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Weld vs. Helms
Weld vs. Helms
Bill Weld, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, wants the Senate to consider his nomination to be U.S. ambassador to Mexico. Jesse Helms, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wants to stop him. Last week, Weld quit his job to go to Washington to lobby for his cause. Through surrogates, interviews, and press conferences, the two men are waging a war of words. This war isn't bound by strict rules of logic, but it's more intellectual than an arm-twisting match. It's a contest of conceptualization and persuasion. Whichever player successfully frames the questions at stake will capture public opinion and political support, and thereby win. So far, the war has been waged on four fronts:
1.Drugs vs. "social policy." Helms has stuck doggedly to a single issue: drugs. He points out that Weld favors legalizing marijuana for "medical purposes" (which conservatives place on the slippery slope toward complete legalization), favors providing addicts with clean needles (to prevent the spread of AIDS), and that he prosecuted few drug cases as a U.S. attorney. In short, says Helms, Weld is soft on drugs--the last thing we need in an ambassador to Mexico.
Weld could reply that he had opposed California's medical-marijuana initiative because it was too lax, or that Helms is a pusher for tobacco, or that it might be a good idea to stop treating Mexico's drug problem as a "war." But Weld hasn't touched the drug question. How come? One rule of the frame game is to avoid issues on which you're guaranteed to lose. This isn't an Ivy League debating society, where you can win by ingeniously defending a difficult position. In politics, you're in deep trouble as soon as you question the war on drugs. This is particularly true if you're fighting for a job in the Clinton administration, where insecurity over the drug war runs high. Just ask Joycelyn Elders.
Rather than answer Helms' charge, Weld shifted and broadened the conflict. On July 15, he called a press conference to declare: "Sen. Helms' opposition has nothing whatsoever to do with drug policy. It has everything to do with the future of the Republican Party. In plain language, I am not Sen. Helms' kind of Republican. I do not pass his litmus test on social policy. Nor do I want to." Overnight, the Weld-Helms standoff became a media sensation. This wasn't just about drugs, reporters concluded. It was about Helms' distaste for Weld's "moderate" views on social issues such as abortion. With that, the advantage swung to Weld. While Helms has the more popular position on drugs, Weld has the more popular position on abortion.
Helms spokesman Marc Thiessen resisted this maneuver. He insisted Helms' concern was drugs, not ideology. The evidence backs Thiessen up: Helms supported pro-choice Republican Bill Cohen of Maine for secretary of defense, and has offered to confirm Weld as ambassador to a country without a major marijuana problem, such as India. But in the frame game, such petty facts are easily overwhelmed by larger themes. Weld's spin prevails, for several reasons.
To begin with, Weld's argument fits nicely into the context of recent Republican infighting. Having come apart over foreign policy (trade with China) and fiscal policy (the House leadership coup), the Republicans seem ripe for a civil war over social policy. Furthermore, the Washington press corps never tires of writing about Republican troubles on abortion and gay rights--though Helms hasn't mentioned either issue in connection with Weld since the confirmation fight began.
Above all, the press loves to personalize debates. Drug policy is boring, but a fight between a saucy blue blood and a surly redneck is fun. Helms wasn't even the first member of Congress to oppose Weld's nomination. Others who oppose Weld have pleaded that Helms isn't the point. It's a futile argument. Helms and his famous wedge issues are just too colorful.
2Ideology vs. competence. Congressional Republicans who support Weld's nomination don't want their party torn asunder in the process. Their solution is to separate the question of Weld's ideology from his competence. They point out that he speaks Spanish, knows Mexico, and is smart and accomplished. "This is not about the heart and soul of the Republican Party," argued Rep. Chris Shays, R-Conn., in a TV debate July 28. "It's about whether this nominee is competent to serve in Mexico."
Helms' supporters accept this distinction, because it subverts Weld's campaign to broaden the ideological confrontation. They argue that Weld's indifference toward the war on drugs has affected his competence as a law enforcer and will do so again if he becomes ambassador to Mexico.
Weld, however, maintains the fight is about the party's soul, even as Republican moderates protest it isn't. The Helms/Shays argument (for a distinction between ideology and competence) is analytically more sophisticated but viscerally less compelling. Which means it will probably prevail in a confirmation hearing but lose in the court of public opinion, vanquished by Weld's campaign for libertarian martyrdom. In the frame game, nuance is almost always a loser. Remember, the last guy to argue for a distinction between ideology and competence was Michael Dukakis.


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An estimated 12 million American women are taking cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins. Many are healthy and just want to lower their cholesterol to help prevent heart disease. However, a recent article in Time magazine calls into question the wisdom of prescribing such drugs to otherwise healthy women.
"Researchers … don't know why women are more likely than men to suffer side effects from statins …, but posit that lower body weight and hormonal fluctuations play a role."– Catherine Elton, Time writer
"Researchers … don't know why women are more likely than men to suffer side effects from statins …, but posit that lower body weight and hormonal fluctuations play a role."– Catherine Elton, Time writer
In the article, "Do Statins Work Equally for Men and Women?," the cases of two women on statins are documented: a healthy woman and one who has diabetes, both with elevated cholesterol. The healthy woman had such severe muscle pain a month after she started taking the drug that she couldn't sleep. The woman with diabetes suffered memory loss to such an extent that she forgot how to do basic math or drive to familiar places. These symptoms disappeared when the women stopped taking statins.
While statin therapy can prolong the lives of people with heart disease or delay the onset of heart disease in healthy, at-risk adults, it doesn't work equally for men and women, the Time article says.
"Researchers also don't know why women are more likely than men to suffer side effects from statins and many other drugs, but posit that lower body weight and hormonal fluctuations play a role," writes Catherine Elton, the author.
In response to the article, the American Heart Association (AHA) issued a commentary, pointing out that research referred to in Time "demonstrated that the specific categories of women studied benefited (emphasis added) from taking a statin for primary prevention, with a reduction in risk for hospitalizations for unstable chest pain and for important blood vessel operations (surgical or catheterization-based)."
The AHA reminded patients that the benefits of cholesterol-lowering statins are well-documented. Furthermore, myopathy, or muscle pain, though uncommon, is reversible. They advise against abruptly stopping taking statins without a discussion with a primary care physician.
A recently published, sex-specific metaanalysis of the JUPITER trial, which studied men and women who normally wouldn't be prescribed statins, appears to contradict the claims in Time. Women in the study were age 60 or older, while men were 50 and up. Participants had no history of cardiovascular disease. The subjects all had low LDL cholesterol levels, but elevated levels (≥ 2 mg/L) of the inflammatory marker high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP). High CRP levels have been linked to cardiovascular events. The meta-analysis, which appeared in the Feb. 22, 2010, issue of Circulation, looked at the 13,154 women in the JUPITER trial.
Researchers found that taking 20 milligrams daily of the statin rosuvastatin (Crestor®) reduced the relative risk of clinical events in women and men to a similar extent (46 percent and 43 percent reduction, respectively). In women, the benefit of rosuvastatin was largely due to reductions in revascularization procedures, such as stent implantations and coronary artery bypass surgery, and also reductions in hospitalization; whereas men also had lower rates of heart attacks and strokes.
A recent statement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) addresses the likelihood of side effects at higher doses of the statin simvastatin (Zocor®), as well as at lower doses when taken with specific other medicines. The FDA recommends that patients be given the minimum effective dosage of that statin to reduce the likelihood of myopathy and rhabdomyolysis, the rapid destruction of skeletal muscles, and that health care providers be aware of the drug interactions when prescribing.
In its commentary, the AHA states, "It's important to note that the benefit of lowering cholesterol is most evident in people who have a cardiovascular event such as a heart attack or stroke. The data for statins as preventive treatment for women who have not had a first event, as described in Time, is still building, but results so far tell us that certain women can benefit from more aggressive therapy to avoid a first heart attack or stroke."
For more information, or to make an appointment with a UK HealthCare physician, please call UK Health Connection at 1-800-333-8874.
There are biological differences between men and women that manifest in health and disease, including cardiovascular disease (CVD). CVD usually occurs earlier in men, appearing roughly 10 years later in women. There are also subtle differences in how the sexes develop and present with their first symptoms of CVD. It is very important to acknowledge that these differences may affect how both sexes respond to cholesterol-lowering or other therapies.
"For both women and men at high risk, the data is compelling that lowering cholesterol is beneficial and will save lives."
When should cholesterol-lowering therapies be considered? First, we try to identify people at the highest risk for a cardiovascular event, such as individuals who have had a heart attack or a stroke or who have peripheral vascular disease or diabetes. For both women and men at high risk, the data is compelling that lowering cholesterol is beneficial and will save lives.
Next, we consider people who are at risk for a cardiovascular event. Common risk factors include high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, smoking, a family history of CVD, obesity and inactivity. The JUPITER trial extended the "at risk" group to individuals without symptoms of disease who were otherwise healthy with normal cholesterol levels but who had an elevated inflammatory marker. The data from the JUPITER trial is clear that these individuals also benefit from statin therapy.
In JUPITER, which looked at a group of people without symptoms of disease, there was a reduction of cardiovascular events and death in the population as a whole. When the trial was broken apart to examine events in women and men separately, death was not reduced in either sex. This is because the population of patients was very unlikely to die while in the study. Therefore, the beneficial effect of the drug on death could only be observed when information from men and women was combined. For cardiovascular outcomes other than death, a benefit was observed in both men and women when the sexes were analyzed separately.
Other clinical trials have failed to demonstrate that statin therapy reduces death in women at risk of CVD. However, the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists examined information from 14 different trials, from 1994 to 2000, and found the reduction in death was the same in both men and women.
One fundamental issue is that it is difficult to analyze cardiovascular clinical trial data in just women. Women are much less likely than men to be enrolled in clinical trials, so less information is available on how they respond to therapy. Despite a huge push over the last 10 years to recruit women into clinical trials, they are still underrepresented. Among the reasons: Women with cardiovascular disease tend to be older – and their age and other medical conditions may exclude them from trials; women may also be more concerned about the risks of clinical trials and therefore be less likely to be willing to participate.
Cholesterol-lowering therapy should be tailored to an individual. Physicians strive to identify people who are most likely to suffer from CVD, benefit the most and have a low likelihood of side effects. Women are often older when they present with CVD and they also tend to weigh less than men. Age and weight can be important features that determine how a person will respond to drug therapy. Thus, it would not be surprising for side effects from a particular cardiovascular drug to be different in women and men.
Statin therapy comes with some very rare but serious side effects, such as liver failure and acute muscle breakdown (rhabdomyolysis). The side effects usually resolve when the drug is discontinued. At this time, I know of no reason to deny statin therapy to a high-risk or at-risk woman solely based on her sex. In my practice, I am now checking hs-CRP levels to provide additional information for women and men on their risk of suffering a cardiovascular event.
"Women are often older when they present with CVD and they also tend to weigh less than men. Age and weight can be important features that determine how a person will respond to drug therapy."
"Women are often older when they present with CVD and they also tend to weigh less than men. Age and weight can be important features that determine how a person will respond to drug therapy."
While CVD is the leading killer in people, it does not kill everyone. We don't need to treat everyone. We do need to improve our ability to personalize medicine by identifying women and men who are most likely to benefit from a therapy. We also need to do a better job at preventing CVD. All women should try to exercise 30 minutes a day; eat a diet rich in vegetables, whole grains, and fish; and limit their intake of saturated fats (<10% of calories), cholesterol (<300 mg/
day) and salt (< 1 – 2 grams/day).
Dr. Smyth is a cardiologist with the UK Gill Heart Institute and the Lexington Veterans Administration Medical Center, as well as an associate professor of medicine in the UK College of Medicine.
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- 3/4cupplain flour
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- 1egg
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- 4mediumgreen tomatoes
- oil, for frying
- Sift the flour, salt and pepper into a medium bowl.
- Add the cornmeal and stir to combine.
- Make a well in the center.
- Combine the egg and milk and add gradually to flour mixture.
- Whisk the batter until just combined, but do not overbeat.
- Cut the tomatoes into thick slices.
- Heat about 1/2 inch of oil in frying pan.
- Dip the tomatoes into the batter; drain excess and fry for 1 minute on each side, turning only once with tongs.
- Drain on paper towls and server immediately.
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Placer's $100K supes-controlled fund for charity stays in budget for now
By: Gus Thomson, Journal Staff Writer
Auburn's 4 th of July fireworks are in no danger of fizzling and there are no plans for the cowboy poets to steer their couplets away from the annual Cowpoke Fall Gathering in Loomis. But both community events are part of a network of community events that now take in tax dollars from a $100,000 fund controlled by the Placer County Board of Supervisors. And the fund could go away if at least one supervisor has his way. Acting on an election promise, Roseville Supervisor Jack Duran has initiated his own drive this year to reconsider what critics commonly refer to as a "slush fund." But that effort now appears to have lost some steam, with the board voting earlier this month to approve a proposed budget that includes retaining all of the $100,000 fund. Duran said that with budget talks in August, the revenue-sharing question is still on the table and he'll be pursuing the moratorium as a potential alternative to other cuts. "I'm still moving forward to have board discussion on a moratorium on revenue sharing," Duran said. "We haven't adopted a final budget and as I understand it, it's still a line item. We're in a period of flux until the final budget is adopted in September and we need to prioritize programs and projects." Each supervisor is allowed $20,000 from the fund to give to non-profits. Duran abstains from voting on revenue sharing requests and had no funding this year after his predecessor Rocky Rockholm drained the fund of donations before he left office in December. Three of the supervisors – Robert Weygandt, Kirk Uhler and Jim Holmes – make initial recommendations on funding for their districts. Supervisor Jennifer Montgomery has opted to transfer District 5's $20,000 share to county health and human services programs. Duran called in February for a one-year moratorium on revenue sharing and reconsideration of the program after that. If revenue sharing continues, Duran said it should be put in the hands of a citizens committee. The Auburn Chamber of Commerce asked for $2,600 to help pay for this year's July 4 fireworks display in Auburn. At a meeting two weeks ago, the board approved $1,000. Chamber Executive Officer Bruce Cosgrove said that Supervisor Jim Holmes said that the rest of the money will be available from the fund in the next fiscal year. The county funding represents just more than a quarter of the budget for Auburn's 4 th of July program, he said. Fireworks are the major cost, at about $7,000, Cosgrove said. "There are no guarantees in life," Cosgrove said. "If it goes away, we would have to find another source of revenue to keep it viable." Cosgrove said that supervisors and the county CEO's office have been supportive for events when it has made sense for the county to be financially helpful. In the case of a recent grant, it's helping to fund an event that has a tradition as a community focus, he said. Duran's questioning retention of the fund during an economic downturn is being bolstered by Placer County taxpayers like Newcastle's Matt Marin. Marin said that arguments over the size of the fund in relation to the county's overall budget (more than $700 million), aren't valid. "If it's such a small amount, then dig into personal wallets and keep mitts off taxpayer dollars for private gifts," Marin said. Carol Braun, co-founder of the Cowpoke Fall Gathering, said her non-profit group asked for $500 last year after she learned about the fund and was happy to receive it. "Every little bit helps," she said. The Cowpoke Foundation that organizes the event is 100 percent volunteer and all proceeds go to charitable organizations, she said. This year's beneficiaries include Ride to Walk, a therapeutic riding program providing equine therapy to children with neurological disabilities. "Someone came up with the idea (of applying for revenue-sharing) and we thought that maybe we could get a piece of the pie," Braun said. While the $500 sponsorship level provide two free tickets, Loomis-area Supervisor Jim Holmes paid for his own, Braun said. Braun added that the county was listed in its program but Holmes or county officials didn't require anything for the donation. Not all requests receive funding and last year's Placer County grand jury recommended that all applications be shown in a county database – whether they're rejected or accepted. The county didn't agree with that recommendation, stating, however, that unfunded request letters will be kept on file at the Board of Supervisors' office for review on request for one year.


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Three years ago I read a paper before the ophthalmological section of the American Medical Association, on the value of 0.25 D. cylinder in the correction of the lesser grades of astigmatism. My additional experience confirms the position which I then took.
The annoyance occasioned by eye muscle strain demands recognition from complaining patients whose heads will ache when the eyes are much used. All astigmatic eyes do not suffer in like proportion. There are three factors at work that bring about annoyance. The first is the amount of eye work required by a badly shaped cornea; a second factor is the degree of fault; and a third is found in the nervous susceptibility of the patient.
As to the first condition, the amount of work required. The majority of astigmatic eyes only exhibit the trouble under forced application. Eyes which have done faithful and painless duty for many years
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Farland arena suggestion
Erm...I'm not the head of knowledge about Farland, in fact probably about the bottom. If this is not in the right place, I apologize.
Just as a bit of fun for the DM to also get together and duke it out with his own creations, how about an semi/annual tournament in either the recaptured realms or those still controlled by the Lords of Sin? The tournament gathers all of the strongest fighters into one place, with arenas that shift, whether from a forested area, naval battles, lava pits, dark caves, to an old style gladiator arena. The players are separated and each put into a randomized roster and made to fight it out with other random warriors, most likely just as out of sorts by the wacky arenas as the PC.
Opinions, suggestions, changes welcome! :)
Hehe, I like it. It wouldn't fit in with the flavor of the world, and it wouldn't be able to be canon, but it might make for a fun semi-annual Farland holiday event to hold on Myth-Weavers. I'll look into it.
Thanks for the suggestion!
How about if we made it a head to head, round robin type battle.
We could put a list together or 8 or 16 'bad guys' and 8 or 16 'good guys' from the site and each week have the site vote as to which one they either like the best or which one they thought would win in a fight.
We would give complete backgrounds and write ups of these folks or the link to the site.
At the end, we have the 'SuperBlood Bowl' of Farland to see who is the baddest/
goodest in all of Farland!!!
Another decent idea. Would it be more fun, though, if the players could roll up Farland characters and duke it out, or just bet on wins?
I'm thinking about it as more of a marketing angle...
If we have a head-to-head voting schedule between the bad guys and good guys of our site, it would get people to understand more of the background... They'd have to read at least some of the histories in order to
know who to vote for...
And once we sucker them into reading some of the histories, they'll be dragged into the World of Farland even deeper...
What have I done?!
I think rolling up a Farland character and duking it out would be great!!!
Kind of a "Quick and the Dead" style. ;)
I dig both angles; sounds like Squeak's would force the players to gain a more in-depth knowledge of history and backgrounds, but the original idea would let players just go in and duke it out. Any reason that both can't be done...or is that just a bit too overwhelming in scale?
How about the program/game DM selecting a series of locations/scenarios from which to pick? E.g., he could pick the Ravenloft castle in Kale, the caverns beneath Garakesh, a fight scene in Far City, maybe six or seven altogether, and place the fighter in a situation. Kinda like the old Star Trek episode where the crew was plopped down into the middle of the OK corral and Spock had to mind-meld them into thinking it was all a dream.
So the character would be given a situation. The DM would have to design each four of the scenarios to be equivalent, then two to be much tougher, then one mauvais-posterior one (can't say bad-ass in front of Connor). Then, as eight goobers face off, the winners advance in the bracket, a la March Madness! Then the winner gets to play his character in a brand new game designed by the staff - some new scenario - and gets to select a team from the also-rans! That way, his prize would be creating his own team.
Also, and I don't know if this is possible or a good idea, but the rolls in the first bracket could be truncated - i.e., if you roll a 1 or 2, they become a 3, and 20 and 19 become 18, so as to help eliminate the possibility of bad rolls or good rolls determining everything - the skills of the character would count for more. Is that too much manipulation? We may not want a good character blown out because of a bad roll, or do we? Remember, this is coming from the mind of a novice, so bear with me.
Another thought - are we fighting, for instance, Rupert against Nips in a Daven castle? Or Rupert vs. a set of undead from a Daven castle scenario, then Nips vs. some Orc troops in a cave in Kelerak? And does the original player play his character, or does the DM just wind it all up and play everything? Personally, I think the player should play his own character, we shouldn't get it too mechanized.
Question - does each character have to assume his original alignment? What if we go head-to-head and the winners of the first fight are faced off against each other, and they're both good guys? This is only if they fight each other, not if they fight planned bad guys.
Ahhh....I really like the idea of the different locales. That would add some spice to the different battles. I don't know if we'd get to concerned about alignments and such, as there'd be less role-playing involved than usual. Instead, it'd be a hack and slash, roll 'em if you got 'em, all-out battle. We'd just need a moderator (DM) to do the rundowns, and two fellas' to duke it out.
So...when do we get started...
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The British national was reportedly seized by armed men shortly after arriving at Lagos airport.
16:55, UK, Friday 19 July 2013
A British national has been kidnapped shortly after landing at Lagos International Airport in Nigeria, the British High Commission has revealed.
Gunmen targeted a four-wheel drive car at around 8.30pm on Tuesday after it left the airport's international terminal, seizing the British man who was returning to a residential area of Lagos, according to security sources.
The Nigerian driver of the vehicle was shot but survived.
In a statement, the British High Commission (BHM) said: "The BHM is working closely with others to secure the release of the hostage.
"Because of the nature of this incident, the BHM is not going into further detail about it."
Major companies with British connections operating in Nigeria include oil giant Royal Dutch Shell, British Airways, Unilever and PricewaterhouseCoopers. There was no indication of where the kidnapped man was employed.
Kidnapping of expatriates and Nigerians by armed gangs seeking ransom has been rife in Nigeria's oil producing southeast, but is rarer in Lagos were most foreigners live.
Four Chinese nationals and the three-year-old son of a state legislator have previously been reported kidnapped this month.
Risk analysts Drum Cussac have reported a "noticeable upsurge" in the number of kidnappings in the southwest of the country, including Lagos.
The consultancy said: "Foreign nationals were targeted in the affluent Lagos areas of Ikoyi, Victoria Island and Epe-Lekki, sparking speculation that organised criminal gangs have renewed their focus on the city's upscale districts given their relatively permissive security environments."
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The Comedy of Errors (Review)
Shakespeare classic is a laugh riot at Cincy Shakes
Rick Pender
0 Comments · Monday, November 24, 2014
The title of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors is today a catch phrase for situations when things go wrong.
Failure: A Love Story (Review)
NKU's Failure is not
Stacy Sims
0 Comments · Monday, November 24, 2014
Failure: A Love Story by Philip Dawkins is a whimsical, comedic play about the sequential, senseless deaths of three Chicago sisters.
by Rick Pender
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Stage Door: A Girl Singer and Two Pairs of Twins
Many Cincinnati stages are momentarily paused, readying shows for the holidays. Last night the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park opened its production of Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical. Susan Haefner does a remarkable job of channeling the "girl singer" from Maysville, Ky., who grew up in Greater Cincinnati. We learn how she became a star, rose to fame, almost lost it to pills and dissolute behavior, then battled back for a "flip side" to her singing career. All the other characters in her story — male and female, young and old, famous and unknown — are performed by Michael Marotta, who principally plays her counselor but is amusingly convincing as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Merv Griffin and many more. It's a thoroughly entertaining two hours on the Playhouse's Shelterhouse stage, and it's already appealing to audiences apparently, since the show's run has been extended from Dec. 28 to Jan. 4. Tickets ($30-$85): 513-421-3888 Cincinnati Shakespeare Company kicks off its next production of the 2014-2015 season tonight with The Comedy of Errors. The emphasis in this show, one of Shakespeare's earliest works, is definitely on the comedy, what with two pairs of twins whose adventures are hysterically compounded by mistaken identities when they end up in the same town on the same day. For this staging, it's set in a seaside resort in America of the 1930s in the midst of a classic carnival, adding to the story's hilarity. This one will only be onstage until Dec. 13, so this weekend is the perfect time to catch a performance, before holiday shows take center stage elsewhere. Tickets ($22-$36): 513-381-2273 One last treat I'll mention, which happens to be operatic rather than theatrical: It's Great Scott, a new work that Cincinnati Opera is nurturing in partnership with UC's College-Conservatory of Music. The production's creators have been in town all this week honing this brand new opera, the story of a struggling opera company and the hometown football team. They come into conflict when the team is to play in the Super Bowl on the same day the company has planned to premiere a long lost opera. To heighten the drama, the team's owner is married to the opera company's founder. The composer is Jake Heggie, who wrote the music for Dead Man Walking, a work produced by Cincinnati Opera at Music Hall in 2002, and Great Scott's script is by prize-winning playwright Terrence McNally. The week's work will culminate in a public reading on Tuesday evening. It's free, but you are asked to make a reservation by calling 513-241-2742 to see it at Memorial Hall (1225 Elm Street, next door to Music Hall; it's easy to park your car in the nearby Washington Park Garage). Rick Pender's STAGE DOOR blog appears here every Friday. Find more theater reviews and feature stories here.
by Rick Pender
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Stage Door: Broadway Here, Broadway There — It's Everywhere
If you're looking for good theater this weekend you have two great choices at downtown Cincinnati's Aronoff Center. It's your pick: Recent Broadway hit Once, in a touring production, or a past award-winner, Young Frankenstein, staged by one of Cincinnati's best community theaters. The musical Once began life as an Academy Award-winning film in 2007; the song "Falling Slowly" won an Oscar. The film became an off-Broadway production as a musical in 2011 then a Broadway contender in 2012, where it won eight Tony Awards, including best musical. Since 2013 it's been a hit in London (the film is about musicians in Dublin, and the stage adaptation is set in an Irish pub) and on a national tour in the U.S. a year ago that's been much praised. It's that tour presently onstage at the Aronoff Center's big hall. It's a very contemporary love story that succeeds in part because it's unpredictable: Boy Meets Girl (yeah, that's a cliché) but despite their chemistry and potential for romance, it doesn't turn out as you might expect. Along the way, a great cast of actor/musicians play instruments onstage and sing their hearts out as the story unfolds. And it's fun: Arrive early enough and you can queue up to go onstage and order a pint from the bar there and mingle with some of the cast. If there's such a thing as a casual musical for contemporary music lovers, this is it. Through Nov. 23. Tickets ($33-$80): 513-621-2787.Don't think that you'll see something less than professional if you choose to head to the Aronoff's Jarson-Kaplan Theater to see Young Frankenstein, presented by Cincinnati Music Theatre through Sunday. This company of local theater junkies knows how to make big musicals work, and this jokey show by Mel Brooks (based on his equally jokey classic comedy from 1974) is a great vehicle for a talented cast and crew. There are great sets (designed by Rick Kramer) and visual effects (by Jeff Surber), and the talented performers milk every laugh line to the nth degree. Charlie Harper is lots of fun as the latter-day scientist Frankenstein, Alison Evans is his fetching lab assistant Inga and Kate Mock Elliott has great moments as his twitchy fiancee Elizabeth. Chuck Ingram's portrait of the Monster is spot on, and his delivery of the show's big number, "Puttin' on the Ritz," will stick that tune in your head for days in ways that Irving Berlin never imagined. Tickets ($20-$24): 513-621-2787.Broadway star Faith Prince is making a local appearance at Memorial Hall for an 8 p.m. concert tonight. It's part of a series of "Libations & Lite Bites," this one titled "Broadway & Bordeaux." The evening begins at 6:30 with hors d'oeuvres from local restaurants, wine and cocktails and concludes with dessert and more. Tickets ($47-$57): cincinnatimemorialhall.com.If you've got Broadway on the brain and you're on Cincinnati's West Side, you should definitely check out the Covedale Center's production of Stephen Sondheim's fairytale musical Into the Woods, finishing up its run on Sunday. It's an entertaining classic (in December it will be on movie screens everywhere in a new film version featuring Meryl Streep and Johnny Depp), and the Covedale has a great cast to put it across. Tickets ($21-$24): 513-241-6550.You still have a chance to catch one of our great local actresses, Dale Hodges, in Driving Miss Daisy at Covington's Carnegie through Sunday. She's playing haughty, elderly Daisy Wertham, unwillingly partnered with Hoke, an African-American chauffeur (Reggie Williams) hired by her solicitous son Boolie (Randy Lee Bailey). It's a solid ensemble and a very entertaining production. Tickets ($18-$25): 859-957-1940.And if you're looking for something that's brand new and edgy, check out All New People by contemporary writer Zach Braff. It's onstage at Clifton Performance Theatre, staged by Untethered Theatre through Nov. 30. It starts with a suicide attempt on Charlie's birthday and spirals from there. I'm going to see it this weekend. Maybe I'll see you there. Tickets ($20): 513-939-0599.Rick Pender's STAGE DOOR blog appears here every Friday. Find more theater reviews and feature stories here
Curtain Call
What's New Onstage? What's Popular?
Rick Pender
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Cincinnati has a theater scene that's surprisingly sophisticated for a city this size.
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Stage Door: What You Can Learn at the Theater
Most of us go to the theater to be entertained. But we are often subtly educated and sometimes changed by the stories we witness. Take Driving Miss Daisy, for instance, Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play from 1987, currently onstage at the Carnegie in Covington. It has just three characters, all from different points on the personality compass. There's the feisty Daisy Werthan, an elderly, wealthy Jewish woman in Atlanta, fiercely independent but actually in need of assistance for daily life; her rather patronizing son, Boolie, a businessman trying to ensure her safety; and Hoke Coburn, the African-American chauffeur who Boolie hires to keep his mother from risking life and limb by driving herself. Things don't go well initially, but over the course of a quarter-century Miss Daisy and Hoke become best friends, and we learn how people can connect across vast divides. Featuring three very capable local stage veterans — the brilliant Dale Hodges as Daisy, Reggie Willis as Hoke and Randy Lee Baily as Boolie — this swift play (about 90 minutes) is a story about understanding and caring for someone whose life experience is vastly different. It's done with a lot of gentle humor and insightful moments. Staged by Mark Lutwak, whose day job is at the Cincinnati Playhouse, this very satisfying production is a great choice for theater this weekend. Through Nov. 16. Tickets ($18-$25): 859-957-1940 At the Cincinnati Playhouse, the world premiere of Safe House (CityBeat review here) connects because it's a story about family dynamics that aren't all that unusual — a pair of brothers with opposing perspectives who are on a collision course — but it's made interesting because it's set in Northern Kentucky in 1843, and the characters are "free people of color" — not slaves but not exactly free. Addison is a hardworking, itinerant cobbler, dreaming of opening his own shop, while his younger brother Frank is impetuous and chafing at restrictions imposed on them despite their freedom. They're caught up in the chaos of helping others escape bondage via the Underground Railroad. Playwright Keith Josef Adkins based his new play on his own family's history, and this meticulously crafted production will keep you guessing about the outcome and leave you with a sense of how some things evolve and some never change. Through Nov. 15. Tickets ($30-$75): 513-421-3888. Musicals are often at the far end of the lightweight entertainment spectrum, but if composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim's name is attached, you can be sure there will be twists on stories and music that goes well beyond toe-tapping numbers. That's certainly the case with Into the Woods (CityBeat review here), currently onstage at the Covedale through Nov. 16. It's a mash-up of familiar fairy tales — Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Rapunzel and more — that get entangled but seem to wrap up with happy endings by intermission. Then Act II comes along, and reality sets in. It's a show that's ultimately about understanding, caring and building community. Tickets ($21-$24): 513-241-6550.Other productions worth checking out this weekend include Conor McPherson's adaptation of the psychological thriller The Birds (CityBeat review here) at Cincinnati Shakespeare (through Saturday; tickets, $22-$36: 513-381-2273); a creative stage adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick (CityBeat review here) at Know Theatre (through Saturday; tickets: $20, 513-300-5669); Stephen Karam's comedy Speech and Debate about a trio of misfit teens (CCM Drama on the UC campus, through Saturday; free, but reservations required: 513-556-4183); and Zach Braff's All New People about a disrupted suicide (Untethered Theater at Clifton Performance Theatre through Nov. 30; $25: 513-939-0599). And Cincinnati Music Theatre, a community group that is both ambitioius and successful with musicals, takes on the silly but entertaining Young Frankenstein at the Aronoff Center's Jarson-Kaplan Theatre (through Nov. 15; tickets, $20-$24; 513-621-2787). Rick Pender's STAGE DOOR blog appears here every Friday. Find more theater reviews and feature stories here.
by Rick Pender
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Stage Door: No Tricks, All Treats – Theater Choices for Halloween Weekend
Don't be scared. Just because it's Halloween, you don't have to miss out on good theater. In fact, there are some great deals available. For instance, this weekend is your last chance to see Ensemble Theatre's production of An Iliad (CityBeat review here), a one-man retelling of Homer's epic tale of the Trojan War. (The final performance is Sunday at 2 p.m.) Bruce Cromer has been turning in one of the best acting performances seen locally in years as "The Poet" who narrates the story of the tragic conflict — as well as about a dozen of the story's central characters. Several of the weekend's performances are sold out, but seats do remain tonight at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. and if you use the coupon code SPOOKY to order tickets for either one, you'll get them for $25 each (they're usually $44). Box office: 513-421-3555. This is also the final weekend for Falcon Theater's staging of The Woman in Black in Newport's tiny Monmouth Theater (which the group recently purchased, so it now has a permanent home, renamed "Falcon Theater"). The final performance on Saturday is sold out, but if you attend the classic ghost story tonight at 8 p.m. in costume, you'll get a $2 discount on your ticket (normally $19; $17 for students and seniors): 513-479-6783. Cincinnati Shakespeare Company's production of The Birds (CityBeat review here) is also intended to give you the creeps, so it's another good choice for Halloween weekend. If that title sounds familiar, it's because Alfred Hitchcock adapted Daphne Du Maurier's short story into a classic thriller back in 1963. Cincy Shakes is presenting a more recent stage adaptation, this one by Irish playwright Conor McPherson (who has his own reputation as a storyteller who knows how to scare an audience, with past hits like The Weir and The Seafarer). It's an evening of psychological twists and turns with a cast featuring four of the company's best actors. This one will be around for another week, but if you're celebrating Halloween, you'll have fun with this one. Tickets ($22-$36): 513-381-2273, x1. Also onstage through Nov. 8 is Know Theatre's production of Moby Dick (CityBeat review here.) It's not exactly a ghost story, but the obsessive Captain Ahab is certainly haunted by the specter of the great white whale, and Know's retelling of Herman Melville's great American novel is inventive and engaging. Tickets ($18): 513-300-5669.Other good choices onstage are Covedale Center's Into the Woods (CityBeat review here) and the Cincinnati Playhouse's Safe House (CityBeat review here.) The former (tickets, $21-$24: 513-241-6550) is Stephen Sondheim's classic musical that's a mash-up of fairytales; the Playhouse show is a world premiere of a play by native Cincinnatian Keith Josef Adkins about people like his ancestors, free people of color in 19th-century Kentucky (tickets, $30-$75: 513-421-3888). Rick Pender's STAGE DOOR blog appears here every Friday. Find more theater reviews and feature stories here.
Curtain Call
Ooh La La! Diane Lala Keeps Performers Moving at CCM
Rick Pender
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 29, 2014
With a name like Diane Lala, she was apparently destined for a career in musical theater.
by Rick Pender
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Stage Door: Safe House and Spooky Performances
Last night I was at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for the opening of Keith Josef Adkins' new play, Safe House, the 71st world premiere staged by our Tony Award-winning regional theater. (CityBeat feature story here.) It's a fascinating piece that's about the little-known circumstances of "free people of color" in 19th-century America — not slaves but not exactly free. They're put into complex and stressful situations, personified here by a pair of very different brothers: Addison is a hardworking, aspiring entrepreneur, dreaming of become a cobbler with his own store, while younger brother Frank is impetuous and chafing at the restrictions imposed on them. The heat gets turned up when runaway slaves through their Northern Kentucky county need shelter and perhaps passage to Liberia, something their Aunt Dorcas has quietly supported. The story is based on Adkins' family history in this region, and it comes to life in this provocative drama. Through Nov. 15. Tickets ($30-$75): 513-421-3888.UC's College-Conservatory of Music only rarely gives more than one weekend to musical theater productions. This fall's privileged show is the very commercial Legally Blonde (a hit movie with Reese Witherspoon from 2001 that became a Broadway property in 2007). It's a genuinely entertaining show that actually has a meaningful message about living up to potential and not judging people by their exteriors. It also has a ton of dancing, so it's great news that this production is both being staged by veteran CCM choreographer Diane, who I profiled in my Curtain Call column this week. The production is happening at UC's Patricia Corbett Theater through Nov. 2. Tickets ($31-$35): 513-556-4183. It's fairytale time at the Covedale Center with a production of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods. But proceed with caution: The first act takes more or less traditional stories of Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk and more, and mixes them into one happy stew. But in Act II, well, things aren't so "happily every after" when reality sets in. Big cast, great tunes, lots of humor — but some thoughtfulness, too. Through Nov. 16. Tickets ($21-$24): 513-241-6550.The chance to see Bruce Cromer's one-man performance in An Iliad at Ensemble Theatre is an absolute must for anyone who's serious about theater. (CityBeat review here.) It's quite astonishing that one man can do so much and hold an audience's attention for 100 minutes in this retelling of the savagery of the Trojan War. It's all the more powerful because it's a condemnation of war across the ages. Don't miss this one. Through Nov. 2, and no chance that it will be extended, so call now for your tickets. Here's a tip, thanks to friendly relations with Know Theatre, just around the corner from ETC: Use the coupon code MOBY20 to get 20 percent off the price of two tickets for any remaining performances. Tickets ($28-$44): 513-421-3555.With Halloween just a week away, several theaters are offering shows that will make your heart pound. There's creepy ghost in Falcon Theatre's production of The Woman in Black ($17-$19, 513-479-6783), and the characters in Conor McPherson's The Birds are under attack in ways that don't bode to well for human interaction ($22-$36, 513-381-2273). (CityBeat review here.) And while it's not exactly a Halloween story, Moby Dick at Know Theatre has some scary oddballs and a gargantuan villain out to murder everyone, so that qualifies, too. (CityBeat review here.) It's onstage through Nov. 8 ($18; 513-300-5669). This weekend is last call for I loved, I lost, I Made Spaghetti at the Cincinnati Playhouse. (CityBeat review here.) Actress Antoinette LaVecchia spins some great stories about writer Giulia Melucci's bad taste in men, all the while making an aromatic Italian dinner — antipasti, wine, spaghetti Bolognese (homemade pasta and fresh sauce) — for a few lucky audience members. This is a totally charming show, great for weekend entertainment. Final performance is Sunday. Tickets ($30-$75): 513-2418-3888.Rick Pender's STAGE DOOR blog appears here every Friday. Find more theater reviews and feature stories here.
Home Free
Safe House explores a little known dimension of freedom at the Cincinnati Playhouse
Rick Pender
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 22, 2014
I thought I knew quite a bit about American history before I read Keith Josef Adkins' new play, Safe House, about to have its world premiere at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.
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Defending national champion Oregon Tech is favored to hold on to its Cascade Collegiate Conference crown in men's basketball, according to a preseason poll of the league's 10 head coaches.
Tech received four first-place votes and 91 total points in earning the favorites' tag for the 2012-13 season.
Eastern Oregon picked up two first place votes and 80 points to place second. Warner Pacific, which earned two first-place votes, totaled 79 points and placed third. Southern Oregon also earned two first place votes and is picked fourth with 73 points.
The Raiders were followed by Northwest (70 points), College of Idaho (45), Corban (39), Concordia (37), Northwest Christian (25) and Evergreen (11).
Oregon Tech, under the direction of veteran coach Danny Miles, is coming off a 34-4 campaign last season, when it captured the NAIA D II National Championship along with the CCC regular season and postseason tournament titles.
The Hustlin' Owls key returners include senior guard David Clarke, sophomore center Josh Johnson and junior forward Mihajilo Matic.
Eastern Oregon, which has made it to the NAIA D II national tournament five straight years, will feature seven new players on its roster.
Key returnees for the Mountaineers, who are led by fourth-year coach Isaac Williams, include senior guard Cody Thurmond, senior forward Anthony Brown and senior forward Jason Mumm. Mumm returns after a redshirt season due to injury.
Warner Pacific looks to improve upon the success of 2011-12, in which the team finished with a 24-9 overall record and 14-4 in the CCC.
The Knights, who are guided by second-year coach Jared Valentine, are expected to be led by returning All-CCC performers William Sharp, guard, and forward Stephen Harris.
Southern Oregon, led by 17th-year head coach Brian McDermott, returns three starters and will have nine new players on the roster. Key returners include sophomore forward Eric Thompson and junior guard Kyle Tedder.
Conference action gets under way in early December.
The top eight teams in the final regular season standings will advance to the CCC's postseason tournament.


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You can read the story about IBM being sued for £3 million for allegedly selling other people's patented software here.
What's sad about this case is that IBM has refused to offer any guidance to current users of the software in question – Websphere and Net Commerce – about what they can do to check they are on the right side of the law – which is exactly what brought about the case in the first place!
But don't think the IBM PR machine has forgotten about you the customer, oh no.
At just 17.39 today I received an email that said: "IBM today introduced VBrick VideoPlug-in for Lotus Sametime."
So when certain users moan, as many have at my colleague Cliff Saran on his blog, just remember who's asking the questions for your benefit.
My colleague Cliff Saran has written a story about counterfeit Cisco gear being seized.
He points out the security issues with using counterfeit Cisco equipment, and gives a guide on how to spot fake Cisco gear, but one thing that seems to have slipped under the radar is the total value of counterfeit goods that have been seized: £38 million.
Clearly there is demand for cheap Cisco gear on the part of users, but is this a problem of Cisco's own making?
As one network manager points out: "There are a lot of ways to spot fake Cisco, with a too good to be true low price being the very first one."
But since when did a low price suddenly become a privilege for buyers of network equipment?
I've been told by industry insiders that Cisco competes very aggressively on price – sometimes offering discounts of up to 70% when it really wants to win your business. So, why doesn't it offer low prices all the time?
If people felt they could afford prices from Cisco in the first place, they wouldn't be seeking out cheap deals and the black market wouldn't have as much clout.
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LifeSaver is establishing distributorships for its entire patent pending healthcare product line including the Alkohol Stik® and Pregnancy Stik®. These national (50 states) distributor-partners will be part of LifeSaver's launch of new products in the US as well as worldwide.
Becoming an "Exclusive Distributor" of LifeSaver products opens the doors to multiple avenues for Return on Investment (ROI). Additionally, by selling and sub-dividing the "Exclusive Distributorship" into smaller territories, your initial investment would be recovered. These sub-distributor sales teams will reach their potential by working territories they know best. As an added financial benefit, you will be collecting revenues for all LifeSaver's national sales account of products that are shipped to your territory. LifeSaver is committed to its "Exclusive Distributor", and will ensure that no Distributor will ever have to compete with the parent company. Sales for HIV testing in the United States alone are conservatively forecast to be between $500- $750,000,000. With the release of each new product, the potential for the "Exclusive Distributor" will grow exponentially.
Currently, LifeSaver is offering the "Exclusive Distribution Rights" throughout the United States as well as specific countries around the world for LifeSaver's our healthcare products. The distributors will control large areas (such as states and countries) and retain the right to sub-divide their area into territories utilizing their sub-distributors selling to numerous markets such as hospitals, clinics, law enforcement, military, doctors, auto insurance companies, alcohol companies, athletic organizations, transportation services, drug stores, restaurants and bars to be serviced. All LifeSaver products are consumable and will be reordered by the same user, generating repeat and continuous sales, year in and year out.
For example, the person who purchases the distribution rights for Texas will be the "Exclusive Distributor" for Texas. Smaller sub-divisions, broken up into areas such as counties, parishes or geographic locales, can be sold to investors/distributor that want to be a part of LifeSaver distributorships, but are financially or logistically unable to handle the broad scope of an "Exclusive Distributorship". The sales of the sub-divisions not only create a rapid return on investment for the "Exclusive Distributor", but it serves to spread the tremendous opportunity to other individuals who are more intimately linked to the customers in their own back yard.
The Exclusive Distribution Rights will include a schedule of three payments.
LifeSaver's Assistance to Distributors
LifeSaver has developed an effective national and international management team to assist distributors. We believe that the management team is crucial to the continuing global growth of the company.
The Problem: U.S. companies face difficulties as they look to grow beyond their borders. Most companies lack awareness of local cultures and understanding of global markets. India, for example, while clearly a major global market, has nuances that can only be managed with hands-on local experience. LifeSaver's management teams are in tune with local cultures and approach them with respect understanding of these markets.
LifeSaver's management takes an advisory approach and provides support in all key areas to our distribution network, regional (state), nationwide and global operations helping grow their business while achieving the right balance between local and international management.
The team will bring further experience to product development and general operations. Understanding this from the very beginning is critical to the success of each Distributor.
LifeSaver does not believe success happens overnight. Recruitment and development of distributorships can take a considerable amount of time, and an effective response will include planning both short and long-term approaches. LifeSaver will assist local management (with LifeSaver advisors providing support in all key areas of distribution).
LifeSaver recognizes distributors will manage and guide their own operation in their specific state or country and ultimately are the people that best understand their local environment.
LifeSaver is in a position to make a real difference in the world with its platform technology. It is years ahead of anything else on the market. LifeSaver's products are less expensive, faster, accurate and more convenient than competing products. LifeSaver Stiks® can instantly detect for a broad range of infectious diseases, substance abuse and medical conditions; Alcohol, Drugs of Abuse, HIV, Malaria, Diabetes, Pregnancy, etc.
You have an invitation to be a part of this outstanding opportunity as an Exclusive Distributor for LifeSaver products and we believe the Return on Investment (ROI) will exceed your expectations.
For further information please contact us.
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LifeSaver Int'l Inc. – is a medical device manufacturer of instant diagnostic screening devices utilizing a small sample of saliva. This platform technology (Stiks®) are simple, low cost tests that instantly detect a broad range of infectious diseases, substance abuse and medical conditions: Alcohol, Drugs of Abuse, HIV, Pregnancy, Diabetes Malaria, and Tuberculosis, etc. The Stiks® have the ability to detect and prevent the spread of disease while improving health conditions worldwide. LifeSaver products are the most advanced alternative to blood or urine testing without need for doctors, trained technicians, equipment or laboratories.
LifeSaver Stiks® – LifeSaver has developed a series of saliva-based diagnostic test (Stiks®) and will be protected by its patents and trademarks in 100 countries worldwide. This platform technology is years ahead of anything else on the market. LifeSaver's products are less expensive, faster, simpler (as easy as licking a stamp) more convenient and accurate than other competing products. The Stik® produces results on-site within two minutes, with a positive (+) or negative (-) symbol. If No Symbol appears (pass/fail), this indicates the test was compromised and must be discarded.
LifeSaver Stiks® are the only saliva tests in the world that positively verifies that the test has been completed correctly; eliminating the risk of false negatives. LifeSaver's platform technology is able to test for an unlimited number of diseases and medical conditions. There is no competitor that offers this assurance. Further, due to the packaging system and formulation used by LifeSaver, the antibody and enzyme-based tests can withstand temperatures up to 100 degrees Fahrenheit and function in high-humidity environments. Additionally, LifeSaver's products have a shelf life of two years.
All LifeSaver products being consumable will be re-ordered many times over by the same user, year in and year out. The potential customer base for its products is endless: law enforcement, military, hospitals and clinics, worldwide health organizations, American Red Cross and other blood banks in the US as well as around the world, commercial truck drivers, rail, air transportation personnel, and all businesses that utilize safety protocols worldwide.
R&D Costs and Time Expenditures
From the beginning LifeSaver, believed that by standardizing its manufacturing, it would generate better quality control while meeting production schedules and cost advantages. LifeSaver's unique Stik® platform technology was developed through years of intense R&D efforts. Production simplicity is the single most important aspect of LifeSaver meeting its production schedules. It gives LifeSaver the ability to add product lines faster while saving tremendously on lead time and cost. LifeSaver has designed a single manufacturing platform for its products that uses the same equipment for every type of Stik® and will be standard for all products introduced now and in the future.
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One of the benefits of LifeSaver's locations in Southern California is the hundreds of cutting- edge medical device facilities operating between L.A. and San Diego County.
LifeSaver has developed a production and manufacturing plan (already implemented) to ensure that the demands from all of our domestic and international Exclusive Distributors needs will be met with the highest quality products.
To maximize the cost-effectiveness and efficiency, LifeSaver will manufacture its products via subcontracting through established government certified facilities located in Southern California with FDA/ ISO 9000-approved sites. LifeSaver has identified three FDA approved facilities and will enter into full production within 120 days from the date of funding. Not having to build our own facilities saves a significant amount of capital and start up time. LifeSaver's top priority for its products, are quality and meeting production schedules.
Each manufacturing facility will provide its own quality control personnel and technicians to oversee production. Additionally, LifeSaver will have its own Product Manager and Quality Control supervisor's onsite to assure quality. Management strongly believes that during the first years of operation, the facilities should be "close at hand" in Southern California. LifeSaver will contract five separate facilities to ensure production schedules. All products will be shipped directly from the production facility to the end user, eliminating storage.
All LifeSaver products (Stiks®) provide large profit margins.
LifeSaver Pregnancy Stik® is the only saliva-based pregnancy test in the world,
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The FDA does not require certification for screening devices, as they are neither consumed nor used for therapy, thus their approval is not required. However, LifeSaver believes FDA certification for all its products is desirable to ensure customer confidence and access to additional markets. As a result, all LifeSaver products will have FDA certification under the Section 510(k) Fast Track of the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act as a "Medical Device Manufacturer".
By becoming the Exclusive Distributor for your state, you will position yourself for one of the newest and most innovative shifts in healthcare products. LifeSaver's marketing solution will revolutionize the medical healthcare industry, Over the Counter (OTC) sales, law enforcement agencies, insurance/alcohol companies, restaurants/bars, hospitals, air, sea, and land transportation services, auto rental agencies, government agencies, etc. The ROI of becoming an Exclusive Distributor for just one of these products will easily eclipse the initial cost and will skyrocket (profit) with the introduction of each new product.
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Sirius B ......planetary camera and stacking...
Posted 23 February 2014 - 02:06 AM
I tried capturing a few hundred frames of avi's with my planetary ASI 120 colour camera but do not know how best to stack them to bring out the B star.
I use Autostakkert2 or Registax for stacking...can someone give me some tips on how to use these on Sirius?
Posted 23 February 2014 - 02:28 AM
No secret about my method of capture processing of these images. The first stage involves the capture of an AVI movie (30-40 seconds) in a similar way for planetary imaging . For very narrow or unbalanced double stars it is preferable to use long focals of at least 4000 mm ( f/30 or higher, my typical f/45 ). Second stage: processing of the movie. A simple automatic alignment does not produce this result, but an image of confusion which still serve as luminance. Proceeds a second image obtained by extracting individual frames that align manually with excellent RegiStax. This operation is slower and requires a lot of patience: it is not easy to determine what is the optimal alignment in a picture that is very often deformed by seeing. The brain is able to recognize this point better than any algorithm that makes a difference and is perfected with practice. The image obtained is added with the automatic image alignment. At this apply various wavelets, denoise, etc.. If these procedures are been made correctly, you will get an image similar to this one.
Quote can be found here: http://www.astrobin.com/75887/#c31224
Here's some of his work:
Sirius B: http://www.astrobin.com/60905/0/
Rigel B: http://www.astrobin.com/75887/0/
He even discovered an Arcturus B using this method.
Arcturus B: http://www.astrobin.com/73195/C/
Hope this helps.
Posted 23 February 2014 - 02:50 AM
I suspect that Sirius would be a more difficult task, probably not possible with my AT72ED. Being an astrophotographer (mainly) I often turn my camera toward double stars and globular clusters when the moon is too bright or if the skies are too hazy to try any other subjects.
Posted 23 February 2014 - 05:47 AM
Not sure about "extracting individual frames that align manually".....sounds very tricky.
Posted 04 March 2014 - 05:27 AM
North is approximately downwards, the primary focus of C11 is slightly pulled out at about f/11.5, camera ASI120MC. The stack of 4700 images using AutoStakkert.
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Posted 04 March 2014 - 05:39 PM
Can easily see B here
Well done
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last time i came here we were arguing on xander and xanthe with an x or a z....we found out at 13 weeks in las vegas we were having a boy and OH has let me get my way with calling him Julian.
Middle name was going to be Reeve after OH parents whose surname it was but his mum has veto'd it and said she doesnt like it at all...both his mum and dad hate julian and say it is so gay.
He will be shortened to Jules by OH, but mother in law insists she will spell it Jools...says it is the 'correct way' lol I am not so worried to be honest but one of my pet hates is using shor versions with letters not in the main name which is why i think i opt towards Jules and not Jools... for instance my daughter is jennifer but when shortened we use Jennie as her name has an i and e in it rather than use it with a Y ie jenny.
now one thing i suggested is using two O names as middle names so his initials will be J.O.O.L thus...we get the jools and everyone is happy...and his initials dont spell anything dodgy like my brothers kid who is LAV lol (with a first name Luke its all a bit Loo'y) lol
his mother in law is suggesting we call the baby oliver anyways and it is a name we like, we also liked orlan for a boy so are considering Julian Orlan Oliver Leyster or Julian Oliver Orlan Leyster.
Just wondering if anyone has any cool O names...cant be oscar as my brother in law and nephew are oscars.
so happy I have got Julian....I know it isnt everyones taste but i love it and wish those who keep going on about it being gay would shut up....who cares if he is gay when he grows up it isnt a bloody disease for gods sake...really peeing me off...mother in law and father in law reckon they are going to sit me down and have a chat with me next time we go down there to visit!!
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Good on you, for standing your ground with Julian! I like Jules better too!
So O names... Otto, Otis, Orson, Octavius, Oswald....hum, there is not that many out there....
Oliver, Owen, Orin, Oswald, sorry all i can think of. I really like Orin.
Obadiah, Oberon, Octavius, Oliver, Orlando, Orson, Osbert, Oscar, Oswald, Owen
(from the 1972 Collins gem dictionary of first names)
my sons friend is Julian and he is known as Jules
he is a fab lad ( 17) and no one thinks he is remotely gay and no one thinks twice about his name
stick to your guns YOU are the one giving birth - not your parents/in laws !!
you will be delighted in years to come when he is the only Julian in the school - my son has always been the only Gavin in his school and likes that fact - also we did like the shortened version of Gav - in the same way you like Jules - so I would say it;s an all round winner!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Julian and it was my number 1 name until my mum said he hated it :o(
I like Oliver and Otis too!
I love Julian and Jools- good choice! Wierdly though I do have a gay friend called Julian but I had never even considered it to be a 'gay' name! My fav O name is Owen. I would go for Julian Oliver Owen.
thanks ladies, lovely to hear so many positive comments, I shall put the O names to OH later when he has calmed down from the crap phone call he just had with his ex lol
I have adored this name for so many years, my 2nd son has it as a 2nd name but could not get my head round anything else this time as it was so stuck in my mind, we have had so many scans and really think Jules will suit him, plus it is a name that is known but not over used like my daughters name Jennifer :)


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Lance Franklin not distracted by contract talks, says best mate Sharrod Wellingham
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- May 06, 2013
SHARROD Wellingham says good mate Lance Franklin's goalkicking drought has nothing to do with his decision to delay contract talks until the end of the season.
Franklin has failed to kick a goal in his past two matches – the first time since 2005 when he started his AFL career at Hawthorn.
Some critics are already comparing the 26-year-old's goal drought to the form slump Travis Cloke suffered last year when he put off contract talks with Collingwood.
But West Coast midfielder Wellingham, who played junior football in Perth with Franklin and shared a house with him in Melbourne, scoffed at suggestions the Hawks star was distracted by the uncertainty surrounding his future.
"I don't think that has much to do with contract talks or what is going on the field," he said.
"He's a good player and has been good for a long time and maybe just having a down patch at the moment.
"I'm sure he'll put in the work and be back in form in no time."
Wellingham, a Collingwood premiership player who returned to WA late last year, was not confident Franklin would be playing alongside him at West Coast next season.
But he did give some hope to Fremantle supporters hoping to see Franklin line up in purple next year.
"I just know that they (Fremantle) are one of the teams that will make a play for him," Wellingham said.
"Who else? GWS might have the money, I suppose."
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Yeah we don't need another attack on Pokemon from PETA.
Also, I don't like the idea of evolving through Wi-Fi or Dream World related stuff. Not everyone can do that, and heck, not everyone was able to get Escavalier and Accelgor in gen V because of that weird trade method (though that could be said about any trade evo Pokemon). But I think requiring Dream World or something would be a little mean of them.
I didn't like the idea of dragging my link cable around either... At least with that you have an easier way of doing things.
I thought of the streetpass as well, seems to be an interesting concept. They promote interactions with others through this. I don't know if we really consider Deerling evolvutions Seasonal based, but they could probably expand on that. Or include an item or something else to add to that. An ability based evolution would be nice as we already have one based on moves. Maybe something like level + ability at a certain point offers a split evolution.
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