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Following an article revealing that the MLB figurehead was diagnosed with brain cancer over the summer, Voices Against Brain Cancer offers their support.
New York, NY (PRWEB) December 15, 2012
On December 15, Voices Against Brain Cancer (VABC) responds to the news of Michael Weiner – Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players Association — being diagnosed with brain cancer.
According to an article in the New York Daily News, Weiner had a brain scan in July after experiencing symptoms of tingling in his hands and feet. The article reports that at first he believed that he may have had Lyme disease or a circulatory problem, but the brain scan revealed a malignant tumor in his brain that was rapidly spreading.
"The news, which was already spreading through major league clubhouses when the union issued a press release in late August announcing that Weiner had begun treatment for the tumor, rocked the baseball community and sparked an outpouring of support for the 50-year-old union chief," the article stated.
Weiner is currently undergoing chemotherapy and, despite his decline in health, is helping those affected by brain cancer, New York Daily News reports. "Friends and relatives, as well as members of his temple, the Jewish Center of Northwest Jersey in Washington, N.J., [participated] in the Voices Against Brain Cancer annual 5K walk/run on Dec. 2 in Central Park," the article said.
Clay Darrohn, a representative of VABC, said that they are always happy when people like Weiner participate in brain cancer fundraisers. "When people like Michael Weiner — who not only has brain cancer but is also a public figure — participate in our fundraisers, it helps raise awareness for our cause," Darrohn said. "We also want to send our best wishes to Michael and his family, as well as everyone who is fighting cancer."
VABC has a wide variety of initiatives in place for brain cancer research, awareness and support. The organization´s research grants fund cutting-edge research programs that will have a monumental impact on the diagnosis and treatment of brain cancer. VABC currently funds research at several esteemed institutions such as Brookhaven National Laboratory, Cleveland Clinic, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, John Hopkins, Memorial Sloan-Kettering and Yale, to name a few.
VABC's mission is to find a cure for brain cancer by advancing scientific research, increasing awareness within the medical community and supporting patients, their families and caregivers afflicted with this devastating disease.
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Product DescriptionThe USE XCR Suspension Seatpost comes with the SUMO clamp. With chunky looks and burley design in a super strong package, the SUMO XCR seat post is engineered to take a pounding and go the distance. The highly acclaimed, quick fitting, simple to adjust clamp design ensures the perfect saddle position.
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Date Reviewed: August 20, 2012
Strengths: Saddle clamp greatly improved over earlier versions
Weaknesses: Manufacturing defect made this seatpost useless.
U.S.E customer failed to respond.
Bottom Line:
With such good luck I then bought the XCR Sumo Aluminum expecting it to be as good.
First, I found the promised travel fell short due to the protective vinyl accordion gaitor reaching stack height before full compression and so limiting the travel of the seatpost. Second, after one month stiction became an increasing problem. Inspecting the inside of the outer tube I found a burr at the bottom end of both keyway slots had destroyed the lower bushing on the sliding post. Too late to return the item I emailed U.S.E. and a month later have not heard from them. Here in the U.S. it seems there is no phone number to call as they have in the U.K.
I replaced the lower bushing after removing the burrs and still have problems with stiction. At this point the seatpost is unusable. Too bad - for one month this was great. A lot of $$ for a short product life. Apparently there is no QC at U.S.E.
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Bike Setup: Specialized hardtail
Date Reviewed: August 31, 2011
Strengths: Takes the edge off rocky trails. No fuss. Not bouncy. Not obvious it even has suspension at a glance. Nice clamp.
Weaknesses: Saddle fore-aft position important- if your bike does not fit well with zero setback post your center of gravity will not be in-line with post action and likely will reduce performance & durability.
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 2 Years
Price Paid: $130.00
Purchased At: Wiggle
Similar Products Used: thudbuster
Bike Setup: Custom Ti 29er 1x8 (summer) and SS (winter). Bling, light.
Date Reviewed: August 27, 2011
Strengths: Bling, carbon, does what it's supposed to do, dosen't look like a suspenion post
Weaknesses: none yet
Bottom Line:
I ordered the Thudbuster but just couldn't get over the looks, then did many moons of research on posts. I almost bought the gas nitrogen unit but I couldn't get over the weight. Then I came across this trick looking carbon wrapped elastomer unit, hey why not, anything is better than a solid post.
After riding with it, racing with it and training with it, I would have to say, I'd buy one again in a heartbeat and if I ever get into road bikes, I'd put one on that too.
Seems to be well made, doesn't rotate, quiet, smooth and takes a beating and I wash my bike every time I ride it.
Not that I'm in the saddle 80 % of the time, but when I'm in, it works great, and I ride over some nasty roots at racing speeds. If you are looking to replace the cush of a rear suspension rig than I don't think you will be pleased. It you like the efficiency and snappiness of a HT than you will love this thing. Some of the reviews about a pogo ride are bogus, if so, get off your ass and hammer, you're riding a mtn bike not spinning on a road bike.
Oh, one more thing, all I want to do is ride is my SS, the hell with the rear suspension and gears.
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Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid: $100.00
Purchased At: Cambria
Similar Products Used: Thudbuster
Bike Setup: Lynskey Ridgeline SS setup, best of everything
Date Reviewed: April 6, 2011
Strengths: Solid, lightweight, subtle suspension for hardtails
Weaknesses: seat mount prone to losening
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 2 Years
Price Paid: $125.00
Purchased At: Cambria Cycles
Similar Products Used: Cannondale,
Bike Setup: Bike 1: 2010 Cannondale Trail SL 29'er 4. Bike 2: Specialized Rockhopper Comp 29'er
Date Reviewed: November 6, 2010
Strengths: Light for a susp. seatpost. Appearance doesn't get attn. like Thudbuster. Guts are interchangeable.
Weaknesses: Seat mounting system is somewhat difficult to adjust.
Cost is a little high, but it's worth it for the quality.
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 2 Years
Price Paid: $100.00
Purchased At: Cambria
Bike Setup: 95' Barracuda, alu, hardtail
Date Reviewed: January 2, 2010
Strengths: Solid, well made, adjustable pre-load that really works. Lighter than others
Weaknesses: None
Bottom Line:
Well engineered, good customer support.
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Price Paid: $125.00
Similar Products Used: Both thudbuster models
Bike Setup: GF Paragon 29er
Date Reviewed: October 19, 2009
Strengths: Light for a suspension post, silent, no lateral movement, smooth subtle suspension
Weaknesses: None that I can see
Bottom Line:
The U.S.E Sumo XCR has a really nice elegant mounting system as well. No troubles. A sublte, well designed suspension post that takes out the "hard" in hardtail without taking away the hardtail handling.
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Price Paid: $120.00
Purchased At: Wiggle UK
Similar Products Used: Thudbuster SL and LT
Bike Setup: Fisher Paragon
Date Reviewed: September 2, 2009
Strengths: Lightish for a suspension post, surprisingly plush when dialled, strong clamp, well built, rebuildable
Weaknesses: Heavyish for a seatpost, limited travel, bronze colour
Bottom Line:
Weight - lighter than CC
Looks - almost normal; the CC has no cred & other riders laugh. Wish I'd got the black bcoz the silver is actually a weird bronze colour (black wasn't on discount)
Performance - would initially have said it's much less plush than the Thudbuster. I'm 80kg and got the firm set-up. Then I purchased a softer spring/bumper set and tuned with a mix of firmer and softer to get a softer initial response and a firmer end to avoid bottoming - now it feels almost as good as the Cane Creek despite less travel. I feel USE's recommendations are a little on the firm side. One other thing - I was getting some chafing on longer rides (over 2-3 hrs) with the Cane Creek that I'm not getting with the USE & I believe that's because the Cane Creeks fore/aft action rubs the sit bone area a little more than the up/down of the USE (maybe!) Finally, the Cane Creek occasionally has an Ejector Seat moment with certain sized/shaped bumps (no damping on either, see) whereas the USE seems less prone to bottom rocketing.
Engineering & Build - Both are quality components. The USE is rebuildable with a kit but when the CC pivots slog out thats it. However, after abt 5 years of use the Thudbuster has only got a tiny amount of play. The post shaft on the Thudbuster is glossy and has slipped down in some frames, needing a supertorque on the post clamp - the USE is like a Thomson, it never shifts.
Both of these posts allow me to sit and spin more comfortably through small bumps on a hardtail. The Cane Creek is slightly heavier & plusher while the USE is slightly lighter and racier. I prefer the USE Sumo just a little.
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Price Paid: $150.00
Purchased At: Chainreaction on spe
Similar Products Used: Cane Creek Thudbuster LT
Bike Setup: I only use these suspension posts on hardtail singlespeeds for flat but bumpy singletrack - wanna race a hardtail then use a light rigid post, wanna ride serious mountain trails then get a good suspension bike
Date Reviewed: April 19, 2009
Strengths: ***Carbon model reviewed***
* Excellent suspension action. Super smooth, reliable, very durable from warm 30C to -35C stormy Canadian weather. No joke, it still worked equally good in cold as in warm.
*Very light. Probably the lightest suspension seatpost for its travel (2ish inches).
*Very clever and cool head/clamp.
*Negligible service: tighten ring seldomly and maybe lube it.
*Fact that it's carbon! Very few carbon suspension seatposts.
Weaknesses: Head isn't easiest to re-assemble after disassembling for re-installing a new seat or if u accidentally let it fall off while adjusting it.
Bottom Line:
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Price Paid: $75.00
Purchased At: ebay
Similar Products Used: Other inexpensive ones.
Bike Setup: Norco VFR5 "performance hybrid"
Date Reviewed: December 3, 2008
Strengths: It works well
Weaknesses: Saddle clamp fixing setup cumbersome, must use loctite and really tighten bolt.
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid: $120.00
Similar Products Used: Cane Creek, White Bros., Nashbar
Bike Setup: Paragon 29er
Date Reviewed: October 5, 2008
Strengths: It works very subtle but adds comfort to a long H-Tail ride. Made in England.
Weaknesses: Hard to find, very tight tolerance on 27.2 seat tubes (probably to counteract the suspension motion).
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid: $130.00
Similar Products Used: Thudbuster
Bike Setup: Sinister Ridge-built xc burly
Date Reviewed: June 22, 2007
Strengths: Makes the hard tail like a full-suss on single-tracka and Fire trails. Only really notice that not hard tail when you hit big stuff
Weaknesses: None
Bottom Line:
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Bike Setup: Kona Kula Primo
Date Reviewed: June 2, 2007
Strengths: It's still stiction free after 5000 miles of bikepath/downhill/x-country.
I've never had to change anything on it.
Weaknesses: The clamps system is not easy to set-up. It's not a problem after you finally get it though.
Bottom Line:
Highly recommended!!
I actually posted this in the SX review by accident, so disregard that review for the SX.
HOWEVER... We did get my wife a USE SX seatpoost since I'm so happy with my XCR, and it's working very well!
She can't get over the difference between her original setup on her Trek 4500 and the SX seatpost mated to a Specialized Indie seat.
Highly recommended as well.
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Price Paid: $125.00
Purchased At: Pricepoint
Similar Products Used: none
Bike Setup: 1998 Trek 8000 with SRAM X9 drivetrain and Bontrager Race Lite crankset. Marzocchi Z2 fork bought in 1990 (along with the XCR) and still going strong.
Date Reviewed: April 13, 2006
Strengths: Provides just enough bump and buzz kill to be useful without being a springy annoyance. Lightest on the market and an acceptable weight even for a road bike if it means you keep moving instead of taking a break to sooth you weary bum.
Weaknesses: Bolts are one weakness. Need to buy separate spring/elastomer set if you don't happen to weigh just right for the medium spring set that comes with it. You need to add this to the price noted above plus shipping.
Bottom Line:
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Price Paid: $139.00
Purchased At: Nashbar
Similar Products Used: None
Bike Setup: Old Trek Hardtail with lots and lots of upgrades
Date Reviewed: April 7, 2006
Strengths: Light
Weaknesses: Durability, suspension action, head design
Bottom Line:
Don't waste your money on the USE.
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Similar Products Used: Rock Shox post
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I've been thinking about putting together an external library for a series of animated, customizable characters which could be used within other flash projects.
Most of the animation I see on the site is pre-animated. Would there be value to providing external libraries of mouths, character assets and other items? And if so would I be able to sell them here?
As long as the library is licensed under MIT or other license that allows redistribution, you are on the safe side. Of course, you would need to use any commercial library you always have the option of purchasing commercial license. Many authors here use Caurina Transitions library or other tween libraries. Make sure you read instructions on adding an external library to your project. You need to clearly state it in your documentation and in 'Notes to reviewer' field when uploading your file.
I'm sure it would be quite valuable but from personal history files packaged as "classes" don't sell that well. So I'd try creating a simple xml driven fla and market it that way.
Sorry, I got that wrong. I though you wanted to use external libraries not using your own. I'm here with CJ, classes don't seem to sell well.
ok let me see if I understand. Having a library of animated assets (sprites) isn't as valueable as presenting an animated clip?
There would be no coding in the file just sprites that would be usable for creating custom animation and applying your own audio track.
Ahhh, I think when you said "external library" I thought you meant code. Yeah, there's a ton of stuff here that uses drag and drop animated MovieClips. Drag and drop is definitely the way to go for that. For sale I'd drag every one of them onto the stage so people can open the .fla and copy and paste or cut out the ones they don't want to use. Just saw an example of this today (hot air balloons).
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"The fuels derived from B. braunii hydrocarbons are chemically identical to gasoline, diesel and kerosene," Devarenne said. "Thus, we do not call them biodiesel or bio-gasoline; they are simply diesel and gasoline. To produce these fuels from B. braunii, the hydrocarbons are processed exactly the same as petroleum is processed and thus generates the exact same fuels. Remember, these B. braunii hydrocarbons are a main constituent of petroleum. So there is no difference other than the millions of years petroleum spent underground."
But, a shortcoming of B. braunii is its relatively slow growth rate. While the algae that produce 'vegetable-type' oils may double their growth every six to 12 hours, B. braunii's doubling rate is about four days, he said.
"Thus, getting large amounts of oil from B. braunii is more time consuming and thus more costly," Devarenne said. "So, by knowing the genome sequence we can possibly identify genes involved in cell division and manipulate them to reduce the doubling rate."
Despite these characteristics and economic potential of algae, only six species of algae have had their genomes fully sequenced and annotated, Devarenne said. And B. braunii is not one of the six.
Devarenne and his colleagues have done some of the groundwork in better understanding B. braunii and sequencing its genome.
They are working the Berkeley strain of the B race of B. braunii, so named because it was first isolated at the University of California at Berkeley. The team has determined the genome size and an estimate of the B race's guanine-cytosine content, both of which are essential to mapping the full genome, he said. There are also races A and L of B. braunii, but they were not looked at by the team.
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The Mail on Sunday says Eriksson and Shinawatra are finalising a contract, with the former England manager asking for an annual salary of £2.5 million while Shinawatra is sticking to his original offer of £2m a year over three years, plus £1m in potential bonus payments each season.
Talks yesterday brought both sides close to a resolution and an announcement is expected early this week.
Eriksson's first job will be to complete a detailed audit of the squad with Shinawatra, the controversial former Thai Prime Minister, promising at least £50m worth of funds to renew the team.


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When whatever it is that hits the fan splatters all over the place, such as the recent explosion in media over massive smuggling, our beloved officials in the Aquino (Part II) administration seem to have a quick ready excuse.
And that is, there is conspiracy among their enemies, who are always behind the demolition job against them, simply because those enemies never stop in their efforts to destabilize the administration.
The boys of our leader, Benigno Simeon (aka BS), must think that we, the taxpaying public, are so stupid that they can dish out the same alibi again and again. No fail!
At the eye of the media storm stirred up by the burning issue over massive smuggling was, of course, Customs Commissioner Rozzano Rufino Biazon, a med-tech graduate who labeled himself as a "politician," being a party mate of our leader, BS.
Without much ado, the Palace declared that our leader, BS, had full trust and confidence in his party mate, even declaring instantaneously that Rozzano Rufino would keep his job as head of the Bureau of Customs.
Word goes around in business, however, that some boys at the Palace have assured influential business leaders that our leader, BS, would deal with the BOC boss after the elections in May.
True to form, our dear Rozzano Rufino called the outbreak of the smuggling issue simply as a demolition job against him, instigated supposedly by the Pangasinan political group of a certain "G," who reportedly salivated for the BOC position.
In other words, since Ramon S. Ang, who happens to be president and COO of the country's biggest conglomerate called San Miguel, created quite a commotion in media by revealing the extent of fuel smuggling in this country, estimated to deny the government some P40 billion a year in unpaid VAT alone, RSA must be part of the conspiracy—is that it?
Our favorite Rozzano Rufino got back at RSA in media, attacking the Big Three oil companies, namely, Petron, Shell and Caltex, ordering them to police their own ranks, since their dealers also sell smuggled fuel.
Such a claim by the BOC chief may have basis. Let us do the math, based on our info from gas station owners.
The Big Three allow their dealers a mark-up of about P1.70 per liter, and at an average volume of 200,000 liters a month, they realize gross profit of P340,000—from which they must cover huge expenses such as the upkeep of the stations and the wages of their attendants.
In comparison, gas stations enjoy a mark-up of P7 per liter by selling smuggled fuel, meaning, the gross profit for 200,000 liters a month should be about P1.4 million.
Big money in smuggled fuel can be expected to tempt the owners of gas stations, perhaps even dealers of the Big Three. To Rozzano Rufino, the oil companies should thus own part of the blame.
Well and good—but the question really centers on the "other" non-Big Three dealers, which now account for more than 30 percent of the fuel sold in this country. How does the government, including the BOC, deal with them? In the first place, neither the Big Three dealers nor the "others" could sell smuggled fuel if only our cherished Rozzano Rufino and his boys at the BOC did their jobs.
To say that the BOC people are simply prostituting themselves in letting the massive smuggling of fuel deny the government some P40 billion in yearly VAT revenue is even an insult to those poor women in brothels.
There are simply untold riches in corruption money in fuel smuggling, period.
Other business groups at the same time also generated quite an uproar over smuggling, such as those in poultry and hog-raising, rice and vegetable farmers, fishing folk and the manufacturing sector, in general.
They must be part of the demolition job against our lovable Rozzano Rufino—all joining this grand conspiracy to destabilize the Aquino (Part II) administration. In heavens name, they even invented some figures to show the immensity of the smuggling problem, and how it has been killing them slowly.
For instance, farm groups have been claiming that P32 billion worth of agricultural products were smuggled into the country last year alone, featuring pork and chicken worth P8 billion and P3.8 billion worth of fish and aquatic products.
The manufacturing sector—noting the proliferation of imported electronics and household appliances in the market, plus pots and pans, table ware, construction materials, textile, garments, alcoholic drinks, chocolate bars, and all sorts of grocery items—also used a study done by the IMF to drive home the point about massive smuggling.
In the study, the IMF computed the amount of exports of other countries to the Philippines, put it alongside the actual figure on importation as posted by the BOC, and—voila—came up with an estimate of the extent of smuggling.
The business sector estimated that, based on the IMF study, smugglers deny the government some P70 billion a year in VAT alone, a figure that—if only it is collected—should put the Philippines tax effort at close to 20 percent of GDP, which is the benchmark of revenue collection of the most admired economies in our region.
Enter our idol Rozzano Rufino, lambasting the figures culled from the IMF study as inaccurate, even claiming it failed to exclude the goods exported to the Philippines but were bound for re-export, which presumably should be tax exempt. You know—no VAT payment!
Still, everybody in business knows that the so-called customs bonded warehouses in this country, where those re-exported "raw materials" should be kept for close monitoring by the BOC, are really the most leaky places in the whole planet.
All right—so part of the shipments to the Philippines from other countries are re-exported and VAT exempt.
But how come our importation grew by only 2.6 percent last year, based on the 2012 economic figures announced by the Aquino (Part II) administration, with a GDP growth rate of more than 7 percent? According to UP economist and former Cabinet member Ben Diokno, the anomaly in the economic figures was due to smuggling.
It seems that, in attacking the IMF study as inaccurate, our hero, Rozzano Rufino, forgot to say what should be the actual figure for the revenue loss in VAT due to smuggling. Basta —the figure was wrong!
Certain political and economic think tanks already computed the effect of the 12-percent VAT on business, and the actual amount of the VAT shouldered by the companies would come up to only a little more than one percent. Why? Because, in the end, the public actually pays for the rest of the VAT! The business establishments merely offset their VAT payment on importation with the VAT they collect from the "sales" to all of us. Yet the greedy among them would still resort to smuggling.
And so what was the message of the Aquino (Part II) administration to those smugglers, when the Palace dismissed the issue over smuggling as the Palace boys proclaimed the full trust and confidence of our leader, BS, in Rozzano Rufino, who was only the target of a demolition job in this grand conspiracy?
Let me see—smuggling is not really their problem—is that it? Look, boss, the issue already seems to die down just a week after it exploded in media. Meaning, ultimately, the smugglers will go on in their merry ways.
It should be good news to the Dos Marias who reportedly are doing a lot of influence peddling at the BOC.
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Imatinib mesylate and nilotinib affect MHC-class I presentation by modulating the proteasomal processing of antigenic peptides
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Imatinib (IM) has been described to modulate the function of dendritic cells and T lymphocytes and to affect the expression of antigen in CML cells. In our study, we investigated the effect of the tyrosine kinase inhibitors IM and nilotinib (NI) on antigen presentation and processing by analyzing the proteasomal activity in CML cell lines and patient samples. We used a biotinylated active site-directed probe, which covalently binds to the proteasomally active beta-subunits in an activity-dependent fashion. Additionally, we analyzed the cleavage and processing of HLA-A3/11- and HLA-B8-binding peptides derived from BCR-ABL by IM- or NI-treated isolated 20S immunoproteasomes using mass spectrometry. We found that IM treatment leads to a reduction in MHC-class I expression which is in line with the inhibition of proteasomal activity. This process is independent of BCR-ABL or apoptosis induction. In vitro digestion experiments using purified proteasomes showed that generation of epitope-precursor peptides was significantly altered in the presence of NI and IM. Treatment of the immunoproteasome with these compounds resulted in an almost complete reduction in the generation of long precursor peptides for the HLA-A3/A11 and −B8 epitopes while processing of the short peptide sequences increased. Treatment of isolated 20S proteasomes with serine-/threonine- and tyrosine-specific phosphatases induced a significant downregulation of the proteasomal activity further indicating that phosphorylation of the proteasome regulates its function and antigen processing. Our results demonstrate that IM and NI can affect the immunogenicity of malignant cells by modulating proteasomal degradation and the repertoire of processed T cell epitopes.
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- Imatinib mesylate and nilotinib affect MHC-class I presentation by modulating the proteasomal processing of antigenic peptides
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Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy
Volume 62, Issue 4 , pp 715-726
- Cover Date
- 2013-04-01
- 10.1007/s00262-012-1373-7
- Print ISSN
- 0340-7004
- Online ISSN
- 1432-0851
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Chronic myeloid leukemia
- Proteasome
- Imatinib
- Nilotinib
- Antigen processing
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Stefanie Andrea Erika Held (1)
- Katharina Maria Duchardt (3)
- Stefan Tenzer (2)
- Thomas Rückrich (3)
- Karin von Schwarzenberg (1)
- Anita Bringmann (1)
- Christian Kurts (6)
- Hansjörg Schild (2)
- Christoph Driessen (4)
- Peter Brossart (1) (5)
- Annkristin Heine (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- 3. Department of Hematology, Oncology, Immunology, and Pulmonology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- 2. Institute of Immunology, University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
- 6. Institutes of Molecular Medicine and Experimental Immunology (IMMEI), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- 4. Department of Oncology and Hematology, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- 5. Hämatologie/Onkologie, Medizinische Klinik III, Wilhelmstr. 35-37, 53111, Bonn, Germany


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SDSC Chooses Appro for a Major Next-Generation Supercomputer Design
MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ – Appro (http://www.appro.com), a leading provider of high-performance computing systems, announces today a major design win for the next generation Appro Xtreme-X(TM) Supercomputer, named "Gordon" by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego. This win is a result of a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build and operate a powerful supercomputer dedicated to solving critical science and societal problems using advanced HPC technology.
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This supercomputer, to be built on Appro's Xtreme-X(TM) next generation architecture, employs a vast amount of flash memory to help speed compute solutions now hamstrung by slower spinning disk technology. This is one of the world's first high performance computing systems to employ massive amounts of Intel® SSD flash memory to greatly reduce I/O latency. Also, new "supernodes" will exploit virtual shared-memory software to create large shared-memory systems that increase compute speed and yield results faster for the most demanding applications.
When fully configured and deployed in 2011, Gordon will feature 245 teraflops of total compute power (one teraflop or TF equals a trillion calculations per second), 64 terabytes (TB) of DRAM (digital random access memory), 256 TB of flash memory, and four petabytes of disk storage (one petabyte or PB equals one quadrillion bytes of data.)
"The higher end of the HPC market is one of the faster-growing HPC segments and IDC projects that it will continue to see healthy growth over the next 3 to 5 years as more countries and organizations apply very large HPC systems to address leading scientific and engineering problems," said Steve Conway, IDC Research Vice President for Technical Computing. "With the San Diego Supercomputer Center contract, Appro proved it can win major HPC procurements and supercomputer designs with state-of-the-art technological innovations including flash technology and large shared memory wrapped around a full-featured remote management system."
The new supercomputer's key feature will be 32 "supernodes" based on the latest Intel® Xeon® Processors available in 2011 combined with several state-of-the-art technological innovations to include virtual shared-memory software. Using virtual shared-memory software, each of the system's 32 supernodes has the potential of 7.7 TF of power and 10 TB of memory (2 TB of DRAM and 8 TB of flash memory). The supernodes will be interconnected via an InfiniBand network, capable of 16 gigabits per second of bi-directional bandwidth – that's eight times faster than some of the most powerful national supercomputers to come on-line in recent months. This combination of raw power, flash technology, and large-shared memory on a single supernode, coupled with high-bandwidth across the system, is expected to reduce the time and complexity often experienced when researchers tackle data-intensive problems that don't scale well on today's massively parallel supercomputers. The system will come pre-configured with the Appro Cluster Engine(TM) (ACE) management software designed to manage large numbers of independent physical computers connected together by high-speed networks, allowing them to function as a single computing system. The complete remote management suite includes network, server, cluster and storage management.
"SDSC is recognized as a national leader in creating and providing cyber-infrastructure for data-intensive research," said Daniel Kim, CEO of Appro. "SDSC is also dedicated to elevate the competitiveness of advanced technologies to accelerate supercomputer performance. We welcome this opportunity to work with SDSC to provide cutting-edge, advanced supercomputing solutions to fulfill this significant award."
"The new SDSC supercomputer will provide benefits to many potential scientific applications to include both academic and industrial researchers in need of fast, interactive methods to manipulate large volumes of structured data," said SDSC Interim Director Michael Norman. "Gordon will become a key part of a network of next-generation high-performance computers (HPC) being made available to the research community through an open-access national grid."
Research will include the analysis of individual genomes to tailor drugs to specific patients, the development of more accurate models to predict the impact of earthquakes on buildings and other structures, and simulations that offer greater insights into what's happening to the planet's climate.
"Appro Xtreme-X Architecture rises to the challenge of the San Diego Supercomputer Center's computational demands with delivery of a balanced solution which blends the best of breed for compute, network and storage," said Richard Dracott, General Manager of High Performance Computing at Intel Corporation. "Platforms with the next generation Intel® Xeon® processors and next generation Intel® SSDs will maximize I/O capabilities and flash memory support to analyze large data sets used by SDSC to answer modern science's critical problems."
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Appro is a leading developer of supercomputing solutions. Appro is uniquely positioned to support High Performance Computing markets focusing on small to large-scale deployments where lowest total cost of ownership is a primary consideration. Appro accelerates technical applications and business results unlocking the value of IT through outstanding price/performance, balanced architecture, open standards and engineering expertise. Appro headquarters is in Milpitas, CA with offices in Korea and Houston, TX. To learn more go to http://www.appro.com.
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Published: Friday June 17, 2011 MYT 8:58:00 PMUpdated: Friday June 17, 2011 MYT 9:03:27 PM
By LEE YEN MUN
PETALING JAYA: A Taiwanese product commonly used in bubble tea drinks sold in the Klang Valley has been found to be contaminated with the cancer-causing plastic additive diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP), said Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai.
The product 'Strawberry Syrup' manufactured by T & M Resources Corporation and imported by Elegant Solution Trading cannot be sold in the market.
Two other products suspected of being DEHP-tainted were Chuang's Square Cookies (the brown sugar, all wheat, almond and sesame variants) and the Natural Beauty Drink Powder and Natural Beauty Fruit and Vegetable Powder, he said in a statement released Friday.
The manufacturers for the products were Chuang's King Tai Chang Food Co. Ltd and Prince Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, respectively, while the importers were Syarikat Nguan Seng (1990) Sdn Bhd and Billion Synergy Sdn Bhd respectively.
"The ministry has instructed the companies concerned to recall their products immediately, while samples of the products have been taken for analysis.
"Meanwhile, all retailers have been advised to halt sales of the food products with immediate effect.
"Customers who have bought the products are advised not to consume them," Liow said.
Separately, a total of 15 food products from Taiwan were tested and found to be free of contamination.
They are New Choice Pudding; Lychee Syrup, Honey Peach Syrup and Black Tea (all imported by Elegant Solution Trading); 100% Cranberry & Blueberry Blend Juice and Power Bifidus Yogurt Drink (imported by United Kanboo (M) Sdn Bhd); Kinohimitsu Japan D'tox Juice; and eight Cosway Oriyen products including the Fibre Full Candy, American Ginseng Pastills, Extra Cool Fresh Mints, Pei Pa Luo Han Guo, Hi-Calcium Yoghurt Chews, Mixed Vinegar, D'Tox Trimm and Cranberry Chewable Tablets.
Other food products listed under other categories that were also found free of DEHP contamination were Singlong Ho Egg Noodle; HO I Dried Noodle, Fu ssu Noodle, and White Jade Noodle; Greenmax Matcha Milk, MIC's Taiwan Lemon Wafer, Fu Yi Shan Oat Cracker, Regimen House Sesame & Grainy Thin Cracker and Sun Chi Song Hua Ban Noodles.
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Palestinians fired a rocket at Israel after a retaliatory strike in Gaza by Israeli aircraft.
A Palestinian Qassam rocket on Friday exploded south of Ashkelon, near the border between Gaza and Israel, Army Radio reported. It caused no damage.
The rocket landed after an Israeli aircraft struck several targets in the Gaza Strip. The air strikes were in retaliation for the launching of four rockets from Gaza into Israel Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson's Unit said in a statement.
The statement said that Palestinian snipers on Thursday fired at security personnel near the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip, causing damage to an armored vehicle.
A 30-year-old man and a baby were injured from shrapnel in the Israeli air strikes, according to a report Friday by the Palestinian Ma'an news agency that quoted officials from Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry. The report did not elaborate on their condition.
According to the IDF, the aircraft struck four targets in the northern strip and another in its center. Ma'an reported hits on 10 sites in Gaza in 15 attacks overnight.
Two targeted sites belonged to Hamas militiamen, according to the report; others were a former police station at al-Zahraa and a blacksmith workshop in Jabaliya. One air strike targeted a washing-machine factory in Jabaliya refugee camp that caused a fire, Ma'an reported.
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British press revels in royal arrival
LONDON—Top-selling British newspaper The Sun on Tuesday changed its name to "The Son" to honor the arrival of a baby boy for Prince William and his wife Kate.
The rest of Fleet Street marked the occasion with souvenir editions, with The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Star and The Daily Express all splashing the headline "It's a Boy" across front-page photographs of the new mother.
The Sun, which carried a headline declaring that "the regal has landed" explained its name-change.
"We've never changed The Sun's name before and we'll never do it again," it said.
"But not many kings are born in anyone's lifetime. It seems a fitting way to mark such a momentous event.
"So congratulations, William and Kate, from your No1 Sun – on your No1 son."
It added that Britain had "grown to love" William and Kate.
"Yesterday they secured the future of the British monarchy for another generation," it said. "We wish them every joy."
The Telegraph mirrored The Sun's comments, saying the birth coincides with "the rebirth of the House of Windsor".
The pro-monarchy Daily Mail carried a picture of Prince Charles under the headline "Oh boy! One's a grandpa."
"It would be foolish indeed to try to predict what upheavals may occur in the six or seven decades the baby Prince may have to wait to ascend the throne," it said inside.
"Nor is this the moment to reflect on the EU's greed for power, which is leaving the Sovereign with less and less sovereignty.
"No, now is the time simply to congratulate William and Kate on the birth of a very middle-class prince and to wish him good health and a long life."
The Times said that Britain and the Commonwealth "will delight with the pride and joy" at the birth, and was one of many papers offering words of advice for the future heir.
"Our monarchy is what we have in common and what distinguishes us from other lands less fortunate in their traditions and less comfortable with their history. That is why this is a national event," the daily said in its editorial.
"Our affection for the monarchy is not unconditional, but if repaid with pride, duty and the right hint of humour, it is almost unbounded.
"The infant prince will have much to learn from his great grandmother [the queen], but nothing more important than how to make this implicit contract endure."
But the center-left Guardian offered a warning to the new arrival.
"Congratulations and all good wishes. A new baby is a very splendid thing," said its editorial.
"But, of course, there is a not so good fairy by the cradle too.
"Baby Cambridge is unlikely to inherit for at least 50 years. However exemplary the reigns of his father and grandfather, however impeccable his own future behavior, will Britain in 2065 still be a state that has at its apex one individual whose place is decided by birth?"
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BLAIR, W.Va. — Mrs. JoAnn Null, 80, of Blair, formerly of Ethel, was born December 31, 1931, at Matewan, a daughter of the late Pansy and Joe Eskee and Millard Grimmett. She went to be with the Lord Tuesday, August 21, 2012, at Emogene Dolin Hospice House in Huntington.
Mrs. Null was a faithful Christian and member of the Sunbeam Chapel.
Also preceding her in death was her husband, Donald Null; infant children, Donna Jean and Johnny Ray Null; son, Don Millard Null, and sister, Charlene Widner.
Those left to cherish her memory include a son, David (Regina) Null of Kentucky; daughters, Ella (Frank) Snyder of Ohio, Regina (James) Howes of Sarah Ann, Pansy Darlene (Franklin) Workman of Dingess, Freda (Kenny) Botts of Blair, Debbie Baisden of Whitman and Lisa (Kenny) Coleman of Florida; 18 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; two loving sisters, Mildred Taylor and Joyce (Dot) Damon, and several nieces, nephews and many friends.
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Jan 7, 2010, 11:34 PM EDT
Remember country music singer and Roger Clemens temptress Mindy McCready? You probably thought she went away right? Not so lucky, I'm afraid:
McCready, whose long-term romance with former Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens was exposed in the Daily News in April 2008, is one of nine cast members in the third season of VH1's "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew," which airs Thursday (VH1, 10 p.m.).
Others on the show include actors Tom Sizemore and Mackenzie Phillips, and former NBA cross-dresser Dennis Rodman. So I'm sure it won't be a circus or anything.
McCready told the New York Daily News that she discussed Clemens on the show, but isn't sure if those nuggets will actually make it off the cutting room floor because, you know, we're all supposed to watch to find out.
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Thank God for a reality show that is trying to make peoples lives
In First Peter( in the Bible) Chapter 5:8 it says "your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour"
There is plenty of this in the world don't you think?
Hats off to this show and the clients that are trying to get better, finally! Hang in their.
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This volume explores literary and material representations of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Gathering leading scholars from within the field of Jewish Studies, it investigates how the debates surrounding literary and material images within Judaism and in...
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This book participates in the modern recovery of the memory of the long-forgotten relationship between Scotland and the Caribbean. Drawing on theoretical paradigms of world literature and transnationalism, it argues that Caribbean slavery profoundly shaped Scotland's economic, social and cultural...
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Spanning the late 18th century to the present, this volume explores new directions in imperial and postcolonial histories of conciliation, performance, and conflict between European colonizers and Indigenous peoples in Australia and the Pacific Rim, including Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawaii and the...
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The case study has proved of enduring interest to all Western societies, particularly in relation to questions of subjectivity and the sexed self. This volume interrogates how case studies have been used by doctors, lawyers, psychoanalysts, and writers to communicate their findings both within the...
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This edited volume reassesses the ongoing transnational turn in anarchist and syndicalist studies, a field where the interest in cross-border connections has generated much innovative literature in the last decade. It presents and extends up-to-date research into several dynamic historiographic...
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Recycling is not a concept that is usually applied to the eighteenth century. "The environment" may not have existed as a notion then, yet practices of re-use and transformation obviously shaped the early-modern world. Still, this period of booming commerce and exchange was also marked by scarcity...
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Expeditionary journeys have shaped our world, but the expedition as a cultural form is rarely scrutinized. This book is the first major investigation of the conventions and social practices embedded in team-based exploration. In probing the politics of expedition making, this volume is itself a...
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This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of historical change, the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that was marked by the passage from a society of scarcity to one of...
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Overhead and G&A (General and Administrative) are
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Let's start with what is the same. Both are indirect
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example, rent, office supplies, accounting, management, etc.
difference is that G&A refers to that portion of your indirect costs that
apply to your whole operation; whereas overhead applies to a portion of your
operation. Examples of overhead are: engineering overhead, labor overhead or
manufacturing overhead, material handling, sub contract management. All apply
to a specific function or cost within the organization.
Overhead pools are selected based on the nature of the
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projects entail a combination of in house labor and sub contract labor you might
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not present for in house labor. In this case you might want to set up in house
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those costs that apply across the board (accounting, business development, etc)
into a common G&A pool.
get the cost of a job or a department in your company you take the sum of the
direct costs (those you charge directly to the job) and a fair share allocation
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42 Republicans, 30 in the House and 12 in the Senate, have now renounced the Grover Norquist pledge. This does not include "revenue" comments from Boehner and Cantor. In addition, 6 GOP members of the House and 7 GOP members of the Senate never signed it.
In all, 36 current Republicans in the House, and 19 current Republicans in the Senate are against it. This leaves him only 205 supporters in the House and 28 in the Senate.
The following Republicans have renounced their pledge:
Charlie Bass (NH-02)The following Republicans never signed it to begin with (PDF):
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Howard Coble (NC-06)
Tom Cole (OK-04)
Chip Cravaack (MN-08)
Rick Crawford (AR-01)
Scott DesJarlais (TN-04)
Robert Dold (IL-10)
Jeff Flake (AZ-06)
Jeff Fortenberry (NE-01)
Chris Gibson (NY-20)
Nan Hayworth (NY-19)
Tim Johnson (IL-15)
Peter King (NY-02)
John Kline (MN-02)
Tom Latham (IA-03)
Steve LaTourette (OH-14)
Mary Bono Mack (CA-45)
Buck McKeon (CA-25)
Pat Meehan (PA-07)
Rich Nugent (FL-11)
Erik Paulsen (MN-03)
Tom Reed (NY-23)
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Scott Rigell (VA-02)
Jon Runyan (NJ-03)
Mike Simpson (ID-02)
Adrian Smith (NE-03)
Lee Terry (NE-02)
Bob Turner (NY-09)
Allen West (FL-22)
Lamar Alexander (TN-SEN)
Kelly Ayotte (NH-SEN)
Saxby Chambliss (GA-SEN)
Tom Coburn (OK-SEN)
Bob Corker (TN-SEN)
Mike Crapo (ID-SEN)
Mike Enzi (WY-SEN)
Lindsey Graham (SC-SEN)
Mike Johanns (NE-SEN)
John McCain (AZ-SEN)
Jeff Sessions (AL-SEN)
David Vitter (LA-SEN)
Richard Hanna (NY-24)Incoming freshman who refused to sign are not included. Democrats Robert Andrews (NJ-01), Ben Chandler (KY-06), and Ben Nelson (NE-SEN) who all renounced it are also not included.
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Susan Collins (ME-SEN)
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John Hoeven (ND-SEN)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi offered her own way to break the apparent stalemate over the so-called fiscal cliff -- by taking matters out of House Speaker John Boehner's hands. She pointed out Friday that the Senate already passed a bill in July that would accomplish President Barack Obama's goal by extending lower tax rates for the middle class but not the wealthy.
Pelosi called on House Republican leadership to bring that legislation to the floor next week and threatened that if they do not schedule a vote on the Senate bill, Democrats will file what's known as a discharge petition on Tuesday to force a vote on the measure in her chamber. If Democrats successfully obtain 218 signatures on the discharge petition, it would automatically force the middle income tax cut bill to the floor for a vote.


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Hi! I emailed you a couple of days ago but haven't heard from you. Not trying to rush you or anything; just making sure your email address is still operative. Was wondering how you located Nancy Loyd Speer's grave in the Speer Family cemetery. Wandered around there today looking for it and couldn't find it. Did notice, however, that the dates you have listed for Nancy are exactly those of Mary Speer with a transposed 13/31 death date. That grave I did find but there are pics of it already posted under Mary's memorial. If you can tell me how you came to place that name in that cemetery, maybe I can find something that would tell me where exactly it is. And if in fact they are two different people, I'll search harder. --D.T.
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on Feb 04, 2015 8:40 PM
Wanda King
Fred M Geer
Your message on my Dad's page indicated you are related by marriage. Thanks for leaving a message!
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on Jan 29, 2015 12:59 PM
Anne Shurtleff Stevens
A slight difficulty
Just wanted to let you know, I hope you don't mind, one of your flowers is a burgundy, rotating Christmas like star that blinks with a bright white light. The problem with it is that to see it, I start bed-ridden migraines, instantly. With some people I know it can start a seizure. You might want to consider not using it. Thank you and blessings!
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Anne Shurtleff Stevens
on Jan 23, 2015 9:30 AM
RE: Ridge Park Cemetery
You are very welcome. It was my pleasure doing this. The weather was nice for a change and enjoyed the sunshine and much needed exercise.
I enjoy walking the sections and taking the photos. Will eventually get the entire cemetery done but that is quite a task in this cemetery.
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