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Sean Philpott: In Sickness and In Health

Jul 11, 2013

Just two weeks ago, the US Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, which barred federal recognition of same-sex marriages even if they took place in one of the 13 states or in the federal district where such weddings are legal. In a 5–4 decision, the Court ruled that key sections of the Act were unconstitutional because they deprived same-sex couples of liberties protected by the Fifth Amendment.

The Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA as it is colloquially known, was passed in 1996 when it appeared that Hawai’i was about to legalize same-sex unions. Fearing that other states would be forced to recognize those marriages, Republican and Democratic politicians alike quickly and overwhelmingly voted to limit the federal definition of marriage to unions of heterosexual couples. The Act also allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages granted in other states.

Despite Congressional haste in passing DOMA, same-sex marriage did not become legal in the US until nearly eight years later. In May of 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to allow such unions. So it was only then that the law’s effects became apparent. Specifically, the federal government provides nearly 1,200 different rights, benefits or privileges to married couples, including health insurance, pension and disability benefits, financial aid, immigration status, and survivor benefits. Until last month, these rights, benefits and privileges were denied to same-sex married couples.

One thing that supporters and opponents of legalizing same-sex marriage can agree on is this: the institution of marriage matters. The federal rights, benefits and privileges denied to same-sex couples until last month are important. Should I need to, my husband of 5 days – yes, I got married this past Saturday and yes, I married a dude – can be put on my health insurance plan without my paying a financial penalty. Should I be confined to a nursing home or long-term care facility in my later years, he will also have full visitation rights. And when I die, he will inherit my albeit-meager estate without being forced to pay inheritance taxes.

But getting married has benefits that go above and beyond what the government offers. For instance, married couples tend to be happier. A recent survey of nearly 100,000 couples found that getting married had a greater positive effect on individual happiness and wellbeing than religious faith, a stable job, or having children. On average, married people were happier than those who are cohabitating, single, divorced or widowed.

Other studies have found a strong correlation between marriage and mental and physical health. People who never marry are far more likely to die at a younger age. They are also more likely to suffer from cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, long-term illness and disability, mental illness or substance abuse. This is true even for couples that live together for a long time but never marry. Cohabiting couples don’t see the same health benefits as those who wed. There’s just something about being married.

There are any number of reasons to explain why this is the case.  For example, married couples tend to have greater economic and financial stability, which is not only less stressful but enables them to eat better and see a doctor regularly. Because most health insurance plans cover spouses, marriage increases the likelihood of having insurance. It also reduces the likelihood of becoming uninsured after a job loss or other major catastrophic event. Finally, married couples have higher levels of social support, both within the relationship itself and from family and friends. This may encourage them to make healthier choices, but also provide a mental and emotional buffer when dealing with personal challenges.

Of course, correlation is not causation. Moreover, it’s the quality of the relationship that matters. A troubled or tumultuous marriage can adversely affect the wellbeing of those within it; it’s no misnomer to call these relationships ‘unhealthy’.  For most of us, however, marriage is likely to lead to better health and a longer life.

Most of us marry for love, some of us marry for money, and still others marry for a variety of personal and family reasons. I got married because I love my husband and because I want my friends, family and the rest of society to recognize that commitment. I didn’t get married for the government benefits. Nor did I get married for the boost to my health. That’s just an added bonus and, since I want to spend the rest of my life with the man of my dreams, gives me that many more years to enjoy his company.

A public health researcher and ethicist by training, Dr. Sean Philpott is Director of Research Ethics for the Bioethics program at Union Graduate College-Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Schenectady, New York.  He is also Acting Director of Union Graduate College's Center for Bioethics and Clinical Leadership, and Project Director of its Advanced Certificate Program for Research Ethics in Central and Eastern Europe.

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BB: Easy Sticky Buns

This was another 3:30 am morning. No, wait. The dog woke me up at 3:00 am. Half an hour later I was up again, getting ready to take my daughter to the airport shuttle, which was scheduled to leave at 4:30 am.

At that time of morning, traffic is virtually non-existent. So, why do the traffic lights still cycle on their regular, high-traffic timer? What an agonizing wait at 4 am! And, you can't run the red light, because all the intersections have these traffic cameras that photograph your license plate so the police can ticket you irregardless.

Anyway, when I returned home, I debated whether to go back to bed or not. Since I felt wide awake, I decided to do the only decent thing at that early hour, and bake Easy Sticky Buns, the Barefoot Blogger selection, courtesy of Melissa of
Made by Melissa.

They truly were easy to make and didn't take very long and they hit the spot at 6 am. The only substitution I made was swapping out raisins for cinnamon chips. I'm sure the raisins are delicious, but not at 6 am. For a quick, but elegant, breakfast dish, these are just right.

Megan said...

Must have been something in the air - my dog woke me at 4. I couldn't go back to sleep, so I finished my TFF post. I'd much rather be making sticky buns at that hour!

The Food Librarian said...

Judy, looks great! And I'm sure they really hit the spot after a long morning!

madebymel said...

So glad these could brighten your early morning!

Rebecca said...

These came together so quickly, I wish we'd made them BEFORE the holidays. They're a nice shortcut to have around.

mangomissives said...

these *were* super easy to make and definitely impressed my husband's coworkers.


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With Hurricane Sandy striking the East Coast last fall, and a blizzard slamming the East Coast Friday night and today, local students have been taking a closer look at weather in their classroom.
Fourth-grade students in Jill Briem’s class at Wapakoneta Elementary School have been studying a weather unit, and were recently visited by a local meteorologist.
Chief Meteorologist Kyle Adams, of Your Hometown Lima Stations, talked with the students about weather topics ranging from tornadoes to radars and everything in between.
Classmates John Kohler and Jewel Barber
noted interesting facts about storms they learned through the weather unit and Adams.
“I learned about the speeds of storms and about how fast storms — like hurricanes — are,” John said.
Jewel said she also was fascinated with this topic, as she learned how fast a velocity storms can reach.
Jewel also learned from Adams something more technical about his career — about the cameras in the studio at his workplace.
“I learned about how they can move,” Jewel said.
The studio has many cameras, and Adams showed a behind the scenes slideshow and video to teach the students about the newsroom.
Adams also talked about the green screen, and how he cannot wear a green shirt, like Jewel was wearing on Friday during the presentation, because it would not work for the newscast.
“When I’m looking at the green screen, I’m not actually looking at what you see on TV,” Adams said.
All Adams sees is a green screen, and he looks at a tiny television monitor for guidance while going over the weather.
Student Zavier Ayers says staying safe is important during severe weather.
“I learned what to do if you get caught outside,” Zavier said, “and also how thunderstorms get created.”
Thunderstorms, tornadoes and hurricanes were a popular topic on Friday in the classroom, as these are things the students have either experienced or have seen in the media.
Cridersville experienced a tornado in 2010, and flooding has been visible in Wapakoneta when the Auglaize River floods — which Adams went over briefly during the presentation.
Students played a guessing game to find out 15 was the average number of tornados that occur in Ohio per year, and April, May and June are the most common months to see a tornado.
Adams ended his presentation taking numerous questions from the students about weather-related topics.
When talking about tornadoes, fourth-grader Ellie Schroer said she thought one particular thing was very fascinating.
“The different speeds of tornadoes and hurricanes,” Ellie said.


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University of Sydney students have designed and built a groundbreaking plug-in electric car that does away with axles, gearboxes and mechanical brakes.

The ManGo has a 48-volt lithium-ion battery to power the motors and boasts a regenerative braking system that allows it to top up its battery as it drives.

The car is the brainchild of 50 students from the university’s engineering department. They spent five months developing the specifications and hand-building the car.

“It’s a pretty radical design: a 4-wheel-drive (vehicle) with a motor in each wheel, eliminating the need for mechanical brakes,” Associate Professor Michael Roberts says in a statement.

“The motors are used as brakes and actually recharge the car’s battery when it is running down hill. There are no axles, differentials or gearboxes.”

By placing motors in each wheel, the weight and complexity of gearboxes, differentials, axles and shafts are eliminated and replaced with electronics controlled by a small computer and software.

Mass is reduced further in the ManGo, because the lightweight car operates with smaller motors and fewer batteries than other electric vehicles.

“The car is nimble, light and inexpensive to run,” as well as simple to build, Roberts says.

The ManGo 2-seater is so light two people can pick it up.

The heart of the ManGo is its powerful and efficient wheel motor. There is one pancake-shaped motor about the size of a disc brake and weighing only a few pounds, inside each wheel hub.

Using rare-earth magnets and a new laser-cut winding system, four of these motors can deliver three times the acceleration of the average small car, the design team says. Combining the motor and wheel eliminates the need for most mechanical components.

Roberts says the ManGo’s wheel motors offer triple the efficiency of a gasoline engine. That is further boosted, because electrical energy can be recovered and used to recharge the battery.

The prototype would require much more engineering to become a marketable vehicle, he says. A sketch shows a door-less car most closely resembling a canopied golf cart.

But Ross points to the opportunity presented by the relative simplicity of EV technology and the low barriers to entry for the emerging industry.

“It reminds me of the emergence of computer hardware in California 30 years ago,” he says. “Back then, big-name companies such as Sperry-Univac, Control Data and Burroughs dominated the computer industry. These companies are now consigned to the history books, having been usurped by the PC.

“I see the same think happening with cars. While the big names in the industry are fighting for survival, there is an opportunity for smaller companies to enter the field with a simpler product that better meets consumer demand.

“An electric car, like the University of Sydney’s ManGo with its four wheel motors, could be the start of a new era for Australia, if we have the vision and courage to seize the opportunity.”

General Motors Co. has shown some concepts, including the Hy-wire fuel-cell car, with individual wheel motors at each axle, and Audi AG rolled out its E-tron at this month’s Frankfurt auto show, a concept that employs four electric motors, two at each axle.


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July 29th, 2013 by Warren Swil

Whistleblowers’ fears

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The column by The New York Times’ Public Editor Margaret Sullivan on Sunday makes a compelling case for a federal shield law. Click image to enlarge.

THE NEED FOR A FEDERAL shield law that protects journalists from having to reveal their anonymous sources is more urgent than ever.
The relentless persecution of government whistleblowers by the Obama administration is drying up sources of vital information. Many are fearful of communicating with journalists, who increasingly are being forced to divulge their anonymous sources.
The case was eloquently put on Sunday by the public editor of The New York Times.
In A Blow for the Press, and for Democracy Margaret Sullivan recounts how NYT investigative reporter James Risen has been persecuted for almost a decade as the CIA tries to find out who leaked information to him about Iran’s search for weapons.

“Just over a week ago, another blow came: a federal appeals court panel ruled 2 to 1, against his effort to avoid testifying in the government’s case against Jeffrey Sterling, a former C.I.A. official charged with leaking secret information about the matter,” Sullivan reported.

Judy Miller went to prison for 85 days for refusing to reveal her anonymous source. But she was no hero.

Ironically, another New York Times reporter, Judith Miller, back in 2005 was sent to jail for 85 days for refusing to testify about her source in the exposure of CIA Agent Valerie Plame.
But Miller did so much damage through her erroneous reporting on Iraq, that sympathy for her was mixed at best.
I blogged about her in detail May 6 in “Who caused more harm at The New York Times in 2003?”
But there are other cases, equally compelling.
Two reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle who broke open the steroids scandal at the San Francisco Giants, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, almost went to prison in 2007 for trying to protect the source of a grand jury transcript on the case that they obtained. Read about it here.
The two were saved from prison time, however, when the source came forward and identified himself. He was an attorney involved in the case.
If they had been charged, instead, in a California court, they might have been afforded some protection from the California Shield Law.
According to the First Amendment Project, “The California Shield Law provides legal protections to journalists seeking to maintain the confidentiality of an unnamed source or unpublished information obtained during newsgathering.”

But the issue that seems to be holding up a federal equivalent, who exactly is a journalist, is ducked by the California law.
Here is what the the First Amendment Project says on the point:
“The Shield Law protects a “publisher, editor, reporter, or other person connected with or employed upon a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical publication, or by a press association or wire service…”
The key concept is “employed.”
Defining a journalist as one who receives a paycheck from an established organization is no longer adequate.
This issue was discussed in detail on this blog on July 10 in “Debate rages over who is a journalist.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange might be protected under a federal shield law.

Is Edward Snowden a journalist? What about Julian Assange? Should WikiLeaks be protected by a shield law?
The U.S. Senate got hung up on this very issue in 2010. It was close to passing a federal shield law (which already been approved by the House) when WikiLeaks burst onto the scene with its release of thousands of secret U.S. government documents.
Senators balked at providing WikiLeaks protection from revealing its sources – and the bill died in committee.
It is time to resurrect it.
The New York Times urged this in a July 15 editorial: New Rules Protecting News Media
“Congress should pass a law shielding journalists from government investigators,” the Editorial Board wrote.
It is correct.
The time has come for federal protection for journalists, or the American public will never know what it does NOT know because whistleblowers fear reporters will be compelled to reveal confidential sources.

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  • Deep throat writes:
    July 30th, 2013

    Watergate would never have been exposed if it were not for Woodward and Bernstein using anonymous sources.
    We seem to have forgotten how important they are in shining light into the darkest corners of our government.
    Americans should wake up before someone turns out the lights forever,

    • Michael writes:
      July 30th, 2013

      Sometimes the government MUST keep secrets, especially when terrorists are constantly plotting another Sept 11 attack.
      Journalists should not have carte Blanche to publish secret government data that would compromise all of our safety.
      There should be severe penalties for leaking classified information. I am glad there are.

  • Fox fan writes:
    July 30th, 2013

    Judy Miller is great on Fox.
    At least she is appreciated there. The New York Times is a liberal rag.
    Don’t pay any attention to it.
    I what my news fair and balanced.

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Palin Calls Paul Ryan’s Budget Plan A ‘Joke,’ ‘Definition Of Insanity’

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is not a fan of Rep. Paul Ryan’s $5.1 trillion budget plan.

In a post on her Facebook page, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee compared the Republican Wisconsin representative’s plan to an April Fool’s Day joke.

“The latest Ryan Budget is not an April Fool’s joke. But is really IS a joke because it is STILL not seeing the problem; it STILL is not proposing reining in wasteful government overspending TODAY, instead of speculating years out that some future Congress and White House may possibly, hopefully, eh-who-knows, take responsibility for today’s budgetary selfishness and shortsightedness to do this,” Palin wrote.

Ryan promises to balance the government’s books with wide-ranging cuts to programs such as food stamps and government-paid health care for the poor and working class. It’s a nonstarter with President Barack Obama but polishes the GOP’s supply-side brand heading into midterm elections likely to be determined by the core voters of either party.

Palin labeled Ryan’s plan the “definition of insanity.”

“Do we still not understand how dangerous it is to allow government to grow unchecked as we shackle ourselves with massive debt – a good portion of which is held by foreign nations who don’t necessarily like us?” Palin questioned. “If we can’t balance the budget today, what on earth makes us think it will happen at some future date?”

Palin stated that the only solution is to rein in spending today.

The measure should ease through the House budget panel on Wednesday but could face resistance during floor debate next week since it embraces higher spending for agency budgets in 2015, as negotiated between Ryan and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., in December. Sixty-two House Republicans opposed the Ryan-Murray pact, and many of them need to come around if its successor is going to pass next week.

The legislation promises to serve more as a political and policy statement by House Republicans than a realistic attempt to engage Obama and Democrats, who control the Senate, in any serious effort to further cut the deficit.

Election-year politics are in play, as are entrenched differences over spending and taxes. Senate Democrats already have announced they will not advance a budget this year, but Ryan pitched his budget as a party-defining document outlining where Republicans would take the nation if they return to power.

“It is not just enough for us to be an opposition party,” Ryan said. “We need to be a proposition party. We need to be the alternative party. And we need to show the country the right way forward to get this economy growing, to get our budget, our fiscal house in order.”

At issue is the arcane congressional budget process, which employs a non-binding measure known as a budget resolution to set forth goals for future taxes, spending and deficits. But follow-up legislation is usually limited to one-year appropriations bills rather than more difficult measures to deal with the government’s long-term fiscal challenges, which are fueled by spiraling health care costs and the retirement of the baby boom generation.

Ryan’s budget brings back a now-familiar list of spending cuts to promise balance, including $2.1 trillion over 10 years in health care subsidies and coverage under the Affordable Care Act, $732 billion in cuts to Medicaid and other health care programs, and almost $1 trillion in cuts to other benefit programs like food stamps, Pell Grants and farm subsidies.

While repealing the benefits of “Obamacare,” Ryan would preserve its tax increases and cuts to providers, including cuts to private insurers under the Medicare Advantage program. Republicans have attacked Democrats for the Medicare cuts used to finance the new health care law.

As in the past, Ryan has steered clear of cuts to Social Security, and he promises steady increases for veterans and restoration of looming defense cuts. But he faces a more challenging task in balancing the budget by decade’s end than he did last year because the Congressional Budget Office projects lagging revenues.

Steep cuts to Medicaid, which Ryan proposes to turn into a block grant program managed by the states, could drive millions of people from the program, including seniors in nursing homes and children from low-income households.

Ryan’s budget also contains sharp cuts to a category including refundable income and child tax credits for the working poor and Supplemental Security Income for the elderly, disabled and very poor.

“This dog-eat-dog budget is nothing short of an assault on Americans struggling to stay afloat economically,” said Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee.

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4/13/2014 12:21 A.M. ET

Werth misses start with groin cramp, pinch-hits

ATLANTA -- Outfielder Jayson Werth left Friday's 7-6, 10-inning loss to the Braves in the bottom of the 10th because of a minor cramp in his groin. He was not in Saturday's starting lineup, but he came in as a pinch-hitter in the eighth inning and hit a hard single before the Nats fell, 6-3.

"He cramped last night a little bit on a swing [against] Craig Kimbrel and let us know at the end of the inning when he was running back to the field that he felt it," manager Matt Williams said. "So, again on the side of caution, we said 'We'll get you out of there. We'll re-evaluate tomorrow.' I think he's fine, but at this point, looking at the long term, we don't want to push him either. So that's why he's not in there."

Werth is one of the best hitters on the Nationals this season, going 14-for-38 (.368) with two home runs and eight RBIs.

Zimmerman out 4-6 weeks with broken thumb

ATLANTA -- Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman will miss four to six weeks after fracturing his right thumb during a 6-3 loss to the Braves on Saturday night at Turner Field. It will mark the fourth consecutive year Zimmerman will be placed on the disabled list, which is expected to happen on Sunday.

With the Braves leading, 4-1, in the fifth inning, Zimmerman hit a one-out double before being picked off by left-hander Alex Wood. Zimmerman argued with second-base umpire Paul Nauert over the call, but to no avail. The Nationals had already lost a challenge.

Zimmerman then looked at his right hand and was slow to get up. He then slowly walked into the dugout and was taken out of the game.

With Zimmerman out, it means that starting second baseman Anthony Rendon will now play every day at third, while Danny Espinosa will be the starting second baseman.

"It's not our first choice, certainly. The fact that they can play multiple positions is good in times like this," manager Matt Williams said. "You certainly don't want to miss someone like Zim for that amount of time, but it is what it is. There is nothing we can do about it now except play."

According to a baseball source, the Nationals are expected to recall infielder Zach Walters from Triple-A Syracuse on Sunday. Ranked by MLB.com as the Nationals' No. 10 prospect, Walters will be a backup and can play multiple positions, including shortstop and second base. While no one has questioned his offense, the Nationals want him to get better defensively. It was one of the reasons he was sent down in Spring Training.

It's only the second week of the regular season, and the Nationals have been hit hard with injuries. Catcher Wilson Ramos is out four to eight weeks because of broken left hamate bone. Right-hander Doug Fister has yet to play a regular-season game because of a lat strain, and Denard Span was placed on the seven-day DL on Saturday because of a concussion.

"It is what it is. Nobody is going to feel sorry for us," Williams said. "[Losing Zimmerman] is a big one, but we don't have a choice. We have to go play, compete and win games. We have to do that starting tomorrow."

Span to 7-day DL; Souza, Treinen come up

ATLANTA -- The Nationals were busy before Saturday's game against the Braves, placing Denard Span on the seven-day disabled list with a concussion, while recalling outfielder Steven Souza Jr. and selecting the contract of right-hander Blake Treinen from Triple-A Syracuse. Right-hander Aaron Barrett was optioned to Syracuse.

The injury to Span occurred in the top of the eighth inning of Friday night's 7-6 loss to the Braves in 10 innings. With runners on first and second and two outs, Span singled to center field off right-hander David Carpenter, scoring Bryce Harper. Span was awarded second base for colliding with second baseman Dan Uggla, who was charged with interference.

Span was down for the count for several seconds before being attended by head athletic trainer Lee Kuntz and manager Matt Williams. Span remained in the game, but acknowledged afterwards that he had a mild headache. He took a battery of tests, and it was revealed on Saturday that he suffered a mild concussion.

The Nationals erred on the side of caution by putting Span on the DL. He has a history of concussion problems. In fact, Span missed a good portion of the 2011 season after he was involved in a home-plate collision with then-Royals catcher Brayan Pena.

"Given his history, we thought we would go ahead and get him on the seven-day DL," Williams said. "We just want to make sure."

With Span on the DL, Nate McLouth will get most of the playing time, while Souza will come off the bench. Souza, ranked by MLB.com as the 14th-best prospect in the Nationals' Minor League system, was hitting .273 with a .429 on-base percentage and a .545 slugging percentage in seven games for Syracuse this season.

"He's been playing well. It's a question of what our needs are, certainly on the team," Williams said. "It's one of the reasons that Nate's here, because when things like this happen, he can step right in and fill in for anybody at any position in the outfield. But Steven has been playing well, and he played well this spring. There's nothing other than that, other than we thought he was a good choice."

As for Treinen, he made one start for Syracuse, but he will be used as a reliever because the bullpen is taxed. He didn't have to wait long to make his Major League debut, entering in relief of Taylor Jordan in the sixth inning during Saturday's 6-3 loss to the Braves and tossing two shutout innings, allowing two hits and striking out one.

Treinen said he wanted to leave a good impression before Spring Training ended, and it's safe to say he did. After getting hit hard in his first relief appearance, Treinen allowed only one run in his last 8 2/3 innings and notched seven strikeouts.

Treinen -- who ranked as the 17th-best prospect in the Nationals' Minor League system -- can give the Nationals more than one inning.

"I got a phone call between 11:30 and 12 last night from manager Billy Gardner telling me to be ready to leave in the morning for Atlanta," Treinen said. "So I just called my family, called my fiancée and called my agent and kind of worked out the details with them, and I think they're on their way down now.

"Internally, I was screaming. Externally, I was pretty relaxed. I think it took me until I went to bed when I realized, because then it's hard to sleep, but I feel like I'm ready. I'm excited. Performance-wise, I feel like I'm here for a reason."

Treinen's arrival meant Barrett had to be sent down. It sounded like it was hard for Williams to demote Barrett, who is a closer by trade and is not known to pitch multiple innings. Besides, Barrett is dealing with a minor finger injury, so he is expected to get some rest before he gets back on the mound for Syracuse.

"The issue with Aaron is he has done everything we've asked him to do -- above and beyond," Williams said. "But the way our bullpen is situated right now, we needed a guy that could give us length. It's one of those decisions that you make because you have to make it -- not because you want to make it. So Aaron was understanding. This is the way the game is sometimes."

Barrett understood the bullpen's plight.

"If you look at it logistically, the bullpen has been pretty overworked at the moment. They just told me right now they need innings. It is what it is. Yeah, it stinks getting sent down, but at the same time, I'm not going to beat myself up about it. It's not because it's performance-based. We need innings."

Additionally, infielder/outfielder Jeff Kobernus was recalled from Syracuse and placed on the 60-day disabled list with a left hand fracture.

Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, All Nats All the Time. He also can be found on Twitter @WashingNats. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY: People shelter from Palestinian rocket shelling, July 2014. A union activist told Berkeley students in November that their job was to vote Dec. 4 to isolate and weaken Israel.

By Paul Miller | Watchdog.org

A November 12 panel discussion on the University of California’s flagship Berkeley campus was billed as an opportunity to learn about events 7,000 miles away in Israel – and about a Dec. 4 graduate student vote to join the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Instead, attendees were exhorted to bring down the Jewish State.

Hosted by UAW 2865, a union of over 13,000 student-workers across the University of California system, the union’s BDS Caucus brought in guest speakers to “discuss the role of organized labor in the Palestine solidarity movement.”

Panelist Lara Kiswani, executive director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), dominated the conversation.

“I think you should boycott any Zionist institution, academic, organization, whether it be from 1967 occupied Palestine or 1948 occupied Palestine, because BDS really should be about shifting the cultural framework and shifting how we see Israel and isolating it and making it feel unwelcome anywhere and everywhere,” said Kiswani.

“Bringing down Israel will really benefit everyone in the world and everyone in society, particularly workers,” she said later.

Panelists also expressed solidarity with extremists who’ve advocated violence to settle their political differences with Israel.

“BDS is not the end-all. BDS is a tactic,” said Kiswani. “We Palestinians resist in all different types of ways, so there is no end-all of BDS. I think the end-all of BDS is to weaken Israel, to isolate Israel, and give the global community a role in the liberation of Palestine and support the resistance on the ground in Palestine.”

Fellow Panelist Clarence Thomas from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 added, “You know in a revolution, people play different roles. Some want to do divestment. Let them do that. Others want to do more military action, let them do that. That’s how the struggle works.”

The panel, which included Labor for Palestine’s Michael Letwin, invoked the ancient stereotype of global Jewish control.

Letwin chimed in with, “Defenders of apartheid Israel have tremendous resources at their disposal, not the least of which are the Democratic and Republican parties, labor officials, the media, campus administrations, all the forces that we see against us on a daily basis.”

“So a lot of the labor movement now is co-opted by Zionists and we shouldn’t let it be co-opted by Zionists… for Palestine itself, the United States is very far behind Europe, Latin America, and other parts in Africa. Everyone else has been taking strong positions, labor workers have been taking strong positions, and the U.S. is behind because of Zionist control,” Kiswani told the audience.

In a follow-up email, Letwin told Watchdog that “defenders of apartheid Israel have tremendous resources at their disposal not because of ‘Jewish control’ (indeed, many of Israel’s defenders are not even Jewish), but rather because Israel’s apartheid character ideal makes it a dependable watchdog for U.S. imperial interests throughout the region. As former Secretary of State Alexander Haig put it, Israel is ‘the largest American aircraft carrier in the world.’”

University of California lecturer Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, director of the anti-Semitism watchdog group AMCHA Initiative, told Watchdog.org, “What this event made crystal clear is that the goal of BDS is not to legitimately criticize Israeli policy, but rather to bring an end to the Jewish state.  And make no mistake: calling for the elimination of the world’s only Jewish state is anti-Semitic.

“This is the true face of BDS: it is the face of pure hatred.  It’s not surprising the UAW 2865’s upcoming vote to boycott Israel and other campaigns to promote anti-Israel divestment resolutions in UC student senates have created a hostile, anti-Semitic environment for many Jewish students who support the Jewish State.”

The agenda – which managed to be anti-Israel, anti-Semitic and anti-capitalist – was derailed just once. A female graduate student who identified herself as “the voice of dissent in this room” and “a rank-and-file member of the union. I’m Latina. I’m Jewish, and I’m pro-Israel.”

“I’m really disturbed because I want to dialogue with people on the other side, and I really just feel a strong sense of hatred coming from the voices and the language, she said during the question and answer period in the program. “I find it incredibly difficult to engage just hearing the kind of the lack of balanced perspective, from here, from the panel, and from the discussion as a whole, especially from the union.”

She continued, “I feel extremely threatened as a Jew by what you guys are saying. You don’t have to stop saying what you’re saying, but I just want you to know that this is the type of reaction you’re causing in people like me who want to have the discussion and make peace. But the way that you are talking is so aggressive and so sort of suddenly anti-Semitic, that it’s very hard for me to kind of be open and have an open discussion.”

UAW Local 2865 will vote on a resolution concerning participation in the BDS movement on Dec. 4.

Kiswani and Thomas did not respond to email requests for comments.


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He would like to paint himself as a modern day Martin Luther King Jr. but Republican shill talk radio show host Charlie Sykes has got a past he doesn’t like to talk about.

I’ve lived in the northwest corner of the county for nearly 15 years. When I moved here I liked the fact that Milwaukee’s Northridge Mall as a great place to shop. The doors to the mall closed and part of the mall has since been torn down to make way for a new Pick N Save and Menards home improvement store.

But for me and many of my neighbors the reason for Northridge malls demise has a great deal to do wth talk radio show host Charlie Sykes personal harangues against security at the mall and implications that black kids at the mall were creating an unsafe environment. But Sykes is a sneaky Republican who has a way of getting his own racist ideas across without them coming out of his mouth. Sykes uses call screeners to make sure that his views are broadcast even if his more obscene views do not come directly from his lips.

So when Sykes attacked blogger Bill Christopherson (Xoff) and Governor Jim Doyle this past week it was especially ironic. Sykes compared Governor Doyle’s unwillingness to remove the funding cap on choice schools to southern segregation that denied black students the right to attend white-only schools which would afford them a better education.

But Sykes has once again used the black community for his own purposes. The first time it was to do what he does best — inspire fear — fear that black kids would endanger white shoppers at Northridge. That issue benefitted Sykes by increasing his fan base and feeding the flames of racism. White suburban shoppers were sent the message then that Northridge was an unsafe black mall. Sykes planted the seeds of racism and knew they would grow. He watered those seeds and he nurtured those fears until Northridge didn’t have a chance.

Now Sykes is using the black community again but in a different way. Republican think tanks have been pushing to undermine public education for years. They hate the concept of public schools just as they hate that public school teachers are unionized. Sykes saw an opening to attack public school funding and he’s taking it through an anti-Doyle ad Sykes likes to brag that he produced. This time he is using African-American’s in an ad to push his Republican agenda.

In the “spot” (as Sykes likes to call it so as to avoid TMJ having to register as a political action committee) Sykes crosses the line by comparing Governor Jim Doyle to southern segregationists because Doyle won’t completely lift the cap on publicly funded private school choice enrollment. The spot completely disregards the fact that Governor Doyle did raise the cap on school choice.

Here’s what the Journal-Sentinel had to say:

A short-lived paid ad that was originally part of WTMJ-AM (620) commentator Charlie Sykes’ radio talk show tries to equate the beliefs of Faubus and (former Alabama Governor George) Wallace with those of Doyle. With the civil rights hymn “We Shall Overcome” playing in the background, students implore Doyle not to stand in the doorway of school choice, and the ad draws direct comparisons with Faubus and Wallace.

The ad’s aim is to get Doyle to lift the cap on school choice enrollment. It was put together by Sykes and Milwaukee Community Journal editor Mikel Holt, who told the Journal Sentinel that the purpose was not malicious and the ad “never called Doyle a racist.” (Sykes did not return a phone call seeking comment.)

That may be, but when Doyle is lumped in with racists such as Wallace and Faubus, it’s hard not to draw the conclusion, just listening to the ad, that it’s real aim is to smear Doyle as a racist in an election year.

Sykes was contacted to ask for his comments but as our previous columns have pointed out, Sykes is a coward and he dodged calls from the Journal-Sentinel so as to not answer any questions which might expose his true motivations.

We’ve been a staunch critic of the Journal-Sentinel in the past but for once, their comments (above) hit the mark. It almost makes you wonder if they might actually act as a watchdog and treat Republicans with the same criticism they’ve eyed toward Democrats. Enough wondering, we don’t believe it but we can always dream our only daily would remember that newsmen like Edward R. Murrow helped to give media outlets credibility. Murrow would be out of a job at the JS.

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CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — Chesapeake detectives are looking through surveillance video for any clues leading to the suspect of a gas station robbery Wednesday afternoon.

Officers were dispatched to the 1100 block of South Military Highway around 2:40 p.m. for a report of an armed robbery at an Exxon gas station, according to Kelly O’Sullivan with Chesapeake police.

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Katherine “Katie” Jeanette Plymale of Ashland

Katherine “Katie” Jeanette Plymale, 33, of Ashland, KY, passed away Thursday, April 25, 2013 at Community Hospice Care Center in Ashland, KY. She was born November 2, 1979 in Lexington, KY a daughter of Shirley Jean Wyatt Plymale of Ashland and the late Ricky Allen Plymale. She was a graduate of Ceredo-Kenova High School, Class of 1998. Katie was a server for the Marshall Hall of Fame Café in Huntington, WV. In addition to her mother, she is survived by her two beloved children, Kamryn Elyce Finley and Kalen Allen Finley, they were the lights of her life and she was devoted to them. Additional survivors include her brother and sister-in-law, Mike and Dana Early of Ashland; her paternal grandparents, Richard and Jean Carver Plymale; her aunt, Lisa Jennings and her husband, John, all of Lexington, KY, and her special friend, Bo Finley; and a host of aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. Katie’s smile would light up the room and she will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her. Funeral services were April 28, 2013 with Elder Gary Blake officiating. Burial followed in Hillcrest Cemetery. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made Community Hospice Care Center of Ashland, 2330 Pollard Road, Ashland, KY 41101. Online condolences may be expressed at www.rollinsfh.com


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Jun 14, 2013

Cuayhoga County is following the lead of officials in Franklin and other counties by offering veterans identification cards to help them claim benefits.

Cuayhoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald says the photo ID cards will be available to 90-thousand veterans who previously had to produce their discharge papers to receive medical services, apply for jobs or get discounts.

Rick DeChant, director of veterans services at Cuyahoga Community College, says the cards will save veterans from having to carrying their discharge papers everywhere.

Veterans will pay one-dollar for the cards when the program launches in late July. Franklin County officials launched a similar program in May.


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Marbled Murrelet Effectiveness Monitoring Northwest Forest Plan: 2004-2007 Summary Report

Category: Wildlife Research and Management - Wildlife Research

Date Published: September 2008

Number of Pages: 25

Author(s): Gary Falxa and Mark Huff

This report summarizes activities of the Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) Effectiveness Monitoring Program in the area of the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) during fiscal years 2004 - 2007. The purpose of the effectiveness monitoring is to assess status and trends of murrelet populations and nesting habitat. Findings for the first 10 years of the NWFP (1994-2003), including detailed analyses of the status and trends of murrelet populations and nesting habitat, are presented in the 10-year NWFP effectiveness monitoring report (Huff et al. 2006). Whereas the 10-year report did not cover the 2004-2007 period of this report, the preparation of the 10-year report by Huff and his collaborators was a primary focus during 2004- 2005, and its completion a major accomplishment. Another accomplishment was a publication describing the methods of the murrelet population monitoring program (Raphael et al. 2007).

This report includes results of the annual at-sea population surveys including an initial trend analysis, and a brief update on modeling of nesting habitat. Nesting habitat analysis was not a focus of work following publication of the 10-year report, but will be for 2008-2009, for an upcoming 15-year NWFP monitoring report.

The objectives of the murrelet population monitoring are to estimate (1) population trends and (2) population size during the breeding season within and across five murrelet conservation zones in coastal waters adjacent to the NWFP area. Conservation Zones 1 through 4 were surveyed for murrelets in all years between 2004 and 2007. Conservation Zone 5 was not surveyed in 2006. The highest total population estimate for this area (20,500 Â± 4,600 birds at the 95 percent confidence interval) was in 2004. The lowest total population estimate for this area (17,400 Â± 4,600 birds at the 95 percent confidence interval) was in 2007. At these confidence levels, the 2004 through 2007 population estimates broadly overlap, as well as overlapping with estimates from 2000 through 2003. During these 4 years, murrelet density (birds per km2) was highest in Conservation Zones 3 and 4 (entire coast of Oregon to just south of Cape Mendocino, California) and lowest in Conservation Zone 5 (California coast, just south of Cape Mendocino to just north of San Francisco Bay).

For the 5 zones combined, a preliminary trend analysis indicates that a 6-to-7 percent annual decline between 2000 and 2007 is unlikely. Additional at-sea monitoring will be needed to detect population declines in the range of 2 to 5 percent with a high level of statistical power.

For the habitat monitoring component of the Effectiveness Monitoring Program, non-map and map predictive models were developed to estimate murrelet nesting habitat. Field data for the non-map model was collected from occupied and unoccupied sites across the speciesâ€™ range within the NWFP area. The map-models of murrelet nesting habitat were developed from spatial attributes of occupied sites based on variables that best distinguished attributes of occupied sites compared to attributes of available habitat within the range. Results from the map and non-map models were published in the 10-year interpretive report of the effectiveness monitoring program (Huff et al. 2006). In 2007, the program began to explore modifications to the existing habitat models, to evaluate model performance using the new IMAP vegetation map that is under development, and to examine the utility of resource selection function models as an alternative to Ecological Niche Factor Analysis.

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When we think about remarkable years in terms of advisor movement, we immediately recall 2008-2009, when more than 20,000 advisors switched firms.

I doubt we will ever see another time like that with a similar confluence of events and frenzy. While movement in 2012 feels relatively disappointing, particularly in the wirehouse space, the year will likely be remembered for a few surprises and highlights.

In the surprise category, high-profile Merrill Lynch loyalist Peter Sargent moved his $250 million book to Janney Montgomery Scott, a regional firm; Merrill Lynch stalwarts John Beirne and Jim Betzig, a $2 billion team, started their own RIA with Focus Financial Partners; Phil Noble, who spent his entire career with independent broker-dealer LPL, made a “break-back” move and took his $100 million business to join Morgan Stanley; and ,of course,scores of advisors made the more traditional wirehouse to wirehouse move for all cash, high water mark deals of up to three-and-a-half times trailing 12 month production.

Finally, the winner of the most envied/exciting deal of the year may go to Luminous Capital, an RIA who sold itself to First Republic Bank for an eye-popping $125 milllion in cash less than five years after breaking away from Merrill Lynch, illustrating the power of possibility in the independent space.

Given those events and so many others in the works, we feel comfortable declaring the independent channel as the overall winner this year – finally legitimizing its place beside, not behind, all of the traditional options available to the highest quality advisors and teams. So, with the benefit of hindsight and from a recruiter’s vantage point, I will outline why movement occurred the way it did this year, why certain firms came away as winners, and what I predict in terms of advisor movement in 2013 and beyond.

Focusing on the wirehouse channel, each firm took a turn in the media’s crosshairs. As a result some advisors either hunkered down and chose not to go from the frying pan into the fire, or sought models outside of the wirehouse space altogether.

Not even wirehouse transition packages at an all time high of 350% for top FA's could entice them. To further stifle recruiting, many advisors perceived only subtle differences among Morgan, Merrill, UBS and Wells and couldn’t justify making a move that may only be marginally better for themselves and their clients. Moreover, the majority of wirehouse advisors remain tethered to their firms with slow to forgive retention deals or transition packages from previous moves. So, despite record frustration levels among advisors overall, many remain in "watch, listen, learn and wait" mode. Advisors who moved in 2012 were mainly those with tangible impediments to growth and client service who believed that repaying money owed to their firms was well worth it, in return for the ability to work in a less restrictive environment.

In contrast to wirehouse recruiting, newer firm models like HighTower Advisors, Dynasty Financial Partners, and Focus Financial Partners brought over dozens of top advisors which added to the growing validation of the independent space. They are helping reinvent the industry. Their ascendance and documented ability to ignite growth for those who join them, as well as allowing advisors to gain independence in a turnkey manner to monetize their businesses, has made them magnets for marquee advisors.

Year-to-date, HighTower has converted ten teams with an average AUM of $525 million for a total firm AUM of over $20 billion; Dynasty, which is less than three years old, added 14 teams this year, out of the 17 they have total, and now have more than $15 billion in AUM; and Focus has transitioned $10 billion in assets over the last three years (nearly $7.5 billion this year alone) for an overall firm AUM of $52 billion.

Advisors who joined these firms seek greater control over their professional destinies, less bureaucracy and inefficiency, more transparency for their clients, superior service models and ways to build equity. The major firms that dismissed these models just a few short years ago now recognize that they are formidable competitors.

In our discussions with advisors who are already independent, many tell us that, after years of relying on their broker-dealer to provide the platform, they are dissatisfied overall with the service and thought leadership they are receiving. They expect more in areas including practice management, recruiting, business planning, succession planning, compliance and the like. Like all quality advisors today, these business owners are in the driver’s seat and will seek alternatives if their partner firms cannot offer the best possible suite of services. Never have the pastures been greener with opportunities for growth-oriented businesses, and broker-dealersneed to step up their games lest they lose their best talent.

Looking Ahead to 2013

No one has a crystal ball, but I can say with confidence that all of the elements are in place to make 2013 a more robust recruiting year. Among the wirehouses, we anticipate greater movement as retention packages continue to expire and the proverbial “golden handcuffs” loosen their grips on advisors who received them. Of those who move, naturally many will go to other wirehouses; they are familiar, offer the most upfront money, and the easiest transition (at least that’s how it is perceived). Others will choose some form of independence where the options are now more varied and better suited to high quality advisors. According to Cerulli Associates, advisors will continue to shift toward independent business models, and RIA and dually registered advisors’ market share will nearly double between 2010 & 2015.

The firms that won big in 2012 will almost certainly continue their momentum in 2013 and beyond. New firms will undoubtedly be created to challenge the status quo and take their places across the landscape. And, there will be the inevitable headlines and industry buzz to keep advisors talking and industry thought leaders on their toes. Those of us that are students of this industry are anxious to see what lies ahead and how this anything but static industry will respond.


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If you think it’s taking longer to recruit clients, you’re not alone. Charles Schwab’s annual RIA benchmarking study reports that sales cycles are getting longer—a problem that can take a toll on practices’ bottom line.

Business development productivity is down, as the time cost per new $1 million in assets under management increased by 20 percent last year. Without the drag, the financial results reported by advisors to Schwab likely would have been larger: Profits grew 14 percent at the median-sized firm (Schwab said the median had $212 million in AUM, $1.3 million in annual revenue), chiefly driven by stronger revenue. Median income among the 1,000 firms in the survey was up 5 percent, to $341,000.

Jon Beatty, Schwab Advisor Services’ senior vice president, sales and relationship management, said investors are taking more time and interviewing more advisors before committing to a relationship.

“Instead of closing a client in the first meeting, maybe advisors have to meet with them two or three times. Maybe you’re meeting with the second generation because that’s important to the patriarch of the family,” Beatty says. “And when you have to meet more times, the cost of acquisition goes up.

“It’s an outcome of a challenging market. It’s a flat market for the last five or 10 years. There’s headline risk with what’s going on in Europe, with budget deficits,” he says.

Advisors also told Schwab that they are seeing more RFPs from ultra-high-net-worth families at the lower end of the wealth scale. In the past it was common for households with $50 million to request wealth management proposals from advisors before signing up; now it’s not unusual for families worth $10 million to $25 million to ask for RFPs, Beatty says.

Ron Hunt of Hunt Wealth Management in Walnut Creek, Calif. said there’s more suspicion among investors about moving assets to new advisors.

“They’re afraid it’s not going to be any better on the other side,” says Hunt, 61, who manages $50 million in assets and is affiliated with RIA aggregator Concert Wealth Management. “I think people are just more worried and afraid about their investments, period. You definitely have to be more patient.”

Hunt spends less time trying to recruit new investors and more time on managing relationships with existing clients, he says.

Corey Casilio, another Concert-affiliated RIA with $55 million in AUM, says the financial industry’s missteps are the reason why it takes longer to close deals with prospects.

“This week HSBC, PFGBest last week, JPMorgan … The industry has done it to itself,” says Casilio, 32, of Casilio-Leitch Investments. “People are asking a lot more questions—what goes on with a custodial relationship, how the trading is done, who does the reporting.”

Schwab suggested the sales cycle issue was also being reflected in RIA satisfaction with growth—it was down slightly, from 69 percent in 2010 to 67 percent last year. But major benchmarks still grew, the Schwab study says. The median RIA firm increased revenues by 12 percent and AUM by 3.8 percent, a record high for the second consecutive year.

Beatty says that advisors are using technology, outsourcing and client segmentation to drive greater efficiencies in their practices.

“The way we hear advisors talk about it, if they can get more leverage in their operations, they can then spend more time in front of prospects and existing clients,” he says. “Advisors tell us that their ability to win clients in face-to-face meetings is one of the key enablers to their success.”


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UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot P35579: Variant p.Arg705His

Gene: MYH9
Chromosomal location: 22q13.1
Variant information

Variant position:  705
The position of the amino-acid change on the UniProtKB canonical protein sequence.

Type of variant:  Disease [Disclaimer]
The variants are classified into three categories: Disease, Polymorphism and Unclassified.
  • Disease: Variants have been found in patients and disease-association is reported in literature. However, this classification is not a definitive assessment of variant pathogenicity.
  • Polymorphism: No disease-association has been reported.
  • Unclassified: Variants have been found in patients but disease-association remains unclear.

Residue change:  From Arginine (R) to Histidine (H) at position 705 (R705H, p.Arg705His).
Indicates the amino acid change of the variant. The one-letter and three-letter codes for amino acids used in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot are those adopted by the commission on Biochemical Nomenclature of the IUPAC-IUB.

Physico-chemical properties:  Change from large size and basic (R) to medium size and polar (H)
The physico-chemical property of the reference and variant residues and the change implicated.

BLOSUM score:  0
The score within a Blosum matrix for the corresponding wild-type to variant amino acid change. The log-odds score measures the logarithm for the ratio of the likelihood of two amino acids appearing by chance. The Blosum62 substitution matrix is used. This substitution matrix contains scores for all possible exchanges of one amino acid with another:
  • Lowest score: -4 (low probability of substitution).
  • Highest score: 11 (high probability of substitution).
More information can be found on the following page

Involvement in disease:  Deafness, autosomal dominant, 17 (DFNA17) [MIM:603622]: A form of deafness characterized by progressive high frequency hearing impairment and cochleosaccular degeneration. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:11023810}. Note=The disease is caused by mutations affecting the gene represented in this entry.
The name and a short description of the disease associated with the variant. For more information about the disease, the user can refer to OMIM, following the link provided after the disease acronym.

Variant description:  In DFNA17.
Any additional useful information about the variant.

Other resources:
Links to websites of interest for the variant.

Sequence information

Variant position:  705
The position of the amino-acid change on the UniProtKB canonical protein sequence.

Protein sequence length:  1960
The length of the canonical sequence.

The residue change on the sequence. Unless the variant is located at the beginning or at the end of the protein sequence, both residues upstream (20) and downstream (20) of the variant will be shown.

Residue conservation:
The multiple alignment of the region surrounding the variant against various orthologous sequences.

Sequence annotation in neighborhood:
The regions or sites of interest surrounding the variant. In general the features listed are posttranslational modifications, binding sites, enzyme active sites, local secondary structure or other characteristics reported in the cited references. The "Sequence annotation in neighborhood" lines have a fixed format:
  • Type: the type of sequence feature.
  • Positions: endpoints of the sequence feature.
  • Description: contains additional information about the feature.

Chain 2 – 1960 Myosin-9
Domain 81 – 776 Myosin motor

Literature citations

Human nonsyndromic hereditary deafness DFNA17 is due to a mutation in nonmuscle myosin MYH9.
Lalwani A.K.; Goldstein J.A.; Kelley M.J.; Luxford W.; Castelein C.M.; Mhatre A.N.;
Am. J. Hum. Genet. 67:1121-1128(2000)
Cited for: VARIANT DFNA17 HIS-705;

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As I have been diving in to Facebook games, I discovered that in order to succeed in the games I had to add strangers to my friends list.  Unfortunately, this has a side effect that is quite bad.  As Facebook has become more popular and the use of Facebook Connect and other APIs has grown, my Facebook friend list travels with me lots of place.  I don’t mind my real friends following me around, but game strangers who I only added because I needed more people to advance in a game since no more of my real friends would play I don’t want them around.

Last year I bought a Palm Pre.  Best phone I’ve ever owned or used, absolutely love it.  One of its best features is Synergy, which is what they call the blending of profiles without syncing them.  So, I added my Gmail account, my Facebook, my AIM, my work Exchange account, and so on, and when I look at my contacts it shows them all, in one view, duplicates are combined into a single entry but not sync’d.  For example, I have my older brother as a friend on Facebook, a contact on AIM and an entry in Gmail.  In the Pre, I see his picture with a small subscript 3 telling me that this entry is a blending of three accounts.  If he updates his Facebook profile, that will automatically update in my phone, but items in his Gmail contact entry only change when I update them.

Combining my Pre with my recent use of Facebook games and suddenly I had dozens of people in my phone, with phone numbers, whom I don’t know.  This is the side effect, and this is why I removed all those people as friends on Facebook.  Going forward, playing games on Facebook is going to be harder, slower.

The failure of most Facebook games is this: you have to choose, sacrifice social for games or sacrifice games for social.  That’s a horrid dilemma for a social gaming platform.  Facebook needs a way for people to be game-friends that links them for the game but for nothing else, and gives people the option of allowing that relationship to grow and step outside the game.  Until that happens, I choose Facebook as a social platform, not a gaming one.

Additional Note: I have noticed that in some games you can get what I am calling “former friend benefits”.  Taking Hero World as an example, once I add a person to my Super Team, I can remove them from my friend list but my team size doesn’t decrease. While this prevents me from using them actively in the game (training, gifts, etc), I can still use them passively (my super team is currently 37 people, even though I only have 8 or so that are on my friend list) for content that requires team sizes of a certain level.

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Wireless Industrial Solutions...

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WebSensing solutions build on a generic end-to-end wireless control system capable of securely monitoring industrial sites, either in the Cloud via the Internet, or locally at a designated site (U.S. Patent #7,333,921). The architecture allows all monitoring, analysis, and control functions to be available remotely from both computers and hand-held devices, such as the iPad and iPhone.


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About WebsiteTips

Sherlock Holmes A Sherlock Holmes drive for finding anything on the Internet, love for Web design and development, and a gigantic curiosity and thirst for knowledge all led to the creation and continuing growth of is owned, created, designed, and developed by Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns, Web Site Design and Development.

Once launched to the public, it rapidly became a well known and popular site among Web designers, developers, site owners, educators, and students throughout the world. This was tremendous inspiration and motivation to build it up further and to continue to make it even better.

The ultimate goal of is to help people to easily find high quality online resources on Web site design topics, such as Web site design and development, running a Web site design business, and owning and managing a Web site. is highly selective about resources listed so that visitors know they'll always find top-notch, credible, reliable information.

See also the Colophon for information about the design and behind-the-scenes development.

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  • This site is NOT (and never has been) an automated submission listing site, and ONLY includes annotated resources to quality Web sites related to Web design that have been personally visited, reviewed, and added by hand by's owner and editor.
  • only includes links to sites that provide helpful information and value for our visitors.
  • does not accept payment (and never has) for any of our 2,500+ high quality annotated listings.

A Little History began in 1996 to provide clients and colleagues with a few helpful links. So I created a small Web design section within my Internet Resources site, a small and humble personal site. Eventually the Web design section grew large enough to warrant its own Web site, resulting in the purchase of the domain name June, 1997.

From 1997 through 1999 I spent literally thousands of hours of research building up the available and continually updated information, with the ultimate goal of promoting the site as a major resource to help others interested in building, owning, or promoting Web sites.

1999 the site was made publicly available, having grown to over 1,000 annotated resources and nearly a dozen tutorials at the site.

Since then has received an incredibly warm reception and praise from colleagues, clients, and visitors as being a valuable resource to the Internet community.

May of 2001 another metamorphosis began behind the scenes. The results vastly increased the resources once again by adding several new categories and sections and expanding the existing resources. This expansion was completed late August, 2001.

Fall of 2001 book recommendations were added to the sidebar of many of the sections, with more added regularly. Almost every book is in my personal library and I wholeheartedly recommend them, and those that aren't in my personal library come highly recommended by my colleagues and well respected experts.

March 20, 2006 brought the launch of a new design, vastly improved information architecture, and streamlining behind the scenes with server-side programming to help make its development and maintenance easier, more convenient, and more efficient. A new Recommended Books section was added as a convenient area for all the books and software recommendations found throughout the site.

28 November, 2006 brought the launch of a new design inspired by rich wood paneling I photographed in gorgeous libraries and castles throughout Europe. The new design was launched only 8 months after the March overhaul and major relaunch. Why the new design? The emphasis of the March relaunch was on the information architecture, updating all the content, and the behind-the-scenes improvements. I knew then that I would revisit the design and either build on that one or create something different. I opted for a totally different visual design, although the layout and structure is still based on all the work I did for the March relaunch. See the Colophon for more on the design.

15 July, 2007 brought the launch of Google AdSense ads, slowly adding ads throughout the site over the next month or two. Monetizing the site was a long overdue, major, and important change for

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At this point, around 2,500 annotated resources are available from all over the Internet and the world, along with over 60 tutorials and tips at and a regular column that I moved to its own weblog / blog site, Brainstorms & Raves with the latest news, thoughts, brainstorms, and more about Web site design, development, and usually related tidbits.

See the Colophon section for details about the new design and what goes on behind the scenes.

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The desire, goal, and intent for remains to continue to maintain and build further its already strong reputation as a valuable and reliable resource of high quality information for Web site owners, designers, developers, educators, and students throughout the world.

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Saturday, January 24, 2009

I am a Disney Addict...

There, I said it... isn't that the first step to recovery?

My family and most of my friends are Disney fanatics and this post is meant to amuse us, them, and any other Disney darlings out there.

If you would like to get this video customized with your name (or anybody else's), simply follow this link.

Tanya Plonka said...

Ah, this makes my day! I, too, am an addict. I go every year. I am just terribly sad this video features Disney World, and not my beloved Disneyland.

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Wow!!! This is absolutely fabulous. You just made a snowy, grey day, become so much brighter.

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A new concept in commuting is Real-Time Ridesharing, where commuters offer their unused seats to riders in real-time and share commuting costs through automated, electronic payment system based on miles traveled. The system is flexible and designed around your schedule, you can depart as you desire, use the system daily or skip a day or two, and take advantage of the HOV lanes. You can be the driver one day and the rider the next.

The project’s  goal is to bring real-time ridesharing to DoD employees and contractors who were directly impacted by the re-locations from the base re-alignment and closure (BRAC), and traveling along the I-95/395/495 and Route One Corridors. The program serves these seven BRAC sites: Defense Health Headquarters (DHHQ), Fort Belvoir, National Geospatial Agency (NGA) or Fort Belvoir North, the Mark Center, Marine Corps Base Quantico, the Navy Yard, and Arlington Hall.

Our Goals

  • Encourage commuters  going to military sites  to sign up at Car.ma
  • Allow riders to search for a ride
  • Recruit at least 500 drivers and 1000 riders to participate
  • Achieve 20 ride matches per month, per participant
  • Reduce 120,000 vehicle miles traveled (VMT) over 6 months
  • Reduce traffic congestion, parking demand and fuel consumption
  • Determine whether innovative pricing strategies for ridesharing may change travel behavior
  • Quantify what critical mass of participants is required to create a self-sustaining, real-time ridesharing system

Who are we?

The Northern Virginia Regional Commission (NVRC) is a regional council of fourteen member local governments in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington DC.  The Commission is served by a highly trained staff, including a demographer and research analyst, regional planners, human services professionals, GIS technicians, and administrative support personnel.  With a rich history spanning 60 years, NVRC’s chief roles and functions have focused on providing information, performing professional and technical services for its members, and serving as a mechanism for regional coordination.

 Our Partners

The project is funded by a grant from the US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, with matching funds from Virginia Department of Transportation, the District of Columbia, City of Alexandria, Arlington and Fairfax Counties.

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Avego’s breakthrough real-time ridesharing software system (Car.ma) matches drivers and riders in real time as they travel, so you can rideshare whenever you want, from wherever you are. With the real-time ridesharing smartphone app, it is easy for commuters to create carpools in real-time, providing a marketplace for drivers to offer up their empty seats to other commuters, and helps carpoolers share the costs of the journey through an automated electronic transaction based on mileage. Once a match is made, the pilot will track the journey from pick-up to drop-off, provide automated security features, and electronic micro-payments that allow riders and drivers to share the cost of a journey.


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Westwood Chalet is a vacation rental cabin nestled in the forest just steps from Mount Rainer National Park and is the perfect destination for reconnecting with family, friends and nature. We’ve equipped the chalet with everything you need for a weekend getaway for two or an extended retreat for up to eight people. Enjoy casual, rustic style and easy access to outdoor activities in any season. Watch deer, squirrels, butterflies and hummingbirds. Prepare meals in the full kitchen, take the chill off by the freestanding gas fireplace, or soothe weary muscles in our unique hot tub. Restaurants, grocery stores and other amenities are also available in nearby Ashford, Washington.

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Sunday, November 4, 2012

MD Picks #4: CMJ Follow-Up, Burger Records, Garage-Pop!

Sidewalk Dave- Hard On Romance
Sidewalk Dave is a good guy. I've known him for a while through a mutual friend who works with Dave at Miya's Sushi, a sushi restaurant so good I will not try to do it justice in such a small amount of space. I have seen Dave perform a few times now, and, as I documented in my first CMJ post, he's switched his style up from folk to rock & roll in the time I've known him, which I consider to be quite a good move. According to his website's bio, Dave was kicked out of his 7th-grade band for improvising during shows for their parents, and broke up his college "pretentious prog-rock band" after he was arrested for possession of LSD. Now he's doing what he wants, making music that expresses who he is, rather than trying to please anyone. From talking to Dave, I've gotten a sense that he's in this for the love of the music. And he's making some excellent music here.
Try #s 2 + 8 ("Something About Me", "Soft Portal")

Sky Ferreira- Ghost
We also got to see Sky Ferreira at CMJ, though in her case, I just barely got to catch a glimmer of her piercing blonde hair, as her set at Piano's was packed to capacity. Soon after CMJ, Pitchfork said of Ferreira: It's official: she's the year's next big latent potential. " Also in that Pitchfork article: mention of her childhood friendship with Michael Jackson and of a tweet by Katy Perry of the then-17 Ferreira holding a bottle of vodka, along with the quote:"I like em right before they’re famous… Fresh meeeat." For a girl with that kind of backstory, Ferreira, now 20, seems surprisingly grounded and poised to blow up on her own terms, not as some pre-fabricated pop star. Her outstanding single off this EP, "Everything Is Embarrassing" sounds like the assured work of a veteran singer/songwriter who knows how to make a great pop song. In fact, if I were to compare her to anyone, it would be veteran Swedish pop goddess, Robyn, or my new favorite Swedish pop combo Niki and the Dove. This is catchy pop with soul, far from the corporate garbage you might hear on the right side of your dial.
Try #s 1 + 5 ("Sad Dream" + "Everything Is Embarrassing")

Check out Fletcher C. Johnson, Natural Child, King Tuff, and The Barbaras after the jump...

Fletcher C. Johnson- Salutations
This is one of 25 cassettes that Burger Records sent to our station. Burger is a very cool record label that releases garage, psych, punk, and generally weird albums, many of which are cassette-only. I have yet to be disappointed by anything I've heard from the label, and Salutations is no exception. Johnson is a member of King Tuff's group, and, as much as I like this year's King Tuff,  this one might actually be better. Like Tuff, Johnson has a great ear for catchy pop melodies, but will also speed things up on garage-y tunes like "Wasted Boys."
Try #s 2,3,8,10 ("Wasted Boys", "Send Me Your Love", "Happy Birthday", "Radio High")

Natural Child- For the Love of the Game
Natural Child is my favorite of the Burger bands. Burger provides some often-hilarious genre descriptions on their cassettes. The best is For the Love of the Game's: "Whiskey-soaked Doobie-smoked Boogie rock." That's right on the money. Natural Child are a band from Nashville who play the hell out of 70s-style rock & roll and don't give a damn about doing nothing else. This is the sound of a great band having a great time.
Try #s 2 + 3 ("She Got a Mind" + "Baby")

King Tuff- "Screaming Skull" b/w "Love Potion"
As mentioned above, King Tuff knows how to make some catchy, catchy garage-pop. He sent this one in on vinyl, along with a note that says "WESU Rocks!" Well, just check out the album art for  visual proof that King Tuff, too, rocks. "Screaming Skull" is also a very fun song.
Try #1 ("Screaming Skull")

The Barbaras- 2006-2008
If you, like me, are a sucker for exuberant, fun, catchy garage-pop, then this has been a good couple of weeks. Here's a series of long-rumored-to-be-lost recordings by members of Jay Reatard's old backing band. If you've listened to that man's (RIP) oeuvre, you know that his band made some astoundingly awesome, undeniably foot-stomping rock & roll. This compilation matches that quality. Reatard produced these songs, but after two of the band members quit his band, he claimed to have destroyed their songs in retaliation. Thankfully for us, he was bluffing.
Try #s 1 + 5 ("Day At The Shrine" + "Superball")

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    Javascript Architect

    Javascript, AngularJS, HTML / SCSS, Rails

    Building a social network for the Maker Movement. Currently over 30,000 active users on the beta, with more than 100,000 requests for access in the queue. Took on usability testing as a personal objective.

  • 2014

    Lead Front End Engineer

    Javascript, AngularJS, HTML / SCSS, Foundation

    I built the UI platform of this cutting edge network security platform, as a completely decoupled Angular SPA with heavy D3JS data-vis. I worked tightly with an awesome team of data scientist and backend engineers, and led all front end architecture.

  • 2013 - 2014

    Sears Holdings

    Solutions Consultant / Front End Developer , 2013 - 2014.

    Javascript, AngularJS, HTML / SCSS

    Working with Sears Holdings through AIM Consulting to push the Sears/Kmart web platform forward. We launched a complete overhaul of one of their most popular apps - the Sears Gift Registry - as a responsive, cross-platform, Angular SPA.

  • 2013

    Allstate Insurance

    Software Consultant / Front End Developer

    Javascript, HTML / LESS, Bootstrap

    Software consultant and lead dev with AIM Consulting on a solution for Allstate, onsite at the Allstate campus in Chicago. Architected and helped design a web app for mobile Safari on iPad, as the new digital toolkit for their insurance salesmen.

  • 2013

    New Control

    Full Stack Web Developer

    Javascript, HTML / CSS, PHP

    Lead dev on various small scale corporate web apps. One of these is still active, as the form & admin panels for Fifth Third Bank’s register53card.com. Built custom responsive HTML email templates for Sony, Chase, Starbucks, and others.

  • 2013

    The University of Chicago

    Front End Developer

    HTML / CSS, Wordpress, PHP

    Working with a grant from Lady Gaga and the Born This Way Foundation, I built an interactive workshop site for the University of Chicago's Ci3 program. Born Brave Chicago offers mapping of free local resources for education on sexual health.

  • 2012

    Human Solutions, Inc.

    Front End Developer

    Javascript, HTML / CSS

    Responsive redesign and overhaul of the corporate website of the aviation engineering firm Human Solutions. Hand-coded static design built with HTML/CSS, jQuery.

  • 2012

    Tampico Beverage Corp.

    Principal Engineering Consultant

    Javascript, Unity3D

    Interactive advergame I built for Tampico Beverages, in conjunction with the Branger_Briz design firm. Players paint a 3D piñata model and then “bash” it with their Facebook friends to be entered into a raffle for a Fiat 500 and other prizes.

  • 2013

    The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

    Faculty, Web Development

    Javascript, HTML / CSS, ThreeJS

    Teaching two advanced course sections of Creative Coding with Javascript.

  • 2011

    The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

    Faculty, Experimental Game Lab

    Javascript, Unity3D

    My syllabus focused on the use of creative code with browsers, and game engines for artistic purposes, with a heavy emphasis on experimental 3D and parametric design.

  • 2006 - 2011

    Freelance, Various Clients

    Web Developer

    Various professional web development projects.

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  • The School of The Art Institute of Chicago

    MFA; Art & Technology; Creative Code

    SAIC is an internationally acclaimed institution that consistently holds the #2 rank amongst all graduate fine arts and design programs in the country by U.S. News and World Report. I won the John Quincy Adams Fellowship Award for Art & Technology projects I built while studying here. (1) (2)

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    The digital arts and sciences program crosses between the schools of engineering and fine art, with a rigorous panel review in the second year to continue onto the Art & Technology program. UF ranks #53 in Best Global Universities. (1)

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  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude from The University of Florida.
  • Awarded the John Quincy Adams Fellowship from SAIC.
  • Won the PGA Collegiate Scholars Award.
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Death Of The Apostrophe?

Dec 20, 2013

We’ve all done it:  written a sentence and misplaced or just forgotten to use an apostrophe.  Take the word “its” for example.  If it has an apostrophe, "it's" is a contraction for “it is” or “it has.”  Well, there’s a movement of sorts to rid the English language of the apostrophe all together.  You can find out more at a site called  We decided to find out more from UNC Chapel Hill English Professor and Linguist Connie Eble.  She says everything will be just fine if the apostrophe dies.


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 Trump says he will be making a bid to purchase the team, but also warns that he will not be forced to pay too much.

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