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Easy. Find a piece of paper. It's one of several low-cost, easy-to-find and portable items that you can use as a prop.
Paper, for example, can be folded into elaborate origami shapes to explain mathematical constructs and scientific theories...made into an airplane that can fly over the audience...creased or made into a cone to make a point (or a megaphone)...folded like a greeting card, an envelope, an accordion...ripped, pierced with a pencil or crumpled to convey emotion...cut into strips or confetti to share with your audience....turned into a temporary spyglass. You get the ideas--they're only limited by your imagination. Here's an early trailer for the documentary Between the Folds, which looked at how scientists, artists and math teachers are using origami:
In the same way, a bar of chocolate from the hotel gift shop, your cell phone, a cup of tea from the break station, a pen, an earring, a shoe--all handy--can be turned to your advantage as visual props.
The advantages of these basic props goes beyond convenience to you. All of them are:
- Universal and familiar, making them more likely to be understood and related to by a wide range of audience members
- Small and easy to transport
- Hard to forget, since you're more likely to have them with you already
Mary Sias nominated "A can of soup" and "a large pinata sign to prove a point in my scholarship workshops."
Rachel Miller has used "My rabbit."
Leslie-Ann Howard -Martin Redweik has used "The audience themselves."
Weeze Bernier did it with paper, noting "I once told a true story of how receiving a document in the mail over 25 years ago, had changed my life. Throughout the story I referred to a crumpled and tattered piece of off white paper. When I was done, at least 3 people noted that it was great that I still had the document. The story was true, but I guess I did a pretty good job making a blank piece of paper look real too."
Hillarie Turner has used a prop you can consume later: "Chocolate!"
Linda Lamb Neckel's prop was "A plastic skull."
Akkana Peck also went with paper: "A paper airplane."
Toni Rosati might win for most unusual prop: "poster sized images of bras - for a communication talk (ie:support)."
Jean Wolfe recalled, "One of my mentors used a can o' green beans, fresh green beans, spoiled green beans and frozen grean beans. She's awesome. Her presentation was on presentation skills....and how to keep it fresh!"
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STORRS, Conn. (AP) Niels Giffey had a career-high 15 points and grabbed eight rebounds to help No. 21 Connecticut rally for a 73-62 victory over Stony Brook on Sunday.
Shabazz Napier had 15 of his 19 points in the second half for UConn (5-1), and Omar Calhoun added 14.
Dave Coley led Stony Brook (4-2) with 15 points and Tommy Brenton added 14.
The game was tied at 39 when Connecticut began a streak of 3-point shooting that saw it make its final eight attempts from behind the arc. A four-point play by Napier put UConn up 61-47 with just over 4 minutes left and sealed the win.
The Huskies finished 10 of 22 from behind the arc.

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Sunday, July 16, 2017
Playtest Impressions - Bunny & Burrows Light - No Animals Were Truly Killed in the Playtesting of These Rules
Friday night I was asked an important question: "Do you know of anyone that might like to playtest the Bunnies & Burrows Light rules?" What a loaded question! I spent hours talking with Dr. Sustare one night at NTRPG Con about Swords & Wizardry Light, a new edition of Bunnies & Burrows and the idea of Dennis putting together a "Light" version of the Bunnies & Burrows rules. My answer was "Send me the rules and I'll run it tomorrow night!" and they did and I did.
I sent the rules, character sheets and cards to my Saturday Night Irregulars and assembled out bunny posses. We had three bunnies. I suggested someone name one of their bunnies Hugh Humpalot but wisely no one bit at it.
The bunnies, all young, had to find some Rabbit Flower at a nearby marsh to help heal their den mother who was suffering from an as yet undefined disease.
It really does change the whole narrative when gold and treasure is not the driving force behind an adventure (because even ones that have other motives driving the action still supply opportunities to loot the dead)
Our brave bunnies:
- didn't find and didn't fall into a trap.
- hopped / climbed a tree for a better view, as they had no map (bunnies don't map) and just a vague direction of the marsh they needed to locate.
- were pounced on by a persian kitty who got rabbit punched to an early grave. Rumors that humping bunnies were running amok after their victory is greatly exagerated.
- located the marsh ad Rabbit Flower, but now it was dark
- drove a snake from the hollow of a tree trunk so they would have protection from predators over the night's passing.
- were attacked by and drove off a dachshund (the fact that my wiener dog was barking in the background for the prior half hour simply added to the scene)
- found and fell into that trap they missed the first time
- got the Rabbit Flower to their mother in times to heal her.
Created characters and ran the adventure in about 2 and a half hours with another 15 minutes of post playtest critique.
Damn but I'm looking forward to more Bunnies & Burrows.
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Very cool. Do you know of any possibilities on B&B Light becoming available outside of knowing or playing with Dr. Sustare?ReplyDelete
Running a game Saturday, 6 players.ReplyDelete
What 3 classes did you play?Replies
Fighter, Scout and Empath.Delete
Empath was very powerful in play. We were calling it "Vampire Bunny" ;)
Yea, I was thinking they would be powerful.Delete
Reading your post again, you posted what happen, but didn't really discuss impressions.
Did you discuss those with Dr. Sustare privately?
I purposefully avoided discussing rules as this is a playtest and everything is subject to change. I did send an email on to FGG which was forwarded to Dennis. It included feedback from my players and our observations and suggestions.Delete
That sounds horrible.ReplyDelete
I'm glad all flavors of weird are out there and I'm glad you loved it.
I want this, like, NOW!ReplyDelete
I agree about wanting it now. We liked Harvesters :o)ReplyDelete
Are the full B&B rules complicated enough to warrant a light version?ReplyDelete
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Attached are some pictures of 4 variations of the lafette wrench, and what the wrench is used for on the lafette. Since the lower part of the MG34 lafette is the same as the MG42 lafette, the wrench works the same for both.
The Norwegian wrenches aren't common anymore, but are easier to find and not as collectable as the German wrenches, so they aren't nearly as expensive. The German wrench often sells for $200 - $250, depending on condition.


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Publisher: Woodhead | Pages: 234 | 2006-01 | ISBN 1855739232 | PDF | 2 MB
Keeping industrial applications in the forefront, Total Colour Management provides basic yet comprehensive knowledge on the many aspects of colour management. Divided into two sections, the book explores the separate processes of measuring and managing colour. The book touches briefly of theoretical aspects but is firmly rooted in the practical. It delineates how to implement colour management strategies to the working environment. Each section includes references for further information and discussions of future trends. Written by a panel of specialists guided by expert editorship, the book gives readers a solid working knowledge of how to approach colour management.
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Chromebug 1.6a4Friday, January 29th, 2010
Later this evening getfirebug.com will have Chromebug 1.6a4.
- Attempt to delete Chromebug contexts when windows are destroyed. Seems to be working.
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- Only change the context by user control (not when windows open)
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Also available is Firebug 1.6a4. About 10 tests fail, but I don't know how to fix them. In these cases Firefox generates errors messages without file names, line numbers, or call stacks. I don't know if we really have test failures or not.
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On June 21, 2011, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), lectured about the importance of science and technology for Muslim nations at the American University in Sharjah University, UAE. We present hereafter a short report on this lecture and highlight some of its salient points related to the Islamic scientific tradition and the need for the renaissance of science and technology in the Muslim world.
On June 21, 2011 Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), spoke about the importance of science and technology for Muslim nations at the American University in Sharjah, UAE.
In his talk, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu encouraged the positive developments in science and technology and higher education and emphasised their importance for OIC member states, which are becoming a community that values knowledge and is competent in utilizing and advancing science and technology to enhance socio-economic wellbeing of the Muslim world.
It is worth noting that Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu is one of the founding members of the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC), UK. For more information, visit FSTC's corporate website: www.FSTC.org.uk.
His Excellency Professor Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), called on Islamic countries to reform the higher education sector and increase their focus on science and technology, at the opening ceremony of the Middle East's first Belief in Dialogue: Science, Culture and Modernity conference, organised by the British Council in conjunction with American University of Sharjah (AUS) and held under the patronage of HH Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammad Al Qassimi, Supreme Council Member, Ruler of Sharjah and Founder and President of AUS.
Professor Ihsanoglu urged member-states of the OIC–an inter-governmental organization comprising 57 states– to commit to becoming a community that values knowledge and is competent in advancing science and technology to enhance the socio-economic well-being of the Muslim world.
In his lecture at AUS, Professor Ihsanoglu gave an account of Muslims' meritorious contributions to scientific and technological achievements and their quest for advancement, with particular reference to the Ottoman contributions from the 14th until the 20th century, without neglecting their relationship with the advancements made by the Europeans.
He noted that Muslim scholars developed new disciplines, enriched and enlightened Europe, Asia and Africa in various fields of scientific and intellectual pursuits, including mathematics, astronomy, optics, medicine, chemistry, philosophy, theology, law and diplomacy. They added to existing knowledge, corrected many concepts and injected them with many innovative contributions such as developing a genuine scientific approach and experimental methodology.
Professor Ihsanoglu stressed that the Ottomans, who went through two different stages in acquiring new sciences, which and enriched it and brought a new dynamism to cultural and scientific life in the Islamic world. He underlined that with the advent of the 21st century, the importance of scientific enterprise became more prominent and the need for excellence in research is felt in more advanced Muslim countries.
For more information, visit the OIC website at http://www.oic-oci.org
See also:
- Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Statement of HE Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in the Opening Session [Proceedings of the conference 1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World organised by FSTC, London, 25-26 May 2010].
- Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Credo of an Eminent Scholar: Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu's Lecture in Padua.
- Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Scientific Life during the Period of the Anatolian Seljuks.
- Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, An Overview of Ottoman Scientific Activities.


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Do not cry for the lonely caviar vending machine. Though it is the subject of much ridicule, it is a piece of art in its own right. It's a fitting reflection, if you will, of our own hubris, standing guard over the Burbank Town Centre Mall atrium where Santa himself — the bastion of opulence and excess — holds court.
I stood before the Beverly Hills Caviar machine at length on Black Friday, oblivious to the whirl of commerce all about me. Its soft, glowing snack tray lazily melted in hue from blue to purple to red to orange. It entranced me as it did a child of no more than 4 or 5, who longingly reached for its shelf of elite trinkets, mesmerized by their twinkle.
I ran my fingers across its cold, impossibly laser-smooth touch screen. Here your desires are laid bare in vibrant ochre sans serif. For the discerning palate, your $500-an-ounce Imperial River Beluga is ready for you, complete with mother-of-pearl spoon. If you're like the jet-setters for whom the machine is designed, and you just need something quick on the go, you can have Wasabi Tobikko for a pittance of $15.
The machine offers more.
"Is that perfume?" a man scoffed.
It is truffle oil, I felt like screaming, and is no more perfume than the caviar above it is a shoe-shine kit, or the truffle tins below are Gherkins pickles.
Kelly Stern, owner of Beverly Hills Caviar and sixth-generation caviar importer, said Burbank's mall is the perfect location for the private-jet crowd from Bob Hope Airport who can't always run back home to stock up before a trip. It's an impulse buy, really, much like the delights from the Sprinkles Cupcake ATM located just outside her office.
And yes, it influenced the caviar machine's design.
"It enables people to do business in retail even if they don't have time for it," she said.
Though machines were installed a week prior in Burbank, Topanga Canyon and Century City, Stern and her team spent the better part of a week ironing out the kinks for the refrigerated mansions that house the pre-packaged fish, truffles, escargot and other luxury fare.
Black Friday was the first day in business.
From 3 to 4 p.m., it enjoyed not a single sale. Two friends from Burbank put the machine under heavy scrutiny, but ultimately walked away.
"It's kind of trashy," said Marie Yokers. "I don't know — I don't trust it."
Brennan Flynn told me its mere existence "left a lot of unanswered questions," like how fresh the mall caviar was, and where it came from.
Ah, but to know its existence is to be one with its environs. Burbank's mall has everything for everyone — surrounding its caviar vending machine is a watch and jewelry store, a Bath and Body Works, a photo booth and a man selling beauty products wearing a sleeveless Clippers jersey accented by tufts of armpit hair.
Opposite the machine are attractive displays for a watch store and Tuxedo Junction.
I visited the latter shop, wondering if people searching for cummerbunds arrived with fresh caviar tins. Tuxedo Junction employee Mo Sadi, a native of Iran and caviar aficionado himself, told me he hadn't seen any customers toting fish eggs. If I did find some, he said, the delicacy would go well with some Grey Goose vodka.
He was unaware he could purchase caviar just upstairs.
People leered. People sneered. The caviar machine stood alone, a single bastion of luxury gleaming from the sale signs of Black Friday. It stood high above Santa's seat on the bottom floor of the atrium.
Did children look up and wonder what the giant blue label was for? Did they ask Santa for a bottle of truffle oil to call their own this Christmas?
I don't know, because when I asked to interview St. Nick I was shooed away by an elf. At last I understood the caviar vending machine's plight — the bitter fish-egg taste of rejection.
BRYAN MAHONEY is a recent transplant from the East Coast. When he isn't eschewing escargot, he can be reached at email@example.com and on Twitter @818NewGuy.


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Brush Your Teeth for Heart Health
Dec 27th, 2017
Avocado 'N Olive Tostaditos
From: California Olive Board
Quick Facts
Servings: 25
Prep Time: 3 hr.
Spice up your day with these mini-bites of Tex-Mex goodness.
- 3/4 cup olives, wedges
- 1 cup avocado, peeled, chopped
- 1 cup tomato, chopped
- 3/4 cup green onions, finely chopped
- 1 can (2 oz.) mild chilies, diced
- 1 Tbs canned jalapenos, diced
- 1 Tbs chili powder
- 2 Tbs cilantro, chopped
- 50 round tortilla chips
- 1/4 cup Cheddar cheese, shredded
- Combine first 8 ingredients in large bowl. Mix well. Cover and chill for several hours. Spoon about 1 tablespoon of mixture onto each tortilla chip. Sprinkle each tostadito with a pinch of shredded cheese.
Nutrition Facts
Calories 45
Calories from Fat 24 (53%)
(4%)Total Fat 3g
(3%)Saturated Fat 1g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0g
Monounsaturated Fat 1g
(0%)Cholesterol 1mg
(6%)Sodium 132mg
(3%)Potassium 101mg
Total Carbohydrate 5g
(5%)Dietary Fiber 1g
Sugars 0g
Sugar Alcohols 0g
(2%)Protein 1g
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
New Toys, Tots and Pasta
Just recently in an effort to preserve my collards I tried my hand at making pasta. I thought, people make spinach pasta why not collard pasta. I must admit for the fist time making pasta, I was thrilled at the outcome. Especially since I could find no recipes so I had to make my own up.
My Dad, decided out of either kindness or because he didn't like me borrowing his pasta maker, he bought me one of my own. So this morning me and the kids made pasta as a thank you. The kids had a ball and actually where very helpful! I made a citrus pepper pasta.
I send a pound a fresh pasta to their house and kept the leftovers. I had them for lunch.
This is again a non-recipe recipe, but here is what I did
Sautee about 2 tbs of chopped onion in about 2 tbs of olive oil.
Add 1 clove finely minced garlic.
Add 3 tbs slivered almonds.
Heat all until almonds slightly toasted.
Add…(these were leftover from the night before so I am guessing ) ¼-½ lb shrimp (mine were already cooked.
Add ¼ c. reserved pasta water (from cooking)
Toss with cooked pasta
Top with parm and a squeeze of lemon if you have it.
Joel I wish you were here for lunch!! :O
Posted by Sweet Cheeks at 12:50:00 PM
Labels:recipe All recipes, homemade pasta, mommy gourmet, pasta, pasta maker, shrimp cocktail
3 comments:
- Choclette said...
Sounds deliicous, I'm always very impressed with people who make their own pasta.
Hpe your business is doing well.
- June 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM
- Carla and Michael said...
Sound delish. Now you've peaked my curiosity. Can we have the recipe for your pasta? I too just got a pasta machine, though I have yet to explore with it.
- June 20, 2010 at 2:02 PM
- Ann Minard said...
Awesome, you are making memories, spending quality time with your kids, and teaching them healthy eating habits!
- July 13, 2010 at 4:32 PM
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I have this friend. I'll call her Sue, because that happens to be her name.
That's how I started a column last week that dealt with the issue of regret, and the fact that I wish I had never written it is one of those ironies that would be funny if it wasn't borderline pathetic.
Today's column is a bit self-indulgent, and I ask that my readers tolerate this exercise if they're inclined, and as a lure I'll even share some not-so-secret secrets of my trade that have been known to cause, let's say, some social unpleasantness or hurt feelings.
Last Thursday my column offered a defense of regret and I cited an article in which the writer argued that the emotion is essential to a good life. I found the premise interesting for several reasons, not the least of which involved a looming deadline and a dearth of column material. In other words, I had no words. When you write a column three times a week, sometimes you run out of ideas and are forced to punt. As opposed to staff reporters, columnists can't report to their editor at the end of the day that their story fell through, or that their source never returned their call or the dog ate their homework. Unless I'm on vacation or pretending to be sick — I mean, home with the flu — I have a deadline to meet.
So on this particular Wednesday, things were quiet. The City Council had done nothing particularly asinine the day before. No millionaire developer was announcing his intention to give back to the community by building a casino, John Henry hadn't yet announced his clear intention to sell us, and the tea party hadn't threatened to shut down the government in, like, days.
So I was surfing the web and stumbled upon the essay. I thought it would make an acceptable if not award-winning piece, but I wanted to put a person in the column to humanize the idea. And I thought of Sue. As I would write in the column, "Sue is an eternal optimist — happy, upbeat, always looking on the bright side of things. Sue is never eager to dwell on the past or listen to whiny people — frequently me — bemoan their mistakes ... Sue drives me nuts. What's wrong with her?"
I wrote the column largely tongue-in cheek, or at least I thought I did, and I noted that Sue was hardly alone in her disdain for regret, which is dismissed in American culture as a weakness. And I wrote this sentence: "Author Carina Chocano argues that people such as my friend Sue — at least she was still my friend as of this morning — are actually opposed to human emotion and intellectual reason. People who always look on the bright side tend to lack insight, deny the lessons of the past and aren't nearly as smart as I am."
Now, it may say something about my insight that I was shocked when Sue was hurt by the column, believing I had publicly insulted her and called her stupid. I felt terrible, of course, because here's the thing about column-writing: When you offend people, the goal is to do it deliberately. To someone who deserves it. Not, for example, my fifth-grade nun, whose name I once used because I thought she had passed away when she hadn't. Sometimes, decisions made under the pressure of deadlines aren't always the best.
I'm good at apologies because I've had lots of practice, so I apologized profusely to Sue. I tried to explain my thinking at the time: Her traits are wonderful ones and universally envied, and the column was light-hearted. If anything, I was shooting for self-deprecation and trying to rationalize my tendency to mope.
No matter. I had hurt a good friend, so I include here a public apology to my private one, and I hope she understands that the last thing I consider her to be is stupid. I wish I could be more like her, as I've told her in the past. She's actually quite terrific.
This isn't the first time I've screwed up, and it sadly won't be the last. In all honesty, when I look back on this, I realize that, despite all my excuses, I have only one person to blame — the author of that stupid essay.
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I think J. Crew was what made it official. In 2012, upper-middle-class culture in America had swung its sluggish attention span in the direction of my little, out-of-the-way home state, Maine.
Under creative director Jenna Lyons, the mass fashion brand had been focused for a few years overwhelmingly on preppy style—ribbon belts, Sperry topsiders, Barbour coats and rep ties. It was a sort of generic East Coast mishmash, some combination of a boozy country club in South Carolina and a family compound in Hyannis (also boozy, probably).
But then something happened early last year, and the looks in the J. Crew catalogues suddenly seemed to__ hone in __on something even more familiar: flannel became highly prevalent, along with Quoddy boots and thick, hearty fisherman's sweaters. I received one catalogue that was shot entirely in Cape Elizabeth, my hometown. Suddenly, J. Crew was churning out Maine on a mass level—a sort of slicker, better-fitting Maine than the one that really exists.
When I moved to New York in 2003, I did an interview with The L Magazine and they asked me what fashion item I loved most in my closet. I said it was a red-checkered barn coat that I'd stolen from my dad—I was convinced I was the only person in Manhattan who had one. Now that statement would be laughable. I see 10 hipsters a day wearing a (much more snug) version of that coat on my subway ride to work every single day. This week one of my co-workers (from Maine, granted) wore the cutest little rendition of the pattern—in a Reformation minidress.
J. Crew wasn't really the cause of America's Maine moment—more like a late-arriving symptom. Maine had been creeping into consumer culture for years. L. L. Bean's Signature line was launched in early 2010, after the venerable utilitarian company realized there was an appetite for a higher level of fashion with the Down East aesthetic. They released an entire book devoted to their history, centered on their iconic Bean boot, which was suddenly everywhere.(*Vogue*proved them right with a spread devoted to Maine fashion in 2011.) Luke's Lobster opened in New York in 2009, and now there are a half-dozen outposts in multiple cities and any number of crustacean-centered imitations. (I had to laugh when a restaurant called Kittery opened in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn. While the southern Maine town has some lovely coastal parts, it's known best to locals as the host to several notable strip malls. It's like opening a restaurant in Williamsburg and calling it Short Hills.)
It was kind of fun watching this happen—as though suddenly everyone in America developed an affection for your favorite aunt. It'd be cool if the first Monday of every month were "Aunt Helen Day," at least for a while.
But then, earlier this year, I went to a pop-up shop in West Chelsea and I realized it had gone too far. A dozen or so new and old Maine brands, L. L. Bean included, had set up booths in a giant garage and were selling everything from rugged flannels and earflap hats to saddles and benches made of re-claimed pine planks. It was evocative of Maine, but somehow not. The plaid button-downs and the river-guide shirts were as itchily familiar to me as the smell of a leaf pile in the backyard. But the Edison bulbs? The hand-stitched leather wallets? That wasn't really what I remembered finding in the general store in my dad's rural town of Stoneham (population: 250).
The thing that this fashionable trend missed about Maine is that as a state, it's not fancy. Is there an opposite of the word "bespoke"? Because Maine is that. It's kind of weird and scrappy and simple, actually. The average general store (which, yes, is a thing, but not in the charmingly precious way these brands seemed to imagine) is much more likely to display a wide variety of pickled foodstuffs swimming in off-yellow jars—eggs, pigs' feet, ears—than it is hand-knit scarves. When I was up there over Thanksgiving, I saw an ad on TV for a dating site called FarmersOnly.com. The trademarked tag line? "City folks just don't get it."
And we don't get it, we city folks. We're buying these snug Carhartt pants because they convey a sort of sexy masculine look, not because we need to get some work done in the yard. Most of us don't even have yards. (In late 2012 a fellow Cape Elizabeth native, Elizabeth Pride, briefly won the Internet by launching the YourLLBeanBoyfriend Tumblr, making fun of the fantasies that we make up about the men that wear these clothes. Sample post: "Gabriel looked deep into my eyes. 'You've always wanted to get a lab, right?'")
This fetishization of Maine slipped into TV too. And this is where it began to die, I think. There is North Woods Law, a fairly accurate Animal Planet documentary series about the life of Maine game wardens. But then there was a "Maine Justice" sketch on Saturday Night Live, a sort of demented fantasia set in a Bangor courtroom. It was amusing, but the accents and stereotypes were as deliberately off base as the as the show's hilarious "Californians" sketches were on target.
And then there was Under the Dome, the Stephen King book that was turned into a wildly popular miniseries on CBS. While it was allegedly set in small-town Maine, there was virtually nothing discernibly Down Eastern about the locale, accents, or habits of the inhabitants. And Storybrooke, Maine, from ABC's Once Upon a Time, is so out of whack with reality it is literally populated by Snow White, Prince Charming, Little Red Riding Hood, and Rumpelstiltskin. (Lord knows what the new Murder, She Wrotere-boot, starring Octavia Spencer, is going to do with the residents of sleepy Cabot Cove.)
I'm not sad to see this moment pass. It's had some really fabulous consequences, to be sure—small businesses have boomed up there, and the restaurant scene in Portland, Maine, is now second to none. And I love having lobster much more readily available. (By the way, New Yorkers, lobster is cheaper than it's ever been—whatever you're paying is way too much.) But it's been overkill, really. It's like after a couple of years of "Aunt Helen Days," suddenly you realize that everyone celebrating it has no idea who Aunt Helen actually is. They're celebrating some arbitrary idea of this funny, smart, idiosyncratic lady who, actually, is your aunt and should belong just to you.
So as 2013 comes to a close, the other Vanity FairMainers and I raise a glass to the death of our national moment. Judging from J. Crew's latest collection, Jenna's attention as moved on—toward northwestern Europe, with Scottish Fair Isle sweaters, English cable-knit smoking jackets, and shirts with jaunty Breton stripes. Isn't it about time someone did a reality television show about the French Foreign Legion?
Special thanks to Mainers Alex Polkinghorn and Elien Becque, who contributed reporting from New York.


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October 8, 2003
Mr. Jonathan G. Katz
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20549-0609
Re: SEC File No. S7-14-03 (Security Holder Access To The Nomination Process)
Dear Mr. Katz:
This letter is sent in response to the request for comments with respect to a proposed rule to allegedly increase proxy access to Shareholders . It is divided into eight sections.
I. Introduction
Generally speaking, the purpose of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is to protect the investing public from improper acts of boards of directors ("BOD") and corporate managements ("Management"). The purpose is not to protect BODs and Management, who commit those acts, from Shareholders.
The underlying issue of current reform efforts is to cause members of BODs and Management to be more accountable to Shareholders, the true owners of Corporate America. At best, the proposed rule is a misguided attempt to avoid the accountability and competence problems that faced Enron, Worldcom and others. At worst, it is a sham upon the investing public.
In substance, the proposed rule implies that public confidence in the securities markets can be restored only by trusting Institutional Investors to be watchdogs of BODs and Management. The Committee of Concerned Shareholders ("Committee") feels that that public confidence will only be restored when individual Shareholders, using the Shareholder Proposal procedure, can function as their own watchdogs and can act, when necessary, to seek accountability at the 9,000+ corporations, that have publicly traded securities.
II. Been There, Done That!
The Committee, formerly known as the Committee of Concerned Luby's Shareholders, consisting of shareholders of Luby's, Inc. ("Luby's") who met on a Yahoo! Finance Message Board in 2000, is the first grass-roots shareholder group to conduct a formal proxy fight. Luby's, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, was then a near 230-unit cafeteria chain with annual sales of approximately $500 million. Its shares are listed for trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
The Committee's Director-nominees received 24% of the votes cast. Two (2) of the Shareholder Proposals that it supported (i.e., removal of all anti-takeover defenses, annual election of all Directors) received approximately 60% of the votes cast.
The Committee's out-of-pocket expense was less than $15,000. (A member of the Committee, with a legal background, provided services without charge.) The Committee was able to solicit approximately 80% of the potential votes. Luby's expended more than $250,000 of corporate assets to oppose the Committee.
Some have said that the Committee's efforts with Luby's caused the departure of its former Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") and President, the nomination of a Director-candidate with hands-on restaurant experience, the entry of a restaurant experienced white-knight/investor and the relinquishment of position by the former Chairman of the Board.
The Committee's proxy contest efforts revealed the substantial difficulties that individual Shareholders would face in an attempt to hold Directors accountable. Further, it showed that the extent of Shareholder dissatisfaction might not be proportional to the size of stock holdings of Director-candidate nominators. In our proxy contest at Luby's, even though our Director-candidate nominators held about 1/4% of the outstanding stock, our candidates garnered 24% of the vote.
III. Institutional Investors Do Not Need The Alleged Benefits Of The Proposed Rule
The proposed rule, with its Director-nominator percentage ownership requirement, limits its availability to Institutional Investors. Mutual Funds are so severely conflicted that they will not avail themselves of the alleged benefits of the proposed rule. Pension Funds have had and have the ability to seek BOD and Management accountability through inexpensive proxy contests, but, if the past is prologue, do not have the will to exercise their power.
A. Mutual Funds Won't Participate Due to Conflicts of Interest
Mutual Funds will not actively participate in proxy contests even if the proposed rule is enacted. It would be detrimental to their financial interests vis-à-vis the financial interests of their public investors.
On December 12, 2002, John J. Sweeny, President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (the "AFL-CIO"), stated:
[A]nother conflict of interest in our financial markets-the conflict that encourages mutual fund companies to use our money to be `yes-men' for corporate management in proxy votes. Using our money, mutual funds have bought up more than one-fifth of U.S. corporate stocks. Their sheer size makes mutual funds one of the most powerful forces in deciding who sits on corporate boards..... [W]e suspect that mutual funds vote with management at the expense of our jobs and savings to win profitable deals on retirement accounts and selling other services. ... Take Fidelity Investments, for example, the world's largest mutual fund company and one of the most influential investors in the global capital markets. Fidelity earned $2 million in 401(k) management fees in 1999 from Tyco. ... [W]ill Fidelity or any other mutual fund company, ever vote against management and risk a contract worth millions? (Emphasis added.)
In the 2003 AFL-CIO Proxy Voting Guidelines, Mr. Sweeney further stated, "[C]onflicted mutual fund companies use their tremendous proxy voting power as rubberstamps for corporate management rather than to promote their investors' best interests."
With current Mutual Fund proxy voting disclosures in place, Mutual Funds may be embarrassed into voting for dissident Director-candidates. However, it is highly unlikely that Mutual Funds would nominate a Director-candidate.
B. The Pension Funds Already Have The Ability To Engage In Proxy Contests
Pension Funds vaguely allege that they need "equal access" to the corporate ballot in order to seek BOD and Management accountability. Few question the allegation. The truth is that Pension Funds have not needed and do not need the alleged benefits of the proposed rule to engage in low cost proxy contests. Further, they have presented no evidence that they will employ any new rule or the extent of that intended employment.
Some Pension Funds claim that an "equal access" rule would alleviate the high costs of running an effective proxy contest. That is false. Corporate ownership is concentrated with Institutional Investors. Usually, the votes of less than 30 Institutional Investors with the largest stock holdings in a particular corporation would be sufficient to elect Director-candidates. By filing a bare-bones proxy statement with the SEC and securing the votes of, at most, 30 Shareholders does not present a large financial burden. The Committee, inexperienced, but determined, did that, and much more, with an out-of-pocket expenditure of less than $15,000. Also, there is always the potential expense of defending against frivolous litigation by engaging in a proxy contest. The proposed rule does not address the issue of potential legal exposure. However, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have and do provide for remedies against corporations and their attorneys who engage in abusive litigation. Additionally, advertising and other potential costs are not alleviated by the proposed rule.
Pension Funds have had the ability to seek BOD and Management accountability through the existing proxy process, but have not availed themselves of it. There is no assurance that they will do it even if the proposed rule is implemented.
IV. The Opposition Represents Entrenched Entitlement
The Business Round Table and others (collectively "BRT") oppose "equal access" to the proxy statement. Their objections are based upon factually unsupportable forecasts of doom and gloom.
It took the sarcasm/wisdom of Molly Ivins to summarize the situation. "If you look around on almost any level, you'll notice that people who have special advantages almost always manage to convince themselves that they are entitled to those advantages. ... [P]eople will just get outraged if you try to correct even the most glaring inequities -- that sense of entitlement to special privilege is really tricky. Almost everyone who has previously enjoyed an advantage and is suddenly forced onto a level playing field will feel cheated, treated unfairly, singled out for undeserved punishment."
V. Sarbanes-Oxley Act Failed To Deal With Real BOD Accountability
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act did not focus on the real problem, i.e., lack of BOD accountability.
"Two influential Delaware judges have thrown something of a legal hand grenade in the direction of federal lawmakers ... over recent efforts at corporate reform. ... [T]he judges take a decidedly shareholder-friendly approach on two issues. ... Described as a forgotten element ... for 2002 reforms, they say it is time to examine the 'management-biased corporate-election system.' Because incumbent directors can 'spend their companies' money in an almost unlimited way in order to get reelected,' the judges said the corporate-election process is an 'irrelevancy' ... '... [T]he rhetorical analogy of our system of corporate governance to republican democracy will ring hollow so long as the corporation election process is so tilted toward the self-perpetuation of incumbent directors.'" (Dow Jones Newswires, 2/7/03, "Two Delaware Judges Take Issue With Governance Reforms")
VI. Proposed Rule - A Sham Upon The Investing Public
A. Dilatory "Triggering Events"
In essence, the SEC, vis-à-vis Shareholders, determined what events constitute justification for Shareholder dissatisfaction. Shareholders, owners of the corporation, are supposedly not capable of making that determination.
By conditioning access to the corporation's proxy machinery to "triggering events," Shareholders, who have legitimate grievances, would be stalled for years. In the interim, corporations could be looted, businesses could be destroyed and non-executive jobs lost. "Triggering events" is another way of saying "dilatory tactic."
B. Arbitrary Percentage Ownership And An Effective Alternative
The percentage ownership requirement is arbitrary. On the other hand, the Shareholder Proposal criteria (continuously owned at least $2,000 of the corporation's stock for at least one year) have already been tested for many years and have proved to be effective. Further, the issue of feasibility has been ignored.
For the most part, it will be necessary for Pension Funds to form groups to meet the percentage nominator criteria. The Committee has had experience in forming and attempting to maintain an investor group for the purpose of nominating Director-candidates. We found that, even if such a group could be formed, it is very difficult to maintain when the targeted corporation causes desertions by partially satisfying the particular interest(s) of some members.
The recent example involving ten (10) major pension funds demonstrates the difficulty of forming an investor group to attain a stock ownership threshold. They formed an investor group to sign a letter dealing with one policy issue, a much simpler task than forming a group to nominate Director-candidates.
A group of major pension funds Monday called on Unocal to reconsider its role ... in Myanmar... The group, led by New York State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi and joined by California's treasurer and the state's two largest pension funds... In all, representatives from 10 investment funds owning more than 4.5 million Unocal shares, or 1.6% of the stock, signed the letter and requested a meeting on the matter.... The 10 funds include the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the California State Teachers' Retirement System. (5/20/03, Los Angeles Times, "Shareholders Press Unocal on Myanmar")
If a major investor group with ten (10) members, formed to pursue an issue that is much less complex than Director-candidate nominations, can, at best, muster 1.6% of the stock, it is unlikely that many investor groups could be formed with the percentage stock ownership to pursue the complex issue of Director-candidate nominations.
It would be a travesty on the investing public to enact rules with Director-nominating criteria that are unlikely to be met except in extremely rare circumstances.
On the other hand, our Petition recommends the same reasonable and well-tested nominator threshold criteria used for Shareholder Proposals. That threshold would allow Shareholders to have an active voice in nominating Directors at a large number of corporations. It would restore investor confidence because investors would know that they have been given the tools necessary to look after their own interests.
C. Basic Inequity
There is no suggestion that members of a corporation's Nominating Committee, also, need meet the percentage ownership criteria. Our studies have shown that members of Nominating Committees own (not counting recently granted unexecuted stock options) less than 2/100ths of 1% of the outstanding stock. Some members own no stock whatsoever. In our campaign with Luby's, our Director-candidates owned or controlled more stock than substantially all of the Directors.
Some might argue that the negligible stock ownership of members of the corporation's Nominating Committee should be excused, as each owes a "fiduciary duty" to the corporation and/or Shareholders that outsiders do not owe. However, members are NOT truly independent as they are beholden to their fellow Directors and/or the CEO for their positions and longevity and, thus, have a conflict of interest in the nominating process. Self-preservation will prevail. Nominating Committees will substantially always find outsider suggested potential Director-candidates to be "unqualified" and/or will decline to "consider" them.
D. Ineffective Short Slates of BOD Candidates
A recent study has demonstrated that permitting the nomination of only a few truly independent Directors would be ineffective in causing real reform. If elected, their fellow board members will isolate those truly independent Directors. "[T]he corporate director who asks management the tough questions often gets a cold shoulder from the 'in' crowd or shunned by the ruling clique. ... 'These processes are to some extent under the radar screen of institutional investors.' ... The research and resulting 65-page paper, 'Social Distancing as a Control Mechanism is the Corporate Elite' by Westphal and Poonam Khanna, confirms what critics have long argued -- country-club cronyism bogs down efforts to rein in CEO power and advance shareholder rights. ... [T]he corporate board rocker's views will not be solicited, his advice will be shunned, and his contact with fellow directors will wane. ... '[Y]ou should be relatively pessimistic about the chances for voluntary board reform, unless there is a significant turnover in board membership...'"(Reuters, 8/3/03, "Reformist directors get the big chill, study finds")
The publicly reported experiences of Guy Adams, who unseated the Chairman of the Board of Directors and substantial shareholder of Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon, in a bitterly fought proxy contest, vividly confirms the results of the study.
VII. Petition for Rulemaking (SEC File No. 4-461)
A recent background paper, prepared by the Council of Institutional Investors, stated that the Petition for Rulemaking (SEC File No. 4-461), filed on August 1, 2002 with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") by the Committee and James McRitchie, Editor of CorpGov.Net, has "re-energized" the "debate over shareholder access to management proxy cards to nominate directors and raise other issues."
The Petition seeks "equal access" to the corporate ballot for ALL Shareholders by using the Shareholder Proposal procedure. The SEC has received hundreds of positive comments from investors and posted them on its website. However, no mention was made of the Petition and/or its wide public support in the July 15, 2003 Staff Report: Review of Proxy Process Regarding the Nomination and Election of Directors.
The BRT fears that, without a percentage stock ownership threshold, Director-candidates would storm the corporate gates. There is an excellent solution to cure that concern. It is similar to the concept of selecting a "lead plaintiff" in a class action lawsuit --- "lead nominator." With a "lead nominator" provision, there is absolutely no need for a percentage stock ownership threshold. The "lead nominator" solution would allow individual Shareholders to act as watchdogs of their investments at 9,000+ corporations that have publicly traded securities. Institutional Investors do not have the interest, desire and/or resources to seek Director accountability on such a scale.
Further, it is human nature that individual Shareholders will not field Director-candidates because it is enjoyable to engage in what generally evolves into a bitter proxy fight. However, individual Shareholders should have an effective means to attempt to secure BOD and Management accountability if the need arises.
VIII. Conclusion - A Political Kabuki Dance
The proposed rule, allegedly intended to promote BOD and Management accountability, would limit "equal access" to the corporate ballot to only those Shareholders with substantial means. There are 9,000+ corporations with publicly traded securities where the legitimate corporate governance needs of all investors should be protected. Institutional Investors, alone, will not have the interest or the resources to nominate Director-candidates at many of those corporations. Director accountability should be promoted at more than a few corporations. Individual Shareholders should be able to act as their own watchdogs in protecting their investments.
The SEC, Institutional Investors and the BRT are engaged in a political kabuki dance to the detriment of the investing public. An ineffective proxy reform rule will probably be implemented. The SEC and Institutional Investors will probably claim "victory" on the part of Shareholders. The BRT will publicly moan and groan and, privately, claim "victory" for the proponents of business as usual. The media will inform the investing public that it has been handed a great "victory." However, BODs will remain just as unaccountable to individual Shareholders as before the strange dance began.
Failing to provide individual Shareholders with an effective means to hold BODs accountable will assure that the children of Enron, Worldcom and others will eventually take their places in the hall of sham. The choice is clear: true corporate democracy or continued paternalism by the corporate aristocracy.
It would be my pleasure to discuss the foregoing issues with the SEC and/or its Staff.
Very truly yours,
Les Greenberg, Chairman
Committee of Concerned Shareholders
Very truly yours,
Les Greenberg, Chairman
Committee of Concerned Shareholders


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THR: Syfy's 'Defiance' Canceled After Three Seasons 10/16
Deadline: 'Defiance' Canceled By Syfy After 3 Seasons 10/16
Along with so many very best things, some of Bear's very best music was poured into this show, lock, stock, heart and soul. R.I.P. Defiance. Love you cast. Frak you Syfy. So Say We All. Here, Paula Yoo, Defiance supervising producer and staff writer, plays the main theme.


text: Read moreRead less1/15|STALIN VERSUS SCHIAPARELLIStalin: What are you doing up here, Dressmaker? Schiaparelli: I am getting a bird's-eye view of your women's fashions, Man of Steel. Stalin: Can't you leave our women alone? Schiaparelli: They don't want to be left alone. They want to look like the other women of the world. Stalin: What! Like those hip-less, bust-less scarecrows of your dying civilizations? Schiaparelli: Already they admire our mannequins and models, Sooner or later they'll come to our ideals. Stalin: Not while Soviet ideology persists. Schiaparelli: Look below you, Man of Steel. Look at the beauty parlours and permanent-wave machines springing up. The next step is fashion. In a few years, you won't see kerchiefs on heads any more. Stalin: You underestimate the serious goals of Soviet women. Schiaparelli: You underestimate their natural vanity. Stalin: Perhaps I had better cut your parachute down! Schiaparelli: A hundred other couturiers would replace me. Stalin: In that case, cut my ropes!FacebookTwitterPinterest


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The snow may have been gently falling outside, but this year's New York motor show opened with a bang as car makers from around the globe showed off hot new metal.
Leading the charge was Mazda with a new, lighter and faster MX-5, while Land Rover previewed an entire family of new Discovery models.
Of the local heroes, both Ford and GM drew big crowds with a special 50th anniversary Mustang and the fastest chop-top Corvette ever.
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text: Before his untimely death, even before he was taken under the wing of Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat was something of legend. He's since become an enduring art icon. His street art sensibility, youthful energy, and handling of themes of racism, class, psychology, and popular culture keep his art relevant from year to year. However, Basquiat's popularity is enjoying a special renewal over the course of 2013. The hugely popular Basquiat retrospective at Manhattan's Gagosian Gallery will be followed by another at Gagosian's Hong Kong gallery later this month. Additionally this month, Basquiat's painting Dustheads is expected to fetch up to $35 million dollars in auction at Christie's. In conjunction with the auction, Christie's has released a three-part video series on Jean-Michel Basquiat. The first video features Basquiat's early partner in graffiti, Al Diaz. The second in the series speaks with fellow contemporary artist Toxic on Basquiat's transformation into an art-star. The third installment (featured after the jump speaks with Macklemore, one of many contemporary rappers to express inspiration from the late artist. [via]


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Last Saturday I was bitten by something. Not sure what it was but when I took a shower in the afternoon a section of my arm was tender to the touch. I looked at the affected area, showed it to Beth, and came to the conclusion it was most likely a spider bite. What's interesting is I have no idea when I was bitten. I cleaned out a cluttered shed, picked up tree limbs, worked on a plumbing issue under a deck, and visited the local dump. All of these could have been the place where I was bitten. I've kept a close eye on the bite and after a day of swelling, there is only a bruise. I will continue to monitor it.
I was reading an article today about how our childhoods shape us. We are, in part, products of our genes, cultures, families, neighborhoods and overall environments. Some people have spotty memories of their childhoods. They can recall certain events and experiences but its hard to put them all together. Others have vivid memories or feelings about things that happened to them when they were young. As we get older, where we grew up, how we grew up, what happened to us, reveals itself. Healthy childhoods often mean healthy adults. Hard, troubled, traumatic childhoods can lead to difficult adult lives. We may even feel our childhoods were happy and peaceful growing up only to realize as we get older there are unseen, unknowable, memories, experiences, and events that have caused unhealthy behaviors and coping skills. We may not remember but that doesn't mean we aren't impacted.
Who we are, what we become, have much to do with how we adapt, overcome and accept all part of our lives.
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On his first visit to Melbourne Park since calling time on his career, Agassi said Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic are arguably the three greatest players of all time, and Andy Murray has shown he is capable of competing with them.
"It's been amazing watching the standard continually sort of get better," the 42-year-old American said.
"You wonder how it's possible to continue at that sort of rate. What Federer did when he came and when I said good-bye, a lot had to do with what I knew was untouchable.
"It's just a different standard of tennis. It's different rules of engagement when guys can do what these guys can do.
"I don't recognise it from a standpoint of strategy, because I counted on getting somebody behind in a point and then slowly smothering them.
"But nobody's behind in a point. You never know when they're behind in a point. That would have eliminated any ability I had to move forward in the court.
"Means I would have had to be a different player, would've had to have a different body. It means the game has gotten a lot better."
With Nadal absent injured, Federer and Murray face off to decide who meets Djokovic in Sunday's final.
Among them, the Big Four of men's tennis have won all bar one of the 28 grand slam titles over the last seven years.
Federer leads the way with 17 titles, Nadal has 11 and Djokovic five, while Murray broke into the winners' circle for the first time at last year's US Open.
It is the quality of the tennis they play that has most impressed Agassi, however.
"Fed raised it, Nadal matched and raised it Djokovic, for that intense little period of time, even raised it," the four-time Australian Open champion added.
"It seemed like last year settled down a bit, and now all of a sudden Murray is in the equation of where is he going to go.
"But when I see those top three guys, I see what history will say is the golden age of tennis. You're talking about arguably the three best guys.
"Djokovic will still need some distance to cover, but best of all time, if you're having that discussion in the same generation, it's remarkable."
With Murray now entering the equation, Agassi believes the standards will just get better and better.
"Something tells me it's not going to stop here," he said. "History would prove that it's never going to stop. So every five years it seems to click up a different level.
"It's a remarkable era. You know, Murray is doing this now in a time that's incredible, and yet you wonder, can he really establish himself as one of those guys.
"The answer is, yeah, he can. He's coming into his own now. He believes now, and so now you're talking about four guys.
"If it was one person, I would say, okay, he came at a good time or he squeezed in a window. But they raised each other.
"I mean, Nadal was number two in the world for how long? How much did he have to win just to even see the taillights of Fed? Yet he beat him and he beat him and he beat him and he earned it.
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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Preliminary research suggests that a drug typically used to kickstart the immune system may help cancer patients who receive stem cell transplants and then develop a potentially deadly side effect.
The drug appears to work by preventing the donor's immune system cells from overreacting to their new home and causing systemic inflammation.
Researchers found that daily low-dose injections of interleukin-2 appeared to help some patients by treating the side effect, known as graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).
Stem cell transplants can treat blood cancers such as leukemia. "More than half of patients who successfully undergo hematopoietic stem cell transplants [in which the blood-making tissue in the bone marrow is wiped out with chemotherapy and replaced with blood-forming stem cells from a donor] develop chronic GVHD," study author Dr. John Koreth, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, said in an institute news release. "The conventional treatment, glucocorticoids, are limited in their effectiveness and can produce significant side effects."
GVHD is "a big problem," said Dr. Gary Schiller, director of the Hematological Malignancies/Stem Cell Transplantation Unit at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. Schiller was not involved with the study.
In the study, 12 of 23 patients who took the drug for eight weeks showed improvement in symptoms related to GVHD, including skin rash and other skin problems, hepatitis and inflamed lungs. The condition didn't worsen while the patients took the drug.
The study is the first phase of three stages of research that drug treatments must undergo before the federal government approves them to treat specific conditions. That means the findings are preliminary and may not be replicated in future research.
Schiller said the findings make sense. However, the treatment "has no impact, to my knowledge, on curing cancer. It only has an impact on decreasing the complications of the cancer cure."
The study, published in the Dec. 1 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, was funded by several research grants and awards.
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Fermentation Friday - 5/09 - Brewday Joy & Stress
A year ago, Adam at Beer Bits 2 launched what's called "Fermentation Friday." On the last Friday of every month, a nice round-up of homebrewing bloggers write their story on a common theme. It's been very interesting reading everyone's brewing perspectives.
I've been invited to host for the month of May. While honored and excited, I've also been struggling to find a theme. It's taken me a while to come up with a topic. I realize I didn't leave much time to write about this, but the truth is, the topic literally just came to me.
I've been wanting to write about brewing beer in terms of being a science, and an art form. But, I think that's a better topic for my own writings in the future.
So for something a bit more light and fun, this month's topic revolves around the brewing activity itself. Brewing is an extremely rewarding endeavor, especially after sipping on the end product...a delicious pint of cold carbonated beer. But in the process of making it, its not always "a walk in the park." I'm interested to hear about what areas in the brewday bring joy and stress. So the questions are...
a. What part of the your brewday brings you the most JOY?
b. What part particularly brings out a good deal of STRESS?
So before, on, or even a bit after this Friday, May 29th, please share your story here in the comments section, or include a link to the post in your blog.
I will follow-up with a round-up of all contributors.
I do a lot of preparation before brewday like the filtering and collection of water in gallon jugs, recipe development, recipe research, setting up & checking equipment, and crushing grains the night before a typical 5am start time. All that preparation only builds the anticipation for another good brewday. Like I've said in the past, I enjoy the process of brewing even more than drinking fine tasting beer itself.
Brewing to me is a long and drawn out culinary creation, and I love the practice of using my good olfactory sense throughout the whole day. The smell of freshly crushed malted grains is dry with a virgin malt scent. Character malts definitely enrich it. The hot mash smells like oatmeal and is usually when I fix myself some breakfast. As the wort flows into the boil kettle it has a rich sweet scent with pale worts being clean and dark ones having rich chocolate and roasted overtones.
The best part is when the wort is just about to boil. At this point, thick steam begins to rise, and within, a full malty sweetness unleashed into the air. ah...so Good, so good it is! I also love noticing how the bittering hops smell hoppy in the beginning but fade away beyond the 30 minute mark.
Brewday Stress
Among various spontaneous causes for intense stress, like wort dripping from the mashtun through the crack in the floor and into my down stairs neighbor's light fixture, there is one major cause that I depend on every time.
I run full wort boils on the stove in my kitchen. Sometimes there are two enormous kettles stretched over all four burners. With roughly 36,000 total btu's, maintaining a boil isn't what I'd call fun. In fact, I must keep the lids only slightly ajar to keep a vigorous boil.
There are many reasons we boil our worts vigorously for about an hour. During this hour, one gallon of liquid volume is boiled off, and it's important to prevent the steam/condensation from re-entering the pot. So its a double edged sword for me in my kitchen. I need to keep the lids on, but continually wipe them every 2 to 3 minutes during the whole boil (x2 with 2 pots).
Wiping lids is something I've gotten very used to over the years. It's basically a 6th sense for me, so while I prep other things, I know when to return to the lids. Also, if there are any helpers with me, they easily become "Lid-man." So this is a guaranteed cause of stress during one of my brewdays.