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Another rule is that you don't spend high picks (1st and 2nd rounders) on part-time players. Your first and second round picks NEED to be starters on your team. Ideally, they will begin the season as starters or move into the starting lineup by the end of the season. If they aren't starters by the beginning of their second year, I'll call them a bust. Third rounders are guys that you hope to be full-time start, but they don't need to start right away.
Regardless, in looking at this draft, it looks like Dallas has failed on both accounts. I won't get too much into the first round pick. There has already been enough written about this pick to fill a couple of books. Regardless, to recap. Dallas didn't get a great deal on their trade. They passed on a highly-rated DT who dropped. When it was happening, I was thinking of another DT that dropped because of character concerns (a DT that our d-coordinator knows quite well, Warren Sapp). Finally, they reached in the first round on a position of need.
As much as I was disappointed with our first round pick, I was even more so with our second and (first) third round picks. Evaluating talent is always difficult. That being said, although it may be difficult to evaluate talent, a good GM/HC should be able to evaluate the talent on their own team. As I have written before, it is my opinion that the biggest mistakes that the Cowboys have recently made are the drafting of F. Jones, A. Fasano, M. Bennett, and M. Claiborne. It isn't that these players were bad players at the position they were taken. The problem I have with these picks is that they were made at positions that we already had quality players on our roster. The Cowboys signed MBIII to a long-term deal shortly after drafting Felix. The Cowboys had Witten on the roster when drafting Fasano and Bennett. The Cowboys had 3 CBs that had starting experience when they gave up a 1st and 2nd pick to get Claiborne. As a result, in each instance, the Cowboys put themselves in a position where they had guys they had on the roster (who they made big investments in) that couldn't be full-time players because of the other players on the roster.
Getting back to our 2013 draft pick, this will be the THIRD 2nd round pick the Cowboys have spent on a TE since Jason Witten has been on the roster. Fasano and Bennett are quality NFL tight ends but absent injury to Witten, they had no hope of being a full-time player with the Cowboys. Although Witten is getting older, he is an ironman and still has at least 2 or 3 more good years in him. As such, Escobar has little chance of getting extensive playing time.
I understand that one team has made two pass catching TEs work, but that is only one SINGLE team and Dallas has already had an opportunity to do that with Bennett (and failed). Another problem with Escobar getting PT is that he isn't much of a blocking TE at all, as blocking is probably his biggest weakness. Getting back to my rule that first and second rounders need to be starters (fairly quickly). That just isn't going to happen to Escobar (absent bad luck on the Cowboy's part).
The problem with the WR receiver from Baylor is similar to the problem with selecting the TE. We already have Bryant and Austin on the roster. The Cowboys only have so many balls to go around in the offense, and the Cowboys added two more mouths to feed in the second and third rounds. Instead of addressing areas of weakness (defensive line, offensive line, safety), the Cowboys have addressed areas of relative strength (TE and WR). Moreover, for either of these players to be starters in the short-term, we'll have to lose some of our better players (i.e., Witten and/or Austin).
It still boggles my mind that the Cowboys have so little faith in Jason Witten that they have spent a high pick on his replacement, not just once or twice but THREE TIMES. You would think that the Cowboys would have learned their lesson, it appears that they haven't.

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Titans of Wrestling #10: WWF February to March 1980
Parv, James, Johnny, Pete and Kelly eat up more 1980 goodness:
On the docket tonight:
02-09 Vince McMahon conducts an empty arena interview with Bruno Sammartino (Championship Wrestling)
02-80 Lou Albano (w/Wild Samoans), Bob Backlund promos (WWF TV)
02-09 BOB BACKLUND vs BOBBY DUNCUM (WWF Title – Philadelphia Spectrum)
02-09 TITO SANTANA & GORILLA MONSOON vs WILD SAMOANS (Philadelphia Spectrum)
02-16 LARRY ZBYSZKO vs MIKE MASTERS (Championship Wrestling)
03-01 BRUNO SAMMARTINO vs LARRY ZBYSZKO (Philadelphia Spectrum)
03-80 Bruno Sammartino & Larry Zbyszko promos (WWF TV)
03-24 BRUNO SAMMARTINO vs LARRY ZBYSZKO (Madison Square Garden)
03-24 BOB BACKLUND vs SIKA (WWF Title – Madison Square Garden)
- The debate topic: The Lost Art of the Manager, including what makes a good manager?, why did managers decline? and the "Mount Rushmore" for managers
- Kelly gives bios for Grand Wizard and Mike Masters
- Introducing Super 800!
- Parv and Johnny debate whether a crowd can be "wrong"
- And more general marking out for the awesomeness of the Bruno Sammartino vs. Larry Zbyszko storyline
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British Foreign Secretary William Hague touched down in Burma's capital Naypyidaw today to become the highest-ranking British politician to visit the country in more than half a century.
The Foreign Secretary has brought with him a pledge to boost aid to the beleaguered country in response to what Britain sees as political progress over the past year. Trade deals however are not thought to be on the agenda.
Mr Hague's trip is the latest in a series of attempts to re-align Britain's foreign policy towards more traditional allies and partners, many from within the Commonwealth or in Asia. High profile visits to China, India and Australia have boosted both trade and diplomatic ties.
The visit by the Foreign Secretary follows closely behind that of Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, who travelled to Burma last month in an historic visit that signaled an unprecedented attempt by the Burmese Government to reach out to the West. For decades Burma has been one of China's staunchest allies, but like several other South East Asian nations, it is attempting to diversify away from total reliance on Beijing for international support.
Analysts believe this move towards the West may be a reaction to increased belligerence by China. Recent months have seen Beijing increasingly assertive regarding its claim to the South China Sea and its resources, including rich fishing grounds and medium sized oil and gas deposits. Reports of Premier Hu Jintao ordering the Chinese Navy to prepare for warfare, and moves to protect China's commercial interests in neighbouring countries with armed Chinese police, have both heightened regional fears about Beijing's true intentions.
Though the two-day visit signals a shift in relations, Britain won't promise any immediate change in European Union sanctions on arms sales, asset freezes and travel bans — or change a policy that discourages UK businesses from trade with Burma.
Britain recently pledged £185 million (US $289 million) over three years to fund health and education projects — becoming Burma's largest bilateral aid donor — but the UK channels funds only through non-governmental groups.
Mr Hague will lay out a series of demands for Burmese leadership to meet before it considers offering funds direct to the government, or before the EU can lift any sanctions.
"We hope to see the release of all remaining political prisoners, free and fair by-elections, humanitarian access to people in conflict areas and credible steps towards national reconciliation," Hague said.
With Burma lying at a key crossroads between India and China, and South East Asia, the country is fertile ground for commercial opportunities. Assuming that the democratic process in the country continues as planned, the Foreign Secretary's visit should only be good news for further British trade with Asia.


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News: "It Was Incredible To Have J Dilla In Your Dining Room Making Beats"
Monday, Dec 26, 2011 4:50PM
Chicago rapper Common recently opened up about his relationship with late producer/rapper J Dilla and how they shared an apartment in Los Angeles.
Reflecting on Dilla, Common admitted their time together was priceless.
"Yeah, we had an apartment together in LA. It was incredible to have J Dilla in your dining room making beats--it was one of the greatest experiences I've had. I used to get really, really excited when I was getting a JD beats CD. But to have that access and see him create things live every day. There were times when he was sick and couldn't work as much, but every time he was able to, he would work. He loved music. ... One of my favorite beats that he ever did for me was "Thelonius." I love the song "You Know What Love Is" by Slum Village." (Interview Magazine)
He also considered what truly marked Dilla's greatness.
"God gifted him with that talent, and then he just loved it so much--he was born to be that creative. One thing that allowed him to continue to be special was that he wasn't controlled by the industry. He didn't care if it was the popular rapper calling him or the label telling him they wanted something, he really did stay focused on the music. He had a unique perspective--he was brought up in the hood in Detroit, but he was into jazz music, and sampling Bobby Caldwell and people like that. He had a wide variety of information and talent." (Interview Magazine)
Earlier this year, rap veteran Busta Rhymes told SOHH Dilla stayed in Los Angeles to make music and seek medical attention.
"He was music until the day he passed away. Seeing him in his last days, when the sickness that he was dealing with was getting the best of him, he still kept his energy up and he still was making that music, man. He was staying in L.A. at the time because he had to be close to the specialist that was treating him for his sickness and he would still come out of his crib when he couldn't walk and he was in a wheelchair rolling around his crib because he was too weak to walk. He would roll to his equipment and still make beats as incredible as he always did. Even in his weaker state, physically, because he would never let his conditions mess up his vibe or his spirit. He was just one of those incredible dudes and that's pretty much it. I don't really want to get into too much more but Dilla is the greatest producer that I've ever met personally." (SOHH Guest Star)
Dilla passed away from medical complications in February 2006.
Despite having to perform in a wheelchair, he was still able to tour in Europe during late 2005. Donuts, an album of instrumentals that had been completed during one of his extended hospital stays, was released on February 7, his 32nd birthday. Three days later, while staying at his Los Angeles home with his mother, he passed away, a victim of cardiac arrest. (All Music)
J Dilla reportedly suffered from thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, a rare blood disease, and possibly lupus.
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Modal Mode
Modal-mode is an effort to provide modal editing to Emacs, but remain light, and not step too far into the territory of Vi emulation. Its default bindings are based on Vi, but its design accomodates the creation of other modality styles. It has explicit support for Vi-like text-objects through transient modes that turn movement keys into selection keys in order to provide compound commands like those of Vi's d, y, and c keys.
I am a longtime Emacs user always looking for more efficient (and less painful) ways to use the keyboard to go about my work. My appreciation for Vi started with wanting to be able to scroll and move the insertion point with unmodified keys. When I learned to use Vi, I quickly latched onto the good sense of another of its major features: text objects—having a set of verbs 'delete', 'change', 'copy', and a set of nouns 'word', 'line', 'sentence', and being able to combine them into two keystroke instructions for efficient editing that was easy on the hands. I used Viper for a couple of years, but found that emulation came at the expense of smothering many nice Emacs features. What I wanted was to bring the best concepts of Vi into the world of Emacs in a best-of-both approach.
You can browse the source or obtain modal-mode by download or by git in my git repository.
Here is an example of how to enable modal-mode.
;;; Modal-mode setup
(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/modal-mode")
(require 'modal-mode)
(setq default-major-mode 'modal-fundamental-mode)
(modal-mode 1)
(when window-system
(modal-mode-line-background-mode 1))
;;; end modal-mode setup
How do I enable modal-mode in a fundamental-mode buffer?
Switch to modal-fundamental-mode.


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GREELEY - Clarence Pinkstaff was sentenced in Weld County District Court on Thursday to 10 years to life in prison for sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust, a class three felony, and sexual exploitation of children, a class four felony.
A jury convicted Pinkstaff in November 2013 of showing an 8-year-old girl a pornographic video and touching her sexually while he and his wife were babysitting the girl and her brother in the Pinkstaff home, according to court records.
Authorities also found more than 20 images of child pornography in his possession. Pinkstaff worked as a building manager at the Greeley-Evans School District, but the crime did not occur on school grounds.
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For tips and how to shoot inside a room, it is better that you use Google. There's plenty of information about the subject although the two main points are to have sufficient like (not from the back of the object that you want to shoot, of course, else the details will not be seen, just the shape) and if you're recording voice too, to control the amount echo. Less is better. Empty rooms with no furniture have lots of echo. Rooms with carpets and fabrics on the walls tend to reduce echo.
As for software, Camtasia should be enough and it is cheap. Although you may want into some free software (I knew one that was very good and free, but I didn't use it often and when I had to reinstall my laptop's software, I couldn't remember its name )
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As for this thread, it's more than 1 year old, so I'm sure the OP will have found a solution by now. I hope so anyway
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By Dave Steger
Boston Doctors Reveal Lessons Learned in Marathon Attack
Department of Surgery Welcomes Robert W. Schulze, MD, FACS, FCCM
The Department of Surgery is pleased to announce that Robert W. Schulze, MD, FACS, FCCM, has joined the department. Dr. Schulze is an Attending Surgeon in the Section of Acute Care & Trauma Surgery at Boston Medical Center and Associate Professor of Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine. He was most recently Director of Surgical Nutrition and Surgical Critical Care at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY and Attending Physician of Surgery at Kings County Hospital Center also in Brooklyn, NY.
Dr. Schulze is a graduate of Boston University (BA, MA, MD). He completed a residency in General Surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in New Brunswick, NJ, and a Fellowship in Trauma and Critical Care at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD. In addition, Dr. Schulze completed a research fellowship at New England Deaconess Hospital.
Dr. Schulze has authored and co-authored numerous chapters and scientific publications and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American College of Critical Care Medicine. His research and clinical interests include surgical education, ARDS, advanced ventilator management, sepsis, pre-hospital trauma care and violence prevention programs.
Local researchers Awarded Grant from the DeGregorio Family Foundation for Gastric and Esophageal Cancer Research & Education
(Boston) –Tony Godfrey, PhD, associate chair of research in the department of surgery at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC), was recently awarded a two-year, $225,000 grant from the DeGregorio Family Foundation for Gastric and Esophageal Cancer Research & Education. Godfrey, who is also an associate professor of surgery at BUSM, will use the funding to study Barrett's Esophagus (BE). People with BE are at increased risk for a type of cancer called esophageal adenocarcinoma.
Esophageal adenocarcinoma is an aggressive tumor that is often diagnosed after it has already spread to other sites. Currently, the only way to detect esophageal adenocarcinoma is with an endoscopy, which is an invasive procedure that requires a hospital visit, sedation and a day off work.
The research team is developing a new approach for esophageal cancer detection that could be performed simply in a primary care physician's office or even at home. The approach uses a sponge-containing capsule attached to a string. When swallowed, the sponge expands in the stomach and can then be pulled back through the esophagus and out of the mouth. Esophageal cells are rubbed off onto the sponge as it is pulled through the esophagus and can be examined to look for cancerous changes.
"Our project, clinically conducted in our Barrett's Esophagus Program at Boston Medical Center, will attempt to find cancer cells using a sensitive method to detect mutations that are known to cause esophageal adenocarcinoma," said Godfrey, who is also principal investigator of the study. "If successful, this project may lead to more wide-spread esophageal cancer screening, earlier detection of tumors and improved survival," he added. "We are grateful for the funding provided by the DeGregorio Family Foundation which will allow us to perform vital experiments to determine if this approach is feasible."
Lincoln Stein, MD, PhD, from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and Virginia Litle MD, director, Barrett's Esophageal Program at BMC, are collaborating with Godfrey on this project.
The DeGregorio Family Foundation seeks to promote and facilitate education and collaborative research on the pathogenesis, early diagnostic and treatment of upper gastrointestinal malignancies. It was founded in 2006 after a tenth member of the DeGregorio family succumbed to stomach cancer and was found to have possessed a rare gene that causes the disease and other common cancers. Her surviving siblings, who both tested negative for the gene, created the Foundation to raise funds for research on the hereditary and non-hereditary varieties of stomach and esophageal cancer. Since its inception, the Foundation has made tremendous progress in providing the private support needed to learn more about these cancers, which has had an enormous global impact.
Founder Lynn DeGregorio looks forward towards the advancement in early detection and treatment of these diseases.
Department of Surgery Welcomes New Associate Chair for Education
The Department of Surgery is pleased to announce that Douglas F. Kauffman, PhD, is the new Associate Chair for Education.
Dr. Kaufman graduated Cum Laude from the University Of Minnesota Institute Of Child Development with a BA in Child Psychology. He obtained an MS in Educational Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a PhD in Psychological and Cultural Studies: Cognition, Learning, and Development also from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Most recently, Dr. Kaufman was a tenured Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Assistant Professor of Education at Eastern Connecticut State University; and Assistant Professor of Measurement and Research Methods in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Oklahoma.
Dr. Kaufmann's research interests include instructional innovations designed to improve students' learning, cognition and self-regulation in complex learning environments. In his role as Associate Chair for Education, Dr. Kauffmann serves as a faculty member in the Department of Surgery, with specific responsibility for the development and administration of educational programs offered by and within the department to medical students, other professional students, surgery residents and department faculty and staff. His research agenda will include efforts to improve the efficiency and efficacy of our teaching and learning, thus advancing the field of Surgical Education.
Boston Hospital Trio Awarded $25 Million NIH Grant to Study Critical Limb Ischemia
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Boston Hospital Trio Awarded $25 Million NIH Grant to Study Critical Limb Ischemia
Trial will provide guidance on cost-effective ways to treat this severe form of peripheral artery disease
Boston, MA – A team of researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has been awarded $25 million by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct a four-year, randomized clinical trial—the BEST-CLI Trial (Best Endovascular versus Best Surgical Therapy in Patients with Critical Limb Ischemia). The trial will compare traditional bypass surgery with the less invasive alternative of endovascular treatment for patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI).
The principal investigators of the BEST-CLI trial are Alik Farber, MD, division chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at BMC; Matthew Menard, MD, co-director of Endovascular Surgery at BWH; and Kenneth Rosenfield, MD, section head of Vascular Medicine and Intervention at MGH.
CLI is the most severe form of peripheral arterial disease, which is caused by chronic inflammation and atherosclerotic plaque build-up in the arteries of the legs. Symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to the legs and feet include ischemic leg pain, non-healing wounds and gangrene. If untreated, CLI can often lead to leg amputation. The aging of the national population and the rising rate of diabetes have led to an increase in both peripheral arterial disease and CLI.
According to the study investigators, while both open surgery and endovascular interventions are used to treat CLI, it is not clear which approach works best in patients who are candidates for both treatment options.
"Currently, there is a lack of consistency and clarity as to what approach—minimally invasive endovascular or open surgery—is best for our patients," said Farber. "The BEST-CLI Trial will provide answers to many unanswered questions, most importantly what treatment works best for whom."
"The CLI population is an exceptionally complex and challenging group of patients to treat," added Menard. "In addition to providing much needed information on the functional outcomes and cost-effectiveness of the two treatment strategies being tested, the BEST-CLI Trial will provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration between all of the subspecialties currently providing care to CLI patients.
Added Rosenfield: "The BEST-CLI Trial will be a robust and rigorously conducted clinical trial which promises to greatly enhance our understanding of CLI—a devastating disorder that affects millions of Americans. We are grateful to the National Institutes of Health for recognizing the enormous impact of this scourge and look forward to expanding the evidence base to optimize care and outcomes for these patients with advanced cardiovascular disease."
The BEST-CLI trial will be highly innovative in both its design and its collaborative nature. It will provide, for the first time, urgently needed clinical guidance for CLI management by using:
- a pragmatic design comparing the effectiveness of established techniques while allowing for the introduction of newer therapies as they become available;
- a novel primary endpoint that includes limb amputation rates, repeat treatments and loss of life;
- a multi-disciplinary structure that fosters cooperation among vascular surgeons, interventional cardiologists, interventional radiologists and vascular medicine specialists; and
- novel techniques to evaluate the cost-effectiveness and quality-of-life outcomes of the two treatment strategies being tested.
The trial will enroll 2,100 participants and be conducted at 120 clinical centers in the United States and Canada. The New England Research Institutes (Watertown, MA) will be serving as the data coordinating center.
Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is a 793-bed nonprofit teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of Partners HealthCare. BWH has more than 3.5 million annual patient visits, is the largest birthing center in New England and employs nearly 15,000 people. The Brigham's medical preeminence dates back to 1832, and today that rich history in clinical care is coupled with its national leadership in patient care, quality improvement and patient safety initiatives, and its dedication to research, innovation, community engagement and educating and training the next generation of health care professionals. Through investigation and discovery conducted at its Biomedical Research Institute (BRI), BWH is an international leader in basic, clinical and translational research on human diseases, and has more than 1,000 physician-investigators and renowned biomedical scientists and faculty supported by nearly $650 million in funding. For the last 25 years, BWH ranked second in research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) among independent hospitals. BWH continually pushes the boundaries of medicine, including building on its legacy in transplantation by performing a partial face transplant in 2009 and the nation's first full face transplant in 2011. BWH is also home to major landmark epidemiologic population studies, including the Nurses' and Physicians' Health Studies and the Women's Health Initiative. For more information and resources, please visit BWH's online newsroom.
Boston Medical Center is a private, not-for-profit, 496-bed, academic medical center that is the primary teaching affiliate of Boston University School of Medicine. Committed to providing high-quality health care to all, the hospital offers a full spectrum of pediatric and adult care services including primary and family medicine and advanced specialty care with an emphasis on community-based care. Boston Medical Center offers specialized care for complex health problems and is a leading research institution. Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine are partners in the Boston HealthNet—15 community health centers focused on providing exceptional health care to residents of Boston. For more information, please visit www.bmc.org.
Massachusetts General Hospital, founded in 1811, is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. The MGH conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the United States, with an annual research budget of more than $775 million and major research centers in AIDS, cardiovascular research, cancer, computational and integrative biology, cutaneous biology, human genetics, medical imaging, neurodegenerative disorders, regenerative medicine, reproductive biology, systems biology, transplantation biology and photomedicine.
60th Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Surgeons (MCACS)
The following Department of Surgery faculty and residents participated in the 60th Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Surgeons (MCACS).
About 90 abstracts were submitted for the MCACS annual meeting. Only 6 were selected for oral presentation, and 36 for poster presentation.
Program and Abstracts | Posters – Awards
Michael Cassidy, MD, won the Clinical Abstract of Distinction Award for the abstract: Reducing Postoperative VTE Complications with a Risk-Stratified Protocol and Mobilization Program
Michael R Cassidy, MD, Pamela Rosenkranz, RN, BSN, MEd, David McAneny, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
Joanna Ng, MD, won the Joseph E. Murray Resident Research Basic Science Award for the project: A Photochemical Tissue Bonding Approach for Sutureless Microvascular Anastomosis in an Arterial Graft Model
Joanna H. Ng-Glazier, MD, Neil G. Fairbairn, MD, Amanda M. Meppelink, BS, Hatice Bodugoz-Senturk, PhD, Mark A. Randolph, MS, Orhun K. Muratoglu, PhD, Jonathan M. Winograd, MD, Robert W. Redmond, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, Boston, MA
Additional Program and Abstracts | Posters
Episomal Reprogramming of Amniotic Mesenchymal Stem Cells: A Step Towards Translational Application
Elliot C Pennington, MD, Fabienne L Gray, MD, Azra Ahmed, MD, Alexander L. DeVine, MD, Kelly Fitzgerald, MD, George Q Daley, MD1, Dario O Fauza, MD
Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
Valproic Acid (VPA), a Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor (HDACi) that Reduces Intraabdominal Adhesions
Matthew Brady, MD, Elizabeth King, MD, Michael Cassidy, MD, Stanley Heydrick, PhD, andArthur Stucchi, PhD
Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Sustaining Momentum in Quality Improvement: Lessons from a Postoperative Pulmonary Care Program
Michael R Cassidy, MD, Pamela Rosenkranz, RN, BSN, MEd, David McAneny, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
Miniaturization Does Not Impair the Ability of ESS to Assess Malignancy in Human Thyroid Nodules
Jennifer E. Rosen, MD, Nicholas J. Giordano, MD, Hyunsuk Suh, MD, Faris Azar, MD, Eladio Rodriguez-Diaz, MD, Ousama M. A'Amar, MD, Irving J. Bigio, MD, Stephanie L. Lee, MD
Department of Surgery, Department of Biomedical Engineering Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Boston, MA
Top Gun Competition
Matt Brady, MD, Melanie Gainsbury, MD and Jian Zheng, MD, represented BUSM/BMC in the Resident Top Gun Competition. The competition consisted of teams of three residents from each institution participating in a series of tests where laparoscopic skills such as intracorporeal knot tying, transferring of objects from one hand to another, and pattern cutting were timed and graded. They placed first in the qualifying round of ten teams and second place overall in the final standings.
A number of our faculty members also participated in the meeting:
Tracey Dechert, MD, FACS, and Jonathan Woodson, MD, FACS (Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs) participated on the panel devoted to: "Examining The Marathon Bombing Response – Why It Was Different Than Other Mass Casualty Events".
David McAneny, MD, FACS, delivered the American College of Surgeons Board of Governors Report during the Business Meeting.
David McAneny, MD, FACS, discussed "Grassroots Advocacy in the American College of Surgeons" during a session devoted to MCACS highlights from 2013.
Jane Mendez, MD, FACS, presented a talk on the "ACS Foundation" as a designated Chapter Philanthropic Champion for Massachusetts.
BMC/BUSM Surgeons Among Boston's Top Doctors 2013
Boston Magazine's 2013 "Top Docs" issue recognizes 11 Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine Department of Surgery faculty members. Congratulations to the following providers for being recognized as "tops" in their respective fields:
Peter Burke, MD (Surgery)
Gerard Doherty, MD (Surgery)
Michael Ebright, MD (Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery)
Alik Farber, MD (Vascular Surgery)
Hiran Fernando, MBBS, FRCS (Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery)
Donald Hess Jr., MD (Surgery)
Russell Jennings, MD (Pediatric Surgery)
Maureen Kavanah, MD (Surgery)
Harold Lazar, MD (Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery)
David McAneny, MD (Surgery)
Stephen Sentovich, MD (Colon & Rectal Surgery)
Marathon bombing caregivers honored at Boston event
Jeffrey Kalish was walking down Boylston Street to cheer for his wife as she heaved toward the finish line of the Boston Marathon. When the bombs detonated and the fleeing crowds began rushing toward him and his 9-year-old daughter, the doctor realized he had to get to work immediately.
The vascular surgeon found a friend to look after his daughter and hailed a pedicab, the only vehicles, aside from ambulances and police cruisers, moving down Massachusetts Avenue.
"I'm a surgeon at Boston Medical Center, and I need to get there very quickly," he told the driver.
New Acid Reflux Treatment Highlighted on WBZ TV-4
Dr. Hiran Fernando, Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery at Boston Medical Center and Professor of Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine discusses a new acid reflux treatment now being offered at BMC.
Department of Surgery Faculty Recieve Collaborator of the Year Awards
Donald Hess, MD : Collaborator of the Year Award: Clinical Collaborator for his work with members of the Department of Medicine in studying the physiology and biochemistry of obesity and weight loss. Generous and insightful collaboration of Dr. Hess with members of the Evans Center Affinity Research Collaborative (ARC) on METABOLIC DISEASES AND INSULIN RESISTANCE: STUDIES IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING BARIATRIC SURGERY has contributed to advancing cutting edge translational research.
Karl Karlson, MD: Collaborator of the Year Award: Clinical Collaborator for his co-leadership of the Evans Center Affinity Research Collaborative ARC on NANOTHERANOSTIC PLATFORMS FOR CANCER AND VASCULAR DISEASE, for most valuable insights on animal surgery in the context of drug delivery to the cardiovascular system, and for leading by example much sought after collaborations among basic and clinical researchers.
About the Award
The Department of Medicine Evans Center Collaborator of the Year Award: Clinical Collaborator is given yearly to investigators affiliated with Boston University (BU) or outside of BU, who have contributed to the research mission of the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research (ECIBR) by creating and/or significantly enhancing webs of interdisciplinary collaborations within the Evans Center and BU.


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4 Channels
2 Cameras
7" Monitor
40FT Night Vision
Two-Way Talk
The Lorex LIVE SD7 Wireless home monitoring system offers an easy plug &play video security solution for your home or small business. This system allows you to view your home on the LCD monitor or remotely from anywhere in the world on a computer or smartphone via Skype™. Have a complete digital wireless video surveillance system up and running in minutes, it's that easy! Simply mount connect the cameras to a power source, plug in the 7-inch LCD receiver and you're done!
Video will be recorded directly to an SD card (2GB SD card included) providing you with both viewing and recording in an attractive, compact, space saving design. Place it on a desk, table, mount it on a wall or even under a counter. The digital wireless technology provided by the LIVE SD7 Series ensures that the system is secure and 100% interference-free.
Other innovative features include intercom functionality for two-way communication between the LCD monitor and the camera, and advanced motion detection that is triggered by heat sources, such as people, animals, and an expandable system of up to 4 cameras. Video security has never been easier.
Model no.: LW272
System is expandable, allowing for additional camera channels.
Record and store video on the SD supported system.
Secured video feed, so no unwanted viewers can hack into the network.
Wireless range extender antenna
Model no.:ACCANTD9
2.4GHz Directional Wireless Panel Antenna Range Extender
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Ronald Restivo "Ron R
Location: Riverside, CA USA
I got this system from Costco for $299.99. It works great right out of the box. Good range on the cameras. Mine are 60 feet or so apart on opposite sides of the house and I get good reception anywhere inside on the receiver. Night vision range is better than expected. I'm not using the audio feature, so I can't comment on it. I want to add two more cameras, but there $170 each from Lorex, so it's cheaper to buy a second system from Costco and keep the second receiver as a backuCreatep. Upgrade to a 16 GB card ($35 on Amazon) and get 24 hours of video recording.
John Leslie
Location: Lakeside, CA USA
I have a remote controlled gate at the end of a long driveway (appx 50') and placed a camera at the end to see visitors and hopefully be able to communicate with them. I was able to do both after a very easy installation. Motion detection is great. Records with ever trigger. I did buy the 16 GB card. I bought from Costco online since it is only $299 there. I liked it so much I bought another one just for the cameras since it is about the same price to buy the cameras separately. Last night it rained and I heard this funny noise coming from the front door. IT was picking up the rain at the camera locations! I did not see a sensitivity adjustment unfortunately. For the price I cannot expect it. I cannot tell you how nice to see quad pics from around my property and to know if something does happen it will be recorded. Love it!
Johnathon C. Edwards
I just got my system installed and it works better than expected.
100-240v AC/DC Power Supply for both Camera and Monitor
Wireless Transmission Range
Microphone Sensitivity (Can hear the birds outside)
Price on Amazon (Costco 299, but you must be a member)
Cost of Additional Cameras, 140 dollars each
W. D. Jack Moran
Location: Century FL
I am a retired Techno-Geek, a geezer-geek if you will. I have purchased and installed many systems in my time, but from a very good performance vs. very easy installation vs. good value basis, this is one excellent little system. A lot of good thought has gone into designing it, and it worked perfectly upon installation. Someone in one review complained of the blurry camera - but the cams come with a protective plastic film over the lenses ;-)
This little rig has a nifty little remote that will allow you to select motion record or continuous record, and all of the functions - this is very cool. The system took me about 15 minutes to get turned on to check the functions of everything, and another 2 or 3 hours to select the position of the cameras at the back and front of the house. Once positioned, all I had to do was to plug them in and turn them on.
The only complaint I MIGHT have is, I would like to see the camera power cables a foot or two longer to help with camera placement. I will be extending one cable myself. Perhaps Lorex could sell or include one EXTENTION power cable of about two feet in length. The audio speaker is not very loud, nor is the alarm. It won't wake you up from a sound sleep, but if you are in your office working, it will let you know that the UPS person is at the door. A main key to this system is "how very, very simple it is to set up and install to get good results."
Camera to screen (I love the little screen on my night table) range is about 50 to 75 feet. Yeah, we would all love to have a cam to screen range of 300 to 1,000 ft. but that is beyond the ability of most technology right not. This is a good little home/light commercial system. I plan to get another one for my wife's business.
S. Serttas "safety dad"
Location: Virginia
Great product! I purchased this system with an additional 2 cameras and my whole house is protected. Great quality, great reception (even through walls) and easy install. I really like that I can keep an eye on the swimming pool at all times. The internal record mode and intercom system is an extra bonus. No regrets with this purchase.
St James Episcopal Church
Location: Sault Ste. Marie, MI USA
I work for a church that has had a couple of break-ins and if we had this system in place, it would have answered a lot of questions sooner. I had done some extensive research and couldn't find exactly what we wanted until the Lorex LW2702. We had the system up and running in less than an hour and it only took another 20 minutes of reading the manual to understand how to work everything. When I leave for the day, I turn on the motion record and turn it off when I arrive in the morning. I bought the 16GB card and it holds up well for holding the recordings. Although, if we could increase the memory a bit more, it would probably be better (that's my only gripe). I just erase the card every morning. The 2-way intercom is a bonus that we enjoy, as I will sometimes lock myself into the building and this way, when someone comes to the door, I can answer through the camera as opposed to going to the door and answering it. I was concerned about the wireless cameras working in our building as it is an old stone church built in 1902 and was built from rocks that were dug from the ground when they were digging to make a canal in our area. But it was a needless worry, the pictures and sound is clear. I would recommend this to anyone looking for an easy to use system and in fact we are considering adding another camera or two (that is a bonus as well, the system comes with two cameras and you can add up to two more). The reviews that other people made also helped in our decision to give this a try. We were not disappointed.
J. Taylor
Location: Tennessee USA
After a breaking, we were looking for a video system we could afford, & easy to set up. This was perfect, easy to set up with good picture! We have a Garage at the end of driveway & it has good reception from there (200Ft). We now feel a little safer!Create
Vesta Irene
Location: Pacific Northwest
I was unpacking this even as the UPS guy was pulling away from my curb and after giving the contents in the box a quick once over, I set the instructions aside, checked out the monitor, fished the plug from the box. Then I did the same with one of the cameras. I called my husband away from his computer, plugged in a camera, told him to hold it, then I went into the next room and plugged in the little color monitor. And what do you know; there he was smiling at me on the monitor. It was dead easy. No muss, no fuss, it just worked. Then all of a sudden my hubby vanished from the monitor and I got no signal. It took me about ten seconds to realize that it was switching to the second camera, which I hadn't set up. I pushed the menu button on the back of the monitor and figured out how to turn the camera off in another five seconds and I also learned that you can add two more cameras to the system for a total of four.
The camera works a treat in low light and the system does what it's supposed to do and it's so simple to set up even a non-techie older person like myself can figure it out. We set up the system, without ever taking the instructions out of their plastic baggie. This really is a hassle free system. We use it for monitoring our grandson's bedroom and my husband's workshop out in the garage, which works out well, because the cameras want electricity, which would be the only downer if you were setting them up outside to monitor your house, because you'd have to figure out how to get power to the cameras. We didn't have that problem. Gosh we just love having this system. I can't praise it enough.
Thomas Hill
Location: Baltimore, MD
I have to agree with the other 5 star reviews for this product. After surfing lots of reviews and debating on whether to go wired or wireless, especially after some horrible wireless fiascoes in the past, I decided to try this Lomax system. I had it up and running in minutes without looking at the manual but the real test, that being range/reception, was what I was worried about. Camera on one side of the house, receiver on the other, and no problems. Pictures are good, not high def, but acceptable and low light or dark performance is great. I have nothing to complain about. Like some others, I now want 2 more cameras and have ordered another complete system as individual cameras run about 140 from Amazon. A pair is only 20 dollars less than the whole system and having another receiver/monitor is going to be great. It makes a great bedside monitor and the video storage works great for later review. Buy this product. I don't think you will regret it.
R. V. Gonzalez "Rafael"
Location: Ca USA
I received the product today and had it up and running in under an hour. What took the longest was getting electricity to the number one camera. Once I had all that corrected the set up was fast. The pairing was simple and the instructions are easy to understand. I am happy with the purchase.
I bought this from Amazon two weeks ago and received the package a few days later. I set it up right away. For $300, both cameras worked with receiver perfectly. The quality of image may not be the best during the day, but the night vision (you got to see it to believe it), sensor, recording when sensor tripped (or recording all the time) and alarm certainly make up for it. I live in a 3 story townhouse. I have no problem with signal reception. My mother is over 70 years old and she wants one after playing with my cameras 15 minutes in my house. I would recommend it.
K-cee Kit "CAH-M"
Location: Va, USA
This is a great deal for the price and is easy to set up and use it has many great features like motion detection. You can use it as an intercom as well; I would suggest getting a bigger SD card for it. This nifty little video surveillance system will provide adequate security and a peace of mind for home or even your business. The quality and reception is very good. I would recommend this system!
Tom Carpenter "- www.sysedco.com"
Location: Marysville, OH
We are using these cameras in our Church for security monitoring. They work just as advertised, but don't expect features that are not promised. For example, the cameras cannot dump the video data directly to a computer on the network. In fact, the cameras do not communicate on a normal 802.11-based network. They communicate with the viewer panel and the video is recorded on memory sticks there.
However, with sufficient storage space, you can enable motion detection and then simply dump the video files once each week. Based on the promise of the products, I'm very happy with the results.
Happyblonde04 "CRAMORON AND PROUD OF IT!"
Location: Ohio, Naturally!
The clarity of the recorder is just great. We have 2 cats so I can tell you, small animals do not trigger the motion recorder. This is my second set I use one for the house and one for the garage. Night vision is excellent. There is a zoom feature that will give you more detail. I highly recommend this system. Easy install. You need to have an outlet to plug the cameras and monitors into (no batteries).
Pearl City, Hawaii
Location: Hawaii
I installed this at my aunt's house because she is the only one living there. She locks herself in her room at night once she sets her alarm. She would get people at her front door, but was too afraid to go and check. Now with this system, she can see who it is and converse with them through the intercom feature.
It was super easy to install, however, the power cords for the camera is really short (5 feet). I had to splice 23g wire to them and make them about 20 feet. Overall a very simple solution, considering I had to do the same to my previous camera system for my house. I hope this helps someone out!
Home wireless video security system
Model No: LW2932
Reg. $429.99
Wireless video monitoring system for home
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Reg. $399.99
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Model No: LW491
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The links below are currently being used in our classrooms. This page is accessed in technology class by students in all grades to easily navigate to the sites. We make this page available to the students so that they can use these websites at home. PreK - K - 1st Symbaloo Quick links for PreK, K, and 1st grade! 2 - 3 - 4 Symbaloo Quick links to technology activities for grades 2nd through 4th. Click on the orange box that reads, "Start Using This Webmix", to use the tiles and websites. You no longer need to bring a flash drive to school with you, or have Mrs. Cadran e-mail your files home. As of January, 2013, StMM now offers iFolders. You can now save and share files that you work on at school, and get them at home. This link takes you directly to the iFolders page. Log in with the same user name and password you use to get into the computer at school (the one that you may write on your password card). 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Appearances mean everything to beauty photographer, Caesar Lima. His photographs evoke a commanding sensuality not common in most practices. Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Caesar Lima is a visionary that embraces technology and looks forward to the future, as he knows it will certainly bring an endless variety of innovations with which to express himself creatively. When it comes to staying fresh and innovative, Lima is very particular, a self-proclaimed "non-purist", he gets a kick out of going against the grain and doing the "wrong thing". Caesar strives to create imagery that has never existed, that makes you think, that is unusual and at times, even surreal. However rebellious his methods may be, Caesar has become one of the most successful commercial photographers in the last few years.
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Posts filed under 'Sustainable Food'
Parsley, please
Michael Pollan may need to slightly revise his eater's manifesto. How about: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly wild plants." Or at least wilder than what you find in most super market vegetable bins.
If we want the most nutritional bang for our bucks, we should walk on the wilder side, according to Jo Robinson, opining in The New York Times.
The author of Eating on the Wild Side says that most of today's vegetables (like that sweet corn you've been day dreaming about) don't have nearly as much nutritional power as heirloom varieties do. That means purple potatoes are better than the usual white Idahos. Those bright orange carrots I happily chomp down most days are indeed very good for me. But apparently they don't have nearly as many nutrients as the heirloom purple ones at the Farmer's Market and local co-op.
Turns out, the Big Food folks have managed to breed much of the nutrition out of everyday tomatoes, corn, carrots, and other mass produced produce. Eating those veggies is better than gobbling potato chips for sure, but if you want maximum nutrition, it's time to get picky.
The good news is, this doesn't have to be complicated, or costly. Weeds like chickweed, dandelions and nettles that propagate freely all over my yard, are packed with nutritional power. And herbs, any herbs, are also densely nutritious.
If you think parsley is just a throw-away garnish, think again. It's easy to grow parsley or find it fresh in the market, and if you just add it to everything you eat, you've got maximum nutrition with little effort.
Robinson suggests the following:
- Select corn with deep yellow kernels.
- Cook with blue, red or purple cornmeal.
- Choose arugula over iceberg lettuce (that's a no brainer).
- Scallions or green onions are more nutritional than the white or yellow kind, and wild onions are the most nutritional of all.
- Herbs are wild plants, too even though you can cultivate them in your garden. Adding herbs like parsley and basil not only add flavor, they add nutrients.
Chickweed pesto
Last Sunday at the first Wild Food and Herb Market in Carrboro I learned from the amazing Kim Calhoun that some of those weeds proliferating in my yard and garden are both delicious and nutritious. Freebies from Mother Nature. I had heard that chickweed made great pesto, but that seemed too good to be true.
During a short walk on the wild side, Kim validated the chickweed story and gave me a whole new perspective on the bounty growing all around us. She showed us the familiar chickweed, dandelion and speedwell thriving just a few steps away, confirming that chickweed and dandelion are great for salad and pesto, and speedwell has medicinal properties.
It's important to properly identify plants before consuming them, Kim said (a magnifying glass and illustrated guide are useful tools). Avoid areas that may have been treated with pesticides or harmed by roadway run-off or other toxic substances. And, before harvesting, be sure to thank the plant and don't pluck more than you need.
A week later, I got down on my knees in my garden patch to thank and pluck three cups of the chickweed that had proliferated there since I harvested my sweet potatoes in the fall. A few minutes later, I was savoring the fantastic Chickweed Pesto I made from Kim's recipe, reprinted below with her permission.
If you want to learn more about edible wild foods and herbs, I recommend that you connect with Kim and consider signing up for her March 24 "eat wild spring" workshop at the N.C. Botanical Garden, where you'll get to forage and make wild greens pesto.
Planty Kim's Wild Greens Pesto
3 medium garlic cloves
½ cup walnuts (or pecans, almonds, cashews, pine nuts)
3 cups firmly packed greens (any combo of seasonal wild & cultivated herbs—see list below)
¼-½ cup extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon plum vinegar (or sea salt to taste)
1 tablespoon nutritional yeast (a dairy-free option instead of parmesan cheese)
1. Blend garlic and nuts in food processor until coarsely chopped.
2. Add remainder of ingredients to food processor and blend till desired smoothness. Yields approximately one cup.
3. Eat on crackers, mixed into pasta, smeared on a frittata or fried egg sandwich, spread on rolls or pizza, get creative!
4. Any leftovers will keep in the fridge for a week or more. I like to triple the recipe and freeze some Wild Green Pesto in half pint (8oz.) glass mason jars.
Wild Greens of the NC Piedmont in early Spring (to name a few): chickweed, creasy greens/cress, dandelion leaves, plantain leaves, tender yellow dock leaves, wild lettuce leaves, cleavers, wild garlic, self heal, violets,henbit…don't forget flowers too—dandelion (remove bitter green base), henbit…
Cultivated Greens: parsley, cilantro, nettle, lemon balm, thyme, rosemary, nettle, oregano…
Save our farms from fiscal cliff
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) proposed a fiscal package last week that would correct the devastating cuts made to local food and organic agriculture in the "fiscal cliff" deal passed by Congress last month.
The proposal would end direct payments for subsidies and restore the programs for renewable energy, rural small businesses, value-added agriculture, new and beginning farmers, conservation, specialty crops, organic farming, minority farmers, and local food producers that were left out of the farm bill extension portion of the fiscal cliff deal. The cost of those programs combined paled in comparison to the $5 billion price attached to the direct payment program. The Reid proposal would right that wrong and it would also provide immediate funding for livestock disaster assistance, which was also left out when the farm bill was thrown over the cliff earlier.
The Reid proposal would cut defense spending and net farm bill spending by $27.5 billion each over the next decade. The proposal saves the federal government $31 billion in direct commodity production subsidies, while reinvesting $3.5 million to pay for a full farm bill extension, including the programs not included in the fiscal cliff extension.
One of the programs not included in the fiscal cliff farm bill extension provided cost share funds to growers to become certified organic. That program distributed almost $60,000 to NC growers in 2012. Another program not included in the extension provided funding for an organic grain-breeding program at NC State University. This program provided badly needed support to the growing NC organic grain industry through research on organic crop production and pest management.
"We applaud Sen. Reid for taking this step to restore federal support for local food and organic agriculture," said Roland McReynolds, executive director of the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association. "These small, targeted investments help small and medium-scale farms and businesses provide jobs and healthy food for their communities."
Buying local is only the first step
Check out this TEDx talk by Stacy Mitchell, senior researcher with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. She says buying local is a great idea, but it's only the first step in changing the world. We know that small sustainable farms produce more than twice as much food per acre as big farms, with far less environmental impact. But Walmart continues to capture one in four food dollars in America — and half the market in some three dozen metro areas — not because its food is better (clearly, it's not), but because it can use its giant market power to influence politics, and the business and tax policies affecting food. It will take collective action by citizens demanding new policies — including a wholly new Farm Bill — to reform our economy for the better. That's an audacious goal, one worth working toward, while we continue to build a sustainable foodshed for our community.
Here are some excerpts from Stacy's talk:
"The primary and often exclusive way we think about our agency in the world now is as consumers. But as consumers we're very weak. We're operating as lone individuals, making a series of small decisions, and the most we can do is pick between the options that are presented to us….we're hoping that someday enough of us will have enough information about all the issues and all the choices in the marketplace, and we'll have access to all the right alternatives, and all or most of us will be able to make the right decisions all or most of the time. But while we're trying to line up all of these millions of small decisions in the right direction, we are swimming upstream against a powerful down current of public policies that are taking our economy in exactly the opposite direction.
"What we really need to do is change the underlying structures that create the choices in the first place….by acting collectively as citizens…
"We could begin by turning the farm bill on its head. Instead of giving the most money to the biggest farmers feeding the fast-food pipeline, why not give the most money to local farms, feeding their neighbors?…
"The answers are there, and the public support is largely there. The question we have to grapple with is, how do we begin to see our trips to the farmers' market and to the local bookstore not as the answer, but as the first step? How do we transform this remarkable consumer trend into something more? How do we make it a political movement?"
Wild food market coming soon
Have you always wanted to learn more about the foods and herbs that grow wild in the woods? Now it looks like you can, while shopping for them at what is being billed as one of the first wild food markets in the country.
Beginning March 10, the Wild Food + Herb Market will run one Sunday afternoon (1 to 4) each month on the Carrboro Commons from March through November, thanks to support from our friends at The Abundance Foundation in Pittsboro.
The Wild Food + Herb Market coming to Carrboro will be a foragers market featuring foragers, herbalists, wild food cultivators and local plant educators in the North Carolina Piedmont. The market will provide wild food and medicinal herb enthusiasts a place to buy, sell, trade and gather with others interested in wild foods and herbs.
Vendors will provide unusual wild foods for adventurous foodies, while educational organizations will be on hand to offer information on wild foods and resources on how to learn more about wild food identification.
What a great opportunity to learn more about wild plants of the Piedmont and their uses, how to identify and harvest wild foods, herbs, medicinal plants and mushroom.
Co-Founders Josh Lev, community herbalist and founder of the Carrboro Herb Guild, and Jenny Schnaak, development director and youth program manager for The Abundance Foundation, have been wanting for some time to create a space for herbalists and foragers to meet and sell goods. After word that Alan Muskat, well-known foraging expert, was launching a wild foods market this spring in West Asheville, they decided to build on that excitement and carry the momentum to the Piedmont.
There is a conservation ethic behind the idea of gathering and using local wild plants. "Knowledge of the incredible resources that local plants offer both in terms of food and medicine serves to help people feel more connected to the land and other living things in their communities," says Lev. "We protect and care for what we value and feel connected to. We want the Wild Food + Herb Market to be not only a marketplace, but also place where people with similar interests can gather and learn from each other."
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Eat, drink, fund the foodshed
UPDATE: Supper tickets to this are sold out, but you can still attend, drink some brew and make a $10 donation to support the cause.
Friends, this is a no brainer. I love eating seasonal food raised on local farms. Especially when it's served in a local eatery. I've been dying for a quench of that new Cackalacky Ginger Pale Ale at FullSteam in Durham. And who wouldn't want to chip in to support new community-based funds for newbie local farms and food enterprises, through great local orgs like Slow Money NC, the Abundance Foundation and Carolina Farm Stewardship Association?
Looks like I'll get to do all of this and more by plunking down $15 at FullSteam Brewery, Jan. 27 at 7 pm. A little extra for the brew. What a deal, all part of a new dinner series called Funds to Farms. And you can join in the fun. Here's how it works.
The first Funds to Farms event will be a buffet style, sit-down meal featuring soup (veggie & meat) donated by Vin Rouge Bistro. Attendees will have the first half hour to get their food and drinks and make it to a table.Bon appetit.
Then, five local beginning farmers and food entrepreneurs will each pitch a project for which they need our funding, i.e. the dough-re-mi we gave at the door, and some of the brew proceeds, too. After all of the presentations, attendees (that's us) will vote on which project we would like to fund. The winner gets the proceeds from the evening and promises to attend the next Funds to Farms event to give a progress report.
Tickets are available online and at FullSteam on the day of the event.
"Dirt to shirt" — a home-grown organic cotton company
Eric Henry, president of TS Designs, produces tee-shirts made with cotton grown organically right here in North Carolina. Eric is an entrepreneur with a social conscience – he supports several local farm, food and energy initiatives, always thinking and acting creatively about how to make a more sustainable community. This interview is reprinted from a great guide called, "How to Advocate Locally to Support Sustainable Food & Farms: A Brief How-To Manual," available free from Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA), another mover and shaker in our foodshed. Plenty of information and inspiration here. Thanks, Eric and CFSA.
Eric Henry is well known in North Carolina for his dedication to sustainability. In 2009, he won the Sustainable Champion Award from Sustainable North Carolina. He adheres to the triple bottom line business philosophy (people, planet, profits). His apparel company, TS Designs, even has its own organic farm.
Eric also founded the Burlington Biodiesel Co-op, and runs his own car on biodiesel or vegetable oil. He devotes a lot of time to furthering the sustainable agriculture agenda in his county: He serves on various community organizations and local government boards, as well as on the Board of Directors for Company Shops Market, a co-op grocery in Alamance. Eric is a true champion for system-wide change towards sustainability.
CFSA: How did you become knowledgeable about sustainable agriculture so that you could be an effective advocate?
Eric: Through my apparel business I learned about the importance of a local and transparent supply chain. This made me want to learn more about sustainability and local agriculture. I began to educate myself on sustainable issues through research and by connecting myself to people of the same mindset. I am a member of Carolina Farm Stewardship Association and attend their annual Sustainable Agriculture Conference; working with them has proven to be a great way to stay up to date on sustainable agriculture issues. I also regularly talk to sustainable farmers whom I know.
CFSA: How did you find out who held the power in Alamance, so that you could determine how to make changes in your local food system?
Eric: I have lived in Alamance County for over 50 years and I'm involved in a lot of civic groups ranging from Elon University to the Chamber of Commerce. I also met with the County Manager and other members of local government as a way to gauge who in county government were sympathetic to sustainable agriculture. I go to lots of local community meetings to keep up with what is going on.
CFSA: How did you prioritize the projects that you have undertaken?
Eric: Alamance already had a farmland protection plan and a good group of organic farmers. We were ready to go to the next level. I personally put in a lot of time working on getting Company Shops Market off the ground.
I wanted to help to build a local living community and I thought that linking local farmers to local consumers via a retail store was ambitious, but doable. Another project that I took on was creating a large organic garden at TS Designs. This created a way for me to share sustainable agricultural practices with customers of our shirts and healthy eating information with our employees.
CFSA: How did you negotiate with those in power to affect the changes that you wanted to see happen around sustainable agriculture in Alamance?
Eric: When we were organizing the Company Shops Market we had to do a lot of negotiating with local government and others as we worked to locate the shop in downtown Burlington. I had to convince officials that this was something that was going to be good for the downtown area and would be good for local businesses. We had to be forceful in our negotiations and eventually convinced decision-makers that this would be great for local business, farmers and consumers.
One thing we did was invite in another county manager, one who is sympathetic to local food, and introduce him to our manager. That helped build trust. Also we invited Michael Shuman, a national economic development consultant, to talk with local folks about local food economies.
CFSA: Looking back, can you talk about some successes and failures, as well as reflect on anything that you may have done differently in your efforts to promote sustainable agriculture?
Eric: The biggest success was establishing Company Shops Market and creating a place that connects citizens to local foods. Our challenge is still that sustainable, local agriculture is a very small part of our local food system. We need to do a better job of selling local food as economic development and job creation. We need more allies and to continue to educate the broader community about this goal.
Bill Dow, the food doctor
This is excerpted from Andrea Weigl's fine feature in the News and Observer, which captures the many facets of Bill Dow's lasting contributions to our community and many others. Bill, 67, died earlier this week from unknown causes. A memorial service will be held Dec. 15 at 11 am at the Spring Friends Meeting house in Snow Camp.
Anyone who spends time this weekend shopping at one of the about 30 farmers markets across the Triangle can thank Bill Dow.
The Chatham County organic farmer and former physician helped start the Carrboro Farmers' Market, the area's oldest farmer-run market. He also was a leader in the Triangle's local food movement.
Before the Carrboro Farmers' Market started in 1978, few farmers grew produce to sell directly to consumers, restaurants didn't list farms on their menus, and "locavore" was not part of the lexicon. Carrboro's wildly popular farmers market could be considered the genesis of the Triangle's eat-local scene, spawning dozens of farmer- and community-run markets from downtown Raleigh to Saxapahaw.
Dow was remembered this week by friends as a quiet, thoughtful man who lived by his convictions. Most of them knew him as a physician who became the state's first certified organic farmer, believing he could do more good growing vegetables than dispensing medicines.
They may not have known that he had spent several years helping set up health clinics in eastern Tennessee. Or that his community organizing in those rural areas led him to help start farmers markets from Georgia to Arkansas. Or that he was involved in the effort to expand solar power in Chatham County, encouraging people to build solar-powered greenhouses and water heaters. Or that he was the first small organic farmer in the region to put 22 acres of his 30-acre farm under a conservation easement in perpetuity.
"He did so much," said Daryl Walker, his partner, who had been with Dow for a decade. "He talked so little about it," she said.
Rest in peace, Bill Dow
I learned today of the passing of Bill Dow, who had a giant influence on our amazing foodshed, and on so many farmers, chefs and food activists in and beyond our region. In his honor, we are re-publishing a post I wrote about him in April 2011 when he decided to lease small plots of his farm to the next generation. He left us way too soon, but his example has forever transformed our farming landscape. — Dee Reid
The Piedmont is paradise for small-scale farmers. We have an outstanding sustainable agricultural extension agent and a model community college program that trains and supports future farmers who want to use the best organic practices. Add to that dozens of farmer's markets and CSA's, several natural foods groceries, plenty of locavore restaurants, and a growing market of savvy consumers hungry for fresh local food. The region also boasts a sustainable meat processor and soon will open a "value added" center where farmers can process and package jams, jellies, baked goods, etc. from their farm goods.
No wonder folks who want to be sustainable farmers are flocking here from all over the country. But there's one problem — the price of land near good markets has become too steep for many who are just getting started.
Bill Dow, one of the most experienced and respected small-scale farmers and advocates in the region, has an innovative solution. Three decades after he helped launch the Carrboro Farmer's Market and became North Carolina's first certified organic farmer, Bill is ready to lease out parcels of his expertly cultivated land one year at a time to prospective farmers who can't afford to buy their own place yet.
In exchange for a modest monthly fee, the "Growers of Ayrshire Farm" will have access to terraced plots that are ready to grow, crops that are tested, markets and relationships that are well established, and mentoring from a seasoned pro.
It's a darn good deal for anyone trying to get started with very little risk or investment — a chance to develop a viable enterprise at one of the best farms in the area, while learning firsthand from a pioneering leader who has mentored countless new farmers and knows what it takes to succeed.
Ayrshire Farm is located on a scenic rural road in the middle of Chatham county, six miles west of Pittsboro and Central Carolina Community College's Sustainable Agriculture Program, 20 miles south of Chapel Hill and the famed Carrboro Farmer's Market, and 40 miles west of Raleigh and more markets.
To learn more about Bill and Ayrshire Farm check out this video.
Food truck roundup
Will & Pop's: Modern comfort food in sandwich form, made from the freshest local ingredients.
Locally sourced & organic meats + specialty curing, smoking, and roasting.
Porchetta is operated by two chefs offering slow roasted Italian style pork sandwiches, and more pork related tastiness.
Visit us on Saturdays in Carrboro, 106 S Greensboro, 9a-2p. Sundays in Carrboro at Johnny's, 9a-2p.
The Humble Pig is a husband & wife local BBQ slingin' & food truck operatin' team.
Farmhand Foods connects North Carolina's pasture-based livestock farmers with local food lovers, restaurants and retailers.
Preparing Fresh, Healthy, Original Sandwiches with special meats, farmers market produce, home made condiments on artisan breads.
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KISSIMMEE -- The only Florida team to beat St. Thomas Aquinas this year had been Venice, early in the season.
On Wednesday night, Venice did it again, knocking off Aquinas, 25-15, 25-21, 25-16, in the Class 7A state final inside Silver Spurs Arena.
After the match, Venice coach Brian Wheatley jumped atop the press table, exuberantly saluting his team's fans. Venice (27-3), after all, had just avenged its 2004 state finals loss to Aquinas.
Venice's joy meant pain for Aquinas (23-4), which fell one victory short of winning its third state title.
"I'm really upset," Aquinas' Allison Belanger said. "I wanted the ring."
Sadder still for the Raiders was the fact that five of their seven regulars played their final high school match on Wednesday: Belanger, Bridgette Villano, Brooke Lyons, Ana Pedraza and Jennifer Truzzolino.
That core group took Aquinas to the state's Final Four in each of the past two seasons.
'Great run'
"They had a great run, and we had a great season," Aquinas coach Lisa Zielinski said. "I'm just disappointed we didn't play better. We couldn't put balls away, and our defense really struggled on first-ball contact. We were backpedaling."
Brooke Lyons said Venice's quick offense had a lot to do with Aquinas' struggles to dig balls.
"They put balls up at a faster pace than we could defend it," she said.
Aquinas had its chances, though, leading 13-11 in the first set before Venice went on an imposing 14-2 run. In the second set, Aquinas led 18-17 before Venice closed on an 8-2 roll.
The Raiders could not climb out of that hole, especially when Venice sported a .452 hitting percentage to Aquinas' .083 in the final set.
Brooke Lyons led Aquinas with 10 kills and a .438 hitting percentage, the only Raiders player to hit over .240 for the match.
Venice's Wheatley said the key was keeping Aquinas out of its offensive system.
"If we let them get the ball to their setter like they wanted, we were going to lose," Wheatley said. "But we played our best match of the year. I didn't even call one timeout.
"These are the two best teams in the state. But the way we played, there is not a team in Florida that could have beaten us."
Venice, which started a freshman, two sophomores and a junior Wednesday night, won the 7A title despite serving the last of its two-year FHSAA sanction. After losing in the 2009 state final, Venice players apparently threw their second-place medals into Tampa Bay, where they were later found by fishermen.
As a penalty, the FHSAA forced Venice to play every playoff match on the road for the past two years and also banned Wheatley from the postseason last season.
Raider reload
The Raiders, by all accounts, handled Wednesday's loss better than Venice did in 2009. They will attempt to reload next season, building around their standout setter, junior Mackenzie Zielinski, and their top hitter, sophomore Nikki Lyons. A key reserve, sophomore Kimeko Bennett also returns and is expected to emerge.
"I'm confident in what we have coming back," Lisa Zielinski said. "We have a lot of talent in the program."


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Linux provides tools and patches for speeding up the priority of multimedia applications. So if you're not getting the performance you expect, try shifting into overdrive.
Despite the presence of multiple Gigahertz clock speeds and multiple Gigabytes of memory, TV on the computer screen sometimes doesn't work as smoothly as you might like. In some cases, the slow performance of a multimedia application may result from the priority assigned to the application. Actually, one of the biggest advantages of Linux often causes problems when it comes to prioritizing multimedia. Because Linux is designed as a multi-user operating system, the emphasis is on keeping many different applications running concurrently. By default, Linux does not assign the full power of the system to a single program. Today's Linux computers, however, often belong to a single user, and that user can sometimes benefit from dialing up the priority for resource-hungry multimedia applications.
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Hendricks County Flyer
---- — This past year marked another series of milestones, tragedies, triumphs, endings, and beginnings.
Here are the top five news stories of 2013, in chronological order, as selected by the staff of the Hendricks County Flyer.
Deadly crash closes I-70
On Jan. 13, a massive wreck on Interstate 70 in Plainfield resulted in a shutting down of traffic, multiple injuries, and one fatality.
The call for the accident came into the Hendricks County Communications Center just after 2 p.m. There were multiple vehicles involved in the accident on both the east- and west-bound lanes on I-70 under South County Road 725 East (Bottom Road).
Twelve people were transported to area hospitals — the majority to IU Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, some were taken to IU Health West in Avon, and some to Hendricks Regional Health in Danville.
In addition to the epicenter of the crash, there had been multiple subsequent crashes of vehicles that did not get stopped in time and numerous other vehicles that drove into the ditch to avoid wrecking.
Numerous vehicles were stranded along the road, although not involved in the wreckage, including a chartered bus with Plainfield High School juniors and seniors who had visited Indiana State University in Terre Haute, and a tractor-trailer that was transporting three grown elephants.
Some motorists were stranded there for hours before the interstate reopened.
Indiana State Police worked the accident, with assistance from the Hendricks County Sheriff's Department, Plainfield Police Department, the Avon and Plainfield fire departments, and several other agencies.
Earlier this month, Hendricks County Flyer staff writer Steven Penn received to Hoosier State Press Association Awards for his coverage of the accident. He won a first place for Best Spot News Photo and a second place for Best News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure.
Suspect killed,FBI investigation
On May 10, the Plainfield Police Department supported the FBI investigation involving multiple scenes after a robbery at the State Bank of Lizton branch in Plainfield.
Members of the Safe Streets Task Force were investigating an armed robbery at a bank branch on Madison Avenue in Indianapolis. A vehicle that was believed to be connected to that crime was tracked by federal law enforcement to Plainfield.
Task force members observed two men — Demetrius Worley and William McKnight — enter the State Bank of Lizton branch and an alert was issued that an armed robbery might be in progress. Worley and McKnight were observed leaving the branch and re-entering the vehicle. Federal law enforcement officers gave pursuit in neighborhood streets. The vehicle pulled over on the side of the road and Worley and McKnight exited the vehicle before it sped away. According to court documents, McKnight was armed and refused to comply with orders to disarm. At that time, he was fatally shot by police. Worley was taken into custody.
Earlier this month, U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Hogsett announced the conviction and sentencing by U.S. District Judge Jane Mangus-Stinson. Worley, 24, entered a guilty plea related to the May 10 incident. He was sentenced to 126 months (10 years, six months) for his participating in the robbery.
Pursuit of the vehicle continued and after a traffic stop, a third person, Lori A. Armstrong, 44, of Indianapolis, was arrested. She is currently awaiting trial.
WWII parkdedication held
What started in 2009 as an idea to honor veterans and particularly those of the World War II era culminated this May with a dedication ceremony to celebrate the memorial park's completion
Hundreds turned out on an overcast day to watch the dedication, which concluded with WW II veteran, Avon resident, and Ben Davis High School graduate Brigadier Gen. Clyde "Chet" Wright placing a wreath at the statue that was modeled after his likeness as a representative of a soldier from that generation.
Wright served in the 139th Field Artillery Battalion, 38th Infantry Division, and also is a member of the memorial committee.
The ceremony began with the Avon High School Jazz Band playing military themed songs and included three soldiers reading Letters To Home from soldiers who fought in WWII.
Brigadier Gen. Brian Copes noted that there are about 1.5 million men and women currently serving in the military.
"That comes out to about one-half of 1 percent of the American population that wear the uniform," he said. "Never in our nation's history have so many been defended by so few. Though the world may badmouth us or have their own points of contention, when the world gets in trouble, they look for us to help them.
"Thank you to the town of Avon, the visionaries who envisioned this memorial and placed it next to the school where the young people can go by it every day and be reminded of it. Chet is someone that these young people can put a face to and say 'this is somebody from my hometown.'"
Missing man found in pond
Plainfield resident Morgan Johnson had been missing for just over two years when detectives with the Plainfield Police Department recovered his body and his vehicle on July 19.
The vehicle was found in a retention pond near the 1500 block of Perry Road and the body found inside has been positively identified by the Hendricks County coroner.
Johnson was last seen May 18, 2011, at the Value Place Hotel in Plainfield. He was reported missing by his family on May 25 of that year.
PPD detective Lt. Jeff Stephens had taken a forensics class on cell phone records given by Glenn Bard, a retired Pennsylvania State Trooper.
"I gave the cell phone records we had from the case to him and he was able to learn that he was on the phone the last time it went off," Stephens said. "I knew you could ping cell phones to tell where they have been, but I didn't know until this class that you could go back like this and find this kind of information."
The vehicle was found in a pond that had been searched earlier in the missing person case.
Stephens contacted the Texas Equusearch Mounted and Recovery Team. Dennis and Tammy Watters, a husband and wife team from Illinois, complete most of the water sonar searches for the organization. They came to Plainfield in July with special equipment to help search the three-quarter mile area.
The team used a drone boat fitted with sonar equipment to search ponds in the area. They were able to get an image of a small car under the pond's surface.
Fire departmentmarks milestone
In November, the Avon-Washington Township Fire Department celebrated its 50th anniversary with a special celebration.
Jim Searcy was one of the original volunteer firefighters in the department, which started on Aug. 1, 1963.
"It's nice to be recognized for what we did 50 years ago," he told those assembled during a ceremony marking the anniversary.
At one time, Avon-Washington Township would get fire protection from surrounding communities. The guy who set about establishing a volunteer unit in Avon did so because his house burned when all of the nearby fire departments were too busy to respond.
"From the beginning, our jobs were to save lives and properties," said Searcy, who served with the department for 23 years. "Avon has changed a lot, but the job of a firefighter has not. I'm extremely proud of what we accomplished."
Jon Rubeck, current battalion chief for the Avon-Washington Township Fire Department's A shift, feels the same way. His first day on the job 21 years ago was one he had dreamed of his whole life. Both his father and grandfather were also firefighters.
"It's something I always wanted to do," Rubeck said.
Avon has grown tremendously in his time with the department. When Rubeck started there were only six stoplights in all of Washington Township, and the closest roundabout was Monument Circle. He recently counted 28 stoplights and seven roundabouts.