July 31st, 2009 by admin

Ignoring Science is the title of the linked Investors.com article. The paper references a scientific paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research which implicates nature rather than man as the culprit for recent climate changes. These climate changes and the presumption that they are generated by human activity form the basis on which legislation like Cap and Trade is justified. That legislation is likely to cost the American consumer money and jobs at a time when the economy is perilously weak. Quoting from the article:

“The surge in global temperatures since 1977 can be attributed to a 1976 climate shift in the Pacific Ocean that made warming El Nino conditions more likely than they were over the previous 30 years and cooling La Nina conditions less likely” says co-author de Freitas.

“We have shown that internal global climate-system variability accounts for at least 80% of the observed global climate variation over the past half-century. It may even be more if the period of influence of major volcanoes can be more clearly identified and the corresponding data excluded from the analysis.”

These findings are largely being ignored by the mainstream media. They simply don’t fit the worn narrative that man is dangerously warming the Earth through his carbon dioxide emissions and a radical alteration of Western lifestyles mandated by government policy is desperately needed.

HT: Clare

July 31st, 2009 by admin

Ignoring Science is the title of the linked Investors.com article. The paper references a scientific paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research which implicates nature rather than man as the culprit for recent climate changes. These climate changes and the presumption that they are generated by human activity form the basis on which legislation like Cap and Trade is justified. That legislation is likely to cost the American consumer money and jobs at a time when the economy is perilously weak. Quoting from the article:

“The surge in global temperatures since 1977 can be attributed to a 1976 climate shift in the Pacific Ocean that made warming El Nino conditions more likely than they were over the previous 30 years and cooling La Nina conditions less likely” says co-author de Freitas.

“We have shown that internal global climate-system variability accounts for at least 80% of the observed global climate variation over the past half-century. It may even be more if the period of influence of major volcanoes can be more clearly identified and the corresponding data excluded from the analysis.”

These findings are largely being ignored by the mainstream media. They simply don’t fit the worn narrative that man is dangerously warming the Earth through his carbon dioxide emissions and a radical alteration of Western lifestyles mandated by government policy is desperately needed.

HT: Clare

July 31st, 2009 by admin

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July 31st, 2009 by admin

July 31st, 2009 by admin

July 31st, 2009 by admin

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Mol. Biol. Cell Online Table of Contents Alert

A new issue of Molecular Biology of the Cell is available online:

1 August 2009; Vol. 20, No. 15

The below Table of Contents is available online at: http://www.molbiolcell.org/content/vol20/issue15/?etoc

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Stathmin Regulates Centrosomal Nucleation of Microtubules and Tubulin Dimer/Polymer Partitioning

Danielle N. Ringhoff and Lynne Cassimeris

The Exosome Associates Cotranscriptionally with the Nascent Pre-mRNP through Interactions with Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoproteins

Viktoria Hessle, Petra Björk, Marcus Sokolowski, Ernesto González de Valdivia, Rebecca Silverstein, Konstantin Artemenko, Anu Tyagi, Gianluca Maddalo, Leopold Ilag, Roger Helbig, Roman A. Zubarev, and Neus Visa

Cisternal Organization of the Endoplasmic Reticulum during Mitosis

Lei Lu, Mark S. Ladinsky, and Tom Kirchhausen

Reconstitution of the Mia40-Erv1 Oxidative Folding Pathway for the Small Tim Proteins

Heather L. Tienson, Deepa V. Dabir, Sonya E. Neal, Rachel Loo, Samuel A. Hasson, Pinmanee Boontheung, Sung-Kun Kim, Joseph A. Loo, and Carla M. Koehler

Molecular Distinctions between Aurora A and B: A Single Residue Change Transforms Aurora A into Correctly Localized and Functional Aurora B

Fabienne Hans, Dimitrios A. Skoufias, Stefan Dimitrov, and Robert L. Margolis

Chromatin-dependent Transcription Factor Accessibility Rather than Nucleosome Remodeling Predominates during Global Transcriptional Restructuring in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Karl A. Zawadzki, Alexandre V. Morozov, and James R. Broach

Structural Basis of Ist1 Function and Ist1–Did2 Interaction in the Multivesicular Body Pathway and Cytokinesis

Junyu Xiao, Xiao-Wei Chen, Brian A. Davies, Alan R. Saltiel, David J. Katzmann, and Zhaohui Xu

Mitofusins and OPA1 Mediate Sequential Steps in Mitochondrial Membrane Fusion

Zhiyin Song, Mariam Ghochani, J. Michael McCaffery, Terrence G. Frey, and David C. Chan

Novel Roles of Hakai in Cell Proliferation and Oncogenesis

Angélica Figueroa, Hirokazu Kotani, Yoshinobu Toda, Krystyna Mazan-Mamczarz, Eva-Christina Mueller, Albrecht Otto, Lena Disch, Mark Norman, Rasika Mohan Ramdasi, Mohammed Keshtgar, Myriam Gorospe, and Yasuyuki Fujita

Induction of HoxB Transcription by Retinoic Acid Requires Actin Polymerization

Carmelo Ferrai, Gabriela Naum-Onganía, Elena Longobardi, Martina Palazzolo, Andrea Disanza, Victor M. Diaz, Massimo P. Crippa, Giorgio Scita, and Francesco Blasi

The First Propeller Domain of LRP6 Regulates Sensitivity to DKK1

Minke E. Binnerts, Nenad Tomasevic, Jessica M. Bright, John Leung, Victoria E. Ahn, Kyung-Ah Kim, Xiaoming Zhan, Shouchun Liu, Shirlee Yonkovich, Jason Williams, Mei Zhou, Delphine Gros, Melissa Dixon, Wouter Korver, William I. Weis, and Arie Abo

An Intramolecular Signaling Element that Modulates Dynamin Function In Vitro and In Vivo

Joshua S. Chappie, Sharmistha Acharya, Ya-Wen Liu, Marilyn Leonard, Thomas J. Pucadyil, and Sandra L. Schmid

The Stress-activated Protein Kinase Hog1 Mediates S Phase Delay in Response to Osmostress

Gilad Yaakov, Alba Duch, María García-Rubio, Josep Clotet, Javier Jimenez, Andrés Aguilera, and Francesc Posas

A Phosphatidylinositol-Transfer Protein and Phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-Kinase Control Cdc42 to Regulate the Actin Cytoskeleton and Secretory Pathway in Yeast

Liat Yakir-Tamang and Jeffrey E. Gerst

E-cadherin Surface Levels in Epithelial Growth Factor-stimulated Cells Depend on Adherens Junction Protein Shrew-1

Julia Christina Gross, Alexander Schreiner, Knut Engels, and Anna Starzinski-Powitz

CSN-5, a Component of the COP9 Signalosome Complex, Regulates the Levels of UNC-96 and UNC-98, Two Components of M-lines in Caenorhabditis elegans Muscle

Rachel K. Miller, Hiroshi Qadota, Thomas J. Stark, Kristina B. Mercer, Tesheka S. Wortham, Akwasi Anyanful, and Guy M. Benian

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Correction for IC97 Is a Novel Intermediate Chain of I1 Dynein That Interacts with Tubulin and Regulates Interdoublet Slidinghttp://www.molbiolcell.org/cgi/content/full/20/15/3617

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Mol. Biol. Cell Online Table of Contents Alert

A new issue of Molecular Biology of the Cell is available online:

1 August 2009; Vol. 20, No. 15

The below Table of Contents is available online at: http://www.molbiolcell.org/content/vol20/issue15/?etoc

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Articles

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Stathmin Regulates Centrosomal Nucleation of Microtubules and Tubulin Dimer/Polymer Partitioning

Danielle N. Ringhoff and Lynne Cassimeris

The Exosome Associates Cotranscriptionally with the Nascent Pre-mRNP through Interactions with Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoproteins

Viktoria Hessle, Petra Björk, Marcus Sokolowski, Ernesto González de Valdivia, Rebecca Silverstein, Konstantin Artemenko, Anu Tyagi, Gianluca Maddalo, Leopold Ilag, Roger Helbig, Roman A. Zubarev, and Neus Visa

Cisternal Organization of the Endoplasmic Reticulum during Mitosis

Lei Lu, Mark S. Ladinsky, and Tom Kirchhausen

Reconstitution of the Mia40-Erv1 Oxidative Folding Pathway for the Small Tim Proteins

Heather L. Tienson, Deepa V. Dabir, Sonya E. Neal, Rachel Loo, Samuel A. Hasson, Pinmanee Boontheung, Sung-Kun Kim, Joseph A. Loo, and Carla M. Koehler

Molecular Distinctions between Aurora A and B: A Single Residue Change Transforms Aurora A into Correctly Localized and Functional Aurora B

Fabienne Hans, Dimitrios A. Skoufias, Stefan Dimitrov, and Robert L. Margolis

Chromatin-dependent Transcription Factor Accessibility Rather than Nucleosome Remodeling Predominates during Global Transcriptional Restructuring in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Karl A. Zawadzki, Alexandre V. Morozov, and James R. Broach

Structural Basis of Ist1 Function and Ist1–Did2 Interaction in the Multivesicular Body Pathway and Cytokinesis

Junyu Xiao, Xiao-Wei Chen, Brian A. Davies, Alan R. Saltiel, David J. Katzmann, and Zhaohui Xu

Mitofusins and OPA1 Mediate Sequential Steps in Mitochondrial Membrane Fusion

Zhiyin Song, Mariam Ghochani, J. Michael McCaffery, Terrence G. Frey, and David C. Chan

Novel Roles of Hakai in Cell Proliferation and Oncogenesis

Angélica Figueroa, Hirokazu Kotani, Yoshinobu Toda, Krystyna Mazan-Mamczarz, Eva-Christina Mueller, Albrecht Otto, Lena Disch, Mark Norman, Rasika Mohan Ramdasi, Mohammed Keshtgar, Myriam Gorospe, and Yasuyuki Fujita

Induction of HoxB Transcription by Retinoic Acid Requires Actin Polymerization

Carmelo Ferrai, Gabriela Naum-Onganía, Elena Longobardi, Martina Palazzolo, Andrea Disanza, Victor M. Diaz, Massimo P. Crippa, Giorgio Scita, and Francesco Blasi

The First Propeller Domain of LRP6 Regulates Sensitivity to DKK1

Minke E. Binnerts, Nenad Tomasevic, Jessica M. Bright, John Leung, Victoria E. Ahn, Kyung-Ah Kim, Xiaoming Zhan, Shouchun Liu, Shirlee Yonkovich, Jason Williams, Mei Zhou, Delphine Gros, Melissa Dixon, Wouter Korver, William I. Weis, and Arie Abo

An Intramolecular Signaling Element that Modulates Dynamin Function In Vitro and In Vivo

Joshua S. Chappie, Sharmistha Acharya, Ya-Wen Liu, Marilyn Leonard, Thomas J. Pucadyil, and Sandra L. Schmid

The Stress-activated Protein Kinase Hog1 Mediates S Phase Delay in Response to Osmostress

Gilad Yaakov, Alba Duch, María García-Rubio, Josep Clotet, Javier Jimenez, Andrés Aguilera, and Francesc Posas

A Phosphatidylinositol-Transfer Protein and Phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-Kinase Control Cdc42 to Regulate the Actin Cytoskeleton and Secretory Pathway in Yeast

Liat Yakir-Tamang and Jeffrey E. Gerst

E-cadherin Surface Levels in Epithelial Growth Factor-stimulated Cells Depend on Adherens Junction Protein Shrew-1

Julia Christina Gross, Alexander Schreiner, Knut Engels, and Anna Starzinski-Powitz

CSN-5, a Component of the COP9 Signalosome Complex, Regulates the Levels of UNC-96 and UNC-98, Two Components of M-lines in Caenorhabditis elegans Muscle

Rachel K. Miller, Hiroshi Qadota, Thomas J. Stark, Kristina B. Mercer, Tesheka S. Wortham, Akwasi Anyanful, and Guy M. Benian

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Correction for IC97 Is a Novel Intermediate Chain of I1 Dynein That Interacts with Tubulin and Regulates Interdoublet Slidinghttp://www.molbiolcell.org/cgi/content/full/20/15/3617

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July 31st, 2009 by admin

Subject: Can you do this?
Date: Friday, July 31, 2009 08:39
From: UK HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
Reply-To: “p.hewitt01@yahoo.com.hk”

Conversation: Can you do this?

Dear Friend,

This might startle you a little as you might have seen or read about me but really don’t know me in person. Well, I am Rt. Hon Patricia Hewitt MP. A British politician and Labor Party Member of Parliament for Banking. I was the first Minister for Children appointed in a newly created post with the Department for Education and Skills and presently Minister of State in the Department for culture, Media and Sport under Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom.

I got your contact info via your country’s national directory and intend introducing a project concerning charity in your country and maybe neighboring countries around you. A few months ago, I was compelled to make an over estimation during a budget and set aside the sum of Six Million Three Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds (6,300,000.00GBP) with the sole intention of channeling it all into charity which I am delegating you to executed on my behalf with complete supervision of my Attorney as he will also be the one in charge of securing these funds into your custody.

This transaction will result to you being paid a commission of 11% of the investment capital and the balance, distributed to charity organizations of your choice or reinvested and the net income, used for rehabilitating charity organization in and around your country through you/your agency annually for the period of five years or a little more. The last time I orchestrated this sort of Grant, the individual in Australia succeeded in successfully setting up three standard orphanage homes in less than a year. I have never been so proud of such a noble individual. I hope we would have a reoccurrence in your case. If you are willing to execute this Humanitarian Project, You must understand that I desire absolute confidentiality and professionalism on this issue. For security reasons as regards my reputation, I will not be able to communicate regularly with you; but my Attorney will take up the processing on my behalf and get these funds processed and released to you without any delay.

I don’t plan on benefiting anything from this project, but will be absolutely fulfilled, if and only if you remain sincere to me on the handling of this project with utmost sincerity and confidentiality; and eventually utilize the funds for the purpose which I have explained to you above. Kindly respond urgently if you are interested as the fund have been tied down for too long, so I can equip you with the necessary details, along side my Attorney’s contact information, so as to commence the transaction properly; on the other hand, if you are not, please let your intentions be known or better still, Kindly relent from replying this email.

You could get personal info. on me via my official website, but do not try contacting me via any personal information you may lay your hands upon on the internet as almost all my contact info are connected to the British House of Parliament data base except the ones I personally sent to you; as I don’t want our effort and my reputation, jeopardized.

Kindly send your response to this E-mail:
p.hewitt02@yahoo.com.hk

Sincerely,

PATRICIA HEWITT MP.
FORMER SEC. OF STATE FOR HEALTH
GROUND FLOOR FRONT,
5 FROG ISLAND LEICESTER, LE3 54G
UNITED KINGDOM.

July 31st, 2009 by admin

Subject: Can you do this?
Date: Friday, July 31, 2009 08:39
From: UK HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
Reply-To: “p.hewitt01@yahoo.com.hk”

Conversation: Can you do this?

Dear Friend,

This might startle you a little as you might have seen or read about me but really don’t know me in person. Well, I am Rt. Hon Patricia Hewitt MP. A British politician and Labor Party Member of Parliament for Banking. I was the first Minister for Children appointed in a newly created post with the Department for Education and Skills and presently Minister of State in the Department for culture, Media and Sport under Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom.

I got your contact info via your country’s national directory and intend introducing a project concerning charity in your country and maybe neighboring countries around you. A few months ago, I was compelled to make an over estimation during a budget and set aside the sum of Six Million Three Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds (6,300,000.00GBP) with the sole intention of channeling it all into charity which I am delegating you to executed on my behalf with complete supervision of my Attorney as he will also be the one in charge of securing these funds into your custody.

This transaction will result to you being paid a commission of 11% of the investment capital and the balance, distributed to charity organizations of your choice or reinvested and the net income, used for rehabilitating charity organization in and around your country through you/your agency annually for the period of five years or a little more. The last time I orchestrated this sort of Grant, the individual in Australia succeeded in successfully setting up three standard orphanage homes in less than a year. I have never been so proud of such a noble individual. I hope we would have a reoccurrence in your case. If you are willing to execute this Humanitarian Project, You must understand that I desire absolute confidentiality and professionalism on this issue. For security reasons as regards my reputation, I will not be able to communicate regularly with you; but my Attorney will take up the processing on my behalf and get these funds processed and released to you without any delay.

I don’t plan on benefiting anything from this project, but will be absolutely fulfilled, if and only if you remain sincere to me on the handling of this project with utmost sincerity and confidentiality; and eventually utilize the funds for the purpose which I have explained to you above. Kindly respond urgently if you are interested as the fund have been tied down for too long, so I can equip you with the necessary details, along side my Attorney’s contact information, so as to commence the transaction properly; on the other hand, if you are not, please let your intentions be known or better still, Kindly relent from replying this email.

You could get personal info. on me via my official website, but do not try contacting me via any personal information you may lay your hands upon on the internet as almost all my contact info are connected to the British House of Parliament data base except the ones I personally sent to you; as I don’t want our effort and my reputation, jeopardized.

Kindly send your response to this E-mail:
p.hewitt02@yahoo.com.hk

Sincerely,

PATRICIA HEWITT MP.
FORMER SEC. OF STATE FOR HEALTH
GROUND FLOOR FRONT,
5 FROG ISLAND LEICESTER, LE3 54G
UNITED KINGDOM.

July 31st, 2009 by admin

Ever since I’ve known UoL was going to roll out Blackboard 9 for the coming session, I’ve been thinking about using the new(ish) self and peer assessment tool for the reflective essays we plan to get students to write in the first week of our first year PLE course. As Moira commented, Marking 200 ‘non-core’ essays certainly sounds like a deal-breaker to me, so the intention was to use peer assessment to lighten the workload and allow students to compare their work with that of their colleagues.

On Monday I got my first chance to play with the new Blackboard tool. Pretty quickly, it was clear that my plan to use it wasn’t going to work. Leaving aside the fact that the finest minds in IT Services … couldn’t get it to work, there are many other problems. Stupidly, I’d been thinking in terms of group assessment, evening out some of the irregularities in marking. My bad. This is a self and peer assessment tool, not a group assessment tool (Hannah’s working on that, so the feature should be available in Bb19, around the time I retire . As Hannah explains so well, this is not an exercise suited to the first week of term for many reasons:

• Latecomers and changing enrollment are problematic. This is a big problem in the first term slot that is available.
• The two week minimum necessary for the sequential phased nature of submission then peer marking does not fit into this course with it’s many, small assessed tasks – better for modules with a small number of assessed tasks.
• The size and complexity of this cohort means that peer assessment would need more face to face support than we can give on this module.
• It’s not a time saver for staff – it’s probably quicker just to mark 200 essays – but what about sharing and socially-constructed knowledge?

So I’ve decided that apart from the lack of fit with our PLE module, I can’t face the complexity of setting and supporting this approach. But I do want students to write a reflective essay, and to be able to benefit from seeing the work of others. So the answer is to get the students to set up individual student blogs on wordpress.com from the outset. They will use these for reporting and reflection from the beginning, and subsequently develop them as reflective e-portfolios in semester two. And if you want a really radical idea, they could continue to use their wordpress.com blogs across three years of higher education – and beyond. Staff will mark the essays using a simple criterion-based marking scheme, e.g:

• “How should the University of Leicester use information technology in science degrees?”
• Maximum of 300(?) words.
• Submit the essay via your blog before <date>.
• Marks will be awarded as follows:
• Range of technologies discussed: 30%
• Personal experiences and opinions: 40%
• Quality of writing (including clarity of expression, spelling, grammar, etc): 30%

What are the issues? Privacy versus openness? Data security? Plagiarism?