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Microcoryphia: The Antique World of Bristletails
The Microcoryphia, known as bristletails are part of the old Thysanura (or three pronged bristle-tails) along with the Zygentoma. They are an ancient lineage linking the Apterygota (primarily wingless insects) and the Pterygota (primarily winged insects). It contains some of the most primitive of insects known to man i.e., the Thysanura are most like what we think the first insects looked like.
The earliest known fossil Microcoryphian is from the Lower Devonian period. (419 million–393 million years ago.)
The Protura, Diplura and Collembola represent other branches from a shared arthropodal ancestor, which are considered part of the 'Hexapoda', but not part of the 'Insecta'.
The Hexapoda is a separate superclass of arthropods, including the smaller group the 'Insecta'- which contains the rest of what we think of as 'The Insects' in classification schemes.
Biology of the Microcoryphia
The Microcoryphia are small (7–20 mm), flightless insects with ectognathous mouth parts (externally visible, as compared to the entognathous mouth parts of the Diplura, Protura and Collembola – which are sunk into the head and thus not immediately visible). They have long filiform antennae with as many as, or more than, 30 segments.
The abdomen has ten segments generally ending in three 'tails' consisting of two cerci and a telson, caudal filament or epiproct. The cerci are shorter, often much shorter, than caudal filament. They are commonly called Bristletails, or Three-pronged Bristletails to distinguish them from the Diplura which are sometimes referred to as Two-pronged Bristletails.
Microcoryphia are cylindrical, with enlarged dorsal thoracic plates, making them appear teardrop shaped or humpbacked.
Cylindrical body, laterally compressed; monocondylar jaw; large continuous compound eyes, and usually three ocelli. They also possess styles in the coxas (missing exceptionally) and respiratory stigmata in abdominal segments II-VIII;
They spend most of their life concealed beneath or within stones, wood, houses, the soil etc., and they mostly feed on dead plant material and fungal hyphae. There are more than 514 identified species in the world as of March 2021
Rock Bristletail (microcoryphia) on Ordovician sedimentary rocks
Their most common natural enemies are spiders, although centipedes and carabid beetles are also know to eat them. Internally they may be parasitized by Sporozoans and externally they can have a problem with erythraeid mites. Some species of Zygentoma are also parasitized by Strepsipterans.
Some members of the Zygentoma, such as the SilverFishes (Lepisma saccharina & Ctenolepisma longicauda) and the Firebrat (Lepismodes inquilinus) can be a nuisance in homes and offices, where they will eat both paper and cotton. They possess their own cellulase enzymes and are not dependent on bacteria to digest such products, in the way Termites are for instance.
Reproduction of the Microcoryphia
Fertilization is indirect, meaning the males leave packets of sperm, called spermatophores, attached to the substrate for the females to find. Therefore there is no contact between the sexes for mating and no courtship. They lay their eggs (normally between 5 and 20) in small crevices, or loose in the substrate – although some members of the family Nicoletiidae lay their eggs singly, one here, one there.
Their eggs are colored orange, brown or grey when laid but quickly darken. The young possess an egg tooth in their first instar, this helps them escape the egg. They look like miniature (but pale) adults. They do not gain the scales that give them their color until the 2nd instar in the Microcoryphia and the 3rd instar in the Zygentoma.
The time taken to reach maturity varies considerably. In some species they become sexually active after the 9th instar, but in others not until the 14th or 15th. They live relatively long lives, up to 4 years, and continue to moult regularly as adults.
You can see some lovely paintings of some thysanura done by A.T.Hollick in the 1860's in John Lubbock's 1871 monograph on the Collembola and Thysanura.
Microcoryphian Taxonomy
Order Microcoryphia / Archeognatha
Family Machilidae
Genus Heteropsontus
Genus Leptomachilis
Genus Mesomachilis
Genus Meximachilis
Genus Neomachilis
Genus Pedetontoides
Genus Pedetontus
Genus Petridiobius
Genus Petrobius
Genus Trigoniophthalmus
Family Meinertellidae
Genus Hypomachilodes
Genus Machilinus
Genus Machiloides
Genus Nesomachilis
Image Credits:- Cover Image by Yasunori Koide – License CC BY-SA 3.0, Microcoryphia Image License: Creative Commons
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The Laboratory of Immune Cell Biology is composed of independent laboratories with a common interest in the biology of the immune system at the molecular and cellular levels.
Dr. Ashwell's laboratory focuses on the mechanisms and consequences of apoptosis (regulated cell death). Among the major approaches being taken to understand this important biological phenomenon are (1) characterization of the ubiquitin protein ligase (E3) activity of the IAP (Inhibitor of Apoptosis) family of molecules, (2) determination of the role of IAPs in signaling via TNF receptors, and (3) studies of the mechanisms of glucocorticoid-induced killing and immunosuppression. Other studies are aimed at understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying antigen-specific thymocyte selection.
Dr. Bosselut's group investigates how T cell receptor (TCR) engagement promotes survival and differentiation of T lymphocyte precursors during their intrathymic development (a process known as positive selection). Previous studies have examined how signaling by CD4 and CD8 molecules impacts TCR-induced differentiation events during positive selection. Current projects aim at identifying intracellular pathways, and their target genes, that transduce survival and differentiation signals during positive selection. Ongoing approaches make use of models generated in the laboratory, in which premature interruption of TCR signals blocks thymocyte development at intermediate steps of the selection process.
The research of Dr. Liu's lab focuses on: 1) the mechanisms of cell death and the involvement of cell death, particularly, necroptosis, in tumorigenesis; 2) the roles of inflammation and the alternatively differentiated macrophages in tumorigenesis. The early research of the lab contributes to the current understanding of TNF signaling, the mechanisms of cell death and the roles of cell death and inflammation in tumorigenesis. More recently, the lab investigates how necroptosis of tumor cells is regulated and promotes tumor metastasis. The lab uses a wide spectrum of cellular, molecular, immunological and biochemical approaches and multiple mouse knockout and mouse cancer models in their research.


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Q: Exception: 0xc0000005 When Media Player OCX control is loaded on second time In a .NET Compact Framework application we are using ocx media player component written by coppercoins.
The media player launches on a new screen when ever user clicks a button. The media player works well on the first time. When we close the media player form and launch it once again on click of the button, it breaks with the following exception
ExceptionCode: 0xc0000005
ExceptionAddress: <address location>

Can someone tell me how to resolve this issue?
Note: we are disposing the media player form as well as the media player activeX wrapper control when the form is closed. The media player is disposed inside the designer code( using as shown below
    protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
    {
        if (disposing && (components != null))
        {
            components.Dispose();
        }
        if (disposing)
        {

            _axPlayer.Dispose();
            _axPlayer = null;
        }
        base.Dispose(disposing);
    }

A: That probably isn't going to be something you'll be able to fix your side and is an issue for forward to the component designer.
As a work around I would suggest retaining the object reference for the duration of the application and not disposing it. Obviously this blows if it occupies a lot of memory.

A: this solution helped me to fix the issue Media Player Control for .NET Compact Framework

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The 2015 free agent signee out of Curacao is the fifth player from HiA down through the Dominican Summer League to hit for the cycle this season. Against Kingsport last night, Willems started things off with a two-out solo home run in the top of the first, then grounded into a double play in the 3rd. The 5'11"- 180 lb. righty laced a triple to right field in the fifth, scoring recent number one draft pick Jonathan India from first. Willems singled in the 7th, which scored 2018 – 4th rounder Mike Siani, then Willems capped off his cycle with a double to left field in the eighth. But it was the Mets who came out victorious, as Kingsport second baseman Yoel Romero (who you'll see below) launched a solo, walk-off home run over the left field wall to steal a 13-12 victory. Willems joins Freddvil Chavez (DSL Rays2), Jesus Valdez (DSL Dodgers Guerrero), and (HiA San Jose) teammates Jalen Miller and Gio Brusa as members of the 2018 UTR Cycle Club. We've also seen several near-miss cycles this season. Three players have fallen a single short: (Bobby Dalbec – HiA Salem; Heriberto Hernandez – DSL Rangers2; and Kyle McPherson – SS Salem-Keizer), three others went homer-less in their quest to complete a cycle: (Andres Melendez – DSL Brewers; Cody Thomas – HiA Rancho Cucamonga; and Jimmy Kerrigan – HiA Fort Myers) and just yesterday, teammates Vinny Esposito and today's A.L. THOD both fell a triple shy of completing the cycle in a 15-6 rout of (fellow) GCL Tigers East.
Despite each falling a triple short of the cycle, for today's A.L. THOD Perez and teammate Esposito, things came up in eight's yesterday. The Tigers West short stop and left fielder collected eight of West's 16 hits, scored eight of their 15 runs and were responsible for eight of Tigers West's 13 RBi's.
It's draft picks like Qsar that are the reason we do what we do here. The 25th round selection (2018) out of Pepperdine currently sits in the Appalachian League top five in several offensive statistical categories. His 28 hits ranks second, he's fifth in runs scored (17), first in homers, first in RBi (21), first in total bases (55), ranks third in both SLG% (.743) and OPS (1.189).
Eaton is another late-round draft pick excelling in his first pro season. The Royals drafted Eaton in the 21st round in 2018 out of Virginia Military Institute (VMI), where he played two seasons, 2016 and 2018. In 2017 he wasn't with the team, but in 2018, the 5'11"- 185 lb. catcher, yes catcher, set the VMI stolen base record with 36 steals in 52 games before being drafted and signing with the Royals for (what could be a bargain price of) $85K. Playing mostly third and some second base, Eaton currently leads the Pioneer League in triples (6), on-base percentage (.530), OPS (1.212) and is tied for the league lead in walks (17).


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Gasoline cost to jump $700 for average household | Reuters.
There is a 25 percent chance the pump price will exceed $4 a gallon from June through August, the agency said, compared with a 10 percent probability gasoline could fall below $3 during the same period.
I think they need to review their math skills at the agency where they made this projection. It is wrong.
The price of gasoline is already at or over $4.00 a gallon in Chicago, it has been reported. And, it is over $4 a gallon in California, Denver and probably anywhere Spring Break destinations are used to having a captive audience.
Summer will be even more so. My guess is that the price of gasoline will go up substantially higher than that because the traders and speculators driving the prices per barrel are already trying to figure out how to offload what they've purchased and make a bigger profit from it. They likely figure this is one of those once in a lifetime deals where they can really make a killing. That would be my guess. It will stagger through the economy faster than the contracts that will get delivered because that is how it has done in the past (2008, 1970's) as companies try to get ahead of the upswing in costs to have a buffer.
On a personal note, as I have noticed in the stores when I stopped buying cereal – it the boxes that cost nearly $5 already get any skinnier – we can use them as postage stamps instead. I don't know how they get away with it. Many foods now look like something from a child's play kitchen set with little in it at all. That is going to be even more so as the commodities prices have been driving upwards by the traders on the exchanges and now add the increased price of oil, gasoline, shipping and increased cargo charges to them. It is not going to work.
The law of supply and demand would naturally bring these prices down or the quantities up because there cannot possibly be as many people buying these things at these prices for the amount of product offered. But, the free market doesn't exist in America in that sense. It is unnaturally supported in the manner middlemen including the commodities traders are driving the prices. The losses can be written off and it doesn't yield any incentive to meet the market demand where it is and price competitively to it at the real value.
Oh well. If we had a better deal on the oil that is being pulled out of the ground in America, like Libya's foul leaders got from the oil industries – we wouldn't even be having this problem.
They only give away 12% of the profits and charge a "sign-on" bonus over a billion dollars each to the oil companies (and they are glad to get it.) Damn ridiculous while we are subsidizing the oil companies and begging them to do whatever they will to get our oil out of the ground so they can profit at our expense. Damn ridiculous.
The secret group setting the price of oil: Us. – FORTUNE Features – Fortune on CNNMoney.com.
Power plants, gas stations, fuel distributors, and oil companies across the globe paid close attention to this rarefied casino, watching carefully for any price changes that would determine how much they would pay for fuel and what they'd charge their customers, the ordinary consumer. Newspapers and television networks trumpeted Nymex's prices as the holy gospel, beaming them throughout the continents for all to follow—banks, hedge funds, Wall street investors, even the top-producing oil nations of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia, and Norway.
D'Agostino: No. OPEC only sets the oil supply. . . . The price of oil is actually set in New York. . . .
O'Reilly: Is there a guy who says $125 a barrel?
D'Agostino: No. There's a huge market. It's filled with hedgers. It's filled with speculators. It's filled with moms and dads, average Americans. It's a big market that sets the price.
O'Reilly: somebody has to put the $125 on the barrel. Who does it?
(an excerpt from the Bill O'Reilly show included in the text, the first paragraph is from the author of the article and book that serves as its basis) – well worth reading the whole thing, my note.
No, ___ – that is wrong. Using the technology described in the article would not mean what you said. And, the profits from producing it wouldn't go where you said, either.
Just as with anything, from those high-tech hydrofoil boats to nanoparticle finishes on sunglasses, the technology from Cella Energy in the UK could be "purchased" as rights to use it by leasing the rights, or licensing. That would give the right to produce fuel with what they discovered. The plant to produce it could be in the US with US workers, paying US taxes, distributing it through US owned businesses and distributors, and selling it around the world from the US companies where it is being produced. The business revenues and profits would be in the US. The people working in all those companies involved with it would be people in the US and the owners of the companies that license the fuel technology to produce it would be US owners / US business people. The corporate taxes and fuel taxes paid on it would go to the US.
Now, at what point, do you not realize that the best way to make a real dent in the deficit is by rebuilding our economy, rather than by cutting everything keeping it stable to shreds. That is partly how we got here in the first place. New businesses were not built or they were pushed out of business, they decided to go elsewhere or they couldn't compete in the US marketplace if they were based here. A wealthy country can simply pay off that debt. In oil rich Kuwait, the citizens are all provided for by the revenues from the oil resources being harvested there. None of them have to work at anything, unless they just want to and the government provides absolutely everything. Many societies get more from their natural and national resources for their federal budgets than our nation does. We have been robbed. And, as much as that is the truth of it – what we do now as Americans matters even more.
We can pay a fee to license any technology, any new technology, any new discovery from anywhere in the world, from any university in the US or around the world, any existing patent and newly discovered whatever and use it by license to create new businesses that provide fuels in a different way, that provide light for our homes in other ways, that neutralize the chemical pollution of our cities, that provide a better concrete, that makes a better way to build sidewalks to allow water to seep through rather than to flood streets, and vast other things. Those businesses built on these things, pay a small fee to the licensing but otherwise, produce for America all the revenues and profits and employment and support of other businesses around them that they create.
And, don't let that number fool you or your friends about the amount of money owed – it just means that we each need to create one good piece of software to sell around the world and it can be paid off. Or, vote to use Yucca Mountain as a massive server farm leasing space to servers from governments around the world instead of using it for radioactive waste to be stockpiled there. In India, there are physicists that have created a process to more completely use the radioactive materials with a process of fission combined with fusion which they are going to be licensing and Russia is using reprocessing radioactive materials as a revenue generating industry for their own economy. We could be doing that too. We could be doing a lot of things as Americans, including building new businesses that are based on the solutions to real problems we face as a nation.
Yes, both London and Wall Street financed and insured both sides of most wars, most military assets, many paramilitaries, most governments, many businesses and many more corporations. That is how they have been making their money. Apparently, they've already figured out how to do that well and make money going in both directions at the same time. In their estimation, it has nothing to do with conscience – it has to do with being "fair" by supporting all sides with financing at the same time, they are satisfying their corporate goals of being profitable. It has yielded and supported some pretty horrific things but they are playing by the rules they set – so either we get in the game by those rules and outdo them or simply stay indebted to them and other powers in the world, give them all our money and resources, or watch our money and resources be devalued to nearly nothing and still have to pay them for borrowing their money.
Personally, I think it would be better to rise up in our efforts rather than to muck about fussing with who is right about what a mess it is now. I noticed that a lot of those sites you visit are not inclined to have told you that when nations and people from around the world can buy something they need or want, only from America – then they spend money here which becomes ours to use for our nation's needs, our states' needs, our local communities' needs, our education systems, our community businesses, our employment opportunities, our futures, our individual needs, and all those other things we think are important.
And, after seeing that the US gave Egypt $150 Billion Dollars since 1950 for military needs – as in "gave them $150 Billion Dollars" plus countless sweet contracts on equipment and several billion for education and other civil society things, even over the past few years – And, seeing that there are entire programs to give huge grant funds to people in the Middle East, set up by President Bush administration – for starting businesses, creating innovation, expanding businesses, etc. – And, other things of a similar nature – it occurs to me that if all expenditures being given to every other nation on the planet from the US taxpayers' money were to completely stop – we wouldn't have a deficit at all . . .
That is good news, but the moneys for the fuel still would go to England.
We need moneys being made here to keep the moneys here so we can pay the debt that the government has assigned to us as taxpayers. That is unless you can figure how everyone in the population can come up with $200,000 average per person to pay off this horrible tax debt they have set up.
Right now if the tax rate were raised to 100%, we still could not pay the interest on the present debt loan, and the African born, so called, president (completely illegal under our constitution), wants to increase the National Debt Limit. It is kind of like killing a person by shooting them with $200,000 and wanting to shoot them with another $200,000.
I would say "what is wrong with these people", but I think I know. He wants to set up a communist New World Order. There is a war going on "to destroy your freedom".
PS: He calls it "World Order". And the big bankers that are directing the actions here and around the world are centered in England.
UK-based Cella Energy has developed a synthetic fuel that could lead to US$1.50 per gallon gasoline. Apart from promising a future transportation fuel with a stable price regardless of oil prices, the fuel is hydrogen based and produces no carbon emissions when burned. The technology is based on complex hydrides, and has been developed over a four year top secret program at the prestigious Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford.
Early indications are that the fuel can be used in existing internal combustion engined vehicles without engine modification.
According to Stephen Voller CEO at Cella Energy, the technology was developed using advanced materials science, taking high energy materials and encapsulating them using a nanostructuring technique called coaxial electrospraying.
To see that the thing I sent to my family members, didn't inspire them or yield even a thought about what could be done with it – is rather horrifying. It is as if any simple thing serves to simply add to the argument they've already bought made by those who have none of our best interests at heart. When I found so many of the right wing websites and even radio broadcasting, are owned by gold and silver traders, hosting revenue generating ads from a multitude of arms dealers and militia-oriented equipment and training along with using themes to intentionally incite fear, instigate violence, and make their sales based upon fear, hate and intolerance – I didn't like it. There is no point to it but to sell those things by virtue of instilling fear and intolerance in their participants, listeners, readers and audience members.
Most of our loss of freedoms and quasi-legal denials of our guaranteed rights under the Constitution have happened over the last thirty years under the conservative run Republican administrations that have been in power across the Federal level and in almost every state. They gave sovereign immunity to states. They divided our nation into fifty sovereign nation states rather than us being one great nation indivisible. They did those things. And, they have fit us into the "New World Order" which was done in the manner they conceived of it that now makes us look like a nation in decline who owes fealty to literally every other nation on the earth. Our tax money has been spent to freely give around the world by hundreds of billions and even in the trillions of dollars, while any of us in America couldn't even have the support of our own agencies to build a business, start a business, grow a business or market a business or support our own education systems and communities. That is what they have left to us.
They didn't want efficient rapid transit, because their personal incomes and organizational incomes were deriving benefit from petroleum industries – so electric trolley systems were devolved, train systems were decimated, underground subway systems weren't built (such as in Los Angeles early on), gas guzzling automobile and truck engines weren't made competitive with the rest of the world, electric and alternative fueled vehicles were busted rather than being manufactured and promoted, and now our cities, towns and rural areas across America look like industrial cesspools in air quality, in the soil readings, in available water sources and in every other thing it has touched.
The budget deficits we are paying for today, came from the failed economic policies of thirty years under the rule of conservative Republicans who failed to see what the real world around them was becoming at their hands. And, the interest payments we are required to pay today, were made on terms they created, with dollar values they devalued, after leaving our nation desolate from every natural resource being raped, pillaged and plundered by the outside corporate interests who gave us nearly nothing for them compared to the profits they received from them. Not even Saudi Arabia would allow that, but our nation's leaders did – long before President Obama and his current team ever had the chance to be in the office.
When I wrote the America the Beautiful Show idea on paper in my home, and then posted it on my blog once I realized that I personally was not in a position to have the freedom to do it, and then last August as I posted the idea on a website of its own (an my daughter put a flash website together for it) – I had really genuinely believed that it was a good idea that others could pick up and do across the United States. I believed that people would want to do things to help rebuild our economic freedoms and help one another to do that. And, then I saw the right wing websites filling the internet, the airwaves, and my family's older members own emails and posts they were, and are shipping all over the country to people they know. And, I realized how much money is in it – and how much they are willing to give to it, and how much all their friends are giving into it while they sit at home and say they don't want to be bothered with the news, or the news in the world, or to "think" about anything.
But, they "think" about those things they hear on the right wing broadcasts and read on those right wing websites and emails sent from them enough to repeat those things without regard for thinking to see if it makes sense, or to find out if parts of it have twisted interpretations of facts or if it has out and out falsehoods in it. They just repeat them and send money to support what they believe are efforts to return our nation to "I don't even know what" – but it isn't good. I think they believe the conservatives and the conservative right wing politicians in general will return the nation to a time of their youth when all was right with the world. But, after having watched the situation in Egypt over the past few days, and finding out how much of our money has put sophisticated military hardware in the hands of a bunch of sadistic lunatics running Egypt's government – I would have to say that it wasn't safe, protected, stable and right in the world (nor in the US) even when they were young.
Looking at how much money we've spent to subsidize electric cars and the existing car industries being able to re-tool to produce them, having paid for most, if not all of the research on them and the battery technologies for them, and having noted the literally hundreds of billions upon billions given to the various industries over the years in grants, incentives, tax breaks, property, expansion grants, subsidies, research done for them, analysis done for them, distribution infrastructures built for them and paid for by us – I keep thinking that just about any American citizen could've been able to do the same thing had we been allowed in the action. Or am I to believe that if I had been given $3.2 billion dollars and all the research on it, a factory building and property for a dollar as many states have done and no taxes on the money made – that I couldn't have produced a few thousand electric cars for a retail price of $42,000 each? Oh yes I could.
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Afghanistan updates: Taliban warns US withdrawal deadline is 'a red line'
Author : jaguarlong
The Taliban warned of "consequences" if Biden extends the withdrawal deadline.
Chaos has enveloped Kabul after Afghanistan's government's collapsed and the Taliban seized control, all but ending America's 20-year campaign as it began: under Taliban rule.
The U.S. has evacuated approximately 17,000 people since Aug. 14, White House officials said late Saturday morning. Pentagon officials have said their focus remains on maintaining the airport perimeter and increasing the number of evacuees out of Kabul.
President Joe Biden returned to Washington from Camp David on Wednesday and sat down with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos for an exclusive one-on-one interview at the White House, the president's first interview since the withdrawal from Afghanistan. He addressed the nation on evacuation efforts Friday.
Some 16,300 people evacuated from Kabul in past 24 hours
The United States has evacuated and facilitated the evacuation of approximately 37,000 people from Kabul since Aug. 14 when the Taliban closed in on Afghanistan's capital, according to a White House official.
In a 24-hour period from Sunday to Monday, 28 U.S. military flights evacuated approximately 10,400 people from Kabul. Another 5,900 people were evacuated via 61 coalition aircraft.
Since the end of July, the U.S. has relocated approximately 42,000 people from Kabul, the White House official said.
Taliban warns of 'consequences' if Biden extends withdrawal deadline: 'It's a red line'
Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen told Sky News that Aug. 31, the date Biden has set for completing the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, is a "red line" and extending it would "provoke a reaction."
The U.S. president said Sunday he would not rule out extending the withdrawal deadline beyond Aug. 31, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly expected to urge Biden for an extension. But the Taliban spokesman warned "there would be consequences."
"President Biden announced that on the 31st of August they would withdraw all their military forces. So if they extend it, that means they are extending occupation while there is no need for that," Shaheen said in a recent interview with Sky News. "I think it will deteriorate the relation that will create mistrust between us."
At least 1 killed, 3 wounded in gunfight at Kabul airport
One Afghan soldier was killed and three others were wounded in a shootout with unidentified attackers at the international airport in Kabul on Monday morning, the German military announced via Twitter.
Both German and American forces returned fire when the shooting erupted at the north gate of the Hamid Karzai International Airport. No German soldiers were hurt in the exchange, according to the German military.
The U.S. military is aware of an incident at one of the gates, a defense official told ABC News.
The deadly gun battle occurred as the United States and other Western nations oversaw the evacuation of thousands of Afghan nationals and foreigners desperate to flee the Taliban-controlled country.
Southwest to begin domestic refugee flights
Joining other international airlines like United, Delta and American, Southwest Airlines announced Sunday that it will work with the Department of Defense to help transport domestic refugees from Afghanistan.
"We are proud to support our military's critical humanitarian airlift mission, and we are grateful to our Employees for demonstrating an eagerness to support these military efforts, once again displaying their true Southwest Heart," the company said in a statement Sunday.
Southwest said it plans to operate four of these types of flights on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
"Of course, the Southwest Team stands ready to provide additional support to the Department of Defense, if needed," the company said.
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Widely-publicized Steam Invite hack has been fixed
- Widely-publicized Steam Invite hack has been fixed Reverse-engineering group Secret Club has announced the patch, but other problems go unfixed.
Biden says he'll 'work like hell' to get infrastructure agenda across finish line
- After multiple delays to a House vote on his infrastructure deal this week, President Joe Biden says he still believes his party can overcome
The Taliban will just wait them out and wont get into substantive issues
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Exhibition | NCECA: Jordan Taylor sees Partial Truths at the 2015 Biennial
Below is an essay by Jordan Taylor regarding the most recent NCECA Biennial. For other coverage on the event, please read the excellent pieces by Justin Crowe and Anders Ruhwald. For the show catalog, click here.
False consensus is unanimity achieved by partial surrender of values. True consensus is where actual unanimity has been fought for down to the last point and reached. Truly consensual agreement achieves a truth beyond the sum of individual votes, something that may have been unimaginable at the outset.
Above image: Marissa Neuman, 90 Degrees and Sunny, 2014, stoneware, underglaze, clear glaze, wood, foam, textiles
In their statements, jurors of the 2015 NCECA Biennial at Brown University's David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence acknowledge that the structure of a juried exhibition can only produce a partial truth. I agree despite NCECA Executive Director Josh Green's astute defense of a historic tradition in juried art exhibitions, and despite NCECA Exhibitions Director Leigh Taylor Mickelson's assertion that the process involved "true debate."
Jeremy Ayers, Circle Box, 2014, brown stoneware, wax resisted and glazed
Juror Anders Ruhwald calls the outcome a "hotch-pot", a mixture. The parent in me takes delight in his demotion of "hodgepodge" to gibberish, a proto language in which my daughter was—and all children in the process of language acquisition are—fluent. This is what I assumed flowed non-stop from my daughter's mouth, much like what filled her diapers: unselfconscious expulsions.
That is until I realized her effluent was often in response to books held right side up and with pauses and changes in inflection as she turned pages. There was order derived from her experience of a code not yet understood—text—and from that she communicated at least a partial truth.
John Utgaard, Sink, 2014, earthenware, glaze, 3.5 x 20 x 20 inches
To be transparent, my approach to reviewing the exhibition is similar. I limited my research to viewing the work and the catalog, and in most cases did not know the artists' work in advance, feeling there was a more truthful response to how the work functions in this context than if I were crediting a given piece for the same artist's preceding work.
Virginia Pates, The Lower Parking Lot, 2014, thrown and altered porcelain, fired dirt from the lower parking lot at the Annandale Campus of Northern Virginia Community College, 9 x 10 x 10 inches
On that note, there are works in the exhibition that derive from our collective ceramic history. John Rohlfing's Untitled echoes early Volkous, John Utgaard's Sink speaks of Glen Lukens just as Virgina Pates The Lower Parking Lot evokes the Natzlers. Zack Spates's proud pitcher is rooted in both the apprenticeship tradition that he (and I) trained in. It's also successfully engaging in the continual re-animation of the very shino that Jeremy Brooks subverts in Shinowear, subversion being its own form of homage.
Jeremy Brooks, Coming Out, 2013, manufactured porcelain plate, frame, ceramic decal
Jeremy Brooks, Shinowear, 2014, wood fired stoneware, shino glaze, ceramic decal, 8 x 8 x 1.25 inches
None of this is a problem for me, I reuse words and sounds all the time, find no less meaning for it and love "etymology" in ceramics. Brooks's other work Coming Out is a delightful bequeathing of gay memorabilia, dynamic in this moment as gay civil rights make great strides, at least outside of Indiana.
Culture around homosexuality is not typically passed generation by generation along to progeny. This is not for lack of loving gay parents or loving heterosexual parents of gay children, but because homosexuality comes and goes from one generation to another. And until recently it certainly was not a matter to be cherishes for family celebration.
Zac Spates, Firebox Pitcher, 2013, wood fired porcelain, stoneware, Shino slip, 13 x 7 x 7 inches. Photograph by Peter Lee.
The idea of homosexual memorabilia makes concrete an uncertain future for this commemorative platter. Will it be held until the next gay family member pops up? Language, unlike homosexuality, is learned, and we can accelerate our acquisition of language in studying its origins. What if we did not need to break new ground in the field for our work to be considered original. Can we be free to make work that is original, meaning, "of its origin", without the term "derivative" being derogatory?
Vlad Basarab, The Archaeology of Memory_Large Book, 2014, unfired white clay, video, 43 x 43 x 32 inches
In considering language, several artists dealt with constructs around text and code. Vlad Basarb's Archaeology of Memory aptly unpacks how language evolves. To my mind, the clay book on the table does not need the time-lapse video backdrop or the cello music. All the drama of the work was already in place.
Alternately, Jeffery Mongrain's State of the Union… does not fully exist without the exhibition label, though the idea of giving material form to sound waves is alluring. Mongrain's work began with text— Herbert Hoover's 1929 State of the Union catch phrase "returning to normal"— and so excising the label would be elective, unnecessary surgery. In the end I take a pleasure from the irony of giving normality a physical form more so than from his petrifying of sound.
Amiko Matuso's collaboration with Brad Monsma also leans heavily on custom-made Forrest Service-y signs and the text presented on them. I question the need to include the ceramics while identifying with the desire to abscond with and transform the material found at momentous or monumental sites. Their text and their traffic cones are each more effective on their own, the one as poetry published in an unusual format, the other as sculpture.
Aaron Nelson's Pixel succeeds at articulating the tension in relationship between the digital, textual, and three-dimensional spaces. The seams inherent to a flat decal on a curved surface, syncopate. That seam is the small quiet moment in which the three spaces come together. I am splitting hairs in saying that treatment of the steel panels, choices in their sizing and related joints compete too loudly for attention. Maybe that is the intent, to fractally materialize the digital construct. Perhaps the steel plates are the pixels.
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Zimra Beiner's Grey Alphabet functions in my mind like non-base 10 numeric systems. I can understand the idea of a base 6 or base 12 counting system but I am stretched to put it to use. Beiner's variations in grey, their variations in response to light and shadow and the implied utensils are meant to serve as a system for delivering meaning but are devoid of any specific meaning. Alphabet tickles my linguistic pleasure center with a healthy dose of base 61 nerdery.
Misty Gamble, Sunday, 2013, casting slip, beads, enamel, pearls, rhinestones, glaze, 72 x 132 x 2 inches. Photograph by E. G. Schempf. Click to see a larger image.
Sunday tackles a similar taxonomy to Alphabet in a display of what I heard one viewer describe as "petrified panties;" which they might be if that's all they were. Misty Gamble's rendering of women's underwear frozen in the state you find them in on the floor at the end of a day, before laundry day, is a state altered by her bedazzling of the crotch section on what would be the inside of the panties. Not knowing her work, and, pleasingly, absent explanatory text I am left straddling feminism and female sexuality, autoerotcism (the bedazzlement is not just a visual texture), and fetishization of undergarments by another, a voyeur.
Janet Macpherson, Monk, 2014, slip cast porcelain, paper clay, gold luster, 20 x 8 x 8 inches.
Janet MacPherson achieves a balance of simultaneous textual support and neglect in Monk a rabbit in ascetic garb (wait for it, the punchline is coming). The humorous tension has a darker side in its dysmorphia; it is both human and rabbit though both forms are not shown at scale. The depicted rabbit head in proportion to a human torso implies a small human or a large rabbit. Among the many issues faced by transgender people resolving (or not!) their own gender dysmorphia (a condition where a person can't stop thinking about one or more perceived flaws with appearance) is the common pressure to define transgender individuals by the genitalia and what one does with it, by whether the genitals are "intact", and what genitalia transgender people might prefer to come in contact with. It is the classic problem of an oversexed culture to frame questions of identity through gendered sexuality. The rabbit is a symbol of sex so to make the rabbit parts bigger over sexes it; to make it a monk reframes the tendency to relate to its sexual behavior.
Jin Kim, Heteronymous, 2014, porcelain, Plexiglas, 38 x 15 x 15 inches. Photograph by P.D. Rearick.
Heteronymous, according to Webster, means "having different designations" or literally from the Greek "other-named." Heteronymous by Jin Kim is the most successful title for a work. Webster's example is a parent and child being related but having different names. For all its brilliance in transmitting color to glaze by light transferring through colored plexi Heteronymous has little to do with ceramics except that there is a sort of heirloom quality to the color.
Jessika Edgar, The Thumb, 2014, red earthenware with mica, majolica glaze, imitation gold leaf, silicone, rubber, plywood, 42 x 30 x 41 inches
Jessika Edgar, Seated Woman, 2014, red earthenware with mica, majolica glaze, rubber, copper leaf, metal stool, 45 x 24 x 24 inches
Jessika Edgar's work deserves comment for its undeniable presence and even ceramic-ness despite its incorporation of other materials as supplement. Both pieces in the show achieve their impact through life size or larger renderings of the human figure, but their power comes from sheer corporeality. The fleshiness of the folds so clearly imply that the rest of the body need not be depicted for us to sense its dance with gravity and how that ties to the floor through the stool. The Thumb, the one digit that separates us from other mammals is the only mark left in treatment of the surface. Without the pedestal, we might imagine those opposing digits just under the floor but Edgar's choice of materials (latex) suggest that this thumb is a severed one and unopposed by the other digits, can only penetrate and this holds true for both her process and her sculpture.
Donna Cole, Regeneration II, 2014, porcelain, stoneware, crystalline glaze, 17.5 x 16 x 13 inches
Two works have strong form and use of material but trip me up in their choice of language. No one can deny Loopapalooza III was a part of the show, but I wish it were differently titled, and for all its scale it lacks in presence, perhaps because decisions about its form are left to, or limited by, the angle of repose determined by artist Ned Day's choice of module. This is of course a bonafide Minimalist strategy, but Day does not bring new discussion to that modality other than its "clay-ness". Regeneration II too closely resembles a mushroom to work well with the title artist Donna Cole chose for it. Both result in a formal hiccough.
Ned Day, Loopapalooza II (detail), 2012, wheel thrown and altered stoneware, porcelain, 108 x 108 x 108 inches
18 Inch Lift struck me as too opaquely conceptual, and that it may be, but it did not stop me from trying to unlock Ian Thomas's code. The state of the art world and using higher education to lever success resembles a financial plan based on a future NBA contract or winning the lottery.
Ivan Albreht, Re-deconstructed platter, 2014, broken and reassembled glazed porcelain, custom decals, gold luster, epoxy, gold leaf powder, 22 x 22 x 3 inches
When we get it, does the golden promise deliver? Re-deconstructed platter is the Biennial's unintentional emblem; Ivan Albreht's fly decals give us the clue that it is a "compound" pot just as the exhibition presents a compound vision, a common denominator truth. Were our optic centers wired to process the many lenses present, we would benefit from the synthesis of all the data.
Despite Director Green's valiant defense of the juried show, I side with Ruhwald that NCECA needs to take a risk, that the three person jury likely does not exhibit the most important work, as Green's brief history also reveals. Where is Taylor Mickelson's equivalent to Napoleon III's Palace of Industry (where artists not admitted to the Salon de Refuses were allowed to exhibit)?
Linda Christianson
Juror Linda Christianson commented on the impossibility of jurying based on images, especially for functional work, yet sharing those images took only disc space. If, as Christianson notes, it is "a crime" each time a worthy work is excluded, why not let that work live on in dignity, digitally.
Juror's choices would have so much more meaning if we could also see what they excluded, not just the few who won that year's sweepstakes. Or, embrace the gatekeeper system, but allow all those who benefit the most intensely, professors who have been hired, tenured, or in other ways anointed based on their association with NCECA, to augment Biennial funding.
Their institution is likely paying their conference registration as it is, they do not take unpaid leave from their work to attend. NCECA could then hire a single curator who does not already deal with ceramics and, absent the jury, elude the false consensus model.
Jo-Ann Conklin
Juror Jo-Ann Conklin's statement refers to Michelle Grabner's inclusion of ceramics in her "one third" and "separate but equal" part of the 2014 Whitney Biennial. The Whitney curators made a bold statement about the nature of team curating: there is rarely time for true consensus to develop. Absent a jury we might risk deepening the gibberish, but we stand to gain, as the NCECA Biennial catalog design suggests, a "flipping of the book" to right-side up even if we never fully unlock the code. To continue as we are is limiting literacy.
And, in the spirit of my own suggestion, here are images of work not discussed, not because they are not deserving of discussion, but because they simply did not spark gibberish in me.
In short the NCECA Biennial represents the mildly experimental coupled with the easily documented. For it to demonstrate the "state of the union" between fine art and clay is impossible, because it is a selection of artists who want to be included badly enough to pay a fee. It is a redacted field report on those who want to define the medium. The most compelling work going on in ceramics defies inclusion in a show like the Biennial. Work that is difficult to document, or by artists that have more mainstream outlets does not typically find its way here. Initiatives like "Across the Table" may have the right idea, documenting social practices in a "museum without walls". Perhaps Roberto Lugo's got it right, donating proceeds from art sales to offset legal fees for incarcerated youth, though there are questions to be answered there, too. As much as any of us love clay and all its possibilities we are geeks, outliers obsessed with trying to find resonance using clay. Clay is simply not central to any contemporary cultural discourse unless we inject it there. Gone are the days of fine china determining social status, or of being kicked out of a show for submitting bathroom fixtures. That said, there can be something undeniably cool about the self-professed geek.
Jordan Taylor is a Contributing Writer for CFile.
Filed Under: All Topics, Art, Exhibitions Tagged With: jordan taylor, national council on education for the ceramic arts, nceca
3 thoughts on "Exhibition | NCECA: Jordan Taylor sees Partial Truths at the 2015 Biennial"
"Re-deconstructed platter is the Biennial's unintentional emblem"
I'm confused. I thought the theme for nceca's 2015 biennial was "Lively Experiments" (especially as it relates to the spirit and history of providence, rhode island) and so I thought the works in the exhibition would be about this theme. I'm not sure how I got that impression, so I went to the 2015 biennial website and indeed it says: "THEME: Lively Experiments" (and a few clicks later I discovered that the theme for the 2011 biennial was "Tidal Forces: The Next Wave" and the theme for the 2009 biennial was "Ceramic Interface: from Dawn to Digital"…
when ceramic artists submit work to nceca's biennials, do they submit work they believe contributes to that year's theme? do the jurors select work based on that premise? or are these themes just handy taglines to brand each biennial? or does the theme only apply to a keynote speech? or what?
Jordan Taylor
Well put Kevin. Please note that I do not consider "gibberish" a derogative. The definition is "lacking sense, or the APPARENT lack of sense". Where I want clay artists to go with this is the idea that NCECA Biennials are, to use your words, a "national conversation" within a tired framework. I'm moved by the coverage Julie Green's work for its engagement in a national conversation. While the invitational is a more focused curatorial effort, both of NCECA's major exhibitions fall short of, for example, artist studio visits. The conversation that happens in the current format takes place in a room that the exhibiting artists are not actually invited into. I don't see that as "national" in scope. My comments were not a call for neat little packages. In fact, I'd like to see the same state of messiness, but one where the experimentation is not taking place solely behind studio doors. Can we support how the work functions post studio in the context of a Biennial? One problem as I see it is that there is no mechanism for submitting THAT to a jury. Another trending fetish is to denounce zombie formalism, a term I worked to avoid using in writing the review.
Kevin Dean Ramler
This trio of articles seems to reflect our culture's current curation fetish. Why is it that everything must be presented in neat organized little packets with easily digestible themes from a single unified point of view? Is there no longer any room for incoherent collections and messy jumbles? Yes a juried show like this presents a less cohesive picture, but that in itself is a more accurate representation of our world at large, and the ceramics field in particular, than a group of work cherry-picked to fit a curatorial theme, no matter how broad that theme is. The beauty of the juried show is, as you suggest, that it is drawn from those who want to be a part of the national conversation and not simply a selection of those deemed worthy to have a voice. It is also worth noting that in alternate years the NCECA sponsored exhibition is an invitational which allows for a stronger curatorial focus.


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FILE – Portland Thorns fans hold signs during the first half of the team's NWSL soccer match against the Houston Dash in Portland, Ore., Wednesday,…
FILE – Portland Thorns fans hold signs during the first half of the team's NWSL soccer match against the Houston Dash in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021. An independent investigation into the scandals that erupted in the National Women's Soccer League last season found emotional abuse and sexual misconduct were systemic in the sport, impacting multiple teams, coaches and players, according to a report released Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Steve Dipaola, File)
Prominent Thorns advertiser pulls sponsorship following scathing report
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Updated: Oct 7, 2022 / 04:13 PM PDT
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Directors Mortgage, a prominent advertiser with the Portland Timbers and Portland Thorns professional soccer teams, has pulled its sponsorship following the publication of an independent report, which exposed years of sexual abuse within the National Women's Soccer League.
The scathing report, published on Oct. 3 and conducted by former U.S. Attorney General Sally Q. Yates, highlighted the behavior of the Thorns organization's coach, owner and executives that reportedly perpetuated the harassment of its players. The team announced on Oct. 5 that its President of Soccer Gavin Wilkinson and President of Business Mike Golub were both fired in response to the report.
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However, Thorns and Timbers owner Merritt Paulson still remains in control of the teams, causing sponsors and team players to speak out against the owner's alleged actions.
"We have become aware of the independent investigation report by Sally Q. Yates and King & Spalding LLP, and we are deeply disheartened by the behavior as described in the report," Directors Mortgage publicly stated. "We have decided to move forward with efforts to end our sponsorship with the Portland Thorns and the Portland Timbers."
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"We are dismayed by the findings in the Yates investigative report released by the U.S. Soccer Federation, as they are counter to our values at Tillamook that prioritize an inclusive culture and workplace where all team members feel respected, safe and supported," the Tillamook County Creamery Association told KOIN 6. "We stand in full support of the Portland Thorns players. We will only reconsider future sponsorship if the organization makes meaningful, institutional changes."
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HIV-1 Subtype and Circulating Recombinant Form (CRF) Reference Sequences, 2005
Thomas Leitner, Bette Korber, Marcus Daniels, Charles Calef, Brian Foley
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545
Email: seq-info@lanl.gov
Website: http://hiv.lanl.gov/
Recently there has been intensive activity in the area of discovering new HIV-1 CRFs, although many of the new CRFs have not yet been published (Table 1). In addition, there have been suggestions of new sub-subtypes and potentially a new subtype (10, 11). The classification of new HIV-1 sequences follows the proposed HIV nomenclature guidelines (13, 14). When classifying new sequences, the HIV-1 subtyping reference set is often used. This set has not been updated since 2001, and thus it is time to update this set.
The criteria for updating the reference set were:
Four sequences of each HIV-1 group, subtype and sub-subtype, are included, if available.
The four sequences should roughly describe the diversity of each class as an effective population.
The CRFs included are now described by one sequence, the prototype of each recombination pattern. Thus the breakpoint pattern is based on the prototype, and will agree with the updated CRF page.
Further selection criteria for reference sequences were:
full length genomes that cover all genes,
no clear sign of recombinant history,
published with a peer reviewed citation,
recent rather than older samples,
covered major geographic distribution,
no sign of hypermutation,
not synthetic, i.e., real sequences from a patient
no extreme indels,
viable and intact as far as known.
The alignments were based on the 2004 web and compendium alignments, which were constructed using HMMER (with a model calculated on the 2003 alignment) (2). The alignment was further improved using SynchAligns (http://hiv-web.lanl.gov/content/sequence/SYNCH_ALIGNS/SynchAligns.html) to add additional sequences, GeneCutter (http://hiv-web.lanl.gov/content/sequence/GENE_CUTTER /cutter.html) to correct reading frames, and manual editing using Se-Al (12).
Notes regarding the updated reference set
As in the original subtype reference proposals (1, 6, 9), four sequences per subtype were chosen so that the reference set remains small while allowing the diversity of each subtype to be roughly the same as for all available sequences (similar to an effective population size). In addition, four taxa is the smallest informative unit in an unrooted tree.
Subtype A: Sub-subtype A1 is well established and somewhat more diverse than some other subtypes. A1 is updated with one more recent sequence, and the oldest and divergent reference sequence U455 has been omitted. Sub-subtype A2 is less well established, and as only three full genome sequences have been described there is no choice as to which sequences to include in this sub-subtype. Sub-subtype A3 (10) has not been included at this time because it is less well established and also does not cluster separately from A1 throughout the genome. Similarly, the proposed sub-subtypes A4 and A5 are not included because they have yet not been published (11). Finally, the cluster of A1 sequences from the former Soviet Union countries is well defined in all genomic regions of the HIV genome, but at this time it is not assigned a separate sub-subtype to avoid confusion with other potential sub-subtype candidates.
Subtypes B and D: Subtypes B and D are closer to each other than other subtypes. In most genomic regions they behave as sub-subtypes. Subtype D has a large sample from Uganda (27 out of 51 available sequences), which makes it look as if D may be divided into sub-subtypes. But this is not true; it is simply an effect of dense sampling of an Ugandan population (3). The D reference sequences have been updated to reflect the modern diversity of D. Similarly, subtype B has been updated with more recently sampled sequences. Also, since subtype B is involved in several epidemics in Asia, a reference sequence from this region is included in the set.
Subtype C: This subtype is the most well-described subtype as measured by available full-length genomes, and many countries are represented. There is no sign of subdivision within this subtype, although there is limited geographic clustering of subtype sequences from Asia versus those form India. One more recent sequence from South Africa has been added to the current reference set.
Subtypes F, G, H, J and K: Few full genomes exist, and what is available has been used. Sub-subtype F2 now has four sequence representatives, but otherwise there are no changes since the 2001 reference set.
The U sequences in the 2001 reference set have been omitted. It is possible that these are representatives of a new subtype, but so are all U sequences. Importantly, the U sequences are not a homogeneous group, but rather a collection of unclassified or at the time of submission unclassifiable sequences.
Circulating Recombinant Forms. In previous reference alignments each of the CRFs were described by four representatives. With the large increase of reported CRFs the reference alignment would increase to an extent that it would cause problems in some analyses if four sequences were included for each CRF. Thus, we have limited the CRF section to one sequence per CRF. Except for the E part of CRF01 (and other CRFs that contain subtype E), all subtypes that build up the CRFs are already part of the subtype section in the alignment. The sequence selected for each subtype is now intended to show how it is composed of the included subtypes. If more subtype E sequences are needed in an analysis, one can either refer to the 2001 reference selection or retrieve all E sequences from the HIV sequence database search interface (http://hiv-web.lanl.gov/components/sequence/HIV/combined_search_s_tree/search.html).
Groups O and N: Group N now has three full genome sequences available, and all are included in the reference set. At this time it is unclear whether group O should be divided into subtypes because only 22 full genomes are available which do not describe the full spectrum of group O diversity that is suggested through analysis of partial genome sequences (15). Four sequences, with one change compared to the 2001 set, are included in the references set.
CPZ sequences are included for outgrouping purposes of HIV clusters, and two from each of the Pan troglodytes subspecies troglodytes and schweinfurthii are included in the alignments. The selection is not meant to be representative for the larger PLV evolution. For that purpose we refer to the complete PLV alignment, which has representatives for all major lineages in the PLV tree. See discussion in the PLV section of the HIV Sequence Compendium 2003 (8).
Reconstructed phylogenetic trees displaying the subtype divergence
Given enough sequence information, the phylogenetic clades that define HIV-1 groups and subtypes can be reconstructed from any part of the HIV-1 genome. As a rule of thumb, enough sequence information to reconstruct the subtype clades is achieved when the alignment is at least 300-500 characters long. In some regions fewer characters are needed, e.g., env V3 region, while other regions under slower evolutionary change, such as pol RT, need more characters to give reliable results (5, 6). Also, essentially all phylogenetic reconstruction methods are capable to infer the subtype clades (5). Beyond subtyping, however, for more critical phylogenetic analyses of transmission patterns more characters than the minimum above and more advanced reconstruction methods such as maximum likelihood should be used (4, 5, 7).
As part of the revision of the reference alignments presented in the 2005 version, many trees were constructed. These trees were created using enhanced and parallelized versions of Gary Olsen's fastDNAml maximum likelihood tree fitting (RevML) and site rate estimation codes (RevRates). This code was written by Tanmoy Bhattacharya of LANL, and fits a general time reversible model (4).
The trees were created as follows: A candidate tree topology was created assuming uniform site rates and an initial random estimate of nucleotide frequencies and transition rates. RevML proceeds in a heuristic and piecewise way, starting from a small set of sequences and building up the tree topology and branch lengths while making placement decisions that maximize the tree likelihood score. The resulting tree then constrains per-site rate optimization of tree likelihood as a function of global estimates of baseline nucleotide frequency and transition rates. These estimates are fit using the conjugate gradient algorithm in the RevRates program. A second RevML run was then performed using these estimates and in turn another rate estimation procedure refined from the second tree. A final tree was estimated using the twice-refined global and local site rates. Each of the trees in the refinement procedure was independently estimated from the global and site local rate parameters.
Trees were inferred from each gene (env, gag, nef, pol, rev, tat, vif, vpr and vpu) on alignments with all non-recombinant sequences, only group M sequences and all sequences on both globally gap stripped and non-gap stripped data. As expected, alignments with fewer than 400 characters generated trees with some problems. In general, the problems consisted of a lack in resolution among sub-subtypes (mixing of A1 and A2, mixing of F1 and F2 and sometimes K, mixing of B and D). In addition, placement of CPZ sequences was not consistent among short genes. Thus, this reiterates the fact that too short an alignment will not give good tree reconstructions. Trees based on full-length env, pol and gag showed full subtype and sub-subtype resolution (Figure 1). The subtype classifications were clear whether only group M sequences or all sequences were used. Gap stripping already short alignments made the results even worse, while on long alignments it had no effect on subtype associations.
Trees of non-recombinant sequences
Figure 1. Phylogenetic trees of HIV-1 reference sequences. (A) All non-recombinant sequences. (B) Only group M sequences. The trees shown here are based on non-gapstripped alignments. As with the shorter genes, gapstripped nef alignments did not produce reliable trees. See text for details on how the trees were calculated.
Tress for group M sequences only
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2. Eddy, S. 1995. HMMER Hidden Markov Models of Protein and DNA Sequence, 1.8 ed. Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
3. Harris, M., D. Serwadda, N. Sewankambo, B. Kim, G. Kigozi, N. Kiwanuka, J. Phillips, F. Wabwire, M. Meehen, T. Lutalo, J. Lane, R. Merling, R. Gray, M. Wawer, D. Birx, M. Robb, and F. McCutchan. 2002. Among 46 near full length HIV type 1 genome sequences from Rakai district, Uganda, subtype D and AD recombinants predominate. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses 18:1281-1290.
4. Korber, B., M. Muldoon, J. Theiler, F. Gao, R. Gupta, A. Lapedes, B. H. Hahn, S. Wolinsky, and T. Bhattacharya. 2000. Timing the ancestor of the HIV-1 pandemic strains. Science 288:1789-1796.
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7. Leitner, T., D. Escanilla, C. Franzén, M. Uhlén, and J. Albert. 1996. Accurate reconstruction of a known HIV-1 transmission history by phylogenetic tree analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93:10864-10869.
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American youth seriously gored by bull in Spain
By Associated Press Feb 15, 2015, 12:53pm MST
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A man runs in front of a bull during the "Carnaval del Toro" in Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain, on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015. An American youth is recovering in the intensive-care unit of a hospital in western Salamanca after being savagely gored during a bullfighting festival celebrating Carnival, officials said Sunday.
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MADRID — An American youth is recovering in the intensive-care unit of a hospital in western Salamanca after being savagely gored during a bullfighting festival celebrating Carnival, officials said Sunday.
Surgeon Enrique Crespo said he was called to operate on 20-year-old Benjamin Miller from Georgia, who had been gored and tossed by a large fighting bull on Saturday, the first day of nearby Ciudad Rodrigo's "Carnaval del Toro."
"It's not the worst injury I've seen, but it's the biggest goring wound I've ever had to operate on," Crespo told The Associated Press.
Miller underwent a three-hour operation to repair damage to thighs, sphincter and back muscles, Crespo said.
Town councilor Pedro Munoz said two other unidentified men had sustained less serious goring injuries during Saturday's events.
"One man from Scotland and a Spaniard from Salamanca were also injured," Munoz said.
Fiestas featuring bulls are common in Spain, and critics and aficionados alike agree that the events, which attract international audiences, are dangerous.
"Doctor Crespo is a world-renowned expert and we have a medically-equipped helicopter on standby every day of our annual fiesta," Munoz said.
He said somewhere between 45,000 and 50,000 people had been attracted over the weekend to this year's four-day fiesta, that includes afternoon bullfights and bull-running events.
Ciudad Rodrigo — population 14,000 — is a small cathedral city close to the Portuguese border that is a popular tourist destination. It retains its ancient defensive walls and was the site of key battles between Napoleon's army and British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington from 1810 to 1812.
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