs per polypeptide chain. Sequence analyses reveal that MIP family members arose by duplication of a three-TMS-encoding genetic element, while members of the MC family arose by triplication of a two-TMS-encoding element.
The MIP family arose before the three domains of life (bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes) diverged from each other, whereas the MC family arose late within eukaryotes, after endosymbiotic proteobacteria became permanent denizens of eukaryotic cells.
The advent of mitochondria evidently required a new mode of communication between the mitochondrial matrix and the cytoplasmic compartment of such cells. Thus, mitochondrial carriers depend on a distinctive solute. Solute exchange mechanism rather than on the cation symport mechanisms that bacteria use for ingesting nutrients.
Question 15. Did Integral Membrane Transport Proteins Arise As An Independent Protein Class Or From Other Types Of Proteins?
Among the more than 400 families of transport systems in our TC system, very few include integral membrane homologues that function in a capacity other than transport. Moreover, almost all these exceptions are receptors. In some cases, transporters gained receptor functions while retaining their transport functions but in other cases they gained this function while losing the capacity to transport.
A loss of transport capacity typically is accompanied by the gain or loss of specific protein domains, in a few cases, another protein with high affinity for the transport protein homologue accounts for the loss of function. Dissociation of such protein-protein complexes or losing the extra domains may restore the lost transport functions.
Question 16. What Are The Bioinformatic Tools Applied To Micromolecular Evolution?
When sequence data for microbial genomes first became available, we adapted available software and also designed new programs for analyzing these data. This approach allowed us quickly to identify probable trans membrane proteins, estimate their topologies, and determine the likelihood that they function in transport, a topic of particular interest to our research group. This work allowed us to expand previously recognized families of such proteins and to identify dozens of new families.
Question 17. How Do You Customize Database For Blast?
Step 1. Assemble your sequences.
Put all your sequences in Fasta format in a single file.
This file should be located in a suitably named subdirectory of your home directory on the UBiC Blast server. The definition line for each sequence should start with a unique identifier for that sequence.
Step 2. Convert this sequence file to a Blastable database.
The command formatdb converts your Fasta file of sequences to a set of files that can be queried with command-line BLAST.
Step 3. Test Blast on your database.
Question 18. How Much Template Do You Need For Sequencing?
For PCR product size of product(bp)/50 = ng DNA. For plasmid up to 10.0 kb 250-300 ng. For genomic DNA 2.0 microgram.
Question 19. What Is A Clean And Run Reaction?
This means that purchase a BigDye terminator kit from our facility and run the cycle sequencing reaction and post clean-up. We recommend using Princeton Separations Centri-Sep spin columns or Abgene Dye Terminator Removal Plates.
Drop off your sample in the form of a dried pellet in 1.5 ml eppendorf tube along with your request form. Your dnalims request order will have Seq_Drop_Off selected under Service Requested, and have no selected under Spin-Column Clean-up.
Question 20. How Did You Get Into The Field Of Bioinformatics?
My background is in computer sciences, including design of algorithms and theoretical computer science. I got interested in this because of some work in an area called DNA computing. That idea is to build computers out of DNA. The person who started that line of work - is a computer scientist who spent a quite a bit of time in a biology lab. His work really caught the attention of many people in the computer science community.
But then, as I got more interested in some of the algorithmic problems that come up, I realized they are also relevant in the more traditional biological areas. You have to talk to chemists and biochemists if you want to understand DNA and RNA - you can't get the right level of understanding just from reading papers. I got more interested in their perspectives and problems.
Question 21. Tell Us About Three Kinds Of Dna?
Genomic DNA comes from the genome and includes both genes and extragenic material.
cDNA is reverse transcribed from mRNA and corresponds only to the expressed parts of the genome.
Recombinant DNA is man-made and is composed of artificial DNA.
Question 22. In The Next Two Or Three Years What Will The Important Advances In The Field Be?
The sequencing of the human genome has just been completed and in the next two or three years I expect progress will be made in identifying the genes. Right now, we don't even know how many genes we have! Also, in the next two or three years, we'll be learning more about the structure and function of proteins in the cell. Hopefully, in the longer term we'll be able to piece together that information to get a more complete picture of regulatory networks in the cell.
Question 23. How Can You Have An Accession Number?
Accession number (bioinformatics), a unique identifier given to a biological polymer sequence (DNA, protein) when it is submitted to a sequence database.
Question 24. What Do You Think Are The More Interesting Areas Of Bioinformatics?
Looking at what the academic world is publishing, microarray research is really hot right now, and people haven't quite figured out what the best way is (some might argue if we should even be trying) to store, process, and understand this data, but there are lots of interesting ideas.
Question 25. What Is A Homologue?
One chromosome of a pair is called homologue.In Homologous pair two identical chromosomes are present. Each one chromosome in a Homologous pair is called Homologue.
Question 26. Why Do You Think That Bioinformatics Is Important?
Today, we can use computers to access much more biological data than ever before. You can learn a lot by analysing this data. For example, you can identify genes by comparing genomic data across organisms and identifying patterns in the data. Insights as to the structure of proteins can be obtained through computer analyses of the protein sequences.
These approaches are a lot faster and a lot cheaper than relying solely on wet lab or X-ray crystallographic techniques. Of course, computational techniques are often not as reliable as getting the first-hand view of the molecules.
Clearly, you need both worlds: you need to take advantage of the computer tools when you know the predictions are reliable and use the more expensive techniques (in the wet lab) when you can't get away from it.
Question 27. What Is Bioinformatics?
The mathematical, statistical and computing methods that aim to solve biological problems using DNA and amino acid sequences and related information is known as Bioinformatics.


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June Report – KRG increases its direct oil sale
Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq (cabinet.gov.krd/mnr.gov.krd) – Kurdistan Regional Government, KRG, has increased its direct oil sale in June due to the "significant debt backlog arising from the budget cuts of 2014 imposed by the federal government, and the need to pay down debts accumulated in 2014 from pre-payments for oil sales", KRG Ministry of Natural Resources said in its June Export Report.
Due to these difficulties, the KRG Ministry of Natural Resources has been obliged to increase its independent oil sale, the report said.
According to the report, KRG tanks in Ceyhan port in Turkey received 17,130,639 barrels of crude oil (an average of 571,021 barrels per day, bpd) in June, through the Kurdistan pipeline network to the port of Ceyhan in Turkey.
Fields operated by the KRG contributed 12,740,711 barrels (an average of 424,690 bpd), while fields operated by the North Oil Company, NOC, contributed 4,389,928 barrels (an average of 146,331 bpd).
In June, KRG supplied 4,493,334 barrels (an average of 149,778 bpd) to Iraq's State Oil Marketing Company, SOMO, in Ceyhan.
According to the KRG Ministry of Natural Resources Report, the KRG has indepemdently sold 11,893,231 barrels in June.
Following the budget cut imposed by Bagdad early 2014, KRG largely relied on international and local loans in securing the Region's civil servants salaries and public services spendings.
Kurdistan Region financial difficulties continued in 2015, as the Iraqi Federal Government has, to date, failed to abide by its agreement with KRG reached last December on oil export and budgetary issues.
According to the December agreement, KRG is committed to export 550,000 bpd in return for a budget entitlement close to one billion US dollars per month to be paid by the federal government. The agreement was approved within the framework of the Iraqi Federal Budget Law for 2015.
KRG Ministry of Natural Resources June Report emphasises that, "In 2015, the difficult economic situation facing the Region has been exacerbated by the partial payments made to the KRG by the Federal Government."
Although, KRG independent oil sales has increased, the report stresses that KRG remains committed to the 2015 Federal Budget Law in its entirety.
"[The KRG] will continue to work with its counterparts in Baghdad to reach a resolution on all the outstanding issues of oil and gas as described in the joint statement of June 17, 2015 by the KRG's Regional Council for Oil and Gas Affairs and the five political parties in the Kurdistan Regional Government", the report said.
In a statement issued following a joint meeting on June 17, between KRG Regional Council for Oil and Gas and the five political parties in Kurdistan Regional Government, it was stressed that, "If the Federal Government does not abide by the Federal Budget Law, the KRG will be obliged to pursue other legal solutions to settle Kurdistan Region's financial difficulties and provide the Region's people with security and other basic necessities in light of Law No 5 of 2013 of the Kurdistan Parliament."
Full June Export Report
KRG Council of Ministers to set up foreign loans committee Italy continues its support to Kurdistan Region


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