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Lunch With David Mamet
The dramatist says he's "crazy" about Sarah Palin.
Even sitting at a banquette in one corner of the nearly empty Knickerbocker Bar & Grill, an old-style grill in Greenwich Village, with his orange Perspex-framed glasses lying on the table in front of him, David Mamet is at work.
We have met at the Knickerbocker because he is in New York with his producer to scout locations for a film he has written and will direct for HBO about Phil Spector, the legendary music producer. "We call it a red-booth restaurant in the movie. This is close. It's oxblood," he says, prodding our leather-lined booth. "We'll have to dye it."
Spector, to be played by Al Pacino with Bette Midler as his lawyer, Linda Kenney Baden, was jailed for murder in 2008 after being convicted of the killing of Lana Clarkson, an actress, at his California mansion. "I don't think he's guilty. I definitely think there is reasonable doubt," Mamet says briskly when I ask what interested him about the case. "They should never have sent him away. Whether he did it or not, we'll never know but if he'd just been a regular citizen, they never would have indicted him."
The crisp certainty and rhetorical force makes Mamet sound like one of his characters. At the age of 63, with close-cropped gray hair and a beard, he is not only one of the most celebrated of American dramatists but one of the most prolific. From plays such as American Buffalo (1975), a Pinteresque drama about four petty thieves, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glen Ross (1982), an intense clash of competing property salesmen, to harrowing films such as The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) and the Oscar-nominated courtroom drama The Verdict (1982), to novels and essays, he rarely rests.
There are signs of the advancing years—he has a hearing aid in one ear—but he has the nervous energy and edge of a younger man. He has greeted me warmly but seems a little isolated as he sits before me, as if the ideas jostling in his head leave little room for other voices to penetrate. He is dressed in artisan filmmaker style—white trousers, a gray linen shirt and a waistcoat with pockets into which are tucked some notes and a glasses case.
He recounts the restaurant scene from the film, which involves Midler's character. "Linda says, 'You've known your husband a long time. You know he's cheating on you.' The woman says, 'That's preposterous,' and Linda says, 'That's called giving him the benefit of the doubt.' The woman walks away and then she says, 'OK. But what are you going to do when he kills the next girl?' " Mamet chuckles. "It's a pretty good scene."
Confrontation is often present in Mamet's work, in which characters with opposing views argue with often unbearable intensity, trying to settle their differences by pounding each other's personalities. He thrives on provoking his audience and has now done so in real life by becoming a conservative and writing a book, The Secret Knowledge, that grinds into dust his erstwhile liberalism. Mamet's Damascene conversion from one side of the bitterly divided American political culture to the other, which he first announced in a 2008 article for the Village Voice headlined "Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal," shocked his fellow writers and artists.
"I saw things that horrified me in my own behavior, positions I'd taken that were foolish and absurd," he declares defiantly. I ask for an example. "Voting for big government. It has ruined our country as it ruined yours. As Churchill said, 'We fought the war and now our country is giving away everything we fought and died for.' California is broke, this country is broke, yet we keep on voting for it."
This peroration, delivered in a husky voice with traces of his native Chicago, is interrupted by the waitress. Mamet switches seamlessly to ordering his food in Hollywood manner—he now lives in the Brentwood district of Los Angeles with his four children, the younger two with his second wife, the Anglo-American actress Rebecca Pidgeon. "Filet mignon rare, and no mashed potatoes please, and no sauce please. I'll start off with the green salad with the balsamic vinegar on the side."
I ask whether anything in particular prompted his change of heart and he cites the 2007-08 film and television writers' strike and The Unit, a TV show that Mamet created and produced. "All of a sudden, the show was off the air and everyone was thrown out of work—the stagehands, the grips, the costume designers, all the people who worked 16 hours a day ... I realized I had been screwed by unions as much as I'd been helped by them."
The experience led him to start reading the work of free-market economists such as Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Adam Smith and philosophers such as John Stuart Mill and Thomas Hobbes. He also talked to Shelby Steele and Thomas Sowell, two conservative writers at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. "My dad was a labor lawyer and the ideas that I grew up with—bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons—when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin."


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"[A]ll gambling involves betting, but not all betting involves gambling," argued Nick Jenkins. He said that since his Seattle-based website, Betcha.com, matched people who wanted to make bets but didn't participate in those wagers or even enforce payment, it did not violate the state's prohibition on online gambling. He appealed the issue all the way to the state Supreme Court.
Today he lost that bet.
Jenkins started Betcha.com in 2007 with the state's anti-gambling laws very much in mind. For a fee, someone could post a bet on anything from sporting events to astronomical occurrences to Jenkins' site. If someone accepted it, Betcha held the money for both parties. For 72 hours after the winner was decided, the loser had the option of hitting a button saying "I Wanna Welch." Hit that button and the bet was off.
People who welched ended up with poor "honor ratings" on the site to discourage others from making bets with them in the first place. But since the winner could only assume she might get paid, Jenkins contended, his site was perfectly legal.
Nick Jenkins says he's just the middle man.
But the state Gambling Commission didn't agree. According to Jenkins, the agency ordered him to shut the site down shortly after he launched it. In July 2007 he sued in Thurston County Superior Court to keep Betcha open for business. Jenkins lost in Superior Court, but the state Court of Appeals reversed the outcome in 2009 citing Betcha.com's payment model. "The unique aspect of Betcha.com's business model was that users conducted their activities with the understanding that bettors were not required to pay if they lost a wager. Notably, users had to first agree that bets were 'non-binding' in order to use the website."
But the state high court took a much harder line. Under state law, facilitating bets makes you a bookie, even if you don't participate in the bets themselves, the court ruled. "We hold that Betcha was engaged in bookmaking and therefore professional gambling," Justice Tom Chambers wrote in the unanimous opinion.
Chambers added that the question of whether or not the bets themselves fell within the scope of the law was irrelevant.
Unfortunately for Jenkins, a bill sponsored by Seattle-area U.S. Representative Jim McDermott to legalize and tax online gambling won't help him, says attorney Marc Randazza.
The San Diego-based Randazza handles online gambling cases throughout the country and has been closely following Jenkins' fight with the state Gambling Commission. According to Randazza, McDermott's bill would end a federal law prohibiting people from making money from online gambling, but would not overturn state laws that ban the practice outright.
"The federal government isn't going to tell the states whether they can have gambling or not," Randazza says.
So to bring back Betcha.com Jenkins would have to convince the state legislature to overturn this state's rules banning online gaming.
Here's hoping he didn't have any money on the outcome of his own case.


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To chop, or not to chop? That is the question.
I only heard about this for the first time last year and whilst taking advice on what plants to chop back, I had mixed results.Can you lovely people tell me which plants you will behead this year, and those you leave alone and perhaps the reasons why, if any
I will chop my sedums. I find they do not look good when they flop over and the stems break easily and I like to make new plants with the cuttings.
I used to do it with buddleia, resulting in a neat and compact shrub and I'll be chopping all the geraniums that I divided earlier.
I chop my cranesbills, but will be doing it much later than usual because of the weather, as they are only just coming into flower.
Interesting that Botticelliwoman does buddleia, as I always cut mine down to about 12" in March, and it responds well.
I chopped all my Sedum Spectabilis last year, except one as a control. I have a lot of these plants around my large garden as the bees and butterflies love them. I was a bit apprehensive as to what would happen but they flowered beautifully and stayed upright and squat - unlike the unchopped plant which looked dreadful. I will see which plants benefit from the Chelsea Chop this year and do it again.
Other plants which respond well are:
Anthemis tinctoria (Golden marguerite)Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower)Helenium (Sneezeweed)Phlox paniculata (Garden Phlox)Solidago (Goldenrod)
i normally do it..but this year my plants have not grown as much as normal.. might do my sedums.. as they are growing pretty much as normal.. but my echinaceas are not that big at the moment..
may well miss it this year.
Is it too late to Chelsea Chop now? And if not, can I do aconitums? I know I can do phlox and sedums but not sure of what else.
Ah! Aconitums are one group of plants I would NOT chelsea chop wisehedgecrone. Could I suggest though that you stake your plants asap. I have just done mine.....well a week ago. Now the support system cannot be seen and the plants will stay upright and compact for the rest of the season. So, stake aconitums.
heleniums can also be chelsea chopped now. things like argyramthemums that flower all summer from now can be trimmed back in late June to encourage flowering until autumn
I don't have argyramthemums, and my heleniums are newly planted a month ago and still not very big, so I might leave those. Some of my phlox are established so I can do those.
Thanks very much for the tip about the aconitums! I have plenty of prunings I can use to support them
What about asters - the autumn flowering perennial ones? Last year I had some pink ones which grew so tall they started collapsing. I have moved them to a better position but should I give them a chop too?
No not with asters either for me.
Why not asters? Would we lose the flowers?
could I chop all my hardy geraniums? It would be perfect timing to give some of my sweet peas more sun
Have just seen botticelliwomans saying she would chop geraniums that she'd divided, does that make a difference? Sorry for being thick,I've never Chelsea chopped anything before, I have a vey few phlox, ( the upright, is that paniculata?) should I chops those too? Seen them mentioned, wish I had someone here to hold my hand and give me advice, don't seem to be learning fast!
Hang on folks. Don't chop for the sake of it.
i cut back hardy geraniums ....some of them.....in mid summer when the fullest flush of flowers is fading. A trim back...not really a "Chelsea chop"......and they will flower anew a few weeks later. This isn't to keep them bushy but to re energise flowering.
Some plants benefit from being chopped back now and others don't.. don't think it will make much difference to asters.
best thing is to watch how your plants grow and learn...some benefit from chelsea chop, some from pimching back, others trimmed, others need staking.
I never thought of pinching back! Oh dear. And I thought I was a gardener...;)
At the risk of appearing stupid, which plants benefit from pinching back? Can you do it with roses and clematis?
I've chopped back one of my geranium because it was really tall. I've trimmed back a a few stems on two rambling roses that were getting a bit wild. I've took a couple of stems out of some delphiniums that were already very tall. That's about it. Everything else seems fine.
Wiseheadcrone, roses are pruned in spring then "pinched back" when the dead flowers are removed...when cut back to new buds each time. clematis, depending on variery, were pruned in spring so no pinching back.
yviesrevie,,fhe point is fhat delphiniums are supposed to be tall......mine are tied to 6 to 8 ' canes. Cutting them down spoils their "majesty"
thanks, i was hoping i could chop geraniums earlier, will move for next year, i will cut back after first flowers
I pinch back fuchsias, this means flowering is delayed a few weeks but you end up with more flowering shoots and therefore more flowers. I pinch back the odd shoot when deadheading too, but not all at once because that would slow down flowering.
My sister used to trim her penstemons with the Chelsea Chop but this year she's trimmed them all back to the soil level growing point and they've come back lovely - good strong straight shoots rather than whippy stalks that kink.
At the mo I'm trimming my unruly shrubs every couple of weeks. I started by cutting back to a growing point. When new growth was doing well I trimmed them again which caused more new growth further down. So far I've reduced big shrubs by 6-8 inches and got more luxuriant growth. This is an experiment, I did it only on shrubs that were destined for the compost bin.
I've trimmed back some sedums this year for the first time, varying amounts depending on the size of the plant. A bit of guesswork tbh
A couple flopped about in an irritating fashion last year, only the fancy ones, not the bog standard one whatever it's called. I'd like them to flower later too, I always thought they were a late summer flower Hopefully they will still flower - not the longest growing season up here.


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Alas, it has recently been rated among America's worst places to live:
}} In the fall of 2007 Stockton had the highest home foreclosure rate of any large city in the nation. One out of every 31 homes had been taken from their "owners."
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}} In late December 2007 Stockton was named the 'most illiterate' town in America — 69th of the nation's 69 largest cities. The ranking compared cities on six criteria — including newspaper readership, book-buying, and their residents' educational attainment.
}} Early in January 2008, the National Research Council, judging cities as pleasant or unpleasant places to live, ranked Stockton 230th of the nation's 231 largest cities.
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And those blue eyes...
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Now those two are more adorable then the ones back here in T.O.
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Awww they're sooo cute!! Happy Thanksgiving by the way!
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They feel very responsive and are very fast for the size of 26 x 1.75. Took them over gravel and some decent cracks in the road and it performed very well. I will keep you posted on how they hold up in the long stretch. was told that i should get around 2-3k miles on them and will be very happy to see that. Running them at 70 psi but can go up to 100. brought my average speed up from 14mph to 17-19mph. oh and im riding them on a specialized hardrock. Will keep you posted.


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In a rare conflict between the team and one of its own players, the Avalanche has terminated the contract of former enforcer Scott Parker for insubordination.
Parker, who played for the Avalanche for parts of six seasons, refused to report to the Lake Erie Monsters of the American Hockey League after being demoted Oct. 17. Parker had concussion symptoms at the time and wasn't able to play, but later refused assignment to the Monsters outright.
"He is no longer a member of our organization," Avalanche vice president Jean Martineau said.
Even if Parker had reported to the Monsters, however, he would have taken a huge pay cut. The 30-year-old right winger signed a two-way contract prior to this season. With the Avalanche, Parker was earning $500,000.
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Parker currently is an unrestricted free agent. Efforts to reach him for comment were not successful.
In the 2001-02 season, veteran defenseman Todd Gill effectively walked off the team after playing 36 games, forfeiting the rest of his contract. Gill was not playing at the time and quarreling with coach Bob Hartley about his role.
Parker suffered a concussion in a preseason fight and started the NHL season on the injured reserve list. He was later placed on waivers by the Avs, but no team selected him.
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The Avalanche did not practice Sunday, and did not have any update on the condition of captain Joe Sakic, who has missed most of the last two games with back stiffness.
Sakic left after the first period of Saturday's game against Nashville with the problem. The Avs said he will be further evaluated today.
After Saturday's game, Avs coach Tony Granato said of Sakic's condition: "I wouldn't think it would be anything long-term, but we'll know more (later)."
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|Accession Numbers: EG10591 (EcoCyc), b3828, ECK3822
Component of: MetR-L-homocysteine
Subunit composition of MetR DNA-binding transcriptional dual regulator = [MetR]2
MetR participates in controlling several genes involved in methionine biosynthesis [Weissbach91] and a gene involved in protection against nitric oxide [MembrilloHernan98].
Homocysteine, an intermediate in the biosynthesis of methionine [Urbanowski89], binds to MetR and enhances the activity of some MetR-activated promoters (i.e., metE and glyA) by enhancing the affinity in DNA-binding sites [Lorenz96, Weissbach91]. But homocysteine is also able to decrease the activity of other promoters that are activated (i.e., metH, metA, and hmp) or repressed (i.e., metR) by MetR [Urbanowski89, Cai89a, Weissbach91]. The glyA and hmp genes are transcribed divergently and have a common regulatory region that contains two MetR DNA-binding sites. When homocysteine is present, MetR binds to two MetR sites and activates glyA and represses hmp transcription, but in the absence of homocysteine MetR binds only one site and activates hmp and represses glyA transcription [MembrilloHernan98].
MetR appears to first bind DNA and then homocysteine causes the effect on transcription [Cai89a]. The nitrosated compound S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) removes homocysteine by nitrosation [MembrilloHernan98].
The RNA polymerase and MetR interact for transcription activation, but distinct residues of RNA polymerase are involved in different promoters because the MetR-binding sites are located at different positions [Fritsch00, Lorenz96]|. MetR, as a dimer [Cai89], recognizes and binds a DNA sequence with dyad symmetry [Cai89, Lorenz95].
MetR belongs to the LysR family of transcriptional regulators [Schell93]. The members of this family have three domains: the N-terminal domain, which contains a helix-turn-helix motif for DNA binding, a central domain involved in coinducer recognition, and a C-terminal domain required for both DNA binding and coinducer response [Schell93].
It has been proposed that MetR has in the N-terminal domain a leucine zipper motif characteristic of many eukaryotic DNA-binding proteins used for protein dimerization [Maxon90]. Mutations in leucines of this motif inactivated MetR [Maxon90], but a role of MetR dimerization for this motif has not been demonstrated [Maxon90].
metR and metE are divergently transcribed from overlapping promoters [Cai89].
Citations: [Maxon89, Daniels92]
Locations: cytosol
|Map Position: [4,011,863 <- 4,012,816] (86.43 centisomes, 311°)
|Length: 954 bp / 317 aa
Molecular Weight of Polypeptide: 35.629 kD (from nucleotide sequence)
pI: 8.11
Unification Links: ASAP:ABE-0012506, CGSC:18163, DIP:DIP-10198N, EchoBASE:EB0586, EcoGene:EG10591, EcoliWiki:b3828, Mint:MINT-1262668, ModBase:P0A9F9, OU-Microarray:b3828, PortEco:metR, PR:PRO_000023220, Pride:P0A9F9, Protein Model Portal:P0A9F9, RefSeq:NP_418272, RegulonDB:EG10591, SMR:P0A9F9, String:511145.b3828, UniProt:P0A9F9
Relationship Links: InterPro:IN-FAMILY:IPR000847, InterPro:IN-FAMILY:IPR005119, InterPro:IN-FAMILY:IPR011991, Pfam:IN-FAMILY:PF00126, Pfam:IN-FAMILY:PF03466, Prints:IN-FAMILY:PR00039, Prosite:IN-FAMILY:PS50931
In Paralogous Gene Group: 6 (42 members)
Reactions known to both consume and produce the compound:
Not in pathways:
MetR + L-homocysteine ↔ MetR-L-homocysteine
Gene-Reaction Schematic
Genetic Regulation Schematic
|Biological Process:
|Molecular Function:
|Cellular Component:
|MultiFun Terms:
|information transfer → RNA related → Transcription related
|metabolism → biosynthesis of building blocks → amino acids → methionine
|regulation → genetic unit regulated → operon
|regulation → type of regulation → transcriptional level → activator
|regulation → type of regulation → transcriptional level → repressor
DNA binding site length: 15 base-pairs
Symmetry: Inverted Repeat
Consensus DNA Binding Sequence: aTGAAaaattTTCAt
Regulated Transcription Units (2 total):
Essentiality data for metR knockouts:
|Growth Medium
|Growth Observations
|LB enriched
|Yes [Gerdes03, Comment 1]
|LB Lennox
|Yes [Baba06, Comment 2]
|M9 medium with 0.4% glucose
|No [Patrick07, Comment 3]
|M9 medium with 1% glycerol
|No [Joyce06]
|MOPS medium with 0.4% glucose
|Yes [Baba06, Comment 2]
Created 19-Feb-2009 by Gama-Castro S, UNAM
Subunit of: MetR-L-homocysteine
Subunit composition of
MetR-L-homocysteine = [(MetR)2][L-homocysteine]
MetR DNA-binding transcriptional dual regulator = (MetR)2 (extended summary available)
Citations: [Lorenz96 , Schell93, Cai89, Lorenz95, Urbanowski89]
Sequence Length: 317 AAs
Reactions known to both consume and produce the compound:
Not in pathways:
MetR + L-homocysteine ↔ MetR-L-homocysteine
|MultiFun Terms:
|information transfer → RNA related → Transcription related
|metabolism → biosynthesis of building blocks → amino acids → methionine
|regulation → genetic unit regulated → operon
|regulation → type of regulation → transcriptional level → activator
|regulation → type of regulation → transcriptional level → repressor
DNA binding site length: 15 base-pairs
Symmetry: Inverted Repeat
Consensus DNA Binding Sequence: aTGAAaaattTTCAt
Regulated Transcription Units (4 total):
|Feature Class
|1 -> 59
|Pfam PF00126
|5 -> 63
|19 -> 38
|Pfam PF03466
|86 -> 288
10/20/97 Gene b3828 from Blattner lab Genbank (v. M52) entry merged into EcoCyc gene EG10591; confirmed by SwissProt match.
Baba06: Baba T, Ara T, Hasegawa M, Takai Y, Okumura Y, Baba M, Datsenko KA, Tomita M, Wanner BL, Mori H (2006). "Construction of Escherichia coli K-12 in-frame, single-gene knockout mutants: the Keio collection." Mol Syst Biol 2;2006.0008. PMID: 16738554
Cai89: Cai XY, Maxon ME, Redfield B, Glass R, Brot N, Weissbach H (1989). "Methionine synthesis in Escherichia coli: effect of the MetR protein on metE and metH expression." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989;86(12);4407-11. PMID: 2543976
Cai89a: Cai XY, Redfield B, Maxon M, Weissbach H, Brot N (1989). "The effect of homocysteine on MetR regulation of metE, metR and metH expression in vitro." Biochem Biophys Res Commun 163(1);79-83. PMID: 2673243
Daniels92: Daniels DL, Plunkett G, Burland V, Blattner FR (1992). "Analysis of the Escherichia coli genome: DNA sequence of the region from 84.5 to 86.5 minutes." Science 1992;257(5071);771-8. PMID: 1379743
DiazMejia09: Diaz-Mejia JJ, Babu M, Emili A (2009). "Computational and experimental approaches to chart the Escherichia coli cell-envelope-associated proteome and interactome." FEMS Microbiol Rev 33(1);66-97. PMID: 19054114
Finn14: Finn RD, Bateman A, Clements J, Coggill P, Eberhardt RY, Eddy SR, Heger A, Hetherington K, Holm L, Mistry J, Sonnhammer EL, Tate J, Punta M (2014). "Pfam: the protein families database." Nucleic Acids Res 42(Database issue);D222-30. PMID: 24288371
Fritsch00: Fritsch PS, Urbanowski ML, Stauffer GV (2000). "Role of the RNA polymerase alpha subunits in MetR-dependent activation of metE and metH: important residues in the C-terminal domain and orientation requirements within RNA polymerase." J Bacteriol 182(19);5539-50. PMID: 10986259
Gerdes03: Gerdes SY, Scholle MD, Campbell JW, Balazsi G, Ravasz E, Daugherty MD, Somera AL, Kyrpides NC, Anderson I, Gelfand MS, Bhattacharya A, Kapatral V, D'Souza M, Baev MV, Grechkin Y, Mseeh F, Fonstein MY, Overbeek R, Barabasi AL, Oltvai ZN, Osterman AL (2003). "Experimental determination and system level analysis of essential genes in Escherichia coli MG1655." J Bacteriol 185(19);5673-84. PMID: 13129938
GOA01a: GOA, DDB, FB, MGI, ZFIN (2001). "Gene Ontology annotation through association of InterPro records with GO terms."
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
Lorenz95: Lorenz E, Stauffer GV (1995). "Characterization of the MetR binding sites for the glyA gene of Escherichia coli." J Bacteriol 1995;177(14);4113-20. PMID: 7608086
Lorenz96: Lorenz E, Stauffer GV (1996). "RNA polymerase, PurR and MetR interactions at the glyA promoter of Escherichia coli." Microbiology 1996;142 ( Pt 7);1819-24. PMID: 8757744
Maxon89: Maxon ME, Redfield B, Cai XY, Shoeman R, Fujita K, Fisher W, Stauffer G, Weissbach H, Brot N (1989). "Regulation of methionine synthesis in Escherichia coli: effect of the MetR protein on the expression of the metE and metR genes." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989;86(1);85-9. PMID: 2643109
Maxon90: Maxon ME, Wigboldus J, Brot N, Weissbach H (1990). "Structure-function studies on Escherichia coli MetR protein, a putative prokaryotic leucine zipper protein." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990;87(18);7076-9. PMID: 2205852
MembrilloHernan98: Membrillo-Hernandez J, Coopamah MD, Channa A, Hughes MN, Poole RK (1998). "A novel mechanism for upregulation of the Escherichia coli K-12 hmp (flavohaemoglobin) gene by the 'NO releaser', S-nitrosoglutathione: nitrosation of homocysteine and modulation of MetR binding to the glyA-hmp intergenic region." Mol Microbiol 29(4);1101-12. PMID: 9767577
Patrick07: Patrick WM, Quandt EM, Swartzlander DB, Matsumura I (2007). "Multicopy suppression underpins metabolic evolvability." Mol Biol Evol 24(12);2716-22. PMID: 17884825
Schell93: Schell MA (1993). "Molecular biology of the LysR family of transcriptional regulators." Annu Rev Microbiol 47;597-626. PMID: 8257110
UniProt15: UniProt Consortium (2015). "UniProt version 2015-08 released on 2015-07-22." Database.
UniProtGOA11: UniProt-GOA (2011). "Gene Ontology annotation based on the manual assignment of UniProtKB Subcellular Location terms in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries."
UniProtGOA11a: UniProt-GOA (2011). "Gene Ontology annotation based on manual assignment of UniProtKB keywords in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries."
Urbanowski89: Urbanowski ML, Stauffer GV (1989). "Role of homocysteine in metR-mediated activation of the metE and metH genes in Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli." J Bacteriol 171(6);3277-81. PMID: 2656646
Weissbach91: Weissbach H, Brot N (1991). "Regulation of methionine synthesis in Escherichia coli." Mol Microbiol 1991;5(7);1593-7. PMID: 1943695
Jafri95: Jafri S, Urbanowski ML, Stauffer GV (1995). "A mutation in the rpoA gene encoding the alpha subunit of RNA polymerase that affects metE-metR transcription in Escherichia coli." J Bacteriol 177(3);524-9. PMID: 7836282
Urbanowski89a: Urbanowski ML, Stauffer GV (1989). "Genetic and biochemical analysis of the MetR activator-binding site in the metE metR control region of Salmonella typhimurium." J Bacteriol 1989;171(10);5620-9. PMID: 2676984
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Tom Kelly Nov 15, 2012 9:16 AM
in response to Clif H
Clif H,
Good post laying down the foundation to reorganize this extremely long thread. Everything I have attempted to remedy the situation on my end has been temporary, but I can't pinpoint when my problem first began.
I'm running 6.0.1 on a Sprint iPhone 5 in an area that is only 3G. The email account is gmail, configured to work as an Exchange account. Push breaks as soon as my phone receives or places a phone call when using the phone over cellular data. I've been able to isolate that specific action as the catalyst that ultimately ceases Exchange function. After receiving or placing a call, I will routinely attempt to open a page in Safari and that works no problem. If I attempt to open Mail, it will read "Connecting..." on the bottom status bar and will not move from that message. At this point, I'm unable to send or receive email on my Exchange account. Anecdotally, weather is unable to update and some other Apps lose data function. Toggling Airplane Mode, or using a wifi network will restore my Exchange connection and I will begin to receive email both through Push and Fetch.
This definitely seems to be a twist on the problem that others are experiencing on this thread. From my reading here, it appears as though many are able to still "fetch" email through the Exchange account, but my problem is totally broken.
I have attempted to clear network settings, restored through iTunes and set up the phone as a new device, and a DFU restore on a "fresh" copy of iOS 6.0.1. Basically, I'm at my wits' end. It should also be noted that i have another iPhone 5 on my Sprint account - running 6.0 - and this broken Exchange is not an issue.
My temporary fix has been to set up my gmail through the gmail setup in mail - not exchange. I'm able to take and place calls and continue full functionality of the device. I'm not a software engineer, but this tends to indicate that there is some glitch in how Exchange works on cellular data - especially when that data connection is interrupted.
Let's all hope this issue can be resolved soon. I feel for those of you who rely on Exchange for work.
ken260 Nov 15, 2012 9:29 AM
in response to superclay
Hi all! I have been experiencing the exact same issue with push, and have tried ALL of the "solutions" listed on this page multiple times. for me, it seems as soon as the phone goes into standby is when all the trouble with push seems to occur. When I open the email app to force a fetch, and the phone is still "on", then subsequent push emails arrive as intended. when the phone goes to sleep is when the pushes start to fail, until the next time that I open the mail app.
Phone: 4s
Carrier: Rogers Canada
Email: Exchange (corp email)
I didn't not experience this issue at all until I did a DFU restore. I was running 6.01 before fine, but my batter was draining fast, so based on other threads did a DFU restore and that is when this started.
I am also a developer, and as a hail-mary, I decided to install IOS 6.1 Beta 2, and unfortunatly as of the current BETA, this is still an issue. I have not added my personal email through GMAIL, Just my work exchange. I have resorted to using fetch for the time being. But this issue does not seem to be isolated to any specific hardware or carrier (as others in this thread seem to be hinting at).
waytogoidaho Nov 15, 2012 2:17 PM
in response to superclay
For all new persons and those saying there is a fix, THERE IS NO FIX FOR PUSH on an iphone 5 for anyone within LTE service range. The fact that it works sometimes and does not for others is because you are going in and out of LTE range. THIS IS AN LTE iphone 5 ios 6 problem. Until Apple fixes the issue push will not work as expected.
robcmh Nov 15, 2012 2:25 PM
in response to waytogoidaho
The issue is not isolated to iOS6/IP5/LTE. I expereince it on an IP4 AT&T. I do not have LTE or the IP5 device, but I can confirm that the issue occrs anytime iCloud services are enabled.
I can appreciate the problem occurs for you going in-and-out of LTE range, but please understand the problem is not isolated in the way you declare. Suffice to say, it is an iOS 6 problem and it affects many platforms, including some iPads.
Timmc Nov 15, 2012 2:25 PM
in response to waytogoidaho
I Agree there is no fix, however it's not just an LTE problem. I live in a 3G area and does not work either. Gmail pushes great, but my work exchange does not. I hope Apple gets this fixed soon. Regretting my switch from Android.
MorningSleeper Nov 15, 2012 2:32 PM
in response to Timmc
iPhone 3GS, WIFI only, gmail set up as exchange account, stopped pushing as soon as I updated to 6.0.1
bras4real Nov 15, 2012 4:45 PM
in response to MorningSleeper
this is not to annoy anyone, I can understand the pain, but my Iphone 5/OS 6.0.1 is pushing my gmail set up as an exchange account, it is even faster now than my Outlook 2010 windows 7 64 bit based platform. via WIFI and 3G (T-mobile carrier)......
PCWHIZ Nov 15, 2012 5:14 PM
in response to superclay
I believe this problem to be bigger than most people think, how many of you have put your iphone into personal hotspot connect your laptop and tried to connect to your exchange or terminal server i am certain you will find it doesn't work any long since the upgrade to ios6, i have have iphones from 3G and every model after upto 4S my current and never had a problem syncing before ios6. Also my ipad on ios6 with exchange works only via wifi and will not work with personal hotspot.
Timmc Nov 15, 2012 6:31 PM
in response to bras4real
I too, have had success with Push and Gmail on my IPhone 5. However, I believe it's a Microsoft Exchange/activesync problem and bug with iPhone 5/ios 6. Consequently, I believe we are comparing apples and oranges when trying to compare Gmail push vs. activesync. While my Gmail pushes successfully, my work email, which is activesync, has not worked from day one.
sdorn Nov 16, 2012 12:49 PM
in response to Timmc
Yes, this thread was always about Exchange Activesync, not Gmail. While Gmail allows you to set up your account as if it is a Microsoft Exchange account, they do not use Exchange Activesync to actually push email to your phone. Anyone having issues with Gmail is having a different problem than this thread was intended to address. After 41 pages, it has all just run together though.
The good news for those with Gmail who are having issues is that you might actually be able to get yours working correctly, and/or fix it by replacing the phone. Those of us with the Activesync problem on corporate exchange servers are not so lucky.
msmitasi Nov 17, 2012 12:36 PM
in response to sdorn
Another person with this problem.
I have wiped the phone and both restored from backup and set it up as a new phone. Toggling Airplane mode will fix it temporarily, usually reoccurs in a few minutes to a few hours.
This is only affecting my corporate Exchange account. I have Gmail set up with Exchange and it pushes fine. Have tested on Verizon LTE, corporate wireless (HP and Aruba WAPs), home wireless and with VPN enabled.
Model: iPhone 5
Carrier: Verizon 13.3
Version 6.0.1 (10A525)
Model: MD654LL
Modem Firmware: 1.01.00
Exchange Version: 2007
Domain Functional Level: 2003
I should note, on Friday (11/16) I tested another iPhone 5, also on Verizon, also using our Exchange server and that device did not have the problem. They were purchased and activated on the same day.
heinhorn Nov 19, 2012 11:26 AM
in response to msmitasi
Iphone 5. 6.0.1. Verizon. Microsoft Exchange 2007, service pack 3. Having the same issue. Apple store genius's went through every trouble shooting option and could not solve the problem so I was given a new Iphone 5. The problem continued as it did on the original phone. About 3 weeks ago, on a Tuesday morning, push started magically working. No rhyme or reason, no settings were changed, push just started working. It worked until Friday of that week before the problem came back. I considered this great progress as it worked for a few days rather than a few minutes, so my solution now is to restore the phone to a backup from when push was working.
So for example up until 10 AM this morning, push had been working for 5 days. Now I can only get it to work for a few minutes by restoring the network setting or turning airplane mode on/off. My phone was backed up on icloud this morning at 7:00 AM so tonight I will restore it to that backup and push should work for a few days. It's an annoying cycle and I lose anything on my phone from the last backup.
I should note that other iphone 5s on verizon using the same exchange server are NOT having any issues. Only mine. Soooo weird that no one knows what the problem is, or at least the problem is not being acknowledged publicly. Apple needs to get this fixed immediately. The 2nd most basic function of the iphone for me is receiving work emails. (first being making actual phone calls) Push not working is a HUGE problem.
darksaber Nov 19, 2012 4:39 PM
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I am also seeing this issue. I have a Verizon ip5 with 6.0.1. I have done every suggestion in this thread. I have a case open and engineering is looking at it. One of the things they had me tried was to turn off cellular data and the problem didn't show itself during the day, however as soon as I turned data back on it occurred within a couple hours. Now they are having me try a temp icloud account to see if the problem occurs there (I don't think it will).
oniijin Nov 20, 2012 8:11 AM
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well that was short-lived. Inbox still not updating to gmail's inbox. Showing me messages I deleted from gmail over an hour ago.
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I have gmail set up as exchange as well, and it stopped working at all. Even a manual pull down to refresh the inbox wasn't doing anything (it didn't show error..just didn't update either).
I went into settings>icloud and turned off the icloud smtp server. Mail pushed me my stuff instantly. Might just be a fluke; not sure why disabling an outgoing mail server setting would affect my push, but it's working for me now.
TechnoTed007 Nov 20, 2012 2:27 PM
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I'm having the push issue as well for quite some time. The problem occurs with my iphone connectiong to Office 365 Exchange and a customer of mine connecting to their own exchange server and another customer of mine connecting to their google apps gmail account. I called Applecare today - explained the problem but the person who answered the phone was a level one tech and couldn't really understand the problem so I gave them the link to this thread and said that I am having the exact same problem. I asked her if they had a database of know bugs that she can look up and she said that they do and that they also notify the techs every morning of known problems but this one is new to her. This surprised me considering how widespread this problem is. I suppose it's possible that they don't consider this a real problem yet... they are going to call me back on Friday at 2pm and let me know if they found any fixes for it. I'm not holding my breath on this but it doesn't hurt to hope they will finally acknowledge the problem and include it in the next IOS update.


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On the busy Place Drouet d'Erlon just a few blocks from the Cathedral and major sightseeing, this is a clean, friendly and reasonably priced hotel. There is Parking Erlon right in front of the door. The parking is underground so all you see is a kiosk on the Place with an elevator inside. The hotel gives you a voucher when you check out so parking is free.
Our room was on the small side but adequate; the bathroom was spotless and the place was quiet. I'm not sure it would be so quiet on the front since the Place was very popular and busy although we ate out there one evening and although very busy, it seemed relatively quiet.
The hotel has an excellent restaurant. You have breakfast there in the morning and we managed at least two meals later in the day while we were there. It was all excellent and was particularly fun to sit outside with a kir and watch the craziness on the Place. It was a very fun neighborhood.
Unique Qualities: Close to everything. You can easily walk to historic sights including the cathedral, the Palais du Tau, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Hotel le Vergeur and adjoining market square with Roman ruins. There are also shopping arcades between the cathedral and the hotel and it's fun to wander through . . . and look for souvenirs. I got a couple really nice scarves at one shop.
Reims is a fun city with a lot to do. The Hotel le Bristol is right in the middle of all of it.
The hotel is also a Logis de France and can be accessed and booked through the Logis web site at: http://www.logis-de-france.fr/uk/
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Blend Friend below said it all; this is whisky for non whisky drinkers - a dull, over-priced, slightly pretentious blend, does very little in the mouth. Would avoid in future.
Just tried it from 5cl sample, not really impressed but it does have a strong flavour, not bad on the nose but way too expensive for a blended whisky. lets hope thier own is a lot better otherwise i can''t see it being a success.
Smoky peat. Not particularly satisfying. Would spend the money on a good entry single malt for a more enjoyable sup in future - far too expensive.
A bit bland. A safe product. A whisky for people who are not whisky lovers. Worryingly they say this is close to what they hope their single malt will taste like. Really over-priced too.
I tend to agree with Barry. It is an expensive blended whisky. But rather than say the well known brands he quotes are better than The One, I would say they are different. If you like discovering new whiskies, you will enjoy this One!
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- From: The Daily Telegraph
- March 04, 2010
- Officer 19 when she propositioned colleagues
- She offered to have sex in toilet and fake evidence
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A POLICE officer who was sacked after begging colleagues for sex has lost her unfair dismissal claim.
Within days of being posted Jessica Parfrey propositioned her supervisor to have an affair because "everyone knows you're supposed to fall in love with your buddy".
A month later, after he turned her down, she told him: "Can't we just f***? I am a 19-year-old girl, what is wrong with you?"
The Industrial Relations Commission in Sydney heard that Ms Parfrey also offered an officer oral sex in a pub toilet and carpark and later propositioned another, saying: "I know you want me."
Both men refused.
She tried to call another colleague 12 times, left six text messages and then offered to help him study for his police exams by stripping off an item of clothing for every question he got correct. He refused.
Ms Parfrey was sacked from the police in September 2007, five months into her probation.
Assistant Commissioner Michael Corboy told her in a letter that her conduct had been "entirely inconsistent" with the standards expected of an officer.
However, she claimed her dismissal was unjust and argued that the majority of the alleged sexual harassment took place outside work during drinks with workmates.
John Grayson, deputy president of the Industrial Relations Commission, refused yesterday to reinstate her, rejecting her claims that she had been joking.
He said he believed her former colleagues at Waratah local area command, near Newcastle.
Ms Parfrey, who was not in court, has been working as a barmaid.
She graduated from the Goulburn police academy in May 2007 but she failed two subjects in her associate degree in policing at Charles Sturt University and had to fight to overturn a two-year study ban.
The commission also heard that during her probation she told another officer that she wanted to attend the scenes of fatal traffic accidents because it would "f*** up her head" and she could use it for a hurt-on-duty claim.
She also offered to lie in a suspected drink driving case, the commission was told.
While out on patrol, she and another officer saw a suspected drink driver standing 100 metres from his car.
She offered to say she had seen him behind the wheel, the commission was told.
Ms Parfrey's solicitor, Stuart Grey, said she may appeal.
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Buster of Hobart Posted at 3:00 PM March 04, 2010
This poor girl has no depth of character. Note the men refused her approaches - debunking the myth that men are ruled by their nether regions.
Bludge of SA Posted at 2:24 PM March 04, 2010
How classic that there are people disputing her being a female hasn't affected her getting off lightly. As mad as it sounds - it's the truth! If it were a male he'd be done for. Arguing against that is blind, biased, ignorance.
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The girl is possibly bi-polar. Her behaviour certainly indicates an episode/episodes of hypersexuality which is a symptom of bp.


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Our main goal visiting Tokyo is to get a good view of MT. Fuji and have a close personal experience with the Japanese countryside. Being avid lovers of nature, as soon as we have rested our tired bodies from our long 14 hour flight, I booked an escorted tour to Hakone/Mt/ Fuji and we were not disappointed!
The day trip to Hakone, which is less than 100 kilometres from Tokyo was fun and pleasant for the family! Having known beforehand that sakura or the cherry blossoms festival has just about wrapped up in Tokyo, we were ecstatic when we saw rows and rows of cherry blossoms trees still with plenty of blooms on the way and around Hakone!
The trip also gave us a good idea of life in rural Japan. The streets are clean, cars are small and compact, not so noisy like in many places/cities and there were no huge smitrailer trucks that usually spoil our road travels!
Of course vending machines are always present even in the mountains!
The little shops/souvenir places were always well organised, there is something to amuse my boys- whether cute trick boxes, little stuffed toys, plenty of fridge magnets for my collection, and many other quirky stuff that made our trip so fun! Food is also a plenty as I have noted over and over!
Even the vendo machines give outchips (fired potatoes) to the delight of my junk food loving boy (not that he eats a lot of them anyway.)There are hotdogs, even spaghetti in vending machines, top that Sydney!
Anway, the tour which cost us 49,000 yen was all worth it. There is an English-speaking tour guide, Masayuki who even gave us lessons in the Japanese language both oral and written and a lot of history about Mt. Fuji which I assume many tourists to Japan would have known by now.
The trip had all kinds of weather- cold and wet, sunny and nice at some pointsthough foggy early in the day. The Visitor's Centre in Hakone had facilities for the ordinary traveller so everything is fine except that Mt. Fuji was not so visible at the first station we went to.
However, we were compensated going to OWAKUDANI or the valley of hell, as we had some views of Mt. Fuji and surrounding mountains and valleys from the gondola ride we had at the Hakone ropeway.
I forgot to take a lot of photos as I try to soak as much of the atmosphere as I could! It was magical!
The pirate boat ride to Lake Ashi was fun too though the weather became cold and it was windy. Good thing we could get inside the cabins and still see lake views. As always, shopping for souvenirs and food was fun near Lake Ashi.
Verdant greens mixed with Japanese ancient architecture plus the lovely cherry blossoms and yummy food and amusing souvenirs make up for a most enduringly pleasant trip for the whole family!
- Pros:good views of Japanese countryside and Mt. Fuji, gondola ride, Japanese craft and arts
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'Ombré Bobble' Hat
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A slouchy knit hat with bubbly texture flares with ombré color.
- Acrylic; hand wash.
- By Echo; imported.
'Ombré Bobble' Hat
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