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Officials with Maryland's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene have launched a sweeping review of procedures and protocols in the state for licensing radiographers like Kwiatkowski and for overseeing staffing agencies that place traveling technicians in area hospitals. It is also reviewing aspects of the medical system that could allow practitioners with drug abuse issues to go unnoticed.
"We have a review team that is looking into vulnerabilities that are related to the situation," said Dr. Lucy Wilson, the agency's chief of surveillance, infection prevention and outbreak response.
Currently, the agency's Office of Health Care Quality regulates temporary agency placements of nurses but not placements of technicians like Kwiatkowski, officials said. Accredited hospitals have hiring standards and contracts with staffing agencies that require certain employee background reviews, but those reviews might not catch every red flag about a practicing technician in other states.
The Maryland Board of Physicians requires radiographers to be licensed — Kwiatkowski held a license for most of his time in Maryland — but does not require "medical technicians" to be licensed, said Carole Catalfo, the board's executive director.
Some states require neither radiographers nor technicians to be licensed, and the work history of such medical employees, especially those who move from state to state, is much more difficult to vet, Catalfo said.
A full report from the state health department review team is expected to be completed, with recommendations for reforms, by early next year. The department's epidemiological staff is reviewing and monitoring the testing of patients exposed to Kwiatkowski in Maryland.
"That's sort of a lengthy process and it involves samples going down to the Centers for Disease Control for testing, and so far there are no results," Wilson said.
There is also little information available about Kwiatkowski. Who he is — and how he was able to secure placements in so many hospitals despite his alleged drug addiction — is unclear.
David Matthew Kwiatkowski was raised in Michigan. He was admitted to Madonna University, a Catholic university in Livonia, Mich., in 1998 and graduated in 2005 with a bachelor of science degree in allied health administration, according to a school spokeswoman. He then began taking on temporary technician jobs.
According to federal court documents, he would enter secured surgical labs and steal syringes full of fentanyl after they had been removed by nurses from locked compartments before surgeries.
At times, he would do so despite not being properly "scrubbed in" and not being on the team scheduled to perform the surgery, the documents say. He likely replaced the needles with syringes he had previously used and refilled with saline, the documents say.
The continuing investigation has sparked a number of lawsuits related to Kwiatkowski and the hospitals where he worked. In one, an infected patient in Kansas alleges that Kwiatkowski was caught stealing drugs at UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh, but the issue was not reported to authorities by the hospital or by Maxim Staffing Solutions Inc., the Columbia, Md.-based staffing agency that placed him. A second, class-action lawsuit has been filed as well.
Officials with UPMC did not return multiple requests for comment. Heather Chilcot, Maxim's director of strategic communications, said the agency is taking the cases seriously but could not comment on ongoing investigations.
Kwiatkowski's federally appointed attorneys, Bjorn Lange and Jonathan Saxe, said they and Kwiatkowski would not be available to comment to the news media "now or in the near future."
Kwiatkowski is being held as prosecutors and his attorneys continue investigations into his actions over the past few years, according to federal documents.
By the time he was found at the hotel outside Boston, he had already been interviewed by federal investigators, and allegedly told them he'd "lied to a lot of people" and "fabricated [his] life," court documents say. His parents, back home in Michigan, had told investigators they were unaware of any illegal drug use by their son, but that he had "issues with alcohol, anger and depression."
Questioned by the same investigators about dozens of patients infected with hepatitis C at Exeter Hospital, Kwiatkowski allegedly responded, "You know, I'm more concerned about myself, my own well-being."
Six days after the hotel incident, on July 19, he was arrested on federal charges of "acquiring a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception or subterfuge" and of tampering with a consumer product with "reckless disregard for the risk that another person will be placed in danger of death or bodily injury."
The affidavit filed in the case by DiFede, the FBI agent, recounts conversations investigators had with Kwiatkowski's former co-workers, including those at the cardiac catheterization lab at Exeter. They described how Kwiatkowski might have been able to steal, use and replace needles that were then reused on patients.
In the Exeter lab, controlled substances, including vials of fentanyl, are kept in what is known as a Pyxis machine, which scans fingerprints and dispenses drugs to authorized personnel only. Kwiatkowski was not authorized to access the medications.
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RIDGEFIELD, Wash. — Whitman College finished off the fall portion of its men's golf season in style here Sunday during the second round of the Northwest Conference Fall Classic.
The Missionaries, who struggled in the rain and mud and cold temperatures during Saturday's first round of the tournament, shot a season-best 293 team score, a 27-shot improvement over their first-round score, and climbed from sixth place to a tie for fourth in the final team standings.
"We set a goal of 300 for the second day," Whitman coach Pete McClure said. "The guys said, 'Why not do better than 300,' and that's what they did.
With temperatures much warmer but the rain still falling, Whitman senior Geoff Burks took matters into his own hands with a 4-under-par 68 that was one shot shy of second-day medalist honors. Burks' hot round came one day after he opened tournament play with a fat 82.
"He had no feel for his swing on Saturday," McClure said of Burks. "But he had his game back together on Sunday."
Burks' 36-hole score of 150 was good for a share of 10th place individually with Whitworth's Oliver Rudnicki. They finished eight shots off the pace set by Willamette's Ryan Kukula, who also carded 68 Sunday after a first-round 74. His 2-under-par 142 score edged Whitworth's Jesse Salzwedel by one stroke and Pacific Lutheran's Dustin Hegge by two.
Hegge shot a first-round 71 and was in sole possession of first place as play began Sunday. But he shot a second-round 73 and lost ground to both Kukula and Salzwedel, the latter shooting 2-under-par 70 the second day.
Whitworth won the team championship with a 587 score, 19 strokes ahead of second-place University of Puget Sound's's 606 score. PLU was another shot back at 607, with Whitman and Linfield knotted in fourth place at 613. Willamette placed sixth at 624, followed by George Fox 629, Lewis & Clark 670 and Pacific 681.
Whitman freshman Evan Dyar shot a 1-under-par 71 Sunday and finished in a tie for 13th place with a 152 score for 36 holes. Scott Martin and Daniel Hoffman each shot 77 Sunday, with Martin placing 17th at 154 and Hoffman 23rd at 157. Connor Hood followed up a first-round 86 with a second-round 81 that was good for a 167 score and 35th place in the field of 44.
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PHILADELPHIA - JANUARY 23: Eric Staal #12 of the Carolina Hurricanes celebrates his goal against the Philadelphia Flyers with teammates Jussi Jokinen #36 and Matt Cullen #8 on January 23, 2010 at Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
As if the Pittsburgh Penguins needed another way to win games. Today the Penguins have acquired Carolina Hurricanes shootout specialist Jussi Jokinen for a conditional draft pick. As part of the deal, the Hurricanes will most likely retain some of Jokinen's salary. If they didn't have to, the Penguins would have likely just claimed [...]
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"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
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I have no desire for Xavier Paul to fill that role. Todd Benzinger's bat with Kal Daniels glove.
If the lefty OF could have been a guy for the CF mix in 2014, it would have been worth parting with a little talent.
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Having better players makes "the right time" or "the big hit" happen a lot more often. PLUS PLUS
Maxwell would have been a nice addition, lot o' power in that swing.
"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
Ludwick's stint in AAA is not going well. He is something like 4 for 33 with 1 home run. As much as I'd like to write it off in a "spring training stats don't mean anything" way there is the fact that his stats may be bad because his injury has affected him. It wasn't something as simple as a mild hamstring pull. He had surgery on his shoulder capsule. I don't think anyone knows how he can preform either this year or next.
I wouldn't expect Ludwick to perform as he did last year, but I wouldn't read too much into his stats in AAA. The adrenaline hasn't kicked in yet, and last year it took him a good while to find his timing and get in a groove. Ludwick is unlikely to be a huge difference-maker, but I think he's an upgrade over anything we currently have in left.
As long as he gets hot and stays hot after Oct 1.
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1. ATi Damn Well Does Code for OpenGL
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3. Nvidia has indeed spent more time With OpenGL than ATi has.
4. ATi seems to be lagging Just a bit overall in the OpenGL Dept.
5. Those times are Changing.
6. Even So ATi is as fast or Faster in nearly every OpenGL benchmark where Nvidia does not get to use Proprietary Extensions.
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1. Microsoft is also invovled in OpenGL.
2. There are a small Handfull of OpenGL games compared to D3D
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Memorial Day Weekend means it''s time to dust off the grill and prepare some delicious burgers, steaks and ribs. Here are a few recipes to get you started.
Britain's royal family has a new member.
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In case you didn't know, New Year's Eve is coming 'atcha faster than a year-end best-of list on the Internet. Better make your plans now, if you haven't yet.
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The 156-mile-long Indian River Lagoon (IRL) spans forty percent of Florida's eastern coast, straddling warm temperate and subtropical ecological regions.
The IRL system supports a higher diversity of organisms than any other estuary on the North American continent. It contains 2100 species of plants and 2200 species of animals, including 700 fish species and 310 species of birds. Fifty species of threatened or endangered plants and animals live in the Indian River Lagoon, among them the West Indian manatee.
Often referred to simply as the Indian River, this rich estuary is not really a river at all. Rather, it is a complex set of distinct water bodies bordered by the Florida mainland and a series of barrier islands. Salt water from the ocean and fresh water from streams, creeks, rivers, and runoff flow in wind-driven currents through the IRL.
The IRL is a pivotal economic resource. The lagoon contributes roughly $731,000,000 annually to the local economy, through shellfish culture, commercial and recreational fishing, and recreational boating sales. Commercial ships ply the lagoon's waters. Residential development along the beautiful shores of the lush lagoon is increasing year by year. The human population within the IRL's watershed, estimated at 50,000 in 1950, is expected to grow to 1,000,000 by the year 2010.
Predictably, human activities are taking a toll on the health of the IRL. In 1991, the Indian River Lagoon was designated by the EPA as an Estuary of National Significance. This designation, which placed the IRL within the National Estuary Program, provided a five year charter and federal funding to create a blueprint for coordinating management and conservation efforts for the IRL.
In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order to set aside Pelican Island (in the central region of the Indian River Lagoon basin) as a "preserve and breeding ground for native birds." From this humble beginning, the United States National Wildlife Refuge System has grown to become the largest network of lands managed for wildlife. Today, the National Wildlife Refuge System encompasses almost 500 refuges and parks, totaling approximately 93 million acres of land.


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Graph: The 'green energy' implosion
**Written by Doug Powers
The Renewable Energy Industrial Index (RENIXX) tracks the stock of the 30 largest renewable energy companies in the world with more than half of their revenues coming from "green" business (wind, solar, biofuel, etc). Last month the RENIXX Index hit an all time low:
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Al Gore's reaction was predictable.
If only we could figure out a way to harness the power of bursting bubbles (there's your next project, Secretary Chu… run with it!).
This article in the Washington Times explains the implosion. Ironically, the purported quest for sustainability is totally unsustainable:
But the subsidy-driven green energy wave soon hit a brick wall of fiscal reality. Spain paid solar operators up to ten times the rate for conventional electricity with a 20-year subsidy guarantee. With a guaranteed annual return of 17 percent, every hombre entered the solar business, making Spain the largest solar cell market in 2008. But the nation's subsidy obligation soon mounted to $36 billion dollars. In 2009, Spain cut the subsidies and its solar market dropped by 80%.
In Germany, feed-in tariffs of eight times the market rate resulted in the installation of over one million roof-top solar systems by 2010. But the 20-year guarantee also produced a subsidy obligation of over $140 billion. German electricity rates climbed to the second highest in the world and continue to climb to pay for green energy. To stop the bleeding, Germany cut feed-in subsidies three times in 2011 and announced a complete phase-out by 2017. Spain, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, and other nations cut subsidies for wind, solar, and biofuels during the last three years.
At the same time, solar manufacturers built huge capacity to meet expected demand for green energy. But with cuts in subsidies, demand crashed and so did solar cell prices. Dozens of companies went bankrupt, such as German companies Solon and Solar Millennium, and US-based Solyndra.
And now Al Gore's out there trying to give artificial resuscitation to the above graph by blaming Sandy on man-made global warming before the RENIXX flatlines.
Related story: A Chinese firm won the auction for A123 Systems, the company that was the recipient of a $249 million DOE grant (nearly a million of that was given to the company on the same day it declared bankruptcy).
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Boldly Contrasted 1883 Eagle, PR64 Cameo1883 $10 PR64 Cameo NGC. The 1883 ten dollar proof has an identical mintage to its 1881 and 1882 counterparts at just 40 specimens, though Garrett and Guth note that the issue is "slightly more common" than those predecessors. It is plausible that the 1883 sold out or nearly so, as proof production got a slight bump for the next year. In any event, few coins have survived in such impressive condition as this PR64 Cameo specimen, boldly contrasted between yellow mirrors and sharply struck, frosted devices. A touch of cloudiness is noted at the lower left obverse, and the reverse has a couple of small copper spots at the bottom rim. Census: 6 in 64 Cameo, 1 finer (8/11).(Registry values: P3) (NGC ID# 28FM, PCGS# 88823)
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H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden will formally present Dr. Colwell with the 2010 Stockholm Water Prize on September 9 during the 2010 World Water Week in Stockholm. The Stockholm Water Prize is a global award presented annually by the Stockholm International Water Institute. The Stockholm Water Prize Laureate receives USD 150,000 and a crystal sculpture specially designed by Orrefors.
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Opened right next door to Datz in 2013, Dough is doing the baking for Datz (1,000 hamburger buns a week), but it's also grab-and-go pastries and breakfast in the morning; ladies-who-lunch staples like chicken salad on mixed greens at lunch; and swanky date-night desserts and dessert wines in the evening. It all goes on in a building that is pure whimsy, part MacKenzie-Childs fanciful design, part Alice in Wonderland, with trays of doughnuts, delicate tartines of smoked salmon. Oh, and bacon lattes, bacon éclairs, bacon cheesecake and duck fat fries. House-infused vodkas. craft beers.


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Sfila NYC and The Region of Sicily, in cooperation with The European Union, present "Made In Italy," an exclusive Bridal Week Fashion Show featuring Italy's finest emerging designers. After having hit the runways in Milan and Paris, Sfila NYC is honored to debut these luxury bridal collections for the first time in New York City.
"Made In Italy" will featured designers Ignazio Bissoli,Daniela Cocco, Marco Cucinotta, Gemelle Donato, Ejè Collection, Loredana Roccasalva, Roberta Lojacono and La Via Della Seta. Sfila NYC is a New York based fashion show Production Company aimed to assist foreign designers expand their businesses internationally.
The event will take place at the luxurious XVI Rooftop Lounge at the Hilton Garden in Times Square on October 12th at 7pm. Sfila NYC will offer guests the opportunity to view the designer's latest collections along with dancers, musicians and singers who will perform during breaks. The show will be followed by an after-party Apertivo allowing buyers, models and photographers a chance to meet, mingle and network.
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Rensselaer Falls is a village located in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the village had a total population of 332. The current name came from mill owner Henry Van Rensselaer.
The Village of Rensselaer Falls is in the western part of the Town of Canton and is due west of the Village of Canton.
A six foot drop in the river attracted early settlers to the available water power. The community was first called "Tateville" and later "Canton Falls." The current name was established by the Post Office in 1851.
The Congregational Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[1]
Rensselaer Falls is located at 44°35'26" North, 75°19'16" West (44.590673, -75.321134).[2]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2), of which, 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) of it is water. The total area is 6.25% water.
The village is on the bank of the Oswegatchie River.
The village is at the junction of County Roads 14 (Rensselaer Street) and 15 (Front/Heuvelton Street).
Rensselaer Falls borders the Upper and Lower Lakes Wildlife Management Area.
As of the census[3] of 2000, there are 337 people, 124 households, and 90 families residing in the village. Cows and dogs far outnumber people. The population density is 1,147.5 people per square mile (448.7/km²). There are 144 housing units at an average density of 490.3 per square mile (191.7/km²). The racial makeup of the village is 97.33% White, 0.00% African American, 0.59% Native American, 0.30% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 1.78% from two or more races. 1.19% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 124 households out of which 41.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.8% are married couples living together, 16.1% have a female householder with no husband present, and 27.4% are non-families. 22.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 9.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.62 and the average family size is 3.04.
In the village the population is spread out with 28.5% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 29.4% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 13.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 93.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 95.9 males.
The median income for a household in the village is $30,417, and the median income for a family is $33,125. Males have a median income of $30,625 versus $17,125 for females. The per capita income for the village is $13,190. 12.1% of the population and 12.2% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 18.3% of those under the age of 18 and 0.0% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13.
- ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
- ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
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Would u deal Frazier for Brandon Wood?
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Wood has been in the major leagues for parts of 5 seasons and not hit above .200. Last year in 243 plate appearances he only hit .146. At 26 years old I just don't see the point of giving up anything for the guy.
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Terry, S.J.; (2011) Identification of regulators and effectors of RhoGTPase signalling in corneal epithelial cells. Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
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Epithelial cells adhere to each other and are connected via a series of junctions. Tight junctions (TJs) are a specific type of junction consisting of heteromeric protein complexes that are linked to the actin cytoskeleton and are important in regulating paracellular permeability and cell polarity. RhoGTPases are small molecular switch proteins that are important regulators of the cytoskeleton and modulators of gene expression. RhoGTPases have thus been identified as being major signalling components associated with TJs. However little is known about how RhoGTPases are regulated to control junction formation and gene expression in corneal epithelial cells. I used a siRNA screening approach combined with functional assays to identify components of RhoGTPase signalling that affect the assembly of junctions and gene expression in Human corneal epithelial cells (HCE). I identified and validated several candidates that regulate junction assembly. One of these candidates was p114RhoGEF, a novel TJ localised guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) important for the assembly of functional TJs. p114RhoGEF is a widely expressed and I discovered its depletion effects junction formation and morphogenesis in three dimensional culture systems in different epithelial cell types. p114RhoGEF is required for activation of RhoA at cell-cell junctions and junctional actinomyosin activity, p114RhoGEF is present in a complex containing Myosin II-A, the RhoA effector Rock II and the junctional adaptor protein Cingulin; indicating p114RhoGEF is a component of a junction associated RhoA-signalling module. p114RhoGEF, thus regulates spatial activation of RhoA at cell-cell junctions and organisation of the junctional cytoskeleton. p114RhoGEF may also have a role in cell migration, as depletion in HCE cells, caused cells to migrate at a slower rate during wound healing assays. I have also started to explore the function of a putative p114RhoGEF ortholog, cg10188 in Drosophila melanogaster. Preliminary experiments have identified cg10188 to be important in larval development.
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It was sick. After I had sex with him, he man queefed.
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The game looks great on both the Game Boy Advance and the Game Boy Player for the Nintendo GameCube. As the story goes, this freak-of-nature gorilla kidnaps the beautiful girl. Mario, being the chivalrous type, runs to the rescue. To reach damsel in distress, however, Mario must avoid the gorilla's killa posse of barrels, fireballs and bouncing rivets. Along the way, Mario picks up big points when he hammers barrels and fireballs and snags the umbrella, purse and hat that the girl dropped during her abduction.
Once Mario reaches the girl, DK pulls a fast one and takes her away to another level. Mario doesn't know he's fighting a never-ending battle in the name of love, but don't feel too sorry for him. Even thoughhe never really gets the girl in Donkey Kong, he does collect a lot of coins in the other games in which he appears and should be pretty rich by now.
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FIGURE S.1 Overhead photo of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program Gakona Facility. SOURCE: McCarrick, M., et. al., Marsh Creek LLC, "HAARP Facility Status," presentation to the Committee on the Role of High-Power, High-Frequency-Band Transmitters in Advancing Ionospheric/Thermospheric Research: A Workshop, April 2013. Courtesy of M. McCarrick. Available at http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/photos.html.
ionosphere, and the magnetosphere. These regions form a coupled system whose nonlinear response to variable and wide-ranging energy and momentum sources have important influences on those of us living on the surface of Earth; for example, radio and satellite communications, global navigation, and the lifetime of space assets limited by atmospheric drag. Many participants in the workshop, even some who were familiar with experiments at heater facilities, said they came away with an increased appreciation for the breadth of phenomena that are addressed by the HAARP facility.
Historically, military applications have been a major motivation for studies at HAARP. At the workshop, the Navy's interest in HAARP was attributed to the prospects to use the ionosphere as an antenna to generate extremely low-frequency (ELF) waves for global submarine communication, while the Air Force interest included applications such as over-the-horizon radar and attempts to study the effects of injecting ULF, ELF, and VLF waves into the radiation belts in order to affect the lifetimes of "killer" million-electron-volt electrons that would otherwise disable low Earth orbit satellites.6 Those applications were not widely discussed in this unclassified workshop, although some of them are mentioned in Chapter 4.
Some participants at the workshop cited the unusual history of the HAARP facility as a contributor to its underutilization by a broader community of researchers. In particular, they noted that initial funding for HAARP
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A teamster in Pennsylvania awakes to find his wagon atop a barn. A sign reading CAKES AND BEER FOR SALE HERE appears over a minister's door in Virginia. Men are led from one New York saloon to another by the promise of letters from friends in California, though no such letters exist.
Most people want to be able to laugh along with jokes. Historians, however, are tasked with understanding them, a challenge Richard Stott takes up in Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America (Johns Hopkins University Press, $55). The pranks listed above are just a few of those pulled by a certain type of American man—rowdy, boastful, hard drinking, and fond of games, brawls, and tricks—who could dependably be found in village taverns and on city streets. The men often referred to themselves as jolly fellows, and Stott turns the term into something like a clinical profile. Also known as sporting men, they were, in Stott's opinion, the unacknowledged forefathers of the original, fairly sadistic Mickey Mouse, stoic movie gamblers such as Humphrey Bogart's in Casablanca, and "drunk shaming" videos posted to the Internet. They might also plausibly be considered the antecedents of Tony Soprano, with his persistent wish to see the people around him enjoying themselves; the Grand Guignol bone crushing of professional wrestling; and the high-living "player" persona of gangsta rap.
Moral ambiguity clouds the reputation of the jolly fellow, and the nature of his pranks grows darker the further into Stott's book one reads. When a drinker in Tennessee comes to, he discovers his face was painted black while he was unconscious. In a town on the Mississippi River, men stretch a rope across a street and run with it, tripping bystanders. Tobacco is surreptitiously added to soup in Kentucky, causing a tavern full of men to vomit violently. In such cases, it's still possible to see the joke, though the humor is probably coarser than most readers of nineteenth-century cultural history are accustomed to, unless on weekends they happen to be fans of Jackass. Scholarly disavowal becomes a refrain: "The most difficult question to answer is why men took enjoyment in such comportment," Stott writes of his subjects' penchant for alcoholism and brawling. To gloss an anecdote about a dog blown up with gunpowder, he quotes a colleague's comment that "one is hard put to explain exactly why the nineteenth-century reader found it humorous." A drunken lawyer's feet are doused with kerosene and set afire in Texas. In Kansas, bisulfite of carbon is rubbed on a tame bear, which howls and writhes. A Maryland tavernkeeper drowns a friend's dog "for a piece of sport."
More than a century insulates the reader from these cruelties. Nonetheless, they aren't really my cup of tea, and I probably wouldn't take much interest in jolly fellows were it not for, first, a scholarly recognition that it isn't possible to understand nineteenth-century American culture, high or low, without them, and, second, the complication that jolly fellows were the loudest and most visible exponents in their era of affection between men, a subject that interests me. Jolly fellows kissed, hugged, and ate off one another's plates, when they weren't knocking one another's blocks off. Stott reports that one California miner kept a journal about "the man I love better than all other men." Doc Holliday's "whole heart and soul were wrapped up in Wyatt Earp," according to a handsome sporting man who knew both.
Many of the men holding hands in antique daguerreotypes and tintypes are jolly fellows, and while some of those from late in the century look decidedly homosexual to a modern eye, it is much harder to qualify the affection represented in earlier ones. Maybe they were enjoying an effusive style of camaraderie that capitalism later made scarce, or maybe they were the sort who would tie someone like me to a barbed-wire fence and pistol-whip me for the fun of it. Or both; one thinks, anachronistically and no doubt inappropriately, of bear hugs in fraternity houses. For all their professions of mutual love, jolly fellows often consorted with prostitutes, and toward the end of the century, sporting man sometimes functioned as a synonym for pimp.
America did not invent the jolly lifestyle. Stott traces it back to the raucous behavior of Britons and Europeans in taverns and on market days. Veterans at loose ends after the Revolutionary War seem to have given the American version a running start by carousing in taverns and in groceries, which then served alcoholic beverages. Most drinkers were socially undistinguished, but in villages, the tavern crowd usually included a few members of the elite, among them politicians and lawyers. In cities, by contrast, those who drank in public were usually young and low in status. Everywhere, they fought. In New England, contests were decided by collar-and-elbow wrestling, which had rules, but in the South and the West, brawls were more dangerous. In North Carolina, they gouged eyes; in Tennessee, they bit ears. Southerners, brittle about their honor, often carried weapons. Stott reports that Natchez, Mississippi, saw fights with "chairs, iron bars, umbrellas, shovels, hatchets, sword canes, whips, bowie knives, dirks, and pistols." Even those who took no part condoned jolly fellows. Stott speculates that the occasional attacks on blacks, Jews, American Indians, and other outsiders may have served to maintain social boundaries that could not be explicitly acknowledged or formally enforced. Playing practical jokes is thought to have been the original intent of the six men who formed the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee in 1866.
Jolly fellows found themselves besieged when the nineteenth century's famous reform movements began to attack drinking, brawling, gambling, and whoring. Reform arose in the Northeast but quickly spread south and west, transforming society wholesale: The average American drank an estimated 7.1 gallons of alcohol in 1830, but only 1.8 in 1845. The alteration is sometimes credited to the religious movement known as the Second Great Awakening. But Stott quotes a Mississippi boatman's belief that "religion is generally located in the upper story" and suspects that the deeper cause was industrial capitalism, which shifted America's ethos from sympathetic interdependence to prudent individualism. Manners became finer, diets became more sophisticated, homespun fabrics gave way to factory-made ones. Men in suits were unlikely to soil them by brawling. An early sociologist, studying the change as it hit an Indiana village in the 1860s, noted that guilt, gossip, and legal coercion joined forces. Before, "the typical man was a fighter"; afterward, he was "a champion of denial." Once credit agencies started to record men's drinking habits, jolly fellowship was doomed.
It took refuge for a long time in New York City. During the gold rush, it had a renaissance in California, a part of the country regretted by one Maine pastor as "a great slaughterhouse of character and souls." And its last stand seems to have come in the 1870s and '80s, when the pursuit of lumber, oil, and precious minerals and the trade in cattle put agglomerations of young men in close quarters. The "peculiarly male romance" of the Wild West, Stott writes, accounts for that region's continuing appeal and mystique. A passage west represented liberty and risk; the homicide rate there was ten times that in New York. But in the end, the gray dust of respectability settled on the West, too. The tameness of Leadville, Colorado, surprised a visiting reporter in 1888. Was he really in Leadville? "Leadville!" an old-timer answered. "No, stranger, this ain't Leadville. It's only some infernal Sunday-School town that ain't named yet."
The jolly fellow's final retreat was into the world of fiction. He was preserved in humorous sketches about such characters as Sut Lovingood, whose racism and cruelty to animals were if anything more gruesome than those of his nonfiction models, and in blackface minstrelsy. The erotic ambiguity that puzzles me seems to have been preserved in popular culture, too, to judge by the turn-of-the-century vaudeville routine of Law Fields and Joe Weber. Fields always beat up Weber—the bloodier the battering, the more audiences roared—and in one sketch quoted by Stott, Weber asks why. "Why?" Fields answers. "Why? Because I like you! . . . When I look at you—I have such a feeling that—oh, I can't express myself! Such a—oo—oo—oo—oo!" And Fields proceeds to choke him.
Caleb Crain is the author of American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation (Yale University Press, 2001).
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Dear Wayne and Wanda,
I recently (Valentine's Day) got engaged to my boyfriend of six years. A lot of people gave us a hard time over the years about why we were waiting so long, and whether we were ever getting married, but I have no complaints about the timing. We have built a wonderful relationship and I love "Paul." We are now both just about to turn 30 years old, with good jobs and a beautiful home we bought together, and I'm in the beginning stages of planning what I hope will be a pretty casual and low-key wedding to be held this fall. We are best friends, the physical attraction is still strong and we have a great life together.
But -- yes, there's a but -- since Paul proposed, I have found myself being beyond nostalgic about past boyfriends. I've gone through old journals and yearbooks and spent a ton of time on Facebook looking up former boyfriends' profiles. I even friended a couple and have chatted with some of them. It's nothing bad -- just catching up, maybe some fond words about the good times we once had. But I haven't told Paul about any of this and I feel like maybe this is a sign we still aren't ready to get married. Why else would I be looking up all these exes? I'm confused by my own behavior and afraid to tell any of my friends about it -- they'll just tell me Paul is awesome and to stop doing stuff that will mess it up. What should I do?
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Wanda says: What should you do? First and foremost, don't mess up your relationship with Paul by having secret relationships with ex-boyfriends. Online lurking, stalking, searching and investigating may not qualify directly as a relationship. But you've clearly crossed the line once the faintly flirtatious interaction is underway with your newly rediscovers "friends."
You know what you and these men have in common? The fact that you were once intimately involved. How is dredging that up and reminiscing about it going to strengthen your connection to Paul? Somehow, I don't see these former flames making the cut for your "casual and low-key wedding." These guys are not your friends. They're relics of your past, a way for you to feel young again, a way for you to briefly reclaim some scraps of attitude and emotion that you felt when you were freer and more unencumbered.
And it makes sense. Marriage is huge. You're nervous. It's a big life change. But rather than manage those feelings by delving into your past, go out for cosmos with girlfriends or have a cathartic night of chocolate and "The Notebook."
Wayne says: Ryan Gosling -- swoon! Now, if one of your exes was The Gosman, I would totally give you a pass on feeling those twinges of nostalgia that led to fits of cyberstalking. But I doubt that any of your exes have either the amazing abs, slightly-troubled voice or the oh-so-dreamy eyes of Ryan, so let's move on with our lives already.
You're about to make a life-changing decision and you're scared. Hey, you wouldn't be human if you didn't feel some kind of anxiety in this situation. But it doesn't excuse emotional or technological cheating. You've also found a special partner, a perfect fit for you -- and that, my friend, doesn't happen every day. Just ask all the folks who send us letters every week about struggling to simply find someone decent in a sea of crazy singles, or those who are making excuses for sticking around in their terrible relationships. You've scored a winner -- don't mess this up.
Turn off Facebook, pull some wool socks over those cold feet and dive into wedding planning with the love of your life. If you two can survive that, it's a sign that you are truly meant to be! And if you can't handle it, be a grown-up and tell Paul it's too soon or too much.
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San Jose, CA (PRWEB) July 10, 2014
NephoScale is excited to announce its new SSD/10 Gbps Hybrid Compute™ cloud service. This service is breaking new ground in IaaS with a combination of higher levels of performance and lower pricing than currently offered by competitors.
"With the addition of this new innovative cloud service NephoScale is changing the game in IaaS cloud computing with an unmatched combination of price and performance," said Bruce Templeton, CEO of NephoScale. "By developing our own advanced software-defined-networking (SDN) and Hybrid Compute™ technology, and extensively leveraging open source software and commodity hardware, NephoScale is continually pushing performance levels up while driving costs down, thus giving our customers the best of both worlds in cloud computing," Templeton adds.
The new Hybrid Compute™ service offers:
All services can be provisioned using either the NephoScale web portal, REST API, or CloudScript™ build language.
"ComputeNext views NephoScale's introduction of high performance cloud services, that combines SSD based virtual and dedicated servers with 10GB networking, as a very compelling offer - and at these low prices we see it as an offer that many companies will find very hard to pass up," said Tilak Yalamanchili, VP, Business Development of ComputeNext, Inc.
Some major differentiators of the NephoScale platform are:
The newly launched Hybrid Compute™ service is now available for use. Sign up and get started in minutes at https://signup.nephoscale.com/.
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NephoScale is a world-class provider of hosted cloud infrastructure and licensed cloud platform software. NephoScale was founded in 2010 by a team of experienced cloud computing professionals. The NephOS™ cloud software stack is wholly owned and developed by NephoScale, and represents the team's 4th generation cloud platform. NephOS™ is the end-to-end cloud software stack that powers the NephoScale Hybrid Compute™ public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform, and is also available for licensing for on-premise applications. NephOS™ is a turnkey software solution that enables companies to self-provision public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructure, and includes software-defined-networking, orchestration, inventory, billing, and ticketing systems. NephOS™ unifies the elements of computing, storage, and networks into a utility that delivers added agility, flexibility, and scalability to businesses. As licensed software NephOS™ is ideally suited for tightly integrated custom enterprise Hybrid Cloud or OEM reseller applications. NephoScale is headquartered in Silicon Valley and can be found online at http://www.nephoscale.com.
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Your knees are major weight-bearing joints and require some ongoing care to keep them functioning well, regardless of your MOS or sport activities. A new HPRC article on knee injuries provides information on knee-injury prevention. We focused on the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) because this injury is quite common in the military and can put a soldier on profile for six months or even more. ACL injuries typically require surgery, so it's an injury you want to avoid, if possible. Scientists and researchers have discovered some specific information that can be useful to decrease your risk of ACL injuries.
Ankle injuries are quite common in the military, and you put yourself at a greater risk for sprains and strains if your ankles are weak. There are some simple tips you can use to keep your ankles healthy, including choosing the proper footwear and maintaining adequate strength in the muscles that control movement of your ankles. Check our new information on ankle injuries.
Many military jobs require that you have strong and healthy shoulders. So whether it's performing well on your push-up test during the PRT or moving the ammunition can during the CFT, you need your shoulders to function well. HPRC has rolled out a new Injury Prevention Strategies series, which includes tips on preventing shoulder injuries. Check out the information on strengthening and flexibility exercises and get started today!
The wounds of war also affect the family members of injured or ill Warfighters. The job of caregiving often falls to a family member, and while it can be a rewarding job, it can also be stressful. Taking time for yourself is important. You run the risk of burnout when your attention is directed solely towards others without time to recharge. Below are tips to help you find balance in taking care of both your loved one and yourself.
- View caregiving as if it were a team sport, not a solo one. Get other people to share the responsibilities.
- Encourage independence by supporting your loved one to do as much as possible for him/herself.
- Take a pro-active and positive perspective.
- Have a take-charge attitude for problems, and then reframe those problems into challenges.
- Avoid tunnel vision; find a balance between taking care of your injured loved one and taking care of yourself and others in the family.
- Create a care plan for yourself that includes fun time, down time, and relaxation methods. For some ideas, check out the Mind-Body Skills section of HPRC's website.
- Seek professional help when needed.
For more information, read this handout on "Coping with Caregiver Challenges," which addresses common caregiver challenges such as stress and symptoms such as headaches and then suggests ideas for coping. Other strategies include keeping yourself healthy with exercise, rest, and eating well. For more ideas, check out the Traumatic Brain Injury website's "Stress Busters" section. Building your stress-management skills can be a big help. Finally, assess yourself regularly to check on your well-being (to prevent burnout) can also be helpful. You can find assessments for caregiver stress at Afterdeployment.org (online) and Traumatic Brain Injury (for download).
Not only is exercise good for the body, it's good for the mind. The expert consensus from the International Society of Sport Psychology is that exercise can increase your sense of well-being and help reduce anxiety, tension, and depression.
For veterans coping with depression, PTSD, or other mental-health issues, sports and exercise may be a great way to relieve stress. Scientists have shown the positive benefits of physical activity on symptoms of depression in veterans. What's more, Veterans' Administration studies have found that physical activity—especially vigorous activity—can decrease the risk of PTSD among Warfighters. The opposite is also true: Veterans who do not engage in physical activity are more likely to experience PTSD. Several organizations specialize in physical activity and exercise for warriors and their families, but you can always try a yoga class, a family bike ride, or other fitness opportunities in your community.
Getting motivated to exercise and stay active can be especially difficult for those suffering from PTSD and depression. Here are some tips to help you get up and get out the door.
- Make a date with yourself. Put it on your calendar or set a daily alarm—whatever you need to do to remind yourself that you've set aside some time for you to exercise. And don't stand yourself up!
- Set a SMART goal and write it down. Post it on your bathroom mirror, your fridge, your car dashboard—wherever you'll see it daily to remind yourself of what you want to accomplish.
- Recruit friends or family members to help. Telling people what your goals are is a great way to stay accountable. An exercise partner is especially helpful when you need that extra nudge to get off the couch and start moving.
- Keep a journal. Record your exercise activities and how you felt afterwards. While you may not feel better after every workout, you probably will most of the time. Being able to go back and read/remember how good exercise made you feel may motivate you for the next workout.
The U.S. Army has developed a device that will not only reduce the number of amputations but will help severely injured Warfighters return to duty. In the past, Warfighters with crushed and battered legs faced amputation or, at best, dysfunction due to pain and weakness. Now, with the introduction of the U.S. Army's newest orthotic technology, amputations and decreased mobility may be a thing of the past for some.
The Intrepid Dynamic Exoskeletal Orthosis (IDEO) is the latest orthotic technology designed for Warfighters whose legs were crushed in combat. It uses technology similar to that of prosthetics worn by amputees and is higher in user satisfaction and performance compared with other braces available. Unlike other braces, IDEO does not depend on ankle movement, so Warfighters with fused ankle bones, where function is limited, can use them with little pain. With each step, IDEO stores energy and transfers it to the back of the brace, which springs the leg forward (similar to running-blade prosthetics). This allows the wearer to continue rebuilding the muscles in his or her leg while also working on functional movement.
In a study conducted by the Center for the Intrepid, eight of ten patients fitted with IDEO were able to run at least two miles without stopping. All ten Warfighters returned to weightlifting, many returned to playing sports or participating in mini-triathlons, and three returned to combat—two with Special Forces and one Army Ranger. The published report emphasized that the success of these patients was due not only to the innovative IDEO but also to the intense rehabilitation program and—most important—the motivation and drive of the individuals.
In combination with rehabilitation programs, IDEO looks like the newest in a wave of innovations that will help Warfighters return to normal function. If you are interested in learning more about IDEO and other innovative rehabilitation programs, please visit the U.S. Army Institute for Surgical Research and the Brooke Army Medical Center's Center for the Intrepid.
Are you or is a service member you know going through rehab for an injury? Well it should be a comfort to know that there are people out there working hard to make sure you/they receive the best and most advanced forms of therapy and technology during rehab. The Center for Rehabilitation Sciences Research (CRSR) is headquartered at the Uniformed Services University, in Bethesda, MD, and their goals are to find solutions for improving rehabilitative care for injured service members and promote successful return to duty and reintegration. Most of their research is focused in the areas of orthopedic trauma, limb loss, and neurological complications, but they're not working alone. Their expert team of researchers is partnered with other military medical facilities across the country, and they are committed to educating and training future healthcare providers within the military healthcare system. Visit the CRSR website to learn more about their current research, publications, and events.
The Army has been working to make sure that the small first-aid kits that soldiers carry are equipped with the proper equipment they might need in an emergency. Here's the lowdown on the additions to the IFAK II.
The new design is compatible with the Improved Outer Tactical Vest, where it can be mounted on the back, out of the way but still easy to reach. The creators of the IFAK II made individual tabs that "feel" different for each of the kit's contents—so that when a soldier is trying to reach for something quickly, he/she can easily distinguish between products without actually looking at each pouch. This design is critical for rapid access to first-aid materials.
Other upgrades to the kit include the addition of a second tourniquet, a strap cutter, and a rubber-seal device to treat a sucking chest wound (when a bullet penetrates the lung and interferes with proper air flow). The addition of an eye patch to the kit also can help reduce damage to injured eyes.
Some soldiers in Afghanistan are already carrying the kits to test their functionality and provide feedback that can help lead to even more improvements.
In 2013, the Research Institute of Chicago (RIC) presented the first mind-controlled bionic leg, thanks to support from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command's (USAMRMC) Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC). Until now, this technology was only available for prosthetic arms. These brainy bionic legs are still being studied and perfected, but it's hoped that they will be available in the next few years. This life-changing technology will be able to help the more than 1,600 service members who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with amputations. Bionic limbs will make the transition to active duty or civilian life smoother for wounded warriors.
In one case study, a civilian who lost his lower leg in a motorcycle accident underwent a procedure called "Targeted Muscle Re-innervation". This procedure redirects nerves that originally went to muscles in the amputated limb to still-healthy muscles in the limb above the amputation. As these healthy muscles contract, they generate signals that are detected by sensors within the prosthetic and analyzed by a specially-designed computer chip and program The program rapidly decodes the type of movement the individual is preparing to do, such as bending the knee, and then sends those commands to the leg. This allows the person to walk up and down ramps and stairs and transition between activities without stopping. The user also can move (reposition) the bionic leg just by thinking about it, which is not possible with current motorized prosthetics.
The bionic leg is also showing a decreased rate of falling and quicker response time. Stay tuned for availability of this groundbreaking technology.
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Many Warfighters exposed to bomb blasts in the field walk away unscathed—or so it would seem. However, there could be some damage they're not "seeing."
Many Warfighters survive bomb blasts without obvious injuries, but the high-pressure shockwaves from explosive blasts can cause serious physical damage to a Warfighter's eyes. In fact, up to 10% of all blast survivors experience significant eye injuries, either from projectiles thrown into their eyes, eye perforations caused by the high-pressure blast waves, or effects on the eyes associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI). If you were exposed to a blast while in the field but were not otherwise injured, don't wait to set up an appointment with your eye doctor. Your vision is extremely important! Don't let potential eye injury go untreated. For more information on how blast waves can affect your vision, visit the Vision Center of Excellence.


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The Kowanyama Aboriginal Shire Council community lies 25 km (as the crow flies) from the West coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria in the South-Western region of the Cape York Peninsular, and 600 kilometres North-West of Cairns. The community is on the bank of the Magnificent Creek, which joins the South Mitchell River and in turn forms part of the Mitchell River Delta system.
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What a year 2014 has been from a Council perspective! At the beginning of 2014 Kowanyama Aboriginal Shire Council was broke. The previous CEO had left and Council had been placed under compulsory Financial Control by the Minister of Local Government.


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Athlon Sports Predicts SDSU Football to Win MW West
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Aztec Football falls at Boise State, 38-29
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2013: Played in one game as a freshman, coming off the bench without recording a stat vs. Nevada.
2012: Redshirted as a true freshman.
High school: Ranked No. 18 in the 2011 MaxPreps.com Arizona football player rankings for receivers ... Scored eight touchdowns last year in helping the Wolves go 8-4 overall and 3-2 in league play ... 2011 all-Arizona Division I team by the Arizona Republic ... Member of the National Honors Society and was a distinguished scholar ... The 55th-ranked recruit out of the state of Arizona by ESPNU ... Earned a Scouts, Inc. grade of 69.
Personal: Born Feb. 3, 1994, in Chandler, Ariz. ... Son of Clarence and Janice Mills ... Has three brothers and an older sister ... Was also recruited by Colorado, Northern Arizona, Montana and Air Force ... Is majoring in criminal justice.


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Originally written on AllWrestlingNews.com | Last updated 3/23/13
In a newly published interview with Fighting Spirit Magazine, TNA Wrestling Superstar Hulk Hogan claims that he had proposed to turn heel six years before he actually did in World Championship Wrestling, during the 1990 build-up to his all-babyface WWF Championship match against Ultimate Warrior at Wrestlemania VI. "Vince and I were best friends, but when we talked about money, we were enemies," said Hogan. "So I went [to WCW] with the red and yellow, beat Ric Flair, and Hulkamania took off again. Then, creatively, I turned into a bad guy, which I always wanted to do in the WWF, but nobody wanted me to. I always said, 'I could be the best bad guy ever. Just let me do it', but no-one wanted me to be a bad guy. "At Warrior's time, I really wanted to f–k him as a bad guy; I wanted to beat The Ultimate Warrior in Toronto, but as a heel. I just thought it would be intense, and I would be the best bad guy ever. I could have done it, and then said, 'Forget the prayers and the vitamins, I d...
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