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there there - Unregistered August 12, 2010 10:52 AM Boo Hoo. its not fair. Whats up Mr Neal, are they too fast so you cant get close enough to ram them off the circuit like most of the other drivers get from you. Grow up and deal with it cry baby. 41 agree 9 disagree
j - Unregistered August 12, 2010 11:22 AM when neal get to brands hatch he will be knocking them off in the last corner as normal and getting away with it! 23 agree 3 disagree
EJACUL8 - Unregistered August 12, 2010 11:30 AM Here's an idea B1tch, stop moaning and start winning, it's that simple 12 agree 2 disagree
Ed Intheclouds - Unregistered August 12, 2010 11:36 AM This man should be in F1. With moaning like that, he'd fit in well ! 7 agree 2 disagree
Taz - Unregistered August 12, 2010 11:56 AM Can't really add any more to the 4 comments above.He really is a t0sspot 2 agree 1 disagree
brimar - Unregistered August 12, 2010 12:47 PM At Snetterton the Focus was not fastest in practice,not fastest in qualifying and did not win a race- so Matt whats the problem? One car will always be quickest thats the on that wins and Honda did at least win 1 race. 4 agree 0 disagree
Neil Sheffield August 12, 2010 1:53 PM It's never Matt Neals' fault, it's always someone, or something elses reasoning behind the fact, that he did'nt win!. So what, tehre are better cars, and drivers than you.. Shut up, and go and partner up with Alonso. You two would be great bed buddies!!!!! Reply Report abuse 3 agree 2 disagree
Neil - Unregistered August 12, 2010 1:58 PM Stop moaning... Were you at Snetterton? The Aon sponsored cars were faster than you, but they were not THE fastest.. Thats the name of the ganme Matt, drive better, win more races!!. Go and ask Daddy to build you a better car then!!!!! 4 agree 2 disagree
knowledge - Unregistered August 12, 2010 2:06 PM Ask daddy to build you a better car?? Matt and Steve run rimstock and both put money ammounts into the development. If you want a driver who needs daddy to pay for his car look at chilton. And as for him being a moaner. The aon cars being 10mph faster throught the speed trap is a legitimate cause for any driver complaining. People need to stop moaning whenever neal says anything. 11 agree 11 disagree
Wolfy35 August 12, 2010 2:07 PM Matt Neal seems to be suffering from a dose of selective amnesiaIn a post race interview at the last round he commented that he was not concerned about the straight line speed of the Focus LPG gars because they lost out in braking by having to break much earlier than the rest of the field ( LPG Turbo cars do not have engine braking like all others in the field)I think the real issue here is that all teams except Neal's were testing and improving their cars during the break, The change in the performance of all the other teams was noticable Reply Report abuse 4 agree 0 disagree


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Babies don't come with instruction manuals, so the saying goes. But technology is promising to lend new parents a helping hand in the form of Sproutling, a smart baby monitor that keeps parents abreast of baby's physical status, conditions in the baby's room, and learns from baby's past behavior to provide specialized suggestions to sleep-deprived parents.
The Sproutling system consists of three components; a breathable, washable band made from medical-grade, hypoallergenic silicone that the baby wears around his or her ankle; a dish that wirelessly recharges the wearable band and also monitors the room's environmental conditions; and the Sproutling app, which collates all the data into useable observations and push notifications. All three are brought together via a home Wi-Fi network.
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Recently we've seen a stork's beakfull of baby-related gadgets that attempt to improve on traditional audio and video baby monitors that require parents to actively listen or watch to know if something is amiss. The Owlet smart sock is cheaper but simpler than Sproutling, the Edison-powered Mimo, aka the "internet of baby things," attempts to coordinate smart devices related to baby's needs, and the Omni Smart Care system is more of a traditional (if amped up) baby webcam with data tracking features.
The Sproutling team, containing some Apple and Google alumni and, more importantly, some new parents, say their product is different from the host of baby monitors and apps making their way to market because Sproutling doesn't just offer graphs and data, but has an approach similar to Nest's home automation, learning and evolving as it tracks past baby behaviors.
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Those interested in becoming, in the words of the company, "a life-living, sleep-having, baby-raising badass" can preorder Sproutling for US$249, with first deliveries expected in March 2015. After pre-orders, the price will rise to $299.
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Derrett, R 2008, 'Regional festivals: Nourishing community resilience: the nature and role of cultural festivals in Northern Rivers NSW communities', PhD thesis, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.
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This thesis examines four regional community cultural festivals in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. It reveals the complex interplay of a sense of place and community, a destination's identity and representation, host guest relationships and the underlying nature and role of celebration expressed in each festival. It examines the regional context in which the Jacaranda Festival in Grafton, the Beef Week celebrations in Casino, the New Year's Eve celebrations in Byron Bay and the Mardi Grass Law reform rally in Nimbin are conducted. An extensive literature review provides a global perspective on theories, issues and trends in the sectors reflected in the case study festivals. The phenomenological approach to the case study methodology is explained before each festival is closely scrutinized, addressing the study's aim.
The thesis aims at a better understanding of the elements of resilience fostered by festivals when communities take intentional action. This resilience dimension emerged as a major outcome of the initial investigation of the nature and role of festivals in regional communities.
The thesis argues that festivals allow people to reflect and determine a sense of community and place, represent their image and identity and contribute to cultural tourism. Community festivals involve the local population in a shared experience to their mutual benefit by providing both social functions and symbolic meanings. This study contends that community-based festivals celebrate the community's social identity, its historical continuity and its cultural resilience. They are socially constructed and negotiated phenomena and can be staged in everyday places that also become tourist places. Festivals provide a forum for creativity, custom, heritage and cultural practices for both resident and guest.
Investigating community cultural festivals from multiple perspectives allows for greater understanding of the nuances of the relationships between stakeholders. By identifying the patterns, structures and meanings of the contexts that festivals represent we are better informed of the distinctive values, interests and aspirations held by residents when they host festivals. Perspectives on community festivals and resilience were canvassed from diverse perspectives as demonstrated by the following typical responses:
Nourishing resilience through Festivals and Communities
There are many intangible reasons why a community chooses to host a festival such as socio-cultural, economic, political and environmental and each reason is not mutually exclusive (Backman et al, 1995).
The Northern Rivers region stands apart from the rest of rural Australia as living as if the future matters. This is a very powerful attractor in these times of urban decay and environmental despair (Dunstan, 1994:2).
Sense of place, can be described as, the common ground where interpretation and community development meets in a concern to create or enhance a sense of place, to establish what is significant and valued in the environment or heritage of a particular community, and to provide action for its wider appreciation and conservation (Binks, 1989:191 cited Trotter, 1998).
Democratic communities take responsibility for their future. It is undeniable that cohesive community events based on ideals create a sense of community. The excitement and joy that people feel when they work together for their community and future means that they will attempt to recreate that experience. It becomes their preferred way (Emery, 1995:70).
…the notion of community is always something of a myth. A community implies a coherent entity with a clear identity and a commonality of purpose. The reality is that communities, more often than not, are made up of an agglomeration of factions and interest groups often locked in competitive relationships (Smit, 1995 cited in Joppe, 1996:475).
Community, the custodians of the content of Australian tourism, must be enabled to participate in tourism by forming its content. Only if Australians are involved in tourism will it survive, (Wood, 1993:7).
Through direct contact and interaction with each festival, the qualitative exploratory study reveals how in formal and informal ways participants at the four case study sites demonstrate the diverse and fragmented nature of festivals. Although none of these festivals is identical, some consistent patterns do emerge to demonstrate that comparisons can be developed. These patterns have their own advantages and disadvantages and it is evident that success or failure is not linked to a particular model for such festivals. Each community has an ongoing challenge of determining how their festival can best meet its needs presently and into the future. Each is trying to keep pace with the changes that are taking place within their communities, within the region and from external forces. This is where the study also generates new knowledge: tracking the changes occurring in community festivals in contemporary regional Australia.
Through a systematic analysis of data the study significantly contributes to our understanding of the character of community festivals. Through surveys, interviews, media analysis, photographic images and critical observation, it clearly observes that social, economic and environmental issues currently presented in the literature require greater deconstruction and critical engagement. Rich and quilted description of the festivals informs this research providing grounded scholarly investigation. This approach leads to a greater understanding of significant social and cultural agendas in regional communities. Festivals add value to communities. They creatively produce and embed culture. They can be viewed as celebrations of resilience.
Through a systematic analysis of data the study significantly contributes to our understanding of the character of community festivals. Through surveys, interviews, media analysis, photographic images and critical observation, it clearly observes that social, economic and environmental issues currently presented in the literature require greater deconstruction and critical engagement. Rich and quilted description of the festivals informs this research providing grounded scholarly investigation. This approach leads to a greater understanding of significant social and cultural agendas in regional communities. Festivals add value to communities. They creatively produce and embed culture. They can be viewed as celebrations of resilience.
At the core of the investigation is an analysis of how the process of nourishing resilience by making inclusive celebrations, unleashes relationships between many stakeholders. Each participant contributes to the program, traditions, cultural practices, impact and reach of events with differing voices and emphases.
In principle, festivals and their host communities offer individual members a framework for attending to general aspects of life. This study reaffirms that community festivals particularly hold a significant position in three areas of the human condition. They celebrate a sense of place through organising inclusive activities in specific safe environments. They provide a vehicle for communities to host visitors and share such activities as representations of communally agreed values, interests and aspirations. Finally, they are the outward manifestation of the identity of the community and provide a distinctive identifier of place and people.


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WHERE: Ninewah Province, Mosul, IVO Al Islah Al Zerai Neighborhood, RTE Porsche, 38SLF 28196 24004
WHAT: Cache-Confirmed (HQ/ C/3-8) -Ineffective
HOW: HQ/ C/3-8 CAV reported that 1/6/2 IA received a tip from a HUMINT source about a cache at Ninewah Province, Mosul, IVO Al Islah Al Zerai Neighborhood, RTE Porsche, 38SLF 28196 24004. 1/6/2 IA reported to 3/C/3-8 CAV that their higher headquarters would not allow CF to take pictures or recover/reduce the cache. 1/6/2IA turned it over to Mosul BDE NPs, who recovered it to COP EAGLE.
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Understanding the drivers behind a projected $442 billion bill to operate and sustain the US-owned Lockheed Martin F-35 fleet is the focus of a sweeping new review.
Applying the same rigour as the year-long technical baseline review (TBR), which led to a restructuring of development and early production plans, the F-35 joint programme will complete a detailed design review of the stealth fighter's logistics requirements, says Vice Adm David Venlet, F-35 programme executive officer.
"The [armed] services see these estimates and it makes their knees weak going forward, as it does anybody's," Venlet told reporters in a press conference on 21 April.
A key target is reducing the $442 billion estimate at fiscal year 2002 inflation values for F-35 operations and sustainment costs. That cost projection was produced in late 2009 by the US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), which was then led by Venlet.
The NAVAIR study estimates that the F-35 will cost $30,700 per hour to fly, a 40% increase compared to $18,900 per hour for the Boeing F/A-18A-D and McDonnell Douglas AV-8B.
Venlet says all previous studies on F-35 operations and sustainment costs have suffered from not having "actual" values derived from operational aircraft. "Frankly, we're in that same condition today," he says.
The first low-rate initial production version of the F-35 is "on the threshold" of delivery to the US Air Force's training base at Eglin AFB, Florida, Venlet says.
In the meantime, the programme office can still use estimating models to analyse and illuminate the causes of the F-35's higher operating and sustainment costs, he says.
Venlet emphasises that the operations and sustainment review does not mean the programme is "walking away" from Lockheed's performance-based logistics system.
But programme officials will review the "balance of organic support in US depots with industry support", Venlet says.
The programme also will consider the cost of the F-35's existing basing structure, as the number of bases drives costs associated with simulators and maintenance infrastructure, he says.
Similar to the TBR, the new cost review will illuminate choices the services can make to lower the cost of operating and sustaining the F-35, Venlet says.
"We see that [cost] estimate," Venlet says. "We know that's not the right number. We don't know what the right number is."
Meanwhile, Lockheed has delivered the company's initial proposal for the fifth lot of low-rate initial production, which will set the price on 35 new jets, Venlet says. The submittal starts a potentially months-long negotiating process.
At the same time, the programme also is renegotiating the development contract, which is now billions over cost. A key issue in the pricing talks will be restructuring Lockheed's incentive plan.
Last year, the programme office withheld $614 million in incentive payments to Lockheed. Instead, the programme set five goals in 2010 with $7 million bonus payments attached to each goal. The F-35 achieved one of the five goals, which involved completing first flight of the CF-1 carrier variant.
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Sometimes, a long and unwieldy title is preferable to the alternative. When this movie was re-released as Fun Loving, audiences understandably avoided it. But who wouldn't be intrigued by the original title, however ungainly? The movie is a romantic comedy about an Irish dreamer (played by far-from-Irish Gene Wilder) who lives at home and makes a few pounds by picking up horse manure off the streets of Dublin and selling it as fertilizer. But modernity encroaches, in the form of an edict banning horse-drawn wagons from the city and a clock-punching job alongside his father at a factory after the manure business dries up. Fortunately for Fortune, there's an opportunity for escape in the form of a romance with a proto-Manic Pixie Dream Girl, an American college student with the equally unlikely name of Zazel (Margot Kidder). And there's also that title cousin, though it's not clear how Quackser expects to escape modernity by moving to New York City. Most of the movie's strange charm may lie in the title. It does have some fans who insist that Wilder and Kidder make a winning couple, as well as detractors who feel that the movie, like Quackser's pushcart, is full of, um, blarney.
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- The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
- Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
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Burton Process???
I've been looking at some Burton boards recently and the 2011 Process caught my eye. Does anyone know anything about it or have any opinions on it? Because there isn't much about it on the web and from what I've read, it looks like a pretty standard cambered board.
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Do you not want a rockered version? I demoed the V-Rocker Process and it was a decent board. I like Burton's V-Rocker shape. It's playful while not being too loose. The only thing I did not like about the Process was the stability. It is a softer side of medium flex so taking down a steep run is not an option. It can be done, but it's sketchy. However, if you are looking to mess around and cruise, it is actually a great board.
Burton Process V-Rocker Snowboard 2011 For that price range and target riding style, I'd recommend the K2 Raygun instead. Great all-mountain board for the price. It's about $40 cheaper than the process and I feel is the better board. More stable than the Process, and K2's all-mountain rocker is awesome. Flatline between the bindings and rocker through tip and tail. K2 Raygun Mens Snowboard 2011 If you already have a set of Burton EST Bindings, then stick with the Process. Otherwise, I'd look at the Raygun. |
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To back up what Leo said...if you don't already have EST bindings (and you want rocker) check out the Raygun. That thing rides better than any other $350, hands down. If you are going to go Process with EST bindings, you'll be spending $570ish.
If you really want camber (and aren't sure about investing in EST bindings) check out the Burton Deuce. It's a step down from the process ($20 cheaper) but you won't have to drop $170 to get some EST bindings. |
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okay if somone could give more information on this that would be great because im looking into the same board
I have a burton supermodel with cartel bindings but the supermodel is just too stiff for me so i want a softer funner board that i can still ride all mountain is the process any good? |
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Dude, the easy livin is a 4/10 park board. I think you need a noodle instead of a park or all mountain
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So, I thought that my son's testicles not being down was normal (that they would come down eventually) but I decided to search it last night and found on here, a lot of people's pediatrician say it's a problem. We haven't talked to our new pediatrician about it, and his last visit was 6 months ago, she didn't look in his diaper at the time.
His testicles do come down sometimes, but they don't stay down for long (not even for a whole day). I would say 98% of the time they are up. I don't no how to explain it, my husband felt and said he feels them there, they are just shriveled and aren't down. What got me wondering if it was normal was that my 1 month old's testicles are so big and down and I can't remember when my April LO's testicles went up and stopped hanging. In his newborn pictures, right after he was born, they looked like what my 1 month old's looks like. His sack looks like a shriveled prune. Anyone have any insight or experience? Is this normal?


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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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just thought I'd drop in and show you guys some stuff that is making me happy lately. It's the little things, ya know?
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This rad bamboo tray that I found at Goodwill for like $1:
Pretty cute, huh? Also, I got Jordan that Chemex coffee maker for Christmas -- have you used a Chemex? They're pretty cool. My brother is a coffee snob, and uses one daily, so that's where I got the idea, and we love it. When made with the Chemex, coffee is less bitter, more pure, and plus, it's just fun to make. I also appreciate the simple design of the canister.
Anyway, next up is this cute candle I recently bought at Anthropologie:
I bought it for the color of the glass, which is a greenish-yellow (almost neon). It smells great, too. Jordan and I both love great-smelling candles burning in the house, so they're a treat that we are constantly indulging in :) This one is the Capri Blue brand that is always burning at Anthropologie, but it's a different scent than the regular one - it's Mandarin Mango. It smells good, but I prefer the original one. I really love that colorful glass, though!
my new Robert Allen pillow came in!
Mika and I love it. I just put the pillow that came with the chair inside the pillowcase for now. Jordan likes the lumbar support of the firmer pillows, so it might have to stay. But I would prefer a down filled pillow. I'm actually having a hard time finding 12x20" down filled pillow inserts - any suggestions?
last but not least, a shot from the studio yesterday. Heather organized my paint supply room which was a DISASTER. Seriously. Disastrous. I wish I had a "before" pic. Anyway, we put together this new shelf, and she rearranged and organized my stuff, and I am ever so grateful.
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- AnonymousMarch 21, 2012 at 7:15 AM
I bought my down pillow, lumbar shapped at TJ Maxx. Your cat is adorable. More pictures of the living room please. You are sure going lighter these days. I miss the livingroom when it had more yellow in it.
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I am sure it will look great whatever you do! Have fun with it. I am glad you are going lighter. It will be fun to see it. Looks like you got your pillow. You might still want to look at TJ Maxx sometime they have nice pillows for good prices.
ReplyDelete One of my favorite tricks is to wrap a feather/down pillow in a dacron batting envelope - that way you get the softness of the feather with the support of the poly. Sometimes you have to play with the size of the cover (ie making it a little looser) but the resulting pilow is super amazing!
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It was the last time Rachel Jacoby and Ashley Mansfield would play L.A. Nickell Golf Course for Hickman.
The Kewpies beat Marshall 174-204 on Thursday in their final home match.
Jacoby, a senior, shot her best nine-hole round of the season and tied for medalist at 41. Junior Payge Pleimann shared the honor.
Pleimann said she was happy to share medalist honors with Jacoby.
"Rachel's been dying to show people what she can do out here," Pleimann said.
Jacoby has been medalist in past years, but Thursday was the first time this season she had done so.
"I just wanted to finally prove myself," Jacoby said. "Then I came here and it was a much more emotional thing than I anticipated."
Jacoby said she was emotional before the round.
"I've invested four years in this; it's all I do, it's all I think about, and it's over," Jacoby said. "This is just me and my friends. It's sad, it's very sad."
Jacoby would have had sole possession of medalist had she not struggled on the eighth hole.
Her tee shot sailed to the right on the par 4, stopping just to the right of the cart path. A punch shot was the only shot Jacoby had because she was under a tree. The shot tangled in the rough and rolled about 15 yards, leaving her with another punch shot.
Jacoby reached the green in four and two-putted for a double bogey.
Jacoby hit an estimated 250-yard drive on the par-4 fifth hole, which set her up for a short chip onto the green and two putts for par.
Mansfield, a senior, shot 44 to finish third. A gallery of 16 followed Mansfield and Pleimann.
"We just tried to not think about it because we knew if we thought about it, we'd freeze," Mansfield said.
Mansfield struggled with her iron play, but said her putting helped save her round. Mansfield said she was sad to play in her final match, but it turned out better than it could have.
Pleimann said that she didn't know how the seniors were feeling about the last home match, but she would miss having them on the team.
"I love those girls and I'm going to miss them so much when they're gone," Pleimann said.
Pleimann played consistently, making three pars and six bogeys. She had a short birdie putt on the fifth hole that lipped out.
Anita Sadhu shot 48 for the Kewpies' fourth score.
Jenny Dehn led Marshall with a 45. Grace McCartney shot 50, Kate Finnegan shot 52 and Megan Kays shot 57.
Hickman is preparing for the district tournament Monday at Redfield Golf Course. The top two teams from each district advance to the state finals.
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Born and raised in the capital city of Ghana, Accra, my curiosity finally led me to science where I could ask the questions 'why, where, how and what' on a daily basis and follow the path to the probable answers. This quest earned me a Bachelor of Science (2003) as well as a Master of Philosophy (2011) degree in Biochemistry from the University of Ghana. During my training for my Master's degree, I had the wonderful opportunity to do my thesis project here at UVM in the then Shukla/Mossman lab. Cell signaling and cancer biology are part of my central focus in the Shukla lab. I am currently studying the tumorigenesis of malignant mesothelioma and the role inflammation (specifically inflammatory cascades) plays in this fatal cancer. When I am not in the lab, I like to explore Vermont and the surrounding areas with my friends.
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Exposure of human peritoneal mesothelial cells to asbestos results in the release of mature IL-1β processed by the NALP3 inlfammasome. This is believed to be one of the mechanisms through which asbestos causes chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation has been shown to be involved in tumorigenesis and fibrosis. Thus the NALP3 inflammasome may play a role in these processes in patients exposed to asbestos. To help understand how asbestos exposure leads to asbestosis and in some cases the rare cancer, mesothelioma, I will be looking at the regulation of asbestos-induced mesothelial to fibroblastic transition (MFT/EMT) by the NALP3 inflammasome as well as regulation of the inflammasome itself using in vitro and in vivo models.
Selected Publications
Thompson J and Shukla A. Asbestos risks: past and present (editorial). Air Water Borne Dis 2(1), 2013 (Editorial)
Jill Miller, Joyce Thompson and A. Shukla. Asbestos-Induced Oxidative Stress in Lung Pathogenesis. In, Laher I (ed.), Systems Biology of Free Radicals and Anti-Oxidants, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-30018-9_201, # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013. (Book chapter).
Hillegass JM, Miller JM, MacPherson MB, Catherine Westbom, Sayan M, Thompson JK, Macura SL, Perkins TN, Beuschel SL, Alexeeva V, Pass HI, Steele C, Mossman BT, and Shukla A: Asbestos and erionite prime and activate the NLRP3 inflammasome that stimulates autocrine cytokine release in human mesothelial cells. Particle and Fiber Toxicology, 10:39, 2013 doi:10.1186/1743-8977-10-39.
Joyce K. Thompson, Catherine Westbom and A Shukla, Malignant mesothelioma: development to therapy. J. Cell. Biochem., 115(1):1-7 2014 (invited review).
Jill M. Miller, Joyce K. Thompson, Maximilian B. MacPherson, Stacie L. Beuschel, Catherine M. Westbom, Mutlay Sayan, and Arti Shukla; Curcumin: A Double Hit on Malignant Mesothelioma (2014) Cancer Prevention Journal (Epub ahead of print).
Recent Publications
Sayan M, Shukla A, MacPherson MB, Macura SL, Hillegass JM, Perkins TN, Thompson JK, Beuschel SL, Miller JM, Mossman BT (2014) Extracellular signal-regulated kinase 5 and cyclic AMP response element binding protein are novel pathways inhibited by vandetanib (ZD6474) and doxorubicin in mesotheliomas. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 51(5): 595-603.
Thompson JK, Westbom CM, MacPherson MB, Mossman BT, Heintz NH, Spiess P, Shukla A (2014) Asbestos modulates thioredoxin-thioredoxin interacting protein interaction to regulate inflammasome activation. Part Fibre Toxicol 11: 24.
Miller JM, Thompson JK, MacPherson MB, Beuschel SL, Westbom CM, Sayan M, Shukla A (2014) Curcumin: a double hit on malignant mesothelioma. Cancer Prev Res (Phila) 7(3): 330-40.
Thompson JK, Westbom CM, Shukla A (2014) Malignant mesothelioma: development to therapy. J Cell Biochem 115(1): 1-7.
Hillegass JM, Miller JM, MacPherson MB, Westbom CM, Sayan M, Thompson JK, Macura SL, Perkins TN, Beuschel SL, Alexeeva V, Pass HI, Steele C, Mossman BT, Shukla A (2013) Asbestos and erionite prime and activate the NLRP3 inflammasome that stimulates autocrine cytokine release in human mesothelial cells. Part Fibre Toxicol 10: 39.
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Tulane's all-time leader in singles and doubles victories.
Spring 2004: (entering NCAA Individual Tournaments) Will earn All-America honors for the third time in singles based on his seeding in the NCAA SIngles Tournament. Named the Conference USA Player of the Year for the fourth consecutive season, as well as first team all-conference. Ranked No. 11 in the nation. Has a 17-5 record, including 12-4 against ranked opponents. Has lost just one match since March 9th. Was named C-USA Player of the Week four times this spring. Also named Louisiana Player of the Year for the fourth year in a row. Has compiled a 17-4 doubles record, including 17-1 with freshman David Goulet. He and Goulet are ranked No. 12 in the nation and will compete in the NCAA Doubles Championship. Attempting to earn All-America honors in doubles for the third time with his third different partner. Has not lost in doubles since Feb. 22nd.
Fall 2003: Posted a 4-1 singles mark with all of his matches coming against nationally-ranked foes at the Icy Hot/ITA Men's All-American Championships as he reached the semifinals of the prestigious event. Also teamed with Dmitriy Koch to post a 1-1 mark in doubles, with a win over the No. 11 team in the country and a loss to the No. 16 tandem.
Spring 2003: Had a dominating year for the Green Wave, earning All-America honors in both singles and doubles. Also named Conference USA Player of the Year and Louisiana Player of the Year honors for the third year in a row. Named C-USA Player of the Week six times during the season. Climbed as high as No. 7 in the nation in singles play and closed the year at No. 11 with a 23-3 record. Tallied a 16-3 record against players in the year-end rankings. Won his final 13 decisions at No. 1 singles in dual-match action. Earned a straight-set victory over Vanderbilt's Bobby Reynolds, who was the top-ranked player in the nation at the time. Compiled a 26-2 doubles record, including 12-2 against ranked opponents. He and senior Victor Romero finished the year with the No. 5 ranking in the country. Closed the season with 15 straight dual-match wins at No. 1 doubles. Earned victories over the No. 2 (Lipsky/Martin from Stanford) and No. 3 (Maiberger/Redondo from San Diego State) doubles duos in the nation.
Fall 2002: Entered the fall season with the No. 17 ranking in the Omni Hotels Preseason Rankings. Posted a record of 5-3 with seven of his matches coming against nationally-ranked opponents. Tallied a 1-2 doubles mark, with both losses coming to the No. 3 ranked duo in the nation.
Spring 2002: Ranked as high as No. 4 (12/11/01) in the nation in singles and finished the regular season with the No. 20 ranking. Earned Conference USA Player of the Year honors for the second year in a row. Also teamed with Victor Romero to be ranked No. 19 in the nation in doubles. Qualified for the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships. Posted a singles record of 17-6, while in doubles, he was 20-2 in 2002. Twice earned Conference USA Player of the Week honors and shared Team MVP honors with Romero. Also picked up Louisiana Player of the Year honors for the second consecutive season.
Fall 2001: Opened the fall with the No. 15 ranking in the nation. After posting a 16-4 mark, he jumped all the way to No. 4 in the nation in the final fall rankings. Advanced to the championship match of the Southern Intercollegiates in Athens, Ga. Also reached the semifinals of the ITA All-American Tournament in Stone Mountain, Ga. Defeated No. 2 ranked Philip King from Duke at ITA Championship. At the Tulane Invitational, Kogan teamed with Victor Romero to win the doubles championship, knocking off the No. 5 ranked pair in the nation from LSU. However, in singles, Kogan was denied the title by his teammate Romero.
Spring 2001: Battled injury early in the spring, but rebounded to cap one of the more successful seasons in Green Wave history. Closed the season with the No. 30 ranking in the nation in singles and No. 6 in doubles. Earned All-America honors in both singles and doubles. Advanced to the quarterfinals at the NCAA Singles Tournament and to the Round of 16 in doubles with Mikko Viljanen. Led Tulane to the Conference USA Championship, earning C-USA Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year honors. Did not lose a set in the entire C-USA Tourney. Also collected Louisiana Athletic Directors Association Player of the Year honors for men's tennis. His final spring record was 17-3.
Fall 2000: Posted a 13-2 record in singles play in the fall. Won the Tulane Invitational singles title and the Tennessee Fall Classic "A" Flight championship. Upset Mississippi's Alex Hartman, the No. 2 seed and the 10th-ranked player in the nation, at the ITA Region III Championships. Teamed with Mikko Viljanen for an 8-3 mark in doubles action, including wins over five nationally-ranked tandems. The pair won the top flight of the Tennessee Fall Classic and advanced to the semifinals of the National Clay Court Doubles Championship.
Prep: A 1996 graduate of Rotberg High School in Ramat-Hasharon, Israel. Held an ATP ranking of 320 in doubles and 650 in singles.
Personal: Born January 2, 1978 in Tashkent in the former Soviet Union. Served three years in the Israeli military. A double major in accounting and finance.
Kogan's Career Stats
Singles | No. 1 | No. 2 | vs. Ranked | Overall | Fall 2000 | - | - | 4-1 | 13-2 | Spring 2001 | 16-3 | 1-0 | 8-2 | 19-4 | Fall 2001 | - | - | 7-4 | 16-4 | Spring 2002 | 13-5 | 4-0 | 6-6 | 17-6 | Fall 2002 | - | - | 5-2 | 5-3 | Spring 2003 | 18-2 | 2-0 | 9-3 | 23-3 | Fall 2003 | - | - | 4-1 | 4-1 | Career | 47-10 | 7-0 | 43-19 | 97-23 |
Doubles | No. 1 | vs. Ranked | Overall | Fall 2000 | - | 5-1 | 8-3 | Spring 2001 | 19-1 | 3-1 | 19-2 | Fall 2001 | - | 1-0 | 3-0 | Spring 2002 | 21-2 | 8-3 | 22-3 | Fall 2002 | - | 0-2 | 1-2 | Spring 2003 | 23-1 | 12-2 | 26-2 | Fall 2003 | - | 1-1 | 1-1 | Career | 63-4 | 30-10 | 80-13 |


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Why the IRS scandal is both not as bad, and also much worse, than it seems. Sunday May 19, 2013 If an advertising agency gets money from clients to produce television ads touting the clients' products, the advertising agency has income on which income taxes must be paid. But if the advertising agency is a non-profit organization operated "for the promotion of social welfare", then it doesn't have to pay income taxes under Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. But what if the non-profit is producing television or internet ads taking political positions in the months preceding an election? Someone has to decide whether an organization like that is more political than for the promotion of social welfare, which would disqualify it for the tax exemption. That difficult task has fallen on the Internal Revenue Service, the least loved agency of our federal government. The Internal Revenue Service has admitted doing a terrible job in executing that function. In a ham-handed attempt to cope with dramatic increases in applications for 501(c)(4) status following the 2010 Supreme Court decision recognizing political spending as the constitutional equivalent of free speech, the IRS branch in charge of tax-exempt organizations attempted to screen out those applications requiring closer scrutiny by singling out those with "Tea Party" or "Patriot" or other indicators of conservative political intent in their names. Those singled out organizations received detailed requests for additional information, and experienced prolonged inaction by the IRS to their applications. That the IRS branch in charge was experiencing an increased workload with no increase in resources is irrelevant. The use of political indicators to screen out applications for delay and closer scrutiny was clearly improper, and should have been reversed by IRS managers. And the failure to report the problem as soon as it was discovered up the line of command was a blatant violation of the first rule of the federal bureaucracy, "No surprises." Two IRS managers have already lost their jobs, and it seems likely that others will, too, as Congress conducts hearings to determine who's at fault, and who bears the political responsibility. But the criminal prosecutions that some members of Congress are calling for seem unlikely and farfetched. This scandal is about bureaucratic screw-ups and inefficiency, not political manipulation of the IRS, which the American public has reason to fear. As a law student in the 1970's, I studied tax law under Stanley Surrey, a former Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy under President Kennedy. Like most tax law professors at the time, Professor Surrey taught that our tax system had three basic requirements: It had to be fair, however we wanted to define that. It had to be easy to administer. And it had to actually raise the revenue required by the government. When I began practicing, and then teaching, tax law, I felt that our tax system met those minimum requirements, and I even perceived some nobility in our tax system as representing the price to be paid for living in a free society. But over the years, I've become increasingly alienated from our tax system as perceptions of unfairness have increased, along with a dramatic increase in the complexity of the tax laws, and deficits have increased as the tax system fails to produce the revenue to meet government requirements. The IRS was once an agency with a single mission, collecting the tax revenue owed by taxpayers under the Internal Revenue Code. But the IRS has become burdened with other non-revenue responsibilities, like distinguishing between social welfare and political organizations under Section 501(c)(4). The IRS is expected to develop the expertise to distinguish between different kinds of non-profit organizations, to identify which are political and which are not. The current scandal suggests that perhaps the IRS is not the right agency to do that. Maybe political organizations should be identified by another agency, like the Federal Election Commission? The IRS has also been assigned by Congress with responsibility for spending programs, in the form of targeted tax credits. Instead of direct government spending on desired programs (spending is bad!), Congress prefers to disguise its spending through targeted tax credits (because tax cuts are good!), even though they amount to the same expenditure of federal revenue. But the IRS ends up holding the bag for administering spending programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit directed at low-income taxpayers with children. And the IRS gets the blame for unpopular rulings it makes in the course of distributing the credits. It gets the blame if credits are delayed, or if credits are paid out to fraudulent claimants, which we are discovering now is common. Isn't there another agency which could better administer an anti-poverty program, perhaps the Department of Health and Human Services? And guess which agency has been designated to enforce the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare? The IRS is expected to assess and collect tax penalties for failures to comply with the myriad requirements of the new statute, and will no doubt be blamed for any sins of omission or commission in trying to execute its new responsibilities. Again, political motives will be attributed to its actions. Couldn't some other agency than the IRS do this? So the current scandal over classification of 501(c)(4) organizations is just the tip of the iceberg which is our overburdened Internal Revenue Service, tasked with missions beyond its primary expertise. While I do not expect the immediate scandal over exempt organizations to be a big one, just wait. More and bigger scandals and controversies involving the IRS are just around the corner!Via Brandywine to Broad Written by Jan C. Ting View Story Posted Under : Faculty Blog Posts
Why the Ken Burns documentary "The Central Park Five" finally turned me against the death ... Thursday April 18, 2013 I've been a holdout, declining to join the progressive movement to abolish the death penalty everywhere in the United States and the world. I've thought that in an open, democratic society with a fully developed modern legal system and lots of lawyers, there would be no risk of error in high stakes, high profile criminal cases. The documentary "The Central Park Five", by Ken Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns, recently broadcast on PBS, has finally convinced me that I was wrong. Everyone should see this fine piece of filmmaking the next time it's broadcast or appears again in a theater, or if it becomes available on the internet. The basic story is this: In 1989, a young, white, professional woman working on Wall Street went for a jog at night in New York City's Central Park. She was found the next morning brutally beaten and raped, just barely alive, with no expectation that she could survive. I remember clearly and personally the anger and fear that this crime generated throughout the country but especially, obviously, in New York. Media coverage of the crime was non-stop. The pressure on the New York Police Department to apprehend the perpetrator was at maximum intensity. The police proceeded to extract confessions to the crime from five black and Hispanic males between 14 and 16 years old. The media and politicians demanded maximum punishment for these depraved savages. One commentator in the film observes that the anger level was so high that, 50 years earlier, these young men might all have been lynched without a trial. Prosecutors celebrated their victory in obtaining guilty verdicts against all the young men, tried as adults, based solely on their confessions, even though DNA evidence from the crime scene did not match any of them, and the defendants insisted their confessions had been coerced. All the defendants served their full sentences of between 6 and 13 years before another man, a convicted rapist whose DNA had been in the possession of the NYPD, confessed to the attack on the Central Park jogger. There was a definitive DNA match to this confessed and convicted rapist, and the convictions of the Central Park Five were finally vacated in 2002. Oops! Throughout their ordeal, the Central Park Five insisted on their innocence. At their parole hearings when asked, as a condition for parole, to admit to the crime for which they had been convicted, they refused to do so, and so had to serve out their full prison sentences. So much for my theory about developed, modern legal systems with plenty of lawyers. I doubt that any place has a more developed legal system, or a greater concentration of lawyers, than New York City. An unusual hero appears in the film. In addition to the defendants' families who stood by them and insisted on their innocence from beginning to end, a young and then very overweight Reverend Al Sharpton, who now hosts an evening talk show on MSNBC, appears in the film leading a noisy but seemingly hopeless demonstration at the time of their trial asserting the innocence of the Central Park Five.Via Brandywine to Broad Written by Jan C. Ting View Story Posted Under : Faculty Blog Posts
Rutgers abuse cover-up continues. NJ taxpayers and students will pay. ... Tuesday April 9, 2013 Rutgers men's basketball head coach Mike Rice was fired on April 3, after video of his physical and homophobic verbal abuse of his players was broadcast on ESPN, setting off a growing scandal over who knew what and when, that may yet result in additional removals and resignations. Rice got a million dollar payoff from Rutgers, as did Athletic Director Tim Pernetti, who was asked to and did resign. The University General Counsel John Wolf resigned from his position, but may have negotiated remaining on the Rutgers payroll in another capacity. Assistant men's basketball coach Jimmy Martelli was implicated on the video in the abuse of players. He resigned, and if he didn't get paid off, too, he may be the only one who wasn't. Rutgers University President Robert Barchi claimed not to have viewed the video until broadcast by ESPN, though it was in the possession of Athletic Director Pernetti as early as November 26, 2012. Instead of viewing the video himself, President Barchi authorized payment of $64,000 for a 50-page outside report which described the coaching methods of Mike Rice as "permissible training." Anyone think that was public money well spent? Rutgers Board Chairman Ralph Izzo and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie have rallied around University President Robert Barchi, seeking to protect him in his job despite his admission of error in not regarding the matter are serious enough to view a video of alleged abuse of his students by their coach. But we know that members of the Rutgers board did view the video as early as last December, and apparently took no action. So in protecting President Barchi, and saying that no further dismissals are called for, the Rutgers board is also protecting its own members. Meanwhile, the former assistant to Coach Mike Rice who released the video to Rutgers and ESPN, Eric Murdock, is suing Rutgers for damages for wrongful loss of his job. And Rutgers is bracing itself for possible lawsuits by the basketball players alleging abuse by Coach Rice as documented on the video. Good thing Rutgers is anticipating a financial windfall from joining the Big Ten athletic conference, which was announced right around the time last year when Rutgers became aware of the troublesome video. Good thing the video wasn't made public then, since that might have spoiled the party. Or was the party and joining the Big Ten, the reason it was covered up? Does anyone think Rutgers will be anything but a doormat in the Big Ten in the wake of the current scandal? Why would quality athletes with other choices choose a college where abuse like that presented on the video is considered "permissible training"? Who else is to blame for the situation at Rutgers? Or is no one else to blame, because Rutgers is merely experiencing the normal and typical pressures of a big-time athletics program?Via Brandywine to Broad Written by Jan C. Ting View Story Posted Under : Faculty Blog Posts
Immigration amnesty is a formula for permanent dysfunction Saturday April 6, 2013 Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty. Both my parents were immigrants. All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants. But that's not the question. The question is: how many? Specifically, should we enforce a numerical limit on immigration to the U.S., or alternatively, should we allow unlimited immigration, as we did for our first century? It's a binary choice: an enforced limit or no limits. Our failure and inability to clearly choose is at the root of our dilemma over immigration policy. We keep searching for a third way, but there isn't one. I respect those who openly advocate for unlimited immigration to the U.S. Open borders is an intellectually coherent, defensible position. Different arguments can be made for unlimited immigration including philosophical, religious, historical, utilitarian, libertarian, and social justice. But it is neither intellectually coherent nor defensible to argue that we should retain legal limits on immigration, but we don't have to enforce them, and we can instead periodically amnesty immigration law violators whenever they attain a large number. If we're going to allow unlimited immigration anyway, why pay for the expensive window dressing of immigration enforcement? The U.S. immigration system is the most generous in the world, providing each year more green cards for legal permanent residence with a clear path to full citizenship than all the rest of the nations of the world combined. But to enforce the numerical limitation, U.S. immigration law provides that immigration violators can be removed from the U.S. after being found inadmissible or deportable. The enforcement provisions of U.S. immigration law are essential to maintaining the limit on immigration. We are told our immigration system is broken, the main evidence for which is the presence of 11 million illegal immigrants. Actual causes include ineffective employer sanctions, the mistaken belief that the 1986 amnesty would "solve" our illegal immigration problem instead of attracting more illegal immigrants, and ineffective management and political interference in immigration enforcement. Illegal immigrants make a rational choice when they choose to violate our immigration laws. A former Temple University colleague said, "The poor people of the world may be poor, but they are not stupid. They are as capable of doing cost-benefit analysis to determine their own self-interest as anyone in this room." Those considering illegal immigration to the U.S. weigh costs, like the risks of getting caught, against benefits of a better life. To get more illegal immigration, we should lower costs, through discretionary prosecution of violators, and increase benefits, through amnesty. Conversely, to reduce the number of illegal immigrants, we should increase costs, through more effective enforcement, and lower benefits through more certain removal from the U.S. Border enforcement alone will never suffice to enforce an immigration limit. Would-be law violators have to be deterred from making the attempt through proof that costs outweigh benefits. Why is enforcing an immigration limit hard? First, there's a constant argument over what the limit should be. And within the limitation, are we admitting the right kind of immigrants or not? Do we need more high skill or low skill labor? That's a permanent, continuing fight. The hardest thing about enforcing a limit on immigration is requiring us to say no to people who remind us of our ancestors, who are neither criminals nor national security threats, who just want to work hard for a better life. And if they come in violation of our limit, we have to deport them to raise the costs of illegal immigration and deter other would-be illegal immigrants. Can we do that? If not, we should just declare the borders open to all hard-working immigrants like our ancestors. We can then save the billions in taxpayer dollars spent trying to enforce immigration limits. What we can't do is keep the limits, but not enforce them against anyone but criminals and national security threats. We can't keep spending money on enforcement, but then give amnesty all who come illegally. That's a formula for permanent dysfunction. The alternative to the false fix of "comprehensive immigration reform" is a series of smaller reforms, continuing review and adjustments to our immigration limits, and more certain enforcement of whatever limits on immigration we enact. We must banish the illusion of a big, one-time "fix" of our immigration system, that we can get it off our plates once-and-for-all, and never have to deal with it again. We will be dealing with immigration forever. Get used to it!Via Brandywine to Broad Written by Jan C. Ting View Story Posted Under : Faculty Blog Posts
Public school closings reflect our priorities. Weapons are more important. Wednesday March 13, 2013 Thinking and reading about last week's closing of 23 public schools by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission, I've concluded that the closings are necessary, though insufficient to address the fiscal crisis of the school district. Other school districts including some of the nation's largest are expected to do the same thing, including Chicago, Newark, and Washington, D.C. But those protesting the school closings are right, too. The closings are an outrage against poor children. The Philadelphia School District is in crisis, with a projected budget deficit over the next five years of $1.35 billion. Its funding from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was reduced by $400 million over the last two years. It had to borrow $300 million this year just to pay current expenses. The School District has 53,000 empty seats out of 195,000, more than 27% of available classroom seats. Since 1997, 84 charter schools have opened in Philadelphia, drawing both students and funding from the School District. Closing 23 schools this fall will reduce operating costs by about $20 million every year, and permit a one-time benefit from the sale of surplus school property of about the same amount. Not nearly enough to balance the School District budget, but still an absolutely necessary step. The schools to be closed have been identified as underperforming, with students disproportionately poor and minority. The students, parents and staff protesting the closings say it's bad enough that resources have not been provided to improve the educational product of these schools. But now these disadvantaged students will lose the schools themselves, which they describe as refuges in poor communities that have little else. The students will be forced to transfer to larger and more distant schools. Compare the $20 million annual savings to the School District of closing 23 public schools with the cost of a single military procurement order for the Lockheed-Martin F-35 fighter jet, which is now seven years behind schedule and 70% over its original cost. Each of the 2400 F-35's ordered for the U.S. military is now expected to cost $618 million including operating and maintenance, a total of $1.5 trillion over the projected useful life, an average of $30 billion every year for the next 50 years, if there are no additional cost overruns or developmental setbacks. The F-35 has been described as a money pit and in a fiscal death spiral making it unaffordable, but Congressmen receiving Lockheed-Martin political contributions in 2011 formed a Congressional Joint Strike Fighter Caucus to keep the weapons system fully funded. Seems like there's plenty of money for high-tech weapons systems, plenty of money to bail out big banks that have made bad bets, plenty of money to keep funding Social Security and Medicare for senior citizens without rationing or any other new limitations, but not even a trickle of money to fund neighborhood schools for poor American children. The protesters are right. It is an outrage.Via Brandywine to Broad Written by Jan C. Ting View Story Posted Under : Faculty Blog Posts


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I've been working on a PS3 with a mangled HDMI port today (COK-002 board). It's a horrible though-hole type connector which I haven't seen before, and rather than steal one from another board, or try to find a replacement - I decided to fudge on an SMT type connector I've got lying around.
The pin layouts are obviously different, so I had to map out the PS3s solder points. Here's what I came up with.. I thought maybe one of you might find it useful at some point..