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I had about 5 warts on my knee. They started to spread up to my thigh and I finally went and got them all burned off by a dermatologist except now its worse! I have horrible bright red scars and I thought they would go away but instead it has now spread throughout my leg. I can never wear shorts because im so embarassed about my leg. How do I get rid of this without making it worse again?
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Any time you have this procedure done, this "burning off" of warts from any part of the body, there is risk that you will develop a scar. Scars may be more pronounced in darker skin types and in certain ethnicities. Scars can even end up appearing worse than the original wart that was burned (electrodesiccated).
The good news is that these scars will likely fade some with time, and also can be treated by the dermatologist who electrodesiccated them. There are prescrption creams that can be used to minimize the scars. They may never remove them completely, but they can improve their appearance. It is worth talking to your dermatologist about this. If s/he is not willing to listen to your concerns, you may wish to seek a second opinion.
More drastically, a plastic surgeon can repair the scars to make them much less noticeable, but that is generally only done when scarring is severe and in a noticeable location on the body. Most health insurance plans will cover the prescription medication to help minimize the scar. Many will cover the plastic surgery to correct the scars if they decide that it is medically necessary. You would need to check your own health insurance aggreement to determine what applies to your situation.
However, although you may have several scars from this procedure, it also sounds like you may have additional warts that have developed. This can happen, but don't worry. These can still be treated. And you have at least 3 options for how to treat them. One is to have them electrodesiccated like the first warts, which may cause similar scarring.
A second option would be to use a prescription topical (goes on the skin) medication to make them go away....something like a medication called Aldara. You would have to cover the wart with this medication, and then tape over it, and keep it taped for 24 hours, at which time you would remove the tape, clean the area, and reapply for another 24 hours. This can take several months to be effective, depending on the size and number of the warts. But it is painless and effective.
A third option would be to use cryotherapy, or freezing, of the warts. The scars that result from this procedure may be better than the scars from the electrodesiccating, but your dermatologist can tell you better what to expect. However, there would be scarring.
A final option would be to do nothing. Most warts go away on their own in 18 months to 2 years. A long time to wait, to be sure, but can be very effective if you're willing to be patient.
Also, it's important to note that you may develop new warts at any time in your life. Once the virus that causes a wart is in your system, it can cause recurrence of wart symptoms at any time. So, if you get new warts in a year or 2, it doesn't mean that these warts weren't treated adequetly. It just means that you got new warts.
I hope this information is helpful to you. If you think I may be able to provide any additional information, or if you think of any other questions, just let me know. I wish you the best with these pesky warts.
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Really Unique and quite Rare LP Records from the 70's & 80's.
Mike + the Mechanics 1985
With all of it's members exercising their expertise,
the debut album from Mike + the Mechanics posted two Top Ten singles in the span of three months.
The songwriting comes out on top before anything else,
with the somber stir of "Silent Running," the album's first release, peaking at number six.
"All I Need Is a Miracle" followed at number five,
with it's Genesis-like tempo and polished chorus,
and even "Taken In" cracked the Top 40, a simple ballad that's bettered by Paul Young's genuine emotional charm.
Carrack sounds just as sharp as he did with Ace or Squeeze throughout the album's nine tracks,
while Rutherford's overseeing of the entire project is apparent.
While Mike Rutherford's guitar work isn't overwhelming,
both his six-string and bass guitar contributions complete a sound foundation for the vocals.
The mood setting drum work of Peter Van Hooke and the keyboard fills from Adrian Lee play a large part in setting the album's tone,
and add some pop zest to the majority of the tracks.
Even though their next album gave Mike + the Mechanics a number one hit with the darkened "Living Years,"
their debut reflects a more compliant sound in every aspect.
~ Mike DeGagne, All Music Guide
Great Album!!!
This album comes from my personal collection (opps, now i have given my age away ;-])
my problem is that i no longer have a record player to play them!!!
If you love your 70s - 80's music as much as i do, just sit back and enjoy them...
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Artist: Mike + The Mechanics
Album Name: Mike + The Mechanics
Year Released: 1985
Distributed By: WEA Records Ltd
Records in the Album: 1
LP Record Condition: Near New / Some Marks
LP Record Cover Condition: Near New / Some Marks
Overall Condition: Excellent/ Near New
Lyric Insert: N/A
Side 1:
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All I Need Is A Miracle
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Taken In
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Clay Matthews goes to prom
ESPN is running a series of ads for its ESPY award ceremonies, each of them featuring "Saturday Night Live" star Seth Meyers, who will host the special when it airs July 19.
And one of the ads features Green Bay Packer Clay Matthews.
The conceit of the spot is that Matthews and Kevin Love of the Minnesota Timberwolves are getting their pictures taken at prom. After Meyers teaches them the correct poses, Matthews pronounces the photo taken as being "better than a championship ring." »Read Full Blog Post(1)
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She will continue to anchor the 5 p.m. newscast with Kathy Mykleby.
The station will conduct "an internal and nationwide search" for "a high quality journalist" to replace her and join Mykleby at 10 p.m. »Read Full Blog Post(40)
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Former "Boston Legal" star James Spader is taking over Kathy Bates' job as CEO on "The Office," according to Entertainment Weekly.
His character, Robert California, is described as a Jedi warrior type uber-salesman, with "a power to convince and manipulate," said Paul Lieberstein, one of the series' executive producers and series regular Toby.
"He'll have been hired over the summer as the new manager, but within hours, got himself promoted. Within days, he took over the company. James has an energy that is completely his own, and 'The Office' has no tools for dealing with this guy. We're thrilled he's joining our cast."
It remains to be seen how or if Spader's character is considered the replacement for Michael Scott, played by Steve Carell, who left last season.
Learning Curve: The Heinlein Bio
I spent July 4th reading by the pool.
I Heart Dahl & Letterman
I better walk the dog before the storm hits.
While I do, here are a couple items I came across this morning.
(Addendum: Too late!) »Read Full Blog Post(3)
Glory Days: Potter, Dahl and Springsteen live
Off to see "Harry Potter and I Can't Remember the Title" tonight.
I'll weigh in on it online Thursday, in print on Friday, and drop a few hints between now and then on this channel.
Meanwhile did you see this? »Read Full Blog Post(1)
How was Harry Potter?
How was "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2," the eighth and final film in the series?
Wish I could tell you.
But I'm sworn to secrecy until the review appears on line Thursday and in print Friday. »Read Full Blog Post(2)
Emmy nominations include local "Pioneers"
With 99 Emmy categories - there is even one for best commercial - it virtually ensures that almost everyone and everything got a nod when nominations were announced early Thursday morning.
The handful of local nominees include Michael J. Trinklein and Steve J. Boettcher, producers of "Pioneers of Television," which they produce locally, and which airs on PBS.
Their show was nominated as outstanding non-fiction series. »Read Full Blog Post(2)
What are Scorsese and Spielberg thinking?
The new Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg films are, hold onto your hats, children's films. Hugo," by Scorsese, is something completely different. If you like your Scorsese bloody, profane and streetwise, "Hugo," based on a novel, is likely to have little appeal.
It's about an orphan boy and a magical invention and is the first 3D film in 3D for the Oscar winning director of "The Departed," "Raging Bull" and "Taxi Driver."
Spielberg, meanwhile, has directed a live action adventure - also in 3D - called "The Adventures of Tin Tin," based on one of the most popular comic strips in Europe. I've never understood the appeal the young, redheaded hero created by the Belgian artist Herge, but Spielberg's take on the character is sure to be stylish and rousing. »Read Full Blog Post
"Harry Potter" breaks box-office records, already
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2," earned $42 million in midnight Thursday showings alone, according to Entertainment Weekly.
The previous record holder, "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," earned just over $30 million.
It also beat the midnight showing box office for all the other "Potter" films. »Read Full Blog Post
'Dark Knight Rises' trailer, original comic
The "Dark Knight Rises" trailer has been released and I couldn't make heads or tails out of it because it was bogus. Thanks for the heads up to NEBadger.
Here's a link to the most likely official trailer.
I assume its real because I can't embed it. It's on Facebook too. »Read Full Blog Post(2)
Murdoch inquiry will air live
The death of the whistleblower in the phone hacking scandal that has rocked Rupert Murdoch's world will make the media mogul's appearance before a Parliamentary inquiry Tuesday even more dramatic, if possible.
CNN, Bloomberg, C-SPAN 3 and - yes - Fox News and Business networks will be carrying the hearing live, starting at 8:30 a.m.
Fox took some heat on Howard Kurtz's "Reliable Sources" Sunday morning for under-covering the story and Greta Van Susetern scolded him that evening. »Read Full Blog Post(2)
Palin doc 'The Undefeated' plays here
"The Undefeated," the admiring documentary about Sarah Palin, will play at the AMC Mayfair Mall 18, starting Friday.
The trailer suggests the film resembles the sort of biography video prepared on behalf of political candidates.
Palin herself is little heard from during the trailer, which is posted below, but multiple supporters - like Andrew Breitbart - make statements like "she runs toward danger" in what look to be interviews conducted in a studio setting. »Read Full Blog Post(55)
Busy morning with Potter, Murdoch and Palin
Woot! Seriously, what does that word even mean?
According to the Urban Dictionary it originated as a hacker term, has roots in Dungeons & Dragons - where it was a shortened form of "Wow, loot" - and now is used as a general term to express excitement.
In case you were wondering. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Captain America and Favre both back
Amid reports that Brett Favre!!!??? would unretire and go to the Philadelphia Eagles comes news that a real American hero "Captain America: the First Avenger" bested box office wizard "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2" this weekend.
Apparently most of the people who needed to see the film right away did, and it suffered a 72% drop in ticket sales in its second week.
According to the Los Angeles Times "Captain America," in which director Joe Johnston resurrects the World War II hero genre for modern audiences, made $66 million over the weekend. »Read Full Blog Post(7)
Adventures in radio
This is less a blog post than a fixed place where I will link to my various stories on the radio journeys of local and national broadcasters, and add fresh ones as they occur.
I write about television and film but radio is my first love.
I am a lapsed DJ and I find the people working in radio have interesting and cautionary tales about their lives and their careers in broadcasting. »Read Full Blog Post(3)
Weigel introduces new TV newscast
Weigel Broadcasting Company station WDJT-TV (Channel 58) will launch a new noon local newscast this fall, general manager Jim Hall said.
The announcement is expected Tuesday. No personnel will be added, said Hall.
Weigel operates six stations in the Milwaukee market. »Read Full Blog Post(2)
Hotter than July
How hot is it?
The truth is not so much today. Humidity seems down and there's a breeze.
But it's been hot enough recently to bring to mind the - Rodney Dangerfield? - joke: "It's so hot I saw a dog chasing a cat, and they were both walking." »Read Full Blog Post
See end of Capt. America, Avengers trailer
I was one of those idiots who stayed until the very end of Capt. America: The First Avenger hoping for an teaser for "The Avengers" film.
Were you?
After I thought about it though the last scenes of the film featuring Samuel L. Jackson did serve to put the ball in the air. »Read Full Blog Post(2)


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Milwaukee officer's deadly use of force justified
Officer said he thought suspect had a gun
Published 11:04 PM CDT Mar 21, 2013
12 News has obtained the final report on a deadly officer-involved shooting.
The district attorney said a Milwaukee police officer was justified when he shot and killed 28-year-old Daniel Kleinmann in November of 2012.
Kleinmann was wanted for armed robbery and tried to run from officers when he was stopped near 1st and Howard.
The officer said the suspect pointed what looked like a gun at him and the officer fired.
Witnesses also told police they thought Kleinmann had a weapon.
Investigators never found a gun.
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That hermaphroditic bitch Coulter proves her vast ignorance yet again.
She is so arrogant, she doesn't even feel a need to understand the issues that she spouts off about. She accuses the proctor of a Canadian university of committing a hate crime against her, but she doesn't understand our hate speech laws, nor does she want to understand them. And she doesn't care that nothing she says makes any sense! Why do people listen to this moron?!? As one Canadian journalist put it, "The only crime committed here was in giving that obnoxious performance artist something to rant about".
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Come on! Little Annie Fannie felt the need to come up north to visit some of us Alberta Rednecks and you crap all over her? For what? Jeez. Give the poor ignoramus the doubt, would you?
I strongly support her right to free speech in this country - even if she speaks from a position of ignorance. At least she didn't remind us that the 9/11 hijackers all came from Canada - probably because no one whispered that into her sweet little ear before she got here.
I recall seeing her interviewed by some Canadian journalist - who it was, I don't remember now. She lectured him on how Canada had been such a great contributor of military might to America's Viet Nam effort and the curse of the domino effect. When the interviewer had the audacity to suggest that Canada had not contributed to the effort, she questioned his knowledge of the subject and declared him to be in error.
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Lefties punk'd [Coulter had people talking about free speech thanks to the 'outrage machine']
Calgary Sun ^ | 2010-03-28 | Ian Robinson
Posted on Sunday, March 28, 2010 10:29:20 AM by Clive
As the conservative anti-Christ — aka U.S. political firebrand Ann Coulter — left Canada Friday, did every outraged leftie in Canada wake up with a phantom pain in their cheek?
Kind of a sharp pain? Puncture wound sharp? Big owie?
That'd be where you bit down hard when Coulter dangled the hook in front of you.
Hell, you did more than bite. You bit down hard and swallowed the bait ... hook, line and sinker.
Canada's left-wing outrage machine?
You been punk'd.
Coulter's Canadian tour was put together by Calgary free-speech crusader Ezra Levant, whose travails with the Soviet-style thought police that is the Alberta Human Rights Commission are well documented in his book, Shakedown.
Other players were local student organizer Matt Gelinas — who dealt with a last-minute venue change and security hysteria with incredible aplomb — the Clare Boothe Luce Institute, which mentors young, conservative women, and the International Free Press Society of Canada.
Their task was simple.
How to bring attention to the cause of free speech?
Coulter's job is to sell books — a noble pursuit in and of itself in this post-literate age.
If selling books is her job, her avocation is raising the blood pressure of leftists to dangerous, aneurysm-inducing levels.
Coulter and company in a mere couple of days hijacked big real estate in newspapers and newscasts across the country. Paying for that kind of ad space would have cost millions. They had people in workplaces across the country talking about free speech and Ann Coulter ... even though most of those doing the talking have never read her; merely read about her.
It started with a letter from University of Ottawa provost Francois Houle warning Coulter to watch her mouth when she spoke there because Canadians aren't like Americans.
Because we're so vewy, vewy sensitive.
So Coulter, who drew an audience of a lousy 300 at the University of Western Ontario, sees her University of Ottawa appearance cancelled because of fears of violence... and then flies into Calgary where 900 people lined up for two hours to see her.
Nearly 1,000 people. To hear somebody talk about politics. I don't think that would have happened without the wonderful work of the left-wing outrage machine.
After the speech, about half the audience lined up to have their books signed. That works out to at least $12,000 worth of Coulter-lit ... and a lot of the books looked brand new.
More than one nice, young university student told me they came to see Coulter because of the publicity and had come prepared to hate her ... but walked out a fan.
Fans with credit cards and books to buy.
I met another three kids who drove down from Edmonton. On a week night. To listen to a speech about politics and U.S. politics at that.
Way to go, outrage machine.
While the weather was good, the gormless extras in the Coulter publicity machine — the self-proclaimed guardians of all that is good and pure led by some guy with bad hair and a bullhorn — were a pain, despite the fact they were helping Coulter's books fly off the shelves. By the end of the evening, they were reduced to screaming obscenities at patrons leaving the event.
They were very angry.
By contrast, Coulter, almost always described as "angry" in news copy, smiled and laughed through her entire speech, relentlessly cheerful.
The only people I've ever seen that happy are pre-schoolers watching the Teletubbies while eating ice cream and college students whose Ecstacy just kicked in. Coulter may be a lot of things, but angry ain't one of them.
What she is, is funny and smart and some kind of freaky, black-belt debate ninja. Bright, leftie university students kept trying to outwit her during the Q&A, by and large she made them look like midgets trying out for the NBA.
Her last words to the crowd were these: "In conclusion, if anything I've said has offended you, then my work here is done."
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Aaron Maronkavitch wrote:
> I am aware that Firefox 3 will not work on win98SE, as intended.
> Some of my colleagues would like to get it to work with win98SE. Is
> there anyone on this group who would be willing to yield some
> assistance, or anyone in mozilla that would be willing to help?
The reason why Win98 isn't supported is because it would require a lot
_a lot_ of work to add support for it, even for experienced Firefox &
Windows developers.
If you or your group are willing to do the work, there is AFAIK no
reason why it couldn't be supported, but I'm afraid you are already too
late for Firefox 3 as they have already released beta. You could get
support for the next version, assuming you are able to write the patch
fast enough.
You would probably get help from the developers also. But I seriously
suggest that you first study how big task this is.
If you wonder why Firefox 2 works, but Firefox 3 doesn't. The reason is
within the changes to the core of the Firefox. Firefox 3 uses Cairo,
which doesn't work in Win98, due to lack of API functions that are
available on more modern operating systems.
You should learn more if you read comments in this bug report:
But I'm curious. Why is someone still using Win98 (as it is not
supported by Microsoft anymore and it has known unpatched security
holes, in addition with other problems that modern operating systems
don't have)? Why not Linux instead if they are not willing to buy new
hardware? Most of the win98 apps would probably work on Wine and Linux
has better hardware support than Win98.
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|Iraqi Oil Sales to Jordan/Smuggling Across Jordanian Border
|Status of US and UK Humanitarian Workers/Visas
|Latest Violations of No-Fly Zone
|Enforcement of the No-Fly Zone
|Reaction to Saddam Hussein's Speech Today
|Authority for Establishment of No-Fly Zones
|Status of UNSCOM/Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Program
|Prospects for Lifting Sanctions
|Humanitarian Efforts/Oil for Food Program
|Comparisons of Humanitarian Programs for Iraq and Cuba
|Prospects for Use of Force Against Iraq
QUESTION: The King of Jordan is homeward bound after a meeting at the White House. A little idea if you could of what happened and if you can bring us up to date on Jordan's aid situation and whether a lot of smuggling to Iraq goes through Jordan and are they making an effort to stop it?
MR. RUBIN: On those subjects, let me say first of all that we have been very pleased to learn that the King has completed his treatment and that he is in Washington today meeting both with the President and the Secretary. He has a very close relationship with the United States and I think the Secretary is particularly pleased to be able to meet with him.
As far as the subjects are concerned of the meeting, let me simply say, that in addition to talking about the Middle East peace process that the King contributed so significantly to, they did discuss the bilateral relationship that Secretary Albright discussed in detail with the Crown Prince and other members of the Jordanian government when we were there just a couple of weeks ago. I don't think this discussion went much beyond that. It was more of a first, official meeting since the King's treatment, with the exception of the meetings that were held at Wye.
There is a situation that has been recognized since the Gulf War with respect to certain oil sales to Jordan, and I don't think that that has changed significantly. We want to make sure that it doesn't become a way for Saddam Hussein to get undue revenue and we do talk about it. But I don't think that came up in the discussion with the King and to get you the -
QUESTION: Well, that's an approved arrangement, isn't it, the oil sales?
MR. RUBIN: It's understood, I don't know about approved.
QUESTION: Authorized?
MR. RUBIN: Authorized, I think, would be a bit strong, but let me get you after the briefing some specific information on where that stands.
QUESTION: But that border - you know, stuff gets into Iraq regularly through neighboring countries.
MR. RUBIN: I wouldn't overstate that. I think the general view still is that with the exception of that -- some through the north, through Turkey and some through Iran's allowing of certain sales or tolerating them or not doing enough to stop them -- but by and large, I think the view is that the sanctions are the tightest and most comprehensive sanctions regime in memory and that the situation has not deteriorated, and they remain quite tight.
QUESTION: Now that you've seen the letter, the note, delivered yesterday by the Iraqi Ambassador on the status of US and British humanitarian workers, perhaps you'd like to reconsider what you said yesterday, which perhaps was over optimistic or over positive?
MR. RUBIN: That's not my understanding; and certainly reconsidering what we said yesterday wouldn't be our practice. As you know, policies never change here at the State Department on any subject, so a reconsideration of policy or policy statements are extremely rare.
Yesterday, the UN office was formally notified by Iraq that UN humanitarian workers from the US and the UK would no longer be given visas. UN policy worldwide prohibits discrimination against UN staff on the basis of nationality. Iraq is obligated by an MOU with the United Nations to issue visas to all UN humanitarian workers and to allow their unimpeded entry.
We expect a representative of the Secretary General to brief on this subject in the Security Council today. But the suggestion by the Iraqis that American and British workers cannot be protected as a rationale we regard as a blatant attempt to violate -- as phony -- and it remains a blatant attempt to violate UN principles and disrupt UN operations.
We do note that Iraq has said it would enforce this ban against some, but not all, American and British UN staff despite the purported safety concerns. Let me again point out that there are a very small number of Americans on the UN staff that are involved here; we're talking about handfuls.
QUESTION: -- air combat that went on today?
MR. RUBIN: Well, the Pentagon has spoken to this. Let me say that we have made clear that the no-fly zones are a necessary and important means to contain Saddam Hussein. And as long as he remains a threat to the people of Iraq and his neighbors, we will preserve the right to maintain the no-fly zones. Whatever activities were taken by the Coalition aircraft as they patrol these zones were taken to enforce the obligations that Iraq has; and acting in self-defense, the pilots were in a defensive mode. I think the Pentagon has put out more specific information about what transpired.
Let me say on Iraq that the Iraqi leader has given a speech, which we think is a not surprising diatribe on television that indicated his isolated position in the Arab world. The intemperate, unmeasured and desperate tone, I think speaks very clearly to the isolation that Iraq faces in the Arab world and the isolation that Saddam Hussein faces around the entire world.
QUESTION: We may have touched on this yesterday, but I'm not sure. What is the legal standing for establishing the no-fly zones, in your view?
MR. RUBIN: In our view, it's based on three relevant resolutions: 678, 688 and 687. Put together, they make clear that measures need to be taken to protect the Iraqi people from the brutal actions of their government. We, the United States, and Britain and France set these zones up after the Gulf War, precisely to avoid allowing Saddam Hussein to use his aircraft to repress his people. We expanded those zones in various ways in the subsequent five years, including in 1996 when he moved to the north, we expanded the no-fly zone. So we've tried to use the no-fly zones as part of our containment policy - in other words, making it more and more painful for the Iraqi leadership to do what a government expects to be able to do, which is to over-fly its own territory and act in that way. They cannot do so because of the actions of Saddam Hussein.
We believe the combination of those three resolutions does not specifically create a UN operation to enforce the no-fly zones, but provides the authority that we believe the US, the UK and France are acting pursuant to those resolutions.
QUESTION: Didn't you say that there's Security Council consensus for maintaining the no-fly zones?
MR. RUBIN: I was in New York for four years; I've been around this issue for a long time. I've never heard any real suggestion by any respected government, other than the Iraqis, that cast any doubt on the importance of the US and UK and France taking this action. That doesn't mean that everybody wants to participate in the operation for a variety of reasons but never heard any real opposition.
QUESTION: Until this week, it had been almost seven years - I think since 1992 - that Iraq had challenged the no-fly zone by putting aircraft up in the air. Why do you think that Saddam is challenging this now?
MR. RUBIN: Well, as I indicated yesterday, I think the challenges to the no-fly zone and this intemperate diatribe on television by Saddam Hussein are both reflective of the same reality. He's lashing out as a result of his isolated condition. He has no support in the Arab world, he has no support around the world, and is acting out of frustration, in spitting forward this diatribe in an unmeasured and intemperate and desperate way against other Arabs, and trying to demonstrate that he can still fly aircraft, which he obviously can't because the moment they tried to fly they had to turn tail and go home.
QUESTION: As you've said many times, the fundamental policy of the United States is to - one of the fundamental tenants of the policy - is to contain Saddam. Do you think that this has been further complicated by the absence of inspectors on the ground?
MR. RUBIN: Our policy is a mix of tools to achieve an objective. The policy is to contain the threat he poses plus to promote change in Iraq through working with opposition leaders in as an effective way as possible. On the containment side, as opposed to the change side, there are various tools and each of them has different weight at different times. Certainly the no-fly zone tools remain strongly in effect, and we've seen how effective they are by today's action, which is that when Iraq tries to break out of that part of the box they have to turn tail and go home.
On the inspection side - let's remember that containment isn't just about the weapons capability themselves, but it's also about deterring the threat of using them. What was extremely important was that by using military power last month, the United States provided the kind of credibility to our threat to respond to Saddam's action that can only be provided by action. What he saw was, despite a lot of suggestions around the world or his own suspicions about what we would or wouldn't do, that if he pushes the situation too far, the United States will respond and respond decisively. That is a key component of the credibility of containment that needed to be weighed as against the advantages of having a UN inspection team there.
We have said the best way to deal with the discovery and the destruction of weapons of mass destruction is through UNSCOM. Another way to deal with that is through disarmament by force. That was done to a certain extent and to an additional extent, the credibility of our threat to use force if he were to use such weapons, move to the north, threaten his neighbors, was bolstered in a way that can only be done by that kind of action.
QUESTION: But is the US at all concerned that by saying that sanctions cannot be lifted so long as inspectors aren't on the ground to verify whether or not weapons of mass destruction exists or not, that sanctions will remain in place in perpetuity is a policy that will be difficult to maintain over the long-term?
MR. RUBIN: On that point, let me simply say that that is not our choice; that was his choice. Saddam Hussein made a decision to make UNSCOM ineffective by refusing to cooperate with it. UNSCOM was always a tool that required Iraqi cooperation. UNSCOM was never a tool that could, without Iraqi cooperation, force its way into disarming and discovering weapons of mass destruction. It always required Iraqi cooperation.
The fact that Iraq has decided not to cooperate is a decision we don't have control over. But having done so, they have thrown away the key to unlocking the sanctions regime.
As far as international support for that regime is concerned, we do not see evidence or any significant change in the international support for the sanctions regime. As I indicated yesterday, although we see writing and commentary suggesting that the support isn't there, I've never, in all the years that I've followed this - including four in New York at the Security Council - seen any Security Council member propose an easing of the sanctions regime in the absence of UNSCOM declaring their work completed.
So no country is in favor of easing sanctions right now, because UNSCOM's work is so obviously not completed. So the support for the sanctions regime that has been there - that doesn't mean that everyone likes it. We don't like the fact that we have to put sanctions on Iraq, and we try to ameliorate the effect it has by the oil-for-food program. But we don't see any signs of significance that the sanctions regime is eroding.
QUESTION: Jamie, the Russians are about to put a proposal on the table at the UN, as you know, which, among other things, envisions a much larger role of the Secretary General at the expense of UNSCOM and takes some shots at Mr. Butler. The French are talking about import controls as a substitute for the oil embargo. As we head into this period now, do you continue to feel confident that there will not be an erosion and attacks on this basic policy?
MR. RUBIN: There will be tactical disagreements about the best way to encourage Saddam Hussein to cooperate with the UN in disarming and destroying his weapons of mass destruction. There have always been tactical disagreements as to what would induce or compel Saddam Hussein to cooperate with the United Nations. Some countries were pointing to the importance of holding out the hope of sanctions relief in the near term rather than in the long term as one inducement. Other countries have thought that if you send a new diplomat with a new face and a new name, you somehow get different results.
What we've seen is a pattern of obstruction and concealment and obfuscation from Iraq all the way through; because we believe that he is trying to have both sanctions lifting and keep his weapons of mass destruction. Other countries can never quite answer that conundrum if you ask them, well, don't you think he's intent on keeping his weapons of mass destruction.
So, yes, I would expect there to be different ideas thrown about. But at the end of the day, no country - Russia or France or any other country - believes that Saddam Hussein should have sanctions eased in the absence of confirmation by professional experts that he has disarmed and destroyed his weapons of mass destruction.
As far as what our position will be going into such a discussion, that will be our view. Our view is unless we have confidence from some testing process that UNSCOM or inspectors will be able to do their jobs, we don't see the point of renewing the exercise of obfuscation, concealment and obstruction. We believe that it's up to Iraq to show that it has had a change of view; that it now wants to comply with the UN and change the sanctions regime - a fact which all the evidence of the last two weeks points in the other direction, whether it's the no-fly zone or the speech today or the new restrictions on US and British workers.
So, yes, I expect there to be a discussion. But meanwhile, the key player on getting sanctions relieved is Saddam Hussein, and all the indications from his government are going the other way.
QUESTION: Just to follow up if I may, and we're prepared to continue vetoing any resolution that would weaken this policy either way?
MR. RUBIN: We don't see any reason we would need to veto a resolution that would propose sanctions relief in the absence of disarmament, because we don't believe there is any country in the Security Council that is proposing that.
Obviously, at the end of the day, if we got into it we'd recognize our capabilities as a permanent member of the Council. But there is no spectrum of views out there that now envisages changing the sanctions regime without disarmament and destruction of weapons of mass destruction.
QUESTION: Going back to the specific issue of the no-fly zone, you say that you've heard of no strong opposition --
MR. RUBIN: Other than Iraq, right.
QUESTION: But hasn't France withdrawn its participation from the patrols over the southern no-fly zone?
MR. RUBIN: There is a difference, as I indicated in response to the question, between the acceptance of the reality and the endorsement of the no-fly zone by the Security Council and the decision by governments to participate in enforcing it. It is correct that at different times, different governments have participated at different levels. As I understand it, the French participate to a certain extent, but not to a further extent.
Nevertheless, no government, to my knowledge, is proposing that our actions in enforcing the no-fly zone are in contradiction of UN Security Council resolutions.
QUESTION: On the humanitarian workers, do you see any chance that this row would lead to the suspension of UN humanitarian work in Iraq? And how far are you and the United Nations prepared to go to enforce the principle of non-discrimination in nationality?
MR. RUBIN: Ultimately, it is Iraq's decision as to whether it will allow the world to help Iraq feed its people. Nothing can compel Saddam Hussein to allow UN humanitarian workers to help feed and clothe and provide medicine to his people. At any time, they can withhold the cooperation necessary.
What we can do is show that we're going the extra mile by providing funds, assistance, expertise, equipment to the effort to help feed, clothe and provide medicine to the Iraqi people. We have done that to the tune of billions and billions of dollars in food and medicine that have gone to Iraq, been provided to the Iraqi people as a result of the resolutions the United States initiated. Had we not done that, billions and billions of dollars of food and medicine would not have gone to Iraq and fed and assisted the Iraqi people.
Saddam Hussein has known that he can interfere with that program; he can make it harder for us to help his people. But if he were to do so, it would be clear to all that he has made a decision to use his people as further pawns in his battle with the international community and starve and harm his people even further in the cause of his misguided sense of purpose.
That's all we can do is try to insist that we will be there to help; we will provide the assistance, the equipment, and the expertise pursuant to UN rules and procedures. But if he does not permit that to occur, there's not a lot we can do about it.
As far as will there be adjustments in UN procedures or the negotiated MOU or how it will be implemented, I would have to refer you to New York for any further discussion of that.
QUESTION: You used the term billions and billions twice. Did I mishear you, or did you say that the US has provided billions and billions?
MR. RUBIN: We, as a result of the US-led resolution -- that would not have occurred had the United States not spearheaded it through the Council -- a program of oil-for-food was created. Had the US not done that, the oil-for-food program never would have existed and billions and billions of dollars of food and medicine never would have been provided to the Iraqi people.
As far as the US Government providing assistance, let me point out that many US citizens and organizations are providing humanitarian aid. That's occurring all around the world. But with respect to the government, what I was indicating was that had we not cared as much as we do about the Iraqi people, we would not have passed the resolution -- under some criticism for a perception of softening of sanctions, which they were not -- but which allowed billions and billions of dollars of Iraqi oil to be sold, put in an escrow account and then used to buy food, medicine and other humanitarian goods.
QUESTION: Jamie, is that food sold to the Iraqi Government?
MR. RUBIN: It's a very detailed program that I don't have at my fingertips; but the concept is that the UN monitors and distributes and monitors the distribution of the food. The UN monitors the escrow accounts to make sure that they're only used for the purchase of food, medicine. That is a system that has worked to our satisfaction -- that by and large the billions of dollars that have been gathered have been used for food and medicine approved by the program. But there are certain stipulations about how much goes to citizens in the north and what percentage is taken out for compensation for victims, what percentage is taken out for, I believe, funding of UNSCOM and other measures, but I can get you a fact sheet.
QUESTION: Is there a reason that a similar arrangement couldn't have been worked out for Cuba? I mean, whoever wants to buy the food could so long as it gets distributed to the people - and medicines as well. I don't quite understand why Saddam Hussein seems to have this facility and Cuba does not.
MR. RUBIN: Well, without going too far down the road of comparing apples and oranges, as you like to do but I like to do less, let me simply point out that Cuba is not under an internationally sanctioned UN Security Council comprehensive set of sanctions; so that certainly is a difference.
QUESTION: Jamie, (inaudible) it's under US sanctions. My question is, since the Administration - it's a government sanction - I think it's an Executive Order -
MR. RUBIN: Right - no, it's a law.
QUESTION: Why not call for the lift - for at least bringing Cuba to the level of Iraq in terms of --
MR. RUBIN: If you're making your comparison of assuming that because a particular procedure is in place in Iraq and not in place in Cuba, there is worse concern over food and medicine in Cuba than there is in Iraq. There are a whole bunch of things that could be done with Cuba through remittances, funding, direct flights. All the half-hour's worth of briefing that you sat through that we can do with Cuba can't be done with Iraq. So you can't just compare one aspect of the policy and say that it's not the same and therefore it's worse.
The reality is we have an Interests Section; we meet with the Cubans on certain, specific cases as we've described. There are hundreds of millions of dollars of direct funding going from the American citizens to Cuban family members. Other countries sell food and medicine to Cuba. So it's just not an analogy. You're trying to create a standard when the two cases are very asymmetrical.
QUESTION: It just seems that we treat Saddam Hussein on a different level than Fidel Castro.
MR. RUBIN: I can assure you we regard both Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro as dictators.
QUESTION: Jamie, if Saddam Hussein continues to test the patience of the US and defy the restrictions for the no-fly zone, eventually is he running the risk of setting the stage for another possible military show-down?
MR. RUBIN: What we have said so far is that there are three cases in which we have said we were prepared to act militarily: In the case that he were to act against - go north and act against the Kurds; in the case of a reconstitution of his weapons of mass destruction; or a threat to his neighbors and our interests there, too. Beyond that, I've said that we can't speculate and wouldn't want to rule anything out. That's where we are.
QUESTION: Do you mean to exclude the Shiites in the south?
MR. RUBIN: I added, "and beyond that, I wouldn't want to rule anything out or speculate." The other three examples are things that we've said before and that we would be prepared to act militarily in those cases. I reiterated them for your benefit or not, and the other cases we've specifically said we wouldn't want to rule any particular action out and it would obviously be dependent on a situation that is, at this point, hypothetical.
QUESTION: Jamie, is there anything that you can say about the warden's message that was issued in Egypt today for Americans, citing a credible threat against Americans and possibly American facilities?
MR. RUBIN: No, but I will get it for you.
QUESTION: Thank you.
(The briefing concluded at 1:55 P.M.)
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Priest to display details of people leaving church over pope's message
A Dutch priest is to put on public display the names and photographs of people who've decided to abandon Catholicism following a backlash in the Netherlands over Pope Benedict XVI's Christmas message denouncing gay marriage.
Fr Harm Schilder says the pictures will be displayed in the porch of Saint Margaret Mary parish church in Tilburg, in the predominantly Catholic south of the country, not, he insists, to name and shame those leaving but in an attempt to convince them to stay.
The Netherlands was the first country in the world to legalise gay marriage in 2001. Even in conservative Tilburg, many liberal-minded Catholics were shocked at the pontiff's denouncement of same-sex unions – which was condemned by the government.
But in typically bureaucratic Dutch style, anyone wishing to be acknowledged as having left the church must send a formal written request to their local priest, accompanied by photocopies of their identity documents – which include photographs.
Changing minds
"This is a large parish and I don't know everyone," Fr Schilder said.
"The idea of putting the photographs on display is that members of the congregation may recognise someone they know and pray for them – or even manage to convince them to change their minds and stay."
Fr Schilder said he was approached at Christmas, immediately after the pope's message, by four angry parishioners who had decided to leave, and he knew there were many similarly inclined in Tilburg and around the country.
"This isn't about naming and shaming or finger-pointing," said the priest, known locally as the PVV pastor because of his support for Geert Wilders's right-wing Freedom Party. "It's about getting the community involved.
"Of course I try to speak to everyone who wishes to leave but in many cases the decision seems final. Only people who know them may be able to change their minds."
Fr Schilder made national headlines in 2010 when the courts backed a decision by his local council to stop him ringing the church bells at 7.15am.


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Thursday Links: Women in Tech, Heat Waves and Marketing Lessons for Startups
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Implementation of key provisions of the Affordable Care Act in 2014 could leave some people vulnerable to higher out-of-pocket spending than expected, according to Kaiser Health News.
The law limits how much consumers can be required to pay out-of-pocket annually for medical care. Some people with high drug costs might find the limits won't immediately protect them because the federal government intends to give some health plans more time to comply with rules.
The most a consumer with single coverage will pay out-of-pocket next year will be about $6,350, while a family could pay as much as $12,700. The totals include copayments and deductibles — not premiums — and only apply to plans that are not grandfathered under the law.
Although all non-grandfathered plans will have to cap what consumers pay out-of-pocket for major medical expenses, if health plans use more than one company to administer benefits, as many do for major medical and pharmacy benefits, consumers might face separate caps next year. Or they might have no cap on pharmacy spending at all.
Health plans with more than one benefits administrator don't have to combine their tallies of members' out-of-pocket spending until 2015. A plan with a separate pharmacy benefit cap can keep it as long as the limits don't exceed the new maximum. Plans with no drug spending limit don't have to cap members' out-of-pocket spending at all.
Meanwhile, some of the the poor, disabled and uninsured people who were supposed to get health coverage under the law probably won't, the National Journal reports.
A number of states, including Texas, have said they will not expand Medicaid, the federal-state health program for the poor and disabled, which was a cornerstone of the law's strategy. An expansion of the program that would open eligibility to Americans earning near or below the poverty line was to enroll an estimated 17 million people.
The Supreme Court last year ruled that the government couldn't force states to expand their Medicaid programs. That means some 25 states, and about 7 million people, will not get coverage access, leaving many low-income residents unable to get affordable insurance.


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PENNINGTON — Theodore Darenkov was looking at a slide image of a bacteria he had collected around the Pennington School, where he is a senior, when he noticed a pattern.
"At first I thought it was something random, but as I saw it over and over again it hit me," Darenkov recalled. "I was pretty sure I had a virus."
Not just a virus, it turned out, but a previously unidentified virus that grows in a soil bacteria. And he wasn't alone in finding something new: His classmate Rodrigo Gonzalez–Gomez also discovered a new virus during their research with their teacher, Dr. David Hauser.
During a recent class session with his team of four student virus-hunters, Hauser said the program that had allowed them to make their discoveries, called PHIRE, was created as a way for science students at the college and high school level to engage in authentic scientific research.
"You learn music by playing music, you learn writing by writing," he said. "You don't usually learn science by doing science. We wanted a program that allowed students to learn science by doing it."
PHIRE, or Phage Hunters Integrating Research and Education, was created by a University of Pittsburgh professor. Hauser's students have been examining viruses that grow in a bacteria called Mycobacterium smegmatis.
The students in the program, which is in its second year at the Pennington School, are seniors Darenkov and Anna Gregg, both from Princeton and juniors Gonzalez–Gomez of Madrid, Spain and Tess McGuinness of Ewing. They are enrolled in Hauser's Advanced Research in Molecular Biology class.
The class meets daily, a schedule Hauser said was necessary to focus on a single project with such depth. The program is unique in that the students do 99 percent of the work, he said.
They begin by collecting soil samples around Pennington's campus and adding a broth to encourage growth of bacteria, which are then filtered out, Hauser said. The remaining sample is incubated in a Petri dish in which Mycobacterium smegmatis is growing.
After they go through seven to 10 samples, some viruses finally infect the bacteria in holes or plaques containing millions of virus particles. The plaques are repeatedly picked out and incubated in a new dish to ensure a single type of virus has been isolated, and then the sample is diluted and incubated to create large amounts of virus, Hauser said.
Their samples are sent off to the University of Pittsburgh, where the DNA is extracted, and when the findings come back the students use a computer program to annotate the sequence. They submit the information to GenBank, an international database of genetic sequences.
Darenkov and Gonzalez-Gomez were granted naming rights for the viruses they discovered. After toying with jokingly naming it after Russian President Vladimir Putin, Darenkov said he settled on "Gadost," the Russian word for "filth." Gonzalez-Gomez said he named his virus "Taurus," because it is his mother's astrological sign and the bull is the symbol of his native Spain.
"We know so little about viruses that if you find one, there's a 99 percent chance it's a new one," Hauser said.
But while discovery may be relatively easy, purifying the sample is not, Hausher said. The viruses often die or are lost during the purification process.
"I had a few viruses that died in purification," said Gregg. "I'm not totally disappointed, because I'll still get to work with classmates on their viruses."
The students agreed that the course was challenging, but ultimately rewarding.
"A lot of us will come work after school occasionally," McGuinness said. "But we're all willing to, because once you get into it you don't want to stop the experiment, you want to keep going."
"This is one of the classes where I really learned how to study," Gonzalez-Gomez said.
McGuinness said they also enjoyed the learning atmosphere that Hauser creates, where conversation topics can range from William Shakespeare to the future of science. A wall of the classroom is adorned with custom T-shirts his students made to showcase some of Hauser's most memorable comments.
Hauser said he is planning a student research trip to Peru this summer to collect samples to be examined next year. The next logical step, he said, is for the program to expand into teaching other sciences in a similar hands-on way.
"It represents a new paradigm. We're moving away from the notion of just teaching a collection of facts," he said. "There's this idea that high school students can't produce research. That's just wrong. Given the time, well-motivated high school students are just as capable of doing this research as undergraduates and graduate students."


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10 Best Sketches of 'Saturday Night Live' Season 38
Ex-porn stars, Bill Hader's farewell, Christoph Waltz as Jesus, and more
8) 'Dylan McDermott Or Dermot Mulroney?'
Sometimes you need trenchant social satire to make your comedic mark on the show. Sometimes you need something uniquely original and/or high concept. Other times, you just need a simple idea (two actors with similar looks, names, and careers), a well-written script (just listen to Hader navigate tongue-twister after tongue-twister), and the stand-by "game show" format that "SNL" dearly loves in order to produce a classic sketch. A good test to find a loyal viewer of this show: say "Derbel McDillet" in a crowded room and see who responds.
Read our review of the episode.
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gloob is a universal word meaning gloob it is an article,noun,proun and the rest of the 9 parts of speech. it is also a sentence itself. it is often spelled glube but always pronounced "glu-buh"
gloob! glube! galube! galubuh!
ayon kay gloob ika-10 ng Oktubre, 2007
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Can you define these popular missing words?
A morsel of anything
Goddammit son of a bitch! a gloob of soda flew into my eye when i popped the top.
ayon kay Legere ika-13 ng Enero, 2004
Glasses for boobs
"Your Gloobs are staring at me..."
ayon kay Hopeless Wishes ika-02 ng Agosto, 2013
someone on an MMORPG such as Runescape who is quite clearly a n00b but seems to gloat about everything they have and how rich they are.
lvl 49 enters room with full adamant gold trim and says to a lvl 60 'you suck I've got betta armour than u' where the lvl 60 would reply 'No u haven't, gold trim is better than normal adamant'. Lvl 49 says 'yes it does'. lvl 60 says 'WTF u gloob'.
ayon kay hobgoblinpie ika-23 ng Enero, 2008
Boobs covered in glitter.
Hey, look at Jane's gloobs, they're shiny, shiny.
ayon kay Drew Cummings ika-20 ng Nobyembre, 2011
A Glee noob. Someone who knows little about Glee.
You didn't know the coach of vocal adrenaline was Rachel's mom? You're such a gloob.
ayon kay snakemanjames ika-06 ng Enero, 2011
The name given to a boyfriend who is on their phone but does not text you back
"He wont text me back! He is being such a gloob."
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Northwest NEWS
uly 6, 1998
Dining in - Cold soups for hot nights
California Crab Gazpacho
1 lb. crab meat (reserve)
1 c. celery, chopped
1/2 bunch parsley, chopped (Italian, if possible)
1/4 c. red wine vinegar
32 oz. bottle or can V-8 juice
1 c. tomatoes, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced or pressed
1 c. bell pepper, chopped
1 cucumber, chopped
1 c. chicken broth
Salt and pepper (to taste)
Juice of 2 lemons
Zest of 1 lemon, finely chopped
Lemon wedges
Parsley sprigs
This soup, traditionally served chilled, may be smooth or chunky. For smooth gazpacho, blend all ingredients (except crab) in blender or food processor until smooth.
Gently fold in crab meat before serving. For chunky soup, mix together all ingredients, then gently fold in crab meat.
Chill well before serving.
Garden Salad Soup
2 Tbsp. butter
1 c. thinly sliced unpeeled potatoes
1 c. chopped green onions
2 13 oz. cans chicken broth
1 large cucumber, diced
2 c. shredded fresh spinach, washed and well drained
1 tsp. dill weed
1 c. sliced mushrooms
1 tsp. salt
Dash of pepper
1 8 oz. carton plain yogurt
Thinly sliced radishes for garnish
In a large pot, saute potatoes, mushrooms and onions in butter for 5 minutes. Add remaining ingredients, exccept yogurt, and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove from head and add yogurt.
Place 1/3 to 1/2 of the mixture in a blender and blend well. Repeat until all is blended. Serve hot or cold, garnished with radishes.


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The Effect of Asymmetries on Stock Index Return Value at Risk Estimates
Chris Brooks
University of Reading - ICMA Centre
Gita Persand
University of Bristol - Department of Economics
Journal of Risk Finance, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 29-42
There is much evidence in the literature that the volatilities of equity returns show evidence of asymmetric responses to good and bad news. At the same time, there is evidence that the unconditional distribution of stock returns is asymmetric as well. This paper examines the effects of asymmetries of various forms on the accuracy of value at risk models. We compare the value at risk estimates derived from models which assume both a symmetric unconditional distribution of returns and a symmetric response of volatility to good and bad news, with models which explicitly allow for each class of asymmetries. We find that, between the two types of asymmetry considered, the asymmetry in the unconditional distribution is the more important feature. Use of the semi-variance, which allows for this feature, is shown to provide more stable and more reliable value at risk estimates than simple and more complex models that do not.
Keywords: Stock index, Minimum Capital Risk Requirements, Internal Risk Management Models, Value at risk, asymmetries, multivariate GARCH, semi-variance
JEL Classification: C14, C15, G13
Date posted: December 5, 2004
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Researchers participating in the Enzyme Function Initiative (EFI) have used a computationally rich metabolite-docking strategy to sift through a protein's potential metabolic partners and predict its function. Beginning with more than 87,000 possible metabolic partners, the researchers narrowed their search to just a few structures that seemed promising fits. These few molecules were then subjected to a battery of laboratory tests, which ultimately determined the protein's role in its host, the marine bacterium Pelagibaca bermudensis.
The protein, HpdD, was initially identified via genomic information, but its function remained unknown. And so the technique used to determine its function may prove useful in contexts well beyond bacteria. "The goal was not simply to identify the protein's function but to forge a new way to tackle the vast and growing body of sequence data for which functional information is lacking," said University of Illinois professor John Gerlt, one of five co-principal investigators of the EFI team's study. "At present, the number of proteins in the protein-sequence database is approaching 42 million. But not more than 50% of these proteins have reliable functions assigned to them."
Matthew Jacobson and postdoctoral researcher Suwen Zhao at the University of California, San Francisco led the computational effort that was at the heart of streamlining the process of protein discovery for the group. Their method pairs an enzyme with tens of thousands of possible metabolic partners to see which molecules fit together best.
This process led to the identification of four possible substrates. The identities of these four substrates—and a likely pathway in which the enzyme operated—were passed along to other members of the EFI team, who began the painstaking laboratory work needed to identify the actual substrate.
The details of this work are described in EFI team's paper, "Discovery of new enzymes and metabolic pathways by using structure and genome context," which appeared online in Nature on September 20. According to the paper, "The substrate-liganded pose predicted by virtual library screening (docking) was confirmed experimentally. The enzymatic activities in the predicted pathway were confirmed by in vitro assays and genetic analyses; the intermediates were identified by metabolomics; and repression of the genes encoding the pathway … was established by transcriptomics."
The researchers discovered that their enzyme catalyzes the first step in a biochemical pathway that enables the marine bacterium to consume one of the substrates identified in Jacobson's lab. The bacterium uses the substrate, known as tHypB, as a carbon source. (It also helps the organism deal with the stress of life in a salty environment.)
This effort to understand the function of one enzyme offers a cascade of other benefits, Gerlt said. One big advantage of this approach is that it aids in the identification of orthologs (enzymes that perform the same task in other organisms).
"There are dozens of orthologs in the protein database that were identified, so we determined not only the function of one but we also determined the functions of all these enzymes," Gerlt said. And because the researchers also identified the functions of all the enzymes in the pathway that allows the microbe to consume tHypB, their work offers insight into the role of orthologous enzymes in similar pathways in other organisms.
Researchers with the EFI are working to develop strategies and tools that other researchers can use to accomplish similar feats of discovery. "There was a time when a researcher devoted his or her entire career to a single enzyme," Gerlt said. "That was a long time ago, although some people still practice that. Now, genome-sequencing technology has changed the way that biologists have to look at problems. We can't keep looking at problems in isolation."
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Bill and Jeanne Parker of Amarillo celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a reception Saturday, Nov. 10, at Paramount Terrace Christian Church. The couple plan a trip to Las Vegas at a later date.
Hosts for the event were the children of the couple and their spouses.
Parker married the former Alice Jeanne Whitten on Nov. 14, 1951, at the home of the groom's mother in Oskaloosa, Iowa. They have lived in Amarillo for 43 years.
Parker is retired from Santa Fe Railway, where he worked for 41 years. He also retired from Mayfield Roofing, where he worked part time for 25 years. Mrs. Parker is a homemaker. The couple belong to Paramount Terrace Christian Church.
Children of the couple are John Parker, Mike and Marci Parker, Bill and Laura Parker and Regi and Saundra Fowler.
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Celebrity Conquers America
King George lost us; Princess Di won us back. Certain changes made this possible.
July/August 1998 | Volume 49, Issue 4
George III, who came to the throne in 1760, had other things going for him besides his title. He was the first British monarch in forty-six years to speak English fluently; his predecessors George I and George II had been German princes called to Britain to maintain the Protestant succession. George Ill's tutor had raised him to be a patriot king who played an active role in his people's fortunes, rebuking greedy and squabbling politicians. In the colonies it was hoped that the new King George would countermand specific policies that beleaguered the Americans. A gilded equestrian statue of the royal hero-to-be was erected at Bowling Green, in Manhattan. When these expectations, always unrealistic, were frustrated, the Revolution ensued, and the statue was pulled down and melted into bullets.
George Whitefield's celebrity had a stronger basis. Whitefield was an English evangelist, a co-leader, with John Wesley, of a decades-long mid-century revival. When Whitefield's doctrines and emotional style of preaching proved too hot for the established churches, he took I himself into the open air, where he sometimes addressed crowds of twenty thousand. Audiences of miners washed the coal dust from their faces wirh the tears thev shed. Whitefield preached throughout England and Scotland, and between 1739 to 1770 he made seven extensive tours of the colonies, from New Hampshire to Georgia, dying in Newburyport, Massachusetts. In the early days of the Revolution, when an American army passed through Newburyport to invade Canada, its soldiers would not leave until they had opened Whitefield's grave and made relics of his burial garments.
Barnum was the archetypal impresario of the career of others. His first great attraction, Joice Heth, was a fraud.
The widest celebrity of all was enjoyed by the hero of the Revolution, George Washington. He annexed the adulation that had been directed at his royal namesake, and he refused to become a king himself, which made the adulation all the stronger. Washington Irving gave a comic description of this passing of the celebrity torch in his story "Rip Van Winkle." When Rip, who has gone to sleep before the Revolution, returns to his hometown, he finds his favorite snug tavern replaced by a bustling hotel. Only the "ruby face" of the figure on the signboard remains the same—and its scepter has been painted out and replaced by a sword. Washington Irving was one of hundreds of American children named for the hero. In 1811 a Russian diplomat noted that "every American considers it a sacred duty to have a likeness of Washington in his house, just as we have images of God's saints."
One notable fact about early American celebrity was how much effort it took. George III enjoyed all the panoply of monarchy, augmented by the fevered political speculations of an intensely political age. Whitefield was an indefatigable orator. In his prime he preached forty to sixty hours each week; in the last years of his life, when he was slowed down by exhaustion and asthma, he cut his schedule to one sermon every weekday and three on Sundays. George Washington was on permanent and peripatetic display for almost a quarter of a century. As Commander in Chief he was seen by thousands of soldiers; as President he visited every state and held weekly open houses; in his years of "retirement" at Mount Vernon, he was besieged by guests, invited and uninvited. One laconic entry in his journal in the late 1790s notes that for the first time in twenty years, he and Martha dined alone.
Celebrities had to work so hard because communication and transportation were primitive, and when this is the case, ubiquity is almost impossible. The one medium of modern mass communication that existed in the eighteenth century was the printing press, which worked overtime, churning out handbills, books, and newspapers. But printed illustrations were generally fanciful, and skilled painters could reach only a portion of the population. Getting around in the flesh was equally difficult. A trip as short as New York to Albany took three days by coach or three days up the Hudson River, if the winds were favorable.
Another noteworthy aspect of eighteenth-century celebrity is that the feelings it evoked were simultaneously intense and limited. Washington led men in battle; Whitefield led them to salvation. These men held life, or afterlife, in their hands. But beyond these salient facts, relatively little was known of them. Mason Locke (a.k.a. Parson) Weems tried to fill in the gaps in Washington's private life by telling such stories as that of the cherry tree. But Weems managed this only by making up many of his stories and publishing them after Washington's death, when they could not be contradicted. There were also many matters that Weems neither bothered nor dared to address. Americans did not care what Washington ate or drank. They did not learn that he had had a youthful crush on his neighbor's wife until late in the nineteenth century, when a few stray letters were discovered (Washington's old flame had burned the rest). Americans knew fewer details about the father of their country than they know about the average network news anchor today.


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UPDATE: March 23rd. CONTEST IS CLOSED.
Yayyyyyyy!!!! Grattis!!!
I'll be emailing you'all; please respond promptly!
It has been a while since I had a giveaway on the site but the wait is worth it. Truly!
To celebrate Lost in Stockholm reaching 5,000 comments and 2,000 Facebook fans, I'm having an giveaway. It's so cool that this little blog of a one woman show, me, has received 5,000 comments in 4.5 years.
Yipee! And thank you readers!
To celebrate, I wanted to showcase local Swedish businesses. The grand prize is being generously donated by Happy Hedgehog in Borlänge, in northern Sweden. The runner up prize has been donated by Fika Town, a greeting card company in Stockholm.
Happy Hedgehog is a lovely boutique that sells chic styled bags, cards, teacups, lotions, and candles. Their mission is to bring Sweden and the UK with adorable products that you never knew you needed.
And a yoga posing cat*
Handmade Soap dish from Krukmakeri Krusidull
British made Heyland & Whittle soap
Swedish förkylnings honung
Jersey Cow moisturiser for Men*
Klinta two in one scented soya candle/massage oil candle Tea Tree
The HH grand prize is open to people with a valid Swedish mailing address only.
Now, that the rest of you are sad because you don't live in Sweden, never fear, I have another surprise. Fika Town has donated eight greeting cards for you to use and spread the love of fika and thanks.
The greeting card prize is available to anyone outside of Sweden. Yay!
1. Be a Facebook fan of Lost in Stockholm.**
2. Be a Facebook fan of Happy Hedgehog.
3. Have a valid address in Sweden for the HH grand prize. Have a valid anywhere in the world (where there is not an US or Swedish embargo) for the runner up prize.
4. Write a comment on THIS blog post relating to hedgehogs and Sweden. The comment can be long, short, haiku, poem, sentence, story, whatever. It just has to be unique and yours only. You can write in Swedish or English.
HH & Sapphire will pick a winner based on cuteness, funniness, and overall Swedishness on March 20th, 2012.
Winners will be notified by email on or after March 22nd. Please provide a valid email address in your comment information. Failure to respond within seven days forfeits the prize.
The contest opens now!
Do visit Happy Hedgehog and Fika Town, our companies who have generously donated the prizes.
* Cat not really included. :(
** Facebook is in no way endorsing, sponsoring, or assisting with this giveaway.
A contest containing cuteness you say?
Celebrating hedgehogs, there's no better way!
Years ago the difference between porcupine and hedgehog I learned.
Ever since then, for a hedgehog I've yearned!
I love how in water they swim or do an upside-down float,
showing off their pink bellies, as if to gloat!
Their curiosity is as high as a cats,
never resisting getting stuck in this or that.
Always wanting one for a pet,
I knew I wanted two instead!
But alas the timing could have been better,
as I was moving away the very next Winter.
And so I had to put off getting this adorable creature,
not knowing that hedgehogs are one of Sweden's cutest features!
To my gleeful surprise while walking down a cobblestone road,
I spotted a hedgehog trotting along.
I carefully followed with camera in hand,
never seeing one in person, Sweden must be a magical land.
He hid in the grass along the riverbed,
I resisted my urge to pet him and took a photo instead.
Every so often I'd see them out and about,
resisting my urge to giggle and shout.
When my family came to Sweden this Summer,
they spotted a "rodent," took a photo and murmured.
I confirmed it was not a rat or a mouse,
but a cute little hedgehog you can have in a house.
(Is "liking" the FB pages the same as becoming a fan? I did that but not sure if its the same)
@Megalagom – When you "like" a page, you become a fan. :)
Good to know! :D Just wanted to make sure lol
blossoms of my soul reaches the swedes
it's spines reaches back
my soul; as fallen autumn leaves
Japanese Death Poem-style. Hardcore. (They're not supposed to rhyme though, are they? Wasn't intentional!)
Yeah, I'm not really participating. It's should take more effort than that :D I vote on Megalagom! Best one so far! Hear!
Roses are red, violets are blue.
I love hedgehogs.
Just like Swedish men!
Haha, nice post. First of all, just want to let you know that I am a lurker of your blog since I came here to Sweden and I looove hedgehogs especially when they start to creep out during spring time. Prior coming to Sweden I had never seen a real life hedgehod before. There was this one time as I was coming home from a party with a couple of friends, we decided to hang out and get some air by the harbor. Then I started to see something so round creeping around grass and sniffing about… and one of them came to me – it was soooo big and I totally freaked out! Haha. I climbed on the bench and my friends were like, don't worry they're just hedgehogs. It was around 3 in the morning and pretty dark at that time, and there were soooo many of them! My friends were like being so friendly with them and feeding them OLW cheese balls. I grew to like them after that and I started to google about hedgehogs, and realized that hedgehogs are like lactose-intolerant or something. I freaked out again and told my friends that we might have killed all the hedgehods by feeding them those cheese balls. So we came to the same spot at the harbor, same time, the next night, and waited for the hedgehogs to come out. And it turns out that they did come out, and are still alive, thank goodness! But we learned out lessons – never ever feed hedgehogs or any wild animals with human food, haha.
Ken Donner
Galloping Hedghogs
A hedgehog seen galloping
Through streets around Stockers!
Lost, confused, rambling,
Seems a bit off his rockers!
(Swedish for hedgehog is weird, is it not?
If you can say "eagle caught" you can say "igelkott")
It seems at any rate,
There's something on his back,
A quick glimpse and wait!
Why it's The Union Jack!
I love your blog!
My soon to be husband is from Borlänge, a place I also love and plan to call home in the near future.
An American girl,
Traveled so far,
5000 miles,
By plane, train, and car,
To a city, Borlänge,
Where her heart smiles.
She once saw a happy hedgehog,
She begged to take home,
A spiny little critter,
Sitting all alone,
But her boyfriend said no.
Who knows where my little friend is?
We don't really know,
Maybe at Kupolen,
Preparing for snow?
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Hedgehog's dilemma for every Swede
Longing for love but as uncatchable as snowflakes
What if your spines pierce my heart?
Haiku-style :-)
There once was a hedgehog from Stockholm
who had a very bad ……
OK, I don't really do poetry, but that gift basket looks fab so I will throw my hat in the ring.
Congrats on all your success, here is to much much more!
These are so much to read! Keep those entries coming!!!
Sweden awakes
hedgehogs lean out in awe
spring is back again
Congrats on your 5K comments and 2K FB fans! Next milestone, 10K Facebook fans? :)
Swedish men are like hedgehogs: cute, but prickly and unapproachable at first. Invest the time in getting to know them, and you'll discover they're surprisingly cuddly! ;)
I somras bodde en igelkottsfamilj under vår altan. En av ungarna hittades dock uppfläkt och halvt uppäten på gårdsplanen. Varken sött eller roligt men sonen lärde sig att djungelns lag även gäller i Sverige. Fågeln som dödade igelkotten blev nog mätt.
Contest is over!!! Thanks everyone for participating!!
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For scientists and biotech companies struggling to develop effective autologous cancer immunotherapeutics, recent clinical trial results may go a long way toward vindicating their herculean efforts and finally promote investor enthusiasm. In May 2009 Dendreon announced positive Phase III data in prostate cancer for Provenge, which is likely to become the first cancer vaccine approved by the FDA. Dendreon has spent more than $560 million to develop Provenge, and hopes to market the vaccine in 2010.
Needham and Co. managing director and analyst Mark Monane, M.D., has characterized Provenge as a game changer, saying that unlike conventional therapies, it offers patients benefits with few side effects. The cost for Provenge is expected to be somewhere between $30,000–50,000, and the therapy is expected to enjoy a 20% share of the market; there are roughly 230,000 new cases of prostate cancer every year in the U.S.
This projection and data presented at the recently held American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting, may infuse some excitement and cash back into the moribund and much-maligned cancer vaccine area. Realities that have sorely tested the most enthusiastic autologous cancer vaccine proponents included the costs of producing patient-specific tumor cells and antigens, big pharma lack of interest in one-off as opposed to off-the-shelf therapeutics, technological and manufacturing barriers, a highly risk-averse investment climate, repeated clinical failures in solid and liquid cancers, and healthcare coverage uncertainties around novel expensive treatments.
Achieving Personalized TherapyWe all hate the phrase "the patient failed the therapy," when in reality the therapy failed the patient. Therefore, the possibility of patient- and cancer-specific effectiveness, as well as nontoxic immunotherapeutics remains compelling. Acknowledging a major paradigm-shift in treating cancer, the theme of ASCO this year was "Personalizing Cancer Care." This theme suggests the potential of individualized therapy to change cancer treatment and acknowledges that, according to ASCO president, Richard L. Schilsky, M.D., "Each patient with cancer is different—biologically, clinically, economically, and socially—and a one size fits all approach to treating cancer is not optimal."
In the context of this evolving treatment climate, the positive Provenge data as well as results from one of three late-stage trials testing autologous cancer vaccines for lymphoma provide clinical evidence supporting use of such personalized therapies. At the same time, reasons why only one of three very similar vaccines was successful in treating lymphoma illustrates the challenges and complexities inherent in development of immunotherapeutics for cancer.
The vaccine that showed promise in Phase III was BiovaxID, an autologous lymphoma vaccine manufactured by Biovest International. Development of the vaccine began its long, hard road to Phase III studies over 20 years ago at Stanford University. The first Phase III trial with the vaccine was initiated by the NCI, then sponsored by Biovest. Biovest and its parent company, Accentia Biopharmaceuticals, both entered into Chapter 11 bankruptcy late in 2008.
BiovaxId comprises the tumor surface protein, also known as idiotype or Id, specific to an individual patient's tumor with an immune adjuvant KLH plus an immunostimulatory growth factor GM-CSF. It is intended to stimulate an active and long-lasting, specific immune response against an individual patient's tumor cells. Since the vaccine is tumor-specific, noncancerous cells should remain unaffected, unlike treatment with Rituxan which also deletes normal B cells as well as cancerous lymphoma B cells.
Patients with previously untreated, advanced-stage follicular lymphoma were treated with a specific chemotherapy regimen, PACE, to produce clinical disease remission. Patients in complete remission were randomized at a ratio of 2:1 to received BiovaxID or KLH and GM-CSF without the idiotype. The primary trial endpoint was disease-free survival.
Analysis of data from 117 trial participants in complete remission showed that progression-free survival was 44.2 months among patients receiving BiovaxID and 30.6 months in those receiving the control vaccine. After an average follow up of 4.7 years, patients who got BiovaxID had a 38% lower risk of lymphoma recurrence than those receiving the control vaccine.
Hurdles to OvercomeWhile results are encouraging, they beg the question: Why did two other similar vaccines—Genitope's MyVax and Favrille's Mitumprotimub-1—fail Phase III trials? In comparing these trials, two researchers involved in the development of BiovaxID, Larry Kwak, M.D., Ph.D., currently chair, lymphoma/myeloma and professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Stephen J. Schuster, M.D., associate professor of medicine at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania cited several differences in the trials: Only patients in complete remission were randomized in the BiovaxID clinical study, whereas the MyVax trial included patients in partial remission, and the Mitumprotimub-t trial included those in partial remission and with stable disease.
The trial results, according to Drs. Kwak and Schuster, suggest that a minimal residual disease state may be required for the vaccine-induced immune response to be effective. They further pointed out that BiovaxID idiotope was produced using the heterohybridoma method, while MyVax and Mitumprotimub-t are recombinant proteins—Id protein is produced via PCR and recombinant technology to create synthetic Ids that may or may not correctly mimic the vaccine target.
Both companies had hoped to simplify the autologous idiotype manufacturing process, a historical show-stopper for potential investors in terms of cost and time. Dr. Kwak says, "The bottom line is that recombinant proteins may be very different products that are not necessarily bioequivalent, and this is one of the potential factors that explain differences between the trial outcomes."
Leerink Swan analyst Howard Liang, Ph.D., notes that the financial community is focused on Dendreon's Provenge right now. He believes, though, that "Autologous manufacturing is not the deal breaker it used to be. If these vaccines work for really difficult-to-treat diseases, the manufacturing issues will be worked out."
Patricia F. Dimond, Ph.D., is principal, BioInsight Consulting. Email: [email protected].
Patricia F. Dimond, Ph.D., is principal, BioInsight Consulting. Email: [email protected].
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