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Until the end of 2009, thousands of older Americans were able to make direct gifts to charitable nonprofits like DU from their Individual Retirement Accounts without suffering adverse tax consequences. These gifts ranged from $100 to $100,000 and provided critical support for nonprofits during the difficult economic climate.
That all changed on Dec. 31, 2009, when the IRA Charitable Rollover provision that permitted these tax-free gifts expired, leaving older Americans unable to support charitable work from their IRAs unless they are also able and willing to pay taxes on those gifts. The loss of these valuable gifts has diminished DU's ability to achieve its conservation mission across the country.
"For the people who have expressed interest in making contributions to Ducks Unlimited through their retirement accounts, the expiration of the rollover provision has unfortunately hindered them from being able to support DU's conservation mission to the fullest extent possible," said Jon Rich, DU's director of gift planning. "The good news is that the House [of Representatives] has again passed legislation [H.R. 1250] that would reinstate this important tax provision. We encourage everyone to contact their senators and ask them to support this legislation."
At last month's celebration of the 38th year of the Massachusetts State Duck Stamp and Print Competition, the Massachusetts Division of Fish and Wildlife honored Ducks Unlimited for its many years of partnership with the state. Through the State Grants program, DU provided match dollars for the state duck stamp that will go toward projects in Canada that directly benefit Massachusetts citizens.
DU was well represented at the event, with past Massachusetts DU Co-State-Chairmen Don and Laura Ouellette, recently retired regional director Phil Warren, and his successor, Ray Ilg, in the audience. MDFW Director Wayne MacCallum emceed the event, providing opening remarks and a brief history of the Massachusetts duck stamp and the great success it has brought to wetlands conservation in Massachusetts and Canada.
Ray Whittemore, DU director of conservation programs, recognized MacCallum for his national leadership in support of the State Grants program and for his staunch support of DU during his 22-year tenure as MDFW director.
Through the State Grants program, Massachusetts has contributed $1.3 million to Ducks Unlimited. That money has been matched with more than $4 million DU, North American Wetlands Conservation Act and DU Canada dollars and has made possible the restoration of 351,784 acres of critical waterfowl habitat in the United States and Canada.
One of Minnesota's first designated wildlife lakes and a major waterfowl migration stopover will benefit from a restoration project executed by DU, with quality water-level management as the ultimate goal. The project is funded by an Outdoor Heritage Fund grant to DU as recommended by the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council and appropriated by the 2009 state legislature. Construction crews will complete the project on Rice Lake this fall.
"Large wetlands such as Rice Lake provide important spring and fall migration habitat for several species of migratory birds and are great places for hunters to enjoy the outdoors during the fall," said Jon Schneider, manager of Minnesota conservation programs for DU.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources requested DU's help to engineer improvements to the more-than-1,000-acre lake in Faribault County. Specifically, DU was asked to design a fish-barrier feature and improve water-management capability of the existing structure that was problematic for DNR field staff. On the lake's outlet, crews will install two fish-barrier culverts that are set at a steep angle with high water flow to prevent carp and other invasive fish from swimming up and entering the lake. DU will also make improvements to the outlet water-control structure for periodic water-level draw-downs.
Aquatic vegetation important to waterfowl varies from year to year in Rice Lake but has generally responded very well to past water-level-management efforts. However, carp and other invasive fish have historically been quick to re-enter the lake and degrade waterfowl habitat conditions, thus negating the DNR's efforts to improve the lake for ducks and hunters alike.
"It is imperative that we actively manage and enhance our remaining wetlands in Minnesota for ducks and other wildlife," Schneider said. "With so much wetland habitat lost, we simply must maximize the remaining habitat functions of those wetlands while we try to restore others."
The project is part of DU's Living Lakes Initiative and the Minnesota DNR's Duck Recovery Plan. These cooperative efforts call for the enhancement, restoration and protection of shallow lakes and large marshes for both waterfowl migration and brood-rearing habitat.
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Report from the 10th-annual
Knitter's Review Retreat in Canandaigua, NY
November 17-20, 2011
When knitters gather under just the right conditions, they can quickly become greater than the sum of their parts. Something happens when we celebrate a side of ourselves that the rest of the world may not always see or appreciate. Everything else is briefly suspended as we allow ourselves the simple pleasure of play.
I've watched this phenomenon unfold for 10 years, beginning with the very first Knitter's Review Retreat and continuing to the 10th retreat, which just took place in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
A Great Gathering
We welcomed 115 knitters from Florida and Washington to Maine, Arizona, nearby Rochester and even the Finger Lakes town of Canandaigua itself (pronounced "cannon-day-gwa").
Over the course of four days we renewed our connections and made new friends, learned from one another, cleaned out and then enhanced our stashes, told stories, laughed ourselves silly, ate plentiful food we didn't have to make, and then collapsed each night in a clean bed that had been made just for us. I ask you, what could be better?
Canandaigua is located at the tip of Canandaigua Lake, just 30 or so miles from the city of Rochester. It's a grand old town with a wide Main Street bordered on either side by storefronts.
Follow Main Street through town and you'll end up at the lake, which is where our story begins. While most of the fall leaves had already come down, a cluster of trees leading to the inn had held on for a few days to welcome us.
The Inn on the Lake is literally on Canandaigua Lake. While the area is quite busy during the summer, things shut down during the winter months.
Nobody minded that the pool was closed because the cold weather meant perfect knitting conditions. And whenever we looked out the back windows, we were greeted with this view.
What did we do all weekend anyway? We began by sorting out all the items that had been donated for the goody bags, so that the bags could be stuffed and ready when people arrived. We had gifts from Dirty Water Dyeworks, Berroco, Rowan, Classic Elite, Filatura di Crosa, Knitter's Pride, Twist Collective, Storey Publishing, Wildwood Publishing, Briar Rose, Knitspot, Spirit Trail Fiberworks, Schaefer Yarn, and Knitter's Review.
Then people began to arrive.
and soon the inn was filled with knitters. There was lots of hugging.
In the evening, Cheryl Schaefer told us all about how she became a hand-dyer, where her color inspiration comes from, and how she views the world.
Over the next few days we learned all sorts of new tricks from our highly esteemed teachers Cookie A, Cat Bordhi, Ann Budd, and Anne Hanson.
We set up the stash lounge, where some people's cast-off yarns were tidied up, sorted, and soon become other people's treasures. Every time you went into the room it was a little bit different, and you never knew what you might find.
Market Mayhem
In another corner of the inn, we converted a conference room into our magical on-site yarn store featuring none other than:
Beautiful Briar Rose Fibers from Michigan
Delicious String Theory Yarn from Maine
Sheepishly fantastic Foxfire Fiber from Massachusetts
The one and only Spirit Trail Fiberworks from Virginia, whose first show ever was the 2003 KR Retreat.
New this year, we were joined by Melissa Jean Designs, of New York, featuring a rainbow of gorgeous buttons.
and Julia Hilbrandt, also from New York, brought her exquisite pure wool felted bags.
With so much yarn around, you can imagine we kept the swift and giant ball winder in constant use.
That is, when not goofing off with my new book
or wearing silly costumes.
Tasty Treats
Three times a day we gathered in the dining room for meals we didn't have to cook.
But that didn't stop us from eating Susan's homemade sheep cookies,
or sampling some very special cider donuts from the area's renowned Schutt's Apple Mill, courtesy of my father,
or tasting some of the local Finger Lakes wines with our chocolate cake. While knitting, of course.
In fact, between meals and sleeping and our daily laps around the lake, we did a lot of knitting. To do so, we took over every corner of the inn, from its very entrance to its lounge, lobby, meeting rooms, and guest rooms. Even the workout room saw a knitter or two (or three) over the weekend.
On Saturday night, I narrated the story of the Knitter's Review Retreat, starting with the very first Forum post about a gathering, our first few years in Virginia, our escapades in New York and later western Massachusetts, and finally our arrival at our new home in Canandaigua.
Then Luann took over as emcee as people were invited to come up and share their retreat stories. Here's Wendy, who knew she was home when she showed this exquisite log-cabin blanket—made from a lifetime of leftover sock yarn—at her first retreat and wasn't met with a room full of raised eyebrows.
Here is Adrienne Martini and the sweater from her book Sweater Quest, which she'd courageously steeked at the retreat several years ago.
And here is Shelia showing the teddy bear whose perfectly fitting sweater—made according to Elizabeth Zimmermann's EPS—was knit at the first retreat.
Those of us who'd been at the retreat for all 10 years received tiaras from Luann. A happy combination of tears, gratitude, and goofiness prevailed.
But mostly? We made new friends, strengthened old friendships, and constantly approached one another with questions of, "Ohhh, what are you making?" or "How did you do that?" And in the process, we smiled. A lot.
Including one big collective smile for the camera.
On Sunday morning, we bottled up all the goodwill from the weekend and put it into new projects, which we all cast-on together.
Too soon, the outside world beckoned us. We said our goodbyes and went back out into the world, a little bit lighter in spirit and happier in stash, until next year.
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Anyone know how to devein shrimp and leave the shell on?
I was watching Food Network earlier today, and Sunny was making No Fuss Peel 'n Eat Shrimp in the oven...looked great...but how do I devein the shrimp and leave the shell on?
The recipe calls for 1 lb. of "large shell-on deveined shrimp"


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I've seen bogus "studies" this week about cities most overdue for hurricanes (Tampa was #3) and the most dangerous zip codes in the country (Downtown St. Pete was #8). But the sports world had it's own - baseball's best ballparks, judged by fan ratings on review site Yelp.com.
As someone who has been to two-thirds of these parks, I can tell you there are plenty of slights (Wrigley Field 10th? Nationals Park 26th?). There are also head-scratchers, like how the White Sox' U.S. Cellular Field ranked higher than the Diamondbacks' Chase Field.
The Rays ranked 28th, by the way.
Article author Nate Silver, formerly of 538.com, concluded some of the surprises could be explained by fans' perceptions of their team's performance, rather than the stadium.
He also concluded that it's not worth building a retractable roof since the five stadiums with the expensive technology averaged a 3.86 rating, compared to 4.10 without them.
Silver didn't make any conclusions with regards to attendance, however. Maybe it was because the most-popular park belonged to the Pirates (26th in attendance) and other popular parks belonged to the Orioles (22nd), Royals (25th), and Indians (27th).
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- Matt ParkerJune 3, 2011 at 2:33 PM
I think it's really tough to build a good-looking baseball stadium with a roof on it. It just winds up looking like too much "structure". In contrast to other sports, baseball stadiums are better when they appear to be smaller and more intimate. PNC Park (Pirates), as you noted, is consistently ranked amongst the best. It was relatively cheap, only has two decks, and has sometimes been referred to as a very nice AAA park as opposed to be a Major League stadium, and yet that's exactly what works so well about it. If and when we do build something here, I hope that it's more along those lines.ReplyDelete
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Dallas medical examiner: Man found dead on roof was strangled
A man found dead on the roof of a vacant building in southern Dallas over the weekend died of strangulation, according to the Dallas County medical examiner's office.
Arrie Newman, 54, was found on the building in the 1700 block of Sanger Avenue near South Ervay Street on Saturday afternoon.
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"Son of Stuxnet" Virus Uncovered
Malware based on the infamous Stuxnet, widely considered one of the world's most sophisticated viruses, has been discovered by computer scientists.
In a highly-detailed report, Symantec said the malware, christened Duqu, (because it creates files with the file name prefix "~DQ") was uncovered in an organization based in Europe.
"Our telemetry shows the threat has been highly targeted toward a limited number of organizations for their specific assets. However, it's possible that other attacks are being conducted against other organizations in a similar manner with currently undetected variants," the report said.
Stuxnet was a ground-breaking virus that delivered a highly-specific payload attacking control systems. Those control systems were found in Iranian nuclear processing plants.
Greg Day, Security CTO at Symantec EMEA, said the attack was of a similar level of sophistication to Stuxnet and shared a lot of the same code.
"It is either the author of Stuxnet or the author has shared it with someone else. You can get hold of an executable file and try and reverse engineer it. But when we look at it, it is not a copy, most of it is a like-for-like match which suggests they had the source code."
Duqu is not a worm, said Mr. Day. It does not spread from machine to machine. "It has been specifically targeted at systems with the goal of getting in, compromising them, and then exfiltrating information."
Although the aim of Duqu was not yet known, Mr. Day said he thought it was just a precursor to a more sophisticated attack. "When you look at attacks there are two reasons why people do them. Either I am getting that information to sell on to someone else. Or I am going to get the information and at some point I am going to come back and use that for my own purposes." His gut feeling, he said, was that it was the latter.
Since Duqu does not spread of itself, there are two likely methods of infection. Either hackers will brute-force their way in, by probing the organization and find a vulnerability that allows them to get through the side door.
The other way, said Mr. Day, was to socially engineer people inside the company to self-infect, either by getting them to open an infected attachment, or getting them to visit a website which would infect the machine.
Like Stuxnet, Duqu fools Windows into allowing it to execute by exploiting a stolen digital certificate, taken from a company headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Symantec said that certificate has now been revoked.
Once Duqu has been planted, it immediately starts to communicate with a command and control server based in India. It pulls down additional code such as an infostealer than can record keystrokes and collect other system information which it then sends back to the control server.
To avoid drawing attention to itself, Duqu's traffic looks exactly like normal web traffic, passing JPEG images. However, bundled with the JPEG is the stolen data in an encrypted format.
Then after 36 days if it has not been detected, Duqu will automatically remove itself from the system so that a compromised system may never know it had been attacked.
Symantec has already discovered two variants of Duqu. Although Symantec's report was published late last night, the report says the company's earliest record dates back to Sept 1. However, it warned, based on an analysis of the virus, it is possible that Duqu could have been active since December 2010.
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This is excellent
Maybe he should be helping jim deMint in revamping the GOP.
There is a Civil WAR within the GOP ....
Interventions are needed desparately and I believe the GOP will be better and stronger if all groups are equally heard and the platform embraces true conservatism.
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"There is a Civil WAR within the GOP ...."
Oh yeah.
How about a simple platform that embraces LIMITED government, freedom and individual liberty... you know, those things the Constitution was written to protect and the feds blatantly and consistantly ignore. That is the only "revamping" America needs. Screw the "parties" !!! They have NO problem whatsoever in screwing you!
Nancy: there is a great schism within the GOP ... the establishment is more like democrats as they are progressives and the libertarians embrace our foundations within the constitution.
Yes, there is a war within that party and that is why obama is deliberately baiting them to destroy them further.
I hate this administration and history will PROVE he has destroyed this country and we are so far behind. His foreign policy is a joke, he leads from behind and we are a joke.
try reading history books, read analysis on Obama's policies and don't read from the right as I know you would never open such a book. I read everything from all angles and this man is a disaster for this country. My lifestyle is slowly getting worse, let's see in four more years and be honest about your own person: are you better off or worse?
This country is slowly going down and I believe the fast button will be accelerated this term.
The democrats count on those that are led and they don't want thinkers.
That is why it is so darn easy to manipulate the masses and they use all the touch buttons to infiltrate the society. This president has incited more social divisions between classes of people to race, religion, etc. than anyone in political history.
This president who ran on transparency is the most clandestine, secretive president in history.
No one can match his record.
Problem was that the GOP ran a weak candidate again. This time, too many white voters stayed home and would not vote. Obama did not win by great margins. There are far too many within this country who distrust him and he is popular with groups who expect government assistance and want dependency.
They don't realize that paternalism is the first step towards communism. State control is getting stronger and individual freedom is diminishing because the government is deciding peoples' lives more and more.
" My lifestyle is slowly getting worse, let's see in four more years and be honest about your own person: are you better off or worse?"
As is the lifestyle of many, but it goes back thirty years (possibly more).
I don't blame Obama for it but do blame "corporatism" that has been going on.
My family was pretty much traditional Republicans, not progressive at all. But one by one they have moved away from the Republican party. When I hear them called RINOs, I know there are problems. But there already were...why do you think that Christie Todd Whitman wrote a book called "It's My Party Too"?
"The democrats count on those that are led and they don't want thinkers."
That sounds like the Tea Party of today. More than the democratic party.
Just the opposite for me, the democrats NO longer represent me and I hate the way they moved so far to the left and everything is government control and more and more dependency promoted and this is paternalism.
The tea party is a mixed bag and they have no distinctive leadership as there are far too many factions. The only tea party leader I liked and respected was Mark Meckler who left because of the war within that movement. It appears that the republicans are at least thinking; they are at odds with one another and that tells me that there is internal reflection and I cannot say that for the democrats. That party is definately paternal and leaning more and more communist.
They embraced george soros 50 yrs. ago and allowed him to hijack their party.
The republicans still have a chance to fight for individualism and personal freedom and liberty which is something alien to democrats.
Nancy, the Democrat party and the GOP are basically the same. Both want to use the power of the State to reward their special interests at the expense of the general population. The media goes along with it because they are rewarded for supporting the State.
Sheila. It wasn't Soros. He just takes advantage. This started over 100 years ago. Some might say 150 years ago. Advances made in technology and industry improved the conditions of the populace. That covered up that the fact that the State was drawing more and more resources and power to itself We are better off now despite what the State has been doing.
That's changing now. The State is now taking so much out of the economy that it has crippled the advances. This nation is running down. The more the government does to "help and protect" us the worse things get. The wealthy and connected are protection themselves. Notice both party's, especially the Democrat party, protected the Wall Street bankers that wrecked the economy? Not one was prosecuted for the widespread fraud. (See Dr William Black on the Black report for more on this). Watch that the people that work for the government will protect themselves with pay increases while the rest of the nation loses more ground.
Jim, I know that you view it that way. I do see differences. Differences that do matter to me.
SL- to me when I look at the politics of what Obama is doing- he seems about as liberal as Richard M. Nixon. Of course, I am sure there were some who thought Nixon was a pinko commie.
I do see what you mean in terms of say education fudns from the federal government and such. But, on the other hand, I would LOVE to see A levels and O levels here. Oh wait- our students probably couldn't pass.
"Notice both party's, especially the Democrat party, protected the Wall Street bankers that wrecked the economy? Not one was prosecuted for the widespread fraud."
That I do agree with you on Jim. I didn't see it at the time of the bail out. I will say that I have no probalm with it (and I am sure that you do) EXCEPT that there should have been strings attached and yes, people prosecuted.
Nancy, if you don't mind me asking... what differences, how are they different, and if it's not being nosy to ask, why are they important to you - and are you seeing and enjoying those differences in in your life? Do, or would, those differences infringe on the liberties of others?
I have a problem with the bailouts - big time. We all worked our asses off to make money for the feds to steal from us via "income taxation," (and we are left to struggle making ends meet), which isn't 'enough' of course, so let's run up a $16 TRILLION debt! YEAH!
Nancy, you have no problem with Americans being saddled with $16 Trillion in debt - bailout dollars being a big chunck of it?
What was the reasoning behind your support of the bailouts? How are we better off now, and why? It was a big fat lie that if Wall Street banks went under it would crash the world economy. It would have only crashed the BANKers' economy. Personally, if American workers are going to be forced to "bail out" anyone, I think the middle class retirement funds that got purged in '08 should have been "bailed out" - not the f'ing sociopaths who caused it. I think that all went backasswards! Wouldn't that bail out money be MUCH better spent making SS solvent? Yes, I think so.
I don't blame Obama for it but do blame "corporatism" that has been going on. -Nancy
No, we can't blame Obama for the sytem. Obama was elected, largely, to CHANGE the system.
What we must blame President Obama for is lying to the American people in '08 when he was begging them to elect him, spending $700 Million dollars to do it (HUGE giveaway). What we must blame President Obama for is not doing ONE SINGLE thing to CHANGE the system, to at least put a DENT in the crony-corporatism in government, to call off his DEA goons in the war on Cannabis, to tell his DOJ they are not to enforce anti-pot laws at the federal level. We must blame Obama for the innocents who'ved been murdered - non-combatants - in his continued and expanded completely unfunded warring around the Middle East. We must blame Obama for ignoring the U.S. Constitutional right to due process to make himself executioner of American citizens.
What we must blame Obama for is the inflation and devaluation of the dollar that has happened everytime he and Bernanke decide to print more funny money. What we must blame Obama for is appointing the SAME people his predecessors appointed to positions of power in the Treasury, the FDA, the EPA, et al, (corporate elite execs at Wall Street, Big Ag, Big Pharma, Big Insurance, et al) instead of people who have no conflict of interest.
There is plenty to blame Obama for, that the economy is still getting worse not better, among them (the result of too much funny money, bailouts, and QE's forever). But then I'm sure he knows 'doing the right thing' has a good chance of getting him dead just like it did JFK almost immediately after he issued Silver Certificate currency, which was confiscated within weeks of his death.
(wtf is up with care2 and no paragraph breaks - sorry about that)
I find the tea baggers getting on my nerves more now than ever. They are all pro-grover norquist to keeping the GWB tax cuts to the wealthiest people forever low. Pretending this will create jobs when under GWB it was pathetic and the rich got richer.
Clinton had high tax rates for the wealthiest amongst us and jobs were booming. So, their assanine excuse for creating jobs is lies and more lies and proves they are all in the pocket of the wealthy GOP lobbyists grover, koch bros. etc.
I hope the tea baggers lose big time in the next election and If obama is going to blame them which he will; he better be exact in his defammation and cite truths because people are all fed up with every single one of these arse holes in Wash. D.C. today!
We should also blame Obama for continuing US foreign policy, killing several hundreds of children by drones , and attacking foreign countries that did and do not pose any threat to the USA. Violating the US constitution on this and in other matters. We should blame Obama for refusing to prosecute criminals on Wall Street that are clearly guilty of massive fraud.
There is a VERY long list that Obama is responsible for.
There is plenty of blame to go around which befit both parties and what you cite above pertains to GWB as well.
But GWB isn't president any more. Obama is and has been for FOUR years, and he's done zero to reverse course on any of GWB policies. He's tamped them up instead. That's on him. Period.


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1/4 pound unsalted butter at room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 extra-large eggs at room temperature
1/8 cup grated orange zest (2 large oranges)
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour plus 1 tablespoon
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
3 ounces buttermilk at room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup good semisweet chocolate chunks
For the syrup:
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
For the ganache:
4 ounces good semisweet chocolate chips
1/4 cup heavy cream
1/2 teaspoon instant coffee granules
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 6 individual serving baking molds (approximately 1 to 1½ cups), such as flexible non-stick 100% silicone molds.
Cream the butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment for about 5 minutes, or until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, then the orange zest.
Sift together 1-1/2 cups flour, the baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. In another bowl, combine the orange juice, buttermilk, and vanilla. Add the flour and buttermilk mixtures alternately in thirds to the creamed butter, beginning and ending with the flour. Toss the chocolate chunks with 1 tablespoon flour and add to the batter. Fill each mold with batter, smooth the top, and bake for 30 minutes, until a cake tester comes out clean. Let the cakes cool in the molds on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, make the syrup. In a small saucepan over medium-low heat, cook the sugar with the orange juice until the sugar dissolves. Remove the cakes from the molds, set on a rack over a tray, and spoon the orange syrup over the cakes. Allow the cakes to cool completely.
For the ganache, melt the chocolate, heavy cream, and coffee in the top of a double boiler over simmering water until smooth and warm, stirring occasionally. Drizzle over the top of the cakes.


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Background: Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors attenuate the decline in renal function in diabetic patients with microalbuminuria. However, no data are available on the use of ACE inhibitors to prevent the decrease in renal function in normotensive, normoalbuminuric patients with type 2 diabetes.
Objective: To evaluate the effect of prolonged ACE inhibition on renal function and albuminuria in patients with type 2 diabetes.
Design: Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial with 6-year follow-up.
Setting: Eight outpatient clinics coordinated by a department of medicine in a university hospital.
Patients: 156 patients in whom type 2 diabetes was diagnosed after 40 years of age who had a baseline mean blood pressure less than 107 mm Hg and albuminuria (albumin excretion ≤ 30 mg/24 h).
Intervention: Enalapril, 10 mg/d, or placebo.
Measurements: Degree of albuminuria at 24 hours, creatinine clearance, blood pressure, and hemoglobin A1C values.
Results: Enalapril therapy decreased albumin excretion from a mean ±SD of 11.6 ± 7 mg/24 h to 9.7 ± 6 mg/24 h at 2 years. This was followed by a gradual increase to 15.8 ± 8 mg/24 h at 6 years. In the placebo group, albumin excretion increased from 10.8 ± 8 mg/24 h to 26.5 ± 10 mg/24 h at 6 years (P = 0.001 for enalapril compared with placebo). Transition to microalbuminuria occurred in 15 of 79 (19%) placebo recipients and 5 of 77 (6.5%) enalapril recipients. Enalapril treatment resulted in an absolute risk reduction of 12.5% (95% CI, 2% to 23%; P = 0.042) for development of microalbuminuria. After 6 years, creatinine clearance decreased from 1.78 ± 0.13 mL/s to 1.63 ± 0.12 mL/s (mean decrease, 0.025 mL/s per year) in enalapril recipients and from 1.81 ± 0.15 mL/s to 1.57 ± 0.17 mL/s (mean decrease, 0.04 mL/s per year) in placebo recipients (P = 0.040). Hemoglobin A1C values decreased modestly in both groups. Mean blood pressure remained normal (<107 mm Hg) in all patients.
Conclusions: Enalapril attenuated the decline in renal function and reduced the extent of albuminuria in normotensive, normoalbuminuric patients with type 2 diabetes. Further research is needed to determine whether this treatment forestalls the development of overt nephropathy.
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Dave Collins, of Montevideo, achieved one of the rarest feats in golf when he made a double-eagle 2 on the par-5 fifth hole at The Crossings last Wednesday.
Collins used a 4-iron to hole his second shot from about 215 yards.
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Former Tahoe Daily Tribune reporter Mike Taugher died over the weekend while snorkeling with his family in Hawaii.
Taugher, 51, was the spokesman for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, having taken the position after spending years as a reporter for the Contra Costa Times.
He was appointed deputy director of communications, education and outreach in 2012.
He worked for the Tahoe Daily Tribune and North Lake Tahoe Bonanza from 1989 to 1992, and for the GreeleyTribune from 1992 to 1995. He worked at the Albuquerque Journal from 1995 to 2000.
Taugher's death prompted statements from politicians and state officials.
U.S. Rep. George Miller, D-Contra Costa County, issued the following statement on the passing of Taugher.
"I am deeply saddened by the news of the untimely death of Mike Taugher and I extend to his family and friends my deepest sympathy," he said. "I only knew Mike professionally, as he covered California water issues for The Contra Costa Times, the same issuesthat I work on as a Member of Congress from the Delta region. But I can say that Mike was unquestionably fair, knowledgeable, and deeply insightfulabout the issues he covered. He helped to broaden people's understanding of the environmental issues we face in California and I hope that his family will take some solace in knowing that many of us will remember Mike as a solid professional and very decent person."
California Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird issued a statement on behalf of Taugher's employers.
"On behalf of the governor and the entire Brown administration, I want to extend my most sincere condolences to the family of Mike Taugher," Laird said. "I worked with him both as a reporter and in his role at fish and wildlife. It was clear that the Contra Costa Times was lucky to have him as a reporter, and we were equally as lucky to work with such a talented media professional. Mike was vital to this institution professionally, but more than that, he was a kind, caring person who clearly was a devoted father and husband. His loss is tragic and will be widely felt."


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So, what's coming next from Nikon?
"Can you tell me about the new body Nikon is coming out with next so I know if I should wait?" If I had a nickle for every time I receive that email……
Well Nikon might be doing that themselves. This new banner showed up on the Nikon site called Nikon Next. I clicked on it which took me to another screen. I then clicked on English, French, and every other language trying to discover what what under the veil but there's a tagging error so I didn't discover out a thing. Perhaps with time, we'll all find out, together!
Update: tagging error gone, huge buffer upload delay inserted.


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OAKLAND -- Family members of Oscar Grant marked the fifth anniversary of his death Wednesday by gathering outside the BART station where a transit police officer shot and killed the 22-year-old in a tragedy that shocked the Bay Area and nation.
Grant's mother, girlfriend and 9-year-old daughter were joined in the Wednesday afternoon commemoration by extended family members and more than 200 supporters, including the filmmaker who memorialized Grant's story in an acclaimed feature film last year.
"It's still hard to accept what happened, but it makes it easier that we have this community of support," said Chantay Moore, 33, Grant's sister.
Speeches, songs and performances by rappers such as Jasiri X and Ras Ceylon mixed somber and celebratory remembrances with calls for political change and ending gun violence and police brutality against young African-American men.
"Right now, we know there's an imbalance," said Grant's mother, Wanda Johnson. "We don't want to focus just on police but on murder in general. We want to work to create peace and love and harmony."
Johnson said the protest movement that helped propel the prosecution of BART police officer Johannes Mehserle has been a national inspiration, even though many were disappointed that Mehserle served only 11 months after his 2010 conviction for involuntary manslaughter.
Along with the family-led public commemoration Wednesday afternoon, another group of protesters organized by the Occupy movement met just after the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day in downtown Oakland. Protesters burned flags and set off firecrackers, but there were only a handful of citations and no arrests or reports of violence.
Grant was killed while returning from New Year revelries in San Francisco in the early morning of Jan. 1, 2009.
Grant's uncle and other family members also commemorated the fifth anniversary on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning by retracing Grant's late-night BART trip from San Francisco to Fruitvale, where BART officers had pulled him and his friends off the train.
Johnson had a more quiet event at her home where she remembered the last night she spent with her son at her birthday celebration, eating gumbo.
Tatiana Grant, the daughter who was 4 when her father was killed, is now 9 and doing well, her family members said.
"She has a lot of friends; she's a social butterfly," Moore said. "Just like her dad. She can walk up to anybody and talk to them."
Neither the girl nor her mother have ever seen the cellphone video footage that captured Grant's slaying, nor have they seen "Fruitvale Station," the feature film about his life.
Mingling in the sidelines with Grant family members Wednesday afternoon was Ryan Coogler, the 27-year-old filmmaker whose debut film humanized Grant's story and brought it national and international attention last year.
Coogler declined to speak, not wanting to take the spotlight from the family, but said he was moved that so many people came out to remember Grant.


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May 17th: Wow, there is so much news to tell you about, we're not even sure where to start...
So, let's start Meteor House's latest release, PHILEAS FOGG AND THE HEART OF OSRA, by Josh Reynolds, a sequel to PHILEAS FOGG AND THE WAR OF SHADOWS, which itself was a sequel to Farmer's THE OTHER LOG OF PHILEAS FOGG. According to our friends at Meteor House, Josh's second effort is even better than his first one. Oh, and they just posted this awesome cover art by Amar Djouad.
Next up is news about the forthcoming Dayworld novel A HOLE IN WEDNESDAY by Philip José Farmer and Danny Adams. For us geeks who like learn more about our fiction, the book now features an Introduction by Michael A. Burstein and a Foreword by Paul Spiteri—and we have posted a fascinating interview with Danny Adams where he talks about "uncle" Phil's influence on him. This is a must read and will make you nostalgic for an experience you never got to have; an afternoon spent sitting on the stairs listening to Phil type his next novel.
Some potentially sad news next, the signed hardcover limited editions of both FLIGHT TO OPAR and HADON, KING OF OPAR, are officially out of print from the publisher, Meteor House (although, a couple of books stores might still have copies available). So keep in mind, if you have a signed hardcover limited edition of FLIGHT TO OPAR, but have not yet purchased the signed hardcover limited edition of THE SONG OF KWASIN to go with it, you should get on that ASAP. And if you have a signed hardcover limited edition of HADON, KING OF OPAR, but have not yet preordered BLOOD OF ANCIENT OPAR, you probably don't want to wait too much longer.
Back to some happy news: It's not every month we can actually add new content to the website, but thanks to Bob Barrett we have two new listings on the PJF Recommends page. He alerted us to the entries for DRAGONWORLD and THE STARS ARE THE STYX.
And one final note, FarmerCon will be here before you know it, so make your plans: register for Pulpfest, book your room, and tell us you're coming!
By now you should know the deal with Meteor House's signed limited edition novellas: preorder, and your name appears in the book in the acknowledgments. Don't preorder, and risk not getting a copy before it goes out of print.
So, just a few weeks ago we told you Meteor House was publishing A HOLE IN WEDNESDAY by Philip José Farmer and Danny Adams. They made that announcement sans cover art, but earlier this morning they released this wonderful cover by Keith Howell—and not only that, but they are doing something new with this book as the covers for the paperback and hardcover are each a little different.
And speaking of Keith Howell. You should recognize his name from the many covers and interior pieces he did for Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer, and the covers he did for THE WORLDS OF PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER 1: Protean Dimensions, and THE WORLDS OF PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER 3: Portrait of the Trickster. And if you had preordered Meteor House's hardcover edition of DOC SAVAGE: HIS APOCALYPTIC LIFE, you may recall that it was signed by all of the contributors who came to FarmerCon in 2013, all of the contributors except one.
Well, good news on that front as Keith has announced he's coming to FarmerCon for the first time since 2009! So if you bought that signed copy of DOC SAVAGE: HIS APOCALYPTIC LIFE, or any of the other books or magazines mentioned above, bring them with you to FarmerCon to get Keith to sign them. Hey, he'll also be available to sign copies of Meteor House's other new books, CROSSOVERS EXPANDED, volumes 1 & 2 featuring more cover art by this versatile artist.
We should probably also point out that Danny Adams will be at FarmerCon, for the first time since it left Peoria, signing the hardcover limited edition (and any preordered trade paperback) copies of A HOLE IN WEDNESDAY. And Christopher Paul Carey will be there signing the hardcover and paperback limited editions of BLOOD OF ANCIENT OPAR.
Wait, you haven't made plans to attend FarmerCon yet? No worries, just click on that link and register for PulpFest, then book your room at the Hyatt, and get ready for the best weekend of the year!
The novel takes place between the events of Farmer's classic short story, "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World," and the events of the Dayworld trilogy: DAYWORLD, DAYWORLD REBEL, and DAYWORLD BREAKUP. A substantial portion of the novel was written by Farmer sometime in the 1970s, and it has been completed by Danny Adams.
You may also recall that Adams finished an uncompleted novel by Farmer once before, THE CITY BEYOND PLAY (PS Publishing 2007), so we have very high expectations for A HOLE IN WEDNESDAY.
In other news, we have also added some content to the website, all courtesy of Rias from the International Bibliography. We now have the text of the letter Phil sent into Doc Savage Quarterly 7, a listing for the dedication to Phil of THE VALLEY OF THUNDER by Charles de Lint, and a bookmark showing that Phil was going to be the guest of honor at SeaCon84, in Brighton England (but he had to cancel).
As always, FarmerCon is free but to attend you do have to Register for PulpFest. A prepaid, four-day membership is $30 for those members who will be staying at the Hyatt Regency Columbus. Additionally, to reward these loyal attendees who help to defray the convention's substantial costs by staying three nights at our host hotel, PulpFest is happy to offer free early-bird shopping on Thursday, July 21st.
And since it is a great deal, and rooms always sell out, we highly recommend booking your room as soon as possible at the special convention rate of $118 per night plus tax. Included in your rate is one free parking pass and free Wi-Fi privileges in your guest room.
There will be BIG NEWS coming soon about new books coming out at FarmerCon. You're going to want to be there.
Speaking of FarmerCon, what better way to celebrate Phil's birthday than to start making plans for FarmerCon XI at PulpFest! If you have never been, FarmerCon is held in conjuction with PulpFest, which is "Summer's Great Pulp Con." PulpFest has a massive dealer's room, lots of interesting programming, including a FarmerCon presentation, an auction, awards, a group dinner, a FarmerCon group dinner, book readings and signings, and lots of hanging out with your friends talking late into the night. If you have never been, come see what you're missing, and come see why most FarmerCon attendees come year after year.
Today is the 220th anniversary of the Wold Newton Meteorite strike. To commemorate the event we're pleased to announce WoldNewtonFamily.com, a brand-new website devoted to the canonical Wold Newton Family works by Philip José Farmer and authorized continuations.
To further celebrate Wold Newton Day there are not one, but two book signings today! Win Scott Eckert is signing the hardcover limited edition of THE SCARLET JAGUAR, and Christopher Paul Carey is signing the hardcover limited edition of THE SONG OF KWASIN as well as a small number of trade paperbacks.
And we're not the only ones celebrating Wold Newton Day:
Pulp Crazy gives an audio review of a seminal Wold Newton work, THE ADVENTURE OF THE PEERLESS PEER.
Paperback Perils reviews Titan Books' TALES OF THE WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE.
Black Gate has shared "What Is a Wold Newton Tale" from the new WoldNewtonFamily.com website.
So, raise a glass of Falling Stone Bitter and celebrate with us!
To date THE SONG OF KWASIN has only been published as part of the GODS OF OPAR omnibus (Subterranean Press 2012) along with the first two books in the series, HADON OF ANCIENT OPAR and FLIGHT TO OPAR. Meteor House is releasing both a hardcover Limited Edition (signed by Christopher Paul Carey), and a trade paperback edition. Both editions are full of bonus materials!
Last month we told you about Meteor House's hardcover edition of THE SCARLET JAGUAR, and now they are offering package deals where you can order the book along with THE EVIL IN PEMBERLEY HOUSE and/or PHILEAS FOGG AND THE WAR OF SHADOWS.
Long time fan Mitch West sent us not only the cover for the Chicon IV program so we could add it to Conventions and Events page but he also found an advertisement in it for THE PURPLE BOOK.
As you probably know, Meteor House's first Signed Limited Edition novella was EXILES OF KHO. Published in 2012 as a trade paperback, it quickly sold out. Their second Signed Limited Edition novella was THE SCARLET JAGUAR, also published as a trade paperback it too quickly sold out. Their third novella, PHILEAS FOGG AND THE WAR OF SHADOWS was published simultaneously as a Signed Limited Edition trade paperback and hardcover.
After the success of their first hardcover novella, earlier this summer Meteor House brought EXILES OF KHO out in hardcover, and it is already nearly sold out! And now they are taking preorders for hardcover of THE SCARLET JAGUAR, to be printed in November, and most likely to sell out by the end of the year. So, if you missed out on the paperback edition, you need to preorder a copy now!
We also have a couple of interesting additions to the website to report. In 1969 Phil's article, Oft I have Travelled (On Solar Pons) appeared in the fanzine The Pontine Dossier. We just learned that it was reprinted in The Solar Pons Gazette, Vol 1.1 in the summer of 2006. And you can read it online by following that link! A big thank you to Bob Byrne, the editor of the Solar Pons Gazette, for alerting us to the pdf.
Also, we haven't had any updates on the advertising page in a while but Christopher Paul Carey discovered this ad for THE DARK HEART OF TIME in the back pages of a copy of A PRINCESS OF MARS.
Just another reminder that this site will never stop growing!
Jason Scott Aiken, Frank Schildiner, and Chuck Loridans gave an entertaining FarmerCon panel on Philip José Farmer's Weird Tales, and you can listen to it here thanks to Pulp Crazy!
There was also a FarmerCon dinner Friday night, the PulpFest dinner on Saturday night, and lots and lots of time spent hanging out together. If you missed it, checkout this Facebook Photo Album and start making your vacation plans for next year (July 21 - 24, 2016).
The latter is true for the Signed Hardcover Limited Edition of EXILES OF KHO by Christopher Paul Carey as well as for the Signed Hardcover Limited Restored Edition of FLIGHT TO OPAR (signed by the editor Christopher Paul Carey).
If you are still not convinced you need to get HADON, KING OF OPAR, please read this interview with Christopher Paul Carey by Rias at the International Bibliography. Or this Creative Colleagues interview by David Gross. Or listen to this Pulp Crazy interview with Jason Aiken.Or just look at this gorgeous cover art by Bob Eggleton!
If you are still not convinced you need to get the Restored Edition of FLIGHT TO OPAR, please read this message from editor Christopher Paul Carey:
And speaking of FarmerCon X/PulpFest, back in March we told you to book your room at the Hyatt Regency ASAP because we're sharing downtown Columbus with Matsuricon, a gathering of Japanese anime and pop culture enthusiasts. Rooms at the Hyatt have long since been sold out. However, there are still blocks of rooms available at a discount through Matsuricon. Visit matsuricon.org/hotel-reservations to find a room that is close to the convention. When booking through the Matsuricon site, please be sure to request the Matsuricon group rate.
Last month we told you about Meteor House's forthcoming Restored Edition of FLIGHT TO OPAR—featuring nearly 4,000 words restored from Farmer's original manuscript and a slew of bonus materials. You can hear editor Christopher Paul Carey discuss the process, and even give some examples of the restored text in this Pulp Crazy interview with Jason Aiken.
This week Meteor House made two more major announcements concerning Opar. First, EXILES OF KHO, by Christopher Paul Carey, their first Signed Limited Edition novella (originally published only in trade paperback and out of print since 2013) is coming out in a Signed Limited Edition hardcover—with all-new cover art by Mark Wheatley!
And second, they are now taking preorders for a brand-new tale in Philip José Farmer's Khokarsa series from Christopher Paul Carey, HADON, KING OF OPAR! Set fourteen years after the events of THE SONG OF KWASIN (co-written by Philip José Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey) this new novella will be published in two editions—Signed Limited Edition trade paperback and hardcover—featuring stunning artwork by Bob Eggleton! And as with their earlier novellas, if you preorder the book (by July 1st), your name will be listed in the acknowledgements. How cool is that?
Meteor House also has a Special Package Deal where you can order the hardcover of EXILES OF KHO and HADON, KING OF OPAR, (in trade paperback, hardcover, or both) together and save money!
Lot's of great summer reading on tap for everyone!
This new edition features nearly 4,000 words that were cut from Farmer's original manuscript when the novel was published in 1976. This is the first and only publication of the novel ever to include the excised material, which encompasses long passages of narrative, dialogue, and rich world-building details on Ancient Opar and the civilization of Khokarsa that readers have never previously been able to enjoy—until now.
Visit the Meteor House website for the full list of bonus materials by Christopher Paul Carey, S.M. Stirling, and Philip José Farmer himself. Then decide if you want to preorder the limited edition hardcover (signed by the editor Christopher Paul Carey), or the trade paperback edition (signed by Carey if you order before FarmerCon X), or both!
You can reserve a room at the Hyatt Regency at the special convention rate of $116 per night plus tax, which includes one free parking pass and free Wi-Fi, if you do so by July 1, 2015. Additional cars will be charged at the discounted rate of $10 overnight with in/out privileges. Matsuricon members will be paying nearly twenty dollars more for rooms and parking.
There are two ways to place a reservation. You can book a room online by clicking here. You can also call 1-888-421-1442 to book a room by telephone. However, be sure to mention PulpFest 2015 to get the special convention rate. By staying at the Hyatt Regency, you'll help to ensure the convention's success.


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SIKESTON - Thirty-two extra trains will crawl through Sikeston.
Sikeston City Council members approved a railroad detour agreement during this morning's special Sikeston City Council.
City Manager Doug Friend said maintenance on the railroad tracks between Chaffee and Dexter is scheduled for two eight-day periods, during which two additional trains per day will be routed through Sikeston.
"This is a temporary measure," Friend said. In the future, a permanent spur may be built. "We'll know more when they know more."
The additional trains will come down the Burlington-Northern rail and use the power plant's spur to get on the Union-Pacific track to Dexter from July 2-8 and July 16-23.
The trains will have to slow to 5 mph as they go through the power plant and will notify the Department of Public Safety "just like the coal trains," Friend said.
Because of the slow speed, officials anticipate traffic may be held up at the Wakefield and Salcedo crossings.
Friend said Board of Municipal Utilities will receive $56 per train for the use of their spur.
In other business today:
* Council members reviewed a letter from Friend to Scott Meyer, district engineer for the Missouri Department of Transportation's Southeast District, regarding an agreement to put in a traffic signal at Highway 61-Route HH/ZZ intersection.
Friend said if the city pledges its FAU federal highway funds to the project, MoDOT has indicated to Council members that they could fast-track the project and slate it for a June 30, 2005, completion.
"They'll add their money to it to make it a full-blown intersection," Friend said, with turning lanes, room for large trucks to turn and drainage improvements.
The city is now just waiting for a model ordinance from MoDOT to approve. "We've moved the ball into their court and we're waiting on them," Friend said.
The total cost for the project would be about $750,000 with the city contributing about $260,000 in FAU funds.
* First and second readings and approval of an agreement with Southeast Missouri State University for funding of a Sikeston Area Higher Education Center classroom expansion were tabled to the next regular meeting scheduled on July 12 due to the holiday.
Chuck Leible, city counselor, advised the Council that SEMO officials have "tentatively approved an agreement I drafted."
Leible said the agreement amends the original SAHEC agreement to authorize the construction of the additional classrooms at a projected cost of $2.18 million. This amount will include SEMO's "management reimbursement costs," Leible said. "Other than that, it's just an addendum to the original agreement."
Friend said this fulfill's another promise made in February related to the approval of the sales tax.
The agreement also address surplus funds from the SAHEC tax. "The money we have in that fund we will put toward the project," Friend said. He estimated the fund will contribute between $350,000 and $500,000 toward the classroom expansion project.
* The low bid of $30,600 from Sikeston Motors for a Department of Economic Development van was accepted by the Council.
Half of the amount will be reimbursed by the BMU.
* Commenting on his recent proposal to form a committee to look at the merger of Sikeston and Miner, Mayor Mike Marshall said: "People have told me why it can't happen. Nobody's told me why it shouldn't happen."


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'Mad Men' Gets Deep: 'The Existential Void of Roger Sterling'
The latest in William Irwin's philosophy and pop-culture mash-up series, "Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing is as it Seems" (Wiley), explores the philosophical themes present on the AMC show about 1960s advertising workers. Sample chapter: "Pete, Peggy, Don, and the Dialectic of Remembering and Forgetting." Below, Speakeasy excerpts from a piece called "The Existential Void of Roger Sterling" by Raymond Angelo Belliotti.
The Relentless Hedonist
The existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813 –1855) sketched three stages of life, processes by which we make choices, act, and define ourselves. Kierkegaard's first stage, the aesthetic stage, fits Roger Sterling more crisply than one of his own custom-tailored three-piece suits.
The person in the aesthetic stage basks in the immediacy of the moment. The pursuit of sensations and feelings rooted in particular pleasures defines this stage of life. Detached from firm commitment to the extent possible and governed by sense, impulse, and emotion, Kierkegaard's aesthetic person recognizes no fixed, universal moral standards. Instead, aesthetic persons strive for the absence of all limits, except those imposed by their own tastes. Boredom is taken to be the worst evil. Immersing themselves in pleasure, whether sensual or intellectual, aesthetic people live overwhelmingly for the moment, in search of yet another self-gratifying experience.
Let the words of Roger Sterling consign him to Kierkegaard's aesthetic lifestyle. First, Sterling distances himself from personal commitment to the extent possible. On the topic of intimacy, love, and friendship: "I have a very good friend . . . cannot remember the guy's name." On lasting commitment: "I'll tell you the same thing I told my daughter. If you put a penny in a jar every time you make love in the first year of marriage and then you take a penny out of the jar every time you make love in the second year, you know what you have? A jar full of pennies."
Second, Sterling luxuriates in the immediacy of the moment and in hedonistic self-gratification. On the topic of pursuing pleasure in the present: "Don't you love the chase? Sometimes it doesn't work out, those are the stakes. But when it does work out, it's like having that first cigarette: head gets all dizzy, your heart pounds, knees go weak. Remember that? Old business is just old business."
On concern for others, when Don Draper asks Sterling what women want, Roger replies, "Who cares?" On the drinking life: "You do not know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do." As he recovers from a heart attack, Roger evaluates his adulterous relationship with Joan Holloway: "Look, I want to tell you something because you're very dear to me and I hope you understand it comes from the bottom of my damaged, damaged heart. You are the finest piece of ass I ever had and I don't care who knows it. I am so glad I got to roam those hillsides."
Third, the mere thought of boredom leads Sterling to break out in hives. Again, after surface reflection on his own life as he recovers from a heart attack: "Jesus! I've been living the last twenty years like I'm on shore leave. What the hell is that about?"
Fourth, Sterling detaches himself from moral reflection and adherence to firm moral principles. On the proper treatment of institutional subordinates: "Throw him a token sum, watch a wave of pathetic gratitude wash across his gormless mug, and send him back to the salt mines, ignorant of the knowledge that you spend the equivalent of his yearly salary on a week's worth of hookers and vodka. And make a point of not remembering his name the next time you see him."
When Guy MacKendrick — Putnam, Powell and Lowe's anointed fair-haired boy — arrives from London to assume leadership of Sterling Cooper Putnam, he is seriously injured at an office party when one of the secretaries accidentally drives a John Deere vehicle over his foot. When Roger Sterling is told that MacKendrick will probably lose his foot, he doesn't miss a beat: "Right when he got it in the door."
We should be cautious about placing too much stock in Sterling's quips. Surely none of us should be evaluated entirely on a few miscellaneous remarks uttered when we are cracking wise. And, of course, we can cite evidence undermining the conclusion that Sterling is a prime example of Kierkegaard's aesthetic man: Roger was married for over twenty years to Mona. Unlike Kierkegaard's flighty aesthetic man, Roger Sterling was committed to family life and was also committed to his career. Moreover, Roger is now committed to Jane. He, not she, was pressing for the marriage. Accordingly, perhaps I have only randomly selected a few similarities between the aesthetic man and Roger Sterling. Perhaps we should not exaggerate the comparison.
I would rejoin that the quotes from Roger Sterling are not peripheral to, but mirror, his lifestyle. His quips provide sharp commentary on his behavior. Sterling's professional and personal actions provide scant evidence that he is concerned with honoring moral principles. His career was staked out for him by his father and represents the easy, lucrative path of a scion born, after all, on third base. His marriage to Mona hardly rises to the level of Kierkegaard's subjective, existential truth. The marriage has never impeded Sterling's roving eyes and roaming hands. He admits on several occasions that passionate commitment was extinguished early in the relationship, and he has remained married largely because of social expectations, not because of a passionate, internal commitment. For Kierkegaard, subjective, existential truths require internal performances. The test is how a truth is held and the relative importance of the way a person's choice was formed. In an objective (nonexistential) sense, Sterling was married to Mona for over twenty years. The proposition that Mona and Roger were married is objectively true. But existentially, Sterling's commitment lacks the passionate inwardness that characterizes Kierkegaard's understanding of subjective, existential truth. Accordingly, the marriage was inauthentic: it lacked the internal commitment and emotional judgment that constitute existential truth. Although formally wed, the couple were not existentially united.
What should we predict about Roger's subsequent marriage to Jane? Is this only Roger's latest desperate attempt to soften the fear of his looming mortality? Is Roger finally happy? Or is he, in Don Draper's words, simply "foolish"? If Kierkegaard were a betting man, he would cast his lot with Draper.
For Kierkegaard, aesthetic people such as Roger Sterling cravenly flee boredom, despair, and the burden of self-creation. Continually pursuing more intense pleasures, the aesthetic person is doomed to collapse back into boredom and despair. Living in the present can, at best, provide only a partial attitude toward life. By never forging bonds, by weakly committing to projects, and by making only transitory choices, the aesthetic person is a spectator in the world and fails to define his own life sharply. His chosen end is his own beginning: vague dissatisfaction, a sense of no remedy, no salvation, a foreboding of nothingness. Kierkegaard insists that the aesthetic person's choices are to either remain in despair at this stage or to make a transition to the next one — the ethical stage — by choice and self-commitment. The ethical stage, among other things, embraces universal moral standards and is exemplified by congenial family life. It's hard to imagine that Roger Sterling will ever make that kind of commitment and live that kind of life.


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Exploring the mechanisms by which organisms solve the problems they encounter in their respective environments.
The Ecophysiology Lab at California State University Long Beach is located in the Molecular Life Science Center, room 221. It is run by Dr. Douglas Pace.
The Ecophysiology Lab specializes in understanding the physiological solutions that organisms can employ in order to survive and thrive in their natural environments. In the broadest context, this allows us to gain a better understanding on how organisms might then respond to changes in their natural conditions. Such an approach is extremely important for many reasons. Firstly, given the rapid change in the natural environment (the marine coastal environemnt, for example), it is imperative that we understand the amount and type of stresses that are being placed on organisms. With out such information, species distribution and overall survival may be adversely effected. Another important aspect of such research can also be extended to understanding parasitic relationships. By knowing how a parasite interacts with its host (which is analogous to its environemnt) and understanding its physiological strategies, we can come to a better understanding of how to disrupt this intimate and sometimes very costly relationship. Therefore leaving us in a better position to treat, or ultimately stop parasitic infections.
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All throughout BacMerSaga, it's been a question raised by New York federal judge Jed Rakoff: Why was Bank of America's former general counsel, Timothy Mayopolous, fired at the end of 2008? Might the rationale have been, as NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has implied, because he advised BofA executives to disclose bonuses to be given to Merrill Lynch executives, advice that the BofA brass didn't like?
Actually, no, responded the SEC on Wednesday in a court filing in the SEC/BofA lawsuit. Mayopolous was fired strictly to create an opening for Brian Moynihan, who later succeeded Kenneth D. Lewis as chief executive, the SEC said. Click here for the Dow Jones Newswires story. Click here for past LB coverage of the situation.
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Mayopoulos was terminated in an attempt by Lewis to avert the imminent departure of the bank's then-head of global corporate and investment banking, Brian Moynihan, by offering Moynihan the position occupied by Mayopoulos and upgrading the position to one that directly reported to the chief executive officer.
The court filing was made in connection with a $150 million settlement between Bank of America and the SEC over the bank's disclosures before its acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co.
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The Wolves defender's place will be taken by Paul McShane, who is in Italy with the party after being drafted in as defensive cover amid a series of fitness concerns.
Foley reported with a hamstring problem and has been working ever since in an effort to shake it off, but on Tuesday morning he became the second man to be sent home following Birmingham midfielder Keith Fahey's departure at the weekend.
Trapattoni said: "Although Kevin has been recovering well, I have made the difficult decision to leave him out of the 23-player list after completing fitness tests on John O'Shea and Paul McShane this morning.
"I have spoken to him and understand how difficult it is, saying that he can remain with the squad if he wishes."
Ironically, Foley trained at the Stadio Comunale Alberto Benedetti in Borgo A Buggiano on Tuesday night, while McShane did not after suffering a bruised heel during Saturday's 1-0 friendly victory over Bosnia-Herzegovina in Dublin.
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Trapattoni said: "With the injuries that we experienced in the squad over the past week, I have had to make a tough decision when it comes to naming the 23 players that must be submitted to UEFA for the championship.
"Kevin Foley, John O'Shea, Paul McShane, Darren O'Dea, Shay Given had all been carrying knocks and we have been monitoring them closely in their recovery."
Ireland play a Tuscan Select XI in a friendly in Pistoia on Tuesday evening on a day when they and the inhabitants of Montecatini, the Italian spa town where they have based themselves for this week's training camp, felt the tremors from an earthquake around 50 miles to the north.
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Undefeated featherweight prospect Gary Russell Jr. will be after his third straight stoppage win against Roberto Castaneda on Friday night's Showtime ShoBox: The New Generation card in the headliner for "Night Of The Olympians," which will also feature the pro debuts of five standout boxers from the 2012 U.S. Olympic team.
Russell (20-0, 12 knockouts) takes on Castaneda (20-2-1, 15 KOs) as part of an event that will take place at Fantasy Springs Casino, Indio, Calif., following appearances by featured Olympians Dominic Breazeale, Marcus Browne, Terrell Gausha, Errol Spence Jr. and Rau'shee Warren.
Super middleweight Gausha meets Dustin Caplinger (2-3, 1 KO), junior middleweight Spence takes on Johnathan Garcia (3-3, 1 KO), cruiserweight Browne faces Codale Ford (2-0), heavyweight Breazeale tackles Curtis Tate (4-3, 4 KOs), and bantamweight Warren fights Luis Rivera (1-2).
Also on the card is a clash of unbeaten junior middleweights between Daquan Arnett (8-0, 5 KOs) and Jeremiah Wiggins (10-0-1, 5 KOs), and one of junior featherweights Manuel Robles (1-0) and Tim Ibarra (2-1).
In interviews below, former Olympians Russell, Oscar De La Hoya, Howard Davis, Raul Marquez, Andre Ward and Antonio Tarver reflect on their professional debuts.
Howard Davis, Gold Medalist, 1976: Davis outpointed Jose Resto over six rounds in his first professional fight at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas on Jan. 15, 1977.
"The fight was nationally televised. I was disappointed because I wanted to fight in front of my hometown fans at the Nassau Coliseum. Ray Leonard got to turn pro in front of his hometown fans.
"Instead, the fight was in Vegas, and only a couple of hundred, maybe 500 fans showed up. I was very nervous and the nerves didn't go away until my second pro fight.
"But I beat him silly every round and didn't let him hit me. He had no neck, and every time I hit him, I felt like I was breaking my hand."
Oscar De La Hoya, Gold Medalist, 1992: In his professional debut, De La Hoya registered three knockdowns on the way to a 42-second knockout over Lamar Williams at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, Calif., on Nov. 23, 1992.
"Because I was a fighter who was brought up fighting as a professional-type style, I was actually really looking forward to my pro debut. I'd been sparring and training with pros like Joey Olivo and Paul Gonzales since I was 13, so I wasn't nervous at all.
"Actually, I couldn't wait. Just the fact I would be wearing eight-ounce gloves without headgear for the first time excited me. Once I got that first fight out of the way, I knew I was on my way."
Raul Marquez, 1992: Marquez's first professional fight ended by stoppage against Rafael Rezzaq in the fourth round at the HemisFair Arena in San Antonio, Texas on Oct. 3, 1992.
"It was a big night for me. There was pressure, because I was supposed to be one of the U.S. Olympians who would go on to win a world title. I was nervous, but I was nervous before every fight.
"There were a lot of friends and family from Houston and Mexico there. I fought a tough guy. I kept knocking him down, and he kept getting up.
"I don't even remember how many knockdowns I scored. I'll tell you this, he was much tougher than I had expected for an Olympian making his pro debut.
"One thing I definitely remember: Lou Duva threw me a party afterward at Mi Tierra, a famous restaurant in San Antonio. There was a mariachi band and everything."
Gary Russell Jr., 2008: Russell scored a third-round TKO over Antonio Reyes at the Million Dollar Elm Casino in Tulsa, Okla., in his first professional fight on Jan. 16, 2009.
"My pro debut was in Oklahoma on ShoBox, and I remember being excited and a little bit anxious. I had the opportunity to start all over again. I felt like I was having my first amateur fight.
"It was exciting to do something for the first time. My opponent was wearing a suit at the press conference. I remember thinking that wasn't going to help him in the ring at all. I had full confidence in my ability to beat him."
"I was more anxious than nervous. It was Staples Center, on the undercard of Antonio Tarver-Glen Johnson. My fight was televised on premium cable.
"There were huge expectations, and I had a lot to prove even though I had won the gold medal. I also had to prove to myself I could take a shot as a pro. I had an absolute wild man on the other side of the ring.
"Molina wanted to prove I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth. He was throwing bombs, head-butting and yelling at me during the fight. I just had to stay in the moment. I hit him some good shots and he quit."
Note: Molina, who was 2-0 going in, never fought again.
"I didn't know what to expect. You take off the headgear, you put on the little gloves. There were a lot of butterflies. It was like starting over. All jitters.
"I was fighting on national TV on 'Tuesday Night Fights,' and at the Blue Horizon, which had a tough, educated crowd. I just wanted to be perfect. I was 28, and a lot of people thought I was too old to be turning pro.
"I fought an undefeated guy who had a good chin. I was so anxious. I don't know if I did everything I wanted to do. But I still got the award for Knockout of the Night."
Three-time title-winner and current IBF super middleweight beltholder Carl Froch (29-2-1, 21 KOs) will make the first defense of his belt against Philadelphia's Yusaf Mack (31-4, 17 KOs) in an event to be televised in the United States on Integrated Sports Pay Per View starting at 3 pm ET/noon PT from his hometown fans at Capital FM Arena in Nottingham, England.
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Froch returns to the venue of his last fight, when he he dethroned Lucian Bute (31-1, 24 knockouts) by fifth-round stoppage in his last fight in May. The victory over Bute helped Froch to rebound from a loss in December to Andre Ward for the RING, WBA and WBC belts. Froch's only other setback was against Mikkel Kessler in April of 2010.
Froch-Mack is a main event promoted by Matchroom Boxing which is entitled, "True Brit."
Also on the card is light heavyweight Tony Bellew (18-1, 12 KOs), of Liverpool, who has scored knockouts in the fifth and ninth rounds over Danny McIntosh and Edison Miranda in April and last month, respectively, to bounce back from a majority decision loss to WBO beltholder Nathan Cleverly in October of last year.
Bellew has a WBC eliminator bout with Argentina's hard-hitting Roberto Feliciano Bolonti (30-1, 19 KOs), a winner of 26 consecutive fights who is in pursuit of his sixth straight stoppage win. Bolonti will be fighting outside of his native Buenos Aires for the first time.
Junior lightweight Jerry Belmontes (17-0, 5 KOs), of Corpus Christi, Texas, will pursue his 17th triumph without a loss against Philadelphia's Teon Kennedy (17-2-2, 7 KOs), of Jamaica, Queens, N.Y., in a 10-rounder on Dec. 8 from the Pearson-McGonigle Hall on the campus of Temple University as part of the NBC Sports Network Fight Night show.
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The main event of the eight-fight card features Philadelphia heavyweight Bryant "By By" Jennings (15-0, 7 KOs) opposite Bowie Tupou (22-2, 16 KOs), of Tongo. The live card begins at 7 p.m., and the NBCSN broadcast will start at 9 p.m. ET.
Kennedy (17-2-2, 7 KOs) is 0-2-1 in his past three bouts, and is coming off June's fifth-round knockout loss to WBA junior featherweight beltholder and two-time Olympic gold medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux (11-0, 8 KOs).
Kennedy, 26, was floored five times by Rigondeaux on the undercard of Tim Bradley's split-decision over Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Cuban junior lightweight Rances "Kid Blast" Barthelemy, of Miami, will face Afghani-Canadian Arash Usmanee, of Montreal, in a clash of unbeatens at Magic City Casino, Miami, Fla.
Promoted by Warriors Boxing and Bad Dog Productions, the matchup betwen Barthelemy (17-0, 11 knockouts) and Usmanee (20-0, 10 KOs) will happen on ESPN's Friday Night Fights.
In the co-feature, junior middleweights Jonathan "Mantequilla" Gonzalez (15-0-1, 13 KOs), of Puerto Rico, will meet Philadelphia's Derek "Pooh" Ennis (23-3-1, 13 KOs).
Barthelemy, 26, is one of three siblings who are now professional fighters, with younger brother Leduan (2-0, 2 KOs), who is 23, and older brother, Yan (12-3, 4 KOs), a 2004 Olympic Gold medalist and a 32-year-old southpaw. Leduan and Yan compete as junior featherweights.
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