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When political thriller "24: Live Another Day" returns to FOX on May 5, Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) will be hiding out in London, a hunted man who is being tracked down by Kate Morgan (Yvonne Strahovski), a brilliant but impulsive CIA field agent.
"At the end of Season 8, Jack was basically left a fugitive on the run," Executive Producer Manny Coto told reporters at the winter tour for the Television Critics Association. "Four years later, he is still a fugitive and hunted. What will come into play is a character [Kate Morgan] who has been hunting him. The show will open with that dynamic. In their mind, Jack is not Osama, but he is someone high [on the list] to be captured. Jack has a mission. Whether it is good or bad, we don't know. As Yvonne gets closer to him, Chloe [Mary Lynn Rajskub] will enter the picture. She has been damaged and is more of a radical Snowden-type character. There will be some pretty crazy events."
Among those events, according to Executive Producer Howard Gordon the "Snowden affair and drones are backdrops."
The script for "24: Live Another Day" is completely different from the movie version that been planned. It will play out a 24-hour event over 12 episodes, so time jumps will be made between episodes to accommodate the smaller number.
"I am terrified," Sutherland says about his return to playing Jack, which starts shooting in a couple of weeks in London. "I was terrified between each season. In the middle of a season, it is a reactionary thing. You are in the character. Without patting ourselves on the back, I feel we made eight strong years. [The possibility of] opening that up again and making 12 episodes, and not making them the best is frightening. I am as anxious and wound-up as I have been in a long time."
Other familiar faces to "24" fans will be Audrey (Kim Raver) and James Heller (William Devane), who is now the president of the United States.
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LeBron James will be wearing black tonight, making his transformation complete.
In several NBA cities, he is now a bad guy.
After signing James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, the Miami Heat should be one of the league's best teams, and certainly its most divisive. Some fans can't get enough of the potential powerhouse, others already are suffering from Heat exhaustion.
"I think Miami fans have high expectations and want to see their team win and I think fans of other teams want to see them crash and burn. I think that's normal," ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy said.
There's more of it with this team, though. Their unprecedented free agent haul received unprecedented media coverage, a large amount focused on how James let the world know he was leaving Cleveland.
He invited the "haters" to send comments to his Twitter page this week and received some racially insensitive comments. He was booed during a preseason game in Atlanta, but that's nothing compared to what he'll hear when he shows up the first time in Cleveland, and probably New York and Chicago, too.
Van Gundy expects all the lingering free agency drama to end once the regular season opens tonight. But Miami's players don't think Heat hatred will stop just because the games have started.
"It may be dying down for us, but teams and players are still getting asked questions and they're still taking hits at us. And that's OK," James said. "From a basketball standpoint, we understand what we have in this locker room and in this franchise. So we just have to be able to tune out everyone's comments and what they're saying and just try to get better."
James has been one of basketball's most popular players since the moment he entered the league as the No. 1 pick in 2003. He arrived with a good story line: the kid from Akron who got to stay home and turn Ohio's team into one of the NBA's best.
He decided it was time to leave this summer, understandable since he appears to have a better chance to win titles in Miami than he ever had in Cleveland. But he chose to announce his departure on an ESPN special titled "The Decision," a one-hour show that drew nearly unanimous criticism and ruined some goodwill it took years to build.
People couldn't comprehend why James would humiliate his home fans so publicly, and he could only watch as one burned a No. 23 Cavaliers jersey in the street.
"Listen, I don't get all the hatred — anywhere," Boston coach Doc Rivers said. "I guess the press conference had a little bit to do with that."
Rivers' team put together a superstar trio three years ago when it acquired Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen in separate trades, pairing them with Paul Pierce. The Celtics stormed through the league to great fanfare and were largely a popular champion everywhere outside Los Angeles.
All three were veterans who'd never been close to a title, and Garnett in particular was well respected for how hard he fought for years in Minnesota. Rivers guessed the difference between his team and the Heat was that the Celtics built their team by trades instead of free agency, but Allen wasn't sure why Boston enjoyed a level of adoration that seems to be eluding Miami.
"I think people love the underdog and people love the story line. They love to see the guys that fought hard to get to that point want to win something. People love that Hollywood ending," Allen said. "So I don't know, I think their story has yet to be told. Obviously a lot happened over the summertime, but for us, so much drama now in the NBA that we all appreciate because there's no telling who could win."
James never told the Cavaliers he was leaving until the night of "The Decision," and Bosh similarly was vilified for largely breaking off communication with his Toronto Raptors. And while there's anger over the way the Heat were built, there's no doubt they are good for business.
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It's been three years since the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force launched the mammography wars with its controversial recommendation that most women get fewer of the breast cancer screening exams — one every other year between the ages of 50 and 74. Younger women could get tested if they wanted to.
The recommendations were made after researchers tested 20 screening strategies using six different models of how breast cancer grows and spreads. Task force members emphasized that routine mammograms catch three kinds of cancers: those that are too aggressive to be cured, those that could become deadly but are caught early enough to be treated, and those that would never cause any harm. Only women with cancers in the second category benefit from screening exams; meanwhile, widespread annual testing brings real harm in the form of false-positive test results and invasive, unnecessary treatment.
But many people vehemently protested, especially women (and their loved ones) who believe their lives were saved by screening mammograms that caught small, treatable cancers when they were in their 40s. The American Cancer Society continues to advise women to get screening mammograms annually beginning at age 40 and for as long as they are healthy. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists also recommends annual mammograms beginning at age 40.
In November, the New England Journal of Medicine published three viewpoints about mammograms. One of them endorsed the American Cancer Society's viewpoint, another endorsed the task force's recommendations, and a third (by an epidemiologist and cancer surgeon in Norway) argued that routine mammographic screening should be done away with altogether. (There is widespread support for the use of mammograms in women with symptoms of breast cancer or those with a family history that suggests they're at greater risk for the disease.)
This week, the journal published the results of an online poll to see which argument doctors found most persuasive.
Among the 1,240 who voted — an unscientific sample, to be sure, but interesting nonetheless — the strategy with the most support was the one backed by the task force. Fully 44 percent of those surveyed backed screening starting at age 50, while 39 percent sided with the American Cancer Society and 17 percent were ready to do away with screening mammograms.
The task force approach was most popular in North America, with backing from 47 percent of respondents. (Among this group, 40 percent backed the cancer society and 13 percent sided with the Norwegian expert.) Support for the cancer society guidelines was strongest in Central and South America, where 58 percent of doctors who answered the survey agreed that screening mammograms should begin at age 40. The idea that asymptomatic women should skip mammograms altogether was most popular in Europe, where 27 percent of doctors agreed with that sentiment.
What accounts for the discrepancies? That remains unknown, but the authors of the journal report made some observations:
"Some clinicians caring for patients with breast cancer cited personal examples of patients who seemingly benefited from early detection by mammography screening," they wrote. "Others commented that a population health perspective can help us prioritize interventions that are unequivocally shown to reduce disease burden and increase life expectancy."
Even on an issue as contentious as this, there is still some common ground, they wrote: "There is widespread agreement that mammography is a flawed screening instrument, because it detects lesions that are not cancer and can miss malignant lesions."


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Pioneering The Live Online Auction Industry – With Joe Petsick, Co-Founder of Proxibid.com
by Tim Jahn on December 21, 2010
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When Joe Petsick and his co-founders came up with the idea of bringing live auctions online 10 years ago, they didn't have any companies to look to for an example. They were pioneering a new industry with their site Proxibid.com and they were going to be the example.
Today, they have $2 billion of inventory going through the site and are doubling in size every 12-18 months. I interviewed Joe Petsick to learn how he and his co-founders paved the way in online live auctions and the challenges they faced along the way.
Joe Petsick: My name is Joe Petsick. I am one of the cofounders of Proxibid. Proxibid in a nutshell created a software application that runs on the Internet that allows a traditional brick and mortar auction company the ability to broadcast that auction in real time so that people can bid in that auction in front of a computer, in real time just as if they were sitting in the front row of that live auction event itself.
Tim Jahn: And what made you want to bring auctions online in terms of broadcasting live auctions?
Joe Petsick: It's interesting but like many things in life, it wasn't necessarily a goal or something that we aimed to do. It was just circumstances through life brought us into situations where I started doing some work in and around the auction space and started to recognize some of the issues related the industry that I was surprised to see still in place. It's an industry really at the end of the day that's gone largely unchanged for thousands of years.
A live auction today is conducted almost exactly like it was conducted a few thousands years ago. They use the same processes, they use the same methods of recording the auction results, they use the same kind of bid calling and chanting, they use a lot of the same marketing processes. So it had gone largely unchanged; no one had touched it. So what I, what we were able to recognize early on is that it was an industry that was non-scaleable and highly fragmented. And we thought there was an opportunity there.
Now we were looking at it probably a little bit more narrowly when we did that. We just said, "Hey wouldn't it be neat if there was an auction going on in France, lets say that you'd like to bid on and like to be involved in but you could do it by sitting in front of your computer?" And at time we were doing this was in the early, it was late '90s, early 2000's when this whole kind of concept was coming together.
And most people still at that time connected to the Internet via AOL. So there was another challenge ahead of us that if we were going to build this real-time application on the Internet which as if you might recall then, there wasn't a lot of that kind of stuff happening on the Internet at that point. We needed to figure out a way to do this basically using a dial-up AOL account that with 2,400 bog rate or whatever that was, whatever they used to work with that in, that would allow someone to participate from a distance but have no lag at all in their ability to bid because it wouldn't work, because the pace of the auction that it went through.
So we saw that opportunity and we realized that actually the other day what you needed to do to accomplish it, it wasn't maybe as challenging as we initially thought. Because the information that you needed to send back and forth related to the bids from the auction location to the bidder wasn't all that big. So that you could actually move it across the Internet connection pretty easily. So we actually built this whole thing coming out of the ground and coming out of a telephone connection.
Now today, I don't know if there are that many people left that connect to the Internet via a telephone connection. So it's obviously expanded our ability to do more with our tool. But really for us it was taking advantage of that opportunity that no one had touched this industry with technology in that there was something that could be done.
Tim Jahn: Your whole idea was to do auctions, I mean basically live video streaming online, right? How do you — I mean, and you just explained how you had that big challenge right up front where you don't have the bandwidth, I mean, in 2000, '99, AOL, there's no way. To me, that's a huge obstacle. That's like a you can't create this business obstacle. How did you overcome that?
Joe Petsick: That's a great question. For us, that's where we thought the opportunity existed right, because it seemed like it was extremely difficult to do. The reality of it was when when we boiled it down and we realized what we needed to do to accomplish it and broke it into the smaller parts, it wasn't all that challenging. So we didn't focus on live video right out of the gate for instance.
We focused on just how do you get bid data, real time bid data from a bidder to an auction company when they're thousands of miles apart? Well that size of the files, that information that you need to send is so small that even over a slower Internet connection you can move that data back and forth.
As a matter of fact, I recall very early on when we were kind of working through the process to get there, we were at with an auction company in Germany who was interested in the technology but had difficulty believing that someone in the U.S. could click a button that would send a bid to them in real time.
And we literally had to set up a demonstration for them and put two computers by each other and let them click the bid button on one and see it show up as a bid on the other side of it. And not only did it take some time but they were looking very closely to make sure there were no wires connecting the two computers and had to come to some grips to believe it. So the reality of it was is that you're right, it seemed like it was a big thing to chew and it would have been unless we would have broken it down into smaller pieces.
So now the video came later. Audio came behind that. And then when audio came, it wasn't real time because there weren't really any real time applications out there. Video actually was non existent on the Internet. I think the only places it was probably being used, it was being used at all was in pornography.
So there was really nothing that was driving the development of that tool at the time to the degree that it is being driven today, right, with YouTube and everything else it's come across. Which has been fantastic for us because it's allowed us to broaden the tools that we use to get people a richer experience when they're bidding online.
Tim Jahn: So in that Silicon Prairie News interview, I was reading that you got to two billion dollars in sales in eight years. How did you do that?
Joe Petsick: Well what we did actually, there's — what we got is two billion dollars in inventory that's come through our system. What we did actually — we had to solve the proverbial chicken and egg problem right. If we wanted to build a utility and convince auction companies that we can help them grow their businesses, they're going to want to wait to sign up until we know that we have the bidders that can give them the impact.
And the bidders aren't going to show up until you have the content that gets them excited. So we realize the lesser of the two difficult components was going to be to go to the auction community and try to convince them that this tool was going to help them change something in their business. Because if you think about where an auction company typically was able to build its business before the Internet, it was very geographically protected. An auction company that was selling a certain type of equipment in a certain area typically had the ability to hold off its competitors if he build his list of bidders faster than anyone else could.
So if you wanted to sell a piece of agricultural equipment in central Kansas for instance, there was an auction company who had a list of the most bidders that buy that kind of equipment that if you took it to that auction company, they were likely to give you the best prices. But they were limited right, to the distance of which someone was willing to travel to participate in stuff. So we had to convince them that this is where it was going to go.
Now, it was an extremely difficult challenge. It probably took us a lot longer than a lot of companies might take when they're evolving like this because we had to basically convince an industry that had gone and changed so long that not only was the Internet was not going away, but that this was not going to be just a great tool for them, this was going to be the future of their business; this was going to drive where things went for them.
And it understandably took some time to come to grips with that. And I would say to you theory not a 100% there. They're still working through the process of understanding what this new landscape looks like for all of them and how each of them are going to adjust to working inside of it.
So creating that marketplace for us was about working with those auction companies and one by one literally getting them online and convincing them that there was value to putting their content online. And then, we hit that tipping point I guess where all of a sudden, auction companies recognized that you had to have a tool in your tool belt that differentiated you from the guy you were competing against.
So they were going to put their auctions online. And now it has continued to build to a point to where all of a sudden we recognized we have a pretty significant marketplace here. But there's a lot of activity and inventory going through the system.
Tim Jahn: You bring up a good point. You were disrupting an industry that was so archaic. I mean, like you said auctions for thousands of years have really been the same. How do you even begin to try and convince the people in the industry that you have a tool that's going to revolutionize and actually help them? I don't imagine they're jumping at the bit to get on board here. How do you even start?
Joe Petsick: No, and that's a challenge that we didn't maybe fully appreciate up front. Because here's something we didn't recognize and this is something that when I had the opportunity to talk to other entrepreneurs that I hope will help them when they're getting started. We didn't recognize necessarily out of the gate that we were not just creating a new business, we were creating a new industry. And that's a much bigger challenge than just creating a new business. You have to answer and solve all the problems.
There's no one to look to the left or the right to see how did they do this or how did they do that. Or you're not taking a process that already exists and saying, I have a way to make it work better. You're actually saying that I have something completely new that I believe I need to do and in that challenge, it probably came closer to costing approximately the opportunity to actually continue to operate than anything else. So we've got back against the wall so many times where we thought that it would be difficult for us to get through this.
But convincing them was really about demonstrating the tool to them and giving the opportunity to see it to help them go to their existing list of bidders that they already work with, who they were still having trouble getting to their sale because times were changing, peoples time was less available to go stand around at an auction all day. That they could actually — if they sent out for instance 1,000 flyers to their mailing list and 100 people showed up, there are still 900 people that you know are actively interested in what you sell that aren't there.
There's a good chance that there's a good chunk of them that would be involved in your auction if you gave them a more convenient way to participate. And the reality was that was true. So they immediately started to see, wait a second, I'm getting more of these bidders here, I'm getting more activity, I'm seeing better realized prices, my sellers are more excited about it. And then they were able to start using the tool to differentiate themselves.
They were able to go out in their very competitive marketplace and go to a seller or consignor and tell you, "I can do more than anyone else can do. I can do the flyers, I can do the radio advertising, I can advertise in the paper. But I also put it online and no one else can offer that or no one else is offering it. And if they are offering it, they don't have the experience that I have with it." So that's really kind of how the process started. And then, like most good ideas when most people recognized it, it started to kind of build on itself.
Tim Jahn: What would be your number one piece of advice for someone who has an idea and they think it might be a new industry and they have no one to look to, they don't — just like yourself, you didn't have any examples of it being well done. What's your one piece of advice for someone?
Joe Petsick: Is probably to do what we didn't right. Which we didn't talk to enough people about this process. We didn't put our idea in front of enough seasoned business people. We didn't use our network well enough. To answer this question, we were using our network for all the other things, right, to try to get access to other resources, to try and deal with the operational issues that we knew we were going to have to deal with, to go out and raise money and to get interest.
But what we didn't do is we didn't spend enough time talking to people about that aspect of it is help me understand this business from an outsider perspective and you looking and reading what's going on here. Because what actually happened was a good year into this, we recognized that we were onto something, and we starting to get a little bit of attraction, it was working.
And actually things started coming at us pretty quickly and we were getting overwhelmed. And early on there was four of us and we were all guys in our mid 20's who had never been through a process like this before, who quite frankly just didn't have the experience.
And what ultimately wound up doing was realizing that we needed to get someone involved with us that had done it before. So we did something that's actually not an easy thing to do for entrepreneurs, we went out and hired ourselves a boss. We actually brought in a CEO who had been there and done that. He had built his business before and had actually been retired because he had gone through the whole process. And it was very quickly into that process that he recognized this isn't a new business venture, it's more than that, this is a new industry.
This is — which is exciting because right, it's not everyday that people get the opportunity just to have the chance just to start a new business. It's very rare that you get the opportunity to start a brand new industry. And then actually build it to a point where it actually gets that critical mass and sustains itself.
So if would have been smart, if I could go back and talk to my past self, I would be telling myself, "You need to be talking to people like Bruce who we hired as our CEO much earlier and putting that in front of him." Because it would have come up, they would have recognized the challenges from having been through the process of just building their business before.
Tim Jahn: Do you think you would have found the success you guys have now have no in creating the industry had you not gotten a boss?
Joe Petsick: No, we wouldn't have. We would have, we would have screwed it up. To put it a better way, it was just so challenging, there was so much stuff coming at you. There was four of us, right. We ran into that paralysis by analysis. All four of us being invested into the company, all thought we needed to weigh in on every big decision where we could get a two to two tie over what the letterhead was supposed to look like and it could hold us up for a day because we thought that that was one of the most important decisions that needed to be made at that moment.
And also, we needed someone to properly evaluate our strengths and weakness from a very objective point of view. One of the first things that Bruce did when he came into the business was exactly that. And he asked each of us to kind of change the roles that we had, were playing.
You know, we had kind of appointed ourselves into the specific roles where we thought we all fit. And we were largely right but at the same point, there were some more pressing needs that needed attention well before we needed to worry about who the CFO was, right, or who the president was. And he put us in positions to help us draw on our successes, our individual successes that would most benefit the company. And again, that's a hard thing for an entrepreneur to do because you have to give up control.
And one of the things we had to do with Bruce was we had to give him the ability to fire us. Because he would hold no, he would hold much less ability to impact the business if he could tell us to do something and then we'd go behind him and go, "Well, whatever, I don't have to listen to you because there's no consequence."
So it was a big leap of faith and a big step for us. And I will likely go to my grave with it as being one of the smartest business decisions that I will likely have ever made. And Bruce is still here today. He still helps us now. The roles have changed dramatically but if we didn't have him up front to help like that, it — we would have been our own worst enemies.
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I've seen a lot of posts and articles recently about whether or not dental cavities can be "cured," with various holistic dentistry advocates pushing alleged cures such as colloidal silver, coconut oil, and some other stuff. We don't see many people in our practice with these questions, but since it's out there, I think it wise to address the issue head-on. Bear in mind – this article will pull no punches and might seem a bit offensive. My apologies in advance, but I am definitely getting on my soapbox here. 🙂
Holistic Dentistry Is a Scam and Hoax
No sense in beating around the bush, eh? I'll just get straight to the point and give you what I honestly believe, and tell you that there is virtually nothing espoused by "holistic" dentists that has ever been proven to be worth more than the paper it was printed on or the Internet space it took up. This holds true for the idea of "curing tooth decay," too, as espoused on such junk "science" sites as NaturalNews.com or WellnessMama.com.
But getting specifically to the question about "curing" dental cavities, this post was largely inspired by this wonderfully thorough article that debunks the idea of healing cavities (particularly since the writer is not in the dental field, but did all the research on her own) on the FB Page I F********g Hate PseudoScience, which happens to be one of my favorites. Yes, I wish they didn't use the F word, but it's their prerogative, and hey – it does get people's attention!
Why Most Dental Cavities Can Not Be Cured
- Dentin (the layer under the enamel) is 70% minerals (hydroxyapatite), 20% organic materials (mostly collagen) and 10% water. You'll notice that there are NO CELLS in dentin.
- Enamel is 96% minerals (hydroxyapatite) and 4% water. Again – NO CELLS.
- Basic human biology requires that there be cells that can reproduce, in order for any tissue to regrow or repair itself. No cells = no ability to regrow. Got it?
So by basic human biology, we know that teeth can not "regrow" in any way, because there are no "enamel cells" or "dentin cells" that can regenerate, which means they can't heal themselves. So, we have that one out of the way, but now let's deal with the other things these quacks claim can be done.
*** BTW – one really important point to consider when looking at most (not all, but most) of the "cures" promoted by holistics: for some strange reason, most of this "amazing research" that has been allegedly suppressed by mainstream science and dentistry comes from the late 1800's and the early 1900's, up until the 1950's. Why is that, exactly? Personally, I have NO desire to have ANY of my doctors use medical research from 30-, 50-, 80-, or more than 100 years ago. I like my doctors using the most current and rigorous research, with the best equipment, scientific analysis, statistical analysis, etc. If any doctor told me that they were going to use a 100-year-old remedy on me for much of anything, I'd run screaming in fear. No thanks! ***
How Do Teeth Form?
For anyone interested in a highly technical description of how teeth develop from the beginning, Wikipedia does actually have a very good description here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_tooth_development. Please be aware that you will need a fairly strong background in biology to understand the material.
Dentin is formed by odontoblasts in a process called dentinogenesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dentinogenesis
Enamel is formed by ameloblasts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelogenesis.
Home Remedies/Quack Dental Cures
So what are the other alleged methods for "curing" tooth decay? Here we go:
- Oil-pulling: this is allegedly an ancient Indian remedy for reducing the number of bad bacteria in your mouth. Supposedly, rinsing with oils gets bacteria "stuck" in the oil and helps remove it. Quite frankly, there is no good science to support this. There have been some studies that showed a reduction in bacteria in people who rinsed with coconut or sesame oil; however, the same reduction was achieved faster with a simple chlorhexidine rinse. Heck – you can get that same reduction by swishing with Listerine, Crest, Colgate, or other mouthrinses. But is oil-pulling some magic remedy that will cure your cavities? Ummmmmmm………NO.
- Diet: Some people have claimed that a diet high in Vitamin D can "cure" tooth decay. Hmmmmm, again, let's look at biology.
- Allegedly, eating a diet high in Vitamin D gives your teeth the ability to create new dentin inside the pulp, which is somehow the tooth "healing" itself. Of course, if the cavity is coming from the outside, i.e. the enamel, I'm not quite sure how extra dentin on the inside qualifies as "healing," but that leap of logic doesn't seem to faze the believers. If the cavity is coming from the enamel, how is more dentin on the side "healing?" OK, it does provide some extra barrier, but there's another problem with the idea…..what happens when the pulp runs out of space to put down new dentin? 'cause, you know, the pulp is pretty small to start, and if it's getting smaller with more dentin, eventually it runs out of space, and once the pulp has squeezed itself out of existence, then what? Hmmmmmmm????? Dang, it's stinks when logic interferes with quackery, doesn't it?
- Secondly, how exactly does Vitamin D. really get inside the tooth? True, but how much Vitamin D. can you get into a tooth? Do you have any idea how small the opening at the tip of the root is? Trust me – it's REALLY REALLY REALLY SMALL! Trying to get ANYTHING inside a tooth in a high enough concentration to do any good is almost impossible. And unless you can somehow force a VERY high concentration of Vitamin D. into the tooth, there's no way it will do a dang bit of good. Again…….it sounds nice, but it simply doesn't work. Somehow, though, the supporters of these methods conveniently ignore these basic facts.
- I often see statements that an "organic" diet will cure cavities. Ummmm, HOW? Organic simply describes a set of agricultural methods and rules, it doesn't actually change the content of the food, and "organic" doesn't magically make the food have anything in it that repairs cavities.
- Same thing with "organic, free-roaming, grass-fed beef." Again…..HOW? What ingredients are present in beef (of ANY kind) that magically repair a crystalline mineral matrix of calcium, phosphate, and fluoride? NONE. This is NONSENSE.
Don't Want Cavities? PREVENTION
Interestingly, if you really get into reading some of the junk that's out there, they also talk about using the same preventive techniques that dentists recommend, such as:
- Avoiding foods high in sugars
- Avoiding all highly-processed foods, especially carbohydrates
- Brushing your teeth twice a day
- Flossing regularly
You'd be hard-pressed to find a dentist who would disagree with any of these ideas, because they are all good ones. But none of the "studies" that are so often cited by the quacks seem to separate out any of them, so there's no way to know if it was actually the brushing and flossing that was doing the trick, or the other stuff? Odd, isn't it? Again, it's that pesky logic that gets in the way, but logic seems to be in short supply among people who believe cavities can be "cured."
Some Cavities Can Be Reversed
Look, there ARE some circumstances under which tooth decay can be reversed, and I wrote a pretty in-depth description of it here. When cavities are entirely within enamel, if a big enough change in the oral environment is made (eliminate excess sugars, acidic foods and drinks, etc) and a strong enough concentration of the right minerals (calcium, phosphates, and fluoride) can be applied and absorbed, those early-stage cavities can be remineralized, or re-hardened.
However, cavities found in the deep grooves of teeth are rarely reversible this way, because there is usually too much crud embedded in those grooves from your food, so it's impossible to get the minerals in there. Cavities found between the teeth can be reversed, but it takes even more effort than small cavities found on the front or back of the teeth.
But once a cavity has penetrated through the enamel, it becomes impossible to reverse with current technology and techniques. It's simply not possible to force a medication, or paste, or liquid of any kind that deep into the tooth to not only kill the bacteria, but to rebuild the mineral matrix.
There Are No Short Cuts
Look, ask any dentist, and s/he will tell you how wonderful it would be to find an easier way to fix cavities. With the methods we have to use today, patients really don't like us, and do you really think we wouldn't like some way to not have people tell us every day, "No offense doc, but I hate the dentist!" Sadly, there are no short-cuts, no easy fixes, no magical cures. We don't like giving people shots, we don't like the sound of the drill any more than you do, and we don't like hearing people complain about us every day, when we're just trying to help people get better.
But "holistic" dentistry? Just say no to junk science and quackery, PLEASE.


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Just wondered as I've connected to my account but nothing I've posted has ever appeared.
Just wondered as I've connected to my account but nothing I've posted has ever appeared.
I haven't tried it myself but The Bugel has it connected and I have seen it appear on his.
http://Vibe.Community - Football Manager Mobile Discussions, Downloads, Help and Guides.
It works for me!
If i tap on the long bar in the middle it loads and then drops a Facebook window, if i tap on the F icon in the corner it actually goes to the Facebook posting element and works. I had been tapping on the middle bar.
iPad 2 with iOS 4.3.
BTW, FM2011 crashed all the time on this, but FM2012 has been rock solid.
I tested the facebook posting on a variety of devices during development, the only thing I ever experienced was if the connection was flaky it would fail to post without reporting an error (which is to be expected as its one-way comms ie. Facebook never tells me if its done anything, it just recieves information from me).
Is tapping on the separate parts of the bar supposed to do different things or the same thing, because they clearly do two different things on my iPad. Anyway, I know which one works so it's fine.


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Cullen back on ice
Cullen back on ice
Panthers center Mark Cullen, an offseason free-agent signing, was skating with the team on a limited basis Tuesday for the first time since being placed on injured reserve after rupturing his achilles' tendon before the first day of training camp.
"I never had a winter without hockey until now,'' said Cullen, 32, who hasn't played in the NHL since 2007. "It's a new experience for me. It's been cold up in Fargo (N.D.), too.''
Cullen expects to join the Rochester Americans in a few weeks.


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Carnival of souls
* SPX starts tomorrow! Tom Spurgeon presents a mini-guide to the show in the vein of his epic San Diego advice posts but much shorter, while Chris Mautner lists some must-see books, tables, artists, and panels. And here's what I'll be up to if you missed it.
* Paranormal Activity had some midnight screenings here and there last night and was the talk of Twitter this morning; lots more "SCARIEST MOVIE EVER"s to chew on. On the "first-hand reports from people I trust" tip: Jason Adams, Stacie Ponder, Jason Adams again. Nutshell: Jason says it's really scary, but that's all it is; Stacie says it's really scary, and that's exactly what it should be. I love a horror movie that's so intensely suspenseful and frightening it's a physical experience, but the last time I got one of those it was [REC], and for me that was just a particularly effective movie-long jumpscare. It has a certain naive charm, but no muscle. If you're going to compare something to The Blair Witch Project, I want it to traumatize me the way The Blair Witch Project did. Is it too much to ask for horror art to inflict emotional damage?
* Jeffrey Brown takes us behind the scenes for the making of his Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror strip. This is particularly interesting if, like me, you've dug the holy hell out of Jeff's magic-marker coloring technique over the past couple years.
* He-Man and the Masters of the Universe dressed as hipsters. Complete with captions listing the clothing label for each garment. These are by artist Adrian Riemann. I have no idea why these exist; I think I'm glad they do? Teela looks hot as hell, but that's a given. (Hat tip: Dustin Harbin.)
* Pandorum is good? Didn't see that coming.
* Real-World Horror: Some people cannot wait until they have an excuse to excuse torture.
* The Incredible Hercules team of Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente talk about (separate) work on Incredible Hulk. That book hasn't been doing it for me, certainly not on the level that Herc does, but those guys are worth paying attention to. Also, suddenly I have a vision of the original Hulk himself making a return to this franchise and having a big storyline involving him fighting every other Hulk and Hulk-esque character one at a time until he's the undisputed King of the Hulk People again: Red Hulk, Skaar, the other Son of Hulk guy, A-Bomb, Abomination, the Blue Hulk if there's a Blue Hulk someplace, Thundra, Lyra, She-Hulk, let's throw Juggernaut and Colossus and Hercules and Thor and the Thing and the Blob in there too, just non-stop giant dudes and chicks whaling away on each other until the Hulk stands atop them all in purple pants. I would buy each issue three times.
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I heard my first big-media Kay-Report recap yesterday, on WCBS 880AM New York, while driving home from the train station. I nearly couldn't believe my ears that CBS News was leading not with the "no actual WMDs" angle but with the "lots and lots of WMD programs and intent to develop actual WMDs as soon as possible" angle. Holy crap, I thought, but the news media is actually going to report the non-BUSHLIED! parts of this story!
Then came the cold, harsh light of this morning, and you get this sort of thing. It beats the living shit out of the fact that they didn't turn up a Batcave full of loaded anthrax bombs, then peppers that pesky part about how Saddam had every intention of getting back to the WMD business the second the French & Russians got those sanctions lifted with enough "some"s and "signs that"s and attempts to cast the whole thing in a "hey, this isn't the final report, folks, we can still pull something out of our sleeves" they're-still-lying negativism to choke a horse. And we're not even talking about their usual
stealth-mode front-page anti-Bush editorial "news analysis."
Do yourself a favor: Read the actual report. Or read Andrew Sullivan's analysis thereof.
If you're interested, here's my breakdown of this whole situation:
1) Saddam Hussein had every intention of continuing to develop WMDs, and had devoted countless man-hours and billions of dollars into creating a program specifically, and explicitly, designed for optimum concealability. He lied about these programs to the UN despite the fact that the post-Gulf War I ceasefire was conditional upon his honesty and compliance. These programs are documented in-depth in this report.
2) The same countries and parties that opposed the war in favor of sanctions tended almost to a man to have once been in favor of removing the sanctions altogether on understandable humanitarian grounds. If the sanctions had been lifted, the WMD program would have restarted in earnest and produced WMD materials within months.
3) Once war became an option due to the insistence of the Blair and Bush administrations, one-time opponents of sanctions then became sanction advocates, essentially promoting an ineffectual regime of economic punishments that enriched Saddam and his Baathist affiliates while keeping the citizens of Iraq in poverty and under the rule of a murderous tyrant and his would-be successor sons.
4) Saddam Hussein was an aggressive mass murderer with a proven track record of starting wars with his neighbors despite guaranteed massive reprisals and almost no demonstrable benefit to his regime or his country, had used WMDs in one of those wars, and had torched oil wells and opened pipelines into the sea in the other despite the "deterrent" threat of nuclear retalliation by the U.S. were he to do so. He was in essence "undeterrable."
5) By ALL accounts Saddam Hussein was believed to have WMDs and WMD programs, to have lied to and thwarted inspectors, and to have violated the conditions of the ceasefire (though this was often couched in the far less consequential vocabulary of "violating UN resolutions"). Democracts, Republicans, the US, the UK, France, and on and on and on agreed on these points.
6) The Bush Administration never claimed the threat from Iraq was "imminent," and never based their case for war on such a claim. They argued that the threat should be eliminated BEFORE it became imminent.
My own personal "argument for war" was never terribly contingent on WMDs, because I can't stand fascism and enjoy seeing fascists be deposed and destroyed just on principle. But to me, this report seals the WMD-argument deal as well. The negative spin placed on the report seems to stem from journalists and commentators who are doctrinairily opposed either to the war or, perhaps more to the point, to the Bush Administration itself.


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Wine and Cheese Weekend – Friday through Sunday, June 13th through 15th at participating wineries on the Niagara Wine Trail. Celebrate Father's Day weekend with wine and cheese pairings sponsored by Yancey's Fancy. Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door; hours are Friday noon to 5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. Get more information at www.niagarawinetrail.org.
Latitude 43 Music Festival – Friday through Sunday, June 13th through 15th at Artpark, off Center St. in Lewiston. Three days of music – Blues on Friday, rock on Saturday and country on Sunday – to benefit Variety Kids; features 14 acts including five national recording artists. Get more information and tickets at www.l43musicfest.com and www.artpark.net.
Buffalo River Fest – Friday through Sunday, June 13th through 15th at Buffalo River Fest Park, 249 Ohio St. in Buffalo. The 14th annual festival, hosted by the Valley Community Association, will feature live entertainment, a waterfront photo display, "I Got It" bingo, vendors, food and beverages and much more. Hours are Friday 6 p.m. to midnight, Saturday 11 a.m. midnight and Sunday 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. – find out more at thevalleycenter.com.
All Wright All Day Trolley Tour –Saturday, June 14th – plus other dates throughout the summer and fall – with the trolley leaving from Forest Lawn Cemetery, 1411 Delaware Ave. in Buffalo. On the tour, visit the Martin House Complex, the Filling Station at the Pierce Arrow Museum, the Fontana Boat House, Graycliff Estate and the Blue Sky Mausoleum at Forest Lawn; also included is a catered lunch at the Boathouse. Cost is $125 for the general public, $115 for members of the Martin House or Graycliff; trolley leaves Forest Lawn at 8:30 a.m. Find out more about the tour at www.darwinmartinhouse.org.
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Today's Weather Synopsis…
High pressure will build back in to the region today with lower humidity levels and slightly cooler temperatures than yesterday, but it will remain a bit above average for early September.
Even warmer and more humid air will filter into the region by late week as high pressure slides east and a return southerly flow develops. Another cold front will approach by Saturday with a chance of showers and thunderstorms returning to the forecast. Drier and cooler weather will return in the wake of the frontal boundary for the second half of the weekend.
The Capital Region forecast for the next 48 hours…
• Today:
Sunshine mixing with some clouds and becoming less humid. Not as warm.
High 81°F
Winds West between 10 and 15 mph.
Chance of rain 0 percent.
• Tonight:
Mostly clear with some patchy fog developing by morning.
Low 56°F
Winds West around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 0 percent.
Albany, NY Normal Low/High: 56° / 77°
• Thursday:
Sunshine mixing with some clouds.
High 85°F
Winds South between 5 and 10 mph.
Chance of rain 0 percent.
• Thursday Night:
Partly cloudy.
Low 63°F
Winds South around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 0 percent.
A look ahead…
• Friday:
Sunshine mixing with some clouds. Warmer and becoming more humid.
High 88°F
Chance of rain 10 percent.
• Saturday:
Intervals of clouds and sunshine with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
High 81°F
Chance of rain 50 percent.
• Sunday:
Sunshine mixing with some clouds and pleasant. Not as warm.
High 74°F
Chance of rain 10 percent.
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The True Believer's Declaration of Independence
By Michael Milton
Friday, July 02, 2010
The famous words are read: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
For the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance upon the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."
And the Liberty Bell will be rung. But did you know that on that Bell are the words of Scripture, which planted a divine idea of freedom in the hearts of so many of those who devised those words? Inscribed on the Liberty Bell are the words of Leviticus 25:10: And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan (
The year of Jubilee was just one of the many ways God went about telling us what our hearts intuitively long for is what He has prepared for us: freedom! We should always be vigilant to protect that freedom. And that is what is happening with Paul in Galatians 1. The year of Jubilee is here for Paul. It is Jesus. And nothing should cause us to go back, nothing should shake our resolve to stand up for that freedom. The blood of Jesus Christ won freedom. And it belongs to everyone, regardless of race or past sin, who calls on the name of the Lord.
We ourselves, who are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, yet who know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified. But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we ourselves were found to be sinners, is Christ then an agent of sin? Certainly not! But if I build up again those things that I tore down, then I prove myself a transgressor. For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification were through the law,
then Christ died to no purpose.
Let us ring out the truth about God's grace as we consider "The True Believer's Declaration of Independence."
Freedom to Die For
Before any battle is won on the field, a battle must be won in the minds and hearts of the people.
On March 23, 1775 the battle had to be won in the Virginia House of Burgesses in Williamsburg, Virginia. The man who would become known as the Voice of the Revolution, Patrick Henry, called his own people to see the choice they had before them. I know you know the last line, but today I want to give you the last paragraph.


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Africa Report N°1
28 Apr 1998
Burundi has spent the most part of the past five years embroiled in a vicious civil war that has so far claimed more than 200,000 lives and triggered massive movements of refugees and displaced persons and which continues to add to instability throughout the Great Lakes region. Since July 1996, the country has been largely cut off from the outside world, following the decision by neighbouring countries in the region to impose harsh economic sanctions in response to the overthrow of Burundi's coalition government by the Tutsi-dominated military.
The swift response of regional leaders to the Burundi coup in July 1996 and their show of resolve to force the military government, led by Major Pierre Buyoya, to restore multiparty democracy and enter into all-party talks on the future of the country is undeniably impressive. Meeting within five days of the military's seizure of power, the leaders of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Zaire and Ethiopia agreed to impose uniform sanctions on Burundi, issued a list of specific demands that the Burundian government would have to meet for the sanctions to be lifted and gave their full backing to former Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere's efforts to mediate a settlement to the crisis.
The wider international community, including the United States and key European states, greeted the efforts of regional leaders to impose a solution on Burundi through a combination of economic pressure and negotiations with barely disguised relief. Western governments, still haunted by their failure to do more to prevent the Rwanda genocide of 1994 in which almost a million people lost their lives, lent strong political and financial support to the regional leaders and, specifically, to former president Nyerere as the regional peace-broker. At the time, the speed and unity of the regional response to events in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, seemed to auger well for the future. It became common to hear US and European politicians arguing that the determination of leaders in the Great Lakes region to impose a peace process on Burundi was evidence that Africans were increasingly taking on responsibility for solving their own problems.20 months on, the situation remains far from resolved. While the swift response of regional leaders to the coup in Burundi undoubtedly had an immediate and positive impact on the political situation inside Burundi – leading within weeks to a lifting of the ban on political parties and the restoration of the country's Parliament – the main objectives of regional and international policy have yet to be achieved. Burundi's military government remains in place; violence continues, albeit at a lower rate than before the coup; and while there is evidence of a limited rapprochement between key parties within Burundi, including between the Government and the Parliament, genuine peace talks have yet to begin. Meanwhile, Nyerere's regional peace process remains at a standstill against a backdrop of mutual recriminations and allegations that the mediator's neutrality has been compromised by his support for punitive sanctions on Burundi. The embargo, originally intended as a regional policy, has evolved into a personal feud between the former Tanzanian president and the president of Uganda on the one hand and Buyoya on the other. As hopes of a breakthrough fade, Burundi's neighbours have become increasingly divided on what measures to take to break the deadlock.The present report, compiled by an ICG field analyst based in Bujumbura, provides an assessment of the current situation in Burundi and the region. In particular it examines the key changes during the 20 months since the 1996 coup. It weighs up the performance of the Buyoya military government in restoring security and opening up dialogue between Burundi's factions and looks in detail at the impact of the economic embargo on the peace process, both within the country and in the region.The report catalogues a number of serious obstacles that reduce the Burundi government's room for manoeuvre and limit the chances of progress towards productive all-party negotiations on the country's future. These include:
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More: What was it like to work with a friend on this project?
LR: Two brains are better than one. We're in a constant conversation. Those conversations that someone might have with herself, we have with one another. We have a ridiculous amount of communication on a daily basis.
AH: Probably more than with our significant others or our children.
LR: The amount of back and forth that we have has been really effective, creative and rewarding.
More: What's one funny thing that happened while you were making the film?
AH: We were so lucky that we didn't have any major difficulties on our road trip. The only time that I was seriously worried about something going wrong was when we left a bottle of champagne—for Anna Margaret [Howell, the film's lead actress]'s birthday—in a locked van in the 105 degree heat. I thought there was going to be champagne everywhere. It did not explode, remarkably. We had some tech god watching over us.
More: How do you juggle having children and a family with the demands of movie making?
AH: When I was in my 20s, I tried to be 110 percent at everything, but now I understand what's possible and what's not possible. That's the only way anyone can play multiple roles. Accepting that is very liberating and allows you to be very good at the one thing you are focusing on—but just that thing.
LR: I think there's no perfect solution; you juggle in the best way you can.
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By Gregg Bell
UW Director of Writing
SEATTLE – Austin Seferian-Jenkins is 6-feet-6, 276 pounds.
He never stood taller than he did after practice Tuesday.
True to his character — which has taken a beating publicly since his arrest in March for driving under the influence and his subsequent sentence of one day in jail served last month — the Huskies' star tight end took full ownership for creating an "extremely, extremely terrible incident."
"I am just really lucky to be out here. I feel really privileged to be back with my team," the 2012 finalist for the Mackey Award given annually to the nation's top tight end said following his second consecutive practice day, his first two on the field for UW since his arrest in Seattle March 9.
Speaking with his head high and his words noticeably strong, he called letting down his team, teammates and the university the hardest consequence of his huge mistake.
"It was completely my fault. I wish I can take it back but I can't. All I can do is work for tomorrow and work for today and be the best person I can be today – and to continue to grow," he said. "That's the most important thing."
Coach Steve Sarkisian suspended Seferian-Jenkins from spring practice and team activities from the time of his arrest until just before his return Monday to the practice field and the first-team offense.
Asked what was the most difficult consequence of his actions through the arrest, the subsequent legal process, the suspension, the one day he spent in jail, Seferian-Jenkins said: "Definitely missing my teammates, letting down my teammates and the University of Washington – it's been a huge privilege to play here – letting them down has been the worst thing about this whole entire thing."
As far as punishment from the football program, Seferian-Jenkins said he has "done a lot of things" that he and coach Steve Sarkisian are keeping internal to the team.
"As long as I get the trust of my team and my teammates back, that's really all that matters," Seferian-Jenkins said.
"It's still a process. Nothing's healed just like that. Obviously, this happened in March and there are obviously a lot of people still hurt by it. It's a very serious offense and I take it very seriously, because that's not the type of person I am at all."
The arrest was so out of character for how Sarkisian and the UW community know Seferian-Jenkins that it particularly shocked the program.
UW's record holder for many career receiving records for a tight end after two seasons as a Husky acknowledged he is still in the process of repairing that jolted trust.
"There's still a lot of work to be done," he said. "I am working hard. I am doing everything I can to be to be great teammate, a great brother, son and person and human being. I am trying to grow every day."
Asked if he expected to play in the Aug. 31 opener against Boise State — something Sarkisian said Monday he has decided on but will keep internal to the team — Seferian-Jenkins responded: "Uhhh … I expect to practice tomorrow, so, yeah."
"When you lose things like football, which is the game I love and is the most important thing in my life, it puts everything in perspective," he said. "You know, you take things for granted sometimes, and I think I might have done that. When you get back out here, being with your guys, it's a really special thing. You don't realize how special something is until you are gone.
"This has been a huge growth opportunity for me, and hopefully the team. … This has been a great opportunity to grow, as a person."
Sarkisian spoke a few minutes later. The former assistant with the Oakland Raiders said that unlike in the NFL coaching 18-, 19- and (in ASJ's case) 20-year-old college kids is "a developmental process" involving life lessons that he tries to help instill.
That partly explains why the coach isn't going to figuratively hang ASJ in town square for the entire world to see because of his arrest. And it is why Sarkisian is keeping the punishment and extra requirements he has put on Seferian-Jenkins -- and on Kasen Williams, following the junior wide receiver's citation in May for driving after consuming alcohol -- internal.
"I remind them that they are 20 years old. I remind them that other people around the world and through time have made mistakes; they are not the only ones," Sarkisian said. "It doesn't have to define them. How they respond to this is more than anything what will define them.
"I just try to be a positive influence on their lives. I want to make sure they know they can trust me, because with trust comes honesty and with honesty comes a really good relationship where I can help develop these young men.
"That's part of my job. This is a developmental process."
DAWG BONES: Redshirt freshman QB Cyler Miles has made some impressive, at-times improvisational throws on a line to the sidelines during the first two practices. His play, plus the move of 2012 No. 2 QB Derrick Brown to H-back, have solidified his status as the primary backup to Keith Price – for now. … OLB Travis Feeney showed he is far back from offseason shoulder surgery. He sprinted back into the secondary and stepped in front of Williams on an in route for an interception of Price during the team portion of practice. Sarkisian marveled over the play – and over the potential Feeney brings on the defense's flank. Feeney is staying on the right side and fellow OLB Shaq Thompson is on the left, as defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox no longer has his OLBs flopping from side to side depending on formation and where the wide side of the field is for a given play, as they did in 2012. Thompson said that change is allowing him to think less about changing assignments and play calls and to play faster, more instinctively. … Former backup TE Evan Hudson is getting time with the starting defensive line as a rush end. Sarkisian and Wilcox are intrigued by Hudson's athleticism and his 6-5, 277-pound size as a potential asset to the defense's pass rush. … The Huskies will be in shoulder pads for the first time Wednesday afternoon. They will be in full pads Friday and will have a scrimmage next Tuesday.


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Nikon and Canon started the trend with the D90 and 5D Mark II respectively and it was only a matter of time before other manufacturers would follow. Now, with the K-7, Pentax has introduced its first DSLR with a video recording capability.
Like previous video-enabled DSLRs the K-7 does not offer the fast AF or the same degree of control over video capture as a dedicated camcorder would, but the ability to shoot movies with a large sensor (with the shallow depth of field that this brings) and interchangeable lenses no doubt brings a whole range of new creative possibilities to budding videographers.
Video specification
The K-7's highest available video resolution of 1536 x 1024 pixels is slightly uncommon in so far that it is located somewhere in between the 1080p and 720p standards that have been adopted by other manufacturers. It also means an unusual 3:2 aspect ratio rather than the more usual 16:9. Additional resolution settings are 1280 x 720 (720p) and 640 x 480 (VGA). At all resolution settings video footage is recorded at 30 frames per second. Movie files are saved in the high quality, but very large, Motion JPEG format.
| 1536 x 1024 (3:2 aspect ratio) at 30 fps
1280 x 720 (720p) at 30 fps
640 x 480 (VGA) at 30 fps
|44.1kHz Mono (Internal Mic), 3.5mm external stereo microphone jack
|File size
|5.5 MB/sec (1536x1024), 3.7 MB/sec (720p), 2.8 MB/sec (VGA)
|Max file size per clip
|Running time
|12 min for 1080p, 18 min for 720p, 24 min for VGA
Using Movie Mode
Shooting a video on the K-7 is a very straightforward affair. Turn the mode dial to movie mode and press the shutter button to start recording; press again to stop. Once the camera is recording it is doing everything fully automatically and does not react to a press of any button other than the shutter button. AF is not available while recording video, therefore manual focus or pre-focusing by pressing the AF-button before you start recording are the only options. This is not a major disadvantage given that the video-mode AF on all current video-enabled DSLRs is so painfully slow that it is virtually unusable (the mirrorless Panasonic GF1 shows how it should be done). It also means the there are no AF-motor sounds to be recorded by the internal microphone as happens on other cameras.
Aperture, shutter speed and sensitivity are all set automatically. You can however choose to fix the aperture before you start the video capture which gives you a degree of control over depth of field in your videos. In Auto Aperture mode the K-7 will adjust the aperture if the brightness of the recorded scene changes (the click sound is often clearly audible in the recording). In Fixed Aperture mode the camera achieves the same goal by only adapting the sensor sensitivity.
Unlike some other recent video-enabled DSLRs the K-7 does not allow you to take any still images during video recording, you'll have to turn the mode dial to one of the still modes in order to take a picture. You can't change the amount of on-screen information during video capture either. The camera's internal microphone records monaural sound but if sound is important in your video there is also a connector for an external mic. The optical image stabilization is activated by default but can be switched off.
Movie mode displays
|Movie menu showing the three available video resolutions. Shake reduction can be turned on or off.
|Aperture control can be set to either Auto of Fixed.
|Once recording has started the record icon and remaining time are displayed at the bottom of the frame. During recording the camera does not react to any button presses apart from the shutter button which will stop recording.
Video quality comments
Like most of the video-enabled DSLRs that we've seen so far the K-7 produces very good high HD quality footage with fairly smooth motion even at the highest resolution (although you'll need a fairly powerful computer to play the files smoothly). The K-7's sensor is APS-C size and therefore you can't quite create the same depth of field effects as on a full-frame-camera such as the Canon EOS 5D Mark II but you still get a much shallower, more cinematic depth of field than with any digital compact camera. When recording video more or less all functions are automated (you can fix the aperture though) and the use of Auto ISO can, as you would expect, leads to grainy video output in low light. However, the K-7 is not noticeably worse in this respect than any of its competitors.
Like pretty much all other video-DSLRs the K-7 can suffer from distortion caused by its rolling shutter. The readout of the sensor means horizontal lines of the image are scanned, one after another, rather than the whole scene being grabbed in one go. The upshot is that verticals can be skewed if the camera (or the subject) moves too fast - the top of the image has been recorded earlier than the bottom, so vertical lines can be rendered as diagonals. The K-7 is pretty average in this respect. The effect is noticeable but you have to pan pretty quickly to make it too much of a nuisance. An example panning video is included.
All in all we can say that compared to the movie mode on any digital stills camera or consumer camcorder we've used the K-7's video quality is quite impressive. Usability of the video mode is a completely different matter and the area in which a dedicated camcorder is miles ahead. In any case, below you'll find some examples of videos taken with the K-7 for you to download and draw your own conclusions.
Sample video 1
|, 30 fps. AVI (MJPG) file. 9 sec. 44.6 MB
Sample video 2
|, 30 fps. AVI (MJPG) file 11 sec. 52.8 MB
Sample video 3
|, 30 fps. AVI (MJPG) file. 15 sec. 81.6 MB
Sample video 4
|, 30 fps. AVI (MJPG) file 6 sec. 29.9 MB
Sample video 5
|, 30 fps. AVI (MJPG) file 14 sec. 73.4 MB
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Specifications
- 3 What's new
- 4 Body & Design
- 5 Body & Design
- 6 Body & Design
- 7 Operation & Controls
- 8 Operation & Controls
- 9 Operation (Live View)
- 10 Displays
- 11 Menus
- 12 Menus
- 13 Menus
- 14 Performance
- 15 Photographic tests (RAW)
- 16 Photographic tests (Noise)
- 17 Photographic tests (Noise)
- 18 Photographic tests (DR)
- 19 Photographic tests
- 20 In-camera effects
- 21 Movie Mode
- 22 Compared to
- 23 Compared to (JPEG)
- 24 Compared to (JPEG)
- 25 Compared to (JPEG)
- 26 Compared to (RAW)
- 27 Compared to (RAW)
- 28 Compared to (RAW)
- 29 Compared to (Higher ISO)
- 30 Compared to (Resolution)
- 31 Compared to (Resolution)
- 32 Conclusion
- 33 Samples
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Spring is about to transition into summer and, after a brutally cold winter, everyone is ready for some quality beach time with gustatory delights at the Jersey Shore's fine restaurants. Here is a brief synopsis of what's new and tempting for dining out.
On May 24, Avalon's popular The Diving Horse reopened for its fifth season. Co-owners Dan Clark and Ed Hackett have open their popular BYOB restaurant introducing a new Executive Chef, Palmer Marinelli, who has cooked at their seafood-focused restaurant for the past four years, most recently as Chef de Cuisine. The restaurant, featuring ample outdoor seating, a modern farmhouse interior with reclaimed fixtures and bright, oversized windows, will serve dinner nightly beginning at 5 p.m. and will remain open through Labor Day.
Chef Marinelli's menu of new American fare will highlight coastal ingredients, many sourced from nearby farms and Cape May County fisherman. Menu items, set to change almost daily based upon availability, may include: Mussels and Clams with coconut, beach herbs and rice crackers; Barnegat Light Bay Scallops with Oak Grove toasted farro, English peas, wild nettle and rhubarb; Hudson Canyon Swordfish with sautéed greens, red lentils, oyster sauce served in a lemongrass and ginger broth, and Lancaster Chicken Breast with asparagus, roasted potato, hay jus and summer truffle. Dishes will range in price from $8 to $36. The Diving Horse - 2109 Dune Drive, Avalon, 609-368-5000
On May 30, acclaimed chef Scott Giordano opened The Poached Pear Bistro in the heart of downtown Point Pleasant Beach. The new American restaurant will present a compilation of Giordano's signature dishes with an inventive culinary approach. Formerly the executive chef for more than a decade at Whispers, one of Zagat's top-rated Jersey Shore restaurants, and named one of New Jersey's leading chefs by Best Chefs America in 2013, Giordano credits his unique culinary style to influences that span his career at acclaimed restaurants in New Jersey and San Francisco.
Some sample items on The Poached Pear Bistro menu include: House-made Potato Gnocchi, Asparagus Fries, Duck Breast with Foie Gras, Rack of Lamb Persillade, Potato-Crusted Halibut, Apple Cider Brined Pork Chop, Crab Cakes and Vegetarian Risotto. There also is a variety of creative house-made desserts available.The Poached Pear Bistro is located at 816 Arnold Avenue in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ. For more information, visit The Poached Pear or call 1-732-701-1700.
"Live, Cook, Love – Cooking with Marilyn & Friends" is celebrating the best of summer's harvest in June with acclaimed Jersey Shore restaurateur Marilyn Schlossbach, along with chefs from the Gourmand Cooking School and Drew's Bayshore Bistro. The special collaborative cooking class will kick-off at 6 p.m. at Langosta Lounge on Wednesday, June 18 and feature tips and techniques from the three chefs for choosing and preparing the best sustainable ingredients of summer. Items expected to be included on the evening's menu include a watermelon gazpacho; cornmeal-dusted soft-shell crab; seared Yellowfin tuna; summer risotto; cast-iron steak and summer desserts. In addition to the demonstration guests will enjoy a five-course dinner paired with beer from the Flying Fish Brewing Co., wines and cocktails.
A portion of proceeds from the event will benefit Savoring the Shore, a cook and memory book that celebrates all that is delectable at the Jersey Shore. Proceeds from the book will be donated to Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts and rebuilding the Garden State. Tickets to "Live, Cook, Love – Cooking with Marilyn & Friends" are $60.00 per person and include the cooking demonstration, a five-course dinner, beer from Flying Fish Brewing Co., wine and cocktails.
Langosta Lounge is located at 1000 Ocean Avenue in Asbury Park. Reservations to "Live, Cook, Love – Cooking with Marilyn & Friends" will be taken on a first-come, first-serve basis. For further information or to reserve a ticket to the June cooking demonstration and dinner, call 732-455-3275.
June 21-28 - Eat Drink Local Restaurant Week, the annual event celebrating the bounty of New Jersey farmers and the creative culinary skills of dozens of our state's most talented chefs, will be held at restaurants statewide. This premier dining event will be featured at 50 of the state's finest restaurants.
Presented by Edible Jersey, the award-winning magazine dedicated to promoting the local, seasonal foods of the Garden State. Eat Drink Local Restaurant Week will feature specially-crafted prix-fixe and supplemental menus that showcase the harvest of New Jersey farmers.
Among the restaurants taking part in Eat Drink Local Week are: Frog and the Peach, New Brunswick; A Toute Heure, Cranford; The Bernards Inn, Bernardsville; Elements, Princeton; The Ebbitt Room, Cape May; Light Horse Tavern, Jersey City, and Ryland Inn, Whitehouse Station.
"There are so many talented chefs in New Jersey who place a dedicated emphasis on working with local farmers and purveyors and featuring locally sourced ingredients on their menus," said Nancy Painter, publisher of Edible Jersey. "A new component of the event this year is that we will be partnering local wine, brew and spirit makers as well as some local food artisans with many of the participating restaurants."
"Eat Drink Local Week" is co-sponsored by Zone 7, a fresh-from-the-farm distribution service that connects local farmers and chefs by delivering high-quality ingredients from farms in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania to restaurants and grocers through NJ, PA and NY. For a complete list of participating restaurants, visit Edible Jersey.
New restaurant openings in Atlantic City:
Guy Fieri's Chop House at Bally's is opening July 4 - A unique twist on the classic steakhouse, the restaurant will feature a menu of popular signature dishes with New Jersey flare, such as the Java Rubbed Ribeye Chop, Filet with Roasted Garlic and Brown Butter, Jersey Shore Clams Casino and Cape May Fried Flounder. A mash-up of flavors and classic styles, Guy Fieri's new restaurant will include a bevy of steak and seafood options inspired by a resort dining culture and Atlantic City overall.
Fieri's new concept promises 'simple with a twist,' not just a traditional steakhouse. The main bar, which spans the length of the entire restaurant, will include unique California-sourced wines, a robust selection of craft beers on tap, and spirits from a small batch distillery. The restaurant decor will be reminiscent of Guy's style with stainless steel and brass accents. Bally's Atlantic City is located at 1900 Pacific Avenue.
Caesars Entertainment Atlantic City has also announced an early summer debut of two additional restaurants: an Italian eatery Buca di Beppo on Bally's 6th floor and over in the Marina at Harrah's Resort an Italian-American restaurant Martorano's.
"Steeped in authentic Italian tradition, Buca di Beppo not only delivers classic old-world flavors, but also serves each dish family-style, an inviting feature which we feel will resonate with our Bally's customers," said Kevin Ortzman, President for Bally's, Caesars, and Showboat Atlantic City. Known for its vast selection of Italian dishes to suit every palate and its friendly, communal atmosphere, Buca di Beppo will not only offer a menu of traditional Italian classics but also dishes with a unique Atlantic City twist.
Martorano's, helmed by culinary aficionado and Philadelphia native, Steve Martorano, will be the fourth restaurant in his expanding brand. The new restaurant at Harrah's Resort will feature favorite dishes, such as Martorano's signature Eggplant Stack, South Philly Cheesesteak, Rigatoni Sunday Pork Gravy, Bucatini Carbonara, and the chef's world-famous Homemade Meatballs. Harrah's Resort, 777 Harrah's Blvd., is at the Marina.
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Nov. 20, 2012
Iowa Beats Hilltoppers | CBS SN Highlights
CANCUN, Mexico -- It was an evening of firsts for the University of Iowa men's basketball team.
First trip to the Cancun Challenge, first meeting against Western Kentucky, and first 5-0 start in four seasons.
The Hawkeyes defeated Western Kentucky, 63-55, on Tuesday to reach the final of the Cancun Challenge, where they will face Wichita State less than 24 hours after opening tip at the Moon Palace Resort.
"We knew what we had to do to get home," UI head coach Fran McCaffery said. "We never let (Western Kentucky) get closer than six (points), we kept holding them at bay and I'm very proud with how we did that."
Freshman point guard Mike Gesell had a lot to do with Iowa leading from start to finish against the Hilltoppers, who advanced to the NCAA Tournament a year ago. Gesell made 7-of-10 field goals (3-of-5 from 3-point range) for a game-high, season-high, and obviously a career-high, 19 points.
"We can still improve on some things, but I think we did a great job of attacking them," Gesell said. "They attacked us and we couldn't just lay back and let them pressure us; we had to attack right back at them and I think we did a good job of that and we were able to come out on top."
"He had energy, he battled, he played smart, he played tough," McCaffery said. "I'm really happy for Melsahn."
"Any time you can get an effort like that coming off the bench, it really sets the tone for your team," Gesell said. "He made some big plays, he erased some easy layups for them and those are the plays you need to make to win close games."
The Hawkeyes had a third player -- Roy Devyn Marble -- score in double figures with 10 points. He handed out four assists and made all four of his free throw attempts.
Iowa shot 46.8 percent from the field (22-of-47) and limited Western Kentucky to 33.3-percent shooting (20-of-60). The Hawkeyes also won the rebounding battle, 38-32. A made jump shot by Gesell with 9:46 remaining put Iowa ahead 47-35 -- its largest lead of the game.
"I was thrilled with our depth," said McCaffery, who watched his team earn a 19-7 advantage in bench points.
If there is one area the Hawkeyes need to improve Wednesday is taking care of the ball; they turned the ball over 18 times in the semifinals.
Iowa led by as many as 11 points in the first half and was up 30-22 at halftime behind 10 points by Gessel (three 3-pointers) and nine from Zach McCabe. Basabe pulled down five rebounds.
The Hawkeyes played outstanding defense and rebounded well during the first 20 minutes, but 10 turnovers allowed the Hilltoppers to hang close at the break. While Iowa made 10-of-23 field goals, Western Kentucky was limited to 8-of-28.
It will be a quick turnaround from the Hawkeyes, who take on Wichita State on Wednesday, Nov. 21, at 8:30 p.m. (CT). The Shockers defeated DePaul, 75-62, in the other semifinal.
Iowa and Wichita State have split their previous eight meetings, with the Shockers winning the last two, including a 74-57 decision in the CBE Classic in 2009.
"They are a very physical team," McCaffery said. "They fouled so much at the end of the game; I have seen very few teams foul that much. That's what we have to get our guys ready for."
"They're a good team," Gesell said. "They're a very physical team, but I think we can match up to that."


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Jan 12
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windinthemane says:
I don't come on her often but does any one have tips for getting weight off a horse and keeping it off?
With all the rain we have gotten the grass has shot up and Penny has balloned out. Dad and I are worried about laiminities(sorry about spelling)as she has a lot of stored fat on the crest and back but she has never had it before. She is in at night, on a smaller section of the field(with some hay to keep her going) during the day and we try to ride her 5-6 times a week for atleast an hour. She is fit but fat :( . Does anyone have any advice?
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It's ok if you give up as long as you come back later to try again.
Mar 10
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greyandbay says:
Well you sound as if you're doing all the right things anyway, but if there's a lot of grass why are you giving her hay during the day? If there's enough for her to nibble on it should be enough I would think.
The other possibility is a grazing muzzle - a lot of people swear by them, but personally I would never use one again after seeing our old gelding put up a hind foot to get one off, and I was terrified he would get his foot caught!! So if you do get one stay with her for a while after you've ut it on to see if she's ok with it.
If she gets feed at all, put a half teaspoon of cinnamon in with it - it's a thing diabetics use, and I've used it on laminitics and a Cushings sufferer, it helps the body divert sugar away from the blood stream, so will help lessen the possibility of laminitis.
Good luck!!
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Feb 10
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SarahR123 says:
I read something on the laminitis trust/org (?) website which suggested you are better off leaving them out but on bare grazing (that way they can eat something but very little AND they're still mobile) Our little Shettie we've got as company for my WB is on small areas of grazing. If you feed hay, soak it for 24hrs first as that basically strips it of calories (sadly goodness too) and helps keep their gut moving which is very important. Muzzles work well for some...my friend's mare has hers on from about April to September inclusive - she's well covered but not roly poly like she was so she manages quite well with it.
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brook says:
Hi, I have a Welsh Sec D who gains weight very easily ! We have sectioned our paddock off into several small paddocks so in the morning he goes into the one with hardly any grass, he has a very small amount of hay in a tub just to get him going and then at around 11 am he goes into another paddock with good grass. Usually my OH brings him in at around 3pm for an hour or so before I arrive to groom and ride him, he enjoys a break in his stable especially if it's hot. He is stabled at night with one large hay net.
If you have to feed hay try soaking it for several hours beforehand to remove the sugars. I do understand how you feel as it can be a bit of a battle with good doer's ! Basically you will need to restrict his grazing and if you would rather not use a muzzle then try putting him in a bare paddock for a few hours per day. Good luck, keep us updated on his progress X
Jan 10
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Tommytank says:
I muzzle 3 out of 4 of my horses for the entire summer, its the only effective way for me, I've tried fencing off paddocks, bringing in during the day, none of it worked for me.
I probably should have mentioned that fact that she bits muzzles off! Lol shes such a pain for doing stuff like that.:) And she gets a small amount of hay during the day as the section she is on the grass is minumin due to her eating it all down its the rest of the field that is over flowing with grass. :( Thanks for the cinnamon tip garyandbay ;)
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Biggest Loser winner, Rachel Frederickson, tipped the scale at 105 pounds. A dramatic weight loss can be dangerous for you especially without a personal trainer, nutritionist or physician watching your progress.
What is your health worth? If you cannot afford a personal trainer or exercise equipment then food is the one variable that you must control.
Without any extra effort you can lose weight, increase energy, and maintain a normal weight for your body frame by eating healthy foods. Clinical results have shown weight loss without strenuous exercise. Consider that people who are extremely over weight cannot move much so emphasis must be on food consumption.
Certain foods need to be staples in your diet no matter what the cost. Here is a list of recommendations:
- Check the grocery store's coupons and sell papers at the entrance. Buy fruits and vegetables of your region.
- Whole grains are high in fiber and rich in vitamins and nutrients. Good choices include pasta, brown rice and whole-wheat breads.
- Fruits and vegetables provide plenty of nutrients. Fruits are high energy foods that are great for breakfast. If you fill half of your dinner plate with vegetables and the other half with whole grains and lean protein then you will have a balanced meal without a lot of calories.
- Lean proteins give you nutrition with less fat. Checking the package when you make a purchase can reveal the percentage of fat in the product. Choose an 85 percent instead of a 73 percent lean product.
- Healthy fats can be good for you in small amounts which are known as unsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. Olive oil, nuts and fish are among the unsaturated fats. Try at least 2 servings per week of fish such as salmon and tuna. These contain omega-3 fatty acids, which are good for your heart.
- Avoid between meal snacks.
Remember, you should get life from your food.


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