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The investigation into the attacks against high-profile Web sites in South Korea and the U.S. is a winding, twisty electronic goose chase that may not result in a definitive conclusion on the identity of the attackers.
Computer security experts disagree over the skill level of the DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, which over the course of a few days in early July caused problems for some of the Web sites targeted, including South Korean banks, U.S. government agencies and media outlets.
The DDOS attack was executed by a botnet, or a group of computers infected with malicious software controlled by a hacker. That malware was programmed to attack the Web sites by bombarding them with page requests that far exceed normal visitor traffic. As a result, some of the weaker sites buckled.
While there are hundreds of DDOS attacks that occur every day, the one from last month has interesting characteristics. First, it was carried out using a botnet of up to an estimated 180,000 computers that was almost entirely located within South Korea.
"It's very rare to see a botnet of that size so localized," said Steven Adair of The Shadowserver Foundation, a cybercrime watchdog group. "Large-size botnets do usually take time to build up and a lot of effort from attackers."
And basic questions appear to be unanswered, such as how the attackers were able to infect such a large number of computers in South Korea with the specific code that commandeered the computers to attack a list of Web sites.
The investigation has geopolitical ramifications. South Korea's National Intelligence Service reportedly told the country's lawmakers early last month that it suspected North Korea was involved. Despite no definitive public evidence linking North Korea to the DDOS attacks, the country's hardline demeanor makes it a convenient actor to blame given its prickly relations with the U.S. and South Korea.
The botnet, which is now inactive, appeared to be custom-built for the attacks. Many times people who want to knock a Web site offline will rent time on a botnet from its controller, known as a botnet herder, paying a small fee per machine, such as US$.20. Botnets can also be used for Internet activity, such as sending spam.
Analysts do know that the computers comprising the botnet had been infected with a variation of MyDoom, a piece of malicious software that repeatedly mails itself out to other computers once it has infected a PC. MyDoom debuted with devastating consequences in 2004, becoming the fastest spreading e-mail worm in history. It is now routinely cleansed from PCs that are running antivirus software, though many computers don't have such protective software installed.
The MyDoom code has been called amateurish, but it was nonetheless effective. The command and control structure for delivering instructions to computers infected with MyDoom used eight main servers that were scattered around the world. But there also was a labyrinthine group of subordinate command and control servers that made it more difficult to trace.
"It is difficult to find the real attacker," said Sang-keun Jang, a virus analyst and security engineer with the security company Hauri, based in Seoul.
IP (Internet Protocol) addresses — which at most can identify approximately where a computer is plugged in on a network but not its precise location or who is operating the computer — only give investigators so much information to go on. Open Wi-Fi hotspots can allow an attacker to change IP addresses frequently, said Scott Borg, director and chief economist of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a nonprofit research institute.
"Anonymous attacks are going to be a fact of life," Borg said. "That has big policy implications. If you can't attribute quickly and with confidence, then most strategies based on deterrence are no longer viable. There's a big revolution that is already under way and needs to be carried out in our defense thinking."
For the South Korea-U.S. DDOS attacks, one security company is taking the approach of following the money. Many DDOS attacks are actually paid transactions, and where there is money, there is some trail.
"Going after IP addresses is not really helpful," said Max Becker, CTO of Ultrascan Knowledge Process Outsourcing, a subsidiary of fraud investigation firm Ultrascan. "What we are trying to do is go after the people who set up and pay for these kinds of attacks."
Ultrascan has a network of informants who are closed to organized criminal gangs in Asia, many of which are involved in cybercrime, said Frank Engelsman, an investigator with Ultrascan based in the Netherlands. One question is whether it could be proved a criminal group had been paid by North Korea to carry out the attacks, Engelsman said.
That could take a lot of investigative work. But it may be easier than that.
Cybercriminals make mistakes, such as earlier this year when researchers uncovered a global spying network called "GhostNet" that infected computers belonging to Tibetan nongovernmental organizations, the private office of the Dalai Lama and embassies of more than a dozen countries. A Google search by researcher Nart Villeneuve turned up some of the most damning evidence — an unencrypted server indexed by the search engine.
From spelling mistakes, to e-mail addresses to coding errors, attackers can leave clues that could turn a cold trail hot.
"You know where the mistakes are likely to be made," said Steve Santorelli, director of global outreach for Team Cymru, a nonprofit Internet security research firm. "You can turn over the right rocks quickly."
And Santorelli added: "Google doesn't forget anything."


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Nothing unsettles airplane passengers like a pilot flying blind, and, on Wednesday, German airline Lufthansa admitted it had no accurate forecast available for 2009. Lufthansa promised investors that operating profits this year would be distinctively positive, while in the same breath admitting they would be clearly below 2008 levels; this would suggest a figure anywhere between 100 million euros ($126.8 million) and 1.3 billion euros ($1.6 billion).
Lufthansa was quite vague; last year they had a more detailed forecast, said Michael Bahlmann, an analyst with M.M. Warburg, who rated the stock a hold. Back in 2008, Lufthansa said it expected to match or exceed 2007 operating profit, but clearly the turbulence in the airline industry has knocked its crystal ball out of shape.
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Age: | 27 |
City: | Chernivtsi |
Country: | Ukraine |
Zodiac: | Virgo |
Height: | 5' 5'' (165 cm) |
Weight: | 112 lbs (51 kg) |
Eyes: | green |
Hair: | blond |
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I enjoy sport activities, playing the piano and singing, riding, playing billiards, read books on psychology and esoterica, cooking and is interested in things connected with art and creative work, but most of all like to spend time with close to my heart people and make them feel happy. Adore animals, especially dogs and horses.But the best hobby is to use my sense of humour in any situation.
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The sun almost shined on Maria Sharapova, the new World No. 1, French Open Champion and owner of the career slam. She accomplished all this with one dominating win over No. 21 seed Sara Errani in yesterday's final. Her 6-3, 6-2 victory showed off the best of her lethally one-dimensional game. Her serve was as sure as it's been since her shoulder surgery, her ground strokes pelting the corners of the court. Despite her militaristic game and femmebot habits – the rod straight posture, the clenched fists, the auto-shriek – Maria has developed into one of the great characters of the current game. When she melted into the clay yesterday, her hands covering her tears, you forgot about Maria the Superstar and saw Maria the Softie. I admit, I shed a tear or two, then laughed because no one has ever needed my tears less.
Haven't seen this one before. . .KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/GettyImages via Daylife
My favorite quote from Maria's press conference:
I have a tremendous amount of belief and pride in what I do. I love my work. I've always said this: I love playing tennis.
I had so many outs in my career. I could have said, I don't need this. I have money; I have fame; I have victories; I have Grand Slams. But when your love for something is bigger than all those things, you continue to keep getting up in the morning when it's freezing outside, when you know that it can be the most difficult day, when nothing is working, when you feel like the belief sometimes isn't there from the outside world, and you seem so small.
But you can achieve great things when you don't listen to all those things.
Maria called this the most "treasured" moment of her career, even sweeter than winning Wimbledon at age 17 vs. Serena Williams. She certainly seemed to savor the trophy ceremony, laughing along with Errani at the mixed up introduction, climbing into her player's box to kiss babies, even speaking a little French to the fans. It was as if she was telling her younger self: see, this is how it's done.
She may have savored the moment, but she wasted good champagne. Photo by Sindy Thomas – Pool/Getty Images via Daylife
Well done, Maria!
A few more of Maria's more human moments in the post match presser:
Q. Are you going to be studying now in order to come back next year and be fluent? Maybe was that a start of a love affair? How are you going to experience Paris now maybe tonight by celebrating, going shopping, or what?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: It's fun. Actually when I first hurt my shoulder and I knew that I wouldn't probably be playing for about two or three months, for some reason the first thing I did was I found a French school close to my house, and I did private lessons every single day for three months.
But after that I had to start traveling to Phoenix to see a shoulder specialist there. I was going from Monday to Friday, so I pretty much stopped, which was unfortunate.
I don't know why, but everyone thought I was completely crazy because there were so many other things I could have done.
But it was really the first thing on my mind when I heard about my injury was that I was going to learn a language. I chose French. I didn't achieve much in the language department, but, you know…
Q. What are your plans now? You must be excited to get on the grass given the form that you're in?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Well, I just spoke to my mom and she said ‑‑ Well, first, I'm actually debating with my coach whether I should have three or four days off. I'm going for four, he's going for three, which is very typical. (Smiling.)
I called my mom. We talked for a little bit, and she said, You know, you have those four days off. I said, No, mom, maybe only three. She said, Okay, whatever it is, you enjoy for three or four days, and then it's back to work.
Yeah, this is my philosophy in my family. Then I called my dad and he's on the bike and he's like, Oh, great job. He's like, Talk to you later. I'm like… (Smiling.)
Wonderful, wonderful family support. Like the wind is the back, you know, and he's like ‑‑ no, he was excited. He's like, Yeah. Okay, I'm on the bicycle I'll call you later. (Laughter.)
Oh, my family…
Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images via Daylife
Maria's even taking romantic shots with her take home trophy. I'm sure Sasha's jealous. Via Facebook:
And now we wait for the rain to pass and Rafa and Nole to make their own bit of history.


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Spring Snow Run and 2010 Top Member Challenge Saturday April 17, 2010 On Saturday April 17th, 2010 we meet up at the Nasty Creek Corrals to air down. The convoy on top of the ridge. We stopped to regroup after a snow covered hill climb. On up the trail we found enough snow for our Top Member Challenge. The Top Member Challenge is a race up the mountain in the snow to an area picked by the director and judges. On this day the finish line was Jackass Road. Here they are lined up to race. Left to right - Jeepscum, Havo, BlindPilot, HavoJr and Colemancooler. And they're off and wheelin'. We followed a long beside the racers. Jeepscum's Co-pilot helped the 4 cylinder TJ along by oaring. LOL Rollerbear was the judge. Here he is watching Colemancooler tailing the pack. Jeepscum goes to pass and now falls back into the last position. After Jeepscum gets going he stopped a long the way to help HavoJr get unstuck. I moved on to make sure the front of the pack makes the turn toward Jackass Road. Havo and BlindPilot battled it out the last stretch of the trail. At the very end BlindPilot took a wrong turn and Havo past him onto the finish. BlindPilot passing on the Trophy. Time for lunch and BS about the race. After lunch we headed on toward Ewe Neck. Rollerbear and I had some fun up front and then gave it over to BlindPilot. Ewe Neck was drifted over to bad to continue safely. We turned around. Heading back. Guido waved me by and I launch it into the ditch. Guido pulled me out and we were on our way down Jackass Road. We took the low road and found it was off camber climbing back out. My rig being locked only in the rear wanted to crab walk this part so I backed down to let the Pro take over. Rollerbear made it look easy. Us waiting at the bottom. On up the climb we stopped to let Rollerbear's rig cool down. Once we hit the North Fork pavement we headed on up the Mid Fork Road. We turned off on McLain Canyon Road. Next we turn on Whites Ridge Loop. I stopped to let others break trail awhile so my rig could take a rest. Turning up Whites Ridge Crest Trail. Up on top I took the lead breaking trail again until I got stuck in this tree hole. Test Dummy was behind me and found his track bar pretzelled. Havo went around me. Rollerbear pulled my XJ out backwards. As soon as he started pulling me, the front passenger door came opened since it wasn't latched. My co-pilot had open it when I was hooking up the tow strap. I yelled over the CB but was not heard in time to stop the door from being drug into the tree and folded into the front fender. Test Dummy was able to get the door straight enough to shut. Here are some pics of the damage a little while later. It will buff out. Here is my Co-pilot that didn't shut the door all the way. Guido. Craigen. Test Dummy and Craigen. On up at the next hill climb things got fun. Here is Havo parked between two trees. It was getting late so we headed back down. Here I fell into a big ditch and got stuck. Craigen pulled me out. TJ40 took the last two pics since I could not get out of my rig. Thank you guys for hooking me up. Thank you to everyone for pulling me out throughout the day. This was a great run thanks to all that came. |
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At horning village, the "New" Inn deserves mention, and boats can be procured there.
The reference is to the process of "horning" described on p. 16.
Darnley also told the story of horning Moray to a servant of his, which Moray is privy unto.
horning; a legal demand for payment of a debt under threat of imprisonment and being proclaimed rebels.
So by wood and mere and sighing reed we pass with many a twist and turn until we reach the hostelry of horning Ferry.
horning Ferry, a well-known waterside resting-place, may be taken as a typical feature of village life in these parts.
God shall send unto you messengers who will not be afraid of horning, nor yet of banishment.
Then the river turns still more sharply to the left, and we sailed due south, after having come due north by horning.
Pascoe and horning then carry the inanimate form of Shawn into the room behind, while Carve hovers about uselessly.
Pretty soon the fat steers took it up and began butting and horning each other.
Old English horn "horn of an animal," also "wind instrument" (originally made from animal horns), from Proto-Germanic *hurnaz (cf. German Horn, Dutch horen, Gothic haurn), from PIE *ker- "horn; head, uppermost part of the body," with derivatives refering to horned animals, horn-shaped objects and projecting parts (cf. Greek karnon "horn," Latin cornu "horn," Sanskrit srngam "horn," Persian sar "head," Avestan sarah- "head," Greek koryphe "head," Latin cervus "deer," Welsh carw "deer"). Reference to car horns is first recorded 1901. Figurative senses of Latin cornu included "salient point, chief argument; wing, flank; power, courage, strength." Jazz slang sense of "trumpet" is by 1921. Meaning "telephone" is by 1945.
1690s, "to furnish with horns," from horn (n.). Earlier in figurative sense of "to cuckold" (1540s). Meaning "to push with the horns" (of cattle, buffalo, etc.) is from 1851, American English; phrase horn in "intrude" is by 1880, American English, originally cowboy slang.
horn (hôrn)
One of the hard, usually permanent structures projecting from the head of certain mammals, such as cattle, consisting of a bony core covered with a sheath of keratinous material.
A hard protuberance that is similar to or suggestive of a horn.
The hard, smooth keratinous material forming the outer covering of animal horns.
Any of the major subdivisions of the lateral ventricle in the cerebral hemisphere of the brain: the frontal horn, occipital horn, and temporal horn. Also called cornu.
Related Terms
grunt-horn, like shit through a tin horn, tinhorn, toot one's own horn
Trumpets were at first horns perforated at the tip, used for various purposes (Josh. 6:4,5). Flasks or vessels were made of horn (1 Sam. 16:1, 13; 1 Kings 1:39). But the word is used also metaphorically to denote the projecting corners of the altar of burnt offerings (Ex. 27:2) and of incense (30:2). The horns of the altar of burnt offerings were to be smeared with the blood of the slain bullock (29:12; Lev. 4:7-18). The criminal, when his crime was accidental, found an asylum by laying hold of the horns of the altar (1 Kings 1:50; 2:28). The word also denotes the peak or summit of a hill (Isa. 5:1, where the word "hill" is the rendering of the same Hebrew word). This word is used metaphorically also for strength (Deut. 33:17) and honour (Job 16:15; Lam. 2:3). Horns are emblems of power, dominion, glory, and fierceness, as they are the chief means of attack and defence with the animals endowed with them (Dan. 8:5, 9; 1 Sam. 2:1; 16:1, 13; 1 Kings 1:39; 22:11; Josh. 6:4, 5; Ps. 75:5, 10; 132:17; Luke 1:69, etc.). The expression "horn of salvation," applied to Christ, means a salvation of strength, or a strong Saviour (Luke 1:69). To have the horn "exalted" denotes prosperity and triumph (Ps. 89:17, 24). To "lift up" the horn is to act proudly (Zech. 1:21). Horns are also the symbol of royal dignity and power (Jer. 48:25; Zech. 1:18; Dan. 8:24).


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Hepatitis B surface antigen loss/seroconversion, considered to be the ideal outcome of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, occurs spontaneously at a low rate in inactive carriers.
The researchers aim to investigate the ability of peginterferon alpha-2a to achieve surface antigen loss/seroconversion therapy in inactive carriers with persistently normal alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels, undetectable HBV DNA and low surface antigen levels, who would not generally be considered candidates for therapy.
Condition | Intervention |
Chronic Hepatitis B |
Drug: Pegylated interferon alfa-2a |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | HBsAg Loss/Seroconversion in Inactive Chronic Hepatitis B Carriers Treated With Peginterferon Alpha-2a |
- HBsAg loss/seroconversion [ Time Frame: HBsAg level was lower than 0.05IU/mL after 96 weeks treatment ]HBsAg loss was defined as HBsAg levels <0.05 IU/mL. Anti-HBs was measured using Architect i2000 kit,and anti-HBs >10 mIU/L was considered positive.
Enrollment: | 20 |
Study Start Date: | May 2008 |
Study Completion Date: | December 2012 |
Primary Completion Date: | December 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
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Experimental: peginterferon alpha 2a
the inactive chronic HBsAg carriers were treated with peginterferon alpha 2a for 72 weeks and followed for 24 weeks.
Drug: Pegylated interferon alfa-2a
patients were given peginterferon alfa-2a (40KD) (Pegasys®; Roche, Basel, Switzerland)180 µg by subcutaneous injection once weekly for 120 weeks
Other Name: Pegasys®; Roche, Basel, Switzerland
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Chronic HBV inactive carriers were enrolled in the out-patient department of Beijing Ditan Hospital. All of them were HBsAg positive and anti-HBs negative for more than 6 months with persistent undetectable HBV DNA and normal ALT levels measured at 3-6 monthly intervals during the preceding 2 years as well as with serum HBsAg levels ≤100 IU/mL determined on two occasions during the month prior to treatment. All patients did not have other liver diseases and contraindications for interferon therapy.
After giving informed consent, patients were treated with weekly subcutaneous injections of peginterferon alpha-2a 180 µg. The use of other immune suppressive or regulatory drugs and other antiviral drugs was prohibited during the course of the study.
In this study, the only parameter to assessing the treatment response was HBsAg level change. Treatment endpoint was HBsAg loss(<0.05 IU/mL) and anti-HBs positive(>10 mIU/mL) defined as seroconversion.
Depending on the decline of HBsAg level, treatment was either continued for a prolonged period until the endpoint was achieved, or terminated in case of nonresponse. Treatment was proceeded if HBsAg level continued to decline until HBsAg seroconversion was achieved and the anti-HBs level was above 200 mIU/ml. If the patients were not willing to extend treatment, the therapy was ended at the time of HBsAg loss, or stopped without further decline of HBsAg levels on three months treatment.
Liver function parameters, including ALT, aspartate aminotransferase (AST), albumin (ALB) and total bilirubin (Tbil) were examined using an automated biochemical analyzer. Peripheral blood neutrophil and platelet count were detected before treatment, and monitored during treatment with one to three month intervals, and base on the test results to adjust the next checking time. Quantitative HBV DNA testing was conducted using a commercially available real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR kit. HBsAg levels were quantified with Architect i2000 HBsAg quantitative assay (Abbott Laboratories) kit.
The main efficacy endpoints were HBsAg loss and seroconversion.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 60 Years (Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- HBsAg positive and anti-HBs negative for more than 6 months
- HBeAg-negative/anti-HBe-positive
- Persistently undetectable HBV DNA with normal ALT levels, as established at 3-6 monthly intervals during the preceding 2 yrs
- Serum HBsAg levels ≤100 IU/mL, as determined on two occasions during the month prior to treatment
- Absence of previous antiviral therapy
Exclusion Criteria:
- With active alcohol and/or drugs consumption
- With human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis C virus coinfections
- With clinical evidence of cirrhosis
- With history of autoimmune hepatitis
- With hematological or psychiatric diseases
- With evidence of neoplastic diseases
- With severe cardiac or pulmonary disease
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01471535
China, Beijing | |
liver disease center, Beijing Ditan Hospital | |
Beijing, Beijing, China, 100015 |
Principal Investigator: | Yao Xie, phD/MD | Liver diseases center, Beijing Ditan Hospital |
Responsible Party: | Yao Xie, Director of division 4, liver diseases center, Beijing Ditan Hospital |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01471535 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
Study First Received: | October 31, 2011 |
Last Updated: | March 8, 2015 |
Keywords provided by Beijing Ditan Hospital:
chronic hepatitis B |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hepatitis Hepatitis A Hepatitis, Chronic Hepatitis B Hepatitis B, Chronic Liver Diseases Digestive System Diseases Hepatitis, Viral, Human Virus Diseases Enterovirus Infections Picornaviridae Infections |
RNA Virus Infections Hepadnaviridae Infections DNA Virus Infections Interferons Interferon-alpha Peginterferon alfa-2a Antineoplastic Agents Antiviral Agents Anti-Infective Agents Immunologic Factors Physiological Effects of Drugs |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 24, 2017


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Western blot analysis of extracts from various cell lines using hnRNP A1 (D21H11) Rabbit mAb.
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Confocal immunofluorescent analysis of HeLa cells using hnRNP A1 (D21H1) Rabbit mAb (green). Actin filaments were labeled with DY-554 phalloidin (red).
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Application | Dilutions |
Western Blotting | 1:1000 |
Immunoprecipitation | 1:100 |
Immunofluorescence (Immunocytochemistry) | 1:800 |
Flow Cytometry | 1:100 |
Specificity / Sensitivity
hnRNP A1 (D21H11) Rabbit mAb recognizes endogenous levels of total hnRNP A1 protein. This antibody does not cross react with other hnRNP family member proteins.
Species Reactivity: Human, Mouse, Rat, MonkeySource / Purification
Monoclonal antibody is produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to residues surrounding Gly209 of human hnRNP A1 protein.
Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A1 (hnRNP A1) is a member of the hnRNP A/B family of related RNA binding proteins that bind pre-mRNA and are involved in the processing, metabolism, and transport of nuclear pre-mRNA transcripts (1). hnRNP A1 regulates the alternative splicing of c-Src and c-H-Ras (2,3) and modifies initiation of translation of the fibroblast growth factor 2 mRNA (4). hnRNP A1 expression level is elevated in many cancers; knockdown of hnRNP A1 leads to apoptosis in various cancer cells (5). Although predominantly nuclear, hnRNP A1 is continually transported from the nucleus to the cytoplasm where it disassociates from mRNA and is rapidly re-imported into the nucleus (6,7). hnRNP A1 binds to cis-acting repressive sequences (CRS) of HIV-1 to influence HIV-1 production (8,9). HIV-1 enhances hnRNP A1 expression and promotes the relocalization of hnRNP A1 to the cytoplasm (10).
1. Myer, V.E. and Steitz, J.A. (1995) RNA 1, 171-82.
2. Rooke, N. et al. (2003) Mol Cell Biol 23, 1874-84.
3. Guil, S. et al. (2003) Mol Cell Biol 23, 2927-41.
4. Bonnal, S. et al. (2005) J Biol Chem 280, 4144-53.
5. Patry, C. et al. (2003) Cancer Res 63, 7679-88.
6. Piñol-Roma, S. and Dreyfuss, G. (1992) Nature 355, 730-2.
7. Siomi, M.C. et al. (1997) J Cell Biol 138, 1181-92.
8. Black, A.C. et al. (1996) Virus Genes 12, 275-85.
9. Hadian, K. et al. (2009) J Biol Chem 284, 33384-91.
10. Monette, A. et al. (2009) J Biol Chem 284, 31350-62.
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Rio Del lago 100 is this weekend!!!
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Wow you're a badass! I'm thru hiking the try right more, and kicking back un an aspen grove reading about your adventures at the moment, you go girl! ~Taz
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Church presents 'Fall Feasts of Israel'
Jeffrey Kran, a representative of Chosen People Ministries, will be speaking at 7 p.m. Oct. 21 at The Journey at First Baptist Church, 1150 W. Ninth Street. The meeting is open to the public.
Kran will present the program, "The Fall Feasts of Israel."
Kran was born in Chicago in 1962 and raised by secular Jewish parents. He came to the Christian faith in 1982 through "a study of the evidence for the truth of Scripture, particularly Messianic prophecy," according to Chosen People Ministries. "Since then, he has been active in Bible teaching, conference speaking and congregation planning."
Chosen People Ministries is a more than 100-year-old mission that has outreach centers in various countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada and the United States.
"In stressing the Jewish roots of Christian faith, Chosen People Ministries hopes to make the message of the Messiah more accessible to Jewish people and also : help Christian believers achieve a greater appreciation of the Jewish basis of their own faith traditions," according to a news release from Chosen People Ministries.
A love offering will be taken at the event. For more information, call 824-5926.
Teen Read Week kicks off today at library
Teen Read Week kicks off today at the Craig branch of the Moffat County Libraries. Starting today and continuing through Friday, local teenagers can write and display their own book reviews at the library, 570 Green St. Families also can play board games at the library from 5 to 6:30 p.m. today. At 4 p.m. Wednesday, local writer Dave Pressgrove will share his thoughts, experiences and stories at the library.
Teen Read Week is designed to increase teen literacy. This year's theme is "Books with Bite @ your library."
In conjunction with Teen Read Week, the library is encouraging teenagers to participate in the WrestleMania Reading Challenge. The program, which is sponsored by World Wrestling Entertainment and the Young Adult Library Services Association, encourages teens to read 10 items in their leisure time before Jan. 15, 2009. Participants can win prizes, including a trip to WrestleMania and money for their local library.
For more information about Teen Read Week programs offered at the library, call Christy Gonzales, Moffat County Libraries programs coordinator, at 824-5116, ext. 405.
Candidates to debate at Centennial Mall
Nine candidates for five political races that will affect Moffat County's future plan to appear at 6 p.m. Thursday at Centennial Mall in Craig to debate the issues in front of a live crowd.
KRAI 97.3 and 55 Country will broadcast the debate live on the radio. There will be video of the debate available on www.craigdailypress.com Oct. 17.
The debate is free and open to the public.
The following candidates have committed to appear:
• Colorado Senate District 8
- Republican state Rep. Al White, R-Hayden
- Democrat Ken Brenner, Steamboat Springs
• Colorado House District 57
- Democrat Todd Hagenbuch, Phippsburg
- Republican Randy Baumgardner, Hot Sulphur Springs
• 14th Judicial District Attorney
- Republican Elizabeth Oldham, Grand Lake
- Democrat Tammy Stewart, Steamboat Springs
• Moffat County Commission District 1
- Republican Tom Gray, incumbent
- Democrat Lois Wymore
• Moffat County Commission District 2
- Republican Saed Tayyara, incumbent
Both candidates for U.S. Congressional District 3 - Republican Wayne Wolf, of Cedaredge, and Democratic incumbent John Salazar, of Manassa - have not decided whether they will appear.
Frank Hanel, KRAI and 55 Country owner and general manager, will moderate the debates with Daily Press Publisher Bryce Jacobson.
Residents are encouraged to submit their own questions for the candidates to email@example.com or may call Jacobson at 875-1788.
Hanel and Jacobson will decide which questions to present each candidate. Jacobson said their decisions will be based entirely on what issues apply to each candidate.
For instance, a Moffat County commissioner does not have much authority on national issues, such as abortion or the Wall Street bailout package, so moderators would focus their questions for a Commission candidate on local issues he or she can affect, such as the county's budget plans and relations with the city of Craig.
Cardboard regatta race postponed to Tuesday
The Moffat County High School Science Olympics Cardboard Regatta Boat Race has been postponed until after school Tuesday at Loudy-Simpson Park.
The race originally was scheduled for after the homecoming parade Friday, but cool, rainy weather caused its delay.
"We just did not want to take the chance that all of the boats and participants would already be wet before they actually got into the boats that they worked so hard on for the contest," said race coordinator Roger Spears.
For more information, call Spears at 824-7036.
American Legion holds indoor garage sale
The American Legion Auxiliary will hold its annual Indoor Garage Sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The public is invited to participate, and people can bring their own table or use the Legion's tables for $10 each.
The American Legion and Sons of the American Legion will sell breakfast from 8 to 10 a.m. and lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Money raised will help to pay for purchase of the Legion building.
For information, call Mel at 824-3625.


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These pinwheels only look origami-grade complicated; they're really a breeze to craft.
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Paper in various colors and weights
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Wooden skewers
- Cut paper into squares of different sizes (ours ranged from 1 1/2 by 1 1/2 inches to 4 by 4 inches).
- Fold diagonally to crease, unfold, then snip halfway up creases.
- Bend points in and attach with tape. Glue to skewers (available at most grocery stores) and stick into cake.


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Lady Punk Night with The Stops
Have you ever felt that punk shows are dripping with way too much machismo? Maybe you're over studded leather belts used as weapons. Well, Mass Media Records has the cure to break the monotony of masculinity imposed upon punk. Introducing Lady Punk Night with the Stops, an all-girl band imported from Portland. In the fall, the Stops' EP releases from Residue Records and, with echoes of Pennywise and vocals reminiscent of Florence and the Machine, they're a band destined for big things. This Sunday, the Stops head to Mass Media Records for an in-store concert to showcase their brand of hard-driving punk. With electric guitars buzzing and drums shaking like metal cages, they manage to bring intensity to your ear palate without making you feel like reeking havoc. And according to Mass Media Record's website, only peace punks are allowed.
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All office and lab computers on campus are connected to the network, thus providing a seamless sharing of the college computer network and Internet resources. About 2500 network connections have been installed, in addition to wireless connectivity. The Network is based on a switched Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet backbone. A dedicated high-speed ATM link connects the York College Network to the UCC (University Computer Center), thereby providing high-speed access to the Internet and all other CUNY campuses including UCC.


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My 2003 F-150 with 4.6 V8 is running very rough while under strain. Got back from Iraq and took it and had tune-up on it and it ran good then started running rough again and took it back and they changed out the number 4 sensor wire. Few weeks went by and started again. Don't have the money to take back so what do I do? It idles fine and aslong as your running at around 30 and 40 mph runs good you get above that it starts spitting, sputtering and serging.
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- New Year's Eva at Odas Park
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Celebrate the New Year with The Desotos! Rock & roll dance music for all ages, party favours, prizes & buffet lunch at Midnight! 8:00 pm - 1:30 am, ODAS Park, Fairgrounds Road off Hwy. 12 West, 325-0353 (Free bus to Orillia after 1:00 am)


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The EU Long Term Investment Fund will offer investors a mechanism to invest in projects requiring long-term funding.
In June 2013, the European Commission (the Commission) proposed a new type of European closed-end fund—the EU Long Term Investment Fund (ELTIF). The ELTIF will offer professional and retail investors with a readily available pooling mechanism through which to invest in companies and projects that require long-term capital financing and that are not traded on regulated markets. The Commission's aim in proposing the new fund is to build within the EU a common, comparable cross-border standard for what long-term assets are, for whom they may be suitable, and how they function. In short, the Commission seeks to establish a long-term assets counterpart to its successful UCITS fund for investments in liquid financial assets, the assets under management of which reached €6,697 billion in March 2013. As with UCITS, the ELTIF will be available to investors globally.
The Commission considers long-term investment to be the provision of "long-lived capital," which may be used to finance tangible assets (e.g., energy, transport, and communication infrastructure and housing and industrial facilities) and intangible assets (e.g., education and research and development) and to provide investors with long-term, stable returns.
Whilst the Commission acknowledges that "very large investors, such as large pension funds or insurance undertakings" already have access to such investments, it notes that a broader institutional appetite for investing in longer-term assets exists and that individuals planning for future liabilities may benefit from the regular returns provided by such investments.
The Commission has published its proposal for an ELTIF regulation, which sets out uniform rules on the authorisation, investment policies, and operating conditions for EU alternative investment funds that are structured as ELTIFs. The regulatory framework comprises three core features: rules governing eligible assets and their diversification; a high-threshold competence level required of those allowed to manage and market ELTIFs; and the alignment of ELTIFs' investment horizons with investors' redemption expectations (ELTIFs will not allow early redemption). The proposal does not contemplate fixed time periods for holding assets or the duration of any ELTIF, which will be welcome to prospective ELTIF managers. Managers of ELTIFs will have a marketing passport throughout the European Economic Area, allowing ELTIFs to be sold to all types of European investors without complying with national private placement regimes.
ELTIFs will only be able to invest in unlisted companies needing long-term capital, real assets requiring long-term capital to develop them, or EU-regulated funds financing start-ups or businesses seeking to achieve a social impact (respectively, the so-called "EuVECA" and "EuSEF" funds, which are niche non-retail products that were introduced in 2013 and have not yet established their place in the market).
ELTIFs will also be subject to a network of other EU measures. Only EU funds that qualify as alternative investment funds under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and that are managed by investment managers authorised under AIFMD will be eligible for inclusion under the ELTIF brand. ELTIFs will be required to publish a prospectus that complies with the Commission's Prospectus Directive. When the fund is marketed to retail investors, an additional key information document will be required that complies with a proposed EU regulation on key information documents due to be adopted later in 2014. ELTIFs will be subject to requirements of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive relating to marketing, selling, and disclosure.
The industry has responded positively to the Commission's proposal but has suggested the following changes: (1) there should be two types of ELTIFs (one for professional investors and one for retail investors); (2) the proposed prohibition on marketing ELTIFs structured as partnerships to retail investors should be discarded, given that the characteristics of a partnership vehicle are appropriate for facilitating long-term investment; and (3) ELTIFs should be able to be structured as funds of funds (albeit limited to other ELTIFs, EuVECAs, and EuSEFs).[1]
The precise details of the proposal will likely be modified in light of industry responses to it. We shall be monitoring developments closely.
[1]. An article on ELTIFs, "ELTIF: A Long Fund Indeed", was also published in the February 2014 issue of Funds Europe. The article may be accessed via the Morgan Lewis website here.
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Rajesh Khanna admitted to hospital again
Veteran film star Rajesh Khanna was admitted to the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai Saturday afternoon, said a hospital source. "Rajesh Khanna has been admitted here today (Saturday) during afternoon," said a hospital source. The news of his ill health has been doing the rounds, but the 69-year-old reassured fans that all's well with him by stepping out onto the balcony of his Bandra house on Thursday along with actor-wife Dimple Kapadia and son-in-law, actor Akshay Kumar. He even waved out to his fans with a 'V' for victory sign. Rajesh Khanna's manager Ashwin on Wednesday said that the actor had stopped food intake for the "last three or four days". But the very next day, Akshay Kumar told reporters: "He's more than fine. He is absolutely fine. Thank you for your concern." The Anand star, who is known as India's first superstar, was last admitted to a hospital in April. He recently featured in a TV commercial for Havell's fan.
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RIM Rolls Out New Device
Research In Motion is at once clearing hurdles and facing new ones in the wireless market.
Research In Motion is at once clearing hurdles and facing new ones in the wireless market.
The mergers and acquisition market continues to heat up.
Even as Microsoft prepares to launch Office 2003 this fall, it is readying a new quality-first development process for Office 12.
Oracle has once again extended its tender offer for PeopleSoft.
Hewlett Packard is revamping its HP integrated Partners (HiP) program and adopting a more traditional way of engaging distributors of enterprise IT products. The company is essentially dumping the fee-for-service model that it embraced three years ago and replacing it with one that will see allies including Avnet Hall-Mark, Arrow and Pioneer KeyLink take title to products.
Ingram Micro is poised to launch next month an initiative aimed at helping its solution provider partners win financial services business in the wake of the Sarbanes-Oxley act.
Hewlett-Packard executives said Friday that the company has abandoned its distributor fee-for-service model under the HP Integrated Partner (HIP) program and replaced it with model that allows distributors to take title of product and count those sales as top line revenue.
With its new line of unmanaged Gigabit Ethernet switches, Linksys is taking aim at the SMB space and joining the march toward enhanced network switching technology.
3Com and BrightArrow Technologies last week agreed to co-market their VoIP solutions, a deal that will make BrightArrow's voice applications available through the same distribution channels as 3Com's NBX IP-PBX products.
EMC executives last week spelled out their new Information Lifecycle Management strategy, a holistic approach to managing and protecting data that depends heavily on software the company is offering for EMC and non-EMC platforms.
A key part of Adobe's strategy for putting Acrobat on every desktop is its line of server products, designed to turn PDF files into intelligent documents for collaboration and for data sharing. Adobe has a lot of experience selling through distributors and is now working with integrators to sell its enterprise software.
Digital convergence is taking hold on the PC desktop, and solution providers are taking note.
With white-box desktops and notebooks garnering historically high channel market share, eyes will be focused on Systemax this week as the $1.5 billion maker of custom systems gets set to report its most recent quarterly earnings on Aug. 12.
Sun Microsystems is promising solution providers more partnership opportunities with Sun Professional Services.
Chip giant Intel is poised to trim prices for some Celeron processors as it heads into the end of the third quarter, a move that could put further pressure on rival Advanced Micro Devices.
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It seems that no matter what season of life we are in, we want to be in a different one. God wants us to appreciate where we are.
Perhaps you remember The New Yorker cartoon in which two monks in robes and shaved heads are sitting side by side, cross-legged on the floor. The younger one, with a quizzical look on his face, is facing the older, who is saying: "Nothing happens next. This is it."
That's exactly what it means to live in the here and now. We aren't waiting for something else to occur, we aren't distracted by anything around us, and we aren't trying to escape mentally to another time. We are "mindfully awake." Paying attention. Savoring the moment for all it's worth. We are fully alive!
I once heard Diane Sawyer say on television, "The most important thing in life is to pay attention"—and I would agree. But how often are we able to achieve that? Not often enough, unfortunately. Nevertheless, our richest times in life are those when we are completely present, consciously heightening our awareness because our journey has brought us here—and we choose not to miss it.
I feel this when I'm engaged in rich, meaningful conversation with an interesting person. Questions are enticing, listening is acute, and eye contact is direct. I love that; such focused attention makes me feel alive. I also experience this feeling when I'm alone in an art museum or lost in a good book.
When I'm all there—or rather, all here!—I never want the moment to end. It's wonderful. It's the "it" to which the wise old monk referred.
About a year after my mother died in 1971, my dad and I were invited to the wedding of a mutual friend. Daddy was living with my brother, Chuck, and his family, and I picked him up so we could go in my car. At 78 years old, Daddy wasn't driving anymore.
Since we had plenty of time, I suggested we stop off for coffee at a place along the way where we knew a couple of the waitresses. There we sat, dressed to the nines and sipping coffee in a little short-order restaurant.
After a while it began to rain, and we decided to let the weather clear up before traveling on. We settled back in our chairs and talked about childhood—Dad's and mine—and about Mother and his love for her through the 40 years they were married. I thanked him for being such a great dad to me and my two brothers.
When the rain became more intense, we gave up the idea of going to the wedding and nestled into one of the sweetest times my dad and I had ever had. We had always been close, but never more than that night. We were totally connected conversationally, not distracted by anything and absolutely in the moment.
Would that we were able to maintain that kind of connectedness all the time, with others as well as with ourselves. It's hard, almost impossible. So often we want to be somewhere else. We look at the "now" we are in and have this illusion that if we could just inch or leap forward on the journey, our lives would be richer or better or more "together." We don't want to be here.
Why is this? Why are we so rarely satisfied? Were we simply programmed to be this way, or is it that we just don't know ourselves or God well enough to recognize what truly satisfies?
JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY As I look back over my life, I see that there are many times when I wasn't satisfied; I couldn't live fully in the moment. I was looking for the next thing to bring me fulfillment and, of course, I wanted that fulfillment to be permanent.
One of the hardest periods in my life was in the mid-1980s. It ultimately became one of the most transforming times because I was willing to attune myself fully to the here and now—even though it was painful. It turned out that my own discomfort contained critical information that formed a pathway to the next leg of my journey. But it was very hard to be as vulnerable as I needed to be to see the real roadblock.
In August of 1985 I experienced some heartbreaking misunderstandings with close friends. At the same time, I was trying to make a major decision—whether or not to take early retirement from Mobil Oil Corp. because of an impending collision between my "real" job and lots of speaking engagements.
I eventually decided to turn over all the turmoil to God. As days and weeks passed, it seemed as though I heard in my head, "Write things down." So, I did.
The first thing I wrote was a letter to myself, in which I poured out all the feelings I had been dealing with for months or, perhaps unknowingly, for years. I cried out to God about the loneliness I felt and also about the anger, fear, regret, inadequacies, fault-finding, dread and despair.
When I finally stopped writing, it was as if the burden had started to lift. Everything that had been inside was now outside. I had dumped it all on the only One who could handle the whole truckload.
I soon saw positive things happening. For one thing, I came to the realization that my most annoying problem was me.
How could I be my own problem? Simple: I wanted control—of everything—and I resented the fact that God wanted control, too. My desire for control outweighed my desire for connectedness, even with Him.
I felt lonely because I had attached all the desires of my heart to a tiny circle of friends and companions from whom I wanted all my needs met, and they just happened to have lives of their own! I had completely taken my eyes off the big picture of what God had in store for me.
I didn't want the life I was living; I wanted some pie-in-the-sky existence that wasn't possible. For some reason I was holding out for it before I would permit myself to be happy where I was.
The second thing I wrote, on September 1, 1985, was a list of goals: all the things I felt were important in life—for now and for later. My first objective was to determine if and when I could retire from Mobil Oil. Since the list was figured on a three-year plan, I aimed for a September 1, 1988, retirement date.
My list included other goals as well—large and small—each with its own objective to stretch me and enlarge my borders. Nothing was too "out there," but all the goals required discipline—something I was lacking when I felt so frightened.
After the list was completed, I noticed it was entirely about things, not people. Hmmm, it seemed I was still disconnected from my deepest need.
The third thing I did was what rounded me toward home plate. I had been to a Mobil management meeting at which I came across a thought-provoking article on plotting your lifeline in a magazine called the Executive Female. It included instructions for charting one's life journey, including both personal and career experiences, on a graph, using plus signs for positive events and minus signs for negative or painful events.
I began plotting, and some interesting data quickly emerged.
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This is a guest post from Elie Mystal, an editor of the legal blog Above the Law. He will be joining Forbes as a contributor later this year.
We celebrate America on July 4th because that is the day in 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress. The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents in history. Even though the brilliant men who wrote it and signed it were largely hypocrites who couldn't see the self-evident truth that women and blacks were endowed with the same inalienable rights as white male landowners, the fact that they bothered to write them down is a starting gun for the modern march of freedom that even today topples tyranny and oppression.
Nobody will ever write the above paragraph about the "Declaration of Internet Freedom" that is making the rounds this week. In fact, most likely nobody will write anything at all about the Internet Declaration two weeks from now because the document is devoid of anything approaching a coherent articulation of the rights of "the internet" or anybody else.
Apparently, 85 organizations and many people have signed this thing, which looks to capitalize on the grassroots effort to stop SOPA legislation. I'm not sure if anybody involved with the project ran this by a lawyer, because this doesn't appear to be a serious effort to promote a legal construct that will protect the freedom of anything….
By way of context, let's take a look at this thing. Don't worry it's short and written in big letters:
Where to begin? Oh, I know, who the f*** is "we"? The Declaration of Independence tells you in the title who the "we" is: "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America." In contrast, this net freedom document leaves it to the reader to determine if they are part of the "we," or part of some other force that may or may not be opposed to the "we."
I hate to get pedantic about things involving the internet — it's the internet, not a Ken Burns documentary — but defining your terms is crucially important when you are trying to advocate for "freedom" of any kind. It's all well and good to walk around saying "give us free" if you are in chains, but freedom means different things to different people. I'd like to be "free" to make money off the internet, for instance. Can I still be part of the "we"? The fact that so many different people use the internet for so many different purposes is exactly why we struggle to come up with broad-based consensus on how the internet should be regulated (if at all) in the first place. Defining the "we" is half the battle! "WE" are Americans. "THEY" are followers of an inbred crazy person with a fancy hat. Let's play our game.
Because of the terms that aren't defined, the whole document falls apart in the second sentence:
"We support transparent and participatory processes for making internet policy and the establishment of five basic principles."
Here are some problems with the above sentence, in no particular order:
- What is "internet policy"? Are they talking about intellectual property, First Amendment issues (speech), Fourth Amendment issues (privacy), or Eighth Amendment issues (the cruel and unusual punishment of commenters)? Are we talking about phishing? Are we talking about practice? I can haz internet policies?
- Who makes internet policy, according to "we"?
- If it's the government, then can I just remind people that it's a pretty transparent process to those paying attention, and if you want to participate in it, all you have to do is VOTE, which I suspect most of "we" don't do nearly often enough.
- Basic principles, if they are truly basic, don't need to be "established," they need to be articulated.
That last point bears repeating. It is the articulation of things that are inherently true and obvious that makes documents like this useful. Gravity was already established, smacking Newton upside the head with apples and everything else it could throw at him. Newton's skill was describing it. How does the upright internet freedom brigade do at articulating fundamental truths about the internet?
- Expression
- Access
- Openness
- Innovation
- Privacy
These aren't basic principles so much as one possible version of internet freedom among many. Who says that the internet has to be "open." Apple is closed-source, and it does fantastic work. Who says the internet has to be private? Maybe if it was more public, it wouldn't be so goddamn disgusting? And speaking of disgusting, I really hope the free expression of pornographic hotness continues on the internet, but I don't think most of us would have a problem if there was a new technology that magically prevented little kids from getting a cascade of blow job pictures if they happened to Google "hot classroom" while sitting in summer school.
Or maybe we would disagree. That's kind of the point. How does this document help us think about a real issue like porn for minors? Are all these basic principles equally important? Is this an enumerated list of internet principles, or can I make up some more?
See, unlike some conservatives who abhor nearly any creation of "new" rights that weren't enumerated by slaveholders over 200 years ago, I'm a big fan of rights: I like new rights, I like old rights being extended to new groups of people and kinds of activities, I even think that good government involves protecting our rights (instead of getting out of the way and letting us shoot those who interfere with our rights).


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Hmmmm. Thoughts? I know there are a million Morrissey haters in here, but I'd love to see a Smiths reunion.
Hmmmm. Thoughts? I know there are a million Morrissey haters in here, but I'd love to see a Smiths reunion.
It's not like the other thread was labeled.
Hey, it'd mean more vegan food, so I'm in. It'd get some good publicity as well.
12/6: Japandroids/DIIV
1/10: Mister Lies/Matthewdavid
"never ever ever ever ever ever ever"
No tri-tip AND having to deal with a sanctimonious Morrissey. That's a big lose-lose.
This is all getting me excited to see Moz pre-Thanksgiving.
the busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Are you sure "veg" is the correct spelling?
Correct thread title:
Morrissey claims Coachella offered to go veg for Morrissey.
Vag free may also seal the deal for Morrissey.
The Smiths are never ever ever ever getting back together :P
Morrissey just bailed on the VIVE MEXICO festival later tonight.
OMG - what a surprise that he cancelled a concert. He needs to grow some vegan balls.
Mmmmmmm BACON! Death before Vegan
Maybe they went vag. for Morrissey - that made him sick.
Sounds like Morrissey's canceling half his shows. Doesn't give a f*ck.
He'd be healthier if he ate meat.
Truth. Or even just some eggs or other form of animal protein.
Saw him at Hollywood High School two weeks ago and it was sublime. He obviously was having some issues (physical, health ...), but the show went on and his humility was endearing.
he has a lung infection and acid reflux.
yes, he is dramatic.
yes, this affects his ability to sing.
Staples was epic, ask Quentin Tarantino.
and he`s nothing without Katy.
oh wait, you are talking about introductions.
our guy was from ER I think?
And he's just cancelled the rest of his tour dates.
Long live the Duck Dynasty boys lol, Smiths reunion would be amazing but Coach going "veg" unlikely


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Nathan tells Julian to hurry up. He had never been in a cop car and he doesn't know where the siren is. Dan says it is switch in the middle. Nathan tells his dad it will be ok. Dan flashes to Karen and the word murder being written on the wall.
Brooke hears Julian over the cops radio and she is gone.
Dan is remembering shooting Keith. They pull up to the hospital. Haley is running around the hospital looking for Nathan. She sees him He says Hi Hals. She says say it again. They hug and kiss.
Nathan and Haley are hugging. Nathan tells Haley it is ok and he loves her. She thanks him for coming home to her. He says always.
Clay rings a doorbell. Two elderly people answer and he says they must hate him. He asks if Logan is ok.They say they dont him. This is Sara's parents. He leaves.
Brooke finds Julian. He tells her Dan was shot. She tells him about Xavier and that she is ok. They hug.
Haley comes in with vanilla ice cream and says she is going to fill the freezer full of rocky road when they get home. Brooke comes in and want to give Nate a hug. Haley Thanks Julian. Nate hugs Julian.
Quinn gets a call from Haley. She tells her they found Nathan.
Brooke answers her door. It is her dad. He says he came to make sure she was ok.
Haley is laying on Nate. He says she doesnt have to stay the whole time and she asks if he is kidding. Doctor comes in and says that they can do no more for Dan. Jamie comes running in. Deb and Lydia come in behind.
Jamie is playing games on his phone. Haley asks how his time with Uncle Lucas was. He asks why his mom is giving him the look. A bad look like something is going to happen. She tells him about Grandpa Dan. Jamie jumps in and says He will be ok – It's Grandpa Dan.
Dan wakes up to Nathan sitting next to him and he asks who died. Nathan says this is his fault. Nate says that friends and family want to see him. Dan says he didnt know he had either and flashes back to many choking him. Jamie apologizes for yelling at his grandpa the last time and Dan says he has nothing to be sorry for. Jamie asks if he will be staying with him when he gets out and Dan says he doesnt think this time he will be getting out. Jamie says he thinks he will be fine.
Clay is Nate and he is telling him about Logan. They are both taking in the fact that one Nate was kidnapped and two Clay is a father.
Haley and Quinn hug. Haley thanks Quinn for being so supportive. They talk about Logan. As Haley says it must have been hard for Logan to grow up with out a father and that he will come around Clay walk up behind her. She turns around and gives him a hug and congratulates him.
Brooke is with her dad. He says he doesnt want to talk about designs he just want to focus on her.
Nate wakes up haley who is sleeping in the hospital bed. He is excited that Lydia is walking. Haley bursts into tears. She says she had been trying to keep it together for so long and it was so hard trying not to imagine what it would be like not waking up to Nathan everyday.
Julian is in his sound studio and pull out Lucas's book. The Unkindness of Ravens.
Jamie and Nate are playing checkers on the hospital bed and Clay is watching through the glass.
Brooke has made dinner for her dad and family. Julian comes in and says he has found a project for his sound stage. The book Unkindness of Ravens. She was shocked when she learned her dad read the book.
Clay goes back to Sara's parents house. He says he needs to see Lagan. He has been away to long.
Brooke asks is her dad just came to town to see her. He says no they can sell Bakerman.
Jamie and Nate are playing go fish. Jamie is asking if they can all go camping when Grandpa Dan gets out. Nate says he isnt getting out this time. Nate says he is dying. Jamie asks if Nate has told Lydia yet cause he will her.
Dan is remembering all the close calls he had with death. Haley walks in with Lydia. Haley says Lucas wont be coming. Dan says he understands. He apologies to Haley for taking away Keith and says she is the best thing that could have happened to Nate. She lets him hold Lydia. Jamie walks in. He says he is supposed to be tough but he doesnt feel very tough.
Clay brings Logan an airplane. he gets excited then sets it down. Clay talked about being sick again. Logan asks about him wondering away again. Clay said he wasnt wondering away he was looking for something and he found it. Logan gets up and gives him a hug. Clay smiles.
Brooke is putting the babies down. Julian asks is she is ok. Julian said she should tell him exactly how she feels.
Dan is remembering the dealership fire. Deb is in the room. She tells him he has done a good thing. He tells her to stop blaming herself for Keith's death.
Nathans asks how Haley is so strong. How she does it. He has never lost anyone so close. He feels guilty for hating him for so long. She says he might need closure and he should go talk with him
Brooke tells her dad she is not selling Baker man.
Clay introduces Logan to Quinn.
Brooke is looking at sketches. She is upset by her dad's betrayal.
Nathan is with his dad. They are talking on the RiverCourt. They talk about Keith and what happened in the hallway when he shot him. He says he was just so jealous of Keith that he thought if he pulled the trigger it would all get better but when he did it just got worse and so he apologized to Nathan. Nathan said you don't need to apologize to me that he is his dad and he loves him. They get and play some ball on the River court just ball no scores. At this point monitors start to go off and you realize Dan is dying. Dan opens his eyes and he sees Keith. Keith takes him to the school where the shooting takes place in the school. Dan apologizes and Keith forgives him.
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A little while ago, I had a chance to visit New York's City Hall, where Michael Bloomberg – the former trader-turned-financial-information-mogul – now works as mayor. As I entered his empire, I experienced a small shock.
During my career as a journalist, I have often walked through government buildings, and become accustomed to seeing a rabbit warren. Across the western world, senior officials typically work from offices interconnected by corridors, guarded by secretaries in ante-chambers.
Bloomberg's building in downtown Manhattan, though, is different. He sits in a vast, airy, open-plan room, surrounded by officials and banks of giant data screens (showing information on things such as traffic flows or public satisfaction with the police). Anybody holding a meeting is encouraged to sit on a central, raised dais, rather than scuttle into a private hole; the idea, as one employee explained, is to encourage a climate of transparency and collaboration. In theory, in other words, anyone in the mayor's office can see – and yell at – everyone else; much as they can on a modern financial trading floor or at a newspaper (which, of course, is no accident given that Bloomberg spent most of his career building the financial information giant that bears his name).
Is this open-plan spirit a good thing? It is a fascinating and important question. Many of us spend an inordinate amount of time in the office, and – as anthropologists, architects and psychologists often note – the way we are physically organised shapes how we work and think in a profound way. Yet, generally, we barely even notice our surroundings. Except, that is, when somebody such as Bloomberg tries to shake things up.
But the idea of an "office" – let alone its layout – has not been constant. It first cropped up in Roman times, when magistrates worked in temples and palaces. These typically included a place for storing scrolls, where scribes worked. In subsequent centuries, scroll-keeping continued to dominate, eventually creating the first quasi-cubicle system. By the Middle Ages in Europe, scribes in "offices" were dealing with so much paper that they created a tradition of piling their scrolls high around their individual desks – giving a feeling of "privacy".
In the 19th century, this trend towards separation intensified, as clerks started to surround their desks with more papers and machines, and bosses expressed hierarchies by retreating to a superior enclave. But in the early 20th century, a new idea spread in American companies: that top managers should watch their workers to keep productivity high. Consequently, "flat top" desks proliferated, to permit oversight (even though bosses continued to retreat to private offices away from the staff, à la Mad Men). Then, in the 1960s, an industrial designer called Robert Propst hit on the ingenious idea of the cubicle office system, and it became fashionable to divide office workers again, to preserve privacy.
But in the past decade, that pendulum has swung back: most large companies have – like Bloomberg – embraced the idea of open-plan space in the hope of promoting collaboration. In truth, corporate experiences of this arrangement are very mixed, as two decades of research by management consultants Anne-Laure Fayard and John Weeks shows. "There's some evidence that removing physical barriers and bringing people closer to one another does promote casual interactions," they wrote last year in an utterly fascinating piece in the Harvard Business Review (which should be required reading for any bosses planning an office design). "But there's a roughly equal amount of evidence that because open spaces reduce privacy, they don't foster informal exchanges and may actually inhibit them."
The key issue, apparently, is whether employees feel any sense of control. "People must feel confident that they can converse without being interrupted or overheard… [and]… must also be able to avoid interacting when they want to," they write. Without that potential for privacy, staff will instead choose to conduct important business out of the office, or retreat into private "cyber caves", doing their work entirely online. Moreover, to promote "collaboration", office bosses must not only approve informal debate, but also promote shared activities within a semi-private space. Congregating around photocopiers and coffee machines helps employees "bond" and share creative ideas, Fayard and Weeks say; creating formal "lounges" does not (Scandinavian Airlines is apparently a wonderful case study for how to get things wrong).
How Bloomberg's open-plan design at City Hall stacks up, on these metrics, is tough to assess from the outside (the employees I spoke to seemed pretty happy, but it may be early days). But, as someone who has worked in both a rabbit warren and an open-plan environment, I strongly favour the latter, and wish that more governments would adopt the system too. After all, in times of austerity – and when the "Occupy" movements are protesting just a few blocks from Bloomberg's City Hall – anything that promotes greater transparency and egalitarianism seems a thoroughly good idea. Knocking down walls, in other words, may seem like mere symbolism; but, like all symbols, it can be a powerful place to start.


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The new season of "Teen Mom" starts Tuesday night (June 12) on MTV with perhaps its most notorious character — Amber Portwood — in jail and serving a sentence of up to five years for drug possession.
Amber's life leading up to her current woes will be one of the storylines the show will pursue in this, its final season, according to MTV and this story on the showbiz Web site HollywoodLife.com.
In addition to Amber, the show will also feature returning characters Farrah Abraham of Hollywood, Fla., Maci Bookout of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Catelynn Lowell of Port Huron, Mich., MTV says.
Hollywood Life says the season premiere has Amber talking candidly about her legal troubles, which, at the time the show was filmed, preceded her current jail sentence. "So, I plead guilty to first and third degree of domestic battery, two class A felonies, and they took off the neglect of a child," the Web site quotes her as saying on the show. "My plea is two years probation and 30-60 days in rehab for anger control, substance abuse, and mental health."
In a press release, MTV had this description of the Amber storyline: "After dealing with intense emotional struggles, events escalate and Amber enters rehab. Although she tries to heal herself and find balance, her anxiety heightens as she worries that her daughter Leah will forget her while she's gone. Her relationship with Gary continues to be turbulent, but they try to work on their issues in hopes of keeping their family together."
Currently, Portwood is in an Indiana jail starting a five-year stretch that she could have avoided if she had reported to a court-mandated rehabilitation program. But just this month, her sentence was reinstated after she failed to appear for rehab.
Our take on "Teen Mom": What amazes us is how fast this TV show came and went. It was less than three years ago that this show first made its debut — in December 2009 — but it made an almost-immediate impact on the popular culture, igniting a debate about teen pregnancy.
Some (including MTV executives and publicists) said the show dealt honestly with the consequences of teen-aged pregnancy, showing young viewers the challenges and pitfalls of becoming parents while still in high school — lessons that would hopefully discourage them from engaging in unprotected sex.
But others felt the show glamorized teen pregnancy, particularly when the "stars" of "Teen Mom" came to be seen increasingly on the covers of entertainment magazines displayed on newsstands and supermarket magazine racks. Critics said this had the effect of actually encouraging some attention-starved teens to become pregnant.
Which side are we on in this debate? Neither, since we make no claim to understanding the behavior of teenagers.
The new season of "Teen Mom" starts with two back-to-back episodes on Tuesday, June 12, at 10/9c on MTV.


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Not seen this problem, we have applications using LocationListener that stop and restart (using SystemListener methods) correctly during device restart on the levels of OS you are talking about.
How do you kick it back into life once this happens?
Just had a quick look at the code, and can't quickly figure what it is doing, sorry, but I think the theory is as follows:
1) Your application is autostarted
2) On autostart, you add the app as a SystemListener.
3) Then you check to see if you are in the startup phase using ApplicationManager.inStartup(). If you are in startup you can't do any UI processing, so you may delay your startup till SystemListener powerUp() is called, otherwise you can do it straight away (the second case covers installation time).
4) You stop your threads etc. in SystemListener powerOff().
I believe I have had problems assuming the RuntimeStore would be cleared over a 'soft' power down and restart (such happens when you press the mute key), but adding a SystemListener as described above solved that.
What I can tell you, from my review of the code, is that it will find it has NOT had a valid GPS location for some time (because the device has been powered down) and this will cause it to stop and restart the Location Provider - it could be this stop and restart, rather than the handling of the powerOff and powerUp that provokes the recovery.
Hope this helps.