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Dr. Tran is the Clinical Director of Radiation Oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and treats patients with cancers of the genitourinary system and uses stereotactic radiation techniques (such as SRS and SBRT/SABR) for the treatment of patients with oligometastatic disease. His research focuses on the improvement of clinical radiotherapy for the treatment of primarily prostate cancer, but also adrenal, bladder, urethral, testicular and penile cancer as well as patients with oligometastatic disease.
Dr. Tran completed his medical and graduate training at the Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland. He conducted a residency in radiation oncology at the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2008 where he was an instructor of radiation oncology before then joining the staff of Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Tran has published more than 70 scholarly works, has received numerous awards for his research, and is a primary investigator on a number of clinical trials. He is a member and holds leadership positions in the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the American Society for Radiology Oncology (ASTRO), and is board certified in radiation oncology by the American Board of Radiology.
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- Associate Professor of Urology
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- MD PhD, Oregon Health & Sciences University (2003)
- Stanford University School of Medicine / Radiation Oncology (2008)
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Dr. Tran's research focuses on the improvement of clinical radiotherapy for the treatment of primarily prostate, as well as adrenal, bladder, penile, testicular and urethral cancer. To learn how tumors arise, how they spread and why some cancers are resistant to treatment, he studies tumor cell epithelial plasticity - transitions of epithelial and mesenchymal cellular states.
Dr. Tran and his laboratory focus their studies on tumor cell epithelial plasticity - the transitions between epithelial and mesenchymal cellular states and the implications of these transitions for tumorigenesis, cancer treatment resistance and radiation-induced fibrosis. Their research utilizes a variety of inducible transgenic mouse models, non-invasive rodent imaging as well as more tradiational molecular, biochemical and cell biologic approaches. One of these transitions, known as epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), is a conserved developmental program that when inappropriately activated in post-natal life has been associated with organ fibrosis, tumorigenesis and metastasis.
A major focus of the laboratory is the use of inducible mouse models to simulate molecularly targeted therapies for malignancies and radiation induced late effects.
Another focus of the laboratory is the study of novel targeted agents as tumor selective radiosensitizers to increase the therapeutic ratio of clinical radiotherapy.
The Tran lab is committed to translating discoveries from the laboratory bench into novel cancer prevention, diagnostic and treatment approaches that can be tested in the clinic.
Lab Website: The Tran Lab
Technology Expertise Keywordsepithelial plasticity; epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT); genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs)
Clinical Trial KeywordsProstate cancer, Radiation therapy, Oligometastasis, SBRT/SABR
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Tran PT*,+, Shroff EH*, Burns TF*, Thiyagarajan S, Das ST, Zabuawala T, Chen J, Cho YJ, Luong R, Tamayo P, Salih T, Aziz K, Adam SJ, Vicent S, Nielsen CH, Withofs N, Sweet-Cordero A, Gambhir SS, Rudin CM, Felsher DW+. "Twist1 suppresses senescence programs and thereby accelerates and maintains mutant Kras-induced lung tumorigenesis." PLoS Genet. 2012;8(5):e1002650. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002650. Epub 2012 May 24. * - these authors contributed equally; and + - corresponding authors.
Timothy F. Burns, Irina Dobromilskaya, Sara C. Murphy, Rajendra P. Gajula, Saravanan Thiyagarajan, Sarah S. Chatley, Khaled Aziz, Yoon-Jae Cho, Phuoc T. Tran, and Charles M. Rudin. Inhibition of TWIST1 Leads to Activation of Oncogene-Induced Senescence in Oncogene Driven Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Mol Cancer Res 11 (2013) 329-338.
Tran PT, Bendapudi PK, Lin HJ, Choi P, Koh S, Chen J, Horng G, Hughes NP, Schwartz LH, Miller VA, Kawashima T, Kitamura T, Paik D, Felsher DW. "Survival and Death Signals Can Predict Tumor Response to Therapy After Oncogene Inactivation." Sci Transl Med. 2011 Oct 5;3(103):103ra99. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3002018.
Jason A. Efstathiou, Deborah S. Nassif, Todd R. McNutt, C. Bob Bogardus, Walter Bosch, Jeff Carlin, Ron C. Chen, Henry Chou, Dave Eggert, Benedick Fraass, Joel Goldwein, Karen E. Hoffman, Ken Hotz, Margie Hunt, Marc Kessler, Colleen A. F. Lawton, Chuck Mayo, Jeff M. Michalski, Sasa Mutic, Louis Potters, Chris M. Rose, Howard M. Sandler, Greg Sharp, Wolfgang Tomé, Phuoc T. Tran, Terry Wall, Anthony L. Zietman, Peter E. Gabriel, Justin E. Bekelman. Practice-Based Evidence to Evidence-Based Practice: Building the National Radiation Oncology Registry. J Oncol Pract 9 (2013) e90-95.
Aaron T. Wild*, Nishant Gandhi*,Sivarajan T. Chettiar, Khaled Aziz, Rajendra P. Gajula, Russell D. Williams, Rachit Kumar, Kekoa Taparra, Jing Zeng, Jessica A, Cades, Esteban Velarde, Siddharth Menon, Jean-Francois Geschwind, David Cosgrove, Timothy M. Pawlik, Anirban Maitra, John Wong, Russell K. Hales, Michael Torbenson, Joseph M. Herman+, Phuoc T. Tran+. Concurrent versus sequential sorafenib therapy in combination with radiation for hepatocellular carcinoma. PLoS ONE 8 (2013) e65726.
Academic Affiliations & Courses
Graduate Program AffiliationGraduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
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- Fellow, Henry S. Kaplan Research, 2007
- Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society Alumni Award, Oregon Health & Sciences University Chapter, 2013
- Fellow, Parker B. Francis, 2008 - 2011
- Fellow, Radiological Society of North America Research, 2008
- John Muir College Caledonian Honor Society, University of California, 1995
- 1R01CA166348-01A1, National Cancer Institute , 2013 - 2018
- Sidney Kimmel Translational Scholar Award, 2013 - 2015
- Patrick C. Walsh Prostate Cancer Research Fund Award, 2013 - 2014
- Early Career Achievement Award, Oregon Health & Sciences University School of Medicine Alumni Association , 2013
- Research Scholar, American Cancer Society , 2012 - 2016
- Uniting Against Lung Cancer Award, 2012 - 2014
- Included among Top Doctors, Baltimore Magazine, 2012
- Educator of The Year, Association of Residents in Radiation Oncology (ARRO) , 2012
- Prostate Cancer Physician Research Training Award, DoD , 2011 - 2016
- The Phyllis and Brian L. Harvey Scholar - Patrick C. Walsh Prostate Cancer Research Fund Award, 2011 - 2013
- Junior Faculty Career Research Training Award, ASTRO, 2009 - 2011
- Malcolm A. Bagshaw Award, 2007
- Methods in Clinical Cancer Research Workshop Scholarship, ASCO/AACR , 2007
- Research Resident, Radiological Society of North America , 2006
- Roentgen Resident Research Award, Radiological Society of North America , 2006
- Deans Medical Student Research Award, OHSU, 2003
- Molecular Hematology Research Training Fellow, OHSU, 1998 - 2001
- Laurel Merit MD/PhD Scholar, OHSU, 1996 - 2003
- Graduated magna cum laude, University of California, 1996
- Regents Scholar, University of California, 1995 - 1996
- Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award, 2015
- ASCO Leadership Development Program, 2015
- Movember Foundation-PCF Challenge Award, 2015
- Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society , 2013
- American Association for Cancer Research , 2007
- American College of Radiation Oncology , 2005
- American College of Radiology, 2004
- American Society for Radiation Oncology, 2004
- American Society of Clinical Oncology , 2007
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#145146 - 07/17/05 11:30 AM getting dressed for ...
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Vest is such an interesting word.
from the root of "to wear" it can be real clothing, (a vest)or a figurative 'clothing' (with the power vested in me..) or you can be vested (in a pension plan) which just means your are invested (but you also get invested with power!)
you divest, or invest, be vested, or wear a vest..
(but if you are invested with spiritual power, (ie, a preist or minister) you don't get devested, you get defrocked! (so you get vested, but your vest is a frock.)
and i am sure vest has other nuances.. (like vestment, and investment)
#145147 - 07/17/05 11:37 AM Re: getting dressed for ...
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and waistcost, no? (weskit?)
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#145148 - 07/17/05 11:54 AM Re: getting dressed for ...
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Oh yes, weskit/waistcoat is a fun word.
there are some (in a small green part of the world) that mangle and misprononce words so effectively, that poor american visitors to their land thought there was a new name for a waistcoat. and so WESKIT came into being..
WESKIT is how Waistcoat was commonly said.
its a sonic error.
(sonic errors abound--like:
Baited breath
taken for granite
hare's breath...
we could do a whole thread on sonic errors!)
Synjon is another (you know, its how you say the name, (not a very popular one i'll admit, but found in literature) St.John. (Jane Eyre has an important character named St.John.)
#145149 - 07/17/05 12:34 PM Re: getting dressed for ...
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Dr bill had this to say about weskits:
had an amusing experience the first time
I took ferry from Cape Tormentine to Borden on PEI.
There was a safety poster in French, about 'gilets de
sauvettage'. With my best high-school French, I asked
the purser who looked French:'Qu'est que c'est un gilet
de sauvettage?' He snarled at me:'I don't speak French!'
And shut his door before I could ask again in English.
As I walked away, I suddenly had vision of an illustration
in a French language version of Alice in Wonderland, with
the White Rabbit wearing a bright red weskit.
Suddenly it dawned on me: Weskit in French is 'gilet'.
So 'gilets de sauvettage' were life jackets.
so anyone--is the word gilet related to the PIE(that's proto indo european, not PEI(Prince Edward Island--reputed to be the prettiest place on earth) word for clothing (to wear clothing?)
#145150 - 07/17/05 12:47 PM Re: getting dressed for ...
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here's what the Oxford had to say about gilet:
noun (pl. gilets pronunc. same) a light sleeveless padded jacket.
ORIGIN French, waistcoat, from Turkish.
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I sat in my office thumbing through the file drawer labeled "dead languages." I'd been debating for the better part of an hour whether or not to toss the Java desktop folder into the drawer with the others when the door burst open. A fat character dressed in white up to his red nose nodded his black and pointy head at me. He quickly saw what I was doing and grabbed the folder out of my hands.
"That's a little premature," said my visitor. "Java isn't dead. It runs on two billion devices."
"Two billion?" I laughed.
"Well," he answered, "that's what the official marketing says."
I looked at this shapeless blob before me and asked if he wanted to save Java.
"Save Java," he snorted. If he had eyes they would be rolling back in his head to express his disgust with where he thought I was going. "Surely, you aren't one of those nuts who thinks the only way to save Java is to open source it?"
"No," I replied, "I am not suggesting you open source Java. I'm suggesting you out source it."
"Preposterous," he said. "There is Java coursing through the internet."
"Oh," I nodded, "I'm not suggesting that we outsource all of it. You guys are doing OK with Micro and Enterprise, it's the Desktop that needs love and attention."
I told my guest that we'd have to begin at the beginning.
In the beginning there was no EE, ME, or SE. There was only Java. Those were the days when automatic garbage collection was such a novelty that Sun drew our attention to it when it was happening. The entire program would come to a halt while a bulldozer animation showed us that garbage was being collected. Right there, that should have told us we were in trouble. Why would an operating system emphasize the time it was spending on housekeeping tasks? This was a feature designed to entertain programmers and not end users.
"Wait a minute," the visitor interrupted, "did you say Operating System?"
Sure, Java was a stealth operating system. Developers were told that they didn't have to write applications that were OS-specific. Instead of writing a Windows app or a Mac app, they could write a Java app and it would run on all of these platforms. In fact, without the "Write Once Run Anywhere" value proposition, Java on the desktop meant nothing.
You can see it happening again. It's why Eclipse worries Sun so much. Where Sun told developers to write to Java not to the OS, IBM told people to write rich client applications that sat on the Eclipse platform/framework and not to write to Swing. Sun slid Java as a layer on top of the operating system and IBM, or now the Eclipse Foundation, slid Eclipse on top of Java.
In order for Java to succeed, end users would need to know when they were running a Java application. They did. But not in a good way. If you remember back in the 1.02 days, Java applications were slow and ugly. The cross-platform goals were ridiculed. The applications were equally ugly on many platforms, and Java applications could not contain the full feature set of any of the host platforms because it had to run the same on all of them. It had the least of all worlds.
The mascot's nose grew even redder. "You're dwelling in the past," he shouted. "This all happened ten years ago. Java 1.02? Look at where we've come since then. We've had Swing for darn near a decade. And performance has improved. Most people can't tell the difference between a Swing app and a native app."
Ahhh Swing. You almost feel sorry for Sun. The performance issues have, for the most part, been addressed. As for looks, they heard the objections that people had to AWT and they created a framework in which applications can look nicer. With Swing, applications can look as nice as native applications, if only developers could figure out how to code them up.
I can sum up people's frustration in three words: Grid, Bag, and Layout. Swing was too hard. When people's apps wouldn't perform as they should the Sun engineers would say, rightly, that's because you're executing in the wrong thread. Ken Arnold wrote about the conceptual overhead of writing with Swing when he counted up the number of methods available to him in a simple JButton. Sun's repeated response was that Swing was like the cockpit of a 747. You could do anything with it, and so the controls were necessarily confusing.
In the first iteration of the GUI, Sun ignored the user experience. In this second iteration, the beginning of what would be called Java 2, Sun provided developers with everything they would need to deliver an attractive, performant application. They just didn't make it easy. I would argue that in both cases the cause is the same and still exists today: Sun does not build end-user applications. They are not consuming their APIs.
Microsoft and Apple are both in the business of creating and selling operating systems. But both companies also make applications that sit on top of these operating systems. No one knows more about programming on the Windows platform than the Office team. What a great source for feedback.
But it's more than just that. Features added at the OS level aren't just abstract technologies. The client applications written by Microsoft and Apple show developers how best to integrate features into their own applications. Apple's Bonjour technology would not have caught on so quickly or so widely if it hadn't been integrated into their own iChat, iPhoto, and iTunes applications. In fact, iTunes brought Bonjour to the Windows platform and was proof that it could work well on that platform too.
A technological feature doesn't mean a thing to an end user. The power it brings to an application does matter.
Having a consumer products division strengthens the operating system in five important ways. 1) It provides feedback on the OS and its implementation. 2) It uncovers features that should be added to the OS. 3) It highlights the power of the OS. 4) It challenges other companies to innovate on top of the platform as well. 5) End users will pay for good applications.
Imagine cool, attractive applications written in Java that provide a revenue stream that encourages Sun to put more resources into really improving Java. As Chris Adamson has argued, the Apple iApps could have been written in Java. As the Aerith project shows, you can achieve much of the Apple look and feel in a 100-percent-Java application.
Sun seems to understand the Enterprise market but they don't seem to have a clue about the desktop market. They don't seem to understand that the landscape has changed in the past ten years. You can assume access to Java now in a way that you couldn't before. Given that the Java runtime is widely available, the question becomes, "Now what?"
With Enterprise, Sun's target customer is not you or me accessing a web application through our browsers. Their client is the company coding up the application that we will interact with. This is Sun's sweet spot. They know how to work with developers.
They don't know how to talk to the end user. Look at Project Looking Glass. When the Sun engineer showed up at our local Java User Group to demonstrate it, Sun had sent him out with a Linux box that couldn't support it. He had to describe to us what we would have seen if it had been running on a box capable enough. For developers, we were OK. We nodded our heads and understood what the software should have done. But if there were a chain of Java stores, no customer would have sat still for that non-demo.
It is not within Sun's ability set to change. The company culture is built around geeks talking to geeks. When they try to create something cute for end users, they end up missing the boat and creating a cute graphic of a bulldozer cleaning up the heap, or an animation of Duke turning somersaults.
My visitor winced. He still hadn't lived that one down.
Sun needs to outsource Java SE to someone equipped to make it great. Someone who understands code well enough to create their own implementation of Java. Someone who understands the desktop. Someone who values innovative technology and loves to incorporate open source projects as well. Someone who knows how to talk to end users. Sun needs to outsource Java SE to Apple.
Sun has let great projects die before they have ceded control to others, so it's not very likely. After acquiring the Watson project (think widgets before Dashboard was a twinkle in Apple's eye), Sun decided they couldn't commit resources to it. Rather than open source it and let others develop it, Sun buried it and let it die.
If Sun were a child, I would have put it in time out for a good long time. This was one of those applications that could have highlighted Java. It was Ajax before Ajax. It could have meant much more to Sun and Java than just an application for viewing the weather or checking sports scores. It could have been a platform that brought widget developers to Java.
Sun should have dumped real money into the Watson project. They should have built up the core platform. They should have created screencasts on how to build widgets. They should have created a NetBeans plugin for widget development. They should have run a contest with high-profile awards for the best widgets.
"Don't blow your top," my visitor said. "We didn't see the possibilities of the Watson project."
But that's exactly the point. How many things have Sun missed because they didn't see the possibilities? If Apple were running Java, the media frameworks would not be in disrepair. With podcasting as popular as it is, Sun could have funded work on the media frameworks by building an app for creating podcasts or for aggregating and viewing them in some different and compelling way.
My blood pressure had risen much too high. But I wasn't finished. When Sun creates desktop APIs, why are the first two platforms targeted and released Solaris and Linux? If you are creating desktop technology, shouldn't you be targeting Windows and Mac first?
The mascot in front of me slowly shook his head back and forth and I realized he was right. It will never happen. At a time when Java desktop needs more resources, Sun will give it less. At a time when Sun could build products on top of the desktop, they will ignore it. I sighed and tossed the file folder into the drawer.
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It's not a man's world - not any moreMarch 10,2013
I get a chill whenever I listen to James Brown soulfully sing Its a Mans Mans Mans World.
I especially like to shout you got that right when he says, but it wouldnt be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl.
Those lyrics come to mind as we celebrate Womens History Month. Its not a mans world any more.
March 3 marked 100 years since thousands of women marched down Pennsylvania Avenue demanding the right to vote. They were taunted and pushed but they pressed on.
So too have women pressed their way into jobs in the private and public sector. The pay for many still isnt quite equal to that of men, but its getting close.
Up to 1 billion women around the world are expected to enter the workforce over the next decade, according to management consulting firm Booz & Company.
This is such an incredible, unprecedented time to be a woman in business, says Emily Bennington, a career consultant. Never before has our style of leadership been so needed, and never before have our choices been so vast and our opportunities so great.
Despite the gains, success in the workplace or moving up the corporate ladder into executive positions is elusive for so many women. It can be frustrating and excruciating, like stuffing your feet into pointy-toe stilettos.
But it can get easier with some guidance, Bennington writes in Who Says Its A Mans World: The Girls Guide to Corporate Domination. It is the Color of Money Book Club selection for March.
What I like most about Benningtons book is the focus on self first. You must be a magnificent woman first to have a magnificent career, she writes.
Dont cringe. Stay with Bennington on this point. Its not psychobabble or girly, touchy-feely stuff that some men and some women might scoff at. Through a series of exercises, coaching and cheerleading, she helps you reach a point where you can overcome the attitudes and behaviors that hold you back.
As she writes, corporate domination isnt about kicking the door down as so many of have been (mis)led to believe. ... Its about melting it down one thought, one interaction, and one person at a time. ... Business is a game about people - like everything else in life - it all starts with you.
To get ahead, you have to cut the crap her words, not mine. Yes, there are bumbling sexist bosses and scheming co-workers who may stand in your way. But often the roadblock to success is you.
Thus her focus is on getting you to be honest with yourself about the things you do to derail your career.
The three biggest career-killers are negative attitudes, holding grudges and worrying too much, Bennington says, calling those behaviors muddy career sludge.
Then there are the busy people who get success but at a high price. They over-schedule and over-exert themselves. If thats you, youve got to slow down. Take on less. Get rid of some things (hey, Im preaching to myself here).
And of course, what would a career-coaching book be without the ubiquitous mommy guilt chapter?
But rein in the guilt, Bennington says.
There will be times when you have to leave work to deal with your kids and times when you have to leave kids to deal with your work, she writes. There is guilt in both, but you will save yourself a lot of heartache if you decide up front that having it all doesnt mean being it all.
To help on this front, she offers some good simple get-rid-of the guilt advice such as a list of must-have tradeoffs for working moms. One of my favorites: Unapologetically guard your calendar. Its often a bellwether of your happiness.
I most like the counterintuitive advice she gives about setting goals. Dont measure yourself by checked boxes, she says. Set goals but dont be ruled by them or crushed if you dont reach them.
In the end, Bennington offers these six words for success. Who. You. Are. Has. No. Ceiling.
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- Nominations sought for 2011 Peanut Profitability Awards
- Intense competition for acreage
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• Peanut Profitability has set a standard of excellence during the past 11 years, and it has never been an easy honor to earn, but another fine group of nominees is expected for 2011.
• The Farm Press Peanut Profitability Awards are based on production efficiency, honoring those growers who produce the highest yields at the lowest cost per acre.
You could best characterize 2010 as a year of wide variations for U.S. peanut producers, says Marshall Lamb, research director for the National Peanut Research Laboratory in Dawson, Ga., and advisor for the Farm Press Peanut Profitability Awards.
"This year, above any other, we've seen the widest range in peanut yields, and this includes the entire country, from Texas to Florida, up to the Carolinas and Virginia," says Lamb.
Some areas, like southeast Alabama and southwest Georgia, had extensive drought and record-high temperatures, and growers in those areas had a total loss situation in some of their fields, he says. But in some areas, where the showers were timely, non-irrigated peanut fields did fairly well. It just depends on where you were located, says Lamb.
In inconsistent years such as the one growers experienced in 2010, improved peanut varieties continue to show their worth, he adds.
"Since we've had a pretty good couple of years from the standpoint of weather, the big question was whether or not these new varieties could withstand adverse conditions, and they certainly did. But like former University of Georgia Peanut Agronomist John Baldwin always said, 'If it don't rain, it don't matter,' and many growers can attest to that this year," says Lamb.
The quality of the 2010 crop is definitely off from previous years, says Lamb. "We're seeing a lot of Seg. 2's and Seg. 3's, and a lot of aflatoxin, and this is requiring that some of the peanuts be re-milled. This, or course, will affect the bottom line of growers, as will the fact that for many, this has been a high-input crop, requiring a lot of irrigation," he says.


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Skip to comments.Senate Bill raises AlL Taxes
Posted on 01/01/2013 8:35:57 AM PST by zerosix
Just received an email from my accountant informing of tax increase on ALL American taayers.
The only way to get near to the monies needed for Obama's spending habits, is to raise taxes on everyone.
Instead of giving us the much vaunted "millionaire tax," Obama/Biden/McConnell have given us the "thousand-aire tax!"
Happy New Year America,
Your Elected Class!.
Title typo should read "ALL" not "AIL" sorry IPad type too small!
Sounds like you need a new accountant.
Well, the earlier article did say that most Senators wouldn't have had time to read the bill before voting on it.
and what about the AMT fix. . . . .?. . . .anyone know . . .thanks in advance.
When even Pat Toomey voted for it, all is apparently lost. If the House passes it, I'm changing my registration, and I would suggest that all conservative Republicans do the same. The GOP speaks French.
Which confirms my contention that:
Most "Senators".....SUCK!
Yes, and I plan on communicating with both Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran, KS Senators, to inquire their reasoning for voting for this bill.
It fixed the AMT exemption, but I don't know at what level, and it's now indexed for inflation.
I see the rate correction for the 25/28% brackets and above but if the expiration of the Bush cuts undid the drop of the lowest bracket down to 10% then yes, the Senate let the lowest rate fail back to 15%. This could be hugh and perhaps series.
Thank you for the info on the AMT.
It should be possible to turn this into 0bama's 'read my lips' moment.
Well, we know that the so-called "rich" wouldn't begin to come close to getting the billions necessary to get close to the sums needed.
Let me give you a little advice - for free.
The liberal fantasy that they would like everyone to believe is this: there are several swimming pools, some for people that make less than $50k a year, some for people that make less than $150k a year, (and so on and so on) and some for those awful millionaires. We are going to dip our bucket into the millionaires pool, and spread it out into your pools. See, that's what we call "fairness."
Here is reality.
There are only two pools. One for those that work, and one for those that don't. Yes, in the pool for those that work one end is deeper and therefor has more water than the other. But when you take a bucket full of water from the deep end (millionaires) and pour it into the shallow end, it all ends up back in the same place anyway.
But when you take a bucket of water from the pool of people that work, and pour it into the pool of people that don't work, ALL of the people in the pool that work have less water.
So if you go to work every week, anytime the government spends more money, it will cost you. Whether you can see or find how it is costing you, it IS costing you. The only people that 'win' when the government spends money are the people that do not work at all.
If government spends, and you work, you lose. No matter how it is spun or twisted, or lied about - government spends, you work, you pay. Period.
And I won't even send you a bill.
Think of it as the government standing astride Central Florida, dipping buckets into the Atlantic then pouring the contents into the Gulf of Mexico in order to redistribute the water.
In discussing the current Dictatorship, everyone I know is in favor of voting "all" of the Elitists in DC and elsewhere "out" on their Royal, corrupt, amoral rears.
IMO, Amerika can bend over and kiss their rears and freedom goodbye; welcome to Nazi Germany, the re-do.
Do you really think the Left will allow taxing everyone? That would really PO the biggest part of their lazy-a$$ base who either pay no income taxes or even get a refund from a zero tax liability.
And the sooner the better.
It amazes me to no end that even our FR folks who used to understand "Supply Side Economics" or real Adam Smith Economics still make this error. Increased tax rates will not raise nearly the projected revenue and, in fact, if revenue does not DEcrease immediately it will shortly as the economy noses over even further and declines even faster..
I wonder what the rates will be after the "signing statement."
But this time, with guns. Should be fun .................................................... FRegards
The simplest way to state it is:
No matter how high the tax rate goes, it never collects more than around 21% of GDP and begins to collect less the higher you go. The secret to more tax revenue is raising GDP, not the tax rate.
The point I was attempting to make is that those Americans, especially those paying little or no taxes, do not understand or care that the only pot large enough to come close to meeting the desires of the greedy has to come from the pockets of the so-called, "middle class."
Even in America, there aren't enough rich people working and being taxed at higher and higher rates that will fulfill the desires of the greedy. Only when the, heretofore, largest group, the working and taxable "middle class" have their taxes raised, can the government come even close to meeting the spending habits of DC, according to the philosophy of Keyensian economists!
It cannot and will not happen. They can increase taxes all they want but they will thereby reduce revenues. They will, however, have a larger and larger percentage of the whole wealth of society as they transfer wealth to the elite through inflation, even as the total wealth of the system declines. The will be a super-elite in a small wealth pond. We will be effectively living at the level of the Moslem countries where wealth is almost totally concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite of rulers in countries that are overall poor. No debt can be paid off by increasing taxes, not in the short term, not in the long term. The government cannot pay off anything by soaking the citizenry. That pot of wealth ISNOTTHERE for the taking unless they do an actual wealth confiscation or expropriation as it is known in the Communist countries.
Keynes was not an economist. He was a fantasist. Did you ever read him? In classes where he is taught his paragraphs are read for the firs line and the conclusion. Everything in between is nonsensical. Most does not cohere as English and meaning can only be assumed or speculated. It reads like a poorly done MIT paper designed to be accepted in prestigious journals then to be jeeringly outed by the authors as a fraud.
Everyone inside the belt way has sold out or bought in to big gov-mint. They are all in it together. They have theirs and they determine what theirs is. Once that is done, they control all. We are subject to the king and his court called congress. All liars, thieves, of the same skin.
I mention Keynes as beltway folk seem to make him their god, of course most of them are too dumb to know anything about economics of any kind, they only listen to "brilliant minds" like Paul Krugmann.
Did you know Reagan had an actual bachelor's degree in real Economics? He was the only president in recent times to understand the subject. You have to go back to Coolidge and Harding for others. It is a dull subject. Dynamic people, and politicians tend to be dynamic people, don't have time for boring stuff like that.
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But for certified gunsmith Nick Bauer, it's all he needs. Even if the shop does seem smaller when he walks his tall, lanky frame into the room.
"My whole goal with Beeville Armory was to have the kind of gun shop that my dad went to," Bauer said. The days when a gun owner went to a shop to get his or her basic rifle or pistol tricked out with custom features are rapidly disappearing.
"Everything comes out of the box now," Bauer said. "In the old days, Colt made three variables of the 1911, and customers took them to a gunsmith to get the custom work done."
Now, there are so many varieties of that historic handgun on the market, a customer can get pretty much what he or she wants right at the store.
"Not everyone appreciates craftsmanship the way I do," Bauer said. "You buy a pistol and go. I want you to have everything you want in a gun."
"I'll load ammunition with you. I'll sit at the bench and shoot with you, and we'll figure out what it takes. Real shooters really appreciate that," Bauer said with a serious look. "Your gun store doesn't have a lot of me any more."
The Beeville Armory owner said he has shooters, customers in their 70s and 80s, who still remember the days when gun owners depended on their gunsmiths. They remember the legendary Byron Dugat, who worked in his shop in Beeville and turned out the kind of custom work that real shooters loved.
"I've appreciated working on his guns," Bauer said of Dugat.
"They are my best customers," Bauer said of the older customers he has here. "People had a connection with their guns."
A native of Nevada, Bauer started gunsmithing about eight years ago. After growing up in a shooting family and tinkering with mechanical things for years, he decided that was what he wanted to do.
He enrolled in the gunsmithing course offered by Penn Foster Career School and graduated from the course. He is now certified by the American Gunsmithing Association and is a member of the American Pistolsmiths Guild.
He is Glock Certified and certified for work on both semi auto and revolvers made by Smith & Wesson.
"I do Ruger authorized warranty work," Bauer said.
"I'm not a retail guy," the gunsmith said. He will do some special order retail work which he details at www.beevillearmory.com.
Also, a lot of his business these days comes from out of state.
Bauer said he decided to move to Texas in 2004 and already had his eye on the Beeville area. He had visited his mother in Mathis and knew this part of the state.
Gunsmithing was a sideline business for years while Bauer worked for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and then drove a truck. In August of 2010, he decided to go full time into the business, and he opened his Beeville Armory in his home at 903 N. Ave D.
Nowadays, he has to see customers on an appointment basis, mostly in the evenings and on weekends.
The problem with meeting with customers is that conversations often end up taking an hour or more of his time, because shooters always have lots of questions.
"I enjoy this," he said. "But if I was available all the time, I wouldn't get any work done. It's me. I have an assistant, and I have an office manager."
Bauer said the lack of good gunsmiths has led to the creation of what he calls the "You Tube gunsmith."
Those are gun owners who watch videos on the internet and decide they can do the same modifications to their firearms that the guys on You Tube do.
Gunsmithing may look easy on the internet, but in practice, it is not always so simple.
"This can kill you," Bauer said, pointing to the hammer end of a 1911 pistol he'd built. "It can kill you on this side as quick as it can kill you on that side," he said as he pointed to the muzzle.
"Let me be the one to take the risk. That's why I have insurance. That's what I'm about."
Bauer specializes in the 1911 design perfected by John Browning, and he enjoys building the pistols from the ground up.
But like any good gunsmith, Bauer works on just about anything. He has his personal M4 carbines, AK-47s, pistols and rifles to show prospective customers. Photographs of many of those custom guns can be seen in the gallery on his website.
"I do build AK-47s from the ground up," he said.
One build he is particularly proud of is his target rifle, built on a 1942 Mosin Nagant receiver with a barrel he took off a Czech-made machine gun.
"The machine gun shot the same 7.62x54 round that the Mosin Nagant shoots," Bauer said. He had to do a lot of work on the barrel to mate it to the receiver but the effort paid off greatly.
The work included milling down the thickness of the barrel. But he kept it heavier than the stock Mosin barrel. The original barrel on that rifle is designed so thin that it tends to "whip" when fired. The heavier barrel fixed that problem, and Bauer can now fire a three-shot group in less then three-eights of an inch from a bench at 100 yards.
Bauer recently renewed has his Class 3 license and can sell the suppressors, the short barrel rifles and shotguns. "I could build that stuff before, I just couldn't sell it," he said of the Class 3 products.
The gunsmith said he recommends that serious shooters think about getting some of their rifles suppressed, especially if they intend to shoot with their children. It makes it safe to shoot the guns without hearing protection, and a father can talk to his son while shooting without having to take out his ear plugs.
Like a lot of Texans, Bauer considers shooting "a way to get your family together. The sport of it is great."
He also offers private instruction for new shooters, although the classes are expensive. "It's really cool to get people into this, and that's one of the reasons I started Beeville Armory."
It was that attitude toward guns and shooting that brought the Bauer family to this part of the country.
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Even as a teenager, Schrempf had a passion for helping and mentoring others. For more than a decade, she has led philanthropy efforts in Crystal Lake, including organizing the first Dole Stroll and other grassroots efforts to save the historic Dole Mansion. Schrempf is also a member of the Lakeside Legacy Foundation Board of Directors, a docent for the Dole Mansion, a member of the Organization Advisory Committee for Downtown Crystal Lake, and active in the Crystal Lake Jaycees.
In addition to organizing fundraising events and organizing volunteers for each of those organizations, Schrempf is a member of Community Partners, a coalition of local mental health organizations, which promote advocacy and awareness of mental health services and support. She has received several awards for her volunteer work.
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|Kyren Tosscobble
Kyren takes a quick glance around the room to see if he sees any evidence of corpses or such.
Perception 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15
"Hah! You do good in accepting the fact that your kin is inferior to mine - and we shouldn't forget that I'm a lord of my people...Since I find your lot highly amusing, I won't skin you alive but answer your questions: Ahem...I have no knowledge of this situation you are speaking about - and now, thake this insightful piece of valuable information and leave me be, before my invisible guardians tear you to pieces."
Sense Motive 1d20 ⇒ 6Is this naga really telling me the truth? It is so hard to tell!
"Naturally, your wish is our command. However, before, we leave, Oh great Yrix, let me kindly offer to play for you upon the magnificent strings of my harp. I am a humble performer and would be honored to play for you."
If given the approval, Kyren will pull forth his harp while he gives "Daggers" Vaughn Eliot, Berry, and Alchy the knowing eye and the subtle movements to tell them to look around and investigate while he is distracting the worm.
Bluff (Secret Message) 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30
Simple Secret Message: Go look for any evidence that you can find! We need to find those bodies!
Once Kyren's harp is set up, the halfling sits down he announces, "This is a pieces called, Kazam!" He then lets his fingers go wild in intricate musical patterns with lots of flourishes and glissandos to mesmerize and captivate his audience.
Perform Harp 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (9) + 16 = 25
|Jinx Wigglesnort
Scratching his chin, in a most excellent simulacrum of a thoughtful repose, the goblin accesses the part of his pickled little mind that he has set aside for all things necromancy. Sifting through that area provides him with an expansive vista of undead dust bunnies and ghoulish tumbleweeds.
The enticingly malodorous olfactory experience gave the impression of death, which was definitely something he associated with necromancy (actually the only thing he associated), but wizards tended to be finger wigglers, not armour wearers. Perhaps this was a creation, a pet, or just a tasteful collection of macabre pieces assembled for his viewing pleasure.
Carefully noting its exact location, in case he wanders this way again and finds that it had meandered to another position, Jinx continues to sneak west and southward silently consoling the nervous Floyd with awkward pets and pats.
|Vaughn Elliot
I take my cue from Kyren, move away slightly, and try to nonchalantly look around the room for things more strange than the ugly naga.
Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12
|Zyren DM
Yrix begins to sway to the left and right, clearly the music has a hypnotic quality...
Now that the worm is distracted you can make out the outline of a door behind him.
Following the corridor further south is a herculean task for someone with so short legs, but in the end you manage to find another corridor you had already explored.
|Vaughn Elliot
I quickly and quietly confer with Berry and Al.
So there's a door. how do we handle this? Can we take this guy--SHOULD we take him? should we just try to walk around him??
|Jinx Wigglesnort
"Dis familia...." Hands clap over the expansive oral cavity too slow to stop the exodus of verbage.
Pointing south and then east he uses the kinesthetic cue to score his memory so he does not accidentally come back this way.
Turning on his heel the goblin marches northward, slowing as he nears the corner and then peek around before committing his body to a potential attack from the armoured form. He doubted it would move very quietly, but was not willing to fully trust in that.
If he can move past that area without contact with the nefarious it is his full intent to cheat east and then continue further north into the area he has not been yet.
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1d20 + 13 ⇒ (10) + 13 = 23 Know nature
I'm guessing here. The site that has berry's sheet on it is down.
"Why are all of you being afraid of the goblin snake?" Walking right up to the goblin snake she scolds him with the full force of an indignant nun at an all boys catholic school. "You are a horrible deceitful little creature! We ought to let the big angry cat eat you to spare Kyren the embarassment of embarassing himself some more! I should put you on a slab and surgically remove the bit that makes you talk! Shame on you! Shame!"
|Zyren DM
Ugh what goblin snake...hah, feel my thunderous wrath! there is a strange sound...a bit like a fart...then the mighty Yrix tries to flee out of the room...however, the pathetic thing is too weak and too slow, soon Alchy'S paw rests on it. Only now you realize that the majestic curled up body of Yrix was just the remains of the skinning process all nagas go through several times in their long lives. The goblin snake must have found it and since then impersonated the deadly wormfolk creature.
|Jinx Wigglesnort
It was good the armour remained in place and Silkilur remained dead dead. It was expensive to shoot at things.
"Dis more like it."
Jinx's eyes ping pong back and forth between the doors, making a decision as all enlightened beings do when faced with a quandary.
"Eenie meenie wheenie whiney hiney mo ho...."
The decision is made and he moves to the closer heptagram-adorned portal. Making himself as small as possible, he reaches up and opens it, fully prepared for his most memorable greeting to come from Floyd.
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Making himself as small as possible, he reaches up and opens it, fully prepared for his most memorable greeting to come from Floyd.
Not much of a team player, Jinx, eh? :-)
|Jinx Wigglesnort
Not much of a team player, Jinx, eh? :-)
Oh don't feel that way, Jinx is all about team!
|Theras Toidarian
Theras, completely unused to the subtle signals the group uses, turns around in confusion as Kyren begins to play the beautiful piece. The song brought up memories of the week while they traveled through the vales of southern Andora (sp?), beautiful rolling grasslands dotted with small villages and farms with sun shining and a gentle breeze cooling off their fevered skin as he and Linora-
And like a record cutting off suddenly Theras focused on the rapidly changing situation as the giant cat pinned the strange snake creature the ground and growled. "Uh..."
No he's not stupid. Just not used to this group. And I love cutscenes brought on by outer stimuli at the wrong times.
|Zyren DM
Yrix, the now far lesser imposing creature squirms and pleads
Please don't kill me - we all want to make the best of our lives, don't we?!
sincerity combined with stupidity - what a nice combination.
As Jinx touches the door he smells roasted flesh - sadly it is his own
Shock Trap Damage4d4 + 4 ⇒ (1, 4, 2, 3) + 4 = 14
Ref save DC 17 halves the damage
After the goblins stops to twitch, he has to accept that the door is locked...
|Kyren Tosscobble
"Please don't kill me - we all want to make the best of our lives, don't we?!"
"Crazzleboks, I can't believe I fell for the little fiend in the snake skin gag! You had me worried there for a minute! Don't you realize that we don't have time for this?! Not only did you make me take my harp out in this filthy little hole, you embarrassed me in front of all my friends! Do you know that they will never let me live this down?! Just think about my reputation!"
Disgusted with the situation, Kyren sighes in frustration, then turns back to the creature and says, 'Give us anything of value: information, treasure, insight, anything useful, and I may consider sparring your life! But at the moment, I cannot think of any reason not to kill you! I know that I have enough difficulty keeping the cats fed as it it!"
|Jinx Wigglesnort
Reflex Save: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (18) + 11 = 29
Ozone melds with burned goblin flesh (hit points 48/55) as Jinx frowns at the door and sucks on his charred fingers enjoying his own taste. Loose threads stand on end, and it takes a few heartbeats to remember his name.
Floyd is brought to bear on the lock, quivering with the flood of adrenaline running through his system. He holds the position for a moment and then mercurially turns about and marches east to check the other stone door.
Perhaps this one wouldn't try to kill him since it had no star on it.
|Berry Peelyblossom
|Alcheringa Unleashed
|Zyren DM
Oh a shiny new avatar!
Yrix seems to shrink to the size of a rain worm
Uh, I know the one who controls a part of this tomb - a half-orc necromancer. But I hav't left my room for a long time, so I can't tell you where to find him. Oh and: Sorry Mr. Kyren.
Carefully you push the door open - a thirty-foot-diameter pit fills this circular room, its bottom lost in darkness. The ceiling arches twenty feet above the pit, which is encircled by a narrow, five-foot-wide walkway. A door stands in the opposite side, across the pit. You remember that this was the first room you saw of this whole complex. Silklur Silklav and you entered through a break in the northern wall.
|Alcheringa Unleashed
|Jinx Wigglesnort
The festooned gun is raised up, eyeless doll hanging awkwardly akimbo from the barrel, so a serious conversation can be engaged. Floyd was the smart one in their relationship.
"What now do no find?"
A return voice cannot be perceived no matter how proximal a listener might get. That does not stop Jinx from hearing it. He nods along, smiling and agreeing.
"You brain good. You pretty shiny."
Closing the door behind him the little goblin whistles as he wanders west, south and then east. It appeared that the room he was in, when he was among the others, was the right way.
Damaged fingers are jammed into his face so he can suckle them back to health.
|Kyren Tosscobble
"Uh, I know the one who controls a part of this tomb - a half-orc necromancer. But I hav't left my room for a long time, so I can't tell you where to find him. Oh and: Sorry Mr. Kyren."
"Apology accepted. But you claim not to know where to find him? I find that hard to believe! Berry, what do you think? Should we spare this wretch's life?"
|Zyren DM
Alcheringa pushes the worm out of the way, and proceeds to continue to and through the door. Blaze instead advances on the worm, full of threat and making it clear that further interference will meet with a nasty end.
|Jinx Wigglesnort
Jinx has long forgotten the perceived slights upon his good name by this point and simply falls into line with the others.
How casually they bat aside a powerful naga, though he has never encountered one with such wonderfully fetid breath, reinforces his opinion that this is the right group of brave heroes to walk with.
Not relying on the flickering candlelight, it is the realm of darkvision that Jinx' beady little crimson orbs fall into to take in the corners of the small chamber where they currently stand.
With nothing approaching a segue, or explanation of his absence, the goblin simply recounts his mini solo adventure. "Me find bird-brain dead, door burn lock," To this one he holds up his charred fingers to make his point, "Find out way and tin man."
Jinx engages in a tickle fight with Floyd as he waits for their throng to proceed to the stairwell. He will cover them as they descend since ranged combat was his bailiwick.
|Vaughn Elliot
OH, THERE you are!! I thought you got et by something! What kind of tin man did you find?
I normally take DM warnings like "don't go down there" seriously, don't know abotu YOU folk . . .
|Zyren DM
|Jinx Wigglesnort
It is a disjointed recounting of events requiring a degree of divergent thinking, a portion of luck and a great deal of context to circumnavigate, but Jinx is a passionate story teller (fully willing to throw his entire body into the performance, especially his hips that don't lie, as long as his meaning was conveyed) and willing to tirelessly repeat himself, or attempt entirely different methodology to convey his meaning.
Grammar was not the friend of 6 year olds from societies that felt that the written word was anathema to them, but the gunslinger was brighter than the average human by a surprising margin and that helped him to come at problems from many different angles.
To any that are willing to devote themselves to the process they are fully aware of everything that Jinx knows about the complex beyond and the denizens within.
Recognizing that he should possibly not have revealed so much in front of the naga he barks out, "YOU NOT KNOW DIS, K?"
|Zyren DM
Yrix instantly realizes that - however weird Jinx may be - he is some kind of kin.
Quickly the goblin snakes moves over to the idiotic pistoleer and hides behind him.
You're right, I don't know anything...tell me friend, do you know these adventurers? like honey are Yrix words and even Floyd likes the former naga at once.
|Jinx Wigglesnort
Jinx relays in the goblin tongue, "They not bad. Though no food taste."
With that the gunslinger offers the naga a pull from his filthy jar of pickled half-orc eyeballs. They were half-orc, and half delicious!
<raises hand in the hope of not repeating the Azlant mistake of getting hit by a giant chunk of intergalactic flotsam>
|Zyren DM
|Jinx Wigglesnort
Agilely stepping away from the embrace, one only did such things when they were ready to make naughty naughty, and while the snake thing had shiny scales it was a tad droopy in places. This naga was likely ancient, perhaps even as old as 7 and a half.
Wanderlust guided the young goblin far more than the lure of any responsibility. He had been offered everything a goblin could want and it had ended in flame and shed blood.
In a startling betrayal of the natural order of things Jinx replies in the common tongue, "No. If stay you my pet called Frances."
It is likely a strange comment, amongst a lifetime of strange comments, but considering the linguistically goblinoid exchange of just moments prior, it hopefully brings the others at least partially into the interaction.
|Berry Peelyblossom
|Jinx Wigglesnort
Dabbing and dobbing his one eye, the other having retreated behind the eyepatch, with what looks to be a lacy pair of women's underwear, Jinx looks at Berry with newfound respect.
This "Berry" person with the strange bumps on his chest, perhaps a form of humanoid camel, was a genius. Finally! Someone that could sing tongue of the gods: goblinoid.
Jinx wraps his little arms around her leg and gives her a quick hug before turning and agreeing that going down stairs sounds like a bad idea.
"Burn star room not open." He holds up his burned fingers to remind everyone of the door he speaks of.
Wanting to give options he also offers to show them where birdbrain's body is, or the alternate exit, or even the armoured figure.
|Alcheringa Unleashed
|Jinx Wigglesnort
|Zyren DM
A suit of elaborate lacquered armour stands sentinel against the far eastern wall of this octagonal chamber. Silver chains attached to the armour's neck and chest run across the floor of the room, their ends clutched in the bony hands of a skeleton sprawled on the floor ten feet away.
The armour looks like those worn by the people of the Iridian Fold. Enigmatic foreigners they are who visit the City of Strangers often to discuss philosophy with representatives of other races. They always travel in pairs - one in armour, one in veils.
I've marked unopened door on the upper half of the map in red.
|Alcheringa Unleashed
|Zyren DM
|Alcheringa Unleashed
|Zyren DM
|Kyren Tosscobble
Knowledge, Local (Untrained) 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21
Kyren walks up to the skeleton beside the great cat and comments dryly,"It looks like this prisoner was dying to get out of here!"
At the sound of rustling, the Tosscobble takes a step or two back. "What's making that noise? Do you think it's a mouse? This might be your chance to toy with it!"
|Jinx Wigglesnort
Floyd snarls at the lacquered armour, the bores of his flared nostrils as clean as a devoted nose picker could get them.
The pistol holds true, as a metallic extension of Jinx' arm, with unwavering precision. Popping the chain up into his other hand, he yanks on the armour from afar in the hopes of topping the armour over and revealing what lives within.
|Zyren DM
For a split second nothing happens, but then, in super slowmotion, the armour falls in Jinx' direction. With a clanking sound the armour shatters into all its single parts.
For a moment nothing happens but then, a black carpet of cockroaches streams out of the armour, forming one massive coackroach with gleaming red eyes full of ferocious hunger!
|Vaughn Elliot
|Zyren DM
Alcheringa and Blaze's Initiative1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6
Kyren's Initiative1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22
Vaughn's Initiative1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Theras' Initiative1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13
Berry's Initiative1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6
Jinx' Initiative1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13
Giant Cockroach Swarm's Initiative1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18
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LAKEWOOD, Colo. — The Eastern New Mexico University women's soccer team scored three times in the first 21 minutes and cruised to a 3-1 win over Colorado Christian on Friday.
Sophomore forward Samantha Lawrence had two of the goals for the Zias (5-2), who tied the school record with their fifth consecutive victory. ENMU won five in a row late in the 2005 season.
Lawrence put the Zias ahead for good less than 4 1/2 minutes in. She then made it 3-0 by taking a centering pass from junior midfielder Hillary Gintowt and slipping a shot past Cougars goalkeeper Allison Cox with 20:58 elapsed.
Senior forward Amy Wilcox scored in between off a free kick, with sophomore midfielder Kimberley Anaya credited with an assist on the play.
The Cougars (1-4) managed five shots on goal, including only one the first half. Colorado Christian's lone tally came with about 30 minutes left when Jessica Smith scored on a tap-in off a corner kick by teammate Cassidy Fightmaster.
The Zias will try to extend their winning streak next Friday when they play Wayland Baptist in a 3 p.m. (MDT) matchup at Plainview, Texas.


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Overhanging Rock
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A well-dressed man overlooks Yosemite Valley, Half Dome, and the Sierra Nevada mountains from Overhanging Rock, which is at the edge of Glacier Point.
Hiking Half Dome
Photograph by Dean Conger
"Test for brawn and breath, Half Dome's 45-degree back-side trail evokes the vim of youth and the caution of increasing years."
—Originally published in "The Other Yosemite" in National Geographic magazine, June 1974
Family Portrait
Photograph by Dr. Gilbert H. GrosvenorFamily members perch on a rock over Mirror Lake during Dr. Gilbert H. Grosvenor's western United States trip of 1915.
Mariposa Grove
Photograph by B. Anthony StewartIn the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoia trees, a ranger lectures to a group of visitors outside of Mariposa Grove Museum, a replica of the cabin built in 1875 by Galen Clark (photo ca. 1960).
Yosemite in the 1800s
Photograph by William Henry JacksonThis original William Henry Jackson photograph from the Colorado Historical Society collection shows what life was like in the early days of Yosemite. Original caption reads: "'Pike' on Yosemite Trail." (ca. 1870-1878)
Yosemite at Night
Photograph by Dean Conger
"Wheeling stars, a jet's winking light, and snaking cars write their signatures on Yosemite's night in this time exposure. A lone lantern's gleam on El Capitan's face marks a climber's dizzy berth, one day up from the valley."
—Originally published in "The Other Yosemite," National Geographic magazine, June 1974
Kids Camping
Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart
"'Camp out,' advised naturalist John Muir, and 'cares will drop off like autumn leaves.' Shepherded by their leader, these junior woodsmen carry their sleeping bags back to Yosemite Valley after an overnight stay above Nevada Fall."
—Originally published in "Today in Our National Parks: The Mission Called 66," National Geographic magazine, July 1966.
Wawona Tree Tunnel
Photograph by Melville B. Grosvenor
"Cut in 1881 for horse-drawn stagecoaches, the Wawona Tree tunnel has been pictured in schoolbooks for three generations. This giant sequoia continues to grow despite its enormous cavity."
—Originally published in "New Rush to Golden California," National Geographic magazine, June 1954
The tree stopped growing 15 years later (see next slide for details).
Wawona Tunnel Tree
Photograph courtesy of the U.S. Department of the Interior
"One of America's earliest national parks, Yosemite shelters from the logger's ax the towering sequoias that conservationist John Muir called 'kings of their race.' In 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt, standing in a stage [pictured], asked Muir to lead this group of officials. The Wawona Tunnel Tree, carved out in 1881 to attract visitors, withstood 2,200 winters before falling to a storm in 1969. Roosevelt enlarged Yosemite to include its famous valley and established five new parks, 18 monuments, and 148 million acres of forest reserves."
—Originally published in "A Long History of New Beginnings," National Geographic magazine, July 1979
Family Picnic
Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart
"Guitar music enlivens another group's chore of cleaning up after a meal cooked among the tall trees."
—Originally published in "Today in Our National Parks: The Mission Called 66," National Geographic magazine, July 1966
Valley Lights
Photograph by Jonathon Blair
"Campfire smoke hangs like mist in crowded Yosemite Valley, where throngs wait to view the evening firefall [a Yosemite tradition that ended in 1968] from Glacier Point. In this time exposure from 3,250 feet above the valley floor, a trail of flashbulbs traces the path of a photographer as he strolls in a loop at right center.
"Automobile lights streak roads leading from Yosemite Village [at top left], across from the curling Merced River, to the parking lot at Camp Curry. Royal Arches etch the beetling canyon wall.
"To disperse summer crowds, Mission 66 [a ten-year program of the National Park Service for the improvement and expansion of national parks] built 1,000 campsites outside the valley."
—Originally in "Today in Our National Parks: The Mission Called 66," National Geographic magazine, July 1966
Yosemite Tourists
Photograph by Melville B. Grosvenor
Majestic El Capitan (left) contains enough granite to make three Gibraltars. Clouds Rest peak and Half Dome fill the distant skyline. These visitors motored to the overlook through Wawona Tunnel, cut behind Pulpit Rock.
"The cataract wears a triple crown of peaks known as Cathedral Rocks. Its sparkling waters feed the Merced River. Erosive glacial ice, filling a mountain ravine to its brim, shaped the valley and polished its granite monoliths."
—Originally published over a two-page spread in "New Rush to Golden California," National Geographic magazine, June 1954
Photograph by Dean Conger
"Yosemite's many mansions range from 2,000 feet to more than 13,000 feet high on a Rhode Island-size wedge of the Sierra Nevada's west slope. Here, against a backdrop of the High Sierra, packer Sam Livermore enters cool-shadowed Matterhorn Canyon, a two-day ride from the nearest road."
—Originally published in "The Other Yosemite," National Geographic magazine, June 1974.
Sleeping Campers
Photograph by David Alan Harvey
"Sacked out after an all-night drive, two men hold their place in a two-mile line for campsites at Yosemite National Park, where chronic overcrowding has led to a new reservation system."
—Originally published in "Will Success Spoil Our Parks?" National Geographic magazine, July 1979
"According to the Economist, "the number of visitors to national parks and historic sites peaked in 1987."
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Time-consistent Optimal Portfolio Strategy for Asset-liability Management under Mean-variance Criterion
This paper studies the time-consistent optimal portfolio strategy of an investor with an exogenous liability. Assume that the investor adopts the mean-variance criterion and trades continuously in a market consisting of one risk-free asset and one risky asset; and the price of the risky asset and the value of the exogenous liability are governed by geometric Brownian motions. An extended Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation is derived, and the analytical expressions of the time-consistent optimal portfolio strategy and the mean-variance efficient frontier are obtained. A numerical example is provided to show the results. Our main findings are: (1) introducing an exogenous liability makes the time-consistent optimal portfolio strategy be a stochastic process; (2) the efficient frontier under the time-consistent optimal strategy for asset-liability management is below both the one under the time-consistent optimal strategy in the case of no liability and the one under the pre-commitment optimal strategy for asset-liability management.
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Stags Defeat Hofstra For First-Ever Series Win
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FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- The Fairfield University women's lacrosse team scored the final nine goals of the game to defeat visiting Hofstra University 12-8 this afternoon on Alumni Field. The Stags improve to 2-0 for the third consecutive season, while the Pride fell to 1-1 on the year.
Addie Reilly (Locust Valley, N.Y.) led the way with a game-high five goals as the Stags scored the final nine goals of the game. Chloe Mangan (Sayville, N.Y.) and Courtney Chmil (Garden City, N.Y.) each struck twice, while Melanie Raso (Farmingdale, N.Y.), Kate McKinley (Brookfield, Conn.) and Amanda Best (Schenectady, N.Y.) each had a goal and an assist for the Stags.
Hofstra scored 96 seconds into the game and netted the first five goals to build a 5-0 lead 11:05 into the game. Following a Fairfield time out the Stags finally broke through when Mangan netted a free position shot. The Pride scored next, a minute later to make it 6-1, which was answered by consecutive goals from Reilly. Her goals made the score 6-3 with 13:55 to play before the intermission. Hofstra would score the next two goals of the game to get the lead back to five, 8-3, just 3:40 to play in the first.
That would be the final goal that the Stags allowed in the game, and Reilly's third goal began the comeback 2:00 later. Chmil wrapped up the first-half scoring with an unassisted goal just 18 seconds before the break, sending the Stags into the lockerroom down two, 8-6.
Offensively the Stags wasted little time in the second-half as Raso netted a goal 55 seconds into the period. Chmil (20:39) and Mangan (20:04) scored within 35 seconds of each other to tie the score 8-8. Best would put the Stags ahead for the first-time with an unassisted goal with 18:05 to play in regulation. Reilly netted a free position shot at the 14:37 mark to push the lead to two, 10-8, and McKinley's goal at the 5:58 mark made the lead three, 11-8. Reilly rounded out the victory with her career-high setting fifth goal on a free position shot at the end of the half.
The Stags defense was near perfect in the second-half, causing four turnovers and not allowing a goal Katie Keenan (Wantagh, N.Y.) stopped all five shots that Hofstra put on net in the second-half and finished the game with nine total saves. The Stags had five caused turnovers in the game, and had a 16-14 edge in ground balls
It is the Stags first-ever win over Hofstra which had won all previous eight meetings between the two squads.
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Mouse Model of Sepsis Challenged
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences calls into question the standard mouse model of sepsis, trauma, and infection. The research is an excellent example of how proper science investigates its own methods.
Mouse and other animal models are essential to biomedical research. The goal is to find a specific animal model of a human disease and then conduct preliminary research on the animal model in order to determine which research is promising enough to study in humans. There are also non-animal assays and "test tube" type research that is used to screen potential treatments, but scientists still prefer a good animal model.
It is also understood that animal models are imperfect – mice are not humans, after all. Animal research is therefore not a substitute for human research. I and other SBM authors have regularly criticized proponents of dubious treatments who make clinical claims based upon preliminary animal research. Until something is studied in humans, we cannot make any reliable claims about its safety and efficacy in people.


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