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A thread on the Bills has been hijacked and turned in to a debate about a horrible QB. Give it up guys. Junc has been spewing on and on to a tune of 320 pages in one thread about Sanchez at TGG. He won't give up until you stop.
A thread on the Bills has been hijacked and turned in to a debate about a horrible QB. Give it up guys. Junc has been spewing on and on to a tune of 320 pages in one thread about Sanchez at TGG. He won't give up until you stop.
Matt Ryan was facing the Jets #1 ranked passing D. Mark Sanchez was facing the #28 ranked Falcons passing D. If any other QB led his team to 7 points (In the first quarter) and did nothing else all game except throw 3 picks including one with the game on the line, you would be blaming the QB. But because it is Mark, you blame the D for allowing 10 points!
When Mark has had a top ranked D and a top ranked rushing O, he has been in the title game.
If I'm comparing QBs, I care. Tebow got a win against KC by only completing 2 passes. I'm not going to give him the same amount of credit I'll give another QB who played a much larger role in a win.
You can't take a QB who is in a game manager type role and prorate his numbers. Just because Mark was 12 of 15 in his first playoff game, didn't mean he was going to go 36 of 45 over 3 games. The very next game agasint the Chargers he completed 12 of 23. In Mark's 4 playoff wins, he attempted 94 passes. In Eli's last 4 playoff wins, he attempted 163 passes. That tells you which QB was relied upon more. Eli attempted 69 more passes and still averaged over a yard more per completion.
He had it long enough to attempt 13 passes. He only completed 6 of them for 56 yards. He could have had the ball longer if he didn't go 3 and out in 50% of his drives in the first half. No, I don't think Pitt was playing the same D in the second half up 21 points.
You are giving all the credit to the QB when you compare Mark's wins to Eli's. The QBs played completely different roles. One was a much bigger part of his team's scores and wins, but you act like since both guys won games, they are the same QB. Let's take a look at the role each QB played in their team's scoring drives in their playoff wins. In the Jets first two playoff wins, the Jets had 7 scoring drives.
Mark contributed:
147 yards, 1 TD, and had (2) 3rd down conversions against the Bengals.
13 yards, 1 TD and had (2) 3rd down conversions against the Chargers.
So in the Jets 7 scoring drives Mark contributed 160 yards 2 TDs and (4) 3rd down conversions.
In the Jets next 2 playoff wins, the Jets had 7 scoring drives again.
Sanchez contributed:
78 yards and had (3) 3rd down conversions against the Colts.
143 yards, 3TDs and had (3) 3rd down conversion against NE.
So in the Jets 7 scoring drives Mark contributed 221 yards, 3TDs and had (6) 3rd down conversions.
That brings his total contribution to the Jets 14 scoring drives to 381 yards 5 TDs, and (10) 3rd down conversions.
Now let's look at Eli's role. The Giants had 15 scoring drives in their 4 playoff wins in 2007.
Eli contributed:
187 yards, 2 TDs and had (6) 3rd conversions against NE.
127 yards and (1) 3rd down conversion against GB.
125 yards 2 TDs and (3) 3rd down conversion against Dal.
160 yards 2 TDS, and (5) 3rd down conversion against TB
That brings Eli's total contribution to the Giants 15 scoring drives to 599 yards, 6TDs, and (15) 3rd down conversions.
So, both guys had 4 playoff wins, and there teams had nearly the same amount of scoring drives but Mark contributed 218 less yards, 1 less TD, and had 5 less 3rd down conversion that kept those scoring drives alive.
Let's look at Eli's role in scoring drives on his second Super Bowl run:
190 yards, 3 TDs and (6) 3rd down conversion agasint ATL.
255 yards, 3TDs and (5) 3rd down conversions agasint GB.
149 yards, 2 TDs and (4) 3rd down conversions against SF.
169 yards, 1TD and (1) 3rd down conversion against NE.
Total contribution in the Giants 19 scoring drives is 763 yards, 9 TDs and (16) 3rd down conversions.
Again, both guys had 4 playoff wins and Mark contributed 382 less yards, 4 less TDS, and had 6 less 3rd down conversions.
Let's look at the QBs total contribution to their team's scoring drives in both teams playoff runs:
Eli, 2007, 2011
1,362 yards, 15 TDs and (31) 3rd down conversion that kept scoring drives alive.
Mark, 2009, 2010
381 yards 5 TDs, and (10) 3rd down conversions.
To sum that all up, two QBs both with 2 playoff apps, Mark contributed 981 less yards, 12 less TDs and 21 less 3rd down conversions that kept those scoring drives alive. I guess you are right, they did play a similar role in their team's wins.
Sorry! I know I'm a huge reason this keeps going on. I can't help it. Even thought I enjoy it, I'm aware that it may bother others, so I'll stop for now.
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So what? Matt Ryan also had much better talent around him on offense. at that point in the season Jones was wearing down. Greene & Jones averaged 3 YPC that day, the Atl RBs averaged almost 5 YPC.
Again, mark and the O get their share of blame but the defense blew it. It was a cold, windy day. Not a good day for offenses and they allowed Atl to go the distance on their last drive after shutting them down all day.
didn't have a top ranked D or run game in 2010 and made the title game.
Tebow had a ton of comebacks where his D held opponents to under 10 and he needed one drive, where did this happen for Mark? In the comeback/GW drives from 2010 the Jets scored 24, 23, 26, 30, 22 and 17 pts.
mark could win games w/ his arm, he did it quite often in 2010. Eli was a game manager too in 2007, he wasn't in 2011 but regardless of that they won w/ D. You have to be fait and not compare apples to oranges here, you need to prorate the #s to get a fair look and when prorated the #s are quite similar.
You are fibbing again or at least not being fair.
The D set the tone by allowing a 9 min TD drive to start the game, the O tried to give them rest by holding it 4 mins but it didn't help the D who got pushed around all 1st half. It's hard to get into a rhythm as an O when that is happening.
I am giving proper credit, both QBs played very well but both won primarily b/c of their Ds/STs. They both needed to play well to win and did.
you should check your #s, they had 2 3rd down conversions in the 1st half.
By the way, he had 2 or 3 HUGE 3rd down conversions including the one where he bought time and made an incredible play to score the 1st TD
again, at Cincy he was near flawless. I'm not sure what dragging out 3rd down conversions is telling us when the team won comfortably by double digits?
it's amazing the lmngths you will go to as each point gets swatted away. what's next? who had the most play action passes? the #s don't matter, the results matter. Eli doesn't get to a SB w/o the D setting up the GW FG in GB and w/o STs setting up their last 10 pts in SF.
I will have to look up your #s since the beginning was already off, I don't have time right now to counter this asinine point but I will.
Hey Junc, I have to ask you something. I went over to Gang Green this afternoon to see what is going on and that place is pretty much dead. There are threads on the first page from over a week ago and hardly any movement today. Is that how it always is, or has the poor state of the Jets turned people off? Or did they migrate to another Jets fan site that I don't know of? I would have figured that two weeks before the draft that place would be buzzing.
I hardly ever go there and very rarely ever post. I got banned for a couple of months because I posted in a thread in July about how the Dolphins were going to cut Anthony Fasano because he no longer fit the offense. Jets fans were drooling over the possibility of picking him up because he was a Jersey guy. I went in and said that Fasano was not getting cut and that the Jets should look elsewhere for tight end help. They took that personally and I got a two month ban. Whatever.
I returned in October and posted this in a thread titled "Jets Lose to Dolphins (rant here)"
It was smack talk, and it got me banned through New Years. Just keep in mind how good you have it here Junc.Originally Posted by Nublar7
It quiets down a bit in the offseason, actually the worse the team is we usually get more activity w/ people whining about the team. I expect it will be very busy in the fall.
smack talk on the main board doesn't work, I think we have a smack talk board. Imagine if I did that here on the main board?
In retrospect it was pretty funny but at the time when everyone is heated up after a loss it's not a good thing.
We discuss a lot of different points, so it would be helpful to me if you would quote specific points and then respond. I can piece together most of it, but there are times I have no idea what you are referring to.
#4 ranked rushing O and #3 in total D. Spin it how you like, but that is a top ranked D and running game.
Why are you stuck on comeback wins? The point is the QB not playing a big role in a wins. How about the Atl game in 09? D help opponent to 10 points, Mark just needed 1 drive and threw a pick, yet it was the D's fault.
Prorating a QBs numbers who attempted 188 less passes is ridiculous. Just because he was efficient attempting 15 passes in a game, does not mean he will still be efficient when his pass attempts increase.
I'm not sure what your are referring to. Being accused of not being fair is funny coming from a guy who makes little of Eli's TD passes while uplifting Mark's or blaming the D when Mark losses and then blaming the QB when it is someone other than Mark.
They had 4 drives. 2 were 3 and outs, and he fumbled on the 3rd. That had little to do with the Jets D.
You view Mark and Eli as equals, so you are obviously not giving each QB proper credit for their roles.
Of what game? I'm not talking about 3rd down conversions throughout an entire game. I talking about 3rd down conversion on scoring drives. I'm also not including any conversion when the QB handed the ball off to a RB. I'm talking about 3rd down conversions that the QB actually played a role in. I know you like to give Mark credit for things like handing the ball to the RB, but I don't.
It is 3rd down conversion on scoring drives that the QB is responsible for. It shows the role the QB played in leading his team to points.
Which points have you swatted away? You are trying to compare QBs and are saying the numbers don't matter. Again, Tebow won a game completing 2 passes. That doesn't make him as good as another QB who won a game who played a much larger role in the win. Numbers do matter. Even if you ignore the numbers, you still lose your argument based on results. Eli is a 2 time Super Bowl champ. Mark is a 2 time AFCC game loser.
Back to this again huh? How many times have your numbers been off in the last couple of days? I'll go back and check them for you later tonight. If I happen to be wrong, I'll be like you and say that it was what I meant to say, or that my numbers were close.
Ok, I went through NFL.com and went over the 3rd down conversions for each QB on their scoring drives. I had the amounts in each games messed up, but the total in the end was the same since I missed 1 for Mark and 1 for Eli. I edited the original post and fixed it for you. It doesn't help Mark out though. The end result is the same:
Eli, 2007, 2011
1,362 yards, 15 TDs and (31) 3rd down conversion that kept scoring drives alive.
Mark, 2009, 2010
381 yards 5 TDs, and (10) 3rd down conversions.
Mark contributed 981 less yards, 12 less TDs and 21 less 3rd down conversions that kept those scoring drives alive
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Generally, I avoid these pointless discussions like the Plague ...
But, I truly hope Junc gets what he clearly wants - Sanchez as Jets starting QB for the next decade.
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I try to go in order, it's a pain to quote each piece. I am trying to rush through thus stuff.
4 ranked rush O thanks to Brad Smith in the WC and end arounds and a meaningless week 17 game where we rushed for over 300 yds. Our run game was average that year, that's why we don't just look at rankings.
The D looked good on paper but this is the same D that lost 45-3 to NE, the same D that tried to blow games late at Miami, at Den, at Cle, Hou, Min and did blow a double digit lead at Chi. we won 11 games mainly b/c Mark and the pass O rescued us numerous times.
He played a huge role in those comebacks.
mark gets his share of the blame for Atl but not all games are the same, sometimes there are low scoring games. I was there, it was cold and windy. not a great day for either O but the D folded again in a big spot like they have done so often.
It's not ridiculous, you have to compare apples to apples. You are showing cumulative #s where 1 QB had many more attempts.
The bottom line is both QBs played really well in their playoff wins, both relied on D. One D showed up in all games, the other did not.
Oh and Sanchez has played well in all playoff games. You skip over the Eli one and dones where he has THREE of them and is 41-74, 55%, 443 yds, 2 TDs, 6 INTs, led O to 9.7 PPG, 48.4 rating.
I give Eli the same credit, the situations were very different and the execution was very different. The Jets had a great play call, mark made a quick read w/ a great pass in stride and Cotch had no one near him and ran down the sidelines. Eli threw a ball to Nicks where he was hit immediately and then broke 2-3 more tackles to go 66 yds for the TD. Very different situations plus mark's came just after NE scored and pulled w/in 3 pts late in the game.
That 9 min TD drive set the tone for the 1st half.
I don't view mark and Eli as equals, Eli passed him in 2011 and is far ahead of him. If they had equal talent I think they'd be much closer but they don't so you have to evaluate them overall on the talent they have to work with.
Oh so now you need 3rd down conversions on scoring drives to prove something. mark had the biggest 3rd down conversion of the game at SD buying time and making an incredible throw to Keller for the TD that gave us the lead for the first time in the game.
Tebow won games scoring close to 10 pts each time, he would have one drive. That's very different from Mark's comeback/GW drives.
Pretty much all of them.
You have said my #s are off but never proven anything.
Mark didn't have Cruz and Nicks to throw hail Mary's too or dump off for 60-99 yd TDs. You seem to keep forgetting this point.


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The ISTT is moving from Europe to America
Sunday, August 31st, 2014The International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) will soon move its headquarters from Europe to America, from Spain (Europe Union) to the State of New York (United States of America). After the 12th Transgenic Technology (TT) meeting in Edinburgh, TT2014, the ISTT Society will be legally represented by a new non-profit entity: ISTT, Inc., registered in the State of New York (USA) in May 2013, after the corresponding approval was obtained from ISTT members at the Extraordinary General Assembly held at the TT2013 meeting, in Guangzhou, China, in February 2013. This moving process was essentially undertaken to allow any member to run for any position at the Board and to reduce tax running costs. The process is meant to be smooth and transparent to all members which will be kindly requested to join the new entity, to approve the new bylaws and to approve the new Board. Everything else will remain the same and the ISTT members will continue enjoying the same benefits from being part of the ISTT Society. The ISTT thank all of its members for their support and collaboration.
TT2014 abstracts: submission deadline is approaching (30 June)
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014From the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) we warmly invite and encourage you all to submit your most recent and exciting results and developments in animal transgenesis to be presented at the forthcoming 12th Transgenic Technology (TT2014) meeting, which will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, on 6-8 October 2014. Deadline for submitting abstracts for the TT2014 meeting is June 30.
To submit an abstract please visit this TT2014 meeting web page.
All TT2014 participants are encouraged to submit their work as an abstract for poster presentation at the TT2014 meeting. Authors are requested to submit an abstract with the following requirements:
- Title (max. 25 words)
- Name authors and affiliations (first author is the presenting author).
- Text of the communication (max. 400 words).
- Abstracts should be submitted no later than June 30, 2014.
Accepted abstracts will be published in the scientific journal Transgenic Research (Springer), to which the ISTT is associated.
Posters will be on display in the exhibition area throughout the duration of the meeting. Poster boards are 1.00m wide x 2.00m high and we recommend posters do not exceed 1.50m in length. A supply of Velcro tabs will be available at the venue. No screws or double-sided adhesive tape will be allowed due to the damage they can cause to the boards.
Best Poster Awards
All posters presented at the TT2014 meeting will be eligible for one of the ISTT Best Poster Awards, generously sponsored by Charles River, Inc.
Oral Presentations
A limited number of abstract submissions will be selected and invited to present their findings in the form of a short oral presentation within the main meeting program. Should you be interested in being considered to speak at the meeting please select the appropriate option when submitting your abstract.
Abstracts are invited on all aspects of Transgenic Technologies, including the conference themes as listed below:
- New technologies in animal transgenesis
- Embryo stem cells
- Target nucleases or Editing nucleases (ZFNs, TALENs, CRISPRs)
- Large-scale phenotyping
- Animal Biotechnology
- Imaging with transgenic animals
- Mouse models of human disease
- Zebrafish models of human disease and transgenesis
- Animal ethics and welfare
We are looking forward to receiving your exciting works to discuss the latest development on animal transgenesis!. See you all in Edinburgh!
The TT2014 Registration Awards for ISTT members: deadline for submitting applications is 30th June
Monday, June 16th, 2014A minimum of six registration awards for ISTT members willing to attend the 12th Transgenic Technology (TT2014) meeting, to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, on 6-8 October 2014, will be sponsored by the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT). Applications should be sent, along with the registration confirmation and the requested additional documents to firstname.lastname@example.com by June 30, 2014. The ISTT will pay the Registration Fee of all applicants selected for one of these TT2014 registration awards. Please note that applicants not selected for an award are required to pay the corresponding registration fee. Please note the Award covers registration fees and attendance to all social events, however, does not cover travel, accommodation expenses or attendance at pre meeting events. Award decisions will be communicated by July 15, 2014 and awardees will receive a diploma at the TT2014 Meeting.
Applications for registration awards by ISTT members should be sent to the official ISTT email address (firstname.lastname@example.com), by June 30, 2014, and should include the following documentation:
- Applicant's CV
- Letter describing how the applicant will benefit from attendance at the TT meeting
- Only for technician/students: Letter of support from the applicant's head/supervisor stating the support to the applicant's participation in the TT meeting and highlighting why attendance will benefit the applicant's career
Applicants must register first at the TT2014 website and select, as a payment method, "application for registration awards". The ISTT will pay the Registration Fee of all applicants selected for an award. However, if they are not selected they would be kindly requested to pay the corresponding registration fee
Selection Process
The ISTT Council will examine all applications received. Registration Awards will be selected according to the documents submitted and with preference given to:
- Student/Technician ISTT Members
- ISTT Members submitting an abstract for presentation as a poster/short-oral communication at the TT meeting
- Any other ISTT Member
Award decisions will be communicated by July 15, 2014. Awardees will have their TT registration fees entirely waived. Awardees will receive a diploma at the Awards ceremony at the end of the TT2014 meeting. Applicants that are not yet members of the ISTT may choose to register/join first the ISTT and simultaneously submit their travel/registration award application. ISTT Registration/Travel awards for each TT meeting will only be provided to ISTT members who have paid their current annual fees.
SALAAM: Sharing Advances on Large Animal Models
Tuesday, May 20th, 2014The EU-COST action SALAAM (Sharing Advances on Large Animal Models) was launched yesterday in Brussels, at a kick-off meeting attended by most of its members. This 4-year EU-COST action is currently formed by 17 countries and more than 44 participants, including many experts in the fields of animal genetics, physiology, transgenesis, bioethics, welfare and animal science, with a focus on large (i.e. non-rodent) animal models. This EU-COST action is chaired by Prof Eckhard Wolf (Germany) and vice-chaired by Dr. Pascale Chavatte-Palmer (France) and it includes various ISTT members such as Bruce Whitelaw (UK), Zsuzsanna Bosze (Hungary), András Dinnyes (Hungary), Cesare Galli (Italy) and Lluis Montoliu (Spain). In addition, another participant in this EU-COST action, Angelika Schnieke (Germany) is one of the invited speakers at the forthcoming 12th Transgenic Technology (TT2014) meeting to be held in Edinburgh (Scotland, UK).
EU-COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is one of the oldest European initiatives in Science, an intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, allowing the coordination of nationally-funded research on a European level. SALAAM EU-COST action, as its acronym indicates, aims to sharing advances in genetic engineering and phenotyping of non-rodent mammals to develop predictive animal models for translational medicine. While recognizing the value of small and most popular animal models (mouse, rat, zebrafish, Drosophila, C. elegans, …) and its powerful genetics for increasing our knowledge on complex biological systems and for proof-of-concept-type experiments, this EU-COST action SALAAM focuses on large (i.e. non-rodent) mammalian models, since these may bridge the gap between proof-of-concept studies and more effective clinical trials, leading to better translational animal models for the study of human diseases. The research projects undertaken using rodent and non-rodent animal models should not be perceived as competition or opposed initiatives, rather as complementary studies, where each animal species is selected according to its particular value and expected benefits for the ultimate goal, that is, our understanding on the function of the mammalian (i.e. human) genome and the eventual development of effective treatments for many human diseases. During the course of this EU-COST action several conferences and training workshops will be organized, open to anyone interested in the field, to discuss about (1) new technologies (including the application of genome editing nucleases, i.e. CRISPR-Cas, for the generation of improved genetically altered animal models); (2) defining best animal models for specific phenotyping studies; (3) creation of databases for sharing information on animal models creates, tissues available and protocols; and (4) animal welfare, bioethics and communication to the public. All these conferences and training courses will be adequately advertised through the ISTT web site.
At the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) we care about the generation and the analysis of "all" genetically altered animals, not only focused in the classical rodent models, but also including the work done with other species, with large animal models, in livestock. In this regard, the ISTT has been traditionally supporting conferences on non-rodent transgenic animals, organized in Tahoe by ISTT Member Jim Murray (UC Davis, USA) and has promoted a web page within the ISTT web site where most of the advances on livestock and other non-rodent genetically modified animal resources are shared. At the next 12th Transgenic Technology (TT2014) meeting, which will be held in Edinburgh on 6-8 October 2014, the Conference Organizers (Douglas Strathdee-Chair, Peter Hohenstein and Bruce Whitelaw) have scheduled a session on animal biotechnology, where the recent work accomplished using large animal models will be discussed. In addition, immediately following the TT2014 meeting, a hands-on workshop on zebrafish transgenesis methods will be offered to interested participants.
Advertising the TT2014 meeting from your institutions: put one of these Posters!
Friday, February 28th, 2014The next ISTT meeting will be held in Europe this year. The 12th Transgenic Technology (TT2014) meeting, will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, on 6-8 October 2014, organized by ISTT members Douglas Strathdee (chair), Peter Hohenstein and Bruce Whitelaw, and hosted by three Scottish research institutes and the University of Edinburgh: the Roslin Institute; the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine and the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research. The TT2014 meeting will be followed by the 2-day hands-on workshop "An Introduction to Zebrafish Transgenesis", on 8-10 October 2014.
An outstanding group of invited speakers have confirmed their participation at the TT2014 meeting. Abstract submissions and application for the ISTT registration awards (for ISTT members) deadlines merge on 30 June 2014. Early bird registration deadline at reduced fees is 31 July 2014. A number of submitted abstracts will be selected for oral presentation on topics including:
- new technologies in transgenesis
- pluripotential stem cells
- targeted nucleases and genome editing
- models of human disease
- animal ethics and welfare
- large-scale phenotyping initiatives
- animal biotechnology
- in vivo imaging
- zebrafish models and transgenesis
Douglas Strathdee and his colleagues have prepared the following collection of eight Posters to advertise the TT2014 meeting, illustrated with beautiful Edinburgh pictures. Please, help us announcing and disseminating the TT2014 meeting by putting one or several of these Posters at your centres, institutions, facilities, departments, universities. The TT meeting is a unique forum occurring every 18 months where to discuss the latest technical developments and applications on animal transgenesis. This is a conference that can't be missed by anyone interested in this subject! Thanks for helping us advertise the TT2014 meeting!
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A report on the 7th European Short Course on Laboratory Animal Science in Strasbourg, organized by Charles River
Friday, February 14th, 2014The 7th European Short Course on Laboratory Animal Science, organized by Charles River, just closed in Strasbourg, France, after three days of interesting presentations and discussions at the intersection between animal welfare, animal experimentation, current guidelines and legislation, biomedical research from academia and industry and society perception on these topics. The Organizers should be praised for the selection and variety of topics, as well as for the smooth and pleasant running of the entire course, which included an enjoyable visit to an old typical cellar from the Alsace region along with a wine-testing Gala dinner.
Several ISTT members participated in this event, including organizers (Cyril Desvignes, Jean Cozzi), members of the steering committee (Johannes Wilbertz), invited speakers (Belén Pintado, Yann Herault, Ignacio Anegon, Lluís Montoliu), and participants (Marcello Raspa, Ferenc Erdelyi, Gabor Szabo,…) among other.
During this course, the recent EU Directive 2010/63 on the protection of animals used in research and its implication on the use of animals in biomedical research and policies throughout Europe was discussed, from different angles, by Magda Chlebus, Gill Fleetwood, Thierry Decelle, Patri Vergara and Belén Pintado. Topics covered included the new training courses and competencies to work with experimentation animals in Europe, the animal-welfare bodies and the current understanding of the 3R's paradigm. Javier Guillén compared, side by side, the new EU Directive with the current Guide in the US and highlighted their many coincidences, suggesting that a combined use of both documents would be ideal for the adoption of successful animal care and use programs. Jan-Bas Prins, current president of FELASA, presented his view of the field of laboratory animal sciences, before the implementation of this new EU Directive, as an opportunity and a positive challenge to interface and exchange knowledge with many other players involved.
Health monitoring programs, rodent microbiologic surveillance, methods employed to detect all these pathogens robustly in laboratory animal facilities and the updated recommendations from FELASA, recently published in Laboratory Animals, were presented by William Shek, Guy Mulder, Stéphanie Durand and Axel Kornerup Hansen. Operational and technical aspects of animal facilities were discussed by Alberto Gobbi and Peter Dockx, whereas the issues related with occupational health and safety program evaluations were presented by Jann Hau.
Examples of the use of rodent animal models in biomedical research, in academia, by James Di Santo and Andrea Bertotti, as well as in the industry, by Joyce L. Young, were discussed. The importance of genetic quality in mouse research as well as the complexity of mouse genome and the impact of the genetic background on phenotypes was presented by Charles Miller and Lluís Montoliu, respectively. The procedures conducted at the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) as well as the challenges they encountered during the deployment of this impressively large enterprise were presented and discussed by Sara Wells and, by the local representative, Yann Herault, Director of the French Mouse Clinic, ICS, in Strasbourg, who delivered the closing talk.
The newest technologies in stem cell biology and animal transgenesis were also present at this 7th Short Course. Hongkui Deng summarized the most innovative approach he devised to prepare induced-pluripotent cells from somatic cells, using a cocktail of four chemicals, four molecules that mimicked the induction signals described by Shinya Yamanaka. The new logics for the production of targeted genetic modifications, using editing or engineered nucleases (Meganuclease, ZFNs, TALENs, CRISPRs) in mice and rats was presented by Ralf Kuehn and Ignacio Anegon, respectively.
The choice of rodent anaestesia protocols was discussed by Aurelie Thomas, whereas the various methods for euthanasia in rodents were presented by Huw Golledge. On the last day, Aurora Bronstad summarized the work done at the AALAS-FELASA joint working group on harm-benefit analysis, whereas Katrina Gore highlighted the need for more robust analytical procedures in research protocols involving animal experimentation, in order to optimize the rate of success of pre-clinical drugs.
In summary, the 7th Edition of this biennial Charles River Short Course on Laboratory Animal Science in Europe, attended by some 120 participants, was an excellent opportunity to update information related to animal welfare, EU legislation and transposition difficulties in various countries, newest technologies, mouse genomics and genetics, large mouse consortia and numerous important topics that are relevant for animal facility managers, researchers, veterinarians and anyone else interested in the best use of animals in experiments, according to current laws and recommendations.


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Results of Operations and Financial Condition, Financial Statements and Exhibits
On February 3, 2014, Unilife Corporation ("Unilife") issued a press release announcing the financial results for the three and six months ended December 31, 2013. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
During a conference call held at 4:30 p.m. U.S. Eastern Standard Time on February 3, 2014, Unilife's Chief Executive Officer discussed the Company's results for the three and six months ended December 31, 2013 and an update on its businesses. The slide presentation for the conference call is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.2.
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The Boston Athletic Association, which manages the marathon, has not said how many race bibs it made available to family members of victims. Each year, about 30 charities get bibs for participants who are running the 26.2 miles to raise money for them. Unlike other runners, charity runners do not need a certain time in another race to qualify.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 30, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CafePress Inc. (Nasdaq:PRSS), The World's Customization Engine ®, today reported financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2013.
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Wanted in Somalia: US puts bounties on top Al Shabab leaders
While multimillion-dollar bounties may not lead to the imminent capture of Al Shabab leaders in Somalia, such rewards do ensure there will be no 'soft landing' for terrorist suspects.
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Nairobi, Kenya
Seven of Somalia's most senior Islamist commanders were for the first time Thursday added to the State Department's list of terrorists with multi-million dollar bounties on their heads.
A total of $33 million could be paid out for information leading to the capture of the men, all members of the country's Al Shabab terror group, which is linked to Al Qaeda.
They will join Al Qaeda's overall commander, Ayman Al Zawahiri, Taliban leader Mullah Omar, and Hizbullah cell members on the list of people wanted under the US Rewards for Justice program.
It has already paid out more than $100 million to 70 different people who have provided tip-offs that led the US to locate key enemies, including Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay.


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For singles, men and women alike, porn can be a welcome helper at the end of a long day, filling in when imagination takes a nose dive for those busy career types who's brain is fried at the end of the day, who haven't had a sexual partner in weeks and are in need of an outlet of the sexual sort.
Yes, for many, porn is simply a nice, quick, available outlet made even more handy and accessible by the throes of our current technology to help give us a boost when imagination is running dry. Yet, for many, porn can become a debilitating, life threatening addiction, draining one's bank account, depleting one's self worth and self esteem, breaking up relationships, friendships, families, jobs and ultimately life. Those mental health professionals who work with sex and porn addicts, on the other hand, may not see it like I do. The addiction model doesn't necessarily recognize that a little porn here and there may be good for you sometimes and that it may be okay.
Throw in the fact that most porn is degrading, not just to women, but to men too. Porn depicts people in one facet only, horny and animalistic, with rock hard sexy bodies and nothing but lust on their minds. It depletes anyone and everyone involved of their intelligence. And, in many cases, it is simply hard pressed to imagine that even a little porn is okay, that porn in moderation is good. If moderate porn watching is the gateway drug, then porn addiction is just a slippery slope away.
For couples involved in this, it can be very painful. Too often, women hear that they need to lighten up about their husband's porn use, but when one partner is viewing porn and then lying about it, or denying how much or how often they are using or viewing it, then it is something that maybe should not be taken lightly. Because of its accessibility, be honest with yourself. If you feel concerned about your partner's porn use, having a heart to heart with your loved one can shed lots of light.
Get educated – it may just be that bringing the conversation to the forefront and open up new avenues to a fun sex life. But also, use your intuition, get educated on porn, and don't do anything you don't want to do. Then make a decision. If this is something you can live with, if you've made a compromise and things seem to be fine, or is this something you cannot live with, something that has the signs of escalation? If you and your partner are not seeing eye-to-eye about the porn use, it's best to seek the help of a professional. Go with your gut and don't let this potentially light and fun activity turn into a slippery slope.


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After secret hearings, France ready to put World Cup behind it
After the French team imploded at the World Cup, the French national parliament held two secret inquiries this week into the catostrophe!
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Il y en a marre! Enough already! Let it stop!
In France, everyone is quite aware that the French soccer team, Les Bleus, self-destructed at the World Cup. Ordinary French are quite upset, but are now ready to turn the page. Assez!
Unfortunately, that page is turning slowly. This week the French national parliament – twice warned by international soccer federation (FIFA) chief Sepp Blatter to not interfere with the sport – went ahead anyway in secret questioning sessions with two team officials.
The move put President Nicolas Sarkozy at odds with Prime Minister Francois Fillon over whether the nation's soccer woes needed a federal hand in recovery. And President Barak Obama thinks he has problems with BP.
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Columnist Christophe Berti, writing for Le Soir in Brussels, noted: "We thought we had seen everything in terms of ridicule...with the epic of France in South Africa. But having touched the bottom of the pool the French decided to dig further ... with this meaningless hearing at the National Assembly."


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The kitchen seems nicely equipped, modern and metallic, but on the night of the Trotter dinner party, a temporary kitchen helper—Carlson refers to him as "our 250-pound intern"—fell on the oven and broke its door. It no longer stays shut by itself, so a tiny stainless-steel bar latch, the kind you would expect to see on a shed door, was installed. "A new door would be close to 500 bucks," Carlson says. "This guy came in, he charged us fifty cents. He was great." The rubber tiles on the kitchen floor, installed because dropped plates and glasses bounce rather than break, have started popping loose, and Carlson is now coming in on weekends to rip them up and install replacements, something else at which he is not skilled. "Obviously, I do not know what I'm doing," he says.
The clientele is diverse, to be kind, and not especially well-dressed, in part because so many who dine here are local cooks whose attire reflects their incomes. He says, "If there's a guy in bad jeans and a torn shirt scrapping up crumbs of my [sea-urchin ice cream] cone and eating them with a knife, I consider that an exercise in respect, not coarseness." At the same time, he is intolerant of attitude, saying, "Assholes get filtered out quickly. If anybody acts as though they expect to be catered to, they're in the wrong place. We've had a couple altercations. One guy got up, gave us the finger, and walked out. One woman—she was wasted—accused us of stealing her wine. I bought her meal and told her to get out. There are not many places where the owner will come out and call a customer an asshole."
No restaurant could possibly do less to preselect customers or filter out undesirable ones. That's because no restaurant has a reservation system like Schwa's. It's a one-man operation, and to the regret of all Chicago, that man is Carlson. He complains that he is always getting terrible ratings on Web sites such as Metromix, not because the people who eat at Schwa dislike the food but because people who don't eat at Schwa are enraged when they can't get in. The entire system consists of a cordless phone with voice mail, but it accepts fewer than seventy messages at a time and invariably announces to callers that it is full.
Carlson, who usually has no difficulty blaming himself for whatever goes wrong in his life, in this case blames the designer of the phone. "It's badly engineered," he complains. "The guy who did it should be fired. When I put it under my chin, I hit the hang-up button." Ory, the cook and former systems administrator, offers a possible explanation for the difficulty of communicating with Schwa: Carlson is inept at anything involving electronics. "I went to a restaurant trade convention with him," Ory says. "I registered in five seconds. It took Michael like twenty minutes."
When Carlson does pick up the phone, which is not often, the people on the line tend to gasp, "I can't believe I got through." (That's Carlson's portrayal, and that's exactly what I did.) Then they start scrambling mentally, trying to remember what they planned to say and what day they hoped to reserve. When he returns a call to a potential customer, which is not often, his customer-service stylings are unique. This is what I overheard: "Hey, man, this is Michael from Schwa, man. Did I wake you up, man?" A huge percentage of his sentences end with the word man. Carlson is the last hipster dude.
Near the close of service one evening, I stopped a couple walking out of the restaurant to ask what they thought of their meal at Schwa. They weren't the only ones I questioned, but the stories are repetitive. Tolstoy once wrote that all unhappy families are different. At Schwa, all unhappy accounts of trying to get a reservation are the same.
The man, pleased at the opportunity to vent, says, "Tomorrow is my fortieth birthday, and we've been waiting to get in forever. We kept trying the reservation line, but we didn't hear anything. I came down here, a letter in hand, asking for any of ten days, anytime between seven and nine, and they refused to take the letter from me—they said I had to phone."
His girlfriend, eager to continue, adds, "I mailed it anyway. They called four days later. I took the date closest to his birthday." When one of the Schwa cooks hears this story, he rushes back to the kitchen and brings out a tiny birthday treat of white chocolate on a toothpick, one for each of them. They leave happy. She says, "You know what? It was worth it."
Carlson is thought by most of Chicago to be a recluse, with all collateral deficiencies—inarticulate, inconsiderate, impossible. For the most part, his image has been shaped by his inability to communicate by means of the telephone or, for that matter, by computer. His closest friend, Nathan Klingbail, sous-chef at Alinea, godfather to his daughter, and kitchen partner during the first incarnation of Schwa, says of the likelihood of reaching Carlson by cell phone, "He never carries it, and the battery is never charged."
Carlson was courteous enough to provide me with his e-mail address, and I wrote him at least a half-dozen times. Not once did he reply. He says that inevitably the first comment made by customers walking through the front door of Schwa is either to ask for another reservation or to complain how difficult it was to get the one they have. His sensible response: "Please, can't you just enjoy your meal?"


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Friday, November 20
Crisler Arena
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Houston Baptist
8 Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI (Sports Network) - Manny Harris led all scorers with 25 points and grabbed eight rebounds, as 15th-ranked Michigan hammered Houston Baptist, 77-55, at Crisler Arena.
DeShawn Sims hit 5-of-8 from three-point range and totaled 22 points and six boards for Michigan (2-0), which got off to an impressive start to the season by blasting Northern Michigan last Saturday, 97-50. Zack Novak went for eight points and seven boards.
"We really got off to a bad start," Michigan head coach John Beilein said. "Some shots didn't fall and it affected us. We didn't play well on defense and then we didn't execute on offense. We got ourselves in a little bit of a whole, but thank goodness we could dig ourselves out from there."
Mario Flaherty turned in a solid performance with 17 points and 13 rebounds for Houston Baptist (0-4), which has had a rough start in the early going this season, dropping all four of its games by double digits. Andrew Gonzalez donated 14 points, while Remy Boswell added 10 rebounds to go along with eight points.
Upset-minded Houston Baptist stayed with Michigan in the early going and led, 18-17, after Wendell Preadom made a jumper with a little over seven minutes left in the first half.
However, the Wolverines would soon wake up from their slow start, as Sims' sparked a 24-11 run with two straight three-pointers, and Michigan was up 41-29 lead at the break.
The second half didn't prove to be much of a contest, as Stu Douglass hit from beyond the arc to stretch the Wolverines lead to 70-42 with nearly 9 1/2 minutes remaining; Michigan would cruise to the easy victory.
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The language used by Anonymous was strident, hyperbolic, witty, and purposeful – a rallying cry designed to appeal equally to computer geeks, members of the media, liberals disenchanted with Arizona immigration policy, and libertarians disenchanted with government's reach. By early July, hundreds of outlets around the globe had picked up on the Arizona story, and the question of how much had actually been accomplished in the attack was overshadowed by the billowing mythos of the attack itself.
'We are fighting evil governments'
Exuberant plaudits piled up on the Anonymous Facebook page, and bloggers from Boston to Bangkok breathlessly exchanged stories of the exploits of "Operation Anti-Security." This Anti-Sec campaign eventually included cyber-raids on defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton; the Democratic Party of Orange County, Fla.; computer giant Apple Inc.; and a string of Turkish government sites.


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eCryptfs: a Stacked Cryptographic Filesystem
The media has been delivering a seemingly endless stream of reports of lost or stolen laptops, backup tapes, hard drives and servers from government and corporate facilities. These devices often contain medical, financial and other sensitive data. When the storage devices fall into the wrong hands, attackers can access the data directly, completely bypassing the access control mechanisms in place in the organization's network. Reports indicate that millions of people already have been affected by such compromises. As a result, customers and citizens are at an increasing risk of identify fraud and loss of privacy.
Although the cryptographic technology to protect data confidentiality has existed for decades, many organizations have failed to integrate this technology into their processes for handling sensitive data. In cases where cryptography is included in that process, it is frequently obtrusive, costly and complicated. Organizations sometimes neglect to establish data encryption policies, and employees often ignore such policies once they are in place.
In cases where employees attempt to utilize cryptography, they often use it ineffectively. For instance, they often select weak keys, and it is easy to save or transfer data inadvertently in unencrypted form through insecure media (such as Web e-mail or a USB Flash drive). Security strategies that depend on individual applications performing their own encryption often fail when the user copies and pastes sensitive information to other applications that do not have cryptographic capability.
Data encryption needs to be made ubiquitous, transparent, flexible, easily deployable, integrated into the data handling process and, of course, secure enough to counter sophisticated attacks. These properties need to be in effect regardless of the particular applications accessing the data. To make encryption services application-agnostic, the operating system kernel itself should provide a system-wide data encryption service for sensitive information written to secondary storage.
Several options exist for filesystem encryption under Linux, all with various advantages and disadvantages. Device mapper crypt (dm-crypt) ships with the Linux kernel and provides block device layer encryption. Loop-AES and TrueCrypt, which must be obtained separately from the official Linux kernel, also provide encryption at the block device layer. With block device layer encryption, the user creates the filesystem on the block device, and the encryption layer transparently encrypts the data before writing it to the actual lower block device.
The main advantage of block device layer encryption is that it is simple in concept and implementation. Another advantage of block device layer encryption is that attackers learn nothing about the filesystem unless they have the key; for instance, attackers will not even know the type of filesystem or the directory structure. Sparse files can be securely and efficiently supported in filesystems on encrypted block devices.
Block device encryption can have disadvantages that stem from the lack of integration with the filesystem itself:
A fixed region of storage must be pre-allocated for the entire filesystem. Resizing the partition later is often an inconvenient process.
It can be difficult to change encryption keys or ciphers.
There is no flexibility for the block device encryption mechanism to encrypt different files with different keys or ciphers.
Applications such as incremental backup utilities need access to the unencrypted data.
All content in the filesystem incurs the overhead of encryption and decryption, including data that does not require secrecy.
Files must be re-encrypted with a user-space application before they are transmitted through another medium.
EncFS is a user-space cryptographic filesystem that operates via FUSE. User-space filesystems are easier to implement than kernel-native filesystems, and they have the advantage of being able to utilize user-space libraries easily. This makes it simple to implement feature-rich filesystems with less time and effort on the part of the developer. Unlike block device encryption solutions, EncFS operates as an actual filesystem. EncFS encrypts and decrypts individual files. Disadvantages of user-space filesystems based on FUSE include performance overhead from frequent kernel/user-space context switches and a current lack of support for shared writable memory mappings.
eCryptfs is a kernel-native stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. Stacked filesystems layer on top of existing mounted filesystems that are referred to as lower filesystems. eCryptfs is a stacked filesystem that encrypts and decrypts the files as they are written to or read from the lower filesystem.
Applications in user space make filesystem system calls that go through the kernel Virtual Filesystem (VFS). Both eCryptfs and the lower filesystem (for example, ext3, JFS, NFS and so on) are registered in the kernel VFS. The operations under the eCryptfs mountpoint first go to eCryptfs. eCryptfs retrieves key material from the user session key ring and uses the kernel cryptographic API to perform encryption and decryption of file contents. eCryptfs may make key management requests with the user-space eCryptfs dæmon (ecryptfsd). eCryptfs reads and writes encrypted content stored in files in the lower filesystem (Figure 1).
Application file operations go through eCryptfs, which communicates with the kernel crypto API, the kernel key ring and the user-space eCryptfs dæmon to perform encryption and decryption. eCryptfs manipulates files in lower filesystems, such as JFS or ext3.
eCryptfs aims to provide the flexibility of a Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) application as a transparent kernel service. For that reason, the OpenPGP (RFC 2440) specification inspires the basic key handling techniques in eCryptfs. This includes the common procedure of using a hierarchy of keys when performing cryptographic operations (Figure 2).
eCryptfs encrypts and decrypts individual data extents in each file using a unique randomly generated File Encryption Key (FEK). The FEK is encrypted with the File Encryption Key Encryption Key (FEKEK), and the resulting Encrypted File Encryption Key (EFEK) is stored in the header of each lower file.
The cryptographic metadata is in the header region of the encrypted lower file. Users can transmit the lower file as is to other users, and the recipients can access the decrypted contents of the file through eCryptfs, so long as they have the proper key. This provides a high degree of flexibility in how the files can be handled while maintaining strong security.
How interface HW accelerator to eCryptofs to do encryption
Hi i want to interface or configure HW accelerator to eCryptfs.
How to do that coz my HW can do AES,DES and MD5.so i want to use hardware accelerator with eCryptfs to do disk encryption.
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Quick note from the author
This article is on page 54 of the print edition. I recommend picking up a copy; there are several good security-related articles in there.
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Continued American Presence in Afghanistan a Recipe for More DisasterPosted on Jan 8, 2013
The United States has adopted the mission of "global security provider," according to the most recent Defense Department quadrennial strategy statement. This is a self-nominated role as custodian of a (prospective) global order based on American democracy and capitalism, meant to replace the Westphalian system of absolute national sovereignties and the tradition and institutions of international law as these used to be observed (before the arrival of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and, regrettably, Barack Obama). This is what the U.S. has seen itself doing since the first Gulf War (the Kuwait war) in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and elsewhere in the Islamic world. The mission has led successive American governments into invasions, wars and policies of global intervention, justified by reformist aims. Not all of the world—certainly not the Islamic world—wants America's version of global security, which has required repeated American military interventions abroad, provoking guerrilla and terrorist resistance. The existence of this reciprocal cause/effect phenomenon has been widely ignored in Washington, but the consequences have ranged from damaging to disastrous. American troops are now scheduled to leave Afghanistan, after failing to defeat the Taliban insurrection. President Barack Obama last year announced their withdrawal in 2014. Or he announced more or less their withdrawal—except for those who stay. We went through this during the past two years with Iraq, where a U.S. withdrawal was announced, followed by Washington's attempt to negotiate with the Baghdad government about how many American soldiers would actually stay on. Just to train troops, the U.S. said. And to deal with terrorism, if there was more of that (as, surprisingly enough, there has been). In general, to "provide security," since Iran might make trouble, or if the permanence of the boundary with Kurdish-controlled territory were to come into question, making trouble. A question also existed about the long-term security of the oil sector and its exports. Advertisement Square, Site wide The United States could have refused to take no for an answer. But the American public wasn't likely to want to fight over this. The whole rationale for eight years in Iraq was to liberate the Iraqis from their homegrown tyranny. And President Obama had promised that the Iraq war would end. Now there is the same problem with Afghanistan. American forces have been in the country in one or another way since 2001. After the 9/11 attacks, committed by the Afghanistan-based al-Qaida, the Pentagon sent B-52s to obliterate the Taliban government army, overturned the Taliban (Pashtun) government, and sponsored creation of a new and friendly government dominated by the two main ethnic minorities, the Tajiks and Hazaras, with a presumably tame and symbolic Pashtun president, Hamid Karzai. President Obama, following his 2008 election, was assured by the U.S. generals in command that they had the war against the Taliban all but wrapped up, provided that he did what they told him to do. He did—but they didn't. The president has now ordered home the American troops in Afghanistan. This presumes that an all-Afghan settlement will be negotiated, or that Afghanistan's army and police will defeat the insurrection, which no one believes. (The Pentagon concedes that only one of 23 NATO-trained Afghan brigades currently are capable of functioning on their own.) However, in order to spare reputations at best, or at worst to obfuscate humiliation, the Pentagon wishes to keep a substantial residual force in Afghanistan after 2014. It originally proposed 20,000 men and women, but according to The New York Times, it may be forced by the White House to settle for much less. Unlike in Iraq, President Karzai of Afghanistan wants a large American residual force. When the Americans go, he (if he has survived) or his successor will head a Tajik-Hazaras minority government confronting a Pashtun population numbering some 40 percent of the total population. He will discuss this problem with Obama when the two meet this week. The last time they met, in May 2011, they signed a "strategic partnership agreement." But why does Washington want to stay? Do the foreign policy officials in office not understand that for American troops to stay in Afghanistan to "provide security" is to assure insecurity, since the presence of infidel soldiers inspires hostility and resistance?
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