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Building online math time and reading into the routine
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- gasstationwithoutpumps said...
Reading time was easy—it was any time he wasn't being forced to do something else.
We didn't do online math until high school, though he did have a number of computer math games (the old Math Blaster series, which I understand is no longer available). Again, we had to limit computer time to no more than an hour a day.
Worksheets are done right after school. Reading is before bed or on the way to choir on Tuesdays. I figure 20 min x 7 gets hoit each week. We totally flopped with the iPad Rosetta stone this summer and still do t have a good answer for building in computer enrichment in. Audey will read for hhours on the iPad of we lwt her. Do math. Or Spanish, not so Much. Turns out those tablets are fill of distractions...
- nicoleandmaggie said...
We no longer let DC1 do computer games on weeknights because he'd forget to do his chores. He does math practice on weekends and holidays-- we're working through Hard Math for Elementary School a page each day that he does them. After we're done with that we'll move on to Edward Zocarro, I think. He also does a page a day of Singapore Math on weekends and holidays and a page of Scholastic grammar or spelling or what have you that requires scantron (because his private school doesn't teach how to do standardized tests and it showed in some of his standardized test scores this past year-- he'd know the answer but not how to deal with the codes). He has to do piano practicing every day for 15 min except on lesson day, and he has a checklist of chores he goes through each night.
Over the summer when he was at daycamp, he'd have to do homework books when he got back, but he got back at 3pm, not 5pm, and he needed more intellectual stimulation.
He has to do stuff before he has free-time. Paper is working better than online for us, though DC2 does online stuff via ipad games.
- kell said...
Typical school day for our second grader:
Home (anywhere between 3-5pm)
Snack/playing with little brother
School's homework
Khan Academy (math) while cooking dinner
Reading before bed for both
That still leaves time to play and explore things without any of our structure. We also keep books in the car for reading.
My son is in grade three in a self-contained gifted class. Homework is usually limited to a larger assignment or project assigned on Fridays, but usually not due until the following Wednesday. His school has a license for Dreambox as well and the students are encouraged to spend about 15 minutes on it every day. So far, he loves it so that hasn't been a problem. Even though I resisted it at first, he usually completes those 15 minutes in morning before breakfast. Only problem, my younger son then wants "his" computer time as well.
20 minutes of reading each day has been more difficult for us. Last year it wouldn't have been an issue, but he has become a reluctant reader as of late and the 20 minute per day requirement has made it seem like even more of a chore. So, in the end, we've let him focus on math.
In that regard, we signed him up for Spirit of Math this year. Much more of a challenge, but a lot of work, in part because this is his first year while most of the students have been attending since grade 1. Any one have any experience with Spirit of Math?


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Same with leashes on longboards. Keeps the old kooks in the lineup instead of swimming in for their boards every time they fall off.
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Thread: Did pro surfing ruin surfing?
Jul 10, 2013, 03:59 PM #51Senior Member
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Dude, what do you think financed all the great surfing explorer's trips? The one's that let y'all in on what was out there.
Dude, do you know how many surf shops and surf companies were backed by illicit funds? ****, in the 1980's pratically every, now defunct, LBI surf shop, had shady beginnings.
Man, you owe everything to these "dopers." Show a little respect, man.
Jul 10, 2013, 04:13 PM #53
I don't feel like I missed anything, personally. I enjoy every day out on the water and every wave I ride. I have days where the beach is empty, and days where people are everywhere. I still have fun, and that is all that matters to me.
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Jul 10, 2013, 04:21 PM #55
You're arguing world geography on one thread, the dope game on another. I ain't exactly been here for years, but you just got here and have more psi backing your agendas than Starchy could dream of.
Take a deep breath after the woman just kicked you to the curb. Stop the surf forum aggro posts. Stop internet stalking your ex-lady. There are many other fish in the sea. Open mouth, insert chill pill. Brah.
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My reference point is skateboarding. My idols as a kid growing up late 70's early 80's were Tony Alva, Mark Gonzalas, and Cab. Yes they were "pro" skateboarders, but the lifestyle was not that of a professional skater or surfer today. More important, they were losers in the eyes of most of the population. But looking back now they were the pioneers. Without guys like Stacey Peralta there would not have been the evolution of skating into "normal" pop culture. The same could be said about pro surfers of that era, Lopez, Bertlemann, MR, etc. Now we have Xgames, pro tour surfing and lots of guys and gals making decent living being a pro. But I know a few pro skaters and a former pro skier, its not all fun and games, it's a real job and a harsh business.
But pro skaters and pro surfers don't ruin anything as far as the recreation side of the sport goes. I skate FDR or the new park in Philly in the morning all the time by myself. The thing about surfers and skaters is they want to be seen. I surf DP all the time alone. Summer and winter, in south jersey, in perfect conditions. The issue is there are no girls on the beach or dudes in the session to see the latest tricks. I can understand the mentalty, I was a kid once. I guess in a way I still am, I just got older and maybe a bit wiser. The jury is still out on that.
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I think really all that pro-surfing does is make a grom or newbie surfer think it would be wise to waste their money on a thin high performance short board that they have no skill level yet to ride effectively and they waste their money and resell it on Ebay or Craigslist or trade it in at a shop. In golf if you buy the best gear to immulate the pros it does to some effect help you play better than buying a 1950's sportcraft golf set at a yard sale. Buying a pro shortboard doesn't make you a better surfer if you're just starting out for sure.
Internet - has crowded the lineups by allowing inshore people to know where the breaks are and when its even worth their while to travel to the shore to surf thanks to the forecasting features. Pre internet, it was usually only locals or vacationers surfing...not the day-trippers from several hours drive inland.
Wetsuits - Better quality/cheaper prices has allowed for the less die-hard everyday surfers to be able to make it worth their while to buy wetsuit gear even if its just to go out a couple of times a year. Also contributes to more crowded lineups in offseason
More affluent society today than past decades - more disposable income allows for more people to buy surfboards on a whim or as an infrequent hobby. Expensive costs of boards and gear in the past in relation to disposable income made the investments only worthwhile for the die-hard locals or wealthy.
I think all of these things are great, bringing alot more people to enjoy the sport/hobby/lifestyle of surfing, but I can see how it can frustrating for the local, everyday surfers to be invaded by lots of inexperienced newbies all the time.
Jul 10, 2013, 06:34 PM #59
Good post. They NEED to be seen. Without the notoriety, the buoyancy that allows them to be "pro" is no longer there - the marketability and subsequent dollars spent by the followers. I can't be sure that every pro surfer would rather it be this way, and that's why LOD and the Z-Boys documentary are such great films. You realize that they appreciate in the end the fact that the fame and fortune wasn't what they ever really wanted. They just wanted to surf/skate, brah. Lots of parallels with that and Big Wednesday. The "mentor" (for lack of a better term) figure in the characters of Skip and Bear is a dynamic and critical one to all of this.
Jul 10, 2013, 06:39 PM #60
what's wrong with surfing, well, I don't think it's the pro's. There were pro's back in the 60's when surfing was "pure" or whatever.
Here is what is wrong with surfing:
Surfing restrictions
leash laws.
People who wear surf gear head to toe and don't surf.
People who think the board is the problem.
Surfshops with no boards. (looking at you 17th street...)
$40 surf videos. $8 surfer mags. Has anyone noticed the ad to actual content ratio? Pitiful.
$100 trunks
Laird Hamilton
Roy Stuart
Blue Crush
Car Commercials
Bethany Hamilton
Salt Life
The invention of the gopro.
30 second intro's on 2 minute home movies.
Towing in to makeable waves.
Throwing "shockas" or the like.
Being sponsored by your mom.
Cost of Airfare (seriously has doubled in the last decade)
F*cking horseflies
That's all I've got for now. I don't blame the pro's at all. I'd do it in a heartbeat so would all of you.
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Eric and I managed to make it through Hurricane Sandy unscathed, but the downtown office building where I work sustained massive flooding and is closed to its occupants. I feel super-lucky to have had heat, electricity, and warm water throughout this entire ordeal, and my heart goes out to those who didn't fare so well. Speaking of luck, we moved 2 blocks down the street from our old apartment about 3 weeks before the storm hit. We live right next to the river, and while our new place was just fine, our old building was without electricity (and at times without water) for almost a week. Believe me, we're still counting our blessings over that move!
I ventured down to the financial district with a few of my co-workers this weekend to gather up a few things from our darkened office, and the scene was pretty surreal. The usually bustling streets were empty of pedestrians and were instead filled with ConEd employees, sanitation and construction workers, and disaster recovery vehicles. On our way down, we passed lines several blocks long of people trying to buy gas. New Yorkers are a resilient bunch, so I'm sure we'll make it through this stronger than ever. In the mean time, there's a lot of work to be done.


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The message from the Japanese office was a shocker. The global license for customer relationship management software painstakingly negotiated by a Charles Schwab IT executive had been declared invalid there.
Although affiliated with its U.S. counterpart, the Japanese CRM vendor was a legally independent entity -- something the U.S. vendor failed to tell Daniel Keller, senior vice president of global technology for Schwab in San Francisco, when he contracted with it to deploy software in seven offices in five countries. Because Schwab's global license didn't include an appended contract directly with the Japanese CRM vendor, that vendor claimed it didn't have to honor the global license. Instead, it demanded that Keller buy another license just for Schwab's Japanese operations.
In the end, Keller decided it was less expensive to go with another CRM vendor in Japan. His advice is brush up on your vendor's corporate structure and your legalese before signing on the dotted line.
And understand that a global license only applies if a company has more than 51% operating control of a joint venture, he adds.
For Michael Brady, first vice president of global networking services for Merrill Lynch in New York, the international vendor-management shocker was trouble-ticket resolution. When a network component in France failed, the vendor executing his global service contract pooh-poohed quick action. The vendor dismissed emergency calls from New York as American overreaction and impatience.
"Even in a country as sophisticated as Spain or France, getting faster time frames than is considered usual for the culture is very difficult," Brady says.
Brady countered by hiring a French expatriate to work at U.S. headquarters as the liaison to the overseas vendor. With the help of someone who spoke the language natively and understood both cultures, the vendor finally realized that speed is everything when it comes to stock trading.
These are two classic tales of troubles IT managers face over globalization. As increasing numbers of U.S. companies expand overseas, IT executives are finding just how difficult integrating far-flung offices can be.
"Getting leverage overseas where we're in smaller offices is extremely difficult. We simply get more buying power and attention in the U.S.," says Mark Kissman, CFO of Current Analysis, a consulting firm with offices in eight countries.
Vendors preach that their globalization is your salvation and, in some respects, the claim is true. A vendor with multinational sales offices and offshore manufacturing facilities can help you outfit international sites far better than those with only a U.S. presence. They can save you money by sourcing locally and time by servicing devices on-site.
"Even if you operate only in the U.S. now, chances are that won't always be the case. So global service deployment of vendors should be important to you," asserts Robert Aanerud, trusted security advisor for security consulting firm Guardent.
But beware. Global vendor management is not as simple as choosing vendors with offices in the right countries. You must learn when to buy globally and when locally. You must work through a labyrinth of vendor management obstacles when resellers fulfill orders. You must base service-level agreements (SLA) not only on your needs, but also on the culture in the operating country.
Getting equipment from here to there
One of your biggest challenges will be figuring out the easiest and least-expensive way to outfit international offices with homogenous network equipment. In some cases, you should procure products and services in the country where the office resides, Aanerud says. Buying local security products is an obvious example, given the complications of international encryption laws. But another reason to source locally, he says, is that few vendors deliver consistent quality worldwide, particularly when it comes to security.
"I know carriers that in the U.S. do service and security well, but in the U.K., they're the worst I've ever seen," Aanerud says.
Merrill Lynch's Brady uses this rule for local vs. global procurement: If the product is a commodity infrastructure service, such as frame relay, then contract regionally or locally. If the product requires customization or higher SLAs, then construct a global contract, negotiated through U.S. headquarters.
Make sure you append those global agreements with contracts for each country's affiliate, Brady warns. "We don't want to deal with country-by-country contracts and forgo volume discounts for the stickier [more customized] services, like desktop services. For those, we usually structure an umbrella contract and then attach to it a local contract for the region. Even a company as big as IBM has different legal entities to do business in various countries," he says.
The world as their factory
It shouldn't matter where in the world a vendor manufactures products, as long as it has consistent quality controls
Mexico, Scotland and Taiwan have become popular sites for U.S. network vendor factories, while India, Ireland, Israel, Pakistan and Russia have become hot spots for software development.
Users and experts agree you should only procure and configure products in the U.S. and ship them overseas yourself under limited circumstances. Those being when international offices are in underdeveloped countries where IT equipment and talent is scarce; when each office houses only a few people; when the main goal of connectivity is Internet access and e-mail; and when outages that last hours to days won't stop your workers.
In such cases, shipping or even transporting the router to the site yourself can work. So finds Ta Tanisha Scott-Baker, network support specialist for John Snow, Inc. (JSI), an international health consultant in Arlington, Va., with 20 offices in nine, mostly underdeveloped countries.
"We find it's easier to buy equipment here, and it comes with better warranties. It's very difficult in some of these places to get even simple things -- even something like an A/B switch. I can't just go up the street to the corner store and buy one," she says.
While Scott-Baker says she'd prefer to hire on-site help, she knows a global contract would be cost-prohibitive for her company. Instead, JSI keeps an IT staff member on call 24-7 to handle IT emergencies in all time zones, and the company provides device support over the Internet.
But most companies quickly learn that the do-it-yourself approach to globalization causes more problems than it's worth. Shipping fees and tariffs to some parts of the world, such as Latin America, can cost you more than the product itself, Brady says. Then there's the chance that your urgent replacement router could get stalled in customs for an unpredictable amount of time. That often leads to the expensive option of storing replacement parts on-site.
Contracting with a single vendor for global supply can be a less-expensive choice, particularly for low-end products requiring little configuration and ongoing service, vendors say.
"Buying on a global contract, a customer gets global pricing," says Randy Pond, senior vice president of operations for Cisco. That would make a 24-port nonconfigurable switch inexpensive, he adds.
IT executives say the advantage of a global contract is that it provides uniformity.
"The bottom line is speed to market. If we do a global contract with a single vendor, we get the network up faster,, and we don't have to invest in a network system design for each office," Schwab's Keller says.
Whether the vendor fulfills the global commitment itself or subcontracts to resellers doesn't matter to him -- as long as the contract is clear. He just wants a single point of contact.
However, contracting with a vendor's resellers offers strong advantages, Merrill Lynch's Brady says. For instance, he can have multiple resellers compete for his company's patronage. That bidding can lead to lower prices than those Brady negotiated for in the global contract. Also, by competing for the work, the resellers learn they need to please Merrill Lynch, not the vendor.
Yet SLAs are a world unto themselves. To American sensibilities, a global service contract should include the same two-hour break/fix SLA in every country. But that's not a reality. "We've not been able to get the same level of service from vendors for a 200-person office in Brazil, as for larger offices in the U.K.," Brady says.
Customer size notwithstanding, cultural norms interfere with consistent SLAs. It will cost big premiums in some countries to get response speeds considered normal in the U.S.
"In one country, a four-hour break/fix response is considered the norm; in another, a two-hour break/fix response is. You need to be cognizant of the cost of doing business in each country," Brady says.
In countries where slower-than-acceptable break/fix is the norm, Brady recommends use of redundant components and systems that cover any point of failure.
Trial and error can't be avoided when it comes to global vendor management, but with a bit of planning, you can hold the whole world in your digital hands.
This story, "NW200: When vendors promise the world" was originally published by Network World.


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On Bill Simmons' reader email page, a Sox fan named Joshua Reidy wrote this before the game:
This Yankees-Sox series has constantly reminded me of Rocky 2. Last seasons seven-game epic was much like the original Rocky (All we wanted to do was go the distance). This seasons series is much like Rocky 2, the two teams slugging it out, with Creed opening quickly and trying to lay the smack down. However, the sox keep answering the bell, Game 4, Game 5, and now Game 6 to take it to the final round. Think The Rock can beat the count??
I love it. Fox went with the Rocky theme tonight too, and they were right — this ALCS was a movie-style heavyweight fight. And then from Rocky IV, as my cousin Nick kept quoting, "The Russian is cut!"
What a comeback. That's all I've got.


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Lipids have long been studied as constituents of the cellular architecture and energy stores in the body. Evidence is now rapidly growing that particular lipid species are also important for molecular and cellular signaling. Here we review the current information on interactions between lipids and transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channels in nociceptive sensory afferents that mediate pain signaling. Sensory neuronal TRP channels play a crucial role in the detection of a variety of external and internal changes, particularly with damaging or pain-eliciting potentials that include noxiously high or low temperatures, stretching, and harmful substances. In addition, recent findings suggest that TRPs also contribute to altering synaptic plasticity that deteriorates chronic pain states. In both of these processes, specific lipids are often generated and have been found to strongly modulate TRP activities, resulting primarily in pain exacerbation. This review summarizes three standpoints viewing those lipid functions for TRP modulations as second messengers, intercellular transmitters, or bilayer building blocks. Based on these hypotheses, we discuss perspectives that account for how the TRP-lipid interaction contributes to the peripheral pain mechanism. Still a number of blurred aspects remain to be examined, which will be answered by future efforts and may help to better control pain states.
Perception of external and internal stimuli is an essential function of the brain for adaptation, avoidance and protection. Perception of environmental changes is prompted by their detection by somatosensory primary afferents, namely the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons for the body and trigeminal neurons for the face. Sensory axons terminate at the skin epidermal or dermal areas to sense changes that occur near our body. When environmental changes are strong enough to overcome thresholds, action potentials are ignited in the peripheral axon termini, and the electrical discharges travels up to higher brain regions such as the somatosensory cortex, resulting in perception. A subset of the sensory afferents is responsible for recognizing painful (or potentially damaging) changes that finally evoke pain perception: unmyelinated small-diameter C-fibers and thinly-myelinated Aδ fibers. Some of TRP ion channels are important molecular sensors that those fibers contain, for the detection of damaging attacks (
Mammals, including humans, express 28 to 29 TRP ion channels. As mentioned above, several of these TRPs serve as sensors in the nerve terminals of C-fibers and Aδ fibers. These TRPs open their pores in response to relevant stimuli, which depolarizes the nerve to produce action potentials. Interestingly, all of these sensory TRP channels are polymodal to some extent. First, they are all sensitive to a range of temperatures and some of sensory TRPs respond to mechanical insults. With respect to chemicals, a surprisingly large number of substances including different types of lipids, can activate sensory TRP channels. Given their high degree of polymodality, sensory TRP channels are believed to act as major sensor molecules sending signals regarding environmental risks to the brain in the form of pain perception. While such roles are central for signal generation during the alert states, the painful aspect often emphasizes TRP pharmacology for the purpose of analgesia [
TRPV1 is a central sensor molecule that exibits polymodality. TRPV1 opens in response to noxious heat (>42 °C), protons, lipidergic pungent chemicals or polyamines [
A topological structure of sensory TRP channels is illustrated. A subunit of the sensory TRP channels has six membrane-spanning (transmembrane) domains. Between TM5 and TM6 domains, the pore loop that allows ionic flow is located. Amino and carboxyl termini are located in the cytosol. Some of sensory TRPs contain multiple ankyrin repeats at their amino termini. One of important locations to interact with endogenous lipid regulators or lipophilic pharmacological agents (
The existence of a sensory component that detects noxiously high temperatures has been raised in medium to large diameter DRG neurons [
TRPV3 is also a heat-activated channel with a threshold of 33 °C [
TRPV4 is a polymodal ion channel sensitive to heat (with a threshold of 27–34 °C), chemicals, and mechanical insults, including hypotonicity [
TRPA1 is a popular analgesic target because of its multi-modal nature. Owing to its chemical sensitivity to a large number of heterogeneous cellular components including lipid substances as described below, TRPA1 is called a "cellular damage-sensing ion channel". Still, the pool of TRPA1 activators continues to grow [
TRPM8 is a cold-activated channel (<26 °C) [
Nociceptive C-fibers comprise peptidergic and non-peptidergic populations. Persistent excitation of the peptidergic subset, for example by depolarization via sustained TRP activation caused by successive harmful input from neighboring inflamed tissues, results in not only nerves sending impulses to higher synapses for pain perception, but also causes nerve termini to release neuropeptides including CGRP and substance P into the inflamed tissues in retrograde fashion: eventually this begins to form a vicious signaling circuit. Although most studies on this circuit have focused on TRPV1, other TRP channels expressed in peptidergic C-fibers such as TRPA1 may also be closely involved [
Information on the interactions between endogenous molecules can offer mechanistic insights into biological processes. Such information regarding sensory TRP channel interactions with lipids may shed light on pain states. Moreover, structural and biosynthetic information of lipids can be utilized to generate schemes for creation of TRP channel modulators. The history of lipid studies in the TRP field is relatively short starting in the late 1990s [
Three possible modes of interactions of TRP channels and their lipid modulators. (
It has only been several years since lipids were first hypothesized as general second messengers in intracellular signal transductions before ion channel-lipid study was born [
Since the 1999 report from Zygmunt
Biosynthetic pathways for HpETEs, EETs (
Although all of the known sensory TRPs are sensitive to particular ranges of temperatures, the mechanism of temperature-induced channel activation is not well understood. Interestingly, the Hargreaves lab suggested a lipid second messenger hypothesis for heat activation of TRPV1 [
Lessons from bradykinin-TRPV1 coupling studies inspired the quest to identify lipid second messengers that activate another highly nociceptive TRP, TRPA1. As a result, bradykinin B2 receptor downstream is found to utilize both PLA2 and phospholipase C (PLC) for TRPA1 opening. Upon B2 receptor activation, arachidonic acid and diacylglycerol (DAG) are produced intracellularly via the action of these two enzymes respectively. Eventually, arachidonic acid and DAG can open TRPA1 [
DAG has been actively studied as an activator for canonical types of TRP (TRPC) channels. Oh and colleagues demonstrated that DAG also activates TRPV1 [
Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) is a lipid component found primarily in the plasma membrane inner layer. PLC hydrolyzes PIP2 into DAG and inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3). PIP2 is known to regulate a diverse set of ion channel functions via direct contact [
PIP2 is present in most cell types and is a common signaling molecule, the levels of which are regulated by the signal transduction enzyme PLC. This may lead to a notion that TRP channels are tonically open owing to the presence of PIP2 and that a cellular event that activates the PLC pathway may close the channel via PIP2 consumption. Indeed, TRPM8 is desensitized upon increased cytosolic Ca2+ that enters the cell through the open pore of TRPM8 itself. It is likely that activated PLC by Ca2+ cleaves PIP2 bound to TRPM8 [
The direction of the effect of PIP2 is unpredictable in some TRP channels. Presence of PIP2 is able to interfere with TRPA1 activation by other agonists, and PIP2 sequestration promotes TRPA1 activation [
This viewpoint is that sensory TRP channels act as ligand-gated channels and that we see lipids as their ligands. Although many of the identities of TRP ligands overlap with those listed above for second messengers, there exists additional evidence suggesting that lipids can act as neurotransmitters (or intercellular transmitters in case of non-neuronal cells) [
Amine conjugates of fatty acids appear to be treated according to the neurotransmitter standard. This view may have originated from conventional anandamide research, where this substance has long been studied as a cannabinoid receptor agonist (
Members of the amine conjugate category that are known to activate TRPV1 include anandamide,
Locations for neurogenic inflammation are not limited to the somatosensory dermatome. It occurs in the vascular system where fatty acid amides are known to play a key role. Vascular endothelia are known to release anandamide. TRPV1-expressing afferents innervate blood vessels. When the vascular anandamide opens neuronal TRPV1, nerve endings may secrete CGRP onto the blood vessels, causing potent vasodilation [
Hypersensitivity is one of major symptoms of psoriasis, in which epidermal arachidonic acid levels can be elevated up to 10–100 µM [
Above, we discussed internal generation of LOX metabolites as second messengers under control of upstream receptor signaling. This may occur in tissues surrounding C-fiber endings, infiltrated monocytes or neutrophils in the presence of inflammation or injury [
The neurotransmitter-like actions of lipidergic TRPV1 ligands have been demonstrated in studies on central synapses. Initially, Gibson
With respect to the spinal synapses, previous studies have tested the pain-focusing concept. The Hargreaves group actually raised a centrally expressed TRPV1-related mechanism for allodynia development by emphasizing that HODEs and oxoODEs, the peripheral heat signal downstream molecules mentioned above, are also formed in the spinal cord upon depolarization [
Intramolecular rearrangement of 12(
Humans have three major enzymes for arachidonic acid oxidation: LOX, cyclooxygenase (COX), and cytochrome P450 epoxygenase. Epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs) are the products of the P450 epoxygenase pathway (
Epoxygenases and EETs are present in trigeminal neurons, and tonic release of EETs has been shown to aid CGRP secretion upon neuronal excitation [
Plants produce isoprene lipids (terpenoids) for a variety of purposes. Many of those have already been shown to open TRPV3 [
Nonpolar isoprene repeats and polar phosphate moieties are both structurally required for TRPV3 activation, reminiscent of the amine conjugate cases for TRPV1 [
DMAPP, the precursor of FPP, activates and sensitizes TRPV4 [
Retinoids contain isoprene repeats, but do not share a synthetic metabolism with the cholesterol precursors described above in the body. Instead, retinoids are generated from carotenoid breakdown and further alcohol and aldehyde dehydrogenation. Members of the retinoid family have been shown to be important in properly maintaining rhodopsin structure, neuronal outgrowth and differentiation, and restoring neuronal function after injury. Among endogenous retinoids, all-
Throughout this review, the binding mode of lipids seems to be a non-covalent manner as known from typical second messenger interactions and drug-ligand interactions. TRPA1 offers a unique exception: TRPA1. Although the TRPA1 ligand hepoxilin was briefly introduced above as a non-covalent activator, TRPA1 is likely entrusted with detection of reactive substances via its covalent binding potential [
In fact, covalent interactions between reactive ligands and receptors have been reported previously. With respect to cyclopentenone PGs, they act on nuclear receptors such as peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) or nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) in a similar covalent manner. Cyclopentane PGs that lack an αβ-unsaturated carbon have no direct effect on TRPA1 or nuclear receptors. Instead, they act on their own receptors such as EP or DP type GPCRs in a typical non-covalent fashion. On the other hand, reactive cyclopentenone PGs do not interact with the GPCRs. It might be possible that these two PG species diverged evolutionarily to regulate different biological processes. All PGs share a common involvement in amplifying inflammatory and nociceptive signals, which is their most important protection mechanism in the body. One difference is their time resolutions. TRPA1 activation by cyclopentenones seems to be an acute alert sign (seconds to minutes), whereas cyclopentanes likely play a relatively long term role (hours to days) for development of inflammation and chronic pain.
Nitrative fatty acids are also covalent TRPA1 activators [
The Michael addition mechanism may also apply to fatty aldehydes containing αβ-unsaturated carbons generated upon oxidative stress: 4-oxononenal (4-ONE), 4-hydroxynonenal (4-HNE), and 4-hydroxyhexenal (4-HHE). These ligands are degraded metabolites of hydroperoxy PUFAs such as HpETEs. While HpETEs are known to be specific to TRPV1, fatty aldehydes activate TRPA1 [
EET-TRPA1 interaction in the spinal presynapse was mentioned above. The same study proposed that the covalent binding mechanism explains this interaction, which was elucidated using a TRPA1 mutant lacking critical cysteine/lysine residues [
TRPA1 specificity of the covalent lipids remains a matter of some debate. The De Groat group showed that nitrooleic acid can also activate TRPV1 and even other unknown ion channels [
When exposed to a lipophilic molecule, the lipid bilayer of the cellular membrane can experience changes in its fluidity or thickness, possibly affecting ion channel structure and gating [
Using membrane cupformer and crenator assays, Vanden Abeele
Ca2+-independent PLA2 (iPLA2) is known to constitutively produce LPLs. Accordingly, LPLs appeared to be fascinating but unlikely molecules in terms of the on-demand release that is required of intercellular transmitters or a second messengers. Later, however, the stimulant-dependent
Core properties extracted from their chemical structure of lipidergic ligands might help to demonstrate how lipids and TRPs specifically interact. Although a thorough exploration of the basis of how long carbon chains are optimal for TRP binding and gating, recent studies have suggested that aliphatic chain length may determine TRP activation potency. Longer chains appear to elicit bigger responses from TRPA1 [
Amphiphilic structures comprising a relatively polar moiety and an aliphatic chain are frequently found in lipidergic TRP modulators such as fatty acid amine conjugates, phosphoryl isoprenoids and even among exogenous plant substances such as the canonical TRPV1 activator capsaicin. In addition, in an energy-minimized 3-dimensional view, relatively polar region composed of hydroperoxy residues in HpETE species was found to contribute to forming capsaicin-like structure [
Intracellular signal transductions initiated by plasma membrane receptor-ligand interactions frequently consist of amplification of signals via boosting downstream enzyme cascades or ion channel activities. Sometimes, inhibitory modulations on enzymes or ion channels also occur such as Gi-coupled reduction in cAMP formation. Likewise, and even more notably, when we see the top upstream, the receptor-ligand interaction, it appears to be based on agonism, while competitive antagonism or inverse agonism appears to be relatively rare, and may instead be an artificial or strategic phenomenon to manipulate pathologic conditions [
In the sensory TRP channel field, adenosine was the first reported endogenous TRPV1 inhibitor [
Lipids generated from monocytes/macrophages, injured tissue and the vascular endothelium comprise the major regulators dominating the progression of acute inflammation. Lipidergic regulators can be subcategorized into two classes according to the inflammatory phases, namely, pro-inflammatory and resolving classes [
LOXs of monocyte/macrophage and neutrophil metabolize n-3 fatty acids (docosahexaenoic acid {DHA} and eicosapentaenoic acid {EPA}) into resovin D and E species (
The strong potencies of these resolving lipids at nanomolar levels that were commonly observed in TRP studies appear to make their future utility promising in the pain management field. In the inflammation field, these substances are already shown to strongly resolve varied types of inflammatory diseases without adverse effects in animal models. Not only administration of resolvents or their synthetic analogues, but also promoting their production in tissue by manipulating the function of their metabolic enzymes could be attractive therapeutic strategies [
By and large, sensory TRPs seem to discern n-6 and n-3 unsaturated fatty acids as their activators and inhibitors, respectively. An exception is TRPM8: it is inhibited by either type of the PUFAs [
Micromolar IPP inhibits TRPA1 and TRPV3 and suppresses pain modalities mediated via these two TRP channels [
Biosynthetic pathways for resolvin E1 (RvE1) (
Although IPP has a relatively simple chemical structure, it has been studied as an exogenous antigen in the immunology field, like DMAPP. The human T cell receptor of γ2δ2 T cells detects exogenous IPP [
As soon as sensory TRP channels were discovered in the late 1990s, their interactions with lipids began to be noticed. Since then, sensory TRP research has generated a series of interesting hypotheses. In turn, in the process of examinations of those hypotheses, TRP-mediated pain mechanisms are being elucidated. This review provided an overview of the roles for individual sensory TRP channels in nociception and summarized the endogenous lipids that act on TRPs mostly in the context of pain modulation (
The list of endogenous lipids that regulate sensory TRP channel activities introduced in this review and their TRP channel targets.
|Sensory TRP channels
|Endogenous lipidergic activators
|Endogenous lipidergic inhibitors
|Arachidonic acid, DAG [
|17(S)-resolvin D1 [
|12(S)-HpETE, 15(S)-HpETE [
|Resolvin D2 [
|arachidonic acid [
|17(R)-resolvin D1 [
|EETs [
|17(S)-resolvin D1 [
|EPA, DHA, arachidonic acid [
Because of their diffusible nature and binding mode that is not yet completely understood, it is still less clear whether individual lipids conform with the classical neurotransmitter binding, second messenger modulation, or membrane bilayer incorporation concepts, although those are roughly categorized here. This has not been an issue when metabotropic prostaglandin receptors, LPA receptors, or cannabinoid receptors were found. Their lipids bind to an external region of the receptors, which initiates internal enzymatic signaling cascades. Indeed, the heterogeneity of interaction modes predicted for TRP channels thus far require a more concerted effort to accumulate information about the molecular properties of each lipids and TRP proteins. Accompanying structural information will also narrow down leads for analgesics aimed at inhibiting TRPs.
Vesicular transport of TRP-modulating lipids is considered improbable. It is unknown how rapidly lipids with a polar residue permeate the plasma membrane of excretory and receiving cells. The production processes of some lipids also remain elusive. For example, the activity of PLA2 and PLC are coupled to activation of membrane metabotropic receptors. However, it is unclear whether the downstream enzyme LOX is activated, overexpressed or translocates to the membrane upon relevant stimuli, or if it is otherwise tonically active. Attention to the source substrates (DHA, EPA,
In conclusion, sensory TRP channels are crucial molecular components for peripheral pain mediation. Research on TRP modulation by lipidergic endogenous substances has greatly extended our knowledge of the initiation and exacerbation of pain. Future exploration of the lipid-TRP interaction will contribute to a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of pain and may also help in devising pharmacological strategies for manipulating pain.
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant (2012000540) and Korea Health technology R&D Project of Ministry of Health & Welfare Grant (A111373).
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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FEBRUARY will be a busy month for redheads abstaining from booze during Febfast because it is also known as ''Gingerary'' by the Red And Nearly Ginger Association. Head redhead Aaron Webb urges people to dye their hair to walk in the shoes of those not blond or brunette, saying: ''Dye it yourself or use a supporting hairdresser.'' Which brings us to well-documented electioneering redhead Julia Gillard and a hairdresser she knows, Tim Mathieson. Medico Professor Kerryn Phelps took a particular interest in his gaffe about prostate cancer examinations and petite female Asian doctors, pondering: ''Does size really matter?'' And she's not talking about beauty salon bouffants. She wrote in her blog: ''Now I confess that I am a female doctor with a 6.5 glove size. Male patients often have a nervous laugh and joke about the fact that they are relieved that I have small fingers. I don't take it as an insult. Or a compliment for that matter. I checked with an expert. I called my brother-in-law Prof Phillip Stricker, a brilliant prostate cancer surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, and prostate cancer advocate. He said there is no evidence that glove size makes any difference. What does matter is your doctor's technique and experience.'' Another reason Mathieson should be terribly sorry.
Model citizens
MOST industries conduct job interviews in private, but at model castings, the body beautiful is on show. On Thursday, Myer is looking for new faces to parade its autumn/winter collection with Jennifer Hawkins and Kris Smith at the store's launch on February 28, and analysing body shapes who have ''the look'' are Harper's Bazaar fashion director and head stylist Thelma McQuillan, and creative director from Gloss Creative, Amanda Henderson. The season's looks are leather, lace, peplum, bejewelled, winter floral and the skinny pant. Not too skinny, we hope, because some lovelies desperately need the ''see-food diet'' - see food and eat it. Or as Fitzroy identity Bruce Bradfield champions: ''It's all about portion control.''
Up some Creek
ACTOR John Jarratt is bunkered down in the South Australian wilderness filming Wolf Creek 2 and channelling sicko serial killer Mick Taylor. A multi-faceted chap away from the camera, Jarratt campaigned for Schapelle Corby's release from a Bali jail by reinventing the lyrics of John Lennon's War Is Over. The thrice married Jarratt left third wife Cody to reunite with first wife Rosa. Second wife Noni Hazlehurst is very happy as a former wife. Jarratt is keeping friends posted about filming, telling them: ''Hi Ya-all, In the middle of nowhere until the 1st of February. Got no reception (vodafone!!!). If you need to contact me, you'll have to email. Alla best, JJ.''
And here's Oprah
TOORAK YouTube blogger Megan Castran is loving life in the US after catching up with her old friend Oprah, as in Winfrey, in Chicago as one of the TV star's OWN ambassadors for the Oprah Winfrey Network. Megan, husband Paul and daughter Zoe added to their bulging photo album by posing with the megastar on the day of her Lance Armstrong interview. The Castrans graced the red carpet of the Screen Actors Guild Awards and, being the celebrity magnet she is, Megan was snapped with Mr Congeniality, Hugh Jackman, and Modern Family actor Eric Stonestreet, who plays cuddly Cameron Tucker. At the after-party, the Castrans mingled with the cast and playful stars from Glee. If that didn't fill the quota of star-spotting, Megan bumped into actor Anthony Hopkins having breakfast in her hotel, The Peninsula in Beverly Hills, then met movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. For the finale, there was an encounter with curly-haired aerobics lycra lover Richard Simmons, who imparted these words of wisdom from his mother: ''If you can't be nice … stay home!''
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I'm not sure if this goes under PHP or Database
I have a database with over 100k rows of search results and tracking information.
When i try query and compile a report it takes FOREVER... is there any techniques to run faster queries ?
the database columns are
id | ipaddress | page | product | timedate | se_keywords
Define indexes on the columns you use to filter rows (i.e. the WHERE clauses and JOIN conditions of the query). If you do that, 100k rows should be no problem at all.
with indexes
yeah i know about indexes.. i just wasn't sure if there's a different method..
how do big companies handle hundred thousands of records, millions possibly.. Definitely if you're tracking thousands of users accessing pages daily, and products.


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Presidential Award of Excellence
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"In a sustainable community, everything is curriculum and everyone's an educator."
Tom Kelly is the University of New Hampshire 's first and only director of sustainability. To hear him tell the story of his arrival in Durham , he just happened into the role in 1997 when he was asked by UNH folks to assist with the job description. He jokingly said he might be interested if they moved forward with the position.
Well, move forward they did and Tom's been orchestrating the effort now for ten years. You might call him the maestro of all things sustainable.
Those who work with Tom nod knowingly when they hear the comparison. Before taking on the sustainability challenge, Tom had been preparing for a life in music with degrees in composition and operatic conducting from Berklee School of Music and the Boston Conservatory of Music. When he questioned his life's path, he changed direction with master's and doctoral degrees in international relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts and extensive field work in Latin America.
Those on the front lines also laugh at any notion of happenstance regarding Tom's work with sustainability. That UNH is one of the nation's most sustainable universities is no accident. You might call the decade-long effort Dr. Kelly's Opus.
On any given day, you can find Tom standing at his desk in Nesmith Hall. In truth, he's nurturing a bad back. But, it's easy to imagine him in white tie and tails and he does wave his pen around as if it were a baton.
Today, he's the CSO or chief sustainability officer. This summer's change in title and move to the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President are testament to the success of his and many colleagues' effort and the increasing importance of sustainability both here at UNH and worldwide.
Tom and his colleagues in sustainability integrate the principles and practices of sustainability throughout the University's CORE - curriculum, operations, research, and engagement - working with local, state, regional, national, and international partners to build and model a sustainable learning community.
Tom has helped to develop courses and programs of study as well as policies encompassing transportation and public art; he serves on many graduate thesis committees and teaches in the Master of Public Health program. He's been instrumental in developing UNH's greenhouse gas emissions inventory and Energy Task Force and worked to make our organic dairy a reality. Tom is a member of the NH Energy Policy Commission and the Advisory Committee of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
This is but a small sampling of what Tom has been engaged in these past ten years. In the future, Tom will play a key role in strategic, university-wide projects like Carbon Solutions New England 2020 - a long-term initiative to build a clean energy future for the state and the region.
When Tom arrived in Durham , he was firm in his belief that it would be a good ten years before UNH reached the first plateau in its sustainability effort.
Consider those years the first movement.
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Marmite factory update
BEHIND THE SCENES | Good progress against the odds! - 08/10/12
Repairs to our Christchurch factory are progressing well: the bare structure of the factory building is standing tall, with newly strengthened floors along with interior and exterior walls!
As you'll see
from the photos, it's taken a lot of work to get it to
this point after the demolition earlier this year.
Reconstructing our Christchurch factory continues to be a
complex project, as repair work continues to meet the new
building codes.
We still have some final interior work to complete before the repair and recommissioning of our production line throughout October/November so that the time-honoured craft of making and blending Marmite can begin.
Thank you so much for your loyalty and patience - we really do appreciate it. Thanks also to our hard-working reconstruction team, who've been labouring through the cold months of winter, working long hours to get the black gold back in your pantry as soon as possible!
We know the waiting is tough and we are again asking you to understand that there will be a time lapse between the start of production and the availability of product on-shelf. We have not set a back-on-shelf date yet as we anticipate we will have some production hurdles to overcome. As soon as we know when that will be, we will let everyone know via Facebook and the media. We'll keep you posted.
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I'm interested in politics as most people should be that have to face the injustices of the system on a daily basis. I would consider myself leftist in my political orientation, though most people would say I'm a socialist or a communist. I dislike those terms because of what's associated with them. The ideas behind them are great.
I'm studying computer science right now and most of my (free) time is invested there. I really like open source software which may be a result of my leftist mindset.
Most of my (not free) time is invested into my family - I live in a polyamorus relationship together with my girlfriend, her other boyfriend and our five children, though I sometimes feel that I haven't got enough time especially for the small ones.
As stated above I also like music: Metal, Punk and Classic mosty, though I think there is some great music from most genres.
I like political lyrics or great tunes (the greatness depends on individual taste I guess ;) ).
Except that I'm trying to live.. ;)
There are some things, I think I'm good at, too.
I'm good at crafting and building things, ranging from origami to furniture or even walls.
My biggest problem concerning that is my lack of creativity.
I'm also good at computers and programming. I'm even good at helping others with theirs, even via phone line. ;)
Movies and shows: the adaptations of the books I like, the top 100 of IMDB are a good starting point, too
Music: mostly metal, punk and classics, but I'm not sure if there is a kind of music that doesn't have it's "pearls" ;)
Then it mostly boils down to my computer (since it's the second best way to keep social), good books, a (moto)bike, a cell phone (the third best way to keep social contacts ;) ) and most important: something to think about!
The rest will be reserved until I find something worth mentioning.
Actually right now I think about quines
Realistically you most likely won't message me, because you are most likely a woman and it seems like the inboxes of women are getting filled with (mostly uncreative, I guess, ) messages that the woman either haven't time or need to write to a man.
Maybe you should message me if I messaged you first then... ;)


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> From: Hilton Travis [mailto:Hilton at QuarkAV dot com]
> As far as I can tell, m0n0wall currently only supports 3
> physical NICs.
I might be wrong, but I thought a virtually unlimited number of interfaces
is supported?
In fact, I'm almost shure!
> As for iproute2 and source routing, this is EXTREMELY
> powerful, allowing
> very complex networks to be configured with relatively few routing
> rules. It also removes much of the need for the old "route" command.
> :)
there is the possibility of putting in static routes, but no means of making
them source-dependant. Again, I might be wrong ;-)
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The second largest state workers' union in New York has narrowly rejected a tentative contract that would have frozen wages but avoided layoffs.
The Cuomo administration has threatened 3,500 layoffs if the contract was rejected.
The Public Employees Federation said the vote was 19,629 members against the tentative contract to 16,906 for it.
The union represents 56,000 professional, scientific and technical employees. It was the first time in 34 years that members rejected a contract negotiated by its leaders with the state government.
The Civil Service Employees Association, representing 66,000 state workers, approved a similar contract in June.
Its proposed three-year wage freeze would be followed by 2 percent pay increases in 2014 and 2015, as well as lump-sum "retention payments" of $775 in 2013 and $225 in 2014.
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- Globecomm awarded $3.6M in gov't contracts
- Verint to acquire Atlanta-based GMT Corp.
- Ex-FalconStor CEO dies in apparent suicide
- NY's 2nd largest public union rejects contract
- Google to finance home solar systems
- Cities imposing broad cuts as revenue shrinks
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AARP members are going tripping.
Before you get the wrong idea, the non-profit organization for folks age 50 and above is about to announce a collaboration with Tripping, a socially oriented hospitality network that connects travelers with locals in 145 countries.
Though Tripping is open to people of any age, AARP will have a branded presence inside the Tripping network. You can access the free site here.
The would-be appeal to the AARP crowd, many of whom like to travel, is that through Tripping they can make cultural exchanges with people in other places, overseas and domestically, and even stay in a local's home.
Inside the app, an AARP member can indicate whether he or she is willing to host a traveler. Tripping says it helps ensure the safety of individuals who plan on meeting offline while traveling, through references, anonymous ratings, video validation and an emergency hotline for all its members.
The AARP isn't new to social networking. AARP senior adviser Bradley Schurman says the organization already has a robust social-media presence, with multiple channels on Twitter and Facebook dedicated to such topics as health, money and family.
For tech companies, it makes sense to reach out to AARP's 40-some million members. At the recent Demo conference that I attended, AARP's Senior Vice President Jody Holtzman quipped, "You'd have to be an idiot to turn your back on the only humongous growth market that exists."
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samhain is a daemon that can check file integrity, search the file tree for SUID files, and detect kernel module rootkits (Linux only). It can be used either standalone or as a client/server system for centralized monitoring, with strong (192-bit AES) encryption for client/server connections and the option to store databases and configuration files on the server. For tamper resistance, it supports signed database/configuration files and signed reports/audit logs. It has been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Unixware.
CryptoHeaven offers secure email and online file sharing/storage. Its main features are secure and highly encrypted services such as group collaboration, file sharing, email, online storage, and instant messaging. It integrates multi-user based security into email, instant messaging, and file storage and sharing in one unique package. It provides real time communication for text and data transfers in a multi-user secure environment. The security and usability of CryptoHeaven is well-balanced; even the no-so-technically oriented computer users can enjoy this crypto product with very high level of encryption.
The Mandos system allows computers to have encrypted root file systems and at the same time be capable of remote or unattended reboots. The computers run a small client program in the initial RAM disk environment which will communicate with a server over a network. All network communication is encrypted using TLS. The clients are identified by the server using an OpenPGP key that is unique to each client. The server sends the clients an encrypted password. The encrypted password is decrypted by the clients using the same OpenPGP key, and the password is then used to unlock the root file system.
The OpenCA OCSP Responder is an RFC 2560 compliant OCSPD responder. It can be used to verify the status of a certificate using OCSP clients (such as Mozilla/Netscape7). The Responder is actually included in the main OpenCA distribution package. It is also possible to install the daemon as a stand-alone application, in which case you will need a CRL (or access to an LDAP server where the CRL can be obtained).
The LibPKI Project is aimed to provide an easy-to-use PKI library for PKI-enabled application development. The library provides the developer with all the needed functionality to manage certificates, from generation to validation. It helps developers integrate X509 digital certificates into their applications, and implement complex cryptographic operations with a few simple function calls using a high-level cryptographic API. The library constitutes the core of other OpenCA Labs Projects like the PRQP Server, the OCSP Responder, and the OpenCA-NG PKI.
Ubuntu Privacy Remix is a modified live CD based on Ubuntu Linux. UPR is not intended for permanent installation on a hard disk. The goal of Ubuntu Privacy Remix is to provide an isolated working environment where private data can be dealt with safely. The system installed on the computer running UPR remains untouched. It does this by removing support for network devices as well as local hard disks. Ubuntu Privacy Remix includes TrueCrypt and GnuPG for encryption and introduces "extended TrueCrypt volumes".
PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted network access control (NAC) system. It includes a captive portal for registration and remediation, centralized wired and wireless management, 802.1X support, layer-2 isolation of problematic devices, and integration with the Snort IDS and the Nessus vulnerability scanner. It can be used to effectively secure networks, from small to very large heterogeneous networks.


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The crying need of the times is a wholesome respect for law and order, and a righteous condemnation of mob rule everywhere.
That is, if men have the will to rebel, and if they despise the sentimentality of mob rule.
Disorder and mob rule, however, continued to prevail in Russia, while hunger and unemployment were daily increasing.
They would do away with property and give the world over to mob rule.
He describes the mob rule in the Trojan government in which all are accomplices of Alexander and all are involved in misfortunes.
You are threatening this village with mob rule, a condition under which no community can exist and no business can be conducted.
They were especially suspicious of Paris, and hostile to it as the home of fickleness, of irresponsibility, and of mob rule.
The forces 15 of lawlessness broke loose and mob rule prevailed.
Above most men, he had preached the gospel of sacred devotion to law and to the iniquity of mob rule.
But, as I have been seeking to suggest, mob rule and official rule do not exhaust the possible alternatives.


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AT 15 years and 10 months, Mustapha Dib fatally stabbed 14-year-old Edward Lee in a street brawl between two gangs of Asian and Lebanese youths in Telopea Street, Punchbowl, in 1998.
Two years later, Dib, having discovered a former schoolmate, Ahmed Banat, was helping police as an informant, decided he had to act.
Dib had not yet been charged over Lee's death. But he told a friend Banat was a ''dog'' and said, ''if you testify, your next of kin will die''.
Days later, on November 23, 2000, Banat, then 22 and his partner, Anita Vrzina, 20, were shot in a Punchbowl street. Banat and Vrzina were in their car with their two-year-old son in the back when a stolen Nissan Pulsar drove up beside them. Vrzina was fatally shot in the chest. Banat was shot in the neck but survived after emergency surgery in St George Hospital.
Dib was charged with Lee's murder and pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 2001. He spent about eight years in jail.
He was also charged with the murder of Vrzina and shooting with intent to murder Banat. He was put on trial twice in 2003, but the trials were aborted. Banat, who had identified Dib as his attacker then recanted, fled to Syria and no trial could go ahead until he was tracked down, arrested and extradited years later.
After a jury trial in the NSW Supreme Court in July, Dib was convicted and on Friday he was sentenced to at least 30 years jail.
Justice Graham Barr said Dib planned the public execution of Banat, to prevent him giving evidence on Dib's part in the killing of Lee. He murdered Vrzina so she could not identify him as the shooter.
''To assassinate a person to prevent their giving evidence strikes at the heart of our system of justice,'' Justice Barr said.
Although the crimes were in the ''worst category'', Justice Barr did not impose a life sentence because Dib was a minor at the time and had some prospects of rehabilitation.
Dib was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years and maximum 35 years for the murder of Vrzina. He was sentenced to a minimum 15 years and maximum 20 years for shooting with intent to murder Banat.
With time served and some accumulation of the sentences he will be eligible for parole in July 2041.


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Passing Shots
Random thoughts, observations, links and other goodies from the tennis world this week …
• I've spent most of the week marveling at how cold it's been in Paris. Serena Williams looks like she's thrown on all the workout gear she has just to stay warm. The weather forecast doesn't look much better next week, either.
• Stat line of the week: Zheng Jie hit 34 winners on clay to beat former No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki 6-2, 6-4 in the first round of the Brussels Open. There is absolutely no reason Zheng should be able to do that if Wozniacki is playing at a C-level. Which is to say the Dane is struggling badly.
• As much as Wozniacki is struggling -- she hasn't won a match on red clay all season -- I suspect she'll get up for her first-round match against Laura Robson at the French Open. Wozniacki, a defensive grinder who gets back that extra ball, is precisely the type of opponent who still troubles Robson.
• One of these days I'm going to do a post solely comrosed of pictures of Svetlana Kuznetsova's dog, Dolce. You've been warned.
• Bar chat: Which would be more shocking -- Rafael Nadal fails to defend his Roland Garros title, or Maria Sharapova successfully defends hers?
• In case you missed it: After losing to Yulia Putintseva in the final round of qualifying for the Brussels Open, Coco Vandeweghe blasted the 18-year-old's sportsmanship. I reached out to Vandeweghe to ask her for specifics and she told me the WTA had asked her not to comment. All I know is that the WTA's Generation Next is shaping up to be something.
• Here is your GIF of the Week: Maria Sharapova being Maria Sharapova.
• You see the weirdest things while watching a tennis match:
• The French Open's iPhone app is a disappointment. It offered no schedules or live scores for the qualifying tournament and didn't post the draws until hours after they were available online. If you're going to invest in an app, make it useful and not just a marketing tool.
• I know Janko Tipsarevic's sunglasses are his trademark, but his new ATP profile picture is completely ridiculous.
• You know that awful feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you show up to an event underdressed? Jo-Wilfried Tsonga doesn't:
• Bar chat: Which is the more worrisome French Open withdrawal: Andy Murray's or Juan Martin del Potro's?
• There may have been some drama during Jack Sock's 6-2, 6-3 win over Facundo Arguello in the final round of French Open qualifying.
• Serena may not agree with me, but it's not the French Open without an appearance by Justine Henin. She popped over to Brussels to take in a day of the waterlogged Brussels Open this week:
• Roger Federer drew the toughest qualifier in the first round at Roland Garros: Pablo Carreno-Busta. The 21-year-old Spaniard (whom I highlighted last month) is up to No. 166 after starting the year ranked No. 654. He won seven consecutive Futures events earlier this year and defeated Julien Benneteau, David Goffin and Fabio Fognini en route to the Portugal Open semifinals a few weeks ago.
• For the first time in a long while, Ryan Harrison hasn't been cursed with a brutal draw at a Slam. It will be interesting to see if he takes advantage of it.
• Under-the-radar first-round women's matchups in Paris: Peng Shuai vs. Camila Giorgi; Lauren Davis vs. Kristina Mladenovic; Melanie Oudin vs. Tamira Paszek.
• For the men: Grigor Dimitrov vs. Alejandro Falla; Philipp Kohlschreiber vs. Jiri Vesely; Tipsarevic vs. Nicolas Mahut; Jerzy Janowicz vs. Albert Ramos; Nick Kyrgios vs. Radek Stepanek.painting


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Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry appears to be doubling down on the President Obama birth certificate issue.
"It's a good issue to keep alive," Perry told CNBC in an interview. "It's fun to poke at him."
Perry said, "I don't have a clue" about "what that (Obama) birth certificate says."
The comments came after a weekend interview in which Perry said he has no reason to doubt Obama is a U.S. citizen -- but he noted that he had dinner recently with Donald Trump, who says he doesn't think Obama's Hawaii birth certificate is real.
"Well, I don't have a definitive answer, because he's never seen my birth certificate," Perry told Parade magazine.
Perry's apparent flirtation with the "birther" issue drew criticism from some fellow Republicans who called it an unnecessary distraction from other issues (such as Perry's flat tax plan, the subject of the CNBC interview).
"You associate yourself with a nutty view like that, and you damage yourself," said former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove.
Rove told Fox News that "there's a simple answer" to the Obama birth certificate question: "Yes, he was born in the United States; yes, he is eligible to serve, and don't associate yourself with sort of this nutty fringe group."
In April, Obama released his birth certificate showing that he was, in fact, born in Honolulu on Aug. 4, 1961.
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Applications of GIS technology to forest science and management. Fundamentals of GIS systems: data sources, preprocessing, map analysis, output; remote sensing as a source of GIS data, image analysis, and classification. Emphasis on GIS as a source of management and technical information requests. Offered: AW.
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Instruction takes the form of 1-hour lectures twice a week, with paired 2 hour lab/exercise sessions. Emphasis is placed on hands-on use of hardware, software (ArcView GIS), and data.
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It is essential that students have the following skills: (1) Have an account on one of the UW mail computers (dante, saul, etc.). If you do not have an account, you should get one as soon as possible, following directions at UW NetID for Students. (2) Have a CFR computer account, following instructions at the CFRnet homepage. (3) Know how to use a Web browser, including file downloading. (4) Know how to use file transfer protocol (ftp) either by using a command-line or WS-FTP interface. (5) Have basic familiarity with a word processor and spreadsheet application. (6) Be comfortable with the Windows95 or NT operating system, including hierarchical file structures, and the Windows Explorer. (7) Be able to capture images from the monitor and paste these images into another document. (8) Have a working knowledge of algebra, trigonometry, and coordinate geometry. (9) Have a basic familiarity with maps and map reading.
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Green crusaders fight for sustainability
The Green Living Show and NZ Organic Natural Expo announces a blockbuster lineup of speakers, including two super-guests who are leading the fight against unsustainable practices in retail – New Zealand's Organic Crusader and the EcoWoman.
New World Remuera owner Adrian Barkla, crusader for more organic produce in supermarkets, together with 'EcoWoman', Belinda Robinson, owner of natural cleaning range 'ecobasik', will headline the event at Auckland's ASB Showgrounds on 5th and 6th July.
Green Living Show CEO, Tina Raines says both speakers are huge drawcards for Kiwis who are passionate about sustainable living.
"Adrian and Belinda are two of New Zealand's most prominent up-and-comers in the world of sustainability. They build their business models around products that are healthy and sustainable, and work hard to give those products price parity to ensure environmentally sustainable solutions are affordable for all New Zealanders."
The show will be the first chance for eco-minded Kiwis to hear from these two leaders in sustainability, with this year's event marking the first public seminar for both.
This year's Green Living Show – the biggest in the event's four year history – is also promising more exhibitors than ever before, as well as a bigger range of innovative eco-friendly products.
This will be the first showing for sustainable shoe brand Piccadilly, as well as a chance for event goers to get up close and personal with electric cars from five of the world's leading car manufacturers.
"The Green Living Show encompasses all aspects of green living," says Mrs. Raines.
"Whether it's finding out how to realise energy efficiencies in your home or office, sourcing the latest organic products, or getting advice on sustainability in anything from beauty to home renovation, the Green Living Show has something for everyone."
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Fashion is finally catching up with Sydney Opera House staff, writes Valerie Lawson.
The first uniform was groovy, baby, the second was fit for the flight deck, the third was modesty itself, the fourth was so '80s and the last has lasted since 1989.
That is a long time to wear the same outfit to work.
The 300 front-of-house staff at the Sydney Opera House are not unhappy with their existing uniform, but let's just say it is time to change those puffy shoulders and the grey fabric that fades into the concrete walls.
This week the Opera House launched a competition for a new staff uniform, to be ready for its 30th birthday celebrations later this year. The contest was the idea of Monica Armesto, a tour guide and box office staff member.
"I think the jacket has what's called leg of mutton sleeves," she said. "Some people have been wearing it for 13 years. You really do want a change. I'm hoping there will be more colours and more choice than we've got now."
The competition is not aimed at fashion houses. Instead, the Opera House has called for designs from third- and fourth-year students at the University of Technology, Whitehouse Institute of Design, East Sydney Institute of Technology and TAFE NSW Institute, as well the institutions' 2002 graduates.
Lisa Bateman, a spokeswoman for the Opera House, said there would be no risk in this as the finalists would be supervised by their tutors and the corporate fashion firm Table Eight, which will also make the new uniforms.
The new look will mean the end of a 13-year relationship between the Opera House and the corporate fashion manufacturer Dallen Design, whose managing director, Paul Fitzpatrick, learnt of the competition from the Herald.
Mr Fitzpatrick said the current uniform fabric was "indestructible, which is annoying. They haven't ordered any new jackets for more than five years".
"We've been trying to get them to change their uniform for ages but we could never even get through to the former chief executive, Michael Lynch. I think at one stage he went to designers like Akira and Trent but nothing came of it. But I'm pleased they are changing. The Opera House is the national icon and the uniform is letting them down."
The current uniforms were designed in 1989 by a Brisbane designer, Barbara Battaglini. They in turn replaced a blue and brown combination designed by uniform makers Henry Harris. This uniform had lasted throughout the 1980s after a rapid turnover of three designs in the 1970s.
Ms Armesto likes the first outfit best. The A-line mini was "kind of saucy". The only problem was its length, especially for women whose job involves stairs.
Trousers and flat shoes seem the sensible Opera House choice - too sensible sometimes. On her days off, Ms Armesto likes to slip into a pair of very high heels.
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