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Photo by Leslie Kelly Chef Dan Gilmore, left, and the crew at Urbane. Urbane's chef de cuisine Dan Gilmore's married to a pastry chef--they met
Photo by Leslie KellyChef Dan Gilmore, left, and the crew at Urbane.Urbane's chef de cuisine Dan Gilmore's married to a pastry chef--they met in culinary school. And yet he's willing to go out on a limb and cop to not being a huge fan of the dark-brown stuff most of the rest of the world is addicted to. A real maverick!
We also like that he doesn't just talk that whole farm-to-table talk. He features some very cool farmers on his menu. We'll take the Mad Hatcher grilled chicken, please. Read part one of this week's Grillaxin Q&A for more.
SW: For dessert: chocolate cream pie or lemon meringue?
Gilmore: Lemon meringue . . . I don't really like chocolate. But fruit pies make me crazy. My wife is a pastry chef. . . she makes the best rhubarb pie!
How are professional kitchens different now than when you were just starting?
I don't know if it's the profession or the quality of kitchens or me being married with a child on the way. But I remember a lot less interest in cooking when I was starting out. Cooks seem more serious now, but with more preconceived ideas.
Beyond the kitchen, do you study food? Read books? What's been the most influential book you've read lately?
I read, talk to farmers, talk to chef friends, read menus, look in the grocery stores, and I have a habit of picking and tasting plants. Some don't taste very good . . . Good books . . . Au Pied de Cochon, anything by Michel Bras, Jerry Traunfeld's books, and Billy Joe Tatum's wild-food cookbook and field guide. I pick up each of these books at least a few times a week.
What do you cook at home?
Scrambled eggs with honey toast.
Any guilty pleasures?
I think I'm too old to be guilty. There's nothing guilty about them, but I sure do love sun-warmed, perfectly ripened peaches . . . the kind you have to lean over to eat.
If, say, 10 years down the road, you were going to open your own place, what kind of food would you do?
It would be very comfortable food. My wife and I have always wanted to do a pie shop . . . sweet and savory pies . . .
Check back for part three of Grillaxin for a recipe from Dan Gilmore.
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"Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue."
"Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue."
"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong"."
"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."

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Being the youngest of eight kids exposed me to a LOT of music that my older brothers and sisters were listening to at any given point during my youth. Some of my earliest memories are of leafing through album covers like the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Jimi Hendrix's Axis: Bold as Love, or the day-glo orange Don and the Goodtimes record.
Duff McKagan writes for Reverb every Monday and Thursday.
It was in the '70s, however, when I first started to have my own musical awareness--a sense of identifying my "self" inside the songs of a particular band. The '70s bore witness to a mighty sea change in musical tastes. From the epicness of Led Zeppelin and the dirtiness of Aerosmith sprang the coming of the Ramones and punk rock. The '70s seemed also to bring an antagonistic dividing line between urban and suburban--disco and rock--that seemingly only the mighty Prince was finally able to erase.
All I knew, however, was that there was music I loved, some I didn't, and some I outright despised. (No need to bring up what my teenage dislikes were. I was a kid, and I truly felt like my opinion was the last word in cool back then!)
For me, the '70s was when I saw my first rock concerts and first all-ages punk shows. I saw Aerosmith tour their album Rocks at the Kingdome, as well as Zeppelin's last Seattle show at the same venue. I saw Cheap Trick, Ted Nugent, KISS, and countless others at the now defunct Coliseum (now KeyArena). When punk rock hit Seattle, I started my indoctrination in what good local music was all about, as well as hearing touring national and international bands. From the Cheaters and Telepaths to the Avengers, Black Flag, DOA, and X, the '70s seemed to have it all. Will we ever see another decade quite like the '70s? It's hard to say, but one thing is for sure . . . I am going to continue our discussions from the last few weeks and put up another of my lists. This time, however, it will be centered around the great decade of the '70s.
As I have stated prior to previous lists: This is by no means my be-all, end-all list--just a conversation starter.
ABBA, ABBA (Greatest Hits): Anyone who is or has been a songwriter will surely testify to the song-craftsmanship that makes up the basis of ABBA. Golden and blissful sounds of the '70s.
Motörhead, Ace of Spades: When these guys first hit the scene late in the decade, hardcore rock fans finally found a safe place that would shepherd them through the confusion found a few years later in the rock '80s (except for GN'R . . . of course!).
ZZ Top, Tres Hombres: Kick-ass American blues from down Texas way. Yeah, I know that I've pimped these guys a lot lately . . . but I really can't say enough about just how great they were and are.
Led Zeppelin, anything: These guys put a soundtrack to my life not only in the '70s, but also now and again to my life now. Seeing these guys at the Kingdome was definitely one of the true rock moments that I have drawn upon in my professional life. I couldn't possibly say enough about the rhythm section of John Paul Jones and John Bonham. Shit, man, when Bonham's drum solo started, I smoked a joint, went to the hot dog line, waited in the line, got my hot dog, came back to my seat, and ATE my hot dog, and Bonham was STILL doing his drum solo! Perhaps not as eloquent as a picture as I was trying to portray here, but funny nonetheless!
Aerosmith, Rocks, Draw the Line, Toys in the Attic, et al.: I remember looking through an Encyclopedia Britannica back in '73 or so, and seeing that Aerosmith was America's answer to the Rolling Stones. Maybe this was an over-simplistic explanation of who they were at the time, but it certainly got me into what was to become a fascination with early Aerosmith.
Thin Lizzy, Dedication (The Very Best of Thin Lizzy): Oh, Rosalie! I really, really love this band. A couple of years ago when I was in Dublin on tour with VR, I stumbled out of my hotel one morning in search of some coffee. As I took a sleepy turn to my left, I ran smack into a life-size bronze statue of singer Phil Lynott. When I got back to the hotel lobby, the desk manager asked me if I saw the statue of "de goy prom Tin Lizzy?" Indeed I had.
Bad Company/Free, anything: Paul Rodgers sang his first Free song at the age of 16, I just found out the other day. 16! Both these bands should be a staple in anyone's CD collection.
Badfinger, anything: A magical band with a tragic ending. Some say that Badfinger was cursed, others say the Beatles wrote their songs for them. Whatever . . . they were really great.
The Sweet, anything: "Desolation Boulevard" and "Action" are the blueprint of rock fantasy.
Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks: A record that changed the way we all thought about rock music.
The Clash, The Clash: A band for the people, by the people. This band took the mystery and untouchable-ness out of the equation for fans like me.
The Ramones, anything: Do I really have to say anything at all?
Prince, Prince: The end of the '70s gave reign to a new king, and his name was Prince Rogers Nelson. Once in a while, a true musical visionary is born.
AC/DC, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap: Along with the Saints and Radio Birdman, AC/DC kicked our asses from all the way Down Under!
The Germs, (GI): After the Pistols, the Germs took punk music to another level and hardcore was born.
Earth, Wind and Fire, anything: Another band that really gave the '70s a soundtrack.
KISS, Alive!: She's a Capricorn and I'm a Cancer!
Cheap Trick, Cheap Trick at Budokan: Maybe the best live record ever.
Ted Nugent, Ted Nugent: Actually the ONLY Terrible Ted record I own, and it's a classic, if you ask me.
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A relinquishment of command ceremony for Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall's Andrew Rader Army Health Clinic was held at the base community center ballroom Aug. 1. Lt. Col. Stacy U. Weina, Rader's deputy commander, became the clinic's interim commander, taking the reins from outgoing commander Lt. Col. Jenifer A. Meno, until the incoming commander, Lt. Col. Laura Trinkle, arrives in a month.
The ceremony was hosted by Col. Danny B. N. Jaghab, commander of the U.S. Army Medical Department Activity at Fort Meade, Md. He praised Meno for her "strength to face every challenge set before her," calling her a "visionary … and trailblazer" in "providing timely, high-quality and patient-centered health care."
Jaghab also credited Weina's accomplishments, and using an Olympic metaphor said, "Now it's her turn to take the torch for Rader Clinic."
Meno said she would keep her remarks short, referencing her "10-month-old stopwatch," who sat on her father's lap in the front row of the ballroom.
She said she wouldn't have been able to accomplish the things she did -- overseeing Rader Clinic's renovation, improving health marketing through social media and decreasing patient no-show rates by 25 percent-without the contribution of the Rader Clinic staff who are so dedicated to patient care. She quoted author Maya Angelou: "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
"I'm honored to be your commander for the next four weeks," said Weina, following Meno. "You are the reason I come to work each day and love it."
Weina also credited the staff of Rader Clinic for its teamwork in meeting patient needs. "You can't do patient advocacy without the help of everyone," she stressed.


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My Vriska Cosplay from Cosplacon by SteleraWatch
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I hope you guys enjoy some of the pics I got of my Vriska cosplay at Cosplacon on Friday
Remember when you got blamed for the destruction of can town? XD
YES!!!!!!!! That was completely unfair! The least you guys could have done is 8lame me properly for the things I've actually done!!!!!!!!
Well I Am Very Sorry, But It Just So Happens That You Are Not That Well Like Vriska. ( Sorry sweetie *huggles* )
Great job on the horns! Love the LED eye patch light effect. Keep on cosplayin'!
Great job on the horns! Love the LED eye patch light effect. Keep on cosplayin'!
Thank you! I had the horns 3D printed, and the LED eye was wired by hand and was not easy. I ended up having to wire 7 LEDs in parallel in a circle. I don't think I've ever seen a more confusing mat of wire in my life.
That looks so fun...
It is!
Wow, you make a very good Vriska! I think you're too genuinely happy though... *shot* Kidding, I love it XD
You try not being genuinely happy at an anime convention
XD I know, I know. It really is SOO good though! I love the blueish tint in the skin, it brings out all the other blue. I'm going to try a Sollux soon ^^
The bluish tint is actually the inherent color of the face paint. I use about 4 parts white to one part grey and it comes out slightly bluish. I add a little actual blue face paint to the mixture to give my cheeks a bluish tint.
Ahh. Well props to you, it looks great! I should start training myself: wearing paint all day HAS to be miserable if you don't warm up to it.
Awesome! I see my table in there a couple times, haha. Also, You are way too good at her laugh, it's kinda creepy, haha.
Yeah! Haha, her laugh actually isn't that far off from my actual laugh X:
Cries. my cos play isnt finished and comicon is in two weeks...
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have you tried to get things moving like DTD or something like that? I can sort of sympathize with you, I am only 35 wks but have been having contractions off and on like that. I had to get them stopped in the hospital last Friday. Some nights just can't sleep but I am taking herbal remedy to get them to stop or at least make the strong ones less intense. For me, I am tired of stressing out trying to fight off labor but hoping I don't end up like you and labor just come and go and never start! So sorry! Go ride down a bumpy road or jog, or bounce on a ball or something!! GL!!
Are you doing anything to help the contractions? Nipple stimulation? Accupressure? Sex?
*Sarah* Attached Mama to my three boys!
Alex, 43 yo mom to 13DSS, 8DD, 6DD, 2DD, and DD due mid-Dec 2012/p>
Unnecessarean with 1st, healthy easy homebirth VBACs with rest, homeschoolers, breastfed kids
Rest, rest, rest! I know that's easier said than done but I would make it my job to sleep. Tylenol PM or a glass of wine and sit down in a recliner or lay down in bed.
Have you tried a warm bath/shower? I used up all the hot water in my house. :) For me, the hot shower actually got things moving so I don't really know if it will help you progress or help you sleep but either way it might be good.
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Food Recalls Hit Two-Year High In Fourth Quarter Of 2012, According To Latest ExpertRECALL Index
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Food recalls documented by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) enforcement reports during the fourth quarter of 2012 reached a two year quarterly high, according to the ExpertRECALL™ Index released today. This activity represents an average rate of approximately six food recalls being documented every day in the fourth quarter, affecting some 18.4 million products, more than double the units affected in the previous quarter.Forty percent of medical device companies named in FDA Enforcement Reports in the final quarter of 2012 were involved in more than one recall. During the same time period, 45 percent of pharmaceutical companies faced more than one recall event – the largest percentage of companies with repeat violations in at least two and a half years. While recalls of medical devices declined when compared to the third quarter of 2012, more than 10 million units were affected. Fourth quarter pharmaceutical recalls also dropped compared to the third quarter, returning to a level more in line with the three previous quarters."Right before FDA's announcement of two major requirements proposed under the Food Safety Modernization Act, the agency documented 552 food recalls, representing a 33 percent increase over the previous quarter and reaching the highest level of recall activity in more than two years," said Mike Rozembajgier, vice president of recalls at Stericycle ExpertRECALL. "As the agency continues to shift its focus towards prevention rather than simply reacting to foodborne illness outbreaks, we can expect the FDA to pay more attention to what companies are doing to ensure our food is safe and prevent recalls from occurring. Companies with a recall plan that is ready are likely to best weather the impending storm of increased regulatory scrutiny." Of the recalled food products announced during the fourth quarter, 94 percent fell within the Class I designation as the units could cause serious health consequences or death. 165 of those recalls were related to issues stemming from a plant processing nut products. Salmonella concerns were the number one cause of food recalls followed by undeclared allergens or other allergen concerns. "The fourth quarter increase in food recalls is due in large part to the many products affected by a single ingredient supplier, in this case a peanut butter supplier," said Joseph A. Levitt, a Partner in the Hogan Lovells law firm and a former director of FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, referring to the string of Sunland recalls that started on September 24, 2012. "This also reflects increased vigilance by both food companies and FDA to identify problems before people get sick and recall affected products promptly. Such vigilance will only increase as FDA moves to implement the new Food Safety Modernization Act." The ExpertRECALL Index also found that recalls within the categories of consumer products and children's and infant products both reached a six-quarter high during the fourth quarter of 2012. While the number of affected consumer product units dropped from over 12 million units reported in the third quarter to just about three million units in the fourth quarter, recalls of sports and recreation products reached the highest level of activity recorded for the category in more than ten quarters. This category includes products like bicycles, snowmobiles and trampolines. In total, consumer product recalls reported during the last quarter of 2012 were responsible for 2,015 product safety incidents, 58 injuries and six deaths.
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Kotor for jedi academy, same story different characters (did what i could with no help)
Tavion is darth traya
Alora is bastila
Rosh is atton
All mecrs are mandolorians
Boba fett is mandolore
Storm troopers and their variations are sith troopers
Cultists and reborn are dark jedi
Sion is a reborn boss.
Malak (jedi) replaces the jedi 2 blad guy.
Many more, and yes vibroblades have been added.
i shall list details of maps and story:This mod takes place a year or two after the mandolorian wars started, malak and revan are trying to recruit, to thier cause to help the republic in its time of need, however a team of jedi (and some misfits) have been sent on a mission from the head jedi masters, to investigate, malak and revans dealings.
Many jedi master thought it was supious of how many jedi were flocking away to war and never returning, and the odd presence that malak and revan were possessing. At first it (first 7-8) levels you might work with malak or revan, to help fight the mandos, but after a certain point you discover thier true intentions. Which they have been dealing with many supious charaters which leads you and your team to a hostile planet, in which they discover a sith academy, with loads of knowledge (one member of your team( not saying who, is lured by the darkside, and another is killed by malak.
You, your master, your droid, best jedi friend and a few others have to find a way off world (sith take yourr ship) then you go to the jedi enclave to tell the masters of what has happened, so they launch an attack on malacore, which the republic, mandos and sith kinda have a three way battle going on, you must inflirate the sith base, find the shield codes, deactive the shield, take shuttle to sith ship, fight malak (you cut off his jaw) then you fight revan (he beats you into the ground, spawning a cutscene) where he kinda just throws you against walls, then your master comes in and fights him off, giving you time to get away (your master dies) then you must escape the ship (on the way doing on damage)
I havnt thought of the story after, but i will get around to that and make it epic, your charater will either die or become like Nihluas (or worse)
As for map locations, use your imageation, i want some major battles such as dxun or taris, but mostly just random planets, ships and space station. Malacore 5 is needed, as well as revans flagship. And a republic cruiser, even a jedi enclave (with either crazy mentally insane jedi or dead ones)
btw in this game some "mislead" jedi might attack you, while others (such as a random sith warrior) might join your cause, i want to make this mod the most epic mod anyone will ever play, and i cant do it without help, help me and we will achive the greatest mod in the history of kotor mods
I would love feedback.
never really thought i would do this, but then again alot of people want this
do not read the summary everything is in the main content
im useing the summary as nothing hahahahhzahahahahahhaha ....read the content like always
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Very important! Has anybody got the first version of the mod? Please, pm me!
i have it
this is nice and all but i found a bug when i finish vjun2 (idk how is it spelled correctly)and when vjun 3 loads at the final of the loading it makes a sound like r2-d2 buzzes and never starts the mission vjun part 3 can anyone help me ?
Moddb.com The most perfect Kotorpack!
when is the next update (not trying to rush you)
Brothers, give heed: Raven has released the source code files for Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy, in honor of LucasArts legacy. Modders can now bend these games to their liking. Here are links to the file pages on Archive.org:
Spread the word! Thanks!
How come the npc spawn jedi spawns obi wan all the time, how do i get the random jedi?
npc spawn Jedi_random
That isn't Obi wan per say, it is the model, but some made some changes so he can just be a jedi. I mean look at the orginal JKA how many npcs of the same guy are there? lol
Hey wanted to add that the battle on ruushan[correct me if i spelle it wrong] between the army of light and brotherhood of darkness should be in it, it is in star wars darth bane rule of two, very large sbaer oriantated battle large armies and all.
Darth Bane is from a different Era, this takes place 4000+ BBY not 1000BBy. Thus Darth Bane will not be in this game, sorry.


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several surrounding counties and is
located in beautiful Coffee County.
Meetings are held the first
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at the Coffee County Extension
office in New Brockton, Alabama.
Everyone is welcome to attend the
meeting where we discuss
problems, successes, upcoming
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information dealing with honeybees
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|President - Tim Faulkner
Vice President - Al Liepins
Secretary/Treasurer - Phyllis Wilson
|The Allen Blair Project
The Southeast Alabama Beekeepers
Association, sensing a declining trend
in beekeeping and future
generations' interest and exposure
to it, initiated a youth in a
beekeeping project. It supplies an
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with all the necessary equipment,
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hive in his bedroom with an outside
entrance for the bees. "The
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him down when it came to caring for
his bees" shared Gerry Whitaker,
SEABA President. His love for
beekeeping was so contagious that
his new wife cared for the bees by
his side. Allen was diagnosed with a
cancer and died just weeks after the
discovery. The Allen Blair Project is
named in his memory."
The Walter T. Kelley Company has
donated $200 worth of product,
allowing a youth to have everything
they need. We're honored to help
influence the next generation of
beekeepers, doing it in the name of
a man who loved bees, and with the
enthusiasm and expertise of the
If you know of a local youth, 10 to
15 years old, who is interested in
participating in the Allen Blair
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May 5, 2016 @ 7:00 pm
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Dame Patience postponed Thanksgiving indefinitely
But for the unfolding tragedies, Tomorrow 16th December would have been another day of thanksgiving (merriment) for The wife of the President Dame Patience Jonathan. REPORTS says there was a re-think on the THANKSGIVING after the Nation was thrown into sadness by the loss of General Azazi and Patrick Yakowa. Consequently the Planned Thanksgiving Has been Postponed indefinitely
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Do your kiddos have unique names? If so what are they?
Our son's name is Ezra Allen. We got lots of flak for it at first ("Isn't that a girl's name?"). But he is not just the only Ezra in his school, he is the only Ezra in his district. :) We have another on the way, and have a girl's name picked out, but are struggling with a boy's name that is as unique as Ezra's....
Oh, well! We have until September to decide!
Love Ezra.....can't wait to hear the next one's name:)
Baby and Children's Holiday Discounts!
I am a lurker, but not new to BBC. I love unique names, and have baby #2 due 10/05/09 and need some serious help picking a name. I find out the 20th of this month what we are having, so that should help some.
My DS's name is Trevyn Harley. His dad came up with Trevyn, no idea how or where, I found Trevin by googling it but its normally spelt with an i and his dad spelt it with a y and I loved it. He would joke and tell people we were not sure if the dad was Trevor or Kevin so we named him Trevyn...the no so funny part, was his name is David...needsless to say, he is an ex-husband! LOL Harley is my dads mn. I love my sons name, but I worry now with coming up with another good name for LO #2.
My son his name is Kaizen pronounce KI-Zen the a is silent. My babies father is half Japanese, I originally wanted to name my son Aiden, when I found that most people I knew named there sons either brayden jayden or cayden, I finally agreed to name him Kaizen after awhile it has grown on me, The meaning is continuing learning and wisdom. The meaning behind the name is when the japanese went to war they would say to each other Kaizen for goodluck!!
~Momma of Kaizen Matthew born via C-Section 1/13/2009 10lbs 15oz.~
My youngest son is Ariston. His father didnt care for it much at first. Now he is glad we picked it. We also have a son named August and a daughter Sydney.
For baby #2 (TTC in 2010)
Boy: Ezra Smith
Girl: Lila Christine
Granted, the name Lila isn't that unique, the spelling is. (or so I think!) I prefer it over Lyla or Lilah. Smith and Christine are our late grandparents names.
linsey & tony.
ava (2.08) nora (11.10) georgia (5.14)
& ezra coming 7.15!
our son's name is very common, but the spelling isn't... Mykol (michael) Lawrence. i'm expecting any time right now, however, i've been fighting against the 'water-breakage' in search of my expectant-daughter's name... so far i've gotten down to:
Telula Mae
Farrah Lei
Kairi Marie
or... Honey 'Amor
my son is called Sási his middle names Asher, it wasnt even in my list of names when i was pregnant but heard it when baby was 4weeks so decided to call him that, i know its a little out there but i love it!x
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The interaction of an organism with surrounding microbial communities has a profound impact on its anatomy, physiology, and behavior. The innate immune system plays a major role in the crosstalk between bacteria and the hosts they colonize. Axenic mice provide a powerful in vivo controlled model to decipher the particular interactions between the host and one defined strain, or group of strains, isolated from the "noise" of the rest of the flora. This chapter briefly reviews the specificities of axenic mice and describes the main guidelines to derive, house, and work with axenic mice.
Affiliation(s): (1) Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Book Title: Innate Immunity
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology | Volume: 415 | Pub. Date: Nov-19-2007 | Page Range: 321-336 | DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-570-1_19
Subject: Immunology
Key Words: Axenic - mice - isolator - intestinal flora - gnotoxenic - germ free
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He probably is preferring the faster flow from the bottle. Bottle fed babies usually get frustrated at the breast because they have to be patient and work at getting the milk out. He's probably nursing in the morning though, because it's comforting. Now could be a good time to transition him to formula if you're ok with that. The only way to 'fix" this issue is to ditch all bottles and only offer the boob until he goes back to nursing. GL~
juniper and i had this problem around 5-6 months.
i let her nurse a little through the night, just to get her through, then tried to load her up throughout the daytime when she was super sleepy. sleepy/nap time was the only time she would put up with my slow flow.
your flow will change to adapt to his needs eventually, you just have to deal with a few short night-feedings in the meantime.
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I have a system that writes a XML file.
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Alexander Tabarrok, Research Director at the Independent Institute, speaks with Alyona Minkovski of RT's "The Alyona Show" on increasing criminal justice fees applied to those convicted or charged of a crime and time served due to debt.
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A singular if silent featFebruary 12, 2012
The 50th anniversary of Oscar Roberston's season-long triple-double. Unnoticed then, it is unparalleled.
Oscar Robertson – "The Big O" – is one of the greatest basketball players in NBA history. The 6-foot-5 point guard starred for the University of Cincinnati and was the NCAA's top-scorer. In 1960, Robertson co-captained the U.S. Olympic basketball team, winning a gold medal. That same year he was picked by the city's NBA team, the Cincinnati Royals, as a territorial pick.
Robertson was a terrific all-around player for 10 years with the Royals, winning the MVP in 1964, and added a championship with the Milwaukee Bucks in 1971. For the 1961-62 season with Cincinnati, Robertson became the only player in NBA history to average a triple-double – double digits in the three categories points, rebounds and assist per game – for an entire season. He holds the record for the most triple-doubles (181). He was enshrined in the NBA's Hall of Fame in 1980, and was in the inaugural class of the college basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.
The 50th anniversary of Oscar Roberston's season-long triple-double. Unnoticed then, it is unparalleled.
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Reuters/ Shannon StapeltonCNBC's Scott Wapner reports that JCPenney is looking for a new CEO to replace interim chief executive Mike Ullman, according to letter from hedge fund manager Bill Ackman.
Ullman took over the helm again after Ron Johnson stepped down back in April.
What's more is Ackman writes that Allen Questrom, the former JCPenney CEO who was one of Johnson's most vocal critics, might be returning to the board as chairman if he approves of the new CEO, according to Wapner.
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Next Generation: Future Remotely Piloted Aircraft Will Do More Than Surveillance
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The widespread introduction of unmanned aerial vehicles to the battlefield during the last decade has been called revolutionary. But their applications so far have mostly been in the reconnaissance and surveillance realm, with only a handful of aircraft able to fire weapons.
Military leaders are beginning think about concepts for the third-generation UAVs. In the future, they will want the drones to do a lot more than peer down on adversaries.
The Air Force sees a world in 15 to 20 years where all its aircraft have an unmanned element, said Col. Eric S. Mathewson, director of the unmanned aerial systems task force at Air Force headquarters.
The Predator and Reaper aircraft carrying out operations today are considered the second-generation unmanned aerial vehicles. The Air Force is already looking at what comes next. It sees a time when every mission the service conducts has an unmanned variant, Mathewson said at the Army Aviation Association of America unmanned systems symposium.
The third-generation drone the Air Force envisions will do airlift, resupply, electronic attack, strike and aerial refueling. However, it only wants to build one workhorse medium to large UAV to do all these missions. This third-generation UAV will have basic flight controls and power systems, but "its guts will be empty. It's a payload agnostic aircraft," he said.
The new drone could be an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform one day, and an aerial refueler the next. Or instead of fuel, it could have supplies placed in its hold and be flown to remote bases. A weapon system module for strike missions could also be swapped in when necessary.
"It does nothing. It does everything," Mathewson said. The service wants to spend the bulk of its money on the modular payloads instead of the aircraft itself, he added.
He likened the concept to an iPhone, a service oriented product in which outsiders such as contractors supply applications rapidly in response to the consumers' needs.
"This is where we're going. This is what we want to do as far as this interoperable architecture," he added. "Hopefully all the services can come together and work on that."
Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Glenn M. Walters, deputy director for resources and acquisitions for the Joint Staff, J8, warned against using old business practices for building UAVs. Models shouldn't be in the inventory for 30 years as some other equipment. If a production line is started, it shouldn't last more than five years, he said. Then the aircraft should be redesigned.
"That's the philosophy we need to get to because the battlefield changes a lot quicker than that, and we need to keep up," Walters said.
In the near term, the fight in Afghanistan is accelerating resupply as a new UAV mission. Remote outposts that cannot be served by fixed-wing aircraft and a shortage of helicopter pilots are pushing the military to explore the use of automated rotary-wing logistics aircraft.
Gen. James F. Amos, assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, and Gen. James Mattis, commander of Joint Forces Command, along with officials from the U.S. Transportation Command, are spearheading an effort to speed a vertical take-off and lift capability into the field. Some aircraft have already been tested in Afghanistan, Gen. Duncan McNabb, Transcom commander, told Washington, D.C.-based reporters. Dropping supplies by parachute is the traditional way to resupply troops in hard-to-reach posts, he noted. But a UAV alternative could be "beneficial," he said. Air drops are a one-way trip, he noted.
"For us, the biggest issue using air drop to get stuff in is not getting the stuff in, but getting the stuff back out." The soldiers or marines on the ground may not care about returning items. They just want to receive needed supplies. …


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Anonymous 11 April 2011 at 14:46
How sad Arsenal a great football institution flogged off to foreign money grubbers, and the FA and our MPs stand idle while football fans who built these clubs (50% Premier now in o/seas hands) are further exploited. You know whats next Arsenal v Real Madrid in Dubai and then scuttle off with the lolly. Why else would all these non-football owners be interested borrowing money (at the exploited Clubs expense) if it were not for daylight robbery eventually. Its the same greedy motivation that created the bank crisis. Football fans should unite (Yes I,d shake hands with Spurs fans on this) and start a boycott.
Jimmy Hill 13 April 2011 at 09:54
Agree in general, though in this instance it looks like Kroenke won't actually be borrowing much for the takeover.
The wider point is one about the game selling its soul 20 years ago when the premier league/champions league were born. The foreign ownership issue is merely a direct result of the fact that the clubs stopped thinking of themselves as focal points for the community and began thinking they were businesses (although no one within them had a clue how to run a business – bit like law firms!).
I'd disagree about swapping the Emirates for Wasps. If you still love football, just move to Germany and watch a league were they realise that without fans' active involvement there's no difference between going to a game or going to the movies.
Fancydan 13 April 2011 at 15:12
Football long ago lost out to the carpet-baggers. For Arsenal to claim that the new owner will be a custodian is patently ludicrous. The winners in the current free-for-all are the players, Sky, global plastic 'fans', the prawn sandwich brigade and the manufacturers of badly sculpted statues of dead pop stars.
Sceptick Thistle 13 April 2011 at 15:53
"All the bleating and moaning from fans about the game selling out is laughable.
It's just globalisation. Everyone else has got used to it, so why can't the luddites of the football world?"
Tell the Germans that. Consistently the most successful national team in world football over the past 60 years, with one of the most competitive leagues, and Schalke 04 dismantling the Italian champs with ease.
All against a backdrop where financial controls are tight, tickets cost a tenner and fifty thousand watch mid-table clubs.
And none of them are owned by human rights abusers or rigged auction winners.
Seems to me those particular Luddites have it the right way round.
Paulo Wanchope 13 April 2011 at 16:03
Sceptick seems to have it about right. Germans – notorious luddites, right? Always have been…
The only thing Germany has sacrificed is a little bit of purchasing power for their clubs (at the 'expense' of having a far far better supply of young players for the national team). But all that means is you haven't got three guaranteed CL quarter-finalists every year, which is fine given that 99% of fans care a lot more about their domestic leagues than they do about a European competition devalued by the eternal repetition of the contenders
PtL 13 April 2011 at 16:25
"All the bleating and moaning from fans"…you probably eat at McDonalds as well.
To underline the points about German football: few of the national team play abroad; Bayern Munich (a team I love to hate) is the most solvent major club in Europe and they can still afford to pay Robben and Ribery; you can drink beer in the stadium; there are still terraces (inc. one holding 25,000 in Dortmund); there is much more variety at the top of the table (not just a "Big Four") and a club like Erzgebirge Aue (pop. 17,500) has a good chance of getting into the Bundesliga this year.
It also has the world's coolest club in St. Pauli where the fans recently held a mass protest on the terraces about misogynistic behaviour in one of the executive boxes. Unfortunately they're going to get relegated… but the fans would rather have that than give up the founding principles of the club.
Anonymous 13 April 2011 at 16:37
As an Arsenal fan living outside the UK my conserns are not nationalisitc or legal; Football is entertainment and, for any fan, a commitment to winning. If Stan brings back the days of "Boring Boring Arsenal" albeit with a cabinet full of (new) silverware then good luck to him.


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2013-11-21 16:02:26
In rapt conversation, two women sit huddled on a bench in downtown Davenport. One draws back with her mouth comically agape, stunned by the words being spoken by the other.
The sculpture of these women is located on the north side of Second Street between Main and Brady. It's a wonder that its creator, B. Thomas Lytle, could capture this interaction with hammered and welded Cor-ten steel.
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To enter Oakdale Memorial Gardens, at 2501 Eastern Avenue in Davenport, one passes through twin stone pillars that stand 12 feet tall. The Art Nouveau side gates, made of patterned iron bars and a metal plate with an oak-leaf design at its center, are both beautiful and imposing, solemnly announcing the dignified purpose of the site within. Passing between the center pillars, we feel we're leaving the commonplace behind.
Through this passage – constructed circa 1897 – is a refuge from the fast-paced world. Arranged on the park-like expanse of lawn that stretches over acres of gently rolling hills, with massive oak trees and flowering gardens, are thousands of graves – and also many sculptures .
Oakdale, Chippiannock Cemetery in Rock Island, Riverside Cemetery in Moline, and the Mount Calvary and Pine Hill cemeteries in Davenport were the first garden cemeteries in the Quad Cities. Established in the 1850s, they also served as the first public parks in the area, providing a place for the general public to enjoy magnificent sculptures and garden settings previously available only to the wealthy.
(Our botanical parks weren't developed until some three decades later, such as Vander Veer Botanical Park in Davenport in 1885; it was among the first botanical gardens west of the Mississippi.)
The cemetery sculptures in this article were selected, in part, because of the artists' skill but – more importantly – for the artworks' capacity to communicate concepts and emotions. These works are examples of what funerary art can accomplish within a clearly circumscribed purpose – to help the living celebrate, remember, and mourn the dead.
For the most part, these sculptures are not creative, personal expressions of the artist. Yet they are not uniform in the feelings they convey. Some are comforting; others are stark reminders that life is brief. Some are massive and exotic, others humble and typical but no less evocative.
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Fifty years ago – on August 23, 1963 – approximately 2,000 people gathered at the LeClaire Park bandshell for a civil-rights rally that served as a warm-up for the national March on Washington. Twenty-eight local delegates who would participate in the historic march were introduced. They would hear Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech in the nation's capital five days later.
This was by no means the only rally at the bandshell. George W. Bush, for example, gave a campaign speech on its stage in 2004. Barack Obama spoke there three years later.
The bandshell has also served as center stage for numerous annual events –including the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, River Roots Live, the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, and the Quad City Symphony Orchestra's Riverfront Pops concert. Past performers on the stage include Greg Brown, Albert Collins, Blue Öyster Cult, Buddy Guy, Little Feat, Los Lobos, The Marshall Tucker Band, and – this past weekend – the Wallflowers.
The bandshell's official name is the W.D. Petersen Memorial Music Pavilion. It was built in 1924 as a memorial to his daughter Wilma, who had died the previous year at the age of 38. Petersen paid for the pavilion's construction himself.
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The entrance to the Freight House Farmers Market – at 421 West River Drive in downtown Davenport – is framed by a 15-foot-tall arched entry. The artist, Eric Mart, also created the gateway to his studio and the Sol-Iron Gallery at 620 West Third Street, just a few blocks away. Although both entires are made entirely of metal and are similar in size, one is welcoming while the other is intimidating. Their impact is shaped, in large part, by their settings and our associations with the objects used.
The brightly painted, freestanding entrance to the Freight House Farmers Market is flanked by a variety of flowering plants. It feels friendly and open. The handmade, cutout letters are playful. In this good-natured context, the tines of the pitchfork at the top of the arch seem to reach upward, almost like the rays of a rising sun. The vintage rotary hoes seem like pinwheels and flowers. Although the archway serves as a business sign, it is also a striking sculptural form.
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Downtown Moline's industrial past is memorialized by two metal sculptures. One is abstract, the other representational. Both are reminders that the downtown riverfront was once crowded with factories and was at the heart of the "Farm Implement Capital of the World."
Spirit of Place, an imposing 19-foot-tall sculpture, stands between the i wireless Center and the Radisson hotel on a lawn that stretches from River Drive to the riverfront. The iron sculpture consists of a massive wedge seemingly piercing a geometric form atop a conical base. Unless one reads the nearby plaque that states that John Deere's first plow factory was built on the site in 1848, the artwork seem out-of-place in its pleasant surrounding.
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Lucinda Williams
June 11, 2007
McCaw Hall
Better Than: None
All photos by 'Lil Scoop. Click the image to see a slideshow of the concert.
Lucinda Williams
June 11, 2007
McCaw Hall
Better Than: None of her shows I've seen before. Still better than basically everyone else.
With apologies to Vince Vaughn, Lucinda Williams concerts are like pizza, baby: Even when they're bad, they're good. Williams simply operates at a higher plane of aptitude than any other musician on the planet, which might explain the unfairly lame reviews that have been showered upon her melancholy masterpiece, West. So when I say that last night's concert at McCaw Hall was the least enjoyable Williams concert I've ever attended, it's nitpicking: I still left the venue thoroughly satisfied.
My quibbles have very little to do with Lucinda. She and her inimitable voice were in brilliant form, although she could have done without jabbing at the aforementioned critics' misinterpretations of her lyrics between songs (we're not mind readers, darlin'). And while one could argue that she drew too heavily off the new album in the earlygoing, that's her right as an artist -- and she more than atoned for it with a scorching version of Joy, her band augmented by the guitars of opener Kelly Jo Phelps and Bill Frisell.
As good as Frisell was on that ditty, he was also my main problem with the show, through no fault of his own. While he's featured repeatedly on West, having Frisell sit in for the entire show, versus a handful of songs, relegated Williams' superb lead guitarist, Doug Pettibone, to a subsidiary role. And anybody who's ever witnessed the smoldering (sexual?) tension between the Bone Man and Williams live knows that their interplay is a major, major part of why she's one of the best live acts in the world. Frisell, for all his manifold virtues, has about as much carnal appeal onstage as an ingrown hair on Jim Belushi's ass. While his playing was unassailable as usual, from a holistically experiential perspective, Frisell was old and in the way.
Finally, a note to Williams' burgeoning lesbian following: It's super cool that y'all have embraced the best female songwriter in America. But be aware that when she writes songs about certain dudes' inability to satisfy her in bed, it doesn't mean that she hates men, which was clearly the soft shoe interpretation of her preamble to "Come On" at McCaw. And when Williams sings the lyric, "When it goes south, know what I mean," it doesn't mean she wants to take a four-hour drive to Beaverton. Remember that, and enjoy the show.
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Personal Bias: If Lucinda had kids, she'd be the consummate MILF.
Random Detail: When SW photog. 'Lil Scoop and I re-entered the show between opener Kelly Jo Phelps' set and the main event (we'd zipped across the street for a quick drink), there was like one ticket-scanner attempting to verify the entrance of all comers. It sort of made me wish I were a kid trying to sneak in. It would have been the easiest show to slip into sans stub into in the history of mankind.
By the way: Even though she now calls the Left Coast home, it feels weird seeing Lucinda play anywhere other than the South. Her music will forever be rooted there, irrespective of where she hangs her straw hat.


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I would now like to introduce Tony Pordon, Senior Vice President of Penske Automotive Group. Sir, please go ahead at this time.
Tony Pordon
Thank you, Laurie, and good afternoon, everyone and welcome to our call. Press release detailing Penske Automotive's fourth quarter results was released this morning and we posted it on our Web site at www.penskeautomotive.com.
Participating on the call today are Roger Penske, our Chairman, Bob O'Shaughnessy, the Chief Financial Officer and J.D. Carlson, the Controller.
At the end of the call we'll also open the line up for questions, after which we will be available by phone to answer any additional questions you may have.
Before we begin, I would like to remind you that we may make forward-looking statements relating to Penske Automotive on this call. Actual results may vary because of risks and uncertainties, including external factors such as consumer credit conditions, interest rate fluctuations, changes in consumer spending, macroeconomic factors or adverse conditions affecting a particular manufacturer or part supplier and other factors over which management has no control.
Any such statements should be evaluated together with the information about Penske Automotive and our public filings including our Annual Report on Form 10-K.
During this call we will be discussing certain non-GAAP items such as adjusted income from continuing operations and adjusted earnings per share from continuing operations. There are no adjustments relating to the fourth quarter of 2009. Adjusted earnings discussed on this call exclude the items outlined in the reconciliations included in the selected data tables at the end of our press release.
We believe this non-GAAP disclosure improves the comparability of our financial results from period to period and is useful in understanding our financial performance.
At this time I'd like to introduce the Chairman of Penske Automotive, Roger Penske.
Roger Penske
Thank you, Tony, and good afternoon, everyone, and thanks for joining us this afternoon. Today, we reported fourth quarter EPS from continuing operations of $0.21 per share which compares to an adjusted loss of $0.05 per share last year in the same quarter.
And income from continuing operations attributable to PAG of 19.3 million which compares to an adjusted loss of 4.2 million last year. I think Q4 results were driven by strong performance in the UK, our brand mix, our geographical diversification, the continuing benefit of the cost saving initiatives we implemented during 2009.
Turning to our operating results, total retail unit sales were up 58, 702 units, up 10.9% compared to last year, and our total revenues increased 13.4%compared to last year including a 15.5% increase in same-store retail revenue.
Excluding the effect of changes in foreign exchange rates, same-store retail revenues were up 13.7%. On a same-store basis, our business generated double-digit increases in new vehicle, used vehicle and F&I revenues in the quarter.
The service and parts business was down 1.6% on the same-store basis due in large part in the decline of warranty repairs, our pre-delivery inspections and overall used car reconditioning. However, we did experience improvement in customer pay during the quarter.
Looking at our revenue mix in Q4, domestically, we were at 62%, internationally 38%, and that compares to the same quarter in 2008 when the U.S. was 69% and international was 31%. The big three was 4%, our volume foreign business was 29% and our premium luxury was 67%.
During the quarter, our gross profit was up 47 million and our overall gross margin was 16.1% consistent with last year and our retail margin was 17.2%, which is also consistent with last year.
At the retail level, our margin remained strong. New vehicle of 8.4%, used vehicle 7.6% and service and parts at 55.9%. However, our margin on the distribution business was negatively impacted by 1.4 million or $0.02 per share for reserves for incremental incentives we established relating to our '09 model year inventory.
During the quarter, our adjusted SG&A was up 18 million due to largely to the increase in compensation relating to the increase in gross profit. However, SG&A declined as a percentage of gross profit to 83.3%.
Let's move on to the balance sheet. Our total inventory was 1.2 billion, up 131 million since September, but down 277 million since the end of last year. The increase in September included was up approximately 120 million on new and 12 million on used.
At the end of the quarter, our worldwide day supplies was 52 days on new compared to 105 days at the end of '08 and 41 days compared to 42 days . Our CapEx expenditure in '09, our gross CapEx was 90 million on a net basis it was 88 million.
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Fewer homes are being lost to foreclosure, with the number of
completed foreclosures in October down 17 percent from one year
There were 58,000 homes repossessed through foreclosure in
October, according to figures released today by the data analytics
firm CoreLogic, representing a 17 percent annual decline from the
70,000 reported in October 2011.
The number of homes in foreclosure shrank as well, with 1.3
million residential properties reported in some stage of the
process, down from 1.5 million one year earlier. The current figure
represents 3.2 percent of all homes with a mortgage, down from 3.6
percent in Oct. 2011.
"A lower foreclosure inventory is a good indicator of improving
housing markets," said Anand Nallathambi, president and CEO of
CoreLogic. "The downward trend in foreclosure inventories over the
past year is yet another signal that a recovery in housing is
gaining traction."
Month-to-month, completed foreclosures dropped sharply in
October, with a 25 percent decline from the 77,000 reported for
September. However, it should be noted that September's figures
were revised upward from a level of 57,000 originally reported last
month. The unusually large adjustment was attributed to an annual
auction of tax delinquent properties in Wayne County, Michigan,
home county of Detroit.
By comparison, prior to the housing crash there were an average
of 21,000 homes lost to foreclosure each month during the period
from 2000 to 2006, according to CoreLogic. There have now been 3.9
million homes lost to foreclosure since the fiscal crisis hit in
September 2008.
Nearly half of all homes lost to foreclosure over the past 12
months have been in just 12 states: California, Florida, Michigan,
Texas and Georgia.
The states currently with the most homes currently in
foreclosure, as a share of all mortgaged homes, are Florida (11.1
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Pronounced see-dee-rom. Short for Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory, a type of optical disk capable of storing large amounts of data -- up to 1GB, although the most common size is 650MB (megabytes). A single CD-ROM has the storage capacity of 700 floppy disks, enough memory to store about 300,000 textpages.
CD-ROMs are stamped by the vendor, and once stamped, they cannot be erased and filled with new data. To read a CD, you need a CD-ROM player. All CD-ROMs conform to a standard size and format, so you can load any type of CD-ROM into any CD-ROM player. In addition, CD-ROM players are capable of playing audio CDs, which share the same technology.
CD-ROMs are particularly well-suited to information that requires large storage capacity. This includes large software applications that support color, graphics, sound, and especially video.
Also see Understanding CD Burner Speeds in the Did You Know . . . ? section of Webopedia.
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