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Who's Raiders' starter at QB? Coach isn't saying (SFGate Feed)

Who's Raiders' starter at QB? Coach isn't saying
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-- Whether Kyle Boller or Carson Palmer starts at quarterback for the Raiders against Kansas City on Sunday, Oakland's game plan might be affected more by who's kicking the ball instead of who's throwing it.Sebastian Janikowski did not practice again Friday because of a hamstring injury.[...] let's look at head coach Hue Jackson's range in publicly avoiding naming his starting QB for Sunday's game.During his early-afternoon news conference, Jackson was asked why he's beating around the bush in announcing who will be the QB."Because I can," Jackson replied.Because again, a player can't tell me what's best for the football team.Long-snapper Jon Condo said that once the Raiders reach the opponent's 45-yard line, he and holder Shane Lechler are looking at each other, saying, 'Hey, we can kick a field goal here.Without Janikowski, Condo thinks the Raiders will eschew extremely long field-goal tries and have Lechler, who's also a brilliant punter, try to pin the opponent inside its 10-yard line.Linebacker Rolando McClain (ankle) and defensive lineman Richard Seymour (knee) did not practice Friday and each is listed as questionable.Darren McFadden leads the NFL with 610 yards rushing.

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India Planning Thorium Reactor, Says AEC Chief

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Programmable DNA scissors found for bacterial immune system

ScienceDaily (June 28, 2012) ? Genetic engineers and genomics researchers should welcome the news from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) where an international team of scientists has discovered a new and possibly more effective means of editing genomes. This discovery holds potentially big implications for advanced biofuels and therapeutic drugs, as genetically modified microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi, are expected to play a key role in the green chemistry production of these and other valuable chemical products.

Jennifer Doudna, a biochemist with Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division and professor at the University of California (UC) Berkeley, helped lead the team that identified a double-RNA structure responsible for directing a bacterial protein to cleave foreign DNA at specific nucleotide sequences. Furthermore, the research team found that it is possible to program the protein with a single RNA to enable cleavage of essentially any DNA sequence.

"We've discovered the mechanism behind the RNA-guided cleavage of double-stranded DNA that is central to the bacterial acquired immunity system," says Doudna, who holds appointments with UC Berkeley's Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Department of Chemistry, and is an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). "Our results could provide genetic engineers with a new and promising alternative to artificial enzymes for gene targeting and genome editing in bacteria and other cell types."

Doudna is one of two corresponding authors of a paper in the journal Science describing this work titled "A programmable dual RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity." The second corresponding author is Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine at Sweden's Ume? University. Other co-authors of the paper were Martin Jinek, Krzysztof Chylinski, Ines Fonfara and Michael Hauer.

Bacterial and archaeon microbes face a never-ending onslaught from viruses and invading circles of nucleic acid known as plasmids. To survive, the microbes deploy an adaptive-type nucleic acid-based immune system that revolves around a genetic element known as CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. Through the combination of CRISPRs and associated endonucleases, called CRISPR-associated -- "Cas" -- proteins, bacteria and archaeons are able to utilize small customized crRNA molecules (for CRISPR-derived RNA) to target and destroy the DNA of invading viruses and plasmids.

There are three distinct types of CRISPR/Cas immunity systems. Doudna and her colleagues studied the Type II system which relies exclusively upon one family of endonucleases for the targeting and cleaving of foreign DNA, the Cas9 proteins.

"For the Type II CRISPR/Cas system, we found that crRNA connects via base-pairs with a trans-activating RNA (tracrRNA), to form a two-RNA structure," Doudna says. "These dual RNA molecules (tracrRNA:crRNA) direct Cas9 proteins to introduce double-stranded DNA breaks at specific sites targeted by the crRNA-guide sequence."

Doudna and her colleagues demonstrated that the dual tracrRNA:crRNA molecules can be engineered as a single RNA chimera for site-specific DNA cleavage, opening the door to RNA-programmable genome editing.

"Cas9 binds to the tracrRNA:crRNA complex which in turn directs it to a specific DNA sequence through base-pairing between the crRNA and the target DNA," Doudna says. "Microbes use this elegant mechanism to cleave and destroy viruses and plasmids, but for genome editing, the system could be used to introduce targeted DNA changes into the genome.

Doudna notes that the "beauty of CRISPR loci" is that they can be moved around on plasmids.

"It is well-established that CRISPR systems can be transplanted into heterologous bacterial strains," she says. "Also, there is evidence to suggest that CRISPR loci are horizontally transferred in nature."

Doudna and her colleagues are now in the process of gathering more details on how the RNA-guided cleavage reaction works and testing whether the system will work in eukaryotic organisms including fungi, worms, plants and human cells.

"Although we've not yet demonstrated genome editing, given the mechanism we describe it is now a very real possibility," Doudna says.

This work was funded primarily by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Austrian Science Fund and the Swedish Research Council.

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First five cities getting Sprint 4G LTE coverage in July

The South is getting some serious love from Sprint on July 15. Is your city next?

We probably don't need to sell you on?4G data coverage. After all, being able to grab data on your mobile device at blazing speed is the type of thing that sells itself. And for those of you in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, and San Antonio who are aching to join the?4G Sprint LTE network, the wait is just about over.

Sprint will be rolling out its 4G LTE network to the five Southern cities on July 15 as part of its ambitious plan to put 250 million Americans under the blanket of high-speed data coverage by the end of 2013. There's a lot of catching up to do: While Sprint is focusing on major cities, competitor Verizon is already able to?focus their efforts on smaller metro areas such as Pensacola, Florida; Montgomery, Alabama; and College Station, Texas.

To use the new Sprint network, you'll need a phone capable of accessing it. For now, your choice is limited to just one phone:?The HTC Evo 4G LTE. It'll set you back $199 with a two-year contract.

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Pest management and bug control Companies

Bug control services provide an invaluable service to their area. If you have ever had a good infestation of unwanted pests, then you will likely understand what a serious issue this can be and how important it is to get the situation rear under control. Pests range between things like rats (vermin) to things like roaches, and there are countless variations between -- all of while are generally highly problematic. Will probably like look at why it is so important to find nearby pest control and to get rid of any pests you may have as quickly and effectively as possible.

Pests can have a disastrous impact on the fitness of our family if not managed as they can multiply quickly and cause greatest damage. Pests like cockroaches, rats, reddish and black helpless ants, spiders, bed bugs, gold fish are some of the significant ones, which can invade our home and property. One of the main harmful effects of needing pests in your feel is that they carry bacteria and viruses, which usually give birth to numerous health-related problems. Moreover, several of these pests can cause serious harm to your property. Food products can be ruined by rats, flies as well as cockroaches while rats and termites might cause serious harm to your personal property.

Effective pest control may be the only solution to this menace of pests. Various pest-control agencies specialize in these products and companies, and they can provide their services rapidly without any hassles. Bug elimination company, or since some call it, "the exterminator" possess both the experience and the tools to identify the particular pest, and the way to obtain your infestation. By using their previous knowledge, as well as top of the line products, they have got the ability to return your household to normality from anywhere from a few hours or a week.

Pest Control Services have a very team of pros who can come to our location and access your situation and advise strategies by which they can eliminate these pests without having wasting much of our valuable time and money. They also take into account the health hazards that can be induced especially to kids during the course of pest-control services along with the means and methods where it can be prevented simply by proper guidance and precautions. Most of the pest-control providers use natural methods and pesticides, which can be tested and qualified, and hence they don't have dangerous effects around the user and are also environment-safe.

Nowadays, most of these providers have their own websites, so you can visit their websites and collect all the information that is required. You can check about the range of companies they offer, the techniques they will use and also get specifics of the experience and training course of people working generally there. Word of mouth is another great choice; ask your friends and also colleagues who have previous experience of taking these services. Since they have a firsthand experience of taking these services, their advice as well as opinion will be fairly beneficial for you. You may also read customer reviews along with testimonials, which will supply you a fairly good idea about the quality of such pest-control providers.

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Nina Burleigh: Hell in a Reed Basket

Update from Sharm el Sheikh, a silvery beach town of casinos and unnatural fields of water-sucking grass, underutilized resorts and a McDonald's without the bacon deluxe cheeseburger.

Sharm means Shame in Arabic, and there is much of it to go around.

The palace where Mubarak retreated after he was deposed, before he went on trial, is just up the beach.

Here is where British and Russian and even Israeli tourists used to swarm and get sunburned and, some, too drunk to remember the Arabic for "thank you," let alone the local rules about what sunbathing women ought to keep covered.

Here is where I saw my first -- and second and third and fourth -- burkini, the hooded wetsuit that honorable women don while snorkeling or slathering sunscreen on their righteous men, the sight of whose hairy naked flesh apparently doesn't offend God.

Here is where waiters who have long kept their conservative religious views under wraps now glower when a woman orders a drink, or outright refuse to fetch it.

Here is where a man on a flight from Cairo to Luxor started screaming at the EgyptAir steward when he saw a foreign man and woman kiss on the plane.

Working with a documentary crew on sites in the Old Testament stories, we accomplished a Bataan Death March by train and car in two days across a swath Egypt. We retraced Moses' path from the colossal columns of the Ramesseum in Luxor, built by the pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt during the Exodus. We walked beside the reeds along the Nile, where the baby Moses was supposedly put into a basket by his mother, and then boarded a sticky night train north to steaming garbage-choked Cairo. Tracing the path of the Exodus, we then drove east on the old Pharoah's Road to Suez then south into the waste of the Sinai, aiming for Mount Sinai, the 7,200 foot peak and one of the desert mounts where God supposedly handed down the 10 Commandments. (Scholars think any of 20 mountains in the Middle East could have been the one in the Bible.)

During our own 40 hours of wandering the Sinai en route to climbing Mount Moses as it's sometimes called, we were hassled and obfuscated by skittery soldiers instructed to curfew Cairo at 7 p.m., to close petrol stations, to halt and turn back cars on unsecured desert roads that they say might, or might not, now be infested with gun-running, tourist-kidnapping Bedouins or other thugs taking advantage of the national political crisis.

This latest chapter of the Arab Spring opens beneath the searing sky of an Egyptian late June, in the sort of incapacitating heat that makes even the most efficient lose track of time, abandon goals and dispense with logic.

"There will be war in this country," predicted one of our party the night before the Islamic Brother Morsi was announced winner of the election. The speaker was an Egyptian tour guide who regularly must navigate his way through roadblocks set up by groups of uniformed men who would rather pass the buck up the cell phone daisy chain on requests for passage than be the last man to wave on a carload of westerners to meet its fate in some bloody international incident.

The modern-day pharaoh Mubarak might be dead, or he might be on life support, or he might just be malingering in a military hospital. All options are equally possible. The permutations of conspiracy-thinking are infinite.

As the military plays its winning hand -- an elaborate patient plot to kill the revolution by degrees before dropping the axe -- everyone expected riots in the streets in Cairo.

A death-struggle between extreme believers and secular kleptocrats passes for politics, while average Egyptians can only sigh and store up fuel, cash and food, waiting for calmer days. There is no constitution.

The Bible says that three millennia ago, Moses led his people out of Egypt, through epic wilderness and toward the Promised Land.

Moses never arrived, but he did get a glimpse of the goal from the peak of yet another God-loving desert mountain in Jordan called Mount Nebo, with its view of Jerusalem, arid hills of ancient Canaan and beyond that, the cool Euro promise of Mediterranean Sea.

"I have been to the top of the mountain," Martin Luther King said the night before he was assassinated in Memphis (another Biblical name, resurrected in far-off Tennessee). In that same speech, he said he no longer felt longevity was the chief aim of a human life.

The template for all stories about casting off oppression originated right here.

But there is neither Moses nor MLK, in Egypt, today.

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Master Business Budgeting - Shelton Business Services

The master budget is a business management tool used to project operating and financial performance. The budgeting processing can be overwhelming. But with a little coaching, preparation and effort the capable executive can create a budget that will keep your business on track during the year. Here is how to prepare a master budget and use the data to make strategic business adjustments.

Overview of budgeting

The first known use of the word budget is from the 15^th century. Countries, businesses and households have been doing budgets for a long time. Still the budgeting process remains a mystery of complexity to many people and becomes nothing more than a platform for their desk paperweight. Budgets are a business tool that can power operating results and improve financial durability.

How are budgets used and developed?

Budgets are prepared with a collaborative effort from cross-functional business teams. Gather financial and operating data from the prior year to aid your budgeting process. Budgets are forward looking and prepared for internal use only. Enlist the help of staffers from accounting, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, information technology and other business functions. The budget process can take weeks but the well constructed budget is used by the entire company to stay on track and make strategic business adjustments throughout the year. Begin the budget process well before the beginning of the fiscal year.

The master budget is made of:

• Operating budget: An estimate of unit sales, production and materials requirements for the upcoming period.
• Financial budget: The budgeted income statement is prepared using the production budgets and the operating expenses budget.

The operating budget is made of these sub-budgets:

• Sales budget: An estimate of sales for the upcoming period prepared by the marketing and sales departments
• Production budget: An estimate of unit production to meet the sales budget. Production managers usually build in a reserve for finished product to meet unexpected demand.
• Direct materials budget. An estimate of materials required to meet the production budget. Purchasing managers usually build in a reserve for raw materials to meet unexpected production requirements.
• Manufacturing Overhead (MOH) budget: The estimated indirect variable and fixed manufacturing costs.
• Operating expenses budget: An estimate of the variable and fixed non-manufacturing costs.

We will go into greater detail about these budgets in the next posts. Until then give some thought to the training, education, executive coaching and systems you need to prepare a master budget.

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