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I'm not sure if I am alone on this one, but whenever I watch TV most of the ads I see tend to aim at leaving the viewers laughing more than anything else.
Sex has been employed in advertising since the beginning of advertising. It has been predominantly used to draw attention to a product, with a goal to make a sale.
The sexual imagery used usually has no connection to the product advertised.
While listening to the Metro FM's Breakfast Show a couple of weeks back, the DJ asked the listeners to call-in and share their faviourite (currently on-air) adverts. All of the adverts the listeners mentioned as their favourites were ads that had a some sort of a 'punch line' at the end.
Most of the callers couldn't stop giggling while they were sharing their favourites with other listeners.
It's clear that the ads made it to the viewers 'faviourites list' simply because they made them laugh. The same kind of adverts resurrect whenever 'cool' adverts become part of the conversation whenever I converse with friends, family and complete strangers.
Before labeling an ad as a success, does the advertiser and the ad's intended audience judge the ad on the same audience (re)action?
Some ads even managed to make me laugh so hard that I'd be in tears. But, I have never bought and I doubt I'll ever buy most of the products that were being advertised, though I fall within the advertiser's targeted market. KFC also has some funny TV ads, again most make me laugh until my poor t-shirt drowns in my tears. However, the disturbing thing is that I really don't remember or even have noticed which of their product range was advertised.
Most ads have some sort of 'story or play' happening for 99% of the time and then only get to say, name or show the product being sold at the last 2 seconds of the ad.
The product usually loses the spotlight to the 'joke'.
I have a friend named Tshepho, almost all the time we watch TV together and an ad he liked just went by, he'll go "tjo, ah advert yela e blind san!" (wow, that ad is a killer man). And most of the times I can tell when he is about to say his 'phrase of approval' before he even utters a word.
Why? Because he'd already be laughing like there's no tomorrow, occasionally with a round of applause.
I know that with the countless number of marketing messages we consume daily, an ad that seriously made me laugh is likely to stay in my already over-populated mind for some time to come, while some ads never get to part ways with my memory.
People really do fall in love with ads; my dad would at times shout my younger brother's name, just calling him to come see his favourite ad. But does that translate into a sale or at least a brand building exercise that might be a sale someday?
Do consumers really make their final buying decision based on who made them laugh the most?
The biggest contrast between sex and humour in advertising is that sex is mainly used to attract audience to the ad, while humour is only exercised after the ad has attracted the viewers' attention.
Is there any logical reasons for advertisers to play comedians?


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ONE of the rising stars of Chinese politics slipped away from his official itinerary this week to rally support for the Communist Party among Chinese-Australian business and community leaders.
Wang Yang, the party boss of Guangdong province, was spirited away to Sydney's Shangri-La Hotel on Tuesday night to reassure select Chinese Australians that the party would overcome its recent divisions, following the purge of Politburo member Bo Xilai.
''Despite many challenges faced by the party, these issues will be resolved in the future,'' he said, according to a source who was at the meeting.
He urged the local Chinese community to support Beijing's official policy of One China, which officially claims Taiwan as part of the mainland, said the source. He also said Falun Gong was supported by Washington and asked the Chinese community not to support its activities in Australia.
The chosen business and community leaders included Chinese-Australian property billionaire Dr Chau Chak Wing, who secured the prized position at Mr Wang's side.
Dr Chau is the 31st-richest person in Australia with a personal net worth of $1 billion, according to the BRW rich list. He is also one of Australia's biggest philanthropists, handing $1.5 million to the main political parties in 2009 and $25 million for a Frank Gehry-designed building and a scholarship at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Another guest was Zhou Guangming, a well-connected Chinese-Australian businessman and philanthropist.
Mr Wang, who is widely tipped to earn a seat on the all-powerful standing committee of the Politburo this year, urged the Chinese-Australian business community to support the overseas expansion of Chinese companies.
He said China needed Australia's resources to develop its economy and the Guangdong provincial government would launch a fund next year to help companies from his province invest abroad. The fund would also be spent on attracting multinationals to Guangdong, according to the source.
A meeting memo obtained by the The Saturday Age says Mr Wang wanted to take advantage of Guangdong's position as home to many overseas Chinese to attract more investment.
He said he wanted to ''better use the Cantonese network abroad to attract talents and capitals and to build a more advanced social and economic development together''.
The overseas Chinese community was a bridge that would help companies from Guangdong to ''go abroad … and to make them internationally competitive''.
Mr Wang said Guangdong must change its economic development model, and the old obsession with GDP growth had brought many problems. He cited examples of labour shortages, lack of resources and environmental degradation. The purpose of his trip was to learn from Australian resources management, he said, and he didn't want Guangdong just to be an assembly line for other countries.
Mr Wang met the Sydney Chinese community after meeting NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell and before meeting the Minister for Climate Change, Greg Combet.

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Fizz, Boom, Read!
by Jennifer Adams, Children's Services Manager
We'll be popping and fizzing at the library this summer with our super science summer reading theme: Fizz, Boom, Read! Mad scientists will be on the loose, and we hope all the kids in town will join us.
June 1st is the first official day of our summer reading program, and kids can start keeping track of how much time they spend reading or listening to books so they can earn great prizes. Children or parents can register for summer reading online and then pick up a book bag and reading chart anytime at the library. Summer reading programs encourage kids to keep reading during the months while school is out, to have fun with books and to avoid "summer slide" when they return to school in August.
Summer slide, or summer learning loss, is the loss of reading skills and other academic knowledge that leaves kids starting out their new school year at a lower level than when they left last May. The public library is your free resource for combatting summer slide with an amazing selection of thousands of fiction and nonfiction titles, beginning readers, audiobooks, discovery packs, and a whole month of weekly activities to engage kids. They will be reading and learning without even knowing it!
Children's librarians Amber, Grace and Rachel have been concocting some fantastic activities for our summer clubs. Kids going into kindergarten or first grade can join the Curious Chaos Creators Club Tuesday or Wednesday afternoons in June. One week, they will study metamorphosis by playing a relay game in which everyone has to go through the metamorphosis process, from squirming caterpillar to chrysalis and finally to flying butterfly. When these young scientists learn about the five senses, they will read and perform "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," picking out how the characters use their senses throughout the story.
Second and third graders will become Ms. Frizzle's Scientists on Tuesday or Thursday afternoons, launching a pretend magic school bus into fascinating places. In their study of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock, the 2nd and 3rd graders will make rock formations using Play-Doh. Each week, the students will get a chance to "ride on the Magic School Bus" with Ms. Frizzle by reading books such as "The Magic School Bus inside a Beehive."
The Mad Science Minions Club for fourth through sixth graders will include hands-on science activities each week, plus demonstrations, videos and information about important scientists throughout history. The first week, Ms. Rachel will focus on microbiology. Kids will be allowed to swab something germy – their mouths, a doorknob, etc. – and grow their own bacteria in a petri dish.
Storytimes are tons of fun for the littler ones, and even babies can be part of our summer reading program when parents record how much time they spend reading aloud to them. Attend a storytime each week to add another 20-30 minutes of reading time, and enjoy singing songs together, learning action rhymes and dancing to music.
The Move and Groove Storytimes this June will highlight our five senses. In our All Ages Storytimes on Fridays and Saturdays, one week will feature the book "Rain" by Manya Stojic, a story set on the African savannah where the animals smell, see, and even taste the rain. We'll pretend it's raining at the end of storytime by dancing with umbrellas and maracas to the classic song "Singin' in the Rain," while Ms. Laura tosses down some colorful pompoms on the umbrellas for "raindrops."
During "sight" week at the Preschool Storytimes, Ms. Chelsea and Ms. Molly will read the treasured picture book "Seven Blind Mice" by Ed Young, in which the mice work together to learn how to see. Kids can touch and feel several objects after storytime, including sandpaper, seashells, and bubble wrap.
At Toddler Storytime during "taste" week, we'll be packing for a picnic. Each child will have a chance to bring an item up to the picnic basket as we sing a song about picnics. Babies and their caregivers at Baby Rhyme Time will have fun during "taste" week as Ms. Jessica and Mr. Brian do a "Yummy, Yucky" flannel board activity. For yummy items, parents will pretend to eat baby's fingers or tummy. For yucky items, they'll blow raspberries instead!
See a schedule for June storytimes and clubs; no registration is required to attend a program. You can also sign up for summer reading from the website and get started on logging your reading time to earn prizes. Teens and adults can participate, too. Our summer reading sponsors include the Manhattan Library Association Friends Group, Sunset Zoo, Flint Hills Discovery Center, Wildcat Creek Golf & Fitness, Manhattan Kiwanis Club, and several fabulous restaurants: Famous Dave's, Noodles & Co., Papa Murphy's, Texas Roadhouse, Varsity Donuts, and Vista Drive-In. So much support for childhood literacy and the library adds up to a summer of fun in Manhattan.
The construction on the children's room expansion continues to progress on schedule with a completion date of December this year. Our room may be a little cramped this summer, but our books are all still available, and library staff is always ready to help you find them!
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A student-focused School Board and more attention on student achievement, especially among poor students who are academically behind, are among the issues identified by residents during public discussions on public education in Lafayette Parish.
A summary of the feedback from the March discussions was released Thursday in the report, "What We Heard — Lafayette Public Education Round Tables." More than 100 residents attended the sessions and provided their opinions on issues related to S chool Board governance and the school system's turnaround plan, known as 100 Percent In, 100 Percent Out, which outlines district priorities to improve student achievement.
Professionalism and more collaboration among board members and administrators are needed, and the board needs to focus more on student achievement with clearly defined benchmarks to gauge improvement, the report reads.
Board members also should work on community relations and building trust, which some viewed as an obstacle to the school system receiving support on past tax proposals.
Related to the turnaround plan, a majority of roundtable participants favored health and wellness programs and identified early childhood education programs as a priority for the district.
The district has attempted to expand both initiatives, though funding remains an obstacle. In fact, a reduction of preschool teachers is on the list of proposed cuts for the board to consider during its general fund budget workshop on May 20.
The board faces a $12 million shortfall.
"A common thread that connected different priorities was maximizing student achievement and preparedness," the report reads.
"Participants stressed that the focus must be on ensuring students are equipped with the right tools for the future, either through school-to-career programs that prepare them to immediately enter the workforce, traditional programs that prepare them for a two- or four-year college or university, or alternative education programs that provide training and opportunities to students who otherwise would not have them."
The roundtable discussions were an effort to create a community vision for public education, which will be released during an event from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. May 28 at the Acadiana Center for the Arts.
The nine-partner organizations organized the moderated roundtable sessions: 100 Black Men of Greater Lafayette, the705, Community Foundation of Acadiana, Concerned Citizens for Good Government, Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, Greater Southwest Louisiana Black Chamber of Commerce, State of Greater Black Lafayette, United Way of Acadiana and the Upper Lafayette Economic Development Foundation.
During the roundtables, the groups also gathered feedback on ways to bolster community involvement in the school system, opinions on charter schools and public school facilities and the implementation of the Common Core State Standards.
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Robert Rodriguez was rumoured to be working on a Predator 3 years ago, which never came to pass, so he's clearly interested in the franchise. But according to Bloody Disgusting, his team in the reboot would face a "mysterious race of vicious monsters", implying that there might be more than one of the alien hunters around.
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Ever wonder what's on José Andrés' playlist? You figure he must be listening to something cutting edge while he's thinking up cotton candy foie gras and playing with the nitro canisters at The Bazaar, right? Try Elton John's Daniel. We know this because the Spanish chef shares his personal soundtrack as part of KCRW's Guest DJ Project. Yes, while Andrés is dreaming up ways to synthesize molecular gastronomy and traditional Spanish tapas, he's singing along to Counting Crows.
The Guest DJ Project is a weekly program that showcases local "cultural trendsetters and icons," who are asked to share 5 inspirational songs. For some reason, chefs are very iconic these days. The show has featured Sang Yoon (Father's Office), Jon Shook (Animal) and even Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi.
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text: 27 November 1998 As Chilean television shows the verdict, Sonia weeps with relief: someone finally is saying "no" to Pinochet Sign up for our weekly email * I'm in Santiago, Chile, to make a short documentary for BBC 2's Correspondent programme. On Wednesday, it seemed as if the whole of the country had stopped and was holding its breath as national television transmitted the first images of the Chamber of the House of Lords in London. I spent that moment with Sonia, whose husband Rene was dragged off on 16 October 1973. General Pinochet was arrested on the same date this year. Sonia sat watching, struggling to understand the exotic procedures of this far-away court. As the verdict sank in, she wept tears of grief for her dead husband, and of incredulous relief that finally, someone had said "no" to Pinochet. It's ten years since I was last here and the city looks brighter and more prosperous. The smog, if anything, is worse. Santiago sprawls between the Andes and the sea, like the rest of this eccentrically shaped country, but in this particular spot air doesn't circulate so the murk lies like a brown blanket on the city. We drive round the foot of the Cerro St Lucia. It is a beautiful little hill in the city centre which has become indelibly associated in my mind with Manuel Contreras, the most sinister of Pinochet's secret service chiefs. Contreras set up Operation Condor, which was a kind of dictator's Interpol: if a Chilean fled to Argentina, Uruguay or Paraguay, Contreras only had to call his cronies and the victim would be captured. I once tried to find Contreras, to interview him for a book. I spent days pursuing one of his agents who, it was said, could fix it. When I finally met the agent, at an address on the fourth floor of one of Santiago's office buildings, he turned out to be a short, fat man who was wearing a vivid chestnut wig. The place seemed to be the secret police beauty shop - entirely full of short, fat men with startling and unlikely hair-pieces. It seemed an odd way to disguise themselves. The agent never delivered me his boss. Now Contreras is one of the few major killers of the regime who is in jail - at US insistence - for the killing of Orlando Letelier in Washington. There is, it turns out, a rival topic of conversation to Pinochet. Santiago is suffering daily power cuts because the electricity generating industry decided to rely entirely on hydropower and now there's a drought. There are two hours of cuts a day when everything from traffic lights to hospital emergency services goes down. The result is chaos. The electricity providers are as high in public esteem as Richard Branson's train service, the government is trying to fine them for failure to supply, industrialists are talking of suing them for huge sums of money for lost production and television relentlessly reports stories of interrupted dialysis and surgical operations completed by candlelight. Day three of the documentary and, in the usual way, disaster follows disaster. The cameraman has missed his connection in Paris and arrives 24 hours late. His equipment fails to arrive with him. The driver - a silent, worried-looking figure - drives first over a dog, at speed, then over the hired television monitor. Neither survive. Meanwhile the city is jumping with things we want to film and time is running out. I have a stab of nostalgia for the relative simplicity of print. I have done the rounds of the pro- and anti-Pinochet demonstrations. The supporters are mostly military men and their families, organised by the Pinochet Foundation. They have been gathering each night opposite the closed windows of the Spanish ambassador's residence to shout their devotion to the general and to try and deprive the ambassador of sleep. A retired general with a megaphone tells me, with apparent conviction, that the army, being good Catholics, never killed anyone. The anti-Pinochet demonstrations have been organised by the relatives of the disappeared and the dead who march regularly in the centre of town with the photographs of their lost loved ones pinned to their clothes. The most dedicated figures on both sides are now elderly women - on the pro-Pinochet side they rage at you about how Pinochet saved them from communism and how they suffered terribly under Allende. The other side tell dreadful stories of 25 years of searching for the truth about the fate of the husband or brother or child whom they've lost. One woman I talked to lost five of her six sons. None of them, she said, had ever been politically active, but the family had benefited from land reform and the landlord wanted his property back. These are the people who were left out in the political settlement that enabled Pinochet to write his own terms for leaving office. How they must be cheering now . . . It seems that everyone I meet has a secret. Diego, a genial academic, turns out to have been a member of MIR, the radical left group. The MIR declared for the armed struggle in the 1960s, then took up arms just before the coup. Thousands were arrested after the coup, and the rest fled into exile. Today Diego is a member of the Socialist Party. It's one of the disconcerting things about Chile - things seem so normal, but the old hatreds are just below the surface. A left-wing deputy puts it down to hypocrisy. Chileans are so used to lying about how they feel, he says, that when they want to show that they mean what they say, they have to say it twice. So if you accept a cup of coffee, they say: "It's coffee. Coffee." In politics, he says, it's the same - where else would you find a party called the Union of the Centre Centre? Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 27 November 1998 issue of the New Statesman, How the left hijacked the family More


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Trevor Turkey Amigurumi Crochet Pattern
When made with worsted weight yarn, expect your Trevor Turkey to be approximately 7" tall.
12mm safety eyes were used to make Trevor however you can use whatever size you wish, buttons or even embroider the eyes if desired.
Here in the States, fall is for turkeys. Most Thanksgivings are just not complete without a turkey - whether you serve one or crochet one!
Trevor Turkey is a quick and easy project. You can even make one for every holiday guest you have and use them as place markers!
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Senate panel will vote today on Hagel
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are pushing ahead with a vote on Tuesday on Chuck Hagel's nomination to be Defense secretary, rejecting Republican demands for more financial information from Hagel in a politically charged fight over President Obama's second-term national security team.
In a brief statement, Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said the panel would meet Tuesday afternoon with the "intention to vote on the nomination after the members have an opportunity for discussion." Levin had hoped to hold a committee vote last Thursday but postponed it amid complaints from Republicans that Hagel hadn't sufficiently answered questions about his personal finances.
Not all Republicans shared that view, however.
"I have examined the information and responses to members' questions that Sen. Hagel has provided to the committee, and I believe that he has fulfilled the rigorous requirements that the committee demands of every presidential nominee to be secretary of Defense," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said in a statement Monday backing Levin's plans for a vote.
McCain's expression of confidence in Hagel's answers was a crucial counterpoint to GOP criticism of the nominee, who still faces Republican threats to block or delay his selection.
McCain, the panel's former top Republican, has said he's leaning against supporting his former GOP Senate colleague and friend, but he made clear he would not participate in any walkout by committee Republicans over a Hagel vote.


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Richard Platz, a 20-year-old German on a hike in 1913, rolled a postcard into a bottle and tossed it into the Baltic Sea. Inside, a polite message asking the finder to return it to a Berlin address.
Now, 101 years later, his wish has come true.
Fishermen found the beer bottle intact last month, German media report, and as if that wasn't surprising enough, a genealogist then managed to track down Platz's granddaughter.
"It was almost unbelievable," says Angela Erdmann, 62 and also a Berliner. She never knew Platz, her mother's father. A baker's son, Platz died in 1946 at 54.
At the International Maritime Museum in Hamburg, Erdmann was able to hold the bottle and its message in her hands. Even though the damp has made most of the postcard illegible, "that was a pretty moving moment," she says. "Tears rolled down my cheeks."
For now, the bottle remains in the museum, where experts will try to decipher its contents.
Holger von Neuhoff of the International Maritime Museum in Hamburg notes, "This is certainly the first time such an old message in a bottle was found, particularly with the bottle intact."
The Guinness world record holder for the oldest message in a bottle — from 1914 — spent a mere 98 years in the water.


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One more question today because you guys answered so fast! I've been on wellbutrin for two and a half months and I've found that from about 2-6 pm my mind is quite useless (I take the pill first thing in the morning). I have trouble putting sentences together and even more trouble extracting meaning from text (and I'm a philosophy major so this is pretty frustrating). From what I've read around the internet it seems like this is a semi common complaint, but I can't find any real information on it aside from those who suffer from it. My therapist mentioned something about a problem with my working memory, but ironically she told me about it in the middle of such a case of confusion. What is this problem? Is it the wellbutrin? Is there anything I can do about it?READ MORE
Wellbutrin and working memory loss?
I'm not sure there's much to say beyond the fact that your symptoms are actually a fairly well known and rather irritating side effect - one of many. Anything that affects the biochemistry of the brain will inevitably have one or more implications. In the case of Wellbutrin the list of side effects is fairly extensive (but by no means unique to this particular drug). You mention working memory but I suspect it is only one of a broader range of cognitive effects you will experiencing. I would imagine your concentration and even your patterns of thought might be affected too.
As with all such medication a trade off exists between the therapeutic effects and the side effects. It's a shame you are experiencing the side effects during your studies but it sounds like you at least have a window during the morning when things aren't too bad. Having only been on the meds for two months I imagine your doctor would be reluctant to remove you from them at such an early stage. It might be worth having a chat about the time of day you take the meds and whether the dose might be modified a little? Your wellbeing is the priority however so I'd be tempted to try and work around the problem to the best of your ability while you need the meds.
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GEORGETOWN, KY – Georgetown College is pleased to again serve as base site for the 36th annual Horsey Hundred, May 24-26, sponsored by Bluegrass Cycling Club.
Cyclists from all across the United States and Canada – as many as 1,500 – will headquarter in Georgetown to enjoy the beauty of springtime in the Bluegrass. Organizers promise the traditional Saturday Century route through both challenging and beautiful rolling Kentucky terrain.
Collectible pins will be given to those daring enough to ride the Century, climbing to the historic Jack Jouett House ("The Paul Revere of the South") in Versailles, Kentucky. Other Saturday route options are 26, 35, 53, and 75 mile rides.
Sunday ride options include a 30 mile loop, a 50 miler that features a roll through the streets of Paris . . . Kentucky, or a 70-miler through the heart of the Bluegrass.
The Horsey Hundred is not a race; it is an opportunity for riders to share their cycling passion with the camaraderie of others in Kentucky horse country. This is a tandem friendly event with rolling hills and well maintained roads.
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Country star Blake Shelton has been targeted by a gay rights advocacy group for making an insensitive comment on his Twitter account.
Blake Shelton paid tribute to Shania Twain's hit "Any Man of Mine" on Wednesday but took his own creative licensing with the words, sparking controversy for his anti-gay remarks.
He writes, "Re-writing my fav (favorite) Shania Twain song.. Any man that tries Touching my behind He's gonna be a beaten, bleedin', heaving kind of guy..."
However, officials at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) organization were not amused.
Upon seeing the tweet, a spokesman responded to the star, "No, Blake Shelton - violent, anti-gay statements are not what a woman wants. Apologies now."
Hours later Shelton, who now stars on the popular U.S. TV talent show "The Voice", tried to clarify the comment, writing, "Ba! Ha! Reading all my anti-gay hate tweets... Ha! Ha! If people only knew even a little about me, my family and friends. Dumb a**es..."
The accurate lyrics to the song are, "Any man of mine better walk the line/Better show me a teasin' squeezin' pleasin' kinda time."
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E-N Area Game of the Week: Clemens at Alamo Heights
Updated 8:17 pm, Wednesday, October 30, 2013
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Kickoff: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Orem Stadium
Radio: KBUC-FM 92.5/93.3
Rankings/records: No. 2 Sub-5A Clemens (7-1, 4-1 District 27-4A), No. 3 Alamo Heights (6-2, 4-1)
Coaches: Jared Johnston (7-11, second season at Clemens); Mike Norment (14-5, second season at Alamo Heights)
Series: Clemens leads 13-7-1.
Last meeting: Alamo Heights won
Clemens breakdown
Setting the scene: The Buffaloes bounced back from their first loss by defeating Boerne Champion 34-20 behind an offense that produced 470 yards and a defense that forced three turnovers. Quarterback J.J. Elkins was 16 of 20 for 236 yards and three touchdowns, with his favorite target being Chase Foreman (8 for 144 yards and a TD).
Key to victory: Rediscover early-season defensive form. The Buffaloes allowed 21 points — 4.2 per game — and had three shutouts in their first five games. In the last three games, they've allowed 20.6 per contest.
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Statistical leaders: Passing — Elkins, 94-139-2, 1,392 yards, 19 TDs; rushing — Jeremy Collins, 74-360; receiving — Foreman, 34-499, 5 TDs; tackles — Matthew Johnson, 105; sacks — Kolin Hill, 10; interceptions — Preston Bass, 3.
Alamo Heights breakdown
Setting the scene: Like Clemens, the Mules responded well to their first district loss, scoring the first 49 points en route to a 49-20 win over Lockhart. Quarterback Dalton Banks threw for two touchdowns and ran for one, and tailback Byron Proctor rushed for two scores.
Key to victory: Protect the quarterback. With Clemens' defensive ends/twins Kaleb and Kolin Hill combining for 19 sacks, it will be imperative that Banks spends more time on his feet than on his back.
Statistical leaders: Passing — Banks, 140-235-5, 1,724 yards, 14 TDs; rushing — Proctor, 107-904, 18 TDs; receiving — Robert Schuler, 44-456, 6 TDs; tackles — Jay Hargrove, 74; sacks — Ben McSween, 9; interceptions — Mitch Abramson, 3.
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Clemens 28, Alamo Heights 21: The Buffaloes make just enough plays on both sides of the ball to snap a five-game losing streak to the Mules.


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On 10/3/07, Roch - PAE <[email protected]> wrote: > We do not retain 2 copies of the same data. > > If the DB cache is made large enough to consume most of memory, > the ZFS copy will quickly be evicted to stage other I/Os on > their way to the DB cache. > > What problem does that pose ? Hi Roch, 1) The memory copy operations are expensive... I think the following is a good intro to this problem: "Copying data in memory can be a serious bottleneck in DBMS software today. This fact is often a surprise to database students, who assume that main-memory operations are "free" compared to disk I/O. But in practice, a welltuned database installation is typically not I/O-bound." (section 3.2) http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262693143chapm2.pdf (Ch 2: Anatomy of a Database System, Readings in Database Systems, 4th Ed) 2) If you look at the TPC-C disclosure reports, you will see vendors using thousands of disks for the top 10 systems. With that many disks working in parallel, the I/O latencies are not as big as of a problem as systems with fewer disks. 3) Also interesting is Concurrent I/O, which was introduced in AIX 5.2: "Improving Database Performance With AIX Concurrent I/O" http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/os/aix/whitepapers/db_perf_aix.html "Improve database performance on file system containers in IBM DB2 UDB V8.2 using Concurrent I/O on AIX" http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0408lee/ Rayson > > -r > > > > > Thanks, > > - Ryan > > -- > > UNIX Administrator > > http://prefetch.net > > _______________________________________________ > > zfs-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
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Had you not gone through the process of filing for FMLA leave for your time off? Was that even discussed with you?
What reason was given for your termination?
My first hospitalization was last March and I went on FMLA medical leave but once I realized that I was needing to be hospitalized so many times (approx 1-2x/month, about 10 hospitalizations since then and countless ER visits), I've applied for FMLA intermittent leave so that when I would get admitted for my infusions, the intermittent leave would kick in and then once I'm discharged, I can go back to work but the last 3 hospitalizations, I was denied the leave bc of "hardships on the unit". I was given a verbal warning and then a written warning right before my last hospital admission. I was discharged on July 27 and I went on vacation so I haven't been back to work yet but I foresee me getting in trouble when I return. I'll also have you know that every time I do call off from work, I am a patient in the hospital I work at, not once have I called off without being a patient. Termination hasn't come up yet but I kind of have a feeling that will be discussed once I return from vacation.
Correct, I was denied FMLA intermittent leave the last 3 times I applied bc of "hardships on the unit". I'm sorry, I was using discharged meaning from my stay in the hospital. I was not terminated yet, but with my verbal and written warning already for calling off sick, I don't know what else they will do once I return from vacation. I'm just curious if they can terminate me with my health condition, I know I miss a lot of work but I'm never just home and feel the need to call off, each time I miss work, I'm a patient.
ok, thank you. can I contact the dept of labor on my own or do i need a lawyer to do so? if i get back to work and get suspended or whatever they do next with me having another hospital visit, should i hire a lawyer? do i have a case to pursue?
so just to clarify, I have a medical issue that causes me to miss work. So there should be no reason they could deny me FMLA because it leaves the staff short handed on my unit. Which as I understand is what they mean by "hardships on the unit". Secondly, excessive absences from work due to my medical condition (which are documented by hospital admissions at the facility where I work) should not be a valid reason for them to suspend or terminate me?
Well, my husband and I greatly appreciate your advice. Thank you for taking the time to help me out. I will definitely be contacting the Louisiana Department of Labor when I return from vacation.


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BRANDON -- Residents of the Kingsway Kort trailer park are considering legal action after they were told to move out to make way for a Vancouver-based developer.
More than 50 families living in the trailer court received notice last week from Brandon Evergreen Developments that said it had purchased 4.5 hectares in the south end of the city, including the park.
With full-bore home construction nearby, some residents said it was a long time coming.
"It didn't come as a shock," said resident Nicole Goforth. "With all the development going around, we knew it was coming because our trailer park would do nothing but depreciate all the value of all these houses going up around us."
What's shocking, she said, is the new landowner isn't offering any financial assistance beyond the $500 per resident required by law for moving expenses.
In trailer courts, residents own the building and rent the property, so they can move their home to another property, which could cost as much as $10,000. However, some of the buildings may be too old to transport.
As a result, many homeowners, including Goforth, may have to walk away from their home mired in mortgage debt.
"I don't know how this is going to work out for me," said the single mother of two. "I can't afford to pay a mortgage for this place and rent somewhere else.
"There is talk of coming together and getting a lawyer... we just want financial help."
Others have poured substantial money into permanent fixtures around their property such as decks and fences, which can't be moved along with the home.
In the coming days, several trailer owners will gather to explore their legal options to fight for compensation -- or at the very least delay the inevitable.
"Maybe they can work with us, to maybe give us a little more time," said Candace Sparks, who has been living in Kingsway for more than a decade. "We're going to regroup and figure out the possibilities, people have been making some phone calls. We have to know what we can or cannot do."
For residents on a fixed income, Sparks said this land purchase is another blow to Brandon's ongoing affordable housing market issue.
"I know we have a mayor that talks about affordable housing, and not to knock her at all... but look around, there's no affordable housing," Sparks said.
"You're moving all these people and their families. This is what we could afford, this is what our budgets have allowed us, so trying to find affordable housing in Brandon is not realistic."
Dan Cayer of Lethbridge, Alta., the former owner of the park, according to the on-site manager, did not respond to Brandon Sun inquiries. Some homeowners said they had trouble getting in touch with Cayer, who purchased the property about three years ago.
After homeowners were given information listing other trailer parks and retirement homes in Brandon and Winnipeg, a representative from the development company held a meeting on Wednesday that quickly escalated into screaming and tears from the park's residents condemning the developer's plans.
"What we're doing is applying for zoning and will close the trailer park down," the representative said at the beginning of the meeting in a recording obtained by the Brandon Sun.
"The trailer park will cease to operate in March of 2014," he continued. He would not discuss compensation for the decision when asked by the crowd.
Matt Dickinson, 26, who moved into his starter home in Kingsway 11 months ago, said the representatives acted "heartless" at the meeting.
"There was a lot of anger, people were sad, people were crying, but it was heartless... the way he came in and in the first 30 seconds told us we were out," he said.
In an emailed statement Thursday, Evergreen Developments said the park will close "regardless of any and all pending or proposed applications or plans and their outcomes."
"We have and will abide by all requirements set out in the residential tenancy act regarding the closure of the park."
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MANATEE COUNTY - A Bradenton woman and her two passengers were injured after crashing into a utility pole trying to avoid hitting a dog in the road.
It happened Monday just after 9am at Florida Blvd & California street
48-year-old Samantha Falkner of Bradenton was eastbound on Florida Blvd. approaching California Street.
Falkner told authorities there was a dog in the middle of the road, and she swerved towards the right to avoid it and ended up hitting a concrete utility pole.
After the collision, the pole broke and landed on top of the vehicle.
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Somewhat Credible-Seeming Rumor: Stones For Coachella?
WILD HORSES: During his recent press junket promoting Life, Keith Richards had no definitive answer to the constant questions about the Rolling Stones' touring plans, but something was then in the process of going down, whether he knew about it (likely) or not. We've just learned that the Stones team is very close to finalizing a deal that would bring them to Coachella next April. According to our sources, they'll pick up a cool $5 million for playing the date; Paul McCartney pocketed $3.5 million for playing Coachella in 2009. This is the biggest booking coup yet for Coachella kingpin Paul Tollett, whose fest has served as a launch pad for numerous big-name tours in the past. Can you say "sold out"? (11/15a)


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The physical and financial limits of building and maintaining roads provide a good argument for telework, according to Virginia Transportation Secretary Sean Connaughton.
"We don't have the money or the physical ability to expand the system anymore," he said. "Anyone driving up and down [Interstates] 395 or 95 [would] recognize you can't go out any further. 66, we can't go out any further. That's why telework is such an important, important part of the future of this region, across the state, across the country."
With the expansion of areas such as Tysons Corner, the 270 corridor and the Dulles Access Road, the Virginia area has experienced "enormous challenges," Connaughton said in his keynote at the Telework Exchange Town Hall Meeting in D.C. on Oct. 18. Although "billions upon billions of dollars" have been funneled into expanding the transportation network to deal with the growing number of citizens, the current infrastructure remains outdated and poorly accommodates employees who work outside the traditional core, the secretary said.
Technology and personnel practices have advanced to the point where telework could be a successful approach, Connaughton said. Telework has evolved from being something managers weren't all that receptive to because they didn't want employees to "run around their houses with fluffy slippers on and not get dressed," the secretary said.
"But you know what? When you look at many of the types of work we do, I don't really care if you wear fluffy slippers!" Connaughton joked. "If that makes you comfortable and you can do your job and be productive and maybe be even more productive than being in the office, then we should support that."
Telework not only leads to more productive and happy employees but it also saves energy, keeps costs down and helps save the environment, making it a "great win-win for all of us," Connaughton said.
The Commonwealth of Virginia is currently exploring ways to take telework to the next stage, Connaughton said, with providing tax credits to employers who decide to buy equipment that would enable employees to telework. Work is also underway to figure out how to give similar incentives to not-for-profit organizations that don't need the tax breaks, Connaughton added.
"It's sort of funny to me because in the office we are the public administration – we're supposed to advance transit and things like that – we're actually the ones pushing [telework] because we see this as a real opportunity to save money and to provide better, happier workers," he said.
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Congress and watchdog agencies have dinged the IRS for lacking an enterprise cloud strategy seven years after it became the official policy of the U.S. government.
The General Services Administration posted detailed data on how the $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract might be divvied up.
The White House announced a long-planned move to elevate Cyber Command to the status of a full combatant command.
Verizon says it will carve a dedicated network out of its extensive national 4G LTE network for first responders, in competition with FirstNet.
The Heritage Foundation is recommending that hundreds of thousands of federal jobs be replaced by automation as part of a larger government reorganization strategy.
Defense officials hope the Common Access Card's days are numbered as they continue to test new identity management solutions.
Working in the DOD we have to work on very secure networks - telework will not work for that. We work with weapons and weapon systems - telework does not work there either. We are overseeing a lot of physical construction and maintenance projects - again a no go. We live in a physical world where food, clothing, medicine, shelter, and many other items that cannot be provided electronically. Even electronically driven work requires a physical machine and network that depends on physical transportation to not only get it in place but to provide most of its support. Identity theft has become a major crime and between teleworkers losing their PC's and relying more and more on electronic communication over long distances has made this crime more common. A physical presence is usually essential for most of what is done in this world and the pinheads who produce nothing physical thinking telework is the answer just are not living in reality. Yes, many in the government who are not producing anything but electronic red-tape will think telework is the greatest thing ever. You never have to leave your house to tell everyone else how to conduct their real business.
As of today (20 Oct 11) our agency has not complied with telework. I suspect they don't want to...feet dragging on their part.
At least the Commonwealth of Virginia makes logical decisions. Federal agencies were mandated by Presidential order to implement telework, most have not complied...one would think that at least the Federal agencies would be considerate enough to follow a presidential order, not. No wonder the headless beast keeps getting uglier every year. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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The Economist's quarterly technology issue just came out, and i started flipping through it with the disdain I usually reserve for the dumbed-down technology primers you typically find in an American news magazine. Those Brits, however, do a good deep dive. There's nothing like seeing this slightly stuffy, slightly hip mag get down and dirty with topics like mash-up Web sites, traffic jam analysis, online-tagging trends, and the search-vs.-folders debate.
The piece I ended up reading was on PLM (product lifecycle management) software and how it has grown from wonky CAD systems in the '80s to a mainstream corporate tool for designing a wide range of products and getting them to market. The article had some sexy photos showing the typical stuff we all know gets designed virtually -- the latest space-age electric shavers, corporate jets, and prototype cars.
But it also mentioned that Heinz is using PLM software to track the different ingredients that go into its line of condiments, and that large retailers are using PLM on their private-label products to better compete with the big consumer brands. Apparel companies are using it for better sourcing. Drug companies are using it to manage package design. PLM software has gone mainstream, claims The Economist, which drew heavily on data from AMR Research.
In a recent report, AMR's Michael Burkett says the PLM market is growing robustly and is expected to jump from around $10 billion this year to $15 billion in 2009. The biggest factors driving this growth, he says, include globalization (design teams in different countries have to collaborate electronically), compliance (every decision and product input must be tracked) and the need for faster time-to-market (GM, for example, has slashed its vehicle-development time from 48 months to 18 months).
The Economist's article makes a pretty weak case that PLM as a category may disappear as its core product-data management functionality gets mainstreamed into platform software from Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and IBM. Although these companies could very well acquire some of the PLM pure-play vendors (Cadence Design Systems, Agile Software, PTC, UGS, etc.), I highly doubt the market really wants 3-D modeling as part of Outlook nor would they want package-design prototyping as part of ERP.
A better question might be this: As all design and development becomes electronic and structured, what happens to the sheer inspiration of sitting down with a clean sheet of paper? What would Walt Disney think? Or Thomas Edison? Would Howard Hughes, a notorious micromanager who loved to touch the prototypes and make radical course changes in mid-design, hate PLM? Or would he be right there with his hand on the mouse, loving every minute of it?


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The Cambridge History of British Theatre (Volume 1)
Volume One of The Cambridge History of British Theatre begins in Roman Britain and ends with Charles II's restoration to the throne imminent. The four essays in Part One treat pre-Elizabethan theatre, the eight in Part Two focus on the riches of the Elizabethan era, and the seven in Part Three on theatrical developments during and after the reigns of James I and Charles I. The essays are written for the general reader by leading British and American scholars, who combine an interest in the written drama with an understanding of the material conditions of the evolving professional theatre which the drama helped to sustain, often enough against formidable odds. The volume unfolds a story of enterprise, innovation and, sometimes, of desperate survival over years in which theatre and drama were necessarily embroiled in the politics of everyday life: a vivid subject vividly presented.
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Surround yourself with tokens of love and luck, just like this charming little country-western couple. Hanging above the two are a pair of golden horseshoes for good fortune, while at their feet a satin-rope forms a love knot symbolizing togetherness, and a sheaf of wheat is meant to represent prosperity. Each cake topper measures 7.5" tall. 7.5" tall.


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For many storage managers, the goal is to do more with fewer resources across a broader range of platforms. Thankfully, improved storage technologies and products helped them achieve that goal. Hard drives gained capacity; more capacity meant fitting more storage into fewer devices, which consume less power, cooling and data center space. And even though data continues to grow at an almost uncontrollable rate, new ways to cut down on storing redundant data, such as data deduplication (single-instance storage), helped trim capacity needs. Storage virtualization products, although not new in 2006, have improved, as have remote replication and WAN optimization products that move data effortlessly from remote offices to the main data center for better protection and more centralized management.
What does it take to be a Storage Product of the Year? It starts with our judges -- your peers -- who gauge each nomination on six key criteria: ease of integration, functionality, innovation, manageability, performance and value. Top-scoring products must then pass another hurdle: practicality and importance. By considering how well a product solves real problems and weighing its long-term impact on the storage industry, the "wow factor" is eliminated, leaving us with the top three products in each category.
Congratulations to all of this year's winners!
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A cartoon symbolising the extinction of the rhino won top prize at the third The Thao&Van Hoa (Sports and Culture) newspaper's press caricature competition which this year focused on the environment
Missing piece: Tran Hai Nam's Mieng Ghep Nguoc (Upside-down Piece) won the Bamboo Dragon Cup, a competition focusing on the environment. HA NOI — A cartoon symbolising the extinction of the rhino won top prize at the third The Thao&Van Hoa (Sports and Culture) newspaper's press caricature competition which this year focused on the environment
Ha Noi-based Tran Hai Nam was granted the Bamboo Dragon Cup for his Mieng Ghep Nguoc (Upside-down Piece) at the award ceremony yesterday.
The rhino cartoon was made in many parts, with the piece representing the rhino's head placed upside down. It was designed to remind people of the fact that the rhino is now extinct in Viet Nam.
"The pieces are arranged in the wrong way, similar to the way people behave with the environment," said Nam.
"The competition is an interesting playing field for artists, especially for amateur painters who love cartoon like me," he said.
The competition received support from the Danish Embassy through its Cultural Development and Exchange Fund. Danish Ambassador to Viet Nam John Nielsen stressed at the launch of the competition that "cartoons are a humorous way to create interest and raise awareness about critical issues such as the environment".
"The fact that the environment was chosen as this year's theme is very relevant. Viet Nam is facing a number of critical environmental issues due to rapid economic development and the effects of climate change," he said.
Viet Nam is among the countries suffering the most from pollution and environmental damages, making it very important to focus on the problem.
In this context, artists combined humour, caricatures and cartoons to raise awareness about environmental and climate issues.
Launched last November, the organising board received nearly 500 entries from amateur and professional painters throughout the country.
"The jury board was impressed by the creative ideas and diversified expressions of the entrants," said painter Ly Truc Dung, head of the jury.
He gave some examples of daring and unique cartoons such as a fish skeleton in a dirty river reproduced in the style of a masterpiece of Vietnamese fine folk arts depicting a carp watching the moon and wretched Atlas carrying a dirty Earth.
After the award ceremony, an exhibition of the artworks was opened along the pavement in front of 61 Ly Thai To Street, Ha Noi. It will run until April 3.
This exhibit was an initiative of the organising board to bring the works closer to the public, Dung said.
"People who are interested in fine arts and pedestrians walking past will feel free to enjoy the cartoon," he said. "It's a good way to send a message about protecting the environment to the people."
After the opening ceremony, the artworks will be sold to raise money for the Vietnam News Agency's Agent Orange Pain Fund. — VNS
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Happy Birthday, America
The Way I See It
by DON WEST
"We the people of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union…"
Tomorrow will be the 238th birthday of this auspicious moment in history. The words that begin the Preamble to the Constitution of our nation are much more than just words on a piece of paper. They are the very core upon which our forefathers based the founding principles by which to guide this nation on its course through history.
Before, and since, that day, hundreds of thousands of men and women have written a check to this nation to serve and protect, up to and including death, in order to preserve and protect those who believe in the principles of freedom. It behooves us to, at least annually, stop and thank God for these freedoms and thank those who have sacrificed so much to preserve them.
Join the parade, shoot off the fireworks, pound your drum, blow your horn, and proudly display your flag to show the world that America is proud to be the freedom symbol of the world. There are those who have attempted to take those freedoms from us, some within our own government, but the strength and resolve of the American people, though sometime wavering, comes from the fortitude of our forefathers, who boldly wrote and adopted in the Continental Congress, that document which today, 238 years later, still stands as a symbol of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is the very reason we actually have an immigration problem and the world is beating a path to our doorstep.
Pass the pride to your children and grandchildren by teaching them respect for the flag and showing reverence when our National Anthem is played and sung. Make sure they truly understand the sacrifices made through the battles fought and the blood shed that this nation is truly worth our show of respect. We are the greatest nation in the world, and though we stumble and fall, we have yet to fail to get up, dust ourselves off and continue the march to make this "a more perfect union."
God Bless all of you and God Bless America.
Happy Birthday, America.
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RGS19 inhibits oncogene-induced neoplastic transformation
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|Many growth factors stimulate cell proliferation through mitogenic pathways such as the Ras/Raf/MEK/ERK cascade. Defective Ras signaling has long been associated with cancer progression and maintenance. Recently, numerous RGS proteins such as RGS1, RGS2, RGS4, RGS6, RGS17 and RGS19 have been shown to regulate cell proliferation, differentiation as well as cancer progression. The RGS proteins deactivate heterotrimeric G proteins rather than the Ras-like small GTPases. RGS19, also named as Gα-interacting protein (GAIP), is a RGS protein which acts as a GTPase activating protein (GAP) for Gαi/o and Gαq subunits. Being a RGS protein with multiple functional domains, RGS19 is capable of interacting with a variety of signaling molecules including those beyond G protein signaling. For instance, RGS19 binds to GIPN (GAIP-interacting N-terminal) and GIPC (GAIP-interacting C-terminal) to regulate protein degradation and growth factor signaling, respectively. Given that RGS19 stimulated cell proliferation in HEK 293 cells and exhibited a severely impaired Ras/Raf/MEK/ERK signaling, it would be extremely interesting to test the role of RGS19 in tumorigenesis, in terms of whether it has oncogenic potential or tumor suppressive effect. In this study, upon coexpression of RGS19, but not RGSZ1 (which belongs to the same subfamily as RGS19, and shares a high sequence homology) or RasGAP (a well-defined GAP protein for Ras), all of the hallmarkers of neoplastic transformation induced by oncogenic RasGV (G12V mutant), including an increased cell growth rate, foci formation, anchorage-independent growth, and tumorigenesis in nude mice were significantly suppressed. Additionally, the knock down of endogenous RGS19 significantly enhanced the tumorigenic ability of human lung cancer H1299 cells. Moreover, RGS19 significantly suppressed oncogenic Src (Y527F mutant)-induced tumorigenesis through attenuation of Src, Ras, Jak activity by forming a complex in a Src kinase activity-dependent manner. Furthermore, the Ras/Raf/MEK/ERK signaling, which plays a key role in oncogenic Ras-mediated carcinogenesis, was significantly impaired by RGS19. Taken together, these results suggest that RGS19 specifically inhibited oncogene-induced neoplastic transformation both in vitro and in vivo, as well as attenuated Ras/Raf/MEK/ERK and Src/Jak signaling. Other than the tumor-suppressive effect on oncogene-mediated transformation, RGS19 enhanced the growth rate of NIH3T3 cells, but not for RGSZ1. RGS19 appeared to participate in the proliferation of human cancer cells, since the knock down of endogenous RGS19 significantly reduced the growth rate of H1299 and HeLa cells. Interestingly, proteasome inhibitor MG132 and Lactacystin inhibited the degradation of both RGS19 and RGSZ1. The pull down of RGS19 and RGSZ1 resulted in the co-immunoprecipitation of poly-ubiquitin, while the presence of xp-GIPN did not affect the degradation of RGS19. Thus RGS19 was degraded through an ubiquitin-dependent proteasome pathway, but GIPN was not involved in the degradation of RGS19. The present study provided a highly interesting finding that RGS19, a negative regulator of G protein signaling, has inhibitory effect on oncogene-mediated neoplastic transformation. These results support the notion that RGS proteins are multi-functional and they do not simply serve as GAPs for Gα proteins.
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Andrew Gaze says it's time to seriously consider reintroducing the National Basketball League as a winter competition.
NBL chief executive Kristina Keneally is completing a white paper on the future of the competition, with Fairfax Media revealing the players' association has called for change in terms of the player rankings system, the salary cap and the timing of the season, which runs from October to April.
Gaze, a Basketball Australia board member, said there was merit in the season running from March to October, as it was when the league was at its most popular - during the 1980s and 1990s.
''I think if you look back at the long history of the NBL, clearly that time when we were playing in the winter was the time when it was at its strongest,'' he said.
''It could be [shifted] back to where we were, to coincide with the football season. That's a bit of an issue but it certainly warrants further investigation.''
The NBL moved to a summer format in the late 1990s to escape the shadow of major winter football leagues, which ramped up their promotional budgets when basketball emerged as a threat.
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Gaze said a winter season would give more opportunity to Australian players to pick up year-round work in Europe and locally, as he did at times while suiting up for the Melbourne Tigers. It could also improve the standard of imports.
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Gaze said a winter season could also improve the international fortunes of the Boomers.
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A DMU professor has revealed how diabetes is costing society more than a million pounds per hour.
And three quarters of that amount is spent on complications which arise because the disease is not being treated properly.
Professor Joan Taylor produced the figures at the first lecture for DMU's Festival of Ideas in which she discussed her invention, an artificial pancreas, and how it could revolutionise diabetes treatment.
DMU's Festival of Ideas is a series of lectures by some of the university's leading academics which looks at how their ideas are shaping the future of education and offers a chance for people to learn something new. The Festival is open to students, staff and the public.
Professor Taylor's talk looked at the history of diabetes treatment, including the discovery of insulin, the differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, and the inventions which are currently used to control doses of insulin for diabetics.
Professor Taylor explained how current treatments still do not manage the injection of insulin accurately and most people with diabetes are "out of control" – having too much or too little insulin in their system – 50 per cent of the time.
This can lead to cardiovascular, kidney, eye and foot care problems which cost the NHS so much money.
Professor Taylor then revealed how 20 years of work has resulted in her inventing an artificial pancreas which requires no electronics and no moving parts.
Instead, the implant, created by Professor Taylor, contains a reservoir of insulin kept in place by a special gel barrier. When glucose levels in the body rise, the gel liquefies and releases the insulin into the body, mimicking the normal pancreas.
As the insulin lowers the glucose levels, the gel reacts by hardening again and preserving the reservoir. It would eliminate the need for diabetics to inject insulin up to four times a day.
Professor Taylor told the audience how a steering group has now been appointed to raise £5m so the pancreas can enter clinical trials. Work on this fund-raising project is due to start in the next couple of weeks.
Click here to see a video about Joan's work
Toby Tennant, a 22-year-old electronics student at DMU, said: "This was a really interesting lecture. It is great that we have a series of lectures that allow us to find out more about the different research going on around the university. There is so much innovation and it is incredible that Professor Taylor has come up with a device that can help people with diabetes."
Roy Carter, who runs a consultancy, said: "The talk was absolutely brilliant and the solution that is being put forward for treatment is incredible.
"I have Type 2 diabetes and to hear about an artificial pancreas was superb. It is a very, very neat solution."
John Jones, an education consultant and alumni of DMU, said: "It was an outstanding talk. I have known a person die because of diabetes. I think the idea of sharing research with the public in this way is one of the great things a university can do.
"Universities can sometime be seen as purely a place for people to learn but there is a significant amount of research – groundbreaking research in this case. To offer this knowledge to the public openly and free of charge is excellent."
If you missed last night's lecture then you can listen to an audio recording now.
The Festival of Ideas continues tomorrow (Thursday 18 April) with a talk by Darren Sparkes, a senior lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, with the title "Project Management - a 'lesson' for Sir Alan's next Apprentice!"
It takes place in the Hawthorn Building, room 0.46, at 1pm and lasts for an hour.
For the full list of events and how to book a place for any of the free hour long talks please visit the website www.dmu.ac.uk/festivalofideas
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There is no small business owner whom people respect more than Bill Gates, according to a new poll.
The survey by Office Depot found that tech pioneers Gates and the late Steve Jobs are admired most among small business entrepreneurs. Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, Mary Kay Ash and Howard Schultz were also regarded highly among business owners.
The survey also revealed that owners perceive President Barack Obama to be better for small businesses than presidential challenger Mitt Romney, though the edge was slight.
Fifty-three percent viewed the Democratic incumbent as the top small business advocate, and 47 percent sided with the former Massachusetts governor who is the likely Republican presidential nominee.
To commemorate Small Business Week, which kicks off Sunday (May 20), the research also examined how owners of small and midsize businesses view themselves. More than half of those surveyed felt they're successful, although their definitions of success varied.
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According to the study, in which owners were free to pick more than one measure of what makes them successful, 73 percent based their success on how profitable they are, while nearly 60 percent defined it as achieving a work-life balance. Additionally, 56 percent related being successful to the ability to work on something they believe in.
Fewer than 10 percent of those surveyed equated wealth with success.
"As we head into another National Small Business Week, we wanted to look at the many ways success is defined in small business," said Neil Austrian, chairman and CEO of Office Depot. "With the economic highs and lows of the past several years, it is important to commemorate the wins and reflect on what businesses of all sizes have accomplished."
The study was based on surveys of more than 1,000 owners of businesses with fewer than 100 employees.
Chad Brooks is a Chicago-based freelance business and technology writer who has worked in public relations and spent 10 years as a newspaper reporter. You can reach him at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter @cbrooks76.