I was cruising on my bike along Adelaide Street, Toronto, when I got snapped by a Toronto Star photographer.
I was lucky - If the lens had shuttered two seconds earlier I would have had a vastly different look on my face.
Bike lane blockers are my nemesis. This idiot had the nerve to tuck himself right between the plastic poles. "Get out of the f------ way!" I screamed before weaving into the road and wheeling on my way.
Ever since the bike lanes opened along Richmond and Adelaide, I've been having to spill out into traffic, pedalling for my life. The designers were nice enough to give us poles and paint, but it doesn't matter - drivers never get it.
The biggest issue is the intersections: Cars don't know when to turn, so they wait until we cyclists are right up on their bonnet before yanking the wheel around.
My preferred route to work avoids these lanes at all costs - even though they're on my way. Instead I use a section of pavement and 200 yards of wrong way street.
Ah...Just another day biking through the streets of Toronto.
Please don't call 911 for parking infractions.
No kidding. If anything, it is criminal to call 911 because someone has annoyed you by breaking a by-law.
This is the most pro-cycling blog I know and even here everyone is like "whoa, settle down there, fella". That should be a hint.
His post is stupid. It's not offensive. The button says click if "offensive comment." I don't get all the greying out in this place.
Mr. Bulls alternate response could be to could slow down slightly, look over his shoulder, move over a bit and ride around the car. From the picture in the article, there isn't any traffic around that is going to murderously endanger his life. However, this would not make for a very good story.
To reiterate, do not call 911 in this situation. If you do, you are putting real children at risk that might be having an actual, life-threatening emergency.
And your description will be 'there is a car parked in a bike lane'. Oh no wait, your description will be 'There is a murderous cancer spewing criminal killing innocent children in the bike lane!!!' . And their response will be 'Clear this line immediately or you will be subject to a fine.' Repeated calls of that nature will result in a fine of up to $1000.
Instead of taking the over-the-top nutbar approach why not just call police services? They'd be happy to issue a ticket and people will eventually learn.
Hopefully Toronto does this in their next Adelaide/Richmond reno in a few years.
One of the things I like about the Cannon Cycle Track is the rubber curbing, which does a great job of keeping cars out of the lane.
Kevin, when's the last time you rode Cannon St? You seem to be forgetting that actually the Cannon St bike lane has rubber curb stops for it's entire length with the only exceptions being at driveways. Yes, quite a few driveways, but many blocks have no driveways at all, and not fair to say "much of Cannon Street has no such protection."
There are no rubber stops in many places that have no driveways.
I believe that this is a sufficient number of pictures to justify the statement, "... much of Cannon Street has no such protection." But if anyone wants more, just let me know.
I'm with Ryan on this one. Only an idiot proof design fix will work. Calling it in doesn't work because the scofflaws will be long gone. Regular enforcement would help - but the latest blitz is just that - a ticketing blip that won't last or result in any meaningful change. A better design is the only way to go. As with all successful designs, the ones catering to the lowest common denominator are the most successful.
a group of cycling activists will create an "awareness campaign". they will publicize the website where anyone can submit a photo of the make model and plate of the offending car. with a business card under the wiper saying "your car has been photographed and id'd. a photo of your plate and car has been submitted to a website to publicly shame scofflaw that are violating the bike lane laws. you are a hazard to public safety. please stop" if shaming isnt enough, i would think that after a few repeat offenders get keyed or have their windshields shattered, violations will decrease. we will see.
As a cyclist, these over the top responses are very disappointing and can only harm the good work that many people have done in making Hamilton a better place to ride. The general public can find enough reasons to bash cyclists without this type of response.


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The White House as it appears from the north. Photograph by David Lat.
The White House is the official residence of the President of the United States, located in Washington, D.C. It is on Pennsylvania Avenue facing north onto Lafayette Square. The White House, or Executive Mansion, as it is also called, is surrounded by an 18-acre park, most of which is on its south side. The building, which has 132 rooms, contains the private living quarters of the President and his family, the executive offices, and state rooms for official and diplomatic functions.
The White House was the first public building to be constructed in Washington, D.C. It was designed by the architect James Hoban for a site chosen by George Washington. The cornerstone was laid on Oct. 13, 1792. Among the early names given to the building were the President's Palace, the President's House, and the President's Mansion. Washington and his wife inspected the gray limestone building in 1799, shortly before his death the same year. In 1800 the government was transferred from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., and President and Mrs. John Adams moved into the White House. At this time the structure consisted only of the central building. A few years later, Thomas Jefferson, assisted by the architect Benjamin Latrobe, added terraces on the east and west sides of the building. Jefferson also commissioned Latrobe to design the North and South porticoes, or porches, of the building.
Rebuilding and Renovation. In 1814, during the War of 1812, the British burned the White House, leaving only the blackened walls standing. Dolley Madison, President James Madison's wife, escaped from the building just before the arrival of the British troops and rescued the famous Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington and several important documents. The White House was rebuilt between 1815 and 1817 under Hoban's supervision, and the whole building was painted white to cover the smoke stains. Although the name "White House" dates from before the fire, the building was officially called the Executive Mansion from 1818 to 1902. In the latter year, President Theodore Roosevelt authorized the official adoption of the name "White House" and had it engraved on his stationery. Two other major 19th-century additions to the White House were the semicircular South Portico, completed in 1824, and the North Portico, with Ionic columns from ground to roof, finished in 1829. The South Portico became the main ceremonial entrance of the building.
The next major renovation took place in 1902, when Theodore Roosevelt, following old prints in the Library of Congress, had the East and West wings rebuilt. The executive offices were moved from the second floor of the central building to the West Wing. A new entrance on the ground floor was placed under the South Portico. In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge had a third floor with 18 rooms added to the central building.
In 1948, nearly 150 years after its completion, the White House was declared unsafe for habitation, and President and Mrs. Harry S. Truman had to move out temporarily. The exterior walls of the building were allowed to remain standing, but the entire interior was rebuilt. When the renovation was completed, in 1952, all the historic rooms of the White House had been reconstructed. New rooms were added only in the private area. Air conditioning was installed, and a bomb shelter with protection against radioactivity and poison gas was built.
During many administrations, especially before 1900, the occupants of the White House redecorated and remodeled its interior. Presidents bought furniture to their liking, and later Presidents sold it at auction. However, some White House families have been interested in preserving its past. President Theodore Roosevelt followed the original plans in the restoration of 1902, and in 1923, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge persuaded Congress to pass a resolution allowing the White House to accept gifts of Early American furniture. Because of Mrs. John F. Kennedy's interest, a law was passed in 1961 making everything in the White House part of a permanent collection. The Fine Arts Committee of the White House, appointed by Mrs. Kennedy, planned the redecoration, using furniture of the best styles of the late 18th and 19th centuries, including, where possible, pieces that had belonged to past Presidents.
Historic Rooms of the White House. The visitors' entrance is through the East Wing of the White House. The South Portico entrance, through the Diplomatic Reception Room, is used by the First Family and their guests. The Gold and China rooms, used as checkrooms, also display historic pieces of china and metalwork. Other rooms on the ground floor include a library, paneled in old White House timbers, the curator's office, a doctor's office, and the kitchen. Tourists also enter on this level to view the historic rooms on the first floor, which are open to the public from 10 A.M. to noon, Tuesday through Saturday.
The Blue Room. Until 1902, visitors often entered through the South Portico directly into this oval-shaped room. It has been used for diplomatic and official receptions as well as for weddings. Originally crimson and gold, the room was decorated in blue in 1837 by President Martin Van Buren. The present colors in the room are blue and white.
The East Room. The largest room in the White House, the East Room, is used for big receptions. Weddings and funerals have also taken place there. Hoban's original design of the East Room was greatly changed by President Ulysses S. Grant, who added false beams and columns to it. In 1902 the room was changed to a simple classical design and was decorated in gold and white.
The Red Room. This room has been traditionally used by the First Ladies. All the furniture is original American or French Empire, a style decided on because of the room's Empire mantelpiece, which has been in the White House since 1817.
The Green Room. The early Presidents used this room as a dining room or as an elegant sitting room. Now used for small receptions, the Green Room is decorated with furniture of the early Federal period, dating from about 1800. This room is probably the closest in furnishings and décor to the original intention of the architect.
The State Dining Room. The only room whose basic design differs from Hoban's original plan is the State Dining Room. In 1902 a stairway outside the room was removed and the dining room was enlarged. It can seat about 140 people.
Private or Family Rooms. The living quarters for the President and his family are on the second and third floors. This area is not open to the public and may be rearranged and redecorated to suit the family's needs. Several of the rooms, however, such as the Lincoln Bedroom, with President Lincoln's 9-foot (2.7-meter )-long rosewood bed and other personal items, the Rose Guest Room, or Queen's Bedroom, the Treaty Room, and the Oval Room are of historical interest.
In March 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued an executive order establishing the Committee for the Preservation of the White House. It is a permanent committee charged with the responsibility of protecting and guiding the historic and artistic heritage of the White House.
The White House, the official residence of Presidents of the United States, consists of (11) private quarters and (1) a private entrance for the President and his family, as well as numerous rooms for state occasions. Such public rooms on the ground floor include: (2) the Diplomatic Reception Room, oval in shape, from which President Franklin D. Roosevelt broadcast his fireside chats; (3) the China Room; (4) the Gold Room, or Vermeil Room; and (5) the vaulted-arch hallway used by tourists. Among the most famous rooms on the first floor are (6) the State Dining Room, decorated with carved oak paneling and containing G.P.A. Healy's famous portrait of Abraham Lincoln; (7) the Red Room, used as a parlor and furnished in the French Empire style of 1810-1830; (8) the Blue Room, a drawing room containing portraits of seven Presidents; (9) the Green Room, also a parlor, famous for its paintings; and (10) the East Room, which is often used for entertainments of a musical or theatrical nature following formal White House dinners and which also serves as a reception room on state occasions. The second floor is noted for (12) the Oval Room, employed both as a sitting room and as a reception room; (13) the Treaty Room, so named because many treaties have been signed in it; (14) the Lincoln Bedroom, in which President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and which is now used as a guest room for distinguished male visitors; (15) the adjoining Lincoln Sitting Room; and (16) the Rose Guest Room, which has been occupied by five visiting queens and which is also used for notable female guests. The Sun Room (17) is on the third floor.


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KNG Ranch which includes part of the Columbia Bottomlands and other remnant prairies, wetlands and oak savannahs is named for Kittie Nash Groce who inherited the ranch from her parents, William and Ian Nash. Under Kittie Nash Groce, the ranch prospered and grew to 15,000 acres. When Kittie died in 1957, she left the ranch to a series of heirs, St. Mary's Episcopal Church, and the West Columbia Hospital District Trustees. After the death of the last of the heirs in 2006, the KNG Ranch reverted to St. Mary's and the Trustees who shared ownership equally. The Diocese of Texas actually owns the property on behalf of St. Mary's. The ranch is located on County Road 25, 70 miles southwest of Houston, with parts of the property being leased by several farmers and ranchers.
At the time St. Mary's inherited the KNG Ranch, there were 300 acres known as the hay meadow or Nash Prairie, a rare pristine prairie which had never been grazed or plowed. It is one of the largest examples of native coastal prairies still in excellent condition and is home to over 300 different species of plants, several of which were thought to be extinct. In 2011, 400 acres of the KNG Ranch, which included the Nash Prairie, were sold to the Nature Conservancy, thus guaranteeing the preservation of this natural treasure.
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Women leaders are on the rise. So, aside from repercussions of #MeToo, why is there so much discussion about women coming into their own and coming into positions of leadership?
With the marginal numbers of women in executive levels of leadership, this myth would seem to be true. Yes, statistically, there are more male leaders represented in most organizations. However, this does not preclude women from taking on leadership roles.
Have you ever heard of the names Cleopatra VII or even Dilma Rousseff, Indira Gandhi or certainly Oprah Winfrey and Hilary Clinton? Women have been leading across all sectors of business and government since the beginning of recorded history and earlier. When women have other women leadership role models within the organization, they can better envision their own career paths and success.
The real question is: What level of engagement in your work is appropriate and desirable for you at this stage of your life and career? When women can answer that question with certainty and authenticity, they will likely strike the right balance for themselves.
Research shows that women naturally possess effective leadership competencies. This means those competencies, such as developing new leaders, demonstrating communication and social skills, utilizing creativity and innovation, problem-solving, demonstrating judgment and team leadership, among others, are naturally available for women leaders.
Real talent and hard work in an efficient organization never go to waste. It doesn't matter who delivers the work until unless it is achieved with utmost precision. So, never underrate yourself.


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Santa Caterina della Rota är en kyrkobyggnad i Rom, helgad åt den heliga Katarina av Alexandria. Kyrkan är belägen vid Piazza di Santa Caterina della Rota i Rione Regola och tillhör församlingen San Lorenzo in Damaso.

Tillnamnet "Rota" är latin och betyder vagnshjul, men i detta sammanhang åsyftas det pinohjul eller stegel, på vilket den heliga Katarina torterades.

Historia
Kyrkan omnämns för första gången i ett dokument från 1100-talet och bär där titeln S. Maria in Caterino. Kyrkan tros dock härstamma från 800-talet. Kyrkan restaurerades i slutet av 1500-talet samt ånyo år 1730, då den nuvarande fasaden tillkom.

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Över högaltaret ses målningen Den heliga Katarinas av Alexandria förhärligande. I det första sidokapellet på höger hand finns Girolamo Muzianos Vila under flykten till Egypten. Målaren ådagalägger här influenser från Tintoretto och Sebastiano del Piombo.

I det tredje sidokapellet på vänster hand omramas fresken Madonnan och Barnet med de heliga Katarina av Alexandria och Apollonia av hermpilastrar; fresken är förmodligen utförd av Vasaris skola. Ovanför fresken ses rödmålningen Salomes dans och Johannes Döparens halshuggning och ovanför denna en putto med två ymnighetshorn. I den krönande lynetten framställs Bebådelsen.

Innertaket härstammar från den år 1879 rivna kyrkan San Francesco d'Assisi a Ponte Sisto.

I kyrkan vilar gravören och konstnären Giuseppe Vasi (1710–1782).

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What is the legacy of the Iraq war?
15 years on from the start of the Iraq war - what has changed for better, if anything? We talk to those who were there about the difficulties of documenting what really went on. Stability from a dictator - or chaos with a semblance of freedom? It's a terrible choice and one that the Iraqi people were unable to make for themselves. As it happened, they ended up with chaos - a country divided and no real sign of a lasting peace. How did that happen? At the Roundtable was Robert Nickelsberg, a photojournalist and author who reported on the invasion of Iraq in 2003; Ali Adeeb al Naemi, an Iraqi journalist who was a news editor for the New York Times Baghdad Bureau from 2004 to 2007; Dana Lewis, who was an embedded reporter with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq during the invasion; and Courtney Kealy, a journalist who covered the trial and death sentence of Saddam Hussein and was the Baghdad correspondent for Fox News from 2005 to 2009. Roundtable is a discussion programme with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it's about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analysing every point of view. From fierce debate to reflective thinking, Roundtable discussions offer a different perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.
Thoughts in Motion: Mouhssine Ennaimi on organ trafficking
Iraq: 15 years on
How 9/11 changed America and the world
Roundtable: Iraq's Future
Was Iraq better under Saddam Hussein?
In the Loop: We were there - Andrea Sanke
In the Loop: We were there - Soraya Salam
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Women on War: Reporting from the Frontline
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On October 25 1986, Billboard magazine reported that Madonna visited Larrabee Sound studios in Santa Monica to co-produce a track for Nick Kamen with Stephen Bray – and to oversee the mixing of Spotlight and the remixing of Holiday with Jellybean Benitez.
Billboard had previously announced in their October 4th issue that Sire Records planned to release a six-song Madonna EP titled You Can Dance ahead of the 1986 holiday season, featuring a previously unreleased cut Spotlight and five mixes of previously released songs.
But as we all know, You Can Dance would instead be promoted as full-length remix LP and would not hit the record store shelves until November of 1987.
On February 16 1984, Madonna appeared on the cover of Smash Hits magazine.


The Real Estate Investment Network says Surrey's real estate market is set to outperform other regions in the province over the next three to five years.
This city ranked number one out of hundreds of municipalities and towns in British Columbia, according to the Real Estate Investment Network.
Surrey has been rated the hottest market for housing investment in the province by the Real Estate Investment Network (REIN).
REIN, a leadingn real estate research organization in Canada, has released it's latest report on the top cities and towns in B.C. for real estate investment.
The report titled Top British Columbia Investment Towns 2011, analyzes the current and future prospects for real estate investment opportunities across the province, and identifies the top regions that will outperform in the coming decade.
The findings are based on in-depth research, analysis of the latest statistics, economic and social trends, and on-the-ground reports from REINs research staff and members, along with reports and statistics from organizations such as Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), Statistics Canada, Multiple Listing Service (MLS), Canadian Home Builders Association, city and regional real estate boards, and local economic development offices.
Anita Huberman, CEO of the Surrey Board of Trade is unsurprised by Surrey's great performance.
That said, she believes now is no time for complacency.
• Are new infrastructures being built to handle that growth?
• Is the area creating new jobs and taking steps to maintain current employment levels?
• Will Surrey benefit from an economic or real estate ripple effect?
• Has political leadership created an economic growth atmosphere?
• Are there major transportation improvements in the works?
Founded in 1993, REIN has grown over the years to become Canada's leading real estate research, investment and education organization. It serves more than 3,000 member clients who own more than 26,000 properties (valued at over $3.3 billion) across the country.
Members use the unbiased research and proven systems to invest in properties in economically strong regions across the country. REIN does not sell or market real estate to its members or the general public, but instead conducts objective and unbiased research, analysis and investor education.


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Acute sleep deprivation induces a local brain transfer information increase in the frontal cortex in a widespread decrease context
Joan F. Alonso, Sergio Romero, Miguel A. Mañanas, Marta Alcalá, Rosa M. Antonijoan, Sandra Giménez
© 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Sleep deprivation (SD) has adverse effects on mental and physical health, affecting the cognitive abilities and emotional states. Specifically, cognitive functions and alertness are known to decrease after SD. The aim of this work was to identify the directional information transfer after SD on scalp EEG signals using transfer entropy (TE). Using a robust methodology based on EEG recordings of 18 volunteers deprived from sleep for 36 h, TE and spectral analysis were performed to characterize EEG data acquired every 2 h. Correlation between connectivity measures and subjective somnolence was assessed. In general, TE showed medium- and long-range significant decreases originated at the occipital areas and directed towards different regions, which could be interpreted as the transfer of predictive information from parieto-occipital activity to the rest of the head. Simultaneously, short-range increases were obtained for the frontal areas, following a consistent and robust time course with significant maps after 20 h of sleep deprivation. Changes during sleep deprivation in brain network were measured effectively by TE, which showed increased local connectivity and diminished global integration. TE is an objective measure that could be used as a potential measure of sleep pressure and somnolence with the additional property of directed relationships.
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I don't think PokemonGo is in the UK yet (or is it?) but I've been hearing lots about it and to be honest... I just don't get it. Don't get me wrong, I love Pokemon. I used to watch it on SMTV every Saturday back in the 90s (was it the 90s?) and cracked up at Ant & Dec's Pokerap and Pokefight sketches (Watch!). I even painted Pokemon onto my bedroom wall, and of course I played Pokemon (I had the red version) on my original GameBoy.
But wandering around outside, staring at your phone while looking for wild Pokemon? Erm... I've been doing that for the past two years. But what I do is real. Only it's not Pokemon I'm looking for, it's butterflies. And it's not my phone in my hand, it's my camera.
There's 59 species of butterfly in the UK, and okay, that may not be as exciting as the 150 (or however many there is nowadays!) Pokemon, but I've gotta catch 'em all too. Although instead of catching them in a Pokeball, I catch them with my camera.
It gets you outside. It gets you interacting with other people (I can always spot a fellow butterfly-nerd - they'll be the ones staring into the undergrowth with a camera in hand). It takes skill - certain species are only found in certain areas, at certain times of the year, and they only eat certain things. Some are common. Some are rare. Even if you do have your camera on you, you're not guaranteed a shot. There may involve running and scrambling through undergrowth and close encounters with spiders.
It can lead to good things - I now volunteer for the Butterfly Conservation. Is there a Pokemon Conservation?
Getting outside is good. Interacting with other people is good (I suppose!). Getting involved in conservation is brilliant. Surely real-life wildlife is more rewarding than pixels? You can even do both, why not? Play PokemonGo and gain an interest in the real world. We have some fascinating creatures on this planet. They really exist. And you can really see them with your own eyes.


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Feds take down the world's 'largest dark web child porn marketplace'
Prosecutors say the vast online store was run by Jong Woo Son, currently serving a prison sentence in South Korea on charges related to child pornography.
The dark web, a section of the internet that can only be accessed via a Tor browser, is designed to protect users' tracks online and obscure digital footprints.Jeroen Jumelet / EPA-EFE
By Cyrus Farivar and Andrew Blankstein
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors have filed multiple charges against a 23-year-old South Korean man accused of running what they call the world's "largest dark web child porn marketplace."
The now-shuttered English-language site, called "Welcome to Video," contained more than 200,000 unique videos or almost 8 terabytes of data showing sex acts involving children, toddlers and infants, according to the 18-page criminal indictment unsealed here Wednesday, and processed 7,300 Bitcoin transactions worth more than $730,000.
According to prosecutors, the vast online store was run by Jong Woo Son, a South Korean citizen currently serving an 18-month prison sentence in his home country after his conviction on charges related to child pornography. The site operated from June 2015 until it was seized and shut down by U.S. authorities in March 2018.
At a press conference Wednesday morning, U.S. officials said 337 suspected users of the site had been arrested worldwide to date.
U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu and other officials describe their investigation of a vast dark web child porn marketplace during a press conference in Washington, on Oct. 16, 2019.Cyrus Farivar / NBC News
"You may try to hide behind technology," U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie Liu said, "but we will find you and arrest you and prosecute you."
Almost half of the videos seized were not previously known to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard Downing said. "There are many children depicted in these videos that have not been identified."
"The scale of this crime is eye-popping and sickening," John D. Fort, chief of IRS criminal investigations, said.
The site allegedly rewarded its members with "points" in relation to the amount of illegal material they uploaded, authorities announced Wednesday.
One user of the site, a former federal U.S. law enforcement agent, even downloaded more than 50 hours worth of videos.
Son was indicted on federal child porn charges in August 2018, which remained sealed until Wednesday.
In addition to Son, more than 300 other suspects have been arrested in South Korea as of Wednesday, while still more suspects were identified in other countries, including the United Kingdom and the United States, including a Washington, D.C., man who was caught with the equivalent of 50 years worth of video footage he had downloaded.
The website ran solely on the dark web, a section of the internet that can only be accessed via a Tor browser, which is designed to protect users' tracks online and obscure digital footprints. Users could purchase videos using cryptocurrency and an annual membership was priced at 0.03 bitcoins (at current exchange rates, around $300).
This warning was posted on "Welcome to Video" after it was seized by U.S. authorities.Department of Justice
Members earned points by uploading new and popular videos to the site or by inviting new members. The site sought only child sexual abuse imagery, according to prosecutors — its landing page stated in red bold type: "Do not upload adult porn." Prosecutors have also filed a related civil forfeiture case, seeking to seize Bitcoin assets held across 24 different accounts.
A notable moment in the investigation came in September 2017 when an Internal Revenue Service agent who was assisting with the probe noticed that the site's administrator had misconfigured his site, which revealed his South Korean IP address, and then ultimately revealed the identity of its owner. During the criminal probe, authorities conducted controlled buys of child porn videos from the site and eventually worked closely with the U.S. attorney's office in D.C. on the investigation.
Ultimately, the site was seized in March 2018, when Son was arrested by South Korean authorities. The Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) announced the arrest of a "Mr. A" from Danjin, roughly two hours southwest of Seoul, on May 2, 2018. They later confirmed to NBC News that this was Jong Woo Son.
Liu said Wednesday she could not comment on "what may be happening with respect to extradition."
Five U.S. defendants identified
NBC News has been able to identify five defendants in the U.S. who have faced criminal charges related to the site.
One user, Nicholas Stengel, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty to child porn charges late last year and was sentenced to 15 years in prison: prosecutors said that he alone downloaded more than 50 years worth of abuse videos.
In April 2019, Mark Rohrer, a man from West Hartford, Connecticut, was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty in September 2018 to similar charges.
Other defendants include Richard Gratkowski, a former Homeland Security Investigations agent, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 70 months in prison back in May 2019. According to the FBI, Gratkowski used Coinbase, a well-known online wallet company, with his own government passport as identification.
Also in May 2019, across the country in Rhode Island, an Army veteran named Stephen P. Langlois was sentenced to 42 months in prison for downloading 114 videos from the site.
A Texas defendant, Michael Ezeagbor, pleaded guilty earlier this year to downloading 42 videos and uploading 10 videos. His sentencing is scheduled for Friday. The government has asked for at least seven years and 10 years of supervised release.
When they announced the arrest of "Mr. A" in 2018, the South Korean police also said they had arrested a total of 156 South Koreans for either uploading or downloading child porn materials, which was unusual given that the site operated entirely in English.
"Most of the users were in their 20s, unmarried and white-collar office workers and first-time offenders, although some were ex-convicts of sexual crimes, including juvenile sex offenders. One possessed as many as 48,634 child porn [files]," the KNPA said.
Paul Jenkins, head of the Americas region for the U.K.'s National Crime Agency, said at the Wednesday press conference that 18 investigations of alleged site users had yielded seven convictions, with one defendant sentenced to 22 years.
The case, Jenkins said, demonstrates the "increase in the scale, severity and complexity of child sexual abuse offending."
Andrew Blankstein reported from Los Angeles. Stella Kim contributed reporting from Seoul.
Cyrus Farivar
Cyrus Farivar is a reporter on the tech investigations unit of NBC News in San Francisco.
Andrew Blankstein
Andrew Blankstein is an investigative reporter for NBC News. He covers the Western United States, specializing in crime, courts and homeland security.
Stella Kim contributed.


I went out to Cardiff during the big fall on Wednesday in search for some good snow images for my stock portfolio. Most of them are the usual snow scene with white landscape and trees covered with snow. But just when my fingers started to feel numb from the sub-zero temperature this young couple stopped about 100 yards away from me and started embracing each other! The scene was just like in the movies and was too good to be true..I quickly pulled my long lens and managed to have a quick snap before they parted and walked towards me. I didn't even get the chance to meter the shot! Almost like a quick draw in a cowboy shoot-out.. and as the young couple walked past me, I had a quick glance on my screen and to my amazement the shot came out perfect! It made my day. Talking about luck huh?


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A sawed-off shotgun (also called a sawn-off shotgun, short-barreled shotgun, shorty or a boom stick) is a type of shotgun with a shorter gun barrel—typically under —and often a shortened or absent stock. Despite the colloquial term, barrels do not, strictly speaking, have to be shortened with a saw. Barrels can be manufactured at shorter lengths as an alternative to traditional, longer barrels. This makes them easier to transport and conceal due to their smaller profile and lighter weight. The design also makes the weapon easy to maneuver in cramped spaces, a feature sought by military close-quarters combat units, law enforcement SWAT team users, and those concerned with home-defence. As a result of the shorter barrel length, any sawn-off shotgun with a magazine tube will have its capacity reduced.

In the 1930s, the United States of America, Britain and Canada mandated that a permit be required to own these firearms. They are subject to legal restrictions depending upon jurisdiction. They are used by military forces and police agencies worldwide.

Description
Compared to a standard shotgun, the sawn-off shotgun has a shorter effective range, due to a lower muzzle velocity; however, its reduced length makes it easier to maneuver and conceal. Powerful and compact, the weapon is especially suitable for use in small spaces, such as close-quarters combat in a military context. Military vehicle crews use short-barreled combat shotguns as ancillary weapons. In urban combat zones, military entry teams often use entry shotguns when breaching and entering doorways.

Many jurisdictions have a minimum legal length for shotgun barrels to make these more concealable shotguns unavailable for criminal purposes. Many gun makers in the U.S.A. have not offered sawn-off shotguns to the public since 1934, when shotguns with barrel lengths of under 18 inches were restricted, although they had previously been sold. To abide by NFA regulations, anyone may complete a Form 1 "making" form, and purchase and have approved the US$200 tax stamp for the shotgun in question, in order to legally reduce its barrel length to less than 18 inches by cutting the barrel or replacing it with a shorter one.

A sawn-off shotgun is often an unofficial modification of a standard shotgun. In countries where handguns are more costly or difficult to obtain, criminals can convert legally purchased or stolen shotguns into concealable weapons.

The term is often applied to illegal weapons that are created by cutting off the barrel of a standard shotgun. The barrel of a shotgun without a tube magazine can be cut to any length; pump-action or semi-automatic shotguns usually have a tube magazine attached to the underside of the barrel which limits the practical minimum barrel length to about the length of the magazine tube, unless it also is modified, technically much more challenging than shortening the barrel. Repeating-fire shotguns with box magazines do not lose shell capacity when sawn off, but they are far less common than those with tubular magazines. Shotguns manufactured with barrels under the legal minimum length frequently fall into special categories.

Legal restrictions

Many nations have placed legal restrictions on sawn-off shotguns. The following are the restrictions for specific nations. Although not listed here, they are also subject to laws governing guns in general.

Australia
In the state of Victoria a shotgun may not have its barrel shortened so as to change the category under which that shotgun would be classified. In some states, any alteration to the length of the barrel requires permission from the Chief Commissioner of Police.

Canada
Short-barreled, manually operated shotguns (non-semi-automatics) are non-restricted as long as the barrel remains unmodified from the original factory length. There is no legal minimum for shotgun barrels as long as they are not handguns; shotguns with barrels as short as 8.5 inches are available in Canada.

The act of reducing the length of the barrel of a shotgun to less than 457 mm (18 inches) by sawing, cutting, or "otherwise", by anyone other than a recognized gun manufacturer, is prohibited.

Czech Republic
Short-barreled shotguns are universally category B weapons and therefore require a shall issue permit and Gun license (zbrojní průkaz), including the self defense category.

Germany
In Germany, the possession of a sawn-off shotgun is legal with a firearms license (Waffenbesitzkarte), just like any other firearm. Restrictions only apply to pump-action shotguns, which require a minimum barrel length of 45 cm and a minimum overall length of 90 cm to be legal. Other shotguns may be of any length. If the barrel length is less than 30 cm or the overall length is less than 60 cm, the firearm is considered a handgun, and treated accordingly under the law.

Ireland
Shortening the barrel of a shotgun or rifle results in a presumptive five-year minimum sentence of imprisonment upon conviction for a first offence, and a mandatory five-year sentence for second or subsequent offences.

Russia

On 13 December 1996, president of the Russian Federation B. N. Yeltsin signed the federal law № 150, which entered into force on 1 July 1997. In accordance with this law, possession of any firearm with a barrel length of less than 500 mm and an overall length of less than 800 mm (incl. sawn-off rifles and sawn-off shotguns) was prohibited. As a result, since 1 July 1997, sawn-off shotguns and sawn-off rifles were banned on the territory of the Russian Federation and they had to be handed over to government law enforcement agencies for destruction.

United Kingdom
Within the United Kingdom, side by side, over-under, bolt-action and lever-action shotguns are required to conform to the specification of a 24-inch minimum barrel length if held on a shotgun certificate. If held on a firearms certificate, the applicant having demonstrated 'good reason' for possession, they must comply with the standard configuration of 12-inch minimum barrel length, 24-inch minimum overall length, in common with other Section 1 firearms.

Shotguns held on a shotgun certificate must either have no magazine, or a non-removable magazine capable of holding no more than two rounds. Shotguns held on firearms certificates are not subject to any magazine restrictions.

Semi-automatic and pump-action shotguns, whether held on shotgun or firearms certificates, are always required to comply with the specification of 24-inch minimum barrel length, 40-inch minimum overall length.

Muzzleloading firearms held on firearms certificates are exempt from any restrictions on barrel and overall length. A smoothbore muzzleloader held on a shotgun certificate would be subject to the standard 24-inch minimum barrel length specification.

USSR
Changing the length of the barrel of a firearm was not prohibited. It was possible to buy, sell or own old smooth-bore hunting shotguns with already shortened barrels (if the barrel length is at least 500 mm). Owners were allowed to shorten the buttstock or barrel of their hunting shotgun or rifle if they do it in a gun workshop. It was allowed to re-equip shotguns with pistol grip and detachable buttstock. Firearms with a barrel length of less than 500 mm were illegal and had to be confiscated.

United States of America
Under the National Firearms Act (NFA), it is illegal for a private citizen to possess a sawn-off modern smokeless powder shotgun (a shotgun with a barrel length shorter than  or a minimum overall length of the weapon, total, including the 18-inch minimum barrel, of under ) (under U.S.C. Title II), without a tax-paid registration from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, requiring a background check and either a $200 or $5 tax for every transfer, depending upon the specific manufacturing circumstances of the particular sawn-off modern shotgun being transferred. Gun trusts have become an increasingly popular means of registering SBSs with the BATFE.  Short-barreled muzzleloading blackpowder shotguns are not illegal under federal law, and require no tax-stamped permit, although they may be illegal under state law. As with all NFA regulated firearms, a new tax stamp must be purchased before every transfer. Inter-state transfers must be facilitated through a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) while intrastate transfers may be between two persons.

In the US, shotguns originally manufactured without shoulder stocks (and thus not legally shotguns), with a total length under 26 inches, are classified as an "Any Other Weapon" by the BATFE and have a $5 transfer tax, if they are manufactured by a maker possessing the appropriate Class 2 Special Occupational Taxpayer Federal Firearms License.  In order to convert an existing shoulder-stocked shotgun to a short-barreled shotgun or an existing pistol-grip-only shotgun to an "Any Other Weapon", a private citizen must pay the standard $200 NFA tax.

Police and military use

Historical military use of sawn-off shotguns includes use as a primary weapon for Confederate cavalry during the American Civil War.  These muzzle-loaded weapons were used primarily for close-range combat and to supplement the availability of more traditional short-ranged weapons such as the saber or carbine.  The availability of the source weapons and the ability to use single ball, shot, or a mix of both as the situation required were reasons why they were initially desired by those establishing Confederate cavalry units.  They were replaced over time as more conventional arms became available and as the tactical use of cavalry shifted towards use as mounted infantry.

In modern usage, minimum length and barrel length restrictions only apply to civilian use; military and police departments may issue short-barreled shotguns, and major manufacturers offer special models with barrels in the range of  as riot shotguns or combat shotguns for use in areas with restricted space. These are generally referred to as "entry shotguns", because they are often used for forcing entry into buildings, where the short easy handling is more important than the increased ammunition capacity of a longer shotgun. Breaching rounds provide another use for very short shotguns. These rounds are usually made of sintered powdered metal, but a normal buckshot or bird shot round will also work. A shotgun is used for breaching by placing the gun next to a door lock (0 to 2 inches away, 0 to 5 cm), and firing at a 45 degrees downward angle through the door between the lock or latch and the door frame. The impact of the projectile(s) opens a hole through the door, removing the latch or locking bolt. When through the door, the shot or sintered metal disperses quickly, and because it was aimed downwards, the risk of harming occupants on the other side of the breached door is minimized. Breaching guns used by police and the military may have barrels as short as , and they often have only a pistol grip rather than a full butt stock. Some models use a special cup-like muzzle extension to further minimize the risk of debris injuring the shooter. Because few rounds are fired, any sporting shotgun with a 3-round capacity could be shortened and used as a capable breaching shotgun.

Barrel length and shot spread
It is a common misconception that shortening the length of a shotgun barrel itself significantly affects the pattern or spread of the pellets; this only becomes true when the barrel is reduced to less than 50% of a typical length.  A standard-length barrel (e.g., 30 inches or 76.2 mm) is this long to move the center of gravity of the weapon away from the body and give it an ergonomic heft, and in order for the barrel to extend out into the shooter's field of vision right up to the target, as well as to make the weapon safer, as it is  difficult to inadvertently point a long gun at one's own body. The pattern is primarily affected by the type of cartridge fired and the choke, or constriction normally found at the muzzle of a shotgun barrel.

The primary reason that the pattern is altered is because cutting off the end of the barrel removes the choke, which generally only extends about two inches (5 cm) inward from the muzzle. This results in a cylinder bore, which causes the widest spread generally found in shotgun barrels (see choke for more information on the impact of chokes, shotgun shell for information on spreader loads, and details on shot patterning for other relevant information). However, many qualified gunsmiths can re-tap and reinstall the choke in the shortened barrel.

Civilian use
A sawn-off shotgun with exposed, manually cocked hammers and dual triggers is known as a lupara ("wolf-shot") in Italy and, while associated with organized crime, was originally used by Sicilian farmers and shepherds to protect their vineyards and flocks of animals. In rural areas of North India, where it is seen as a weapon of authority and prestige, it is known as a dunali, literally meaning "two pipes". It is especially common in Bihar, Purvanchal, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab.

The light weight of short-barreled shotguns, particularly in configurations that lack substantial stocks, leads some users to use short "minishells" with lower shot and powder loading for comfortable casual use.

Criminal use
In the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, where handguns are not easily obtainable, the sawn-off shotgun was a common weapon in armed robberies during and shortly after the 1960s, and it is this use that most people associate with the weapon.

The bank robber Clyde Barrow modified his Browning A-5 shotgun by cutting the barrel down to the same length as the magazine tube, and shortening the stock by 5 to 6 inches (125 to 150 mm) to make it more concealable. A small,  strap was attached to both ends of the butt of the gun, and was looped around his shoulder, concealing the gun between his arm and chest under his jacket in the manner of a shoulder holster. The gun was drawn up quickly and fired from the shoulder under which it was carried. Barrow dubbed it the "Whippit", as he was able to "whip it" out easily.

Derived uses
 Familiarity with descriptions and images of sawed-off shotguns via crime reports in the public media has led to "sawed-off" or "sawn-off" being used sometimes colloquially as "small or stripped version of"; such as the Sawn-Off Daimler (SOD).

See also
Coach gun
 H&R Handy-Gun
KAC Masterkey
M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System
Marble Game Getter
Serbu Super-Shorty
Short-barreled rifle
Title II weapons

Notes

Shotguns


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Sirius XM Presents BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA'S 15TH ANNIVERSARY CHRISTMAS ROCKS! TOUR
State Theatre, 805 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis Engagement presented by Hennepin Theatre Trust Friday, Nov. 16, 2018
MINNEAPOLIS—Iconic guitarist, songwriter, vocalist and three-time Grammy-Award winner BRIAN SETZER and his 19-piece ORCHESTRA have announced the details for their 15th anniversary "Christmas Rocks! Tour," presented for the fourth consecutive year by SiriusXM. Hitting 25 cities, the annual holiday extravaganza will launch Minneapolis at the historic State Theatre (805 Hennepin Ave.) on Friday, Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. in his adopted hometown of Minneapolis and wrap Dec. 22 in Los Angeles at the Microsoft Theater. Supporting the tour will be Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones.
Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, July 20 at 10 a.m. at the State Theatre Box Office (805 Hennepin Ave.), charge-by-phone at (800) 982-2787 and online at HennepinTheatreTrust.org.
DAY DATE TIME VENUE TICKET PRICES*
Friday Nov. 16 8 p.m. State Theatre $53.50, $63.50, $89
"People tell me all the time what joy I bring them over the holidays," says SETZER. "I don't take this for granted. People don't say something like that unless they mean it. When we get a standing ovation at the end of the Christmas show, it means something just a little extra." See full Q&A below.
The group's set list will feature music off their latest Christmas album "Rockin' Rudolph" (available now as a limited-edition box set, CD, vinyl or download), plus music off their three previous best-selling holiday albums and original material from Brian Setzer. Setzer's trademark guitar work and vocal stylings will be matched with his 19-piece orchestra's rockin' big-band horn arrangements, making for a reliably unbeatable combination. View the Christmas sizzle reel here: https://youtu.be/6NXEa29BMqk
Setzer belongs to an elite group of artists who has had four super successful phases of his career from the Stray Cats, to solo albums, the Rockabilly Riot and BSO. The BSO show seamlessly encompasses music from all these phases. "The music I play in the big band is rock n' roll with a jazz influence," says Setzer. "What keeps it fresh is the quality of the players in the band. Also, a big part of keeping the big band fresh is the arrangements; writing the arrangement for 18-19 people is like writing a song within a song. It makes the song you might have heard many times sound new again."
For the past three years, THE BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA has had a strong presence on SiriusXM during the holidays. They've performed exclusive invitation-only concerts for SiriusXM listeners in New York City and Los Angeles which aired on SiriusXM's Outlaw Country and Holly channels, a tradition that will continue this year (date and location TBA).
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Iconic guitarist, songwriter, vocalist and 3-time Grammy-award-winner Brian Setzer is a "Musician's Musician" credited with continually taking chances with innovative and daring musical styles. Setzer is widely credited for taking two forgotten genres, rockabilly and swing, adding his own blend of gunpowder and rockin style, and completely reinventing and single-handedly resurrecting them in the process. Along the way, he has scored chart-topping hits, sold 13 million records and received the Orville H. Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award throughout his decorated career as founder/leader of the Stray Cats, his 19-piece Brian Setzer Orchestra, and as a solo artist. He is consistently cited as one of the world's greatest living guitarists, and has a best-selling, extensive line of elite Gretsch signature model guitars bearing his name. Brian appeared in the 1987 film, "La Bamba," portraying rockabilly pioneer Eddie Cochran. In 2002, BRIAN earned the privilege of being one of the few musicians to be animated in an episode of "The Simpsons." That same year, Setzer was personally requested to induct Chet Atkins into the 17th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Setzer had the honor of being invited in 2006 to perform at the White House for the President of the United States. In 2014, Setzer received the distinct honor of being asked by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. to donate a replica of his original 1959 Gretsch 6120 "Stray Cat" guitar, joining an elite collection of iconic treasures at the museum.
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Vertical Bridge has signed a multi-year agreement for the management and marketing of the wireless deployment of Clear Channel Outdoor America's billboards and outdoor advertising properties in 45 out of the top 50 U.S. markets.
Vertical Bridge and one of its subsidiaries announced this week it will be entering into an agreement to purchase 43 towers from Townsquare Media. The towers are set to be purchased for $22.8 million in cash, subject to closing adjustments.


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Show Dates before Christ
The Exodus & The Judges
All dates on this chart have been plotted directly from data found in the Holy Bible, New International Version®.
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of International Bible Society.
See Critical Path for information on the continuity of the biblical chronology.
Copyright © 1999, 2012 by David Petrie
The Exodus and the Judges
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2729 - c. 3172 AM [Chart]
1495 - c. 1052 BC [Chart]
[Table][Index]
Exodus & Arrival in Canaan
Biblical References:
1 Samuel 1 - 7
The nation of Israel began with the person called Israel (Jacob). While Joseph was in a position of authority in Egypt, Jacob and the rest of his family moved there. As relatives of Joseph, Jacob and his family was honoured and well treated in Egypt.
However, after the deaths of these original settlers, this prosperous situation did not remain. The Israelites (as they came to be known) grew in number until they represented a sizeable portion of Egypt's population. Towards the end of the Israelite's time in Egypt they were treated as slaves. Some people speculate that Israelite labour was used in building the pyramids.
According to the Biblical account, the period of time from Jacob's entry into Egypt and the Israelites Exodus from Egypt was 430 years (Exodus 12:40). This Exodus was lead by Moses, an Israelite who became the adopted son of Pharaoh's daughter. Two main events associated with the Exodus were the 10 Plagues and the crossing of the Red Sea.
After the Exodus, the Israelites camped at Mt Sinai, where they received the 10 Commandments. They remained there for a couple of years, then moved on to where Canaan meets the desert. 12 men were sent to explore the Canaan. When they returned 40 days later they gave a favourable account of the lands produce, but were fearful of its inhabitants. As a result, the Israelites complained to God, wishing they were back in Egypt. As a result, God pronounced punishment on the people of Israel, declaring that they would have 40 years of wilderness wandering before he would allow them to enter Canaan - 1 year for every day the 12 Explorers were in Canaan. (This punishment was backdated so as to include the 2 years they had already spent in the desert.)
After the Israelites finally entered Canaan, it took them approximately 7 years to overthrow the majority of the Lands kingdoms and establish their own tribal nation. From that time on until the establishment of kings (approx 250 - 300 years) Israel progressed through alternating periods of prosperity and captivity / bondage.


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Home > Genetics & Molecular Biology > Adaptive Complexity
Systems Biology: Asking The Wrong Questions
By Michael White | July 23rd 2009 02:38 PM | Print | E-mail
Talk to any molecular biologist, and you'll find that most of them feel that there is something that we're missing when we analyze complex biological systems. These systems are often too difficult to reason about verbally in any sort of detailed or rigorous way. So we build mathematical models, sometimes going to great effort to perform very precise measurements so that we can properly parameterize our models.
But at this point we frequently run into a problem: we have no clue what questions to ask with the model. The issue is not that we lack questions; it's that we have a hard time picking out important ones. Using math, we can make more detailed predictions about how the system should behave under certain conditions, but often testing those model-generated predictions don't a) tell us anything fundamentally new about the system and b) differ qualitatively from less precise predictions we could have made without the model.
The bottom line is that biologists are often stuck when it comes to asking system-level questions. So in step the engineers to the rescue. Engineers spend a lot of time thinking about control systems, feedback loops, robustness, etc. And they've been trained with the right mathematical framework for asking such questions; biologists who dip into this area are a little like an astronomer trying to solve a two-body problem without any calculus. Without the proper mathematical tools, you're going to have a hard time solving complex problems, no matter how good your intuition is.
Engineers who jump into systems biology bring a lot to the table, but I find that they often don't ask the kinds of questions that interest biologists. As an example, check out this older paper (PDF) by John Doyle and Marie Cseste. (If you're interested in the application of control theory to biology, Doyle's papers are the place to start.)
The goal of the paper is to "describe insights from engineering theory and practice that can shed some light on biological complexity." But the one major quantitative example in the paper is about robustness and fragility of feedback loops:
In most technologies as well as in biochemistry, it is relatively easy to build either uncertain, high-gain components or precise, low-gain ones; but the precise, high-gain systems essential to both biology and technology are impossible or prohibitively expensive to make unless a feedback strategy like that in Fig. 2 is used...
Even these simple toy examples show the robust yet fragile features of complex regulatory networks. Their outward signatures are extremely constant regulated variables (yet occasional cryptic fluctuations) as well as extraordinary robustness to component variations (yet rare but catastrophic cascading failures). These apparently paradoxical combinations can easily be a source of confusion to experimentalists, clinicians, and theoreticians alike (53), but are intrinsic features of highly optimized feedback regulation. Because net robustness and fragility are constrained quantities, they must be manipulated and controlled with and within complex networks, even more so than energy and materials. Figure 3B shows how extreme open-loop versus closed-loop behavior can be, and thus how dangerous loss of control is to a system relying on it. The tradeoff in Eq. 4 shows that even when working perfectly, net fragility is constrained, and thus some transient amplification is unavoidable.
This is a nice example of a systems-level question, the kind of question you can ask when you're not looking at individual components (like genes), but rather the functioning of the system as a whole. Certainly how you achieve robustness is one interesting question, but before the explosion of genomics and computational biology, you wouldn't find many biologists assigning that question a high priority. You can find hundreds of robustness studies now, because, frankly, we know how to study it. In other words, the kinds of questions we're asking in systems biology are determined not by what is most intellectually pressing, but by what we know how to do. (The same thing is true in a related area, noise in biological systems.)
The questions that most molecular biologists have long been interested in relate to function. Instead of understanding how a feedback loop achieves robustness to fluctuations in parameters, I want to understand how a cellular system reads information from various sources, makes a decision (like, say, a cell fate decision), and then executes a genetic program to carry out the decision. That is the kind of thing I want to study quantitatively. Certainly robustness and noise play a role here, but they aren't really the main issues. Information processing and decision making are much more interesting.
I'm afraid that systems biology, in spite of the hype surrounding it, is going to be limited in the intellectual contributions it makes to biology as a whole, until systems biologists figure out how to address questions whose answers will change the way all biologists think.
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