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Jazzy Black Bean Chili
Makes 3 to 4 servings
This hearty chili is easy to whip up, and ever so welcome on a brisk fall or winter evening. While it's a great one-pot weeknight supper, it's also special enough to offer as an enticing entrée when company is coming for dinner.
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, plus more as needed (optional, may use 3 tablespoons water instead, plus more as needed)
1 large sweet onion, chopped
2 stalks celery, with leaves, chopped
2 teaspoons chili powder
1 to 2 teaspoons dried cilantro
1 teaspoon reduced-sodium tamari
1⁄8 teaspoon cayenne (optional)
10 ounces vegan ground round (see note)
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 can (15 ounces) black beans, drained and rinsed
1 can (15 ounces) corn, drained
1 can (15 ounces) crushed tomatoes
2 small zucchini, diced
1⁄8 teaspoon sea salt
Vegan sour cream, for serving (optional)
Heat the oil or water in a soup pot over medium heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until slightly softened, about 5 minutes. Add the celery and cook, stirring occasionally, until the celery is tender, about 5 minutes. Stir in 1 teaspoon of the chili powder, 1 teaspoon of the cilantro, and the tamari and optional cayenne. Cook, stirring often, until the onion is golden, about 10 minutes.
Add the vegan ground round, breaking it up with a potato masher or large spoon. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegan ground round is slightly browned, about 5 minutes, adding more oil or a bit of water as needed to prevent sticking. Add the garlic and cook, stirring constantly, for 1 minute. Stir in the beans, corn, tomatoes, zucchini, salt, and remaining teaspoon of chili powder. Taste and add the remaining teaspoon of cilantro if desired.
Decrease the heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 45 to 60 minutes. Serve piping hot, topped with vegan sour cream and a sprinkling of cilantro if desired.
NOTE: If you would rather not use the vegan meat analogue, just replace it with an additional can of black beans.
Nutritious Nachos
Makes 2 to 4 servings
In addition to being a popular starter, this colorful dish can stand in as a quick, fun lunch for kids and adults alike. Plus, the tomatoes and bell peppers help sneak in a serving of veggies, making this zippy dish a real winner.
8 to 10 ounces whole-grain tortilla chips
2 cups (1 pint) cherry or grape tomatoes, halved
1⁄2 green bell pepper, chopped
1⁄2 orange or red bell pepper, chopped
10 large green or black olives, pitted and sliced
2 to 3 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro or parsley, or 2 to 3 teaspoons dried
Sea salt
10 to 12 ounces shredded vegan cheese
1 jar (12 to 16 ounces) salsa
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line two large baking sheets with parchment paper.
Spread the chips in a single layer on the lined baking sheets. Put the tomatoes, bell peppers, olives, and cilantro in a medium bowl and stir gently until thoroughly combined. Season with salt to taste. Sprinkle the mixture evenly over the chips, then scatter the vegan cheese evenly over the top.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until the cheese is bubbly and the edges of some of the chips are golden brown, checking frequently during the last few minutes of baking to ensure the chips don't burn. Serve on individual plates with the salsa alongside, or serve on a large platter with the salsa drizzled over the top.
Double-Corn Cornbread
Makes 6 to 8 servings
This rustic, semisweet cornbread is an ideal way to use leftover cooked corn on the cob. A mashed, ripe banana stands in for eggs, while nondairy milk provides the liquid. Serve it alongside chili, soup, or salad, or try it on its own as an afternoon snack.
11⁄4 cups cornmeal
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1⁄4 teaspoon sea salt
1⁄3 cup brown sugar
Kernels from 1 large ear of corn, cooked, or 3⁄4 cup canned corn kernels, drained
1 cup plain nondairy milk
1 ripe banana, mashed until smooth
1⁄4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Oil an 8-inch square baking pan.
Put the cornmeal, flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl and stir with a dry whisk to combine. Add the brown sugar and stir with the whisk to combine. Add the corn and stir until coated with the flour. Stir in the nondairy milk, banana, and oil and mix just until incorporated. The mixture will be quite thick.
Pour the mixture into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, until slightly golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Put the pan on a wire rack. Let cool for about 15 minutes before cutting into squares. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Sweet-and-Spicy Chocolate Mousse
Makes 4 servings
A hint of chili powder gives this fluffy dark chocolate pudding peppery undertones, while cinnamon adds sweet, earthy notes, making it the ideal finish to any spicy meal. Chocolate lovers rejoice!
1 cup vanilla nondairy milk
31⁄2 ounces vegan dark chocolate, broken into 1⁄4- to 1⁄2-inch pieces
1 tablespoon maple syrup
1⁄4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1⁄4 teaspoon chili powder
1⁄4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Heat the nondairy milk in a small saucepan over medium-low heat until steaming hot but not boiling.
Put the chocolate in a blender, then add the maple syrup, cinnamon, chili powder, and vanilla extract. Pour in the non- dairy milk and process until smooth and frothy, stopping twice to scrape down the sides of the blender jar.
Spoon the mixture into four dessert cups or wine glasses and refrigerate until set, at least 3 hours. Serve chilled.
Five-Ingredient Guacamole Dip
Makes 4 servings
2 large ripe avocados
1 heaping tablespoon vegan mayonnaise
2 cloves garlic, minced
1⁄4 teaspoon chili powder
1⁄8 teaspoon sea salt
Put all the ingredients in a medium bowl and mash with a potato masher or large fork until smooth and creamy. Transfer to a serving dish and serve immediately.


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With funding for the arts at an all-time low, these projects still managed to get off the ground thanks to websites like Kickstarter
Maybe it's Congress's ultra-low approval rating – on par with Hugo Chavez! – that has it trying to get in with the cool kids by considering a bill that would make it easier for businesses to raise capital through crowdfunding. Crowdfunding has taken off among artists and entrepreneurs as an easier way to raise money from the public through websites that pitch their project and collect the cash. Some sites take a percentage of the money earned, impose a deadline, or don't charge donors until a goal is met.
Although sites like RocketHub, fansnextdoor, and artistShare provide similar platforms for people to pass along money to create work they want to support, Kickstarter seems to have fielded the rowdiest roster of major public art projects in cities. Take a look at how crowdfunding got its street cred with these six recently funded public art projects.
Disposable Cameras in New York Parks
Katie O'Beirne has been leaving disposable cameras in New York City parks for a few hours at a time, developing the results and posting them on her blog. She's so far gathered more than $2,700 to fund the project via Kickstarter.
Hope Portraits for Haiti
The group HOPE Art project pasted up large portraits in Port au Prince and Jacmel Haiti in August 2011. For the second anniversary of the earthquake in January 2012, 50 people paid $3,962 for them to put up more portraits of young girls holding up signs explaining their hopes for the future.
Occupy Wall Street Puppets
A crowdfunded campaign extended the tradition of oversized puppets amplifying protestors' messages at the Occupy Wall Street camp.
Metal Monkeys
A pedestrian bridge in downtown Grand Rapids, Mich., was invaded by hanging metal monkeys after a crowdfunding campaign yielded nearly $2,000 more than the artist's goal. The project was part of that city's big ArtPrize competition.
Ceramic Mural
After artist Juana Alicia finished a series of large ceramic bas relief tiles for a mural on the facade of the Satellite Senior Housing low-income residence in West Berkeley, Calif., the tiles sat boxed up in the basement for three years because there wasn't any money to install them. Now, $5,347 later, they're ready to be mounted.
Improv Theater
Across the bridge in San Francisco, Killing My Lobster, an improv troupe, will be able to create a new theater space out of an old fabric store in the heart of the Mission District thanks to the kindness of nearly 300 strangers.

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As an attempt to reduce the number of annual motor vehicle accidents involving trucks, regulators are issuing a speed cap for trucks and buses weighing over 26,000 pounds. The new cap would limit speeds to 60, 65, or 68 mph on the highway. Regulators argue that the cap would reduce mortalities caused by accidents between trucks and cars because the impact of crashes would be less severe if trucks are moving slower.
On the other hand, however, truck drivers argue that the number of accidents would actually increase. Many times, if a slow moving truck merges into the left lane, faster cars rear end the truck because they cannot slow down fast enough. So, if the trucks are forced to move slower, rear endings would just become more popular. Other truckers argue that the regulation only benefits larger trucking companies at the expense of independent drivers, who need to cover more ground daily.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that almost 500 lives would be saved with the addition of this speed cap. The rule will become effective Nov. 7.


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Walkabout Joker Draw Odds for Friday, April 20, 2012
The Walkabout Joker Draw is now in Week 48. Friday night's jackpot will be a whopping $12,840.
There are now just six face down cards remaining. One of those six cards is the jackpot-winning Joker. Another card is an Ace that wins $800.
Last week there was a rather notable jump in Joker Draw ticket sales. From Week 43 through Week 46, the bar's weekly ticket sales only very slowly increased from 1,276 to 1,406 tickets. But last week, with a $12,000 jackpot and just seven cards remaining, the bar sold 1,680 tickets, almost a 20% increase over the prior week.
I suspect that the Walkabout will sell about 2,050 tickets this week. That may seem like a lot, but by historical standards, it is not. On December 11, 2009, the Joker Draw reached Week 48, with just six cards remaining, and a $13,000 jackpot. The bar sold 4,000 tickets that week, and the jackpot increased to $15,000 the following week.
What can we learn by comparing the jackpots and ticket sales from 2009 to 2012? The 2009 Week 48 jackpot was $13,000, and the 2012 Week 48 jackpot is $12,840. That shows remarkable consistency – the similarity in Week 48 jackpots means the Walkabout has sold almost the same total number of tickets through the first 47 weeks of this run of the game as it did back in 2009.
But if the total ticket sales through 47 weeks are so similar to 2009, then why is the Walkabout only going to sell a little about 2,050 tickets this week, when it sold 4,000 tickets during Week 48 in 2009? Here's my best explanation for that. Back in 2009, the bar probably sold very few tickets during the early weeks of the game, but then it sold very large numbers of tickets during the later weeks. The 2009 players were quite saavy. They eschewed buying tickets during the early weeks when the odds were poor and the jackpots were low, then they poured their money into tickets during the later weeks as the odds and jackpots improved.
In 2011-2012, the ticket sales have been steadier and distributed more evenly throughout the 47 weeks. The 2011-12 players have robotically bought tickets each week, without as much regard for the odds or the jackpot amounts. This evidence would suggest that more casual players are playing the Joker Draw in 2012, or that Walkabout patrons are simply getting dumber.
Let's turn to this week's odds. With an estimated 2,050 tickets in the drum and just six face down cards remaining on the board, your odds of winning the jackpot with a single $1 ticket will be 1 in 12,300. Spending a dollar to buy a 1 in 12,300 chance to win $12,840 is a very good wagering opportunity. That's a 4% edge to the player.
When you add in the opportunity to win $800 by turning over an Ace, the advantage to the player increases to 11%. Every $1 ticket purchased Friday night will have a value of $1.11 as soon as it is placed in the drum. (12,840/12,300 + 800/12,300 = 1.109).
If an impoverished hooker or English teacher is lucky enough to have his or her ticket number called, then the value of that ticket will temporarily increase to $2,273, as it will give the ticket holder a 1 in 6 chance at $12,840 and a 1 in 6 chance at $800. But the gambling fates can be quite cruel, and there's still a 2 out of 3 chance that the lucky ticket holder will turn over a worthless card and walk away with nothing at all.
Good luck!


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JanuarySaturday, January 26th, 2008
Spare time has been virtually non existent for me lately. Both BJ and Madison celebrated birthday's this month. The work on the chickenhouses continues. A different problem arises everyday. My mom called me from Owen county to tell me that my late brother's dog was sick. She told me that if Rebel stood a chance I needed to come take him to a vet. Of course I went to get him. Rebel was just a cute little boxer pup when Josh brought him home. He's 8 or 9 in people years now. He's developed skin cancers and now testicular cancer. This last round he had to have a 3 pound tumor and both testicles removed. I just couldn't stand to see him put down. He's all we have left besides the memories of Josh. He seems to be doing real good here on the farm.
Madison didn't have such a good birthday this year. BJ was taking her to pick out a cake when she lost control of the car on slick roads. Thank goodness noone was hurt seriously. Mattie ended up with seat belt burn on her belly and BJ bumped her head. Makayla is a little sore. She took a pretty bad fall at cheerleading practice last week and now the car accident. The car didn't fare so well. I believe it's a total loss. We're trying to decide what to do for transportation next. We still have "old blue" (the Chevy truck) and the Trans Am, but neither have very much room in them. I'm leaning toward finding another Pontiac Grand Prix like the one we had and keeping the wreck for a parts car.
The weather has been brutal. We've seen lows in the single digits twice now. Several nights have been in the teens as well. That's just too cold for me. Makes me ache all over when I come in and finally get warm. Got lots of wood split to keep warm though. With the move of the double-wide we've yet to get the underpinning back up. Bj called this morning to tell me the water was frozen there. Took it until almost noon to thaw out. After not paying the rent for the last 3 months the folks renting our rental trailer finally moved out. That's a huge relief! It will mean more work, but maybe I can get someone in there that is willing to work on the farm to pay their rent.
Even in the winter weather, rain, and snow feeding hay to the animals has not seemed like work. The cab is great! I don't know how I made it all this time without it. The loader on the new 7010 has the skid steer quick attach and that makes changing between the bucket, bale spear, and pallet forks a breeze. These new pallet forks are so much better than the old floating ones I have for the 6000. I like them so much I doubt the bale spear will get much use. I've only put a little over 20 hours on the 7010, but I absolutely love it. If the new 8560 is as nice as the 7010 I'd say Mahindra has a real winner on their hands. Hopefully I'll get to see it at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville Ky. next month.
Well as always I have so much to do it's ridiculous so I'll stop typing and get to work on something. Thanks for reading and come back soon. Be sure to check out the pics I've added to the site.


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After having bought a new Sony DSC-HX5V digital camera, which is equipped with an integrated GPS, I discovered that it comes with windows-only software for downloading and updating the GPS almanac on the camera (the supplied PMB Portable software runs on Apple OS X, but it does not support downloading the GPS almanac).
After tinkering a bit with tcpdump(1) and friends I found out how to perform the download and update manually:
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I have written a small perl script for automating the above tasks. The script takes the mount point of the memory card as argument.


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On April 22, UMass pitcher Scott Barnsby threw a no-hitter against Northeastern in their semi-final matchup in the Basebll Beanpot. It was the first no-hitter at Fenway Park since Dave Morehead's in 1965. Before the 1997 season, three giant Coke bottles were added to one of the left-field light towers above the Green Monster and during the season, the Fenway crowd was introduced to rookie sensation Nomar Garciaparra.
Record: 78-84, 4th in American League East
Manager: James F. Williams
Attendance: 2,226,136
Nomar Garciaparra debuted for the Red Sox in 1997 and earned the AL Rookie of the Year award in a unanimous vote. Leading off and playing shortstop, Garciaparra became the first rookie in history to hit over .300, slug 30 home runs, collect more than 90 RBIs and steal over 20 stolen bases. His 30-game hitting streak in August also set a rookie record.
Roger Clemens had departed over the winter and left a vacuum in the rotation. After the team started the season with eight games on the road, new southpaw Steve Avery pitched the home opener at Fenway Park and allowed Seattle just one earned run through five innings. However, the Mariners eventually pulled out a 5-4 victory. Clemens returned to Fenway Park in July as a member of the Blue Jays and struck out 16 Boston hitters in a 3-1 Toronto victory.
The Red Sox never mounted much of a threat, though they did post a 6-3 record against NL teams in the first year of interleague play.
While the season was an uneventful one, the Red Sox completed two seminal trades in 1997. At the late July trading deadline, the Red Sox sent struggling reliever Heathcliff Slocumb to Seattle, acquiring minor leaguers Jason Varitek and Derek Lowe. During the offseason, the team acquired NL Cy Young Award winner Pedro Martinez from the Montreal Expos, surrendering Carl Pavano and a player to be named later (Tony Armas Jr.).
In March 1997, a giant 25-foot Coca-Cola bottle was attached to one of the light towers above the Green Monster. Less than two weeks later, two more Coke bottles were added. They remained prominent fixtures of the ballpark until they were taken down in 2008.
In April 1997, Jackie Robinson's number 42 was officially retired across Major League Baseball on the 50th anniversary of when he broke the color barrier. Today, Robinson's blue #42 can be seen alongside the numbers of Red Sox legends on the right-field roof façade.
The batting cage under the center-field bleacher seats, which was built in 1971, underwent renovations in May 1997. Today, this area is home to the Bleacher Bar restaurant.
For the second year in a row, the University of Massachusetts team was crowned champion of the Baseball Beanpot at Fenway Park. On April 22, in UMass pitcher Scott Barnsby pitched a no-hitter against Northeastern in their semi-final matchup. It was the first no-hitter at Fenway Park since Dave Morehead's in 1965.
|1997 Non-Red Sox Baseball At Fenway Park
|April 22
|University of Massachusetts 1, Northeastern 0 (Beanpot Semi-Finals)*
|April 22
|Harvard 9, Boston College 2 (Beanpot Semi-Finals)*
|April 24
|University of Massachusetts 11, Harvard 4 (Beanpot Championship)*
*Starting in 1990, Fenway Park has hosted the annual Baseball Beanpot, baseball's version of the longstanding Boston hockey tradition. Originally, the competition featured the same schools that battle for Hockey Beanpot: Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern University and Harvard University. However, when BU dropped their baseball program after the 1995 season, the University of Massachusetts took their place. The Baseball Beanpot has been held at Fenway Park every year since its inception except for in 2004 and 2010, when the tournament was played at Campanelli Stadium in Brockton, MA.


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Motorcycle crash lands man and 10-year-old in hospital
An unidentified man and 10-year-old girl were taken to the hospital Thursday after crashing a small motorcycle on Emerald Bay Road and sliding into a moving Mini Cooper, authorities said.
The extent of their injuries is unknown at this time. However, the man was seen wearing a neck brace and was heard complaining of pain in his left leg.
The incident occurred shortly before police received a call at 11:12 a.m., said Sgt. Shannon Norrgard of the South Lake Tahoe Police Department.
The man had apparently been driving the motorcycle with the 10-year-old sitting behind him at the time of the crash. He was travelling southeast in a bike lane, while the Mini Cooper, travelling in the opposite direction, was making a left-hand turn onto Fifth Street, Norrgard said.
The two vehicles collided when the motorcycle fell on its side and slid into the car. Norrgard said it was unclear whether the man crashed the motorcycle to avoid hitting the turning Mini Cooper.
Both the man and 10-year-old girl were taken to Barton Memorial Hospital. The driver of the Mini Cooper appeared uninjured.


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Three of Wall Street biggest and best-known financial institutions handled the Facebook IPO, so why were people immediately suspicious when the stock soared and then promptly tanked? Easy answer: Because three of Wall Street biggest and best-known financial institutions handled the Facebook IPO.
Each of them – Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase – has a history of exactly the kinds of unethical and/or illegal behavior that might, just might, explain what happened with Facebook.
Mark Gongloff offers a good overview of Mr. Zuckerberg's Wild Ride, in which a stock that was offered at an IPO price of $38 soared to $45 and then plunged to its current (as of this writing) price of $31. A lot of people lost money – which means a lot of people made money, too.
Zuckerberg promptly sold his 30.2 million shares, netting a quick billion dollars and change. That tells you what he thinks of this investment.
Here are ten reasons why it makes sense to be suspicious of the Facebook IPO, starting with the fact that any overview of the three institutions which handled it might best be described as "rounding up the usual suspects":
1. Morgan Stanley has a history – and a culture – of tricking their own clients into making lousy investments.
It was Morgan Stanley's brokers who, in one notorious account, loved to brag "I ripped his face off!" after convincing one of the firm's own clients to buy a stock that the firm knew was lousy. (See Frank Portnoy's account in Fiasco.)
CNBC reports that "Morgan Stanley may have spent billions of dollars to support the (Facebook) stock price by buying shares in the market." This kind of market manipulation is common. They do these things to create an artificial sense of momentum when the market is turning against an offering. Investors don't know they're doing it at the time, of course. In this case, Morgan Stanley could have spend a billion dollars or more manipulating the stock price.
Now Morgan Stanley's being investigated by the SEC and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, after reports indicated that its analysts were withholding crucial (and negative) information about the stock offering and at the same time sharing it with their own favored clients. That's a no-no.
2. JPMorgan Chase has a long rap sheet. What's another bust?
JPMorgan Chase is currently in the public time-out box for its botched derivatives trades in London – about which which it appears to have deceived its own investors (when it failed to tell anyone that the new, improved "risk model" it rolled out was not being used to analyze this London unit.)
When CEO Jamie Dimon said that laws may have been violated in that case, was he expecting people to be surprised? JPM has a long history as a corporate lawbreaker during Dimon's tenure. It paid millions to settle a long list of violations that includes illegally cheating veterans coming home from Iraq – or still risking their lives there. It gave up nearly three quarters of a billion dollars to settle charges of bribing public officials in Jefferson County, Alabama. (Jefferson County is bankrupt. JPM's executives are doing just fine.)
And JPMorgan Chase just gave up billions more to settle charges stemming from its rampant foreclosure fraud, which involve mass perjury and forgery conducted by a group of inexperienced youngsters that JPM employees called "the Burger King kids."
The JPM rap sheet's got a lot more offenses on it, but that should give you the general idea. Dimon loves to affect an air of respectability. But his outfit ain't the PTA, if you catch my drift.
3. Goldman Sachs is … well, it's Goldman Sachs.
In one of its many notorious deals, ABACUS, Goldman Sachs lied to prospective investors about mortgage-backed securities. While it was telling investors that these securities were well-chosen and reliable, it was hiding the fact that they were actually being selected by an investor who was famous for betting against them.
Goldman recently settled a $22 million lawsuit for illegally sharing confidential information with its preferred clients, which is a form of insider trading, using internal meetings called "huddles."
That's a lot like the conduct that's being investigated at Morgan Stanley, and the questions it raises is the same one: Was this IPO designed to fail? Barring that, did insiders only tell a few favorites once they knew it would fail, so that they could all get rich betting against the suckers who didn't know any better?
Who's huddling who in the Facebook deal?
4. Goldman Sachs already tried to evade the law for Facebook once before.
If at first you don't succeed …
At the time we asked, "Which Is More 'Gangsta,' (rapper) 50 Cent's Twitter Stock Pitch or Goldman's Facebook Deal?" We stand by our original conclusion: Sorry, Fitty.
Lloyd Blankfein's entourage tried to avoid SEC regulations that say a privately held company can't have more than 500 investors by defining many thousands of unrelated investors as a single group. They demanded a minimum $2 million investment – there ain't no sucker like a rich sucker – and pitched the deal in language that would embarrass a Nigerian email scammer:
"When you have a chance I wanted to find a time to discuss a highly confidential and time sensitive investment opportunity … If you agree not to use information that we reveal to you … I will be able to disclose the name of the company and provide you with more information…"
They should've started the pitch letter with the words "Dearest Beloved, My late husband the oil minister …" As Nomi Prins noted at the time, the plan was to artificially inflate the value of these illegally-traded shares and then ""pawn off the overpriced goods on the clients."
They tried to run that little number back in 2010 but failed. Did they finally succeed this time?
5. There's no such thing as a free market.
Thanks to deregulation, our "free markets" ain't free – in fact, they're less free than at any time in modern history.
Nevertheless the anti-regulatory crowd insists on describing what we have today as a "free market," instead of what it really is: a financial funhouse where investors don't know until it's too late which pop-up vampire is a cardboard cutout and which one's really going suck their blood. "Ripped his face off" indeed.
That's not market economics, it's a horror show.
6. Facebook's a shaky investment anyway.
Think about it: With all the money they have at their disposal, Zuckerberg and his team still can't design a user interface that doesn't frustrate, aggravate, and infuriate millions of people every day. Sure, people use it – because everybody else does. But that was true of MySpace, too, until something better came along. Facebook has a mind-boggling number of users, and they spend an equally mind-boggling amount of time on it every day. But even Mafia Wars come to an end sometime.
What's more, the stock they're peddling isn't much to write home about. Their voting rights are highly diluted, so that the stock owned by Zuckerberg and other preferred holders has ten times as much voting power as everybody else's. Zuckerberg owns 18 percent of Facebook's shares, but has absolute control of the company with 57 percent of the votes.
When something's as overhyped as Facebook stock, it's caveat emptor time. You're throwing yourself at Zuckerberg's mercy, hoping he does better with the company than he has designing Facebook's account management features. (Tried changing your privacy levels lately?)
But if he mismanages your money you'll just have to bend over and get poked.
7. Mark Zuckerburg doesn't give a rat's you-know-what about investors or IPOs.
"A million dollars isn't cool," says Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker in that movie about Zuckerberg and Facebook. "A billion dollars is cool." It was a cool week for Zuckerberg, who just made another billion, but he doesn't think much of investors. Stephen Gandel lays out all the ways it shows, starting with the fact that Zuckerberg didn't want to take the company public and keeps reminding everybody about it. SEC rules – the same rules Goldman tried to evade last year – forced him into it.
Zuckerberg also kept blowing off investors at scheduled meetings. Frankly, that's a refreshing change from all the CEOs I've known who kowtow to them (and often game the numbers to impress them). But it doesn't exactly strengthen one's confidence that this offering was designed with the best interests of investors in mind.
And while CNN's Gandel concludes that Zuckerberg doesn't care about making more money, I'm not so sure. He's sure made a lot in the last few days. For its part, Goldman's already shown that it's willing to trade on insider information to help high-value clients – clients like Meg Whitman. They called it "spinning," and it involved rewarding executives who gave them a lot of corporate business (which uses their investors' money, not their own) shares in IPOs they're underwriting.
Whitman was forced to resign from its board and pay a multimillion-dollar fine after the story became public. If they'd "spin" for a piece of eBay's investment action, what motions would they go through for Facebook's?
8. These three players have a huge collective presence on Nasdaq.
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are almost always in the top ten in reported trade volume on NASDAQ, where Facebook was offered. And JPMorgan Chase provides financial backing to many of these deals. Together they represent a huge chunk of NASDAQ (and New York Stock Exchange) transactions. They control a lot of the trading flow and they're sitting on a lot of data.
That means they can manipulate the market in all sorts of ways. And they can leverage other people's money and make it work … for them.
So while we're at it, remind me again: Why do we allow so few companies to dominate our financial market? It's called an "oligopoly," and it's bad. It's especially bad when they become too big to fail and can pretty much do whatever they want, knowing we'll rescue them again if – make that when – they screw up again.
9. There was a lot of automated trading of Facebook shares.
The roller-coaster ride for Facebook's stock also appears to involve very high volumes of electronic robo-trading, which always raises suspicions. That could just be a sign that the computer programs which now dominate our stock market (and which cry out for a financial transactions tax) didn't like the transaction. If so, they're smarter than most humans.
Or it could mean that these three firms, which together play a dominant role on Nasdaq, pulled a fast one of some kind. Somebody needs to analyze those 'flash' trades and find out.
10. Because they can.
Hey, these three underwriters can do whatever they want – and they know it.
Until some bankers get indicted – which doesn't seem likely anytime soon, given the glacial pace of the Administration's much-hyped (but now apparently forgotten) mortgage fraud task force – they can break any law or rule they want to break. What's the worst that could happen to them? If they get caught they'll negotiation another gigantic fine and let the shareholders (including working people's pension funds and 401ks) pick up the tab while they collect their bonuses and head off to the Hamptons.
So, until the Administration shows us some Wall Street indictments, the usual suspects will keep committing the usual offenses over and over. The Justice Department needs to get serious about investigating Wall Street fraud. And more states should join Massachusetts in investigating this deal.
This one goes to 11 …
Do we know that's what happened with the Facebook IPO? No – and we won't know without a proper investigation. But we do know that the Facebook plunge reflects a classic scenario for shady traders who make money hyping a stock while secretly betting against it.
And we know that all three of these institutions are perfectly capable of doing it. They have the means, they have the motive, and – until our government does something about it – they have the opportunity.
So get on with it, Washington. You better update your status on those fraud investigations before it's too late.


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A Belgian jail's metal detector falters whenever attractive lawyers visit, allegedly because it's too sensitive to the underwire in bras. To ensure they're not packing guns, the lawyers are then asked to remove their bras to enter the jail.
The Hasselt jail has come under fire because of its faulty metal detectors, which has seemingly developed anthropomorphic qualities due to the moments it chooses to "break down".
A representative of criminal barristers in the city, Joseph Rowies, told the Het Nieuwsblad newspaper that "the metal detection checks seem very difficult to carry out when a pretty, young lawyer or visitor reports to the prison gate...Time and again they let the metal detector go off. First, the shoes, then the jewellery. And, since the detector still beeps, they demand that the lady in question take off her bra."
Funnily enough, when the jail tested the metal detectors, they found that they "functioned perfectly".
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Energy drinks are the fastest-growing part of the beverage industry, with sales in the United States reaching more than $10 billion in 2012 — more than Americans spent on iced tea or sports beverages like Gatorade.
Their rising popularity represents a generational shift in what people drink, and reflects a successful campaign to convince consumers, particularly teenagers, that the drinks provide a mental and physical edge.
The drinks are now under scrutiny by the Food and Drug Administration after reports of deaths and serious injuries that may be linked to their high caffeine levels. But however that review ends, one thing is clear, interviews with researchers and a review of scientific studies show: the energy drink industry is based on a brew of ingredients that, apart from caffeine, have little, if any benefit for consumers.
"If you had a cup of coffee you are going to affect metabolism in the same way," said Dr. Robert W. Pettitt, an associate professor at Minnesota State University in Mankato, who has studied the drinks.
Energy drink companies have promoted their products not as caffeine-fueled concoctions but as specially engineered blends that provide something more. For example, producers claim that "Red Bull gives you wings," that Rockstar Energy is "scientifically formulated" and Monster Energy is a "killer energy brew." Representative Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, a Democrat, has asked the government to investigate the industry's marketing claims.
Promoting a message beyond caffeine has enabled the beverage makers to charge premium prices. A 16-ounce energy drink that sells for $2.99 a can contains about the same amount of caffeine as a tablet of NoDoz that costs 30 cents. Even Starbucks coffee is cheap by comparison; a 12-ounce cup that costs $1.85 has even more caffeine.
As with earlier elixirs, a dearth of evidence underlies such claims. Only a few human studies of energy drinks or the ingredients in them have been performed and they point to a similar conclusion, researchers say — that the beverages are mainly about caffeine.
Caffeine is called the world's most widely used drug. A stimulant, it increases alertness, awareness and, if taken at the right time, improves athletic performance, studies show. Energy drink users feel its kick faster because the beverages are typically swallowed quickly or are sold as concentrates.
"These are caffeine delivery systems," said Dr. Roland Griffiths, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University who has studied energy drinks. "They don't want to say this is equivalent to a NoDoz because that is not a very sexy sales message."
A scientist at the University of Wisconsin became puzzled as he researched an ingredient used in energy drinks like Red Bull, 5-Hour Energy and Monster Energy. The researcher, Dr. Craig A. Goodman, could not find any trials in humans of the additive, a substance with the tongue-twisting name of glucuronolactone that is related to glucose, a sugar. But Dr. Goodman, who had studied other energy drink ingredients, eventually found two 40-year-old studies from Japan that had examined it.
In the experiments, scientists injected large doses of the substance into laboratory rats. Afterward, the rats swam better. "I have no idea what it does in energy drinks," Dr. Goodman said.
Energy drink manufacturers say it is their proprietary formulas, rather than specific ingredients, that provide users with physical and mental benefits. But that has not prevented them from implying otherwise.
Consider the case of taurine, an additive used in most energy products.
On its Web site, the producer of Red Bull, for example, states that "more than 2,500 reports have been published about taurine and its physiological effects," including acting as a "detoxifying agent." In addition, that company, Red Bull of Austria, points to a 2009 safety study by a European regulatory group that gave it a clean bill of health.
But Red Bull's Web site does not mention reports by that same group, the European Food Safety Authority, which concluded that claims about the benefits in energy drinks lacked scientific support. Based on those findings, the European Commission has refused to approve claims that taurine helps maintain mental function and heart health and reduces muscle fatigue.
Taurine, an amino acidlike substance that got its name because it was first found in the bile of bulls, does play a role in bodily functions, and recent research suggests it might help prevent heart attacks in women with high cholesterol. However, most people get more than adequate amounts from foods like meat, experts said. And researchers added that those with heart problems who may need supplements would find far better sources than energy drinks.
A spokeswoman for Red Bull did not respond directly to the European marketing claims report but said that the company did "not make claims for individual ingredients but rather for the product in its entirety."
To woo consumers, companies have also used another tactic — including huge amounts of well-known nutrients that make for eye-catching numbers on labels.
For example, a two-ounce bottle of 5-Hour Energy contains 500 micrograms of Vitamin B12, or 8,333 percent of the recommended daily allowance. The energy shot also has 20 times the recommended intake of Vitamin B6.
B-group vitamins serve many functions, such as in the digestion of food. But several experts said that healthy people get adequate amounts of them from food and that huge added dosages do not provide benefits.
"They are not going to increase energy levels," said Paul R. Thomas, a scientific adviser with the National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements.
Elaine Lutz, a spokeswoman for the distributor of 5-Hour Energy, Living Essentials of Farmington Hills, Mich., said the amounts of B vitamins used were safe and effective. "The body is going to use what it needs and it is going to excrete what it does not absorb," said Ms. Lutz.
The sugar found in some drinks does provide a quick source of energy. But as for glucuronolactone, the additive that made rats swim better, the authors of a recent report in a scientific journal, Nutrition Reviews, said they were clueless as to why it was used in the products or what it did.
"Certainly, this is one ingredient for which evidence-based studies are needed to justify its popularity," wrote the researchers. That same review, which examined all published energy drink studies, also concluded that there was an "overwhelming lack of evidence to substantiate claims" that drink ingredients, apart from caffeine and sugar, provided any benefits.
The roots of the energy drink phenomenon — and the claims surrounding ingredient mixes — can be traced to Japan. Those origins appear tied to the emergence of supposed cure-alls after World War II, a time when drugs there were in short supply.
In the late 1940s, Taisho Pharmaceuticals, a Japanese drug maker, began selling taurine extract, apparently drawn to it by accounts citing its wartime use by the Japanese Imperial Navy to reduce fatigue among sailors and sharpen their vision at night, a history of the drug company states. "A formula that is so effective in treating unexplained fevers, neuralgia, fatigue, whooping cough and other conditions for which there is no drug is very rare indeed," an advertisement for the extract declared.
But around 1960, Taisho executives decided to use taurine in a new product, one that helped start the energy drink industry — Lipovitan D.
Lipovitan D, which was sold in a small vial, contained 50 milligrams of caffeine, 1,000 milligrams of taurine, various B vitamins and flavorings. The product, which was sold cold in drugstores, was a huge success during Japan's economic boom years, particularly with overworked office employees.
However, 50 years and 34 billion bottles later, Taisho officials acknowledged they had not run a single clinical study involving Lipovitan D.
"Taurine is added to Lipovitan D not so much for specific medicinal benefits but for its multifaceted functions," said Dr. Takanori Kouchiwa, a Taisho executive.
It was also in the 1960s that a product appeared in Thailand that was similar to Lipovitan D in its ingredient mix. It was called Krating Daeng (pronounced grating deng), or Red Bull. An Austrian businessman named Dietrich Mateschitz reportedly discovered it when trying to cure a case of jet lag and, in 1987, he and the drink's Thai creator founded Red Bull.
Red Bull quickly became popular in Europe with truck drivers and students and as a mixer for alcoholic drinks. It arrived in the United States in the late 1990s and soon inspired hundreds of competitors. In 2002, for example, Monster Energy was marketed in a 16-ounce can, twice as large as Red Bull's 8-ounce can and with twice as much caffeine.
Over the years, some producers have financed scientific studies to try to bolster performance claims. A British researcher, Dr. Chris Alford, said that Red Bull approached him about a decade ago while he was doing work on the ability of stimulants to reduce fatigue in drivers.
In 2001, Dr. Alford, a psychologist at the University of the West of England in Bristol who has received financing from Red Bull, published a study that found test participants given the energy drink had better reaction times, were more alert and showed increased physical endurance than test subjects given a placebo like flavored water. But studies like Dr. Alford's, researchers say, only underscore caffeine's known benefits. And more recent attempts to tease out the impacts of drink ingredients have produced mixed results.
Last August, Scottish researchers reported that 1,000 milligrams of taurine taken as a supplement appeared to improve the performance of middle-distance runners. But other taurine studies have been negative or inconclusive. "We found it difficult to make any conclusions about what taurine was doing," said a graduate researcher at Tufts University, Grace Giles, who headed a study that ran participants through a battery of mental reaction and memory tests.
Dr. Goodman, the University of Wisconsin researcher, said he believed there was a reason for such equivocal results. The scientist, who works at the school's college of veterinary medicine, said that laboratory animals, like mice or rats, must be given huge dosages of taurine to see an effect.
"You can force a mouse to drink a lot of taurine," said Dr. Goodman. "With humans, it is harder to do."
What may qualify as the strangest trial in the annals of energy drink studies was financed by Living Essentials, the distributor of 5-Hour Energy. The office of a proctologist in a small Maine town apparently served as a setting for the 2007 study, the results of which were never published. But its findings and other details about it, like its location, emerged in a 2008 lawsuit filed by the maker of Monster Energy against Living Essentials.
The study found that test subjects given 5-Hour Energy experienced "energy" for about 40 minutes longer than when given Red Bull or Monster Energy, though it was not clear from court papers whether that difference reflected the energy shot's higher levels of caffeine.
But another finding from that study sheds an interesting light on one of 5-Hour Energy's central claims — that the energy shot, unlike competitors', produces "No Crash Later."
According to the study, 24 percent of test participants who received 5-Hour Energy had reactions similar to a "moderately severe crash that left them extremely tired and in need of rest, another drink or some other action," lawsuit filings show.
Ms. Lutz, the Living Essentials spokeswoman, said the bold "No Crash Later" statement on product labels was followed by a special mark. That mark, which also appears on the back label, explains in fine print that "no crash means no sugar crash."
That is hardly surprising, because 5-Hour Energy does not contain sugar.
Asked whether consumers mistakenly believe that the shot does not produce a caffeine-related crash, Ms. Lutz said that the use of the special mark and its explanation were clear. "I don't believe that it is misleading," said Ms. Lutz, who added that the advertising division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus had approved the "No Crash Later" claim.
She added that another study showing the benefits of 5-Hour Energy was undergoing "peer review" for possible publication in a scientific journal. But she declined to say why the results of the study, which was apparently conducted five years ago, had not yet appeared. That study found a benefit when 5-Hour Energy was compared to a placebo like flavored water, she said.
Whatever the case, the energy drink boom has come full circle in Asia, the region where it started. Over the last decade, sales of Lipovitan D have fallen and its maker, Taisho Pharmaceuticals, has tried various strategies to revitalize the brand. Among them: bringing out Lipovitan Junior, a caffeine-free version for children.
In Thailand, Krating Daeng has suffered a similar fate. Its producer has tried to freshen up that brand by proclaiming that the Vitamin B12 in it "helps the functions of the nervous system and brain."
Last year, the Foundation for Consumers in Thailand, an advocacy group, started a publicity campaign against energy drinks like Krating Daeng, arguing that producers were promoting unfounded health claims to push caffeine.
"This product just needed a way to add value to extend its life cycle," said Patchara Klaewkla, an official at the foundation. "This product has been in the market for a long time."


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In multiple sclerosis, the pathological interaction between autoreactive Th cells and mononuclear phagocytes in the CNS drives initiation and maintenance of chronic neuroinflammation. Here, we found that intrathecal transplantation of neural stem/precursor cells (NPCs) in mice with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) impairs the accumulation of inflammatory monocyte-derived cells (MCs) in the CNS, leading to improved clinical outcome. Secretion of IL-23, IL-1, and TNF-α, the cytokines required for terminal differentiation of Th cells, decreased in the CNS of NPC-treated mice, consequently inhibiting the induction of GM-CSF–producing pathogenic Th cells. In vivo and in vitro transcriptome analyses showed that NPC-secreted factors inhibit MC differentiation and activation, favoring the switch toward an antiinflammatory phenotype. Tgfb2–/– NPCs transplanted into EAE mice were ineffective in impairing MC accumulation within the CNS and failed to drive clinical improvement. Moreover, intrathecal delivery of TGF-β2 during the effector phase of EAE ameliorated disease severity. Taken together, these observations identify TGF-β2 as the crucial mediator of NPC immunomodulation. This study provides evidence that intrathecally transplanted NPCs interfere with the CNS-restricted inflammation of EAE by reprogramming infiltrating MCs into antiinflammatory myeloid cells via secretion of TGF-β2.
Donatella De Feo, Arianna Merlini, Elena Brambilla, Linda Ottoboni, Cecilia Laterza, Ramesh Menon, Sundararajan Srinivasan, Cinthia Farina, Jose Manuel Garcia Manteiga, Erica Butti, Marco Bacigaluppi, Giancarlo Comi, Melanie Greter, Gianvito Martino
Autoreactive CD4 T cells that differentiate into pathogenic Th17 cells can trigger autoimmune diseases. Therefore, investigating the regulatory network that modulates Th17 differentiation may yield important therapeutic insights. miR-146a has emerged as a critical modulator of immune reactions, but its role in regulating autoreactive Th17 cells and organ-specific autoimmunity remains largely unknown. Here, we have reported that miR-146a–deficient mice developed more severe experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), an animal model of human multiple sclerosis (MS). We bred miR-146a–deficient mice with 2D2 T cell receptor–Tg mice to generate 2D2 CD4 T cells that are deficient in miR-146a and specific for myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG), an autoantigen in the EAE model. miR-146a–deficient 2D2 T cells induced more severe EAE and were more prone to differentiate into Th17 cells. Microarray analysis revealed enhancements in IL-6– and IL-21–induced Th17 differentiation pathways in these T cells. Further study showed that miR-146a inhibited the production of autocrine IL-6 and IL-21 in 2D2 T cells, which in turn reduced their Th17 differentiation. Thus, our study identifies miR-146a as an important molecular brake that blocks the autocrine IL-6– and IL-21–induced Th17 differentiation pathways in autoreactive CD4 T cells, highlighting its potential as a therapeutic target for treating autoimmune diseases.
Bo Li, Xi Wang, In Young Choi, Yu-Chen Wang, Siyuan Liu, Alexander T. Pham, Heesung Moon, Drake J. Smith, Dinesh S. Rao, Mark P. Boldin, Lili Yang
In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), immunological triggers at mucosal sites, such as the gut microbiota, may promote autoimmunity that affects joints. Here, we used discovery-based proteomics to detect HLA-DR–presented peptides in synovia or peripheral blood mononuclear cells and identified 2 autoantigens, N-acetylglucosamine-6-sulfatase (GNS) and filamin A (FLNA), as targets of T and B cell responses in 52% and 56% of RA patients, respectively. Both GNS and FLNA were highly expressed in synovia. GNS appeared to be citrullinated, and GNS antibody values correlated with anti–citrullinated protein antibody (ACPA) levels. FLNA did not show the same results. The HLA-DR–presented GNS peptide has marked sequence homology with epitopes from sulfatase proteins of the Prevotella sp. and Parabacteroides sp., whereas the HLA-DR–presented FLNA peptide has homology with epitopes from proteins of the Prevotella sp. and Butyricimonas sp., another gut commensal. Patients with T cell reactivity with each self-peptide also had responses to the corresponding microbial peptides, and the levels were directly correlated. Furthermore, HLA-DR molecules encoded by shared-epitope (SE) alleles were predicted to bind these self- and microbial peptides strongly, and these responses were more common in RA patients with SE alleles. Thus, sequence homology between T cell epitopes of 2 self-proteins and a related order of gut microbes may provide a link between mucosal and joint immunity in patients with RA.
Annalisa Pianta, Sheila L. Arvikar, Klemen Strle, Elise E. Drouin, Qi Wang, Catherine E. Costello, Allen C. Steere
Design of efficacious Treg-based therapies and establishment of clinical tolerance in autoimmune diseases have proven to be challenging. The clinical implementation of Treg immunotherapy has been hampered by various impediments related to the stability and isolation procedures of Tregs as well as the specific in vivo targets of Treg modalities. Herein, we have demonstrated that Foxp3+ Tregs potently suppress autoimmune responses in vivo through inhibition of the autophagic machinery in DCs in a cytotoxic T-lymphocyte–associated protein 4–dependent (CTLA4-dependent) manner. Autophagy-deficient DCs exhibited reduced immunogenic potential and failed to prime autoantigen-specific CD4+ T cells to mediate autoimmunity. Mechanistically, CTLA4 binding promoted activation of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR axis and FoxO1 nuclear exclusion in DCs, leading to decreased transcription of the autophagy component microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3β (Lc3b). Human DCs treated with CTLA4-Ig, a fusion protein composed of the Fc region of IgG1 and the extracellular domain of CTLA4 (also known as abatacept, marketed as Orencia), demonstrated reduced levels of autophagosome formation, while DCs from CTLA4-Ig–treated rheumatoid arthritis patients displayed diminished LC3B transcripts. Collectively, our data identify the canonical autophagy pathway in DCs as a molecular target of Foxp3+ Treg–mediated suppression that leads to amelioration of autoimmune responses. These findings may pave the way for the development of therapeutic protocols that exploit Tregs for the treatment of autoimmunity as well as diseases in which disturbed tolerance is a common denominator.
Themis Alissafi, Aggelos Banos, Louis Boon, Tim Sparwasser, Alessandra Ghigo, Kajsa Wing, Dimitrios Vassilopoulos, Dimitrios Boumpas, Triantafyllos Chavakis, Ken Cadwell, Panayotis Verginis
A large proportion of human T cells are autoreactive to group 1 CD1 proteins, which include CD1a, CD1b, and CD1c. However, the physiological role of the CD1 proteins remains poorly defined. Here, we have generated a double-transgenic mouse model that expresses human CD1b and CD1c molecules (hCD1Tg) as well as a CD1b-autoreactive TCR (HJ1Tg) in the ApoE-deficient background (hCD1Tg HJ1Tg
Sreya Bagchi, Ying He, Hong Zhang, Liang Cao, Ildiko Van Rhijn, D. Branch Moody, Johann E. Gudjonsson, Chyung-Ru Wang
Despite the benefit of insulin, blockade of autoimmune attack and regeneration of pancreatic islets are ultimate goals for the complete cure of type 1 diabetes (T1D). Long-term consumption of ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) is known to suppress inflammatory processes, making these fatty acids candidates for the prevention and amelioration of autoimmune diseases. Here, we explored the preventative and therapeutic effects of ω-3 PUFAs on T1D. In NOD mice, dietary intervention with ω-3 PUFAs sharply reduced the incidence of T1D, modulated the differentiation of Th cells and Tregs, and decreased the levels of IFN-γ, IL-17, IL-6, and TNF-α. ω-3 PUFAs exerted similar effects on the differentiation of CD4+ T cells isolated from human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. The regulation of CD4+ T cell differentiation was mediated at least in part through ω-3 PUFA eicosanoid derivatives and by mTOR complex 1 (mTORC1) inhibition. Importantly, therapeutic intervention in NOD mice through nutritional supplementation or lentivirus-mediated expression of an ω-3 fatty acid desaturase, m
Xinyun Bi, Fanghong Li, Shanshan Liu, Yan Jin, Xin Zhang, Tao Yang, Yifan Dai, Xiaoxi Li, Allan Zijian Zhao
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Mohd Hafeez Faridi, Samia Q. Khan, Wenpu Zhao, Ha Won Lee, Mehmet M. Altintas, Kun Zhang, Vinay Kumar, Andrew R. Armstrong, Carmelo Carmona-Rivera, Jessica M. Dorschner, Abigail M. Schnaith, Xiaobo Li, Yogita Ghodke-Puranik, Erica Moore, Monica Purmalek, Jorge Irizarry-Caro, Tingting Zhang, Rachael Day, Darren Stoub, Victoria Hoffmann, Shehryar Jehangir Khaliqdina, Prachal Bhargava, Ana M. Santander, Marta Torroella-Kouri, Biju Issac, David J. Cimbaluk, Andrew Zloza, Rajeev Prabhakar, Shashank Deep, Meenakshi Jolly, Kwi Hye Koh, Jonathan S. Reichner, Elizabeth M. Bradshaw, JianFeng Chen, Luis F. Moita, Peter S. Yuen, Wanxia Li Tsai, Bhupinder Singh, Jochen Reiser, Swapan K. Nath, Timothy B. Niewold, Roberto I. Vazquez-Padron, Mariana J. Kaplan, Vineet Gupta
B cells contribute to multiple aspects of autoimmune disorders and may play a role in triggering disease. Thus, targeting B cells may be a promising strategy for treating autoimmune disorders. Better understanding of the B cell subsets that are responsible for the development of autoimmunity will be critical for developing efficient therapies. Here we have reported that B cells expressing the transcription factor T-bet promote the rapid appearance of autoantibodies and germinal centers in spontaneous murine models of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Conditional deletion of T-bet from B cells impaired the formation of germinal centers and mitigated the development of kidney damage and rapid mortality in SLE mice. B cell–specific deletion of T-bet was also associated with lower activation of both B cells and T cells. Taken together, our results suggest that targeting T-bet–expressing B cells may be a potential target for therapy for autoimmune diseases.
Kira Rubtsova, Anatoly V. Rubtsov, Joshua M. Thurman, Johanna M. Mennona, John W. Kappler, Philippa Marrack
MicroRNAs (miRs) are tightly regulated in the immune system, and aberrant expression of miRs often results in hematopoietic malignancies and autoimmune diseases. Previously, it was suggested that elevated levels of miR-27 in T cells isolated from patients with multiple sclerosis facilitate disease progression by inhibiting Th2 immunity and promoting pathogenic Th1 responses. Here we have demonstrated that, although mice with T cell–specific overexpression of miR-27 harbor dysregulated Th1 responses and develop autoimmune pathology, these disease phenotypes are not driven by miR-27 in effector T cells in a cell-autonomous manner. Rather, dysregulation of Th1 responses and autoimmunity resulted from a perturbed Treg compartment. Excessive miR-27 expression in murine T cells severely impaired Treg differentiation. Moreover, Tregs with exaggerated miR-27–mediated gene regulation exhibited diminished homeostasis and suppressor function in vivo. Mechanistically, we determined that miR-27 represses several known as well as previously uncharacterized targets that play critical roles in controlling multiple aspects of Treg biology. Collectively, our data show that miR-27 functions as a key regulator in Treg development and function and suggest that proper regulation of miR-27 is pivotal to safeguarding Treg-mediated immunological tolerance.
Leilani O. Cruz, Somaye Sadat Hashemifar, Cheng-Jang Wu, Sunglim Cho, Duc T. Nguyen, Ling-Li Lin, Aly Azeem Khan, Li-Fan Lu
Alterations in the apoptosis of immune cells have been associated with autoimmunity. Here, we have identified a homozygous missense mutation in the gene encoding the base excision repair enzyme Nei endonuclease VIII-like 3 (
Michel J. Massaad, Jia Zhou, Daisuke Tsuchimoto, Janet Chou, Haifa Jabara, Erin Janssen, Salomé Glauzy, Brennan G. Olson, Henner Morbach, Toshiro K. Ohsumi, Klaus Schmitz, Markianos Kyriacos, Jennifer Kane, Kumiko Torisu, Yusaku Nakabeppu, Luigi D. Notarangelo, Eliane Chouery, Andre Megarbane, Peter B. Kang, Eman Al-Idrissi, Hasan Aldhekri, Eric Meffre, Masayuki Mizui, George C. Tsokos, John P. Manis, Waleed Al-Herz, Susan S. Wallace, Raif S. Geha
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What is the best plan of action to fix the mirror bubble? BMW wouldn't do anything for me. Thanks for the help.
What is the best plan of action to fix the mirror bubble? BMW wouldn't do anything for me. Thanks for the help.
The Z8 Club can fix it, you have to remove it and ship it to Germany. Of course you need to be a member of the Club, but everyone should be anyway.
Andrew Macpherson
Expert Z8 Inspections, with full support for both Z8 sale and purchases.
I didnt realize that I had not joined. I guess I joined the Z8 board not the club. Can you send me in the right direction to join the club and also fix the mirror?
Thanks for your help.
I put a new mirror in my car last year. My cost was about $300 and it is easy to install. Just follow the directions. Took me a total of ten minutes.
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Andrew Macpherson
Expert Z8 Inspections, with full support for both Z8 sale and purchases.
Just participating in this site does not constitute membership in any organization, and I strongly encourage all owners to join the actually Z8 Club as there is no better group for supporting the long-term enjoyment of our cars. At last count, there are about 50 owners in the US that are part of the Z8 Club. We need more.
As Andrew said - see the link to the left.
Mine went bad last year, I contacted BMWNA, they replaced the part free of charge but they would only ship it to a dealer. I had to pay for the install. I was very pleased with the help and response
Every one.........take the mirror off send it to http://www.sybesmas.com/home.html
95.00......repaired and back in one week.
Have a great day!
Removal simply involved rotating mirror at its mounting point counterclockwise slightly less than 1/4 turn using gentle pressure and taking care not to "rock" mirror backwards or forward along it mounting axis as you are removing it. The mirror essentially twists off. Rocking back and forth would risk breaking mounting point and damaging windscreen.
Reverse procedure for reattachment. All in all took about 5 minutes.
I guess what I didn't make clear is the Z8 Club's replacement doesn't use the destructive chemicals that are inside the Sybesmas units, and the fix is permanent. If you simply send your unit to Sybesmas you are in effect just kicking the can down the road, and giving this stupid design another chance to leak all over the inside of your car destroying everything it touches.
Andrew Macpherson
Expert Z8 Inspections, with full support for both Z8 sale and purchases.
What is the club turn around time and cost?
Does the new factory unit available solve the problem permanently?
2000 Red over black
heavily modified for performance. Although, not to the level of GM's car
The Club's unit is a non chemical glass, so it solves the issue, I'm not sure on cost and turnaround time is just a couple of days there, plus shipping.
I cannot say exactly what chemicals the new Sybesmas units have inside them, but it is my understanding they are just straight replacements, not upgrades, so the same issue will arise with them again in the future.
Andrew Macpherson
Expert Z8 Inspections, with full support for both Z8 sale and purchases.
Mac........when I called Symbesas they said they put a non chemical glass in with no chemicals??
That is true...I had my E39 M5 mirror done by them, and it is without fluids. Works great and looks great.
That's great to know, and I'd recommend everyone consider doing it at the first sign of the delimitation because the fluid in the original mirrors is very destructive.
Andrew Macpherson
Expert Z8 Inspections, with full support for both Z8 sale and purchases.
I called up the company today because I got the dreaded bubble of death in my mirror last week. They told me they use a different gell based material, price was $95 including shipping and expect about a week total turn around time. I hope the removal of the unit is as easy as you guys say.
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* Does removing the mirror have any effect on the alarm or locking system while the mirror is out?
* Do you first have to disconnect battery power before removing the mirror?
* Do you disconnect the cable/plug connection before or after twisting the mirror off?
Doug Dolan
61297 - Stratus / Crema
So, which is it? Liquid-free, gel, other? Seems like we have conflicting reports on Symbesas.
No effect on alarm
No need to disconnect battery
Disconnect before or after
You mail your mirror to symbesas then they call you for your cc info
Total 7 working days from your mailing to them and getting it back
Thanks for the quick reply!
Doug Dolan
61297 - Stratus / Crema
I just noticed that you're in PA. Which side - East or West? Any chance you'll be at Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix in July? Great event, Weekend of July 21-22 this year. (http://www.pvgp.org/pvgp-events/race-weekend-events/) BTW, I'm in Chevy Chase, just outside DC. I'll be driving up early Saturday and parking at the BMW Car Club Corral.
Doug Dolan
61297 - Stratus / Crema
Josh if you have a problem doing the removal/ install Im sure your dealer can handle it and if not I can give you the name of a good shop in Westchester that does great custom work.
Hey Doug
I am in Center City Philadelphia 6 blocks from the Liberty Bell.
I would not drive to Pittsburgh as it is a 6 hour drive on the Pennsylvania Turnpike which is the ugliest, boring trip ever.
Come up and visit, park in my garages and if you need any thing done on your Z8, I have my own BMW garage connected to my factories and we will take care of it for you and then we can tool around and I will show you the city. This goes for any one on our board. http://www.traceyinc.com/index.php?o...id=3&Itemid=18
Have a great day. Jim
Too bad Pittsburgh is such a long, lousy drive away for you! (For anyone else who's closer, I can guarantee you'd enjoy the weekend -- total car guy overload!)
Thanks for the offer to come up & visit. I may well take you up on it later this year. Of course, I'd check with you ahead of time to make sure it would be convenient. Doug
Doug Dolan
61297 - Stratus / Crema
I have a mirror alternative, thanks to references from my Z8 friends in Dallas and Pat Arnold at Classic BMW in Dallas, who has been a great resource. The mirror was pretty easy to twist off and disconnect the electrical connection, per instructions posted above. Things like the electrical door and trunk locks did not work while it was off, but resumed when it was replaced. I dropped off the mirror at noon with Scott Wheeler of Radar-Mirror, and had new glass, and the mirror re-installed that evening, all for $99. His website also does custom radar installs. Website, phone and email info below. Scott claimed that BMW's manufacturer for a run of the mirrors used on the Z8 was the problem, and they have not had the problem with other mirrors since discontinuing the use of that manufacturer.
Scott Wheeler
[email protected]
Charles Guerin
AH61406 - Titanium Silver/ /Black
Charles, thank you, thats a tremendous resource. Well done!


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Shell's Pulau Bukom plant off Pulau Hantu reefs in Singapore
The site of a similar plant in Appalachia is to be determined
Maybe. In giving this assessment the critique it deserves, it's important to keep in mind that Obama's favorable tone towards shale gas development is nothing new. His energy blueprint, released last summer, characterizes domestic oil and natural gas supplies as "critical components of our Nation's energy portfolio." He has already supported an unsuccessful initiative in Congress to provide tax credits to natural gas vehicles and infrastructure. In an election year, then, it's no surprise that Obama is counting on the country's eagerness to find fixes for the economy and the environment, and on the face, "clean energy" seems to do both.
If only it were so simple. A complicating factor is that one person's clean abundant natural gas is another person's environmental problem. Hydraulic fracturing necessary to produce shale gas also produces unprecedented amounts of waste. No need to go into details here given the coverage this gets in other venues, but take a look at the EPA investigations in Dimock, Pa. and Pavillion Wyoming for more. Even without a set of hurdles being placed in the path of shale gas development by the anti-fracking movement (most notably in New York State) and possibly by the EPA itself, Obama's plan for natural gas as a bridge to cleaner energy has to pass the test of market factors.
For natural gas production to flourish, prices will have to go up, and that means demand will have to increase. For demand to increase, new markets must be developed. To address this, Obama is counting on providing infrastructure and incentives to fuel vehicles – like the Honda Civic GX -- with natural gas. But before this can happen, Obama, if reelected, would have to resolve a fight between two opposing capitalist heavyweights. On one side is Koch Industries, a $100 billion privately held conglomerate with major holdings in cattle, timber, and oil controlled by Charles Koch and his brother, David. On the other is T. Boone Pickens, the outspoken natural gas tycoon and creator of the "Picken's Plan" which seeks to convert the nation's vehicles to natural gas.
Koch -- teamed with Dow Chemicals and lobbyists from the petro-chemical manufacturing sector which makes things like plastic wrap to nail polish – have already stalled the Picken's Plan once, and there's no reason to believe future initiatives to give tax breaks to natural gas vehicles will overcome this formidable resistance. That's because the Pickens Plan would hurt Koch Industries on several fronts. It would reduce the need for pipelines and oil refineries, in which Koch is heavily invested. It would also, by raising demand, raise the price of natural gas and encroach on a cheap, abundant supply of feedstock, including ethane, that the petrochemical companies use to make products ranging from plastic wrap to fertilizer.
That brings us to the latest natural gas saga unfolding in Appalachia: The "cracker plant." As reported by various regional and national press, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia are in the running to land a multi-billion dollar petrochemical processing plant – a "cracker plant" – overlaying the Marcellus and Utica shales. The plant, by Shell Oil, would use shale gas as both fuel and feedstock for products at the core of the U.S. consumer econmy, including packaging material and plastics of all sizes and shapes. Where will this plant go? Answer: Wherever it can get the biggest tax break. There is supposedly an abundance of shale gas to supply this endeavor. But is there enough public money to feed the interests of both Pickens and the petrochemical industry supported by Koch? That may be very well for the victors of this year's elections to determine.
UPDATE MARCH 16, 2O12: Shell chose a site in Potter Township for further evaluation for its plant. CLICK HERE for more.
UPDATE MARCH 16, 2O12: Shell chose a site in Potter Township for further evaluation for its plant. CLICK HERE for more.


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