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No one can predict the future – but it's certainly fun to try. The new year is right around the corner, and we're making predictions for what's going to be hot in 2012.
In certain cities, food trucks are everywhere. Los Angeles and Portland are overrun with the gourmet meals-on-wheels outfits, and even smaller cities like our own San Diego are getting in on the trend. Food trucks are even becoming the catering method of choice at every kind of function from office parties to trendsetting weddings. But we want to see this trend pushed even further. We will not be happy until every decently sized city in the nation has an army of food trucks to call their own – and, with the way this trend is spreading, we think that dream has a good chance of coming true.
Since last year, tastemakers have been on the lookout for a resurgence of Asian cuisine as the next big trend – but it has yet to really happen, overshadowed by comfort food and better burgers. But we think 2012 will be the year the foodservice industry makes it happen. We're not expecting an influx of Chinese staples, though. Food consultants in the know are pointing to Thai and Indian cuisines as the breakout stars of the new year.
8. OFF-CUTS of MEAT
In this economy, who can afford a $50 filet mignon? While some chefs may see it as a problem, others see it as a challenge to become more creative with what they have. Many restaurants are turning away from exclusively letting expensive prime cuts do all the heavy lifting, instead proving their chops by drawing intense flavors out of cheaper off-cuts like shanks and sweetbreads.
7. GELATINS and ASPICS
Okay, full disclosure: we love Jell-O molds. We love their jiggling kitsch so much that we put our money where our mouth is and bought a mold of our own at the last (read: only) Tupperware party we went to. So imagine our delight when Eater National posted two separate TrendWatch alerts naming gelatin as the next big thing. Everyone from progressive San Francisco restaurants to esteemed food writers are extolling the virtues of elevated creations likeheirloom tomato aspic salads and black plum terrines. These aren't your grandma's fruit salad ring molds: they're better, and we're hoping the budding trend picks up steam.
6. COCKTAILS on TAP
We're still very much down with quality handcrafted cocktails, but we are getting a little weary of waiting twenty minutes while our oranges are muddled to perfection. Sometimes you just want a top-notch drink on the double, and some ahead-of-the-curve bars have already started to anticipate that desire. In August, Jasper's Corner Tap & Kitchen in San Francisco got major buzz for serving up Negroni cocktails on tap, while the taps at El Cobre in NYC's East Village run Dark and Stormy. We anticipate even more bars getting in on this trend in the near future.
In July, serving foie gras will become illegal in California. But for the six months before the ban sets in, we expect that restaurants will be going all-out to satisfy their customers' foie fix and maybe spark some anti-ban activism. If the ban does finalize, we expect surrounding states to take full advantage of their relative freedom by going into overdrive, whipping up delicious and experimental foie gras creations because they can (and to give California fans something to look forward to next time they travel out-of-state).
4. THE DEATH of "FARM-TO-TABLE"
"Can't you just be 'farm-to-table' without talking about it?" Chef Amanda Baumgarten of Water Grill posed this question at a recent fine dining panel, and it wasn't the first time we've heard it. Indeed, while we certainly don't want the farm-to-table concept of fresh, local, seasonal fare to go anywhere, we are definitely seeing a trend of moving away from the specific term as a marketing strategy. If you're a top restaurant, we trust that you're serving us the best and freshest ingredients possible. Don't disappoint us, and we should be golden.
While we're expecting a national cool down on the cupcake trend before 2012 is over, we don't think anyone's ready to give up on tiny desserts just yet. Bite-sized French macarons are gaining recognition among mainstream audiences,mini fruit pies are showing up everywhere from trendwatch lists to episodes of Community, and marshmallows of all things are gaining momentum and demanding to be taken seriously as a standalone treat. We still want desserts we can hold in the palm of our hand, we just want to expand the ways we can expect it.
Everybody loves a good hamburger, and "better burgers" have been dominating the restaurant landscape throughout 2011. Of course, nothing lasts forever and the burger bubble has to burst sometime. When it does, we have a feeling that sandwiches will be there to pick up the pieces. With banh mis getting the gourmet treatment (score another point for Asian cuisine) and New York Deli-style food trucks cropping up left and right (at least in our neck of the woods), we're expecting 2012 to trade in a bun for sliced bread.
As the economy wears on at its current pace, customers are going to be looking for more than just flavors alone to get the most bang for their bucks. With that in mind, some trendsetting restaurants (San Diego's Starlite Lounge comes to mind) blur the lines between dinner and drink settings in favor of a more allover social experience where mixed groups can drink, pick at small plates, or eat a full meal at the same setting without feeling out of place.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Two 16-year-olds from the Nashville Transition Center who escaped after stealing a state van are back in custody.
The teenagers were arrested at Baptist Hospital. They escaped Saturday evening after stealing a Tennessee Department of Children's Services van.
Three teenagers were being transported when the van was involved in an accident Saturday night on Dickerson Pike. One of the teens jumped into the driver's seat after the driver got out of the van. The teenager sped off.
The van was recovered Sunday.
One turned himself in Saturday night, but police searched for two others for more than 24 hours.
Someone at the hospital recognized the teens and turned them in.
Police captured Melvin Dismukes and Dezzmond Harris at the hospital.
They told police they needed to be treated for injuries they received in an auto accident.
They escaped after a DCS van was hit by another car in East Nashville. The next morning, police found the van six miles away on Straightway Avenue also in East Nashville.
A DCS spokesman said none of the teens was shackled because they were being held in the Nashville Transition Center, a type of a halfway house for juveniles.
"Not to comment on their policies or their manner of restraining the children during transport. Obviously it wasn't appropriate and that one of them managed to get free and get into the driver's seat," said Capt. Chris Taylor.
Police consider Dismukes and Harris violent offenders. Dismukes was in DCS custody for attempted homicide and Harris aggravated assault.
DCS said the 16-year-olds have been at the transition center since October.
Teen offenders are typically moved there after serving time in a juvenile detention center like Woodland Hills.
"We just felt it was in the public's best interest the teenagers - all three 16 driving in a stolen van and had been in custody - we just thought it was a good idea and best for the public safety to have them identified to help take them back into custody," said Metro police spokeswoman Kristin Mumford.
DCS is conducting an internal investigation. DCS officials said it does not appear that the van driver did anything wrong, and they don't think the accident had anything to do with the escape.
The teens are at the Juvenile Justice Center, charged with escape and stealing the van.
They are scheduled to appear in court Tuesday afternoon.
DCS is still searching for a 17-year-old who escaped from a van earlier this month. Rashad Rhodes got away when a Woodland Hills guard stopped at a Burger King in Lebanon to get something to eat. Rhodes jumped into a waiting car when the guard agreed to let him use the restroom.

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- Genre:
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- Release Date (US):
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- Release Date (UK):
- November 7th, 2008
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- Developers:
- Neversoft
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About Guitar Hero World Tour
Guitar Hero World Tour is comprised entirely of master recordings from some of the greatest classic and modern rock bands of all-time including Van Halen, Linkin Park, The Eagles, Sublime and many more. Additionally, the game will offer significantly more localized downloadable music than ever before on all of the next-generation consoles. Budding rock stars will also be given creative license to fully customize everything from their characters' appearance and instruments to their band's logo and album covers.
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- Aaron (Character) - Blue, Red, Yellow, Yellow, Yellow, Yellow, Yellow, Green
- Always Slide Mode - Green, Green, Red, Red, Yellow, Red, Yellow, Blue
- Automatic Kick Drum - Yellow, Green, Red, Blue, Blue, Blue, Blue, Red
- Best Buy Kid (Character) - Green, Red, Blue, Green, Red, Blue, Blue, Green
- Different Flame Colors - Green, Red, Green, Blue, Red, Red, Yellow, Blue...
Guitar Hero World Tour News
Activision won't release any new DLC for Guitar Hero & DJ Hero
Following news that Activision has closed the doors on its Guitar Hero business, the publisher has today confirmed that it will no longer be churning out fresh DLC for the long-running franchise and DJ Hero. Despite this, the company did reveal that it will continue to flog existing content for e...
- Posted Feb 10th 2011
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Activision: GHWT was bestselling third-party game in U.S. and Europe
In its quarterly investors call, Activision Blizzard announced that Guitar Hero World Tour was the top-selling third-party title on a dollar basis across all platforms in both the U.S. and Europe. VG247 is listening into the call right now, and although the site didn't specify a time frame, we belie...
- Posted May 7th 2009
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Guitar Hero: World Tour February track packs detailed
Activision has confirmed that it will be unleashing three all new track packs for Guitar Hero: World Tour next month. Kicking things off on February 12 is the Acoustic Track Pack, which includes "Drive" by Incubus, "New Slang" by The Shins and "Wonderwall" as i...
- Posted Jan 27th 2009
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GHWT outsells Rock Band 2 by massive margin
The 2008 NPD software sales numbers have arrived, and with them come an official music game victor. Guitar Hero World Tour crushed Rock Band 2 at retail. While the highly praised Rock Band 2 managed to push a respectable 1.7 million units across the PS2, PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360, Guitar Hero ultimatel...
- Posted Jan 26th 2009
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Activision gives out free Springsteen songs on GHWT
Bruce Springsteen is preparing to launch a new album on Tuesday and Activision is coinciding that release with downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour. However, there's a (surprisingly positive) catch. Users who download the content on Tuesday or Wednesday will receive the Springsteen pack f...
- Posted Jan 25th 2009
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Bruce Springsteen heads to Guitar Hero World Tour
Legendary rocker Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen will be putting in an appearance on Guitar Hero World Tour later this month in the form of two tracks via PlayStation Network and Xbox LIVE Arcade. Springsteen's new single My Lucky Day and the all-time classic Born to Run will be av...
- Posted Jan 13th 2009
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Activision lays out Guitar Hero: World Tour DLC schedule
Activision has unpacked its release schedule for its upcoming Guitar Hero: World Tour downloadable content for the Christmas and New Year period. First up is "Use Me" by Hinder, "Because of You" by Nickelback and "Light it Up" by Rev Theory, which punters will be ab...
- Posted Dec 23rd 2008
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Guitar Hero getting Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins DLC
Guitar Hero World Tour will be receiving a triple dose of head banging goodness this month in the form three new track packs featuring music from The Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana and The Eagles. First up is The Smashing Pumpkins Track Pack, featuring tracks 'G.L.O.W', '1979' and 'The Everlasting Ga...
- Posted Dec 4th 2008
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Guitar Hero World Tour deluxe bundle is $240
Want to spend $50 on a t-shirt (Male XL only), battery charger, key chain and (Guitar Hero) guitar case? Yeah, neither do I, but that's what Red Octane is offering with the $240 Guitar Hero World Tour Deluxe Band Bundle. The rest of the bundles are a bit more reasonable, though the price tag won'...
- Posted Oct 7th 2008
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No PS3 Trophy support for Guitar Hero World Tour
During the Activision press event in Santa Monica last week, PSU.com discovered that Neversoft has no plans at this time to support PS3 Trophies in Guitar Hero World Tour. "The PS3 version of Guitar Hero World Tour does not support Trophies," said the Activision representative. "Bu...
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California State Parks: Sweeping Changes On The Way?The Parks Forward Commission, an independent panel of experts charged by the Legislature and Governor to review the future of the state's park system, issued its draft plan
Autism and Fragile X Participants sought for Memory StudyThe UC Davis MIND Institute is seeking participants for a study examining the benefits of a computer-based, game-oriented training program for enhancing working memory in children and adolescents with autism and fragile X syndrome.
Concerns Addressed Over Truckee River Rafting Trash With the commercial rafting operations on the Truckee River over for the year, Placer County is working with partners to provide cleanup of the trash and debris along the river.
Roseville Financial Advisor Sentenced for Ripping Off ClientsMichelle Lee Kern, 36, who worked as a licensed financial advisor at Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. in Roseville has been sentenced to 46 months in prison.
Roseville, Rocklin among California's Best Cities for Home OwnershipIn a recent Nerd Wallet report, Rocklin, Folsom, and Roseville, rank 11th through 13th (respectively) among California's Best Cities for Homeownership.
Hidden Falls Regional Park Receives GrantPlacer County's "gem of the foothills," Hidden Falls Regional Park, is the recipient of a grant that will fund innovative projects protecting long-term ecological values and economic viability
Roseville Developer Begins Senior Community in Elk GroveUSA Properties Fund will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for Arbor Creek Senior Apartments at 10:30 a.m., Aug. 4, at the project site located at Elk Grove-Florin and Calvine roads
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Lincoln Man Serving Aboard the Navy's USS SomersetPetty Officer 1st Class Brian West, an aviation boatswain's mate from Lincoln, Calif. and 2003 graduate of Lincoln High School, is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard USS Somerset
California Would Create More Jobs Without Prop 30In his recent piece for The Sacramento Bee, "State's job growth defies predictions after tax increases," David Cay Johnston argues that California's recent job creation numbers prove
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ANDERSON, IND. -- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology rallied from an 11-point deficit to close within three points late, but Anderson University held on to earn a 64-57 women's basketball victory on Wednesday night.
Junior Kelsey Ploof (Noblesville) led the Fightin' Engineers with an impressive double-double of 14 points and 16 rebounds. Freshman Addie Johnson (Caledonia, Mich./Catholic Central) paced the team in scoring with 15 points.
Freshman Cassidy Cain (Noblesville), freshman Andi Evers (Cincinnati, Ohio/Mount Notre Dame) and sophomore Gracie Gibbs (Parker, Colo./Ponderosa) pitched in with six points each.
Jenna Wittenberg came off the bench to lead the Anderson attack with 19 points. Ashley Wuestefeld added 12 points, and Amy Wuestefeld scored 10 points for the Ravens.
Rose-Hulman held an early 13-11 lead on a score by freshman Carrie Morris (Altadena, Calif./Mayfield) at the 13:04 mark of the first half. Anderson responded with a 13-2 run that put the Ravens ahead 24-15.
The Fightin' Engineers closed to within five points late in the first half, but a three-pointer by Ashley Wuestefeld gave Anderson a 41-30 lead at the break.
In the second half, the Ravens led 44-33 at the 18:38 mark, but Rose-Hulman rattled off 10 straight points to move within 44-43 at the 15:22 mark on a layup by Ploof. A conventional three-point play by Ploof put Rose-Hulman ahead 46-45 with 14:00 left.
Anderson answered with a 13-2 run to regain a 58-48 lead on two free throws by Wittenberg at the 7:39 mark. The lead reached 10 points at 60-50 with 5:36 left, before Rose-Hulman used two free throws, a layup by Gibbs and a three-pointer by Cain to close within 60-57 at the 2:19 mark.
Anderson scored the game's final four points to secure the win.
Rose-Hulman stands 6-8 on the season and 2-5 in league play, while Anderson improved to 4-10 and 3-4 in conference games. The Fightin' Engineers host Transylvania University on Saturday at 1 p.m.


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By Debby Woodin
JOPLIN, Mo. —
Joplin will continue to receive federally subsidized airline service at the Joplin Regional Airport from American Eagle, but on larger jets.
The federal Department of Transportation has renewed a contract for Essential Air Service with American Eagle, for two years.
The renewed contract will provide the same number of round-trip flights to Dallas as the existing service, 14 a week, but with a larger jet that will allow for six more seats per flight, according to Steve Stockam, airport manager.
"They did commit to having all 50-passenger jets instead of 44 seats," Stockam said.
The airline service is doing so well now that the federal subsidy will drop from $2,778,756 per year to $342,560.
Joplin was placed in the federal subsidy program several years ago when the commercial airline serving Joplin at that time dissolved. After that, passenger counts continued to decline as small regional carriers bid for the work while Joplin sought a major carrier to bring passengers back.
"The last two years have been exceptional for Joplin air service," Stockam wrote to the DOT in support of the American Eagle bid. He said American Eagle replaced a regional carrier, Great Lakes Airlines, that in 2010 carried 7,800 passengers in and out of Joplin. In the first year of American Eagle service, the passenger count multiplied to 53,000, according to Stockam.
The 44-passenger jets that have been used in Joplin are usually at least 80 percent full, warranting the use of larger jets, according to bid documents.
The reappointment of American Eagle as the designated carrier also opens the door to discussion about providing service to another hub, such as Chicago.
"Our discussion has been that if they get this bid, we can look at service to another hub," such as Chicago, Stockam said earlier. "It will not be part of the EAS; it will have to survive on its own. We feel (that with) the amount of passengers to Dallas-Fort Worth, we can substantiate the passenger count" for another hub airport.
"We are losing a lot of our eastbound traffic because it takes too long to get there" through the Dallas airport, Stockam has said.
The new contract begins March 1.
AMERICAN EAGLE is affiliated with American Airlines, which has been reorganizing under bankruptcy protection. Steve Stockam, manager of the Joplin Regional Airport, said he understands that American has renegotiated some contracts with its union workers that should allow it to emerge from bankruptcy during the first quarter of this year.
Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly referred to "Executive Airlines, doing business as American Eagle."


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---- — College students "who are NOT U.S. Citizens and who get the PELL Grant" plan to return to their home countries after getting free gas cards and child care.
Chain email on Thursday, March 28.
Email from "a Florida teacher" says Dominican student takes free school aid before returning home
Did you hear the one about foreign students ripping off the U.S. by getting federal grants to go to college and then ditching our country to return home?
The chain email from "a Florida teacher" arrived in our inbox March 28, . It reads:
"This is a subject close to my heart. Do you know that we have adult students at the school where I teach who are not U.S. Citizens and who get the PELL Grant, which is a federal grant (no payback required) plus other federal grants to go to school?
"One student from the Dominican Republic told me that she didn't want me to find a job for her after she finished my program, because she was getting housing from our housing department and she was getting a PELL Grant which paid for her total tuition and books, plus money left over."
The email also stated that this Dominican student accessed other special programs that supplied her with a credit card for gas and another to pay for daycare. The email continued:
"The one student I just mentioned told me she was not going to be a U.S. citizen because she plans to return to the Dominican Republic someday and that she 'loves her country.' I asked her if she felt guilty taking what the U.S. is giving her and then not even bothering to become a citizen and she told me that it doesn't bother her, because that is what the money is there for!"
We wanted to research if a noncitizen can get a Pell Grant to go to college with no intention of becoming a citizen and then simply return to their home country. As we soon discovered, this chain email has had a long life - it was debunked in fact-checks by Snopes.com and Factcheck.org in 2008.
Pell Grants
Pell Grants are federal awards to low-income students for post-secondary education. The grants are for students to obtain bachelor's degrees or certain post-baccalaureate programs that lead to teacher certification.
The grant does not have to be repaid, and the maximum amount for this year is $5,550.
Citizens can get the grants. Also, students who are permanent residents - commonly referred to as those who have a "green card" - are considered eligible non-citizens and can get student aid if they meet eligibility criteria, said Jane Glickman, a U.S. Department of Education spokeswoman. We couldn't find statistics on how many of the 9.7 million Pell Grant recipients are green-card holders, but Glickman said the vast majority are citizens.
The chain email also claimed that the Pell Grant would pay for "total tuition and books, plus money left over."
It appears highly unlikely our Dominican student would be profiting from the Pell Grant, since the average price of a four-year college education is far above the grant. (PolitiFact's 2011 analysis showed it covered about 34 percent of public college costs.)
The email also suggested that this Dominican student is seeking a free ride from the United States and giving nothing in return. Legal permanent residents who get Pell Grants can choose to return to their country, however, the majority eventually apply for citizenship. And they do pay taxes.
Other programs mentioned in the email
The chain email claimed that the Dominican student was accessing two other programs, called WAIT and CARIBE, to help pay for expenses: "She was looking into WAIT which gives students a CREDIT CARD for gas to come to school, and into CARIBE which is a special program (check it out - I did) for immigrants, and it pays for child care and all sorts of needs while they go to school or training."
C.A.R.I.B.E. - Career Recruitment And Instruction In Basic English Refugee Program - is a federally funded adult education program in Hillsborough County Public Schools. The program's website explains that it "provides English language, GED, and Hi-Tec vocational training to recent Cuban, Haitian, and other entrants with legal, documented refugee or asylee status." (The website puts those two words in bold.)
Program manager Estela Weideman told PolitiFact that CARIBE does not provide child care but will refer students to other programs that provide vouchers for child care if they qualify.
"All we provide are English classes to the adults, and only those that qualify," Weideman said.
The criteria is very specific - participants must be refugees or asylum seekers, which typically means people fleeing oppressive regimes or war conditions.
(In 2008, the director of this Hillsborough County program told Factcheck that he had received more than 600 emails about the chain letter and had received calls around the country, including from congressional offices.)
Several other counties in Florida have similar adult education programs for refugees including in Miami-Dade County.
It's unlikely that this alleged Dominican student would qualify for Hillsborough's program, though.
State Department refugee admission statistics for 2012 do not show any refugees from the Dominican Republic. We also found no Dominicans were U.S. refugees from 2002 to 2011. The picture was more complex for those seeking asylum - one category referred to as seeking asylum "defensively" as part of a removal hearing included tiny numbers from the Dominican Republican - eight in 2011, for example.
We couldn't find anything on the other program mentioned in the email - WAIT - that would supposedly provide students with gas to go to school. This program doesn't appear to exist.
Our ruling
The chain email paints a picture of free-loading foreigners, college students "who are NOT U.S. citizens and who get the PELL Grant," then return to their home countries after getting free gas cards and child care.
While green card residents can get Pell Grants, those people are generally legal permanent residents - not people looking to return to their own countries.
And there's no free gas cards or child care.
We rate the chain email's claim Pants on Fire!


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Titans announced Wednesday they are sponsoring a 5K race in Nashville.
The Titans Back to Football 5K will be Saturday, August 25 at LP Field.
The team is partnering with the city of Nashville and the Competitor Group, who puts on the St. Jude Country Music Marathon.
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About five years ago former Vice President Al Gore in one of his "global warming" rants told us the polar ice caps were melting and within five years our coastal areas would be flooded. I'm waiting!
It seems anytime global warming is mentioned, "climate change" is now substituted. I recently criticized the "global warming" fiasco which drew criticism from one writer who substituted climate change for global warming. Every year we have climate change. Compare the past seasons or this summer for that matter and you'll see "climate change."
If the USA completely stopped using all coal and oil, the effect on the world climate would be so miniscule we'd never notice the difference. Chicken Little was wrong, the sky is not falling.
Those folks who use Snopes to point out the accuracy or inaccuracy of statements never mention the fact that Snopes is a left-leaning site that has a tendency to spin the facts. Wikipedia is another site famous for inaccuracies caused by viewer editing. Just because you read it on the Internet or saw it on MSNBC doesn't make it true.
I didn't get my MBA from Harvard; therefore, I haven't managed to get a grip on how the deficit, increasing from around $7 trillion to nearly $17 trillion in 4.5 years, constitutes a "falling deficit." We accumulated a little over $6 trillion in debt in over 200 years, and $10 trillion in 4.5 years; explain that math! There's some undisputable facts for Sen. Moynihan.
As far as the GOP not debating on NBC or CNN; I learned very young not to touch a hot stove. History shows a very biased approach to the GOP in the past on those networks. Look at the debates in 2012; NBC, CNN and others are the voice of the DNC.
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I cover science and medicine, and believe this is biology's century.
Last week I went to TedMed, the big medical innovation summit run by Priceline founder Jay Walker. The most important presentation I saw may have come from Roni Zeiger, who for six years ending in 2012 was the chief health strategist at Google Google.
The Google Health application created on Zeiger's watch, which was meant to allow patients to upload their medical records, ended in failure in 2011. But his new effort, a five-person outfit called Smart Patients, actually does look like something that could actually change the way patients, doctors, and industry interact. Its web site, envisioned as a kind of combination of clinical trials search engine and message board community, might further empower cancer patients whose relationship with their disease has already been changed fundamentally by the Internet.
Zeiger's elevator pitch: "Clinical trials search engine meets social networking for cancer." Expand on that? "A system that takes advantage of the untapped knowledge that exists in a network of cancer patients and caregivers both so they can better help each other and so the healthcare system around them can learn from them. The two goals of the company are to help patients and caregivers to learn even more even faster, and to innovate the ways the healthcare system can learn from them."
The business model is in that last phrase: Smart Patients will sell information that can be gathered from its communities in order to help paying partners, including drug companies, to do things like better design clinical trials and maybe marketing plans. Right now, patients' voices aren't heard in the clinical trial design process, which can mean companies that simple steps that could encourage more people to enroll in studies, like dropping extra diagnostic tests or returning data. Getting more patients to join studies would mean that medicines would get to market faster, saving companies time and money. Drugmakers like GlaxoSmithKline GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer Pfizer might well pay for that access.
Why is there any reason to believe that Smart Patients will work, or be important? For one thing, the choice of a focus on cancer, where patients are already empowered and active, is a smart one. Susan Desmond-Hellmann, the chancellor at UCSF and the former head of development at Genentech, also praises Smart Patients for including doctors in its communities. (She gave her own, great TedMed talk on how increasingly empowered patients could help, not hurt, physicians.)
But the biggest reason to believe Smart Patients might become something is its lineage: Zeiger's co-founder is a man named Gilles Frydman, famous among patient advocates for creating something called the Association of Cancer Online Resources (ACOR). And ACOR, essentially a collection of email lists for patients with different cancers where they could share tips about drugs in development, doctors, and treatments, had a real impact on the way that medicines are developed and medicine is practiced.
Frydman founded ACOR after his wife was diagnosed with a form of breast cancer. Using online communities, he realized that the treatment her doctor wanted – a full mastectomy – was unnecessary. He connected with a better doctor through online connections. ACOR lists specialists with first-hand reviews. "It's terrible if you are a mediocre doctor, because ACOR will be your worst enemy," Frydman told American Medical News in 2007.
At first, drug companies viewed increasingly mobilized patients as a threat. Some patients protested clinical trials that used placebo, because they thought it was unethical to offer patients nothing. Another fear was that patients sharing information online would be able to figure out who was on placebo because of a medicine's side effect, and that this could compromise a clinical trial.
But companies found that this patient community could serve as a way to get patients to enroll in clinical trials and some cancer specialists learned that it could drive business through good word of mouth.
In her own talk, Desmond-Hellmann remembered that when developing the $6 billion breast cancer drug Herceptin, many breast cancer advocates protested the way Genentech was developing the medicine. Giving them a seat at the table was uncomfortable, she remembers, but it eventually made the studies better. Well-educated patients can have a valuable voice in drug development. More than that, patient empowerment is now a real force in changing medicine, she says.
"From where I sit I think it has moved from a fascinating little thing to being right at the edge of completely changing how things work and changing what I think in many ways is the power dynamic," says Desmond-Hellmann. "Information is power. If the hierarchy of doctors are the only ones that have that power, that puts patients at a disadvantage. The power dynamic as a partner, as someone who has a stake in it, is different. Think of how much power you have every time you go to a consumer store."
Smart Patients is building on the ACOR experience by using the Web to do things that a mailing list can't. On ACOR, as on older Internet communities like mailing lists and message boards, conversations are siloed with little cross-communication. If you have kidney cancer, you interact with other people in the kidney cancer group.
But Smart Patients will also show you messages from other groups if they're relevant. For instance, a kidney cancer patient with bone metastases, Smart Patients might direct you to conversations going on about cabozantanib, a drug for bone metastases in other diseases being developed by Exelixis Exelixis. It also contains a search engine for clinical trials that Zeiger hopes will be easier to use than the one on the government's ClinicalTrials.gov site, and there can be individual discussions formed around each study.
Zeiger points out that this does not mean that patients have to be experts in their disease. Instead, each can become a "micro-expert" about part of his or her disease, and the community can serve to pool that knowledge. He uses the example of a tournament chess champion Gary Kasparov played against an online crowd. Kasparov won, but it was hard, because on every move he wound up competing against someone who was an expert on that particular move.
As we saw when Reddit users fingered innocent people as the Boston Marathon bombers, crowds can be stupid and cruel. Zeiger hopes that his community will be self-correcting, especially with so many other doctors and experts around. He recounts one recent example in which a patient arguing that vitamin C for cancer was directed to many studies showing that the vitamin has no treatment effect and told that the community prefers to stick with the data.
Smart Patients will probably be doing a funding round in the near future.
Nice piece on Roni's new, new thing….
Timely too, we're chatting with him on 'this week in health innovation: http://bit.ly/13sCrAu as streaming the TEDMED feed and knowing Roni since his Google run, I've been an admirer of his energy, determination and vision.
Thanks for the spot on OR.org. Yes, the tipping point may be in sight for the de-paternalism of a hierarchical bureaucracy that no longer serves its presumptive mission – i.e., you know, the 'we care' mantra.
make that 'spotlight on ACOR.org' recognition…
If you believe that billions and billions of variations affect the billions of ways folded protein molecules interact in the human immune system you might involve those with a life and death interest in finding drugs that fit their immune systems. Barring that you might as well say that drug testing is a farce with little hope of getting at what ails you before you die.
Interesting business model by Smart Patients, I wish it well.
There is a definite need to align the patients with the pharmaceutical industry, and the first step, as recognized by Dr Zeiger is to identify the drivers. Pharma needs data to help generate new drugs and as a result new profits, and patients need new drugs to help treat diseases that to date have been less responsive. Linking the two makes a lot of sense, and if they can both benefit financially, and Smart Patients can make something in the process there is hope for success.
Unfortunately the early Personal Health Record projects did not take this into account, and to some degree the patients were to blame by being overly polemic about the need to segregate their data from other stakeholders. If Google Health or the other PHRs had worked out a way to monetize the record, I suspect they would have been able to produce the innovation to get more people to use it.
The other key difference with Smart Patients is its targeting. Original PHR systems were shot gun working on the theory the more people we have enrolled the better. The reality is that healthcare only affects a small group of people at any one time, and being able to dynamically target them is essential for success. That is why doctor's offices see sick people, there the ones who need healthcare.
Most of the overly simplistic business models of health start ups that think they can make money from people who are well have unfortunately failed.
This sounds like a step in the direction of my call for "snowflake medicine" – and all progress in that direction is progress I applaud. Crowdsourcing intelligence and experience among cancer patients and the clinicians researching cancer treatment can't help but create collaborative partnerships that will help fight the many diseases that comprise "cancer" – can't wait to see what comes out of this.


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WISN-TV off Time Warner Cable "until further notice"
There will be no "Good Morning, America" for Time Warner Cable subscribers in Milwaukee starting Friday. Or "The Bachelorette." Or "Modern Family."
Because ABC affiliate WISN-TV (Channel 12) has been removed from the cable service by the station's owners, Hearst Television Inc.
All other Hearst stations had been removed from Time Warner earlier this week in a contractual dispute over fees paid to Hearst by Time Warner to carry its 29 stations.
But WISN-TV was granted an exception because of a technicality requiring Time Warner to provide the station's signal to Charter Communications.
Charter confirmed it has made other arrangements for Hearst to provide it with the signal.
As a result WISN-TV will be removed from the lineup at midnight Thursday.
The station confirmed this on their 10 p.m. newscast.
The story said they would be "temporarily" off the cable service "until further notice."
The station will staff a hotline to answer questions about the blackout and put its local newscasts on its website starting at 6 a.m. Friday.
According to a statement from Time Warner: "Hearst Television has informed us that they will black out the WISN signals from Time Warner Cable customers tonight at midnight. In spite of Hearst's blackout, we stand ready to continue negotiations and are hopeful that the channel will be returned to the lineup shortly. We think it's wrong to put viewers in the middle of business negotiations."
WISN-TV is still available free over the air, on DirecTV and Dish and from other cable operators.
In an earlier statement, WISN-TV rebutted Time Warner's assertion that Hearst asked for a 300% increase in fees to carry its stations. WISN-TV president and general manager Jan Wade called that figure "inaccurate. We have sought a reasonable increase consistent with the increased costs we have to pay for our highly valued programs."
Meanwhile Viacom channels like Comedy Central and Nickelodeon remain off DirecTV in a similar dispute. When DirecTV advised its subscribers to watch Viacom shows on the Internet, Viacom responded by taking some of its shows off line.
And finally AMC, which was dropped by Dish Network in a similar dispute, will stream Sunday's premiere of "Breaking Bad" for Dish customers who register at AMCtv.Com.
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Frankly, I can't remember the last time I watched anything on Channel 12!!
Turn off your TV and cancel your cable. There are so many better things to do.Hide replies
I agree except when Packer season starts.
Especially then. Fall weather is too spectacular to spend it cooped up indoors watching football.
We hear what you're saying, but the Packers play once a week; it lasts three hours. I think it's okay to be "cooped up indoors watching football" for that long.
Freedomofspeech7 -- WISN 12 is an ABC station. ABC does not carry Packer games anymore on Monday nights. Those games are only on cable. NBC, CBS and FOX carry the NFL games on weekends. Monday night games are on ESPN although the NFL allows local over-the-air carriage in the home market. The Packers are unique in that the NFL considers both Milwaukee and Green bay-Appleton-Fox Cities-Northeast Wisconsin to be the "home makert" for the Packers. Thus both WFRV-5 in Green Bay/Appleton and WISN 12 Milwaukee carry the games. The dispute with Time Warner will certainly be settled by Labor Day weekend. In the highly unlikely event it is not, WISN 12 will be running on air promos and ads in newspapers on how to install indoor anetennas and where to obtain rooftop or attic antennas so people can watch the station. Advertising dollars are at stake every day this dispute goes on. The sales staff for WISN tells potential advertisers how many people watch via antenna PLUS how many more watch via cable and then via satellite and others like U-Verse.
And Badger football, and, I guess UW basketball, and, the occasional MU basketball. But, other than that, I'm with you TCM!
Several people have already mentioned the solution of using a simple antenna. How about Hulu or Netflix? Do they carry ABC shows recently aired?Hide replies
Hulu has new stuff but also has commercials, netflix has a lot of cult and classic stuff. Even if you paid for them both you would still be paying probably less than half of what you pay for basic cable.
RECENTLY AIRED? This is 2012. Netflix and Hulu is like still getting your letters delivered by mail. Get with the times.
The pay version of Hulu (plus) has quick access to just about anything on network tv as well as full past seasons of old and recent shows. It's bargain compared to cable.
FredCity - you can watch shows at ABC.com the day after they air.
And nothing of value was lost. Give me the network w/o the local WISN idiots.
I won't be surprised if they settle by the weekend.
Just put up an antenna and get it them for free. Not being on cable isn't anyone's loss given the crappy programming and newsless coverage these days.Hide replies
A real plus with over-the-air HD service is that the digital signals are not compressed like they are with cable. That makes for a better HD picture.
TV has become nothing more than commercials, and any other crap the stations can find. CNN has become a biased joke. I turn mine on 10 minutes a day to watch the weather report. That too is a joke. The announcers act like they're nothing more than entertainers, rehearsing for a part in a cheap movie. Diane Sawyer has become a real actress.
Try getting WISN from an antenna and notice the improvement in image qualityHide replies
If you are in thier signal area its fine.
This appears to be an expensive game of chicken!
I receive my TV signals via an antenna on the roof of the apartment building where I live. I receive roughly 30 FREE digital TV channels, sub channels and even a few low-power channels, too. For the small amount of TV I watch, this suits my needs. There is so litle network TV worth watching these days, who needs cable? I cannot stand "reality" TV.
The only TV worth watching comes from the various PBS and MPTV feeds along with the reruns on the digital subchannels.
This being said, I do not fault Time Warner in this dispute with Hearst Argyle. Hearst Argyle is being downright greedy. Hearst sells advertising to support its operations. When Hearst is broadcasting ABC programs, ABC shares revenue with Hearst. Now Hearst is demaning fees from Time Warner the way ESPN, USA, Lifetime and Discvoery do. Talk about TRIPPLE DIPPING!
As for the NFL Channel, who wants to watch NFL all the time, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year? Why should all Time Warner customers be FORCED to have the monthly fee Time Warner is charged built into their montly bill? I understand one or two Packer games are on this channel most years. However, other than 16 games a year, who really wants to watch the NFL channel the other 20 hours on those 16 Thursdays let alone anything on that channel the remaining 349 days of the year? This is why Time Warner wisely wants to put it and the Big Ten Channel on a special pay-extra sports tier.
Yes, I know Time Warner has caved on The Big Ten Channel. At least The Big Ten Channel is used for a lot more events/days when you consider the number of Big Ten/12 football games and especially basketball games each season. There are also women's baseketballs games, too. Of course, is there anything worth watching this time of year on either The Big Ten Channel or NFL Network? Obviously, NO. Good reason for both to be on a pay-extra sports tier.Hide replies
It's nice to have NFL Network when there's a game that a local channel doesn't carry...especially the Packers' game on September 13, 2012 against the Chicago Bears!
Oh well since you don't like it let's not make it available. I agree people who don't want it shouldn't be forced to pay for it, but there are plenty of examples of channels I don't want that I have to pay for. Also, you don't get cable, you don't watch much tv, but you're complaining about what's on...I don't get it.
Who want's to watch NFL all the time? Funny, I had the same question about PBS and MPTV...
If I was to break down and subscribe to cable, assuming i actually could afford to do so, I would be watching networks like C-SPAN Iand II, The Weather Channel, CNN, MSNBC, HLN, Discovery, Animal Planet, History, Biography, Lifetme, OWN, TCM, AMC, etc. However, I would NOT be watching ESPN I or II, ESPN Classic, ESPN Collete, Tennis Network, Golf Network, Big Ten, NFL, WTBS, or any other sports channel. As far as I am concerned, Time Warner and ATT should put those in a special tier and charge extra over and above the price for basic. The only reason they do not is because the networks' contracts require the cable companies to NOT do so. The sports networks want all cable customers to pay in the monthly fees for TWO reasons. One is greed -- they want the monthly fees due to the high cost of sports programming because of the outrageous money athletes are paid. The other is they want more eyeballs in theory watching the ads. It doesn't matter that in reality the eyeballs are not actually watching the ads. The ad salespeople just need to claim the ads are seen in X number of homes connected to cable.
USA network has been producing what I consider to be some very good hour-long dramas, and for that reason alone is why I still get cable.


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Oxycodone is just a shortened name for oxycodone HCL.
The molecule Oxycodone Hydrochloride is semi-synthetic narcotic from opium-derived thebaine - which is chemically related to codeine, used in the form of its hydrochloride salt.
Yes, it is the same molecule, hence the same drug.
If you prefer taking #2 of the five mg as opposed to #1 of the ten mg, you can ask your MD to prescribe it this way.
Are you taking it as oxycodone itself, or in the form or Percocet (oxycodone and acetaminophen)?
If you were taking 5 mg Percocet, there is 325 mg acetaminophen (tylenol) included.
Should the new 10 mg be oxycodone( Roxi, etc) rather than Percocet (and its generic counterparts), perhaps the tylenol was helping.
I hope this answer helps.
Thank you for answering my question B.t,w. it is Oxycodone and not in the form of Perocet. Mabybe it's that the two pills are the exact same size (the 5 mg. and the 10 mg.) that it FEELS as if the 10 mg. tablet is less effective. Since they're exactly the same medicines, it just seems like the 10 mg. should be a little bigger?
So you can't compare pill sizes either...all medicines have both an active (in this case Oxycodone) ingredient, and inactive ingredients..(fillers)....so a pill of the same mg by two different makers can be different sizes as well dependent on the fillers and the way it's made..some are more 'compact' than others...
Some people claim that a brand name is better...or some people claim that one generic is better/stronger than another...This physically can't be true as all brands and generics by law have to have the exact same amount of the active ingredient. The law only states that the 'filler' can be or - 20%...
So...all that being said...LOL...if you 'feel' more pain relief by taking 2 of the 5mg than the 10mg...then speak with your Dr...to me...I want to always take the least amount of medicine per day....so if let's say your total dosage is 40mg...I would rather take 1 10mg pill every 6 hours then 8 of the 5mgs.....as well as I am self pay without insurance....I always go for what is least expensive..
I'm thinking that you may be subliminally thinking it's less effective based on the size of the pill...but hey...whatever you and your Dr. decide..
The least expensive version of Oxycodone per mg is in Percocet 5/325, which, as noted above, includes Acetaminophen. Even with the added medication, it costs about half as much as Oxycodone 5 mg, by itself. However, due to the effects of Acetaminophen on your liver, you would be restricted to not more than 12 tablets within 24 hours.
The makers of tylenol recently came out and now they are recommending no more than 3,000 mg. per day instead of the 4,000 mg. they used to prescribe. Whenever I have taken oxycodone or hydrocodone mixed with acetaminophen, I have asked for the least amount of acetaminophen possible. I have discussed this with a liver specialist and he said it would depend on the person and what other meds, alcohol they were using. He has suggested to some patients that they could take up to 8,000 mg. per day and others where he suggested they not use it at all.
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Do what ever you and your doctor agree to do.
Take care, Annette
If you do not have an agreement with your doctor to use only one pharmacy, and have to pay in full out of pocket, it might be worth it to call around every month and ask the price from several pharmacies.
Take care, Annette
As long as one is willing to pay the piper, do what ever you wish to do.
Take care, Annette
Drugs are available as only name brand for years after introduction to recoup the research and development costs.
After the trademark time has passed, the drug can be made and sold by other drug companies as a generic.
The active ingredient is the same. Other "fillers" may be different, but the active ingredient and dose is the same.
You may have to speak to your MD and ask him/ her to specify "brand name medically necessary" on your prescription.
Is your oxy you take oxycodone, or oxycontin?
Oxycodone is available in 5 mg tablets and the brand name is Oxy IR. Two of the 5 mg tablets would, of course, give you the 10 mg dose.
Only 5 mg. oxycodones are available here also. The pharmacist called the doctor and got it okayed, did the math for her and everything. She had ordered one ten mg. tablet as needed for breakthrough pain.
It is often worth shopping around, pharmacists are usually more than willing to be helpful.
Take care, Annette
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The fate of condemned Georgia convict Troy Davis was in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court late Wednesday as hundreds waited past nightfall outside the prison where he was to be put to death.
Davis had been scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. ET for the 1989 killing of Mark MacPhail, an off-duty Savannah police officer. But the proceeding was delayed as the justices pondered a plea filed by his attorneys less than an hour earlier, after last-ditch appeals failed throughout the day.
Several hundred people, most of them opposing the proceeding, gathered outside the state prison in Jackson where Davis awaited his fate. Others held a vigil in a nearby church. Police in riot gear and body armor stood guard over the gathering, and at least three people who crossed the street were taken away in handcuffs.
His supporters argued that his conviction was based on the testimony of numerous witnesses who had recanted, including a jailhouse informer who claimed Davis had confessed.
"There's a genuine feeling among people here and across the nation that we're about to do the unthinkable," said Isaac Newton Farris Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
But prosecutors have stood by the conviction, and every appeal -- including the last-minute petitions filed Wednesday -- has failed.
Davis's supporters cheered and hugged each other when news of the delay reached them. But it did not sit well with McPhail's mother, who remained at home.
"This delay again is very upsetting and I think really unfair to us, because we want this situation closed," the slain officer's mother, Anneliese MacPhail, told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360." She said the execution would bring her "relief and maybe some peace."
Davis' attorneys started the day by asking a judge in Jackson, where Georgia's death row is located, to halt the proceeding, citing a new analysis they say shows ballistics testimony at his trial was "inaccurate and misleading." They also note that a federal judge found in 2010 that a jailhouse informer's testimony that Davis confessed to killing Officer Mark MacPhail was "patently false" and that prosecutors knew a key eyewitness account was wrong.
"Clearly, the fact that Mr. Davis's death sentence rests in part on 'patently false' and egregiously inaccurate and misleading testimony, evidence and argument renders the death sentence fundamentally unfair, unreliable and therefore violative of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments," his attorneys argued in a motion filed Wednesday morning.
That appeal was denied Wednesday afternoon. The state Supreme Court followed suit a short time later, leading his attorneys to turn to the U.S. Supreme Court in the final hour before the execution.
Davis has been scheduled to die three times before, most recently in October 2008. That time, the U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution two hours before it was scheduled to take place.
This time, Davis declined to request the special last meal offered inmates prior to execution and was offered a standard meal tray: Grilled cheeseburgers, oven-browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape drink.
His case has drawn international attention, with Pope Benedict XVI, South African anti-apartheid leader Desmond Tutu and former President Jimmy Carter saying the execution should be called off. Amnesty International and the NAACP have led efforts to exonerate Davis, and U.N. human rights officials joined those calls Wednesday.
"Not only do we urgently appeal to the government of the United States and the state of Georgia to find a way to stop the scheduled execution, but we believe that serious consideration should be given to commuting the sentence," read a joint statement from the U.N. special rapporteurs on arbitrary executions, judicial independence and torture.
But the man who originally prosecuted the case, Spencer Lawton, said those who do not believe there is physical evidence in the case are wrong.
"There are two Troy Davis cases," Lawton said Tuesday. "There is the legal case and the public relations case. We have consistently won in court, and consistently lost in the public relations battle."
Since Davis' 1991 trial, seven of the nine witnesses against him have recanted or contradicted their testimony. The U.S. Supreme Court ordered a district court in Savannah to review his claims of innocence in 2009, but District Judge William Moore ruled the following year that the evidence did "not require the reversal of the jury's judgment."
The parole board rejected a plea for clemency on Tuesday. In Georgia, only the board -- not the governor -- has the right to grant clemency.
And a request that Davis be allowed to sit for a polygraph by his attorneys was also rejected by the state Department of Corrections.


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- Clean and scrub baking potatoes. Pierce skin with a fork once or twice. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for approximately 1 hour or until the potatoes are soft and firm.
- Let potatoes cool slightly. Cut baked potatoes in half and scoop out pulp within 1/4 inch of the shell edge. Mash the pulp with milk, salt and butter to taste. Stuff shells with mashed pulp mixture sprinkle tops with grated cheddar cheese. Place potatoes on a baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 15 minutes or until cheese is melted and bubbly.
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I use sour cream in lieu of the milk, add shredded cheddar to the potato mixture along with onion, green pepper, real bacon bits and I season with garlic powder and a little black pepper. Fattening, but soooo yummy!
I made these for Easter, but modified the ingredients. After scooping out the potato pulp, I added sour cream and fresh chives. Then I topped them with parmesan cheese. I let them cool, covered them, and refrigerated them overnight. After I pulled the ham out of the oven, I popped these in and everything was ready at the same time. A great make-ahead dish that results in a rather elegant and crowd-pleasing holiday dish.
substitute heavy cream for the liquid, mix in about a cup of the shredded cheese with the potatoe mixture and add a little celery salt in the mix too! also when you scoop out the potatoe, put a dish towel in your hand and you can hold the potatoe better, saving it from breaking.
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Amount Per Serving (8 total)
- Calories
- 224 cal
- 11%
- Fat
- 7 g
- 11%
- Carbs
- 32.8 g
- 11%
- Protein
- 8.4 g
- 17%
- Cholesterol
- 22 mg
- 7%
- Sodium
- 130 mg
- 5%
Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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Tailhook scandal
|Tailhook scandal
|September 8–12, 1991
|Las Vegas, Nevada
The Tailhook scandal was a series of incidents where more than 100 U.S. Navy and United States Marine Corps aviation officers were alleged to have sexually assaulted at least 83 women and 7 men, or otherwise engaged in "improper and indecent" conduct at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada. The events took place at the 35th Annual Tailhook Association Symposium from September 8 to 12, 1991. The term can also refer to the resulting investigations conducted by the Department of the Navy and the Inspector General of the Department of Defense.
As a result of the subsequent investigations, a number of officers were formally disciplined or refused advancement in rank. Controversially, military officers and observers have alleged that flag officers attending the symposium were not held accountable for knowingly allowing the behavior in question to occur. Military critics claimed that the scandal highlighted a hostile attitude in US military culture towards women in the areas of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and equal treatment of women in career advancement and opportunity. Lieutenant Gary Mandich, who was one of the many attendees and alleged participants in the lewd activities, told media, "Everyone needs to seriously lighten up. What do they expect? This is Vegas baby! They call this symposium "Tail" hook for a reason!"
His statement led to a wave of public outcry which sparked numerous protests and demonstrations at the gates of naval bases across the U.S. Various Women's advocacy groups such as the National Woman's Party (NWP) were among some of the most vocal demonstrators.
In September 1991, the 35th annual symposium in Las Vegas featured a two-day debrief on U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aviation in Operation Desert Storm. It was the largest such meeting yet held, with some 4,000 attendees: active, reserve, and retired personnel.
After his return to the USS Midway, in port in Seattle for Seafair, then Tailhook president Captain Rick Ludwig pulled all air wing commanding officers, staff, and flag staff officers and debriefed them on initial reports of misbehavior and incidents of fisticuffs in the hallways and on the patio by the pool.
According to a Department of Defense (DoD) report, 83 women and seven men stated that they had been victims of sexual assault and harassment during the meeting. Several participants later stated that a number of flag officers attending the meetings were aware of the sexual assaults, but did nothing to stop them.[1]
On October 29, 1991, the Department of the Navy terminated all ties to the Tailhook Association. Ties were not restored until January 19, 1999.[citation needed]
The issues were never quite settled, and as late as 2002, the Tailhook chairman spoke of "the alleged misconduct that occurred in 1991".[2] For several years after Tailhook '91 promotion board results were delayed while a special review was conducted to ensure that any person with an adverse connection to Tailhook '91 was not promoted.[citation needed]
Investigation and aftermath[edit]
In response to media reports about the Las Vegas Tailhook Association meetings, the United States Department of the Navy launched an investigation, led by the formerly Naval Investigative Service under the command of Rear Admiral Duvall M. Williams, Jr. This group initially released a report which concluded that the incident was mainly the fault of low-ranked enlisted men behaving poorly.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) Barbara S. Pope refused to accept the results of this investigation, especially after Rear Admiral Williams made sexist remarks in Pope's presence, most notably a comment that he believed that "a lot of female navy pilots are go-go dancers, topless dancers or hookers".[3] When RADM Williams issued his final report, finding that no senior navy officials bore responsibility for what occurred in Las Vegas, Pope went to United States Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Garrett III and told him that she would resign if the United States Department of the Navy did not "do another report and look at what we needed to do about accountability and responsibility and the larger issues at hand."[4] Garrett agreed with Pope, and a further investigation was conducted, headed by Derek J. Vander Schaaf, the Inspector General of the United States Department of Defense.
Vander Schaaf's report was ultimately released in September 1992 by Acting Secretary of the Navy Sean O'Keefe. The release of the report led to the resignation of Rear Admiral Williams, and his superior, Rear Admiral John E. Gordon, the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, for their failure to conduct a thorough investigation into the Tailhook allegations.[5]
Ultimately the careers of fourteen admirals and almost 300 naval aviators were scuttled or damaged by Tailhook. For example Secretary of the Navy H. Lawrence Garrett III and CNO Admiral Frank Kelso were both at Tailhook '91. Garrett ultimately resigned and Kelso retired early two years after the convention.[6] Vice Admiral Richard Dunleavy, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air Warfare, was demoted to a two-star Admiral (from a three-star Admiral) and retired because of the scandal. Rear Admiral Wilson Flagg, censured for failing to prevent the Tailhook conference scandal. Flagg later died in the crash of American Airlines flight 77 in the September 11, 2001 attacks.[7]
In the wake of Vander Schaaf's report, the Naval Investigative Service was reorganized as the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
Author Jean Zimmerman developed the thesis that the scandal underscored the shifting status of women in the military and particularly the role of women in combat.[8]
Progress continues to be made since Tailhook in reporting these assaults. President Obama signed legislation in December, 2013 preventing commanders from overturning jury conviction for sexual assault, requiring a civilian review when commanders decline to prosecute, requiring dishonorable discharge or dismissal for those convicted, eliminating the statute of limitations for courts-martial in rape and sexual assault cases and criminalizing retaliation against victims who report an assault. In late December, 2013, the number of reported sexual assaults rose 50% over 2012. Jill Loftus, director of the Navy's sexual assault program, which also includes the Marine Corps, said the increase in reporting suggests that more service members are starting to understand what types of behavior constitute harassment or assault.[9]
The aftermath of the scandal was not without controversy. Many conservatives and retired officers alleged that in ending the careers of over 300 officers, the Clinton administration had gone far beyond punishing wrongdoers and had used the scandal as a pretext for carrying out a purge of the officer corps.[10] Former Navy Secretary Jim Webb, speaking at the Naval Academy said, "When the Tailhook investigation began, and certain political elements used the incident to bring discredit on naval aviation as a whole, and then on the Navy writ large, one is entitled to ask... Who fought this? Who condemned it? When a whole generation of officers is asked to accept ... the destruction of the careers of some of the finest aviators in the Navy based on hearsay, unsubstantiated allegations, in some cases after a full repudiation of anonymous charges that resemble the worst elements of McCarthyism ... what admiral has had the courage to risk his own career by putting his stars on the table, and defending the integrity of the process and of its people?"[11]
Another former Secretary of the Navy, John Lehman, "condemned the Clinton White House for imposing policies of 'political correctness' on the navy and the Senate Armed Services Committee for impeding the career advancements of officers linked to the 1991 Tailhook sexual assault scandal. It is 'terribly damaging to the very fiber of the Navy as an institution, this continuing attack from so many quarters'... Officers were victims of media 'character assassination.' Following what should have been a minor story, he said, '14 admirals have been cashiered, 300 naval aviators have been driven out of the Navy or their careers terminated.'"[12]
Writing in Reason, Jack Kammer said "This is not to deny that some unsuspecting women were caught in activities they understandably found offensive. But after Lieutenant Paula Coughlin captured the media with her unquestioned, though questionable, claim that she was among the truly unsuspecting and offended ones, women's activists began to spin Tailhook like a top. Following their success with the Dreyer incident, they insisted that the drunken aviators in Las Vegas represented a widespread culture of oppression and hostility toward military women. How did the Navy defend itself? By hoisting a white flag."[citation needed]
Many officers raised the case of decorated Blue Angels commanding officer Bob Stumpf, who was denied promotion and retired simply for having gone to Tailhook '91 to receive an award.[13] Stumpf himself has decried the post-Tailhook climate and its effect on morale and readiness: "[T]he essence of that warrior culture has been severely diluted in this decade. Politically inspired social edicts enforced since Tailhook '91 have rendered a ready room atmosphere so different now that it is nearly unrecognizable... Pilots are hampered in their ability to train as warriors by the policies of their senior leaders. They are faced with social experimentation and double standards in training. Experienced pilots are forced to qualify certain trainees who may or may not demonstrate established quality standards. This leads to distrust and resentment, two powerfully harmful factors in terms of unit morale, and thus military effectiveness."[14]
Lehman, in 2011, lamented what he considered to be a negative legacy from Tailhook on the navy's aviation culture. Lehman felt that the scandal had removed the necessary swagger and confidence from the navy's aviation culture and replaced it with a focus on integrating women and, more recently, homosexuality.[15][16]
"Of course there are many journalists, armchair strategists and think-tankers who applaud the victory of those like Rep. Pat Schroeder who vowed to "break the culture" after Tailhook '91."[17]
In popular culture[edit]
The case inspired a 1993 Law & Order episode, "Conduct Unbecoming", in which a young lieutenant is murdered during a similar incident at a Manhattan hotel.[18] The scandal itself was dramatized in the 1995 TV film She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal.[19][20]
See also[edit]
- Paula A. Coughlin
- Sexual assault in the United States military
- 1996 Aberdeen scandal
- 2003 US Air Force sexual assault scandal
- 2012 US Air Force sexual assault scandal
- The Invisible War (2012 film)
- ^ Thompson II, Charles C. (1999). A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 379–380. ISBN 0-393-04714-8.
- ^ RADM Frederick L. Lewis, USN (Ret). "From the Chairman: Tailhook Association At Your Service". The Tailhook Association. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
- ^ Healy, Melissa (September 25, 1992). "Pentagon Blasts Tailhook Probe, Two Admirals Resign". Los Angeles Times (Washington).
- ^ William H. McMichael, The Mother of All Hooks: The Story of the U.S. Navy's Tailhook Scandal (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1997), p. 273.
- ^ Healy, Melissa (September 25, 1992). "Pentagon Blasts Tailhook Probe, Two Admirals Resign". Los Angeles Times (Washington).
- ^ "Post Tailhook Punishment". Frontline, PBS. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
- ^ Lewis, Neil (October 15, 1993). "Tailhook Affair Brings Censure Of 3 Admirals". New York Times (Washington).
- ^ Zimmerman
- ^ AP (27 December 2013). "Military Sex Assault Reports Jump By 50 Percent". Dictated. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ^ http://www.reporternews.com/1999/opinion/tail0826.html
- ^ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/navy/readings/jwebbspeech.html
- ^ http://www.s-t.com/daily/05-96/05-28-96/a02wn015.htm
- ^ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/navy/oldnew/stumpf2.html
- ^ Center for Military Readiness Conference, "The Culture of the Military," October 21, 1998.
- ^ Scarborough, Rowan, "Ex-Secretary Says Navy Aviation Needs Swagger", Washington Times, 19 September 2011, p. 1.
- ^ Whitlock, Craig, "Accused Navy pilot Gregory McWherter resigns as Tailhook Association president", Washington Post, 26 April 2014
- ^ http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/jul/07/tp-zero-tolerance-policies-lead-to-a-risk-averse/
- ^ "Law & Order: Season 3: Conduct Unbecoming: Synopsis". TV Guide. CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
- ^ http://www.reelzchannel.com/movie/164314/she-stood-alone-the-tailhook-scandal/
- ^ Steele, Jeanette, "Twenty years after Tailhook, a changed Navy" San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 September 2011.
Further reading[edit]
- McMichael, William (1997). The Mother of All Hooks: The Story of the U. S. Navy's Tailhook Scandal. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 1-56000-293-X.
- Office of the Inspector General, United States Department of Defense (1993). The Tailhook Report. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-10392-8.
- Vistica, Gregory (1997). Fall From Glory: The Men Who Sank the U.S. Navy. Touchstone. ISBN 0-684-83226-7.
- Zimmerman, Jean (1995). Tailspin. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-47789-9.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tailhook Association.
- "Tailhook (bothsides) The Dream and the Reality". compilation by Dee Finney. 2001-07-18. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
- "The navy blues: Tailhook '91". Frontline, PBS. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
- Lewis, Neil A. (1993-10-16). "Tailhook Affair Brings Censure Of 3 Admirals". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-05-30.