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Lessons learned from Lower Merion's "Webcamgate"
By Andrew Page
It was the story you couldn't avoid, covered everywhere from blogs to newspapers to morning
news programs. The headlines were dramatic. Laptop surveillance. A school spying on its
students. Invasion of privacy. Some 58,000 photos taken without students' knowledge. Possible
FBI investigation. Class-action lawsuit. A Good Morning, America interview with the high-school
student suing his school district brought the story into the nation's living rooms. The foreign press
made it international. Then came a second lawsuit, filed in midsummer by a recent graduate who
said he was also photographed while using his school-issued laptop.
Privacy and technology seem to be on everyone's
minds these days. Mix in the universal concern
about the protection of children online and
you have a combustible mix that boiled over for
the Lower Merion School District in February 2010.
Fast-forward seven months, though, and
things look a lot different. On August 17, 2010,
the U.S. Attorneys' office announced there would
be no criminal charges in the case. A month earlier,
the efforts to mount a class-action lawsuit
on behalf of every high-school student using
a school laptop were unsuccessful. Parents of
students in this top-ranked district have rallied
around the school, chipping in to help rewrite the
policies on laptop security in a unique partnership
with their school district that has fostered
an even stronger sense of community.
In this issue, the embattled school officials
are for the first time speaking publicly about
their ordeal, offering their side of the story as
well as the valuable lessons learned through
this wrenching process. In exclusive interviews,
Lower Merion Superintendent Christopher
McGinley and the district's Director of
Information Services George Frazier
share the cautionary tale of how
the technological leading edge can
become the bleeding edge. Read
how they're working to heal the
rifts and rebuild the trust of their
extended school community.
Aside from the snowplows still clearing the roads after a recent blizzard,
February 18, 2010, started like any other Thursday for George
Frazier, director of information systems at the Lower Merion School
District in Pennsylvania. Eight months into his job as the top technology
administrator in a school district known for its progressive use of
technology, Frazier drove through the white winter morning mentally
preparing for the district's weekly "cabinet meeting."
Every Thursday morning, the senior administrative staff
meet to keep one another up-to-date on the running
of this affluent school district just outside Philadelphia
and to discuss any problems. Because the Lower
Merion School District has a national reputation for the
innovative use of technology in education, Frazier is
often asked to provide updates at the cabinet meeting.
A former marine who still keeps his hair cropped within regulations, he imagined that he might be
giving an informal report on the rollout of the district's
cutting-edge one-to-one initiative, in which
high-school students take school-issued laptops
home with them. Or maybe he'd have to field questions
about Lower Merion's database project, part
of the strategic plan he had been hired to implement
just eight months earlier. As he navigated past
snowbanks and turned into the district's employee
parking lot, Frazier went over what he'd say if asked
for an update on the integration of technology into
the classrooms at the brand-new Lower Merion High
School building, set to open in the fall.
At his office, he turned on his desktop computer
to quickly scan his email. A message forwarded
by one of his tech staff caught his eye. Reading it,
Frazier was astounded to learn that at 11 o'clock the
night before, the Web site BoingBoing.net had published
an online article about a major lawsuit that
had just been filed against Lower Merion alleging
that there had been widespread laptop surveillance
of students at the district's Harriton High School.
The article took a sinister view of what had happened:
"According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v
Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops
issued to high-school students in the well-heeled
Philly suburb have Webcams that can be covertly
activated by the schools' administrators, who have
used this facility to spy on students and even their
Frazier barely had time to click on a link and print
a PDF of the court filing before he had to dash off to
the morning's meeting; he walked in to find the room
buzzing with nervous conversation. The planned
agenda was thrown out to deal with what was quickly
becoming an international media firestorm.
Douglas Young, the district's director of school and community
relations, related that he had arrived at work to find
his voice mail completely full of messages from reporters as
far away as Hong Kong covering the story.
"The key was gathering as much information as possible;
keeping our students, staff, and community informed; and
moving forward with our students' interests in mind," superintendent
Christopher McGinley says when asked what that
first day of the crisis was like.
"At that point, we went right into fact-finding mode,"
remembers Young, who drew on his early experience working
in public relations for the NBA in managing the nonstop
calls from reporters. "We recognized that there was going
to be a lot of information shared out in the media, a lot
of discussion online. For us, we wanted to make sure that
when we went out with information from the school district,
what we were sharing was factual and accurate."
The media were demanding to know whether the district
had really been spying on its students through the laptops
it had issued them. The lawsuit filed in federal court alleged
that a Harriton High student had been confronted with photos
taken from his Webcam by school administrators in a
move that supposedly violated everything from the United
States Constitution to the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and
Electronic Surveillance Act. To reporters, who were calling
from as far away as Europe and Asia, the story proved
irresistible. Widespread paranoia about privacy in an era
of fast-changing technology combined with concern about
protecting vulnerable children had newspapers, magazines,
and television shows tripping over each other to get the district's
response. All of them wanted answers that same day.
Back at the Lower Merion School District's cabinet meeting,
all eyes were on Frazier. Everyone wanted to know as
much as possible about the remotely activated Webcam
feature mentioned in the lawsuit. It was part of a suite of remote-management software called LANrev that the district
used to update the software, and monitor the location
and activity, of laptops issued to the students. The Webcam
activation feature is called TheftTrack, and it allows administrators
to control a missing laptop's Webcam to snap
pictures that are then emailed back to the district to assist
in the laptop's recovery.
"For me, it was difficult and frustrating," Frazier says.
"The software had been implemented before I took this job,
and I frankly didn't know a lot about it at that meeting. It
was a lot of 'I'll get back to you as fast as I can.'"
LANrev had been in use in the district well before the oneto-
one program allowed students to take their school-issued
laptops home with them. A starter pack of 50 LANrev licenses
had been purchased by the Lower Merion School District
on May 15, 2007, to use with the 300 laptop carts the district
had bought in the 2006–2007 academic year for use within
Harriton High and Lower Merion High School classrooms for
math and English classes. The LANrev software continued
to be used as the laptop program was expanded to include
computers that students were allowed to bring home. LANrev's TheftTrack feature had been activated from time
to time when a laptop was reported lost or stolen, assisting
in the recovery of six out of 13 stolen student laptops. Some
employees in the IT department reportedly felt that it would
be less effective if students knew of its existence, and so it
was not openly discussed or well understood, even at the
highest levels of the school administration. This degree of
detail would come out in a report released on May 3, 2010,
after several weeks of research, by investigators whom the
school district had hired.
But on the day the story broke, this kind of detail was not
at Frazier's fingertips. As the cabinet meeting went on, an
immediate and realizable goal came to the fore: disabling
the theft-tracking function of LANrev. "One of the first
orders was 'Shut that down!'" Frazier says. "And we shut it
down, because our immediate concern was the privacy of
students and their families."
By the end of that first tumultuous day of information
gathering, the theft-tracking feature on LANrev had
been turned off. An official announcement was posted on
the Lower Merion School District's Web site at 4:45 p.m.
to provide some preliminary answers to the
questions swirling in the wake of the media
frenzy. "The laptops do contain a security feature
intended to track lost, stolen, and missing
laptops," it read. "This feature has been deactivated
effective today."
"I'm a one-person office," says director of
school and community relations Young, who
remembers the relentless calls by reporters
on deadline and the district's focus on getting
accurate information out to parents. "I have
to prioritize my communications, and the top
priority, the first groups of folks to be brought
in, were parents and students."
"We never lost sight of the kids and the
families," Frazier says. "That was always our
At 9:26 p.m. that same day, a letter from
Superintendent McGinley to parents was posted
on the district's Web site. After acknowledging the
importance of privacy as well as the district's pride in being
a technology leader, McGinley set out an action plan: to
immediately disable the security-tracking program, which
had already been done, and to review existing policies for
student laptops, TheftTrack's security procedures and activations,
and any other areas where technology and privacy
This was the first of several letters that McGinley would
send out to parents in the days after the story broke. On
February 19, he sent another, confirming that there had
been a security program on every laptop. "While certain rules for laptop use were spelled out—such as prohibited
uses on and off school property—there was no explicit notification
that the laptop contained the security software,"
he wrote. "This notice should have been given, and
we regret that that was not
Two days later, McGinley
posted yet another letter,
informing parents that the district
had hired the law firm of
Ballard Spahr to lead an investigation
that would be headed
by former federal prosecutor
Henry E. Hockeimer, Jr., the district's laptop policies and
practices and to offer suggestions
for improving the system.
The steady flow of information
to parents posted on the district's
Web site came to a halt on February
22, however, when the federal judge
issued an unusual order that set
limits on what McGinley and other
school-district officials were able to
tell parents about the case because
those parents were potentially part of
a class action against the district. From twice-daily updates, the information coming from the school district slowed down in March and April to something closer to one announcement a month,
though the occasional public meeting provided a forum at
which parents could ask questions.
"We had made a commitment to communicating regularly,"
Young says, "and without the ability to do that, it was
very frustrating."
Filling the information void were the parents themselves,
some of whom became wary of the class-action initiative,
which could become very costly for their
school district. With the district limited
by the federal judge in what it could say,
parents shared available information
among one another. Over the next
few months, 400 of them would join
a Facebook group called Reasonable
LMSD Parents Refusing to Rush to
Judgment. Another group, called lmsdparents.
org, was organized pro bono
by parents with legal expertise in "opposition
to the class action that was filed in connection
with the laptop/Webcam issue," according to the
FAQ page of the group's Web site.
Meanwhile, investigators from Ballard Spahr, the firm
hired by the district, began a
top-to-bottom review of the
policies and procedures associated
with the high school's one-to-one program. One
of its first steps was to hire L-3 Communications, a New
York–based computer company specializing in surveillance
and security, to do extensive computer forensics to determine
exactly how many times student Webcams had been
activated. L-3 Communications analyzed the computers of
the two tech administrators who had the power to activate
the TheftTrack program, and the two—information-services
coordinator Carol Cafiero and network technician Mike
Perbix—were put on paid administrative leave, an action
that school officials stressed was not assigning blame but
simply being prudent during the investigation. Cafiero and
Perbix remained on paid leave as this article went to press.
According to Frazier, "it was simply a necessary step in an
investigation of this magnitude."
L-3 also examined the Lower Merion School District's
email servers, file servers, and security devices. The results
of the district's investigation were made public at a meeting
on May 3, 2010. Among the main findings in the Ballard
Spahr report: The district did not notify students and parents about the TheftTrack feature because
"certain IS personnel believed students and
parents should not know about the full
capabilities of TheftTrack." The report, which
was also based on extensive interviews with
Lower Merion's board of directors, administrators,
staff, and IS department personnel,
also stated that TheftTrack was not fully
understood by many of the district's highschool
administrators themselves, and investigators
cited Superintendent McGinley's
misapprehension that TheftTrack was used
only in connection with police investigations.
The investigation found that tens of
thousands of images had been generated
by TheftTrack from 179 activations
of the feature on student laptops: a total
of 57,986 images, to be precise. Though
this number is alarming, investigators said
that it was not in itself a sign of extensive
spying, because the large volume of
images was largely the result simply of failing to deactivate
12 Webcams (that had been turned on to aid
in the laptops' recovery) once they had been returned.
The report placed the blame on the laptop program's rapidly
being expanded without its policies and guidelines being
reviewed. In the public meeting held to discuss the findings,
Ballard Spahr's lead investigator, Henry Hockeimer, said that
"the IS department had no written guidance for activating
TheftTrack" and that "IS staff activated TheftTrack inconsistently
in the absence of formal guidance."
The written Ballard Spahr report was definitive about its
findings: "Notwithstanding the large quantity of images collected
by LANrev TheftTrack, we found no evidence that
the feature was used to 'spy' on students. Although there is
no forensic method to determine with certainty how often
images stored on the LANrev server were viewed, we found
no evidence that any District personnel surreptitiously downloaded
images from the LANrev server. Rather, the collection
of images from laptops while they were in the possession
of students resulted from the District's failure to implement
policies, procedures, and recordkeeping requirements and
the overzealous and questionable use of technology by IS
personnel without any apparent regard for privacy considerations
or sufficient consultation with administrators."
In April, parents were offered the opportunity to review
any images taken of their children, after which those images
would be destroyed. And while a settlement in the initial lawsuit
has not been reached, the effort to mount a class action
has been abandoned. [ED NOTE: On August 17, it was decided
that there would be no criminal charges in the case.]
The momentum began to shift just weeks after the suit
was filed, when a group called Parents in Support of the
Lower Merion School District collected 791 signatures at the
Web site ipetitions.com. The petition reads: "We are aware
that the addition of security-tracking software to laptops on
loan should have been clearly communicated to students
and parents alike, but we do not believe that there was any
malice or duplicity underlying the omission. It was a misstep
that could have been avoided, but we do not believe that it
was done deliberately. We understand that the feature was
activated only when a laptop was reported missing, or when
it had been removed without authorization, and that over
one third of those laptops were recovered through its use
without any complaint."
In a court filing on May 12, the family of the student
who brought the initial class action dropped
their plans to seek monetary damages for all students
in the Lower Merion School District, though they
continue to seek settlement for the violation of
their own child's civil rights.
In the months since the report was released, the Lower
Merion School District has continued to be proactive.
Superintendent McGinley says, "The board hired SunGuard, a
Wayne-based computer-services company, to help develop
a comprehensive action plan addressing IT governance and
policy development, including an audit of current policies and
administrative regulations and procedures." Security training
for all information-system staff and procedural training
for administrators are also being provided by the district. In
addition, incoming high-school students are getting a special digital-technology "boot camp" course to learn the basics of
Internet security, privacy, and social-media ethics.
In June, the school district decided to switch from
LANrev to Casper Suite, a remote-management software
suite that does not include any of the theft-tracking features
of the software it replaces.
For IS director Frazier, the outside investigation of the
technology and the top-to-bottom review of technology
policies in light of privacy issues is just the latest "reinventing"
of the IT department that he has seen in his decades
of experience managing information technology in an educational
"IT used to be about how many computers in the classroom,
how many servers in the rack, how many lessons were
being integrated," he says. "Now, like HR or special education,
it has to be considered for its legal implications as well."
Frazier has been educating himself on subjects relating to
privacy that he says will only become
more complex as education continues
to expand into distance learning.
Despite all the challenges the
Lower Merion School District has
experienced since February, there
has been no retreat on the issue of technology
in the classroom or on the aggressive rollout
of the student laptop program.
"The district decided to implement the one-to-one
program because it offered our students an unparalleled
connection with technology and tools that we find to be
enormously valuable in their learning," McGinley says. "We
realize that being on the cutting edge comes with certain
challenges—and some hard lessons. With the help of technology
experts and others in our community, we believe the
district is now positioned to be a model for other districts."
If there is a silver lining for this school district, which has
incurred more than a million dollars in legal fees and countless
hours of extra work, it may be that just as the advanced
use of technology put it on the front lines of privacy issues,
the same technology has proved itself a remarkable ally in
connecting the district with its parents and students, who
rallied around the shared mission to provide the most upto-
date learning tools and environment. Whether it was
Facebook groups or electronic petitions, Web sites or video
broadcasts of public meetings, the solutions to the many
challenges to the district's use of technology came, in part,
through technology itself.
In May, the same school at which the laptop-spying scandal
broke, Harriton High, was the setting for the first meeting
of a brand-new technology advisory council, a group of
parents, students, and administrators who have volunteered
to meet and discuss subjects raised by the district's progressive
embrace of technology for learning. Sixty volunteers
attended the first meeting, which ran for three hours,
and discussed everything from policy development to the
overall strategy of using technology in the classroom. A
special subcommittee on privacy and security was formed
and had its first meeting in July.
IS director Frazier was there.
"One thing that has emerged from all this is that IT
leadership is no longer hiding in the wiring closet," he
says. "IT leadership has to also think about it in terms of
communicating with the students and parents, and how
you can add value and decision making."
-Andrew Page
In August 2010, the Lower Merion School District adopted
new policies for school-issued laptops that cover everything
from acceptable student use to IS personnel training on
procedures. Clearly defined roles for teachers, principals, and
information-service staff were developed with input from a
technical advisory committee of students, parents, teachers,
administrators, and community members.
Here's how their roles break down:
¦ TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS: In their day-to-day
interactions with students, they can bring concerns about
stolen or missing laptops to the principal or assistant
principals of their school.
¦ PRINCIPALS AND ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS: The decisionmakers
in cases of stolen or missing laptops, they also
are responsible for deciding how to handle questionable
material on student laptops.
¦ IS PERSONNEL: Focus on daily network and computer
operations, as well as maintenance of laptops.
¦ DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS: Responsible for
the functionality and security of the laptop program and for
managing IS staff.
¦ THE NEW RULES ON LAPTOP RECOVERY: If a laptop is
reported missing or stolen, a written report is filed with
the principal's office. Based on that report, the district can
activate Internet Protocol (IP) tracking with parent and
student consent to help retrieve the laptop. Key quote: "At
no time will the Laptop camera be activated remotely nor
will screen shots, audio, video or on-screen text be remotely
monitored" reads a key line in the Lower Merion School
District's Policy number P893, second revision.
True to its commitment to using technology to foster communication and build community trust, the Lower Merion School District has put its extensive and newly revised laptop policies online:http://www.lmsd.org/sections/about/depart/tech/default.php?t=departments&p=depart_tech_laptop_related&menu=depart_tech_laptopThe Lower Merion School District has also organized its official announcements regarding legal and procedural developments concerning privacy issues and the One-to-One laptop program:http://www.lmsd.org/sections/about/depart/tech/default.php?t=departments&p=depart_tech_laptopParents of students in the Lower Merion School District created their own Facebook page called "Reasonable LMSD parents refusing to rush to judgment" and it can be viewed here:http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=341639361762&v=wallA group of parents with legal expertise have formed a group called "lmsdparents.org" and have sought a voice in the legal proceedings. Their website hasn't been updated since April, but they lay out their point of view in their statement and legal filings:http://www.lmsdparents.org/Site/Welcome.html
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Curry Powder
|1 Ounce
|Coriander seed
|2 Ounce
|Cumin seed
|1 Ounce
|1⁄4 Ounce
|1⁄4 Ounce, husked
|Dried chili
|1⁄4 Ounce, dried
|Mustard seed
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|Ginger root
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|Black peppercorns
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1) Take a coffee grinder and remove coffee flavor from it by grinding some bread crust. Else use a pestle and mortar or a rolling pin on a board.
2) Put the spices in it and grind to make a smooth powder.
3) Then wash the grinder well to remove curry taste.
4) Take a tin with an air-tight lid and store the powder in it.
5) Use 1 teaspoonful per person for a mild flavor and and 2 or 3 level teaspoons per person for a stronger curry flavor.
6) Add in some cream (fresh, tinned or sour) or evaporated milk just before serving if the curry flavour is too hot.
7) Use a sweet chutney or pickle, sultanas, raisins, marmalade, seedless jam or sugar for sweetness.
8) Add in tart apple, sour pickles, lemon, vinegar, tomato puree, tomatoes or tamarind for sourness.
9) Use peanut butter, nut butters (hazel, walnut, almond, brazil), almond, cashew or coconut cream, ground or milled nuts for a nutty flavor.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size
Calories 263 Calories from Fat 111
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 13 g20.5%
Saturated Fat 0.94 g4.7%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 24.6 mg1%
Total Carbohydrates 33 g10.9%
Dietary Fiber 13.9 g55.4%
Sugars 3.1 g
Protein 11 g23%
Vitamin A 11.6% Vitamin C 12.3%
Calcium 33.8% Iron 76.4%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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Raf Kinase Inhibitory Protein (RKIP), a member of the phosphatidylethanolamine binding protein (PEBP) family, is representative of a new class of modulators of signaling cascades that function to maintain the "yin yang" or balance of biological systems. An evolutionarily conserved protein that is expressed from bacteria to man, RKIP inhibits MAP kinase (Raf-MEK-ERK), G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) kinase and NFkB signaling cascades. Because RKIP targets different kinases dependent upon its state of phosphorylation, RKIP also acts to integrate crosstalk initiated by multiple environmental stimuli. Loss or depletion of RKIP results in disruption of the normal cellular stasis and can lead to chromosomal abnormalities and disease states such as cancer. Recent studies from our laboratory and others have revealed a new mechanism for the regulation of the Raf-1-activated MAP kinase cascade by RKIP. Under non-stimulatory conditions, Raf-1 can form a complex with Raf Kinase Inhibitory Protein (RKIP/PEBP). We demonstrated that RKIP interaction with Raf-1 prevents phosphorylation by Raf-1-activating kinases, inhibiting downstream signaling by MAP kinase. We have shown that growth factors activate members of the protein kinase C (PKC) family that, in turn, cause release of RKIP, enabling activation of Raf-1 and the MAPK signaling cascade. Phospholipid binding to RKIP also prevents it from interacting with and inactivating Raf-1. Inhibition of Raf-1 by RKIP is regulated via a novel mechanism we identified involving the highly conserved RKIP lipid binding pocket. Our recent results have implicated RKIP in maintaining cell cycle integrity. For example, we have shown that RKIP regulates Aurora B kinase and the spindle checkpoint via the MAP kinase cascade. Since RKIP has been implicated as a metastatic tumor suppressor, these results provide one mechanism by which loss of RKIP leads to genomic instability and cancer progression. Finally, recent results suggest that RKIP regulation of the GPCR signaling cascade is dependent upon RKIP phosphorylation. We therefore hypothesize that RKIP is a key integrator of cellular signals and a regulator of genomic stability and cancer progression. The goal of this proposal is to characterize further the physiological functions of RKIP, the mechanisms by which RKIP functions, and the structural interactions that underlie these mechanisms. The studies proposed here will increase our understanding of the regulation of these key events in cell proliferation, and should lead to the development of new reagents that can inhibit cell growth and tumor progression. Specifically, we plan to: 1) Determine the mechanism(s) by which RKIP functions as a checkpoint regulator of MAP kinase signaling;2) Determine the mechanism by which RKIP mediates crosstalk between MAPK and G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling;and 3) Characterize the structure/function relationships underlying RKIP regulation of the Raf-1/MAPK and GPCR signaling cascades.
Due to its critical position in the MAP kinase signaling module kinase upstream of MAP kinase kinase (MEK) and MAP kinase (ERK) and because of the complexity of its activation, Raf is a key point of control for regulators of the MAP kinase pathway. The study of proteins such as RKIP that regulate Raf will provide great insight into how cells choose between cell division and differentiation;misexpression or disregulation of proteins such as RKIP could lead to inappropriate signaling and, ultimately, cancer. The studies proposed here will increase our understanding of the regulation of this important pathway, and should lead to the development of new reagents that can inhibit tumor growth and potentiate tumor death.
|Lee, Jiyoung; Lee, Jinho; Farquhar, Kevin S et al. (2014) Network of mutually repressive metastasis regulators can promote cell heterogeneity and metastatic transitions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111:E364-73
|Sun, Miao; Song, Chun-Xiao; Huang, Hao et al. (2013) HMGA2/TET1/HOXA9 signaling pathway regulates breast cancer growth and metastasis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110:9920-5
|Zeng, Lingchun; Ehrenreiter, Karin; Menon, Jyotsana et al. (2013) RKIP regulates MAP kinase signaling in cells with defective B-Raf activity. Cell Signal 25:1156-65
|Frank, Steven A; Rosner, Marsha Rich (2012) Nonheritable cellular variability accelerates the evolutionary processes of cancer. PLoS Biol 10:e1001296
|Yun, Jieun; Frankenberger, Casey A; Kuo, Wen-Liang et al. (2011) Signalling pathway for RKIP and Let-7 regulates and predicts metastatic breast cancer. EMBO J 30:4500-14
|Shemon, Anne N; Heil, Gary L; Granovsky, Alexey E et al. (2010) Characterization of the Raf kinase inhibitory protein (RKIP) binding pocket: NMR-based screening identifies small-molecule ligands. PLoS One 5:e10479


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The men's movement has been around since the mid-Seventies, enabling men to debate the demands of feminism. Traditional anti-sexist men's groups still exist, although they are being challenged by other groups that focus on therapy, or which argue that men need to be liberated by finding their true, ``natural'' selves.
Harry Christian, a long-standing men's group member and sociology lecturer, is the author of The Making of Anti-sexist Men, which examines how men become involved in men's groups. He is worried at the way the movement has been diverted. ``The impression I have gained,'' he says, ``is that there is now an emphasis on therapeutic personal growth and New Age activism to the extent of losing the opposition to gender oppression.'' Therapy and liberation ideas may help individual men, but do little to change men in general, he argues.
``They may help some men get in touch with their feelings, which is part of the process of liberation for men. But I am suspicious really. I suspect it is part of a backlash against feminism,'' he says.
Men's groups are most effective, believes Mr Christian, if they focus on the dominant role of men in society, while also supporting men making changes on a personal level.
``Many men had a feeling for a long while they did not fit the conventional macho image. Groups give them moral support for being a bit different, rather than force them to apologise.
``I don't think the groups totally change the men involved. I don't think men would have joined unless they had already started to change. But it does help them not to make compromises, to tell them it is OK to have a softer side.''
Surprisingly, Mr Christian's research into men's groups suggests that those involved often come from manual work backgrounds. Indeed, there are increasing numbers of men's groups on council estates and even in mining villages.
More significant than class is that family backgrounds of members are often non-traditional, with fathers bringing up the children or at least doing their fair share of domestic chores.
There is a growing tension between the groups who share Mr Christian's outlook and those who follow Robert Bly, an American who has inspired some to run off into the woods, hug trees, grow rugged beards and rediscover the manhood they feel stripped of by modern society. Or, as Nigel Larcombe of the anti-sexist magazine Achilles Heel puts it, ``look for their lost willy''. He believes their prime motivation is self-pity because women have fought back. ``They border on being misogynists,'' he says.
Some cynicism is directed towards pressure groups such as Families Need Fathers, whose support for men is perceived as being at the cost of women. ``Of course families need fathers, but not in the way they suggest,'' argues Mr Larcombe. ``The connection between what happens and why is missing.''
``There is a personal victim culture,'' adds David Jackson of the Nottingham Agenda, a men's group which provides counselling sessions and a telephone line for violent men. ``Families Need Fathers are saying `men are oppressed too', and are forming political rights groups against the Child Support Agency. Some men are very keen on revenge, angry at losing their children and partners, and are just sticking up for themselves.''
Whether men's groups are a force for good or bad depends on what happens inside them, and whether men can give the support to other men that more usually comes from women.
Over 10 years ago I was invited to become a founding member of a men's group, and it changed my life. When I joined I was emotionally confused, sexually inexperienced and unable to talk about personal problems. Other men in the group gave me reassurance, which eventually led to much greater self-confidence, as well as helping me to be sure what I believed in.
I am still emotionally confused, of course. My men's group has just helped me to realise that this is perfectly normal.
- The Making of Anti-sexist Men, by Harry Christian, is published by Routledge, as part of its ``Male Orders'' series.
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You don't find many players as consistent as David West. But coming off a major knee injury, no one knows exactly what to expect when the 31-year-old hits the court again this season. Before his injury last year, West was averaging 18.9 points and 7.6 rebounds per game while shooting 50.8 percent from the field – second highest of his career. And if you ask him now, he'll tell you he's never been better.
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But where West lands is a bigger question. New Orleans, the only city he's ever known during his eight-year NBA career, is in a state of flux. The NBA owns them, and his fearless leader, Chris Paul, has made it pretty clear he's looking elsewhere. Would it make sense for West to stay in the Big Easy with so much uncertainty on the horizon?
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With that, here are the top 5 teams most likely to sign him:
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2. Indiana Pacers
Moves are going to be made during this short free agency period, and the Pacers are going to have their hands in a lot of deals. With Mike Dunleavy finally off the books, it's time to find a legit power forward to play alongside Roy Hibbert. We've already heard Indiana talking to Utah about the possibility of acquiring Paul Millsap, but if they can sign West outright then they've achieved their goal.
3. Washington Wizards
The Wizards have cap space and a desire to put winners on the roster. Both of those bode well for West. While JaVale McGee and Andray Blatche certainly have talent, they haven't shown that they can lead. And even though Rashard Lewis is expected to stick around in Washington, John Wall needs a power forward that he can run the pick and roll with. West could be that guy.
4. New Jersey Nets
Although a report surfaced the other day that New Jersey is not interested West, free agency is a war of attrition. And if the Nets miss out on Nene, Tyson Chandler and other big names they're pursuing, West becomes the next likely target. With free agent Kris Humphries' status unknown, West would certainly be an upgrade at the power forward position.
5. Denver Nuggets
By the time training camp rolls around, the Nuggets are going to have to fill out a roster. And if they lose Nene, they're going to have a gaping hole in the middle they need to fill. With Kenyon Martin gone, the only power forwards left on the roster are Al Harrington and rookie Kenneth Faried. West brings experience and production to a group that will desperately need it.
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Steely-nerved and a subtle negotiator, Edward Henderson was a prominent personality in the Arabian Gulf, where he spent almost a lifetime nurturing Britain's relations with the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain. He harmonised the aims of Britain with those of the Gulf states with regard to oil exploration and the establishment of the oil industry in the lower Gulf. He also co-ordinated the policies of the British oil companies with the broader issues facing the British government, working sometimes as an "oil company man", at other times as a member of the Diplomatic Service.
Henderson was 22 years old at the outbreak of the Second World War; after coming down from Brasenose College, Oxford, with a degree in modern history, he immediately entered the Army. Posted to Syria in 1942, he served with the explorer Wilfred Thesiger, who, under the command of Col Gerald de Gaury, was raising a Druze squadron with which to fight the Vichy French and resist an expected German invasion of the region via the Caucasus.
Thesiger liked him immediately ("a charming and reliable man") and maintained contact with him to the end. It was in Henderson's house that Thesiger stayed before and after some of his desert journeys and there, too, that many years later Thesiger was reunited with the once youthful Bedouin travelling companions, Bin Kabina and Salim Bin Ghubaisha, whom he immortalised in his book Arabian Sands (1959).
After the war, Henderson served briefly in the army of occupation in Germany and then, for two years, with Glubb Pasha's Arab Legion in Jordan and Palestine. The spectacle of events in the latter region greatly distressed him. "I felt sure we were wrong to give them [the Jews] a country almost completely inhabited with Arabs who had been there since prehistoric days," he wrote in his memoirs, This Strange Eventful History (1988). "The country was not ours to give away."
Unable to intervene, he sought a new role and, in 1948, secured a post with Petroleum Development Ltd, a subsidiary of the Iraq Petroleum Company. Thus his career entered the processes by which Western intrusion transformed the antiquated Gulf sheikhdoms into hugely rich oil-producing states.
The problems facing him were ambiguous tribal allegiances and territorial disputes mainly between the rulers of Muscat and Oman, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia, each of whom was eager to maximise his own authority and domains. Clearly, no oil company would risk the massive investment required by oil exploration and production unless these difficulties had been more or less surmounted. Competition between the rulers was duplicated by competition between the oil companies representing them and these, in turn, reflected Anglo- American rivalries: on the one hand the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco), working with the Saudi Arabian government, on the other the British oil companies supporting the Trucial States and Oman.
In those early years, Henderson travelled tirelessly throughout the oases, mountains, deserts and gravel plains using RAF Dakotas or Chevrolet pick- ups equipped with jacks and tow-ropes. His task was to win over the Duru sheikhs whose tribelands covered the most likely sites of oil deposits and, more generally, to bolster the authority of the Sultan of Muscat, whose rule was disputed by the Imam of Oman and his supporters in Saudi Arabia. In doing so, Henderson and his colleagues were assisted by the formation in 1950 of the British levy force that was later named the Trucial Oman Scouts.
Between 1952 and 1955 Henderson also played a role in the Buraimi dispute which arose following the arrival in the Buraimi Oasis of armed Saudi Arabians. His famous sang-froid and skill at avoiding confrontation were demonstrated in October 1955, when he is said to have sent the driver of an exceptionally belligerent British officer on an errand in order to prevent him from awakening the officer before his planned offensive. By the time he awoke, it was too late. The Saudis having moved off after a severe warning and guarantees of safe passage, the British objective had been achieved without loss of life or serious casualties.
The Buraimi dispute gravely damaged Anglo-Saudi relations and it fell to Henderson to assist in seeking a long-term solution through arbitration. Since the distinguished Arabist George Rentz and other American scholars attached to Aramco were undertaking extensive historical research to back Saudi Arabia's claims, Henderson sought to balance the picture by collecting contrary evidence to submit to an international tribunal.
In 1956 Henderson was seconded to the Foreign Service for three years, during which the SAS and the Trucial Oman Scouts together with the Omani forces successfully strengthened the Sultan of Muscat's authority in the interior.
In 1959, now a fully fledged member of the Foreign Service, Henderson was appointed Political Officer in Abu Dhabi. Subsequent posts took him to Jerusalem and Bahrain. He then became Political Agent and, in 1971, Britain's first ambassador in Qatar when that country attained full sovereignty; it was there in the following year that he witnessed with approval the replacement of the ruler, Sheikh Ahmad bin Ali, by his more competent and hard-working cousin Sheikh Khalifah bin Hamad Al-Khalifah, who continues to rule Qatar today.
During his years in the Gulf Henderson befriended almost every ruler there. Of these his favourite was certainly Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan, whom he supported when the latter was the Governor of Buraimi and with whom he worked closely in redeveloping that region (now named Al Ain) after the cessation of hostilities. It was therefore natural that, after retiring from the Foreign Office in 1974, besides lecturing on Arab affairs and directing the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding in London, he should have returned to Abu Dhabi to work for Sheikh Zayed who had succeeded his brother, Shakhbut, as ruler in 1966 and assumed the presidency of the United Arab Emirates upon its formation five years later.
A respected and extremely popular figure, Edward Henderson served Sheikh Zayed devotedly, by helping to build up Abu Dhabi's Documentation Centre for Historical Research. His death marks the passing of a true friend of the Gulf Arabs and the loss of one of the few remaining British adventurers and Arabists of the old school.
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Tantus sends me a box of challenges
I emailed Tantus last week because someone bought stuff on their site through my affiliate link, but the sale didn't show up in my affiliate control panel. I was directed to Jenna, whom I've had a lovely time emailing back-and-forth with. To my great surprise, our conversation turned into a chat about what colors of sex toys I like/loathe1, and how I don't own any dual-density O2 toys from Tantus. Little did I know what would come next.
Tantus is a small company with a limited budget, but somehow, Jenna pulled some strings and sent me a box of goodies that is going to single-handedly wipe out all the rest of my sex toy storage space.
My jaw. It dropped.
Seriously, I felt like a celeb as I opened this box. This is, like, a once-in-a-blogger's-lifetime package. I opened the box slowly, savoring every wonderful inclusion:
- Two packets of "Grow Your Own Dildo Tree" seeds2
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- O2 Revolution, a dildo I've wanted for ages!
- The newly-released Cush O2 (update: I adore it)
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- Three yet-to-be released dildos, all of which are large, and one of which is terrifyingly massive (update: I can now name them! They are the Luke O2, Max O2, and — oh god — T-Rex.)
Holy crap, Tantus. Way to make a girl (and her vagina) feel special. Also, practically all the toys are big. I see what you did there. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
Extremely preliminary tests reveal that the O2 Revolution, Cush O2, Mikey O2, and Max O2 are all superb. And I'm not just saying that! Unfortunately, I have a lot on my "to review" plate right now, but some of these need to be reviewed, so that I may shout from the rooftops how awesome they are.
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