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Projectors with 720p resolution are perfectly fine when budgets are tight and the very best image quality is not a must. But if you have a few more dollars to spend, you can get greatly improved image quality and full 1080p HD resolution without putting yourself completely into the poor house.
The least expensive projector in this class is also the oldest, the Optoma HD20 (*Est. $700) . It earns a Highly Rated tag from ProjectorCentral.com and a Hot Product award from ProjectorReviews.com. Largely positive reviews can also be found at PCMag.com, Audioholics.com and elsewhere. User feedback at Amazon.com is abundant and mostly complimentary.
No one says that the Optoma HD20 will outperform more expensive projectors, but to get that better performance, you'll need to be willing to spend much more. That said, achieving this price point in a 1080p projector doesn't come without some compromises.
One thing most reviewers note is that black levels, while good, are easily eclipsed by better -- and more expensive -- projectors. The limited zoom range and lack of any lens shift limits placement options. Brightness is good, though not top of class. Since this is a DLP projector, those few people prone to seeing that technology's rainbow effect might be happier with a projector that uses different technology.
Still, the Optoma HD20 is a reasonable choice for a living room, family room or any other room where light control might not be perfect. Lighter than perfect blacks aside, picture quality is excellent, with most reviewers pleased with color performance right out of the box. Connectivity is also above average and includes two HDMI inputs. But, in the end, the most powerful positive is cost, and most say that the HD20 is a tremendous value -- especially now that street prices have dropped to around $700, which is on a par with the cheap 720p projectors discussed elsewhere in this report.
The ViewSonic Pro8200 (*Est. $900) is another video projector in the class that's worth considering. One advantage that this DLP projector holds over the HD20 is its even higher brightness -- so bright that we've lost track of the number of times reviewers and users have trotted out the phrase "light cannon" to describe it.
The Viewsonic Pro8200 draws lots of user praise for its sharpness and clarity. We did see some gripes regarding color, at least right out of the box. But a patient owner -- or one willing to spring for a professional calibration -- can get things looking pretty good. Those expecting deep blacks in a projector at this price point shouldn't be, but the other side of the coin is that brightness -- once again -- is more than high enough to make the Pro8200 a good video projector for use in better lit spaces. We saw some complaints about motion artifacts, but also comments that in most cases those are more likely to show up in test patterns than in live images.
If you have just a bit more to spend, critics say that the Epson Home Cinema 8350 (*Est. $1,300) is the top video projector in this price/performance class. This is another home theater projector that's been around for a while but that remains current. ProjectorReviews.com gives the Home Cinema 8350 a Hot Product award based on its value and performance. ProjectorCentral.com's Bill Livolsi is more impressed and grants the Epson Home Cinema 8350 the site's Editor's Choice award for 2010.
Picture quality for the Epson Home Cinema 8350 is excellent overall. Though decent out of the box, a few user adjustments produce terrific blacks and great colors at all but the highest brightness mode. Some defects are noted in that brightness mode (called Dynamic) -- which is exceptionally bright -- but that's not unusual, and the Epson Home Cinema 8350 actually outperforms lots of projectors in that regard. All of the preset modes also have an Eco mode that drops light levels to conserve lamp life.
The Epson Home Cinema 8350 is an LCD projector. Because of that, you don't have the placement issues that DLP technology introduces, and placement is made easier still by the large amount of zoom and lens shift available. Using LCD technology also means that those few who do see DLP's rainbow effect won't have to worry about it with the Home Cinema 8350.
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Spring/Summer 2013
PhD student Dara Satterfield, together with Sarah Heisel and Sarah Budishak, won top prize in an NSF-sponsored essay contest about graduate education. An article on their essay is printed here.
Emily Cornelius defended her MS thesis in June 2013, focused on parasitism and immune defense in migrating songbirds in coastal GA. Emily will begin a PhD program at the University of Wisconsin this fall.
Julie Rushmore successfully defended her PhD thesis on social contact networks and primate disease risk in April 2013, and plans to start a DVM degree in the UGA Vet School this fall. Congratulations Dr. Rushmore!
Sonia Altizer taught a field course in the ecology of wildlife diseases at Mountain Lake Biological Station in June 2013.
PhD student Dan Becker was awarded several grants for his work on vampire bat ecology and behavior in Latin America, including an Odum School small grant, a LACSI Graduate Field Research Award, a Student Research Scholarship from Bat Conservation International, and student research grants from the American Society of Mammalogists and the Animal Behavior Society.
Dan Becker also received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, which provides three years of stipend support.
Farewell and congratulations to Jamie Winternitz, PhD, who left Athens in April to start a new postdoc at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. We will miss you!
Sonia Altizer is a co-PI on a newly awarded NSF EEID Research Coordination Network grant on the Macroecology of Infectious Diseases, awarded to the University of Georgia (with lead PI Patrick Stephens, co-PI Vanessa Ezenwa, and other co-PIs at Brown, George Mason and the University of Otago). This 5-year grant will support twice-annual workshops focused on understanding large-scale patterns of infectious disease distributions in wildlife and humans.
PhD student Dan Becker participated in lots of travel this spring and summer, including field work on vampire bats in Peru with postdoc Daniel Streicker and Ben Stoner-Duncan, a workshop on stable isotopes in Canada, and a Research Coordination Network exchange in Ecoimmunology at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin.
Sonia Altizer, Dara Satterfield and Alexa Fritzsche spent a week in central Mexico doing field sampling of wild monarchs at their wintering sites in the neovolcanic mountains in February 2013.
Postdoc Daniel Streicker was awarded a National Science Foundation Math-Bio postdoctoral fellowship to study the evolution of bats and rabies viruses at the University of Glasgow starting this fall.
Alexa Fritzsche received a grant from the Animal Behavior Society to support her work on migratory behavior and the ecoimmunology of infection in monarch butterflies.
Dara Satterfield received grants from Monarch Joint Venture and the North American Monarch Institute to support ongoing monitoring of parasite prevalence in winter breeding monarchs in the southeast and in California.
Fall/Winter 2012
PhD student Shan Huang successfully defended her thesis focused on carnivore macroevolution and parasites in September 2012. She immediately began a new postdoc at the University of Chicago, focused on macroevolution in bivalves. Congratulations Dr. Huang!
PhD student Jamie Winternitz had a great thesis defense in November 2012, focused on parasitism and MHC evolution in montane voles. Congratulations Dr. Winternitz!
Congrats to Dara Satterfield and Alexa Fritzsche for passing their oral and written comprehensive exams this past year!
Summer 2012
Science Nation episode, titled "Butterflies and Bats Reveal Clues About Spread of Infectious Disease," features Sonia Altizer, Daniel Streicker and Dara Satterfield. To view the video, click here.
New findings on vampire bat rabies by Daniel Streicker are highlighted in BBC News. To view the article, click here.
Spring 2012
In January, Dr. Daniel Streicker began an NSF-funded postdoctoral position working on the dynamics of rabies in vampire bats in Peru using a combination of field studies, molecular genetic analysis and mathematical modeling.
Several lab members were recognized for GSS presentations in January, including Emily Cornelius: 1st place Masters research, Dara Satterfield: 1st place Ph.D. proposed research, Julie Rushmore: 1st place Ph.D. dissertation research.
Congratulations to Alexa Fritzsche, who published a paper on the effects of tick-induced fear on squirrel foraging in EcoHealth with Dr. Brian Allan. To view the paper, click here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/3t74g51j6k8187wt/
To view a press release, click here: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/23453.aspx
In February and March, Mike Maudsley travelled to Bermuda and Costa Rica to conduct field work on monarch butterfly parasites.
Congratulations to Emily Cornelius, who was awarded grants from the Georgia Ornithological Society and Sigma Xi to support her research on infection and immunity in migratory songbirds.
Graduate student Dara Satterfield received a 3-year NSF graduate research fellowship award to support her work on the consequences of monarch migration loss for parasite infection dynamics.
Graduate student Julie Rushmore received a Dissertation Completion Award from the UGA Graduate School to support her work during 2012-13.
Congratulations to Julie Rushmore, who was one of two UGA graduate students selected for the annual GHSU/UGA Student Exchange Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research. The winners each receive a cash award and an invitation to present a research seminar at the other institution with travel and accommodations provided.
Jamie Winternitz received the Solitary Glove award from the Odum School of Ecology in recognition of her service as head of the EcoReach elementary education program since 2009.
Farewell to undergraduates Meagan Weathers and Amy Wright, who helped run Project Monarch Health and assisted with lab experiments for the past two years. Meagan and Amy graduated as seniors in May 2012!
The lab will also miss Michael Maudsley, who moved on to a research position at Emory University in May 2012. Michael has worked with the monarch-parasite interaction in the field and laboratory since Fall 2007, and was with the Altizer Lab for almost 5 years. We wish Mike well in his new job!
Welcome to undergraduates Han Nguyen and Jennifer Kukharchuk, who will assist graduate student Dara Satterfield in her monarch experiments during summer 2012. They will also take over the regular duties of Project Monarch Health this summer.
Welcome to Erin Edwards, a UGA veterinary student who will assist in studies to use molecular protocols to detect STDs in wild ape populations during summer 2012. Erin will be working with Julie Rushmore in the lab as part of the Georgia Veterinary Scholars Program.
A new paper by postdoc Daniel Streicker in PLoS Pathogens shows that rabies virus evolves faster in tropical non-migratory bats relative to bat species from the temperate zone. To read the paper, click here.
Summer/Fall 2011
PhD student and NSF-graduate research fellow Alexa Fritzsche received a small grant for a research exchange through the NSF-funding Research Coordination Network in Ecoimmunology. In June, Alexa travelled to Munster, Germany for 2 weeks to learn several stickleback immune assays from Dr. Joern Scharsack.
In June 2011, Dr. Barbara Han was awarded a 3-year NIH Kirschstein NRSA fellowship to study the characteristics of zoonotic diseases at the University of Georgia. Dr. Han will be based in the lab of Dr. John Drake, and will continue to collaborate with Altizer and others in the Odum School of Ecology.
Several lab members presented their work at the Annual meeting of the Ecological Society for America in Austin, TX, including Barbara Han, Becky Bartel, Shan Huang and Julie Rushmore.
Farewell to Dr. Becky Bartel, who concluded her NIH postdoctoral fellowship in October 2011, and started a job at the USFWS in the Outer Banks, NC. Dr. Bartel will continue to collaborate with the lab in studying monarch-parasite dynamics in the near future.
Congratulations to Daniel Streicker, who defended his doctoral dissertation on November 21! The title of Dr. Streicker's thesis: "Viral host shifts: ecological dynamics, cross-species transmission and host adaptation in bat rabies" For a photo of Daniel and Sonia at Winter graduation, click here.
Congratulations to Shan Huang, who received the James L. Carmon Scholarship Award from the UGA graduate school. This award is given annually to students who have used computers in innovative ways.
Graduate student Julie Rushmore received a US Fish and Wildlife Conservation Beyond Borders Grant, an ARCS Foundation Scholar Award, and was awarded "Best Talk" at Student Conference for Conservation Science in NYC!
Winter/Spring 2011
Fall 2010
Summer 2010
Spring 2010
Graduate student Julie Rushmore received a 2-year training fellowship from the Morris Animal Foundation to continue her field, laboratory and modeling work on infectious diseases and great ape conservation for 2010-2012.
Winter 2010
Lab members Becky Bartel and Sarah Sander sampled wild monarchs for parasites on four islands in Hawaii in Jan 2010. Pictures of the field work are online here.
A new study published in the April 2010 issue of Evolution by Sonia Altizer and Andy Davis shows that migratory monarchs have larger, more elongated wings than monarchs from non-migratory populations. To view an article about this study in BBC news, click here.
Congratulations to Jamie Winternitz who received a National Geographic Society Young Explorer's Grant for her work on genetic variation and sexual selection on montane voles in January 2010.
Fall 2009
Congratulations to Dr. Catherine Bradley on a successful thesis defense! Cat's final dissertation was approved by the graduate school in Dec 2009. Here is a picture of Sonia and Cat in a post-defense celebration.
Postdoc Becky Bartel and research technician Mike Maudsley conducted butterfly field work in Australia in Oct 2009. Pictures of fieldwork are online here.
Research technicians Mike Maudsley and Samantha Burton sampled migrating monarchs for parasites in Cape May, NJ in Oct 2009.
Summer 2009
Spring 2009
Fall 2008
Summer 2008
Spring 2008
A new study by former postdoc Jaap de Roode, Sonia Altizer and Andrew Yates on virulence evolution in monarch parasites is published in PNAS. To see a press release on this study, click here. This article was also highlighted as an Editor's Choice in Science.
Graduate students Julie Rushmore, Jamie Winternitz, Daniel Streicker, Shan Huang, and Christina Faust presented their research at the annual Ecology Graduate Student Symposium in January.
Congratulations and good luck to former postdoc Jaap de Roode, who begins a faculty position at Emory University in January 2008. Click here to check out Jaap's new lab webpages.
Welcome to undergraduate Cecilia Nix, who will assist PhD student Julie Rushmore in compiling data focused on previous studies of parasite infections in captive primates.
Welcome to Mike Maudsley, who joined the lab as a Research Technician III in November 2007. Mike obtained his Bachelor's degree in Entomology from UGA in 2007, and has been studying butterflies for many years!
Welcome to undergraduate Ernie Osburn, who will assist with lab research projects, together with students Samantha Burton, Jean Chi and JR McMillan.
Sonia Altizer presented a talk at the Jacques Monod Conference in Roscoff, France in September 2007. This meeting focused on the Evolutionary Genetics of Host-Parasite Relationships and was organized by Dieter Ebert and Gabrielle Sorci.
Lab members Jean Chi, Samantha Burton and teacher Donna Gast organized a booth on project MonarchHealth for the annual Insectival at the Georgia State Botanical Gardens.
Sonia Altizer presented the keynote address for Georgia's first annual Butterfly Symposium held at the Fernbank Science Center in Atlanta.
Three new PhD students launched their graduate studies in August 2007: welcome to Julie Rushmore (BS Duke University ), Byron Ledbetter (BA University of Georgia), and Shan Huang (MS Imperial College, UK).
The Altizer lab was featured in the UGA research magazine - Click here for the article.
Congratulations and good luck to UGA seniors Natalie Kolleda and Rachel Rarick, who graduated on May 11! To see photos of Rachel's graduation party, click here.
Welcome to undergraduates Samantha Burton and JR McMillan, who will assist with lab research projects during summer 2007.
Postdoc Jaap de Roode and graduate students Daniel Streicker and Jamie Winternitz participated in the 2007 Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases workshop and conference at Cornell University in May 2007.
Check out Sonia Altizer on the Today Show segment for Meredith Viera's "Animal Adventure" with monarch butterflies (aired May 16, 2007)
Welcome to Dr. Charles DeCurtis, who joined the lab as a Research Professional in May 2007. Charles obtained his PhD in 2002 from the Institute of Ecology, and most recently worked as director of science at the Nature Conservancy.
Congratulations to PhD student Catherine Bradley, who recieved the Margaret Nice Award from the American Ornithologists Union ($1500) for her project entitled "Linking avifaunal community assemblage to avian malaria lineage diversity and prevalence."
Congratulations to Jamie Winternitz, who recieved student grants from the Animal Behavior Society ($1000) and the Lewis and Clark Exploration Fund ($1400) to study sociality and infectious disease transmission in wild mammals, and to Daniel Streicker, who recieved a Graduate Research Travel Award from UGA's Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute ($1550) and a Lewis and Clark Exploration Fund award ($4900) to support his studies of rabies virus ecology in vampire bats in Central America.
Spring 2007
Several lab members participated in a week-long trip to Mexico for field work on monarch butterflies in January. We joined long-time monarch researcher Lincoln Brower, students from Virginia and UNAM, visited three different monarch wintering sites, and sampled over 1500 butterflies for parasites. Click here to view an online photo album from the trip.
PhD students Jamie Winternitz and Daniel Streicker, together with undergraduates Natalie Kolleda, Byron Ledbetter and Jean Chi, gave talks and posters as part of the 2007 Graduate Student Symposium. Congratulations to Daniel who won top honors for the best graduate student talk, and to Jean and Natalie who won first and second prize respectively for the poster session.
Dr. Dieter Ebert presented a seminar in the Institute of Ecology on host-pathogen coevolution in metapopulations on Feb 27. Many thanks to him for a stimulating presentation and a lab discussion on the evolution of virulence.
Sonia Altizer was awarded an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) for a proposal titled "Animal migrations and infectious disease dynamics: monarch butterflies as a global case study." Click here for a news release on the project and here for a project summary on NSF's website.
Research by Sonia Altizer and Jaap de Roode was featured in a news article in the Athens Banner-Herald on March 12, 2007. Click here to view a copy of the article.
Congratulations to Daniel Streicker who was awarded an NSF predoctoral fellowship in March 2007! Also congratulations to Byron Ledbetter and Julie Rushmore who were awarded graduate fellowships from the University of Georgia to start their PhD studies this coming fall.
Dr. Lincoln Brower and Dr. Ottar Bjornstad presented seminars during April 2007 in the Institute of Ecology, focused on (1) monarch butterfly migration and (2) the spread and dynamics of gypsy moth populations.
Undergraduates Jean Chi, Rachel Rarick and Natalie Kolleda presented posters during the 2007 UGA CURO Student Symposium on April 9. Click here to see the student posters.
Findings from a research paper by Sonia Altizer and colleagues on parasites in threatened primates were featured in articles in Conservation Magazine and in New Scientist. To view a copy of the Conservation Magazine article, click here. To read the original paper, click here.
The lab bid farewell to postdoc Amy Pedersen in November 2006. Amy moved on to a Royal Society postdoctoral position at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Click here to see the farewell photo, and here to view pictures from Amy's goodbye party.
Welcome to Julie Rushmore, who will be working in the lab as a research technician. Julie graduated from Duke University and will be pursuing a DVM at UGA.
Jaap de Roode was featured in the UGA Research Magazine. The article, "Survivor: Piece of an Evolutionary Puzzle" appeared in the Fall 2006 issue. Click here to view a copy of the article.
Dr. Janis Antonovics presented a seminar in the Institute of Ecology on infectious diseases at habitat margins and also visited several of his former students in our lab. Many thanks to him for a stimulating presentation.
Students and monarch butterfly researchers participated in the 2006 Insectival at the State Botanical Gardens in Athens, hosting a booth to publicize the MonarchHealth citizen science project. The live caterpillars and butterflies were a hit with children and adults. Click here to view photos from the festival, or here to view an article reproduced from the Athens Banner-Herald.
Welcome to new PhD students Daniel Streicker and Jamie Winternitz! Daniel completed his undergraduate work at the University of Virginia, and has worked most recently at the CDC on the ecology and transmission of bat rabies. Jamie finished her bachelors degree at UCLA and has worked most recently studying marmot ecology and behavior at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
Several Altizer and Rohani lab postdocs and graduate students presented their research findings at the annual Ecological Society of America meeting, including: Amy Pedersen, Catherine Bradley, Jaap de Roode, Helen Wearing, Dan Vasco, Matt Bonds, Marc Choisy, and Hanh Nguyen.
Baby girl Sophia Rae Rohani was born on August 24 to Pej and Rebecca!
Congratulations to graduate student Elizabeth Lindsey, who welcomed twins Lauren and Caleb in late July.
The first volunteer-collected parasite samples for the new MonarchHealth citizen science project were returned to our lab this month. Click here for more information about this project.
Several undergraduates have joined the lab to assist with summer research, including newcomers Maggie Horne, Jean Chi and Carmel Norman, and 'veterans' Rachel Rarick and Byron Ledbetter.
Spring 2006
Phase II lab was completed in May 2006, with facilities for monarch rearing, microscopy, molecular work and a biosafety cabinet. For pictures, see the facilities webpage.
Congratulations to Amy Pedersen on receiving two postdoctoral fellowship awards last month (including one from The Royal Society) to study pathogen evolution in insect hosts.
Altizer and Rohani lab members attend 4th annual Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases meeting at Penn State University, where Wearing, Pedersen and de Roode presented talks.
A new book is released by Charlie Nunn and Sonia Altizer - Infectious Diseases in Primates: Behavior, Ecology and Evolution - as part of the Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution from Oxford University Press. Click here for a press release on the book from UGA.
Amy and Sonia travel to Washington, D.C. for a meeting on "Infectious Diseases and Mammal Connservation" co-organized with Charlie Nunn and held at Conservation International.
Many monarch adults and larvae were captured during the spring migration through the Athens area in April and May.
Graduate student Cat Bradley, Susan Sanchez, Margie Lee and others collaborate on a songbird- Salmonella project and isolate their first positive bacterial sample from a Brown Thrasher in April.
In March we welcomed two guest speakers, Dr. Peter Daszak from the Consortium for Conservation Medicine, and Dr. Rosie Woodroffe from UC Davis, who presented seminars at the Institute of Ecology.
UGA kicks off its new Infectious Disease Ecology Initiative. For more information, click here.
In February, Dr. Andy Fenton visited the lab from the University of Liverpool, and Dr. Jonathan Davies visited from the University of Virginia.
Sonia travelled to the University of Montana and Washington State University to visit colleagues and present seminars.
In January, postdoc Jaap de Roode returned from a 2-week trip to Queensland, Australia that included many encounters with monarch butterflies.
Fall 2005
In December, Sonia Altizer and Andy Davis were invited speakers at a conference in San Louis Obispo, CA, on the population dynamics of the monarch butterfly. Over 100 people were in attendance, including monarch researchers from across Canada, the United States and Mexico. For a press release of the conference click here.
Congratulations to Jaap de Roode for having his recent paper highlighted on the American Naturalist homepage! The paper, entitled "Dynamics of multiple infection and within-host competition in genetically diverse malaria infections" was chosen as the journal's feature article for the month of November. Authors were Jacobus C. de Roode, Michelle E.H. Helinski, M. Ali Anwar, and Andrew F. Read. Click here to jump to the Am. Nat. homepage.
In November, the lab welcomed new postdoc, Amy Pedersen, a recent graduate from the University of Virginia, and an expert on host parasite dynamics.
Congratulations to Jaap de Roode for receiving a Marie Curie Fellowship for postdoctoral training from the European Union. The award will support 2 years of training at the University of Georgia followed by 1 year at the University of Edinburgh in the laboratory of Andrew Read.
Lab manager Andy Davis was accepted to the PhD program in the Warnell School of Forest Resources at the University of Georgia, where he will begin graduate studies in January.
Summer 2005
Graduate student Elizabeth Lindsey was awarded an NSF-PRISM fellowship for the second year in a row. This award provides stipend support and training for science programs in K-12 education.
In July 2005, Sonia Altizer returned from co-teaching a month-long field course with Amy Pedersen at Mountain Lake Biological Station. See a picture of the class here.
Catherine Bradley, Sonia Altizer and collaborators at UGA and the CDC received a $48,000 year-long research grant from the Southeastern Center for Emerging Biologic Threats to study the ecology of zoonotic pathogens in wild songbirds around the metro-Atlanta area.
New study by Dr. Sonia Altizer and grad student, Cat Bradley, is highlighted as the Editor's Choice in the journal, Science! See the article here.
For more news about monarch butterflies and their parasites, visit our new webpage www.monarchparasites.org

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Missing for 3 days now.
Police continue their search for a 15-year-old who deputies believe was kidnapped by her biological mother.
Police say Jennifer Spicer picked up her daughter, Abigail Alexander, on Friday from her foster home in Otsego County.
Abigail is the dark haired girl on the left.
She was supposed to be back at the home in Elmira by 9:00 that night, but both she and her mother haven't been seen since.
The other picture to the left is of her mother, Jennifer Spicer.
Abigail is 5 foot 4 inches tall, about 120 pounds with hazel eyes, her hair is dyed black with blonde roots.
Jennifer is believed to be driving a 1999 Chevrolet Silverado pickup with a license plate number of CFP9254.
Jennifer Spicer has some family in the Port Huron area, but it's still unknown which direction they went.
She may also have a younger daughter, Tabitha Alexander, with them.
Anyone with information should contact the Antrim County Sheriff's Office at 231-533-8627.


text: Generally, in my opinion Ratt's albums follow a decline from the beginning of their career to the end (when Robbin died, that was "the end" of Ratt in my opinion). Now, that's not to say that the albums from the tail end of Ratt's catalog are bad, because they're not. If you like Ratt, all of their CDs are pretty good, but I'd say Dancing Undercover is about their 3rd or 4th best effort, behind the Ratt EP, Out of the Cellar, and Invasion of Your Privacy. Dancing Undercover and Reach For The Sky are both solid CDs, and Detonator is kind of a small step down from those. Crosby was still contributing to the material during this one, and Warren DeMartini's guitar solos are breathtaking as usual. Even Ratt's "4th best album" is better than most mainstream rock music and worthy of admiration from rockers of any age. If you like the music from the LA glam scene of the 1980s, or are into bands like Motley Crue, Skid Row, Kiss… Ratt's Dancing Undercover is a CD worth checking out. Standout tracks: Dance, Body Talk, Slip of the Lip.


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By admin ~ December 1st, 2013. Filed under: At Ease.
Delicious ingredients shine in this holiday menu that is sure to dazzle your guests. Enjoy!
Bacon-Wrapped Filet Mignon with Blue Cheese Butter
Preparation time: 20 minutes Chilling time: 1 hour
Cooking time: 15-20 minutes Serves: 6
6 Tbsp. unsalted butter, room temperature
3 oz. danish blue cheese, room temperature
1 tsp. Dijon mustard 6 slices bacon, preferably applewood
smoked 6 5-6 oz. filet mignons 2 Tbsp. olive oil Toothpicks
In a small bowl combine butter, blue cheese and Dijon. Mix together with fork until well blended. Refrigerate until firm, about an hour. Wrap 1 bacon slice around edge of filet mignon, secure with toothpicks. Repeat with each filet. Heat olive oil in large heavy skillet over medium high heat. Pan sear filets until crusty on exterior about 2-3 minutes per side. Transfer to a broiling pan, reserve skillet and juices for mushroom recipe to follow. Roast filets in oven preheated to 400 degrees. Cook about 10 minutes for medium rare. Remove from oven, transfer to plate and serve with 1 tablespoon blue cheese butter on top.
Mixed Green Salad with Raspberries and Goat Cheese
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Serves: 6
1⁄4 c. seedless raspberry jam 2 Tbsp. balsamic vinegar 1⁄2 c. olive oil 1 tsp. fresh tarragon
12 oz. mixed greens 1 c. raspberries, rinsed 1⁄3 c. pistachios 4 oz. goat cheese, crumbled
In a small saucepan, heat raspberry jam over medium low heat until thin. Cool. Add vinegar, olive oil and tarragon, and whisk together. In large bowl combine greens with raspberries and pistachios. Toss with vinaigrette, just coating leaves. Serve on plates and sprinkle goat cheese on top.
Sautéed Wild Mushrooms
Preparation time: 5 minutes Cooking time: 7 minutes
Serves: 6
2 Tbsp. unsalted butter 2 c. baby portobello mushrooms,
sliced 2 c. white mushrooms, sliced 1 Tbsp. fresh thyme 1 Tbsp. balsamic vinegar Salt and pepper to taste
Heat skillet with steak drippings from prior recipe and butter over medium heat until butter melts. Add mushrooms, sauté 5 minutes. Add thyme and vinegar, sauté
2 minutes. Remove from heat, season with salt and pepper. Serve alongside filet mignons.
Peppermint Martini
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Serves: 4
5 oz. vanilla vodka 2 oz. white crème de menthe 1⁄2 oz. peppermint schnapps Garnish: mini candy canes or
peppermint candies and fresh mint sprigs
Fill a large shaker with ice. Pour vodka, crème de menthe and schnapps over ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into martini glasses. Garnish with either mini candy canes on rim, or drop a peppermint and mint sprig into the glass. Serve.
Carrie Hanna is the author of Florida's Backyard, a collection of original recipes. To order the book, call (800) 839-8640 or visit carriehanna.com.