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It's a wrap for the third week of Shipping Wars Season Four. This week it takes two to make a haul happen in Episode 41, "A Fairytale Disaster" and newcomer Johnny Chavez finally wins his first uShip bid in Episode 42, "Cypto-Prank-ology."
Episode 41 – "A Fairytale Disaster"
Chris and Robbie win a bid from a Tennessee bride who needs to have an heirloom chandelier shipped from one side of town to the other. The uShip listing says the haul will only take four hours but when Chris and Robbie arrive on the scene, they get thrown a curve ball. The bride informs Chris and Robbie that the chendelier is actually in Kentucky four hours away. After agreeing to double her paying price, the now "bridezilla" insists on riding with Chris and Robbie to the storage facility to pick up her chandelier. Tensions run high when the storage facility is closed for the night and Chris and Robbie are forced to spend the night somewhere in Kentucky. The marriage troop makes it out alive, after all–eventhough Chris has to listen to the two ladies discuss weddings the entire drive up and back.
When a handmade mahogony bar goes live on the uShip marketplace, the veteran shippers duke it out to see who will take the 16 piece, $200,000 bar from Wisconsin to a Georgia mancave. The two unlikeliest shippers team up for this load–Roy and Jarrett. Jarrett takes a big risk asking Roy for help, and when Jarrett's bus breaks down, Roy lets Jarrett have it. When Roy arrives on scene, Jarrett has to hire two guys to help move the broken-down bar from one trailer to the other, costing Jarrett precious dollars and Roy precious time. When Roy delivers the load on time, he realizes Jarrett left out one important detail–he has to unload reconstruct them in the Georgia mancave. Roy makes out with $600 while Jarrett is left in the hole $130.
Episode 42 – "Crypto-prank-ology"
Tonight's second episode saw the arrival of newcomer Johnny Chavez, who's family has been in trucking since the wheel was became round. He got into a tough bidding war with Roy but outlasted Silver Jesus for the win: $7000 to ship to enormous sculptures valued at $200,000 done by late actor Dennis Hopper. They were headed to Hopper's hometown of Dodge City, Kans., from Los Angeles. While Chavez was en route with 8,000 lbs of crates, the shipper continued to call him with some really strange, unorthodox requests – taking pictures, measuring pieces of the load and so forth. Wanting to get great feedback on his first uShip load, Johnny bent over backwards to help the shopper. Come to find out Shipping Wars veteran and fellow big rig driver Marc Springer was hazing Johnny, who had just won his first uShip load. But Johnny got the last laugh: a $5,800 profit and the catch-phrase of the night: VIVA JOHNNY CHAVEZ!!
Jen won her first load of the season – a frozen iceman going from Minnesota to Austin, Texas. From the get-go Jen was a little freaked to be hauling a dead body – but then things got even weirder when the shipper told her he was going to ride along on the trip. This led to some deep philosophical conversations about the existence of Big Foot and then a Blair Witch-like Big Foot hunt. By the time Jen, the shipper and Iceman reached Texas, Jen had had enough and made up some ground on the Shipping Wars Bleep Count.


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CHARLESTON -- James M. "Jim" Alstat, 62, formerly of DeSoto, Ill., died at 6:26 a.m. June 1, 2004, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.
Born Aug. 19, 1941, in DeSoto, son of Viola Alberta Hicks Alstat of DeSoto and the late Frederick Louis "Fritz" Alstat, who died March 3, 2004, he was a member of Mount Calvary Lutheran Church in DeSoto and Teamsters Local #347 of West Frankfort, Ill. He had served as a trustee of the Village of Cambria, Ill.
On July 28, 1966, at DeSoto, he married Pamela Sue Bosworth who survives of the home.
Other survivors include: one son and daughter-in-law, Jeff and Jacinta Alstat of Pomona, Ill.; three daughters and two sons-in-law, Jill Alstat of Marion, Julie and Frank Hardcastle of Mocksville, N.C., and Debbie and Glenn Murphy of DeSoto; two brothers, Bob Alstat of Vandalia, Ill., and Fred Alstat of DeSoto; and 10 grandchildren.
Visitation is from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the Meredith Funeral Home in Carbondale, Ill., where services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Friday. The Rev. Jeff Wiggs will officiate.
Burial will follow in the Indian Hill Cemetery at DeSoto.

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According to this story, from the Recorder, that's the issue bubbling to the surface of a suit filed by Landmark Screens against its patent lawyer, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius partner Thomas Kohler. Landmark Screens — whose picture-changing billboard can be seen on Highway 101 near San Carlos, Calif. — filed a malpractice suit against Kohler accusing Kohler of messing up a patent application. Here's the complaint.
While at Pennie & Edmonds, Kohler allegedly filed a patent application for the electronic billboard in 2002. After dropping some claims, he reportedly refiled them as part of a follow-on application known as a "divisional application." The suit claims the divisional applications contained errors, that the patent office sent it back in June 2004, and that it then rejected the patent lawyer's petition for appeal that November. Kohler and Morgan Lewis found out the petition had been denied in early December 2004, but, according to Landmark's complaint, didn't tell the client it had lost the patent rights until March 2005.
Clark Stone, a lawyer from MacPherson Kwok Chen & Heid who's representing Landmark, said damages could be in the millions. "If the company would've known about the error shortly after the error occurred, they could've gotten other counsel and taken other steps to remedy the situation," said Stone.
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Long-term Follow-up on Immunogenicity & Safety of Measles-Mumps-Rubella-Varicella (MMRV) Combined Vaccine
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Follow-up to evaluate the immunogenicity and safety of three production lots of GSK Biologicals' MMRV vaccine given as a two-dose schedule to healthy children in their second year of life, as compared to separate administration of GSK Biologicals' measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine (Priorix®) and varicella vaccine (Varilrix®) in Germany & Austria. Blood samples were collected at three time points during the follow-up period (Year 1, 2 & 3). No new subjects will be enrolled in these follow-up phases of the study.
Biological: MMRV
Biological: MMR (Priorix®)
Biological: Varicella (Varilrix®)
Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Follow-up to Evaluate the the Immunogenicity & Safety of GSK Biologicals' MMRV Vaccine Given as a Two-dose Schedule in the Second Year of Life, as Compared to Separate Administration of GSK Biologicals' Priorix® & Varilrix®.
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MedlinePlus related topics: Chickenpox Measles Mumps Rubella Shingles
Drug Information available for: Measles-Mumps-Rubella VaccineU.S. FDA Resources
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Seropositivity rate & antibody titers for MMRV at 1, 2 & 3 year [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Occurrence of breakthrough cases & contacts with MMRV disease(s) for 3 years after vaccination [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:
|July 2004
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|December 2004
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2004 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|12 Months to 18 Months (Child)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Written informed consent from the parents/guardians of the child before participating in the long-term follow-up.
- Subjects must have received their complete vaccination course according to the group allocation (i.e. subjects must have received either two doses of MMRV combined vaccine, or two doses of Priorix vaccine and one dose of Varilrix vaccine as separate injections in the primary vaccination study.
- Subjects were aged between 12 to 18 months of age at the time of the first vaccination in the primary study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects must not have received an additional dose of measles, mumps, rubella or varicella containing vaccines.
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|Neufeld/Leitha, Austria, A 2491
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Zepp F et al. Persistence of Functional Antibodies against Mumps Remains High One Year after Administration of Two Doses of a Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella (MMRV) Vaccine in the Second Year of Life. Presented at 24th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID), Basel, Switzerland, 03-05 May 2006.
Knuf M, Faber J, Barth I, Habermehl P. A combination vaccine against measles, mumps, rubella and varicella. Drugs Today (Barc). 2008 Apr;44(4):279-92. Review.
Habermehl P, Zepp F, Sänger R, Otto W, Helm K, Meister N, Knuf M, Kindler K, Willems P. Assessment of Varicella Breakthrough Cases One Year after Administration of Two Doses of a Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella Vaccine in the Second Year of Life. Abstract presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID), Basel, Switzerland, 03-05 May 2006.
Knuf M, Zepp F, Helm K, Maurer H, Prieler A, Kieninger-Baum D, Douha M, Willems P. Antibody persistence for 3 years following two doses of tetravalent measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine in healthy children. Eur J Pediatr. 2012 Mar;171(3):463-70. doi: 10.1007/s00431-011-1569-4. Epub 2011 Sep 21.
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|November 8, 2012
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|Germany: Paul-Ehrlich-Institut
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Morbillivirus Infections
Paramyxoviridae Infections
Mononegavirales Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Herpesviridae Infections
DNA Virus Infections
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Rubulavirus Infections
Parotid Diseases
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WHITESBURG Ky. (WYMT) - Letcher Central head football coach Paul Rains resigned from his position Monday.
Rains spent just one season with Letcher Central, and finished the year with a 2-9 record. Rains took over for Mike Whitaker at the beginning of the season. Rains is expected to take the head coaching job over at Paul Laurence Dunbar. An announcement is expected as soon as Tuesday afternoon.


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The defending NBA champion Boston Celtics were staring at a two-game hole in their first-round playoff series against the Chicago Bulls when Ray Allen hit a three-pointer with two seconds left to give Boston a 118-115 victory. Allen scored 28 of his 30 points in the second half, breathing life into the Celtics' hopes, which would have been severely tested with another home-court loss. Point guard Rajon Rondo contributed a triple double and Glen "Big Baby" Davis chipped in 26 points and nine rebounds.
"If not for the actions of Allen, Rondo, and Baby, the Celtics would be contemplating putting the parquet in mothballs for the summer," Dan Shaughnessy writes in the Boston Globe. "The Bulls are proving to be a nightmare matchup. Chicago is young and playing with abandon. Miami, Philly, even Orlando would have been a better first-round matchup for the Green."
The Chicago Tribune's Rick Morrissey is full of positives despite the Bulls' loss. "The Bulls didn't lose Monday night. They ran into a clock that didn't have a romantic bone in its body," Morrissey writes. "This game deserved a clock that didn't know when to stop. When Ray Allen hit a three-pointer over the outstretched hand of Joakim Noah with two seconds left in the game, it was only right that Ben Gordon get a chance to answer. They had been going at it all night, and the battle could have gone on into infinity, like some sort of basketball heaven. It was Boston Marathon day, after all. The clock is supposed to go up, not down, right? But the Bulls had run out of timeouts, and Tyrus Thomas' desperation shot from halfcourt fell short."
The San Antonio Spurs rebounded from their opening-game loss to Dallas by beating the Mavericks, 105-84, Monday night to tie their series. Tony Parker led the Spurs with 38 points. "Parker had it all. The mid-range jumper, the floater, the runner, the layup," Buck Harvey writes in the San Antonio Express-News. "He had 27 points at the half and could have had 50 for the game had he wanted 50."
The Montreal Canadiens and the Boston Bruins are Original Six NHL teams with a rich history. A common theme in their intertwined stories has been Montreal's domination — the Habs won 24 of their previous 31 series against the Bruins, including a ridiculous 18 straight series at one point. But Boston is one win away from sweeping Montreal from the NHL playoffs after Monday's 4-2 victory. Could this be the year for the Bruins, who haven't won a Stanley Cup since 1972?
"Three games into the postseason, and three victories logged over the CH, the Bruins can point to the win here as the one that firmly established their postseason countenance," Kevin Paul Dupont writes in the Boston Globe. "They knew they had the talent to score (witness: the 9-3 edge in Games 1, 2). They knew they had discipline, as proven through 82 games, October to April. Now they know they have perhaps the most important element, a team-wide physical toughness and mental stamina to withstand being fed into the meat grinder, while at the same time generating those scoring chances and not being goaded into dumb penalties."
Fans are breathing a little easier in Washington after the Capitals blanked the New York Rangers, 4-0, to cut their series deficit to 2-1. The Caps, led by Alex Ovechkin, dominated in the regular season but struggled offensively in losing the first two games at home, which usually equals a quick playoff exit. "The Capitals didn't want to come to New York and be steamrolled by this crowd and this motivated team that [coach John] Tortorella has playing so purposefully," Mike Wise writes in the Washington Post. "They didn't want that label of regular season monster and playoff pretender to stick this year, a season in which they began to show the form of a real Cup contender."
Ethiopean Deriba Merga (2 hours, 8 minutes, 42 seconds) and Kenyan Salina Kosgei (2:32:16) won the men's and women's races, respectively, in the 113th Boston Marathon on Monday. But U.S. runners could be on the road to respectability again, with Americans finishing third in the men's and women's races. Kara Goucher finished only nine seconds behind the women's winner, and Ryan Hall finished 58 seconds behind the men's winner.
"Boston, the granddaddy of marathons, is a different story. It's tough. It's hilly. It's filled with elite Kenyans and Ethiopians," Jeff Jacobs writes in the Hartford Courant. "Since they started giving out prize money in 1986, the Americans hadn't had simultaneous top three finishes. The last time was 1985, when Lisa Larsen-Wiedenbach won and Gary Tuttle finished second. A U.S. man hasn't won since Greg Meyer in 1983. There's a conviction now. The Americans are going to win soon, and soon seemed impossible only a half-dozen years ago. Goucher and Hall were in awe of the crowd support. Neither had ever heard such noise, such fanfare."
Most jockeys who race in the Kentucky Derby are experienced. But Joe Talamo, slated to ride I Want Revenge in the first leg of the Triple Crown, is only 19 years old. "Owners have been known to replace inexperienced jockeys before the race in the hope of having a better chance at winning," Eric Sondheimer writes in the Los Angeles Times. "… However, trainer Jeff Mullins and co-owner Dave Lanzman, the connections for I Want Revenge, are sticking with Talamo, and one reason is because the young jockey knows the horse better than anyone, having ridden him in six of his eight starts and in more than 20 workouts."
If you're getting blasé about your workouts, it might be time to try something different. Something out of the ordinary. How about volcano boarding down Cerro Negro, Nicaragua's youngest volcano, which has erupted more than 20 times since 1850?
Put four of the nation's top preps-hoops prospects — Xavier Henry, Alex Oriakhi, Ryan Kelly and John Henson — in a room with Sports Illustrated's Kevin Armstrong and the result is peculiar, offbeat and entertaining. But as Armstrong finds out, some recruiting pitches are over the top. One unnamed school sent Henson 250 pieces of mail … in one day.
Dan McGrath didn't like the advice he received from his father-in-law decades ago to "have something to fall back on" if journalism didn't work out. Now a sportswriter at the Chicago Tribune, McGrath has seen many journalists lose their jobs because of a slumping economy and a tough time in the industry. That's why he looked into whether his father-in-law was right about becoming a sprinkler fitter. You know, having something to fall back on.
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Summer is a great time to catch up on your reading and this weekend is a great opportunity to find hot deals on hundreds of titles.
The Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District is holding a book sale at the East Library in the Springs. Friday is for friends members and educators. The sale opens to the public on Saturday, June 19 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, June 20 from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.
How would you like 75 percent off of just about every book in the store? That's what you'll find at Books Again in Pueblo. The store is open 6 days a week, and your purchase benefits the Pueblo City - County Library District. The store offers monthly specials along with the everyday low prices.
Here's a deal that lets you "read" our Colorado outdoors and make a meal of it! Head to Rock Ledge Ranch at the entrance to Garden of the Gods for a "Wild Things You Can Eat Class." It is Saturday, June 19th and you do need to register for it. The class starts at 10 a.m. and runs until 11:45 a.m., and then you eat what you harvested for lunch.
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Sale this week - Television series on DVD, priced between $2.50 and $5.00. We have a fairly large and eclectic selection. Come check it out!
Next Bag-of-Books Sale is Saturday, September 10, 9 - 3:30 at Central Library.
Our next Bag-of-Books Sale is coming soon. On Saturday, September 10 you will once again be able to fill your bags with books for only $2.00 a bag! Write it on your wall calendar or enter it on your phone calendar – just don't forget.
All audio books (books on CD) are on special this week. All audio books normally priced between $2 and $7 are only $2.00. Do you have a long commute or a road trip planned? You can't beat this price!
I hope you've marked your calendars for our big Bag-of-Books Sale on June 4. It will be held in the library parking lot from 9 – 3:30. I think it's the only place in town you can fill up a grocery-size bag full of books for only $2.00!
This week in the store all music CDs are only $1.00 per disc. Stock up on some great tunes for the summer.
How about kicking back with some popcorn and a great movie at home? All our DVDs are ONLY $1.00 this week! (Excludes The Great Courses.)
Head's up! The Summer Bag-of-Books Sale is just around the corner. Mark your calendar for Saturday, June 4. Books are 10 cents each or buy a grocery-size bag full for only $2.00.Watch here - more information to come.
Have you powered through all the great reads you bought at our March 5th Bag Sale? You should head down to the bookstore this week. We have lots of great new stuff. You'll always find something new and different that will pique your interest and you know it's almost impossible to beat our prices!
We have a great selection of music for guitar and piano (heavy on the guitar). If you play and you're looking for something new, you'll want to check this out. We also put out a lovely selection of children's books. These books would be great for reading to early and middle elementary school children. Most of these books are "like new" and they're priced $1.00 each!
Don't forget the next Bag-of-Books Sale is Saturday, March 5.
Finally we have a date – the next Bag-of-Books Sale is Saturday, March 5! Mark your calendars. Help us spread the word. This sale will be here before you know it. As most of you know we couldn't schedule the sale until the work on the freight elevator was complete. We scheduled the sale as soon as we could, but there's not much time to advertise it. Tell your friends, tell your neighbors, there will be plenty of books to go around. Here's the important stuff:• DATE: Saturday, March 5• TIME: 9:00 – 3:30• PLACE: Central Library, third floor• PRICE: all books are 10¢ each or $2.00 for a bagfulCategories will include: fiction & mystery, science fiction, romance, children's books and assorted nonfiction. You will also find CDs, DVDs, VHS, and cassettes. We will have brown paper bags that you can fill for $2.00, but better yet bring your own sturdy reusable bag.There are usually books left over after these sales, if you know of someone that can find good homes for them let me know. Call Carol at 269.553.7821.
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Rondo's Free-Throw Struggles Hurt Celtics
In some ways this year's postseason has been a coming-out party for Rajon Rondo, who has turned Boston's Big Three of Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce into a widely acknowledged Big Four. Rondo is averaging 16.4 points per game in the playoffs and 9.8 assists, and has two triple doubles. He's also leading all players in the playoffs in total assists, with 196, for the third straight season.
But one key part of his game keeps Rondo from having a solid claim as the NBA's best point guard, and is complicating Boston's quest for a title: His lack of shooting touch. Rondo led all guards this season with a field-goal percentage of .508, just ahead of Steve Nash's .507. But Rondo took just 80 three-pointers, hitting only 17 of them, and hit just 62.1% of his free-throw attempts. Nash hit 42.6% of his 3s and 93.8% of his FTs.
Rondo had by far the lowest percentage on FTs and 3s among the 18 guards who shot 46% or better from the field this season. As a result, he ranked second to last among them in true-shooting percentage, which is a measure of how efficiently players convert shooting opportunities — whether fouled or not — into points. The other 17 guards on the list had a true-shooting percentage that was, on average, 20% better than their field-goal percentage — reflecting all the extra points they got by converting from the charity stripe and from behind the arc. Rondo's TS% was just 6% better than his field-goal percentage.
The rest of the guards on the list averaged a free-throw percentage of 0.814. If Rondo had hit at that rate, he would have scored 44 more points and had a true-shooting percentage of 0.561, moving him a couple of notches up the list. Rondo doesn't need to develop a three-point shot to become a more efficient scorer. He just has to work on his unguarded shot from the free-throw line.
Rondo's poor shooting on free throws is historically aberrant. Just 31 times in the past decade has a guard attempted at least 150 foul shots and made fewer than 70% of them. Rondo's four NBA seasons all make the list, including two of the worst three seasons in terms of lowest FT% (Baron Davis's 58% in 2001-02 was the worst), and four of the worst nine.
There is hope for the 24-year-old Boston guard: These seasons tended to come early in players' careers, and many improved over time. Of the 31 seasons, 25 were turned in by players 25 or younger. Davis hit 82.1% of his foul shots this past season. Tony Parker, twice on the list, has exceeded 75% in three of the last four seasons. And Jason Richardson, who appears on the list four times, has shot 73.9% or better in each of the last three seasons.
But Rondo's trend lines are pointing in the wrong direction. His peak free-throw percentage came in his rookie year, and this year his percentage was worse than last year. This year's postseason also marks a new playoff low for him. He went 1 for 4 in Boston's Game 3 loss in the NBA finals to Los Angeles on Tuesday (and is 4 for 13 in the finals overall). Those three lost points mattered in a game that was within three points for much of the fourth quarter.


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The Amazing Awfulness of Nintendo Wii Game "Sukeban Shachou Rena"
Is "Sukeban Shachou Rena" the worst-selling video game ever? The blog Destructoid is reporting that the game, which was released two weeks ago for Nintendo Wii and is so far only available in Japan, has sold a mere 100 copies. We don't know why. Who doesn't want to play a video game in which you must avoid mean, jumping cats who have taken over an office? The sluggish sales of "Sukeban Shachou Rena" (loosely translated as "Delinquent CEO Rena")calls into question the time-tested maxim that anything involving dogs or cats is popular by default (though, in what is no doubt a galling fact for the game's creators, a clip of the game on YouTube has garnered over 98,000 views to date, suggesting popularity doesn't necessarily translate to sales).
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Robin Donovan and Juliana Gallin are the authors of The Lazy Gourmet: Magnificent Meals Made Easy—a hip, fun, and practical guide to cooking strikingly sophisticated, yet surprisingly simple dishes. You can visit the authors' blog at www.twolazygourmets.com, like them on Facebook, and follow them on Twitter.
One of our favorite appetizers from The Lazy Gourmet: Magnificent Meals Made Easy is our version of the Scandinavian open-faced sandwich (smørrebrød, smørbrød, and smörgås to the Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes). Smörgås are a diverse and adaptable traditional dish that look beautiful and are easy to make. Simply butter a piece of hearty dark bread and pile it neatly with your favorite meat, fish, vegetables, cheese, eggs, herbs or whatever else you fancy. Cocktail-sized, sliced pumpernickel loaves are available at many supermarkets and delis—but if you can't find them, just get a large square loaf and cut four slices into quarters. You can also use crispy rye crackerbreads made by companies like Kavli or Wasa. We love to serve smörgås for brunch, lunch or as an appetizer.
Smoked Herring Smörgås make great appetizers and complement small meals.Photo courtesy Two Lazy Gourmets
Smoked Herring SmörgåsFrom The Lazy Gourmet: Magnificent Meals Made Easy (Viva Editions, 2011)
• 16 cocktail-sized (about 2 1/2-inch square) slices of pumpernickel bread• 3 to 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened• 16 large cucumber slices• 4 hard-boiled eggs, sliced• Kosher salt to taste• Freshly ground black pepper to taste• One 7-ounce can smoked herring fillets, cut into 1-inch squares about 1/4-inch thick• 1 to 2 large sprigs of fresh dill
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ANTIOCH -- Late model stock car driver Troy Foulger of Martinez upset a field of California's top drivers Aug. 16 at Antioch Speedway while behind the wheel of the Oakley-based car owned by Billy Bowers.
Foulger, a four-time champion in the modified stock car division, moved up to the Northern All Star Late Model Stock Car division this year. Late model stock cars are the nation's top division of stock cars that race on dirt.
Foulger beat Chico's Richard Papenhausen, Bobby Hogge IV of Salinas and Jeff Decker of Morgan Hill, who finished in that order.
"I did not think I had a shot in the world to win this race," said Foulger in victory lane. "Billy (Bowers) made a couple of changes in the set-up and that made the car very different than it was. I couldn't believe it."
Papenhausen emerged late in the event, passing Hogge IV, but only evenly pacing Foulger.
"I made the wrong decision on setting up the car," said Hogge IV. "I missed it. It's my fault."
Paul Guglielmoni of Vacaville brought home fifth spot, with teammate Terry Kuntz taking sixth.
Hogge, in the modified division, was able to prevent a sweep by Foulger, thanks to Foulger having to come from the back of the pack after pitting for a flat tire.
Foulger and Anthony Slaney of Martinez were side by side going to the finish line for second, with Foulger taking the spot by inches.
"That flat tire killed me," Foulger said after the race. "Then it took me too long to get by Anthony (Slaney).
Hogge IV has won 10 feature events in the modified division this season. Five of them have been at Antioch Speedway.
His win came after a horrifying restart. Sean O'Gara of Fairfield raced Hogge IV on the outside at the drop of the green, going deep into turn one. O'Gara slid off the exit ramp, and was wrapped up in guardrails. He was not injured.
Shawn DeForest of Livermore drove the Jim Reid modified from Knightsen to fourth. Aaron Crowell of Oakley was fifth.
Last week, Brentwood's Fred Ryland drove wife Patti Ryland's hobby stock car to victory. This week it was Patti herself. Again, it was Brentwood crosstown rival Brad Myers who provided the challenge to Ryland.
"My engine is old, but it gets the job done," Myers said. "I could have used a little more power. I tried running the bottom of the racetrack, but it was no different. I had the same outcome."
Third-place finisher Kimo Oreta of Vacaville was right behind Myers.
"I was giving it all I had," he laughed. "I was trying my best to stay with them, but that was all I could do. I just couldn't get past them."
Christopher Brown of Antioch and Nick Baldwin from Oakley completed the top five.
Living legend Larry Damitz of Vallejo has won races for 62 straight years, and his win in the Limited Late Model Division was a thriller.
Damitz, the oldest driver regular competing in a regular racing division in the United States, battled Danville's Jim Freethy in a side-by-side battle that brought the grandstand to its feet.
"Once I got down in the groove where I should have been earlier, I knew I was going to be hard to pass," said Damitz.
Freethy tried every trick in the book, with his car completing several laps in perfect side-by-side unison with Damitz.
Mike Gustafson of Concord was third, with Mike Hynes of Suisun in fourth and Stockton's Peggy Sue Jared taking fifth.
Brent Curran of Antioch won his sixth "Four Banger" feature of the season, extending his streak to five straight. Danny Wagner of Bay Point got his third win of the season in the Dwarf Car division.
The IMCA Modified Stock Car and SportMod divisions will be featured Aug. 23 at Antioch Speedway. There will also be a complete program for the Limited Late Model, Hobby Stock, Dwarf Car and Four-Banger divisions.
A team-by-team preview of the always-tough Bay Valley Athletic League will appear Aug. 29 in this newspaper.


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The best first album ever made is fifty years old today
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- viewpointofview said...
I beleave my life would not change in any significant way if someone went back in time and stopped the Rolling Stones from ever forming or releasing music.
The same can not be said for The Beatles or The Beach Boys, to name just to of their conteporaries.
- 5:44 pm
- Rog said...
Fair enough. And Let it Bleed was by far the best 8th Album ever made.
- 6:11 pm
- John Medd said...
That's fighting talk David. I take your point but I'm guessing there'll be one or two naysayers who may not.
- 6:12 pm
- Mark JF said...
"Can't Buy A Thrill" by Steely Dan is my Best First Album Ever Made. What a belter!
- 8:41 pm
- Gareth said...
Perhaps as interesting as that album is the fact that we are looking back at it after 50 years. Had we done that in 1964 we would have been looking at the beginning of the Great War.
- 10:30 pm
I've never been able to love the Stones and as for first albums, for my money Arctic Monkeys' can't be beat. And I'm 41
- 11:08 pm
- Stuart Penney said...
It may be a case of "you had to be there" but I agree with David's claim. Here was a bunch of snotty white English punks taking some of the most important black music of the time and mutating it into something fresh and new. They turned British kids onto black R&B and then most audaciously of all, they sold American music back to America. The first Stones' LP may seem like a modest affair from this distance, but its importance echoes loud and clear down the decades.
- 11:35 pm
- David said...
The best helping hand I had in getting into the Stones was my parents reaction to them. Long-haired, simian, unwashed, wild, uncaring, anti-establishment. Not like those nice Beatles! Like The Who, a lot of the attraction to the Stones was their attitude. No-one really rebelled openly until they came along and that's why the establishment tried to put them down. The first Stones album is still a great listen today. And we are now living in a very different society in the UK. Thank goodness for both,
- 12:20 pm
- . said...
The first World War was much better than the sophomore effort IMHO. Those battles still stand up today.
- 12:42 pm
- Front of Store said...
The Rolling Stones themselves have never seemed, latterly, to care too much about their original sixties albums. Perhaps it was a legacy of their dire relationship with Decca, or a side-effect of climbing into bed with Allen Klein. Or perhaps their early move to US studios, hanging out with Phil Spector and Gene Pitney, created a confusion in their minds as to which album was what - Flowers, December's Children and the rest.
Whatever the reason, their fine debut is unavailable on CD outside Japan, and only the bastardised "England's Newest Hitmakers" (ie "Meet the Rolling Stones") is on catalogue here or in the US.
Having collected all the Decca albums when they were still laminated with Clarifoil manufactured by the British Celanese Company, it was (amongst other things) the Rolling Stones' commitment to their music and to their individual forms of album, EP and single that impressed me so much. Unlike any other act, they kept the three formats separate. Singles and B sides weren't on albums, EPs were standalone tracks. As far as I know, no one else did this, and they kept it up right through to their first own-label release, Sticky Fingers.
I do wonder whether the Glims themselves choose not to acknowledge how hardcore their self-imposed credibility was, in their peak years. After all, it didn't make them rich - they had to reinvent the rock'n'roll game for that to happen. (Stomps off to listen to 5x5.)
- 5:32 pm
Too old for The Clash then?
- 9:28 am
- bob reams said...
Are you sure it's better than the first Led Zeppelin?
- 5:58 pm
- David Hepworth said...
There's a simple reason why this is better than anyone else's first album. All the songs but one had been rhythm and blues hits, for people like Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Rufus Thomas, Slim Harpo and the rest. They were all brilliant songs. Any album made up of a band's own songs won't be as good.
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Irving Morning Roundup: May 8, 2015
–Cimarron Recreation Center, 201 Red River Trail, offers Family Field Day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Free.
–Irving will hold a Bike Fest from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at 221 E. Irving Blvd. Free. The event kicks off Bike to Work Week which is May 11-15.
–An Andrew Esparza Memorial Benefit will be from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Irving Police Association Hall, 1350 Meyers Road.
–Valley Ranch Library, 401 Cimarron, offers a family movie matinee at 2 p.m. Saturday. Free.
–Lively Pointe Youth Center, 909 N. O'Connor, will hold a a Teen Jam from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday. Free with valid student or Parks and Rec ID.
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Ask 11-year-old Kylie Lamp of Marietta what food she likes best at school, and her answer is far from out of the ordinary.
"Pizza is my favorite," Lamp said. "Pizza, and then when we have chicken nuggets and mashed potatoes, that's everyone's favorite."
But public schools have switched from fried to baked and from white to whole-grain to improve on things like pizza and chicken, and now into 2014, those switches include snacks and beverages.
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Second grade students at Harmar Elementary School chow down on sloppy joes, grapes, chef salad and coleslaw Wednesday afternoon, just one of the meals served in public schools that meets the requirements of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act passed in 2010 and extended in 2014 to include snacks and beverages.
The new Smart Snacks in School standards rolled out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the 2014-2015 school year piggy-back onto the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act that brought in more fruit and less fat to school lunch lines. Now the reach extends to everything students can get their hands on in school-vending machines and a la carte snacks included.
"Now they're pressing snack foods," said Warren Local Schools Food Supervisor Barbara Cozzens. "They're making sure kids are getting only healthy snacks during the day, so everything we sell in our a la carte line, and with vending machines, we have to make sure they can't have access to them."
The 2010 law championed by Michelle Obama and signed by President Obama set a list of healthy standards for school lunches in the hopes of combating childhood obesity, and the 2014 extension covers the remaining areas of food sold in schools.
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Smart Snacks in School standards for all food sold in schools
Snacks must contain: 200 calories or less, 230 mg of sodium or less, 35 percent of calories from fat or less and 35 percent of weight from total sugars or less.
Entrees: 350 calories or less, 480 mg of sodium or less, 35 percent of calories from fat or less and 35 percent of weight from total sugars or less.
All-school beverages: All schools may sell plain unflavored water, unflavored low fat milk, flavored fat free milk, 100 percent fruit or vegetable juice.
Elementary schools: 100 percent juice or milk must be eight ounces or less.
Middle schools: 100 percent juice or milk must be 12 ounces or less.
High schools: 100 percent juice, milk or other low or no-calorie beverages must be 20 ounces or less.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Jennifer Currey, the resident district manager of AVI Fresh, the food management company that oversees Marietta, Belpre and the Washington County Career Center, said this year staff worked to find compliant snack substitutes rather than just eliminating them.
"Anything that's not part of the regular lunch they get in line, like pretzels that are not usually whole grain, we had to find something else," she said. "We put things out, and if students don't like them, we take them away and try something else."
Generally, the new guidelines cover everything that is not an entree or side option, like the chips high school students can purchase in line that are now only baked. New this year, every wheat product like bread or pasta must be 100 percent whole grain, rather than 50 percent.
"Nothing is more important than the health and well-being of our children," said U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in a press release. "Parents and schools work hard to give our youngsters the opportunity to grow up healthy and strong, and providing healthy options throughout school cafeterias, vending machines, and snack bars will support their great efforts."
The USDA predicted that about 91 percent of all schools are now compliant with the standards.
There are a few drawbacks.
"Vending machines can't be on during the day at high school, and that money goes toward principal funds that can be used for student rewards and things that don't come out of the general fund, so we lose some on that," said Warren Local Superintendent Kyle Newton.
AVI Fresh made sure that its high school snack vending machines stay on, but stay stocked with things like granola bars and peanuts.
"It's a challenge sometimes to source those products," Currey said. "Instead of just eliminating things we've tried to find alternatives."
Harmar Elementary principal Cheryl Cook said the phasing in of changes allows schools to build compliance over time.
"We had to work on getting breakfast items to be less sugary," she said. "It's so hard because some of the things that are cheaper are not as healthy."
In addition to federal reimbursement that schools receive per meal served, compliant schools also receive an additional six cents per lunch served.
"If kids don't like what we have, they'll eat at home or bring lunch from home," said Frontier Local Food Supervisor Donna Wickline. "Kids like their french fries, but now everything has gone from fried to baked."
In high schools, where changes are a bit more visible because of the wider array of food options, students said they just learn to deal with it.
"I don't think any of it is that big of a deal," said Marietta High School student Eric Thompson, 15. "Most of the time, I feel like whatever I'm eating is about the same as what I was eating before."
Vending machines must contain only water and healthy snacks or must be locked until 30 minutes after students are dismissed, and only high schools are allowed beverages like soda or Gatorade in limited quantities, while younger grades must stick to 100 percent juice or milk.
"We really try to educate kids on healthy foods," Cozzens said. "You have to educate them in the classroom, and now you have to in the lunchroom."
Wickline said Frontier does have some vending machines for students, but the district chose to turn off non-compliant ones rather than restocking them.
Kyleigh Holshu, 10, just began her last year at Harmar Elementary, and shares her classmates' love of foods like chicken nuggets, cookies and chips.
"Even though I like chicken nuggets the best, I don't mind eating vegetables that much," she said. "We get a lot more fruits and vegetables like apples and carrots, and there's no more cookies, but I get that I'm supposed to eat healthy."
Children are still allowed to bring their own lunches from home with any foods they want as long as they keep it to themselves.
"We've been improving menus for the last few years, but there's something each year that changes, so we just have to change too," Wickline said.
Any events where food is sold outside school hours do not fall under the guidelines, but the USDA has asked states to begin setting standards for in-school events like bake sales to determine how frequently they can take place.


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Food; The Insider
By Julia Reed
Published: April 29, 2001
Most people remember their first raw oyster. ''I swallowed once,'' wrote M.F.K. Fisher in ''The Gastronomical Me,'' ''and felt light and attractive and daring, to know what I had done.'' Hers was at the Christmas banquet at the Southern California boarding school where she was a sophomore. Mine was at Doe's Eat Place in Greenville, Miss., where I grew up. ''Try it,'' my father said, plopping an enormous Gulf oyster on my plate.
How could I not? I was the only child at the table, and my chief ambition was to somehow be 35. I lifted the oyster out of its shell and swallowed it. First, there was the amazing surprise that the oyster was not in fact gross, but sweet and salty and actually good. (''Oysters, my delicate taste buds were telling me, oysters are simply marvelous!'' Fisher wrote.) Then there was the breathtaking importance of the moment itself: I knew I had forever left the squeamish, fearful realm of childhood and become a risk-taking, experienced adult -- despite the fact that I was only 11.
Just as Fisher was downing her oyster, the senior-class president asked her to dance (an event made no less exciting by the fact that the president was also a girl). After I ate mine, I felt equally chosen, part of the ''real'' world I'd previously seen only in movies or at the edges of my parents' cocktail parties.
The good news is that the bright and sophisticated grown-up world, at least where oysters are concerned, is plenty large. I still eat oysters on the half shell every chance I get, but there are dozens of equally elegant ways to have them. There are angels on horseback (bacon-wrapped oysters broiled until the bacon is crisp), which were the height of cocktail party chic in the 50's and 60's, and which are still delicious, especially if you marinate the oysters first in white wine and garlic and a little black pepper. There are Le Bernardin's sublime warm oysters in truffle cream sauce, a staple of the restaurant since its earliest days in Paris and a perfect combination of earth and sea. And then there are those fabulous names: oysters casino, oysters Foch (pan-fried oysters atop toast smeared with foie gras and covered in port-wine sauce), oysters Bienville (named for the founder of New Orleans and baked in their shells with a cream sauce flavored with minced shrimp and topped with cheese), oysters poulette, oysters Pierre and, of course, oysters Rockefeller.
Oysters Rockefeller was invented at Antoine's Restaurant on St. Louis Street in New Orleans in 1899. The little black-and-gold book Antoine's published to celebrate its centennial in 1940 says that ''Oysters à la Rockefeller . . . were so named because of the extreme richness of the sauce, because at the time the elder Rockefeller was then the richest man in the world.'' The family of Antoine Alciatore, which still owns the restaurant, has never divulged the recipe (on postcards printed to commemorate the millionth order, the recipe is referred to as ''a sacred family secret''), but it is said to include an exotic mix of green herbs and watercress rather than the spinach with which the dish is so often made, and it is always flavored with either Pernod or anisette. I am firmly in the watercress camp, as was James Beard, who provided a recipe for it in his ''New Fish Cookery.'' (Even so, oysters topped with spinach are correctly called oysters Florentine.) Among Beard's ingredients is fennel, which heightens the licorice flavor of the liqueur and is a strangely perfect match for oysters.
My Aunt Jane's favorite oyster dish was oysters Ellis, oysters baked on the half shell with chopped mushrooms and tomatoes and sauce Colbert. Aunt Jane smoked cigarettes out of a holder and wore rubies instead of diamonds, and her best friend killed her husband with a samurai sword. I'm pretty sure she ate oysters Ellis because they are delicious, not because she needed an aphrodisiac, as oysters are reputed to be. While there is something inherently sexy about eating an oyster, there is no scientific evidence that oysters themselves lift the libido. However, oyster loaves were once so successful in making up for the effects of the wandering male libido that they were called ''peacemakers'' in San Francisco and New Orleans, where errant husbands would bring them home to their furious brides in lieu of flowers or candy. (Aunt Jane's friend's husband should have tried this.) An oyster loaf is one of life's great things: a loaf of good French or homemade white bread, halved and hollowed out, brushed with butter, toasted, filled with fried oysters and put back together again. Its particular elegance lies in its purity, but I have to admit that I find it hard not to spread the bread cases with a film of tartar sauce made with homemade mayonnaise. It is better, though, to save the tartar sauce for toasted rounds of a baguette, topped with a fried oyster, another of the great oyster canapes.
These days in New Orleans, the famous oyster loaves have mostly given way to oyster ''po' boys,'' fried oysters on toasted -- but not hollowed-out -- French loaves and dressed with mayonnaise, lettuce and tomato. The best version in town is served at Uglesich's, a bare-bones culinary mecca that also serves the city's best oysters on the half shell, expertly opened by Mike Rodgers, who accompanies them with his own blend of ketchup, olive oil, Worcestershire sauce, hot-pepper sauce and horseradish. It is here that I would take an oyster virgin for that first seminal experience. And if she is very lucky, she will find a pearl. What could possibly make anyone feel more like a sophisticated citizen of the world?
Oysters Rockefeller
(adapted from James Beard's ''New Fish Cookery'')
8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter
1/4 cup chopped fennel bulb
2 tablespoons chopped scallions
2 tablespoons chopped celery
1 tablespoon chopped fresh chervil
1 tablespoon chopped fennel greens
1/4 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
1 cup trimmed fresh watercress, rinsed and dried
4 tablespoons fine dry plain breadcrumbs
1 tablespoon Pernod or anisette liqueur (optional)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Pinch cayenne pepper
2 dozen oysters on the half shell.


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Food Fridays: A Southern Kitchen Invades Bangkok
BANGKOK–Very hot, very spicy, very healthy.
That is the common way of describing food from southern Thailand. But finding it in Bangkok wasn't easy – until this week, when antigovernment protesters massed on the capital's streets, bringing a culinary invasion along with them.
"An army marches on its stomach", French military leader Napoleon Bonaparte once said. And protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban appears to agree. At each of the main rally sites throughout Bangkok, a "Southern Kitchen" has been set up and is being managed by people close to Mr. Suthep, a former opposition Democrat Party politician who comes from a province in the country's south that is a stronghold for the party.
All of the dishes are made by volunteer cooks directly from the region to guarantee that every dish they make tastes authentic.
"It takes real southerners to actually make good, authentic southern dishes," said Santi Puttasri, a provincial councilor from the southern province of Surat Thani who helps run the kitchen.
Southern Thai cuisine is a mixture of Indian, Chinese and Indonesian influences. Thailand's south served as a strategic trading center for merchants sailing through the region during the days when the spice trade flourished, and the blending of those different culinary styles gave birth to a unique type of food.
What makes the cuisine unique is the generous use of herbs and spices, which blend together to produce strong, aromatic flavors. The region's proximity to the sea has also led to the abundant use of seafood. The variety of fresh vegetables found in many dishes has earned the cuisine a reputation for being healthy.
And the Indian influence makes southern dishes hotter and spicier than those from other parts of the country.
At the protest site in Ratchaprasong, the heart of Bangkok's shopping district, long queues form for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The Southern Kitchen there has been cooking for tens of thousands of people from across the country. The idea, says Shane Thaugsuban, who oversees the operation, is to "cook authentic dishes" that southerners are familiar with and that non-southerners can also enjoy.
The key ingredients come directly from the south, said Mr. Shane, a younger brother of Mr. Suthep and a former member of parliament from southern Surat Thani.
The variety of foods on offer include Gaeng Lueng, or yellow curry; Gaeng Som, spicy, sweet and sour curry; and Kua Kling, spicy dry-fried minced pork.
At Ratchaprasong's Southern Kitchen, I got to try Gaeng Som with Chinese cabbage, white radish and fish balls. Made without coconut milk, a staple of other types of Thai curries, this dish packed a strong, spicy kick that paired well with warm, white rice.
Gaeng Liang, or Thai-style mixed vegetable soup, was also on the menu. This dish is common across Thailand, but the recipe varies from region to region. In the south, cooks drop the pepper and replace it with banana flower and young tamarind leaves, ingredients uncommon to diners from other areas.
The base of the soup is shrimp paste, rather than paste made from pounded chilies, and, when made well, the curry is a perfect combination of fish sauce, tamarind paste and sugar.
Urairat Klaipetch, who traveled from her home in Pathum Thani province north of Bangkok to join the rallies, said she liked southern food because of its spicy flavor and abundant use of herbs and vegetables.
"Southern foods are strong in flavor and the herbs and spices in them are really good for me, especially when I feel under the weather," said Hattaya Surasing, 46, a native of Si Saket in northeast Thailand.
Meanwhile, for southerners in Bangkok craving the taste of home, the Southern Kitchen has provided solace.
"The food here is really rich and robust in flavor," said 50-year-old Puangrat Sirivimolwan, who comes from the southern province of Songkhla.
Among the larger crowd, Mr. Shane believes the kitchen is helping promote southern cuisine – something of which he is proud.
If you're in Bangkok and feel like a dining challenge, the rally sites may be a good place to begin a journey into this unique cuisine. But they are not the only places you can enjoy a new experience. Here are just a few other options:
Khua Kling + Pak Sod
98/1 Soi Thong Lo 5, Sukhumvit Road, Vadhana District, Bangkok 10110
Tel. +66 2 1853977
Na Hat Yai
782-784 Meng-Jaai Intersection, Pracha Uthit Road, Huay Kwang District, Bangkok 10310
Tel. +66 81 9117014, +66 89 3851560, +66 2 6916846
Krua Pak Phanang
322/384 Soi Ratchadapisek 3, Ratchadapisek Road, Dindaeng District, Bangkok 10400
Tel. +66 85 5564481, +66 2 6411687
Chan Hom
273/4 Soi Ramkhamhaeng 21, Ramkhamhaeng Road, Bangkapi District, Bangkok 10310
Tel. +66 2 3191128, +66 2 3191129


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Peter Furth
Peter Furth is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University. He holds a PhD from MIT in Transportation Systems Analysis. Along with a wide range of research in public transportation and traffic signal control, he teaches and conducts research in bicycle facility design. He teaches an annual summer program in the Netherlands on sustainable transportation, through which he has become familiar with Dutch bikeway planning and design standards and practices. He is a contributor to the NACTO Bikeway Design Guide and author of research papers dealing with shared lane design and cycle track safety. He has developed bike network plans for two communities and is active in state and local bicycling advocacy organizations.


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The Incredible Hulk has played a lot of roles in the Marvel Universe: monster, savior, focal point of an entire superhero war among them. Now he's adding team leader and father figure to his resume. Disney XD debuts a kindler, gentler green giant in Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H August 11. Oh don't worry, there's still lots of property damage.
This cartoon is an action-comedy focused on a "dysfunctional family" of Hulks. Joining Bruce Banner are the Red Hulk, She-Hulk, A-Bomb and Skaar, who in the comics is the son of Hulk. One of the writers is Paul Dini, an Emmy award winning scribe known for his work on Batman: The Animated Series. In a conference call promoting the show, he explained this is part of Hulk's ongoing effort to prove he is not a monster. It begins with his sidekick Rick Jones working on a webseries to document Hulk's heroic side. Of course, chaos ensues.
Dini said Disney was concerned about how to portray the main character as more than just a mindless brute. The reality show concept came up as a thing today's kids would be instantly familiar with.
"So we thought what better way to prove that he's a hero than to talk about it with the audience," he said. "It's not the traditional way of action-adventure storytelling, but we thought it would be fun to give it a try." It also sounds similar to Ultimate Spider-Man's talks with the camera, which older viewers seem to hate. Hulk's comics have always had a fair amount of internal monologue, but they get away with because he is two separate people.
There are lots of comedic moments. One episode features the supergroup playing minigolf. But since one Hulk is capable of battling the Avengers to a standstill, you'll need some serious bad guys to tackle five of them. Shown so far are Annihilus, leader of an intergalactic army, mad scientist The Leader and Sauron, a mutant who can siphon other people's power. Bruce Banner has had his gamma irradiated gifts longer than anyone on the team. That places Hulk in the unusual position of being the most stable person in the room.
Agents of S.M.A.S.H joins a Disney XD lineup that already includes Avengers Assemble and Ultimate Spider-Man. There are plenty of Mighty Marvel moments ahead.
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The Mississippi River is now predicted to crest Friday at 44 feet in Vicksburg.
The forecast is a foot higher and a day later than predicted last week.
Forecasters told the Vicksburg Post that the updated projection is based on rainfall amounts in areas near tributaries that feed the Lower Mississippi.
The river was 43.4 feet at Vicksburg on Monday morning, up one-tenth of a foot.
In 2012, the river dropped due to drought conditions across much of the nation and dry weather locally. Levels dipped to minus-1.1 feet Aug. 29. The river's 57.1-foot crest in 2011 was 14.1 feet above flood stage and nearly a foot above levels in the Great Flood of 1927.


text: 'Enemy' tells the story of a university lecturer named Adam (Jake Gyllenhaal) who is nearing the end of a relationship with his girlfriend Mary (Melanie Laurent). One night, while watching a film, Adam spots a minor actor who looks just like him. Consumed by the desire to meet his double, Adam tracks down Anthony, an actor living with his pregnant wife Helen (Sarah Gadon) and engages him in a complex and dangerous struggle. The film is a haunting and provocative psychosexual thriller about duality and identity, where in the end only one man will survive.


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New Studies Demonstrate the Public Health Benefits of Communications About Medicines
New Studies Demonstrate the Public Health Benefits of Communications About Medicines
Last week we noticed two new studies that demonstrate the health benefits of communication about innovative medicines to patients. These studies add to the evidence that direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertisements help patients discuss new treatment options with their doctors and nurses. Several older studies, including one conducted by the FDA have concluded that high percentages of physicians agree that DTC advertising increases awareness about possible treatments. However, the two new studies examine the effects of prescription drug advertising on the appropriate use of medicines and physician prescribing. And both seem to provide good news.
In the first study, published in the journal Cancer, Dr. Gregory Abel and his colleagues at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute examined use of aromatase inhibitor (AI) therapy for breast cancer and the impact of DTC advertising. The authors note at the outset that "The aromatase inhibitors (AIs) are a class of oral breast cancer therapies that reduce the risk of cancer recurrence in postmenopausual women (appropriate use) but not in premenopausal women (inappropriate use), because they do not effectively suppress ovarian estrogen production." The article examined the prevalence of DTC advertising with the "appropriate" and "inappropriate" use of these medicines. Dr. Abel and colleagues found that DTC advertising for the AIs was associated with increases in "appropriate" prescriptions with no significant effect on inappropriate prescriptions. Thus, the advertisements appeared to help enable appropriate patients to have conversations with their physicians and receive the right breast cancer treatment.
The second study was conducted by economist Jayani Jayawardhana of the University of Georgia and published in the International Journal of Industrial Organization. In her study, Dr. Jayawardhana calculated the impact on consumer welfare that results from changes in demand for cholesterol-reducing drugs due to increased advertising. The paper concludes that "the presence of [DTC advertising] results in an increase in consumer welfare in the cholesterol reducing drug market. The results also indicate the informative role of [advertising] on the decision to seek health care which is consistent with previous findings in the literature. Furthermore, the results suggest that physician advertising could be both informative and persuasive on the choice of the drug, although the magnitude of the persuasive effects seems to be very small. Finally, results also support informative effects of physician advertising on quantity choice of the drug."
While both of these studies focus on distinct therapeutic areas and use different analytical methods, the conclusions are quite similar: DTC advertising of medicines can help patients begin important conversations with their healthcare professionals, thus leading to appropriate treatment and ultimately, better health outcomes. That's something that all of us who are concerned about public health should applaud.
You can view PhRMA's Guiding Principles on Direct to Consumer Advertising about Prescription Medicines here: http://www.phrma.org/sites/default/files/631/phrmaguidingprinciplesdec08final.pdf


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For those of us who enjoyed the Star Wars Clone Wars cartoon, here's a bummer of an update: With the show abruptly cancelled—save for a few web extras—they're not even going to reveal the fate of two of the series' main characters. That's despite five years of the creators saying we could expect them to. Our pals at …
Announced, This New Clone Wars Game Is
If you can stomach any more of Yoda's by-now insufferably clichéd inverted predicate/subject bullshit, here's the trailer for The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes, which is announced for Sept. 15 across all major platforms.
Why People Didn't Like The Clone Wars
Many didn't like The Clone Wars and maybe you don't like it either. Actor Sam Witwer, who did the motion capture and voice work for Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice in The Force Unleashed, has a viable theory why:


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Every Spring, Saint Charles does a junk-day in which they pick up (for no charge!!!) all household materials/crap hidden in the unused part of your basement that you've been saving for God knows what. I don't know if this is more of a universal thing, it probably is, but since I am quite boring and have never REALLY lived anywhere else, I don't know.
The week before the stuff is collected, people tend to start putting their stuff out on the curb. When I was younger, this made for some most excellent garbage picking. The neighborhood gang and I would traipse around the blocks looking for, well, stuff and things. I'm not sure that my parents were overly thrilled the years I brought home an earwig infested dog-house or the gallons of paint I found, but to their credit they never said a whole lot about it.
Once I hit the teenage years, the prospect of garbage picking was deemed "lame" mainly because I'd discovered this really neat thing called "money" which you could use to exchange for goods and services. My allowance was hefty so I had no need to rummage through other people's stuff anymore.
This is not to say that I don't like scouring thrift stores: I totally do, but there's something different between standing in full view of whomever threw the stuff you're looking at out and being able to examine it on your own. As with most of the stuff people tend to leave on the curb, there's always the wonder of WHY they threw it out in the first place that makes me not really want it.
Guess I'm becoming an adult.
So, last Sunday Alex, The Daver and Benny were playing outside with the throng of neighbors that I am fortunate enough to have and love and I decided to get a start on moving our crap to the curb. I really only put out the bigger stuff because the bags 'o' crap get shuffled over to the Salvation Army (pretty much weekly). I do most of the manual work around the house, which includes checking for critters that may have made their way into our garage. I don't actually have a penis, but this sometimes surprises even me.
Our junk day is tomorrow (Saturday) and this must be marked in the datebooks of each and every junk collector within a forty-mile radius, because by that time (last Sunday afternoon) the scads of pickup trucks with makeshift sides on their truck bed were out in full force.
This pleases me me greatly, of course, because I am somewhat of a recycling nerd. I'm thrilled by the green aspect of all of this (and I was long before it was hip to be green) and I love knowing that whatever I put out will (mostly) go to good use.
No idea what the use is, but I'm sure it's better than sitting in my garage night after night. Pretty much anything is better than that.
While I am in the process of hauling stuff out of the garage and onto the curb, some dude missing most of his teeth and genes (mayhap the missing link?) comes screeching to a halt at my curb and starts vigorously going through our stuff. I have no problem with this, save for it being mildly uncomfortable because here I am, teeth and genes intact, dropping my crap on the curb for someone else to take.
What annoys me the most is that while he is shuffling through some of the boxes I put out (electronic stuff that even I don't understand) the papers and plastic that are in these boxes drift lazily down to my grass where they remain until he leaves and I pick them back up. I'm cool with you taking my stuff, Mr. Missing Link, I'm not cool with you spewing the trash about RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY FACE.
I'll never really know where these people come from although I'd guess either Middle Earth or Aurora (made famous by Wayne's World), and while I'm glad that they are saving stuff from rotting (or not) in a landfill, there's something about them that makes me sure to lock my car at night.
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So it seems my exhusband is in St Charles now…!
Thanks for putting the theme music to Sanford and Son in my head, btw!
Yep– it is a universal thing… I have lived just about all over the U-S-A and everywhere I have lived they do something quite similar to this.
I have never actually gotten out and picked something up off of someones curb– but I have thought about it! and I have silently thanked the people that have!
You most likely know about this site– but if not I am sure that you wouldlike and apreciate it– http://www.freecycle.com – Most cities have it- I am sure yours does too!
We don't have a day like that around here but I wish that we did. I usually post my unwanted stuff on freecycle and let people come pick it up. I like knowing that my stuff is going to someone who can really use it.
Oh man…I need to move to St. Charles. As we speak a dumpster is being delivered because of the volume of crap in my basement.
And on an unrelated note, I've been reading you in Google Reader and hadn't noticed the header change – NICE. Need to show that to my husband. Although he hates cats so that might just be added incentive rather than a deterrent.
We don't have something like that here, either. But, it would be nice if we did.
We used to have that when I was growing up.
I shouldn't admit this, but we used to make fun of the people (often driving beat up trucks) who would stop and shift through our stuff. Ugh. That makes me feel really horrible now.
Personally, second hand stuff is all good, but I can't say I want to really sift through someone's rubbish on the curb. eBay is fine, thrift stores are great. Curbside shopping, not so much.
It seems I am very much a snob after all.
OMG, I remember at our garage sale last year, one of the 'links came and started going through our free box, and picked up this ratty electric blanket that I'd gotten from my grandma, who tries to give us everything. He asked me like a million questions about whether it was washable, if it worked, etc. etc. I figured, it was FREE, for chrissakes, so take the damned thing and if it doesn't work, put it in YOUR free box next year. Our city has a site devoted to giving things away or selling them for free, kind of similar to freecycle, and it's a good thing to do if you can. I've also gotten rid of a LOT of free things on craigslist–but watch out for the freaks!
My city doesn't have a day like that, either; but — I DO have a father-in-law. And one who sees our garbage the second it hits the curb and instantly knows he can put it to good use collecting dust in *his* garage. When we replaced our old toilet (circa 1950 and avocado) and set the old one out with the garbage…his response? "You're not throwing THAT out are you?" and so he took it (probably to use as a planter or something). Happy purging!
Ooooohhhh, the new page is perty! But hey, wait, where are all the sparkly things and the coffee/personality quizes?
BTW, we just had a stray drop 5 new kittens in our rafters, hmmm, what does that say about what is NOT going on inside our house??????
Ya – I get that. I had a big garage sale once and really strange people showed up two hours earlier and insisted on coming in the house and looking at stuff I hadn't moved out yet – it was weird.
BTW – love love LOVE the new header!
There must be these people everywhere!
Sometimes ours are nice enough to take the things we leave in our car, as well! 😉
Our city has a day like that, we don't use it we collect everything! The city Shan works for has a day like that where people take their junk to them. Luckily this year Shan only brought home a new, yes new wheel barrow. Last year it was the "Amy, hurry up and get down here" call to pick up 2 old, yes collectible pedal tractors. So, normally he gets good stuff and yes, he has his teeth and genes and would never leave trash on the ground!
"the missing link" lol!
I am waaaaaaaaay too embarrassed to go through peoples stuff if they can see me. My hubby…would NOT be! He loves him some free stuff!
We dont' have a day like this either. What a great idea!
I'm almost tempted to drive my shit up to St. Charles just for this.
I think the thought of what I would curb would greatly deter me from being remotely interested in other people's stuff. Only so much cat pee one can take in a lifetime.
And…which street are you on? I need to go shopping…
Really, though, what a great idea! I'm a thrift-shop-aholic, so that's heaven! But, I don't hoard like alot of thrify's do. One thing out means I can buy one thing, the Mr. says. Yay, Mr!
Your blog looks so spring fresh!
As an adult, I can't imagine actually going through people's things that they left out, but I am sure my kids would be out collecting. Every time one of the neighbour's has a garage sale, my kids come home with the leftovers.
Oh, and I didn't think you were old enough to have watched Wayne's World!
Our junk day is next week. Looking forward to it! We have a big freezer that needs to be tossed. Found some stinky old turkey in it a few weeks ago when the thing died on us. UGH. But most of the stuff we have needs to go out in a garage sale. We'd surely have enuf if we could jsut wrap our arms around the idea of no more kids, and get rid of all that baby crap.
BTW – love the new look.
Tina still does that! But she usually stops to ask the folks for it first even if it's out in the trash. Here we get a better class of scavenger don't ya know. 😉 lol
Btw, obviously, I haven't been around much. I love the new kittens. Kittens and masturbation…the link was so obvious how could I miss it.
I wish we had a junk day. I just don't think I would ever go through someone else's stuff. But I'm all for someone who might want something I'm done with!
your blog it is very you. i love the kitty, and sort of hope he gets eaten by the fudgesicle looking thing-os.
1 – I didn't know you lived in Saint Charles! I was just there last month for the first time… very beautiful city. We ate a restaurant on the Fox River… it was really nice!
2 – My town has a garbage cleanup like that, too, except ours lasts a week. And it always seems to correspond with Commencement at the college I work at. Welcome to our little town, proud parents of sentimental graduates! Watch out for the garbage piles lining the streets.
Just catching up. I have had a shitty day (and given how shitty yesterday was, that says a lot), and I needed the laughs I get over here!


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My recent column on our vanishing backyards touched a nerve in our community.
"It hit me like a train wreck," wrote Kitty Ritchie Hollemans, who has been affectionately known as Grandma Ritchie to the hundreds of kids who have congregated in her backyard over the years. "What a sad situation to come to our modern world. The thought knocked all the strength and breath out of me. What are our neighborhoods coming to? What has happened to my neighborhood?"
Grandma Ritchie has lived in her cottage on Marquette for 63 years now and she fondly remembers her block as a "wonderful, fun, happy children-filled block, where we played kick-the-can and red rover every warm summer evening in our front yards, with all the neighbors sitting out front watching and visiting. The children were so happy, smiling, having so much fun all out there together. Now you never see a child out in the front yard and, of course, they are not out in the backyards because there are NO backyards."
She remembers her backyard as her haven, where kids enjoyed trying to reach the clouds on the five swings on their swing set, and they played with the dogs, cats, bunnies, squatty pigs and whatever animals the Ritchies had at the time.
Between their house and their detached garage is a basketball area that has been ground zero for generations of her "basketball boys," who have hung out there after school and over weekends. It started with her children and their friends, then her grandchildren and their friends and then it morphed to a gathering of two dozen kids on any given afternoon. If there were a Grandma Richie's backyard reunion, a few hundred people spanning 40 years would show up. I've never seen anything else like it.
"In the last few years all of our Marquette cottages have been torn down by builders and now we have what I call our two- and three-story monsters. It grieves me to see what the builders (or whoever) are doing to my little town of University Park. But all of this is to say what a great and very happy blessing our backyards were and I grieve for the little children who don't have this wonderful privilege nowadays. Our backyard is sacred. May it always be as it still is."
Among the others I heard from is Joan Swalwell, who raised her children on Beverly Drive in Highland Park. "The very day your column on vanishing backyards appeared in the paper, I had commented about vanishing FRONT yards. Now the front yards have raised perimeter borders of stone, brick and landscape greenery. Whereas kids could kick or throw a football (or tin can) continuously from Hillcrest to Hackberry Creek through the grassy front yards, that would be impossible now.
"The same thing with alleys! I remember packs of neighborhood kids roaming up and down alleys, in and out of backyards and into friends' unlocked houses. And, in spite of no cell phones, moms could locate their kids with one or two well-placed calls to another mom."
Many people who contacted me were passionate about their yards. But they were also passionate about their memories in those yards. Park Cities yards are disappearing right before our eyes, but nobody can take away our memories.
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Structural haplotypes and recent evolution of the human 17q21.31 region.
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Structurally complex genomic regions are not yet well understood. One such locus, human chromosome 17q21.31, contains a megabase-long inversion polymorphism, many uncharacterized copy-number variations (CNVs) and markers that associate with female fertility, female meiotic recombination and neurological disease. Additionally, the inverted H2 form of 17q21.31 seems to be positively selected in Europeans. We developed a population genetics approach to analyze complex genome structures and identified nine segregating structural forms of 17q21.31. Both the H1 and H2 forms of the 17q21.31 inversion polymorphism contain independently derived, partial duplications of the KANSL1 gene; these duplications, which produce novel KANSL1 transcripts, have both recently risen to high allele frequencies (26% and 19%) in Europeans. An older H2 form lacking such a duplication is present at low frequency in European and central African hunter-gatherer populations. We further show that complex genome structures can be analyzed by imputation from SNPs.
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