The Frick Art Reference Library was founded in 1920 by Helen Clay Frick (1888-1984) as a memorial to her father, the industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919). Responding to the interest shown by Henry Clay Frick in learning more about the artists whose works he had purchased, Helen Clay Frick conducted research on her father's behalf. The data and documents that she shared with him would provide the nucleus for the Frick Art Reference Library. After her father's death, Miss Frick founded the Library to further his goals for The Frick Collection: "to encourage and develop the study of the fine arts, and to advance the general knowledge of kindred subjects." Until her death, Miss Frick was steadfast in her devotion to the Frick Art Reference Library and continued to attend to every detail of its development and management.
From 1920 to 1924 the Library was housed in the bowling alley in the basement of the family residence (now The Frick Collection). For the next decade, it occupied a single-story Indiana limestone structure designed by Thomas Hastings at 6 East 71st Street, the site that had been intended for Frick's sculpture gallery. The Library opened its doors to the public at its present location, formerly 10 and 12 East 71st Street, adjoining the Collection, in 1935. The new structure, which is equivalent to a six-story building, was designed by John Russell Pope, who transformed the residence during the same period as part of an overall project to create two important public institutions dedicated to the study and appreciation of art. It incorporated the latest technologies. The floors were supported by the shelving pillars. There was air-conditioning in the book stacks. A dumbwaiter lift moved books between floors, and there was a Telautograph, an electrical writing system used to communicate written requests for materials. Unusually and farsightedly, there was room for seventy years growth in the collection. The firm of Buttrick, White and Burtis renovated the third floor Reading Room and the sixth floor office spaces in 1996.
Helen Clay Frick was inspired by Sir Robert Witt's Library of reproductions, now part of the Courtauld Institute in London. Adapting Witt's systematic classification and detailed documentation of photographs, Miss Frick also collected bibliographic material to establish a research center for the public where image and text could be used together to gain a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of Western art. To achieve this goal, Miss Frick obtained the advice of countless scholars and experts.
As early as 1922, Miss Frick commissioned photo-expeditions to record significant and seldom reproduced works of art in Europe and America. With characteristic determination and resourcefulness, she gained access to otherwise inaccessible private collections with the help of art experts and photographers such as Lawrence Park, Mario Sansoni, W. W. S. Cook, and Mme Clotilde Briere. Over the next four decades, the Library amassed a collection of more than 56,000 negatives that are today among its most valued resources. In many cases, these negatives record works that have subsequently been damaged, altered, lost, or destroyed. They are part of the Photoarchive collection and many of the images can be accessed online.
During World War II, the Committee on the Protection of Cultural Treasures in War Areas of the American Council of Learned Societies was based at the Library. The Committee used the Library's visual records and location indexes to help pinpoint sites of important works of art that should be spared the devastations of war. For six months, the Library closed its doors to the public in order to serve the war effort. After the war, these records were used to aid in the repatriation of art and continue to be used for this purpose.
Although the Library was founded as a separate institution, financially supported almost entirely by Miss Frick until 1984, it is now an integral part of The Frick Collection and serves as a singular resource for the study and appreciation of art and its history.
Today the scope of the Library's resources has grown to include institutional archives and the Frick Family Papers, on deposit from the Helen Clay Frick Foundation.
Since 2006, the Library has been a partner in the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC), along with the libraries of the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The three libraries share a catalog, Arcade.
Barker, Nicolas. "The Frick Art Reference Library," The Book Collector Summer 1992.
Knox, Katharine McCook The Story of the Frick Art Reference Library: The Early Years. New York: Frick Art Reference Library, 1979.


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CHINA - RUSSIA: ON THE CROSSROADS OF CULTURES (in Russian and Chinese)
Ivan Aivazovsky. To the 200th anniversary of the artist's birth
AIVAZOVSKY. EXHIBITION AT THE TRETYAKOV GALLERY
GREAT BRITAIN–RUSSIA: ON THE CROSSROADS OF CULTURES
SPAIN–RUSSIA: ON THE CROSSROADS OF CULTURES
THE ART OF BUDDHISM
ALEXANDER GOLOVIN AND THE CULTURE OF THE SILVER AGE
ALEXANDER GOLOVIN
IVAN POKHITONOV. THE ARTIST SORCERER
NORWAY–RUSSIA: ON THE CROSSROADS OF CULTURES
Special issue. ISAAC LEVITAN
SWITZERLAND–RUSSIA: ON THE CROSSROADS OF CULTURES
USA–RUSSIA: ON THE CROSSROADS OF CULTURES (N 1)
ITALY-RUSSIA: ON THE CROSSROADS OF CULTURES
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Marc Chagall "BONJOUR, LA PATRIE!"
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Olga Kostina "ART HISTORY AS JOURNALISM AND JOURNALISM AS ART HISTORY
Lyudmila Markina
"The Spark of Peter the Great"
The exhibition "Tsarina Elizabeth and Moscow", running at the Tretyakov Gallery from December 9 2010 to March 27 2011, commemorates the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Russian empress. Staged in the Engineering Building on Lavrushinsky lane, it concludes a trio of shows that have run there over many years: the first project, "Catherine the Great and Moscow" (at the Krymsky Val building), took place in 1998. That was a pioneering effort to introduce to the public the artefacts of "imperial" history and culture, which were kept away from the public eye under Soviet rule. The ties between the great female ruler of Russia and Moscow had never before been the subject of careful study. A year later the exhibition "Peter the Great and Moscow" opened in the Engineering Building, marking the 300th anniversary of the Grand Embassy of Peter I.
Svetlana Usacheva
An Artist of Hearth and Home
2010 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Fomich Khrutsky, the Belarussian/Russian painter of the first half of the 19th century, a well-known master of the still-life genre with "fruit and flowers". In December 2010-January 2011 the Tretyakov Gallery hosted Khrutsky's anniversary exhibition featuring works from the Tretyakov Gallery and the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus. The show was one of the most important events to round off the Year of Culture of the Republic of Belarus in the Russian Federation.
Romantic Russia
In the very heart of Paris, in the neighbourhood of New Athens, not far from the noisy and notorious Moulin Rouge cabaret, there is a Museum of Romantic Life (Musee de la Vie Romantique). A quiet patio on Rue Chaptal shelters an elegant mansion with a small garden closely planted with sweet-smelling roses and blooming mallows. The house was home to the Dutch artist Ary Scheffer1, who settled here after the July Revolution of 1830.
Yevgeny Bogatyrev
"I Yearn for Strange Lands"
The exhibition "From the Western Seas to the Very Gates of the East. Russia at the Time of Pushkin" - a look at the Russian Empire as it was seen by Alexander Pushkin and his contemporaries - has been one of the most memorable events of 2010 at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
Lydia Gladkova, Eleonora Paston
The Secrets of Ivan Pokhitinov's Art
The exhibition "The Artist-Sorcerer", organized by the Tretyakov Gallery to mark the 160th anniversary of Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov (1850-1923), featured works from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery and Otar Margania (Moscow). The dates of the exhibition, initially scheduled to run from March 2 to November 28, were twice extended due to the great public interest in Pokhitonov's oeuvre. Visitors to the show in their comments talked not only about gratitude for "the feeling of joy and harmony of life" they experienced viewing Pokhitonov's works and admiration for the artist's consummate workmanship, but also about his painting techniques, which were described as "spellbinding" and appearing "a miracle". As if echoing Ilya Repin's opinion about Pokhitonov - "this is an artist-sorcerer", which gave the title to the exhibition - viewers wrote that they visited the show several times to engage with this "miracle" again and again.
Inessa Kuteinikova
Russia's Artistic Orientalist History
The monumental exhibition of Russian Orientalist paintings from the principal museums of Russia, Ukraine, Armenia and Uzbekistan (with a small part from private collections in Moscow and London) continues the remarkable tradition of the Groningen Museum in the Netherlands in filling a longstanding gap - and filling it most satisfyingly - in researching lesser- known Russian themes and mounting a comprehensive and highly sophisticated exhibition. As we gaze at these impressive canvases in a European setting, we find ourselves confronted by an adapted genre brought back into the milieu of the original.
Tatiana Plastova
Arkady Plastov. Portraits of the Artist
The verse of the great Russian poet of the 20th century can be seen as an epigraph to the destinies of the generation of Russians who grew up with and came of age together with the 20th century. For all the differences in their life stories, Boris Pasternak and Arkady Plastov were contemporaries in the deepest sense of the word: if for nothing else, they were connected by the fact that Leonid Pasternak - the poet's father - taught Plastov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Lev Platonov
The Pre-Raphaelites: The Last Paladins of the Victorian Era
InArtis Gallery presented a show of 34 engravings created by the famous British Pre-Raphaelite artists Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris from October 14 through December 14 2010 in the Old English Courtyard in Moscow. The exhibition was noteworthy not only because it showcased a school rarely seen in Moscow - in Russia exhibitions of the Pre-Raphaelites' artwork are rare - but also because viewers had the chance to see a collection of engravings that for a long time were believed to have been lost forever.
Vera Golovina
Gor Chahal's "Bread of Heaven": A special project of the Tretyakov Gallery
Gor Chahal carried out his special project "Bread of Heaven" in collaboration with the Tretyakov Gallery. Such projects are different from solo shows: each special project is usually focused on a certain idea related to the oeuvre of a particular artist. One of the objectives of such special projects is to present artistic innovations and to add to the gallery's collection the works of the best contemporary masters who, rather than producing separate pieces, are determined to generate a continuous body of work, following the avant-garde concept of arts synthesis. Within the space of the gallery, the room where these experiments develop is at the conclusion of the permanent exhibition of 20th-century art, just before the suite of rooms on the second floor where the newest art trends are showcased: thus, the room connects the traditional and the modern.
Anne Mannix
Andy Warhol. The Last Decade
The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) was the final venue of the four-museum tour to present the first U.S. museum exhibition exploring the late works of the iconic American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987). On view there from October 2010 through January 2011, more than 50 works revealed the Pop artist's energetic return to painting and renewed spirit of experimentation during the last decade of his life. This period shows Warhol in the midst of his celebrity creating more paintings and on a vastly larger scale than at any other moment of his 40-year career. Exhibition highlights include psychologically revealing fright wig self-portraits, three variations on Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, and collaborations with younger artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat. Several of these works – assembled from national and international public and private collections, as well as the BMA's exceptional collection of late works by Warhol – were not exhibited until after the artist's death.
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Q: Resistance or conductance of resistor networks I am trying to figure out if the equivalent resistance (or similarly conductance) of a resistor network can be calculated using Qucs (as opposed to solving the Kirchhoff equations directly, or doing the numerical Star-Mesh transform on the network).
For instance if we know the graph/network characteristics, that is, the vertex set (i.e. how many nodes), the edge (bond) set and the resistance values corresponding to each bond (so between a chosen pair of vertices),

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*How can we input the resistor network as such into Qucs? (can netlists be used for this purpose?)

*Assuming the above point is possible, can we then use Qucs to estimate the equivalent resistance of the network? That is, can we set up a Qucs simulation for this type of calculation? (e.g., using a fixed voltage generator in an AC simulation?)

Being a complete novice to Qucs, any hints at any level, be they basic or advanced, would be extremely valuable to me. Unfortunately, in the existing Qucs tutorials I haven't found any examples pertaining to the above type of calculations.

In case you prefer to answer with a working (dummy) example, here's a network we can work with:
Example network for testing purposes: 4 nodes only, labelled from one to four. The only bonds in the network are: {1,2} with resistance 5 ohms, bond {1,3} with resistance 10 ohms and bond {2,4} with resistance 5 ohms. And we're trying to find out the resistance between the input and output.

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab

A: You certainly can use any simulator to determine transfer function or impedance.
For DC, put a current source and a voltmeter between the two nodes "in,out" at any value such as 1mA or 1A ( won't burn up a simulator, lol)
By the way, this is how DMM's work in the resistance scale, and some change current scales e.g. from 100uA to 10mA for different R ranges.  Some precision RLC meters use Sine wave current sources, and others use pulse decay time constant method.
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Bramhope
Bramhope Office Manager Gemma Carter on living in this ever popular rural Leeds village.
Bramhope is a lovely rural village, which is surrounded by beautiful countryside and woodland and yet is only nine miles from Leeds, making it one of the most popular residential locations in the North Leeds area.
The roots of the village are plain to see in the historic buildings which are dotted around including the superb Grade 1 listed, 17th Century Puritan Chapel and other buildings dating back to the 17th and 18th Centuries such as the Old Schoolhouse, the Smithy and Weaver's Cottage. From a small farming settlement in Saxon times, the village has grown to the leafy location we see today which features some of North Leeds' finest residential properties.
Recreational facilities include a bowling green, tennis courts, a cricket club and rugby club too. The Old Village Well is a fabulous 17th Century pub which is very popular with locals and visitors. There are also numerous cultural and leisure facilities within a short drive including an excellent sports and health club and a fine selection of golf courses. These local amenities are further enhanced by the shopping and leisure opportunities available in nearby Otley and the spa towns of Ilkley and Harrogate, plus, of course, everything that Leeds has to offer.
Bramhope is particularly well placed for travel to the main business and leisure centres of West and North Yorkshire and then onwards via the motorway and rail networks. Travelling into Leeds city centre from Bramhope is easy by car (around 20 minutes) or the same journey by bus or bike takes around 40 minutes. Harrogate and Ilkley (gateways to the Yorkshire Dales) are a similar distance, as is Bradford. Leeds Bradford International Airport can be reached in less than ten minutes by car.
Families in Bramhope are well served by local schools. Ofsted rated Bramhope Primary School as an 'outstanding' school in its 2012 report. At secondary level, there is a good range of schools within easy travelling distance in both the state and independent sectors.
Bramhope has always been a popular destination - close enough to Leeds to be convenient for work and shopping etc. but with the countryside air and stunning views to refresh you after a day in the city.
What we love about Bramhope
The Fox and Hounds
The Fox and Hounds is a well-known pub in the village centre dating back to the early 18th Century. With a good range of cask ales and tasty dishes, it also offers a separate area, The Loft, serving morning coffee, lunches and a brasserie in the evening. Open fires in the winter and outdoor space with a bowling green, make this a popular village amenity all year round.
Bramhope Indoor Farmers Market
On the second Saturday of the month, the local village hall, the Robert Craven Memorial Hall, hosts a farmers' market offering a wide array of goodies by local food producers, artisans and designer/makers.


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Lamarck est un cratère lunaire situé au sud-ouest de la face visible de la Lune. Le cratère Lamarck est recouvert sur son rebord nord par le cratère Darwin. Au sud-est il y a le cratère Byrgius. Le contour du cratère Lamarck est grandement endommagé par de nombreux impacts. Le cratère a été recouvert par des ejectas de la Mare Orientale située à l'Est. À l'intérieur, le petit cratère satellite "Lamarck B" a une forme de bol. Le contour sud-ouest est recouvert par le cratère satellite "Lamarck A", lui-même contigüe en partie par le cratère satellite "Lamarck D".

En 1964, l'Union astronomique internationale a donné le nom de Lamarck à ce cratère en l'honneur du naturaliste Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

Par convention, les cratères satellites sont identifiés sur les cartes lunaires en plaçant la lettre sur le côté du point central du cratère qui est le plus proche de Lamarck.

Lien interne
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Liens externes
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HMTL Recap and Review -Swamp Thing: S1E8 – "Long Walk Home"
Welcome back to Haunted MTL's extensive recap and review series for Swamp Thing on DC Universe. Everyone seems to be in a key position now for the final two episodes in what has been a rather thrilling and satisfying season of horror television.
Avery's Swamp Trek
BOO! Lucilla says hello!
Having nearly been murdered by the sheriff and her son, Avery finds himself wounded and alone in the swamps of Marais. Avery has been in a character who, while maybe not entirely in control throughout the season, has had the air of someone who could get out of any setbacks. "Long Walk Home," however, finds the industrialist at his most vulnerable. Delirious, Avery's walk is punctuated with visions that flesh out his own relationship to the swamps; chiefly the murder of his father by the swamp itself. In a flashback, Avery watches his father dragged into a campfire by a tree that Sunderland, Sr. attempted to chop down.
It's then that Avery is found by Swamp Thing. After being cared for, Avery offers to seek out a cure for Swamp Thing and meets with Jason Woodrue. Woodrue fills Avery in on the meeting with The Conclave that was taken over by Maria. The pair discuss the scientific advancements that could result from the study from the Swamp Thing, and Avery Sunderland gives in to his baser instincts, opting to capture the former Alec Holland for research purposes.
The CDC
Guest star Adrienne Barbeau
Abby, after her long talk with Alec last episode, returns to the CDC in Atlanta to continue her work, eager to help Alec in any way she can. Things are off, however, in that Abby is being received coldly by the powers that be and the samples she sent for analysis are being withheld from her. Abby encounters Dr. Palomar (Adrienne Barbeau) her new boss, who informs her that things will be much different from here on out. Abby is able to reconnect with her CDC-pal Harlan, but by the end of the episode, his fate is likely up in the air. Abby also gets the pleasure of being introduced to The Conclave's Nathan Ellery who reveals how much he knows about the situation in Marais. Cornered by The Conclave, Abby flees back to Marais to warn Swamp Thing of what is coming.
"Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"
Someone was about to have a very, very bad day.
Swamp Thing rescues and cares for a delirious Avery Sunderland and introduces himself as the former Alec Holland. Avery, as expected, does not let on to how involved he was in Alec's death. The pair have a deep discussion on the swamp and recent incidents. Swamp Thing hints at the nature of the rot in the swamp to Avery, suggesting that his own form, as the Swamp Thing, maybe the result of the Green fighting back. Avery, thankful to his swampy savior, offers to find a cure, which Swamp Thing does not outright dismiss.
Avery Sunderland and Jason Woodrue later enter the swamp, seeking out Swamp Thing. This is a trap, however, as The Conclave has provided a team to take down the creature of the swamp. They manage, using liquid nitrogen, to contain the Swamp Thing, ready to be carted off to a lab for Woodrue to begin his research.
What Stood Out?
The cinematography of Avery's trek through the swamp was quite well done. The shots really added to the sense of delirium and exhaustion felt by the character, and the Swamp Thing's reveal to Sunderland is handled quite effectively.
The Final Verdict on Swamp Thing
"Long Walk Home" is a strong episode that distills the three main figures of the show to what seems to be their essential, core struggles; Avery grapples with his past and ambition, ultimately repaying the kindness of his savior with what is sure to be inevitable torture. Abby Arcane, again finding herself torn between her professional world of the CDC and the mystical high-strangeness of the swamps ultimately chooses the Swamp Thing. The Swamp Thing himself, a tortured soul, finds his efforts to reconnect to the world of man exploited because of what he is. It's all a very strong set up to the final pair of episodes in the first and the only season of Swamp Thing.
The Conclave is a deep, deep organization in the comics, and their presence in the CDC should not come as a surprise to viewers as it is meant to establish that they have a wide base of power from which to draw.
Dr. Palomar, the CDC director who Abby clashes with, should be recognizable to any fan of Swamp Thing and horror in general: Adrienne Barbeau. Barbeau's history in horror is worthy of an article in itself, but for our purposes, we'll highlight her role as Alice Cable in Wes Craven's 1982 adaptation of Swamp Thing. As with any adaptation there were changes between the source material and the adaptation, but Alice Cable is very much an adaptation of the Abby Arcane character.
HMTL Recap and Review -Swamp Thing: S1E2 – "Worlds Apart"
HMTL Recap and Review -Swamp Thing: S1E3 – "He Speaks"
HMTL Recap and Review -Swamp Thing: S1E6 – "The Price You Pay"
HMTL Recap and Review -Swamp Thing: S1E9 – "The Anatomy Lesson"
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HMTL Recap and Review – Creepshow S1E1
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using System;
using System.Linq;

using Microsoft.Phone.Shell;

using WPCordovaClassLib.Cordova;
using WPCordovaClassLib.Cordova.Commands;
using WPCordovaClassLib.Cordova.JSON;

using De.APPPlant.Cordova.Plugin.LocalNotification;
using Microsoft.Phone.Scheduler;
using Newtonsoft.Json;

namespace Cordova.Extension.Commands
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Implementes access to application live tiles
    /// http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh202948(v=VS.92).aspx
    /// </summary>
    public class LocalNotification : BaseCommand
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Informs if the device is ready and the deviceready event has been fired
        /// </summary>
        private bool DeviceReady = false;

        /// <summary>
        /// Informs either the app is running in background or foreground
        /// </summary>
        private bool RunsInBackground = false;

        /// <summary>
        /// Sets application live tile
        /// </summary>
        public void add(string jsonArgs)
        {
            try
            {
                string[] args = JsonHelper.Deserialize<string[]>(jsonArgs);
                Options options = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Options>(args[0]);

                Reminder reminder = new Reminder(options.ID);
                reminder.Title = "Lembrete";
                reminder.Content = options.Message;
                DateTime origin = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, System.DateTimeKind.Utc);
                DateTime date = origin.AddSeconds(options.Date);
                reminder.BeginTime = date.ToLocalTime();
                if (options.Repeat == "daily") {
                  reminder.RecurrenceType = RecurrenceInterval.Daily;
				        } else {
			            reminder.RecurrenceType = RecurrenceInterval.None;
				        }
                reminder.ExpirationTime = DateTime.Today.AddDays(30);
                //reminder.NavigationUri = new Uri("/MainPage.xaml", UriKind.Relative);
                ScheduledActionService.Add(reminder);

                DispatchCommandResult();
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message);
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Clears the application live tile
        /// </summary>
        public void cancel(string jsonArgs)
        {
            string[] args = JsonHelper.Deserialize<string[]>(jsonArgs);
            string notificationID = args[0];

            ScheduledAction alert = ScheduledActionService.Find(notificationID);
            if (alert != null)
            {
                ScheduledActionService.Remove(notificationID);
            }

            FireEvent("cancel", notificationID, "");
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Clears the application live tile
        /// </summary>
        public void cancelAll(string jsonArgs)
        {
            System.Collections.Generic.List<ScheduledNotification> reminders = ScheduledActionService.GetActions<ScheduledNotification>().ToList();
            foreach (ScheduledNotification reminder in reminders)
            {
                ScheduledActionService.Remove(reminder.Name);
            }

            DispatchCommandResult();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Checks wether a notification with an ID is scheduled
        /// </summary>
        public void isScheduled (string jsonArgs)
        {
            DispatchCommandResult();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Retrieves a list with all currently pending notifications
        /// </summary>
        public void getScheduledIds (string jsonArgs)
        {
            DispatchCommandResult();
        }

        /// <summery>
        /// Informs if the app has the permission to show notifications.
        /// </summery>
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Proteasomal Regulation of the Proliferation vs. Meiotic Entry Decision in the Caenorhabditis Elegans Germ Line
By MacDonald, Lindsay D.; Knox, Aaron; Hansen, Dave
Reproductive fitness in many animals relies upon a tight balance between the number of cells that proliferate in the germ line and the number of cells that enter meiosis and differentiate as gametes. In the Caenorhabditis elegans germ line, the GLP-1/Notch signaling pathway controls this balance between proliferation and meiotic entry. Here we describe the identification of the proteasome as an additional regulator of this balance. We show that a decrease in proteasome activity, through either genetic mutation or RNAi to core components of the proteasome, shifts this balance toward excess germ-line proliferation. We further demonstrate that there are likely two or more proteasome targets that contribute to excess germ-line proliferation when proteasome activity is reduced. One of these targets is likely a component or regulator of the Notch-signaling pathway, while the other functions on one of the two major redundant genetic pathways downstream of GLP-1/Notch signaling. We propose a model in which the proteasome degrades proteins that are necessary for proliferation as cells switch from proliferation to meiotic entry.
THE production of gametes is an essential process in any sexually reproducing species. In most of these species, proliferation of germ-line stem cells is needed first to generate the germ-line tissue and then to maintain a supply from which future gametes can be formed. If germ-line stem cell proliferation does not keep pace with gamete production, the population of stem cells will be depleted, resulting in sterility. Conversely, an increase in self-renewing proliferation of the germ-line stem cells at the expense of gamete production can also result in sterility, as well as tumor formation. With the large numbers of gametes that are formed over the life of some animals, it is imperative that the balance between proliferation and differentiation be fine-tuned; a slight shift in this balance will be amplified over time and greatly reduce the reproductive fitness of the animal.Much of our understanding of how the balance between germ-line proliferation and differentiation is controlled comes from study of classic genetic model organisms such as Drosophila and Caenorhabditis elegans. In both Drosophila males and females, the balance between proliferation and differentiation is a result of asymmetric division of the germline stem cells (Xie and Spradling 2000; Tulina and Matunis 2001). One daughter cell maintains contact with signaling somatic cells, resulting in retention of the stem cell property of the parent cell, while the other daughter cell is not in contact with the signaling somatic cells and begins the path to meiotic entry and differentiation (Xie and Spradling 2000; Tulina and Matunis 2001). In both male and hermaphrodite C. elegans, self-renewing proliferation of the germ-line stem cells is promoted by their proximity to a somatic signaling cell, the distal tip cell (DTC) (Kimble and White 1981). The major molecular signal promoting proliferation is transmitted through the conserved Notch-signaling pathway (Hansen and Schedl 2006; Kimble and Crittenden 2007). As part of this pathway, the membrane-bound LAG-2 ligand, which is expressed in the DTC, comes in contact with nearby proliferative cells that express the GLP-1/Notch receptor (Austin and Kimble 1987, 1989; Yochem and Greenwald 1989; Henderson et al. 1994; Taxet al. 1994). The interaction between ligand and receptor activates GLP-1/Notch signaling, which presumably culminates in the expression of genes necessary for proliferation and the inhibition of genes involved in meiotic entry. As germ cells move proximally, away from the influence of the DTC, the level of GLP-1/Notch signaling is thought to diminish, presumably allowing for the gene activity profile to switch, resulting in cells entering into meiotic prophase and eventually forming fully differentiated gametes. Numerous genetic screens for mutants that disrupt the balance between proliferation and differentiation in the C. …
Publication: Genetics
Volume/issue: Vol. 180, No. 2
Publication date: October 2008
MacDonald, Lindsay D.
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Chlorophyllide a and Chlorophyllide b  are the biosynthetic precursors of chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b respectively. Their propionic acid groups are converted to phytyl esters by the enzyme chlorophyll synthase in the final step of the pathway. Thus the main interest in these chemical compounds has been in the study of chlorophyll biosynthesis in plants, algae and cyanobacteria. Chlorophyllide a is also an intermediate in the biosynthesis of bacteriochlorophylls.

Structures

Chlorophyllide a, is a carboxylic acid (R=H). In chlorophyllide b, the methyl group at position 13 (IUPAC numbering for chlorophyllide a) and highlighted in the green box, is replaced with a formyl group.

Biosynthesis steps up to formation of protoporphyrin IX

In the early steps of the biosynthesis, which starts from glutamic acid, a tetrapyrrole is created by the enzymes deaminase and cosynthetase which transform aminolevulinic acid via porphobilinogen and hydroxymethylbilane to uroporphyrinogen III. The latter is the first macrocyclic intermediate common to haem, sirohaem, cofactor F430, cobalamin and chlorophyll itself. The next intermediates are coproporphyrinogen III and protoporphyrinogen IX, which is oxidised to the fully aromatic protoporphyrin IX. Insertion of iron into protoporphyrin IX in for example mammals gives haem, the oxygen-carrying cofactor in blood, but plants combine magnesium instead to give, after further transformations, chlorophyll for photosynthesis.

Biosynthesis of chlorophyllides from protoporphyrin IX
Details of the late stages of the biosynthetic pathway to chlorophyll differ in the plants (for example Arabidopsis thaliana,  Nicotiana tabacum and Triticum aestivum) and bacteria (for example Rubrivivax gelatinosus and Synechocystis) in which it has been studied. However, although the genes and enzymes vary, the chemical reactions involved are identical.

Insertion of magnesium

Chlorophyll is characterised by having a magnesium ion coordinated within a ligand called a chlorin. The metal is inserted into protoporphyrin IX by the enzyme magnesium chelatase which catalyzes the reaction
protoporphyrin IX +  + ATP +   ADP + phosphate + Mg-protoporphyrin IX + 2

Esterification of the ring C propionate group
The next step towards the chlorophyllides is the formation of a methyl (CH3) ester on one of the propionate groups, which is catalysed by the enzyme Magnesium protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase in the methylation reaction
Mg-protoporphyrin IX + S-adenosylmethionine  Mg-protoporphyrin IX 13-methyl ester + S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine

From porphyrin to chlorin

The chlorin ring system features a five-membered carbon ring E is created when one of the propionate groups of the porphyrin is cyclised to the carbon atom linking the original pyrrole rings C and D. A series of chemical steps catalysed by the enzyme Magnesium-protoporphyrin IX monomethyl ester (oxidative) cyclase gives the overall reaction
 Mg-protoporphyrin IX 13-monomethyl ester + 3 NADPH + 3 H+ + 3 O2  divinylprotochlorophyllide + 3 NADP+ + 5 H2O

In barley the electrons are provided by reduced ferredoxin, which can obtain them from photosystem I or, in the dark, from Ferredoxin—NADP(+) reductase: the cyclase protein is named XanL and is encoded by the Xantha-l gene. In anaerobic organisms such as Rhodobacter sphaeroides the same overall transformation occurs but the oxygen incorporated into magnesium-protoporphyrin IX 13-monomethyl ester comes from water in the reaction .

Reduction steps to chlorophyllide a
Two further transformations are required to produce chlorophyllide a. Both are reduction reactions: one converts a vinyl group to an ethyl group and the second adds two atoms of hydrogen to the pyrrole ring D, although the overall aromaticity of the macrocycle is retained.
These reactions proceed independently and in some organisms the sequence is reversed.
The enzyme divinyl chlorophyllide a 8-vinyl-reductase converts 3,8-divinylprotochlorophyllide to protochlorophyllide in reaction
3,8-divinylprotochlorophyllide + NADPH + H+  protochlorophyllide + NADP+

This is followed by the reaction  in which the pyrrole ring D is reduced by the enzyme protochlorophyllide reductase
protochlorophyllide + NADPH + H+  chlorophyllide a + NADP+
This reaction is light-dependent but there is an alternative enzyme, Ferredoxin:protochlorophyllide reductase (ATP-dependent), that uses reduced ferredoxin as its cofactor and is not dependent on light; it performs the a similar reaction  but with the alternative substrate 3,8-divinylprotochlorophyllide
3,8-divinylprotochlorophyllide + reduced ferredoxin + 2 ATP + 2 H2O  3,8-divinylchlorophyllide a + oxidized ferredoxin + 2 ADP + 2 phosphate
In the organisms which use this alternative sequence of reduction steps, the process is completed by the reaction  catalysed by an enzyme which can take a variety of substrates and perform the required vinyl-group reduction, for example in this case
3,8-divinylchlorophyllide a + 2 reduced ferredoxin + 2 H+  chlorophyllide a + 2 oxidized ferredoxin

From chlorophyllide a to chlorophyllide b
Chlorophyllide a oxygenase is the enzyme that converts chlorophyllide a to chlorophyllide b by catalysing the overall reaction
 chlorophyllide a + 2 O2 + 2 NADPH + 2 H+  chlorophyllide b + 3 H2O + 2 NADP+

Use in the biosynthesis of chlorophylls

Chlorophyll synthase completes the biosynthesis of chlorophyll a by catalysing the reaction
chlorophyllide a + phytyl diphosphate  chlorophyll a + diphosphate
This forms an ester of the carboxylic acid group in chlorophyllide a with the 20-carbon diterpene alcohol phytol.
Chlorophyll b is made by the same enzyme acting on chlorophyllide b. The same is known for chlorophyll d and f, both made from corresponding chlorophyllides ultimately made from chlorophyllide a.

Use in the biosynthesis of bacteriochlorophylls
Bacteriochlorophylls are the light harvesting pigments found in photosynthetic bacteria: they do not produce oxygen as a side-product. There are many such structures but all are biosynthetically related by being derived from chlorophyllide a.

BChl a: bacteriochlorin ring and sidechains

Bacteriochlorophyll a is a typical example; its biosynthesis has been studied in Rhodobacter capsulatus and Rhodobacter sphaeroides. The first step is the reduction (with trans stereochemistry) of the pyrrole ring B, giving the characteristic 18-electron aromatic system of many bacteriochlorophylls. This is carried out by the enzyme chlorophyllide a reductase, which catalyses the reaction .
chlorophyllide a + 2 reduced ferredoxin + ATP + H2O + 2 H+  3-deacetyl 3-vinylbacteriochlorophyllide a + 2 oxidized ferredoxin + ADP + phosphate
The next two steps convert the vinyl group first into a 1-hydroxyethyl group and then into the acetyl group of bacteriochlorophyllide a. The reactions are catalysed by chlorophyllide a 31-hydratase () and bacteriochlorophyllide a dehydrogenase () as follows:
3-deacetyl 3-vinylbacteriochlorophyllide a + H2O  3-deacetyl 3-(1-hydroxyethyl)bacteriochlorophyllide a
3-deacetyl 3-(1-hydroxyethyl)bacteriochlorophyllide a + NAD+  bacteriochlorophyllide a + NADH + H+

These three enzyme-catalysed reactions can occur in different sequences to produce bacteriochlorophyllide a ready for esterification to the final pigments for photosynthesis. The phytyl ester of bacteriochlorophyll a is not attached directly: rather, the initial intermediate is the ester with R=geranylgeranyl (from geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate) which is then subject to additional steps as three of the sidechain's alkene bonds are reduced.

References

Tetrapyrroles
Photosynthetic pigments


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BURBANK — A Los Angeles man shot and killed himself Thursday afternoon at the Firing-Line indoor shooting range, police said Friday. Officers responded to the range at 1060 N. Lake St. about 4:30 p.m. Thursday to find the man with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, said Burbank Police Sgt. Darin Ryburn. The man was pronounced dead at the scene by Burbank Fire Department paramedics. He was identified as 42-year-old David Joseph Magarelli, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office.
Death at gun shop ruled a suicide A 29-year-old employee of a local firearm dealer shot himself in the head about 3 p.m. Saturday in a back room at Gun World in the 2400 block of West Magnolia Boulevard, police said. Martin Navarro, of Studio City, was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, said John Kades, an investigator with the Los Angeles County coroner?s office. The shooting has been ruled a suicide and is not being investigated by the Burbank Police Department, Sgt. Darin Ryburn said.
Ryan Carter SOUTH SAN FERNANDO DISTRICT -- As the retaliatory rhetoric builds against the alleged masterminds of Sept. 11's terrorist attacks on the East Coast, many have found the confines of Firing Line Indoor Shooting Range, one of only four civilian firing ranges in the Valley, a place to update their gun skills and hone their sense of security. Since the attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, staff at the range have seen an increase in people taking target practice at its 28 shooting positions.


1What follows is an account of how the land of Canaan west of the Jordan was divided among the people of Israel. Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders of the families of the Israelite tribes divided it among the population. 214.2: Num 26.52–56; 34.13As the LORD had commanded Moses, the territories of the nine and a half tribes west of the Jordan were determined by drawing lots.14.2 drawing lots: This was usually done by using specially marked stones to determine God's will. 3-414.3–4: Num 32.33; 34.14–15; Deut 3.12–17Moses had already assigned the land east of the Jordan to the other two and a half tribes. (The descendants of Joseph were divided into two tribes: Manasseh and Ephraim.) However, Moses gave the Levites no portion of the territory. Instead, they received cities to live in, with fields for their cattle and flocks. 5The people of Israel divided the land as the LORD had commanded Moses.
There was now peace in the land.


Directions to Stop #1: Get in your car and turn around so that you are headed south, back toward 63rd Street. Turn right (West) onto 63rd Street and drive about 0.5 miles and make a right (North) turn onto Manchester Trafficway. Follow Manchester Trafficway for approximately 0.3 miles and turn right (East) onto 60th Street. Drive for about 0.1 miles to the end of the street. The concrete marker for the Byram's Ford Historic District will be on your left. There will be a path heading east that you can follow down to Byram's Ford on west bank of the Big Blue River. This tour stop is located in Kansas City, Missouri 64132.
Description: The first stop on the tour places you at the place where the Byram's Ford road crossed the Big Blue River. You are now standing on the west bank of the Big Blue River at Byram's Ford. You are standing near where attackers, having just crossed the river, would have to advance up the steep river banks while under heavy fire from the defenders. This was the scene for two engagements, one on October 22 and another on October 23, 1864.


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Windsor: U-M makes headlines, but MSU could make history
Okay, so Jim Harbaugh's the one making headlines right now, but MSU's the one poised to make noise in the fall
Windsor: U-M makes headlines, but MSU could make history Okay, so Jim Harbaugh's the one making headlines right now, but MSU's the one poised to make noise in the fall Check out this story on Freep.com: https://on.freep.com/1HcVhxp
Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press Published 3:06 p.m. ET May 18, 2015 | Updated 4:36 p.m. ET May 18, 2015
Michigan State 2015 football schedule
Michigan State is coming off two consecutive top-5 finishes under Mark Dantonio. Can it make it three straight? Let's look at the 2015 Spartans schedule, starting with... Eric Seals, DFP
Friday, Sept. 4: at Western Michigan, Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo. The Spartans' season opener in a rare road game vs. WMU. MSU hasn't lost to Western Michigan since 1919 (nine wins since). USA TODAY Sports
Saturday, Sept. 12: Oregon, Spartan Stadium in East Lansing. The Ducks beat the Spartans 46-27 in the second week of last season en route to the national championship game. It also was one of just two MSU losses last year. MSU is 2-3 in the lifetime series. USA TODAY Sports
Saturday, Sept. 19: Air Force, Spartan Stadium in East Lansing. These two teams have never met. USA TODAY Sports
Saturday, Sept. 26: Central Michigan, Spartan Stadium in East Lansing. MSU is 6-3 against CMU, including a 41-7 win in 2012 in Mount Pleasant. The Chippewas last beat the Spartans in East Lansing in 2009. USA TODAY Sports
Saturday, Oct. 3: Purdue, Spartan Stadium in East Lansing. MSU is 35-27-3 against Purdue lifetime and hasn't lost against the Boilermakers since 2006. The Spartans won 45-31 in 2014. USA TODAY Sports
Saturday, Oct. 10: at Rutgers, High Point Solutions Stadium in Piscataway, N.J. The Spartans romped the Scarlet Knights 45-3 in the teams' first Big Ten matchup last season. MSU is 3-3 lifetime against Rutgers. USA TODAY Sports
Saturday, Oct. 17: at Michigan, Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor. Though MSU is 34-68-5 lifetime against its in-state rival, the Spartans have won six of the past seven match-ups, including 35-11 last season in Spartan Stadium. USA TODAY Sports
Saturday, Oct. 24: Indiana, Spartan Stadium in East Lansing. MSU is 45-14-2 against Indiana lifetime, including a 56-17 win last season. IU last beat the Spartans in 2006. USA TODAY Sports
Saturday, Nov. 7: at Nebraska, Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. Though Michigan State is 2-7 against Nebraska all-time, it has won the past two match-ups, including 27-22 last season. The Cornhuskers beat MSU 17-3 in the 2003 Alamo Bowl. USA TODAY Sports
Saturday, Nov. 14: Maryland, Spartan Stadium in East Lansing. MSU has lost just once to Maryland, 34-7 in 1950. It beat the Terrapins 37-15 late last season. USA TODAY Sports
Saturday, Nov. 21: at Ohio State, Ohio Stadium in Columbus. The Buckeyes hold the all-time edge 29-14 against the Spartans, including a 49-37 win last year, one of MSU's two losses in 2014. MSU beat OSU 34-24 in the Big Ten championship in 2013. USA TODAY Sports
Saturday, Nov. 28: Penn State, Spartan Stadium in East Lansing. The all-time match-up is tied at 14-14-1. MSU beat Penn State the past two match-ups, however, 34-10 in 2014 and 28-22 in 2010. USA TODAY Sports
Michigan State White team's Gerald Holmes (24) rushes against the Green team's Chris Laneaux (14) during the NCAA college football team's scrimmage, Saturday, April 25, 2015, in East Lansing, Mich.(Photo: Al Goldis, Associated Press)
Jim Harbaugh is in Peru. No, wait, he's on the side of the freeway in Ann Arbor pulling a passenger from a wrecked car. No, wait, he's posing with Wonder Woman, and tutoring Jameis Winston, and sitting in a dugout in Mesa, Ariz., wearing an Oakland Athletics uniform.
Meanwhile, Mark Dantonio is putting together the best recruiting class of his tenure, which could give Michigan State its first top-10 class in 15 years, which will only redouble what the Spartans football coach has already done.
And yet: Harbaugh.
At least it has to feel this way for Dantonio and his staff, in the midst of the best rebuilding job the Big Ten has seen in a generation, as the headlines continue to roll out of Ann Arbor.
Dantonio doesn't like to talk about it, which is understandable, though he did finally take what sounded like a jab at his rival last week when he told ESPN: "We're selling results. Other people are selling hope."
Whether he intended to crack on U-M and Harbaugh, only he knows. But there is one thing we can say about his remark: He's right.
The Spartans are coming off their best stretch in 40 years; the Wolverines are in their worst.
MSU getting talent, but what can it do with it? We'll see
There is no comparison between the schools' football programs right now, at least not on the field. That is where it matters, and that is Dantonio's point, not that he needs to make it.
Though it's hard to blame him when he does, considering the buzz Harbaugh's Wolverines rebranding tour has created. Don't blame the U-M coach, either; all he's done is seize the public relations momentum and take advantage of our digital, 24-hour news cycle.
Harbaugh knows we will report everything, from recruiting tours into enemy territory in the South to a Twitter shoutout to Madonna. Yes, we are complicit in this wave of attention – some would argue adulation -- and have been from the moment his name was floated last fall as a candidate.
So let us turn toward East Lansing, and to the history Dantonio could make. For the second time in three years, he will have a team good enough to compete for the national championship. He had this sort of team two years ago, only he wasn't able to solve his quarterback issue until after a loss to Notre Dame.
This fall, that won't be a problem, as quarterback Connor Cook gives MSU a should-be first-round-caliber player in the most important spot on the field. Beyond that, Dantonio's Spartans have likely first-round NFL talent on the offensive and defensive lines, giving him as much to work with on the line of scrimmage as he's ever had.
When Alabama mauled MSU five years ago in the Capital One Bowl, quarterback Kirk Cousins said the team was overwhelmed up front. The Spartans were good enough to compete with teams at the skill positions.
Now they have the muscle, too.
MSU recruits urging others to join via social media
This is the place where titles are so often won – we saw it in January with Ohio State, when their lines pushed Alabama and Oregon around. Whether the Spartans can match what the Buckeyes did should make this fall in East Lansing as interesting as any in a long time.
Proof of Dantonio's foundation is now showing up in other places, too, such as high schools, where recruits from a widening radius are revealing interest in MSU. It's easy to take for granted what Dantonio has accomplished the last five years – four consecutive bowl wins, four 11-win seasons, back-to-back Top 5 finishes and consecutive first-round picks.
If Cook or either Jack Conklin or Shilique Calhoun get taken in the first round next spring, that would give MSU three consecutive years of first-round selections for the first time since the early 1990s. Helping players jump to the pros is as important as winning when it comes to pitching recruits.
Dantonio is doing both, in a place where creating sustained success seemed like a fantasy a decade ago. Now look at him, and his program, selling something as real as it has in forever.
Contact Shawn Windsor: 313-222-6487 or swindsor@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @shawnwindsor.
Michigan State's 2016 football recruits
Here's a look at Michigan State's 2016 recruiting class, starting with Brandon Randle, a three-star linebacker from Battle Creek Central. Battle Creek Enquirer photo
Brandon Randle committed to MSU on June 12, 2015. Battle Creek Enquirer photo
Brandon Randle is listed at 6-feet-2 and 215 pounds. He's ranked the No. 11 prospect in Michigan and the No. 26 outside linebacker in the country. Al Lassen For Battle Creek Enquirer
Brandon Randle also reportedly had scholarship offers from Iowa, Minnesota, N.C. State and others. Al Lassen For Battle Creek Enquirer
Demetric Vance is a four-star defensive back from Detroit Cass Tech. Salwan Georges Special to the DFP
Demetric Vance is listed at 6-feet-3 and 196 pounds. Julian H. Gonzalez DFP
Demetric Vance is ranked the No. 6 player in Michigan and the No. 11 safety in the nation. He also reportedly had scholarship offers from Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio State, Penn State and Tennessee, among others. Kirthmon F. Dozier DFP
Demetric Vance committed to MSU on May 13, 2015. Kimberly P. Mitchell DFP
A.J. Arcuri is a three-star tackle from Olentangy (Ohio) Liberty. Courtesy of Arcuri family
A.J. Arcuri is listed at 6-feet-6 and 248 pounds. He's ranked the No. 44 prospect in Ohio and the No. 63 tackle in the nation. Courtesy of Arcuri family
A.J. Arcuri also reportedly had scholarship offers from Illinois, Indiana and Pittsburgh, among others. Courtesy of Arcuri family
A.J. Arcuri committed to MSU on July 27, 2015. His primary recruiter was Mike Tressel. Courtesy of Liberty High
Luke Campbell is a three-star tackle from Lewis Center (Ohio) Olentangy. Courtesy of Olentangy High School
Luke Campbell is listed at 6-feet-4 and 275 pounds. He is ranked the No. 25 prospect in Ohio and the No. 40 tackle nationally. Courtesy of Olentangy High School
Luke Campbell (72) picked MSU over reported scholarship offers from Illinois, Maryland and Purdue, among others. Courtesy of Olentangy High School
Luke Campbell (72) committed to MSU on Jan. 24, 2016. Courtesy of Olentangy High School
Detroit King receiver Donnie Corley committed during the U.S. Army All-American Game on Jan. 9, 2016. Corley led King to the Division 2 state title with a last-second Hail Mary touchdown catch against Lowell on Nov. 27, 2015, at Ford Field. Kimberly P. Mitchell DFP
Donnie Corley led Detroit King to the Division 2 state title with a last-second Hail Mary touchdown catch against Lowell on Nov. 27, 2015, at Ford Field. Kimberly P. Mitchell DFP
Donnie Corley is ranked the No. 14 wide receiver in the nation and the No. 70 prospect overall. He's listed at 6-feet-2 and 187 pounds. Salwan Georges Special to the DFP
Donnie Corley also reportedly had scholarship offers from Alabama, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Ole Miss, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Texas and USC, among others. DFP file photo
Quarterback Messiah deWeaver is rated a four-star prospect by rivals.com. He plays for Huber Heights (Ohio) Wayne. Associated Press
Messiah deWeaver once was verbally committed to Michigan. He also reportedly had scholarship offers from Arkansas, Louisville, Mississippi State and Penn State, among others. Courtesy of Messiah deWeaver
Messiah deWeaver is ranked the No. 8 pro-style quarterback, No. 8 prospect in Ohio and No. 232 player overall. Courtesy of Messiah deWeaver
Mesiah deWeaver committed to MSU on April 22, 2015. Courtesy of Messiah deWeaver
Matt Coghlin is a kicker from Cincinnati Moeller. Courtesy of Moeller High School
Matt Coghlin is listed at 5-feet-10 and 185 pounds and is unrated by rivals.com. Courtesy of Moeller High School
Matt Coghlin's other reported scholarship offer was from Illinois. Courtesy of Moeller High School
Matt Coghlin committed to MSU on June 23, 2015. Courtesy of Moeller High School
Trishton Jackson is a three-star wide receiver from West Bloomfield. Kirthmon F. Dozier DFP
West Bloomfield's Trishton Jackson is tackled by Dearborn's Ahmed Hazime on Aug. 28, 2014. Kirthmon F. Dozier DFP
Trishton Jackson also had scholarship offers from Iowa, Pittsburgh and Purdue, among others. Kirthmon F. Dozier DFP
Trishton Jackson committed to MSU on June 18, days after earning a scholarship offer at a camp in East Lansing. Ryan Garza DFP
Mike Panasiuk is a three-star defensive tackle from Roselle(Ill.) Lake Park. He's ranked the No. 15 player in Illinois and No. 28 DT in the nation by rivals.com. Courtesy of Lake Park High
Jacub Panasiuk Courtesy of Lake Park High
Josh King is a four-star defensive end from Hinsdale (Ill.) South. Courtesy of Hinsdale South High
Josh King is listed at 6-feet-6 and 230 pounds. He's rated the No. 1 player in Illinois, the No. 69 player overall and No. 5 defensive end by rivals.com. Courtesy of Hinsdale South High
Josh King also reportedly had scholarship offers from Florida, LSU, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oregon and USC, among others. Courtesy of rivals.com
Kenney Lyke is a three-star defensive back from Palatine (Ill.) Fremd. He's listed at 6-feet-2 and 185 pounds. Courtesy of Fremd High
Kenney Lyke also reportedly had scholarship offers from Baylor, Nebraska, Notre Dame and Penn State, among others. Courtesy of Fremd High
Austin Andrews is a three-star defensive back from Columbus (Ohio) DeSales. Barb Dougherty DeSales High
Austin Andrews is listed at 6 feet and 178 pounds. He's ranked the No. 25 prospect in Ohio and the No. 52 cornerback in the nation. Barb Dougherty DeSales High
Austin Andrews also reportedly had scholarship offers from Iowa, Louisville, Missouri, Virginia and Wisconsin, among others. Barb Dougherty DeSales High
Austin Andrews' main recruiter at Michigan State was Mike Tressel. Barb Dougherty DeSales High
Matt Allen is a three-star center from Hinsdale (Ill.) Central. He's the younger brother of MSU linemen Jack and Brian Allen. Courtesy of Allen family
Matt Allen, left, is listed at 6-feet-3 and 272 pounds. Courtesy of Allen family
Matt Allen, right, committed to MSU on Feb. 25, 2015. Courtesy of Allen family
Timber Creek's Cameron Chambers (15), Shawnee vs. Timber Creek football, South Jersey Group IV final, at Rowan University, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013. Tim Hawk/South Jersey Times/nj.com
Cameron Chambers is ranked the No. 22 wide receiver, the No. 6 player in New Jersey and the No. 119 player in the nation. He also reportedly had scholarship offers from Alabama, Florida, Michigan, Ohio State, South Carolina, Virginia Tech and Wisconsin, among others. Courtesy of nj.com
Noah Davis is a three-star tight end from Cincinnati St. Xavier. He's listed at 6-feet-5 and 235 pounds and also reportedly had scholarship offers from Arkansas, Nebraska and Iowa, among others. Courtesy of St. Xavier High
Justin Layne is a four-star wide receiver from Cleveland Benedictine. He's ranked the No. 5 player in Ohio, No. 34 receiver and No. 163 player overall. Jay LaPrete Associated Press
Justin Layne, left, is listed at 6-feet-2 and 181 pounds. He also reportedly had scholarship offers from Alabama, Florida, Miami (Fla.), Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State and Penn State, among others. Jay LaPrete Associated Press
Thiyo Lukusa is a three-star tackle from Traverse City West. Alan Newton Traverse City West
Thiyo Lukusa is listed at 6-feet-5 and 300 pounds. He's ranked the No. 10 player in Michigan and the No. 31 tackle in the nation. Alan Newton Traverse City West
Offensive lineman Thiyo Lukusa. Alan Newton Traverse City West


When do we know to seek a professional therapist or counselor vs. trying to apply our own self help? - People Inc.
What is the difference between seeing a therapist vs. reading and exploring self help on my own?
Hmmm… Do I look for a counselor or therapist or do I do my own "self-help" journey with books, seminars, etc. I asked that question of myself many years ago, and it is still being asked. To this day, I hear people say "Oh, I'm not "crazy", so I don't need to go to a counselor". Also, the conception that we "should" be able to figure out our own problems and our own issues and if we can't we are admitting to some kind of weakness. It has gotten much better, but it still is quite pervasive.
I am standing on a lakeshore and I must get to the other side, my health depends on it. There's a special combination of potions that are there and I've heard over and over that it will dramatically improve my health. I approach the water, in which I have never been… I do not know how to swim. I flail about, getting nowhere. I try again, I flail some more. I am very discouraged. After a few days of this I notice a book lying in the grass on the shore. The title is "How to swim". Yay!! I say to myself. But, then I notice another book and then another book and then another. All of them are "learn how to swim books". As I sit down and start to read I notice the methods are a bit different from book to book. Hmmm, which should I apply. It really is important that I apply the right methods because my health depends on me getting to the other side. I am so caught up in trying to figure out the right methods to use that I don't do much to actually apply these methods. I am confused and frustrated. I lay down and take a nap, exhausted from the mental confusion.


Capable of HAB LV2 climb.
REX was a specialized bot that was adept in scoring in the near switch and vault. It would fill the entire vault nearly every match, earning a Vault Master peer-award at Buckeye Regional from Team #2228.
Robots-R-Us earns Regional Winner title!
Robots-R-Us, a team of area high school students, traveled to Perry, Georgia and won the FIRST Robotics Competition; the Georgia Southern Classic Regional. Robots-R-Us, FRC team #3266, combined with FLASH, FRC #1319 from Greenville, SC (Greenville County Schools) and G3 Robotics, FRC #1648 from Atlanta, GA (Grady High School) to form the winning three team alliance. Recycle Rush is the FIRST 2015 challenge and alliance members worked together to build stacks of industrial totes topped with recycling trash bins.
Over 3,000 FIRST teams from around the world had just six weeks to design and build robots for Recycle Rush. Teams of high school age kids compete in over 100 world wide regional and district events to earn a spot at the FIRST Championship in St. Louis, MO April 22-26. The local team with students from Richmond High School, Eaton High School, Preble-Shawnee High School and home school students will now make their first trip to the FIRST Championship to compete.
U.S. FIRST organizes programs to inspire kids, 3rd through 12th grade, to become science and technology leaders by organizing exciting and fun robotic competitions. Using everything from Legos to computer programmed motor encoders team members learn how to work in teams to learn key science principles and how to solve challenges and tasks using technology.
Robots-R-Us has been close to earning a spot to the FIRST Championships the last several years after qualifying in the number one spot at the FRC Queen City Regional the last two years. Robots-R-Us will perform at the 2015 Queen City Regional, April1-4 at the CINTAS Center in Cincinnati. The story was much different at the Georgia Southern Classic where Robots-R-Us had to overcome many diverse challenges the first two days of the competition finally finding its stride in the second half of qualifying rounds. The team missed all of their practice games due to having to rebuild and trouble shoot their drive and electrical systems. A faulty power distribution component delayed the team another 2 hours then the robot failed inspection due to being 11 pounds overweight. The next two hours were spent strategically eliminating components and parts that would not decrease the robots key performance areas. Learning to overcome obstacles and how to work together to solve problems are one of the benefits of the FIRST experience and were never truer than they were at the Georgia Southern Classic for Robots-R-Us.
The team had just 11 qualifying matches to prove they could perform the challenges of Recycle Rush efficiently. After each of the first two matches various systems were dialed in and tweaked but then in the third match the gear box for the elevator system malfunctioned and the team had to break in and rebuild one of the systems that require the most time. The team missed their fourth match while repairing their worm gear assembly and barely made their fifth match. Robots-R-Us won that fifth match soundly and were back on track. So with just 3 matches of field time, 7.5 minutes, the team had dialed in all of the systems on the robot and were ready to compete. This team was not to be denied it was their 'Destiny' to overcome all barriers and earn their spot at the FIRST Championships.
Robots-R-Us was selected as the third alliance member on the fourth alliance by Flash FRC #1319 along with G3 Robotics FRC #1648. The alliance went undefeated through the elimination matches winning 7 straight matches to win the FIRST Georgia Southern Classic Regional.
DESTINY caps a stack of totes with a container and a noodle!
DESTINY works on stacking some totes.
DESTINY holds 3 yellow totes getting ready to score coop points during a qualification match.
The fourth seed alliance meets before the playoff matches begin.


A free skool is a decentralized network that allows people to share knowledge, information and skills, without the institutional hierarchy and authoritarianism of conventional school. The open configuration of free skools encourages self-reliance, personal development, and critical consciousness. Free skools offer a great social and learning resources for unschoolers and others looking to learn and share knowledge without institutional school.
Generally, free skools intentionally use the non-traditional spelling of the word school to demonstrate the non-traditional aspects of their methods. Additionally, the difference in spelling between skool and school helps stress the difference between free skooling and conventional schooling.
The history of free skools traces back to the anarchist schools of Spain in the late Nineteenth Century and early Twentieth Century. More recently, the free skool methodology had a revival in the democratic school movement.
Free skools inherently take a non-institutional and non-authoritarian approach to learning and knowledge-sharing. Generally, a free skool comes in the form of a grassroots effort as a set of individuals who work both autonomously and collectively to form local learning opportunities and skill-sharing.
Free skools often favor a gift economy as opposed to a market economy, meaning they favor giving goods and services away rather than buying and selling them. However, the word "free" in free skools does not merely refer to money, but rather to an emphasis on personal freedom especially when it comes to the freedom to exchange information, including free speech, and the freedom to choose how to learn on one's own. In other words, the free in free skools comes from the lack of coercion and authority of institutional schools.
While some simply offer moderate democratic reforms to the conventional education system, more radical manifestations of non-hierarchical learning have popped up, both in the form of temporary and permanent free skools, which both offer alternatives to the oppressive and institutional educational industry. Many radical gatherings and actions now commonly include temporary free skools with skill-sharing and knowledge-sharing. The permanent skools have also popped up throughout North America, and these "skools" offer a vast range of classes, workshops, and skill-shares.
I hope this article answered all of your questions about free skools. If you have any remaining questions, or if you have any comments or suggestions, please post them in our Education and Learning Forums.