Possible IED Discovered on Oklahoma Gas Line

Fox News ^ | 10 August 2011 | Unknown

[LSUfan]

Oklahoma bomb teams removed what is believed to be an Improvised Explosive Device from a gas line in Okfuskee, a small town about 30 miles east of Oklahoma City, authorities said.

[Domestic Church]

This wasn’t glacier moose calving by any chance was it?

[Tunehead54]

Am I on the right thread? ;-)

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Tuck - just delete your post - this could be series. And what's wrong with Poppycock? I prefer it to regular popcorn on threads like this. /thread ;-)

[APatientMan]

Good point!

[null and void]

I’m sure the answer will be forthcoming... </Richter scale sarcasm>

[popdonnelly]

It’s time to bring this country back to civilization.

[left that other site]

Hogwash isn’t bad either.

I bathe my Harley regularly with Hogwash.

[Red Badger]

There haven’t been any glaciers in Oklahoma in 15,000 years, give or take a millenia or two.........

[Red Badger]

I wonder what he posted on the ‘glacier’ thread?......

[CyberAnt]

It means somebody was possibly testing to find out if anybody would notice a “bomb”. A dry run ..??

Something similar to the woman who tried to carry a “bomb” on board an airplane.

What bothers me about this .. there seems to be way too many of these happenings lately .. and we know for a fact that the 9/11 hijackers did many, many dry runs.

[radu]

What bothers me about this .. there seems to be way too many of these happenings lately .. and we know for a fact that the 9/11 hijackers did many, many dry runs.

And we know OBL was plotting attacks for 9/11, this year being the 10th anniversary. Just because he's dead doesn't mean the plans have ground to a halt.

[Liberty Valance]

*ping*

[matt04]

Yep. The ELF is know for arson against things they don’t like. They were more active in the late 90’s burning business and homes in the west IIRC, but have either been quieter or just not reported recently.

[Shady]

And it is SUMMERTIME!
What dolts.

[Abathar]

"Federal investigators said the device was rendered safe and that the area was checked for additional devices. No other devices were found. The device was described as a one-inch-by-one-inch pipe bomb."

I was reading another article and came across the 1"x1" pipe bomb and had to chuckle, I've had firecrackers bigger than that.

[Tunehead54]

Just a pulling your leg bump - right now looking for a report of a Playboy Of The Month gal going through security with gun and ammo ... will report back! ;-)

[Lazamataz]

What a fraudulent crock! Glaciers “calve” all the time, and dollars to dogturds, this wasn’t the largest example of a glacier calving, by a long shot. More glo-bull warming (B)arbara (S)treisand! Just because the boat got too close, and the dweeb holding the camera lost his balance when the boat rocked a little bit....THAT....is supposed to make everyone swoon and panic and sell their SUV. Balderdash! and Poppycock! And a goodly amount of Hogwash thrown in for good measure!

Seasonally, though, the numbers are STILL very low for automotive manufacturing jobs, however, I do see your point about Service Sector jobs:

Employment activity in the non-manufacturing sector grew in July, as ISM's Non-Manufacturing Employment Index registered 52.5 percent. This reflects a decrease of 1.6 percentage points when compared to the 54.1 percent registered in June. Nine industries reported increased employment, one industry reported decreased employment, and eight industries reported unchanged employment compared to June. Comments from respondents include "Filling some vacancies on a case-by-case basis" and "Slightly lower due to end of assignments/jobs."

The industries reporting an increase in employment in July — listed in order — are: Real Estate, Rental & Leasing; Mining; Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting; Transportation & Warehousing; Wholesale Trade; Retail Trade; Finance & Insurance; Public Administration; and Accommodation & Food Services. The only industry reporting a reduction in employment in July is Professional, Scientific & Technical Services.

To my mind, this does NOT call for QE3 and the inflationary pressures this act will cause, even though the trends over the last few weeks show deflationary tendencies.

[optiguy]

You make a good point.

Raquel makes two good points. (What the hell, this thread has already been confusing enough)

[FourPeas]

The newsok article linked above says it was a 12” by 12” pipe bomb. I wonder which reporter got it wrong.

[Lazamataz]

Well stated, but my point is that Matrix metalloproteinases are up-regulated in many diseases, including osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

I'm reporting on a novel technique that can be used to simultaneously measure activity levels for a panel of enzymes, such as the MMPs. The technique, termed the multiple-enzyme/multiple-reagent assay system (MEMRAS), relies on the use of reagents such as substrates with varying selectivity profiles against a group of enzymes. When reaction rates are measured by following a change in fluorescence with time, for mixtures of enzymes, an equation with unknown concentrations for each activity is generated for each reagent used. Simultaneously solving the set of equations leads to a solution for the unknown concentrations.

I have applied this mathematical technique to measure activity levels for mixtures of MMPs such as collagenase 3 and gelatinase A. In addition, because I was most interested in determining collagenase 3 levels as a potential biological marker for OA, I developed highly selective substrates for this enzyme by using results found in previous bacteriophage substrate-mapping experiments. Some of the best substrates tested have specific activities for collagenase 3 that are 37 000-, 17 000-, 90-, and 200-fold selective over stromelysin 1, collagenase 1, and gelatinases A and B, respectively.

Determination of kcat/Km for Dinitrophenyl (Dnp) Peptide Substrates. The Dnp substrates listed in Tables 1 and 2 were prepared and assayed as described below. Briefly, a dimethyl sulfoxide stock of 5 mM peptide was diluted in assay buffer so that the substrate concentration was 25 íM in a 200-íL volume. In the case of substrate 35, solubility proved to be a problem. Therefore, the substrate concentration was reduced to 5-10 íM. The assay buffer contained 50 mM Tris, pH 7.5; 200 mM NaCl; 5 mM CaCl2; 10 íM ZnCl2; and 0.01% Brij 35. After addition of enzyme (0.05, 0.17, 0.17, 10, and 17 nM final concentrations for collagenase 3, gelatinase A, gelatinase B, collagenase 1, and stromelysin 1, respectively), time points were taken at 10 min, 30 min, 1 h, and 2 h when a 50-íL aliquot was removed and quenched with 50 íL of 1% heptafluorobutyric acid (HFBA).

[demshateGod]

Hobbits.