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With virtually no infrastructure available to clean up an oil spill in the sensitive Arctic, the Obama Administration is still pushing to get offshore drilling projects developed in the region.
What's the messaging strategy from the Administration? Trust Shell.
Talking to reporters about exploration permits for Arctic waters yesterday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar summed up the Administration's approach: "I believe there's not going to be an oil spill."
Shell has faced more legal prosecutions for safety and environmental transgressions than any other major oil company drilling offshore in the North Sea.
And let's remember, the Arctic is a place where the Coast Guard has warned "if [a spill] were to happen … we'd have nothing. We're starting from ground zero today."
Heck, even one of the world's largest insurance pools refuses to back offshore drilling operations in the Arctic, saying the environment is "highly sensitive to damage" and that the risk is "hard to manage."
Discussing the technique of foreshadowing, Russian playwright Anton Chekhov once wrote: "If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired."
As we see in the graphic below, Obama already proved himself a master of foreshadowing in the lead up to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Let's hope Salazar doesn't do the same. (Hat tip to Greenpeace's Joe Smyth for the image).
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Once again, the Politicians open their mouths and Ignorance comes out!
So are Salazar and Obama now soothsayers? Do they read tea leaves or use tarot cards. I think they are taking a pretty big gamble taking the oil company's word for it! No, we don't need an infrastructure available to clean up an oil spill in the sensitive Arctic as long as we have Shell oil's word that there isn't going to be a spill! Why, who would have the audacity to doubt Shell Oil and it's CEO? Certainly not the president or his Secretary of the Interior. Oil companies just have to much clout in Washington because they have so much money to spend on elections. And Citizens United just made it a lot easier.
OFFSHORE DRILLING IS CRAZY! Obama - Romney - whatever. When are people going to wake up and realize it does not matter who is in office- democrats or republicans. The world bank agendas rule. Watch the movie "THRIVE" for free on youtube.
The two party system is created to cause infighting and distraction amoung us to keep people at odds with each other instead of standing up together and working to make change. WAKE UP AMERICA!
Let us see, drilling in the Arctic, sub-zero temps, incredible storms, white-outs, tall seas, if an "incident" were to occur, it would take days to respond and still the re-act teams would have to wait for the storms to subside.
Unlikely, remember the Deepwater Horizon "accident" and this occurred during fair weather.
While I am happy that the Obama administration's healthcare reform changes have been upheld, I cannot say that I am happy at all with some of the environmental policies that I have seen from this same group of people. More drilling is a terrible risk for the environment and is not likely to profit anybody except the oil companies. Although I do believe that environmental policy under Romney would be even worse.
Too much wishful thinking wont stop it happening.
Too much wishful thinking wont stop it happening.
Not quit sure if man just wants to destroy all of the united states,or maybe thats just the way I am looking at.
There will be no oil spill, WHAT ROCK HAS THE GUY LIVED UNDER
You must always count on oilspills.
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Those who walk through downtown Fillmore with its mom-and-pop shops and nearly century-old theater on Central Avenue can easily forget it's 2012.
With the removal of 20 palm trees lining the sidewalks, the city film commission hopes location scouts will forget, too.
The Fillmore Film Commission, a volunteer committee that has seen its revenue from filming permits drop precipitously during the past few years, thinks filming in the city will pick up now that the trees are down.
Fillmore has been marketed as "Anytown, U.S.A." by the commission, but it has received complaints from location scouts and production companies who have had to edit out the trees from their productions.
Permits made from filming have dropped to about $10,000 in 2011 from about $70,000 a few years ago, commission Chairwoman Catherine Frias said.
"They (locations scouts) know of Fillmore. It was just the trees, and I think we've overcome that hurdle," Frias said.
With a $4,500 budget that goes almost entirely to networking with professionals at the Association of Film Commissioners International show each year, the commission initially didn't have the money to remove the trees.
The Chamber of Commerce, which also receives money from filming in city, offered to put up the money for the project — the first time the chamber and commission partnered.
Removing the trees cost $3,900, and the commission has agreed to pay back half of the project's costs once it receives money from filming, Frias said.
"Now we can really effectively market ourselves," Frias said.
An email sent to nearly 200 location scouts showed a before-and-after picture of the trees and their removal. It's the first step in letting scouts know the city is serious about being film-friendly, according to the commission.
"The word is out there. They will consider us now," Commissioner Pat Couse said.
With the possibility of more filming in the area, the commission and the chamber said they would act as the liaison between downtown merchants and scouts.
"We talk a lot with the downtown merchants to get their feedback," chamber President Cindy Jackson said. "We want to keep that communication going forward."
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"I am seeing that trend change," Frias said. "They (merchants) are a little more savvy now and are willing to work with the scouts."
Some people aren't excited about the possibility of more filming downtown. Frank Ramirez, owner of the Central Station Bar & Grill, said filming on the street can create unwelcome detours for residents, causing them to stay away from the street altogether.
"I'll probably end up closing (when there's filming) because no one will come," Ramirez said.
Dealing with location scouts is another issue Ramirez finds tiring. Each time a company wants to film near his restaurant, he said, he has to argue about what is fair compensation for having to close for the day.
Jackson said the chamber hasn't received complaints directly but that she hopes merchants would tell her if they did have problems with filming.
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Hi all,
I would like to create a special kind of primitive in 3D Studio Max 6.0. I need a special kind of 3D pie slice defined by:
a) an angle (of the circle)
b) starting distance from center point (circle pivot point)
c) ending distance from center point
d) thickness
I need a way to generate easily this special 3D pie slice. I'll try discribing this pie slice another way: imagine two circles one centered within the other (they both have the same center). Now take a pie slice of a given angle from the center of any cercle (say 30 degrees). What I need is the resulting polygon with all the surfaces in 3D (with a certain thickness) defined by two arcs, one within the other, and delimited by a given angle.
My problem is that the 4 variables (a,b,c,d) mentioned earlier will change from one use to another. I need a way to mass produce these blocks of variable dimensions and angle.
I tried to take a cylinder primitive, put it in editable mesh, and extract the required section off. But it takes much effort to fill in the missing polygon surfaces, especially when the arcs are concerned. I also tried using 2 arc splines and apply to both an extrude modifier. It still requires some effort to fill in the missing surfaces.
1) Is there a way that exists that already permits to sculpt within a cylinder primitive without I having to fill in the missing surfaces?
2) Is there a 3D Max plugin that already does what I am trying to do?
Basically, is there a better way to achieve this?
Thanks for your feedback,


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|Accession Numbers: EG11385 (EcoCyc), b0606, ECK0600
Synonyms: alkyl hydroperoxide reductase, F52a subunit
Component of: alkyl hydroperoxide reductase (extended summary available)
AhpF is the peroxiredoxin reductase component of alkyl hydroperoxide reductase.
The N-terminal domain of AhpF belongs to the family of protein-disulfide oxidoreductases, while the C terminus belongs to the thioredoxin reductase family [Bieger01]. By similarity to the enzyme from Salmonella typhimurium, it is thought to channel electrons from NADH to the AhpC component for reduction of the hydroperoxide substrate. An internal redox-active disulfide bridge between two cysteine residues is reduced by electron transfer from NADH via the FAD cofactor. This reduction triggers a cascade of disulfide-exchange reactions, first intramolecularly, then intermolecularly to the disulfide cysteine residues of the AhpC component.
AhpF consists of an N-terminal domain (NTD), an FAD-binding domain and an NADH-binding domain [Dip14]. A crystal structure of the catalytic core of AhpF containing the FAD cofactor has been solved at 1.9 Å resolution [Bieger00, Bieger01]. Crystal structures of the full-length protein have been solved, and the NTD was identified as the AhpC-interacting epitope [Dip14].
Overexpression of AhpF suppresses the formation of aggregated proteins upon streptomycin treatment and increases resistance to aminoglycoside antibiotics [Ling12].
Review: [Poole00]
Citations: [Smillie92, GomezSagasti14]
Gene Citations: [Ferrante95]
Locations: cytosol
|Map Position: [638,976 -> 640,541] (13.77 centisomes, 50°)
|Length: 1566 bp / 521 aa
Molecular Weight of Polypeptide: 56.177 kD (from nucleotide sequence)
Unification Links: ASAP:ABE-0002093 , CGSC:31194 , DIP:DIP-9077N , EchoBASE:EB1358 , EcoGene:EG11385 , EcoliWiki:b0606 , ModBase:P35340 , OU-Microarray:b0606 , PortEco:ahpF , PR:PRO_000022071 , Pride:P35340 , Protein Model Portal:P35340 , RefSeq:NP_415139 , RegulonDB:EG11385 , SMR:P35340 , String:511145.b0606 , Swiss-Model:P35340 , UniProt:P35340
Relationship Links: InterPro:IN-FAMILY:IPR000103 , InterPro:IN-FAMILY:IPR001327 , InterPro:IN-FAMILY:IPR002109 , InterPro:IN-FAMILY:IPR008255 , InterPro:IN-FAMILY:IPR012081 , InterPro:IN-FAMILY:IPR012336 , InterPro:IN-FAMILY:IPR013027 , InterPro:IN-FAMILY:IPR023753 , PDB:Structure:1FL2 , PDB:Structure:4O5Q , PDB:Structure:4O5U , Pfam:IN-FAMILY:PF00070 , Pfam:IN-FAMILY:PF07992 , Pfam:IN-FAMILY:PF13192 , Prints:IN-FAMILY:PR00368 , Prints:IN-FAMILY:PR00469 , Prosite:IN-FAMILY:PS00573 , Prosite:IN-FAMILY:PS51354
In Paralogous Gene Group: 40 (11 members)
GO Terms:
|Biological Process:
|GO:0000302 - response to reactive oxygen species
GO:0045454 - cell redox homeostasis [GOA01a]
GO:0055114 - oxidation-reduction process [UniProtGOA11a, GOA01a]
|Molecular Function:
|GO:0008785 - alkyl hydroperoxide reductase activity
[GOA01a, Seaver01]
GO:0071949 - FAD binding [Bieger00]
GO:0009055 - electron carrier activity [GOA01a]
GO:0015035 - protein disulfide oxidoreductase activity [GOA01a]
GO:0016491 - oxidoreductase activity [UniProtGOA11a, GOA01a]
GO:0050660 - flavin adenine dinucleotide binding [Bieger01, GOA01a]
GO:0051287 - NAD binding [GOA01a]
GO:0070402 - NADPH binding [Bieger01]
|Cellular Component:
|GO:0005829 - cytosol
[DiazMejia09, Ishihama08, Zhang07, LopezCampistrou05, Lasserre06]
GO:0009321 - alkyl hydroperoxide reductase complex [Dip14]
|MultiFun Terms:
|cell processes → protection → detoxification
Essentiality data for ahpF knockouts:
|Growth Medium
|Growth Observations
|LB enriched
|Yes [Gerdes03, Comment 1]
|LB Lennox
|Yes [Baba06, Comment 2]
|M9 medium with 1% glycerol
|Yes [Joyce06, Comment 3]
|MOPS medium with 0.4% glucose
|Yes [Baba06, Comment 2]
Last-Curated 18-Nov-2014 by Keseler I , SRI International
Subunit of: alkyl hydroperoxide reductase
Subunit composition of
alkyl hydroperoxide reductase = [AhpC]10[AhpF]4
alkyl hydroperoxide reductase, AhpC component = AhpC (extended summary available)
alkyl hydroperoxide reductase, AhpF component = AhpF (extended summary available)
Alkyl hydroperoxide reductase converts alkyl hydroperoxides to their corresponding alcohols. By similarity to the enzyme from Salmonella typhimurium, the AhpC component catalyzes the peroxide reductase reaction, while the AhpF component restores the reduced state of AhpC by transferring electrons from NADH to AhpC. Based on structural data, a model of the catalytic cycle has been proposed [Dip14].
Alkyl hydroperoxide reductase is responsible for scavenging H2O2 at low concentrations, while catalase is responsible for scavenging H2O2 at high concentrations [Seaver01, Seaver01a].
Overexpression of alkyl hydroperoxide reductase leads to increased resistance to cumene hydroperoxide and other redox-cycling agents [Greenberg88]. An ahpCF mutant is more sensitive to the increased endogenous production of peroxides during phosphate starvation [Moreau01] and has a severe growth defect when grown on phenylethylamine [Ravindra13]. An insertion mutant in the ahpC promoter region is cold sensitive [Serina04]. Oxidative stress-related proteins, including AhpC and AhpF, are upregulated when germfree mice inoculated with E. coli are fed a lactose diet. An ahpCF mutant shows increased doubling time under conditions of high osmolality [Rothe12].
Reviews: [Poole05, Imlay08, Mishra12, Rothe13, Lu14c]
Citations: [Ferrante95, Gundlach14]
GO Terms:
|Biological Process:
|GO:0033194 - response to hydroperoxide
GO:0045454 - cell redox homeostasis [Seaver01a]
|Molecular Function:
|GO:0008785 - alkyl hydroperoxide reductase activity [Dip14a, Dip14]
Last-Curated 18-Nov-2014 by Keseler I , SRI International
Enzymatic reaction of: alkyl hydroperoxide reductase
EC Number: 1.8.1.-
an organic hydroperoxide + NADH + H+ <=> an alcohol + NAD+ + H2O
The reaction direction shown, that is, A + B ↔ C + D versus C + D ↔ A + B, is in accordance with the direction in which it was curated.
The reaction is physiologically favored in the direction shown.
Alternative Substrates for an organic hydroperoxide: hydrogen peroxide [Dip14 , Seaver01 ]
Cofactors or Prosthetic Groups: FAD [Bieger01]
|Feature Class
|214 -> 229
|345, 348
|357 -> 371
|478 -> 488
Gene Local Context (not to scale):
Transcription Units:
Peter D. Karp on Wed Jan 18, 2006:
Gene left-end position adjusted based on analysis performed in the 2005 E. coli annotation update [Riley06 ].
10/20/97 Gene b0606 from Blattner lab Genbank (v. M52) entry merged into EcoCyc gene EG11385; confirmed by SwissProt match.
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Dip14: Dip PV, Kamariah N, Subramanian Manimekalai MS, Nartey W, Balakrishna AM, Eisenhaber F, Eisenhaber B, Gruber G (2014). "Structure, mechanism and ensemble formation of the alkylhydroperoxide reductase subunits AhpC and AhpF from Escherichia coli." Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 70(Pt 11);2848-62. PMID: 25372677
Dip14a: Dip PV, Kamariah N, Nartey W, Beushausen C, Kostyuchenko VA, Ng TS, Lok SM, Saw WG, Eisenhaber F, Eisenhaber B, Gruber G (2014). "Key roles of the Escherichia coli AhpC C-terminus in assembly and catalysis of alkylhydroperoxide reductase, an enzyme essential for the alleviation of oxidative stress." Biochim Biophys Acta 1837(12);1932-1943. PMID: 25193562
Ferrante95: Ferrante AA, Augliera J, Lewis K, Klibanov AM (1995). "Cloning of an organic solvent-resistance gene in Escherichia coli: the unexpected role of alkylhydroperoxide reductase." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 92(17);7617-21. PMID: 7644465
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GOA01a: GOA, DDB, FB, MGI, ZFIN (2001). "Gene Ontology annotation through association of InterPro records with GO terms."
GomezSagasti14: Gomez-Sagasti MT, Becerril JM, Martin I, Epelde L, Garbisu C (2014). "cDNA microarray assessment of early gene expression profiles in Escherichia coli cells exposed to a mixture of heavy metals." Cell Biol Toxicol 30(4);207-32. PMID: 24952731
Greenberg88: Greenberg JT, Demple B (1988). "Overproduction of peroxide-scavenging enzymes in Escherichia coli suppresses spontaneous mutagenesis and sensitivity to redox-cycling agents in oxyR-mutants." EMBO J 7(8);2611-7. PMID: 2847922
Gundlach14: Gundlach J, Winter J (2014). "Evolution of Escherichia coli for maximum HOCl resistance through constitutive expression of the OxyR regulon." Microbiology 160(Pt 8);1690-704. PMID: 24899627
Imlay08: Imlay JA (2008). "Cellular defenses against superoxide and hydrogen peroxide." Annu Rev Biochem 77;755-76. PMID: 18173371
Ishihama08: Ishihama Y, Schmidt T, Rappsilber J, Mann M, Hartl FU, Kerner MJ, Frishman D (2008). "Protein abundance profiling of the Escherichia coli cytosol." BMC Genomics 9;102. PMID: 18304323
Joyce06: Joyce AR, Reed JL, White A, Edwards R, Osterman A, Baba T, Mori H, Lesely SA, Palsson BO, Agarwalla S (2006). "Experimental and computational assessment of conditionally essential genes in Escherichia coli." J Bacteriol 188(23);8259-71. PMID: 17012394
Lasserre06: Lasserre JP, Beyne E, Pyndiah S, Lapaillerie D, Claverol S, Bonneu M (2006). "A complexomic study of Escherichia coli using two-dimensional blue native/SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis." Electrophoresis 27(16);3306-21. PMID: 16858726
Ling12: Ling J, Cho C, Guo LT, Aerni HR, Rinehart J, Soll D (2012). "Protein aggregation caused by aminoglycoside action is prevented by a hydrogen peroxide scavenger." Mol Cell 48(5);713-22. PMID: 23122414
LopezCampistrou05: Lopez-Campistrous A, Semchuk P, Burke L, Palmer-Stone T, Brokx SJ, Broderick G, Bottorff D, Bolch S, Weiner JH, Ellison MJ (2005). "Localization, annotation, and comparison of the Escherichia coli K-12 proteome under two states of growth." Mol Cell Proteomics 4(8);1205-9. PMID: 15911532
Lu14c: Lu J, Holmgren A (2014). "The thioredoxin antioxidant system." Free Radic Biol Med 66;75-87. PMID: 23899494
Mishra12: Mishra S, Imlay J (2012). "Why do bacteria use so many enzymes to scavenge hydrogen peroxide?." Arch Biochem Biophys 525(2);145-60. PMID: 22609271
Moreau01: Moreau PL, Gerard F, Lutz NW, Cozzone P (2001). "Non-growing Escherichia coli cells starved for glucose or phosphate use different mechanisms to survive oxidative stress." Mol Microbiol 39(4);1048-60. PMID: 11251823
Poole00: Poole LB, Reynolds CM, Wood ZA, Karplus PA, Ellis HR, Li Calzi M (2000). "AhpF and other NADH:peroxiredoxin oxidoreductases, homologues of low Mr thioredoxin reductase." Eur J Biochem 267(20);6126-33. PMID: 11012664
Poole05: Poole LB (2005). "Bacterial defenses against oxidants: mechanistic features of cysteine-based peroxidases and their flavoprotein reductases." Arch Biochem Biophys 433(1);240-54. PMID: 15581580
Ravindra13: Ravindra Kumar S, Imlay JA (2013). "How Escherichia coli tolerates profuse hydrogen peroxide formation by a catabolic pathway." J Bacteriol 195(20);4569-79. PMID: 23913322
Riley06: Riley M, Abe T, Arnaud MB, Berlyn MK, Blattner FR, Chaudhuri RR, Glasner JD, Horiuchi T, Keseler IM, Kosuge T, Mori H, Perna NT, Plunkett G, Rudd KE, Serres MH, Thomas GH, Thomson NR, Wishart D, Wanner BL (2006). "Escherichia coli K-12: a cooperatively developed annotation snapshot--2005." Nucleic Acids Res 34(1);1-9. PMID: 16397293
Rothe12: Rothe M, Alpert C, Engst W, Musiol S, Loh G, Blaut M (2012). "Impact of nutritional factors on the proteome of intestinal Escherichia coli: induction of OxyR-dependent proteins AhpF and Dps by a lactose-rich diet." Appl Environ Microbiol 78(10);3580-91. PMID: 22427493
Rothe13: Rothe M, Blaut M (2013). "Evolution of the gut microbiota and the influence of diet." Benef Microbes 4(1);31-7. PMID: 23257016
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Seaver01a: Seaver LC, Imlay JA (2001). "Hydrogen peroxide fluxes and compartmentalization inside growing Escherichia coli." J Bacteriol 183(24);7182-9. PMID: 11717277
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When Shaun White spent thousands of hours preparing for his bid for the gold in Vancouver, chances are he didn't spend a single minute snowboarding on hay or wood. Unfortunately, that may be what Shaun ends up competing on come February.
While sitting out recent races due to an ankle sprain, Bode Miller had time for a quick Q&A with a USSA publicist. No hard questions, as you might expect. But it turns out the hypercompetitive World Champ is a big beach volleyball buff. And how did he sprain that ankle? You guessed it. Volleyball, says Reuters. Here's wishing him a speedy recovery in time for the Olympics.
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As long as I can remember, I've pulled/picked/bitten my nails. Until recently my style involved picking, then biting - using the pitiful remnants of one nail (generally on a thumb or middle finger) to cut into another, then taking the now-broken sliver of dead nail and biting it off. I recognize that this is a disgusting habit from the biter's perspective as well as the observer's; what's under your fingernails is one of the vilest microbial stews on the body, and to trump nail-biting for pure grossness you'd have to go around licking the eyebrows of lepers, at the very least.
I've never used biting as a primary attack method until last week, because for the last 20 years, with only a single exception, my fingernails have never been long enough to be bitten directly. You need a lot of space to get your teeth in there and I've never allowed more than, say, a quarter-centimeter of white to remain visible at the ends of my nails.
Until last week.
A couple of weeks ago, the GF suggested a moratorium on nervous picking/biting habits. She pulls at her lower lip; I've got the same addiction, but I have an additional addiction to lip balm, apparently, so I'm unlikely to have anything to pick at on my lips. No, it's nails for me. (Note: I've never ever bitten my toenails. I find the idea vile, irrationally so. Only once in my life have I ever bitten at dead skin on my feet. Weirdly, that was last month. Is this a confession? I confess that it is.)
Well, I took her up on it, and here we are: as of this weekend my nails were longer than I can remember them being, ever. This is a big deal, emotionally and practically. I picked up a dime yesterday off a table using my nails, realizing only afterward that I'd been unable to do so for an entire generation; just now I flipped open my cell phone's power-adapter socket cover, and nearly wept: a task that literally used to take me fifteen to thirty seconds now took a fraction of a second, as it should, as it does for the average American. (Perhaps you see where this is going.) Think about that: a reasonably healthy twenty-nine-year-old fumbling at the plastic cover of his cell phone for half a minute.
One of my greatest fears is mental retardation.
Maybe that's a strange thing to say. Certainly it's a clumsy one. I don't know more polite language. It's not that I'm afraid of people with developmental disabilities; it's that I fear the idea of being trapped in a brain that doesn't fall in a normal ability range. This makes sense if you know me: I was forbidden from playing American football as a kid (a game in which I had only a passing interest, but every able-bodied kid in my middle/high school played it) because, to slightly paraphrase my parents, my brain is the only thing that's going to get me ahead in this world. A direct quote: 'You're sure not going to get by on your looks.' (I actually appreciated hearing that from my Dad, and I don't disagree, though I recognize that it's somewhat callous.) American football posed too great a danger of accident, and I was a pretty delicate kid in grade school, and the naked, simpleminded aggression of football would perhaps have altered my personality in ways my parents (and I?) might have had trouble accepting.
I was also forbidden from going to parties where drinking would go on. After a while, I had no interest in going, and if that shaded on occasion into general misanthropy, the benefits (I read, wrote, drew, sang, and played a lot back then, while gaining a pretty solid cinematic education on the side) hopefully outweighed the costs (I never learned what I had in common with the kids in my high school; I never learned how to balance social life and school). You trade one sort of growth for another - though that's also the theory behind foot-binding, isn't it? But this was nothing close to that.
In any case, I clung and continue to cling to the message that my identity is my intellect. That's maybe why I take so strongly to this medium, but don't actually enjoy commenting on blogs (and why I need/forget to apologise over and over for not responding to comments from Em and Sherv and others). And to an extent, that's why I've resisted ever smoking marijuana: by all appearances it makes people temporarily stupid, relaxed where vigilance is called for. If I get glaucoma I'll be the first to fill a prescription for weed, but in the meantime, my paranoia about limited faculties outweighs my interest in that form of externalization/relaxation. I would rather climb up to the sense that Things Are Beautiful And Everything Is Connected. (Wasn't until age 27 that I relented and took an illegal substance for the first and only time.) That's maybe not a terribly enlightened stance, nor brave, nor inquisitive, but it means standing on principle and that's one thought-shape I can hide behind.
Movies and books about the 'mentally challenged' (what a strange phrase) drive me insane with grief and fear. But it's not just disability that scares me, it's difference that I perceive (perhaps wrongly) as damaging limitation: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was a harrowing horror story to me, its charm outweighed by its desperate sadness; Forrest Gump's final scenes ('Is he...like me?') scarred me; Albert's final scene in The Corrections (as he succumbs to Parkinson's Disease) frightened and saddened me so much that I tear up just remembering it. I can't watch Rain Man again; all I can remember of it is the scene with the smoke alarm going off. It hurt me as much as it hurt the autistic character onscreen.
Part of the problem here is that a narcissistic solipsist - i.e. one who sees the inside of his skull as the scope of the world, and is convinced of his own grandness - tends to see the world as constantly crushing in on him. How could it not? If only my skull were big enough for my mind, that sort of thing. (When I was a child I read Harlan Ellison's short story 'The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore,' from which came a line I was fond of quoting to friends and strangers up through high school: 'I am an unlimited man sadly living in a limited world.' The story ran in OMNI magazine, to which I got a subscription as a gift in elementary school. Some of my fondest childhood memories involve reading weird sci-fi in those pages.) Gives you a mix of self-pity and self-hatred to go with your self-love. As a smart guy not: 'not exactly the cheery crackling hearth of psychophilosophical orientations.'
But part of the problem is that I'm often short of sympathy but I seem to be afflicted with paralyzing empathy, in short bursts perhaps but inescapable nonetheless. (I'm not trying to pay myself unearned compliments here; I know that I prize 'empathy' as an aesthetic characteristic over 'sympathy,' but that isn't meant to bear on this.) Empathy - particularly for those who are prisoner to their feelings, which seem enormous, and unable to articulate them in ways that Everybody Else will understand. That's not just the 'I'm a sucker for children' evolutionary mechanism either; for whatever reason, I watch or read stories about people with Down's Syndrome or Parkinson's Disease or Alzheimer's or (Christ almighty) quadriplegia, and I die slowly inside. I don't know why I'd know that feeling, but I vibrate to it. It tears at me.
I went twice to the National Spelling Bee in middle school - 7th and 8th grade. It's a very arbitrary thing and I take no great pride in it, but it wasn't nothing - I felt so free in Washington, even under the ridiculous pressure of the competition, and I loved being around nerdy kids. (The next thing that reminded me of it was a trip to Johns Hopkins for the summer after sophomore year in high school.) I thought of it because of my fingernails: my younger brother got angry, back then, because my mom excused my nail-pulling to my dad as 'nerves because of the Spelling Bee.' For weeks I skated by on that. Otherwise my dad would have been on my back about it; he found it an 'untidy' habit. He's always been attuned to small matters of personal grooming and presentation - but then one would expect a poor kid from the north of England, having worked in high-class service jobs for a long time before making a living (back then) cleaning the homes of nouveau riche suburban boors, to be status-conscious to a fault. And it may well have been. A fault, I mean. Maybe not just that though.
I'm pulling them now, you know. Not like I used to; it's new and scary. Too much skin, too much white at the tips, it'll break, I don't want it to break. Just a tiiiiny bit, just off the top. Just to smooth the edges. Just to even them out. Just to correct for pulling too much from one side before. Just a tiny bit more. I can get away with a tiny bit more.
My dad was so proud of my fingernails when we met in Chicago this weekend. He said so. 'That's wonderful, son. It's a hard thing to do, you know,' he said. I didn't expect him to put it in those terms and I was glad to have made him happy. I wonder if perhaps he never cared one way or the other about my nails themselves - if, maybe, he had wanted me to achieve victory over some aspect of myself. Maybe he never knew how to teach me not to damage my own body in that way; such a small thing but I can see why it would hurt him (more than me). Maybe he never figured out a way to let me know what it meant to him - never had a language in which to speak to his son about something so small.
I remember him saying to my brother and me that if he ever ended up in the hospital on life support, reliant on machines to live, that we should unplug him immediately and not dawdle or dwell. Just thinking of him in that state - trapped, mind and body unable to find one another - scares and saddens me. But if you took so much as a step toward the machine without me there I'd kill you barehanded and no mistake.
I write those words and it isn't until after I've picked at my right middle fingernail that I realize what I'm doing. I think about it in emotional shorthand, of course, rather than actual words, but what passes through my head comes down to something like this: There's plenty of nail left. A little pull won't hurt. It's not like it won't grow back.
I think of how disappointed she'd be, how proud he was. It seems not worth it to keep picking my nails, so I stop, for the moment. I'm amazed at my capacity for self-pity and hopeful about my other capacities. And scared as I am of empathy, I desperately wish to find more of it. I've unplugged the phone and plugged it back in four or five times today; that's maybe two minutes of my life I've gotten back. So simple a thing.
In two minutes I could demolish these nails. You have no idea how good it would feel. I can not even begin to communicate to you how much I would enjoy it, the depth of the disgust I would feel.
I think of all this, and write it, and every once in a while catch myself picking at a tough thumbnail, or the too-thick pinky nail, or the irritatingly rough middle nail on my right hand, which is visibly shorter now than it was when I began writing. For whatever reason my right thumbnail grows much more slowly than my left, and the difference infuriates me. I walk around with that feeling rattling inside my head. My hands always hurt. I clench my jaw, waking and sleeping. Crack my neck compulsively, my knuckles. Nostrils flared.
I am so, so very lucky to be as free as I am. Maybe I'll walk upstairs and find the nail clippers and trim them. I can't remember ever doing so. I write those sentences, look up at the window. My right hand goes to my left pinky fingernail, and I remember to stop, no harm done. As someone once said: My mind's got a mind of its own. But I'm here too, and she called a moratorium, which might in the end be enough, or at least the beginning of enough.
So I stop, for the moment.
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Watch Out for Online Bill Pay Errors
It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of paying our bills online. We've requested e-bills from every company that we can, and we also use our bank's online interface to send checks to payees that don't accept electronic payments. All in all, it's very convenient and we save a ton on postage.
When we first started doing this, I worried that check payments might end up getting improperly credited. After all, we can't include the payment stub when we initiate the payment online. Fortunately we've never had a problem — until this week…
Our six year old recently had a tonsilectomy and adenoidectomy and, as a result, we've been getting bills from everyone under the sun. The doctor, the anesthesiologist, the pathologist, the hospital, etc. Anyway, two nights ago, my wife told me that the hospital had called about an overdue bill. I was a bit surprised by this, because I clearly remembered having scheduled the payment.
Yesterday afternoon I double-checked with the bank and, sure enough, the check has already cleared. I assumed that the hospital's billing department had simply gotten their wires crossed, and the people making the phone calls were working from an outdated list of overdue accounts. Upon calling, however, I learned otherwise.
After pulling up our account, the billing rep got back on the phone and reported that the bill was indeed unpaid. When I told him that I have a cancelled check showing that it's been paid (Bank of America scans all of your checks and puts them online), he paused for a moment and then asked if I could fax it to him.
That's where things stand right now — I've faxed an image of the cancelled check and am waiting for them to respond and (hopefully) clear our account. The most frustrating thing is that I'm still not sure what went wrong. All I know is that this clearly isn't our fault, nor is it our bank's fault. While we didn't submit the payment stub, the check had the correct account number clearly printed on it and it went to the right place.
Regardless, I'm glad that they went to the trouble to contact us. If they hadn't, we'd likely be getting another call from a wayward collection agency.
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16 Responses to "Watch Out for Online Bill Pay Errors"
1Jane Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 8:50 am
I've experienced something similiar with our son's surgery for ear tubes.
Sometimes all the billings at hospitals cause multiple charges or "accounts" even though the account is the same account number or linked to the same SSN/insurance holder.
It's extremely frustrating how poorly hospital billings are handled by the hospital.
When I called to clear up an issue of why an account was sent to collections, it turns out we had FIVE different hospital bills, all under the same account number, but each with its own billing and payment requirements. Why they couldn't consolidate those billings and apply our payment towards one final amount, I have no idea. No amount of arguing or talking to various supervisors did any good.
2nickel Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Jane: Yes, it's very frustrating. And on top of multiple bills from individuals entities, the practitioners themselves (doctors, anesthesiologists, etc.) all independently. Since everyone outsources their billing nowadays, it seems like they should be able to centralize it. Like if a procedure was done at a certain hospital, all billing goes through service. You might still get multiple bills because different things get turned in at different times, but at least there would be a single point of contact.
3JB Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 10:04 am
If there are numerous payments from unique clients to a single vendor, banks will mail them together in one envelope.
The vendor then needs to interpert the checks to go to the correct account.
It is extremely important to include under the comments section the account name as well as the patients name. Always use 'smith,a – 1234′ so they have to chances to find the right account number.
They might get your check in a pile of 100.
4nickel Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 10:12 am
JB: Interesting point — I hadn't though of that. I guess I always imagined my check getting put into an envelope and being sent on it's merry way, but it makes sense that they would bulk ship whenever possible (though in this particular case I can't imagine them having to send more than a few).
Your point about including the patient's name in the memo is also a good one. I usually do this, but it's possible that I forgot in this case. Nonetheless, the check clearly indicated our account number, and it doesn't seem to have been posted anywhere in our account (even if they applied it to the wrong person, it should still be in our account).
5losh Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I used the online bill pay to send a check for our apartment rent and had the same thing happened to me. The check was cashed but 2 weeks later we received an "start of eviction process" letter from the apartment management. We have been paying our rent on time for about a year at that time, you would think they would have at least called before starting the eviction process.
We cleared things up by showing them the image of the cashed check, but it took them months to clean up the mess on their end. They could not find were to money ended up.
6Chief Family Officer Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 11:15 am
That's happened to me once as well, with our eye doctor. They received payment, but had to figure out where it ended up since it wasn't originally credited to our account.
I really like the tip about including the patient's name – I haven't done that before, but I'll definitely be doing it from now on.
7cemccon Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
You may want to ask your medical provider(s) to use peryourhealth.com; a centralized, on-line billing system that eliminates the need for including the paper 'stub' that so many have grown accustomed to.
While I perfer on-line bill payment also; I still remit paper checks via snail-mail to any and all billers who send a paper statement with no built-in way to pay on-line.
With some larger providers, you may be able to call in a credit-card payment … try this instead of on-line payment thru your bank.
8jay Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
This is really scarey! We also deal with medical billing ALOT! So far, so good. Since we use a third party bill pay service, and we can put notes on individual checks, so we do. The only other strategy might be to mail similar bills to same address on sequential days/weeks so you know when things should show up. Still, pretty fallable.
Luckily your bank (as ours) has scanned images you can fax!
Calling in a CC payment is also a REALLY good idea!
I think medical billing is one of the biggest PITA you can face, Not only the kind of mixup you detail, but how they bill insurance (imagine having two different insurance policies), companies that don't pay attention to discounts they agreed to with your insurance, so on. Takes way to much time to deal with this stuff.
Now we're also dealing with an FSA that wants to cherry pick what they'll cover. In this case IT'S OUR MONEY!
*rant over*
Advice to everyone: meticulous record keeping, paper trail of disputes (e.g., record of when/what you faxed), and don't be bullied!
9Aryn Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
That happened to us with our auto insurance, and the bank solved the whole thing for us. It was the most amazing thing. The insurance co. wasn't helpful, so I called the bank. While I was on the line, they called the insurance, spoke to a customer service rep, explained that I had paid, faxed over the proof, and had them remove the late fee and reinstate our insurance. Once the rep was talking to the bank and not to me, she was much more helpful.
10Eric Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
What complicated our bank's billpay was two things — first, on two occasions they had to reinstate my transactions due to a "loss of data incident" through their backup system. But it missed a transaction on each occasion, which prompted me to start recording the comfirmation numbers for each of my transactions (and almost caused me to change banks!) Second, and this is very sneaky — the bank takes the money out of my account on the day the check is mailed, not when it is cleared, so there is no way to know if/when the check actually clears unless you call the bank and speak with the internet banking dept. I believe this gives the bank a 2-7 day loan on my money, which I made clear I was vey unhappy about. Apparantly many others were too, since my bank has gone to another, much better, online billpay program.
11jay Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
There were many reasons we went with a third party BIll Pay service, and Eric, yours is one of them! All our bank sees are either EFTs or paper checks (for which we then have the scanned images). I can't imagine my bank doing what Aryn's did!
I'm thinking CC payments are really the way to go, especially if you use ING or similar, where you can see payments posted within minutes. I don't know, though, what success people have had with ING dealing with credit card fraud, etc.
12Van girl Says:
May 30th, 2008 at 2:08 am
I don't currently use online banking and have no experience so this may seem a stupid point, but wouldn't it be possible to get a receipt that you can save or print out each time you make a payment online? Or aren't such features currently available. I purchase quite a lot of items on line through websites and each time I make a payment I get get the option of printing a record of my payment.
13nickel Says:
May 30th, 2008 at 10:30 am
You could take a screenshot or something, I guess. However, the only thing that a vendor will pay any attention to in terms of proof of payment will be a cancelled check.
14Jim Says:
May 30th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
The title of this post says Bill Pay error – sorry but this is not a bill pay error. This could have happened if you'd sat down, written out a check, licked a stamp and mailed it in… I have paid my bills electronically for over 15 years without an issue.
15nickel Says:
May 30th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Jim: Hmmmm… I used online bill pay and there was an error. While it's always possible that there could've been a problem mailing a check in myself, it would've been accompanied by the payment stub making such an error far less likely
Was this the bank's fault? No, and I said as much. But it's still an error that happened in conjunction with paying a bill online. Just because you've never had a problem doesn't mean that they can't happen.
16joann davis Says:
February 28th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
when i go on my bank of america bill pay accounts i can't make a payment because the accounts keep jumping to the top of the page. I am using safari. please help. it starts as soon as i put in a payment amount. the computer jumps to the top of the page and will not let me scroll
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Warwickshire batsman Varun Chopra is reaping the rewards of a winter spent refining his technique in the Edgbaston indoor nets.
The 23-year-old former Essex batsman had made only two first-class centuries before this season, the last of them in September 2008.
But Chopra has started the new campaign in brilliant style by becoming the first Warwickshire batsman to score double centuries in consecutive County Championship matches.
His 210 against Somerset last week was surpassed against Worcestershire at New Road, making Chopra an unlikely entry in the record books for a county that boasts run gluttons MJK Smith, Dennis Amiss, Brian Lara and Nick Knight among its illustrious former batsmen.
Chopra has already scored more first-class runs in four innings this season then he managed in 18 during an injury-hit first season with Warwickshire which Ashley Giles, the county's director of cricket, believes is a result of improving his balance at the crease.
"He's worked extremely hard during the winter on a technique," Giles said. "In the past I think he would be the first to admit that he's changed technique very quickly so he's moved to new things and then at the first sign of trouble tried something else.
"But he's stuck to a technique this winter and it's working for him. He's put a lot of hours in at the indoor school.
"He's got all the attributes. He's got very good hands, a great eye, he picks up the short ball well. He's wristy and elegant in all forms of the game.
"But it's that consistency in what he does. Maybe the move has been good for him. It's a clean slate, he's got good people around him and maybe he feels he needs to make an impression. He's doing that so far.
"I'm a great believer that stuff before a ball is bowled is key. So his set up and pre delivery movements are slightly different allowing him to stay taller and play straighter and keep his balance."


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The Boston Red Sox traded left-handed reliever Andrew Miller to the Baltimore Orioles Thursday for left-handed pitching prospect Eduardo Rodriguez.
This move comes after Boston pulled off two blockbuster trades to ship off Jon Lester along with Jonny Gomes to Oakland for Home Run Derby champ Yoenis Cespedes, and sending veteran pitcher John Lackey to St. Louis for Allen Craig and right-hander Joe Kelly.
Miller, 29, has allowed just 25 hits and struck out 69 batters over 42.1 innings this season according to Sports Network. Miller was one of the most sought-after bullpen arms after his dominant first half.
Miller also shined in the postseason last year with a 2.64 ERA and 48 strikeouts in 30.2 innings pitched. Since taking the role as a full-time reliever in 2012, Miller has averaged 13.3 strikeouts per nine innings.
Rodriguez, 21, is the Orioles' number three prospect. He has a combined 3.41 ERA with 129 strikeouts in 145 innings between High-A Frederick and Double-A Bowie according to SB Nation.
Rodriguez is a great investment for Boston with a fastball clocked as high as 95. He has the potential to develop into a number three starter or a nice bullpen arm if he continues to struggle against right-handed batters.