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Now, I must confess that there was a period in my youth when I did ride the wheeled board. Furthermore, it was during a time when Hosoi and his contemporaries were at their most popular, and while they were pushing the limits of just how high you could go on a skateboard (and, it turns out, just how high you could get while off of one), the companies they promoted were pushing the limits of how much crap they could sell you. A skateboard is pretty much just a wooden deck with a pair of trucks and some wheels on it, and you'd think it would be hard to convince people to buy accessories for the skateboard itself. But somehow they also managed to sell people things like plastic rails and tail protectors and nose protectors and truck protectors and multicolored risers to bold under the trucks and even little plastic covers for the rear truck designed to allow you to ride up curbs more easily. If you were foolish and dorky enough to put all of these things on your board at once your skateboard was vastly more protected than you were and looked like the board itself was ready to enter a roller derby.
In any case, firmly in nostalgia's grip, I kept watching. If you don't know what happened to Christian Hosoi I'd hate to spoil the ending, but I'll just say that he had it all, then he lost it all, then he went to jail, and then that thing that happens to everybody in jail happened to him. (No, not that thing--I mean he got religious.) I recognized many of the people interviewed from the magazines of my youth, when I'd stare at pictures of people like Natas Kaupas ollying over life-sized plastic cows or whatever, and I'd imagine California as this endless landscape of backyards with empty pools (apparently nobody in California put water in their pools), and palm trees, and banked walls, and ramps, and life-sized plastic cows begging to be ollied. I on the other hand lived in New York, where the sidewalks were covered with ice half the year, and by the time I went to Washington Square Park to skate on those asphalt mounds the city had covered them in some kind of rubbery material and I looked and felt like I was trying to trudge through a flood of maple syrup.
But while I may have blamed my environment for making skating difficult, the truth is I wasn't very good at it. The same went for freestyle BMX, which I also wasn't especially good at. The people in the magazines always seemed to be floating, but I never felt like I was floating when I was doing tricks on skateboards or bikes. I always felt kind of stuck to the ground (even when it wasn't covered with rubber), and especially when it came to freestyle BMX I was also very concerned about hurting my crotch. (Which is why I could never do a cherrypicker.) On the other hand, racing BMX did give me that sensation of flight, and that's the direction I ultimately went, though I have no intention of purchasing either of the PK Rippers currently on offer on Craigslist here in New York City (not least of which because "PK Ripper" sounds like the name of a villain in a horror movie about a killer plastic surgeon or something):
Obviously people still do tricks on skateboards and on bikes--in fact it's probably more popular than ever--though it's been awhile since I've concerned myself with it. However, I was perusing trackosaurusrex recently (where the tricks are usually performed on "track" bikes) and unexpectedly came upon this video:
After all those videos of fixed-gear freestyling I forgot that bike tricks can actually seem kind of fluid and graceful when performed on bikes with small wheels that coast. Even if you're not particularly interested in that type of riding nor the sneakers and t-shirts that type of riding is often used to promote, you've probably been impressed by something someone did on a BMX at least once. In any case, it's in stark contrast, to, say, this (also from trackosaurusrex):
The Hammer from Laali on Vimeo.
Perhaps I'm just jaded, but when I turn down the loud guitar music I just see some guys riding in circles. Sure, they can handle their bikes, but watching them they look the way I used to feel when I used to do tricks--stuck to the ground. There's just not that speed and fluidity that made skating and BMX seem exciting to me, and that I can still see when I watch it today.


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Max Boonen is founder and CEO of crypto trading firm B2C2. This post is the second in a series of three that looks at high-frequency trading in the context of the evolution of crypto markets (you can see the first here). Opinions expressed within are his own and do not reflect those of CoinDesk.
The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a free weekly newsletter for institutional investors focused on crypto assets. You can sign up here.
Carrying on from an earlier post about the evolution of high frequency trading (HFT), how it can harm markets and how crypto exchanges are responding, here we focus on the potential longer-term impact on the crypto ecosystem.
First, though, we need to focus on the state of HFT in a broader context.
Conventional markets are adopting anti-latency arbitrage mechanisms
In conventional markets, latency arbitrage has increased toxicity on lit venues and pushed trading volumes over-the-counter or into dark pools. In Europe, dark liquidity has increased in spite of efforts by regulators to clamp down on it. In some markets, regulation has actually contributed to this. Per the SEC:
"Using the Nasdaq market as a proxy, [Regulation] NMS did not seem to succeed in its mission to increase the display of limit orders in the marketplace. We have seen an increase in dark liquidity, smaller trade sizes, similar trading volumes, and a larger number of "small" venues."
Why is non-lit execution remaining or becoming more successful in spite of its lower transparency? In its 2014 paper, BlackRock came out in favour of dark pools in the context of best execution requirements. It also lamented message congestion and cautioned against increasing tick sizes, features that advantage latency arbitrageurs. (This echoes the comment to CoinDesk of David Weisberger, CEO of Coinroutes, who explained that the tick sizes typical of the crypto market are small and therefore do not put slower traders at much of a disadvantage.)
Major venues now recognize that the speed race threatens their business model in some markets, as it pushes those "slow" market makers with risk-absorbing capacity to provide liquidity to the likes of BlackRock off-exchange. Eurex has responded by implementing anti-latency arbitrage (ALA) mechanisms in options:
"Right now, a lot of liquidity providers need to invest more into technology in order to protect themselves against other, very fast liquidity providers, than they can invest in their pricing for the end client. The end result of this is a certain imbalance, where we have a few very sophisticated liquidity providers that are very active in the order book and then a lot of liquidity providers that have the ability to provide prices to end clients, but are tending to do so more away from the order book", commented Jonas Ullmann, Eurex's head of market functionality. Such views are increasingly supported by academic research.
XTX identifies two categories of ALA mechanisms: policy-based and technology-based. Policy-based ALA refers to a venue simply deciding that latency arbitrageurs are not allowed to trade on it. Alternative venues to exchanges (going under various acronyms such as ECN, ATS or MTF) can allow traders to either take or make, but not engage in both activities. Others can purposefully select – and advertise – their mix of market participants, or allow users to trade in separate "rooms" where undesired firms are excluded. The rise of "alternative microstructures" is mostly evidenced in crypto by the surge in electronic OTC trading, where traders can receive better prices than on exchange.
Technology-based ALA encompasses delays, random or deterministic, added to an exchange's matching engine to reduce the viability of latency arbitrage strategies. The classic example is a speed bump where new orders are delayed by a few milliseconds, but the cancellation of existing orders is not. This lets market makers place fresh quotes at the new prevailing market price without being run over by latency arbitrageurs.
As a practical example, the London Metal Exchange recently announced an eight-millisecond speed bump on some contracts that are prime candidates for latency arbitrageurs due to their similarity to products trading on the much bigger CME in Chicago.
Why 8 milliseconds? First, microwave transmission between Chicago and the US East Coast is 3 milliseconds faster than fibre optic lines. From there, the $250,000 a month Hibernia Express transatlantic cable helps you get to London another 4 milliseconds faster than cheaper alternatives. Add a millisecond for internal latencies such as not using FPGAs and 8 milliseconds is the difference for a liquidity provider between investing tens of millions in speed technology or being priced out of the market by latency arbitrage.
With this in mind, let's consider what the future holds for crypto.
Crypto exchanges must not forget their retail roots
We learn from conventional markets that liquidity benefits from a diverse base of market makers with risk-absorption capacity.
Some have claimed that the spread compression witnessed in the bitcoin market since 2017 is due to electronification. Instead, I posit that it is greater risk-absorbing capacity and capital allocation that has improved the liquidity of the bitcoin market, not an increase in speed, as in fact being a fast exchange with colocation such as Gemini has not supported higher volumes. Old-timers will remember Coinsetter, a company that, per the Bitcoin Wiki , "was created in 2012, and operates a bitcoin exchange and ECN. Coinsetter's CSX trading technology enables millisecond trade execution times and offers one of the fastest API data streams in the industry." The Wiki page should use the past tense as Coinsetter failed to gain traction, was acquired in 2016 and subsequently closed.
Exchanges that invest in scalability and user experience will thrive (BitMEX comes to mind). Crypto exchanges that favour the fastest traders (by reducing jitter, etc.) will find that winner-takes-all latency strategies do not improve liquidity. Furthermore, they risk antagonising the majority of their users, who are naturally suspicious of platforms that sell preferential treatment.
It is baffling that the head of Russia for Huobi vaunted to CoinDesk that: "The option [of co-location] allows [selected clients] to make trades 70 to 100 times faster than other users". The article notes that Huobi doesn't charge – but of course, not everyone can sign up.
Contrast this with one of the most successful exchanges today: Binance. It actively discourages some HFT strategies by tracking metrics such as order-to-trade ratios and temporarily blocking users that breach certain limits. Market experts know that Binance remains extremely relevant to price discovery, irrespective of its focus on a less professional user base.
Other exchanges, take heed.
Coinbase closed its entire Chicago office where 30 engineers had worked on a faster matching engine, an exercise that is rumoured to have cost $50mm. After much internal debate, I bet that the company finally realised that it wouldn't recoup its investment and that its value derived from having onboarded 20 million users, not from upgrading systems that are already fast and reliable by the standards of crypto.
It is also unsurprising that Kraken's Steve Hunt, a veteran of low-latency torchbearer Jump Trading, commented to CoinDesk that: "We want all customers regardless of size or scale to have equal access to our marketplace". Experience speaks.
In a recent article on CoinDesk , Matt Trudeau of ErisX points to the lower reliability of cloud-based services compared to dedicated, co-located and cross-connected gateways. That much is true. Web-based technology puts the emphasis on serving the greatest number of users concurrently, not on serving a subset of users deterministically and at the lowest latency possible. That is the point. Crypto might be the only asset class that is accessible directly to end users with a low number of intermediaries, precisely because of the crypto ethos and how the industry evolved. It is cheaper to buy $500 of bitcoin than it is to buy $500 of Microsoft shares.
Trudeau further remarks that official, paid-for co-location is better than what he pejoratively calls "unsanctioned colocation," the fact that crypto traders can place their servers in the same cloud providers as the exchanges. The fairness argument is dubious: anyone with $50 can set up an Amazon AWS account and run next to the major crypto exchanges, whereas cheap co-location starts at $1,000 a month in the real world. No wonder "speed technology revenues" are estimated at $1 billion for the major U.S. equity exchanges.
For a crypto exchange, to reside in a financial, non-cloud data centre with state-of-the-art network latencies might ironically impair the likelihood of success. The risk is that such an exchange becomes dominated on the taker side by the handful of players that already own or pay for the fastest communication routes between major financial data centres such as Equinix and the CME in Chicago, where bitcoin futures are traded. This might reduce liquidity on the exchange because a significant proportion of the crypto market's risk-absorption capacity is coming from crypto-centric funds that do not have the scale to operate low-latency strategies, but might make up the bulk of the liquidity on, say, Binance. Such mom-and-pop liquidity providers might therefore shun an exchange that caters to larger players as a priority.
Exchanges risk losing market share to OTC liquidity providers
While voice trading in crypto has run its course, a major contribution to the market's increase in liquidity circa 2017-2018 was the risk appetite of the original OTC voice desks such as Cumberland Mining and Circle.
Automation really shines in bringing together risk-absorbing capacity tailored to each client (which is impossible on anonymous exchanges) with seamless electronic execution. In contrast, latency-sensitive venues can see liquidity evaporate in periods of stress, as happened to a well-known and otherwise successful exchange on 26 June which saw its bitcoin order book become $1,000 wide for an extended period of time as liquidity providers turned their systems off. The problem is compounded by the general unavailability of credit on cash exchanges, an issue that the OTC market's settlement model avoids.
As the crypto market matures, the business model of today's major cash exchanges will come under pressure. In the past decade, the FX market has shown that retail traders benefit from better liquidity when they trade through different channels than institutional speculators. Systematic internalizers demonstrate the same in equities. This fact of life will apply to crypto. Exchanges have to pick a side: either cater to retail (or retail-driven intermediaries) or court HFTs.
Now that an aggregator like Tagomi runs transaction cost analysis for their clients, it will become plainly obvious to investors with medium-term and long-term horizons (i.e. anyone not looking at the next 2 seconds) that their price impact on exchange is worse than against electronic OTC liquidity providers.
Today, exchange fee structures are awkward because they must charge small users a lot to make up for crypto's exceptionally high compliance and onboarding costs. Onboarding a single, small value user simply does not make sense unless fees are quite elevated. Exchanges end up over-charging large volume traders such as B2C2's clients, another incentive to switch to OTC execution.
In the alternative, what if crypto exchanges focus on HFT traders? In my opinion, the CME is a much better venue for institutional takers as fees are much lower and conventional trading firms will already be connected to it. My hypothesis is that most exchanges will not be able to compete with the CME for fast traders (after all, the CBOE itself gave up), and must cater to their retail user base instead.
In a future post, we will explore other microstructures beyond all-to-all exchanges and bilateral OTC trading.
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Friday, December 5, 2008
The Cupcakes Were Made of Irony
Friday, December 5, 2008
Thanks to Georgia F. for sharing this little gem from over on Pop Crunch.
UPDATE: Geez, you guys are demanding! Ok, fyi: no, this is NOT the only post you get today. I did a guest-blog for another site which I agreed to link to for today's post, but they haven't published the post yet. So, I wait. And get complaints from you knuckleheads. So chill, my adorable little Wreck addicts - your daily fix is coming.
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Ummmmm yeah thats not a cake...boring....
- December 5, 2008 at 9:36 AM
- Boozy Tooth said...
Lock her up and move on. I need my daily wreck to function.
- December 5, 2008 at 9:37 AM
- NanU said...
It's well known: Stolen food calories don't count!
- December 5, 2008 at 9:37 AM
- Phoo-D said...
Ha ha, that's priceless. Maybe if you steal the calories then they don't count? I love your site, it makes me laugh every time I stop by!
http://www.phoo-d.com - December 5, 2008 at 9:41 AM
I read the full article...at least she was taking the Weightwatchers cupcakes...
- December 5, 2008 at 9:46 AM
*brain gives up and heads for bed*
- December 5, 2008 at 9:46 AM
- Unknown said...
All I have to say is... D'oh!
Word confirmation: stora. Not even kidding. - December 5, 2008 at 9:52 AM
- Holly said...
hey now, at least they were Weight Watchers cupcakes that she stole! Full story here: http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/apr/18/weight-watcher-demonstrator-accused-shoplifting-cu/?feedback=1
- December 5, 2008 at 9:59 AM
- Angie McCullagh said...
Who can blame her? Him?
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com) - December 5, 2008 at 10:01 AM
- Unknown said...
Yep- that is totally wreck worthy!
- December 5, 2008 at 10:02 AM
You know, there's no calories if you don't pay for them...
- December 5, 2008 at 10:05 AM
- Andrea Frederick said...
oh my, that is really desperate! OUCH!
- December 5, 2008 at 10:12 AM
- Feisty Irish Wench said...
Did she do it out of protest or rebellion?
- December 5, 2008 at 10:13 AM
How many WW points did that cost her?
Seriously, the whole fetishization of cupcakes needs to stop. Who really needs to spend $20+ on one little concoction some Hollywood starlet claimed was her "favorite," anyway? Besides, some poor decorator probably needed those to cram together in an unattractive CCC...
Word verification: proutd. Def.: how the WW demonstrator's sponsoring group and family did NOT feel after reading this story... - December 5, 2008 at 10:14 AM
But where's the picture of the cupcakes? Were they a CCC wreck? Or a cakewreck at all?
- December 5, 2008 at 10:14 AM
- beth said...
First. (That wasn't as big a deal as I'd thought it would be). Anyway, stealing the cupcakes wasn't the weird part of the story...demonstarting for Weight Watcher's is.
- December 5, 2008 at 10:16 AM
seriously. this is all we get today?
lame. - December 5, 2008 at 10:22 AM
- Jenn said...
Well at least she had the sense not to steal a CCC.
- December 5, 2008 at 10:22 AM
- The Tildy Spot said...
Sometimes you just have to revolt. Yea for the Weight Watcher lady! :)
- December 5, 2008 at 10:24 AM
- Elizabeth Green Musselman said...
I've been enjoying your blog for several weeks now - thanks for all the much-needed laughs.
I found another fun site for you: Bake for a Change (http://bakeforachange.com/). The blog is challenging people to build gingerbread houses that are designed like sustainable homes. It's pretty cool, actually, though the cakes definitely look homemade. - December 5, 2008 at 10:26 AM
Not a cake wreck! I feel cheated :[
- December 5, 2008 at 10:38 AM
So... where's today's cakewreck? C'mon, Jen- I depend on this site to give me a much needed laugh each day... you wouldn't want to anger an accountant now, would you?
- December 5, 2008 at 10:43 AM
- Ice Cream said...
Quick, someone give Annonymous a cake wreck before he/she has a hissy fit! Oh, too late.
Personally I think the headline is pretty cake related and wrecky and funny. - December 5, 2008 at 10:48 AM
hey at least it wasn't a CCC, gotta give props for that!
Robin - December 5, 2008 at 10:55 AM
That's hysterical! In the article it says she also stole whitening strips for teeth ... maybe the cupcakes she stole had black icing? *giggle*
- December 5, 2008 at 11:05 AM
- Mari said...
Who can blame her?
- December 5, 2008 at 11:09 AM
- Shannon said...
I admit I am addicted. This blog is like a cup of coffee in the morning. It gets you going and you look forward to it when you peel your eyes open. Thanks!
- December 5, 2008 at 11:13 AM
Obviously she's never had the WW cupcakes... totally not worth a theft charge!
Word Verificaion: peami
I nearly peami pants every day when I come here and see the wreaktastic goodness we are presented with. - December 5, 2008 at 11:14 AM
- borellana said...
LOLZ dude, this makes me think of the Marjorie Dawes character from Little Britain!
- December 5, 2008 at 11:17 AM
hehehhehehe...your site is a addiction...what can I say =)
::steps up to the box:: I have recently started going to Cake Wreck Anonymous Meetings.
1. We admitted we were powerless over cake wrecks, that our lives had become unmanageable if we do not get our daily dose of your site.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity, especially when you show us what the cake should look like and what the wreckers end up with.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Cake Wrecks.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves and found that it really doesn't hurt to laugh, hehehe.
5. Admitted to Cake Wrecks, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our addiction to Cake Wrecks.
6. Were entirely ready to have Cake Wrecks remove all these defects of all these amazingly messed up cakes.
7. Humbly asked Cake Wrecks to remove the cupcake shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all cakes that had been harmed, and become willing to make amends to those that did it right.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Some cakes just need to be laughed at!
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it, by admitting, not all cupcake wreck are that bad.
11. Sought through laughter, gritting teeth and that urge to puke on some of those really bad wrecks, to improve our conscious contact with Cake Wrecks as we understood your goals through the oohhhs, aahhhhs & OMG! Hoping only for knowledge of your will for us to laugh, enjoy and to empower us with the ability to share those cake wreck mistakes!
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to all Cake Wreck Addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. - December 5, 2008 at 11:22 AM
- sues2u2 said...
- December 5, 2008 at 11:36 AM
- Angela Watson said...
This is the only blog I read in which commenters tell the author what to write. They don't seem to understand: if it's not your blog, you don't get to control the content!
Anyone who actually writes a blog (obviously not the anonymous commenters) knows how much work it is, and would never presume to tell another blogger what to post and what not to. - December 5, 2008 at 11:57 AM
I can't believe so many people are complaining that this isn't a wreck ... it's certainly related, and funny, and the bottom line is it's *your* blog and you decide what goes!
You do a great job, and I love reading your blog. Well done. :) - December 5, 2008 at 12:23 PM
Pssh! It figures most of the people griping were too chicken to even enter a name. Ingrates. I think this is a great post even if it isn't edible. It's still cake related and totally hilarious. There are people who appreciate you for what you do. :)
- December 5, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Hahaha! ALL Weight Watchers cupcakes are cake wrecks. They are not made of delicious, and they look like a faint idea of a cupcake that you eat to punish yourself for being so faaaaaaaaat.
- December 5, 2008 at 5:14 PM
- Unknown said...
I guess Weight Watchers won't be using her as a sample giver anymore! :o)
Amy B - December 5, 2008 at 7:19 PM
- sweettc said...
wow how desperate can you get. It reminds me of something out of a Janet Evanovich novel you know the ones with Stephanie Plum. I could see this lady being someone that skips out on her bail and Steph having to go get her. lol Anyone else think the same thing?
- December 5, 2008 at 8:22 PM
- SugarPunk said...
Actually, I prefer "Wreckhead" to wreck-addict.
- December 5, 2008 at 10:14 PM
- Hyena Overlord said...
Maybe she's a CCC ninja and was rescuing the CC before they were used to make a CCC
wvotd..."we looked on in horror as the spatula smoothed icing over the gathering of cupcakes. The siola sound of the spatula swirling the icing making our skin crawl? - December 5, 2008 at 11:14 PM
- E.A.D. said...
She stole cupcakes........wait, Weight Watcher cupcakes? Isn't that kind of an oxymoron?
- December 7, 2008 at 2:01 AM
You see, this is what dieting does to you. Just accept your body and you won't sink to this level of cupcake thievery!
Dear First Anonymous Commenter: Instead of complaining, please send in a worthy cake wreck photo. :P If part of the solution you are not, then part of the problem, you are.
...or at least that's what Yoda told me. - December 8, 2008 at 9:16 AM
ok so I use to go to that weight watchers, had I know you could steal calories maybe I would have hung in there
- December 9, 2008 at 9:33 AM
I am SO embarrassed to be from Port St Lucie, Florida!!
- December 27, 2008 at 5:47 PM
The poor lady was probably out of "points" for the week and was starving to death. Cut her some slack, will ya??
- December 30, 2008 at 1:17 AM
WTF? PEOPLE GROW UP IT IS SO STUPID> AND MY NAME IS AMANDA BARTLEY FROM ALASKA. :`D I ADOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORe this site sssssssssssssssssssssssssso much! :~D
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh10/runfast800/cake.jpg - January 4, 2009 at 12:07 AM
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Researchers say they are achieving success in curing the genetic defect that causes some children to be born without immune defenses, a rare condition made famous in the 1970s by a Texas boy who lived most of his short life in a sterile "bubble."
Scientists now report that 8 out of 9 young children given gene therapy for a type of severe combined immunodeficiency disease, called SCID-X1, are alive and living amid the everyday microbial threats that would otherwise have killed them. The oldest is just over 3 years old.
"They live pretty normal lives," investigator David Williams tells Shots. "It's amazing. Without treatment, it's a pretty uniformly fatal disease."
Equally important, these children are so far showing no signs of the cancers that developed a decade ago in 5 out of 20 children given an earlier version of the same gene therapy. Those treatment-related cancers temporarily brought such gene therapy experiments to a screeching halt.
The latest gene therapy experiment used a "self-inactivating" virus to deliver the corrective gene into the children's blood stem cells. This new viral vector apparently doesn't flip switches that give rise to leukemia, as the old vector did.
"We're not saying these children are completely free from any risk," says Williams, who was to report on the trial Saturday morning at the American Society of Hematology meeting in New Orleans. "But we're quite happy with the results we have so far and feel confident that the vector is safer in every way we can look."
Williams works with the Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He says one of the nine children died of an overwhelming infection that he had "before the gene-corrected cells could fully engraft and fight off the infection."
One other child didn't get as much benefit from the gene therapy as hoped. He's going to get another dose of the gene-corrected stem cells.
Researchers give each child between 2 million and 10 million genetically engineered stem cells after the gene that they lack, called the IL-2 common gamma chain receptor gene, has been inserted into a mouse virus. The cells come from the children's own bone marrow. Once the gene-corrected cells are infused back, they multiply and stimulate the production of normal immune cells.
The technology component of this gene therapy costs from $125,000 to $250,000 per patient, with additional costs for medical care. So far the National Institutes of Health has paid for it.
Williams says two of the eight surviving children — one in Paris, the other treated in Boston and living in his native Argentina — had the new gene therapy more than three years ago, when they were infants. They have reached the age when some of the children in the earlier experiment developed leukemia.
Researchers in Paris, London, Boston, Cincinnati and Los Angeles have been scrutinizing their young patients' blood cells regularly for signs of abnormal growth or evidence that virally introduced genes inserted themselves into places in the genome known to be hot spots for triggering leukemia.
They haven't seen any ominous signs, which is why the researchers are feeling cautiously optimistic that they've surmounted the leukemia problem. Curiously, separate research projects in California and Italy, involving about 40 children with a different form of genetic immune deficiency, have not seen leukemia, either — even though that group has been using the original virus vector.
One sign of the new optimism over gene therapy is that other trials are starting up. The Boston group has three others going, with two more in the works. They involve SCID-X1 and other rare diseases, such as metachromatic leukodystrophy and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.
But the group is dreaming big. Within the next year, Williams says they're planning to test gene therapy for sickle cell disease and thalassemia, two much more common blood disorders that together affect hundreds of thousands of people in this country.
That's a clue that researchers — and regulators, such as the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health's Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee — are starting to feel comfortable enough with gene therapy that they're entertaining the idea of applying it to diseases that are not quickly fatal without treatment.
"All new technologies start out with a boom and then with some regularity have some unexpected side effects that have to be addressed," Williams says. "That's exactly what's happened in this field."
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George Washington, sometime before the age of 16, transcribed Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation (the original spelling is unchanged).
1 1st Every Action done in Company, ought to be with Some Sign of Respect, to those that are Present.
2d When in Company, put not your Hands to any Part of the Body, not usualy Discovered.
3d Shew Nothing to your Freind that may affright him.
4th In the Presence of Others Sing not to yourself with a humming Noise, nor Drum with your Fingers or Feet.
5th If You Cough, Sneeze, Sigh, or Yawn, do it not Loud but Privately; and Speak not in your Yawning, but put Your handkercheif or Hand before your face and turn aside.
6th Sleep not when others Speak, Sit not when others stand, Speak not when you Should hold your Peace, walk not on when others Stop.
7th Put not off your Cloths in the presence of Others, nor go out your Chamber half Drest.
8th At Play and at Fire its Good manners to Give Place to the last Commer, and affect not to Speak Louder than Ordinary.
9th Spit not in the Fire, nor Stoop low before it neither Put your Hands into the Flames to warm them, nor Set your Feet upon the Fire especially if there be meat before it.
10th When you Sit down, Keep your Feet firm and Even, without putting one on the other or Crossing them.
11th Shift not yourself in the Sight of others nor Gnaw your nails.
12th Shake not the head, Feet, or Legs rowl not the Eys lift not one eyebrow higher than the other wry not the mouth, and bedew no mans face with your Spittle, by approaching too near him when you Speak.
13th Kill no Vermin as Fleas, lice ticks &c in the Sight of Others, if you See any filth or thick Spittle put your foot Dexteriously upon it if it be upon the Cloths of your Companions, Put it off privately, and if it be upon your own Cloths return Thanks to him who puts it off.
14th Turn not your Back to others especially in Speaking, Jog not the Table or Desk on which Another reads or writes, lean not upon any one.
15th Keep your Nails clean and Short, also your Hands and Teeth Clean yet without Shewing any great Concern for them.
16th Do not Puff up the Cheeks, Loll not out the tongue rub the Hands, or beard, thrust out the lips, or bite them or keep the Lips too open or too Close.
17th Be no Flatterer, neither Play with any that delights not to be Play'd Withal.
18th Read no Letters, Books, or Papers in Company but when there is a Necessity for the doing of it you must ask leave: come not near the Books or Writings of Another so as to read them unless desired or give your opinion of them unask'd also look not nigh when another is writing a Letter.
20th The Gestures of the Body must be Suited to the discourse you are upon.
21st: Reproach none for the Infirmaties of Nature, nor Delight to Put them that have in mind thereof.
22d Shew not yourself glad at the Misfortune of another though he were your enemy.
23d When you see a Crime punished, you may be inwardly Pleased; but always shew Pity to the Suffering Offender.
24th Do not laugh too loud or too much at any Publick Spectacle.
25th Superfluous Complements and all Affectation of Ceremonie are to be avoided, yet where due they are not to be Neglected.
26th In Pulling off your Hat to Persons of Distinction, as Noblemen, Justices, Churchmen &c make a Reverence, bowing more or less according to the Custom of the Better Bred, and Quality of the Person. Amongst your equals expect not always that they Should begin with you first, but to Pull off the Hat when there is no need is Affectation, in the Manner of Saluting and resaluting in words keep to the most usual Custom.
27th Tis ill manners to bid one more eminent than yourself be covered as well as not to do it to whom it's due Likewise he that makes too much haste to Put on his hat does not well, yet he ought to Put it on at the first, or at most the Second time of being ask'd; now what is herein Spoken, of Qualification in behaviour in Saluting, ought also to be observed in taking of Place, and Sitting down for ceremonies without Bounds is troublesome.
28th If any one come to Speak to you while you are are Sitting Stand up tho he be your Inferiour, and when you Present Seats let it be to every one according to his Degree.
29th When you meet with one of Greater Quality than yourself, Stop, and retire especially if it be at a Door or any Straight place to give way for him to Pass.
30th In walking the highest Place in most Countrys Seems to be on the right hand therefore Place yourself on the left of him whom you desire to Honour: but if three walk together the middest Place is the most Honourable the wall is usually given to the most worthy if two walk together.
31st If any one far Surpassess others, either in age, Estate, or Merit yet would give Place to a meaner than himself in his own lodging or elsewhere the one ought not to except it, So he on the other part should not use much earnestness nor offer it above once or twice.
32d: To one that is your equal, or not much inferior you are to give the cheif Place in your Lodging and he to who 'tis offered ought at the first to refuse it but at the Second to accept though not without acknowledging his own unworthiness.
33d They that are in Dignity or in office have in all places Preceedency but whilst they are Young they ought to respect those that are their equals in Birth or other Qualitys, though they have no Publick charge.
34th It is good Manners to prefer them to whom we Speak before ourselves especially if they be above us with whom in no Sort we ought to begin.
35th Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
36th Artificers & Persons of low Degree ought not to use many ceremonies to Lords, or Others of high Degree but Respect and highly Honour them, and those of high Degree ought to treat them with affibility & Courtesie, without Arrogancy.
37th In Speaking to men of Quality do not lean nor Look them full in the Face, nor approach too near them at lest Keep a full Pace from them.
38th In visiting the Sick, do not Presently play the Physicion if you be not Knowing therein.
39th In writing or Speaking, give to every Person his due Title According to his Degree & the Custom of the Place.
40th Strive not with your Superiers in argument, but always Submit your Judgment to others with Modesty.
41st Undertake not to Teach your equal in the art himself Proffesses; it Savours of arrogancy.
42d Let thy ceremonies in Courtesie be proper to the Dignity of his place with whom thou conversest for it is absurd to act the same with a Clown and a Prince.
43d Do not express Joy before one sick or in pain for that contrary Passion will aggravate his Misery.
44th When a man does all he can though it Succeeds not well blame not him that did it.
45th Being to advise or reprehend any one, consider whether it ought to be in publick or in Private; presently, or at Some other time in what terms to do it & in reproving Shew no Sign of Cholar but do it with all Sweetness and Mildness.
46th Take all Admonitions thankfully in what Time or Place Soever given but afterwards not being culpable take a Time & Place convenient to let him him know it that gave them.
47th Mock not nor Jest at any thing of Importance break no Jest that are Sharp Biting and if you Deliver any thing witty and Pleasent abstain from Laughing there at yourself.
48th Wherein wherein you reprove Another be unblameable yourself; for example is more prevalent than Precepts.
49th Use no Reproachfull Language against any one neither Curse nor Revile.
50th Be not hasty to beleive flying Reports to the Disparagement of any.
51st Wear not your Cloths, foul, unript or Dusty but See they be Brush'd once every day at least and take heed that you approach not to any Uncleaness.
52d In your Apparel be Modest and endeavour to accomodate Nature, rather than to procure Admiration keep to the Fashion of your equals Such as are Civil and orderly with respect to Times and Places.
53d Run not in the Streets, neither go too slowly nor with Mouth open go not Shaking yr Arms kick not the earth with yr feet, go not upon the Toes, nor in a Dancing fashion.
54th Play not the Peacock, looking every where about you, to See if you be well Deck't, if your Shoes fit well if your Stokings sit neatly, and Cloths handsomely.
55th Eat not in the Streets, nor in the House, out of Season.
56th Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad Company.
57th In walking up and Down in a House, only with One in Company if he be Greater than yourself, at the first give him the Right hand and Stop not till he does and be not the first that turns, and when you do turn let it be with your face towards him, if he be a Man of Great Quality, walk not with him Cheek by Joul but Somewhat behind him; but yet in Such a Manner that he may easily Speak to you.
58th Let your Conversation be without Malice or Envy, for 'tis a Sign of a Tractable and Commendable Nature: And in all Causes of Passion admit Reason to Govern.
59th Never express anything unbecoming, nor Act agst the Rules Moral before your inferiours.
60th Be not immodest in urging your Freinds to Discover a Secret.
61st Utter not base and frivilous things amongst grave and Learn'd Men nor very Difficult Questians or Subjects, among the Ignorant or things hard to be believed, Stuff not your Discourse with Sentences amongst your Betters nor Equals.
62d Speak not of doleful Things in a Time of Mirth or at the Table; Speak not of Melancholy Things as Death and Wounds, and if others Mention them Change if you can the Discourse tell not your Dreams, but to your intimate Friend.
63d A Man ought not to value himself of his Atchievements, or rare Qualities of wit; much less of his riches Virtue or Kindred.
64th Break not a Jest where none take pleasure in mirth Laugh not aloud, nor at all without Occasion, deride no mans Misfortune, tho' there Seem to be Some cause.
65th Speak not injurious Words neither in Jest nor Earnest Scoff at none although they give Occasion.
66th Be not forward but friendly and Courteous; the first to Salute hear and answer & be not Pensive when it's a time to Converse.
67th Detract not from others neither be excessive in Commanding.
68th Go not thither, where you know not, whether you Shall be Welcome or not. Give not Advice without being Ask'd & when desired do it briefly.
69th If two contend together take not the part of either unconstrained; and be not obstinate in your own Opinion, in Things indiferent be of the Major Side.
70th Reprehend not the imperfections of others for that belongs to Parents Masters and Superiours.
71st Gaze not on the marks or blemishes of Others and ask not how they came. What you may Speak in Secret to your Friend deliver not before others.
72d Speak not in an unknown Tongue in Company but in your own Language and that as those of Quality do and not as the Vulgar; Sublime matters treat Seriously.
73d Think before you Speak pronounce not imperfectly nor bring out your Words too hastily but orderly & distinctly.
74th When Another Speaks be attentive your Self and disturb not the Audience if any hesitate in his Words help him not nor Prompt him without desired, Interrupt him not, nor Answer him till his Speech be ended.
75th In the midst of Discourse ask not of what one treateth but if you Perceive any Stop because of your coming you may well intreat him gently to Proceed: If a Person of Quality comes in while your Conversing it's handsome to Repeat what was said before.
76th While you are talking, Point not with your Finger at him of Whom you Discourse nor Approach too near him to whom you talk especially to his face.
77th Treat with men at fit Times about Business & Whisper not in the Company of Others.
78th Make no Comparisons and if any of the Company be Commended for any brave act of Vertue, commend not another for the Same.
79th Be not apt to relate News if you know not the truth thereof. In Discoursing of things you Have heard Name not your Author always A Secret Discover not.
80th Be not Tedious in Discourse or in reading unless you find the Company pleased therewith.
81st Be not Curious to Know the Affairs of Others neither approach those that Speak in Private.
82d undertake not what you cannot perform but be carefull to keep your promise.
83d when you deliver a matter do it without passion & with discretion, however mean the person be you do it too.
84th When your Superiours talk to any Body hearken not neither Speak nor Laugh.
85th In Company of these of Higher Quality than yourself Speak not til you are ask'd a Question then Stand upright put of your Hat & Answer in few words.
86th In Disputes, be not So Desireous to Overcome as not to give Liberty to each one to deliver his Opinion and Submit to the Judgment of the Major Part especially if they are Judges of the Dispute.
87th Let thy carriage be such as becomes a Man Grave Settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not at every turn what others Say.
88th Be not tedious in Discourse, make not many Digressigns, nor repeat often the Same manner of Discourse.
89th Speak not Evil of the absent for it is unjust.
90th Being Set at meat Scratch not neither Spit Cough or blow your Nose except there's a Necessity for it.
91st Make no Shew of taking great Delight in your Victuals, Feed not with Greediness; cut your Bread with a Knife, lean not on the Table neither find fault with what you Eat.
92d Take no Salt or cut Bread with your Knife Greasy.
93d Entertaining any one at table it is decent to present him wt. meat, Undertake not to help others undesired by the Master.
94th If you Soak bread in the Sauce let it be no more than what you put in your Mouth at a time and blow not your broth at Table but Stay till Cools of it Self.
95th Put not your meat to your Mouth with your Knife in your hand neither Spit forth the Stones of any fruit Pye upon a Dish nor Cast anything under the table.
96th It's unbecoming to Stoop much to ones Meat Keep your Fingers clean & when foul wipe them on a Corner of your Table Napkin.
97th Put not another bit into your Mouth til the former be Swallowed let not your Morsels be too big for the Gowls.
98th Drink not nor talk with your mouth full neither Gaze about you while you are a Drinking.
99th Drink not too leisurely nor yet too hastily. Before and after Drinking wipe your Lips breath not then or Ever with too Great a Noise, for its uncivil.
100th Cleanse not your teeth with the Table Cloth Napkin Fork or Knife but if Others do it let it be done wt. a Pick Tooth.
101st Rince not your Mouth in the Presence of Others.
102d It is out of use to call upon the Company often to Eat nor need you Drink to others every Time you Drink.
103d In Company of your Betters be not longer in eating than they are lay not your Arm but only your hand upon the table.
104th It belongs to the Chiefest in Company to unfold his Napkin and fall to Meat first, But he ought then to Begin in time & to Dispatch with Dexterity that the Slowest may have time allowed him.
105th Be not Angry at Table whatever happens & if you have reason to be so, Shew it not but on a Chearfull Countenance especially if there be Strangers for Good Humour makes one Dish of Meat a Feast.
106th Set not yourself at the upper of the Table but if it Be your Due or that the Master of the house will have it So, Contend not, least you Should Trouble the Company.
107th If others talk at Table be attentive but talk not with Meat in your Mouth.
108th When you Speak of God or his Atributes, let it be Seriously & wt. Reverence. Honour & Obey your Natural Parents altho they be Poor.
109th Let your Recreations be Manfull not Sinfull.
110th Labour to keep alive in your Breast that Little Spark of Celestial fire Called Conscience.
*Washington, George. Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation: a Book of Etiquette. Williamsburg, VA: Beaver Press, 1971.
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When the idea of dark matter first pushed its way into astronomers' consciousness a few decades ago, the primary reaction was: "Seriously? There's a mysterious, invisible substance out there, with a mass six or more times greater than that of the visible stars and galaxies, only we have no way of detecting it, but really, it's there? OK then." Or something like that, albeit in more formal scientific language.
These days, dark matter is a firmly established principle of cosmology; most of the questions now focus on how the stuff is distributed through the universe, and which of many possible subatomic particles it's made of.
Most of the questions, but not all. Ever since the early 80's, a competing theory has been struggling for acceptance. Known as MOND, for Modified Newtonian Dynamics, it posits that dark matter's main effect — allowing galaxies to spin faster than they should — isn't caused by extra stuff, but instead by a change in how gravity works under certain conditions.
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That underdog theory has now gotten a boost: using MOND-based models, and assuming no dark matter whatever, astronomers have successfully predicted the orbital speeds of stars in 15 faint dwarf galaxies that hover around the nearby Andromeda spiral galaxy. MOND can already explain galaxies that spin like the Milky Way — not surprisingly, since the theory was invented to do just that. But this is its first test in galaxies that aren't spinning as a whole, but whose individual stars are instead following their own random orbits. MOND predicted how fast those stars should be moving, and, says Stacy McGaugh of Case Western Reserve University, lead author of a paper on the predictions, "It's spot-on."
Whether this will change the minds of mainstream cosmologists about the existence of dark matter is another question entirely. McGaugh himself was completely dismissive about MOND when he first heard about it. "Who wants to waste their time hearing about that crap," he recalls thinking when MOND's creator, the Israeli astrophysicist Mordehai Milgrom, showed up to give a presentation many years ago. McGaugh went to listen anyway. His reaction afterward? "This is crazy talk."
But maybe not. Gravity weakens rapidly the further you move from the attracting body — the Earth say. Milgrom's idea is that at very low intensity, like out at the edges of galaxies, that weakening should slow. If that were true, the attraction produced by visible matter at those great distances would be greater than current estimates suggest — perhaps enough to allow the edges of galaxies to rotate unexpectedly fast, without the help of any invisible, unknown matter holding them together. The same phenomenon would allow galaxies in clusters to orbit one another other at surprisingly high speed without the distances among them steadily widening.
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This alone wouldn't make MOND a competitor to conventional dark-matter theory, which explains those high speeds equally well. But the mainstream theory does have some shortcomings that MOND avoids. Conventional theory predicts, for example, that there should be thousands of small clumps of dark matter floating around in the so-called Local Group of galaxies, and that these clumps should have formed the seeds for thousands of dwarf galaxies. But in fact, the Local Group has only a few dozen dwarfs — at least, that anyone has found so far.
Numbers aside, the theory says that any dwarf galaxies we do see should have dense knots of dark matter at their cores. But as far as anyone can tell by carefully measuring the orbital speeds of individual stars, they don't. MOND, on the other hand is agnostic on how many dwarf galaxies there should be; it's fine with just a dozen. It's also better than conventional dark-matter theory at explaining the mass-to-light relation in so-called low-surface-brightness galaxies, another class of objects that are dim, like dwarfs, but not especially small.
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That's what eventually won McGaugh over. "I bothered to learn about MOND," he says. "Many of the more vocal critics choose to remain willfully ignorant."
But at least one subscriber to the mainstream theory who has taken a serious look at MOND remains unconvinced. "If MOND were purely a theory of modified gravity, that would be one thing," says Avi Loeb, chair of the astronomy department at Harvard. But even MOND requires some sort of dark matter to explain such crucial phenomena as evolution of structure in the universe — why and how galaxies have been pulled into huge clusters, for example, rather than being smoothly distributed through space. MOND enthusiasts, he says, call on the gravity exerted by giant clouds of neutrinos — a type of fleet, lightweight elementary particle so ethereal that it could zip through a chunk of lead a trillion miles thick without even noticing – to accomplish that feat.
While neutrinos are known to exist, however, it's not clear they can do what MOND supporters claim. Dark matter, by contrast, explains both cosmic structure and the behavior of individual galaxies in a much simpler way. "With [the extra factor of neutrinos], MOND loses its appeal," says Loeb, "because it is no longer purely a modified theory of gravity." For his money, that's just too speculative.
That doesn't make MOND crazy, though. As physicist Anthony Aguirre, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, wrote a few years ago, "MOND is out of the mainstream, but it is far from wacky." That's more than many astrophysicists would have said for dark matter a generation ago.


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We try to keep delivery prices as competitive as possible and always aim to offer best possible value for money with a service that's second to none. Click on the link to see a a more detailed cost for delivery.
Our Standard Delivery will be delivered via our Couriers: Parcelforce, DHL, DX Freight or equivalent within 3 - 7 days, delivery charges will be applied to your cart when ordering which will depend on the item your ordering size & weight or if the item is fragile. If you require any additional information or would like to speak to us please contact us on Tel 02890 839971 alternately email us on firstname.lastname@example.com
Standard: Small & standard size items are not bigger than 120 cms
Fragile: Mirrors, Large Pictures, Glazed Pictures
Large: Large Furniture Items: Dining tables, Sideboards etc.
Parcelforce, DHL or Dx Freight will send a notification via text or email regarding your delivery details.
If your not home or available for the delivery and receive a calling card, then please contact the delivery company directly using the details on the calling card or contact our Customer Services Team at firstname.lastname@example.com or on 02890839971.
Should you not respond to the calling card within 5 days, the goods will be returned to us and a re-delivery charge will be applicable.
Items dispatched by Standard Delivery via Parcelforce, DHL or DX Freight should arrive within 3 - 7 working days.
Our specialist couriers will contact you to arrange the delivery of large, heavy or fragile pallet delivery items.
All Return & Refund requests will be processed through our returns portal.
Please do not send emails regarding returns and refunds to our info@decor-interiors email address as this will not go through to the correct department and will cause a delay.
If you need a return address please see our contact page for details.
You will need your order number and email address. Click here
When finished you will get an email confirming that you have submitted a request for a return/refund.
3. You will get an email to confirm that your return / refund has been excepted or rejected. If accepted or rejected you will be contacted by one of our team to discuss your return / refund.
Items must be returned unused, in their original packaging, with proof of purchase and any returns note we include with your order.
EXCEPTIONS: (but not limited to) We regret we cannot accept returns on the following items unless they are damaged or faulty:
- Clearance Items
- Part-orders of wallpapers
- Gift Vouchers
- Mixed Paint
Wallpaper Returns:
We recommend requesting a sample | We are unable to accept returns of part orders of wallpaper .
Mixed Paint -
We are unable to accept any returns for paint that has been mixed for the customer unless there is a genuine fault or defect with the product. This is due to the fact that we will be unable to sell that product again as that colour is specific to the customer that ordered it.
Please ensure you have selected the correct colour, finish and quantity before ordering, if you are unsure, we would encourage you to request a Free Colour Chart or purchase a Sample Pot where available.
Colour Accuracy:
Although we endeavour to make our screen images as accurate as possible, colours on screen are for reference only and are an approximation of the true colour and should therefore not be regarded as absolutely correct.
Do not rely on screen representation for colour accuracy as the resolution on computer monitors can differ depending on the make and model and the settings of the output device used to display this page will also affect the visible colour.
Paint colours can also vary according to adjacent room colours and lighting conditions.
We would always encourage you to request a Free Colour Chart or purchase a Sample Pot where available, before committing to purchasing a larger tin size.
Please note that the above terms will not affect your statutory rights.
For more information about our returns policy, please Click Here
- On average a refund will take up to 14 days.
- We will start to process your refund and email you as soon as your parcel arrives back at our warehouse, and again when we have processed your refund.
- If you paid for your order with a gift voucher a replacement to the value of the refund will be issued. If we receive your return outside of the returns policy timeframe, you may also receive your refund as a voucher.
- If you've waited more than 28 days with no email from us, please get in contact on 02890 992423.
For some banks and credit cards your refund can show on the same date as the original purchase, sometimes it can also show as the same transaction. If you paid via PayPal it can take up to 48 hours from receiving your refund confirmation email for the refund to show in your account. If your bank account is linked to your PayPal account it can take a further 14 days for this refund to hit your bank account - this is due to PayPal processing times.
Please wait 14 days before contacting us about your refund if you haven't heard from us yet. If it's been 14 days, we'll get this looked into for you ASAP; just head over to our Contact Us section with the below information
- Your name
- Order number
- Product name and codes of the items you returned
You may have received your refund as a voucher if your items were returned to us after the returns policy timeframe. If this could be the case, please check your emails including spam and junk.
If you've returned items from an order paid for with Klarna, and you're near the end of your invoice period, we'd recommend extending the deadline to avoid payment charges, this can be done by contacting Klarna or Clearpay or via the Klarna or Clearpay app.
On average a Klarna & Clearpay refund will take up to 15 days: 14 days to be returned, checked and processed, with an extra day for your invoice to be updated.
If you have any questions about extending your invoice, please contact Klarna or Clearpay Customer Service.
I'm returning part of my order but keeping some item, how will this affect my invoice?
The value of any items returned will be deducted from your outstanding balance, you should continue to make any payments that are due for the remaining instalments. It takes up to 24 hours from your return being processed by us for your invoice to be updated – we'll send you an email as soon as your refund has been processed.
If you have already paid your invoice or the value of your return is higher than your outstanding balance, then you will receive a refund from Klarna or Clearpay for the items that you have returned.


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New technology file system (ntfs)
The New Technology File System (NTFS) is a file system developed and introduced by Microsoft in 1995 with Windows NT. As a replacement for the FAT file system, it quickly became the standard for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
The features of NTFS include:
- Hard-links
- Improved performance, reliability and disk space utilization
- Security access control lists
- File system journaling
Time Stamps
NTFS keeps track of lots of time stamps. Each file has a time stamp for 'Create', 'Modify', 'Access', and 'Entry Modified'. The latter refers to the time when the MFT entry itself was modified. These four values are commonly abbreviated as the 'MACE' values. Note that other attributes in each MFT record may also contain timestamps that are of forensic value.
Additional information on how NTFS timestamps work when files are moved or copied is available here: Microsoft KB 299648
Changes in Windows Vista
In Windows Vista (presumably as of Windows XP SP3), NTFS no longer tracks the Last Access time of a file by default. This feature can be enabled by setting the NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate value to '0' in the Registry key:
Note that this feature has been around since as early as Windows 2000 1.
Alternate Data Streams
The NTFS file system includes a feature referred to as Alternate Data Streams (ADSs). This feature has also been referred to as "multiple data streams", "alternative data streams", etc. ADSs were included in NTFS in order to support the resource forks employed by the Hierarchal File System (HFS) employed by Macintosh systems.
As of Windows XP SP2, files downloaded via Internet Explorer, Outlook, and Windows Messenger were automatically given specific "zoneid" ADSs. The Windows Explorer shell would then display a warning when the user attempted to execute these files (by double-clicking them).
Sysadmins should be aware that prior to Vista, there are no tools native to the Windows platform that would allow you to view the existence of arbitrary ADSs. While ADSs can be created and their contents executed or viewed, it wasn't until the "/r" switch was introduced with the "dir" command on Vista that arbitrary ADSs would be visible. Prior to this, tools such as LADS could be used to view the existence of these files.
Microsoft FSRM (File System Resource Manager) also uses ADS as part of 'file classification'.
Examiners should be aware that most forensic analysis applications, including FTK Imager,encase and ProDiscover, will display ADSs found in acquired images in red.
Advanced Format (4KB Sector) Hard Drives
NTFS does not natively handle drives that use the new standard of 4KB sectors. For information on this, see Advanced Format.
USN Change journal
The update sequence number (USN) change journal, provides a persistent log of all changes made to files on the volume. As files, directories, and other NTFS objects are added, deleted, and modified, NTFS enters records into the USN change journal, one for each volume on the computer. Each record indicates the type of change and the object changed. New records are appended to the end of the stream.
fsutil usn ...
Transactional NTFS (TxF)
According to MSDN Transactional NTFS (TxF) allows file operations on an NTFS file system volume to be performed in a transaction.
Several TxF related file-system-metadata files can be found in the file-system-metadata directory: \\$Extend\\$RmMetadata\. TxF also uses the MFT attribute \$LOGGING_UTILITY_STREAM with the name \$TXF_DATA.
TxF uses the Common Log File System (clfs)
FILETIME date and time values
import datetime
def FromFiletime(filetime):
"""Converts a FILETIME timestamp into a Python datetime object.
The FILETIME is mainly used in Windows file formats and NTFS.
The FILETIME is a 64-bit value containing:
100th nano seconds since 1601-01-01 00:00:00
Technically FILETIME consists of 2 x 32-bit parts and is presumed
to be unsigned.
filetime: The 64-bit FILETIME timestamp.
A datetime object containing the date and time or None.
if filetime < 0:
return None
timestamp = filetime / 10
return datetime.datetime(1601, 1, 1) + datetime.timedelta(microseconds=timestamp)
Also see
External links
- Technet: How NTFS Works, by Microsoft
- Master File Table
- MS-FSCC - Known Alternate Stream Names, by Microsoft
- Wikipedia: NTFS
- Wikipedia: NTFS Reparse point
- MSDN: Transactional NTFS
- Wikipedia: Transactional NTFS
- Default cluster size for NTFS, FAT, and exFAT
- Distributed Link Tracking and Object Identifiers
- New Technologies File System (NTFS), by the libfsntfs project, August 2009
- The Four Stages of NTFS File Growth, by Jeff Hughes, October 16, 2009
- Incident Response with NTFS INDX Buffers – Part 1: Extracting an INDX Attribute, by William Ballenthin, September 18, 2012
- Incident Response with NTFS INDX Buffers – Part 2: The Internal Structures of a File Name Attribute, by Jeff Hamm, September 26, 2012
- Analysis of hidden data in the NTFS file system, by Cheong Kai Wee, January 2006
- The Four Stages of NTFS File Growth, Part 2, by John Marlin, March 12, 2015
- Parsing the \$MFT NTFS metadata file, by Joachim Metz, April 30, 2020
- Windows Container Forensics, by Jonathan Greig, July 13, 2021


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Sold Date: 07/19/2024
0 Lucerne Park Road Winter Haven, FL 33881
Sold MLS# P4930710
0.47 Acres Lot/Land
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Agriculture Department is threatening to shut down three California poultry processing facilities linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 278 people across the country.
USDA said Wednesday that Foster Farms, owner of the three facilities, has until Thursday to tell the department how it will fix the problem. The company was notified Monday.
Sampling by USDA in September showed that raw chicken processed by those facilities included strains of salmonella that were linked to the outbreak. But the company has not recalled any of its products.
In a letter to Foster Farms, USDA said those samples coupled with illnesses suggest that the sanitary conditions at the facility "could pose a serious ongoing threat to public health."
The first illnesses in the outbreak were reported in March and the outbreak has had a high rate of hospitalizations. The CDC said 42 percent of victims were hospitalized, about double the normal rate, and it is resistant to many antibiotics, making it a more dangerous outbreak.
The Agriculture Department can halt production by withdrawing government inspectors who are required to be in meat processing plants every day. In the letter, Yudhbir Sharma of USDA's Alameda, Calif., district office said Foster Farms has failed to demonstrate that it has adequate controls in place to address the salmonella issue. He said that in one of the facilities, 25 percent of the samples taken were positive for salmonella.
The letter said that prior to the outbreak, USDA inspectors had documented "fecal material on carcasses" along with "poor sanitary dressing practices, insanitary food contact surfaces, insanitary nonfood contact surfaces and direct product contamination."
In a statement released late Wednesday, Foster Farms President Ron Foster said the company was cooperating with the USDA and had put new food safety controls in place after it found out about the illnesses.
"Foster Farms is dedicated to resolving any concerns by the USDA," Foster said.
According to CDC, the most recent illness began two weeks ago and the outbreak is ongoing. The majority of illnesses have been in California but people in 17 states have been infected, from Texas to Michigan to North Carolina. The USDA had originally said the outbreak was in 18 states.
So far, despite other evidence they have gathered, USDA and CDC have not been able to definitively link the illnesses to a specific Foster Farms product. Washington State found outbreak strains of salmonella in a leftover sample of raw Foster Farms chicken in an ill person's home, but USDA officials say they weren't able to decipher the label on the chicken, so they could not prove which of Foster Farms' specific products caused the illnesses.
The CDC said the salmonella illnesses appear to be linked to another Foster Farms outbreak last year and earlier this year, when 134 people in 13 states were sickened with one of the same strains of salmonella that has made people ill in the current outbreak.
Even though the meat hasn't been recalled, some grocery stores are taking it off their shelves anyway. Kroger Co. said it is taking some Foster Farms products from the shelves in certain stores and calling customers who it knows may have purchased the products. The company owns several chains, including Ralph's, Fred Meyer, Fry's and others.
Salmonella is a pathogen that contaminates meat during slaughter and processing, and is especially common in raw chicken. The infections can be avoided by proper handling and cooking of raw poultry.
The pathogen can be life-threatening to those with weakened immune systems and causes diarrhea, abdominal cramps and fever within a few days of eating a contaminated product.
Consumer advocates have for several years petitioned the department to change the way salmonella outbreaks in meat are handled. Because salmonella is so prevalent in poultry and is killed if consumers handle and cook it properly, the government has not declared it to be an "adulterant," or illegal, in meat, as is E. coli. Outbreaks of salmonella in poultry can take longer to discover and recalls don't happen as quickly.
If the outbreak had been E. coli, or if the salmonella had been found in food that wasn't meat, then the government would have had more authority to force a recall. That's because USDA, which oversees meat safety, classifies most of the main types of E. coli as illegal. The Food and Drug Administration oversees the safety of most other food and doesn't distinguish pathogens in foods — salmonella is treated as seriously as any other contaminant.
With the evidence they have, withdrawing meat inspectors and shutting down the plant is the best regulatory recourse the agency has, officials said. If USDA decided to force a recall, it would most likely have to go through the courts.
The federal shutdown has also been hampering the government response to food safety issues. While USDA's meat inspectors are on the job, the CDC had furloughed many of those who work to investigate outbreaks. But the agency recalled many of those workers Tuesday to work on the salmonella outbreak.


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