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Profiles of Medicaid's High Cost Populations
This paper examines the role that Medicaid plays in addressing six populations (preterm birth babies, foster care children, individuals with spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries, individuals with mental illness, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and people with Alzheimer's disease) with serious health needs resulting in high costs. For each population profiled, the report describes the condition and the need for services and supports, as well as the role of Medicaid in meeting those needs. Profiles of real people with these conditions are also included with descriptions of model programs or cutting edge practices designed to meet the needs of these individuals.
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also of interest
- Faces of Dually Eligible Beneficiaries: Profiles of People with Medicare and Medicaid Coverage
- Money Follows the Person Medicaid Demonstration Program: Helping People Move Back Home
- The Medicaid Medically Needy Program: Spending and Enrollment Update
- Massachusetts and Washington: Financial Alignment Demonstrations for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries Compared


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Local Farmers 30 Mar 2008 06:59 pm
Wilklow Orchards: First Day of Spring
This is the first of a planned series of posts about the farmers at the Brooklyn Greenmarkets. This post profiles Wilklow Orchards and its proprietor Fred Wilklow. Wilklow operates stands at the Borough Hall, Grand Army Plaza, and Fort Greene markets in Brooklyn, and the Staten Island Ferry Terminal market in Manhattan. Many thanks to Fred and his family for showing me around their beautiful farm, and for helping me kick off this project!
My first visit to Wilklow Orchards was on March 20th, the first day of spring. The air was cool and the sky was covered over with low wintery gray clouds, but a warm early spring sun showed through from time to time. It was the very beginnings of the growing season in the Hudson Valley, the perfect day for my first visit to a greenmarket farm.
I arrived at the farm at around 8:30, pretty early by the standards of my midtown office job. I found a crew already hard at work making cider, and I guessed they'd been at it for couple of hours already since they'd already filled the entire bucket of a front loader with apple pumice, squeezed bark dry from the cider presses. Fred Wilklow emerged and shook my hand; before he could show me around he'd need a minute to deal with an oil delivery. He suggested I start my visit by hiking up through the apple and pear orchards which sloped up behind the cider house, where I'd find a good spot to look out over the whole farm.
The orchards were surrounded by tall fencing, put up to keep deer from the nibbling buds and new shoots off of the apple trees. I squeezed through a gap in the fence, crossed a small brook, and climbed the path that led up between the rows of trees. The branches were still bare, but buds were beginning to swell at their tips. Nearly silver-tipped, as Fred described them, soon they'd be green-tipped, and soon after the branches will be covered in green leaves and fragrant white blossoms. Spring pruning had just been completed, and in the lanes between the trees the cut branches were gathered into neat rows on the brown grass. They'd soon go through the brush chopper, at the moment in the toolshed getting a new set of teeth, which will grind even thick branches fine enough to just be left on the ground, to feed down into the soil beneath the trees just they were cut from.
At the top of the ridge where the apple orchards came to an end I took in the view over the farm. Straight below me was the cider house, in a cluster of barns and sheds and greenhouses, the noise from the cider press now swallowed up in the larger overall quiet stillness. I could see the building Fred had called the dirt cellar, an ancient, earth covered shed still used for cold storage, though it's so old he had no idea when it was built. To the right along the the stream was the main farmhouse, the bakery, and another much larger greenhouse. The Wilklows plan someday to consolidate the greenhouses into a more practical layout, the current arrangement having grown up over time as the farm and its business expanded. It's one of a long list of projects, large and small, in a continual effort to improve the farm's efficiency.
Behind me rose Illinois Mountain, Wilklow property on this side as far as its summit, though the only crops found there are ramps, the sought-after wild leeks that Fred began to forage for each spring after his Greenmarket customers started asking about them. On its far side are the Wilklow peach and plum orchards, in fields that get sunlight more than an hour earlier, which makes them often a full l0 degrees warmer. I wouldn't get to visit them today, nor would I yet see the berry and vegetable fields near New Paltz, in flatter ground better suited for raising vegetables than the hilly, rocky soil of Pancake Hollow.
Along with cider making, today's tasks included tending the seedlings in the greenhouses. Becky & Jennie, Fred's daughters, were transplanting the tiny plants (cilantro, tomatoes, peppers, marigolds, to name only a very few) from their seed beds into flats. In a few weeks they'll be found at the greenmarket, sold as starters for container gardens on Brooklyn patios and Manhattan fire escapes. The seedlings for the vegetable beds, the plants that will eventually produce the eggplants, peppers, and heirloom tomatoes for the greenmarket tables (and for my dinner table), were just beginning to grow in the larger greenhouse I'd seen from the orchards.
Until the seedlings get big enough to survive the trip to Brooklyn, Fred's stand in the greenmarket will be filled with the last of fall's apples, varieties that hold up well in cold storage and remain crisp and juicy and sweet over the winter months, along with cider and baked goods and jam from the farm's kitchen. Already though, the first of the Spring's harvest has begun to appear as well: there are pussywillows for sale, that Fred and his crew harvested alongside the brook, and soon they'll be joined by lilac blossoms cut from the hundreds of bushes that grow near the pond behind the farmhouse. Then sugar snap peas will appear and start off the parade of food that will continue through the berries, peaches, greenbeans, corn, and tomatoes of summer to the apples and pumpkins of autumn.
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One Response to "Wilklow Orchards: First Day of Spring"
on 06 Apr 2008 at 11:16 pm 1.Tim Reed said …
I didn't realize that apples could be stored through the winter. Great article – I'm putting a bid on that hobbit house on Pear Street.

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CFTC Roundtable on PFG
This week the CFTC will be holding a public roundtable to address the concerns of traders in response to the bankruptcies of PFG and MF Global. FXCM would like to announce its own proposals to help restore confidence for futures and forex traders in the United States.
Proposals to Bring Full Market Transparency and Accountability to the Futures/Forex Industry
The collapse of PFG Best (following so closely after the collapse of MF Global) has sent shockwaves all across the United States. The trading public has serious concerns about the integrity of the futures market and many are questioning whether Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs) can be trusted to hold client funds. There exists today a crisis of confidence amongst retail futures and forex traders that has never existed before. If not addressed immediately, these markets will be irreparably damaged for years to come.
The following proposals are intended to bring market transparency to the industry by restoring investor confidence in FCMs.
1) Require All FCMs to Publicly Publish Their Financials Once a Quarter:
Currently, the CFTC publishes monthly Net Capital reports that disclose to the public how much money a Futures Commission Merchant has set aside in capital. However, that report provides very little insight into how well the company is doing financially. By requiring FCMs to publish their audited financials the trading public will know how much risk they are taking with each firm since investors will be able to weigh the liabilities along with the excess capital that a Futures Commission Merchant has.
Furthermore, the published financial statement should include everything (i.e. holding companys financials) since what happens to other subsidiaries of the company can easily effect the regulated FCM. Each company should be required to provide a link to its financials on its own homepage so that the public can do its proper due diligence.
Too often, those FCMs that are teetering on the edge of bankruptcy lure customers in by offering unsustainable gimmicks (dirt cheap commissions, account opening bonuses) that temporarily puts off the inevitable. Customers should be aware of the perilous finances of those FCMs that would offer these kinds of gimmicks before opening an account with such a firm. PFG Best was a classic example of a firm that used such gimmicks as they routinely low balled their competitors with uneconomical discounts that no reputable, legally compliant firm could match.
2) Require all FCMs to Employ a Top Ten Accounting Firm:
There need to be much higher accounting standards than currently exist in the FCM world. The Platt Group publishes an annual ranking of public accounting firms that could be used by FCMs. Whether it is top 10 or top 25, the main point is that FCMs must use a nationally recognized and respected accounting firm that could apply the same tough standards to FCMs that publicly traded companies must meet.
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While no one proposal will guarantee that a future FCM will not fail, these proposals will help restore the confidence of traders by bringing greater market transparency and accountability into the world of futures/forex trading.
Traders can show their support for these proposals by leaving comments with the CFTC using the following web page:
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Highlights: CFTC Roundtable on PFG
Last Thursday the CFTC held a public hearing to determine what steps should be taken to repair the damage done by the bankruptcies of PFG and MF Global. Id like to share with everyone some of the highlights of the hearing:
Better Accounting Standards: There was much discussion of auditing standards for both Regulators of FCMs and the CPAs who audit FCMs. There was general agreement these standards need to be raised. FXCM believes FCMs should be required to use a top accounting firm to avoid the kind of accounting issues that plagued PFG.
Additional Disclosure Requirements: An extensive discussion on FCM transparency was held and it is clear that FCMs are going to have to make more disclosures of their books to regulators and to the public. The question is how much is to be disclosed? On the one hand there was testimony from FCMs like Vision who publish their balance sheet on their website and on the other hand were those who were concerned that too much disclosure could lead to possible bank runs by investors. FXCM believes investors should be able to see a companys audited financial statement once a quarter. Too many investors are forced to fly blind when they choose a Futures Commission Merchant or Forex Dealer. No trader should be subjected to this kind of risk post-PFG.
Insurance: Commissioner Bart Chilton released his proposal for a futures insurance fund on the same day of the hearing. Towards the end of the Roundtable the topic turned to insurance and John Roe of the Commodity Customer Coalition once again made a forceful case for a fully insured fund for the futures industry. As of now, Commissioner Chiltons proposal does not include retail forex, but there is no reason that it shouldnt. FXCM supports insurance for the futures/forex industry.
The CFTC will now deliberate into October before announcing their proposals. We encourage everyone to comment using the link below:
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The Case for Public Disclosure
Just read a very interesting comment letter to the CFTC by James Gellert of Rapid Ratings:
Mr. Gellert makes the following comment about the benefits of FCMs being required to disclose their audited financials:
You can make your feelings known to CFTC by posting comments here:
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IMO the problem is top down. because of all the phony derivatives stuff -- all the derivatives based on securitized debt -- there is one quadrillion in these derivatives that simply cannot be repaid if they are called upon. that puts the whole banking system at risk, which is what we saw in 2008 and what we see with stuff like the LIBOR interest rate rigging. once these banks are at risk, any firm that uses them -- and that includes brokerage firms of all kinds -- is at risk, even if they are impeccably run and operate with the highest degree of integrity.
ultimately i expect the central banks of the world to paper over all losses, although it should be noted some MFG customers have not been made whole yet.
but my point is that to get real reform that works, it needs to go top down from the underlying global monetary system; reform that focuses just on a given industry will not be sufficient to alleviate all risks, in my opinion.
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Post-PFG Reforms Gaining Momentum
Two new developments in the last few days indicate that regulators are trying to get out in front of the safety of funds crisis that has gripped the futures/forex industry. However, these reforms may not extend to the retail forex market.
On Friday the National Futures Association approved a new rule requiring all Futures Commission Merchants to grant real-time, online access to FCM bank accounts. This rule is in response to Russ Wasendorfs bank statement forgeries which had fooled regulators for 20 years. The language specifically references FCMs and we are currently checking to see if Retail Foreign Exchange Dealers (RFEDs) will have to comply with the rule as well. FXCMs position is that RFEDs need to be more transparent, which is why we also support a rule requiring all FCMs/RFEDs to fully disclosure their financials to the trading public.
The second development came last Thursday at a meeting in Chicago, as reported by the WSJ, in which the CME was reportedly softening its opposition to an insurance fund for futures traders. Again, however, no mention of extending such protections to retail forex traders was made.
Futures Industry Leaders Discuss Insurance Fund - WSJ.com
While both of these development are positive, the negative aspect to them is that retail forex may very well be over looked. This is why we are strongly encouraging the trading public to contact the CFTC and leave comments about the need to further protect retail forex traders. Traders can leave comments using the link below:
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Another Strong Argument in Favor of Additional Retail Forex Protections
Reading through the comments at the CFTC a number of good points have been brought up regarding the need for additional protections.
Alex Winters made the following comment to the CFTC: http://comments.cftc.gov/PublicComme...21&SearchText=
The CFTC's requirement a few years ago that traders put up more margin to trade retail forex leads to the logical conclusion that regulators put in additional protections (disclosure of company financials, better accounting standards, insurance) since retail forex traders now have more capital at risk. This is a pretty powerful argument and I would encourage traders who leave comments with the CFTC to make it.
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CFTC Nearing a Decision Regarding FCM Reforms?
The CFTC has recently closed the comment period that was associated with the Public Roundtable on PFG:
This could mean that CFTC is nearing a decision and is about to announce their planned reforms. Comments and suggestions can still be sent to the CFTC however by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
FXCM is recommending that all FCMs and forex dealers publicly publish their financials once a quarter and employ a top ten accounting firm. We encourage retail forex traders to share these and other suggestions with regulators by emailing them directly. Thousands of PFG customers traded retail forex with PFG and their voices should be included in any discussion designed to increase customer protections for NFA regulated firms. Furthermore, providing insurance to futures traders and not forex traders would be a further insult to injury for those currency traders at PFG and any future forex traders caught up in an insolvency. Make your voice heard today.
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Retail Forex Not Part of New NFA Reforms
We've been told by the NFA that the instant "view only" bank account access that FCM's must now grant to the NFA is not applicable to Forex Dealers. In short, NFA is not requiring forex dealers provide the same instant bank account access that Futures Commission Merchants provide. This is the clearest sign yet that regulators are not planning to extend any additional customer funds protections to the retail forex community.
The stated reason is that since retail forex funds are not legally required to be "segregated" they are not in the same category as the seg funds that FCM's hold on deposit. This has long been an issue involving the Commodity Exchange Act which grants seg funds to on-exchange contracts but does not have a word to say about retail foreign exchange because nobody was trading forex online in the 1970's when these laws were passed.
This logic will likely be used for additional proposals such as insurance where we can now expect retail forex to be excluded as well. This is why financial disclosure for retail forex firms becomes even more important. With retail forex dealers not being included in the safety of funds discussion currency traders are now solely left to their own due diligence when it comes to picking a broker.
We still encourage you to email firstname.lastname@example.com to let regulators know that retail forex should not be excluded. If no one speaks up then regulators can assume that retail forex need not be a priority.
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The Strikers will travel to either Real Salt Lake from MLS or the Minnesota Stars based on the possible fourth-round pairings and locations for the 2012 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.
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An independent filmmaker, Clarke compared her work to Off-Broadway productions, offering experimental works that challenged convention. Her film The Connection, a gritty exploration of drug addiction, was banned in New York on grounds of obscenity. Her other films include the Oscar-winning Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel and The Cool World.Born: 1920?
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For the past few months, a team of computer hackers has engaged in an aggressive form of cyber subversion. Its work has enraged critics and led to accusations that it is endangering people's lives.
It's not Anonymous. The group causing the uproar is a team of professional researchers that has embraced an extreme approach to cyber security.
Dale Peterson, who runs a Sunrise (Fla.)-based security company called Digital Bond, has recruited six elite hackers to help him show the world how to sabotage the computer systems that run nuclear power generators, oil and gas pipelines, and other "critical infrastructure"—in the name of improving their safety.
The volunteers have gone beyond probing networks and working to fix vulnerabilities they find. They are writing programs to attack weaknesses and releasing those programs on the Internet, making them available on Digital Bond's website.
The public release of the software has led to a fierce debate in the security world between Peterson and other experts critical of exposing techniques that could bring vital industrial systems to a standstill. "It's never, never been justifiable from a security viewpoint, or a business viewpoint, or any other viewpoint, to give away that exploit code," says John Pescatore, a security expert and vice president at technology researcher Gartner.
Peterson, who has been securing control systems for 12 years, says he's not trying to harm people. He argues that releasing attack code, or "exploit" code, is necessary to shock infrastructure operators into upgrading their security. Peterson also says he was alarmed by a computer attack on Iran's nuclear program and what he sees as a slow response time by utilities and other infrastructure operators dealing with mounting threats.
"We tried to play nice, we worked inside the community, we were very careful about sharing anything that would demonstrate how this could be done," Peterson says. "But last year it was ten years after 9/11, and we looked around and that approach had made very little progress."
His group has found weaknesses in top-selling "controllers" that are ubiquitous in industrial settings. The software Peterson's group has developed uses vulnerabilities in the controllers' design to shut them down or gain administrative passwords. The programs are small. One that uses a brute force attack to deduce passwords, for instance, fits in 131 short lines of code.
The danger with controllers is they form a bridge between computers and physical machinery, and they are everywhere, from prisons to chemical plants to manufacturing facilities. Just as a clicker tells a garage door to open or close, the controllers keep industrial machinery moving—or not.
Their software is used to tell prison gates when to open and shut, for example, or how fast assembly-line motors should run, or even whether centrifuges should spin faster or shut down. In 2010 an Iranian nuclear plant was believed damaged by a malware attack that exploited that capability.
A hacking team based in Virginia reported last year that it was allowed to inspect a correctional institution—it won't say which one—and found the same vulnerable controllers used in Iran were also used extensively throughout the facility. Guards were spotted using Web-based e-mail on internal networks, creating an opening for attack. According to the group, if hackers broke into the network, they could manipulate the controllers to open and close doors, suppress alarms, and disrupt video surveillance feeds.
Also last year, Mocana, a San Francisco-based security group, reported that it found multiple serious vulnerabilities in controllers used throughout the substations at an unspecified Southern California power company, which commissioned the testing. Mocana said it took them just one day to find the weaknesses.
Peterson's work exposes deep divisions within the security community about how to protect critical infrastructure. It has touched a nerve because the controllers can be used for decades and are not easily updated with software patches, unlike PCs or smartphones. They are typically built with reliability—not security—in mind, and fixing them often means replacing them.
Hackers have long used public pressure to force uncooperative technology companies to listen to their security complaints. But Peterson's group takes it a step further.
The attack code is being released with the help of Rapid7, a Boston-based firm that makes Metasploit, which is software that companies use to probe their networks for security holes. Because Metasploit is open-source, it accepts additions from the outside, such as those from Peterson's group. Like some other legitimate security software, Metasploit can serve a dual role, as criminals can also use it to locate attack targets.
HD Moore, chief architect of Metasploit and Rapid7's chief security officer, says the rationale behind such software is that the bad guys are already ahead.
"We've been chasing what the bad guys have been doing and not the other way around for a long time now," he said in an interview. "At this point we're only trying to level the playing field."
Peterson's group began releasing the code in January. The targeted machines are made by some of the biggest names in the industrial controller industry: General Electric, Rockwell Automation, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Japan's Koyo Electronics Industries, and France's Schneider Electric.
No known attacks have used the techniques created by the team, though the code is easy to find with a Google search of the names and models of the affected devices. Still, the work has been harshly criticized.
Even among those who believe it's important to highlight the vulnerabilities of key systems, Peterson's approach has elicited a backlash. Gartner's Pescatore, for instance, says he strongly supports using "shock tactics," such as publicizing a system's weakness, to pressure companies that refuse to fix their security holes. Giving out attack code, though, is "over the line," he says. "It has invariably been ambulance-chasing consultancies or small-time companies that come in and want to put out the fire after they've caused the fire."
Joe Weiss, who runs Applied Control Solutions, a Cupertino (Calif.) security consultancy focused on control systems, says the research highlights an urgent problem but makes it too easy for criminals to exploit the findings.
"Why are you giving the bad guys a road map to what to do? There's no reason for this," he says. "The vendors aren't going to turn around and all of a sudden become good guys. Those vendors that care about security are going to make changes, and those that don't won't change anything. So you are putting users in peril, and what have you accomplished?"
Peterson and his team did not contact the targeted companies about their work, he says, because most of the weaknesses were known issues.
"We didn't see anything in there that was dramatically new or unknown," Peterson says. "Most of the easily exploited vulnerabilities are simply features of the products or issues that have been known for a long time and have been ignored."
Implanting malicious software inside such controllers would be just one step in a real-world attack. Detailed knowledge of the physical plants would also be needed, which is typically the realm of insiders and intelligence agents. The Stuxnet malware used against Iran followed extensive rules that prevented it from deploying inside anything other than a specific Iranian nuclear facility, suggesting the authors had deep knowledge of the facility's computer systems.
Peterson acknowledges that the disclosures might help some low-level criminals. Sophisticated adversaries, however, likely already know the vulnerabilities, he says.
"It wouldn't be intellectually honest if we didn't acknowledge that someone with limited to moderate skills could do something bad with this if they chose to," Peterson says. "But an organization with resources could figure this out themselves. I don't think we're really helping any state-sponsored efforts, or any efforts that are truly motivated to cause trouble, because this stuff is not that hard."
Ed Schweitzer, founder of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, says the weaknesses Peterson's team found in a product his company makes, the SEL-2032 Communications Processor, were "functionally inconsequential." Exploiting the nearly $3,000 processor, which is used inside power substations, requires other security mechanisms to fail first, he says.
Schweitzer says a few customers called, but he did not lose business. His company might disclose the issues in the product's manual in the future but isn't planning any changes to the product itself.
Schweitzer also accused Peterson's group of "grandstanding about stuff that doesn't matter."
"My dad used to have an expression: 'It's like a farmer shaving a pig—there's a lot of noise and not much wool,'" Schweitzer says. "If you go out to the security perimeter and take care of business, you're going to be OK."
Rockwell Automation has started a "detailed analysis" of its products in response to the research and is considering making changes, according to John Bernaden, a company spokesman.
The other targeted companies either declined to comment or didn't return messages. It's not known which energy utilities and other firms use the specific controllers Peterson's group has studied. The Edison Electric Institute, an industry group for electric companies, and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to messages.
ODVA, an industry group for controller and other automation companies, says it is working with its members to evaluate security improvements to network communication standards that Peterson's crew exploited.
Peterson rejects the accusation that the project is a public-relations ploy. He says his company has only six employees and is "typically overbooked."
"It's really too early to say whether this will have an impact or not," Peterson says. "We're still hopeful."


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Complementing its sporty attitude the Melges 32 possesses one of the most diverse International regatta schedules that includes many prestigious venues; now on the list is Hamilton Island in the Whitsundays, North Queensland.
Melges 32 travelling through the cotton fields - Melges 32 Australasian Cup Series
Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2011 will host exciting, spectacular one design Melges 32 racing in the first Melges 32 Australasian Cup Series event. Six of the eleven Melges 32's in Australia are now heading to Hamilton Island.
Events in the 2011 – 2012 Melges 32 Regatta Schedule have been included in the Australasian Cup Series with five out of seven results to count. Hamilton Island Race Week is the first in this series.
The Whitsundays provides ideal conditions and Hamilton Island hosts a fantastic regatta, a perfect fit for Melges 32 one design racing. The racing will consist of a combination of windward / leeward courses plus the island passage races Hamilton Island is renowned for.
M32 Bow Stickers - Melges 32 Australasian Cup Series
Strict one design class rules govern the Melges 32 amateur owner/driver requirements, professional crew limitations and crew weight maximum (629kg) provides highly competitive racing. In accordance with class rules bow stickers have been issued to help identify boats for the race committee.
Following in the footsteps of the Melges 24 class the Australian Melges 32 fleet has grown rapidly. Melges Asia Pacific has recently bolstered the numbers by importing used US boats. The class is supported by an organized and well-established International Class Association.
Melges Asia Pacific's step on, step off delivery service have been busy preparing for the regatta transporting boats 2000 kilometres up the New England Highway through inland Queensland to the Airlie Beach barge for Hamilton Island. Easily launched via hoist or ramp and when equipped with a gin pole the Melges 32 can be rigged without the assistance of a crane to step the mast.
Australian Fleet President Kim Williams is anticipating some awesome rides and incredibly close racing at Hamilton Island. This will be a first class event promising the best in Melges 32 competition, racing conditions and camaraderie.
For several of the teams this will be their first experience of Grand Prix Melges 32 racing, the fleet welcomes all new owners and their crews. Some of the crews have Melges 24's sailors recently returned from the Worlds on board. It is great to see the Asia Pacific fleet gaining strength and momentum in the international circuit.
The class is thrilled to be kicking off their 2011 sailing season at Hamilton Island Race Week.
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Remy van Kesteren of the Netherlands was awarded the Gold Medal in USA IHC's 9th Competition.
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Find out about upcoming public performances being presented by USAIHC and being performed by past USAIHC participants. The USAIHC will compile information about the public performances of our participants from all nine prior competitions. We hope you will take advantage of the opportunity to hear some of our talented harpists perform in venues from Bloomington to Tokyo and many places in between.
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(Boo, in disguise, walks up to Mr. Waternoose)
Henry J. Waternoose: Well hello, little one. Where did you come from?
Sulley: Mr. Waternoose.
Henry J. Waternoose: Ah, James. Is this one yours?
Sulley: Ah, actually that's my uh, cousin's sister's daughter, sir.
Mike: Yeah, it's uh, "Bring an Obscure Relative to Work Day".
Henry J. Waternoose: Hmm, must have missed the memo.
(Sully thinks Boo has been crushed into a cube of garbage)
Sulley: (tearfully) I can still hear her little voice.
Boo: (from down the hall) Mike Wazowski!
Mike: Hey, I can hear her too.
Kids: Mike Wazowski!
Mike: How many kids you got in there?
(first lines)
Flint: All right, Mr. Bile, is it?
Bile: Uh, my friends call me Phlem.
Flint: Uh-huh, Mr. Bile, can you tell me what you did wrong?
Bile: I fell down?
Randall: Shh. Shh. Shh. Shh. Do you hear that? It's the winds of change.
Henry J. Waternoose: There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you. Leave a door open, and one can walk right into this factory; right into the monster world.
Trainee: I won't go into a kid's room. You can't make me.
Roz: None of this ever happened, gentlemen. And I don't want to see any paperwork on it.
Charlie: Twenty-three nineteen! We have a Twenty-three nineteen!
Needleman: Hey, Mr. Sullivan!
Sulley: Guys, I told you, call me Sulley.
Smitty: (Giggling) I don't think so.
Needleman: We just wanted to wish you good luck today.
Mike: Hey, hey, hey, hey. Come on, get lost, you two. You're making him lose his focus.
Needleman: Oh, sorry.
Sulley: See you later, fellas.
Smitty: Go get 'em, Mr. Sullivan!
Needleman: Quiet! You're making him lose his focus.
Smitty: Oh, no. Sorry!
Needleman: Shut up!
Celia: So, uh... are we going anywhere special tonight?
Mike: I-I just got us into a little place called, um... Harryhausen's.
Celia: Harryhausen's? But it's impossible to get a reservation there.
Mike: Not for Googlie Bear. I will see you at quitting time, and not a minute later.
Celia: Okay, sweetheart.
Mike: Think romantical thoughts.
Mike: You and me, me and you, both of us together!
Needleman: So I said, "If you talk to me like that again, we're through."
Smitty: Oh! What did she say?
Needleman: You know my mom. She sent me to my room.
(Mike and Sulley, with the help of Waternoose, are preparing to send Boo home, but a huge metal door is brought out instead of Boo's)
Mike: Sir, that's not her door.
Henry J. Waternoose: I know, I know...
(Suddenly, Randal materializes in front of the door and opens it)
Henry J. Waternoose: ...It's yours.
(Waternoose, holding Boo, pushes Mike and Sulley through the door)
Celia: Oh, Michael, I've had a lot of birthdays - well, not a lot of birthdays but this is the best birthday ever.
(Mike stares lovingly at her)
Celia: What are you looking at?
Mike: I was just thinking about the first time I laid eye on you, how pretty you looked.
Celia: (shyly) Stop it.
Mike: Your hair was shorter then.
Celia: Mm-hmm. I'm thinking about getting it cut.
(the snakes in Celia's hair squeal with fear)
Mike: No-no, I like it this length.
(the snakes sigh in relief)
Mike: I like everything about you. Just the other day someone asked me who I thought the most beautiful was in all of Monstropolis. You know what I said?
Celia: What did you say?
Mike: I said...
(Just then, Sulley's face appears in the window behind Celia)
Mike: Sulley?
Celia: Sulley?
Sulley: Mike, this isn't Boo's door.
Mike: Boo? What's Boo?
Sulley: That's... what I decided to call her. Is there a problem?
Mike: Sulley, you're not supposed to name it. Once you name it, you start getting attached to it. Now put that thing back where it came from or so help me...
(Mike pauses, realizing that they suddenly have the attention of the entire scare floor)
Mike: Oh, hey. We're rehearsing a - a scene for the upcoming company play called uh, Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me. It's a musical.
Mike: Put that thing back where it came from or so help me... so help me, so help me and cut. We're still working on it, it's a work in progress but, hey, we need ushers.
Henry J. Waternoose: I shouldn't have trusted you. Because of you, I had to banish my top scarer.
Randall: Ah, with this machine, we won't need scarers. Besides, Sullivan got what he deserved.
Henry J. Waternoose: Sullivan was twice the scarer you'll ever be!
Sulley: Are there kids in that village?
Yeti: Oh, sure. Tough kids, sissy kids, kids who climb on rocks...
Mike: Get out of here. You're ruining everything.
Sulley: I went back to get your paperwork and there was a door.
Mike: What? A door?
Sulley: Randall was in it.
Mike: Wait a minute, Randall? That cheater! He's trying to boost his numbers.
Sulley: There's something else.
Mike: What?
Sulley: Ook-lay in the ag-bay.
Mike: What?
Sulley: Look in the bag.
Mike: What bag?
Mike: (as the Scream Extractor approaches) What is that thing? What is that thing? Hey, hey, hey, that thing is moving. I don't like big, moving things that are moving towards me.
Mike: (while Sulley brushes teeth) C'mon, fight that plaque! Fight that plaque! Scary monsters don't have plaque!
(from teaser trailer)
Mike: Oh, that's great, blame it on the little guy. How original. He must've read the schedule wrong with his one eye.
Celia: (wearing a cone after being treated by the CDA) Last night was one of the worst nights of my entire life, bar none!
(the snakes on her hair, also wearing cones, pop out to hiss at Mike)
Celia: I thought you cared about me.
Mike: Honey, please. Schmoopsie, I thought you liked sushi.
Celia: Sushi? Sushi? You think this is about sushi?
Randall: I'm in the zone today, Sullivan. I'm gonna do some serious scaring, putting up some big numbers.
Sulley: (Sulley and Mike have just been banished to the Himalayas on Earth - Sulley opens the door to find nothing beyond it) BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Sulley: (Opens and closes door, pushes frame, nothing happens) No, no! No, no, no, no, NO!
Mike: It's too late! We're banished, genius! We're in the human world! Oh, what a great idea; goin' to your old pal Waternoose! Too bad he was in on the whole thing! All you hadda do, was listen to me, just once! But you didn't, did you?
(Sulley continues to fret in the doorway)
Mike: YOU'RE STILL NOT LISTENING!
Boo: Mike Waszowski.
Charlie: (Trying to reassure George, who is in crutches after too many encounters with the CDA) Now, George, I know you can do this. I picked out an easy door for you, in Nepal. Nice, quiet Nepal.
George Sanderson: You know, you're right. Here, Take this.
(Give Charlie his crutches)
Charlie: Go get 'em, Georgie.
(as George walks to the door, Sulley bursts through, knocks George over)
Sulley: Gangway! Look out! Coming through! Sorry, George.
Charlie: Hey, you can't just...
(Sees a sock on George)
Charlie: Twenty-three nine...!
(George grabs Charlie, stuffs the sock in his mouth and tosses him into the door, then walks away humming happily)
Yeti: You wanna go to the village? Okay, rule number one out here: Always... no, Never go out in a blizzard.
Henry J. Waternoose: This has gone far enough, James.
Sulley: She's home now. Just leave her alone!
Henry J. Waternoose: I can't do that, James. She's seen too much. You both have.
Sulley: It doesn't have to be this way.
Henry J. Waternoose: I have no choice. Times have changed. Scaring isn't enough anymore.
Sulley: But kidnapping children?
Henry J. Waternoose: I'll kidnap a thousand children before I let this company die, and I'll silence anyone who gets in my way!
(Waternoose knocks Sulley to the ground and lunges at Boo. He instead finds the simulated child)
Voice: Simulation terminated. Simulation terminated...
Henry J. Waternoose: (confused) Huh? But... What?
(the lights come on and it's revealed that Boo's room is really the simulation room; Mike and several CDA agents are standing behind the console)
Mike: I don't know about you guys, but I spotted several big mistakes. You know what? Let's watch my favorite part again, shall we?
(replays the tape of Waternoose over and over)
Henry J. Waternoose: Kids these days. They just don't get scared like they used to.
Mike: Oh, Schmootsie-poo?
Celia: Googlie Bear.
Sulley: (Mike is complaining about walking to work instead of driving, he looks up at a monster with giant dinosaur feet and legs) Morning Frank!
Frank: (Chicken Call)
Sulley: See Mike? Frank walks to work.
Mike: Big deal, the guy takes five steps and he's there.
Sulley: Oh. So *that's* puce.
Mike: On my desk, Sulley. The pink copies go to Accounting, the fuchshia ones go to Purchasing, and the goldenrod ones go to Roz. Leave the puce.
Mike: Hey, genius. Wanna know why I bought the car?
Sulley: Not really.
Mike: To drive it! You know, like on the street? With the honk-honk and the vroom-vroom, and the no walking involved?
Sulley: Wah, wah, wah. Will you give it a rest, butterball? C'mon, you could use the exercise.
Mike: I could use the exercise? Look at you. You have your own climate.
(Celia is hanging on to Mike while Sulley is dragging him)
Celia: Michael, if you don't tell me what's going on right now, we are through! You hear me? Through!
Mike: Okay, here's the truth. You know that kid they're looking for? Sulley let her in. We tried to get her back, but Waternoose had a secret plot, and now Randall's right behind us, and he's tring to kill us.
Celia: You expect me to believe that pack of lies, Mike Wazowski?
Boo: (peeking from Sulley's shoulder) Mike Wazowski!
(Celia screams and lets go)
Sulley: What was that?
Mike Wazowski: I have no idea. But it would be a really good idea if it didn't do it again.
Yeti: Snow cone?
Mike: Yuck.
Yeti: No, no, no, don't worry. It's lemon.
Randall: Where is it, you little one-eyed cretin?
Mike: Okay, first of all, it's "creetin". If you're going to threaten me, do it properly. Second of all, you're nuts if you think kidnapping ME is going to help YOU cheat your way to the top.
Randall: (chuckles evilly) You still think this is about that stupid scare record?
Mike: Well... I did. Right up until you... chuckled... like that... And now I'm thinking I should just get out of here.
Mike: Psst, Fungus. Fungus, you like cars? Because I got a really nice car. You let me go, I'll give you... a ride... in the car.
Fungus: I'm sorry, Wazowski, but Randall said I'm not allowed to fraternize with victims of his evil plot.
Randall: I am about to revolutionize the scaring industry, and when I do, even the great James P. Sullivan is gonna be working of me.
Sulley: (Boo is hopping up and down like she has to use a toilet) Say, that's a cute little dance you got there. It almost looks like you have to... Oh!
Mike: Oh, you should have seen the look on Waternoose's face when that wall went up. Woo-hoo! I hope we get a copy of that tape. Hey, you all right? Come on, we did it. We got Boo home. Sure, we put the company in the toilet, and, gee, hundreds of people will be out of work now, not to mention the angry mob that'll come after us when there's no more power... but hey, at least we had a few laughs, right?
TV Anchorman: If witnesses are to be believed, there has been a child security breach for the first time in monster history.
CDA Agent: We can neither confirm nor deny the presence of a human child here tonight.
Witness #1: Well the kid flew right over me and blasted a car with its laser vision.
Witness #2: I tried to get away from it, but he picked me up with his mind powers and shook me like a doll.
Witness #3: (has many eyes) It's true! I saw the whole thing!
Professor on TV: It is my professional opinion that now it's the time to *panic*!
Mike: Sulley, what are we doing?
Sulley: We have to get Boo's door and find a station.
Mike: What a plan. Simple, yet insane.
Sulley: (is fighting the invisible Randall when he is hit with a snowball) Mike?
Mike: Look, it's not that I don't care about the kid.
Sulley: Mike, you don't understand.
Mike: Yes, I do. I was just mad, that's all. I needed some time to think, but you shouldn't have left me out there.
Sulley: I'm being attacked!
Mike: No, I'm not attacking you. I'm trying to be honest, just hear me out. You and I are a team. Nothing is more important than our friendship.
(Boo approaches Mike, frightened)
Mike: I-I know, kid. He's too sensitive.
Mike: (Sulley is being strangled) Come on, pal. If you start crying, I'm gonna cry, and I'll never get through this. I'm sorry I wasn't there for you, but I am now. Hey, Sulley, I am baring my soul here. The least you can do is pay attention!
(Throws snowball; it hits Randall, making him visible enough for Sullivan to knock him out)
Mike: Hey, look at that, it's Randall. It's... Oh.
Yeti: Welcome to the Himalayas.
Henry J. Waternoose: Well, Jerry, what's the damage so far?
Jerry the floor manager: We may actually make our quota today.
Henry J. Waternoose: Hmm, first time in a month.
(last lines)
Sulley: Boo?
Boo: Kitty!
(Mike and Sulley at a crosswalk next to a giant monster)
Sulley: Hey, Ted! Good morning!
(Ted clucks; light changes and they cross)
Sulley: See that, Mikey? Ted's walking to work.
Mike: Big deal. Guy takes five steps and he's there.
Mike: Good morning, Roz, my succulent little garden snail. And who will we be scaring today?
Roz: Wazowski! You didn't file your paperwork last night.
Mike: Oh, that darn paperwork! Wouldn't it be easier if it all just blew away?
Roz: Don't let it happen again.
Mike: Yes, well, I'll try to be more careful next time.
Roz: I'm watching you, Wazowski. Always watching. Always.
Mike: Ooh, she's nuts.
Flint: And leaving the door open is the worst mistake that any employee could make, because...
Bile: Uh... it could let in a draft?
Henry J. Waternoose: (Storming in) It could let in a child.
Mike: Can I borrow your odorant?
Sulley: Yeah, I got, uh, Smelly Garbage or Old Dumpster.
Mike: You got, uh, Low Tide?
Sulley: No.
Mike: How about Wet Dog?
Sulley: Yep. Stink it up.
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The debate over food trucks in Jacksonville is moving forward at City Hall.
A committee formed to come up with legislation outlining guidelines food truck operators have to follow, will meet again Monday.
They're popping up all over the country and Jacksonville is no exception. You see food trucks on any given day in Hemming Plaza, near the courthouse and in corporate parks.
In February, Jacksonville City Councilman Reginald Brown proposed a bill that would put restrictions on how food trucks do business. There was immediate backlash from food truck owners who feared their business would be compromised or at risk of even shutting down. Working together, the councilman formed a committee to work on the bill.
"Very excited about the progress you know, we went from a very concerned industry to basically an industry that realizes that city legislation is needed and they embraced it and I believe that we are going to come away with a god product that everyone can work up under," said Brown.
Jennifer Kline co-owns a food truck named Up in Smoke BBQ and she's also a member of the committee.
"We went through line by line at the last meeting and we went through and got a bunch of stuff that we got thrown out and a bunch of stuff that's going to stay," said Kline.
Meeting for the second time Monday, Kline expects they'll go over items the committee tabled at their first meeting.
"You know being within so many feet of a brick and mortar with like food so we're trying to fight that it's free enterprise… We would like to see us be able to park where we're allowed to park with regulation but we should be able to park anywhere and be competitive," said Kline.
A concept that once had food truck operators frantic, Kline said she believes this way of drafting the legislation, they'll have to follow, is reasonable and fair.
"I think it's gone really great. Reggie Brown has done a great job of making us feel included in the decision making as well. I don't know where the brick and mortars stand because they haven't shown up yet so we'll see how the next meeting goes.
Councilman Brown said he gave himself 90 days to get the bill finalized, so that means he hopes to have it done within the next two months.
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I did see the PDF out on the web site. You are correct though that it's hopefully spending wisely as opposed to cost cutting as it appears that money is tight.
Someone, somewhere, said that there's a PDF version available.
My understanding was that there were just too few people who actually wanted it enough to pay (the admittedly high cost) for it anymore. It strikes me as less "cost cutting" than deciding to spend money more wisely.
I can agree that it's annoying, though.
Not that I'd buy one, you know, but still...
I still have to chuckle that they still wear the same old Jofa practice sweaters instead of the fancy new Reebok ones.


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Above: Audio technician Janet Holden, right, shows U.S. Navy veteran Jerry Van Hoose, left, and his wife, Cathy Van Hoose, the audiology room at Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System's new St. George Community Based Outpatient Clinic in St. George on Thursday during an open house following the clinic's ribbon-cutting ceremony. Right: Patriot Guard rider Phil Laws, right, and Marine Corps League member D'Arcy Grisier salute as the national anthem is sung Thursday during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new St. George Community Based Outpatient Clinic.
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Electron density for two Alrestatin molecules bound to the active site of human aldose reductase
Research in my laboratory is primarily concerned with molecular recognition, or answering the question of "how does molecule A recognize and bind molecule B?" Our research focuses on proteins that are involved in diabetes and other debilitating diseases. We use the methods of mechanistic enzymology, small molecules organic synthesis, site-directed mutagenesis, and X-ray diffraction to establish on an atomic level how each protein functions.
Electron density for two
Alrestatin molecules bound to
the active site of human aldose
Our most developed area of research is on the diabetes related enzyme, human aldose reductase. As a postdoctoral fellow I determined the structure and deduced the mechanism of this enzyme. We are now engaged in mapping a region known as the "specificity" determinant for use in the design of highly specific small molecule inhibitors. The specificity determinant was found when we determined the structure of aldose reductase with the drug Alrestatin bound to the active site. This structure is remarkable in that there are two drug molecules bound in the same active site cavity. The carboxylate of one molecule is positioned in the manner that was expected from the previously determined mechanism of inhibition. The carboxylate of the other drug molecule is binding to a region of the enzyme that is unique to aldose reductase, and not found in other members of the aldo-keto reductase super-family.
The stacking arrangement of the Alrestatin molecules is reminiscent of the structure of ferrocene acetic acid derivatives. Using a combinatorial chemistry approach, we will attach a ferrocene acetic acid to a random peptides and select the peptides which bind aldose reductase tightly, and that do not bind the related enzyme aldehyde reductase. The structure of aldose reductase bound to the appropriate ferrocene acetic acid peptide derivative will be determined, and the geometries between the functional groups will be used in designing highly specific inhibitors.
The specificity determinant and other sites will also be probed using the new technique of "solvent mapping." The diffraction pattern of an organic solvent soaked cross-linked protein crystal is measured. The location of the bound solvent molecules are mapped to the surface of the protein. After a number of solvents are mapped to the surface of the protein, a unique three-dimensional pattern of functional group binding sites emerge. This information is used to design highly specific inhibitors. This technique is a valuable teaching aid, as it allows a student to experience many of the facets of protein crystallography (crystal growth and manipulation, data collection, and electron density fitting) during a three month period of time.
A second project in my laboratory focuses on methylglyoxal synthase an enzyme found on an alternate branch of the glycolytic pathway. Methylglyoxal syntase appears to be fundamental to bacterial life, yet not present in eukaryotes. The enzyme catalyzes the irreversible conversion of dihydroxy acetone phosphate (DHAP) to methylglyoxal and inorganic phosphate. This project is typical of future studies in my laboratory as we have purified the endogenous protein, used its N-terminal sequence to clone and sequence the gene, used site-directed mutagenesis to identify residues critical for catalysis, and we have obtained crystals and are in the process of determining the three dimensional structure. Surprisingly, the enzyme appears to be unrelated to triose phosphate isomerase, an enzyme that converts DHAP to glyceraldehyde phosphate. It will be exciting to learn how these two enzymes which bind the same substrate control their reaction coordinate to avoid making the other enzyme's product. We have also crystallized the next enzyme on this alternate pathway, the ubiquitous enzyme, glyoxalase I, which is important since it detoxifies a major class of cancer chemotherapeutic agents. Our goal is to help in the development of novel glyoxalase I inhibitors that will allow these chemotherapeutic agents to function.
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Patty Hearst has had injustice done to her that was tragic. First by being kidnapped by terrorist organization (one that supposedly had ties to the religious cult 'Synanon"), then by a justice system that ignored her trauma. Fortunately President Carter, and then President Clinton released her from her sentence.
She was held, not just as a prisoner, but as a torture and brainwashing victim. They kept he in a closet, denied her food, drugged her, beat her and terrorized her. Then they began calling her a name they made up for her. Who knows what else they did to her. Eventually they managed to split her identity and she accepted the name and persona of "Tanya". At that point her torture and brainwashing stopped, but the very real threat of her going back into the closet was constant.
That any court could not see what had happened to her as being a psychological trauma over which she had no control, was handing out injustice.
Patty now
Today, it was announced that she was a won a top prize at the famous Westminster dog show with her little french bulldog. Its a long way from "Tanya". Patty has also acted in a number of productions from film to television in the past several years. Her life has obviously turned around since the horror. One can only assume she got the help she needed. Good for her.
The splitting that results from abuse
In my practice I have had clients whom grew up in this cult. Synanon practiced and got quit expert at mind control tactics. They are reported to have learned how to shock, beat, humiliate, isolate and rape its members into complete acquiescence to their ends. Their leader was a power crazed psychotic that was eventually murdered by a former cult member. Reportedly, hundreds, perhaps thousands of people were indoctrinated in this way by their bizarre and cruel tactics.
How was Patty identified to be used in this way?
Perhaps it was desire for funding from Randolph Hearst, perhaps it was merely opportune. We'll never know. But what my experience with it's victims has taught me is that they knew quite well how to psychologically split personalities and to use those split off parts to their own ends.
Patty was not their only victim, just the most notorious.
When children are subjected to traumatic, horrifying experiences their minds naturally reject what is happening to them. While the event is so horrific it cannot be fully denied, it can be rejected as theirs. The child looks at what is happening and says to themselves something like "Oh, look at that poor little kid over there. What an awful thing."
Surviving at any cost
This splitting themselves apart from the experience allows them to psychologically survive the event. Many of us have experienced a few events that we experienced as traumatic, and we split off the experience, but because we did not continue to experience repeated traumas of a similar kind, we did not form separate personalities to deal with it. We may have split it off if it was foreign enough, or outside of our known family history (say a child molested by a neighbor and the family never knew). Or, if the event was a part of our family history but no one ever talked about it (say a parent had a mental breakdown and became self abusive in front of the child, but then received treatment and it never happened again), we may have split off the experience. Other traumas like our parents beating all the kids and all the kids knew and talked about it might not be split off, unless it went beyond beatings into repeated torture.
Understanding how DID happens
Okay I'll bet you've had TMI at this point, (too much information). These are the stories of what happens to sufferers of Dissociative Identity Disorder. They have had a series of horrific events happen to them (of course sometimes it can develop from an overly imaginative child left alone too long). But I give you this information to help you understand how DID happens to most sufferers.
My heart goes out to Herschel Walker, and perhaps Britney Spears, who knows what they have been through, too.
We all have "parts"
While we don't all have DID, we do all have separate ego states that we go in to under certain circumstances. When we feel threatened, overwhelmed or out of control we will move into certain behavioral sets that dictate our behavior and our choices. If we are DID we simply split off into a different identity.
Making the choice to respond differently to those feelings is not always so easy. In our culture we are taught to medicate our pain and fear with whatever method we can find. Some of us choose drugs and alcohol, others food, sex, work or exercise. We become our own Rescuer, doing whatever we can to stop the fear and pain. Of course we end up being a Victim of our own attempts to stop it don't we? We hurt ourselves and the people around us when we do it. Yet it is a accepted part of our culture.
<But,we can change EVERYTHING when we do things differently.
How about you?
How do you handle it when you feel threatened, overwhelmed or out of control? Do you know anyone medicating their pain? Someone with apparently split off parts of themselves? Comment below and let me know what you think.
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12-23-2010, 08:16 PM #1Member
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Firestar M43 9mm questions - any experts out there?
I bought a Firestar slide on GB. It came with a 9mm barrel and the recoil guide and spring.
It went right onto my frame, but the hammer would not drop - in fact, it hangs up on the right side of the hammer cutout.
On further inspection, I noticed a few things:
The extractor pin is way thicker than on my Firestar
The extractor is slightly different
The MARKINGS are different. I have a blued gun, early before the recall. This slide is Starvel, and is the same style. However, I do know that the first model of the Firestar in 40 S&W had the same slide profile, and later they made it slab sided due to battering.
I also notice that the rear sight is silghtly different - it is a bit longer, and the legs don't have a step.
So the question:
Has anyone ever used a 40 S&W slide on a 9mm Firestar (NOT THE PLUS)? Do I possibly have a 40 S&W slide and that is whythe hammer profile is not right?
My slide is marked FIRESTAR in BIG letters on the right hand side of the slide. This Starvel slide is marked in much smaller letters, like 1/4 the size. The STAR symbol on the left side of mine is MUCH bigger, and I also notice that the ejection port profile and machining is WAY different.
Anyone have any ideas? I don't know why the hammer channel would be thinner, but maybe the .40 hammer has a slightly different profile?
Of course the OTHER possibility is simply that someone cranked it down too tight in a padded vise when they changed the extractor and squeezed the slide inward, but I sort of doubt that because the rails fit perfectly, and with the hammer cocked the slide cycles freely.
Anyone got any info for me? I would like to send it back to the seller since it is worthless to me, to say nothing of the fact that someone really did a number on the feed ramp. But that's another story. Do I have a .40 slide, and are they supposed to work on a 9mm?
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Simplest way to distinguish the 9mm slide from one in .40 is to compare the breach face. A .40 cartridge rim will not fit the counterbore of a 9mm slide.
Which recall are you are referring to? If you have one of the very earliest series (sold only in Europe) that has flat striated slide latch and safety levers rather than the concave "finger-pad" checkered type, the Firestar was significantly redesigned before it was introduced into the United States, and some parts may not be interchangeable. Is your gun marked "Interarms"?
There was a change in manufacture
A couple of years ago, I purchased a new extractor from Star, a member here, and a few other star parts because I own a few. He actually threw in what he called a 'new style' vs. the 'old style' extractor for my m40, with pins and springs. The new style that he sent me was shaped a little differently, and the pin was definitely larger in diameter than the one on my pistol. I may be mistaken, but it looks to be more like the one in my Firestar Plus. though I've never disassembled it to be know for sure. I'm certain that if you contact him, he will be able to explain the differences, changes in manufacture, and dates of the changes.
Just an FYI for anyone reading. The extractor on my m40 Firestar broke after only a couple boxes of rounds being fed through the gun, as they are known to do. Upon inspection I noticed that the loaded chamber cut out was actually impacting the extractor during recoil and the chambering of the next round. With a great deal of care and a dremel tool, I removed a slight amount of material from it, to provide the clearance that is present on my m45. I've since fed several hundred rounds through the pistol without issue.
I love my Firestar pistols, they are very reliable aside from the extractor issue with the m40, and almost scarily accurate, considering the 'jerk' on the trigger!
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I can't answer on the difference between the old and new styles but a complete slide from a M43 is interchangeable with a complete slide from a M40. I have both and can swap slides between frames without any problems.


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I have a 2005 Kona scrap. My friend is offerring to sell me his 04 Drop Off Triple. Would putting that fork on my bike be a good idea? why or why not.
The Drop Off Triple has 155 mm (6.1 inches) of travel. The stock fork is a dirt jam pro (100 mm). How much will it change my geometry (especially when jumping), and the strenghth of the frame. If anybody can give me their opinion on the 04 Drop Off Triple, that would be great. any info would really help. Also, if you have a hardtail with a dual crown fork, please respond and tell me about it.


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Some more practices that's I've been working on in the last few days. Trying to do things I don't ever do! Some painting practice too, didn't come out too well.
Some more practices that's I've been working on in the last few days. Trying to do things I don't ever do! Some painting practice too, didn't come out too well.
Some practices I squeezed in between work. Some architecture work. Cathedrals are so tedious!
I also have a falcon character I want to develop, so I figured I should actually learn how to draw falcons...
really like the study of the guitarist! nice work on his face, you got it just right
I've seen your entire sketchbook, and quite frankly; I'm impressed.
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Some practices, non of which are any good. I really need to work on filling up my pages. They feel so blank and lifeless.
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Some quick sketches and one big piece I worked in in the past few weeks. Not much impressive to post.
More sketches and a Morrigan Piece I'm working on. A Chow I started but didn't finish. I must once again apologize for my lack of environments.
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Some design work for a new character I concocted and some environment practice.
Her name is Indigo, and she's an exorcist. My goal is to finish a graphic novel about her this year.
fancy those kisssers!
Color studies of Nautilus. Nautilii? either way, trying to branch out and draw some slick undersea creatures.
very nice improvement here. Keep to your anatomy studies, its not too far anymore Try to make them more 3d and really understand the dimensions. Other than that youre doing very well. I like your color choices, theyre mostly very interesting. Keep on drawing! see ya!
Trying to keep this updated is a bit of a chore. Been doing alot of poses and commission work, so here's a small dump.
Really nice sketchbook you have here. Solid comic style. Only crit: You should do some studies on facial expressions as they don't work really well. Sometimes the whole face gets distorted, sometimes just the mouth looks weird, sometimes the left side of the face is off. Neutral faces work pretty good though.
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Practices from the week. And a paint study.
great work! lots of lovely stuff and such improvement! keep it up!
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GGGreat stuff!I like you style,it feels very nice,keep up man.
Just a small painting practice from yesterday. I love me some Batman Beyond!
Not on my personal PC now, but I'll upload a quick thumbnail of a piece I really really want to start on. Trying to work out the composition and get a nice overallflow.
I know my posting around here had been meager this year, but I've been drawing so much it's been difficult to find time to post! I've been doing a lot artwork connected to my comic that I finally got off the ground:
I've been traveling to many conventions as well which has been fun.
Few gestures I did today. SO out of practice!!
those are some kickass updates. I´ll ge reading the comic. For sure. Great stuff.
A tutor once said to me: "Let your mind go!" and it didn´t come back.
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Did some parkour sketches and they turned into Faith.
Really nice pics in here. Great inspiration for me
Sorry to all you lovely folks here at Conceptart. I've really been neglecting this sketchbook thread. Any W.I.P and study images I've been doing I've just been throwing up on my sketchblog but it's time I posted more frequently on here.
Just some sketches from the past few conventions I've been to this year. A well as my submission for the Megaman tribute book Udon put together that didn't make it in
And some personal work. The final cover for my sketchbook this year with art of my character Katze, and a painting of Indigo I'm currently working on. Trying to create a very creepy mood lighting here.
the alice in wonderland is ballin. along with everything else.
my subconscious does not stop begging my conscious to draw.
hmm does that mean im a slave to my subconscious?
at least it doesnt beg for crack. ha.
Another update on my painting, trying to keep atmospheric with the lighting. I don't know if the heads looks too small or not.
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Intense desires are stored away.
There is nothing sexier, than being restrained
By your lover, and takened completely.
I left you fascinated, I left you attracted,
By my charming influence.
No lies here, only honesty.
You are an exhibitionist,
And, yet so private.
Your elegance and humanity revealed so
Sublety, through your expression of wanting.
I have caught that dreamy manner,
Your sensual touch.
You are poised, so stunning
A creature so exotic.
You arouse my senses, and inspire
Sweet glimpses of carnal decadence.
I recognize the need in you,
Your eyes, your lips, your body.
Speaks to me in ways,
That words can not.
This is lust, this is desire.
You are beauty, you are passion
You are simplicity.
And, I want you for the Night!
Captured for this moment,
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Everybody seems to know about food webs these days - how primary producers capture the energy of the sun, and pass it along to consumers and then on to predators - but I'm not sure that most people really understand what food webs are about. Food webs are not like the pleasant diagrams you see with cute little mice and clever foxes happily playing their roles in nature's balance. They're the scariest places that you can imagine.
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I'm afraid that I am veering more towards Foxhunter on this one - maybe because I did 'Very well thank you' with all the horses I've ever owned or worked with before I even knew PP existed
My horses enjoy pleasing me, they respect me because I respect them. They gallop up when I call them and when a scarey thing pops up they know its OK to be afraid but they also know its not Ok to leap away or bolt off because I'm there to tell them not too. This is doesnt done by force or game playing its just down to firm fair handling and caring
I do agree that all horses have different personalities though, every foal we bred was born different - even foals with the same parents were rarely the same.
You can't treat all personalities the same though, that's like trying to mould them into something they aren't - some need more time than others, some need a firmer hand, some need a really sensitive approach, some need loads of stimulation to keep them from getting bored. You try and treat them all the same and that's a recipe for disaster. That's like getting on every horse you own and expecting to ride it in the same way. Doesnt work like that