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Medical Education in the Most Important Dimensions and Perspectives
About Site & Author
Robert C. Bowman, M.D.
World of Rural Medical Education Web site
This web site is not affiliated with any institution of higher education or medical association.
More and better physicians that stay longer where they are most needed...
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To those who endure and overcome to gain admission and serve where most needed!
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Common Search Topics On the Site Admission Health Access Schools
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Dedicated to rebuilding Human Infrastructure in America - teachers, nurses, public servants, family physicians
Why Divisions of Web Sites? Divide to understand, unify, and process through to most needed health access. Better health care in cost, quality, and access parameters requires basic infrastructure recovery in America for the nation to have better students, better nurses, better teachers, and physicians that represent a wider range of the population. Without all of these areas addressed, physicians will continue to move toward the extremes of exclusive origin and will fail to comprehend patient care for most types of patients as well as a health care design for an entire nation. Better health care requires optimal birth to higher education admission opportunity for lower and middle income children and the populations left behind in education, economics, and health access. Better health care requires a specific infrastructure focus on basic health access, independent from other health care such that foolish whims of patients, political leaders, and medical leaders will not allow basic access to health to be compromosed. Basic access to health or emphasis regarding primary care will not fix the problems of the nation, but the steps required to address basic health access will fix the problems of the nation.
Our nation, by its policies in nurturing, child development, education, admissions, higher education, college, education funding, medical education, insurance, and health - is a market forces machine for concentrating physicians together and away from the populations in most need of health care, including the elderly.
About 50% of the physicians entering the United States have origins outside of the United States or have a parent who was born outside.
Serious problems exist in birth to admission in America, yet we hear nothing. Child developers, those involved in secondary education, those who test American children, and those who study higher education agree that there are serious problems, and still we hear nothing. Medical education experts claim that medical school debt impairs career choice. Actually birth to admission changes have prevented lower and middle income children, rural children, and children born in America from a reasonable birth to age 6, education with opportunity, and higher education with medical school only the final barrier.
Exclusive admission, exclusive training, and exclusive policy make health care access most difficult.
Medical schools focused on health access are capable of meeting the needs of over 90% of the population.
Top ranking schools are incapable of meeting the needs of the 65% of the population in most need of health care.
The answers are not primary care, family medicine, or more physicians. The answers are about a basic health, education, and development plan for the entire nation, not the 35% doing well.
Beyond the years of preparation, there is the delivery of health care. Americans appear to have a design for the physicians entering the workforce that fails in the most basic areas regarding delivery of health care.


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The Albany Sonic Arts Collective is holding their second annual benefit show for the Upstate Artist Guild. The show is going to run all day Saturday (today), starting at 4 and going until late. It features a long list of performers:
Grab-Ass Cowboys
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Crank Sturgeon is headlining the show. When he played a few months ago at the UAG it was a brilliant mix of noise, ipod karaoke, cosmetology, caricature drawing, and all around madness. It was really something to see, and I highly recommend catching him. You can see a clip of that last show below.

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58 days. These delicate French filet beans are
no longer a luxury item found only in
gourmet restaurants. You can enjoy
their superb, tender flavor fresh from
your garden all summer long. Filet
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are slender beans. They are juicy and
delicious when picked pencil-thin at
only 1/4" in diameter and 41/2" long.
Steam or sauté for just a minute and
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When to sow outside: RECOMMENDED. 1 to 2 weeks after average last frost, and when soil temperatures are 65°F or warmer. Successive Sowings: Every 7 to 14 days up to 60 days before first fall frost. NOTE: In very hot summer areas, sow as recommended above but skip the heat of summer as daytime temperatures consistently above 90°F will cause bean flowers to drop off (no bean formation).
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Harvesting: French filet beans should be harvested when beans are 1/4" wide and about 4"-5" long. Do not allow pods to get as wide as a regular snap bean. Hold stem with one hand, and the pod with the other hand to avoid pulling off branches, which may continue to produce. Harvesting early and often will stimulate flower production for more beans. At season's end, plants are great compost material, if not diseased.
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Sometimes it's hard being on Android, because lots of popular apps start on iOS first. This week Google's platform got some love with some big titles—a powerful photo editor and a homemade goods market—making their way across the OS fence. Those and more made it into this round of the Android apps of the week.
Snapseed: The stupid simple photo editor gives you powerful tools you can use on your smartphone, as well as the more basic ones. And you don't even have to be an expert to use them. Free
Etsy: Whether you're looking for a vintage leather knapsack or five-pound bag of homemade caramels, you can probably find it on Etsy. And now you can do your search from your Android phone. Free
This Is Not an App: This is crazy. It really isn't what you'd expect from a mobile app, and it gives you a series of prompts and drawing tools to turn it into whatever you want—a game, a reminder tool, a book, and more. You have to download it to figure it out because it really is what you make it. $5
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Whites in state 'below the replacement' level
DEMOGRAPHICS / California's population Hispanics headed toward surpassing whites as largest group
California's white population has declined since 2000 at an unprecedented rate, hastening the day when Hispanics will be the state's largest population group, according to newly released state figures.
There were half a million fewer whites in California in 2008 than in 2000, a period when the state's overall population grew by 4 million to 38.1 million, according to a study released Thursday by the state Department of Finance.
By 2008, whites made up 40 percent of Californians, down from 47 percent at the turn of the century. In 2000, Hispanics comprised 32 percent of the population; that number grew to 37 percent in 2008.
Analysts said the decline can be attributed to two main causes - a natural population decrease as Baby Boomers enter their later years and die at a faster rate than younger whites have children, and a migration from California since 2001 among whites who sought affordable housing as real estate costs soared.
"This is the first decade to see a year-over-year consistent population decrease due to natural causes," said Mary Heim, chief of the Finance Department's demographic research unit.
The study also confirmed projections that a steadily growing Hispanic population will surpass whites as the state's largest racial demographic in 2016. Hispanics are expected to become a majority of all Californians in 2042, Heim said.
Most Bay Area counties reflected the state's shifting numbers - Alameda County, for example, dropped from 41 percent white to 36 percent - while showing spikes in Hispanic, Asian and multirace categories.
Yet, San Francisco's racial mix remained consistent. Forty-four percent of the city was white in 2008, 30 percent was Asian and 14 percent was Hispanic, just as it was in 2000. Only the city's African American population showed a slight decline, from 7 percent to 6 percent.
Below replacement level
Hans Johnson, a demographer at the Public Policy Institute of California, said white women in recent decades have tended to pursue higher-education degrees and stay in the workplace, leading them to have fewer children. The white population is now "below the replacement" level, Johnson said. "They're simply not replacing themselves."
The median age among California's whites is 44, while the median age for the Hispanic population is 28, according to the study.
Stephen Levy, director of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy, said the study also reflected how skyrocketing real estate prices pushed workers from California during the housing bubble from 2005 through 2007.
"This is a good look at what happens when your housing prices get way out of line with the rest of the nation," Levy said. "It will be interesting to see what happens when the market corrects itself."
Reverse of a trend
Johnson said migration into California was a national trend until the 1990s, when the number of out-of-state transplants began to decline.
Lower-paid California workers headed to cities like Phoenix, Las Vegas and Seattle, where they could make similar wages but pay less for housing.
"California is no longer attracting large numbers of people from other states," Johnson said. "And a lot of those who did come to California from other states were white, reflecting the ethnic composition of the country as a whole.
"Now," he said, "that flow has dried up."
The decline among whites and increase in other groups in California is a long-standing trend, Johnson said.
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The Akallabêth is the story of the destruction of the realm of Númenor. It tells how the Númenóreans, the descendants of those Men who aided the Elves in their fight against Morgoth during the First Age, turned by degrees against the Valar and the Eldar and were ultimately destroyed by Sauron. The Akallabêth was written by Elendil near the end of the Second Age.
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At the end of the First Age, the Dúnedain, who alone among the race of Men were loyal defenders of the Elves during their war against Morgoth, were given a new land of their own in reward for their efforts, free from the troubles and sadness of Middle-earth. It was located in the middle of the Great Sea, between the western shores of Middle-earth and the eastern shores of Aman, where the Valar lived.
The Men of Númenor were forbidden by the Valar to sail westward so far that they could no longer see the island—"the Ban of the Valar", as it became known. As a result, the majority of their voyaging was eastward and in time they returned to the shores of Middle-Earth. For two thousand years Númenor grew in bliss. Númenórean ships sailed the seas and established remote colonies in Middle-earth. During that time, the Elves of Middle-earth were engaged in a bitter fight with Morgoth's former servant Sauron, who had turned into a Dark Lord himself. Gil-galad asked for the help of the Númenóreans, and they agreed. King Tar-Minastir sent an army to the aid of the Elves and its timely arrival ensured victory over Sauron.
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But having tasted the power of conquest and victory in arms, it was only a matter of time before the Númenóreans made settlements of their own in Middle-earth. Many began to speak openly of their envy of the Eldar's immortality and in defiance of the Ban. It appeared to the Valar that the shadow of Morgoth had returned to plague their hearts. Emissaries of the Valar came to Númenor, seeking to remind them that death was not given as a punishment. But the people of Númenor became split between the King's Men—those loyal to the King and prone to oppose the restraints upon Númenor, and the Faithful—those who remained true to their friendship with the Eldar and loyalty to the Valar. As time went on, Númenor continued to grow in wealth and might, yet somehow its people's bliss was diminished.
After the defeat of Sauron halfway through the Second Age he retreated to the security of Barad-dûr as his hatred of Númenor grew. As the Númenóreans established colonies along the shores of Middle-earth Sauron eventually assailed them. By the time of the last King of Númenor, Ar-Pharazôn, Sauron had staked his claim on the title of King of Men. Ar-Phârazôn became angry with Sauron's attacks against his people, and furthermore wanted to claim the title "King of Men" for himself. He came with a great host to the shores of Middle-earth at Umbar and bade Sauron to come before him and bow to the might of the King. Sauron, to the surprise of many, did as he was asked. But the King was not content with his show of obedience, and brought Sauron back to Númenor as a hostage.
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Sauron gave the impression that this was against his will, but in truth it was exactly what he wanted. Sauron exploited his power to corrupt the Númenórean King to his will. Soon he became his advisor, and most of the King's Men obeyed his will and worshipped Morgoth. Sauron convinced the King to assail Aman in order to gain immortality, desiring to destroy Númenor with the wrath of the Valar. However, as this was done, the Valar appealed to Eru Ilúvatar.
[edit] The Downfall of Númenor
Eru destroyed the Great Armament of Ar-Pharazôn that had landed on Aman by crushing it under stones; however, he also caused the whole of Númenor to sink under the Great Sea. Arda was made spherical at this time, and Aman was put beyond it, out of the reach of mortal Men. Just a few people still uncorrupted by Sauron managed to escape the catastrophe; they fled Númenor by ship, carrying some gifts that the Dúnedain had received from the Valar and the Elves in times of peace. This group of Faithful Númenóreans was led by Elendil the Tall and his two sons, Isildur and Anárion.
They landed in Middle-earth, where the followers of Elendil established two kingdoms which came to be known as the realms of Exile: Gondor in the south, and Arnor in the north. Some of the King's Men, enemies of Elendil, who were in Middle-earth at the time of the Downfall established other realms in exile to the south; of these the Haven of Umbar was the chief. The culture of Númenor became the dominant culture of Middle-earth (thus, Westron, a descendant of the Adûnaic language of Númenor, became the Common Speech). The sadness and the shock from the loss of their island home always remained in the hearts of Kings of Númenórean descent. And they were dismayed to discover that Sauron, although greatly diminished and bereft of shape, had survived the Downfall and returned to Middle-earth to continue troubling its inhabitants.
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The study of Númenor's history was suppressed in the realms of Exile because it was seen as a vain pursuit, "breeding only useless regret". Only one story from the former home of the Dúnedain remained generally known: the cautionary tale of the pride of Ar-Pharazôn and his "impious armada", which corresponds to the last half of the Akallabêth.
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Akallabêth is an Adûnaic word meaning "She that hath Fallen" or "The Downfallen" (from the verb kalab, meaning 'fall down'). The Quenya translation of this word is Atalantë, derived from the verbal stem talat. The word refers to 'The Downfall of Númenor'.[1]
Akallabêth/Atalantë was also a general name for the island of Númenor after its Downfall. The Exiles became reluctant to speak of the land by any other name, or indeed much at all; but at times "they turned towards the West in the desire of their hearts" and remembered Akallabêth, their former home
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As the word Atalantë makes obvious, Númenor is a retelling of the story of Atlantis in the setting of Arda. Even so, as Tolkien himself noted, the Quenya root TALÁT ("slope, sliding") dated back to c. 1918, well before he invented the legend of Númenor. The similarities of "talat" and "Atlantis" are a convenient coincidence.
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The story originated with The Lost Road, an abandoned time-travel novel. The Lost Road, and the supporting legends Tolkien devised at the same time (which are the true germ of the Akallabêth itself), was written in the mid-to-late thirties. Tolkien abandoned The Lost Road before writing much of it, but he began to develop the tale of Númenor's Downfall further when writing The Notion Club Papers in the 1940s. At this time he made two traditions concerning Númenor's history, each with its own retelling of the Downfall: The Fall of Númenor, a more Elvish version, and a "Mannish" form, The Drowning of Anadûnê. These texts can be found in Volume IX of The History of Middle-earth, Sauron Defeated.
Tolkien's final revisions of the Akallabêth were published in the last volume of The History of Middle-earth, The Peoples of Middle-earth. It was from this version that Christopher Tolkien got the document that he published in The Silmarillion. Since the latest version of the Akallabêth contained references to Ælfwine, Christopher Tolkien had to edit it somewhat and remove them, since he believed that Ælfwine did not fit in his father's later conception of the Elder Days "tradition".
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- Westernesse, an attempt by Helge Fauskanger to show how the Akallabêth could be adapted as a prequel to Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies.
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In an emotional press conference, President Obama unveiled his "concrete steps" to keep kids safe, asking that Congress restore a ban on military-style assault weapons, make it easier for mental health professionals to report threats of violence and put a limit on ammunition. NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
President Barack Obama has appealed to ordinary Americans to lobby members of Congress over gun control to counter the power of the pro-gun lobby.
In an opinion article written for the Connecticut Post, Obama urged people to ask their politicians "why getting an A-grade from the gun lobby is more important than giving parents some peace of mind when they drop their child off for first grade."
On Wednesday, Obama laid out a plan to require criminal background checks on all gun sales, ban "military-style" assault weapons, limit magazines to 10 rounds, and strengthen penalties for gun trafficking.
The proposals have proved highly controversial with several sheriffs across the country vowing not to enforce restrictions that could be imposed by Congress or by executive order.
And, in Texas, a lawmaker has authored the Firearm Protection Act, which he says would "make any federal law banning semiautomatic firearms or limiting the size of gun magazines unenforceable within the state's boundaries."
In his Connecticut Post article, Obama admitted of his gun-control plans that "none of this will be easy."
"Already we're seeing pundits, politicians, and special interest lobbyists warning of a tyrannical, all-out assault on liberty -- not because it's true, but because it gins up fear, or higher ratings, or more revenue for themselves," the president wrote.
"The truth is, there's only one voice powerful enough to make this happen: yours. If you think we've suffered too much pain to allow this to continue, put down the paper, turn off the computer, and get your Members of Congress on record," he wrote.
"Ask them if they support universal background checks or renewing a ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. And if they say no, ask them why not," he added.
On his proposed ban on assault weapons, Obama said that "weapons designed for theaters of war have no place in movie theaters."
He insisited most Americans agreed with this and reached out to gun owners.
"This is the land of the free, and it always will be. As Americans, we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights that no man or government can take away from us. But we also recognize that along with those rights come responsibilities. Along with our freedom to live our lives as we will comes an obligation to allow others to do the same," Obama said.
"Like most Americans, I believe the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms. There are millions of responsible, law-abiding gun owners in this country who cherish their right to bear arms for hunting, or sport; protection, or collection," he added.
"But I also believe most gun owners agree that we can respect the Second Amendment while keeping an irresponsible, law-breaking few from doing harm. I believe most of them agree that if America worked harder to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be fewer atrocities like the one in Connecticut. And that's what these commonsense reforms are designed to do."


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Bookended by a pair of getaways, "Drive" is a gorgeous, hyper-cool, ultra-violent character study of a man whose purity and principles are ultimately his undoing.
Gosling stars a Driver, a Hollywood stunt driver by day who moonlights as a getaway man, both of his careers managed by his mentor Shannon (Bryan Cranston), who hopes to turn his protégé into a stock car racer—"Put this kid behind a wheel, there's nothing he can't do." Not surprisingly, those dreams are derailed.
By chance, Driver meets his new neighbor, Irene (Carey Mulligan), when her car breaks down, and the chemistry between the two is immediate, but things are complicated by the fact that her husband, Standard Guzman (Oscar Isaacs), is about to get out of jail. Upon his release, Standard recruits Driver for a heist, a job that goes sideways in a hail of bullets and leaves Driver holding the bag, literally.
Gosling continues to show more range than just about any young actor in Hollywood. Coming of his turn as a ladies man in "Crazy, Stupid, Love," in "Drive" Gosling turns inward as a man of few words, with no name or past, who only wants to keep doing the one thing he does well, drive. Despite a scarcity of dialogue and a character who doesn't (can't?) emote for the first 45 minutes, Gosling brings an intensity to Driver that commands your attention and makes his shocking transformation from laconic wheelman to single-minded killing machine believable.
But the man enjoying all of the early Oscar buzz is Albert Brooks, here cast against type as a hard-boiled New York gangster trying to make his name in LA. Who'd've guessed that the manic nebbish of "Lost in America" could portray such a cold-blooded shark?
The film opens with Driver behind the wheel following a hold-up, as he rolls through the streets of LA, a Clippers-Raptors game on the radio, trying to avoid the cops. Refn is in complete control throughout the film, hitting the gas and the breaks at the perfect moments, his framing is stunning, the colors as rich as they are dark.
"Drive" is the kind of film that makes fans of '70s cinema gush—it's a clinic in minimalism from Refn and his cast, a shining example of much can more can be conveyed with less. Refn has been teasing the press with talk of a sequel, leaving us to wonder if tickets are available yet.
Review: "Drive" is Fast-Paced, Hyper-Cool
Bookended by a pair of getaways, "Drive" is a gorgeous, hyper-cool, ultra-violent character study of a man whose purity and principles are ultimately his undoing.


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More Detail Provided on Scope of Tests; Content, Cost Unchanged
WASHINGTON (November 3, 2003) – The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) today announced upgrades to specifications for two of its exams: the Series 65 exam, which individuals must pass before being licensed as investment adviser representatives by state securities regulators, and the Series 66, which is a combined exam for securities agents and investment adviser representatives. (Those who pass the Series 66 also must pass the NASD Series 7 to become licensed.)
The revised specifications, which become effective January 4, 2004, do not change the subject matter content of the exams.
"These revisions are intended to provide greater clarity to exam takers on the areas covered in the parts of the tests dealing with legal and ethical obligations," said NASAA President and Connecticut Securities Division Director Ralph A. Lambiase.
"The previous specifications identified the various statutes with which exam takers were expected to be familiar. The revised specifications go further. They identify the specific topics in those statutes, which will be covered on the exams. This will allow exam takers to concentrate their studies on the most pertinent sections of the laws, rules and regulations when preparing to take the exam," said Illinois Securities Director Tanya Solov, who also chairs NASAA's Broker-Dealer Section.
The revisions also allow for questions on similar topics to appear in the same sections of the exams, eliminating possible duplication of questions.
The number of questions on each exam, the time given for completion, and the cost of the exams will not change. The updated specifications for the Series 65 and Series 66 exams can be found on the NASAA website.
For More Information:
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About Via Spiga
Via Spiga is an authentic lifestyle brand, offering distinctive women's shoe and boot collections that are widely recognized for original, sophisticated design at competitive prices. The introduction of accessory collections - including eyewear, handbags, watches, belts, outerwear and hosiery - has elevated the brand to must-have status. The key to Via Spiga's success is exceptional Italian styling, combined with American marketing and merchandising. Advertising and editorial coverage is featured in leading fashion magazines.
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I love working with athletes. I really do. For the most part thay are healthy, happy, motivated and driven to succeed. Helping athletes learn more about training and racing is great fun. But on occasion I run up against something which seems simple yet many can't quite seem to grasp. This is the case with the 30-minute test for lactate threshold heart rate (LTHR) I described a few days ago in a blog post. Basically, it said to just go as hard you can for 30 minutes and your average heart rate for the last 20 minutes is close to your LTHR.
It seems so simple and yet I get comments from readers indicating they are confused. Nothing in the 30+ years I've been coaching has proven to be more frustrating to get people to understand. This isn't the first time. But I think I've just figured out why that may be so based on the comments.
It has to do with the mindset endurance athletes have. We race a given distance – not a given time. So if I told a group of runners to go out and run 8km as fast as they could there would be no confusion. If I told a bunch of cyclists or triathletes to do a ride of 20km at an all-out effort they'd be all over it. But if I tell these same groups to run or ride as fast as they can for 30 minutes and many, if not most, are confused.
I'm beginning to understand from the comments posted in the last few days that those who are confused about the 30-minute test don't seem to understand how to pace themselves for a given amount of time – only for a given distance. Why that is the case I don't know. If you typically complete a 20km time trial on a bike in about 30 minutes then you know how to pace yourself for about 30 minutes (or whatever your race time would be). If you normally run 8km in about 30 minutes then you know how to pace yourself for 30 minutes.
So if you are in a fog about the 30-minute test do this… Just determine how much distance you could cover in 30 minutes at race effort/pace and go do a solo time trial over that distance. It would be just like a race. And all endurance athletes know how to do a race. Simple solution.
(Just realize that you won't be quite as fast for a solo "race" as you would for a real race. In fact you'll probably be about 5% slower when doing it by yourself. We tend to feel sorry for ourselves when alone and much less so when in a real race. And also understand that if you insist on using a real race for this test of LTHR then the race distance needs to be long enough to require you take an hour to finish it at an all-out, race effort. Please don't ask me why. I find very athletes who understand the answer. Don't need to add to my frustration over this topic.)
Realize that LTHR varies by sport so if you are a triathlete you have to do it for both cycling and running with separate tests. You should be rested before the test. Your average heart rate for the last 20 minutes of your "race" time is an approximation of your LTHR. Problem solved (I hope!).
In a related matter, "Herm" asked in a recent comment how often I find that LTHR changes during a season. Hardly at all. Once in decent condition it is quite stable. What changes is how fast or powerful you are at that heart rate. So I have athletes do the 30-minute test about every 4 to 8 weeks – not to find their LTHRs, but rather their functional threshold power or pace (FTP). Basically, I'm just confirming LTHR. It will vary a few beats per minute from one test to the next but that is usually insignificant. Power and pace is what we really want to see change. You won't go faster because your heart rate is higher but rather because your pace is greater or you are more powerful (they are actually the same thing – even runners produce power – but let's not make things even more confusing).
Heart rate doesn't determine the outcome of a race – power and pace do. There are no podium positions for high heart rates. So I want to confirm fairly often with the athletes I coach that we are making gains in the "output" aspect of lactate threshold. Heart rate is the "input" aspect of LT. One of the simplest ways and yet also one of the most precise for determining fitness gain is to see how much output you get for a given input. The greater the output-input ratio the more fit you are for endurance sport.
Gosh, I hope that's the end of this discussion. I'm starting to feel grumpy again…


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A bunch of people think the NBA rigged last night's draft lottery so that the NBA-owned New Orleans Hornets would get the No. 1 pick.
The supposed hard evidence is this picture of Anthony Davis in a Hornets hat that was allegedly taken two weeks ago and posted on TerezOwens.com:
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After the Hornets won the draft last night, it went viral.
Just to be clear, the notion that this is proof of a conspiracy is absurd — you'd have to believe that the NBA told Anthony Davis that the fix was in a month ago.
But draft lottery conspiracy theories are plagued by a lack of hard evidence. Even the unnamed NBA execs that told Yahoo! they were suspicious of the lottery could only cite a non-specific sense of fishiness as proof of a wide-ranging plot.
So it's not surprising that conspiracy theorists latched on something like this picture.
Anthony Davis told the Dan Patrick show that it was technically an old-school Charlotte Hornets hat.
Something tells us this won't stop the conspiracy theories.
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Massachusetts flu cases 10 times that of last year
Influenza hits Massachusetts early and hard
Flu has hit Massachusetts early and hard.
State health officials told the Boston Globe that the number of influenza cases has increased dramatically in the past several weeks, and the level of illness has already surpassed the peaks of the last two flu seasons.
In Massachusetts, flu cases don't usually spike for another month.
"Flu typically peaks around early February," said Dr. Alfred DeMaria, an infectious disease specialist at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. "Back in 2003, we had an early flu season, and that was the last one that started before the holidays."
The newspaper reported that 3,736 patients have laboratory-confirmed cases of the flu so far this season, compared to just 126 at this time last year.
That is probably a small fraction of the number who were sickened with the flu, because most people do not get tested to confirm the illness.


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Puns are the black holes of humor. They suck you in even as taste and intelligence try to hold you back. That's why we are forced to begin this week's column with the observation that Taylor Swift is still Red hot.
Her album of that name holds at No. 1 for the second week on both Billboard's country and all-genres charts. And her lead single from Red, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," is in its fifth week of residence at the top of the country songs list.
As reported by Nielsen SoundScan, Red sold 344,249 copies its second week out.
Toby Keith's Hope on the Rocks is the week's highest-debuting album, rolling in at No. 3 on sales of 48,167 units.
The other new CDs are Scotty McCreery's combined album package Clear as Day/Christmas With Scotty McCreery (No. 20) and Elvis Presley's The Classic Christmas Album (No. 56).
Three of the week's new songs were no doubt boosted by having been performed live on the recent CMA Awards show: The Band Perry's "Better Dig Two" (at No. 9, the highest debut), Kelly Clarkson and Vince Gill's "Don't Rush" (No. 25) and Tim McGraw's "One of Those Nights" (No. 29).
The other newcomers are Thompson Square's "If I Didn't Have You" (No. 26) and Sam Palladio and Clare Bowen's "I Will Fall" (No. 45).
Re-entering the chart are Swift's "Red" (No. 24), Hunter Hayes' "Somebody's Heartbreak" (No. 38) and Brantley Gilbert's "Kick It in the Sticks" (No. 46).
This week's No. 2, No. 4 and No. 5 albums are, respectively, Jason Aldean's Night Train, Little Big Town's Tornado and Luke Bryan's Tailgates & Tanlines.
The No. 2 through No. 5 songs are Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise," Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away," Hayes' "Wanted" and Lee Brice's "Hard to Love," in that order.
This is as good a time as any to cite the current country albums that, by Nielsen SoundScan's tally, have sold 1 million or more copies. And they are: Swift's Red (1,552,847), Bryan's Tailgates & Tanlines (1,529,850), Eric Church's Chief (1,130,611), Aldean's My Kinda Party (2,798,762).
And Lady Antebellum's Own the Night (1,744,095), Lionel Richie's Tuskegee (1,032,039) and McCreery's Clear as Day (1,121,658).
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ALAMEDA (AP) — When the new regime took over the Oakland Raiders last January, they inherited an 8-8 team that fell one game shy of the playoffs, featuring an offense that could be prolific at times and a defense that was historically bad.
Ten games into the first season under general manager Reggie McKenzie and coach Dennis Allen, the offense has taken a decided step backward, the defense has somehow regressed and the Raiders (3-6) are nowhere near being a playoff team.
The situation McKenzie and Allen entered was not an easy one despite the presence of a capable quarterback in Carson Palmer, a big-play running back in Darren McFadden and a handful of other playmakers on both sides of the ball.
Late owner Al Davis' team had fallen into disarray in the final years before his death in October 2011, missing the playoffs for nine straight seasons and often failing even to be competitive.
A run of botched draft picks, over-inflated contracts and questionable personnel moves left McKenzie with a major rebuilding job when Davis' son, Mark, hired him to run the football side of the franchise that had been in Al Davis' control for nearly a half-century.
"I know that we didn't have the talent, at the beginning of the year, to be a Super Bowl team," Mark Davis said. "I thought that we had definitely potential to get maybe in the playoffs and beat our division. Obviously, that hasn't happened."
After years of being run by the famously impatient Al Davis, who ran through seven coaches in an 11-season span, the biggest change in a year full of them may be at owner. Mark Davis has delegated the football decisions to McKenzie, who has a job that didn't exist for the franchise until this year.
But three straight losses capped by last Sunday's 38-17 home defeat to New Orleans left the younger Davis so frustrated that he made a rare public appearance in the postgame locker room to express his frustration, as well as his belief in McKenzie and Allen, who will get more time than predecessors to get the Raiders back on the winning track.
"I'm patient. But I want to see progress," Davis said. "I don't want to see regression. Nobody does. And that's why I'm unhappy today. But as far as a pass, I wouldn't call it a pass. They've got contracts, they're going to be here."
McKenzie came in with a long view for building the Raiders under a similar model to the one he worked with during years in the front office with the Green Bay Packers.
He quickly shed some "out of whack" contracts for players like cornerback Stanford Routt and linebacker Kamerion Wimbley and set out to find cheaper alternatives who could fit under a tight salary cap.
With no draft picks until No. 95 overall because of previous trades, McKenzie was unable to make many big additions and the results have shown up in the lack of depth on the current roster.
Free agent linebacker Philip Wheeler has had the biggest impact of the offseason additions. Cornerbacks Ron Bartell and Shawntae Spencer have struggled to stay healthy, guard Mike Brisiel has failed to solidify the offense line and the only regular produced in the draft is linebacker Miles Burris.
But Allen said he firmly believes the talent is there to be better than they've shown.
"When you look at it the other way around that's an excuse, that's a crutch to say you can't get it done," Allen said. "I don't believe in that. I believe that we have professional football players and I believe we can win games in the National Football League. That's what we get paid to do, that's our job. I'm not going to use anything as a crutch to say that's the reason why."
While the lack of talented depth is a legitimate excuse, some of the problems in Oakland were self-inflicted.
The Raiders had developed into one of the NFL's better offenses in two seasons with Hue Jackson running that side of the ball, ranking 10th in the league in scoring and first in rushing over that span.
With a full season from Carson Palmer and a healthy Darren McFadden, that should have only improved this season despite the decision to fire Jackson as head coach and bring in a new offense under coordinator Greg Knapp.
Oakland switched to a zone blocking system and West Coast offense that were not ideal fits for Palmer or McFadden. After a slow start, Davis had the coaches seek McFadden's input about the running game and more power blocking schemes were added.
But the Raiders have fallen to 22nd in the league in scoring, averaging 3.2 fewer points per game, and are second-to-last in rushing with a drop of more than 62 yards per game.
The changes on defense were more necessary after Oakland had franchise worsts last season defensively in touchdown passes allowed (31), yards per carry (5.1), yards passing (4,262) and total yards (6,201), while giving up the third-most points (433) in team history.
After years of running Al Davis' preferred system of bump-and-run coverage on the outside, Allen and coordinator Jason Tarver implemented a more varied defense that the players immediately embraced.
But somehow the defense has gotten worse, allowing five more points per game, recording less than half as many sacks per game, and allowing opponents to increase their completion percentage from 53.9 to 66.8.
Oakland has allowed 135 points during the three-game skid, the fourth most since the merger in three games and most for the franchise since 1961.
"It definitely hurts," defensive back Michael Huff said. "From Day 1, I've looked forward to playing in this defense. I've been the one that said, let's be a top five, 10 defense, when we play all together. But for some reason, things haven't gone right. We'll play in spurts and we'll be great here and there. But when we're bad, we're real bad. We're horrible."


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Japanese Final Fantasy Agito Trailer Has A Twist
It's all fun and games in this Japanese Final Fantasy Agito TGS trailer – until around the two and a half minute mark.
You'll see harmless studying, lacrosse, Moogles, guitar-playing (or rather guitar case carrying), and even what looks to be some dating-sim mechanics in the first full-length trailer for Final Fantasy Agito, and then everything seems to sort of go to hell.
It becomes a trailer with grisly pre-rendered cinemas of students with minor injuries and combat against mechanized robots and soldiers.
Final Fantasy Agito recently resurfaced after a long period of silence. Square Enix has not announced any plans for a North American release yet, but it is looking pretty likely.


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Waukesha nurse accused of using fraudulent prescriptions to buy hydrocodone
A Waukesha nurse is accused of using her access to patient records and the prescription system in her medical office to illegally get prescription drugs dozens of times.
For the eight years, she worked for Purity Dialysis in Waukesha and Delafield, 55-year-old Brenda Pittman was described by a supervisor as an exceptional employee.
VIDEO: Nurse accused of using patients to get prescriptions
But according to New Berlin police, that all came to an end with the discovery that Pittman was using fraudulent prescriptions to get hydrocodone from the Walgreens there.
In early August, several employees of the pharmacy grew suspicious, so the next time Pittman called in a prescription, they were ready.
According to a complaint, a pharmacy technician called police when Pittman pulled into the drive through, and by the time she pulled out onto National Avenue, police were waiting for her and pulled her over.
Though Pittman denied any wrongdoing, police said they uncovered 25 fraudulent prescriptions for hydrocodone in the names of two patients in just the prior nine months.
Neither their doctor, nor the patients, were aware. There's no indication Pittman was selling the drugs.
No one answered at Pittman's New Berlin home when WISN 12 News reporter Nick Bohr went there Tuesday.
Her former boss has filed a complaint with the state licensing board regarding Pittman's license, telling Bohr "I don't want her getting other nursing jobs where she'd have access like this again. It was a shock."
Pittman resigned within days of her arrest.
WISN 12 News also learned this isn't the first time Pittman's been accused of this. According to court records, 12 years ago she was convicted in Milwaukee County of obtaining prescription drugs by fraud.
She is scheduled to appear in Waukesha County Court next month.
If convicted this time, she could face up to six years in prison.


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Saturday's mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., reset the political clock on Capitol Hill Monday, as Congress swept aside the legislative agenda out of respect for those killed or injured, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) of Arizona and her aide, Gabriel Zimmerman.
The motive for the mass shooting in Tucson is not clear, but that hasn't stopped speculation about what is to blame or how tragedy can be averted in the future.
The most frequent comment on Capitol Hill – short of ubiquitous calls to exercise prudence – is to tone down the toxic rhetoric, especially gun-infused metaphors.
But critics acknowledge that it will take more than just members of Congress altering their tough-talking ways to change the overall culture. Political consultants, fundraisers, the news media are all also addicted to tough talk – and for the same reason, it sells.
"This is a deep cultural style of political expression that has developed over 30 years, and it's not going to be changed overnight," says former House historian Raymond Smock, who led a staff discussion Monday on the issue at the Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies.
"Politics has always been based on fear … keeping people mad, keeping people on the ragged edge," he adds. "Every once in a while we get sensitized again, but it's hard to change."
Rep. Robert Brady (D) of Pennsylvania wants to get the courts involved by expanding the existing ban on threats to top political leaders. His draft bill, which was prompted by Saturday's shootings, provides that all those things you can't say about a president or vice president – such as statements or symbols expressing intent to kill or injure – you also should not be able to say about other federal officials, including members of Congress.
That means no putting members' faces in a bull's eye or cross hairs. After the Arizona shootings, Sarah Palin's PAC website removed a map that put cross hairs on districts around the country where political opponents were targeted for defeat. Palin spokeswoman Rebecca Mansour called the targets on the site "surveying symbols."
The trouble is, Representative Brady notes, all that fear and hate-infused speech gets the public's attention. Negative ads can push a candidate over the top – or sink them.
"Unfortunately, it's good politics in this day and age," Brady said via a spokesman Monday. "It's hard to end practices that work at the ballot box."
Journalists, too, are caught up in the "showdown," "targeting," "taking aim" rhetoric now deemed offensive. The National Journal cover story for Jan. 8 features the subhead: "John Boehner's troops are spoiling for a fight, but the speaker wants to aim before he shoots."
The Rev. Rob Schenk, president of Faith and Action in the Nation's Capital, says that fundraisers, too, share responsibility for a pernicious political culture. "The typical fundraising letter says that if you don't do this, they will take over, as in your grandchildren will be taught by homosexuals in their classroom," he says.
"This kind of hyperbolic, alarmist, incendiary language is driven by the numbers," he adds. "The fundraisers know if they can induce fear and anger, those are the two most effective motivators for people to go out of their way and cut a check."
"I must admit a certain guilt myself, because up until very recently I cooperated with this type of fundraising and now I'm beginning to see how damaging it was to people," he says.
Just three days into the investigation of the Tucson shooting, it's not clear what motivated the suspected shooter, Jared Lee Loughner. His favorite books, as noted on his YouTube profile page, range from "Mein Kampf" and "The Communist Manifesto" to "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Aesop's Fables," and "Peter Pan." Internet comments attributed to him are disoriented and rambling.
Prima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik repeated Monday his assertion that that the toxic climate of political speech may have been a factor in the shootings. "The vitriol affects the [unbalanced] personality that we are talking about," he said. "You can say, 'Oh no, it doesn't,' but my opinion is that it does."
Mark Pitcavage, a historian with the Anti-Defamation League, urges caution in jumping to conclusions in this case. "There has been an increase in violent rhetoric, but it's not clear this incident was a manifestation of that," he says.
But he adds that toning down the rhetoric is a good thing and can reduce the incidence of future attacks. "If this gets people to catch their breath and make an attempt to get back to a more civil society, society can only benefit," he says.


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By Dennis Normile, ScienceNOW
Are you a morning lark or a night owl? Scientists use that simplified categorization to explain that different people have different internal body clocks, commonly called circadian clocks. Sleep-wake cycles, digestive activities, and many other physiological processes are controlled by these clocks. In recent years, researchers have found that internal body clocks can also affect how patients react to drugs. For example, timing a course of chemotherapy to the internal body time of cancer patients can improve treatment efficacy and reduce side effects.
But physicians have not been able to exploit these findings because determining internal body time is, well, time consuming. It's also cumbersome. The most established and reliable method requires taking blood samples from a patient hourly and tracking levels of the hormone melatonin, which previous research has tied closely to internal body time.
Now a Japanese group has come up with an alternative method of determining internal body time by constructing what it calls a molecular timetable based on levels in blood samples of more than 50 metabolites — hormones and amino acids — that result from biological activity. The researchers established a molecular timetable based on samples from three subjects and validated it using the conventional melatonin measurement. They then used that timetable to determine the internal body times of other subjects by checking the levels of the metabolites in just two blood samples from each subject per day.
Having such a timetable could allow doctors to synchronize drug delivery to internal body time, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Usually personalized medicine is focusing on genetic differences, but there are also temporal differences [among patients]. That will be the next step in personalized medicine," says systems biologist Hiroki Ueda of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, who heads the research group.
"In principle, the method holds great promise as a way of replacing the cumbersome melatonin assay," says Steven Brown, a molecular biologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. "The authors show in a small-scale, well-controlled experiment that they are able to predict internal body time within a precision frame of 3 hours," says Urs Albrecht of the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Both researchers say further work will be necessary to make the technique more practical and more widely applicable, and Ueda agrees. The experimental subjects were all young men, and different molecular timetables are likely needed for women and for people of different ages. He would also like to improve the precision and make it reliable with just one blood sample per day.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — In the hands of jewelers, gold can be fashioned into rings and pendants of long-lasting beauty. But, when reduced in size to nanocrystals containing a few thousand atoms, this noble metal is a surprisingly good catalyst.
Finding the key to gold's chemical reactivity (or that of any metal nanocrystal) has been difficult, as few measurement techniques work at the nanoscale. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated a sensitive probe that can identify and characterize the atomic structure of gold and other nanocrystalline materials.
"Without the necessary structural information, our understanding of nanocrystals has been limited to models that often treat the surface of a nanocrystal as an extension of a bulk crystalline surface," said Jian-Min "Jim" Zuo, a professor of materials science and engineering at the U. of I., and corresponding author of a paper to appear in the April issue of the journal Nature Materials, and posted on its Advanced Online Publication Web site.
"The striking difference we found between the surfaces of gold nanocrystals and bulk crystalline surfaces shows we need to re-evaluate our preconceptions about the nature of structural dynamics and the level of complexity that nanocrystals can embrace," said Zuo, who also is a researcher at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory on the U. of I. campus.
Because chemical reactions primarily take place on surfaces, scientists need to know how atoms are arranged on those surfaces. While scanning probe microscopy works for flat surfaces of bulk crystals, a different technique is required to study the surfaces of nanocrystals.
In their study, Zuo and colleagues used a technique they developed called nano-area coherent electron diffraction.
The technique works by illuminating a single gold nanocrystal (about 3 nanometers in diameter and containing close to 1,000 atoms) with a coherent electron beam about 40 nanometers in diameter.
The electron beam is scattered by the atoms in the nanocrystal, resulting in a complicated diffraction pattern made of speckles – similar to what is seen when a laser beam is reflected by a surface. When deciphered, the diffraction pattern describes the structural arrangement and behavior of the atoms, and the number and lengths of chemical bonds in the nanocrystal.
"Chemical force depends upon the number of chemical bonds present, so atoms on the surface, which don't have as many neighbors as those inside a crystal, experience a different force," Zuo said. "Our study also shows bond lengths on the surface of a gold nanocrystal are very different from bond lengths inside a bulk crystal."
The differences come as a result of the surface atoms being contracted. The force behind the contraction is attributed to the smoothing of surface electron density and a resulting electrostatic force that pulls the surface ions toward the remaining bonds.
What is surprising, Zuo said, is that the contraction depends on the crystal facets. Atoms on facets with fewer bonds dominate, and lead to a much smaller contraction on other facets. This behavior is markedly different from bulk crystalline surfaces, and represents a new pattern of structural dynamics for nanocrystalline materials.
"Characterizing small nanostructures and their surfaces is so essential for understanding the special properties of nanomaterials," Zuo said. "Nano-area coherent electron diffraction makes it possible for us to probe the surfaces of individual nanocrystals and examine their structure and size-dependent catalytic activity."
The work is part of lead author Weijie Huang's doctoral thesis. Other co-authors of the paper are graduate students Laurent Menard and Jing Tao, undergraduate student Ruoshi Sun, and chemistry professor Ralph Nuzzo.
The U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation funded the work.
Editor's note: To reach Jian-Min Zuo, call 217-244-6504; e-mail: email@example.com.


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The purpose of CorporateThugs.com is to "out" cruel and unethical companies that are fraudulently masquerading as responsible and ethical corporations. Today's corporate world is loaded with corporate thugs, including some of the biggest names in the corporate world.
Corporate Thugs spend untold millions of dollars on public relations departments and advertisements. Their propaganda promotes lily white and/or environmentally green images, when in fact these companies are sponsoring indefensible animal cruelty at rodeos.
Please speak up for the animals below and tell these companies that as long as they continue to support animal abuse you will not buy their products. They will listen if consumers are loud enough. Urge these companies to look at the videos from SHARK's investigations and remind them that no one should want to be aligned with this sort of pointless and appalling cruelty.
Rodeos like to portray themselves as being rugged and self-sufficient. They claim to be true pioneers that can survive without any handouts. But back in the real world, nothing could be further from the truth.
Rodeos would close up tomorrow if corporate America quit subsidizing this animal abuse. This is why it is so very important to let your opinion be known to the Coca-Colas and Super 8s of this world.
Say NO to Rodeo (and sponsors)
Tell Best Buy to stop supporting animal abuse by giving money to cruel and deadly rodeos.
Best Buy Phone: 1-888-237-8289
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bestbuy
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BestBuy
Please contact Marcus Lemonis and Gander Mountain and Gander RV and Camper World and courteously but firmly demand that they stop hiding over their sponsorship of terrible animal cruelty. Also, please let us know of any response you may receive.
Contact Information: https://www.marcuslemonis.com/site/contact
Bank of the West is the "Presenting Sponsor" of the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo (CFD), one of the most cruel and brutal rodeos in all of America. That makes Bank of the West by all appearances the biggest sponsor of the entire CFD rodeo.
SHARK has documented the two-weeks of violence and death that is part and parcel of this brutal rodeo in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. You can see the documentation here.
SHARK has gone to CFD to bear witness and document as the rodeo maims and kills animals in a cruel and very predictable manner. Every year, animals will die over the two-week rodeo for 'entertainment.' We know it and the Bank of the West knows it. Animals are literally dying at the hands of cowardly rodeo thugs simply to help this bank make a little more money.
Les Schwab Tire Centers sponsor rodeos like the infamous Jordan Valley's Big Loop Rodeo and the Reno Rodeo and the Sister's Rodeo. All brutal, brutal events where aniumals are injured and killed for 'entertainment.' You can see a horse break his leg and a calf die in the videos below:
Big Loop Rodeo Breaks Horse's Leg
There is a dark side to the company that only wants you to think about its automobiles. Chrysler/Dodge/Fiat is one of the largest sponsors in the United States of the horrific "sport" of rodeo, supporting the barbaric and pointless abuse, injuries, and deaths of animals forced to "perform" in this industry.
In 2011, not long after getting a US Government Bailout, Dodge went bankrupt. Chrysler was then purchased by Fiat Automobiles of Italy.
The Super 8 hotel chain has announced that they are sponsoring both the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) and the Women's Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA), so they have doubled down on their sponsorship of animal cruelty.
The PRCA is the front group that desperately tries to mask the brutal nature of rodeos. Thanks to SHARK's numerous videos from PRCA sponsored rodeos, the public knows the truth: rodeos are violent, ugly and completely dishonorable. We haven't hidden our videos - in fact any PR firm looking to sponsor an event would at least do a Google search before they sign the contract. So we can safely assume Super 8 knew exactly what it was doing when it entered into this bloody agreement with the PRCA.


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New band? Marzaks 2.0 sounds familiar
For a band that's been together for less than three years, the Marzaks have had line-up changes similar to the member-swapping fiasco that was (and according to their webpage, is) Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship/Jefferson Starship-– The Next Generation. The band who won first place (and $500!) in the Non-Traditional Band segment of the 11th annual Appalachian String Band Festival in 2000, and the band that recorded the 2002 album, Superhuman, is no more. The latest incarnation of the Marzaks could be called Marzaks Version 2.0.
But thanks to the fact that the two remaining members of the original group, Peter Markush (stage name: Mark Rock) and Joey Vigour (Ben), have always been the band's main vocalists and songwriters, not that much seems to have changed. In spite of the loss of 3/5 of the original group, the Marzaks– whose duo show I caught fairly recently– accurately recreate the sound, the humor, and the pop know-how of their debut. And that's something to be thankful for.
Citing influences such as the smarter-than-all-hell pop/rock They Might Be Giants, the quirky indie Shonen Knife, and constantly trampled lo-fi pioneers Violent Femmes, the Marzaks are a group that could only have arisen in Charlottesville (or maybe another bluegrass-wild college town, but I can't think of one).
Combine the wit behind such tracks as "Toaster"– where that common household item becomes the last link to a past relationship– with the old-time sensibilities this town is famous for, and you come up with a genre that I, for one, have never heard before.
The first real song on Superhuman is the title track, and right from the start things get exceedingly wacky. "Once I fell into a pit / Containing radioactive ooze / And now I'm superhuman," sings Vigour on guitar, backed by mandolin, tambourine, cello, and some exceedingly lightweight drums. The song recounts a tale of a prospective lover who tells the superhuman narrator that he's "a real nice guy" but she is "not attracted to men who are faster than a speeding bullet."
Zing! The chorus of the track is exceeding "aww" inspiring, as the deposed narrator sings, "Now that I'm superhuman / I can do anything / But I can't make you fall in love with me." I'm starting to tear up here, too, folks.
Other highlights in the duo's songwriting portfolio on Superhuman are the aforementioned "Toaster," probably the most rocking song on the album (relatively speaking, of course), and the Vigour-penned "She Likes To Bite," the story of the worst date ever (unless you regularly keep company with cannibals).
Recently the duo that was the Marzaks picked up two new members, fiddler Jason Ankney (Happy Goth), and drummer/percussionist Issac Slutzky (Peanut Kid), to help flesh out the group's sound for future performances. If your tastes range from quirky-pop to bluegrass, why not give the Marzaks a try? They'll satisfy both your cravings at the same time.
Marzaks at Mudhouse July 10. No cover (all ages), 8pm.


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I am trying to retrieve my reputation as an honest manConrad Black says he's been defamed Feb 20, 2004
We are taking appropriate legal action to prevent any interference whatsoever with the completion of this transactionHollinger International mulls Barclay bid Jan 20, 2004
Now is the appropriate time to explore strategic opportunities to maximize value for all shareholders of Hollinger International. We are delighted that Bruce Wasserstein and his team at Lazard will be working with us to ensure the market is well aware of the substantial value of the company's assetsConservative media owner resigns Nov 17, 2003
Ever since Radler's infamous Cain-like betrayal of Lord Black, Radler, exercising complete dominion and control over Horizon, and with the approval of the other Horizon director defendants, has caused acts by Horizon that were designed to harConrad Black files suit against former COO Sep 07, 2011
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Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, OC, PC (Can.), KCSG (born August 25, 1944) is a Canadian-born member of the British House of Lords, historian, columnist and publisher who was for a time the third largest newspaper magnate in the world. Black controlled Hollinger International, Inc. Through affiliates, the company published major newspapers including The Daily Telegraph (UK), Chicago Sun Times (U.S.), Jerusalem Post (Israel), National Post (Canada), and hundreds of community newspapers in North America.
He was convicted of fraud in a US court in 2007 and sentenced to six and a half years' imprisonment. On July 19, 2010 Black was granted bail. The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned two of the three remaining mail fraud counts in October of that year. On June 24, 2011 he was resentenced on one remaining count of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice to a prison term of 42 months and a fine of $125,000 (USD). As the 29 months Black has served is included in this sentence, he is required to return to prison on September 6, 2011, for a remaining thirteen months.


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Pitchfork has posted an interview with Outkast's Big Boi, during which the question came up as to what had happened to the work he did with Modest Mouse back in 2011.
Pitchfork: What made you want to work with bands like Little Dragon and Phantogram?
BB: I had just finished working with Modest Mouse for their project, and after that I was like, "Man, I need to start doing this for my own shit." Just bringing people in. So we did. We would live day-in and day-out with people, go bowling, go out to eat, and then come back and record, watch a movie, record. It was like funk summer camp.
Pitchfork: What's happening with the stuff you did with Modest Mouse?
BB: It's for their record; it's coming. We actually took a trip back out there to go see them a couple months ago. I did maybe three records with them. Isaac [Brock] is cool, man, like cowboy cool. He showed me how to make a bong out of an apple and shit. For real.
Not much to go on, but it is interesting to hear that he has been in touch with them recently and that it does sound like the material will be put to use and not abandoned.
Also in the interest of keeping some conversation going (in these dry news times), Big Boi does have a new album coming out next month, of which it doesn't sound like the track-listing or collaborating artists has been confirmed. Seeing how he has been working with other bands, it will be interesting to keep an eye on it, and see if any member from Modest Mouse makes an appearance on it. Pure thinking out loud this last part.


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If you are it means you want to see our gargantuan government put on a strict diet. You want to force it to live within its means, rather than borrow trillions of dollars to spend on programs we don't want or need.
(As one crazy example, we just agreed to borrow a billion dollars from China so we can send it to Brazil to bribe them stop cutting down trees. That's just one of the Administration's new "ecology" programs.)
Deficit hawks are sick and tired of the way deals are done in our nation's capitol (and far too many state capitols). We get angry knowing that our representatives use our money to bribe other voters so they can play "Big Spender" in Washington. We're seriously afraid that our leaders will destroy our currency and bankrupt our country.
That's what the phrase "deficit hawk" means. What does that make our president? I know President Barack Obama, and I can assure you he's no deficit hawk. Despite all of his talk about cutting spending, trimming needless programs and being as frugal as possible with our money, he's more like a deficit peacock.
By that I mean he's much more concerned about how he looks and sounds than believing what he says. I'm sorry to have to say this, but our president is living proof of the old cliché about how you know a politician is lying (answer: his lips move).
I'm beginning to believe that the narcissistic egomaniac who occupies the Oval Office actually believes his own rhetoric. How else could our Teleprompter in Chief sound so sincere and convincing when he gets in front of a microphone to 'splain things to us?
Here's the Straight Talk rule for deciphering a politician's rhetoric: Forget about what he says. Instead, watch what he does. What Barrack Obama has done is promote a spending spree that would make a drunken sailor jealous.
Obama has taken federal spending to a whole new level. If you thought George Bush, with his "guns and butter" social conservatism was irresponsible, W was a miserly skinflint compared to the smooth-talking sugar daddy who replaced him.
Immediately after taking office Obama increased discretionary domestic spending by 8 percent. That was for the second half of fiscal 2009. In fiscal 2010, he and his staff increased it by another 12 percent. Taken together, that's a 24 percent increase in federal spending since George Bush's last full year in office. And that total doesn't even include Obama's $787 billion "stimulus" package—or the new one he wants.
Now our Dissembler in Chief has promised to cut discretionary spending by 1 percent. As my grandkids would say, "Big whoop." Let me tell you what's not included in this so-called spending freeze:
• Various government entitlement programs, such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
• The half-trillion in "stimulus" money that hasn't been spent.
• Foreign aid.
• Pet federal education programs.
• All of the various "greening" programs.
Bottom line? The anticipated savings from Obama's so-called "freeze" amount to less than 1 percent of this year's deficit—and that's if Congress doesn't add any pork or earmarks to the plan. Want to bet on that?
In his speech, Obama said, "I refuse to pass this problem on to another generation of Americans." I can only admire the restraint of everyone in the audience; not a single person blurted out, "You lie!"
Last Sunday President Obama released the Federal Budget for fiscal 2011. It projects that federal spending will rise to $3.72 trillion in fiscal 2010, then climb to $3.83 trillion in fiscal 2011.
The projections include a deficit of $1.56 trillion this fiscal year and an additional $1.27 trillion next year. Then the numbers are supposed to start coming down.
Don't believe for a second that they will. One of the key assumptions in the Obama budget is that inflation will be half the average rate it has been for the past 100 years. Does anyone anywhere really believe that?
Since they took over Congress the Democrats have increased non-defense spending by an astronomical $1.4 trillion. Under the new budget the national debt will triple by 2020.
During the past 15 months, our profligate government has amassed $1.8 trillion of new indebtedness. Believe it or not, Obama's boys ran a deficit each and every month, including the tax-collection month of April. (While no one likes to mention it, the government normally enjoys a surplus in April. In fact, it has done so each and every April for the past 26 years. Then Mr. Obama took over.)
To help put that $1.8 trillion in new debt in perspective, consider this: That is more than double the total debt that this country accumulated during the first 200 years of its existence. Our debt load did not crack the $1 trillion mark until 1980.
To put it another way, today our dangerously profligate government racks up as much debt in six months as we did in our first 200 years.
And that's why I say Barrack Obama and his cohorts in Congress are deficit peacocks.
They strut around Washington pretending to care about deficits… pretending they want to balance the budget… pretending they'll help freeze spending.
Their strategy is simple and their audacity is amazing: Promise spending cuts in the future while going on a spending spree today. And this with money stolen from us in taxes or, even worse, stolen from our unborn heirs in the form of inflation.
That's what deficit peacocks do. Nearly 50 years ago one of Lyndon Johnson's cronies bragged about the strategy: "Tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect—the public is too damn dumb to understand." The big-spending liberals haven't changed a thing since then. Frankly, they haven't needed to.
I wish I could claim credit for that marvelous descriptor, "deficit peacocks." But I first heard it from the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning policy group in Washington. I may not like your recommendations, fellows. But I love your phrase.
There is an epic battle going on in this country between the people who earn the money and the people who want to spend it—or even worse, want it spent on themselves. The pendulum is currently at the half-way point. Fifty percent of the population pays more than 97 percent of the taxes. We're the ones who fill the trough. The other 50 percent get to eat there.
Is there any way to beat them? Yes. All we have to do is work harder to get decent people elected to office.
Hey, we already work a lot harder than they do in our jobs, our lives, our charities, our churches. Why can't we work harder to defeat them at the polls?
As the voters in Massachusetts just proved, we can. So let's do it.
Until next time, keep some powder dry.
Chip Wood was the first news editor of The Review of the News and also wrote for American Opinion, our two predessor publications. He is now the geopolitical editor of Personal Liberty Digest, where his Straight Talk column appears twice a month. This article first appeared in PersonalLiberty.com and has been reprinted with permission.


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Portions of the following information are based on facts provided by the arrested individuals.
Portions of the following information are based on facts provided by the arrested individuals. Those individuals have been booked with, not convicted of, the offenses shown. All accused should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Dec. 28, 2012
Lafourche Sheriff's Office
Thad Rodrigue, 23, 1256 Roberts Dr., Houma, contempt.
Wesley Wright, 51, 1302 Tiger Dr., Thibodaux, contempt, two counts fugitive of Plaquemines Parish.
Jamie Blanchard, 26, 140 Celes Ln., Lockport, three counts contempt.
Stephen Cortez, 24, 139 E. 6th St., Larose, two counts simple battery of the infirmed, cruelty to the infirmed, criminal abandonment, child desertion, fugitive.
Thibodaux Police
Selena Hebert, 39, 3259 Choctaw Rd., Thibodaux, theft (felony).
Mark Ledet, 40, 924 Brule Guillot Rd., Thibodaux, theft, simple burglary of a pharmacy.
Kelly Broussard, 45, 1120 W. Camelia St., Thibodaux, theft, forgery.
Byron Oncale, 34, 503 Ceder Tree Dr., Thibodaux, DWI with child endangerment, open container in a motor vehicle.
Dec. 29, 2012
Thibodaux Police
Marshall Prensall, 33, 1200 Louise St., Thibodaux, DWI, failure to signal.
Francisco Garces, 23, 135 Marcel Dr., Morgan City, contempt, simple battery.
Stephen Cortez, 24, 139 E. 6th St., Larose, two counts simple battery of the infirmed, cruelty to the infirmed, criminal abandonment, child desertion, fugitive.
Ricky Duval, 31, 7108 Park Rd., Morgan City, speeding, operating a vehicle while under suspension for certain prior offenses, 2nd DWI.
Suzanne Baker, 49, 304 W. 10th St., Thibodaux, theft of goods.
Ronald Franklin, 56, 304 W. 10th St., Thibodaux, theft of goods.
Murray Williams, 28, 107 Alvin St. Napoleonville, first offense DWI, no drivers licensed or id, improper lane usage.
Jimmie Chiasson, 28, 173 Durocher, St., Thibodaux, first offense DWI, headlights when required, open alcoholic beverage in motor vehicle.
Earl Kenny, 23, 708 Barbier Ave. Thibodaux, contempt.
Lafourche Sheriff's Office
Shane Trahan, 42, 347 E. 19th St., Larose, evidence of compulsory motor vehicle liability security contained in vehicle, possession of alcoholic beverages in motor vehicles, DWI, seven counts contempt.
Michael Businelle, 44, 116 Batlis Dr. Gray, theft, illegal possession of stolen things.
Leonard Pharagood, 34, 312 Hyland Dr., Thibodaux, domestic abuse battery, first offense possession of marijuana, taking contraband to and from penal institutions prohibited.
Steven Kehn, 25, 404 East 36th St., Cut Off, third offense DWI, public bribery, possession of alcoholic beverages in motor vehicles.
Johnny Plaisance, 58, 216 East 71 St., Cut Off, contempt, operating vehicle with suspended license and other offenses.
Thibodaux Police
Paul Traigle, 53, 903 Hwy. 1011, Napoleonville, first offense DWI.
Nicolas Shaw, 23, 473 West Main St., Thibodaux, first offense DWI, speeding, possession of drug paraphernalia.
Karey Folse, 34, 774 St. Louis, Raceland, contempt.
Alvin Sewire, 25, 1303 Midland Dr., Thibodaux, misdemeanor theft.
State Police and Lafourche Sheriff's Office
Lance Folse, 35, 306 St. Charles Bypass, Thibodaux, contempt.
Jude Bonvillian, 27, 5925 Grand Calliou, Houma, speeding, second offense DWI.
Ron Batiste, 43, 941 St. Charles St., Thibodaux, contempt.
David Boudreaux, 31, 238 Adams St., Mathews, theft of goods, enter and remain after being forbidden.


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- 300g cooked chickpeas,
- 300g cooked beetroot,
- 3 cloves of garlic,
- 3 tbsp of tahini,
- extra virgin olive oil,
- lemon juice,
- salt & pepper,
- black sesame seeds
- chilli pepper seeds.
- Put the chickpeas, beets, tahini, lemon juice, garlic, pepper and salt into a food processor.
- Mix and add a lick of olive oil. Taste and adjust the seasoning if necessary in lemon juice and salt.
- Serve with a little olive oil and sprinkle with sesame and chilli pepper seeds.E


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We're Nominated for a Webby!
It's been a great first year for us at Vitamin T. Getting to work with incredible talent, clients, staff, attending amazing events with our partners, and now, to cap it all off, our site is nominated for a Webby Award!
The New York Times called getting a Webby "the Internet's highest honor," and man, do we ever agree. With winners like TechCrunch, Laughing Squid, Twitter, Engadget, and Yelp, this is NOT the Junior Prom.
How happy are we that our buddies over at The Barbarian Group designed the coolest site ever for us? Super happy. (They're the creative folks behind our super-popular infographics, Aquent's Internet Online Website, and, along with Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Burger King's Subservient Chicken.)
And, great news, YOU can vote for us this year in the People's Voice Award Category.
If you love us (and we hope you do!) please take a moment to vote for us? You have until April 26th, which should allow you plenty of time to get coffee both before AND after.
We promise to repay you with our undying devotion and compelling blog posts for the rest of your natural life.
And if we win, then you can watch our president, Susie Hall get onstage in front of a (virtual) crowd of millions and give a 5-word speech—which is the limit the Webby's have put on winners so their event doesn't last as long as, say, the Academy Awards or graduation ceremonies.
So what should you do now?
- Vote for Us!!
- Tell your friends to vote by using the official hashtag #Webby
- Watch the live stream at 5:30pm EST on May 21st
And, if you have any pitches for our 5-word speech, share them here!
We're trying to get her to go with, "First, I'd like to thank..."
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Wildwood Considers Beach Fees
One of New Jersey's few free beaches might start charging.
Wildwood officials on Friday will consider whether to hold a special election in March to ask voters if they want beach fees.
Voters rejected beach badges in 1976 and 1981.
It costs Wildwood about $1 million to maintain the beach.
Taxpayers cover $760,000 and the rest is covered by about $240,000 from the Greater Wildwoods Tourism Improvement and Development Authority from tax revenues generated by visitors.
Authority director John Siciliano tells of the town would no longer receive the funds if it charges to use the beach.
Mayor Ernie Troiano Jr. tells the newspaper Wildwood's budget is coming up $1.6 million short. The mayor says taxpayers can no longer shoulder the burden.
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