For residents of the mostly small towns where these camps were located, the arrival of enemy POWs engendered a range of emotions - first fear and apprehension, then curiosity, and finally, in many cases, a feeling of fondness for the men they had come to know and like."--BOOK JACKET.
With her brothers drawn into the fighting of World War II, Katherine Lorberg, a talented but lonely young woman, manages the extensive agricultural operations of her powerful father, a U.S. senator from Missouri. When POW laborGerman soldiers captured in fighting overseasare made available to offset the shortage of farm hands, Katherine believes her biggest problem is solved. The men are certainly a help, but Katherine grows resentful of the Germans as they are a constant reminder of the threat still facing her brothers and her country.Things change when POW Stefan Biermann arrives at the Lorberg farm and is given the important task of establishing a vineyard. He and Katherine are forced to cooperate to ensure its success, and in him she begins to see a different side of the Germans. This work brings them closer together, and despite their initial resistance, soon they discover an undeniable longing that can no longer be ignored.This relationshipfraught with risk from the startbecomes even more dangerous when one of the guards, Robert Whitcomb, becomes suspicious. He's an explosive and jealous man who also desires Katherine. These troubles are compounded when Karl Leider, a hard-core Nazi, arrives at the camp and partners with Whitcomb to run a black market operation stealing tobacco and fuel. When Stefan stumbles onto their scheme, together Leider and Whitcomb hatch a plan to eliminate their mutual problem, and force the pair into a situation with life-or-death consequences.
At the tender age of 21, a settler named John Ball bought 400 acres on Grand Glaize Creek in 1800 and began sowing crops and tending livestock. He had moved with his parents to Missouri as part of a migration of Kentucky settlers led by Daniel Boone and wanted to establish himself as his own man. That purchase and Balls later platting of 17 city blocks along Manchester Road, the designated route to the state capitol, were the first steps in creating the town we know today as Ballwin. Using archival photographs from the Ballwin Historical Commission and other sources, Ballwin traces the history of the area from the first settlers through to the present, focusing on the period since the city was incorporated.
When “post modernism” seems to be dominant world view; when interest in traditional religion is falling off; when far too many Adventist youth are simply walking away; what could possibly be wrong with getting people excited about “spirituality”? We can never say we weren’t warned. In 1903, Ellen White wrote an urgent letter about the “Alpha of Apostasy” and rushed it to the mail. Twenty-five hundred miles later, it arrived just in time to head off disaster—temporarily at least. She wrote of a dream in the night, a ship in the fog, and iceberg in the way. The vessel was damaged, but it survived the encounter because the Captain’s command was obeyed. Adventism survived her crisis, too, though at the cost of her right arm and the imposition of “the worst evil.” Yet, she assured us that the story wasn’t over. “The omega would follow in a little while. I trembled for our people.” Ellen G. White For nearly a century, the idea that the Seventh-day Adventist Church would ever again be troubled and tempted by pantheism strained credulity. It seemed absurd, unbelievable, ridiculous. Nevertheless, the Lord said another test was coming.
Nanotechnology is the study and use of materials with nanometer length scales. This unique size range presents a challenge for the production of well-defined assemblies. It is too big to create from standard chemistry techniques and too small for top-down engineering methods. We take the approach of using natural nanomaterials to create complex assemblies for a wide range of potential applications. Here we report progress with a protein nanoparticle derived from the Qß bacteriophage coat protein. This protein cage naturally binds RNA and we exploit this to package and confine functional proteins within the interior of the shell. In an effort to determine the capabilities of this RNA-packaging technology, we packaged an array of different cargo-enzymes within the protein nanoparticle. Further, we explored different variables that influence the packaging mechanism of some of these proteins to give the researcher some control over how many are loaded into each particle. These studies have also identified features of the technology that were not previously appreciated. The enzymes inside the nanoparticle are functional and comparisons with free enzymes highlight important effects that packaging has on each particular proteins. In general, the nanoparticle protects the packaged enzymes from inactivation due to non-specific proteases, adsorption, and long-term storage. In order to use this technology to deliver therapeutic enzymes to a site of action, I combined the enzyme-packaging and ligand-display techniques, developed in the lab previously. This produced nanoparticles that could be used as potential therapeutics, but the non-specific binding of the protein nanoparticle slowed progress in vitro. Finally, we manipulated the coat protein gene sequence to create self-assembling nanoparticles with different properties. Approximately half of these manipulations resulted in the loss of the ability of the coat protein to self-assemble, and the remainder had varying degrees of impact on the nanoparticle. One residue proved to be very important to the assembly mechanism and certain changes prompted the mutant coat protein to self-assemble into small aberrant structures. These were structurally investigated and may prove to be very helpful for the production of future functional materials.
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