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When you make your own pasta, you will always end up with some scraps, even more if you make ravioli. You can easily recycle this leftover pasta to make maltagliati, meaning "poorly cut" in Italian, which was traditionally meant as food for the poor. We are way past that, and today you can enjoy rich texture and amazing flavor of your pasta without the social stigma ;-)
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Fancy tamagoyaki bento
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Dandi Pop-Up Brings Modern Korean Dining to LA
Los Angeles may be home to a lot of great Korean food, but they're mostly "old school" restaurants and we don't have too much by way of modern Korean cuisine. That is changing with Dandi, a Korean-Southern Californian pop-up from Joshua Pressman and Jihee Kim, which is popping up for dinner at Hotel Normandie (and other future locations). The two chefs met while working at Rustic Canyon.
Dandi offers two tasting menus, an abbreviated and an extended one. I recently tried the extended tasting and started with this trio of appetizers:
Corn silken tofu, dungeness crab, brown butter.
Squash wafer, chicken liver mousse, apple cider jam
Jokbal (pig trotter) croquette, hot peanut sauce, perilla
The corn silken tofu with dungeness crab was our favorite, not just of the plate but of the entire meal! Needless to say, the meal started off strong. The silken tofu was a little sweet thanks to the corn but it worked wonderfully with the brown butter and the sweet crab meat.
Pressman pairs the tasting with mostly natural wines (as much as he can), like this Hasta la Vizsla, a pet nat (petillant naturel) wine from the Loire Valley.
There are also some beer and wine available a la carte if a pairing seems like too much for you.
Next course: Cold soup of peaches, pork belly, flowering coriander
Yes, there are pork belly bits under those peach slices!

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The short drive from Port Douglas to Daintree Village offers the opportunity to learn about the Aboriginal people who have called the Daintree rainforest home for thousands of years. This is the traditional country of the Kuku Yalanji Aboriginal people who continue to have ongoing connections with the area and offer tours where you can experience their culture.
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40 kilometres north of Mossman Gorge you will arrive at the Daintree River where the cable ferry transports you into the worlds oldest Rainforest. Continue the leisurely drive, pausing at lookouts for a glimpse of the Coral Sea as you wind your way past pretty beaches. Alexandra Lookout enjoys spectacular views of Snapper Island, Port Douglas and beyond and is located on the fringes of dense Daintree rainforest.
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Are Banks Too Big? Fed Says Yes
The Federal Reserve is pushing large U.S. banks to forget about all but the smallest acquisitions for a while amid a raging debate over the risk big lenders pose to the financial system. Daniel Fitzpatrick discusses on Markets Hub. Photo: Reuters.
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... I ... you can see the Federal Reserve telling some of the proverbial ... too big to fail banks ... we want to get any bigger he conceded to see one of the Wall Street Journal today ... omelet with a really great graphic demographics team team put together is on point that one out to ... see the bottom of it there ... morning Evelyn welcome to the market so that you are talking about I expected and a lot going on with the Fed will talk about it on the sale of the letter ... that this is one interesting thing that that now is the big time bank regulator ... starting to flex their muscles campus after this here when the riders on the story ... I will ... tell if the pummeled for the bank ... well I mean we've heard from the Fed public wanes recent speeches that ... are getting more more cautious about ... obviously letting big banks getting bigger ... the story today illustrates years of private messages are delivering to banks ... um you might now want to think about buying ... anybody else for the time being ... we are one example Capital one which actually isn't ... considered one of the TV write exactly but it has gotten bigger since the crisis were a CNG can be a day ... Wells had not been ... pumped up the ones with a few purchases including one if Edward is pretty big nine billion ... after they made that purchase the Fed said he might want to stop doing that for the time being ... now let's talk about that this Goldblum yet that too big to fail banks said ... they had gotten Peterson's before the crisis started regular art at the top we had a graphic here right over the size of their deposits boom the Big five now hold a much larger percentage of the deposit rate Yeske reckoning that largely came about because in no way if you remember there are a bunch of firms that do style apps right right right you can think of Washington Mutual ... here's a pic of Merrill Lynch country wanting to do more to ... be into it although the graphic there ... so I ... think they've got a lot bigger than ... that the issue to me that question is why the Fed concerned about them getting even in what is the fifth team that they're starting to deliver this message while and think the Fed is just as trying to learn the lessons of two thousandseven two thousandeight ... aam ... and and as the preeminent bank regulator ... its kind to you know worry me in some these institutions um ... so they don't take on too much risk and crush the financial system ... 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I mean your emergency measures taken again Daddy up ... on t think he's too big to fail bank so I mean did in the name right to re ... write our day-to-day ... that's good question ... certain question I mean that there are ... a number of things we in the new capital requirements of Mohsen surprises ... the stress test that the Fed have ... had a simple minded ... um ... even there's a new proposal or tabled this preferred for banks to limit the exposure they have to each other ... all all of this stuff seems to indicate yes the Fed ... thinks these banks and today they haven't quite come out and said that's right um ... so interesting question I think many observers think the answer is yes but we really don't know for sure yet right right and especially ... appreciate time children much thank you ...


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Awesome! Wish I could've been there. Will Stereophile be reviewing the Blades?
Thursday February 13 was a day most of us in New York would have preferred to stay indoors. With 10" of snow falling since the night before, the Stereophile office closed, the roads in my neighborhood impassable, and public transport iffy at best, I really didn't want to make the trek into Manhattan. But I did and was glad to have done so. English loudspeaker manufacturer KEF, represented by a team led by the company's brand ambassador Johan Coorg (above right), was promoting a unique event for the press at MSR Studios on 48th Street featuring legendary engineer and producer Ken Scott (above left).
KEF had flown in a young band from Nashville, Staying for the Weekend, and the plan was for the band to play two songs live in the studio, with the recording produced by Ken Scott and co-produced and engineered by Derik Lee. The assembled press would hear the band live (minus the vocals, which were not amplified, but just laid down in ProTools), then crowd into the control room to hear the mix on KEF LS50s mounted on top of the console's meter bridge. A CD would be burned for each journalist and we would all listen to it on the red KEF Blade speakers, driven by Bryston amplification, that flank Scott and Coorg in the photo.
The idea was to educate the press in how the recordings are made, how what is heard live is translated into recorded form, and how even a typical rock recording benefits from being played back on a true high-end audio system
After Johan Coorg's opening remarks, Ken Scott took the floor. Ken dropped out of high school in the 1960s to start work at London's famed Abbey Road Studio. Among his first sessions as a lowly assistant were the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour and the White albumhe had us laughing at his stories of those golden days; he was asked what is was like to record Eric Clapton in George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and he had to admit that he just couldn't remember, such was the atmosphere in the studiobut most importantly, he told us how he had learned what was important in those days of recorders with a limited number of tracks. For example, you couldn't lay down several guitar solos and decide later which to use in the mix. You had to get it right on the fly, with perhaps only a subsequent punch-in to correct somethingthe opposite of these modern times, where there may be 59 different solos available to use in ProTools but no-one can decide which is the keeper.
Ken is a vocal critic of "The Loudness Wars"see my recently posted essay on the subjectand he admitted to being known as GOMfor Grumpy Old Manon some of the pro-audio Usenet groups. To make his point, he played us a WAV file of David Bowie's "Suffragette City," which he co-produced. Except that he had spliced between the original mix and a version that he had asked a colleague to mix as though it were being released today. The difference was jarring. Despite the "modern" over-compressed mix initially sounding impressive, when the original version cut in, the soundstage opened up, there was space around the instruments and Bowie's voice sounded more natural, yet without the track losing anything. Ken played the file three times, after which there was general agreement among the mainstream press present that something had gone horribly wrong in the way recordings were made in the 40 years since Ziggy Stardust was released.
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Following Ken Scott's presentation, Staying for the Weekend took the stage and KEF's Stephanie Scola handed out earplugs, which the oldsters in the audience, like me, found very welcome.
Listening to the mixes of the two songs on the KEF LS50s that were bring used as monitors in the control room, I was impressed by how much of the band's live dynamics a) had been captured in the recording and b) how much of those dynamics were being reproduced by the little LS50s. We then all trooped back into the studio and listened to the evening's work on the KEF Blades. Oh my! These no-compromise speakers allowed the great white magic of rock'n'roll to flow freely!
KEF's own report on this very successful evening can be found here. It joins some excellent essays on both music and audio technology that I recommend highly.
Awesome! Wish I could've been there. Will Stereophile be reviewing the Blades?
This event looks like it was not only worth braving the snow but was also a lot of fun. And having a set of the remarkable KEF Blades, I can imagine the sound was wonderful.
John I would be most interested in hearing your thoughts about the playback of well recorded live music as it sounds in a top rated mastering room.
Is there any attempt at all by the top mastering engineers to make their products translate consistently to domestic audio or is it totally hit or miss thus making "accurate home audio playback" a ridiculous conceit? I have seen Bob Katz's room and also Clearmountain's and Doug Sax.
These rooms do not look at all like the typical Stereophile guy's room as there is an effort to NOT place piles of fancy equipment smack in the middle of the mix. My audiophile friends all insist this is "nonsense" and that the best place for amps and such is right in the middle of everything where girls can "see" it and realize how great it is. It is so "big" the girls get all excited etc etc. You know how girls are.
Would I be a better audiophile if I listened to beautiful sounding speakers poorly set up in a room that has huge peaks and dips and using harmonic systhesizers for power amps thus coating everything I hear with "sugar."? All my friends are doing this and they are all "experts."
My best friend has a "sugar" system using zero negative feedback and no bass response below 50 hz. He says he has the best system in the world. It sounds a little "off" to me. Am I crazy? He says he is a "true" audiophile and as such will not be a slave to "standards" as they are all beneath him.
Should I simply buy snake oil and mystery or is there actually anything accurate about professional standards of excellence as they apply to "our" world.?
What have YOU heard John? And WHAT are your thoughts on the subject?
Hey Doc! This ain't the place to be writing your memoirs...
I think any replies apart from abjectly admiring ones would detract from it.
I would have done the same thing being a native Chicagoan, feet of snow never stopped us like inches of snow does here in Hotlanta. I don't ever remember of having a "no school day" up north. And no, I am not going to tell you we had to walk 5 miles each way, both up hill. lol But, we did walk...no bussing back in the day.
Or first year living in Connecticut in the 80's on opening day at Yankee Stadium there was 15 inches of snow on the ground. THAT was unbelievable to me. No game, but the next day they played and no snow to be found around the stadium. I'm guessing trucked out like our Canadian friends do.
I digress, what a great event and it is so important for audiophiles to go hear real music now and again. Without that I feel we lose our frame of reference to gage our recordings and our playback gear.
Ah, to be a fly on the wall for THAT even would have been something. Thanks for sharing.
ps I did enjoy Kens book that I bought on my Kindle.
Live music with Joey who later went on to form Criterion Studios in North Miami where the Rolling Stones recorded. In 1964 Joey and "The Accents" played at the Monte Cristo Hotel in Palm Beach using a 1960 Echolette while their bass man had a "tone ring" Fender JBL D140 "tone ring" Showman bass rig.
The other notable instruments were Hammond B3 and Joey had a Gibson Les Paul which surprised my band mates who were using ES335 and Fender Strats. I had a Fender Precision which was much bigger than I was as I was only 13 years old and kind of chubby and short although very into bass as a jazz student.
I hired Joey and The Accents band to play our senior prom at St. Andrews Prep School in Boca Raton in 1964. Their live sound was simply astonishing and I became a local legend for having booked them. It was incredible and that is why Joey went on to purchase the most important recording studio in south florida history recording Aretha Franklin the Stones and many other groups.
As I later was during the 60s a bass man on stage with Led Zepplin, The Mothers of Invention, Steppenwolf and Blood Sweat and Tears (I was only the lowly "opening act" but hey---I WAS there!).
Let me tell you the the Accents bass rig was as good as I have ever heard. I am still tracking down a Fender JBL D140 tone ring cab.
My current bass rig is D140 Mesa 100 watt tube head and Epiphone guitar from the Jefferson Air-plane bass player Jack Cassidy. It is a nice bass. Although I am still keeping an eye out to purchase a Gibson EB3 like Jack Bruce as I am partial to the short neck Gibon sound also. But so far the Jefferson Airplane bass player Jack Cassidy has the best bass out on the market that I have heard for articulation and pure tone. Try one and see what you think... Better than a Beatles Hoffner I think.
I keep asking you to comment on my contention that the reason the High End is in trouble is that you guys did not do as I DID and adopt pro audio mastering standards back in the 1990s. My stuff has continued to out perform all local audiophile rigs ever since.
I love vintage equipment and owned most of it. But Standards are necessary for the High End to earn cred with the public.
I keep waiting for your comment, John.
I think we're going to need a lot more biographical and technical information from you before anyone can properly evaluate and respond to your queries.
About 5,000 words or so should do it.
Is that the only way rock musicians can play their music is so loud it is dangerous? Just because theoretical 24 bit is 144db doesn't mean that the playback level can't be kept at an spl of under 90db. That is the one danger of cans and earbuds for young people is private hearing damaged by too loud music. By 50 they will have some regrets.
Atkinson: What do you mean you have no plans to review the Blades!? I ordered a 3 year subscription for the sole purpose of insuring I would not miss the Sterophile/Blade review! KEF says these speakers are revolutionary. I depend on Sterophile to separate the truth from the hyperbole! Why wouldn't you review them! How does a system you haven't reviewed make the recommended list? I'm staggered. This isn't Mom an' Pops latest creation: This is KEF! A major stereophile This is Car & Driver not reviewing the new Corette! This is like FOX not televising the NFC championship! . . . "No plans to review . . ." Really?!
I guarantee you that John Atkinson knows a LOT about what I wrote as it was ALL bass player jibber jabber and John is (like me) a total bass equipment freak. A Fender/JBL D140 "tone ring" cab is the kind of bass cabinet that speaks with true tonal authority. All this junk was NOT directed at any disinterested non-musician citizen who I can appreciate would find it of zero usefullness.
What WOULD be useful would be the question"Why even GO to a pro audio mix room to audition equipment designed by a former pro audio monitor company?" Kef built the drivers for the original BBC monitor speakers I still find usefull 30 years later. Is their new little product an attempt to bring pro audio to the domestic hobby guys?
I find it ironic in the extreme that the experts in the High End get furious with me when I opine that pro audio mastering rooms that are designed correctly are FAR superior to domestic audio. Domestic audio has become infested with snake oil products and extremely sloppy equipment setup. Deplorable audio rooms with hopeless lack of attention to fidelity and a complete lack of STANDARDS are the norm in home audio.
So why go to a proper sound room to hear these new KEFs? Was it some kind of joke perhaps?
I love music. I love the sound of great instruments as they are delicious (if top of the line). I love great composers. I love great audio equipment both pro audio and domestic brands.
Why are domestic audio hobby fans so convinced that "anything goes" when the pros have spent money and attention on finding out what exactly IS "correct" audio playback. The pros are tired of hearing ten different mixes in ten different rooms. They know that is a result of ignorance. The mix should sound pretty much the same on balance if the gear and the rooms are designed competently.
Why do "WE" pride ourselves on how "different" our audio systems are? Are we morons? Don't we understand it is impossible for that kind of variety to make sense if the gear is all working properly in a proper room?
I want John to chime in on this subject someday as I have been harping on it since before my hero JGH passed away. I have been working at a marriage of million dollar "mastering rooms" morphing into million dollar "home audio masterpieces." For perhaps twenty years or more it is what I live and breathe.
JGH (the FOUNDER of STEREOPHILE) said the two attitudes which drove him mad were "anything goes as long as I LIKE it." And the other thing that drove him mad about our home audio industry was "the lack of double blind testing to establish performance grading is the downfall of our hobby and why we are all unsicientific." I agree but go even farther.
Over the last 25 years I discovered the pros were working extremely hard to build reference systems that could be standardised and used in mixing and mastering. They sought playback that was musical, alive and consistent. A standard "sound" which could be trusted to represent "what the recording REALLY sounds like." They are now AHEAD of us home systems guys.
I want to know why nobody else gives a damn that the professionals are ahead of us?Right now it is just me, the Professional mastering gurus like Clearmountain, Doug Sax, Bob Katz, Steve Hoffman and the ghost of JGH.
Anybody else have an opinion? John Atkinson where do you stand on the subject?
I might not exactly be a math whiz, but that was no 5000 words.
To me and the rest of the educated smart "real world" what is truly lame are the pathetic crowd of losers who have monopolised our hobby. These losers took the idea that was proposed by the founders of TAS and Stereophile that you have to actually "Listen" to equipment to judge it for quality instead of blindly following tests and printed specifications.
Then the losers made this common sense observation their "CREDO" and went too far promoting the idea that no such thing as "correct" actually exists any longer. So now here we are with NO standards and no respect for the idea of a "correct" SYSTEM.
Instead every Johnny come lately to this hobby has declared their approach "valid---because I LIKE IT." And as a result huge amounts of money are wasted building very poorly performing super expensive tripe.
The press knows this hobby is all BS. The public knows this hobby is all BS. The public has moved on and has no respect for the unproductive waste of time most home audio has become.
Lame indeed. Who is LAME? You are my audio friends. Lame and proud of your ignorance. I wish good luck to those of you who seek the very real beauty of audio "truth." To those that wish to just muck around and pretend they are too smart to actually try to build a correct system I wave bye bye as I have said all I care to about the subject. Have fun kiddies...
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Over-the-top comments at that WaPo on the Robin Givhan piece "Diplomatic fashion crisis averted: Michelle Obama wears Vera Wang to China state dinner." The "crisis" was that Mrs. Obama got criticized, at the 2011 China state dinner, for wearing a dress from a British designer and at this state dinner she was wearing a dress from an American designer. The designer Vera Wang responded (as quoted in WaPo):
"It is such a privilege, as an American of Chinese heritage, to have dressed first lady Michelle Obama for this state dinner honoring President Xi Jinping and First Lady Peng Liyuan, of the People's Rebublic of China," tweeted Wang.The typo "Rebublic" may be funnier than the fawning Jackie-disrepecting in the comments. By they way, when everyone else just says "China" and you're operating within the 140-character limitation of Twitter, why would you even attempt to write "People's Republic of"? I guess it's that theater of pompous dignity that people assume when accepting honors. I'm privileged at the honor and honored at the privilege... blah blah blah. If we were at the Oscars music would play to tell you that's enough, and I love that Twitter is right there from the very outset, saying, okay, you've said enough, now get out of here. Go rebubble elsewhere. Twitter is not a Rebabble-ic.
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It's not even 6 in the morning and I have 2 more things to say about that article.
1. Michelle Obama's 2011 dress was blazing, daring, almost wacky. The new dress was utterly sedate. As Givhan put it: "It exuded Hollywood glamour of the sort that has long defined the red carpet. And Obama's hair, styled in gentle waves and cascading down her right cheek, underscored the dress's mood of old-fashioned stardust." In other words, pointedly old-old-fashioned. Givhan swathes Mrs. Obama in praise. There's no commentary at all on what I would call the squelching of Michelle Obama's exuberance and modernity.
2. I enjoyed the picture — the 4th photo at the first link — of Michelle adjusting Obama's tie. He's got a very cute expression on his face. You could say he's affecting a little-kid attitude just as his wife is tending to him, causing her to look more like his mother than his wife. But I'm going to say: playful, adorable, charming. And it's true (Deal with it!): The man is the most charming person to arrive on the national stage since JFK. I won't say JFK had nothing on this President or While JFK was certainly charismatic, Barack Obama outshines him easily. That goes too far.


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'Typical' heroin user in Connecticut is white, male, suburban; often unaware of what they're actually using
'Typical' user white, male, suburban; often unaware of what they're actually using
The heroin addict who needs help in Connecticut is likely to be white, more suburban and often younger than the one in your mind's eye, although they come in all sizes, shapes, ages and races.
And odds are, he's a guy — a guy who may have switched to heroin for economic reasons because it's a cheaper high, after initially getting hooked on prescription narcotics in the home.
Nevertheless, Connecticut's 189 deaths from heroin overdose so far this year included 45 women.
A typical Connecticut heroin user also frequently doesn't know exactly what that stuff he or she is smoking, snorting or injecting is — and it may or may not be heroin, authorities say.
This snapshot of a Connecticut heroin user, to the extent that there is a typical user, emerged from statistics on heroin-related deaths released this past week by the state office of the chief medical examiner and interviews with people on the front lines of treatment and law enforcement.
The Register Citizen of Torrington and the New Haven Register requested statistics in the wake of a run of suspected heroin-related overdose deaths in Torrington, a relatively small city of 35,800 people that so far this year has seen 10 people die of suspected heroin overdoses within its borders.
The most recent Torrington death occurred on Monday. Three of the city's suspected heroin deaths occurred over a two-day period in November.
That's more than any city in Connecticut other than Hartford, which as of Thursday had 22, New Haven, which had 15, and Waterbury, which had 11, according to figures from the office of the chief medical examiner. Bridgeport, the state's largest city, had nine, as did Norwich.
While larger city totals can be inflated because some of the people who die in places like New Haven, Hartford or Waterbury live in smaller towns — and the cities also are where medical facilities often are — results differ only slightly when looking at heroin deaths among residents, rather than simply within municipal borders.
Torrington, with 10 deaths of Torrington residents, has seen more of its residents die of overdoses this year than any city other than Hartford, which had 11.
New Haven and Waterbury each had nine.
New Britain and Norwich each had seven. Danbury, Manchester and Milford each had six deaths. Bridgeport had just 4 — the same as North Haven, Meriden and East Hartford.
It's not just heroin, but in recent years, "more people are dying from intoxication deaths than are dying from auto accidents," said Chief Medical Examiner Dr. James R. Gill. That's been the case since about 2008, he said.
In fact, deaths from drug overdoses now outnumber deaths from motor vehicle accidents in 29 states and Washington, D.C., according to the Trust for America's Health.
Connecticut has the 13th-lowest drug overdose mortality rate in the United States, with 10.1 per 100,000 people suffering drug overdose fatalities, according to a report the Trust released in October.
The report also found that, in Connecticut, deaths from overdoses — a majority of which were from prescription drugs — increased by 12 percent since 1999, when the rate was 9 per 100,000.
Torrington this year has a rate of death from heroin overdoses of 28 per 100,000 people — nearly triple the state rate and more than five times the 2012 rate of New York City, which had a rate of 5.3 deaths per 100,000 people, according to NYC.gov.
Looking at the heroin landscape in Connecticut — before abuse reaches the point of death — it appears as if use is increasing.
According to Susan Wolfe, quality manager for the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, which treats adults 18 and over for mental health and substance abuse and generally has the most contact with those who are uninsured or underinsured, admissions for treatment of heroin abuse have risen steadily in recent years.
Admissions for heroin abuse were 11,677 in 2010. They rose to 15,584 in 2011 and to 15,727 in 2012. During the same period, admissions for treatment of prescription drug abuse rose from 2,517 in 2010 to 3,410 in 2011 and 3,457 in 2012.
Lt. Kenneth Cain, a 12-year veteran Connecticut State Police trooper who commands three of the five locations of the Statewide Narcotics Task Force, said heroin "is huge" in Connecticut.
"Crack cocaine in our bigger cities, heroin and marijuana are our drugs here in Connecticut," he said.
Cain and the task force have the Torrington issue on their radar.
"I've been in contact with the Torrington chief," he said. "We actually have a meeting scheduled for after the New Year."
But while Torrington has seen a large number of deaths this year, on a statewide basis nothing much really is changing from Cain's perspective — although some of those involved in treatment have noticed that addicts seem to be getting younger as time goes on.
Cain also said that anyone who thinks that heroin addicts are mostly poor people who are racial or ethnic minorities and city-dwellers is wrong.
"We just did a wire case recently on a New Haven-based drug dealer" and "pretty much his entire base are people coming from these outlying shoreline towns," Cain said.
When it comes to heroin, "these are people who get hooked on prescription drugs, like Oxycontin, then switch to heroin" when they find it's too expensive to obtain prescription medications or they no longer can obtain a ready supply at home, he said.
"I typically see these people coming from your regular, middle class-type towns out on the Shoreline," Cain said. "Maybe those prescription pills were more available to them. Maybe that's what people started with, an opiate addiction."
While one Oxycontin pill can cost $80 on the street, according to Gill, Cain said that "you can buy heroin for $4 a bag in Hartford."
The trouble with buying heroin on the street, he said, is, "Who the hell knows what they cut it with? We find that more of these overdose deaths come from the cutting agent."
Some attention has been focused recently on the use of Clenbuterol, a dangerous additive used to treat respiratory problems in horses, as a cutting agent for heroin. But current year statistics do not show Clenbuterol as a contributing factor in any of the state's heroin-related overdose deaths.
Cain was one of several people who said that when heroin addicts hear about a particularly potent supply that causes an overdose, that's often what they head for.
"They want their stuff to bring them almost to within an inch of their life," he said.
Many dealers, in fact, "have their own tester. He's their own junkie who will tell them about the quality of the high," Cain said. "They're looking for the stuff that's going to bring you right to the death — and if you hear that some guy brought someone to an overdose, that's what the junkies want."
Raymond Raw, a supervisor at the Substance Abuse Treatment Unit of the Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven, said "there is no rational understanding" when it comes to addicts. "There are addicts on the streets that when they hear that someone has just overdosed, that's what they want."
Raw, who gets to know heroin users when they seek treatment — as opposed to when they're arrested or when they die — agreed that heroin users "are usually white and it's usually male ... and now they're young. I've known 13- and 14- and 15-year-old kids that are hooked on heroin — and coming out of affluent suburbia.
"We're also seeing a lot of PCP these days," Raw said. "We're in an epidemic with PCP. ... It's horrible."
For many young drug users, "their first introduction is usually through a pharmaceutical," Raw said. "It's usually, a friend will have a Percocet or an Oxy and ... they fall in love" with the high.
Connecticut's numbers are sobering — and while the portrait of users might be whiter and more suburban than some people might expect, the numbers are fairly egalitarian.
It's just one indicator of the total picture, but Connecticut's 189 deaths so far this year include 144 men and 45 women, of whom 157 were classified as white, 20 were classified as "Hispanic, white," 10 were listed as black, one was Asian Indian and one was unknown.
Of the 144 men, 118 were white, 188 were "Hispanic, white," 6 were black, one was Asian Indian and one was unknown. Of the 45 women, 39 were white, 4 were black and 2 were classified as "Hispanic, white."
Geographically, Hartford County was where the greatest number of deaths occurred, with 59; New Haven County had 50, New London County had 22, Litchfield County had 18, Fairfield County had 7, Middlesex County had 6 and Tolland and Windham counties each had 3.
There was a broad age distribution, with those dying of heroin overdose falling between the ages of 19 and 65.
But generally speaking, there appear to be greater numbers of deaths during young adult years — especially between the ages of 22 and 32, with 70 — and again between the ages of 40 and 50, with 59. There were just 6 deaths among 19-21-year-olds, 19 among those aged 33-39, and 34 among people aged 51 and older.
Cain cautioned that what often are referred to as heroin overdoses can easily involve other drugs, including Fentanyl, a synthetic drug that is far more potent — actually 100 times more potent than morphine.
"Basically, all these heroin overdoses are being called heroin overdoses but" in many case, "they're really Fentanyl," he said.
A number of overdoses have been traced back to "heroin" that was really Fentanyl that entered the Connecticut supply chain earlier this year in Waterbury, Cain said.
The Connecticut State Police, which the Register contacted about the issue on Thursday and Friday, issued a "dangerous drug threat alert" Saturday evening related to recent overdoses involving Fentanyl.
"The illegal narcotic Heroin that is being distributed across Connecticut may contain Fentanyl," the department said in a press release. "Heroin laced with Fentanyl is believed to be responsible for many of these reported overdoses. There also may have been deaths related to this deadly Heroin Fentanyl combination.
"The Litchfield and New London County areas have experienced the greater number of overdoses, however New England and the tri-state area have all had similar incidents," it says. "IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT the mere contact with this substance is very dangerous.
People "are asked to call your local police department or Resident State Troopers Office if you have knowledge of or have come in contact with this substance," the release says. "Statewide Narcotics Task Force Detectives are working to identify any source of this Heroin/ Fentanyl combination in our state."
Records from the office of the chief medical examiner indicate that Fentanyl also showed up in the bodies of seven of the people who died of heroin overdoses so far this year, including a 43-year-old man who was among the people from Torrington who died, a 50-year-old West Haven man who died in New Haven and a 56-year-old Seymour woman who died in Derby.
Fifty-one of the heroin overdoses also involved cocaine, according to the office of the chief medical examiner's records.
One disturbing thing is that not only do the users often not know it's not heroin that they smoking, snorting or injecting, but in many cases the street-level dealers — or even the people they got it from — don't know, authorities said.
"When we trace it back even to the mid-level distributors, they think they're selling heroin," Cain said. "We honestly believe that it was purported to be heroin all the back to when it was imported from overseas."
"It doesn't have to be a huge batch" in order to cause a problem, and in the case of the Waterbury supply, "we believe it's going to clean itself out — soon," he said.
Asked about the effects of "bad heroin" on deaths, Gill, the chief medical examiner, said, "Is there bad heroin on the street? My answer is there is no good heroin on the street."
"You don't know what you're getting," he said. "Some may be weaker, some may be stronger."
Mary Kate Mason, spokeswoman for the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, said deaths from overdoses, like admissions for treatment, are just an indicator of how widespread heroin use is.
A spike in the number of deaths, "doesn't mean that there is an increase" in use, she said.
Nevertheless, "in our system, heroin is the second most likely substance people are coming in for treatment for," Mason said. "Alcohol is by far the most common. ... But heroin is second.
"We do know that prescription drug abuse is something that can lead to heroin use" and a growing trend toward prescription drug abuse has been a concern, she said.
Mason echoed other officials in saying that "younger people are getting addicted to the pharmaceutical narcotics, and then when they can no longer afford to pay for the pharmaceutical narcotics, the Oxycontin, that's when they're turning to heroin."
One important step the state has taken to combat deaths from opioid overdoses is the legalization last year of prescriptions of a life-saving medication called Nalaxone, or Narcan, not just for users but for people who might be in a position to administer it to them, said Wolfe.
"We believe it's going to save a lot of lives when it's used," Wolfe said.
Narcan can reverse the effects of opioids when someone is overdosing,
The ability to obtain prescriptions was extended to people other than the actual users out of "the realization that a person who is overdosing on opioids is incapable of self-administering the needed antidote," the department said in an announcement when the new law was passed last year.
Narcan works on both street drugs such as heroin and prescription drugs such as Percocet or Oxycontin.
One thing missing from this year's overdose statistics is any great number of deaths in Willimantic, which in years past had been singled as Connecticut's "heroin capital."
Only two of the state's heroin overdose deaths so far this year took place in Willimantic. Neither was a Willimantic resident.
Cain attributed that to the hard work many people both on the law enforcement and treatment and education sides have done since the problem in Willimantic was first widely publicized back in 2002.
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Every second, your computer must process billions of computational steps to produce even the simplest outputs. Imagine if every one of those steps could be made just a tiny bit more efficient. "It would save precious nanoseconds," explained Northeastern University assistant professor of physics Swastik Kar.
Kar and his colleague Yung Joon Jung, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, have developed a series of novel devices that do just that. Their work was published recently in the journal Nature Photonics.
Last year, the interdisciplinary duo combined their expertise--Kar's in graphene, a carbon-based material known for its strength and conductivity, and Jung's in the mechanics of carbon nanotubes, which are nanometer-sized rolled up sheets of graphene--to unearth a physical phenomenon that could usher in a new wave of highly efficient electronics.
They discovered that light-induced electrical currents rise much more sharply at the intersection of carbon nanotubes and silicon, compared to the intersection of silicon and a metal, as in traditional photodiode devices. "That sharp rise helps us design devices that can be turned on and off using light," Kar said.
This finding has major implications for performing computations, which, in simple terms, also rely on a series of on-off switches. But in order to access the valuable information that can be stored on these switches, it must also be transferred to and processed by other switches. "People believe that the best computer would be one in which the processing is done using electrical signals and the signal transfer is done by optics," Kar said.
This isn't too surprising since light is extremely fast. Kar and Jung's devices--which are the first to integrate electronic and optical properties on a single electronic chip--represent a critical breakthrough in making this dream computer a reality.
The computational modeling of these junctions were performed in close collaboration with the group of Young-Kyun Kwon, a professor at Kyung Hee University, in Seoul, Korea.
In the new paper, the team presents three such new devices. The first is a so-called AND-gate, which requires both an electronic and an optical input to generate an output. This switch only triggers if both elements are engaged.
The second device, an OR-gate, can generate an output if either of two optical sensors is engaged. This same configuration can also be used to convert digital signals into analog ones, an important capability for actions such as turning the digital content of an MP3 file into actual music.
Finally, Kar and Jung also built a device that works like the front-end of a camera sensor. It consists of 250,000 miniature devices assembled over a centimeter-by-centimeter surface. While this device would require more integration to be fully viable, it allowed the team to test the reproducibility of their assembly process.
"Jung's method is a world-class technique," Kar said. "It has really enabled us to design a lot of devices that are much more scalable."
While computers process billions of computational steps each second, improving their capability of performing those steps, Kar said, begins with the "demonstration of improving just one." Which is exactly what they've done.


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"Family Guy" fans refuse to just sit back and accept what happened during Sunday's episode.
During the Fox series' all-new episode Sunday, viewers were hit with a shocking death that nobody would have ever seen coming--Brian, the smart, funny and witty family dog, was hit by a car and killed, and as you might have expected, that wasn't OK with a lot of people.
So the fans decided to do something about it.
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Aaron Thompson of Tuscaloosa, Al., launched a Change.org petition early Monday to bring the beloved dog voiced by Seth MacFarlane back to life, and to date, the petition has collected over 35,000 signatures.
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"Brian Griffin was an important part of our viewing experience," Thompson wrote on the site. "He added a witty and sophisticated element to the show. 'Family Guy' and Fox Broadcasting will lose viewers if Brian Griffin is not brought back to the show."
The petition links to a Facebook page dedicated to the late character (RIP Brian Griffin From "Family Guy"), which has already gained more than 386,000 likes.
During Sunday night's "Life of Brian" episode, the show killed off the sophisticated talking dog, when he was struck by a car and run over as he prepared to play in the street with Stewie. Although there was hope he'd survive, his injuries proved to be too severe.
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"This was an idea that got pitched in the writers room and it sort of caught fire, and we thought it could be a fun way to shake things up," executive producer Steve Callaghan told E! News of Brian's death.
"As soon as this idea came up, we started talking about what the next couple episodes could be and we got very excited about the way this change will affect the family dynamics and the characters."
But why Brian?! "It seemed more in the realm of reality that a dog would get hit by a car, than if one of the kids died. As much as we love Brian, and as much as everyone loves their pets, we felt it would be more traumatic to lose one of the kids, rather than the family pet."
The Griffins have already added a new dog named Vinny into the family, voiced by "The Sopranos'" Tony Sirico.
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We've already shared with you Ohio State fan reactions to the wild play that ended this year's Iron Bowl, but how did ESPN's college football studio team of Rece Davis, Mark May, and Lou Holtz respond to the improbable ending? Fortunately, the WWL was live with a three-shot at that moment, so we can see how each consumed the insanity.
1. Rece Davis
Davis did an admirable job of calling the play-by-play for an audience that made the very unfortunate decision to be watching Rece Davis instead of Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson. He's actually reserved, almost.
2. Mark May
For maybe the first time ever, we love something Mark May did on television.
3. Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz is possibly aware that he is in a television studio. He is definitely unaware of what is going on in the Alabama-Auburn game.


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January 31, 2009
Google VS the "elements of nature" or "This site may harm your computer"
While searching Google for some interesting articles to fill my Saturday afternoon, I stumbled on this. "This site may harm your computer" Google claims falsely. Seems Google doesn't like nature, or at least it's elements. In some further searches I noticed that it's not only nature Google is after.
Looks more like a test/coding error, every web page on the internet is harmful.
Go Google!


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Government says GM owner site was faulty
DETROIT – The government said Friday that General Motors vehicle owners should recheck the company's recall identification website if previous checks indicated their cars aren't being recalled.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said GM's vehicle identification number, or VIN, look-up system has been incorrectly telling some owners that their cars aren't involved in recalls if parts for the repairs aren't ready. The system should have said the cars were under active recalls.
The agency said it asked GM to fix the problem, and owners checking Friday evening or later should see the correct information. Owners can also call the company for the correct information.
A message seeking comment was left for GM.
GM has issued 60 recalls covering 29 million vehicles this year. The company disclosed in February that it took more than a decade to recall small cars with faulty ignition switches. Since then, it has conducted a safety review that has resulted in dozens of recalls.
Starting Aug. 20, all automakers must have systems that allow owners to search recall information by VIN, NHTSA said.


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The Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals are "must do" items on my yearly calendar.
I love good jazz and anxiously anticipate this coming weekend, when jazz legends Joshua Redman, Chick Corea, …
The Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals are "must do" items on my yearly calendar.
I love good jazz and anxiously anticipate this coming weekend, when jazz legends Joshua Redman, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock join with new artists like the fabulous Esperanza Spalding, David Gilmore and others for two days of jazz heaven at Fort Adams.
Dave Brubeck will be sorely missed, but you'll be able to catch the Brubeck Brothers Quartet when they perform a tribute to Dave Brubeck on Oct. 18 at Cranston's Park Theatre.
Tickets are still available for the Jazz Festival, which has been losing ground to the Folk Festival the last few years. The Folk Festival has succeeded in attracting a younger crowd, whose musical tastes have changed the folk genre to a folk-rock genre.
Gone are the likes of Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Woody and Arlo Guthrie, Judy Collins and the legends of folk, only to be replaced by the more modern, plugged-in sounds of folk-rock.
The question keeps coming up at the festival: What is folk music? The answer is hard to grab a hold of, as young, emerging artists test the limits of roots, folk, rock and other basically American music. Whatever it is, it is attracting sold-out audiences to Newport with nary a ticket to be found months before the event took place last weekend.
The crowds were large, orderly and appreciative of the music. In a radical change, the festival promoters eliminated the coveted seating area in front of the stage, declaring it a standing and dancing zone. And they stood and danced, relegating the lawn chairs and blankets to the sides and back of the Fort Stage.
The Quad area inside the fort was filled with a large stage, beer garden, food and craft booths and what looked like as many people as were in the main stage area. The music was louder, faster and more upbeat than BDPI (Before Dylan Plugged In). The younger crowd sung along, cheered and danced to groups I had never heard of.
Yes, times they are a-changin,' and that's not all that bad. Folk music is still music to sing along to, dance to and understand the lyrics. While it is a new experience for the more traditional folkie, it is a heck of a lot better than the rap, heavy metal and pop junk.
So long live the Newport Folk Festival! And if you want to attend next year, order your tickets the day they go on sale. And while you're at it, get to the Newport Jazz Festival this weekend. Jazz is another truly American genre, and Newport has some of the best talent – new and old – lined up for the weekend.


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UBS updates its 2010 financial controls assessment
Zurich/Basel, 25 October 2011 - Following the discovery of the unauthorized trading activities that UBS announced in September, management has determined that certain internal controls were not effective on December 31, 2010, but at the same time has reconfirmed the reliability of the financial statements included in UBS's 2010 annual report. The financial effect of the unauthorized trading activity is fully reflected in UBS's third quarter 2011 financial report.
As a US-listed company, UBS is required under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to evaluate the effectiveness of its "internal control over financial reporting" and "disclosure controls and procedures" on an annual basis. Following the discovery of the unauthorized trading activities, management has determined that these controls were not effective on December 31, 2010. In a document submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), we have identified two control deficiencies: (i) the control requiring bilateral confirmation with counterparties of trades within our Investment Bank's equities business with settlement dates of greater than 15 days after trade date was not operating, and, when such trades were cancelled, re-booked or amended, the related monitoring control to ensure the validity of these changes had ceased to operate effectively, and (ii) the controls in the inter-desk reconciliation process within the Investment Bank's equities and fixed income, currencies and commodities businesses to ensure that internal transactions are valid and accurately recorded in our books and records, including controls over cancellations and amendments of internal trades that require supervisor review, intervention and resolution, did not operate effectively. We have taken and are taking measures to address these control deficiencies.
Investigations are ongoing, and management may become aware of facts relating to the Investment Bank that cause it to broaden the scope of the findings described above and to take additional remedial measures.
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Photo by Hailey Tucker, courtesy of the One Acre Fund blog. One Acre Fund supplies smallholder farmers with the tools and financing they need to grow their way out of hunger and poverty.
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Utah State University professor Joyce Kinkead remembers meeting first-year Honors student Stephanie Chambers — now Stephanie Chambers Thomas, M.D. — around the year 2000, as Kinkead was pursuing ambitious plans to ramp up the university's undergraduate research efforts.
"Stephanie approached me and said she'd like to help,'" says Kinkead, USU's 2013 Carnegie Professor who, at that time, served as vice provost for undergraduate research. "It was obvious she was already savvy about research, even as a freshman."
Kinkead seized upon Thomas' enthusiasm and hired her as a Marie Eccles Caine Fellow to assist with the planning of USU's undergraduate research program.
"Stephanie already had a lab assistant job and, having completed pre-college summer research at the University of Utah, she had amazing insights," Kinkead recalls. "Together, we plotted the creation of Undergraduate Research Day on Utah's Capitol Hill, along with other events, programs and plans to promote undergrad research."
Jan. 30 marks the 14th year of this year's Capitol Hill event, which brings Utah legislators face-to-face with budding researchers from USU and the University of Utah, the state's public research universities.
"I had really good research experiences at USU," says Thomas, who graduated from Utah State in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in biology. "And working with Dr. Kinkead was an amazing learning experience. I was impressed with her dedication to students and I learned so much about research funding and how universities work."
The Providence, Utah, native, who graduated from the University of Utah School of Medicine in 2010, recently completed a residency in family medicine at Idaho State University. She joined Intermountain Healthcare's South Cache Valley Clinic in Dec. 2013 as a Family Medicine with Obstetrics physician.
"My medical practice is just yards from my alma mater, Spring Creek Middle School," she says. "It's rewarding to return to work with individuals and families in my home community."
As a USU undergrad, Thomas spent three years in the lab of biology faculty mentor Brett Adams learning about cell signaling and researching cardiac regulatory protein activity. She also spent two years working in the lab of chemistry and biochemistry faculty member Joanie Hevel, where Thomas continued her research in cell signaling.
In 2004, Thomas was honored as a Goldwater Scholar by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, one of the nation's top science and mathematics recognition programs for undergraduates.
"I wrote my Honors thesis on cardiac regulatory proteins and presented my findings at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research," she says. "This was the work that led to me receiving the Goldwater Scholarship."
In addition to her academic pursuits at USU, Thomas was a strong supporter of women pursuing post-graduate and professional degrees. She advocated for women in her peer advisory role within the Department of Biology as well as her post as president of USU's Women in Science and Medicine group.
"So many women tell me they want to be a doctor, but also want to be a mother," Thomas says. "They think these goals are mutually exclusive. So, they whittle down their dreams. There's a need to show women it's possible to balance their dream careers with motherhood and family."
Thomas is married to fellow USU alum Jonathan Thomas, a Cache Valley attorney, who earned degrees from Utah State in 1995 and 1996. She says she chose medicine — and family medicine, in particular — because she likes the interface between biology and the human dynamic.
"Each person's experience with their health is unique, but affects the family unit as a whole," Thomas says. "It's very rewarding to work with multiple members of a family and see their health improve individually and as a family unit."
Undergraduate research, she says, laid a solid foundation for her pursuit of a medical degree and a career.
"Utah State has been ahead of its time in engaging undergraduates in research," Thomas says. "By participating in research, you learn how to communicate with a team, organize and test potential solutions to problems and even develop such skills as keeping good records. These are all things I learned and practiced as an undergraduate researcher and use every day in my medical practice."
Related links:
- "All Aggies Invited to Enjoy 'Science Week' Jan. 27-Feb. 1 at USU," Utah State Today
- USU Department of Biology
- USU College of Science
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Toward an Entangling Alliance: American Isolationism, Internationalism, and Europe, 1901-1950
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1991 - 288 pagina's
Conceived with a dedication to manifest destiny, individual freedom, and opportunity, the United States, from its inception, made an effort to avoid political or military involvement in Europe which could conflict with its pursuit of those goals. Ronald E. Powaski's study analyzes why the United States pursued this isolationist policy, and the factors, events, and personalities which challenged it and finally necessitated its abandonment.
Powaski's chronological approach to the topic begins with historical background material which identifies the origins of isolationism as a natural outgrowth of colonial ideals. The major portion of the text is devoted to how the political, military, and economic upheavals of the twentieth century gradually forced the United States to reevaluate its isolationist policy, ultimately reaffirming its original ideals through continuing involvement in world peace organizations. A list of suggested reading and a full index complete this work.
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The Emergence of American Internationalism 19011921
Republican Isolationism 19211933
Franklin D Roosevelt the Isolationists and the Aggressors 19331939
The Road To War 19391941
The Grand Alliance 19411943
The Road To Victory 19441945
The Collapse of the Grand Alliance 19451947
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Political Geography of the United States
Fred M. Shelley,J. Clark Archer,Fiona M. Davidson,Stanley D. Brunn
Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1996
American Narcissism: The Myth of National Superiority
Wilber W. Caldwell
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