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The fitness guru raided Mrs. Claus' closet and handed out cash to the homeless and cranberry juice to people waiting in line for Black Friday sales this morning in NYC.
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If you didn't like the summer of 2011, chances look pretty good that you aren't going to be happy with 2012, either. And 2013, '14, and '15 could add to your discontent.
"This past year we had an unusual drought," says Texas A&M professor of meteorology and state climatologist Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon. "And we have a strong possibility of it continuing."
Nielsen-Gammon, speaking at the recent Beef Financial Management Conference in Amarillo, said most of Texas remains in the worst drought category, D-4, with only a few areas "around the edge" in less dire straits.
He said the drought overall is so bad that the current rating system may not be broad enough to cover it. "We might need a D-5 or a D-6 designation," he said. "And the longer a drought goes on the worse it gets."
He said average rainfall for the state for the last 6 months was only 5 inches. "We've been running from 35 percent to 40 percent of normal rainfall for the past 11 or 12 months."
The drought of 2011 (It actually dates back to last fall.) ranks as the worst in recorded history for much of Texas, eclipsing 1917, 1934 and 1956. And most of the state recorded drought conditions that would be in the top ten worst droughts in history.
The difference, so far, between the current drought and the infamous 1956 drought, is duration. Worst in history
"In 1956, they were experiencing long-term statewide drought. But 2011 represents the worst short-term drought in Texas history," Nielsen-Gammon said
Analysts have to go back 100 years to find anything close to 2011. "We've had 12 consecutive months with below average rainfall. September was the seventh consecutive driest month on record."
He said parts of East Texas remain in a drought that has lasted four years. Recent rains have provided a bit of hope that the drought may be ending but consistent rain will be necessary to break the drought. Nielsen-Gammon said some North Texas Counties had rain last May and that far West Texas had recent "monsoon" rains. "But most of the state is still dry. Some pockets have had less than 10 percent of normal rainfall for the past six months. Most of the state has received less than 25 percent of normal rainfall during that time."
He said intense heat from June through August, "well above what's been observed before," added to the problem.
Blame La Nina
La Nina gets most of the blame for the prolonged drought. "For the past 20 years Texas has fit the pattern of La Nina/El Nino," Nielsen-Gammon said. That pattern shows that when waters in a specific area of the Pacific Ocean are cooler, the Southern United States experiences warm and dry conditions. That's La Nina. When those waters are warmer, El Nino comes into play and conditions are cool and damp in the Southern United States.
"Most climatologists credit La Nina for the current drought," he said.
But other factors also contribute to Southwestern weather patterns. Tropical storms in the Gulf of Mexico may break drought cycles as may storms coming across the Sierra Madre.
Nielsen-Gammon said drought contributed to the unusually high temperatures in the Southwest last summer. "Because of dry conditions, we also had high temperatures," he said. "Most of the excess heat was due to lack of rainfall and lack of evaporation."
He said evaporation from soil and plants helps cool temperatures. With drought, plant growth is diminished and evaporation reduced. "Solar energy goes into the soil instead of into evaporation, so it gets even drier."
He said temperatures in Texas have been "unusually warm over the past decade. Except for the Panhandle, Texas' coolest decade was the 1970s."
More drought?
He doesn't predict with certainty that the current drought will persist into 2012, but he says current models indicate the chances are greater that conditions will remain dry than that they will moderate.
He refers to various computer models that "predict cooler temperatures in the Pacific" favoring continuation of La Nina and dry and warm conditions across the Southern United States.
He showed a graph with a bar divided into four possibilities: driest in 30 years; tenth driest in 30 years; tenth wettest in 30 years; and wettest in 30 years. Under typical circumstance, the two extremes would have about a 33 percent chance of occurring and the middle position also 33 percent. But with current projections, Nielsen-Gammons said the bar tilts toward warm and dry. "We see about a 40 percent chance that Texas will be in a drought period through fall and early winter," he said. He sees only a 27 percent chance that conditions will be wetter than usual.
He said the state had a "reasonable chance" of rainfall for the next two weeks—a prediction that was borne out in some areas of the state from October 7 through 12. "That reasonable chance will be available," he said, "until we get locked into La Nina."
He also noted that even with a 3-inch rainfall, areas like Lubbock will "still be below average rainfall." Folks who take advantage of showers to plant wheat have to consider the possibility of getting enough moisture to "get through the winter," he said.
Unfortunately, conditions may not get much better any time soon.
"Texas rainfall has been increasing over the long term," Nielsen-Gammon said. "But it's been erratic. The extreme far west has been about the same for 100 years. The rest of the state has seen about a 10 percent increase over the last century, so rainfall average is relatively flat and nothing to worry about as far as climate change and rainfall, at this point."
He said since 2000 Texas rainfall has included a series of wet years interspersed with drought.
Natural changes, he said, hold the key. In addition to the La Nina/El Nino effect, the Atlantic Ocean also affects Southwest weather. "In the 1950s, warm Atlantic waters and cold Pacific waters created the 1950's drought period that persisted into the 1960s. That's the only time those conditions have overlapped."
Until now, perhaps. "We've had a warm Atlantic since 1995 with a lot of hurricane activity."
Based on potential for La Nina and other factors, "it looks like a two-year drought at a minimum. But it's hard to predict. If we're lucky, we'll have only two years of drought, but we look at the '50s and know that long droughts are possible. Sooner or later we will see something worse than the 1950's droughts."
He said the chance of a five-year drought is about one in four "maybe a little less than that."
Ocean temperature oscillations, he said, have been occurring for thousands of years. "But our ability to forecast has improved. We're just beginning to have computer power and computer models to forecast on a large scale. In the future, we will probably be able to make more accurate ocean forecasts and more long-term predictions."
He said some factors can't be predicted, however. Sun spots and volcanoes may reduce temperatures. "We're in a period now with less solar activity, and fewer sun spots."
He said global temperatures have increased over the last century and "carbon dioxide is causing climate change."
Nielsen-Gammon said the 2011 drought extended from Texas west into Arizona, north into Kansas and eastward to Georgia and South Carolina.


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DIXON – It sounds a bit like a no-brainer, but there is a legal precedent that seems to allow Shawn Ortgiesen to be criminally charged with official misconduct – even if Dixon has no written policy prohibiting him from using the city credit card for personal expenses.
No such charges have been brought, and in fact, a criminal investigation has not yet begun. The 43-year-old city engineer and director of personnel and public works is on paid leave while the city sorts out how to handle findings that Ortgiesen tallied more than $13,500 in personal expenses on the city card from April 2007 to last month.
He reported his purchases in expense reports filed with the city, and has paid back nearly $5,000, Mayor James Burke has said.
The state Supreme Court upheld the conviction of former Pekin Mayor Lyndell Howard, who was convicted of official misconduct for using a city-issued credit card to pay his gambling expenses. Howard was sentenced to 30 months of probation and community service, and ordered to pay costs.
The justices ruled in that case that a public officer commits misconduct when, acting in his official capacity, and with the intent to obtain a personal advantage, he performs "an excess of his lawful authority," which is a violation of the state Constitution.
Ortgiesen, who was put on leave Monday, has paid back $4,890.31, but the city could not confirm repayment of the balance of $8,630.83, according to records compiled by city Finance Director Paula Meyer.
Ortgiesen, who has not commented publicly, logged his personal purchases and wrote "to be reimbursed" on credit card expenses for items such as hotels and meals.
No policy exists for credit card usage in the city's personnel codes, Burke said.
Without knowing all the details, Illinois Press Association attorney Don Craven could not say for certain if charges will be brought against Ortgiesen, but he said Howard's case demonstrates prosecution is possible based on the violation of Illinois statute.
"There is a precedent there," Craven said.
Howard was elected mayor of Pekin in 2003. Several years earlier, the City Council obtained credit cards for the city department heads to use to confirm hotel reservations, pay for training sessions, order educational materials and pay expenses while engaged in city business, according to the April 17, 2008, Supreme Court opinion.
Three times in 2004, Howard used the city's card to obtain more than $1,400 in cash advances to play video poker at the Par-A-Dice Casino in Peoria. He used the card only after he exhausted the funds available to him through his personal debit and credit cards.
Howard paid the credit card bills from his own assets when they came due.
Still, he was indicted on three counts of official misconduct, one for each time he obtained a cash advance.
In its ruling, the court cited Article 8, Section 1 of the state Constitution, which says public funds, property or credit shall be used only for public purposes, and also Section 33-3 (c), the state statute that says "official misconduct occurs when a public officer, in his official capacity, with intent to obtain a personal advantage for himself or another, performs an act in excess of his lawful authority."
To avoid a possible conflict of interest or any impropriety, Dixon Police Chief Danny Langloss said Monday that he will work with the Lee County State's Attorney's Office to find an appropriate agency to investigate the case.


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Queegeebo Jenkins
Not a good name for a clone, but it wouldn't bother me one bit
I heard a call sign the other day I liked: Slag.
It stands for: Screams Like A Girl
It was for a figher pilot that screamed in excitement every time he flew.
Teehee... Clones don't scream like girls... Or do they....?
Weird smiley thing... I was curious... strange....
Brother of Jango.
Andre` Squeedilyspooch??
Jango kitty tat ^w^
I'd name him... JUDE! That's it! Jude and Johnny shall be mine... Hawk-eye... Meds, Patch, Boomer... Flare, Flamer... kinda reminds me of gay people though... Slayer, Slacker, Jets, Ace, Codes, Cal, or Kal... Dar, Dak, Mike, (bro made me put it) Chiller, Thrower, Chopper, Blondie... Fluff....
Jinx, Flash, Alpha, Omega,
OMG!!! My bro said PATTY! I was confused and asked for his opinion and he said, "What? He could have had a malfunction?
Momo, Jojo, Alfalfa, Choad, Funck muffin, Krifferdoodles, Monkey muffins, Piggy poop, Iggilyjigglefiggy, Turts...
Be careful Mandolover<3, you know how people around here feel about posting mulitiple times in a row.
No... Not really. i've only been here for... less than a month actually, but thanks. i guess you edit it then finish it off with other stuff. My comy went off two times between posts, so i didn't getta finish.
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Mann, Parker lead Georgia over Mississippi St. 75-55
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STARKVILLE, Miss. – Charles Mann scored 19 points, Juwan Parker added 16 and Georgia overcame a slow start to beat Mississippi State 75-55 on Wednesday night.
Georgia trailed 22-8 midway through the first half and needed more than six minutes to make its first field goal.
But the momentum swung quickly. Georgia rallied for a 28-27 halftime lead and stretched its advantage to as many as 23 points late in the second half. Marcus Thornton added nine points and eight rebounds.
Georgia (13-10, 7-4 Southeastern Conference) is now tied with Mississippi for third place in the league. The Bulldogs meet the Rebels on Saturday in Athens, Ga.
Mississippi State (13-11, 3-8) has lost six straight. It was a miserable shooting night for MSU, which made just 3 of 25 attempts (12 percent) from 3-point range. Craig Sword led Mississippi State with 10 points.
Mann was 4 of 7 from the field and 10 of 11 on free throws. He also added six rebounds and five assists. Georgia shot 17 of 23 (73.9 percent) from the field in the second half.
Mississippi State jumped out to a 22-8 lead after a 3-pointer by Fred Thomas with 9:54 remaining in the first half. Georgia struggled to put anything in the basket early, missing its first eight shots before Brandon Morris finally knocked down a jumper.
Georgia coach Mark Fox used 12 players in the first half, trying to find a few who could produce some offense. Things started to turn when Fox put rarely-used freshman reserve Kenny Paul Geno into the game.
The 6-foot-6 Geno — a Booneville, Miss., native — scored six points as the Bulldogs rallied, going on a 20-5 run to take a 28-27 lead into halftime.
And the good times continued for Georgia early in the second half. The Bulldogs pounded their way inside for easy baskets and stretched their lead to 57-39 on Marcus Thornton's layup with 8:16 remaining. Georgia scored 40 points in the paint.
It was a bitter loss for Mississippi State, which squandered the 14-point first-half lead and was then embarrassed in the second half as Georgia picked apart its defense.
Now MSU faces two straight road games against Auburn and LSU before returning to Humphrey Coliseum.
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Graduations are held at Miss Porter's School and Ethel Walker. Avon officials trim their budget. And Simsbury cops find a roasting chicken along roadway with a pipe bomb stuffed inside.
Here is a round-up of some of the news stories from Farmington Valley written by Courant reporters over the past week.
ΔBudget Gets A Trimming: A divided board of finance last Monday proposed a new, $70.3 million spending plan that calls for a 3.84 percent tax increase. After meeting with the school board and the town council, the finance panel voted 5-2 to cut $382,000 from the proposal voters rejected the previous week. Cuts from the original $72.5 million budget that the finance board first proposed now total almost $2.2 million.
Voting in favor of the proposal were Chairman Tom Harrison, James Speich, Brett Eisenlohr, William Hooper and Thomas Gugliotti. Opposed were Catherine Durdan and Margaret Bratton.
The proposal calls for the board of education to absorb 75 percent of the cuts, and Superintendent Richard Kisiel said that anything new in the schools next year would come at the expense of existing programs. After the initial $72.5 million budget was criticized at a public hearing, the finance board trimmed it to $71.5 million before sending it to voters. That $71.5 million budget called for a 5.75 percent tax increase and was rejected May 14. The $70.7 million budget rejected by voters June 4 called for a 4.5 percent tax increase.
A public hearing Monday will allow the public to present its opinions on the latest proposal. Following that hearing, the board of finance will have one more chance to adjust the proposal before it goes to the final referendum on June 25.
ΔBids For Boiler Replacement Received: Officials hope to replace the asbestos-ridden 46-year-old boiler at Roaring Brook School by the end of September. Two bids for the boiler replacement and asbestos removal will be opened June 20, said Blythe Robinson, assistant town manager. "We're concerned it wouldn't make it through another winter," Robinson said of the two-unit boiler. "The abatement can be done in the last couple weeks of August and the boiler can be put in right after that." The town plans to pay for the boiler out of the 2008-09 budget, which has not yet been passed.
A public hearing will be held Monday on a $70.3 million proposal, the third the finance board will be sending to referendum this budget season. Two previous proposals failed at referendum on May 14 and June 4.The town has included $250,000 in the 2008-09 budget for the boiler replacement and asbestos removal, and will earmark roughly $153,000 for the following year for the project. "We can't wait for summer to put the bid out or else we'd never get the work done," Robinson said.
ΔMiddle School Recognized As Tops: Canton Middle School boasts a dynamic faculty, involved parents and students who score consistently well on state standardized tests. But those aren't the only reasons the school was named Connecticut's Middle School of the Year.
Equally important are the intangibles that can't be measured on an exam. "CMS is a cutting-edge school that is exemplary in every way," wrote Norma Posocco, an official with the Connecticut Association of Schools, which announced the award last month. It's something eighth-grader Julia Kuhlberg feels every day. "We're a little community here," she said. Teachers, administrators — "we all work together as a team."
When science teacher Marsha Jorgensen tells people she teaches middle schoolers, the news is sometimes met with a look of pity. Early adolescence is a time of roiling emotions and a fragile sense of self; adults who venture into the middle school trenches are often viewed as saints. "But I just love it," Jorgensen said. "I don't see the turmoil. ... Most of the kids are able to handle the challenges and they know there is always someone here they can talk to."
ΔFoundation Hosts Fundraiser: The Canton Education Foundation is hosting a fundraiser for the schools June 18 and also is giving residents the chance to honor teachers by buying certificates.
A portion of all sales at the Panera Bread at The Shoppes in Farmington Valley between 5 and 8:30 p.m. on June 18 will be donated to the foundation. High school students will play live music, and prizes will be auctioned off. The group is also selling "CHEER" awards for school teachers, staff and other employees. The minimum donation is $10, and all proceeds go toward educational grants.
ΔRally Held To Spread Awareness: STAND, a student anti-genocide coalition, hosted a Genocide Olympics at Farmington High School June 10. The rally's goal was to spread awareness and honor the 500,000 who have died in Darfur.
Deacon Arthur Miller from the Hartford Archdiocese Black Ministry Division spoke about racially motivated murder during the civil rights era and the genocide in Darfur. Miller was a friend of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy killed in 1955.
ΔGraduation At Miss Porter's School: The night before the senior young women of Miss Porter's School received their diplomas, Hannah Johnson waited patiently at a ceremony to receive an honor never before awarded in the school's 175-year history.
Hundreds of students and parents in the main auditorium June 5 rose and cheered as Johnson, 17, formally accepted an offer to attend the West Point military academy in New York at the end of June. She is the first student from the all-girls boarding school to attend the academy. "It was really overwhelming, kind of, at first," said Johnson, one of roughly 200 women to be accepted this year. "It was just, like, crazy that everyone stood up for me."
On the morning of June 6, she and 83 other graduating seniors at Miss Porter's lined up in pristine white dresses to get their diplomas. It was the last time their head of school, M. Burch Tracy Ford, would lead the farewell in her 15-year tenure before she retires. As Ford said goodbye to the Class of 2008 and to the school, she urged the graduates to consider the Peace Corps, for which she worked in Senegal after college. She also praised her students for proving wrong the notion that men are naturally more successful than women. "So much for the old bromide that girls need to be with boys to be prepared for the real world," she said. "You all know better." The graduation ceremony also had special meaning for Casey Beaupre, an 18-year-old senior who was diagnosed with leukemia in December 2006 and has undergone treatment since then.
ΔMural Painting Brings Students Together: About 30 high school students are bringing the Roman Colosseum, the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal and the Seine River to town. The once bleak tunnel connecting the Farmington River Trail underneath Route 4 is being transformed into a colorful window on the world by students from Farmington and New Britain high schools who volunteered to paint a mural that depicts walls as dividers and rivers as connectors between people. The tunnel, used by joggers, walkers and cyclists, connects sections of the historic rail-canal route and on a figurative level it will connect Farmington with the global community, said Farmington art teacher Marela Zacarias, who is guiding the students through 20 two-hour painting sessions that began March 26.
Eighteen students from New Britain High School and 13 from Farmington High School take turns coming after school two days a week and Saturday mornings. The project began in the classroom nearly six months ago with research and sketches; then the Farmington Highway and Grounds Department primed the tunnel walls. Now students are applying the first layers of colored paint over the white paint that covers the gray primer. By the end, they will have used some 35 gallons of paint, said Zacarias.
ΔTown Attracts Medical Complex: The town is attracting what most officials would salivate over — an industry that provides significant tax revenue without overusing municipal services. For Farmington, that means a medical corridor. Next to the UConn Health Center on Route 4 is the beginning of what will be a five-building medical complex called the Farmington Medical Arts Center.
So far, two large buildings are full of doctors' offices from regional medical groups and Hartford hospitals. Next door, two more buildings are under construction and the developer is planning a fifth. Most Farmington Valley towns are debating how best to grow their commercial tax base to lessen the burden on residential property owners. Farmington has figured it out. According to members of the Connecticut chapter of the American Planning Association, the sexiest kind of development is a large office operation that has a lot of equipment that will provide plenty of real and personal property tax revenue.
ΔSelectmen Ask State To Fund Paths: The board of selectmen voted last Monday to ask the state to fund a road for cyclists and pedestrians from the town to Hartford in an effort to bolster tourism and alternative modes of transportation.
The East Coast Greenway, a paved road from Maine to Florida, now reaches some Connecticut towns but has gaps heading toward Hartford. The money — an unspecified amount — must be authorized by the state. The state has set aside $12 million for similar projects. The nature-friendly paths are better for the environment, but also help bring in millions of dollars in tourism revenue for Connecticut each year, said Bruce Donald, president of the Farmington Valley Trails Council.
To bolster Simsbury's case, Donald proposed that the town request funding along with neighboring Bloomfield and Hartford.
Doing so would let the local governments "go at it as a region," he said.
ΔPolice Finds Explosive Device Stuffed In Chicken: As bomb scares go, this one might be the most unusual for local police. A motorist on Powder Forest Drive June 6, noticed what looked like a whole chicken — the kind bought at grocery stores for roasting — with a pipe bomb stuffed inside, police said Monday. When they arrived on the scene around 9 a.m. officers found the roaster had an improvised explosive device where the fowl's innards should have been. Hartford Police Department's bomb squad was called in to detonate the device.
With the chicken and bomb taken care of, police are left to investigate who's responsible for the strange incident.
Police Capt. Matthew Catania would not describe the bomb, but said it was "capable of causing harm to a person."
Anyone with information is asked to call Det. Sgt. Fred Sifodaskalakis at 860-658-3140.
ΔGraduates Told To Make Good Decisions: Rudy Moliere gave a resounding high-five to his sister as he watched his daughter, Jenel, graduate from the Ethel Walker School last Sunday morning.
Behind him, dozens of students' families and friends filled the big white tent at the all-girls school with cheers as each of the 38 seniors received their diplomas under a blistering sun.
"This is the best time of her life," Moliere said, grinning, adding he would give this advice to his daughter: "Don't forget to have fun." But, before they received their diplomas, the commencement speaker encouraged them not only to make good decisions, but to rectify their poor ones.
ΔLooking Beyond The Bake Sale: Kris Barnett and Sheila Gschwind are foot soldiers in the endless struggle to raise money for the public schools. They've whipped up cookies for the PTO bake sale, chased down donors for the silent auction, peddled pricey wrapping paper and directed students to collect thousands of pennies to help pay for a new playground.
Now these two mothers, along with other education boosters in Simsbury, are setting their sights significantly higher: They have launched a campaign, complete with a professionally produced marketing video and what amounts to a schoolhouse version of naming rights, to raise $1.5 million.
That's a lot of cookies — and it may explain why Barnett and Gschwind, like supporters of cash-strapped public school districts around the nation, are looking beyond the bake sale.
"We've scaled up," said Kevin Welner, director of the Education in the Public Interest Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "Even schools in well-off areas are holding major fundraisers. I doubt the endowments are going to rival Yale's, but they are using a lot of the same tactics."


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Matt Pistay Joins The Melges Team
6 October 2011
Zenda, Wisc. (October 6, 2011) - Melges Performance Sailboats is proud to welcome Matt Pistay to the Melges Team. Youthful, energetic and already quite accomplished, Pistay's primary focus will be to further strengthen and develop Melges' International 29er and 29erXX product program. He will continue to be equally active in all Melges sportboat and scow classes.
Born and raised in Seattle, Wash., Pistay has sailed religiously since birth. During the last three years, Pistay has experienced racing with some of the industries most prominent, fun and competitive teams.
"I am really excited to be working with one of the greatest global brands and most dynamic of teams in the sailing industry." says Pistay. "From my perspective, Melges has always been the premiere leader in the sailing world when it comes to fast, competitive sailboat racing. No one else compares. They've always built and engineered high-quality sportboats and scows, simultaneously promised and delivered world-class customer service. I am thrilled to be part of this team and look forward to supporting more Melges growth of the 29er in North America."
"We are extremely fortunate to have Matt join the Melges team. He really is a perfect fit." says Andy Burdick, Melges Performance Sailboats president. "We are very impressed with his dedication and enthusiasm for the sport of sailing. His youth and enthusiastic approach to Melges 29er and 29erXX in the USA will be invaluable for us and customers alike."
For further information, visit the Melges Team online at melges.com.


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Bruce Springsteen Considering Concert Downloads
As Bruce Springsteen prepares to tour behind his forthcoming album, 'High Hopes,' his management is considering adding a new facet to the Springsteen concert experience. Jon Landau says that they are looking into the possibility of offering downloads of every concert.
Speaking to Springsteen fanzine Backstreets, Landau said that a process could be in place soon. "Plans aren't totally hammered out yet," the story reports. "But it's something they want to try, potentially after each show, and he says Bruce is on board with the idea," adding that "[a]ctive discussions are ongoing and in the logistics phase."
Landau also said that they are hoping to have it ready to go in time for the next leg of the tour, whose dates have not yet been announced. Springsteen and the E Street Band will embark on a five-week tour of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, kicking off with three shows in Cape Town beginning on Jan. 26.
Springsteen recently told Rolling Stone that he is also open to an official bootleg series of his most famous shows. Although he originally laughed off the idea by asking, "Do people need them anymore? Don't they just go on the Internet and find them," he quickly changed his tone. "I suppose it would be nice to get some of the classic concerts that have kept people's interest over the past 20, 30 or even 40 years and maybe formalize them in some way. That's not off the drawing board either. It's all there."
Bruce Springsteen has long been one of rock's most bootlegged artists. He famously taunted tapers during a radio broadcast of a 1978 show from the Roxy in Los Angeles by saying, "All you bootleggers out there in Radioland, roll your tapes!" before the then-unreleased instrumental, 'Paradise by the 'C.''


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Week #21 – CommercialsWeek 21. Commercials. Do you remember any commercial jingles from your childhood? Share them here.This challenge runs from Saturday, May 21, 2011 through Friday, May 27, 2011.
WHERE'S THE BEEF? Remember that series of Wendy's commercials? They were so popular that it was national news when the little old lady in them died a few years ago, many years after the campaign had been off the air.
Commercials are designed to get us to know and remember brands and products, and the experts on Madison Avenue are extremely good at making those things stick in our heads. So good that even decades later, we still remember the product, company and even the jingle that was associated. When you think of Alka Seltzer, your brain starts singing, "Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is!", doesn't it? That campaign debuted back in the black and white days of television, at least 40 years ago.
Conspicuously absent from my childhood was advertising for cigarettes, which had been common just a few years earlier. In fact, The Flintstones were originally sponsored by tobacco companies! By the time I got old enough to see and remember commercials, those had been banned from television and radio. Also missing were ads for hard liquor, which were allowed in magazine print ads, but not over the airwaves. And it's only been the last 10-15 years where pharmaceutical advertising has been allowed as well.
I remember far too many old commercials from my youth, and I will not repeat them all here. I am of the opinion that Madison Avenue has got us all trained to accept that they have the right to insert their messages anywhere and everywhere, and we do not have the right to say no. They work very hard to find ever more ways to insert their insidious messages into every corner of our lives. Ever wonder why so many computers on TV and movies are Apple Macintoshes? Apple makes it very easy for the studios to use their trademark apple logos and products, where some other computer brands demand licensing. Noticed one of your favorite TV shows has an abundance of a particular product showing up in it? That company paid for product placement.
It's getting worse, too. Older TV shows were filmed and edited to fit a certain number of minutes per hour of program, with breaks for a certain number of minutes of commercial messages. But those shows need to be re-edited for reruns, as there are now more minutes of commercials per hour than there were in the past. So we lose some of the content of those old shows to new commercials. Who decides what gets cut?
Don't get me wrong, some commercials I remember were very funny and entertaining! I enjoyed them when they ran, and I still recall them with friends on occasion. I'm not saying all commercials are bad, and I understand that the advertisers subsidize things like television and radio programming in return for inserting the advertisements at the commercial breaks. It's what makes radio and over-the-air TV "free". But when advertisers start planning to insert advertisements into the ebooks on our Kindle readers, I feel they've gone too far. When billboards are lighted and capable of playing video, that's too distracting for drivers on the road. When advertisements like wall posters have the capability to "target" me because of something I am carrying, or other identification schemes, that's too invasive. This isn't science fiction; all of these are proven technologies that have been tested in the real world, and are in use today. And it's only getting worse.
Okay, that was far too much of a rant, so I'll stop. Suffice to say, I remember the advertisements all too well. How about you?


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Two Perfect Days at Point Reyes
An escape to the middle of nowhere always sounds great. Until, that is, you get there and suddenly realize: there's nothing to do. Of course, if you're lucky - or if you've planned your getaway just right - you end up in a place where "middle of nowhere" meets "plenty to do." A place like Point Reyes National Seashore.
Encompassing mountains and meadows, forests and beaches, with 150 miles of hiking trails and over 1,500 species of plants and animals, this National Park may be secluded, but it's a veritable world unto itself. And just a short drive from the park, there are local delicacies to taste, waves to paddle, and places full of small-town character to discover.
Start your exploration by checking into HI Point Reyes, the only accommodation located inside the National Park. Then, get ready to follow us on a two-day adventure.
Day one
Morning: With just two days to fit in all the landscapes, activities, and tastes Point Reyes has to offer, you'll want to keep your energy up. So stop in the little town of Point Reyes Station on your way to the hostel and fuel up at Toby's Coffee Bar. Just off downtown's "Main Street" (which is actually a low-key stretch of Highway 1), Toby's serves organic teas, espresso drinks, and pastries out of a tiny window. Grab your breakfast and sit down at one of the nearby picnic tables, or slip down a tiny corridor to the side of the coffee bar and into a lovely community garden.
If you get your morning energy from exercise rather than caffeine, drop in for a class just next door at Yoga Toes yoga studio, a little oasis of calm complete with a backyard zen garden.
Toby's Coffee Bar, the community garden, and Yoga Toes are all clustered around Toby's Feed Barn, a country store whose name you shouldn't let fool you. Yes, Toby's does sell pet food, hay, and grain. But it's also got plenty to offer human shoppers, like gourmet foods, locally pressed olive oil, Point Reyes T-shirts, country-chic kitchen linens, jewelry, and much more. At the back of the building, an art gallery featuring a different Northern California artist every month is free to enter and enjoy.
Every Saturday, Toby's also hosts Point Reyes's all-local farmers' market, where you can load up your basket with fresh fruits and veggies, local honey, homemade jams, and lots of other goodies for later.
Afternoon: From Toby's, it's about a 20-minute drive up to the Point Reyes National Seashore, where HI Point Reyes sits perched up in the hills. Check-in at the hostel doesn't start until 4:30, but you can park in the on-site lot and leave your bags in the car or store them at the hostel until then.
Because HI Point Reyes is the only accommodation located within the National Seashore, many guests use the hostel as a jumping-off point for hiking, cycling, and wildlife-watching adventures.
To do the same, take your pick of trails this afternoon with a little help from the National Parks Service, which has suggestions for all hikers, no matter what their fitness levels or time constraints.
History buffs should be sure to make the quick trip down the Kule Loklo Trail, which leads from the Bear Valley Visitors' Center to a replica of a Coastal Miwok village.
Animal lovers won't want to miss the Tomales Point Trail to Windy Gap, which takes hikers past Point Reyes' Tule Elk Reserve. The majestic tule elk was once native to California, but was hunted nearly to the point of extinction during the state's Gold Rush days. Several decades ago, though, the state legislature mandated the protection of the species. The elk have since been reintroduced in reserves across the state, and one of the largest populations is here at the Point Reyes National Seashore.
In the mood for something a little further off the beaten path? You can also plot your own course through mountains, beaches, and marshland full of birds by consulting a map of the Park's full trail system.
For a bit more adrenaline, try spending an afternoon off-road cycling through the park. The National Seashore's vast network of trails will take you past pristine forest, beach, and marsh land, with plenty of opportunities to stop along the way for picnicking or bird-spotting. You can bring your own mountain bike and store it at the hostel, or rent one in Point Reyes Station from Point Reyes Outdoors. This local outfitter offers lots of helpful information on the park's different biking trails, which you can use with the NPS's own maps of the park's bike-use trails to plan the route that's right for you.
Evening: The area surrounding the National Park may not have the cosmopolitan offerings of a big city, but that doesn't mean radio silence once the sun goes down. In Point Reyes Station, the Station House Café offers a seasonal dinner menu and live music every Sunday starting at 5:00 p.m., plus live blues the third Monday night of each month. Just down the street, Osteria Stellina serves rustic-elegant Italian in a warm, modern setting. And over in the teensy town of Olema, just a few miles from Point Reyes Station, Sir and Star serves the kind of locavore menu people make early reservations - and pay a pretty penny - to taste.
Of course, you don't have to blow the budget to enjoy an evening in Point Reyes. For a casual, wallet-friendly night out, try surrounding yourself with pitch-perfect, old school divey-ness at the Old Western Saloon in Point Reyes Station, where the drinks are simple and the music is live.
Day Two
Morning: It takes a lot of work to keep Point Reyes and the state's other National Parks so beautiful. So this morning, try lending a hand on one of the park's on-site volunteer programs. Get to know the park on a deeper level as you help restore native plant habitats, maintain the Kule Loklo village, monitor coho salmon populations, or clean up streams for native fish populations. Not only is volunteering a rewarding way to spend a morning in the park, it gives you a chance to work and talk with rangers and other experts who can tell you far more about the park than you'd learn exploring on your own.
Afternoon: After a morning of good deeds, you deserve to treat yourself for an afternoon. Luckily, the little towns surrounding Point Reyes National Seashore make this a certifiable foodie destination. In the town of Point Reyes Station, spend your afternoon on a cheese tour with local favorite Cowgirl Creamery, or max out on carbs in the most delicious way at Bovine Bakery. Then take to the highway hugging Tomales Bay for a taste of the oysters for which this area's legendary. Whether you like them barbecued, covered in bacon, or served raw and on ice, you'll find them on Tomales Bay. Eat yourself silly with our complete guide to saving and splurging in this foodie haven, but be sure to take some of the goods home with you for dinner.
Make a stop at Heidrun Meadery for a delicious end to the afternoon. This meadery is one of the only places you're likely to find meade - that fermented honey concoction that brings to mind Vikings and beer halls - produced in the bubbly style of champagne. The result is fun, refreshing, and unique. You can taste it for yourself, either by the glass on the meadery's patio or by the flight in its tasting room, by setting up an appointment in advance.
Evening: If you're feeling up to another adventure at the end of the day, it's worth splurging on a sunset, full-moon, or bioluminescent paddling tour with Blue Water Kayaks. The bioluminescent tour, on which you'll see microorganisms glowing underwater on dark, clear nights, is especially popular, and is a favorite of HI Point Reyes General Manager Hanna Morris.
For a more relaxed evening in, drive back up to the hostel and prepare for round two of the day's feast. HI Point Reyes has a gorgeous outdoor dining area with picnic tables and a big barbecue for grilling when the weather's nice; when it's not, the hostel has a huge kitchen and plenty of dining space. Whatever you've got left over from the weekend's haul – fresh oysters, local cheeses, Bovine Bakery bread, or perhaps some organic, grass-fed meats from Marin Sun Farms – there's no better place to enjoy it than right here, under the stars, in the middle of nowhere.
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Six of the team's nine picks, including five of seven on Saturday, were on that side of the ball. Three of the six were skill position players, while the other three were big bodies added to an offensive line that hadn't been addressed in the draft since 2011.
The Patriots' 2014 NFL draft?
Highly offensive.
Six of the nine picks the team exercised were on that side of the ball, including five of their seven selections on Saturday.
"I feel like we improved our team today," Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said. "We had seven picks and we got them in clumps there, but I feel like we were able to take some players that will be able to compete. We'll see how it all goes."
Three of the six additions on offense were skill position players, one of them a quarterback. There were three big bodies added to the line, an area that hadn't been addressed in the draft since Nate Solder and Marcus Cannon were selected in 2011.
Through it all, though, one area on that side of the ball that needed attention – a tight end position that has become troublesome with Rob Gronkowski's never-ending health issues – wasn't addressed.
And if you were looking for the safety position alongside Devin McCourty to be addressed in the wake of Steve Gregory's release earlier this offseason, well, it looks like 2013 third-round draft pick Duron Harmon's your guy.
When all was said and done, here's what the Patriots brass had to show for its time in the draft room at Gillette:
First round (29th overall) – Florida defensive lineman Dominique Easley
Second round (62nd overall) – Eastern Illinois quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo
Fourth round (105th overall) – Florida State center Bryan Stork
Fourth round (130th overall) – Wisconsin running back James White
Fourth round (140th overall) – Stanford offensive tackle Cameron Fleming
Sixth round (179th overall) – Florida guard Jon Halapio
Sixth round (198th overall) – Concordia defensive end Zach Moore
Sixth round (206th overall) – Georgia Tech cornerback Jemea Thomas
Seventh round (244th overall) – Michigan wide receiver Jeremy Gallon
The heavy accent on Saturday was on the offensive line where, in Stork, Fleming and Halapio, 938 pounds of humanity were added.
"It just turned out that way, pretty much where the value was," said Belichick. "Halapio's been a real good player at Florida. I'd say we were probably a little bit surprised to see where he was. Then Fleming's a tackle and that was we felt like good value there and Stork's been a good center for Florida State.
"We visited him. He was an impressive kid. So it just kind of turned out that way."
There's no debating the fact that the Patriots kicked off their draft on Thursday night by addressing an area of need with the selection of Easley in the first round, but all they had to do was look to Notre Dame for a couple of safer options (Louis Nix and Stephon Tuitt) than a guy who tore up both his knees in college.
So long as Tom Brady's standing, Garoppolo's selection on Friday night may have been a luxury a team with more pressing needs couldn't afford at this time; then again, given Ryan Mallett's apparent lack of development over three years, maybe it was a need that could no longer be ignored.
In an ideal world in Foxboro, Garoppolo won't play until the 36-year-old (37 in August) Brady's contract expires in 2017, but his mere presence may provide the Patriots with the kind of insurance that Mallett has not.
White offers precisely that – insurance – at a position where running backs Stevan Ridley, Shane Vereen and Brandon Bolden will all be in their contract years in 2014.
"We'll get those guys going this week," Belichick said of the draft class, which is scheduled to be flying into New England today, "and see how it all comes together with that group."
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Creepy. Is that the original size?
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Very cool work...I love the zombies.
Awesome stuff! I love the drama in your black and whites! Keep up the good work!
Wow, not a good thread to look at right before bed Zombies are fun, i love them doodads. Keep up the drawing.
Huh, some pretty good stuff. Indeed.
I want to see some backgrounds though. Backgrounds. Yeh.
(am I the only one who hates that ConceptArt.Org banner? Dammit!)
Amazing stuff, great style
Totaly digital works ? What did you use for your creations ?
I want to see more stuff , keep it up, cheers !!
cool stuff, very morbid! i like the ink work alot. lets see more posts
I really liked the zombies and the guys whose penes you can see. I like your style, but can you use color?
Great! My only qualm is with the stockade and speaker zombie. They have very tiny to no hips. Just nit-pickin' though.
The zombies with the body parts on there belts is a great idea. I was wondering if there was going to be any necklances and sure enough there was a ear necklance....sweet.
Matsign- No, the original is much larger and you can find it in the Zombie thread here.
Katsgod- Thank you, I love them too!
Spiffiness- Thank you very much!
Fishspawn- Hehe, Thanks!
Goodbye..fromthevoid- Thank you, I will have to post some images that have some backgrounds. These were pretty much art directed to specification for a miniatures company.
Dreamworker- Thanks! All the lineart was done with painter's scratchboard varient at around an hour each. The greyscale stuff was painted with photoshop and took a bit longer to do. The zombie avatar was done with painter's chalk/conte varients. I will post more.
Spade- Thank you! I will post more.
Iddi- Thanks! I will post more with color and work more with color.
Nyx702- I see what you mean now, and I agree. I don't think the AD cared as long as they looked creepy. The head gear actually changed to them holding big guitar amps in front of them. So in the final version their hips were not in view. Still, there's no excuse for mishandled anatomy
wow, very nice stuff indeed...keep this updated
Thanks Gnoll!
Here are some character concepts for a zombie game based on the Source engine.
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Oooh scary! You could even push it further by having bones showing, or bits of flesh dangling from the figure. I like what you did with the first zombie's face.
Oh I love your style. Those B&W digital sketches are simply brilliant. Haven't seen many guys doing so rough and still readable drawings with only 2 color values. For example this http://rhinohidestudios.com/images/zp%20concept.jpg . Those eyes and teeth... Pure dynamic. Also the whole body anatomy looks quite good.
Btw, tell us if the game is getting up! Would like to test.
Keep on rocking.
well you certainly like your undead haha. very nicely detailed black and white pieces going down here. personally i'd like to see an undead robot haha. keep em coming!
You are the zombie master. and that clown is sick. Love that black and white style.
Please stop by my new Anatomy Sketchbook and critique the hell out of it.
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Wow, those are some pretty vicious looking zombies you've got there.
I really like your black and white lineart, but your greyscale stuff just doens't have the same punch to it. Your figures also tend to look a bit cumbersome in some cases as well, for example the biker with the helmet, and the two female orthos.
Es fließt durch meine Venen, Es schläft in meinen Tränen
Es läuft mir aus den Ohren, Herz und Nieren sind Motoren
spiffiness- Thats a good idea, I'll have to incorporate that somehow, thanks!
maknien- Thanks! I like that one alot too, it was a simple 5 min doodle in photoshop during lunch. Sometimes I can hit it and sometimes.. well...not so much.
MadCat- Hi Madcat! Yeah I like 'em. Don't worry though I'm not all about zombies. I'll upload some other stuff I'm doing that is very saccharine.
crazy3dman- Haha! Naw, not a master, just an apprentice. Thanks for the comments!
dfacto Thanks! I'm not sure I get your meaning about cumbersome. Do you mean stiff? If so then I have to agree, I need to loosen up and get my figures to feel more natural. Must practice!
Here is a W.I.P for C.O.W. #59-Creek Critter
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Nice udate. Have you worked much with the source engine?
Acouple things about the "critter." I really think the birds sketched out on the posts are a good idea. I think they would make my eye move over the piece more. Something esle is I cant really tell where it body is coming from? Is it coming out of the ground or slithering like across the creek bed? Just something to think about.
I love the zombies, nice and squishy. Great stuff here, look forward to seeing more. Ur creature looks good so far.
Sweet stuff, i love zombies, and you make them all so sweet and rotten so i like your stuff alot! Keep em comin!!!
haha i love it!, its head is unfinished but other than that, its pretty hot stuff, is this gunna go into color at all?
Just reiterating what others have said already: Up the contrast by adding more darks and lights, and make it clear as to whether it's slithering along the bottom of the creek or coming out of the bottom. If it's slithering, change the angle of the belly somehow (O_o) and if it's the latter, maybe put in some displaced rocks/soil and more ripples. Also, there might be a bit of light coming from the right of the creature under the belly or bouncing off the water, so you might be able to squeeze in some lighter details in there as well.
Thanks for the helpfull comments on the COW, I had tried a different pose but I ran out of time. I gave it a light wash of color and kept things pretty muted. Ah well, better luck next time I suppose.
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great inks.. that last one is looking wicked to..
My new sketchbook! come on in and dont be shy about the comments!
My old sketchbook - come on in and drop some comments!
how do you do that? how do you get so good? I want to draw like you!! I love it!!!


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Don't talk while you're eating I suppose.
what does it mean to say "don't talk with your mouth full?"
Don't talk while you're eating I suppose.
more than that.
I agree with FRC. 'of food' is often omitted;Originally Posted by bmo
EX: Don't talk with your mouth full (of food).
Full of whatever, for that matter. There must be some X-rated movies producers who could not resist the greaaaaaat pun.
Uhm, FRC, be responsible: some of our members are fairly young. :wink:
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a collaborative effort to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education and stimulate student interaction in aviation and manufacturing, Build A Plane and the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) have launched a nationwide STEM educational competition.
The winners of this competition, eight children total, will receive free trips to the Glasair Aviation facilities in Arlington, Wash., to build two Glasair Sportsman aircraft.
Participating in Glasair's "Two Weeks to Taxi" program, students will build the two Sportsman aircraft starting June 17. GAMA member companies, along with Glasair Aviation, are donating technical expertise, workspace, aircraft equipment, and supplies to the competition. The completed aircraft will be professionally test flown with the goal of flying the aircraft to and displaying it at this year's AirVenture 2013 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
"GAMA and Build A Plane's design and build competition targets our future aerospace workforce with the goal of engaging and educating young people through innovative STEM outreach efforts," said Pete Bunce, president and CEO of GAMA. "This competition will give students the opportunity to explore general aviation and all that it has to offer. It will encompass our industry's need to grow engineers, maintenance professionals, as well as pilots. As our world faces some very serious economic challenges, we need to expose young people to the exciting and rewarding careers that await them in the aerospace industry and ensure they have the tools they need to succeed."
Schools interested in this challenge will be issued complimentary "Fly To Learn" software that provides tools for teachers to guide students through the process of building an aircraft on a computer. Each high school will select one design that will compete in a virtual fly-off which will score aerodynamic and performance parameters.
"This is such an amazing competition because it engages high school students aeronautically, in a way that is unparalleled. These are real airplanes the kids will be building," BuildAPlane's Lyn Freeman points out, "and you can image how exciting it will be when the kids get to participate in an educational competition like this and in the end, see their work actually fly!"
Judges for the competition will be engineers from GAMA member companies. The top two schools will each be allowed to send four students plus their teacher and a chaperone to Glasair at no charge. Each team will receive round trip airfare, transfers, hotel, all meals and field trips to visit the nearby Boeing Aircraft factory and Museum of Flight.
The Glasair Sportsman 2 + 2 is a metal and composite aircraft that seats four adults. Sold as a kit, the aircraft can, with factory assistance, be assembled and taxied in only two weeks. They are usually flown by the end of the third week.
"The sense of accomplishment a builder gets after two weeks is phenomenal," said Nigel Mott, president of Glasair. "Over 160 Sportsman have already flown and we expect that the eight high school students selected to build two more will develop a sense of achievement that will enhance their entire lives."
High schools who wish to enter the competition should call Katrina Bradshaw at 804-843-3321, immediately as space in the competition is limited.
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Seeking to meet a growing need as clinical attention to hepatitis C (HCV) undergoes explosive growth, a pair of professional organizations have teamed up to launch a new reference tool: HCVguidelines.org.
The site is a collaborative effort between the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and International Antiviral Society-USA, all of which are nonprofits aimed at serving health care professionals and researchers, primarily within North America. At its core is a formal report -- still partly in development -- that outlines evidence-based guidelines for HCV testing, treatment and disease management. A panel of 27 liver disease and infectious disease specialists advised the creation of the guidelines.
"We anticipate that this site will be used by practitioners who are well versed in the nuances of antiviral therapy, but also by many who are inexperienced -- or even new to the treatment of hepatitis C," explained David Thomas, M.D., M.P.H., the director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a co-chair of the guidance panel, during a call with reporters in January. "Thus we're very clear on our recommendations as to when to use certain drug combinations, and when certain patients should be referred to an expert."
"What we tried to do is approach this as if any one of us were getting a phone call from a practitioner in the community," Michael Saag, M.D., the director of the Center for AIDS Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a member of the guidance panel, elaborated during the January press call. "We tried to make this as real-world as possible, so that a clinician accessing the website who has a patient with any one of these different categories of HCV infection -- a situation with either cirrhosis or not, post-transplant or not, et cetera -- that they would be able to gain that advice as if they were talking to one of us on the phone."
The first iteration of the guidelines, which launched with the public unveiling of HCVguidelines.org on Jan. 29, focus primarily on HCV testing, linkage to care, first-line treatment and retreatment of patients who previously failed HCV therapy, according to Donald Jensen, M.D., the director of the Center for Liver Diseases at the University of Chicago Medical Center and co-chair of the guidance panel. Subsequent additions will include guidelines on the timing of HCV treatment, treatment monitoring and managing acutely infected patients.
Among the unique features of the guidelines on HCVguidelines.org, which are not associated with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's HCV testing and treatment recommendations, are treatment suggestions that are not necessarily reflected in the package inserts of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs. "The FDA only will approve drugs that have gone through complete, for example, phase 3, rigorous testing, and you can't run a phase 3 study on every possible combination or every possible patient population," Saag said on the press call. "That's actually a major advantage of this guidance, in that it enables experts in the field to look at the emerging data and craft what we would feel the evidence supports that may fall short of what is specifically in a FDA-approved package insert." Saag added that such package inserts also often leave treatment indications vague, while the recommendations at HCVguidelines.org seek to provide more specificity by suggesting particular drugs within particular patient subgroups.
The intent of the new site is to greatly expand the population of health care providers who possess the knowledge necessary to provide well-informed, quality HCV testing and care as the disease itself enters more deeply into the mainstream. "New [HCV] drugs are much more tolerable, and I think, over time, regimens will become much more straightforward," explained Gary Davis, M.D., current secretary of AASLD, on the press call. "I think gastroenterologists [and] infectious disease experts who haven't done this in the past will start to do it. We hope that even other physician groups, even perhaps primary care physicians, will eventually get into treating these patients. It's clear that there are not enough hepatologists or infectious diseases experts to treat all of the patients who are infected in this country, so this needs to be a goal of the future."
In addition, the online-only nature of the guidelines provides an opportunity for the panel of experts that maintains them to keep up with a rapidly evolving treatment landscape. "This is perhaps one of the only guidance documents that is a living document, and it's absolutely necessary in this field because of the rapid development that we have seen [not only] over the last year, but of what we anticipate over the next three to five years," Saag said. "The ability to be nimble, adjust the recommendations -- really, it could be done weekly or monthly -- so that clinicians can have confidence that when they go to this website, they will get the most accurate and up-to-date guidance on the current treatment of hepatitis C, [is] a very exciting prospect that fits perfectly with the rapid changes we're seeing in this field."
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National Socialism: Ideology
Nazi ideology drew on the racist doctrines of the comte de Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, on the nationalism of Heinrich von Treitschke , and on the hero-cult of Friedrich Nietzsche , often transforming the ideas of these thinkers. Nazi dogma, partly articulated by Hitler in Mein Kampf, was elaborated by the fanatical Alfred Rosenberg . Vague and mystical, it was not a system of well-defined principles but rather a glorification of prejudice and myth with elements of nihilism. Its mainstays were the doctrines of racial inequality and of adherence to the leader, or Führer; its constant theme was nationalist expansion.
According to Nazi dogma, races could be scientifically classified as superior and inferior. The highest racial type was the Nordic, or Germanic, type of the
Aryan race, while blacks and Jews were at the bottom of the racial ladder. Intermarriage contributed to the deterioration of the superior race, and the Jews, knowing this, had furthered prostitution and seduction to defile the Germans. Consequently only small islands of the pure remained, but it was their destiny to govern their inferiors and, through scientific breeding, to extend the
master race and limit inferior races.
The Nazis accused Jews of obstructing the conquering path of the
master race. Marxism, international finance, and Freemasonry were all said to be Jewish devices created to dominate the world. Even Christianity was denounced by Rosenberg as a Jewish creation, but Hitler hedged on this point. International Jewry was blamed for the humiliation of Germany in the Treaty of Versailles (1919), and German Jewry was accused of betraying Germany in World War I.
Nazi expansionism was linked to race in the geopolitical theories of Karl Haushofer ; from the degenerate Slavs in particular the Germans would wrest Lebensraum [living space]. The ruling
master race itself was to be organized into an authoritarian pyramid, at the apex of which stood the infallible Führer. Strength and discipline were deified by the Nazis, and democracy was spurned as a depraved form of government that protected the weak and mediocre.
- Introduction
- Nazi Rule
- Organization
- Ideology
- Bibliography
- The Rise of the Party
- Nazism in Other Countries
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Defending New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Men's Swimming and Diving champion MIT won four out of five events during the first day of competition in Friday evening's finals session at MIT's Zesiger Center Pool. The Engineers tallied 298 points, while the U.S. Coast Guard Academy ranked second with 268 points. Springfield College rounded out the top three with 194 points. The three-day competition continues Saturday at 11:00 a.m.
Despite starting off the night with a disqualification in the championship final of the 200 freestyle relay, MIT overcame the early setback with many outstanding performances.
The Engineers' 200 freestyle "B" relay comprised of Tony Chen, Andrew Pierson, Andres Simauchi, and Brendan Deveney received top honors in the consolation final by clocking in at 1:25.06. In the 500 freestyle, Carlo Biedenharn captured first place in the with an NCAA "B" cut time of 4:34.74, while Timothy Wall (4:37.18; NCAA "B" cut) and Remy Mock (4:38.88) finished fourth and fifth, respectively. In the consolation final of the same event, Michael Dobson (4:45.14), Max Pruner (4:45.21), and Scott Stephens (4:45.38) picked up crucial points for the Cardinal and Gray.
MIT dominated the competition in the 200 individual medley as it placed five in the championship final and added two more in the consolation final. Deveney kicked things off by repeating as NEWMAC champion with a time of 1:53.84 as he broke the NEWMAC record he established last year and also earned a provisional NCAA qualification. Ryan TerBush touched the wall in 1:55.03 to clinch second place, followed by Jeffrey Lin (1:55.33, fourth place), Andrew Pierson (1:55.92, sixth), David Parell (1:56.16), Brendan Liu (1:56.67, ninth), and Michael Veldman (1:59.36, 14th).
Wyatt Ubellacker paced the field in the 50 freestyle with a time of 20.85, resulting in an NCAA "B" cut, as Colby Dunn (21.04), Craig Cheney (21.09), and Chen (21.29) secured third through fifth place. Brett Boval and Simauchi bolstered the Engineers' point total in the consolation final by clocking in at 21.85 and 22.01.
Tech concluded the session by taking the top spots in the championship and consolation finals of the 400 medley relay with NCAA "B" cut times. The "A" relay squad of TerBush, Michael Liao, Ubellacker, and Dunn finished in 3:23.23 while the quartet of Timothy Stumbaugh, Parell, Toomas Sepp, and Cheney came in at 3:25.31.
Team Standings
|2. Coast Guard
|3. Springfield
|5. Wheaton
|6. Clark
|7. Babson
2011 NEWMAC Men's Swimming and Diving All-Conference Teams
(Event Winners Earn All-Conference First-Team Honors)
|First Team
|Second Team
|200 Freestyle Relay
|Coast Guard – 1:23.93 (Brian McGuiness, Johnson Knox, Daniel Alley, Dan Beshoar)
|WPI – 1:35.50 (Lee Chiang, Mason Ruffing, Alford Green, Andrew Lybarger)
|500 Freestyle Relay
|Carlo Biedenharn (MIT) – 4:34.74 B
|Nick Cosenza (Coast Guard) – 4:35.29 B
|200 Individual Medley
|Brendan Deveney (MIT) – 1:53.84 B !
|Ryan TerBush (MIT) – 1:55.03
|50 Freestyle
|Wyatt Ubellacker (MIT) – 20.85 B
|Johnson Knox (Coast Guard) – 20.98 B
|400 Medley Relay
|MIT – 3:23.23 B (Ryan TerBush, Michael Liao, Wyatt Ubellacker, Colby Dunn)
|Coast Guard – 3:27.49 (Bryan Andrews, Michael Carman, Daniel Alley, Johnson Knox)
B - Denotes NCAA Division III National Championship qualifying B standard (provisional)
! – Denotes NEWMAC Meet Record


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Rehabilitation Services - Outpatient Services
Aquatic Therapy
With some painful conditions following surgery, injury or illness, your therapist may elect to utilize water therapy in conjunction with your land therapy program. Warm water of varying depths is successfully used to unload painful joints and provide freedom of movement and enhanced recovery in a safe and comfortable environment.
- Aquatic therapy is provided in our state-of-the-art warm water therapy pool in conjunction with a land based physical therapy program by a licensed therapist.
- Treatment sessions promote improved circulation, strength and endurance, balance and coordination, increased range of motion, decreased pain and assists in joint protection during exercise.
- Aquatic therapy provides a very safe and comfortable environment for patients recovering following orthopedic joint replacement surgery, injuries to the neck, shoulder, low back, knee, hip and ankle, chronic pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia and various neurological disorders.
All patients are seen on land prior to scheduling any aquatic therapy sessions. Patients must continue to be seen on land in conjunction with their water therapy during their therapy visits. Patient goals are land based and the physical therapist utilizes the water as another method along with traditional land therapy in order to meet the individualized needs of the patients.
To schedule a physical therapy appointment at the Wilfred R. Cameron Wellness Center,
please call (724) 250-6280.
Balance Training and Testing Program
Washington Health System's Outpatient Rehab Services' state-of-the-art Biodex balance testing and training system is used to test and treat patients with various balance difficulties.
- The system is used for a wide variety of diagnoses. It is extremely versatile and provides fast, accurate data.
- It has interactive game-like balance training programs which increases patient interaction and compliance.
- Test results are compared to age- and gender-dependent normative data.
Through the Biodex System, the licensed therapist is able to easily screen and identify fall risk candidates and patients predisposed to injury. It also is an excellent tool to use in the assessment and treatment of various orthopedic and sports medicine injuries for all ages.
The system provides visual feedback and includes proprioception and stabilization exercises, range of motion and weight shift exercises and is adapted to the physical functioning level of the patient from simple to very complex testing/training.
All test results and training sessions are documented on full size reports and are compared to normative population-specific testing data. Patient testing and ongoing progress is easily tracked and shared with the referring physician.
To be seen by our licensed physical or occupational therapists for a balance problem or issue, please contact us at (724) 250-6280.
Hand Clinic
Washington Health System Outpatient Rehab Hand Clinic is located in the Wilfred R. Cameron Wellness Center. Evaluation and treatment of the hand and upper extremity requires a special skill set. Our staff consists of certified hand therapists and therapy assistants who work together to ensure that the recovery process is as effective and efficient as possible. Our clinic is newly remodeled with state-of-the-art equipment available to meet the individualized needs of each patient.
Reaching, grabbing, writing, driving, lifting or waving are all activities that we take for granted. Each of these seemingly simple daily activities and many, many more are only possible because of versatility and flexibility of the upper extremity. This area of the human body is uniquely complex and includes the joints, bones, muscles and tendons of the fingers, hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder. The intricate and mobile design coupled with the use and abuse sustained each day can make this region of the body highly susceptible to injury.
At Washington Health System Outpatient Rehab Hand Therapy Clinic, our certified hand therapists perform a detailed assessment and develop a plan of care that fits the needs of each patient sufferning form upper extremity pain or discomfort.
Our certified hand therapists are expert in treating many conditions affecting the hand and arm some of which include:
- Soft tissue sprains, strains and contusions
- Overuse and traumatic injuries
- Degenerative and rheumatoid arthritis
- Tendon and nerve repairs
- Nerve compression
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Tendonitis
- Traumatic hand injuries
- Fractures and re-plantantations
- Amputations
- Stroke
- Traumatic brain injury
Our Hand Clinic accepts most major insurances. Physician referral is required. Day and early evening appointments are available.
Please call (724) 250-6280 to make an appointment.
Lymphedema is the accumulation of protein rich fluid or swelling in an affected area, usually the arm or leg. Lymphedema often occurs after an injury, scarring or surgical removal of lymph nodes. It is most commonly associated with cancer, surgery and radiation to the lymph nodes. Occasionally it is due to a traumatic event of chronic infection to the lymphatic system or improper development of the lymphatic system.
Symptoms of lymphedema:
- Slow onset of swelling and tightness
- Swelling begins distally in the extremities
- Numbness or tingling
- History of frequent infection
- Skin changes/hardening of the skin and sometimes ulceration
Lymphedema cannot be cured but should be treated. Without intervention there will likely be increased swelling, decreased range of motion and possible risk of infection. When lymphedema is treated, chances for infection decrease dramatically and tissue health improves. Patients often report improvement with overall quality of life, mobility and comfort.
The Lymphedema Management Program will work with you in four areas:
- Manual lymph drainage which is a massage technique performed by a trained therapist that offers safe and gentle movement of fluid through the lymph system.
- Bandaging and compression will provide a pressure gradient essential for fluid reduction. Patients will be bandaged in bulky cotton bandages daily. Patients are educated in self bandaging techniques. Once the fluid is reduced as much as possible, the patient is fitted with a compression garment that is worn daily.
- Exercise instruction for a home based program will be provided. These exercises play an important role in therapy as they activate the muscle pump in the swollen extremity and help to reduce fluid and increase lymphatic flow.
- Instruction and education in lymphatic massage techniques and compression bandaging will be provided so that the patient is able to handle their lymphedema independently.
Kelly Reasbeck, MPT, CLT, is a physical therapist who is also a certified lymphedema therapist with extensive experience in lymphedema management for upper and lower extremities. Physician referral is required and most insurances cover either all or part of the cost of this program. Appointments are available Monday through Friday at Washington Health System Outpatient Rehab Services located at the Wilfred R. Cameron Wellness Center.
If you have questions about our Lymphedema Program, call (724) 250-6280 and Kelly will be happy to speak with you
Speech Therapy
Speech therapy is used for individuals with difficulty understanding language, using language and/or making speech sounds correctly.
Swallowing therapy is used for individuals who have difficulty chewing, cough when drinking or eating, frequent choking episodes and/or discomfort when swallowing.
Many speech and/or swallowing problems are a result of a stroke, neurological disease or injury. Our licensed speech language pathologists have extensive training and experience in all areas of rehabilitation for speech and swallowing disorders.
Disorders may include:
- Aphasia (difficulty speaking or listening)
- Dysarthria (slurred speech)
- Dysphagia (difficulty swallowing)
- Dysphonia (voice disorder)
- Apraxia (difficulty stopping or starting speech)
Vital Stim Therapy: Washington Health System speech language pathologists are certified and trained in Vital Stim, a specialty treatment for swallowing disorders. An estimated 15 million Americans are afflicted with dysphagia, a condition that causes discomfort or difficulty swallowing. At its most severe--when patients lose their ability to eat--dysphagia can profoundly disrupt a life. Vital Stim is the first proven treatment for dysphagia.
Vital Stim improves the quality of the swallowing function and also helps to re-train muscles in this area which work to improve the overall swallowing action.
Vital Stim uses small electrical currents to stimulate the muscles responsible for swallowing. At the same time the speech therapist helps patients "re-educate" their muscles through various exercises, progressing them to an independent home program so they can continue to strengthen the muscles after discharge from the program.
Our therapists have had great success with this treatment for their patients. Many had required feeding tubes inserted in their stomachs for their nutritional needs but are now eating normally and experiencing a much more satisfying quality of life.
Sports Medicine
Proper, early rehabilitation is essential for a swift recovery following a sports related injury.
Our rehabteam includes physical therapists, athletic trainers, exercise physiologists, personal trainers and certified strength and conditioning specialists along with our sports medicine physicians, all who work together to meet the specific needs of athletes.
- The team, under the direction of our sports medicine physicians, works to maximize optimal, individualized care for each athlete.
- Athletes have access to advanced, state-of-the-art equipment and the latest techniques available.
- Our emphasis is on efficient transition from rehab to peak athletic performance and is accomplished through the close collaboration of our entire sports medicine team
- Education in proper strengthening, conditioning and training techniques is a key component to our program in order to minimize the risk of re-injury.
Most insurances cover assessment and treatment following a sports related injury. Physician referral is required.
Please contact us at Washington Health System Outpatient Rehab Services located at the Wilfred R. Cameron Wellness Center, (724) 250-6280 for an appointment. Day and evening appointments are available.
Washington Health System's Outpatient Rehab Team understands the importance of enabling our patients to return to work as quickly and safely as possible. That is why we view those injured in the workplace as "industrial athletes." Our carefully coordinated evaluation and treatment protocols are designed to provide leading edge care as expeditiously as possible.
We are committed to improving workplace safety and health by participating as a team with employers, workers and healthcare providers to create safer workplace conditions, reduce workplace related injuries and ensure safe return to work.
We offer a broad spectrum of services to area businesses and workers. We also work with local physicians to manage work related musculoskeletal problems and prevention.
Types of services:
Industrial Job Specific Pre-Employment Physical Capacity Testing
The rehab team works with various employers to design an individualized pre-employment physical capacity test which is based from the employer's job descriptions. Testing is performed by a licensed therapist and assesses various job specific lifting activities, body mechanics and proper lifting techniques, cardiovascular fitness, cooperation with testing as well as effort and pacing during testing. A final employment recommendation based upon test results is provided to the employer.
Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE)
The FCE is a comprehensive, objective and function oriented evaluation. It provides the licensed therapist with data which assesses lifting from various levels, body mechanics, safety technique, heart rate and blood pressure response pre and post testing as well as a pain assessment. Once the FCE is completed, the therapist will make recommendations for high level conditioning physical therapy or for return to work depending upon testing results. If therapy is recommended, the FCE provides a very essential baseline of information that the therapist in collaboration with the patient can build from, setting functional goals towards a safe and timely return to work.
Work Conditioning/High Level Physical Therapy Program
The work conditioning/high level physical therapy program consists of intensive conditioning exercises and job simulation activities. Endurance, strength, proper body mechanics and lifting/positioning techniques are strongly emphasized in order to promote a safe return to the workplace. Patients are seen 3-5 days/week by a licensed physical therapist for an individually designed intensive exercise program and job simulated activities. Aquatic therapy is available for select cases. Therapists work collaboratively with their patients to control/reduce pain while increasing overall function with the final goal of safely and effectively returning the patient to their prior level of functioning and back in the workplace. Work conditioning/high level PT is covered by workman's compensation and most insurance. A physician referral is required.
Ergonomic Job and Worksite Recommendations
An Occupational Therapist is available to go on-site to the workplace. This therapist works with various employers to provide an assessment of potential risks associated with the use of faulty body mechanics and postures seen at the worksite.. Recommendations are provided to the employer to improve body mechanics, equipment layout and may include various modified work station ideas all with the goal to decrease the potential risk of work related injuries.
For more information on our, Industrial Job Specific Physical Capacity Testing, Functional Capacity Testing, High Level PT and Conditioning & Ergonomic Services, please call Washington Health System Outpatient Rehab Services located at the Wilfred R. Cameron Wellness Center at (724) 250-6280.
Concussion Management
Washington Health System Outpatient Rehab Team understands the importance of skilled intervention following a concussion injury. Our physical therapists are specially trained in concussion evaluation and management including baseline and post-concussion testing utilizing ImPACT (Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing), the most widely used and scientifically validated computerized concussion evaluation system. Following ImPACT testing, our therapists work closely with individuals that continue to experience ongoing concussion symptoms of headache, severe sensitivity to light, ringing in the ears, dizziness, nausea, difficulty concentrating, balance issues and/or memory loss in order to safely return them to their previous level of function and sport activities.


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Saturday, June 14, 2008
Mr Prata ... yet again
This time around, Tihani had Cheese and Mushroom Prata
I chose Nasi Beriyani
with Chicken Curry
And Auni had Fried Rice with Crispy Ikan Bilis!
I know what to order the next time I ever step foot there, i.e. the fried rice - simple a dish but it was just soooooooooo delicious!
14 comments:
- Melody said...
Hi Murnie! Did I miss the blog where you sent your Blogging By Mail? I'd love to see the goodies you sent.
- 15/6/08 5:28 am
- Mrs Ergül said...
This looks good Murnie! Where is Mr Prata located at?
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- delmer said...
I love photos of food from other lands far away.
Once in a while I'll post my breakfast meal if it's particularly colorful.
- 24/6/08 3:23 am
- DK said...
wwoooo.... the cheese and mushroom prata looks good.
- 29/7/08 12:43 am
- Nora B. said...
I miss all this, Murnie! Will have to make up for lost time when I am back in S'pore. :-))
Selamat berpuasa.
- 4/9/08 9:14 am
- rahmanraof said...
u must try nasi beriani gam batu pahat..very delicious!!
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- Simply Life said...
wow, everything looks so good!
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- Nazarina A said...
I love your pictures! I love this kind of "stick to your ribs" food!
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- Vangie said...
This is the perfect breakfast for me, fried rice with sunny side up. I have already cook the egg so perfect on our le creuset frying pans which is non-sticky. I always love breakfast though there were only few times that I got the chance because of my schedule. I only have 2 meals and 3 snack a day, and breakfast is not on the list.
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You've no doubt heard the Samsung Galaxy Nexus has been delayed—and then some. After much speculation, the premier Ice Cream Sandwich phone still can't be found on shelves, yet we might be inching closer to a release.
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This doesn't necessarily mean it's the official launch date from Verizon, and Costco members could easily be the first to get their hands on the phone. In the interest of pulling at loose ends a little, the December 15 launch has been mentioned before, and this does give it slightly more credence. Of course the continuing delays and lack of information from Verizon works against any optimism.
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Area fitness center holding week-long event to help St. Jude
Iron Mike's and Mary's Fitness Factors will be holding a week-long fundraiser to help St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Starting on Monday, owner Mike Lamphere will be holding a sit-up-a-thon during normal business hours. Anyone is eligible to participate by stopping by the gym and doing sit-ups, or sponsoring a participant.
"We will be putting up a board on Monday and anyone that wants to can come in and sign up," Lamphere said. "It doesn't matter if they want to come in and do one sit-up or 100. People can also donate and sponsor someone."
Lamphere said his senior fitness group called the Silver Sneakers and the local Zumba class have already committed to participating in the event, however, you don't have to be a member of the gym or a regular participant in any of the classes offered at the fitness center to take part.
The goal set by Lamphere is to have the group combine to complete 10,000 sit-ups between Monday and Friday.
Anyone interested in taking part in the event can stop by Iron Mike's and Mary's Fitness Factors, located at 47 North Bridge Street in Saranac, and sign up. Business hours are Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Friday from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.


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U.S. Soldier Bowe Bergdahl Released by Taliban in Swap for Guantanamo Detainees
Qatar Sent Representatives to U.S. Military Prison in Cuba to Take Custody of Five Afghan Detainees
WASHINGTON—Taliban militants in Afghanistan on Saturday handed over Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held as a prisoner of war for almost five years, to U.S. Special Operations Forces in exchange for the release of five Afghan Taliban prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay prison.
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