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Lorenzo Corsini) (1730-1740) Born Florence, 1652; died Rome. He was Archbishop of Nicomedia, nuncio to Vienna, and Cardinal–Bishop of Frascati. As pope, he established a foreign mission among the Copts in Egypt, promulgated the first decree against Freemasonry, encouraged reunion with the Greek Church, beautified Rome, and improved its public works.


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Dianne Brill Lip Gloss Review, Photos, Swatches, and FOTD
The Muse loves obscure, unique, and interesting brands! She always loves exploring cracks and corners where other makeup addicts fell to look and coming across exciting new items that she's never heard of! She's a beauty adventure on the path to fortune and glory. By the way I don't even know what that means but when Indiana Jones said it, it sounded important and stuff! Shrug!
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The present paper studies the growth and efficiency consequences of tax-favored individual retirement accounts in a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic lifespan and labor income uncertainty. We distinguish between economies with rational and with hyperbolic consumers and compare the consequences of mandatory and voluntary retirement plans with and without annuitized benefits. While a full taxation of capital income yields the highest efficiency gains in the rational consumer model, annuitization and hyperbolic discounting substantially improve the economic efficiency of IRAs. We also show that annuitization alters the intergenerational welfare consequences of the reform substantially, since it reduces accidental bequests. Finally, even if mandatory saving programs have a clear cost advantage, they are only recommendable if consumers are myopic. individual retirement accounts, annuities, stochastic general equilibrium, hyperbolic consumers
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This report represents an ongoing effort at the Utah State Tax Commission Economic and Statistical Unit to calculate family based data from individual returns. Since the data is based on tax returns and tax definitions of income, and since the aggregation is not perfect, this data should not be expected to conform to other sources of family or household data. This report groups returns into larger units, such as households or families. We group returns that show the same last name, ZIP Code, and first part of the address into a unit, generally a family. This groups minors with their parents, if they use the same name and address. It also groups a married couple living with the husband's parents (same last name). However, it would not group a married couple living with the wife's parents (different last names).
This publication reports for the data for the State, for counties, for cities and ZIP Codes. We have also included a table reporting mean and median incomes (AGI) for cities, using both a return approach and a Afamily@ approach. We have produced a similar table for counties for the first time.
We believe the value of this report is in the detailed tables. Nonetheless, we have prepared a summary table and graph which compare the household perspective with the return perspective by county. The accompanying tables give, for the state as a whole, and for each county, both the number of returns filed with the IRS and the number of households our method yields. In addition, it reports per return and per household data for both adjusted gross income (AGI) and exemptions. For the state as whole, the number of returns was about 25 percent higher than the number of households; thus the corresponding AGI and was 25 percent greater than the return values. A quick glance at the table, reveals the largest differences were in Morgan, Davis, Utah, and Wasatch counties. The smallest differences were in Wayne, Daggett, and Piute counties. The median difference was 24%.


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Part I Network Services Topics
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By using PPPoE, you can provide PPP over high-speed digital services to multiple clients that are using one or more DSL modems. PPPoE implements these services by creating an Ethernet tunnel through three participants: the enterprise, the telephone company, and the service provider.
For an overview and description of how PPPoE works, see PPPoE Overview.
For tasks for setting up PPPoE tunnels, see Chapter 20, Setting Up a PPPoE Tunnel (Tasks).
This section contains detailed information about PPPoE commands and files, which is summarized in the next table.
Table 22-2 PPPoE Commands and Configuration Files
The interfaces that are used at either end of the PPPoE tunnel must be configured before the tunnel can support PPP communications. Use /usr/sbin/sppptun and /etc/ppp/pppoe.if files for this purpose. You must use these tools to configure Ethernet interfaces on all Solaris PPPoE clients and PPPoE access servers.
The /etc/ppp/pppoe.if file lists the names of all Ethernet interfaces on a host to be used for the PPPoE tunnels. This file is processed during system boot when the interfaces that are listed are plumbed for use in PPPoE tunnels.
You need to create explicitly /etc/ppp/pppoe.if. Type the name of one interface to be configured for PPPoE on each line.
The following example shows an /etc/ppp/pppoe.if file for a server that offers three interfaces for PPPoE tunnels.
# cat /etc/ppp/pppoe.if hme1 hme2 hme3
PPPoE clients usually have only one interface that is listed in /etc/ppp/pppoe.if.
You can use the /usr/sbin/sppptun command to manually plumb and unplumb the Ethernet interfaces to be used for PPPoE tunnels. By contrast, /etc/ppp/pppoe.if is only read when the system boots. These interfaces should correspond to the interfaces that are listed in /etc/ppp/pppoe.if.
sppptun plumbs the Ethernet interfaces that are used in PPPoE tunnels in a manner that is similar to the ifconfig command. Unlike ifconfig, you must plumb interfaces twice to support PPPoE because two Ethernet protocol numbers are involved.
The basic syntax for sppptun is as follows:
# /usr/sbin/sppptun plumb pppoed device-name device-name:pppoed # /usr/sbin/sppptun plumb pppoe device-name device-name:pppoe
In this syntax, device-name is the name of the device to be plumbed for PPPoE.
The first time that you issue the sppptun command, the discovery protocol pppoed is plumbed on the interface. The second time that you run sppptun, the session protocol pppoe is plumbed. sppptun prints the name of the interface that was just plumbed. You use this name to unplumb the interface, when necessary.
For more information, refer to the sppptun(1M) man page.
The following example shows how to manually plumb an interface for PPPoE by using /usr/sbin/sppptun.
# /usr/sbin/sppptun plumb pppoed hme0 hme0:pppoed # /dev/sppptun plumb pppoe hme0 hme0:pppoe
This example shows how to list the interfaces on an access server that was plumbed for PPPoE.
# /usr/sbin/sppptun query hme0:pppoe hme0:pppoed hme1:pppoe hme1:pppoed hme2:pppoe hme2:pppoed
This example shows how to unplumb an interface.
# sppptun unplumb hme0:pppoed # sppptun unplumb hme0:pppoe
A service provider that offers DSL services or support to customers can use an access server that is running PPPoE. The PPPoE access server and client do function in the traditional client-server relationship. This relationship is similar to the relationship of the dial-out machine and dial-in server on a dial-up link. One PPPoE system initiates communications and one PPPoE system answers. By contrast, the PPP protocol has no notion of the client-server relationship. PPP considers both systems equal peers.
The commands and files that set up a PPPoE access server include the following:
The pppoed daemon accepts broadcasts for services from prospective PPPoE clients. Additionally, pppoed negotiates the server side of the PPPoE tunnel and runs pppd, the PPP daemon, over that tunnel.
You configure pppoed services in the /etc/ppp/pppoe and /etc/ppp/pppoe.device files. If /etc/ppp/pppoe exists when the system boots, pppoed runs automatically. You can also explicitly run the pppoed daemon on the command line by typing /usr/lib/inet/pppoed.
The /etc/ppp/pppoe file describes the services that are offered by an access server plus options that define how PPP runs over the PPPoE tunnel. You can define services for individual interfaces, or globally, that is, for all interfaces on the access server. The access server sends the information in the /etc/ppp/pppoe file in response to a broadcast from a potential PPPoE client.
The following is the basic syntax of /etc/ppp/pppoe:
global-options service service-name service-specific-options device interface-name
The parameters have the following meanings.
Sets the default options for the /etc/ppp/pppoe file. These options can be any options that are available through pppoed or pppd. For complete lists of options, see the man pages pppoed(1M) and pppd(1M).
For example, you must list the Ethernet interfaces that are available for the PPPoE tunnel as part of global options. If you do not define devices in /etc/ppp/pppoe, the services are not offered on any interface.
To define devices as a global option, use the following form:
device interface <,interface>
interface specifies the interface where the service listens for potential PPPoE clients. If more than one interface is associated with the service, separate each name with a comma.
Starts the definition of the service service-name. service-name is a string that can be any phrase that is appropriate to the services that are provided.
Lists the PPPoE and PPP options specific to this service.
Specifies the interface where the previously listed service is available.
For additional options to /etc/ppp/pppoe, refer to the pppoed(1M) and pppd(1M) man pages.
A typical /etc/ppp/pppoe file might resemble the following.
Example 22-2 Basic /etc/ppp/pppoe File
device hme1,hme2,hme3 service internet pppd "name internet-server" service intranet pppd "192.168.1.1:" service debug device hme1 pppd "debug name internet-server"
In this file, the following values apply.
Three interfaces on the access server to be used for PPPoE tunnels.
Advertises a service that is called internet to prospective clients. The provider that offers the service also determines how internet is defined. For example, a provider might interpret internet to mean various IP services, as well as access to the Internet.
Sets the command-line options that are used when the caller invokes pppd. The option "name internet-server" gives the name of the local machine, the access server, as internet-server.
Advertises another service that is called intranet to prospective clients.
Sets the command-line options that are used when the caller invokes pppd. When the caller invokes pppd, 192.168.1.1 is set as the IP address for the local machine, the access server.
Advertises a third service, debugging, on the interfaces that are defined for PPPoE.
Restricts debugging to PPPoE tunnels to hme1.
Sets the command-line options that are used when the caller invokes pppd, in this instance, PPP debugging on internet-server, the local machine.
The /etc/ppp/pppoe.device file describes the services that are offered on one interface of a PPPoE access server. /etc/ppp/pppoe.device also includes options that define how PPP runs over the PPPoE tunnel. /etc/ppp/pppoe.device is an optional file, which operates exactly like the global /etc/ppp/pppoe. However, if /etc/ppp/pppoe.device is defined for an interface, its parameters have precedence for that interface over the global parameters that are defined in /etc/ppp/pppoe.
The basic syntax of /etc/ppp/pppoe.device is as follows:
service service-name service-specific-options service another-service-name service-specific-options
The only difference between this syntax and the syntax of /etc/ppp/pppoe is that you cannot use the device option that is shown in /etc/ppp/pppoe File.
pppoe.so is the PPPoE shared object file that must be invoked by PPPoE access servers and clients. This file limits MTU and MRU to 1492, filters packets from the driver, and negotiates the PPPoE tunnel, along with pppoed. On the access server side, pppoe.so is automatically invoked by the pppd daemon.
This section contains samples of all files that are used to configure an access server. The access server is multihomed. The server is attached to three subnets: green, orange, and purple. pppoed runs as root on the server, which is the default.
PPPoE clients can access the orange and purple networks through interfaces hme0 and hme1. Clients log in to the server by using the standard UNIX login. The server authenticates the clients by using PAP.
The green network is not advertised to clients. The only way clients can access green is by directly specifying "green-net" and supplying CHAP authentication credentials. Moreover, only clients joe and mary are allowed to access the green network by using static IP addresses.
Example 22-3 /etc/ppp/pppoe File for an Access Server
service orange-net device hme0,hme1 pppd "require-pap login name orange-server orange-server:" service purple-net device hme0,hme1 pppd "require-pap login name purple-server purple-server:" service green-net device hme1 pppd "require-chap name green-server green-server:" nowildcard
This sample describes the services that are available from the access server. The first service section describes the services of the orange network.
service orange-net device hme0,hme1 pppd "require-pap login name orange-server orange-server:"
Clients access the orange network over interfaces hme0 and hme1. The options that are given to the pppd command force the server to require PAP credentials from potential clients. The pppd options also set the server's name to orange-server, as used in the pap-secrets file.
The service section for the purple network is identical to the service section of the orange network except for the network and server names.
The next section describes the services of the green network:
service green-net device hme1 pppd "require-chap name green-server green-server:" nowildcard
This section restricts client access to interface hme1. Options that are given to the pppd command force the server to require CHAP credentials from prospective clients. The pppd options also set the server name to green-server, to be used in the chap-secrets file. The nowildcard option specifies that the existence of the green network is not advertised to clients.
For this access server scenario just discussed, you might set up the following /etc/ppp/options file.
Example 22-4 /etc/ppp/options File for an Access Server
auth proxyarp nodefaultroute name no-service # don't authenticate otherwise
The option name no-service overrides the server name that is normally searched for during PAP or CHAP authentication. The server's default name is the one found by the /usr/bin/hostname command. The name option in the previous example changes the server's name to no-service. The name no-service is not likely to be found in a pap or chap-secrets file. This action prevents a random user from running pppd and overriding the auth and name options that are set in /etc/ppp/options. pppd then fails because no secrets can be found for the client with a server name of no-service.
The access server scenario uses the following /etc/hosts file.
Example 22-5 /etc/hosts File for an Access Server
172.16.0.1 orange-server 172.17.0.1 purple-server 172.18.0.1 green-server 172.18.0.2 joes-pc 172.18.0.3 marys-pc
Here is the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file that is used for PAP authentication for clients that attempt to access the orange and purple networks.
Example 22-6 /etc/ppp/pap-secrets File for an Access Server
* orange-server "" 172.16.0.2/16+ * purple-server "" 172.17.0.2/16+
Here is the /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file that is used for CHAP authentication. Note that only clients joe and mary are listed in the file.
Example 22-7 /etc/ppp/chap-secrets File for an Access Server
joe green-server "joe's secret" joes-pc mary green-server "mary's secret" marys-pc
To run PPP over a DSL modem, a machine must become a PPPoE client. You have to plumb an interface to run PPPoE, and then use the pppoec utility to "discover" the existence of an access server. Thereafter, the client can create the PPPoE tunnel over the DSL modem and run PPP.
The PPPoE client relates to the access server in the traditional client-server model. The PPPoE tunnel is not a dial-up link, but the tunnel is configured and operated in much the same manner.
The commands and files that set up a PPPoE client include the following:
The /usr/lib/inet/pppoec utility is responsible for negotiating the client side of a PPPoE tunnel. pppoec is similar to the chat utility. You do not invoke pppoec directly. Rather, you start /usr/lib/inet/pppoec as an argument to the connect option of pppd.
pppoe.so is the PPPoE shared object that must be loaded by PPPoE to provide PPPoE capability to access servers and clients. The pppoe.so shared object limits MTU and MRU to 1492, filters packets from the driver, and handles runtime PPPoE messages.
On the client side, pppd loads pppoe.so when the user specifies the plugin pppoe.so option.
When you define an access server to be discovered by pppoec, you use options that apply to both pppoec and the pppd daemon. An /etc/ppp/peers/peer-name file for an access server requires the following parameters:
sppptun – Name for the serial device that is used by the PPPoE tunnel.
plugin pppoe.so – Instructs pppd to load the pppoe.so shared object.
connect "/usr/lib/inet/pppoec device" – Starts a connection. connect then invokes the pppoec utility over device, the interface that is plumbed for PPPoE.
The remaining parameters in the /etc/ppp/peers/peer-name file should apply to the PPP link on the server. Use the same options that you would for /etc/ppp/peers/peer-name on a dial-out machine. Try to limit the number of options to the minimum you need for the PPP link.
The following example is introduced in How to Define a PPPoE Access Server Peer.
Example 22-8 /etc/ppp/peers/peer-name to Define a Remote Access Server
# cat /etc/ppp/peers/dslserve sppptun plugin pppoe.so connect "/usr/lib/inet/pppoec hme0" noccp noauth user Red password redsecret noipdefault defaultroute
This file defines parameters to be used when setting up a PPPoE tunnel and PPP link to access server dslserve. The options that are included are as follows.


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JaMarcus Russell was back in town. Sleek, dedicated, ready to play.
Hey, if Greg Papa can tell from a video that Russell's face is thinner, who are we to disagree?
That's what Papa gleaned from the Comcast SportsNet Bay Area "exclusive" in which poor Kate Longworth and a camera man were reduced to chasing alongside Russell to sneak in a few questions about his first offseason conditioning session.
This came a day after Willie Brown talked about the quarterback's "significant" weight loss and newfound dedication after a difficult 2009.
The Raiders official company line?
No comment. Russell won't be made available for the team for anything substantial until minicamp.
Seems to me if you're convinced Russell is a new man, you waste no time shouting it from the rooftops, arranging interviews and photo opportunities to placate a fan base that voiced their displeasure in the form of boos a year ago. Some of these people are on the fence about renewing their season tickets and a little off-season optimism might push them back in the direction of the Coliseum.
There are only two reasons why the Raiders keep Russell under wraps:
1) They're not convinced. Russell has a lot to make up for, and dropping a few pounds is only just a start. Let him win back his teammates for a few weeks and demonstrate something beyond merely showing up.
This story will play out over time and Russell needs to prove himself before he opens his mouth, although the Longworth interview had worthwhile comic elements.
2) To hell with the media, a longstanding Al Davis tradition. You cover the Raiders long enough, you get to know a lot of former employees in and around the media relations department who are eager to tell you how their hands were tied by a team philosophy. Don't do anything to help them do the media do their jobs.
As a media member, you get used to it and work around it. But there are times when it does a disservice to the players.
If scenario No. 1 is the reason for keeping Russell away from public view, then why would Brown be on Comcast SportsNet with Papa, who serves as both the team's voice and pro-Al mouthpiece?
The second scenario is the one that hurts a player like Russell whose public image in the Bay Area in particular could use some shrewd handling.
Take, for example, Russell's disastrous 2009 season and how it was dealt with.
If it seemed that every game was preceded by a week-long examination of the quarterback position and it's failings, part of it has to do with the routine of an NFL season and how the the Raiders failed to understand how it works.
Every season I've covered the Raiders, quarterbacks have seemed to have an understanding on how to best deal with the publicity demands of the position.
Especially after a bad game, every one of them _ without exception _ would plant themselves in front of their locker on Monday and take questions.
Although he didn't lose that often, Rich Gannon's expression was almost defiant, as if to say, `Here I am. Take your best shot."
Kerry Collins did it, as did Josh McCown, Andrew Walter, Bruce Gradkowski and whoever else had the job.
It wasn't because they wanted to relive the experience.
They did it because they learned at previous stops that the best way to put a bad game to bed was to be done with it on Monday.
By doing so, their midweek press commitment (usually on Wednesday) became about looking ahead, rather than behind.
Russell almost never talks on Mondays, and decided to hold his weekly press conference in Thursday.
By doing so, after a poor game, the coverage took a familiar tone. On Monday, Russell's teammates talk about the poor play at quarterback. The player's day off on Tuesday has residual notes on the same subject. Wednesday might have something different, but on Thursday, Russell finally spoke and the whole issue is dredged up all over again.
Keeping in mind that for print purposes, Monday is for Tuesday, Tuesday is for Wednesday, etc., that means quarterback play becomes a primary focus for nearly the entire week simply because Russell hides out on Monday and doesn't speak until Thursday.
No one with any clout has sat Russell down and told him how it works.
The Raiders take the position that they don't owe the media (and by extension, their fans) anything, and operate in a cone of silence, and it's as painfully inept as the the one The Chief and Maxwell Smart utilized on"Get Smart."
Which, of course, doesn't stop the Raiders from feeling persecuted about how the message is conveyed even though they make no professional attempt in conveying it.


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How to Get Free Money – These 15 Companies Will Give You $1,935.20
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Who says there's no such thing as a free lunch?
Every year businesses give away thousands of dollars in free money and gift cards as a way of promoting their websites/products. We've put together a list of 15 of them who will give you a ridiculous $1,935.20 in free cash right now.
Some of them are as simple as filling out a form and some of them take a bit more effort, but you can easily knock out all of them in a couple of hours.
Without further ado, here are the 15 companies giving out free money right now….
1. Open a Netspend.com Account – FREE $20.00
This is another easy $20 just for requesting a prepaid, reloadable card from Netspend. I've tested this one and over 200 hundred readers have cashed in on this, so you know it's a good one.
1. Click HERE and "Open a NetSpend account" for FREE. Use the promotion code "1180516423"
2. You will receive your NetSpend "Visa" Debit card within 10 business days. Mine made it here in 4 days.
3. Once you receive the card, simply log into NetSpend and activate it.
4. In order to get the FREE $20, you'll need to load the card with a minimum of $40.00 using PayPal, a bank account or one of the other many options.
5. Once you load the $40.00, NetSpend will add $20.00 to your available balance on the card. I confirmed this myself with my own card.
6. Go to the ATM and withdraw the $60.00 total from your card or spend the funds at your local store, online, or wherever you can use a credit card. Yes, if you withdraw the money via ATM or cash back, you'll be hit with the $2.00 fee for a PIN transaction or a $2.50 ATM Fee (would only be $17.50 – $18.00 bonus in this case). But, you can avoid the fee by ACH transferring it for free back to your bank
Read more it here: "Free $20 Cash for Signing Up at Netspend"
2. Get Paid to Complete Surveys at Swagbucks – FREE $30.00
There are a number of sites on the web that will pay you to read advertiser's emails, sign up for offers, and take surveys. I've tried about a million of them, but there are only a few of them that I would recommend. Swagbucks is one of those companies and I want to show you how I made $30 in one month taking surveys.
It's completely free to join Swagbucks, plus they give you $5 just for signing up.Most of you know surveys aren't my favorite way to make extra money, because they can be a little time-consuming. But, I make an exception when I'm just vegging out on the couch. I figure as long as I'm just watching TV, I can click a few buttons at the same time.
Sign up for this at the beginning of the month and promise yourself that you'll login a few times each week. You'll have no trouble earning an extra $30 this month.
Read more about it here: "The Beginner's Guide to Swagbucks"
3. Download this App & Get a FREE $75/year
There's a new company called "Smart Panel" and they will literally pay you to download their free app.
The apps purpose is to collect anonymous statistics from your phone to help your favorite web sites, apps, tech companies, and mobile carriers give you better services and more features. They want to know how long you're spending on Facebook each week, what YouTube videos you like, and how often you check your email.
It's run by Verto Analytics which is a trusted analytics firm.
Here's how it works…
1. You can't download this from the app store. Here's the promo link. It's free to download.
2. Once you've qualified and downloaded the app, they will give you $5. If you keep it installed for at least two weeks, you'll earn another $10. And then for every month that you keep the Smart App installed, you'll get another $5. All total, you can earn up to $75 for the 1st year!
You can redeem your rewards via Paypal or an Amazon.com gift card.
4. Sign Up for a Bank Bonus – FREE $250.00
There are a number of banks that will give you free cash just for opening a new account.
There's no harm in having multiple bank accounts. In fact, I often find it's helpful to have multiple places to save (I'm less likely to touch the money), so I have savings accounts for my Christmas fund & my vacation fund.
The top bank bonus is $250 right now — head over to this list to see all of the banks in you area that are offering free cash.
5. Trade Stocks at MotifInvesting.com – FREE $90.05
Motif Investing is unique among online brokers, because instead of picking individual stocks, you invest in a cluster of stocks (usually 20 to 30) from a similar field. Sort of like a mutual fund, but the motifs range from Clean Energy, to Republican Companies, to Healthy and Tasty, to Obamacare. Basically any interest you have or trend you'd like to invest in can be found on Motif…
Even, better they're giving away a ton of cash right now. If you open a new account with $1,000 and make one trade, you'll earn $100.
Now Motif charges $9.95 for each trade you make, so you're going to net $90.05 in extra cash with this one. That's like getting all of your transaction fees free AND earning $100 extra. Sweet! Signup here.
Read more about it here: "How to Make $100 This Week with Motif Investing"
6. Do Your Shopping via Ebates.com – FREE $10.00
The folks over at Ebates are giving away $10 gift cards when you sign-up as a new member. You can choose either a $10 Target, Walmart, Macy's, or Kohl's gift card. You need to make a $25 purchase at any of the stores on their shopping list in order to qualify for the free gift card.
I certainly don't recommend spending $25 just to get a $10 gift card, but if you have plans to buy something online anyway, I would definitely cash in on this… Especially if you've got a gift card from a birthday or Christmas that needs to be spent. Look at this as a way to get a little bit extra back on your purchase.
Some of the cash-back offers I use frequently include the 3% back on iTunes purchases, 1% back on Apple store purchases, and 3% back on Target purchases. But there are a ton of stores to pick from as well.
Read more about it here: "Get a FREE $10 Target Gift Card from Ebates.com"
7 – 11. Sign Up for a New Credit Card – FREE $1,425.00
One of the best ways for a Penny Hoarder to make some serious extra cash is to take advantage of credit card sign up bonuses. Of course, to get the most benefit, you should have excellent credit, and you should routinely pay off your credit card in full each month so you're not paying interest. (After all, every time you pay interest, you're losing some of the positive effects of the bonuses.)
Just recently I received over $1,300+ in credit card bonuses by selectively choosing new cards to apply for and use. All I had to do was put my regular spending on the credit card over the course of a few months.
The US Airways Premier World MasterCard® – $400 Signup Bonus
American Express Gold – $250 Signup Bonus
US Bank FlexPerks Card – $175 Signup Bonus
Chase Sapphire Preferred Card – $400 Signup Bonus
Citi ThankYou Preferred Card – $200 Signup Bonus
For those of you wondering, here's a great article on how to do this without hurting your credit score: How Opening and Closing Credit Cards Affects Your Credit Score
Read more about it here: "5 Credit Card Promotions That Made me $1,375"
12. Take 5 Minutes and Open a Betterment.com Account – FREE $25.00
Betterment is a simple, online tool that allows anyone to invest in stocks & bonds without incurring transaction fees. It's become pretty popular with small investors who want to start saving, but can't afford the expensive fees you find at places like Etrade.com and Merrill Lynch. Plus, they'll give you a free $25 just to signup!
1.) Open a free account at Betterment.com. The form takes about 90 seconds to fill out, so can literally do this while sitting in the doctor's office or while watching television.
2.) You need to make an opening deposit of $250 or more within 60 days of opening your account. If you're not ready to make a deposit right now, my advice is that you go ahead and fill out the Betterment promotion form today. You can always make the deposit later, but this way you'll have the promotion locked in, just in case the promotion ends.
3.) Once you've deposited $250 (and waited 60 days), Betterment.com will deposit a FREE $25 bonus into your account. How easy is that? You can then withdraw your entire account balance or you can keep the $275 invested and earning interest with Betterment.
Right now this is USA only.
Read more about it here: "How to Make $25 While Sitting in a Waiting Room"
13. Open an Account at Serve.com – FREE $50.00
Update: This offer has ended.
Serve is American Express's version of a prepaid, reloadable card and they are offering $50 when you open a free account, sign up for direct deposit and have two direct deposits put in your account. That's a FREE $50 for about 5 minutes of work. Sweet!
And here's a tip: You can direct deposit a number of things besides your regular paycheck. I like to keep my paycheck going to my primary bank account, but for bank bonuses, I use other sources of income to fund it. Try to think of another place that you get monthly income from. Do you get a social security check? Insurance check? Second job income? Mystery shopping payouts? A number of the "paid-to-email" sites also offer direct deposit. I know that Fusion Cash does, because I get a nice cash-out from them on the 20th of every month.
Here's a link to the promo page: Serve.com $50 Bonus
Read more about Serve.com here: "How to Get a Free $50 from Serve.com"
14. Transfer Your Prescription to a New Drug Store – $25.00
If you have a monthly prescription from your doctor, I've got an easy way for you to make $25 bucks a month…
Several of the national grocery and drug store chains have been know to run promotions where they will give you free cash or a gift card when you transfer a prescription to their store. For example, this month Walgreens is running a promotion where they will give you a $25 gift card for transferring a prescription to your local Walgreens.
You can usually find these coupons in your Sunday newspaper circulars or on coupon blogs like DealSeekingMom.com and MoneySavingMom.com.
If you can't find a coupon for a specific location, ask your store manager if they'll accept a competitor coupon. You can then take the Walgreens coupon (or another one that you find) and have your store match it. Lots of stores will do this including Publix and some Walmarts, CVS's, and Rite Aids.
Read more about this trick here: "Here's a neat trick to make $25/month if you have a prescription…"
15. Take a Few Surveys with MySurvey.com – $15
Most of you know that I hate survey companies.
There are so many scammy sites out there and often times taking a survey is little pay for a lot of work. However, one of the exceptions I make is with MySurvey.
They're one of the oldest online survey companies and they have an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.
The reason I like MySurvey so much is that they pay you for even the surveys you don't qualify for. You see, most survey companies make you take a "qualifying survey" before you are given access to the paid survey. And if you don't meet the qualifications for that particular survey, you earn nothing (despite the fact that you spent 5 annoying minutes answering questions).
MySurvey is different – even if you aren't given access to the full survey, they will still pay you for answering the questions in the qualifying survey. Pretty cool, huh? Now, you're not going to get rich answering surveys, but it can be a fun way to make an extra couple hundred dollars a year. Heck, I do them as I'm watching TV. Each survey pays differently, but on average I earn an extra $15/month for taking a few surveys.
Signup for MySurvey.com here. (USA only)
Read more about it here: "The 9 Best Survey Sites to Make Extra Money"
There you have it. If you've finished the list, you've just made $1,935.20 in FREE money.
Feel free to take the weekend off.
Good luck Penny Hoarders!
Note: we want to be up front with you on this – we may have a relationship with some of these companies. While we genuinely recommend them, we do want you to be aware that they're a sponsor and are helping to grow The Penny Hoarder as a community.


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This pumpkin bread is like pumpkin pie in the form of bread! It is made so moist thanks to the pure pumpkin and brown sugar glaze.
for the bread:
1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1 cup light brown sugar, packed
1 can (15 oz.) pure pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling)
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup water
For the glaze:
1 tbsp. butter
1/4 cup brown sugar
3 tbsp. milk
1/4 cup chopped pecans (optional)
Start pouring your warm glaze over the warm bread. Try to pour slowly to allow that glaze to seep in the holes you poked.
For the bread:
- 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1 (15 oz) can pure pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/3 cup water
For the glaze:
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 3 tbsp milk
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans, optional
- Preheat oven to 325F degrees (350F if using a metal loaf pan).
- Spray loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a medium bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and spices.
- In a separate mixing bowl, mix together brown sugar, canned pumpkin, eggs, oil and water.
- Stir well to combine.
- Add dry ingredients to wet and stir just until blended together. Be careful not to overmix.
- Pour into loaf pan and bake for about an hour to an hour and 15 minutes.
- (It took about 75 minutes in my oven using a 8.5in. x 4.5in. pyrex loaf pan)
- Oven times will vary so just be sure to check your bread after the first 50 minutes. Insert a toothpick to test if it is completely baked through.
- When bread is almost finished, start working on the glaze.
- In a small saucepan, whisk together butter, brown sugar and milk.
- Bring it up to a boil for about 2 minutes.
- Stir constantly so it doesn't burn.
- When your bread is finished (while still warm), start poking a bunch of holes in it using a fork.
- This will allow some of the glaze to seep into the bread.
- Be sure to put a paper towel underneath your loaf pan too because once you start pouring the glaze, it may go a little over the edge.
- Start pouring your warm glaze over the warm bread.
- Try to pour slowly to allow that glaze to seep in the holes you poked.
- Press chopped pecans (if you're using) into the top of the bread. Allow to cool before slicing.
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Novus recognized for addressing market needs on a global scale
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (June 15, 2015)—Novus International Inc., a global leader in animal health and nutrition, was presented with the 2015 Internationalization Award by the Chamber of Commerce of Reus, Spain. The annual award recognizes companies who have excelled in the areas of competitiveness and globalization, as well as their exemplary efforts in tackling the challenges of international business.
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It is constantly fantastic to have a Police Dog Training Methods becomes part of the household. But we know they are a huge responsibility, and also we have to obtain them educated. So we begin trying to find some dog training suggestions. There are a lot of means to educate a dog. However you should start with the essentials. The very first type of dog training you must start with is dog obedience training. This kind of training will certainly make your dog obedient which will him/her end up being potty experienced and well behaved.
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Dave Bernard says agents will push themselves to solve case
A retired Kansas City homicide detective said it was surprising that the FBI was able to hone its search for suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing down to photos and videos of two men in just three days.
Dave Bernard, who spent 21 years in the Homicide Unit of the Kansas City Police Department, said he can only imagine the pressure facing investigators in the case.
Bernard helped work several high-profile cases during the course of his career.
"You want to do a good job anyway and you want to solve it on your own, so a lot of times, the pressure you're under, you put yourself there," he said. "You do without sleep, without food, and you keep going to the point where you're going to drop because there were people who died, and you want to get the people who did this."
He said with countless photos, surveillance videos and cellphone footage, he's still surprised that FBI agents were prepared to release photos of two men so quickly.
"They had to have a lot of personnel dedicated to just looking at those videos in conjunction with the people doing the crime scene, so you get the placement right or where those people were when it occurred and it seems like an enormous task," Bernard said.
The FBI released photos and surveillance images of the men. They said one of the men was captured on camera placing a backpack at the site of the second explosion, just in front of the Forum Restaurant.
"Someone knows these individuals," he said. "Because of the enormity of this crime, the cowardly act, taking the life of a child and two other people, if they know them, they're going to be calling right away."
He said he wouldn't expect even more enhanced images of the two men. He said if agents released those images to the public now, the pictures are probably as good as it's going to get.


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Africa: Good Practices in the Processing of Uranium Ore Concentrate
WASHINGTON, May 1, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Remarks
Ambassador Bonnie D. Jenkins
Coordinator for Threat Reduction Programs
IAEA Regional Seminar
Windhoek, Namibia
April 23, 2012
Good morning.
I want to thank the Government of Namibia and the International Atomic Energy Agency for hosting and organizing this important seminar on "Good Practices in the Processing and Control of Uranium Ore Concentrate."
Uranium ore concentrate is the key material for civilian nuclear energy production and for the growth of civilian nuclear energy worldwide and Namibia is a leading supplier of this material. As such, Namibia is a natural host for this seminar, and we are excited that Namibia has taken this opportunity to facilitate these important discussions this week. I would also like to congratulate the Government of Namibia on the recent entry into force of its additional protocol with the IAEA. The AP has great significance in states exploring uranium resources, and I welcome Namibia's actions in adopting this important safeguards agreement. I am honored to be here this week in Windhoek, and I look forward to the discussions and sharing of best practices in the safety, safeguards, and security of uranium ore concentrate.
This seminar is particularly timely given the increased interest in uranium production among states, especially those in the African region, many of which are represented in this room today. From the list of participants, I see there are 22 countries and 15 commercial nuclear enterprises represented, including some of the largest uranium producing countries and nuclear companies in the world.
That the International Atomic Energy Agency has organized this seminar is a testament to the Agency's critical role on issues related to nuclear safety, safeguards, and security, and promoting the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. In this regard, I would like to thank the IAEA for its leadership on these topics, especially given the post-Fukushima nuclear landscape. Despite the terrible tragedy in Japan, I believe civilian nuclear power development will grow over the next decades given the demand for new energy sources in Africa, Asia, and across the globe. This trend underscores the important need for governments, regulators, and industry to come together to discuss the safety, safeguards, and security of nuclear material such as uranium ore concentrate.
Clearly many countries around the world, including here in Africa, have extensive uranium reserves. In order to make the most of these commercial opportunities in an environmentally safe and secure manner, it is important for governments, nuclear regulators, and the commercial nuclear industry to have a common and agreed-to understanding of how to mine, process, and export uranium responsibly and in compliance with international norms, best practices, national laws and international obligations.
We all know that the commercial value of a drum of uranium ore concentrate is high. While the intention of uranium production is to reap the economic benefits of this commodity, that same drum could be used maliciously to harm the environment, to carry-out terrorist activities, or to support a clandestine nuclear weapons program. These risks have the potential to damage the market and reduce the positive economic impact on producing countries that the safe and effective management of this material can bring.
This week if we can agree on some common best practices for managing and controlling this important strategic commodity at the government, regulatory, and nuclear industry levels, then I think the future will be even more secure for the production and export of uranium ore concentrate and be more prosperous from its trade.
I encourage you all here to not let this be the only time you discuss these important issues. I urge you all to use this forum to network and build contacts among your regional counterparts and the outside experts here and use these relationships to share ideas and learn from each other. Ultimately it will be up to you, the producing and regulating countries, to implement practices that are best for your country, and we are here to offer advice based on our own experiences and share ideas that might help advance your interests. This is a great opportunity for all of us, and we look forward to the IAEA's continued work on this issue.
While the United States is no longer one of the largest producers of this commodity, I look forward to hearing and learning from you during this seminar so that we can help advance the good practices that are already in place in many of the countries that are represented here this week.
Thank you.


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DALLAS -- The Dallas Mavericks have made their biggest free agent play in a busy offseason, adding shooting guard Monta Ellis to a backcourt that's still crowded even after a couple of setbacks.
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said in an email Saturday that Ellis has agreed to a three-year deal worth at least $25 million, according to sources close to the process.
The deal with Ellis was reached after first-round pick Shane Larkin broke his right ankle in summer league practice Friday. Dallas also is backing out of a three-year, $9 million deal with Devin Harris because of a toe injury, sources close to the situation said.
Ellis figures to start alongside point guard Jose Calderon, another free agent who signed a four-year, $29 million deal.
The 27-year-old Ellis averaged 19.2 points with Milwaukee last season but had the lowest 3-point shooting percentage among eligible players at 28.7 percent. Calderon had the highest at 46.1 percent.
Ellis began his career with Golden State and was on the team that shocked the 67-win Mavericks in the first round of the 2007 playoffs. He started five of the six games against Dallas but came off the bench in all five games of a second-round loss to Utah.
Ellis didn't return to the playoffs until last season with the Bucks, who were swept by Miami in the first round. The Warriors traded him to Milwaukee late in the 2011-12 season, and he declined an $11 million option to return to the Bucks.
The Mavericks still have a glaring need at center after Dwight Howard chose Houston and Andrew Bynum went to Cleveland. Dallas figures to sign a center from a dwindling list of alternatives topped by Samuel Dalembert.
Even without Larkin and Harris, who started his career in Dallas as a No. 5 pick nine years ago, the Mavericks will open camp with at least five newcomers at guard after deciding they weren't happy with the one-year experiment of Darren Collison and O.J. Mayo last season.
The Mavericks added another free agent in Gal Mekel, the second Israeli-born player in the NBA. He played professionally in his home country after a two-season stint at Wichita State that ended in 2008.
Dallas took two guards in last month's draft. The Mavericks traded down twice and ended up with Larkin, the son of Hall of Fame shortstop Barry Larkin, at No. 18. In another trade for the 43rd pick, they got Ricky Ledo, who sat out his only season at Providence for academic reasons.
Information from ESPN.com's Marc Stein and The Associated Press was used in this report.


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Dustin Lynch knew that with a single called "She Cranks My Tractor," he'd have to find a really sexy … um … tractor? Nope.
"We've got this really hot chick. She's not scared of a tractor," Lynch told CMT Insider on location of the video shoot. "She actually works on them, so the video opens up with a reveal of her working in the shop, working on a tractor. And then it has her out on a dirt road past the barn, driving a tractor. Then she's hopping the fence, following the lyric of the song — definitely got her skinny dipping out here today, so that's a good thing."
Country fans can crank up the new video, along with premieres from the Avett Brothers and Randy Travis (from CMT Crossroads ), the Eli Young Band, Faith Hill, Aaron Lewis, Thomas Rhett and a collaboration by Train and Ashley Monroe as part of the network's Big New Music Weekend , which begins Friday (Nov. 9).
In this interview, Lynch chats about co-writing the new single, sharing the spotlight with farm machinery and landing his breakthrough hit, "Cowboys and Angels."Watch CMT Insider on Saturday and Sunday (Nov. 10-11) at 11 a.m. ET/PT.
CMT: You grew up around farming a little bit, right?
Lynch: A little bit, yeah. I grew up down the street from my buddy's house. He had an Angus farm, so I was out there all the time helping him out. … I've been around tractors my whole life.
You co-wrote "She Cranks My Tractor." Tell me how it all came about.
Yeah, I wrote the song with Brett Beavers and Tim Nichols. Tim Nichols is actually the co-writer for "Cowboy and Angels," and Brett is my producer. We were writing another song when this idea came about. I was talking about some girl, I think from a show the weekend before, and I said "she cranks my tractor" in a sentence. Everyone's head kind of popped up, like, "What?"
I don't even know where I got it from — something that fell out. And immediately Brett was like, "Man, I'll go there if you want to go there." And I looked over at Tim, and he's like, "Well, I've already gone there. Here's a line: 'She's 10 pounds of sugar in a five pound sack.'" And from there, it was like, "All right, it's on. We've got it!"
This is your second video, so you're feeling more comfortable, right?
No doubt. With "Cowboys and Angels," I'd never shot a video, so it was really awkward having to learn. But I've learned to love the camera, so it was a lot easier. And, of course, I'm performing with the band like we do every night, so it was just get up there, do our thing and rock out.
So with the tractors in the video, you don't have normal farming tractors.
Yeah, this is not the lawn mower. We've got a couple of tractors that are national champions, several times over, here. … It's really neat to have not only an awesome chick on a tractor. We've got some stars of their own. I mean, these tractors in the tractor-pulling community are known all over the world, so it's really cool to have them on set today.
I think that's cool because a lot of people don't realize that tractors can race.
That's right. Growing up in Middle Tennessee, though, tractor-pulling is kind of a way of life. Chapel Hill, Tenn., has one of the biggest tractor pulls, and it's an hour from here. We're out in the heart of tractor-pulling, I guess.
"Cowboys and Angels" has done very well. How does it feel to have that success?
It's changed my life. You put out a single and just hope that somebody hears it and it means something to someone. … That's a dream to have your music heard all over the place, and with that said, the stories we've gotten back of how people relate to "Cowboys and Angels" has been wonderful. And so it's one of those songs. I'm going to enjoy singing it the rest of my career. But "She Cranks My Tractor" is going to turn things around and step it up a bit, so I'm excited to see how it does.


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Fujifilm FinePix S2500HD Review
Image Quality
All of the sample images in this Review were taken using the 12 megapixe Finel JPEG setting, which gives an average image size of around 5.5Mb.
The Fujifilm FinePix S2500HD produced images of good quality during the review period. This camera handled noise very well, not becoming obvious until the relatively slow speed of ISO 800 and then becoming progressively worse at the faster setting of ISO 1600. The fastest setting of ISO 3200 and 6400 are recorded at 3 megapixels and therefore aren't really worth using.
Chromatic aberrations were well controlled, with limited purple fringing effects appearing only in high contrast situations. The 12 megapixel images were sharp enough straight out of the camera at the default sharpen setting and don't require further sharpening in an application like Adobe Photoshop.
Macro performance is excellent, allowing you to focus as close as 2cms away from the subject when the lens is set to wide-angle. Barrel distortion is clearly evident at the 28mm focal length. The built-in flash worked quite well indoors, with just a little red-eye and adequate overall exposure, although there is noticeable vignetting at 28mm.
The anti-shake system works well when hand-holding the camera in low-light conditions or when using the telephoto end of the zoom range. The maximum shutter speed of 8 seconds is a little disappointing but just allows the camera to capture enough light for most after-dark situations. The Panorama mode makes it fairly simple to take wide-vista shots, although the resolution is limited to 4880x1296 pixels.
There are 8 ISO settings available on the Fujifilm FinePix S2500HD. At ISO 3200 and 6400, the number of recorded pixels is limited to 3 megapixels. Here are some 100% crops which show the noise levels for each ISO setting:
ISO 64 (100% Crop)
ISO 100 (100% Crop)
ISO 200 (100% Crop)
ISO 400 (100% Crop)
ISO 800 (100% Crop)
ISO 1600 (100% Crop)
ISO 3200 (100% Crop)
ISO 6400 (100% Crop)
Focal Range
The Fujifilm FinePix S2500HD's 18x zoom lens provides a focal length of 28-504mm in 35mm terms, as demonstrated below.
Here are two 100% crops which have been Saved as Web - Quality 50 in Photoshop. The right-hand image has had some sharpening applied in Photoshop. The out-of-the camera images are sharp enough at the default setting and don't really benefit from further sharpening in a program like Adobe Photoshop.
Original (100% Crop)
Sharpened (100% Crop)
File Quality
The Fujifilm FinePix S2500HD has 2 different image quality settings available, with Fine being the highest quality option. Here are some 100% crops which show the quality of the various options, with the file size shown in brackets.
|12M Fine (5.26Mb) (100% Crop)
|12M Normal (2.82Mb) (100% Crop)
Chromatic Aberrations
The Fujifilm FinePix S2500HD handled chromatic aberrations excellently during the review. Just a little purple fringing was present around the edges of objects in high-contrast situations, as shown in the example below.
Example 1 (100% Crop)
The Fujifilm FinePix S2500HD offers a Super Macro setting that allows you to focus on a subject that is 2cms away from the camera. The first image shows how close you can get to the subject in Macro mode (in this case a compact flash card). The second image is a 100% crop.
Macro Shot
100% Crop
The flash settings on the Fujifilm FinePix S2500HD are Auto, Forced Flash, Suppressed Flash, Slow Synchro, and any of those modes combined with Red-eye Reduction. These shots of a white coloured wall were taken at a distance of 1.5m.
Flash Off - Wide Angle (28mm)
Flash On - Wide Angle (28mm)
Flash Off - Wide Angle (420mm)
Flash On - Wide Angle (420mm)
And here are some portrait shots. Both the Auto or Red-eye reduction mode caused a small amount of red-eye.
Flash On
|Flash On (100% Crop)
Red Eye Reduction
Red Eye Reduction (100% Crop)
The Fujifilm FinePix S2500HD's maximum shutter speed is 8 seconds, which is fairly good news if you're seriously interested in night photography. The shot below was taken using a shutter speed of 8 seconds at ISO 64. I've included a 100% crop of the image to show what the quality is like.
Night Shot
Night Shot (100% Crop)
Anti Shake
The Fujifilm FinePix S2500HD has an anti-shake mechanism, which allows you to take sharp photos at slower shutter speeds than other digital cameras. To test this, I took 2 handheld shots of the same subject with the same settings. The first shot was taken with anti shake turned off, the second with it turned on. Here are some 100% crops of the images to show the results.
Shutter Speed / Focal Length
Anti Shake Off (100% Crop)
Anti Shake On (100% Crop)
|1/8th / 24mm
|1/3rd / 504mm
Panorama Mode
The Fujifilm FinePix S2500HD allows you to take panoramic images fairly easily, by taking the first shot, then lining up the edge of that with the next shot, and then repeating the process for the third and final shot. The camera does all the processing and stitching. The main catch is that the resulting image is of fairly low resolution - the number of recorded pixels is limited to 4880x1296 - and you really need to use a tripod to get the best results.


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It's tempting to think of cells as a complex bag of water and chemicals. But cells wouldn't function if their contents were just mixed together chaotically. Instead, the inside of eukaryotic cells is carefully structured, with individual compartments performing specific functions: the DNA held in the nucleus, ATP generated in the mitochondria, damaged material digested in the lysosomes, and so on. Each of these compartments has its own specialized collection of proteins that enable it to perform these functions.
This all raises a rather significant question: how does a cell know what goes where? Or, more specifically, what happens biochemically to move proteins to the right destination, whether that destination is a specific compartment inside the cell or in the cell's environment? Three researchers have won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for helping describe evolution's solution to that problem.
The basics of the process can be worked out with a bit of microscopy. Most of the specialized structures within a cell, as well as the cell's surface, are surrounded by membranes. Within the cell, smaller bags of membranes called "vesicles" are shuttled between structures. When they encounter their destination, the vesicles fuse with the membranes of their target, pouring their contents into it. Sorting out what goes where is mostly a matter of putting the right proteins in a vesicle and then ensuring that the vesicle fuses with the appropriate target.
In 1999, Gunter Blobel received a Nobel for figuring out the protein side of things. He showed that proteins contain short tags that help the cell determine their ultimate destination and route them using the appropriate vesicles. This year's prize goes to researchers who helped understand how vesicles move to their final destination and merge with it.
UC Berkeley's Randy Schekman turned to a simple genetic system to dissect the vesicle trafficking problem. He reasoned that destroying the transit of proteins would be fatal to the yeast, but it might be possible to find mutations that only blocked transit at elevated temperatures. His lab performed screens that first looked for high-temperature lethality and then confirmed that the lethality came about in part because proteins weren't making it to the cell's surface. Over time, he built up a collection of genes that affected this process, and by testing for interactions among them, he started dividing the process into individual pathways.
Meanwhile, James Rothman (who has spent time at too many institutions to mention; he's currently at Yale) decided to take a biochemical approach. His group isolated intact membranes from cells and found conditions in which vesicles would fuse inside a test tube. Over time, these reactions were done using ever more specific fractions of the material inside a cell. When the components were pure enough, Rothman's lab started looking at which proteins were still present.
As Rothman and Schekman started to identify the genes involved, it turned out that in many cases they were working on the same things. Vesicle trafficking was as old as eukaryotes themselves, and the same proteins were used in plants, fungi, and animals.
Combined with the work of other labs, a picture emerged where both the vesicles and their targets were decorated with a specific collection of proteins that could fit together like a lock and key (the proteins have names like SNAPs, SNAREs, and VAMPs). When the right combination of SNAPs and SNAREs is brought together, they stick to each other and cause the membranes they're embedded in to fuse. Specificity comes about because vesicles meant for one destination have a combination of proteins on their surface that can only trigger fusion with an equally specific combination on their destination.
Sometimes, however, you need more than just specificity. Cells don't send out insulin and other hormones all the time, and nerves only release neurotransmitters when they're triggered by the activity of other nerves. Stanford's Thomas Südhof shares the Nobel Prize for using the nervous system to understand how the cell controls vesicle fusion. He demonstrated that at a nerve cell's synapse, vesicles filled with neurotransmitters are poised at the cell surface, ready to fuse at a moment's notice.
Südhof identified another set of proteins that interacted with SNAPs and SNAREs, blocking their ability to trigger vesicle fusion. When the right signal was received, however—in the case of nerve cells, this involves a burst of calcium ions—the inhibition gets released, and the vesicle can fuse almost instantaneously. This process ensures that signals within the nervous system get transmitted rapidly.
The prize citation notes that this process does have some medical implications. There are a number of inherited disorders that alter the process, and some neurotoxins (including Botox) target it as well. But really, knowing something as basic as how proteins get delivered to the right place in the cell is closer to something like essential background reading for all of medicine. It helps us make sense of many, many process, a lot of which have clear and direct medical relevance.


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