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Tall and fluffy!! I love buttermilk biscuits, and I love adding sharp cheddar cheese to them. Then I don't add anything! I could eat them all day :)
I don't know exactly why, but I'm continually amazed when something that I cook or bake turns out to resemble a prepackaged grocery store product that I used to eat or buy. I realize that one of the best things about going the homemade route in the kitchen is that you're avoiding all the prepackaged business, but I still get some strange sense of satisfaction when I open the oven to see a familiar food staring back at me. Weird, right? Although, maybe it's my inner-self's way of saying, "See, you can totally make that yourself, eat better and save bunches of beans in the process." Now if only I could figure out how to DIY J.Crew clothes. Hmm…
Jared and I were enjoying a sleep-in-too-late-and-then-wake-up-starving kind of Saturday morning last weekend when I whipped up this simple biscuit recipe from the NYT cookbook, and while we were eating, I kept hearing myself say how much they reminded me of those Pilsbury Grands biscuits that you pop out of the tube. The biscuits I normally bake are tall and fluffy drop biscuits that sort of break in half like a muffin or scone. These biscuits really bake up in perfect circles and almost peel away in layers rather than flakes. And they taste amazing, too, which is the real sign of success.
Old South Buttermilk Biscuits
From The Essential New York Times Cookbook (Amanda Hesser, p. 655 – 656)
• 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 4 tablespoons vegetable shortening (I used unsalted butter instead, which worked just fine.)
• ¾ cup buttermilk, or more as needed
• whole milk or heavy cream for brushing (optional)
Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Grease a baking sheet, and set aside. Sift together flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder into a bowl (I used the large bowl of the food processor for this). Cut in the shortening or butter with a pastry blender or 2 knives (or short pulses with the food processor) until the mixture resembles course cornmeal.
Add enough buttermilk to form a soft dough, and stir until the mixture forms a ball (again, I did this gradually with short pulses in the food processor). Knead lightly in the bowl for about 30 seconds until the dough holds together.
Turn the dough onto a lightly floured board, and roll to 1/4-inch thick. Cut out biscuits with a small biscuit cutter (a glass works in a pinch), and put on the greased baking sheet. If a glazed surface is desired, brush the tops with milk or cream.
Bake until golden brown, about 12 minutes (I made smaller-sized biscuits, which took about 9 minutes to bake).
I love making biscuits because I always seem to have what I need for them on hand. Seriously, you don't even need an egg. How easy peasy is that? Mix that with the fact that you get to make a dough, roll it out and cut a dozen perfect circles that will bake up in minutes, and I'm one happy camper. They're simple steps, but they're simple steps that make you feel like a baker. Love.
What's your biscuit philosophy? Tall and fluffy? Small and layered? And how do you top them? Jam, honey, butter? Or maybe you have another genius use for biscuits that you'd like to share. I'd love to hear it!
Tall and fluffy!! I love buttermilk biscuits, and I love adding sharp cheddar cheese to them. Then I don't add anything! I could eat them all day :)
An inspirational post. Biscuits are the great mountain I have yet to climb. I attended a school in South Carolina from 7th-9th grade (before going back to the W-burg in 10th!) where the school cook make homemade biscuits. They were so massive, so fluffy, so delicious, that I've been afraid of making biscuits ever since.
That being said, I did just make sweet potato biscuits last weekend for a party, and served them Virginian style, with a slice of (salty!) ham. But those biscuits are meant to be thin and not too fluffy.
Which leaves the Southern breakfast biscuit as a personal challenge…
I've been putting this off under the excuse of 'I don't know where to find buttermilk in London' but in the age of Google, that excuse doesn't cut it. So I've found a store that sells buttermilk, and tonight will be the first attempt at biscuit making. :-)
An interesting article on buttermilk, from my Google searches:
Those look yummy! Here is a tip that you might try next time – double your batch and then freeze whatever you don't want. Once you cut them out, place them on wax paper on a cookie sheet, freeze, and then put into a freezer container or ziplock bag. Whenever you are ready to cook them, just cook them frozen and add a few extra minutes to the cook time. I love doing this because I don't have to make them as often and it is easy to pull a few out for breakfast.
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|Tue, 12-13-2011 - 4:25pm
I want a break from packing lunch, a break from homework, a break from my work...our last day is this Friday, go back on Jan 5th.
When does everyone else get out for winter break and when do you go back?
|Wed, 12-14-2011 - 7:16am
we get out the 23rd and come back the 3rd. My youngest day care closes next week and starts back the 3rd so I am off next week.
|Wed, 12-14-2011 - 12:40pm
ME TOO! This is our last week and I couldn't be happier! I know I'll be singing a different tune by the end of next week, but right now I'm sooooooo tired of nagging to get homework done, nagging them to get ready for school, and so on. I'm just plain tired!
|Thu, 12-15-2011 - 12:28pm
This year I'm not giving a school break. We are not where I had hoped we'd be completion wise by this time in all subjects. He will be on a reduced workload. I'm willing to be flexible with work times to accomodate getting together with friends since his BF is on break.

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this is my first time on this.. I'm kidna hesitent to let ppl read my personal stuff but they won't know me so whats the big deal, well today my best friend spent the night for New Years and we stayed up till 4 am. and like Before she came to my house she went to a party and she said she was doing drugs and stuff.... which made me kinda mad and made me think do i even know my best friend but she said she hated it and wasn't going to do it again. My other friend on the other hand is getting in way deeper then she needs to be and i don't know how to help her she says she wants help but idk she doesn't want it when i give it to her, she is getting into sex, and drinking and It just makes me discusted and i told her that and she still doesn't care I just want to help her but I don't know how. but any ways less about that, my mom rode one of my baby horses today it was pretty cool. I have 9 horses and we might have to put one down( my moms horse) but at least she wouldn't be in any more pain. she tried to jump over a 6 ft high fence and she isn't even 14 h h and like well we think she broke her hip. but idk . This year has just sucked ass with death i hate it Earlier this year my Grandpa died in October and i still haven't gotten better i still cry my self to sleep( i was really close to him) some times I think so hard of him I can smell the way he used to smell but i know it isn't real and i even have a tape of his voice and i listen to it every night before i go to sleep. I just miss him soo much. but then i look on the other hand he was suffering with colen cancer and it was his time, and I also look at what good things i have in life like Keith my boyfriend, that is so wonderful and has helped me through all of this! well i better get going i have things to do. ttyl luv allwyas ~Katie
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Romneys speech went on way too long. wasn't good. Santorum's too. Gingrich's was long, rambly and bitter. Ron Pauls speech was okay I guess. He looks more and more dispirited as he keeps losing these things though. He's losing his smile and pep. Paul is the only candidate to have not won a single state yet. Here's Romneys speech:
Look at this picture on Gingrich's website tonight…
As someone on facebook puts it: is this seriously the best photo of newt they could find? this looks less like momentum and more like "meh, the pudding wasn't that great"
Semi-related: Newt resting his eyes a little before participating in an AIPAC interview via satellite:
In other news tonight: Mega-hippie Congressmen Dennis Kuccinich lost his primary to another democrat in Ohio. MSNBC's all-liberal panel of commentators mourned the loss of the seat for several minutes, but comforted themselves with the fact that a Republican congresswoman who made them mad 10 years ago also got primaried by a competitor.
Romney of course, won the most states. Here's the tally:
Ohio was the big one. Here is how the Washington Post reported it on their website:
Here is CNN:
Here is the Associated Press' Twitter:
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Gayden and Charlotte describe the King Ranch Chicken recipe as follows:
I couldn't agree more with them - this really was one of the best things we ever ate! This recipe make enough for six people. I made the whole recipe and froze half of the chicken mixture for later. I didn't want to freeze it with the tortilla chips. I thought they might get soggy. ? I can't wait to make this again!
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3 large chicken breasts, cooked
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 onion, chopped (I used minced onion flakes)
1 can Rotel tomatoes
1 jar (8oz) Cheez Whiz
Dash of Tabasco
Dash of Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce
Salt and pepper
Tortilla chips, crushed
8 oz cheddar
4 oz mozzarella
Preheat oven to 350.
Dice the cooked chicken breasts.
In a saucepan over medium heat, mix the soups, onion, tomatoes, Cheez Whiz, Tabasco and Worcestershire Sauce until blended. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Line the bottom of a casserole dish with the crushed tortilla chips. Place the chicken on top and pour over some of the mixture. Add a layer of half the Cheddar. Repeat the process, topping with Cheddar and mozzarella.
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Cristóbal de Castillejo
Cristóbal de Castillejo (1491 – June 12, 1556) was a Spanish poet, contemporary of Garcilaso de la Vega and Juan Boscán, who championed the use of traditional forms of Spanish poetry and criticized the use of Italianate forms such as the sonnet. Some of his work consisted of translations of older work, in particular the 1st century BC Roman poet Catullus's "A Lesbia" as "Dame amor, besos sin cuento" (Seen side-by-side in ). At fifteen he was taken to the Court of Ferdinand the Catholic, where he served as a page to Archduke Ferdinand of Habsburg, grandson of the king and the younger brother of Emperor Charles V. In this period he entered the Cistercian convent of San Martin de Valdeiglesias. In 1525 he left his retirement to take over the secretariat of its former master, who in 1526 became king of Hungary, the year after King of Bohemia, and who in 1531 would accede to the German crown with the title of King of the Romans as imperial lieutenant of his brother. He traveled throughout Europe. In Vienna, though a monk, he led a dissolute life and had an affair and an illegitimate child. He fell on hard times because he wasted all the benefits and privileges that their positions gave  ( Wikipedia article )
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Will JUDDD work when nothing else has?
I am currently doing Atkins and am in induction week 2 and have lost no weight. I was on a medication for a while that is known to cause weight gain and I gained 20 lbs. despite watching my food intake while I was on it. Now I have been off for several months but cannot lose no matter what. Do you think JUDDD will work? I am EXTREMELY disciplined with any weight loss plan yet since the *medication* I cannot get the scale or my size to budge. I am eating totally clean, under 20 carbs for induction, not to many calories and still nothing. This is after losing nothing on traditional low cal/fat diet, south beach, ...now Atkins. I have been off the medication for 5 months. I am getting sooo tired of trying and being so careful with everything I eat and having no progress...This WOE (JUDDD) sounds interesting. Anyone have similar issue like with a medication changing your metabolism and JUDDD worked??
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for you! I don't have an advice because I have never been in your place, but the only thing I can say is if JUDDD looks interesting to you, maybe give it a try.
This is the only way you will know if it will work for you!
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Obviously I have no idea what type of medication you took, but I took steroids and I know they can take years to leave your body. Mine fried my hair, caused weight gain, acne, etc etc, and it was right around two years after I stopped that I could actually move forward with fixing those things. I KNOW the frustration. I hope you can find a way that works! And maybe your Dr. can help?
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I'd second visiting your doctor. It's not 'normal' to be unable to lose weight when you're compliant with proven plans, and there's no 'magic' to JUDDD that will help in this type of situation.
You need to find out what's preventing weight loss in your situation.
Way too much time on my hands!
As to JUDDD, it is only similar to some of the other plans in that it may share something similar, but it departs from many of them in a couple of ways too.
You say that you have tried traditional low cal/fat diets in the past, but JUDDD really isn't necessarily the same thing at all. Yes... a Down Day is very low calorie, which mostly necessitates it being low fat as well, but it is incredibly lower in calories than any day is held to on a traditional low calorie diet! So that's quite a difference right there.
And then the Up Day is enjoyed in the area of your maintenance range (the Plan even says you don't have to count at all.. just eat anything and don't stuff yourself LOL), so eating at that higher calorie level is certainly not anything like most low calorie diets, that's for sure. (Just wanted to add that most of us find it beneficial to track and count those UD calories too, in order to keep them within reason, because most of us are just a wee bit sensitive to calories, else we wouldn't have found ourselves needing to be here at LCF at all! )
I guess I'm actually wondering if you've tried a *calorie cycling* eating plan and diet like JUDDD before? This up and down pumping acting is supposed to encourage weight loss without causing a metabolism slowdown, and for some of us, it seems to even stimulate the metabolism to function at a somewhat higher and faster rate! Yay! I notice that for myself, and am especially thankful for this little JUDDD gift!
Dr. Johnson (who wrote the plan) says that the low calorie fasting days of JUDDD will awaken and stimulate our usually inactive SIRT1 gene, nicknamed the skinny gene, and that is what will get our metabolisms and weight loss all whipped into shape, so to speak.
I guess all this to say, I don't see that you have anything to lose by trying JUDDD. You say that you can stick to the diet plans as they are designed, so that will give you an absolute answer.
You know, many of us failed on various other diets until we found the one that worked for us. I lost very little on strict Low Carb. And I hated the limitations in diet. I could only stay on a low calorie diet for so many weeks before I couldn't stand it anymore. And I hated the limitations in diet. But on JUDDD, I can withstand the limitations on a single day, being very low calories, in exchange for having no limitations on me at all the following day except not to go all *sky's the limit* in my eating!
If you decide to try JUDDD with us to see if this might be the diet plan that will goad your body into some weight loss, it would be wonderful to have you here. Good luck with whatever you decide.
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Wow!!! So Happy you are sooo nice and special to write that response. And leting me know was so very kind!! Thank you. You made my day!! Yes, I have had similar outcomes from other diets like you said. I really think I can stick to a JUDDD plan. I am super motivated and can get through one day of almost anything. When I was doing "low calorie" I went down to 800 cals a day for a while with no up day so I assume I can do 500 for every other day. I purchased Dr. Johnsons book and am reading it. Thank you thank you!!! I look forward to posting when I start!! BTW, are you low carb AND JUDDD or reasonable carb and Juddd or regular JUDDD? I am on induction and I don't know if I can eat so few carbs and JUDDD at the same time! I did the calculator on the Dr. Johnson web site and my up day would be 1,850!! For me that is an all out FEAST! Im not sure I would even need to go that high but I would go at least over 1200-1500 or so.
Thanks everyone! I am waiting for call from my Dr. now to let him know that induction did not work (he thought a ketogenic diet would work) and I will see if he has any advice. I already had my thyroid and blood levels checked twice in the last few months!! BYW, the medication I was on is called Elavil (Amitriptlyne) for a neck injury. It is similar to Lyrica and causes big weight gain in some people.
Thanks...I'll be back and look forward to following along on JUDDD and this board!
Way too much time on my hands!
I'm going to keep my fingers crossed to tightly for you that I almost get finger cramps.
And I hope your body can get shed of any residue of that medication shortly. What a nasty side effect. I know some meds can certainly have these influences on our weight. And the opposite is true too. I belong to a health club where many of us retirees work out, and one elderly lady who had become quite thin confided to me that she lost 20 pounds last month. I asked her if she was on a particular eating plan.. if she was intentionally dieting, and she said NO! She said, "I wasn't eating differently at all, and I was terrified that I had cancer!" Needless to say, her Doc switched her to another med. It was some heart medication.
Be sure to post often. We're all here to offer our encouragement, and will hope that JUDDD can be a plan that will help you! Hoping, hoping, hoping.....
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Sorry, I forgot to answer this part of your posting.
Folks here do it at all levels, it seems, from quite low carb to just plain regular-style American eating, although we're so big in land mass, we have a lot of regional foods, don't we.
For myself, I never did well on very low carb. I never seemed to get over *induction flu*, so I never felt very well and strong and vibrant, and I apparently overate or ate at a too-high fat level or something, because I never lost much weight either, other than an initial 5 or 6 pounds. And I always felt so sort of *pissy* and irritable. And I wasn't happy. And I loved all the food I could have, but I hated not being able to have a lot of other foods I also enjoyed. I despise being so strongly restricted in what I can and cannot eat.
(I guess that makes it seem like I gorge on all high-carb flour & sugar processed crap foods, and I do eat very, very little of that stuff, but... darnit!... sometimes I want a slice of chocolate cake or some fried potatoes or a banana or a Snickers candy bar. I don't eat this high-carb food real often, but I eat it now sometimes, and I really enjoy it.)
So, anyway, my answer is that I eat at mostly a moderate level of carbs. Higher on my Up Days, just because I eat more foods on those days, naturally. And, yes, some of my Up Days would be at a much higher carb level than most here eat at, but I'm not eating like that all the time, and when I do, I just be careful not to go overboard. It works for me, and for JUDDD to work in such a manner that an old woman like me, at age 68, to be able to not only lose weight but to be able to eat the way I do is something truly remarkable!
BUT... I follow the diet rules and I don't let myself go too far afield on those Up Day calories! That's the secret for me. I keep Down Day calories low, and I don't go hog wild on Up Days, and it works its magic! And during the times when I'm just in maintenance mode and not even trying to lose anything, those Down Day calories are even higher, and that's even nicer.
I hope it works for you this way too.
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SoHappy - You really are amazing! And you certainly do not look your age at all! I feel awful in this induction phase, like I have the perpetual "induction flu" just like you said. Also like you I am a sensible eater but sometimes I want to have some chocolate cake or fruit. If Atkins/LC were working I could put up with it easily because it would be worth it but without the scale moving for 2 weeks...I've pretty much had it. Plus feeling all shaky and weak and yes...irritable!
Thank you again for your support and kindness, you are truly special!! I look forward to JUDDD-ing with you!!
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|My wife and I bought our house a couple years ago, and we are really trying to make an effort to get some plant growth (other than weeds) on our property. But our soil is so hard, literally: it's just about impossible to got out and dig it up without soaking it down for a day.
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|Do you have access to a backhoe, tractor or rototiller? If you do, use it to break up your soil. Then add lots of compost to your soil and that will help keep it lose. It might be a bit expensive, but for this year you may want to have some topsoil and compost brought in to mix with your newly broken up soil. Dig down 12" or deeper is better. You don't say what kind of soil you have. Clay, rocky, sandy? Compost will help with all soils. Do you have neighbors with horses, chickens or cows? Ask them for the manure and any old grass clippings or hay they may want to get rid of. Mix this all together in small piles and add kitchen scraps (no dairy or meat leftovers to your piles), add water, and let them compost for next years use. You'll need to stir the piles around a few times to keep air in the piles. You may also want to add 'bought' topsoil and add a bit of this to the compost pile to help start the pile to compost. Keep your compost piles small, they are easier to stir and water. Add compost to your soil each year and you'll be able to keep your soil from becoming a solid mess. The Carson City Cooperative extension office has a whole bunch of info. and booklets to help you get started on composting and gardening. Joann Skelly is the area horticulturist and shes really sharp with all gardening stuff. They can help you with plant choices, soil info and composting. There phone # is 887.2252 The Garden Primer by Barbara Damrosch is a great book and I like the Fine gardening magazine and website finegardening.com for info. on all gardening stuff. Hope I haven't overwhelmed you. Gardening is really fun and some work. Even if you just plant a few trees around your yard, when you get to set under them in a few years and enjoy their shade, its a great feeling!! Good luck gardening!
|Hey thank you very much! You didn't overwhelm me, in fact i was hoping to get overwhelmed with info. Ill give Skelly a call sometime this week!
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We met at my first business conference when I was 23 and right out of college. He sat down next to me, smiling, burning my left cheek with his gaze. He had dark hair, a goatee and a scar on the side of his face. I shifted around for a position that would avoid the strange, immediate sexual tension. Our body language felt like foreplay.
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A few days later, the flirting continued as he sent emails to my boss, cc'ing me. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't curious about what would happen next. When he asked me again for drinks I wanted to say no, but I trusted myself to do the right thing. Sort of. I thought since I was so anti-cheating I'd have no problem having one drink and going home with the halo still around my head. But deep down I knew this could get me into trouble. Dating a married man would make my previous scandalous date nights look like child's play.
I was relieved when he arrived at the restaurant—the tension from the conference was gone. "Maybe he'll be easy to resist," I thought. But one, two, three drinks later and it was over.


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Online Tech Customers Happy with Upgrade to Better Data Center
Magic Coast, a long-time customer of Online Tech, is happy with their upgrade to our Avis Farms data center in Ann Arbor. Magic Coast provides live and on-demand video streaming technology backed by full production services. "We have been a … Continue reading
Why the Cloud Needs Colocation
CEO of Online Tech, Yan Ness, shows how colocation can lead to widespread adoption of the Cloud. What is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is a type of shared computing where one utilizes a hosting provider's large-scale computing infrastructure. In other … Continue reading
Is a N+1 Data Center the Best Strategy for Small and Mid-Size Businesses?
I was just describing what N+1 means for a data center to a team of new employees that joined Online Tech this week. The question came up – is an N+1 data center the best strategy for small & mid-size … Continue reading
uRefer and Online Tech Sign SaaS Hosting Agreement
Announced today, uRefer, the leading referral marketing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, has signed an agreement with Online Tech to host their SaaS referral platform in Online Tech's SAS-70 certified data centers. Posted on uRefer's company blog earlier in the week, uRefer … Continue reading
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How Can You Be Sure That Your Customers' Application Data Is Securely & Reliably Hosted by the SaaS Provider?
To some extent, managed dedicated servers hosted in an outsourced data center have now become a trusted data bank on which the SaaS business model depends. That explains why many SaaS providers are being required to achieve PCI compliance or … Continue reading
Does Your SaaS Hosting Partner Offer Professional Incident Management & Escalation Procedures?
Nothing is more frustrating as a SaaS company than getting little to no information about a service issue from your hosting provider. The SaaS best hosting providers have a genuine and very visible culture of service that prevents this from … Continue reading
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What Questions Should You Ask Your SaaS Hosting Provider?
We just published a new e-Tips white paper on the Seven Essential Questions SaaS Companies Should Ask Their Hosting Providers before selecting a partner. Beyond these seven questions, what questions do you consider essential in selecting your SaaS Hosting partner?
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How Exactly Will the Managed Server Hosting Solutions Keep Pace With Your Business Growth?
SaaS companies are nervous about getting locked into hosting solutions that restrict their growth and profitability. Imagine you had to build a store but you've no idea if it should be 500 sq feet or the size of two city … Continue reading
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How Does a SaaS Hosting Provider Balance Real-Time Maintenance Windows With Always-On Service?
Real-time Maintenance Windows Should Not Affect Your Customers. If you design your hardware stack properly (see the model described in the Internet Delivery Stack) and make use of redundant hardware, you can still maintain full production availability even during a … Continue reading
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Does Your SaaS Hosting Partner Provide 'High Availability' Managed Dedicated Servers?
Business-class data centers can cost from $1000 to $1500 per square foot to construct, equating to 10 – 20 year investments. This means that significant capital investments are required to provide and maintain space, power, cooling and network functionality in … Continue reading


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What's trending in your life, and in ours
OTE on the FMR: A pickle, a washcloth, a dog bone and other strange Halloween 'treats'
On yesterday's Fly Morning Rush segment we talked about the strange things people have received in their plastic pumpkin or pillow case after ringing the doorbell and saying "trick-or-treat." On the list: those tiny hotel shampoo and conditioner bottles, a bell, a loose pickle and more. [Read More]
Workplace Confessions: Am I a Type Z personality?
I hear people refer to themselves sometimes as "Type A" people. I know what this means and I know that I am not one, but I really, really wish I were. It's not that I don't write stuff down. I have tons of notes. There are notes on my planner, on sticky notes all over […] [Read More]
Poll: Do you wear a Halloween costume to work?
Nearly one quarter of workers dress up for Halloween. Are you one of them? Take the poll below the jump. [Read More]
Scare up some new ideas for pumpkins
Your perfect pumpkin awaits its neighborhood-worthy jack-o'-lantern face, while you gather the basics — sharp knives, spoons, a bowl and perhaps a chisel. You then cover yourself and much of the kitchen in plastic in preparation for the herculean effort that is about to take place. You'll dig, you'll scrape and you'll saw your way […] [Read More]
OTE on the FMR: How many 2014 buzz words do you know?
On today's Fly Morning Rush segment, Brian and Chrissy tested my buzz word prowess. A few words on the list: turnt, ratchet, bae and others. Listen below to see how I did, and if you can do better (my guess on that is "yes.") [Read More]
What was your favorite local record from 2014?
We're putting together a roundup of the best local music over the past year. Did you have a favorite album from a local (to the Capital Region) artist? Sing its praises in the comments! We wanna hear what you loved about it. [Read More]
Poll: Have you cried at work?
Have you broken down at work? Take our poll below. [Read More]
ARA: Some guests didn't bring a wedding gift. WTF?
This is a note I got from a reader who allowed me to share her quandary with you all, too. It's a little long, but I think it's worth noting the caveats she makes. What was your experience with your wedding guests who didn't bring gifts? Hi Brianna, Like you, I recently got married (congrats, […] [Read More]


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Case Study: Streamlining Operations To Support Growth And Gain Competitive AdvantageNovember 19, 2013 9:21 am | by Deacom, Inc.
The world has changed a lot since 1929 and so has the way Silver Spring Foods runs its business. The company recognized that its current Enterprise Resource Management (ERP) system could not handle its current business requirements and would be unable to evolve as the company continued to grow.
Start The Holiday Shopping Season Off Right: Buy American On November 19thNovember 18, 2013 11:49 am | by American Made Matters
To kick-off the holiday shopping season, American Made Matters® has declared November 19, 2013 the first annual American Made Matters® Day. On this day, American Made Matters® is encouraging consumers to buy at least one American-made product to show their support for American manufacturing.
Supply Chain Cyber Security: What are the Risks and How Can Companies Address Them?November 18, 2013 9:36 am | by Tim Garcia, CEO of Apptricity
As the CEO of a supply chain management, e-procurement, and financial productivity solutions company, Tim Garcia draws on real-life experiences to provide four tips for incorporating web security into companies' overall risk management strategies. Lax procedures that fail to protect critical data leave businesses vulnerable to attacks that threaten customers and damage brands.
Tight Tolerance Is Critical For Top Quality And Superior PerformanceNovember 18, 2013 9:16 am | by Ken Glassen, Vice President of Engineering, Kaysun Corporation
"Tight tolerance" is a term that is often tossed around loosely in the industry—however, if tight tolerance is not done correctly, parts and products will underperform or possibly fail, resulting in customer dissatisfaction and a tooling and/or process overhaul.
Four Strategies For Tracking Manufacturing CostsNovember 15, 2013 9:26 am | by Tom Bonine, President, National Metal Fabricators
Whether you are just getting going on your business career or you have been working in the field for years, one thing that always comes back to bite you is costs. How can we alleviate these costs? What are some strategies for tracking manufacturing costs and managing them so that they don't get too far out of hand?
It's Wise To Be Proactive: Learn About New Food Safety Regulations NowNovember 15, 2013 9:19 am | by Debra M. Strauss, Associate Professor of Business Law
Familiarizing yourself now with these regulations may prompt you to give your input to the FDA while they are still in the "comment" phase rather than wait until they are final rules and more difficult, if not impossible, to challenge.
Reducing Current Product Costs — Challenges And OpportunitiesNovember 13, 2013 9:36 am | by Julie Driscoll, VP of Strategic Marketing & Product Management, aPriori
Different manufacturing businesses face different business challenges depending on product sets, competitive dynamics, supply chains and customer trends in a given market. But when it comes to reducing the costs of existing products, they share some very similar challenges.
5 Quick Questions: Labor Will Define SuccessNovember 13, 2013 8:10 am | by Joel Hans, Managing Editor, Manufacturing.net
Manufacturers, in many cases, are leading the way in finding more flexible ways to work with labor. It gives the flexibility to build people's confidence without necessarily becoming full-time employees. There's more technology that can be put to play in training people, in ensuring their skills are high.
Q&A: Better Emergency Preparedness On The Plant FloorNovember 12, 2013 8:19 am | by Joel Hans, Managing Editor, Manufacturing.net
There are actually multiple barriers including cultural, environmental and technological, challenges that can affect timely and effective decision-making in a crisis situation. Among the most common cultural barriers are different languages spoken by people in the facility.
Manufacturing Industry Weighs In On New Bayer SurveyNovember 12, 2013 8:06 am | by Bayer Corporation
The infographics below are in response to the Bayer Facts of Science Education survey, which gauges the public's opinion on the state of science education in the United States, support for reform, and the recognition of the roles that science and science literacy play in everyday life.
How To Develop A Multi-Skilled Workforce: Learning To Do More With LessNovember 11, 2013 9:00 am | by Terri Szymczak, Regional Leader, Training Services, Rockwell Automation
What if you learned funding for capital equipment required to keep your plant running in coming years was soon going to be extremely hard to find? Would you hit the panic button? The situation manufacturers are facing when it comes to their most critical asset – people – is nearly as dire.
Research Firm Finds Ecommerce & Mobile Sales Offer Significant Opportunities For B2B MarketNovember 8, 2013 4:46 pm | by hybris
The study explored what impact ecommerce has on how B2B companies sell their products and services and found that a fundamental transformation is happening in how businesses are acquiring and retaining customers in this market. In fact, U.S. B2B ecommerce revenue has now more than doubled that of B2C.
6 Tips To Avoid Inventory NightmaresNovember 8, 2013 10:28 am | by Brian Sutter, Wasp Barcode Technologies
Inventory shrinkage is a huge problem in North America, effectively robbing retailers of billions each year. It's bad enough when inventory disappears because of theft by customers, employees or suppliers, but it's especially frustrating when your inventory shrinks through preventable mistakes and poor inventory management procedures.
Jack Keough: Shutdown, Sequestration Had Effect On DistributionNovember 8, 2013 9:17 am | by Jack Keough, Industrial Distribution Contributing Editor
The brief shutdown of the federal government and sequestration has had an effect on the business operations of distributors and manufacturers, and could impact earnings in this quarter.
Inside One Of The Only RIM Facilities In The U.S.November 6, 2013 9:39 am | by Melissa Fassbender, Associate Editor, PD&D
Originally used for producing automotive components, RIM is a low-pressure, low-temperature process that uses urethane thermoset resins. The process has been refined over the years, but has remained primarily unchanged.
5 Manufacturing Trends Shaping the Future of Small BusinessesNovember 6, 2013 9:32 am | by Rich Thomas, Line/Shape/Space
If you're one of the few with that million-dollar idea, here are five key manufacturing trends you should know about to help bring your product to market faster, cheaper, and more efficiently.
Demand Response Programs Lower Electricity Costs, But Also Pose RisksNovember 5, 2013 9:26 am | by David Cousineau, Kimberly Frank, and Jeffrey Fuisz, Kaye Scholer's Energy & Infrastructure Group
Take our poll! Many industrial manufacturers with the ability to control their electricity usage are now taking advantage of demand response programs to help reduce their energy costs. Demand response programs pay participants to reduce electric energy usage for short periods of time.
Does A Manufacturing Decline Reduce The Capacity To Innovate?November 5, 2013 9:11 am | by Penny Olmos
The key phrase here is "new ideas entering the market." It's not like there aren't any new ideas floating in the heads of enterprising individuals, but the ideas just don't reach the shop floor. The resources needed to bring innovative ideas to life are in short supply in U.S.
ISM: Manufacturing Continues Upward MomentumNovember 4, 2013 9:50 am | by Jon Minnick, Associate Editor, Manufacturing Business Technology
Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in October for the fifth consecutive month, and the overall economy grew for the 53rd consecutive month, say the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Report On Business.
Next Generation of High-Speed Goods-to-Person Picking Solutions Optimize Flexibility and ThroughputNovember 4, 2013 9:34 am | by Jim McMahon, international logistics and automation writer
Many executives running high-throughput distribution centers face a growing logistics challenge – the need to prepare small-quantity, mixed-SKU orders to ship and arrive on schedule with short delivery times.


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Building a Business Intelligence Group
A shift in service.
If ŌĆ£platform agnosticŌĆØ was the dominant publishing catch phrase of the last five years, ŌĆ£business intelligenceŌĆØ could dominate the next few as publishers move beyond core publishing duties (such as generating content and selling advertising) to offer more agency-like services, including on-demand research, marketing services and market analysis.
But simply throwing those responsibilities at existing staff could do more harm than good. ŌĆ£Where things can go sideways is if you just keeping adding more services and pricing it in with the products that they support,ŌĆØ says Ziff Davis Enterprise CEO Steve Weitzner. ŌĆ£ThatŌĆÖs a pitfall for most publishers moving into this business.ŌĆØ
Building Off Existing Services
In December, ZDE launched an enhanced bundle of audience engagement programs which are offered in three main pieces: market intelligence, integrated programs and marketing services.
ŌĆ£Market intelligence merges the research team together with market experts and market strategists,ŌĆØ says Josh Heitsenrether, senior vice president of strategic services. ŌĆ£WeŌĆÖve merged the two together to field larger studies of the database, larger studies of the market and combine all of that with ŌĆśfeet on the streetŌĆÖ kind of insights rolled into one package that serve longer term relationships that are independent of an advertising campaign with us.ŌĆØ┬Ā
The second piece is a wide grouping of marketing services. ŌĆ£We have the ability to offer content services and analysis and we have analysts who can offer lead modeling and scoring, and roadmaps for how to take leads down the sales path,ŌĆØ says Heitsenrether.
Integrated programs offer direct execution services for clients. ŌĆ£As resources become more challenging on the customer side, weŌĆÖve been able to step up with planning and execution of very complicated integrated marketing campaigns,ŌĆØ says Heitsenrether.
All three parts build off services that ZDE offered before (in some cases, even before its spin-off from Ziff Davis). ŌĆ£For some time before I got here, the enterprise was involved in variety of demand generation programs,ŌĆØ says Weitzner. ŌĆ£The outcome of that was youŌĆÖre dealing more deeply with the client and they start asking for other things, which could range from people saying ŌĆśmy budget has been cut severely can you take over this functionŌĆÖ to becoming an actual marketing department for a client.ŌĆØ
In once case, ZDE was engaged by a vendor to conduct a sales training and market analysis program which involved doing primary market research and then creating sales training materials, conducting the training and assessing the clientŌĆÖs sellers. ŌĆ£There was no public face to it, this was all done within the client,ŌĆØ says Heitsenrether.
Pricing ranges greatly. Enhanced services around lead generation might mean simply a higher cost per lead, while virtual marketing might include a monthly retainer and specific fees on deliverables. ŌĆ£Our base of unbundled services is a relatively small part of total revenue but growing rapidly,ŌĆ£ says Heitsenrether.
Building these services included hiring people with backgrounds outside of media. ŌĆ£We have to rethink the model right down to the two basic pillars of the publishing business: employees and content,ŌĆØ says Weitzner. ŌĆ£Although everyone has gotten past circulation as the model to audience development, you have to take another step to audience marketing. One of the basic ingredients in engaging the audience beyond simply looking at a Web site or reading an article in a magazine is a 360 degree view of how we touch these people. We need people who are experts not just in content or in a specific content domain but how the audience consumes content and what it requires to attract them and keep them there.ŌĆØ
ALM Extends Research Arm
Six years ago, ALM started its research business by taking stock of the content it had. ŌĆ£We realized thereŌĆÖs tremendous value in looking at year-over-year comparisons in the data but this was too much information for an article in print or online,ŌĆØ says Kevin Iredell, head of ALMŌĆÖs Legal Business Solutions Division. ŌĆ£The decision was made that weŌĆÖre sitting on all this data, letŌĆÖs do something with it.ŌĆØ
ALM began by simply putting the data in one place and making it searchable. Data today is available in two ways: by subscription (typically to law firm librarians) and by selling individual datapoints on a transactional basis. ŌĆ£This may include tech vendors selling to law firmsŌĆöevery couple years they will purchase the ALM 100 list to help set up sales territories,ŌĆØ says Iredell.┬Ā
More than 90 percent of the top 100 law firms are subscribers, while individual transactions number in the thousands each year, according to Iredell.
Content Audit
ALM originally looked at all content the same way but recently split it between ŌĆ£business of lawŌĆØ and ŌĆ£substantive lawŌĆØ which includes cases, codes and treatises. While ALM initially just licensed the content to outside resources such as Lexis Nexis, it needed a better sense of what it had to start selling directly to clients.┬Ā
ŌĆ£The first step was having our licensing experts look at the content and decide what was valuable to individual users,ŌĆØ says Iredell. ŌĆ£We basically did a content audit. We didnŌĆÖt have in-house expertise for the database portion and we worked with an outside firm to build the infrastructure around that.ŌĆØ
Today there are two separate groups within ALM Legal Business SolutionsŌĆöone that handles licensing while the other offers business intelligence, which could include fielding a compensation report of 15 different legal positions. ŌĆ£A lot of the requests we get are, ŌĆśHow does that compare over time?ŌĆØ says Iredell. ŌĆ£One of our content managers will build a compensation benchmarking tool that goes back five or 10 years.ŌĆØ
The licensing group has about six staffers compared to about a dozen in the legal intelligence group. ŌĆ£We have content managers and database managers, a dedicated sales staff that sells it separate from the circulation department (who used to do it), and telemarketers sell the transactional business,ŌĆØ says Iredell.
Three-Tiered Pricing
Subscriptions are offered at three levels: a base level providing access to all of the current yearŌĆÖs content┬Ā for $5,000 per year for the first user, with additional users paying 10 percent of that. The premium subscription offers current content plus archives for $12,000 for the first user. ALM has also introduced Premium Plus, which includes Benchmarking information and additional surveys such as the Survey of Welfare Economics, and Law Department Metric Survey, at $15,000 for the first user. Transactional fees range from $199 up to $1,200.
ŌĆ£WeŌĆÖre doing more custom surveys and weŌĆÖre ramping up to answer more questions around custom research,ŌĆØ says Iredell. ŌĆ£ThereŌĆÖs a lot of need for, ŌĆśyeah, I get benchmarking data, what about MY firm.ŌĆÖ We donŌĆÖt want to be consultants but we do want to be partners.ŌĆØ
While Iredell wouldnŌĆÖt share specific revenue figures, he said the Legal Business Solutions group was up slightly over 2008. ŌĆ£We sit astride the wallŌĆöpart of what we do is edit, part of it is business-side,ŌĆØ says Iredell. ŌĆ£The challenge has been getting both the editors and the business side to trust in the process.ŌĆØ


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How States Fared On Jobless Aid Applications
The Associated Press
The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment aid remained elevated for a second straight week because Superstorm Sandy forced many people to seek temporary benefits. The Labor Department said Wednesday that first-time applications for benefits fell by 41,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 410,000. That offset only part of the previous week's surge. Two weeks ago, the storm drove applications up by 90,000 to 451,000, an 18-month high.
Here are the states with the biggest increases and decreases in applications:
States with the biggest increases:New York: Up 43,956, because Superstorm Sandy caused temporary layoffs in construction, restaurants and transportation New Jersey: Up 31,094, because Sandy caused temporary layoffs in hotels, restaurants, manufacturing, transportation, health care and construction California: Up 24,693, because of layoffs in the services industry Pennsylvania: Up 7,037, because Sandy caused temporary layoffs in construction and transportation Connecticut: Up 1,808, because of temporary layoffs from Sandy Wisconsin: Up 1,674, no reason given States with the biggest decreases: Ohio: Down 4,996, due to fewer layoffs in manufacturing
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Keynote Speaker Presentation: Cathy Nash
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Bob Bellerue – Fine Phenomena
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Edition of 50
The past decade has seen composer Bob Bellerue transform various ideas about prepared noise action into varied musical composition with a focus and energy that is unmatched. His history with projects like Redglaer and Halfnormal, assorted releases through his own Sleepy Hollow Editions and Half Normal labels, and his infamous Ende Tymes Festival in Brooklyn, NY have made Bellerue a patron namesake among most tight-knit experimental musicians. This release equals two live performances recorded at the Phi Phenomena "10 Artists in 60 Minutes" yearly events in 2009 and 2011. Edition of 50 with cover photography by Bob Bellerue.
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WASHINGTON, July 21, 2013 ― For years Radley Balko, a senior investigative journalist for The Huffington Post, has been documenting the egregious assaults on civil liberties, especially how they pertain to law enforcement.
In his new book "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces," Balko has released a comprehensive history of how law enforcement agencies have become increasingly militarized, while simultaneously documenting the failures of decades long policies such as the war on drugs.
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Balko wants readers to understand that he has not published an "anti-cop book," but an "anti-politician" book. Speaking with Balko, the author explains the premise of his book, the restraints the Founding Fathers placed on law enforcement, the misinterpretation of the Posse Comitatus Act, and a disturbing essay written by General Patton.
Kevin Kelly: What people should know about your book is that it is not an "anti-cop book" as you mention in the introduction. You say it is an "anti-politician book," could you expound upon that statement?
Radley Balko: Sure. Well, first I don't think that it's healthy or productive to direct all of the invectives about this issue at police officers. They're basically just rare products of the system that they operate in, and the policies they are enforcing were passed by the politicians and the policymakers. If we want to circle this back and change any of it, screaming about the cops themselves isn't going to do it. I think we need to start holding the politicians accountable, and have some of these policies changed.
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I think I make this point several times in the book that if you have a system that is loaded with bad incentives, then you're going to continue to get bad results. If you have good people in the system then they will get frustrated and quit, or they are going to turn bad, or they will be miserable and won't be very good at their jobs. The important thing is, is to change the incentives and not-I still believe that bad cops need to be held accountable, and clearly really bad cops need to be fired, but until we change the policies that have created all of this, things are not going to change.
Kelly: Towards the beginning of the book you mention how concerned the colonists were about the presence of an army/executive branch that might abuse its powers. Could you describe some of the measures that were passed in order to prevent America's leaders from just arbitrarily using the military against their citizens whenever they wished?
Balko: The most obvious answer would be the Second, Third, and Fourth Amendments. The Second Amendment was, whether you're thinking of it as an individual right or a group right, it clearly also does indicate that the Founders wanted safe law enforcement. The Second Amendment is part of that era's adherence that law enforcement should be a part time position only, and that people should only be called up into it when there is an immediate emergency.
The Third Amendment, it prohibits the quartering of troops without congressional approval, but there is a lot of historical research that I cite in the book that I think supports the premise there was more to it than that, that it was a placeholder for kind of a broader skepticism of militarism, and putting armies among the populace in general. There was fierce debate between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists after the American Revolution ended and before the Constitution was drafted, and there was a lot of historical evidence that the Third Amendment was sort of a compromise between the two sides.
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Then of course the Fourth Amendment protects privacy and it was a direct response to what was going on in Boston between British troops, and the general warrants that allowed them to break into houses at anytime. It adds to the animosity that builds up between the British troops and the citizens of Boston.
The Fourth Amendment is in a lot of ways a restatement of the Castle Doctrine. The ancient sentiment that the home should be a place of peace and sanctuary, and that the state or the king, should not be able to breach the home except in extreme circumstances. Even then, the common law tradition was you should have to knock, announce his presence, and his intent. Only in dire situations could he bring violence into the home.
There's the idea that the Castle Doctrine is part of the Fourth Amendment.
Kelly: You say in the book, that a lot of the federal government's restraint concerning the military and its policing powers changed after the Civil War. You've also provided an interesting history of the Posse Comitatus Act, a measure that was enacted following the War. You claim that there has been some misinterpretation about the Act among those who believe it actually placed restraints on the executive branch. Could you discuss that?
Balko: I think there are two things going on here. One is that the actual text of the Posse Comitatus Act does not prevent the president or congress from using soldiers for domestic law enforcement. What it does do, is it prevents a federal marshal or some other federal law enforcement official, arguably probably also applies to local law enforcement officials, it states that a law enforcement official cannot basically draft a soldier to perform domestic law enforcement without authorization from the president or congress.
The actual language of the statute doesn't say that the president can't use the military for law enforcement. A lot of people I think mistakenly think that it does. At the same time, there's also a symbolic meaning and significance of the word, and what the word has come to mean in the last 150 years or so, and I think here there is a lot of evidence that just the mere fact that people do think that the law applies to the president and congress and that it prohibits them from using the military for law enforcement shows that the general sentiment of keeping the two separate is alive and healthy.
It's a misunderstanding, but I think that it's a healthy misunderstanding.
Kelly: Another part of your book that fascinates me, and frightens me is the essay that General Patton wrote about law enforcement. Would you mind explaining that?
Balko: I was kind of shocked when I saw it too. After the Bonus March, where you had these World War I veterans march on Washington because they weren't given pension bonuses that Congress defaulted on. They march on Washington, and the response from the Hoover administration was to send in the military, and it ended up being a huge fiasco that probably contributed to Hoover losing his bid for reelection.
There were images in newspapers and newsreels throughout the country of- I think they had one sort of tank like equipment, others were soldiers on horses, others with bayonets, and they were using them against veterans. People who had served their country, and they were protesting because they weren't given something they had been promised. That was a striking image for a lot of the country, and there was a lot of backlash against it. Reaction from Patton was defensive in this essay he wrote. It was never actually published anywhere, but it was in the archives of his estate.
In the essay, he goes through history, he talks about revolutions that succeeded and failed, and he concludes that the regimes that were successful at preventing revolution were the regimes that were willing and able to use violence against their own citizens. The lesson that he draws from it is that the federal government should be more willing to use violence against its own citizens. He goes into specifics about-I think at one point he says that if you shoot and kill a protestor, leave their body in the street as a warning to other protestors. He talks about not shooting over them, just shoot right into the crowd.
I don't think anybody would have mistaken Patton for a hippie peacenik, but even for that, the language is pretty shocking when we read it.
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Joseph R. Rosetti
Prior to forming Guidepost Solutions, Joseph R. Rosetti was President of the premier security consulting firm SafirRosetti, one of Guidepost's predecessors. Mr. Rosetti was also co-Founder and Vice Chairman of Kroll Associates, a worldwide security consulting company. As Vice Chairman, he had responsibility for Corporate Security/Crisis Management, which provides industry and professional organizations with preventive measures to combat corporate and financial crimes.
From 1971 to 1987 he was Director of Worldwide Security for IBM, responsible for security programs in physical security, investigations, personnel security, trade secret protection, information asset security, financial asset security, and Department of Defense Security. In his capacity as IBM Security Director, Mr. Rosetti was the chief industry representative serving as Vice Chairman of the Secretary of State's Overseas Security Advisory Council.
Mr. Rosetti was a member of the U.S. National Chamber of Commerce Crime Reduction Panel, Staff Director for the Conference of the National Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, a member of the private Security Task Force to the National Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, and Chairman of the American Management Association's Council on Crimes against Business.
Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Rosetti was the Northeast Director for the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration of the U.S. Department of Justice and a Special Agent, Group Supervisor, and Special Assistant to the Assistant Commissioner for Compliance in the Intelligence Division, U.S. Treasury Department. Prior to joining the U.S. Government, he was Chief Accountant for Marriott.
Mr. Rosetti holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from Pennsylvania Military College (Widener University) and a Master's Degree in Accounting from Southeastern University. He is a National Institute of Public Affairs Fellow from the University of Southern California. He has taught and lectured at numerous universities.
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Hi. I think I may have arthritis in my hands and wondered how the doc would be able to tell and what can be done about it. I've been dealing with achey hands for a long time now but it seems like they ache constantly especially around the tips of my fingers and it just gets worse all the time. I take Ibuprofen at night to help me sleep but am afraid to take too much. I have an appointment with my primary care physician in two weeks to get my hands looked at and wondered what I should expect. Thank you for your help.
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Hi, I'm sorry to hear you are having problems with your hands. I was too so I scheduled and appointment and my doctor xrayed my hands and did some bloodwork to check for arthritis. He says I have carpal tunnel syndrome but I don't really type a lot so I'm not sure what is going on with that.
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Seeing your primary care physician is a good place to start. Most likely he or she will take a medical history, examine your hands and, most likely, order some x-rays to determine if there is any joint damage. Depending on what your PCP decides, he or she may refer you to a rheumatologist. There can be causes of achy hands aside from arthritis, such as tendinitis, carpal tunnel, bursitis. A cause will need to be determined before appropriate treatment is recommended. Some things to do in the interim is to soak your hands in warm water, purchase a microwaveable rice or gel pack and use it on your hands, flex your fingers and wrists gently to keep them as limber as possible. Probably moving them is not on top of your list of things to do, but gentle exercise can actually reduce the pain and stiffness. You can also squeeze a soft spongy ball.
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Gliomatosis cerebri
Gliomatosis cerebri is a diffusely infiltrative glial tumor that involves at least three lobes by definition. There often is an important discordance between clinical and radiological findings, as it may be clinically silent while it appears as a very extensive process radiologically.
Peak incidence is at 20-40 years of age.
Radiographic features
Can be normal because lesions often isodense to normal brain parenchyma. There is relative lack of mass effect and distortion. There may be an ill defined asymmetry or subtle hypoattenuation to the involved brain parenchyma.
Mass effect and enhancement are minimal. There is loss of GM/WM differenciation and diffuse gyral thickening.
Diffuse T1 and T2 prolongation throughout both white and grey matter.
- T1: iso to hypo intense to grey matter 1
- T2: hyper intense to grey matter 1
- MR spectroscopy: elevated Cho:Crn and Cho:NAA ratios 2
The condition carries a poor prognosis with an average survival of ≈ 50% at 1 year and 25 % at 3 years. GBM /HAA may occur a few years later
Differential diagnosis
General imaging differential considerations include:
- progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (in immunocompromised patient): no mass effect
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