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"This bisque is a creamy style like a lobster bisque but has Cajun twist since it uses a roux. It's a great dish and you'll get rave reviews. This is an easy recipe if you will read thorough the entire recipe and understand the various parts and how they all come together at the end."
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Original recipe yields 12 servings
- Melt 1/2 cup butter in a heavy-bottomed stock pot or dutch oven over medium-high heat. Cook and stir the leek, carrot, and celery in the melted butter until tender, 5 to 7 minutes.
- As the vegetables cook, melt 1/2 cup butter in a skillet over medium heat. Make a roux by cooking and stirring the flour into the butter until just a little golden, just enough to cook off the flour taste. This is not a heavy gumbo roux.
- Stir the tarragon, thyme, bay leaf, tomato paste, and cayenne pepper to the vegetable mixture; stir to distribute evenly. Pour the brandy over the mixture; cook and stir until the heat cooks off most of the brandy, 2 to 3 minutes. Pour 1 cup of the fish stock over the mixture.
- Pour the hot mixture into a blender, filling the pitcher no more than halfway. Hold the lid of the blender in place with a folded kitchen towel and carefully start the blender, using a few quick pulses to get the mixture moving before leaving it on to puree. Puree in batches until smooth and pour back into the stock pot. Alternately, you can use a stick blender and puree the mixture in the pot without using the blender.
- Stir in the roux and 1 cup more of the fish stock to the pureed mixture; return to heat, stirring well.
- Blend the diced tomatoes and about 3/4 of the crawfish tails together in a blender until smooth; stir into the stock pot. Add the remaining fish stock; stir. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer another 2 to 3 minutes. Stir the heavy cream through the liquid; return to a simmer, but do not allow to come to a boil. Season with the salt and white pepper. Serve hot in bowls garnished with the remaining crawfish tails and the paprika.
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My husband and I love this bisque! We love to try new recipes and we had a great time with this one. Of course we added Good Wine and fresh baked bread. Had the perfect amount of spice. I thought the tarragon was a perfect complement to the taste. Thankyou for sharing.
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This is excellent. We have full bellies from it now. I loved it. The only thing I did differently was not to blend the crawfish tails. I agree with the previous post that the tarragon really makes a difference, gives it that restaurant flair. We are Who Dat nation livin in Chicago, missing the NOLA and this really helped satisfy a craving. Delicious, I can't wait to make it again.
Very rich but outstanding in every way imaginable. I largely followed the recipe other than substituting 2 lbs. wild caught langostino lobster tails for the 1 lb. crawfish tails, and adding 2 tbsp fresh oregano since it was either use or lose. Next time around, I would make a few minor adjustments: (i) in step 6, it calls for blending 3/4 of crawfish tails before adding to stock pot . . . would change to no more than 2/3 and probably 1/2 to give more texture & bite; add the remainder of these tails into soup during last simmer step rather than using them as a garnish, and (ii) just do a chop of leek, carrot, and celery rather than mincing them since these are going to be pureed in a blender anyhow. Skeeter, thank you for sharing this exceptional recipe.
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Amount Per Serving (12 total)
- Calories
- 445 cal
- 22%
- Fat
- 38.4 g
- 59%
- Carbs
- 9.7 g
- 3%
- Protein
- 9.3 g
- 19%
- Cholesterol
- 163 mg
- 54%
- Sodium
- 662 mg
- 26%
Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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A southwestern Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to illegally possessing silencers and machine guns used one of the illegal devices to shoot up the car of another man at the request of a southwestern Pennsylvania police chief, federal prosecutors said. That police chief is awaiting trial on federal extortion and other charges.
Timothy D. Johnson, 41, of Washington, Pa., pleaded guilty on Thursday and will be sentenced Feb. 19 on charges that he sold a gun to a known felon, and possessing and transferring silencers and a machine gun.
Johnson was arrested last year and told the FBI then that he used one of his silencers in a drive-by shooting that damaged a car in Washington County in April 2011.
"Johnson told the FBI that former East Washington Police Chief Donald Solomon instigated the shooting," U.S. Attorney David Hickton said in a news release about Johnson's guilty plea.
Johnson's attorney, Lee Markovitz, provided more details, saying Johnson was living with the chief's ex-wife at the time and that Johnson did the drive-by shooting after Solomon asked Johnson to intimidate a man who once dated the chief's ex-girlfriend. The FBI has characterized the drive-by target as a drug dealer and that Solomon was jealous of him.
Johnson "was asked by Don Solomon to actually go into the home and put a gun to somebody's head" but Johnson, instead, chose a less dangerous option of riddling the man's car with bullets during a drive-by shooting, Markovitz said.
Solomon's public defender, Marketa Sims, declined to comment on the allegations against her client, who was indicted last year on charges he accepted "protection" money from an FBI agent posing as a drug dealer and illegally selling the agent stun guns.
Solomon was indicted last October and has remained free on bond, though a federal magistrate ordered him confined on house arrest.
Solomon initially went back to live with his ex-wife as a condition of his pretrial release, but the magistrate allowed him to move and be confined to another home after she refused to feed him, court records show.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Margaret Picking said a regional Joint Terrorism Task force began investigating Johnson after he was overheard talking in a coffee shop about silencers he made.
Markovitz contends Johnson became impatient while trying to get a gun license that would have allowed him to legally possess most of the items Johnson was making and that an FBI informant "fed his ego" which led to the illegal gun and silencer sales.
Johnson was a "gun enthusiast" with "dreams of designing a better silencer" that he hoped to patent, Markovitz said.
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Two people described as major heroin dealers were arrested late Wednesday following a raid on a Johnstown home.
Louis Guadalupe, 21, and Regina Miller, 34, were picked up as the result of a three-month investigation by Cambria County Drug Task Force, along with the FBI,
Johnstown police and the attorney general's office.
An undercover police informant made controlled purchases from both defendants, said Wayne Langerholc Jr., an assistant district attorney.
Investigators on Wednesday obtained a search warrant for the Messenger Street home and arrest warrants for Guadalupe and Miller, both of whom listed the home as their address, police said.
When the home was searched, police said they found two handguns, $3,000 worth of heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana and $8,000 in cash.
There were four children, ages 2 to 10, in the home.
Both suspects were taken into custody without incident and arraigned by District Judge Rick Varner of Sidman. Each faces one felony count of drug delivery, a felony count of illegal use of a communication device and a misdemeanor drug possession charge.
Bond was set at $50,000 for Guadalupe, who is a former New York resident, and $30,000 for Miller. Neither was able to post bond and both remain in Cambria County Prison.
Johnstown police Captain Andrew Frear said the joint operation demonstrates the value of collaboration among law enforcement agencies.
"It is a tremendous benefit when everybody works together," Frear said. "Having the arrest and taking the people off the street is the important thing."
The home is located near East Side Elementary School and a private preschool and day care center.
Neighbor Sandra Stevens has lived in Hornerstown for 50 years and said she's relieved to see the drug operation shut down.
"The neighborhood has changed, but the people are concerned about their children," Stevens said, describing her concern about children walking to school and playing near the home that was raided.
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Steve Denning, Contributor
I write about radical management, leadership, innovation & narrative
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Just over a year ago, some colleagues and I decided to find out whether Margaret Mead was right. Could a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens actually change the world? Jurgen Appelo, Franz Röösli, and Peter Stevens and I got together to see whether we could help spark a revolution in the way organizations around the world are led and managed. Fat chance, right?
Well, our plan was even more far-fetched. We invited 17 others to come to Stoos, Switzerland – a tiny alpine village accessible only by rail or cable car.
The first positive sign was that the twenty-one invitees actually showed up. They traveled from four continents to the Alps of central Switzerland with the quixotic goal facilitating a complete transformation of leadership and management in the global business landscape.
The second good sign was that the day-and-a-half meeting resulted in the group of strong-minded individuals with significant differences in point of view reaching broad agreement on what was wrong and committing to work together to fix it. They issued a simple communique that among other things described the complexity and seriousness of the problem and urged organizations to become "learning networks of individuals creating value and that the role of leaders should include the stewardship of the living rather than the management of the machine."
The third nice sign was even more important: the advocates of different approaches to creating and sustaining these "learning networks of individuals creating value through stewardship of the living" were able to set aside their differences and get behind a common goal that reflected the commonalities of their viewpoints. The Stoos 21 declined to specify the 'right way' to lead or manage or any particular roadmap to success. Instead they invited others to join the movement and help make the transformation happen.
The next good sign was that the invitation got an immediate and strong response. Over the twelve months since the initial Stoos gathering, more than 1,500 people have answered the call and joined what has become known as the Stoos Network.
Want to join: go here!
And follow the lively discussion about the Stoos Network on Twitter with the hashtag is #stoos.
A number of Stoos "satellites" have sprung up around the world, including six in the US, thirteen in Europe and three in Asia-Pacific. Along with several major gatherings during the year, there have been countless numbers of meetings in the satellites. So much activity has been generated that it has in fact been difficult to keep track, let along take stock, of what has been happening. These developments are really rather remarkable, given that it has all happened spontaneously without central direction.
Now a new milestone is imminent. Stoos Connect is a six-hour online event that will take place on Friday 25 January 2013, informally also known as World Stoos Day. Stoos Connect offers a chance to take stock of what has happened, to evaluate the extent of the progress, to lay plans for enlarging the movement and make the tipping point actually happen.
The center of Stoos Connect is in the De Balie (Salon), Leidseplein, Amsterdam, and features a great speaker lineup, including Roger Martin (dean of the Rotman School of Business), Dan Pink (author of Drive), Jurgen Appelo (Management 3.0) and Lisa Earle McLeod (author of Selling With Noble Purpose). Over twenty satellites around the world will participate.
Stoos Connect will be a live broadcast via the Internet. Unlike many any other online events, the broadcast is intended not only for individuals. The organizers are encouraging satellites to set up physical sites where locals can gather together to participate in the event as a group. Some twenty sites have been set up. More contact information for each site below.
Stoos Connect will be an opportunity to recognize that over the course of the year the global understanding of the problem that we are dealing with has broadened and deepened, both within and beyond the Stoos movement.
Thus there are finally signs that the hegemony of the dumbest idea in the world—maximizing shareholder value –is coming to an end. Despite rearguard efforts from The Economist to defend the indefensible, the Drucker Forum in November 2012 came out strongly to put this noxious idea behind us.
Another standby of 20th Century management thinking—sustainable competitive advantage—also had a rough time during the year. Today, there is a growing recognition that in the 21st Century the only comparative advantage is temporary. The forthcoming book by Professor Rita McGrath of Columbia Business School, The End of Competitive Advantage, should further drive home the point.
During 2012, we also started to see signs of reversing the most short-sighted decision in the world: international out-sourcing.
While the scariest story in the world–big banks and derivatives—got a whole lot scarier, we now have a clearer and deeper understanding of what's wrong and how to fix it.
Meanwhile Harvard Business Review helped expose the most overpaid people in the world—the C-suite—and an important book by Ellen Schultz detailed the shocking heist of workers' retirement funds. This is a problem in itself–i.e. HBR calls "the financial incentives bubble"–as well as being a major constraint on getting positive change.
Overall, by year's end, there was a much sharper and wider awareness that we are in a phase change to a different and more creative kind of economy. It's good to see that more and more companies, like Whole Foods, are exemplifying the paradigm shift in management and urging others to join them.
So although we're not yet at the tipping point, during the year we saw important signs that we are getting there. There is a growing awareness that the shift is a shift in the management paradigm, not just about adopting some new tools or processes. The shift is as transformational as the shift from the medieval view that the sun revolves around the earth to the view that earth and the other planets revolve around the sun. It is a fundamental transition in world-view. Once people make this shift, everything is different.
Different speakers at Stoos Connect will present their views on where to from here. My own talk will highlight the need for the Stoos movement to go beyond being a unique large-scale global movement on its own (already a significant accomplishment) and in addition catalyze "a movement of movements".
Thus the Stoos movement is not alone in pushing for a shift in the leadership and management paradigm. Other movements that are genuinely dedicated to achieving a paradigm shift in leadership and management include the Management Innovation Exchange, the Drucker Society Global Network, the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable, the Scrum Alliance, the Agile Alliance, the Society for Organisational Learning and the Daedalus Trust.
The movements have more in common with each other and Stoos than they have significant differences.
The type of leadership and management they are all referring to is radically different from the management mindset of most of the Global 1000, from the management practices usually advocated by leading consulting and private equity firms, and from the management practices taught in the majority of courses in today's business schools and celebrated endlessly in some management journals.
Recognizing and working together with these other movements will be the key to accelerating the transformation and getting to the tipping point.
If you too would like to be a 'steward of the living' than "a manager of the machine', please join one of the Stoos Connect satellites below and participate in this global event on January 25:
And read also:
Facilitating a tipping point for organizations
The phase change to a creative economy
The key missing ingredient in leadership today
The new management paradigm and John Mackey's Whole Foods
The five surprises of radical management
Steve Denning's most recent book is: The Leader's Guide to Radical Management (Jossey-Bass, 2010).
Follow Steve Denning on Twitter @stevedenning
Fascinating story – and a top drawer set of speakers for the 25th.
Speaking of a paradigm shift in leadership – Stoos members might be interested in Professor Lee Newman's behavioural work on 'Positive Leadership'. That could really spark a paradigm shift in organisations and their leaders, and it's all about concentrating on your strengths. Good write-up here: http://www.iedp.com/Blog/Positive_Leadership
We live in a world where change is a constant factor. Being able to think beyond the status quo, is what it takes to focus on continuous improvement. Successful corporations bear this in mind. So your initiative to come up with ideas for better ways to lead and manage, is really important.
I applaud the desire to improve the world of leadership (and management) and agree that the future of work is value-creating knowledge networks. Noble purpose doesn't always translate into noble action, unfortunately. I pray for the success of your efforts to disrupt our current destructive path. Otherwise, we will see groups of "thoughtful, committed citizens" much angrier than yours emerge and in many cases they have more skin in the game than strategists, academics and executives.
In moving this dialogue along … I suggest the importance of recognizing leadership/leading and management/managing are two sides of a coin … you cannot have one without the other. We are past the tipping point that it's leadership/leading versus management/managing and management/managing as a subset of leadership/leading or vice versa. Practically they are interwoven >>> picture the Mobius band – where management/managing is in the left loop and leadership-leading is in the right loop … there are infinite possibilities with a slight twist to keep it interesting. And now, picture the Mobius band in a spiral moving onwards – even more possibilities. Ah my words, lessen the impact of what I see. If you can add to the imagery, please do! Love to learn!
Hi Steve … thank you! Been following your writing for a while ))smiles .,.,. and as I/we listen to the upcoming conversations – let's hear and see if others agree as well.


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8/12/13 — Charles Dewey "Jimmy" Bond Jr., 89, of Danville, formerly of Vanceburg, passed away Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, at 2:05 a.m. at the Charleston Health Care Center in Danville after an extended illness.
Mr. Bond was born May 26, 1924, in Hitchens, to the late Charles Dewey Bond Sr. and Armentha Wilburn Bond.
He was preceded in death by three brothers, Thomas, Shirrell, and Billy Bond.
Mr. Bond served the Lord as a minister in the Dearlodge, Tenn., community, and was in law enforcement as a deputy sheriff in Morgan County, Tenn.
Surviving are his wife, Mona Smith Bond of Danville; daughters, Jeanette (David) Jones of Lexington and Betty Hughes of Vanceburg; one sister, Colleen (Lovell) Collins of Culloden, W.Va.;
several grandchildren; and numerous great- and great-great-grandchildren to mourn his passing.
Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013, at Rose Hill Burial Park Ashland with Pastor Wes Cooper officiating. Burial will follow in the Rose Hill Burial Park in Ashland.
Gaydos Funeral Home is in charge of local arrangements.
Condolences may be sent to the family at gaydosfh.com.


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Monthly Archives: September 2008
It's always something (or why candidates ignore me at their peril)
I had intended to post two entries, one on the state of the national polls and the second regarding the sudden media firestorm regarding Sarah Palin. But events never seem to cooperate with my blogging intentions. Just when it appears that … Continue reading
The aftermath of the debate: No change at all
First, a tip of the blogging cap to all those who contributed to Friday's online analysis of the presidential debate. It was a fun night, and we get to do it all again on Thursday. However, it is important to … Continue reading
Live Blogging the McCain-Obama debate
9:00. There are two wildcards in any debate: the questions the moderator asks, and how the media interprets the answers. In some cases those can be more important than the actual answers of the candidates. Jim Lehrer is typically an … Continue reading
Is McCain Setting a Trap?
And will Obama walk into it? Certainly all the signs are there: McCain's sudden decision to abandon the campaign and rush to Washington for high-stakes summits with Bush and Obama, and with Republican and Democratic leaders negotiating the administration's bailout … Continue reading
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Peter Gleick, Subscriber
CEO Pacific Institute, MacArthur Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
One month ago, a paper by Roy Spencer and William Braswell was published in the journal Remote Sensing arguing that far less future global warming will occur than the scientific community currently anticipates. This highly controversial finding – controversial since it is at odds with observations, basic understanding of atmospheric physics, models, and with what most scientists think we know about climate science — was seized upon by climate change deniers and skeptics and broadcast loud and far.
While other climate experts quickly pointed to fatal flaws in the paper, it received a great deal of attention from certain media. In something of a media frenzy, Fox News, the authors themselves in press releases and web comments, Forbes, in a column by a lawyer at the Heartland Institute, Drudge, and others loudly pointed to this as evidence that the vast array of science on climate change was wrong.
The staggering news today is that the editor of the journal that published the paper has just resigned, with a blistering editorial calling the Spencer and Braswell paper "fundamentally flawed," with both "fundamental methodological errors" and "false claims." That editor, Professor Wolfgang Wagner of the Vienna University of Technology in Austria, is a leading international expert in the field of remote sensing. In announcing his resignation, Professor Wagner says "With this step I would also like to personally protest against how the authors and like-minded climate sceptics have much exaggerated the paper's conclusions in public statements."
In his editorial resignation, Professor Wagner says the paper was reviewed by scientific experts that in hindsight had a predetermined bias in their views on climate that led them to miss the serious scientific flaws in the paper, including "ignoring all other observational data sets," inappropriate influence from the "political views of the authors," and the fact that comparable studies had already been refuted by the scientific community but were ignored by the authors. He summarizes:
In other words, the problem I see with the paper by Spencer and Braswell is not that it declared a minority view (which was later unfortunately much exaggerated by the public media) but that it essentially ignored the scientific arguments of its opponents. This latter point was missed in the review process, explaining why I perceive this paper to be fundamentally flawed and therefore wrongly accepted by the journal. This regrettably brought me to the decision to resign as Editor-in-Chief―to make clear that the journal Remote Sensing takes the review process very seriously.
There is a famous saying in science: "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." In this case, the arguments for climate change are backed up by such an astounding degree of science and evidence, that one, or even a few, papers that claim to refute the science of climate change deserve careful scrutiny. As the author of Skeptico notes:
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence because they usually contradict claims that are backed by extraordinary evidence. The evidence for the extraordinary claim must support the new claim as well as explain why the old claims that are now being abandoned, previously appeared to be correct.
The Spencer and Braswell paper fails in these requirements. But this is also the way science works: someone makes a scientific claim and others test it. If it holds up to scrutiny, it become part of the scientific literature and knowledge, safe until someone can put forward a more compelling theory that satisfies all of the observations, agrees with physical theory, and fits the models. Once again, despite the fervent desires of climate skeptics and deniers, the vast body of literature and the basic conclusions about the growing threat of climate change remains intact: the climate is changing rapidly and humans are the dominant cause.
Now, the question remains, will Fox News, Drudge, the Heartland Institute, and others that covered the initial report of this paper show the honesty and courage that Professor Wagner has shown and cover the fact that the paper is "fundamentally flawed?" Any bets?
Peter Gleick
I eagerly await the apology posted here by James Taylor of Heartland Institute and the Forbes blogger who wrote the article "New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism" that sang the praises of Spencer.
[Crickets. Tumble weed.]
Sorry, truth is still lacing up its boots. Mr. Taylor's story has gone 'round the world and is on its next lap. Stay tune for the race results …
Dr. Roy Spencer responds here:
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If some scientists would like do demonstrate in their own peer-reviewed paper where *anything* we wrote was incorrect, they should submit a paper for publication. Instead, it appears the IPCC gatekeepers have once again put pressure on a journal for daring to publish anything that might hurt the IPCC's politically immovable position that climate change is almost entirely human-caused. I can see no other explanation for an editor resigning in such a situation.
People who are not involved in scientific research need to understand that the vast majority of scientific opinions spread by the media recently as a result of the fallout over our paper were not even the result of other scientists reading our paper. It was obvious from the statements made to the press.
Kudos to Kerry Emanuel at MIT, and a couple other climate scientists, who actually read the paper before passing judgment.
Rigorous and open scientific debate is a good thing! We should encourage more of it. If someone publishes something wrong, contradict it using logic, reason, and factual evidence. Unfortunately, too much of the climate change "debate" is in the hands of politicians and various interests groups, whom all have potential financial or career motives. Similarly, most of the political debate is devoid of cost-benefit analysis of potential remedies.
Any true scientific conclusion can withstand even the harshest critics.
Although Professor Wagner resigned, he did NOT retract the publication of the paper (as would have been his responsibility if the science in Dr. Spencer's paper were as flawed as you suggest).
If Remote Sensing does not (yet) see the need to pull this paper, why would Fox News et al need to issue corrections?
There may or may not be a fatal flaw in this paper. But his resignation has nothing to do with the science, and everything to do with the POLITICAL fallout from the publication decision.
It's remarkable, then, isn't it, that Wagner blasted deniers for over-hyping the study, rather than others for pressuring him into resigning. Maybe, as he himself says, his resignation has everything to do with the science.


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Boston is where Paul Revere and other key figures of the American Revolution held their ground. You can relive the city's fascinating past along this brick-lined, 2.5 mile route that links 16 key stops, including churches, museums and graveyards. Follow this urban trail on your own, or join one of the guided tours offered year-round by interpretive guides portraying period characters in Colonial garb.Yoon S. Byun/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
There's no formal walk here, but who cares? Just stepping onto the hallowed ground of this financial hub delivers a good dose of financial landmarks. The iconic bull statue at Bowling Green Park is a good place to start. Walk north (uptown) on narrow Broad Street to Wall Street, named for the 17th-century wall built to prevent incursions by hostile Native Americans. Visit Federal Hall, where George Washington was first sworn in as president; the Federal Reserve Building (tours are available); and the New York Stock Exchange (alas, no tours offered since 9/11). Nearby is Zuccotti Park, site of the 2011 launch of the Occupy Wall Street movement.Sean Pavone/Alamy
This is an undeniably impressive all-American amble. The two-mile-long stretch of green is bounded by the U.S. Capitol on one end and the Lincoln Memorial on the other. Rising 555 feet above it all is the flag-encircled Washington Monument. Sights along it include monuments to three presidents; war memorials, such as the somber, moving Vietnam Veterans Memorial; the newest addition, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial; and the extraordinary Smithsonian museums. Do this walk on your own or on one of the "Free Tours by Foot" jaunts.Giulio Andreini/Alamy
Considering that cars weren't invented when this town, the 18th-century capital of Virginia, was settled, exploring it on foot seems fitting. Download a free interactive tour on to your smartphone or tablet, and then wander through the 301-acre historical area. Many of the 88 original residences, civic buildings and commercial structures are open to the public and staffed by costumed docents, some of whom demonstrate the crafts and trades — from basket weaving to wheelwrighting — of long ago.Sean Pavone/Alamy
How does Lassie have one degree of separation from Kevin Bacon? They both have stars on this legendary route. More than 2,500 terrazzo and brass stars honor actors, directors, composers and other key entertainment-industry figures along a roughly two-mile stretch of Hollywood and Vine Streets. Two dozen new stars are awarded each year in ceremonies that are open to the public. They are posted about a week in advance on the Walk of Fame website, so check ahead and you may be able to catch one and take in some celebrity glitz.Jon Hicks/Corbis
Kidnappings, sunken ships, bar brawls and adventurers in search of impossible wealth — it's hard to believe that a city as gentrified as San Francisco has a past that sounds like the plot of a Pirates of the Caribbean movie. This 3.8-mile route uses bronze medallions embedded in the sidewalks to stitch together significant places and moments, from the 1849 Gold Rush to the 1906 earthquake. Feeling hungry? No worries — this walk passes plenty of great restaurants that serve everything from fresh crab to dim sum.Barbary Coast Trail
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LYLE, Tenn.- Local lawmakers are starting to discuss the nationwide meningitis outbreak centered in Tennessee just as the governor of Massachusetts is questioning whether or not the pharmacy at the center of the outbreak went outside their licensure restrictions.
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I write about entrepreneurial innovation in medicine.
Reviewing "The Myth of The Paperless Office" for the New Yorker in 2002, Malcolm Gladwell argued that if the computer had come first, and paper didn't exist, someone would have had to invent it. Paper, it turns out, is a lot more useful than we typically appreciate.
It occurred to me that perhaps the same might be said of another product we seem to take for granted in the digital age – medicines. (Disclosure: I work at a company that makes them.)
Medicines – you know, those little white pills that everyone loves to critique – are in many cases remarkably effective solutions to very difficult problems; it's actually kind of amazing how useful some of these products can be. What an incredibly powerful idea – addressing a difficult and complex health problem with a simple pill you can pop before breakfast.
I read a tweet recently asserting that physicians may soon prescribe health apps as an alternative to medications; my initial reaction: good luck with that one. It's certainly easy enough to envision how magical thinking about the power of health apps will soon be replaced by disappointment as app developers realize something drug makers have known for years: it's hard to improve health, and it can be very difficult to get patients to stick with a treatment long enough to make a difference.
At the same time, it's clear there are profound opportunities in digital health; I imagine the most effective applications will find a way to complement and enhance traditional therapeutics, rather than position themselves as "alt apps" – the alternative medicines of the digital age (you can just see the eBook now: "Health Apps 'They' Don't Want You To Know About").
There are at least two major areas where digital medicine might be expected to play a significant role. The first opportunity is in helping to motivate behavior change by spurring patient engagement, whether in something as basic as completing a full course of antibiotics (I could easily imagine a motivational app being useful here) to a task as monumental as achieving sustained weight loss (a goal of many apps, of course, though it's not clear any have proved to be broadly game-changing).
The second key area is in measurement, a topic I've discussed extensively (see here, here, and here), and around which I've co-founded a new academic initiative, the Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health (CATCH), together with MGH Chief of Medicine Dennis Ausiello and several Boston-area colleagues. The basic idea is that improved phenotypic measurement – measurement of relevant parameters in a fashion more comprehensive and more continuous than typical patient data – could immediately improve care while also advancing future science.
An interesting underlying challenge associated with both of these areas that we must confront is the need to figure out how to do more than preach to the choir – see this characteristically elegant discussion of this phenomenon by Duke University's Mark DeLong.
The specific issue for digital health is that the costs and burdens of healthcare are not evenly distributed, and a relatively small number of people drive most of the costs and also bear most of the suffering. I'm not sure these patients are always the ones who are eagerly sampling the new health apps or at the leading edge of the quantified self movement (although the participants in PatientsLikeMe and similar communities may represent important exceptions). Finding a way to bridge this gap will be important to demonstrate a meaningful impact on health – and also to provide a sustainable business model in this cost-focused era.
The flip side is that the need for improved measurement of real people is so pronounced that if you embarked on a serious effort here – as CATCH plans to initiate – and could achieve more comprehensive measurements in a broader selection of people and patients, there's a good chance it could generate results that might improve health delivery almost immediately. The key hurdles will be the logistical obstacles associated with actually collecting these data, as highlighted in Chapter Two of this recent Kauffman Foundation report, and discussed extensively at the recent Sage Commons Congress. But if acquired, these data are likely to render healthcare more efficient and effective, and can help us ensure we do a better job of understanding current practices and getting a better sense of what works best – acknowledging, importantly, that there's usually not going to be a single best approach that should be applied reflexively to every patient, as discussed here and here.
Less certain, however, is how these digital approaches can help us improve care in a revolutionary, not just evolutionary, way (as I've previously discussed in context of Steve Jobs). It's terrific to understand what sorts of approaches to antibiotics and physical therapy work best for cystic fibrosis patients (see here), but how much better would it be for patients to have a new medicine that fixes the underlying problem completely and permanently?
To put it crudely, the development of an effective vaccine did a lot more for the treatment of polio than applying the best design thinking to the construction of an iron lung ever could. I worry a bit that in our fascination with technology and design – which matter a lot for patients in the here and now – we're neglecting the need figure out some way to get at the difficult biological questions that remain at the root of disease. I really don't believe a clever app is going to cure cancer – though one might improve and help optimize the experience of patients now suffering from the disease.
Excellent article David. Please don't forget other factors such as diagnostics and diagnosis. Your point of integration is correct. Managing your health is driven by a whole lot of technology sectors which all are vertically oriented. The shame is that care for the patient needs to be horizontally driven, across technologies with integration. Pharma can't and won't do this. Perhaps it is up to companies like McKesson that strategically map out patient care? Thanks again
It is clear to me that Digital Health and Big Data will lead to revolutionary changes in our understanding of disease that will then result in evolutionary changes in patient care.
All of the knowledge that has lead to current treatments is and will remain valuable. We now have the opportunity to finally embrace complexity and gain further insights into mechanisms of disease.
One interesting aspect you touched upon is the lateralization of health type data that occurs as people begin to quanitify themselves. http://www.assembledchaos.com/?p=161
When I first started reading, I thought "this is crap" mostly because I disagree with this statement: 'It can be very difficult to get patients to stick with a treatment long enough to make a difference.' However, I kept reading, and want to thank you, David, for such an important and action-provoking article. Specifically, I wildly agree with:
"the need to figure out how to do more than preach to the choir" –> the healthtech community (of which I am a participant in northern CA) is having a gay ol' time designing for one another rather than spending time in/understanding healthcare trenches; integration of ethnographic research, behavioral psychology, and empathy work with patients so we can design for patients is desperately needed —> with people who are driving high costs so that "Finding a way to bridge this gap….to demonstrate a meaningful impact on health" can happen;
"the focus on patient measurement will highlight the importance of understanding disease in the context of a person" –> glad to hear about CATCH;
And all of your bottom lines are spot on!
If technology is tied to a social system and placed into a meaningful context and designed for people and behaviors rather than designed for technology (building tech for the sake of building tech happens every day) then it will positively impact behavior change. As one reader already commented, diagnosis matters for the contextual relevance of technology for habit formation.


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Health professionals are becoming increasingly aware of the need to provide health care services that are respectful and responsive to cultural and linguistic needs in order to meet the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of this nation. Educational institutions for health professionals have therefore been asked to include cultural competency training at all levels of curriculum and training programs. Current gaps in existing cultural competency training programs for medical students include failure to adequately address health care access and language issues and to achieve longitudinal integration of issues of culture into the four-year curricula. In addition, the impact of cultural competency training on student attitudes, beliefs and behaviors toward persons of other cultures as well, as patient outcomes, has not been adequately evaluated. One study through the National Center for Cultural Competence provides an initial look at evidence of outcomes, well-being, costs, and benefits of promoting cultural and linguistic competence. A full report can be found here.
Cultural competence is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes and policies that come together in a system, agency or among professionals that enables effective work in cross-cultural situations. The word "culture" refers to integrated patterns of human behavior that include the language, thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious or social groups. The word "competence" implies having the capacity to function effectively as an individual and an organization within the context of the cultural beliefs, behaviors and needs presented by consumers and their communities.
The American Association of Medical Colleges recommends that a socio-cultural definition of race be used in order to be consistent with the latest research on causes of health disparities. Here are links to acceptable definitions:
Resources on the topic:
The following links address the need for cultural and linguistic competence in healthcare:
The National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) were released by the Office of Minority Health in March 2001. Accreditation of hospitals and medical schools will be based in part on adherence to these regulations and guidelines.
The 14 standards are organized by varying stringency levels:
Mandates are current federal requirements for all recipients of federal funds (Standards 4, 5, 6, and 7).
Guidelines are activities recommended by OMH for adoption as mandated by federal, state and national accrediting agencies (Standards 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13).
Recommendations are suggested by OMH for voluntary adoption by health care organizations (Standard 14).
Culturally Competent Care
1. Health care organizations should ensure that patients/consumers receive from all staff members effective, understandable, and respectful care that is provided in a manner compatible with their cultural health beliefs and practices and preferred language.
2. Health care organizations should implement strategies to recruit, retain, and promote at all levels of the organization a diverse staff and leadership that are representative of the demographic characteristics of the service area.
3. Health care organizations should ensure that staff at all levels and across all disciplines receive ongoing education and training in culturally and linguistically appropriate service delivery.
Language Access Services
4. Health care organizations must offer and provide language assistance services, including bilingual staff and interpreter services, at no cost to each patient/consumer with limited English proficiency, at all points of contact and in a timely manner during all hours of operation.
5. Health care organizations must provide to patients/consumers in their preferred language both verbal offers and written notices informing them of their right to receive language assistance services.
6. Health care organizations must assure the competence of language assistance provided to limited English proficient patients/consumers by interpreters and bilingual staff. Family and friends should not be used to provide interpretation services (except on request by the patient/ consumer).
7. Health care organizations must make available easily understood patient-related materials and post signage in the languages of the commonly encountered groups and/or groups represented in the service area.
Organizational Supports for Cultural Competence
8. Health care organizations should develop, implement, and promote a written strategic plan that outlines clear goals, policies, operational plans and management accountability/oversight mechanisms to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
9. Health care organizations should conduct initial and ongoing organizational self-assessments of CLAS-related activities and are encouraged to integrate cultural and linguistic competence-related measures into their internal audits, performance improvement programs, patient satisfaction assessments and outcomes-based evaluations.
10. Health care organizations should ensure that data on the individual patient's/consumer's race, ethnicity and spoken and written language are collected in health records, integrated into the organization's management information systems and periodically updated.
11. Health care organizations should maintain a current demographic, cultural and epidemiological profile of the community as well as a needs assessment to accurately plan for and implement services that respond to the cultural and linguistic characteristics of the service area.
12. Health care organizations should develop participatory, collaborative partnerships with communities and utilize a variety of formal and informal mechanisms to facilitate community and patient/consumer involvement in designing and implementing CLAS related activities.
13. Health care organizations should ensure that conflict and grievance resolution processes are culturally and linguistically sensitive and capable of identifying, preventing and resolving cross-cultural conflicts or complaints by patients/consumers.
14. Health care organizations are encouraged to regularly make available to the public information about their progress and successful innovations in implementing the CLAS standards and to provide public notice in their communities about the availability of this information.
Identifying one's own biases is an important step in assuring that quality of care provided is not hindered by a patient's ethnicity, culture, or race. The following are some tools for self-reflection and assessment for not just healthcare professionals, but anyone interested exploring their underlying attitudes and beliefs:


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Shock occurs when the body's supply of oxygen-carrying blood to vital organs decreases. Without enough oxygen to fuel its parts, the body can't function properly and death may occur. In many cases, first aid can only slow the progression of this life-threatening condition.
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It's a very simple story, one of the lifecycle of a small insect brought alive with a unique design element: die-cut pages that represent all of the food the caterpillar eats on the way to his ultimate destiny.
The book is like a close friend to anyone who experienced it as a child, and who perhaps asked to have it read out loud again and again and again.
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Lincoln LS Transmission Problems
Hi all, purchased a 2004 in 2006 (14,000 miles ) unaware of the "pending" transmission issues. Back to the dealer with 25,000 miles to have the solenoid packs replaced but transmission still not right as it shifted hard from 1st to 2nd. Just hit 95,000 miles and the tranny is being rebuilt at a cost of $2700. Seems the torque converter, a band or two and some additional problems "surfaced".
At 95,000 miles??! The car is highway driven and well taken care of. And Detroit can't figure out why they're in trouble??! We are (were) a Ford family but no more. Looked at an Edge and a Mitsubishi Outlander for the wife, bought the Mitsu with the 10 year/100K mile bumper -to -bumper warranty. And you know what??! You never hear about Hondas dropping a transmission or losing an engine @ 95K!!
I'm done with American made cars,especially Ford. For those of you who have purchased an LS, be prepared. In addition to the transmission problems, there is the spark plug coil problems that will run you in the neighborhood of $600 to fix when THEY surface. That was last years problems....if I had known then what I was in for, the car would have been dumped on some dealer for a Honda/Lexus, etc.
WAKE UP AMERICAN CAR COMPANIES!! You are self destructing.
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maemae15 Posts: 1Purchased in 2/2004 and has about 65000 miles. But so many problems in the last 3 years from transmission to coils to belts and now thermostat. I have never gone in for regular service (oil change etc.) and not come out without a big bill. I am seriously considering changing but being a retired widow, I need to be very careful about my next purchase.
mortils2000 Posts: 1hi everybody.i have 00 ls v6 got 144xxx on it.problem is when you put in drive and next shift car moves abaut a inch and it stalls.it does drives in reverse and very last shift(gear).it got a noise in torgue converter like something is louse,engine is misfireing got to be one of the coil (new spark plugs) and engine lights is on.i was on the road going abaut 45 mph and car stalls on me waited abaut a minute started again did maybe querter mile did the same thing towed to back yard now i asked maybe 10 mechanics they all said you need a trany ( whe need $ ) but i got strong fealing that it is not the trany problem .any idea what could it be THANK YOU ALL
alpine7 Posts: 1Had to have the transmissions shift solenoids replaced at 69000 miles (on a well maintained vehicle) to correct a very hard shift from 1st to 2nd. It appears as if this is not an uncommon problem with this transmission and a very costly unexpected repair. Ford Motor Co indicated there is no monetary assistance offered for this problem as there is no recall.
The tranny does shift effortlessly after the repair.
Does anyone know of a recall for this problem or a way to have the bill reduced?
hyang Posts: 4I have a lincoln ls 2004 v6 car. The engine stalled twice when I stopped quickly at a red light signal. I had to push to P and restart the engine once. The engine light is not on and I did not feel it is the misfire problem. Another thing, each time I change from D to R, I can feel my car a little shake (if I do it slowly, the car don't shake). And sometimes when I push the gas a lot when the signal turns green I heard a big noise which sounds like the gear is not matched. I drove to the lincoln dealer to check the engine problem and they took 3 days and they they can't find any problem about the engine but they found the transmission problem. They performed electronic tranmission diagnosis and said EEC test KOEO pass CONT PASS KOER pass. They told me : the transmission fluid level OK and fluid is varnished. They also do a road test and told me: transmission neutralizes AHEN coming to a stop and shifts erratic also makes whning noise on acceleration from torque converter. They suggest me to change the transmission which will cost 3,700 $. I don't want to pay that so I came here to ask for help. This is my first car and I like it.
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I have a 2003 LS V6 which I got in 2004 that has started shifting hard in all gears. I have 79,150 miles on it. No lights are on I took it to a transmission shop and they said that there is nothing wrong with my transmission and that it must be a computer problem. They recommended that I see a electrical person. In March of this year it was linking oil so I spent $1300.00 dollars with that. I won't go into what I spent last year and the year before smh. But I think I am done spending my money.
i have a 02 lincoln ls v8 ,,,the trans stop working,,, i play wit the celenoids pack fuse the first time and it ran good ,and the next day y start the car put it in gear and nothin again,,i play wit the fuse but nothing happen,,i put a new selenoid pack,new trans oil,new trans filter and still not woking,,, ???? cant somebody help wit any ideas,,, evebody is telin me the trans is good you have a electrical probles,,,,someone help,,thankssssssss :confuse:
jr129 Posts: 1I have a problem that maybe someone can give me some advice. My daughter recently purchased a nice 2002 LS with about 100K on the engine and transmission. The transmission light will come on after you run the car for a little while and you have high RPM (3000+) at higher speeds. It is as if the car will not shift into the higher gears. This does not happen all the time and the shifting is smooth when the car operates normally. I have had it in for repairs my local transmission shop. The initial diagnostic tests showed that one or more of the solenoids were bad and they have been replaced. It was then thought the electrical harness was bad and a new (used) one was purchased and installed. Then a new module for the computer (not sure what this is) was installed. The transmission mechanics are convinced this is still an electrical and not mechanical problem, but they are now scratching their heads as to what it could be???? I am already into this repair for $1,300 and I still have the original problem. Anyone have any ideas (other than going to another transmission shop - already under consideration). Thanks.


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Journal Scan: Diabetic dog owners' concerns when it comes to their pets' quality of life
What they did
What they found
Take-home message
Niessen SJM, Powney S, Guitian J, et al. Evaluation of a quality-of-life tool for dogs with diabetes mellitus. J Vet Intern Med 2012;26(4):953-961.
Link to abstract: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1939-1676.2012.00947.x/abstract


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Have a Question About This Product?
TAO Digital Photo Keychain
Main features:
- 1.5 inch 128x128 LCD display
- Store about 100 pictures
- Auto / manual picture slide show
- Slide time adjustable
- Manual switch between picture and time display
- Time display including date, week, hours, minutes and seconds.
- Time manual adjustable or sync with computer via software.
- Picture format: JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF; Picture size automatically cut by software.
- Input / output picture via photo
- View software included
- Built-in rechargeable battery Charged / data downloaded via 5 pins USB cable
Package contents:
- 1 x Photo Frame with key ring
- 1 x USB cable
Compatible with Window7 and compatible Apple computer OS 10.8.5


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Intelligent Demand
Art Director/Senior Designer
JOB DESCRIPTION: ART DIRECTOR/SENIOR DESIGNER (contract-to-hire)
Intelligent Demand (ID) is a fast-growing B2B digital marketing agency with proven capabilities in strategic marketing, demand generation campaigns and content development. Our singular focus is the dramatic improvement of our clients' revenue performance.
Headquartered in the historic Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, ID is a fun, flexible and fast-paced place to work. We're building a new-model marketing agency. If you are a digital marketer who loves conversion, creativity, collaboration, and constant learning/teaching, then we want to talk with you.
ID seeks an Art Director/Senior Designer who excels at developing eye-catching, deeply creative visual/conceptual work that supports business, campaign, and conversion goals. The candidate will need to be a great communicator, a forward-thinking creative leader, and a smart, imaginative, agile, and experienced designer who prefers a fast-paced, collaborative work environment.
The Art Director will play a key role in defining the look, feel and tone of both client deliverables and ID's own brand. As Senior Designer, this person will work alongside other members of ID's account teams to create well-architected, compelling, work that meets the graphic design needs of our clients, their brands, their campaigns and their content.
This position reports to the Creative Director and manage on-staff designers as well as a pool of freelancers.
Art Director
• Sets the tone for the creative design aspects of all client and agency projects
• Works in a hands-on capacity on visual creative endeavors to successfully execute client strategy and messaging
• Represents ID's visual design process and integrity throughout client engagements
• Provides art direction, leadership, and mentoring to junior and mid-level designers, including HR duties
• Helps scope design phases of projects accurately and efficiently
• Researches and adopts the latest design techniques to help the agency continuously evolve and exceed design expectations
• Participates in client pitches when necessary
Senior Designer
• Helps articulate brand and creative tone for a variety of client and ID projects
• Creates all online visual design, including typography, visual concept, logo and icon design for web-based and print work.
• Effectively communicates and coordinates with the information architect, copywriter and production artists to ensure that the visual design conveys the desired message and functions successfully for varying technical and performance specifications.
• Creates a variety of online deliverables, including emails, landing pages, banner ads, microsites, case studies and white papers, for lead generation, lead nurturing, customer nurturing and other demand generation marketing campaigns.
• 5+ years of senior professional design experience working with corporate clients.
• 3+ years of experience in the following areas: interactive/web, online agency creative
• 2+ years of experience mentoring and managing design teams
• Excellent organization and communication skills
• Mastery of modern design fundamentals
• Understanding of how to work creatively within brand guidelines
• Experience designing for a demand generation marketing environment preferred
• Familiarity with Web site structure, online user experience and information architecture preferred
Technical Qualifications
• Adobe Creative Suite (Notably Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe AfterEffects)—expert
• Hand-coding HTML and CSS—strong proficiency preferred. Experience designing HTML-based marketing emails preferred.
• Proven technical knowledge of how web-based technologies apply to web design such as HTML, Flash, CSS, and AJAX.
Work Style
• Proven success in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, while producing creative, high quality work – on time and on budget.
• Capable of managing fairly complex projects for clients small and large, in a variety of industries.
• Able to lead and participate in team meetings, discussions and brainstorming sessions with the ID team and ID clients
• Solid understanding of client deliverables, how design directly serves those deliverables, and the ability to take responsibility for them.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to meet tight deadlines is essential for a fast-paced environment
• Here's a tip: an informed opinion, a sense of humor and the ability to think strategically while delivering tactically will serve you very well at ID!
Send your resume, LinkedIn profile and portfolio or URLs to firstname.lastname@example.com.
This is a contract-to-hire position. Compensation is commensurate with skills and experience.


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When you installed a video game from a CD or a DVD, you installed some redistributable packages too: DirectX, Games For Windows Live Redist, VC Redist, Rapture3D, NVidia PhysX Redist, etc. They were installed from the CD/DVD, and those installers didn't stay on your hard drive.
The Steam application allows you to download games from the Internet and install them, but what about these redistributable packages ? You probably saw they are installed the first time you launch your game, OK, but what happens to these files when they go wasted ? The answer is very simple: Steam doesn't delete them. An example: install the first complete season of Sam & Max (6 episodes): every episode is about ~300MB. For each of them, you can count 100MB for the DirectX redistributable package. Yes, it is about a third of the game files size, and they are not removed by Steam. For 6 episodes, you could save 600MB. Imagine what you could save for 10 or 20 games.
A little tool that is able to list every redistributable package stored on your Steam directories, and allows you to remove them. This is the goal of TikiOne-Steam-Cleaner. This is a very simple program: set the Steam SteamApps folder (this is a sub-folder of the Steam application), click "Search", you choose what file or folder you want to remove.
To download the latest version of TikiOne-Steam-Cleaner,
click here.
You can also visit the download page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikione/files/tikione-steam-cleaner/. For each version, you will find the main program (
tikione-steam-cleaner-x.y.z.zip), its sources (
tikione-steam-cleaner-x.y.z-src.zip), and the
changelog file (
As TikiOne-Steam-Cleaner is a Java-based program, ensure you have already installed Java (version 7 or better).
You can download the latest version of Java at http://www.java.com. Install Java 7 or better.
The program is packaged in a ZIP file. Unzip it and double-click to the
tikione-steam-cleaner.bat file.
The program starts.
...button to locate it manually.
That's all, you can now close the program ;)
Steam will automatically download games's redistributable packages again in two cases:
VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME CACHE...functionality on a game.
That's why TikiOne-Steam-Cleaner allows you to unchek items (and automatically remembers your choices) to save your Internet bandwidth.
TikiOne-Steam-Cleaner is free and OpenSource. You don't have to pay for it. You are free to modify this program and redistribute it
according to the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1.
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The Norman Transcript
NORMAN — Editor, The Transcript:
Just four months after the massacre of elementary school children and teachers at Newtown, Connecticut, it appears the most modest of all gun control measures is now dead— the victim of a minority of uncourageous United States Senators capitulating once again to a powerful special interest.
Former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords minced no words: "Senators looked over their shoulders at the powerful, shadowy gun lobby and brought shame on themselves and our government by choosing to do nothing. " The defeated measure, intended to close the background check loophole for gun show sales and internet sales, was a watered down version. Dropped from its provisions were the calls for banning assault rifles and high capacity, multi-round ammunition clips. The loophole targeted was reportedly characterized by Senator John McCain several years ago as needed only by "criminals and terrorists." To those two categories could be added the category of persons with mental illnesses.
Under the proposed bill, no one's guns were being taken away and hunters did not have to worry about ammunition restrictions or some definitional snag which made a "shotgun" more than just a shotgun. Yet, despite its limited scope, in the end, the bill received only 54 votes, falling 6 votes short of the 60 needed for passage.
Initially, in the aftermath of the Newtown tragedy, passage of an expanded background check bill seemed guaranteed. An overwhelming majority of the nation's citizens supported the idea, as did most law enforcement leaders. The need was neither complex nor controversial. But then the NRA and gun lobby went to work. A collection of misstatements helped seal the measure's defeat. The NRA claimed the legislation could apply to transfers between family members, falsely spreading the word that a gift of a hunting shotgun to a 12 year old grandson could be subject to a federal background check. The proposed bill excluded transfers within a family and between friends.
Next, the Constitution's Second Amendment was trotted out, accompanied by fuzzy concerns about its potential application, notwithstanding the fact that constitutional interpretation has always allowed reasonable regulation of the sale of guns. Ironically, the clearest constitutional argument voiced against any gun regulation whatsoever was one that should leave law abiding citizens aghast. It is the chillingly wrong assertion that the Second Amendment was placed in the Constitution to protect citizens from an oppressive government (akin to the dangerous rationale of mass murderer Timothy McVeigh).
In the end, despite the nation's wish to do what it can to protect itself against the types of violent events that have killed our children, grandchildren and their teachers, the United States Senate did what it does best.
It filibustered, obfuscated the need for any legislation, closed ranks along party lines, and did nothing.
Only four Republican Senators, John McCain, Mark Kirk, Susan Collins, and the bill's co-author Pat Toomey voted in favor of the bill. Political fear, much different than real fear, trumped the safety of the nation's small children. Welcome to America's Congress in the 21st century.
Don Holladay
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I found someone selling 6 Gik 244 Bass traps and I am going to pick them up Saturday I can't wait. The best part they only cost me $200 so I feel that I did really well. I can't wait until I install and measure the room. I have a calibrated mic now to run REW and will post before and after when I finish the project up.
My room has a lot of issues so these should helps a lot. I plan on mounting 5 of them on the rear wall and not sure as of yet where I am going to place the last one. I am also going to buy some 6" thick ones and place them in the 2 corners that I can use in the next month or so.