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Study links BAP1 protein to tumor suppression in kidney, eye, bile duct and mesothelioma cancers

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have shown how BRCA-associated protein 1 (BAP1) serves as a tumor suppressor gene in kidney, eye, bile duct, mesothelioma and other cancers by regulating a form of cell death called ferroptosis, opening up a potential new area of therapy research. Findings from the study, led by Boyi Gan, Ph.D., associate professor of Experimental Radiation Oncology, were published in the Sept. 10 online issue of Nature Cell Biology.

“Although BAP1 is frequently mutated or deleted in a variety of cancers, the process by which it suppresses tumors remains unclear,” said Gan. “Our study achieved a comprehensive identification of BAP1-regulated target genes and relevant biological processes in cancer cells, and identified a BAP1-mediated epigenetic mechanism linking ferroptosis to tumor suppression.”

Ferroptosis is a recently identified form of regulated cell death caused by depletion of cystine, an amino acid vital to cancer cell growth and survival, and by overproduction of molecular carriers of oxygen known as reactive oxygen species (ROS) on lipids, which have been linked to cancer and are targets of some therapies.

“Ferroptosis is structurally, genetically and biochemically distinct from other forms of regulated cell death such as apopotosis,” said Gan. “It is well established that cell death, most notably apoptosis, plays important roles in tumor suppression. The roles of and regulatory mechanisms of ferroptosis in tumor biology, however, still remain largely unexplored.”

Gan’s team described how BAP1 encodes a key enzyme which interacts with other enzymes and cellular components to regulate genes, resulting in tumor suppression via ferroptosis. The researchers found that treatment with a ROS inducer resulted in substantially more ferropotosis-related cell death in BAP1 cancer cells than in other similar cancer cells which do not express BAP1. They also discovered that BAP1 promotes ferroptosis by mediating repression of a cystine ‘transporter’ called SLC7A11.

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MD Anderson study team participants included: Yilei Zhang, Ph.D.; Xiaoguang Liu, Ph.D.; Zihua Gong, M.D., Ph.D.; Pranavi Koppula, Kapil Sirohi, Ph.D.; Xu Li, Ph.D.; Hyemin Lee, Ph.D.; Li Zhuang; Zhen-Dong Xiao, Ph.D.; and Junjie Chen, Ph.D., all of the Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology; Li Feng, Gang Chen, Ph.D., and Peng Huang, M.D., Ph.D., of the Department of Translational Molecular Biology; and Yongkun Wei, Ph.D., Mien-Chie Hung, Ph.D., of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology.

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The sky is 'Purest Blue'
December 30, 2011 3:42 PM   Subscribe

Those of us who enjoy old-school chemical photography often need to calculate f-stop and exposure times. Of course you can use a ginormous table but there exists a solution from a more elegant age in which the sky can be purest blue above a very narrow old street. Marvel at Kaufmann's Posographe, a wonder of the analog age.
posted by LastOfHisKind (22 comments total) 31 users marked this as a favorite
What an incredibly cool device. Seems to be a custom mechanical slide rule for exposure.
posted by sammyo at 3:55 PM on December 30, 2011

posted by Windopaene at 3:59 PM on December 30, 2011

All the gears and cogs in the world aren't as steampunk as this.
posted by saturday_morning at 4:00 PM on December 30, 2011 [7 favorites]

I feel ashamed for downloading a light meter app on my iPhone yesterday. This is really cool.
posted by book 'em dano at 4:09 PM on December 30, 2011

Neat, but I think I'll stick with my Sekonic L-758c.
posted by nathancaswell at 4:18 PM on December 30, 2011

Yes, but did it actually work?
posted by schmod at 4:26 PM on December 30, 2011

What a lovely device. I wish he had a photograph of the mechanism inside; the sketch there doesn't really give it justice.

Just today I was playing with my new Canon Powershot S100. It has the usual whiz-bang point and shoot features we take for granted now; I can specify any 2 of f-stop, shutter speed, and ISO and it will perfectly calculate the third with a built-in light meter, of course. Also it uses signals from space to locate where I took the photo to within about 10 feet. Oh, and the camera is the size of a pack of cigarettes and the film canister can hold 2500 photos. We live in an age of marvel.
posted by Nelson at 4:26 PM on December 30, 2011 [3 favorites]

This device gives me the same feeling I got from looking at an old pallet jack.

I once worked in the front office for a roofing company, and they had rented out an old shipping warehouse that had a lot of old tools in it. Buried in the clutter was a pallet jack, which they dug out, oiled, and put back into service. I'm pretty sure the date of manufacture was sometime in the early 1920s, although I'm no longer positive.

That thing was the most amazing piece of machinery. It had a hydraulic lifting mechanism that you engaged by pumping the same handle you then pulled the load around with. You could lift absolutely enormous loads with it, through the simple magic of mechanical advantage transmitted through fluid, and then move them smoothly around anywhere the floor was good. When you got it where you wanted to go, you pulled a trigger, and the lifting bed retracted smoothly, without jarring, and gently set the load in place on the floor.

At the time I was looking at it, it would have been about 75 years old, made before electricity was even commonplace, and yet it was one of the most perfect little machines I've ever worked with. Obviously, I don't know what its maintenance history was, but I think it worked just as well in the mid-90s as it did when it was made.

It was that humble tool that finally drove home to me that those quaint, bewiskered folks in all our history books, despite their backwards ways, were searingly intelligent. Further, I then realized that the only real difference between modern man and a caveman is the body of knowledge we've collectively accumulated.

So a pallet jack convinced me of the worth of a modern education, and this device echoes that same exact feeling. What could a mind that marvelous have done with all the additional knowledge we've accumulated since 1920?
posted by Malor at 4:37 PM on December 30, 2011 [9 favorites]

Malor, is it significantly different from one of these? Because what you described sounds like what I use at work, and about as remarkable as an adjustable wrench or a claw hammer.
posted by idiopath at 4:41 PM on December 30, 2011 [2 favorites]

Paging Mr. Gibson, Mr. William Gibson!
posted by valkane at 4:49 PM on December 30, 2011

Neat calculator.

When I taught pinhole photography as part of a technology class, I had my kids use the Sunny 16 rule. That worked well enough for them - easy to remember and easy to work with.
posted by plinth at 5:04 PM on December 30, 2011 [3 favorites]

Yes, idiopath, it was very similar. It was also made around 1920.

There aren't many designs that last, nearly unchanged, for that kind of time. The fact that they've changed so little over the years, and that you can find something that intricate and yet that old to be completely commonplace, shows just how brilliant it was. Nobody's really done better in almost a hundred years. Maybe longer -- I don't even know when pallet jacks were first designed.

Okay, from Wikipedia:

Pallet jack history -- This New Truck Gets Under the Load and Lifts It, Popular Science monthly, December 1918, page 54,

I mean, goddammit, think about that. That was designed almost a hundred years ago, and it's barely been improved on since.

If that doesn't amaze you, you've got a perspective problem.
posted by Malor at 5:15 PM on December 30, 2011 [1 favorite]

I remember when I was first in art school, we had a visiting artist, I forgot who but she was just becoming famous. One of the grad students started questioning her. He said he loved how accurate the exposure was in her B&W photos, how did she do it? Did she use a spot meter? Incident meter? Zone System? Special development?

She said she just used the exposure guide from the data sheet that came with the film.
posted by charlie don't surf at 5:30 PM on December 30, 2011 [3 favorites]

I actually went to art school for photography in the early '90s. As a teenager and a young adult, I loved, loved, loved vintage equipment and photography magazines from the '60s and earlier. If you were careful, did your homework, and had a sharp eye for quality, some of the vintage equipment... Koni-Omega and Mamiya medium format rangefinder systems, Tiltall tripods, wood tripods with modern Gitzo heads, pocketable Japanese fixed-lens rangefinders... it would be better than brand new equipment at three times the price.

The magazines were a relevation, the practical chemical knowledge and the optical physics formulae and calculations the photographer needed to know in order to take a perfect photograph were amazing. It really helped me to understand what the equipment was doing and how it did it.

The best advice I ever gleaned from those magazines was the exposure formula photographers used when capturing action in good light. It relied on a strong knowledge of darkroom processes, both in film development and in printing, but if you mastered it, you were sure to come away with a winning image despite what equipment or film you were using, everytime.

As we are now in an age of RAW capture and digital post-processing, the formula works better than it ever did. It takes into account too-bright highlights and shadows that are too black, allowing you to bypass your camera's finicky matrix-metering in swift moving situations. No matter how intense things get, as long as it's daytime, this will see you through:

f/8, and be there.
posted by Slap*Happy at 6:15 PM on December 30, 2011 [3 favorites]

Oh wow, it's like steampunk, except it actually does something
posted by DoctorFedora at 6:59 PM on December 30, 2011 [2 favorites]

Good lord. What was the actual rule of thumb? Bright daylight was f/16 at a shutter speed of 1/ISO film speed, I believe.
posted by mrhappy at 8:08 PM on December 30, 2011 [1 favorite]

oopsie. plinth has this covered.
posted by mrhappy at 8:10 PM on December 30, 2011

Sunny/16 rule - I've never had success with this.
posted by Slap*Happy at 8:18 PM on December 30, 2011

I took manymany rolls of plusX and triX, and ektacolor, thru a Crown Graphic 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 without any meter, using that rule. Worked fine!
posted by drhydro at 8:34 PM on December 30, 2011

If you're impressed by this device, I'm guessing you were out kissing girls when you should have been at home playing with technic lego. :-)

It seems insanely complicated the way that speaking Japanese seems insanely complicated - when it's a foreign language that you haven't learned to think in. But it's a natural language to people who are used to it. Though I guess mechanical computing can be added to the list of dying languages.
posted by -harlequin- at 10:15 PM on December 30, 2011

Look at the aspect ratio and rounded corners. This would make a superb iPhone app, if only as a working reproduction.
posted by Scoo at 10:39 PM on December 30, 2011 [2 favorites]

I'm with Malor: some of these things are fabulous expresions of human thought manifested in the physical world. I clearly remember realizing that I could use that pallet jack to move a ton of stuff, all by my 130 lb. self.

In the same way, a (pre- "full auto") 35 mm lens is a sophisticated calculator that allowed the photographer to bridge the gap between his or her knowledge of f-stops and film speed, and the hugely variable world of light.

And, judging by the number of times I've seen links to this over the last couple of years, I'm not so sure the age of mechanical computung is over.
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    • Another remedy often sought is an injunction.  A court will not usually grant an injunction to restrain someone from publishing something pending trial, but can grant a final injunction after trial to stop further publication of the comments or to stop similar comments being made.

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This Autumn brings us the second edition of the New East Photo Prize, an initiative championing contemporary perspectives on the people and countries of the New East (Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia and Central Asia) and welcoming the work of professional and non-professional photographers alike through the Calvert 22 Foundation. Metro Imaging are thrilled to be collaborating again with Calvert 22, providing printing and mounting for the exhibition. The NEPP is supported by The Calvert Journal, with an esteemed judging panel including Deputy Head of Photography at The Guardian Joanna Ruck, Creative Director of Calvert 22 Foundation Ekow Eshun, leading documentary photographer and educator Tomasz Kulbowski, and Metro Imaging’s own Steve Macleod.

Having received over 600 entries this year from 26 New East Countries, the biennial NEPP is a unique glimpse into the self-identity of an underrepresented region and the lives of its people, with a diverse range of works reflecting a spectrum of approaches and topics. This year’s shortlist includes 16 photographers and collectives from Latvia, Romania, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Croatia, Slovakia and Azerbaijan, who will be part of a dedicated group show at Calvert 22 Foundation, with the prize winners to be announced during the Private View and Awards Ceremony on Thursday 11 October.

Here at Metro, we have had the pleasure of producing the exhibition, which will include a mixture of Matt and Gloss C-type Prints mounted to Dibond. And not only that, we will also be awarding one of the finalists a full Mentorship Award, tailor-made for the artist over a period of 12 months and including £1000 worth of production credit.

The finalists participating in the exhibition are:

Antal Bánhegyesy
Vika Eksta
Daria Garni
Ilkin Huseynov
Join the Cool
Karol Pałka
Lucia Sekerková
Michał Sierakowski
Michal Solarski
Alnis Stakle
Lana Stojićević
Elena Subach & Viacheslav Poliakov
Fyodor Telkov
Peter Trembeczki
Adam Wilkoszarski
Bolgárka Éva Zellei

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Exhibition Dates: 12 October – 1 December 2018
12pm – 6pm Wednesday – Sunday
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Having made it all the way to the Eastern Conference finals with former club Boston Celtics a year ago, sharp-shooting Swede Jonas Jerebko has told Reuters his Utah Jazz team fear no-one as the NBA playoffs get under way this weekend.

The Jazz burst into life in January and eventually finished fifth in the Western Conference with a 48-34 record, and they will face the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round of the playoffs.

"We take it one game, one series at a time, but we know that we can beat every team. It's been an exciting season and we've played our best basketball at the end of it," Jerebko said.

With a record 62 international players taking part in the NBA playoffs, the Swede is one of seven overseas players on the Jazz roster, but injury to French center Rudy Gobert almost ended their playoff hopes before they began.

"Rudy was injured, so we couldn't play with our full team at the start of the season, and I think we had the toughest schedule in the whole NBA in November and December," Jerebko said from his home in Salt Lake City.

"After those months, and when players started to come back, and Rudy started to come back, we got more used to playing together," the 31-year-old explained.

"We knew we could go on a run but I don't think too many expected that it would be as good as it was. It was a lot of fun towards the end of the season, but now the real season starts."

The addition of former team mate Jae Crowder to the Jazz roster as a part of a three-team trade in February was a welcome boost for Jerebko, who also saw the ex-Celtic player move into his neighborhood.

"This will be our fourth straight post-season together. I knew he'd fit in well with the team. He's a good friend of mine and it was nice to see him traded here," he said.

Jerebko entered the NBA in 2009 and spent the next five-and-a-half seasons with the Detroit Pistons before being traded to the Boston Celtics, where he made the playoffs three years in a row.

After losing the Eastern Conference finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Jerebko's contract ran out and he signed for the Jazz, where he has averaged 41.4 percent from three-point range en route to another post-season and a series against OKC.

"I think it's a good match-up for us. We didn't really have a full team when we played against them in the regular season, so they haven't played against our real team," he said.

"They have a good team, with Paul George, Steven Adams, (Russell) Westbrook and Carmelo (Anthony), we know they're gonna play a lot of minutes with those four.

"We have a broader roster, but we'll see what will happen," Jerebko said. "There's going to be a lot of tough games."

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Kalyanji Anandji: Priya (1970) / Sapan Chakravarty: Naya Nasha (1973)

A bunch of EPs coming up now, having discovered I have quite a few of them left. Pairing might seem (and is) a bit random, but seeing as I've gotten used to posting them in couples...

Two fantastic ones to start off with though. 'Priya' is quite rare I think, which is a shame as the first side (at least) is super. 'Pretty Pretty Priya' is fab Beatlesque pop and will be familiar to those who have the 'Bombshell Baby Of Bombay' compilation from a few years back. 'Na Sun Bura, Dekh Bura, Bol Bura' is almost equally fun, introducing as it does, the Hindi... Chipmunks?! (Monkeys actually).

Naya Nasha

Sapan Chakravarty worked as an assistant to RD Burman (and apparently actually penned 'Shalimar's 'Baby Let's Dance Together'); the master's influence is certainly noticeble on the stunning 'Naya Nasha' soundtrack. Kishore's charmingly poppy 'Ek Ladki Le Gayi Dil', Asha's immaculately stoned 'Kash Pe Kash Lagane De' and Lata's choppy lounge number 'Aao Kren Baten' are all highlights. In addition to cover artwork to die for.

Anybody know if LPs were released from these films? I'm suspecting not. (But I want them if they were!)

Slightly banged up these EPs I'm afraid, leaving the sound quality somewhat to be desired. But certainly still worth grabbing.

Track listing, Priya:
1. Mahendra Kapoor, Kamal Barot & Teen Bandaren: Na Sun Bura, Dekh Bura, Bol Bura
2. Anand, Prayag & Chorus: Pretty Pretty Priya
3. Asha Bhosle & Chorus: Kyon Bheja Sasural
4. Lata Mangeshkar & Chorus: Mithe Madhu Se

Track listing, Naya Nasha:
1. Kishore Kumar: Ek Ladki Le Gayi Dil
2. Asha Bhosle: Mujhse Aisi Bhool Hui
3. Asha Bhosle & Chorus: Kash Pe Kash Lagane De
4. Lata Mangeshkar: Aao Kren Baten

  1. Have I said how much I enjoy this blog you are doing.
    I have a good section of my MP3 player full of songs from here that I listen to all the time.

    This site really kicks ass.

  2. Wow. This sounds like a really cool
    collection. Thanks, once again.

  3. I adore Pretty Pretty Priya, and I adore you too PC :)

  4. much appreciated for the great tunesssss

  5. Miiiiiind blowing :)

  6. Kick ass tracks actually beautiful records. . .Keep it up

  7. Great stuff, and oh man, that Naya Nasha cover is beautiful.


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Dairyland Insurance Company Belongs on Michigan Lawyer’s Shame List

April 13, 2010 by Steven M. Gursten

Insurance company sends full no-fault release seven days after car accident

Wow, I’ve seen a lot of dirty tricks pulled by Michigan auto insurance companies over the past 16 years I’ve been helping people injured in car accidents. But what Dairyland Insurance just did to a group of unsuspecting accident victims may actually top my list for dirty tricks. In fact, I’ve never, ever seen a Michigan auto insurance company pull a stunt this outrageous before.

Here’s what happened:

Three people were injured in a car accident on March 1, 2010. They contact their insurance company, which happens to be Dairyland. Dairyland sends on March 8, 2010 a full release to the injured people of all of their Michigan no-fault insurance claims – including the right to future no-fault insurance benefits. This is a legal contract that extinguishes all future rights and claims. And it was sent seven days after the car accident! People usually don’t even get an application for benefits within seven days of contacting their own insurance companies. But a legal release? A legal release is almost always sent at the end of a case, after a lawsuit has been filed.

As a personal injury lawyer, I’ve helped hundreds of people injured in automobile accidents; the other 17 lawyers at Michigan Auto Law have probably helped thousands. Never have we seen a release being sent within days of an accident. It is, as I said, probably 99 percent of the time, sent after a contested lawsuit has been resolved, either through settlement or verdict.

What did the Dairyland Insurance company customers do once they received the release? You guessed it. They signed, potentially extinguishing their ability to receive all future no-fault insurance benefits.

Take a look at the releases from Dairyland.

Dairyland deserves a place smack dab at the top of my Insurance Company Hall of Shame. What responsible auto insurance company would even think about sending to their own insureds a release of all legal rights – past, present, and future – seven days after a car accident?

I’ve told this group to promptly file a complaint with the Michigan Insurance Commissioner. I intend to send a letter as well to hopefully quash this type of insurance abuse as well.

A recipe for disaster

In a sense, what Dairyland did isn’t surprising. It is the logical extension of an insurance company taking advantage of the legal state in Michigan, a state without bad faith laws, punitive damages, or a consumer protection act to protect Michigan residents. If ever there was an episode that screams out to why Michigan residents need better protection from auto insurance companies, it is this. Already, Michigan insurance companies lead the nation in profitability, and Michigan is one of the few states without an insurance commissioner who can regulate how much profit these insurance companies can make, even though its residents are required by law to purchase no-fault insurance.

There is so much wrong here with what Dairyland Insurance company did, that it’s difficult to know where to begin. But I’ll take a stab: This is the most predatory, dirty thing I have ever seen an insurance company pull on its own customers.

If these Dairyland insurance customers now need wage loss, or medical treatment or an expensive surgery, arguably, this release completely absolves Dairyland of any responsibility to provide the benefits that by Michigan law, it must provide.

Steven M. Gursten is recognized as one of the nation’s top experts in serious car and truck accident injury cases and automobile insurance no-fault litigation. Michigan Auto Law has received the largest reported jury verdict for an automobile accident case in Michigan in seven of the past 10 years, including 2009, according to published year-end verdicts and settlements reports.

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Highway Infrastructure Maintenance Plan

The Highway Maintenance Plan, Street Lighting Maintenance Management plan, and Structures Maintenance Manage Plan have all been replaced by Highway Infrastructure Maintenance Plan.

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The Highway Maintenance Specification gives guidance to maintenance engineers on selecting appropriate materials and treatments for use. Advice is given on the use of both conventional and specialist products, and in their appropriateness to the various road hierarchy categories.

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The highway network is one of the most valuable assets that a local authority owns, so looking after the it should be a key priority for every council. The Tees Valley councils have collaborated to produce the Highway Network Management Plan, which is drawn from three codes of practice produced by the UK Roads Liaison Group for the maintenance of street lighting, bridges, tunnels and other structures, as well as carriageways and footways.

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The decrypted certificate will contain things like Signature Algorithm, Issuer, Validity, Key Algorithm, etc. All of these are useful when troubleshooting certificate issues, verifying installation, etc.

OpenSSL Command

Below is the OpenSSL command you can use to decrypt a SSL certificate on your server (replace certificate.crt with the path/name of your certificate):

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Delaware State Police, with the assistance of the Millsboro Police Department, have arrested a suspect in connection with multiple thefts from vehicles in the Millsboro area.

On Thursday, November 29, the MPD conducted a pedestrian stop on a man who matched the description of a suspect involved in thefts from motor vehicles. They found 36-year-old Noah Whaley, of Dagsboro, to be in possession of property that had been reported stolen throughout the Troop 4 territory, including: a Nikon camera bag containing a Nikon camera and accessories, a prescription pill bottle containing oxycodone, a BJ’s membership card, an insurance card, a GAP credit card and various gift cards.

Whaley was taken into custody without incident and charged with possession of a controlled substance by theft, felony theft, four counts of theft and five counts of criminal trespassing. He was committed to Sussex Correctional Institution on $3,005 secured bond.

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You've spent years saving for your future, and now you're ready to relax and take it easy. But one question may be weighing on your mind: Which retirement accounts should you spend down first?

If you own both tax-deferred and taxable accounts, the answer can be complicated.

"The decision you make about which accounts to tap will affect more than just this year's tax bill," says USAA certified financial planner ™ practitioner J.J. Montanaro.

"It can also influence how long your money lasts, how much your family will inherit and how big a tax hit your money will take after you're gone," he stresses.

Rules of Thumb

In general, here's how you would tap your savings:

First, Spend Down Your Taxable Accounts. These include non-IRA mutual funds, savings accounts and brokerage accounts that don't offer any special tax breaks. There may be fees and tax consequences for withdrawals.

Next, Tap Non-IRA Savings Annuities. Contributions to savings annuities aren't deductible, but interest isn't taxed until it's withdrawn. There are costs associated with annuities, including surrender fees, early withdrawal penalties and mortality risk expenses.

Then, Take Money From Tax-Deferred Retirement Accounts. These include traditional IRAs, 401(k) plans, 403(b) accounts, SEP IRAs, SIMPLE IRAs and the Thrift Savings Plan for federal employees. Withdrawals made before age 59½ may be subject to a 10% federal penalty and ordinary income taxes.

Last, Hit Your Roth Accounts. Qualified withdrawals from Roth IRAs and Roth 401(k)s are tax-free -- and there's no requirement to begin withdrawing money at age 70½ from a Roth IRA.

Tailoring Your Spending Strategy

Those rules of thumb may not work perfectly for you, and you may want to talk with a financial adviser. Remember, you'll want to get all the tax breaks you are entitled to when you are no longer working.

Here are some situations that could affect you:

A temporarily low tax rate. "If you find yourself in a very low tax bracket one year -- perhaps because you have unusually large deductions -- you may want to seize the opportunity to tap traditional IRAs and other tax-deferred retirement accounts at a relatively low tax cost," Montanaro says. The same logic may apply if you think federal tax rates are likely to rise in the future.

"Sometimes members are in a situation where they could increase their taxable income by $10,000 to $15,000 and still remain in the 15% tax bracket," he explains. "In a situation like this, they may decide to voluntarily withdraw this amount of money from IRAs or retirement plans at what may turn out to be a favorable tax rate."

Large retirement plan balances. If you have a big chunk of money sitting in tax-deferred retirement accounts, that could mean a big tax hit when you reach age 70½. That's the age when the IRS requires you to start taking required minimum distributions based on your life expectancy. "By doing a little pruning of those accounts before you’re 70½, you may reduce the size of your required distributions, and your tax bill," Montanaro says.

A need for more guaranteed income. In a perfect world, your basic living expenses in retirement would be covered by Social Security, military retired pay and pensions. Typically, though, that's not the case. Buying an income or immediate annuity through an insurance company lets you create retirement income by turning your savings into a stream of payments you'll never outlive.

Taxable investments with big gains. Do you own shares of stock that are worth much more than what you paid for them years ago? Even though capital-gains tax rates in a stock sale are lower than the rates for ordinary income, "you may be better off holding on to those shares, leaving them to your children or gifting them to a charitable organization," Montanaro says.

In most cases, gifts of assets that have gained value allow the gift-giver to claim a deduction for the full value at the time of the donation. Also, ordinarily if you transfer appreciated assets, upon your death your heirs will have little or no capital gain.

A need for tax-free income. It may sound obvious, but it's especially true in retirement: Your yearly income heavily drives your federal income tax. For example, your gross income influences the availability of deductions and exemptions, as well as how much of your Social Security income is subject to taxes. "Because qualified withdrawals from Roth IRA accounts are free from federal income tax, they can serve as an invisible source of income that cuts your tax bill in more ways than one," Montanaro says.

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Written by Cara Lockwood

Chapter Eighteen

I found him!” cried Vance, as he held up his cell phone in victory and walked into his kitchen, where Lizzie sat on a stool, sampling appetizers and nursing her cocktail. “I think I found Maverick!”

Lizzie’s heart leapt. “How did you do that so fast?”

“Well, I mean, I am a social-media sensation,” Vance joked as he leaned on his granite kitchen countertops. Notes of a song by the Cure floated in from the living room as partygoers moved in and out of the kitchen, grabbing appetizers and fresh drinks.

“Look here…” He pointed to his phone, and she saw all the dozens of messages from his networked friends, all of them trying to figure out if they knew the mystery man in the Maverick uniform. He showed her a profile, and she immediately recognized the chiseled chin and dark eyes.

“That’s him!” she breathed.

Silently, she read his profile: Hunter Jacobs, private security, former Naval pilot.

“Oh my, he’s actually Maverick, though.” Vance thumbed through some of his profile pictures, and stopped on one with him smiling from the cockpit of a fighter jet. “You fooled around with the real Maverick.”

She recalled the Naval-pilot jumpsuit Maverick had been wearing and realized that it had seemed awfully authentic. And now she realized why: it was the real deal.

“He’s out of my league,” Lizzie moaned, realizing that a buff Naval pilot was probably not going to be all that thrilled once he realized that the risqué Material Girl was actually a mousy librarian.

“He is not. You’re the kindest, sweetest, smartest…and sexiest librarian I know. Besides, he might go for the sexy-librarian look.”

“I’m not a sexy librarian,” Lizzie protested, thinking about her sensible work shoes.

“You’re not?” Vance gave her sexy-bride costume a once over. “So, you just wear corsets and stilettos because you’re dowdy?”

“It’s Halloween!”

“Yes, right, when the good girls turn bad. I know. Well, go be bad, sister. What have you got to lose? Send the man a message!”

Just then, the notes of the Police’s “Message in a Bottle” drifted into the kitchen. Lizzie took it as a sign.

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Some people might say getting married on Valentine’s Day is the height of romance, but for divorce lawyer and romance cynic Kiara Hastings it’s the height of cliché. But as her sister’s maid of honour she must suffer through the cake tastings and tulle. Until an encounter with a sexy gardener leads to a red-hot fling that promises to make the wedding preparations more pleasurable. Kiara is stunned when the man who made her scream with pleasure is introduced to her later as Ashton Cromwell, the groom’s brother and the best man!

Ashton agrees to keep their sexy secret and wants to continue enjoying their mind-blowing chemistry behind closed bedroom doors. Since his divorce, Ashton has earned himself a playboy reputation, and when it seems like having Kiara on his arm could be good for business, he proposes a fake relationship until the wedding is over.

But as Valentine’s Day approaches, these two romance cynics find they’re not immune to all the love in the air, and that their pretence is starting to feel all too real…

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When her cousin falls in love at first sight with Felicity Walsh’s boyfriend, she can hardly believe it. And when a wedding invite arrives six weeks later, she knows she can’t show up without a plus-one. Lucky for her, Drake Russo needs a stand-in girlfriend—to convince his ex’s parents that he’ll be a good father to his newly discovered baby son. But when their arrangement goes from a few hours to a few days, will Felicity be left out in the cold this Christmas?


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DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/ 24 Oct) – Neighboring countries have expressed interest to export rice to Mindanao to lower down the cost of the staple amid the reported shortages in the previous months, Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) executive director Romeo Montenegro said on Wednesday.

Montenegro told reporters during “Wednesdays’ at Habi at Kape” in Davao that member states of the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) have told business players and MinDA they were ready to provide additional supply at a cheaper price to counter the rising inflation rate.

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Region 12 recorded the second highest inflation rate in Mindanao (8.2%) followed by Region 11 (7.9%), Region 9 (7.7%), Region 10 (6.9%), and Region 13 (6.1%).

In an interview last Monday, MinDA chair Abul Khayr Alonto said they are realigning their schedules with officials from the Department of Trade and Industry, to meet officials from Sulawesi in Indonesia for a possible rice importation and come up with measures to eliminate smuggling.

This developed after President Rodrigo Duterte announced he would saturate the local markets with rice to bring down the prices of the staple without compromising the local farmers.

“Our neighbors in BIMP-EAGA upon learning about the rice situation in Philippines and Mindanao months ago have explored ways by which they are able to supply rice but it’s worth noting, however, all of these have to be reckoned with the existing national policies we have in terms of rice importation,” Montenegro said.

He said the volume has yet to be threshed out since the rice exporters from these areas have yet to negotiate with the National Food Authority and Department of Agriculture.

“There’s no specific in terms of volume although what they offer is they can provide alternative source of rice that can be viably priced for Mindanao, considering the proximity,” he added.

BIMP-EAGA covers the entire sultanate of Brunei Darussalam; provinces of Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku, West Pappua and Papua in Indonesia; states of Sabah and Sarawak and the federal territory of Labuan in Malaysia; and Mindanao and the province of Palawan in the Philippines. (Antonio L. Colina IV/MindaNews)

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Eric Menzie, CRM Head of Product at Wells Fargo Securities, talks to ProductTank New York about How to Win Enterprise User Buy-In. Eric shares six important User Buy-In lessons that are applicable to both enterprise and consumer product management.

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With so many stakeholders and complex requirements, enterprise product management may seem difficult at first. However, the core of product management is about having conversations with your stakeholders. Engage with stakeholders to find out what really matters, but remember, if you accept every stakeholder’s request, you will end up with a screen with a hundred buttons. Save your product by saying no.

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The iron ore miner posted quarterly shipments of 42.5 million tonnes, up 6% quarter-on-quarter, while C1 costs dropped by 1% to US$13.02 per wet metric tonne.

Production and costs were slightly impacted by a bushfire that forced the temporary shutdown of Solomon.

The result compared to UBS' forecasts of 42.4Mt shipped at C1 costs of $12.38/t.

Importantly for FMG, its average realised price increased by 7% to $48 per dry metric tonne.

It represents a price realisation of 67%, in line with the September quarter, but lower than UBS' estimate of 68%.

FMG CEO Elizabeth Gaines said the team had delivered a strong quarter to bring half-year shipments to 82.7Mt against full-year guidance of 165-173Mt.

She said the lower costs and higher average price generated strong cashflow.

The first shipment of 60.1% iron West Pilbara Fines was made last month, which should further increase margins.

FMG lifted its full-year guidance for WPF to 8-10Mt from 5-10Mt.

"Initial customer feedback has been excellent and we look forward to supplying 40mpta of West Pilbara Fines from December 2020, once the Eliwana mine and rail development project has commenced operations," Gaines said.

FMG's cash on hand dropped by $10 million to $962 million after the payment of $270 million in dividends and the buy-back of $101 million of shares on-market.

Gross debt remained at $4 billion.

"We are pleased with the execution of Fortescue's share buy-back program after acquiring 34.8 million shares at an average price of A$3.997 per share during the quarter," Gaines said.

"Maintaining our disciplined approach to capital management together with maximising shareholder returns remains our key focus."

The company revealed its acquired an Argentinean exploration company for US$2 million in November.

Argentina Minera holds 48 tenements covering in San Juan. Copper-gold exploration will begin this month.

The company spent $21 million on exploration during the quarter, mainly on iron ore in the Pilbara.

FMG shares rose 2.9% to A$5.58, the highest level since September 2017.


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Frances McDormand gave a powerful and emotional speech as she won the Best Actress award at tonight’s Oscars.

The Three Billboards actress encouraged her fellow nominees to stand up with her and make a change in the industry.

She said: "Meryl (Streep), if you do it, everyone else will."

McDormand continued: "Look around ladies and gentleman, because we all have stories to tell and projects we need financed, don't talk to us about it at the parties tonight, invite us into your office, we'll tell you all about them.

Frances, 60, ended her speech: "I have two words to leave you with tonight - inclusion rider."

Frances gave a rousing speech

Many fans took to Twitter confused, with one tweeting: “everyone at home including me: “Yes! Also what is an inclusion rider?!”

Another said: “frantically googles *what is inclusion rider?*

So what is it? An inclusion rider is the belief that there should be requirements in contracts that provide gender and racial diversity.

Fans flooded Twitter with praise for her rousing speech. “Okay Frances McDorman! Girl power! Yes for the power! #Oscars”

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Earlier this month, Frances addressed her controversial outfit choice in her acceptance speech for Best Actress at this year's BAFTA Awards after not wearing black.

Frances got all the women, including Meryl Streep, to stand

The American actress, 60, opted for a long red and black patterned gown and defied the dress code black-out which follows that of the Golden Globes in January and white roses for the Grammys .

Attendees dressed in black for the awards in support of the Time's Up movement and many were wearing pins as a sign of solidarity with victims of sexual assault.

However, the Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri star admitted she has a "little trouble with compliance".

Frances was up against some fierce competition, including I, Tonya star Margot Robbie and The Shape Of Water's Sally Hawkins.

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  • Best director: Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water
  • Best actor: Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
  • Best actress: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  • Best supporting actor: Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  • Best supporting actress: Alison Janney, I, Tonya

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Frances insisted that there be an "inclusion rider"

But she came out on top and headed on stage to pick up her gong and let everyone know why she didn't decide to wear black.

"Thank you British film people," she said, before giving a nod to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri's director Martin McDonagh.

"As Martin said, I have a little trouble with compliance."

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Frances gestured to her outfit, leaving the audience in hysterics as they applauded the award winner.

She continued: "But I want you to know that I stand in full solidarity with my sisters tonight in black.

"I also want to stay that I appreciate a well organised act of civil disobedience.

"And I'm thrilled that activists all over the world have been inspired by the set decoration of the three billboards in Martin's film and have taken to the streets and let it be a part of the positive public discourse that is happening."


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Meghan Markle was pictured lovingly cradling her growing baby bump as she spent Christmas Day at Sandringham.

But while many are eagerly awaiting the new royal birth in the spring, there are those that believe Meghan may be expecting a double arrival.

Rumours have surfaced previously that the Duchess of Sussex is pregnant with twins, with bookies suspending betting last month after a flurry of bets.

But it appears that they haven't gone away with some royal insiders now convinced that Prince Harry and Meghan will have to invest in two cots for their new home at Frogmore Cottage.

The Daily Star claims that sources close to the couple suspect they might well be expecting two children.

According to the paper, one high-ranking courtier was even amongst those to place a bet on the outcome.

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Parenting website BabyCentre states mums-to-be who are aged over 35 are much more likely to have multiple births - and not just because of fertility treatment.

The website says: "For mums in their 20s, one in 16 pregnancies results in twins. For mums aged 35 to 39, one in five pregnancies results in twins.

"It's all in the hormones. Your levels of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), released during your menstrual cycle, increase as you age

"When this hormonal surge occurs, there's a chance that you may release more than one egg, upping the odds of a multiple birth."

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Meghan's growing baby bump has some convinced she is expecting twins
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are awaiting their new arrival

Meghan, 37, was pictured reaching for her bump at the traditional service at the Queen's estate on December 25.

Mum Karen Anvil, who earned thousands for a picture of the 'Fab Four' in 2017, took the heartwarming snap.

The mum-of-one said: "I actually spoke briefly to Meghan. I asked her if she was excited about her baby.

"She said 'the baby's nearly there'."

Revealing they had halted betting for Meghan giving birth to twins last month, Paddy Power said: "We had to suspend betting.

Paddy Power suspended betting last month on Meghan delivering twins
Twin rumours have surfaced previously

"We saw an almost identical pattern of betting before the announcements of the couple’s engagement and pregnancy

"An unprecedented amount of bets on Meghan and Harry to have twins has forced us to stop taking bets on the market altogether this morning.

"Since the day began, the stream of bets has led us to believe that perhaps the punters – or an insider source – knows something more than we do."


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Steven Taylor will hold talks on Friday to thrash out whether he has a future at Newcastle.

The former England Under-21 skipper will meet with his agent Paul Stretford, with Newcastle indicating they are preparing to make a new formal offer to the transfer listed star.

Taylor made his first team return last week after 11 months out, and he is at a cross-roads in his career - deciding whether to pen a long term deal at his home town club to keep him there a decade, or start afresh elsewhere.

The 24-year-old has vowed not to let the uncertainty over his future effect his performances and alongside Sol Campbell, he had a fine game in the battling draw against Chelsea last weekend.

He will be a free transfer in the summer and can strike a deal with a new club next month.

Everton are favourites to entice him, which would be an ideal retaliation for the Merseysiders who lost Dan Gosling to the Magpies earlier this year.

Liverpool are also monitoring Taylor after Jamie Carragher’s injury ruled him out for three months. Wolves also hold a long term interest in the youngster.

Newcastle are playing hard ball in renegotiating contracts with existing players in a bid to cut their wage bill and get maximum value for money.

The days of £60,000 a week contracts are over and the Taylor wrangling is likely to be repeated across the board as big earners see their deals run out.

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Chris Hughton is adamant the club want to keep Taylor and is confident the row can be sorted out.


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Neymar expressed his pride at PSG's performance against Real Madrid despite their Champions League exit.

The French side were beaten 2-1 (5-2 agg) by the Champions League holders as Zinedine Zidane's side progressed to the last eight.

Neymar missed the encounter with a foot injury and may not play again this season.

But he took to social media after the game to tell his teammates how proud he was of their display.

"I am sad for defeat, much sadder for not being in the field helping my companions!!" he wrote.

"What makes me proud is to see everyone's effort. Congratulations my guys, ALLEZ PARIS."

The Brazilian underwent a successful operation on his foot after fracturing his metatarsal.

There is still a hope he could be fit in time for the World Cup, with Brazil getting their campaign underway on June 17.

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Paris Saint-Germain's Brazilian forward Neymar Jr is taken off the field on a stretcher in tears

Despite Neymar's comments, L'Equipe were far from as positive in their player ratings.

The likes of Edinson Cavani and Adrien Rabiot were heavily criticised, but the worst rating went to Marco Verratti.

The Italian saw red shortly after the hour mark, ending any slim PSG hopes of a comeback.