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Apple Watch 2 release date: Device may be unveiled in March
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Rumors have it that the next in line wearable technology Apple Watch 2 may be launched sometime in March this year.
According to Macworld UK, a predicted Apple Event may happen in the said month in which the device may be unveiled. What may have added to the assumption is that the Cupertino-based giant reportedly usually follows a yearly product cycle.
If this comes into fruition, the device is expected to become available to the public sometime in April. The report also noted that it is exactly the same month that the first generation Apple Watch has been offered for the consumers who want to pre-order.
Aside from the Apple Watch 2, there are also hearsays that the iPhone 6c and iPad Air 3 may also be presented in the alleged event.
Meanwhile, when it comes to the features of the gadget, the Apple Watch 2 is suggested to have improved settings and functionality than its predecessor in the health tracking side. Reports claim that it may likely include many health sensors that can be utilized in several ways.
Moreover, the battery life may also be made longer. Some users are said to complain that health tracking for sleep seems to be useless if they need to recharge the device every night. Presumably to address the issue, Apple is reportedly working on having a thinner OLED display for the face in order for the body to accommodate bigger battery unit and thus, longer capacity.
There are also spculations that an exciting feature involving FaceTime may be made possible in the next generation watch. A video camera may be added to in top of the already available support for FaceTime audio calls.
Pairing with iPhone may also become easier as there is allegedly a new wireless chipset under the hood. However, since Apple has yet to officially comment on the matter, so available information should be taken with a grain of salt.
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LAW Policy Practicum: Wildlife Trafficking: Stopping the Scourge
The Social Ocean: Ocean Conservation, Management, and Policy
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[ Regulatory & Policy ] as a Related Elective for those interested in Public Policy : A policy practicum is a great choice for skills-based training in the range of methods available to effect changes in the law. Some policy labs, like this one, offer students an opportunity to do research on the scope of a problem not adequately addressed in current law or regulation. Students develop proposals for new or revised regulation based on problems identified in their research. This course is a good choice for future environmental lawyers, particularly those interested in conservation and the protection of wildlife. It focuses on developing new regulatory policies and tools, including the use of an emerging market of "habitat credits," that will achieve twin goals of protecting wildlife species and maintaining agricultural production.
This policy lab seminar will address the international wildlife trafficking crisis, with a focus on legal and policy tools that can help combat the scourge. The price of ivory on black markets has skyrocketed and elephant and rhino populations in Africa are being decimated. At current poaching rates, African elephants could be wiped out within 8 to 10 years. Trafficking also is hitting tigers, great apes, sharks and other important species. The seminar will key into the President's recent Executive Order on this subject (E.O. 13658, issued on July 1, 2013) and related international efforts to reduce the killing in host countries, the transshipment of poached materials, and consumer demand for ivory and other wildlife parts. The seminar will address US laws and their role in addressing trade in wildlife parts. It also will undertake a comparative review of the legal structures in relevant African and Asian nations, and the potential role of the international endangered species treaty (CITES) and transnational enforcement efforts in cracking down on ivory and other wildlife-related trafficking. The seminar will review prior poaching crises, including the elephant/ivory crisis in the late 1980s, and evaluate why the strategies that reduced killings in the 1990s are no longer successful. Based on these analyses, the class will develop and submit recommendations for reforms to US, African, and international laws and practices to two groups established under the Executive Order: (1) the President's Wildlife Trafficking Task Force, which is chaired by the Secretaries of State and Interior and the Attorney General; and (2) the Wildlife Trafficking Advisory Council, which is composed of outside experts who are advising the Task Force. (Professor Hayes is an appointed member of the Advisory Council.) Elements used in grading: Class Participation, Attendance, Final Paper. Students may normally receive no more than four units for a Policy Lab practicum and no more than a total of eight units of Policy Lab practicums and Directed Research projects combined may be counted toward graduation unless additional units for graduation are approved in advanced by the Petitions Committee. A student cannot receive a letter grade for more than eight units of independent research (Policy Lab practicum, Directed Research, Senior Thesis, and/or Research Track). Any units taken in excess of eight will be graded on a mandatory pass basis. Consent Application: To apply for this course, students must complete and e-mail the Consent Application Form available on the SLS Registrar's Office website (see Registration and Selection of Classes for Stanford Law Students) to the instructors. See Consent Application Form for submission deadline.
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IGN Confirms Major Trinity War/Forever Evil News
By Pamela Mullin Horvath Friday, August 9th, 2013
This summer the Justice League, Justice League of America and Justice League Dark have been battling against one another in the epic crossover event "Trinity War".
Now, with the conclusion just weeks away, legendary scribe Geoff Johns spoke with IGN about the exciting action-packed finale and revealed some major news, paving the way for this fall's highly anticipated miniseries FOREVER EVIL, drawn by David Finch.
"What's most surprising about Forever Evil isn't its repercussions," said Johns. "It's that everything we thought we knew about the series is wrong. Up to this point, we've believed that the Secret Society of Super Villains has been in control, manipulating the Justice League and turning public opinion against them."
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Introduction: Given the impact of biotechnology on today's society, it is imperative that students be familiar with molecular biology techniques such as gel electrophoresis, which is used in DNA profiling. For those teachers who lack access to equipment needed to create such relevant lab experiences for their students, this simulation provides a hands-on learning experience that exposes them to the basic principles of biotechnology. Prior to doing the simulation, students must have a firm understanding of DNA structure and function.
1) At the beginning of class, tell the students that a wallet was stolen from a locker near the classroom. A small drop of blood was found on the locker, assumed to be left by the guilty party. Tell the class that someone in the room is suspected of taking the wallet, and that the police gave you a sample of the blood to run a DNA fingerprint on, using gel electrophoresis.
2) Explain to them what restriction enzymes are, where they are normally found, and how they are used by scientists in biotechnology today. Also explain how restriction enzymes only cut at a specific base sequence or restriction site.
3) Give each student a copy of the Gel Electrophoresis Worksheet. Tell the students to imagine that their DNA is only 20 base pairs long, and that they all have the restriction site AATT at least once somewhere along their DNA. In the grid provided on the worksheet, have students fill in a row of 20 base pairs and include the AATT restriction site as many times as they wish.
4) Tell students to use a pencil to lightly shade in the AATT restriction site on the template strand wherever it occurs in their DNA sequence. Have them count the number of times the restriction site occurs in their sequence and write in the number on their worksheet. The, for each restriction site, have them draw a thick line between the two A's. Explain that this indicates where the restriction enzyme will cut the DNA.
5) Give each student a pair of scissors, and have them cut out their entire DNA sequence from the middle of the worksheet so that it is one long rectangle. Then, following the lines they drew in for each restriction site, have them cut their DNA into the fragments created by the restriction enzyme. After the students record the total number of fragments created by the restriction enzyme on the worksheet, tell them to write their name on the back of each fragment, along with the total number of base pairs it has.
6) Using a computer hooked up to an LCD projector (preferably with a SMART Board, but not necessary), bring up an image of the Simulated Gel saved as a Word file for the whole class to see on the board. On the left hand side of the Simulated Gel, draw a negative (-) sign at the top of the gel, connected to a power source and then down to a positive (+) sign at the bottom of the gel. Have the students guess what the numbers on the sides correspond to, and predict what the next steps are.
7) Have a student volunteer come up to the board and write his or her name on the top of the first well (the rectangle on the top of each column). Help the student demonstrate how to tape his or her fragments in the lane, being sure to put each fragment in the appropriate space according to its size. (Two or more fragments of the same size should be taped on top of one another in the same grid space.) Alternatively, you could just have them shade in the area where each fragment would go instead of taping it to the board. Regardless of which method you choose, explain to students how this (taping or shading) creates a banding pattern specific to that student.
8) Have eight other students come up to the board and choose their own lane (column) to tape their fragments in the appropriate spaces. You can have students come up one at a time, in pairs, or all at once, depending on time constraints. In addition, if you would like to include more students in this part of the simulation, you can expand the Simulated Gel by adding more columns.
9) After the students have created their banding patterns, have them analyze them by comparing them with one another. Explain to students how in real life, because human DNA consists of 3 billion base pairs, the chances of two people (other than identical twins) having the same exact banding pattern is very slim.
10) Then show students what the banding pattern of the DNA recovered at the crime scene looks in the very last lane of the Simulated Gel up front. Do this by taping up the fragments you created earlier as part of your demonstration one fragment at a time in the appropriate positions in the lane. Ask the students to determine if anyone's banding pattern matches this final lane.
a. Is the perpetrator of the crime scene present in the classroom? How do you know?
b. Ignoring the crime scene lane, are there any two banding patterns that are exactly alike?
c. If no two banding patterns are alike, how would you explain this?
d. If there are banding patterns that are alike, how would you explain this?
e. Why was the Simulated Gel numbered in descending order starting from the top?
f. What do the positive (+) and negative (-) signs represent, and why was the positive placed at the bottom of the gel?
12) Go to the Genetic Science Learning Center website, found at http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/biotech/gel/, and project this web page up front for the class to see (preferably on a SMART Board, but a whiteboard/screen will also do). This website has an online, interactive simulation that explains each of the steps involved in gel electrophoresis. Walk through each of the pages with the students, explaining how this outlines each of the steps done in a real gel electrophoresis experiment. Make comparisons between what is shown on the webpage versus what was done previously with the paper-and-scissors simulation. If you have a SMART Board, you can call individual students up to the board to use their fingers to carry out the various steps of the online simulation.
13) Close the lesson by having the students summarize the main steps of gel electrophoresis. In addition, ask the students to explain the impact of gel electrophoresis on today's society, and their thoughts on how it affects their own lives.


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Don't Be Stupid. Vote.
By: Hector Luis Alamo
The 2008 presidential election was my generation's 1992 or 1960. It was a moment brimming with hope and what many believed would be an equal amount of change in the country. The United States had just elected its first African American president, making everything else seem immediately possible. So when the new president promised to usher in a round of progressive reforms, we held our breaths like children with their faces pressed against the window on Christmas Eve.
Six years and one re-election later, progressive voters are feeling forgotten and ignored. Latinos doubly so. While Latino progressives want the same thing non-Latino progressive want —universal health care, closing of Guantanamo, equal rights for the LGBT community, a less militaristic approach to foreign relations, etc.— Latinos are understandably incensed that their one unifying issue, immigration reform, has been kicked down the road like a rusty can by Obama and the Democrats, while the Republicans just don't care.
When Obama announced he would delay taking executive action until after the November election, reneging on his earlier promise to take action during the summer, a few Latinos threw up theirs arms and decided that a boycott of the midterm elections would punish the Democrats and serve as a warning to any party that dares neglect Latino voters.
This "Don't vote" mentality is particularly popular with some young Latino voters, with the belief that it would somehow lead to a destabilization of America's political system. Mostly these young voters are just angry and won't vote out of spite, as a jilted lover might apply the silent treatment. However, some are genuinely annoyed by how the Democrats and the Republicans tend to behave like two wings of the same corporate-sponsored party preserving the status quo.
Let's consider that last point for a second, because it seems to be a running theme nowadays. It's true that the Democratic and Republican parties are alike in too many ways, specifically in their approach to financial reform and foreign policy. As it stands, one could argue that the Democrats are a centrist party (or even center-right), whereas as the GOP is a right-wing party controlled at times by its far-right fringe. The point is there isn't a truly progressive party with any actual influence in American politics.
Were the Democrats and the Republicans effectively members of the same party —which I don't believe is true— boycotting an election or two would change next to nothing. If, on the other hand, the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is substantial, then not voting for the Democrats, and allowing the Republicans to gain greater influence in various levels of government, would work against the goals of progressive Latino voters. Ultimately, the "Don't vote" strategy is either pointless or harmful.
A person's stance on voting depends on if they view voting as a top-down or a bottom-up affair: that is, whether they think the government controls society or vice versa. No one could hardly be blamed for believing that society is ruled by a government which itself is puppeteered by big money. But there are plenty of times in the nation's history when grassroots movements brought about major changes that the powers fought all the way through—the Civil Rights Movement being the most prominent.
Nonetheless, no one can convince me that voting isn't a powerful tool of the masses when every election year I see one party trying to suppress voters and major corporations spending billions of dollars trying to buy results. At the end of the day, after all that money is spent, after the weeks of attack ads and misinformation are in the books, whichever candidate receives the most votes wins (except for that one time in 2000). So many people wouldn't spend so much time and energy trying to control the outcomes of illusionary elections if votes didn't matter.
Whenever I hear people talk about the government as though it were an entity separate from the American people and outside of their control, I'm reminded of my favorite line from My Big Fat Greek Wedding: "The man is the head, but the woman is the neck. And she can turn the head any way she wants." Simply replace "man" with government and "woman" with voter, and you get the gist of representative democracy.
Of course, Latinos shouldn't simply tow the party line and vote faithfully for the Democratic ticket. Voting for someone who doesn't represent your interests is crazy and truly undermines the system. Nonetheless, telling Latinos not to show up to the polls on Election Day is even crazier.
To start, it must be said that Latinos don't exactly have the best track record of showing up to the polls. Even during all the excitement of 2008, Latino voter turnout was still less than 50 percent, and Latinos continue voting at a far lower rate than both whites and blacks. Latinos need to build a tradition of turning out in solid numbers on Election Day before they can even begin threatening to boycott. After all, boycotting a business only works with a pool of regular customers; according to the numbers, Latinos have been boycotting the democratic process for years. Maybe a lack of Latino votes is the problem. Not enough muscle strength in that neck.
Plus, while many Democrats have betrayed the trust of their constituents by giving in to big business or the Republican Party (redundant?), there are some Democrats who are doing what they can to see to it that the interests of progressives are heard in the halls of Congress.The most emblematic is Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont, who at the moment is contemplating a bid for the White House in 2016. If Sanders does choose to run against the Democrat's presumptive heiress, Hillary Clinton, he'll be the strongest, most authentic candidate the party has offered up in decades—assuming he chooses to run on the Democratic ticket, as he's currently the longest-serving independent to serve in Congress in U.S. history.
In my home state of Illinois, Congressman Luis Gutiérrez has been an outspoken leader on many of the progressive issues I've mentioned, mostly notably on immigration reform, having first introduced the DREAM Act bill way back in 2001. Months later he was joined by Senator Dick Durbin, also from Illinois, and the two have consistently championed the immigrant cause in their respective chambers ever since, often voicing their disagreement with the government's policy toward immigrants no matter who's sitting behind the president's desk.
Senator Durbin is facing a strong challenge by rich investment manager backed by the Tea Party, and any progressive Latino in Illinois would be a fool to boycott that election. There are bound to be other Democratic representative across the country with similar records of fighting for the kind of changes that the party is supposed to advocate. Those are the very people who deserve to be reelected.
I understand the frustration many Latinos feel toward the countries two governing parties, but abstaining from the democratic process doesn't do anyone any good, except those who want to enact policy antithetical to the Latino population. If Latinos really want to make their presence known, they should try to show up in big numbers—say, at least more than 50 percent. Show up and vote for the people who represent you and vote against those who don't, no matter what party they belong to. There are a number of decent third-party candidates running for local, state and national offices. Vote your conscience.
The last thing Latinos should do is stay home on Election Day. Especially when that's basically what the system wants and expects them to do.
Hector Luis Alamo is a Chicago-based writer. You can connect with him @HectorLuisAlamo.
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Barbara Spiller
Barbara Lee Cunningham Spiller, 79, was born January 17, 1941, in Port Washington, Long Island, New York to Jordan and Frances Parker Cunningham and she passed peacefully from this life on December 11, 2020. Her father was a pilot for American Airlines in New York but soon was transferred to Ft. Worth, Texas. In 1947 however the family moved to Junction, where Jordan joined with his father Joe Cunningham in Junction National Bank that had been founded by Mr. Cunningham in 1935.
B. Lee, as she was fondly known, attended school in Junction and was Salutatorian of her High School graduating class of 1959. She then attended Texas Tech University, where she pledged Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority, and obtained a degree in Elementary Education in 1964 and taught school in Junction for 32 years thereafter, retiring in 2003……..and now she is in heaven with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
She was very active in her church as well as the community. She was an Elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Junction and served as chairperson of the Building Committee when the Church added its Fellowship Hall. She also sang in the Church Choir for over 45 years.
The Community Bible Study group was another strong interest that she was committed to and served in several capacities of leadership there.
She was a member of the Texas Tech Exes Association, the Retired Teachers Association, and just recently retired from the Board of Directors of the Junction National Bank of which she served since 1991.
B. Lee married Rob Roy Spiller in Junction in 1962 and they were soon to celebrate their 59th wedding anniversary. Since their marriage they have lived in San Marcos, Amarillo and Lubbock prior to settling in Junction in 1971.
B. was such a special person who was known to never say anything unkind about anyone or anything, and her smile radiated the light from her beautiful soul. No doubt she will be missed by all who knew her.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her sister JoAnn Hammonds.
Those surviving her beautiful memory are her husband Rob Roy Spiller, a son Rob Spiller (Suzy) of Castle Rock, Colorado, and a daughter Dr. Shelly Spiller (Donna) of Corvallis, Oregon, three grandchildren and also two great-grandchildren that she was so proud of; three nephews, Russell Hammonds of Junction, Mike Hammonds of Mesquite and Steve Hammonds of Ft. Worth, as well as several cousins and many extended family members.
Open visitation is to be at Kimble Funeral Home from 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM, Monday, December 14, 2020.
Due to the current pandemic situation, our family feels that in order to maintain vigilance in protecting all of you our friends and neighbors, we will have a private burial for B. Lee with immediate family only. The graveside service will be conducted by Reverends Jim and Laurie Barker and Charles Hagood. The service can be viewed on the Junction First Presbyterian Church Facebook page.
B. Lee loved so many people in this community and in her life. Watching her joyful bright light fade away has been more painful than we imagined. So many friends and family have reached out with joyful, loving memories and even their own experiences with loss which means so much to us. We are overwhelmed with grief for her passing made even more profound in such difficult times. We are looking forward to having a celebration of B. Lee's life with all her friends and family in the future when the danger has subsided to a less threatening level. Hopefully, this will be when the flowers begin to bloom, her favorite season of the year.
Pallbearers are to be: Charles Hagood, Greer Kothmann, Kelly Kothmann, Clay Simon, Russell Hammonds, David Dobbins, L.R. Hawkins and Bryan Booth.
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For the first time in a while, I got trapped in business travel hell last week. An extra night in Montreal wasn't so bad, but having to dial up Air Canada's phone support line wasn't fun.
It's fitting that we have news this week from two startups trying to fix the most annoying problems in corporate travel.
Lola has added group management functionality to its service, allowing managers to suggest spending limits alongside the company's artificial intelligence-powered travel suggestions. And TripActions announced another large funding round to help support its behavior-based booking program and expand into international markets.
For now, these companies are going after smaller businesses that don't need an ultra strict travel program, although TripActions is looking to partner with the bigger travel management companies out there. It's abundantly clear that solutions that make the business travel experience better for travelers are gaining traction in the wider marketplace.
Check out our coverage below of Lola, TripActions, and everything else corporate travel below.
Lola Expands Business Travel Push With Team Management Features: Lola's new group management travel tools are useful for small companies that don't want to deal with the hassle of creating a heavily managed travel program. Its upcoming marketing push will likely prove crucial as the company looks to attract more customers in a crowded business travel booking sector.
TripActions Raises $51 Million Series B for Its Business Travel Service: Talk about using incentives to change behavior. Is the threat of obsolescence due to new technology and startup business models enough to prompt incumbent travel management companies such as Egencia and Carlson Wagonlit to adapt?
American Airlines Takes Basic Economy International: American's bare-bones basic economy fares are about to start appearing on long-haul routes.
Mandarin Oriental's New Loyalty Program Has Tons of Perks But No Free Nights: While Mandarin Oriental's loyalty program doesn't offer the same lucrative points that many competing programs have, it does have some valuable perks. Best of all, the program is free and accessible to everyone.
9 Big Challenges Facing Amadeus This Year: Amadeus' track record of profitable growth has been music to the ears of investors. But some airline and hotel executives claim to hear discordant notes in the giant technology vendor's forecasts.
Facebook Takes On Google With Trip-Planning Ads: Facebook isn't really in the conversation yet when it comes to competing with Google in travel advertising. But Facebook has the ability to reach travelers at various stages of the trip-planning process so it has the potential to be even more disruptive than it has been.
Former Travel Leaders Exec Alleges Sexual Harassment and Wrongful Termination: Richard Branson might be a contender for the king of lechery, and Steve Wynn's sexual harassment scandal didn't come as a surprise to some, but the lawsuit against Travel Leaders Group, if the allegations turn out to be true, is a reminder that you don't have to be a household name to be held accountable.


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CIMM and the ARF Release Lexicon 4.0: A Common Language for Media Measurement
New York, NY (November 3, 2021) – The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) and the ARF (Advertising Research Foundation), today announced the release of their fourth iteration of a common language for media measurement, Lexicon 4.0, which includes a compilation of terms and definitions for the industry.
Originally developed in 2010 to create a common language that would facilitate the integration of Return Path Data (RPD), the Lexicon has since been updated in 2012, 2016 and now 2021 to emulate the expansion of the industry. Lexicon 4.0 now includes terms and definitions across the following categories:
• TV & Cross-Platform Video Measurement (Converged TV)
• CTV and OTT, Streaming Apps and Platforms
• Interactive TV (iTV)
• T-Commerce or Shoppable TV
• Advanced and Addressable TV
• Return Path Data and Set-Top Boxes, Cable & Satellite TV distribution (MVPDs) and vMPVDs
• Smart TVs and ACR
• Programmatic Buying & Selling
• Dynamic Ad Insertion
• Digital Ad Tech & E-Commerce
• Virtual Reality
• NeuroScience
• Internet of Things
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Social Media
• Walled Gardens
• Fraud and Brand Safety
• Privacy & Data Security
"Since the inception of our Lexicon, the industry has witnessed innovations across a variety of areas – from cross-platform and connected TV, to the the digitization of content and advertising, privacy and data security, programmatic, AI and more," said Jane Clarke, CEO and Managing Director at CIMM. "With these innovations came a natural opportunity for us to revisit the Lexicon, as we have done in years past, and work with the industry to update our common language to reflect the current state of media measurement."
Paul Donato, Chief Research Officer at the ARF, added: "We have long seen the need for the industry to have common languages to ensure we are all activating against the same terminology. Lexicons are a major undertaking well worth the investment, and this edition for media measurement is no exception."
Sourced from companies, committees, consortiums and organizations across the industry, Lexicon 4.0, which now has over 4,000 terms and definitions, can be accessed here: https://cimm-us.org/initiatives-2/cimm-lexicon/
About CIMM
The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) is comprised of leading TV and video content providers, media buying agencies, large advertisers, pay TV distributors, research and media technology vendors and consultants that aim to promote innovation and foster efficiencies in audience measurement for television and cross-platform video. In 2018, CIMM was acquired by the ARF (Advertising Research Foundation), with the goal of expanding the categories of members as well as its initiatives. CIMM initiatives to date have included exploration and identification of new methodologies in cross-platform audience measurement, with verification of these approaches through pilot tests and studies conducted with independent measurement companies. CIMM's focus has been on two key areas: the current and future potential of television measurement through the use of return-path data, and new methods for cross-platform media measurement. For more information, visit www.cimm-us.org.
About the ARF
Founded more than 80 years ago, the ARF is dedicated to creating, curating, and sharing objective, industry-level advertising research to enable members to make a true impact on their advertising and build marketing leadership within their organizations. It has more than 400 members from leading brand advertisers, agencies, research firms and media-tech companies. For more information, visit www.thearf.org.


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2° | £1 = €1.28 | Wednesday 22 January 2020
BRITTANY FERRY PETS AND THEIR OWNERS CAN TRAVEL IN CONFIDENCE IN 2020
BY TIM HEDGLEY, GROUP TRAVEL EDITOR
PETS and their owners can travel with confidence in 2020, with no additional checks or administration.
That's because the prime minister's deal has been passed by parliament and should become law in January.
A transition period will follow until the end of next year, during which borders can be crossed as normal and pet passports will continue to apply.
Pets carried by year:
Brittany Ferries says thousands of owners held back due to worries about taking Fido or Felix abroad. Pet vaccinations, additional checks upon arrival abroad and the validity of the pet passport scheme were concerns raised throughout the year. Thanks to the Brexit deal, these concerns will not apply during the Brexit transition year ahead.
"Passengers with pets rely on Brittany Ferries to carry them seamlessly across the channel, sometimes many times a year," said Christophe Mathieu Brittany Ferries CEO. "Throughout 2019 we did our best to offer reassurance, but many people were confused and concerned, so chose to stay at home rather than take to the seas. Today however, turbulent waters have calmed for the next twelve months at least. Nothing should change during the Brexit transition year. And that means you can book a 2020 trip with confidence, whether you own a pet or not."
This year Brittany Ferries' summer period (July to September) was hit by an overall 6.6% downturn in passenger numbers. Routes linking Portsmouth, Poole and Plymouth with destinations in France suffered the most. However, the company believes passengers will return in 2020 and wishes all those operating in the travel sector a brighter year ahead.
As the busiest period for holiday reservations begins, customers are being urged to book early to get the best deals. A new-year sale has just been launched with every sail-and-stay holiday booked before 11th February benefiting from a 20% discount. The offer includes holidays taken during the Easter and school summer holiday periods. For more visit: https://www.brittany-ferries.co.uk/offers/
In 1967 a farmer from Finistère in Brittany, Alexis Gourvennec, succeeded in bringing together a variety of organisations from the region to embark on an ambitious project: the aim was to open up the region, to improve its infrastructure and to enrich its people by turning to traditional partners such as Ireland and the UK.
In 1972 BAI (Brittany-England-Ireland) was born. The first cross-Channel link was inaugurated in January 1973, when a converted Israeli tank-carrier called Kerisnel left the port of Roscoff for Plymouth carrying trucks loaded with Breton vegetables such as cauliflowers and artichokes. The story therefore begins on 2 January 1973, 24 hours after Great Britain's entry into the Common Market (EEC). From these humble beginnings however Brittany Ferries as the company was re-named quickly opened up to passenger transport, then became a tour operator.
Today, Brittany Ferries has established itself as the national leader in French maritime transport: an atypical leader, under private ownership, still owned by a Breton agricultural cooperative. Eighty five percent of the company's passengers are British. Around 210,000 freight units are carried each year.
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Helvetia Township is located in the southeast corner of Madison County, and is designated as Township No. 3 North, Range 5, West. The first arrival of white settlers was in about 1804, when Joseph Duncan, with a few others, made the extreme southeast corner of the county their home. Near the same time, the Higgins and the Hobbs arrived also. Mrs. H. Hobbs state she knew the settlement to have existed in 1808. The buffalo had barely disappeared from the state, the elk was still seen at times, and deer were roaming in herds. The prairie were covered with high grass, with groves of trees on the hill tops.
The Howards settled in the southwest corner of Helvetia Township in the year 1809. There were Duncan settlements six miles south of them, but it is unknown if they knew of each other. No progress seems to have been made in this part of the county prior to 1815.
Indians had previously been friendly. They roamed through this and other counties as hunters. When the War of 1812 broke out, they became the settler's foe. Reports of murders and depredations reached the isolated settler, and the few scattered families huddled together in block houses, enclosed by a row of strong posts, called forts. Between alarms, they tilled their small fields, with their rifle on their shoulder. Cox's Fort, near Old Aviston, afforded shelter to the settlers on Sugar Creek. It was never attacked, but Mrs. Jesse Bailes, daughter of Mr. Bradsby living on Sugar Creek, was shot in 1814 by Indians. She fled across the prairie to her father's home, where she died. Mrs. Bailes was a relative of Joseph Duncan – probably a sister-in-law. Peace was restored in 1814, and the settlements returned to tranquility.
Joseph Duncan, James Good, Gilbert Watson, and Jonathan L. Harris made their settlements on Sugar Creek. Duncan had been a Ranger during the war, and on his return located on the east side of the creek, on section 15. He was an educated man for that day, and was appointed justice of the peace in 1817. He filled that office for nearly three years. In later years he had a post office established at the place, and served as postmaster. He died in 1852. His wife's maiden name was Cuddy, and she was an aunt of George Cuddy, who was so well and favorably known at the time. The Duncans raised a family of five children – four daughters and a son, Hugh M. Duncan, who became the father of a large family. Hugh lost his life by accident, being thrown out of his carriage while on the way to attend a funeral. The daughters were: Linnie, who married John S. Carrigan; Sarah, who married Alexander Forrester; Rebecca, who married B. C. Plant; and Mary, who married James A. Berry.
The Duncans and many others lived on the land as squatters. The record of the first land entry was by William Morrison, on section 36, on the 10th of April, 1815. Morrison became the first bona fide landowner in the township. Gilbert Watson, friend and companion of Joseph Duncan, entered the southeast quarter of section 22, directly south of where Duncan had squatted, and James Gingles (Jingles), the southeast quarter of section 26, on November 14, 1816. The Gingles (or Jingles) lived nearly fifty years in the township, but in 1882, none were still living there.
John L. Hearrin entered 160 acres in section 35 on December 12, 1816, and James Ramsay entered 160 acres on the December 23, 1816. Duncan and Good, who had been squatters, entered their tracts on October 27, 1817. Jonathan L. Harris settled in the edge of the timber on the old trail from Duncan's to Carlyle. He had a horse mill there, which he operated until 1834. He left the county in 1840 and moved to Clinton County.
Robin Craigg came to the settlement in about 1818. He improved a farm on the east side of Sugar Creek, and lived there the rest of his life. His son, Madison Craigg, was a skillful mechanic and cartwright, and established a business in Edwardsville. Henry and William, his brothers, were farmers.
Lee Cuddy, brother-in-law of Joseph Duncan, brought his children, consisting of George, John, Shelby, Ephraim, Anna, and Elizabeth, to Madison County in 1823, settling in the vicinity of Joseph Duncan. Lee Cuddy cultivated a farm on the west side of Sugar Creek. Later he moved to Deck's Prairie, where he died.
John Gracey settled on the north half of section 11 as early as 1818. He cleared 30 acres, and lived here until 1835, when he moved to Hancock County. His brother, Joseph, also cleared a small field in the same section. He sold his land to Alexander Forrester and moved to Bond County.
Allen Bryant, an early settler, improved land in section 2. He died on the farm, and his children moved away.
B. Gullick settled the H. Drancourt farm in section 26, and established a distillery there. He died on his farm, and his family left Madison to live in Bond County.
Alexander Forrester came to Helvetia Township in 1829. He raised his first crop – a little patch of corn – near Highland, just north of the township line. He came to the township with Thomas Carr from Tennessee, intending to start a tan yard. This plan was abandoned, since bark was scarce and lime was expensive. Carr returned south after three years, but Forrester remained and enlisted in the service during the Black Hawk War, then joined a ranging company on an expedition west, where the company acted as guards to traders freighting across the plains. The company, 100 strong, was commanded by Captain Matthew Duncan of Vandalia. After eleven months, the men were discharged and sent home. In 1833, Forrester bought Joseph Gracey's land and married Sarah H. Duncan, daughter of Joseph. He went to work improving his place, moving his buildings to the edge of the prairie. He raised a family of ten children.
Norris W. and James Ramsay came into the township at an early day. They were the sons of John Ramsay, who settled in Clinton County in 1818. They first located in the south part of the township, where James bought 160 acres as early as 1816. In 1188834, they settled the W. T. Ramsay place in section 12, where they farmed for many years. Norris was married, and raised a family of ten children. Only four lived to the age of maturity. James Ramsay did not marry until he was of middle age. He had no children. He was a Presbyterian preacher. Norris died in 1863, and James died in 1864 – both on the home place.
Herbert Hobbs was a North Carolinian. He settled on the northwest quarter of section 34 in 1824, where he improved a small farm. In about 1842, he entered land in section 32, and continued to live on that land until his death in 1846. He had two sons – T. A. and Frank Hobbs.
John Hobbs, a brother of Herbert, settled the Calvin Lee place in section 33, in 1826. He lived there until he died.
Thomas Savage settled in the township as early as 1827 and improved a small farm. He was killed in an accident in St. Louis in about 1857, and left a widow and seven children to mourn his loss.
The settlements in the west half of the township were of a later date and less numerous than those of the east half. The prairie lands were at first overlooked and ignored. One their advantages were understood, they soon attracted the greater part of the new immigrants.
The first white child born in Helvetia Township was H. M. Duncan. Up to 1830, not more than 25 families inhabited the township. They were farmers, with each family cultivated from ten to twenty acres of ground. Corn and wheat were their main products until 1830, when they began raising cotton for home use.
The nearest church in the early days of Helvetia Township was at Pocahontas in Bond County – about ten miles away. The Presbyterians held services in a private cabin on Sugar Creek, where in 1824 George Ramsay taught school also. James A. Ramsey promoted a schoolhouse and church to be erected about 1825 or 1826. It was constructed of hewn logs, and was known as the Ramsay Church. Subsequently, the congregation built a church on section 28. This building was bought by R. N. Ramsay, and in 1882 it was used as a tenant house.
Oliver Hoyt, a New Yorker, settled on a farm in 1836. He was the second man in the neighborhood to risk prairie farming. He bought the improved land from a Mr. Giloman, near Sugar Creek, and moved the cabin and what rails there were to his place on the prairie. Hoyt lived there seven or eight years. Later he erected a better and more comfortable buildings and a house.
James Billingsley tried prairie farming a year or two in Helvetia Township, then moved to Pike County, and then to Texas.
E. M. Morgan settled in 1844 on section 31. He was the only son of John Morgan, the pioneer of Clinton County. E. M. Morgan was appointed associate justice of the Madison County court from 1857 – 1861. In later years he opened a store on his land on section 31, and had a post office established there, serving as its postmaster. The post office was named St. Morgan. Judge Morgan died May 16, 1881, and was buried with Masonic ceremonies. The site of the former post office, St. Morgan, developed into a little village. Nicholas Zopf operated a tavern there, and Frederick Hanzelmann was the blacksmith. John Kaeser was wagon maker.
Under the leadership of Dr. Caspar Koepfli of Sursee, Canton Lucerne, Switzerland, a group of Swiss parties arrived in Helvetia Township in 1831. Among them was Joseph Suppiger, one of the most useful men which the township ever possessed. For nearly twelve years he had filled the office of Justice of the Peace. He died April 24, 1861. Anthony Suppiger, a younger brother of Joseph's, was also one of the part to arrive. Mr. Anthony Suppiger filled local offices, and in 1865 he became a member of the county court.
Dr. Koepfli was accompanied by his sons, Joseph and Solomon. Bernhard Koepfli and Dr. Caspar Koepfli Jr. arrived later. These early pioneers all clustered around the homesteads of the Suppigers and Koepflis.
In 1836, General James Semple, then a member of the House of Representatives, together with Joseph Suppiger and Solomon Koepfli, selected section 5 of Helvetia Township for the site of a future town. The names of New Switzerland and Helvetia were suggested for the new town. Semple thought those names to be rather foreign, and being by birth a Scotchman of the Highlands, the name of Highland was selected. The original plat of the town included a projected railroad, depot grounds, and an additional railroad named "Die Belleville and St. Louis Sweigbahn (branch road to Belleville and St. Louis). The road was never built.
Click here to read the history of Highland, Illinois.


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ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law conference to feature Maureen Ohlhausen
Maureen K. Ohlhausen, acting chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, along with top officials from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office, will be speakers at the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law's 32nd Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference on April 4-6 in Arlington, Va.
Ohlhausen will be the keynote luncheon speaker on Thursday from noon to 1:30 p.m. She has served on the FTC Commission since April 2012 and was appointed as the acting FTC chairman by President Donald Trump in January 2017.
On Wednesday, the Mark T. Banner Award Luncheon from noon to 1:30 p.m. will honor three recipients for their impact on intellectual property law and/or practice:
Judge Lucy H. Koh, U. S. District Court, Northern District of California in San Francisco
Don W. Martens, founding partner, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP in Washington, D.C.
Kate Darling, MIT Media Lab research specialist, Harvard Berkman Center Fellow, Robot Ethics Expert in Cambridge, Mass.
Other program highlights include:
"Get Ready for Cuba!" — This panel will prepare you and your clients to brand products and protect trademarks in the new Cuban market. Moderator Justin Ourso of Jones Walker LLP in Baton Rouge, La., will be joined by speakers Roberto Albin, Law Office of George C. A. Moore PA, West Palm Beach, Fla.; Christine Haight Farley, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.; Augusto Maxwell, Akerman LLP, Miami; and Katherine Van Deusen Hely, Caribbean IP, West Palm Beach, Fla.
"Ask the Office: Hot Topics from the US Patent and Trademark Office" — Panelists will discuss the latest USPTO patent initiatives for the U.S. and foreign practice. Joining moderator Marylee Jenkins, Arent Fox LLP, New York, N.Y., will be speakers Mark Powell, USPTO, Alexandria, Va.; and Christal Sheppard, Elijah J. McCoy Midwest Regional USPTO, Detroit, Mich.
"The USPTO Speaks: An Update from the USPTO and TTAB" — Top officials from the USPTO and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board will discuss the recent rule and practice changes. Panelists include Gerard F. Rogers, Chief Administrative Trademark Judge, TTAB in Alexandria, Va.; and Mary Boney Denison, commissioner for Trademarks, USPTO, Alexandria, Va. Eric Perrott, Gerben Law Firm PLLC, Washington, D.C., is the moderator.
"Are the Times A-Changin' in Copyright Law?" — Karyn Temple Claggett, Acting Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office in Washington, D.C., will be among the panelists discussing laying the groundwork to bring copyright law into the 21st century and copyright modernization. Moderated by Jan Jensen, Jensen Law Firm, Los Angeles, Calif., the panel will also include speakers Allan Robert Adler, Association of American Publishers, Washington, D.C.; Keith Kuperschmid, Copyright Alliance, Washington, D.C.; and Matthew Schruers, Computer & Communications Industry Association, Washington, D.C.
"The (Gold) Stars Realigned: Post Brexit UK" — An international panel will discuss the effects of Brexit on IP rights and the related EU directives, regulations and laws in the wake of the historic UK vote to exit the European Union. Paula Davis of Pfizer Inc., in Madison, N.J., will moderate the panel that includes speakers Thomas Jaeger, University of Vienna in Austria; Luke McDonagh, City, University of London, London, United Kingdom; and Marjan Noor, Allen & Overy LLP, London, United Kingdom.
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Lighter vehicles are becoming very appealing as plans for future transportation get made. For this reason and more, we could start seeing more of an obscure transition metal.
As with many other natural resources, Australia is lucky with scandium. A collection of companies is developing mines in the country, including the world's first scandium-only mine, owned by Scandium International, at Nyngan, New South Wales. They all hope to do what nobody else is doing: ensure a stable, reliable and affordable supply of the rare earth element.
Asked why it interests him as a chemical engineer, John Carr, Executive General Manager Sales and Marketing at Clean TeQ, said, "Many people think that scandium is a fictional element, but it's on the periodic table!
"I find it amazing that adding scandium in such small amounts to aluminium can have such a profound impact on its physical properties," he said.
Clean TeQ aims to bring its Sunrise project in central NSW online in late 2020.
Small amounts feature heavily when talking scandium. Carr says the total production of scandium oxide, the form in which the metal is commonly traded, comes to 10-15 tonnes per annum worldwide over 40 to 50 suppliers.
Scandium has a low affinity for itself and is therefore found in tiny concentrations, generally well below 100 parts per million. It is thus expensive to process and generally ends up in tailings.
However, its ability to greatly strengthen aluminium alloys — as well as adding other desirable qualities — when present in quantities well under 0.5 per cent, means this 'spice metal' is interesting.
"It's hard not to get overly excited about it. And aluminium as a metal is completely widespread," Alex Kingsbury, founder of Additive Economics and the former Director of CSIRO's Lab 22, told create.
Scandium has the ability to keep the grain size of a cooling alloy small, cuboid and evenly-spaced, instead of forming longer crystals. Such alloys are described as weighing the same as regular aluminium, but have strength relative to titanium and a ceramic-like hardness.
Other benefits include better corrosion resistance. This is while keeping the recipe relatively simple, and generally also including small amounts of zirconium, silicon and magnesium.
"Because we don't put a lot of scandium in the material, you don't affect the other key properties too much," said Dr Thomas Dorin, Associate Research Fellow at Deakin University's Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM).
Fix the supply issues and scandium could open up new opportunities for engineers looking for lightweight transport solutions and more. In Australia and elsewhere, considerable effort is being made to make this so.
A spectacular demonstration of APWorks' Scalmalloy (scandium, aluminium, magnesium alloy) additive manufacturing feedstock formula is its Light Rider electric motorbike. Stripped down through its "bionic algorithm" design and use of the lightweight alloy, it weighs only 35 kg.
Scandium's value for aluminium alloys is nothing new to the aerospace industry. Some of the original alloy recipes go back to the 1960s and were applied to parts of Russian MiG fighter jets.
However, Carr said, "very little work has gone into more commonly used alloys in automotive, such as aluminium-magnesium-silicon (6xxx) alloys", and work has been limited to high-value applications.
Road vehicles, facing a carbon-constrained world, will likely be forced to slim down to burn less fuel or offset heavy batteries. Carr and others are looking towards this scenario.
Clean TeQ is focusing its scandium efforts on two application families: solid oxide fuel cells and lightweighting opportunities for transport.
This has included work with United Aerospace Corporation (UAC), a US-based supplier to Airbus. More recently, Clean TeQ has begun working with the bus manufacturer Volgren, which has ambitions of stripping a tonne out of its aluminium-bodied Optimus models.
Dorin, who heads aluminium research at Deakin's IFM, led both the UAC work and the current Bus Optimisation Project. He said scandium improves aluminium's extrudability, formability and weldability. Zirconia and silicon are also part of the alloys being investigated.
"The advantage of scandium compared to other strengtheners is, with scandium and zirconium you are going to retain your strength in the weld," he said, adding that new alloys also throw up new design challenges.
"If we were to design an alloy which has better mechanical properties — strength — then we have to see if it translates into light weight," he said.
He stresses that lightweighting the bus parts requires close collaboration between materials experts and designers, and not simple substitution.
The combination of strength plus plasticity in scandium alloys creates new, more elegant design possibilities, according to Clean TeQ.
Other properties that are interesting for the transport industries include improved performance against corrosion, a plus for marine applications.
"Even though they use aluminium in marine, that still will corrode over time, and that process is slowed," said Andy Sales, founder and Managing Director at AML Technologies.
"Lifelong fatigue-life and corrosion-life is improved." Sales's company sees potential in providing such alloys, deposited through arc welding, in the defence, aerospace and marine industries.
"The applications themselves can be anything from general structural gussets or structural items: big panels, gusset plates on them rather than welding them on. These things are then additively manufactured, rather than as welding pieces together, which takes time," Sales said.
Metal additive manufacturing has a number of shortcomings that generally rules it out for creating such large, structural items. Build rates offered by laser systems are too slow and the size of parts is too small.
Cranfield University in the United Kingdom is a hub of expertise when it comes to overcoming these and other limitations. It has been at the forefront of wire and arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) since the early 1990s, combining robotics and welding technology to enable a freeform method capable of producing large structures.
A demo 2.5 m by 1.2 m aluminium wing rib, for example, was built in under a day for Bombardier Aerospace in 2014.
Sales returned from Cranfield, where he earned a Master of Science in Welding Engineering in mid-2013, and he has since been chipping away at commercialising WAAM technologies.
"A few years ago, there was nothing really to commercialise; it was just a lot of research work," he said.
Commissioning at AML's Salisbury, South Australia, site was completed this past January, and it joins Norsk Titanium and RAMLAB as companies bringing WAAM to the market. Sales has ambitions to disrupt casting and forging methods for engineered structures, as well as to lead the world in the additive manufacture of aluminium-scandium alloy.
He describes his system as using an off-the-shelf robot and welding equipment, with the smarts residing in the integration and the company's software. This comes with a library of different metal feedstocks, and controls things like the path planning of the system.
"It will optimise each layer to the size of, said, [the] weld bead and weld deposit that we decide to choose for that particular part, and it all varies between the different metals," he said.
Earlier this year Sales's startup announced an agreement with Scandium International to use the miner's scandium in wire alloy trials. Sales said he sees such alloys as perhaps being competitive against titanium one day.
In lower grades, titanium offers corrosion resistance but is actually 40 to 50 per cent heavier than aluminium, he explains. It is only at aerospace grades where that corrosion resistance is combined with significantly greater strength than steel.
Others have ambitions of shaking up the 3D-printing world with scandium alloys. APWorks, owned by Airbus, included scandium as an ingredient in Scalmalloy, which it calls the first material specifically developed for additive layer manufacturing. And Metalysis, a UK metals processing company, has partnered with Australian Mines and will use the latter's scandium oxide in trials of master alloy powders.
As with earlier high-promise materials, it is possible that this excitement will amount to nothing. There are many barriers to the adoption of scandium.
There is no exchange, no transparency, and no real knowledge about the current supply.
She mentions "plus 10 years" when asked about the possibility of a scandium industry and said this could even be driven by solid oxide fuel cells.
Some questions remain. If widespread production ever began, would it crash the market, and what would that mean for producers?
Another factor is that the mature supply chains that would be critical for an aerospace company to consider adopting scandium alloys would take time to emerge.
There's optimism for this wonder material, though. Dorin said that it's possible that scandium alloys could rival other light metals "10 years from now", citing the automotive application he's working on, as well as possible demand from the construction industry.
Carr hopes the Bus Optimisation Project has a "fundamental impact". Proving the value proposition in automotive alloys, he said, has the potential to dramatically increase their rate of uptake.
This article originally appeared as "Harder, better, stronger" in the October 20108 issue of create magazine.


A descending channel is a formation that combines the use of two parallel descending trendlines, showing that price is following a downward trend. Similarly, as in the case of a horizontal channel, these trendlines are treated as support and resistance lines.
The lower trendline (line of support) is drawn by connecting the lower-end of the bars/candles, while the higher trendline (line of resistance) is drawn by connecting the upper-end of the bars.
Another option is to choose "Insert/Object" and then the "Draw trendline" option.
A parallel line can be drawn by choosing a trendline on the chart with a double-mouse-click, and then moving the line with a mouse pointer while pressing the "Ctrl" button on the keyboard.


Breast cancer researchers from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a novel approach for identifying how chemicals in the environment - called environmental estrogens - can produce infertility, abnormal reproductive development, including "precocious puberty," and promote breast cancer.
X-ray crystallography is a technique that produces a snapshot of the receptor's 3-D atomic structure. Like the images produced by photography or microscopy, x-ray crystal structures have a certain resolution, or level of detail, that can be visualized. With optical microscopy, super-resolution imaging - a discovery for which researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2014 - can be achieved by combining many images to produce a sharper picture.
In addition to Nettles and Nwachukwu, other authors of the study, titled "Systems Structure Biology Analysis of Ligand Effects on ERa Predicts Cellular Response to Environmental Estrogens and Anti-Hormone Therapies," are Sathish Srinivasan, Nelson E. Bruno, Jason Nowak, Nicholas J. Wright, Erumbi Rangarajan, Tina Izard and Douglas J. Kojetin of TSRI; Xin-Qui Yao and Barry J. Grant of the University of Michigan; Olivier Element of Weil Cornell Medical College; John A. Katzenellenbogen of the University of Illinois; and Filippo Minutolo of the Università di Pisa, Italy.
The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health (grant numbers PHS 5R37DK015556, 5R01DK077085 and 2R01GM070862-10A1), The BallenIsles Men's Golf Association, The Frenchman's Creek Women for Cancer Research, The National Science Foundation (NSF award 1359369) and the University of Michigan.
Article: Systems Structural Biology Analysis of Ligand Effects on ERα Predicts Cellular Response to Environmental Estrogens and Anti-hormone Therapies, Jerome C. Nwachukwu, Kendall W. Nettles et al., Cell Chemical Biology, doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2016.11.014, published 29 December 2016.
The Scripps Research Institute. "Scripps Florida scientists develop drug discovery approach to predict health impact of endocrine-disrupting chemicals." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 4 Jan. 2017. Web.


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Role of polyhydroxybutyrate and glycogen as carbon storage compounds in pea and bean bacteroids
Lodwig, E. M., Leonard, M., Marroqui, S., Wheeler, T. R., Findlay, K., Downie, J. A. and Poole, P. S. (2005) Role of polyhydroxybutyrate and glycogen as carbon storage compounds in pea and bean bacteroids. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 18 (1). pp. 67-74. ISSN 0894-0282
To link to this item DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-18-0067
Rhizobium leguminosarum synthesizes polyhydroxybutyrate and glycogen as its main carbon storage compounds. To examine the role of these compounds in bacteroid development and in symbiotic efficiency, single and double mutants of R. legumosarum bv. viciae were made which lack polyhydroxybutyrate synthase (phaC), glycogen synthase (glgA), or both. For comparison, a single phaC mutant also was isolated in a bean-nodulating strain of R. leguminosarum bv. phaseoli. In one large glasshouse trial, the growth of pea plants inoculated with the R. leguminosarum bv. viciae phaC mutant were significantly reduced compared with wild-type-inoculated plants. However, in subsequent glasshouse and growth-room studies, the growth of pea plants inoculated with the mutant were similar to wildtype-inoculated plants. Bean plants were unaffected by the loss of polyhydroxybutyrate biosynthesis in bacteroids. Pea plants nodulated by a glycogen synthase mutants or the glgA/phaC double mutant, grew as well as the wild type in growth-room experiments. Light and electron micrographs revealed that pea nodules infected with the glgA mutant accumulated large amounts of starch in the II/III interzone. This suggests that glycogen may be the dominant carbon storage compound in pea bacteroids. Polyhydroxybutyrate was present in bacteria in the infection thread of pea plants but was broken down during bacteroid formation. In nodules infected with a phaC mutant of R. leguminosarum bv. viciae, there was a drop in the amount of starch in the II/III interzone, where bacteroids form. Therefore, we propose a carbon burst hypothesis for bacteroid formation, where polyhydroxybutyrate accumulated by bacteria is degraded to fuel bacteroid differentiation.
Faculty of Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences
POLY-BETA-HYDROXYBUTYRATE, GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA, FLOW-CHAMBER, REACTIONS, SOYBEAN ROOT-NODULES, RHIZOBIUM SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI, SYMBIOTIC NITROGEN-FIXATION, ASPARTATE-AMINOTRANSFERASE, INSERTIONAL, MUTAGENESIS, ALFALFA NODULES, ACID-TRANSPORT


Much good food and drink was had this weekend.
I had a random thought this morning over breakfast.
I really do go to one of the elite colleges in the US.
It's a wierd realization when it actually hits you.
Those irritating and stupid people who populate some of your classes?
They're future CEOs, polititions, executives.
music: none. time to buckle down and work damnit!


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New York Project Spotlight
Bluestone Lane Taps Tali Roth to Refine Its Aussie Café Aesthetic With an Elevated Bowery Outpost
The Australian coffee company's flagship café in Manhattan incorporates a more elegant palette than the brand's other locations
Bluestone Lane's new flagship on Bowery, designed by Tali Roth.Photo: Nick Glimenakis
Last fall, New York–based Australian designer Tali Roth was tapped to transform a raw space on the Bowery into Australian coffee company Bluestone Lane's flagship café. As a departure from the chain's smaller outposts, known for their minimalism, sun-splashed spaces, succulents, and blond wood, Roth's iteration took a nuanced route, with infusions of marble, maintained original building details, and modern furniture that begs its customer to stay just a little while longer.
"There is a great disparity between design in New York and design in Australia," says Roth. "In New York, it's all about warmth, extreme nostalgia, and not being too stark. Aussie design is striking, modern, and always on the cutting edge." The original blueprint and the final draft successfully merged those elements in one cohesive space. AD PRO asked Roth about her process.
The interior features greenery and soft lighting.
Photo: Nick Glimenakis
AD PRO: Since Bluestone Lane is a chain, did the company have a lot of say in your approach or concept?
Tali Roth: Because this is supposed to be the flagship store in the U.S., my only direction was that they wanted something that was unique in aesthetics. So I went a little bit more high-end in materials. I really wanted this to be a place where people could meet for lunch and go out on dates—I wanted it to feel special in that way.
AD PRO: Were there any initial ideas or drafts that got changed along the way?
TR: The first iteration of the design looked like a swimming pool. I wanted there to be tiles everywhere. It got vetoed by the team—they thought it was too "daytime." So I just took a step back and questioned, 'What exactly is clean, classical design?' I think we landed on that, but originally I wanted the entire place to be wrapped in whitewashed brick.
The brand's signature blue awning hangs outside the space.
AD PRO: How did you balance making this space feel special and individual while knowing that it needs to still reflect the Bluestone Lane brand?
TR: They have an in-house design team, but they wanted a different feel for this; they wanted my original thought process. I thought a lot about what Aussie café culture means to me—but in New York. What manifested was a bespoke version of the brand. We kept the typical blue awning in the front, to establish a sense of place, because after all it's still their brand. However, once you walk in, it's completely different.
First, I covered the space in a custom-colored Venetian plaster. It was a big challenge because I wanted it to feel like it had a natural patina but [was] not grungy. It is very subtle but very effective. I also used a very rich jade green marble for the bar, [along with] comfortable furniture, and implemented soft lighting and greenery.
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