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RUSH: All right, folks, time to fire point-blank, dead between the eyes. I am getting a number of e-mail complaints from people who are identifying themselves, anyway, as conservatives who are saying that they have lost faith in me, that this is not what conservatism is all about, this is not the way conservatives should operate. Let me tackle it this way. I think, if I may be serious for a moment, we're in a war, a political war in this country, and only one side is fully engaged and that's the enemy, and our enemy happens to be liberalism which is found in the Democrat Party. I have played sound bites all morning, afternoon long from members of the Drive-By Media who have accused me of perverting their process, perverting the electoral process. I have been accused of being ungentlemanly, all of this because I suggested -- did not make, did not demand, did not require -- I suggested that Republicans in Texas and Ohio cross over and vote for Mrs. Clinton in the primaries in order to keep the bloodletting in the Democrat Party going to keep them in a state of chaos, to see to it that their nomination fight would not be wrapped up until they go to the convention.
Can we talk about who these people are? Who are liberals? These are people, you want to talk about perversion, these are people who have done their best to pervert the Constitution of the United States. These are people who have done their best to pervert the court system of the United States. These are the people who have done their best to pervert basic morality. I mean, after all, here they are wailing, and they're whining, and they're moaning Monday night, last night, this morning, about the immorality of my suggesting that you cross over and vote for Hillary. The same people who do not want to have a discussion on morality as it relates to abortion are the same people who now want to have a discussion on the morality of people voting, when they plainly reserve for themselves the right to cross over into our party and choose our nominee, for the express purpose of sabotaging our nomination process. Do you people actually think that the Democrats and independents that crossed over in the early Republican primaries for Senator McCain did so because they want him to be elected president? Quite the contrary. You might be whistling Dixie and fooling yourself, but please, I ask you not to do that.
These are the people who have done their best to pervert the war in Iraq. These are the people who have done their best to secure defeat in the war in Iraq and the war on terror. These are the people who seek to pervert any number of American traditions and institutions that have come to define the greatness of this country. And I, for one, am not content to sit by and let this be a one-sided fight. The quintessential discussion that we're having here is who is going to triumph in this battle of ideas within the political arena of ideas to shape the future of the country? If you've been listening here regularly, I'm a little bit alarmed, our party's reluctance to engage the battle, for whatever reason. And look at what happens when you do engage the battle. Look at what happens to the left when you do engage them. I said in the first hour, "Look, you media people, you Drive-By people, all upset here at what I'm doing. You're looking at this the wrong way. Look at me as a maverick. Look at all of these people that voted for Hillary on the Republican side in Texas and Ohio, look at us as maverick conservatives. Look at us as independent conservatives."
What happened last night was that the mavericks and independents among us voted for Hillary. But if we lose in November, my friends, you'd be foolish to blame me. One of these two people is going to get the nominee, our nomination. It's going to be Hillary or Obama. One of them is. If we lose in November, who's going to be held responsible? Who can you thank? Well, you can thank the Republican nominee himself. If our nominee cannot beat Hillary Clinton, he was never going to beat Obama. And if he goes up against Obama and loses, then that's our nominee's doing. I didn't choose the Republican nominee. All I'm doing is helping to prolong the bloodletting in the Democrat Party, which can only help our nominee any way you look at it. In the process, what's happening here, these phony journalists and anchors are exposing themselves. They're upset with me because I helped Hillary. They're upset with me because I have more influence than they do. They're upset with me, bottom line, because they've spent months protecting Barack Obama and promoting Obama. They want him to be president.
It is patently obvious, is it not? Saturday Night Live parodied the softball press coverage -- and, by the way, don't discount the effect that that's had this past week on the election results last night. NBC, they made fun of their own network. They made mincemeat of both NBC and PMSNBC, the softball coverage on Obama. You know what that did? That made the Drive-Bys get a little tougher on Obama last week. How malleable are the Drive-By Media when being parodied on Saturday Night Live can make 'em buck up, make 'em shape up, make 'em start acting like journalists for a change. They had chosen sides. Do you think all these Drive-Bys would be upset if I had been encouraging people to cross over and vote Obama? It would be just the opposite. I would be praised, as a maverick, as an independent. And even though they might have thought I was trying to corrupt their process, and they might have said so, they would have secretly been happy that I had done it. They can't fool me with what their ultimate aim here is.
Folks, you have to realize here, you who listen to this program on a daily basis and have been for the almost 20 years that we've been here, you know full well the degree of corruption of our culture and society liberalism has wrought. I've probably left out a lot of things -- courts, Constitution, education system, military, war on terror, war in Iraq. And they dare accuse us of mischief and immorality by having Republicans cross over? We're just a bunch of mavericks and independents, ladies and gentlemen. By the way, do not the Democrats say that every vote should count? Democracy is sacred? Well, one of the options in those states, Ohio and Texas, is to permit to allow people to cross over. If they choose for whatever reason to do so, perfectly fine, no one should question why. Voters are exercising their sacred Democrat prerogative, which includes propping up a candidate on the opposing ticket for any reason, including that he or she might be easier to beat or the lesser of two evils president.
To say the Democrats don't do this is absurd. In deciding whether to prop up Hillary or Obama, you have to consider two things. One, who's easier to beat? Two, who would be the worst president? Because we have to allow a possibility the Democrat candidate can win. On both counts, probably prop up Hillary. She'd probably be easier to beat -- well, I know she'd be easier to beat because half the country already hates her. I mean this is the objective of political campaigns, to drive up the negatives about your opponent, hers are already there, at 49%. Obama's aren't, and it's going to be a long haul to get him up to 49% negatives, but if anybody can do it, it's Hillary. Don't you understand? Don't you understand that at the end of the day, all of this is about us winning, as I said from the very beginning? This is about us winning!
RUSH: We go back to the phones to Washington, DC. Hi, Marty. Glad you called, sir.
CALLER: Yeah, Rush. Look, I love you, but I'm really upset with what you've done here. I mean, you have considerable power and I'm just afraid you've wielded it in the morning manner and our republic may suffer here as a result. Uh, I think Bob Beckel expressed my feeling best last night. Uh, he said, sure, she's only picked up 20 delegates but she's now basically guaranteed a spot, uh, on the ticket in some kind of capacity, top or bottom, and having them both on the ticket makes it tougher to win than if it was only one.
RUSH: Well, I disagree with that, but I think it makes it even easier. I don't think that... Here we are. We're just barely in the early days of March. I don't think that anything's guaranteed. You can't say that this guarantees that she will be on the ticket top or bottom. All these wise men and these philosopher kings start making these comments. The only thing that we can say for certain, Marty, is that the results yesterday guarantee this thing is going to go on through at least Puerto Rico, which is June 7th. It's going to come down to superdelegates and maybe they'll decide to redo Florida and go to the convention. I also understand that there's a possibility that could come out of this really unified and so forth, but what happened yesterday in Ohio and Texas, the net result was not that great a difference had Obama won. In fact, I just got late-breaking numbers out of Texas. You know, they had caucuses in Texas after the primary, and get this. According to Fox News, the numbers out of Texas caucuses last night require an asterisk on Hillary's Tuesday night victory speech, showing gains made by Obama in the delegate grab race that all but numerically canceled out her big win in Ohio. So he won the caucuses; she won the primary, but whatever her delegate gain was in Ohio has been wiped out by his winning the caucuses in Texas. So there's no change here.
CALLER: Well, I'm glad to hear that, and I just think that had you not intervened -- and there's no doubt in my mind that you're the result of her winning Texas. I mean, I think she would have won Ohio anyway. You know, four months ago I thought the same thing you thought. Let's make both of them spend all their money, wipe 'em out and I hope that ends up being the case. But I think if we had scored a knockout punch with her, uh, you know, I think that would have been better off. If they're together, you know, as a result, uh (laughs). You got considerable power, but I don't know.
RUSH: Well, here's my thinking on this -- and you're free to disagree, but I'll repeat this again. Let me ask you a question. Would you agree with me in my assessment that the Republican Party is reluctant to the point of not going to do it, to be critical of Barack Obama?
CALLER: Oh, unquestionably.
RUSH: All right.
CALLER: You hit the nail on the head.
RUSH: All right. Would you agree the Clintons are the Clintons?
CALLER: Yeah. That's why I want them out.
RUSH: Would you agree that Mrs. Clinton wants this like none of us can imagine wanting anything?
CALLER: Oh, I would love to see her go to the jugular, Rush -- don't misunderstand me -- and vice-versa with him. But the problem is, I think it's now in a situation they're both going to have to say, "Look, this is a blood let," and they're going to have to unite. They may start kissing and making up at this point. I may be wrong.
RUSH: The only way that would happen is if Mrs. Clinton concludes that there is a way she can maneuver this to put herself on the top of the ticket, and the only way that she can maneuver... She can't do that with delegates right now. So the only way that she can do this is to come up with some dirt on this guy that she can take to him and say, "Look, you want this out?" This Rezko trial starting this week is going to have some details that Barack doesn't want out there. His clean-and-pure-as-paradise image is going to suffer this week with some things that are going to come out about people he's been doing business with.
CALLER: Yeah, but, Rush, you know what's going on right now -- not now, but is going to happen shortly. She's going to have that -- her operatives are going to have that conversation with him, say, "Do you want Rezko out?" He's going to say, "Look, I don't want Rezko out, but you know darn well what I can come back with." That's all the more reason I think there should be a truce.
RUSH: Okay, let's strip all this away. Let's get down to the nub of this. Because, look, I'm very much concerned that people are not understanding my take on this and my objective -- and I also am not comfortable with the fact that some people think I'm goofing this up. I think it's just the opposite. But let's just cut to the nub of it. You don't think that they can be beaten as a team?
CALLER: Yeah, I think it's going to be tougher.
RUSH: Why?
CALLER: Don't you?
RUSH: I mean, doesn't this come down to who our nominee is?
CALLER: Well, look, that's water under the bridge. We're screwed because we got the worst possible nominee. I mean, we're in a position now where we've gotta have...
RUSH: Okay, okay, okay. So do you believe me when I tell you that our objective here is our side winning and beating them?
CALLER: Of course.
RUSH: Okay, you just think I might be making a mistake in my judgment?
CALLER: Yeah, just a tactical error here.
RUSH: Tactical error.
CALLER: A strategic error.
RUSH: Oh, strategic, yeah, not tactical. But I don't think it is an error.
CALLER: I hope you're right.
RUSH: It's all rooted in the fact that (sigh) we're not going to play hardball. They are. And if we're not going to play hardball and they are, then we gotta let 'em play hardball against each other for a while so that there are some people that have some serious questions. But I actually think -- and don't ask me to explain why, but -- if they're both on the ticket, it's actually an easier victory. I just do. I think Obama would be the tougher of the two to beat, if he alone were on the ticket with his own choice of VP. If Hillary were on the ticket, that's the easier of the two to beat. If they're on the ticket together, and she's on top, it's easier than if Obama's on top. It's not by any means undoable, but it still boils down to the fact that people are blaming me here, when you admit that we don't have the best nominee we could probably have. It's going to... Look, I'm not running for president and I'm not out there getting votes. I'm not asking people to vote for me. I don't know how it can be said I'm going to lose the election. I just do not know how that can be said, because I'm not going to be urging people to vote for either one of these two Democrats, plain and simple -- and I've made that clear as well. Marty, thanks for the call. Jeff in Cincinnati, you're next on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Rush!
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: I need to mark this day on my calendar. What an honor it is to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir. Well, it's March the 5th, 2008.
CALLER: (laughs) Duly noted. Hey, I was just calling to say that the irony of this is delicious. We are finally -- like you were talking to the last caller about -- starting to give them a taste of their own medicine. It's been a source of frustration for me that we sit back and we keep taking these pokes in the ribs and kicks in the teeth from them, and their tactics.
RUSH: It's not even that. We've been asking for kicks in the teeth! We've been asking for Democrats to join us, and we've been thinking that's what make us good. "Look, the Democrats want to vote for our guy! Look, the independents want to vote for our guy. Wow! That's really cool!" So we turn it around and we go vote for their people, "It's corruption. It's ungentlemanly." You're exactly right. They have been doing what they can to subvert our nomination process in 2000, 2004, and now in 2008. It's a little tit-for-tat. So they did bring this on themselves. You know, one of the things that mild-mannered people don't understand is that the aggressor sets the rules in any conflict -- and it's plain as day, folks, that we are not the aggressors here.


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BACKGROUND: Directional intraoperative Doppler (dioDoppler) ultrasonography is well established as a tool in the surgery of intracranial aneurysms and cerebral arteriovenous malformations. The literature provides little information about the possible usefulness of this method during surgery on cranial dural arteriovenous fistulas (dAVFs).
OBJECTIVE: To present our experience with the use of dioDoppler during surgery on cranial dAVFs.
METHODS: All patients undergoing craniotomy for cranial dAVF from January 2007 to October 2012 in which dioDoppler was used were included in the study. We reviewed patient records, operating protocols, radiological images, dioDoppler files, and intraoperative videos.
RESULTS: During the study period, 12 patients with cranial dAVFs underwent surgical treatment facilitated by dioDoppler. Four patients were operated on acutely for cerebral bleeds, and 8 patients were treated for various cerebral symptoms and the assumption of a significant risk for intracranial bleed. Three advantages of dioDoppler were unequivocal identification of veins with cortical/deep venous reflux from the fistula, verification of completeness of occlusion of the fistula, and identification of dural arterial feeders not visualized under the microscope.
CONCLUSION: Reviewing our experience, we found that dioDoppler sonography is an easy, safe, effective, reliable, and instantaneous tool during surgery on cranial dAVFs.
ABBREVIATIONS: dAVF, dural arteriovenous fistula
dioDoppler, directional intraoperative Doppler
DSA, digital subtraction angiography
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Two Gallery Exhibits
Closed March 15-24, 2014 for spring break
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, March 14 • 5-7 PM
North Gallery: Generations IV: A Master of Arts in Teaching
The MAT-Art program, based on the teaching artist model, will display the artwork of public school art teachers, their students and the Oswego MAT-Art student teachers who worked with them. Thus, three generations of artists will be featured.
South Gallery: Spring MA Exhibition
Graduating Master of Arts degree students show an extensive body of work reflecting a concentration in either graphic design or studio art as well as a strong commitment, understanding and obvious accomplishment in visual art.
Tyler Art Gallery Hours: 11:30 AM-3:00 PM, Tuesday-Saturday
Art Exhibition: SUNY Oswego Traditional Illustration
Reception: Saturday, March 29, 2-4 PM
Judith Ann Benedict's fall students employing traditional illustration materials such as pen, watercolor, etc.
Oswego State Downtown, a branch of the College Store, is located at 186 West First Street (at the corner of West Bridge & West First Streets).
The phone number is 315-216-4985 and open hours are:
Noon – 5 PM, Wednesdays
10 AM – 6 PM, Thursdays
10 AM – 5 PM, Fridays
11 AM – 5 PM, Saturdays
For more information about this and other SUNY Oswego art exhibitions, contact Tyler Art Gallery, 315-312-2112.
CONCERT: The United States Army Field Band Jazz Ambassadors
Hewitt Union Ballroom
From Boston to Baghdad, Tampa to Tokyo, The United States Army Field Band has been thrilling audiences of all ages for more than half a century.
The Jazz Ambassadors–America's Big Band–is the official touring big band of the United States Army. This ensemble, formed in 1969, has received great acclaim, both at home and abroad, performing America's original art form–jazz. Their diverse repertoire includes big band swing, bebop, Latin, contemporary jazz, standards, popular tunes, Dixieland, vocals, and patriotic selections — something for everyone.
"From the opening opus until the last note of the second encore, the Jazz Ambassadors held the audience in its thrall…It required utmost constraint not to literally jump up and down to the rhythm."
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The U.S. Army Field Band Jazz Ambassadors
A Free Ticketed Event
Tickets are available only by walk-up at any campus box office or by phone at 312-2141.
Baroque pieces have been used in many different settings since their inception, from grandiose Romantic renditions to contemporary rock versions. This concert explores Baroque music as inspiration for different styles of dance: Modern, Classical, and, of course, Baroque. The concert features Ligia Pinheiro– dancer, historian, and choreographer– dance students, and Juan La Manna, performing and conducting.
Tuesday, April 15th • 7 PM
Room 132, Campus Center Auditorium
Edward Mayer is an installation artist whose work employs non-traditional materials and questions the concept of art as commodity. Over a nearly 40-year artist journey, his work has consistently remained engaging and unexpected. Full of paradox, his installations also explore concepts of permanence and decay and the boundaries between indoor and outdoor space and art and architecture.
INDIE CONCERT: Arms & Sleepers, American Royalty and Gianni Paci
Doors Open at 7:00 PM
Arms & Sleepers is an electronic duo from Boston. Their first EP came out in 2006, and they have since toured in Europe, Asia and North America.
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American Royalty is a psych-pop trio from Brooklyn. Their music incorporates dark psychedelic rock, blues and electronica. Their first EP was released in 2010.
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Gianni Paci is a recent graduate of NYU where he studied Musicology. He is a solo guitarist with influences from Buddy Holly and The Beatles. Performer Magazine recently featured him on their cover.
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Students from Amy Bartell's advanced graphics class illustrate the flash fiction of writers from Leigh Wilson's advanced fiction writing course; the collaborations range from micro-stories to illustrations to three-minute films.
Oswego State Downtown, 186 West First Street (at the corner of West Bridge & West First Streets).
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10 AM – 6 PM, Thursdays
10 AM – 5 PM, Fridays
11 AM – 5 PM, Saturdays
For more information about this and other SUNY Oswego art exhibitions, contact Tyler Art Gallery, 315-312-2112.
State Singers & College Choir Spring Concert
Enjoy an evening of fine vocal music.
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It takes more than a tractor to make a food drive successful. Here volunteers load up a trailer at Carghill Limited, among them are FCC President and CEO Greg Stewart and Executive Director of Food Bank Saskatchewan Bill Hall.
It was a bustling day in the Friendly City Tuesday as the FCC's Drive Away Hunger food drive got underway in Moose Jaw.
Not your typical food drive, the Farm Credit Canada (FCC) knows how to draw attention to a cause — by driving farm tractors and trailers around town collecting large amounts of food and donations.
Nationwide, the FCC hopes to raise more than one million pounds of food and $500,000. Donations raised in a community, however, stay in that community and the community of Moose Jaw stepped up in a big way to give the local food bank thousands of pounds of food and dollars.
At the Moose Jaw Food Bank, manager Terri Smith is left with the task of finding space for the surge of donations that the FCC drive brought in. In an interview Tuesday morning Smith said she had no idea how much food to expect.
"I know it's going to be on a larger scale, so we're just trying to make as much room as possible so we can sort it," said Smith, adding that the food bank will be closed today just to make sure staff have the time they need to organize all of the food.
Smith said that the abundance of donations that the Drive Away Hunger campaign brought in puts the food bank in a unique position because it's so close to the Better Together food drive, which also brings in huge amounts of food.
"Our shelves are quite low, because we usually anticipate the Better Together food drive as well," said Smith. "It is coming up two weeks after this drive, so we need to clear out more space so we can have pallets brought in two weeks from now."
Smith says that finding space will be a challenge and that the surplus of food can be "a little scary and exciting all at the same time, but we'll get through it."
Smith doesn't mind doing a little extra hard work for a great cause. "It just shocks me how giving Moose Jaw is. We're not government subsidized whatsoever, so any help from anybody in the community is just great; whether it be monetary donations, whether it be food donations, we gladly accept it all and we really appreciate it."
Of the almost 50 stops that the tractors made on Tuesday, many of them were schools. At Sacred Heart elementary school, program supervisor of community development, Lori Lancaster, said that the children did an excellent job collecting food over the past two weeks.
"Everybody has been very good about bringing in what they can, it's been wonderful."
Lancaster said the school encouraged the children in multiple ways to do their best to help others.
"We've spoken about it in assembly, we sent notes home, we sent the collection bags home, and then there were reminders within the classroom by the teachers talking about the importance. And then our principal would give little reminders when he was doing morning announcements; he'd remind people how important it was.
"I'm really proud of our students," said Lancaster. "They've shown a lot of leadership by remembering and participating, and I think they've been quite excited to do this for the community."
Schools play a huge role in local food drives and so do local businesses.
Norma Clarke, business manager at Robertson Implements, is just one of many members of the Moose Jaw business community who helped make the Drive Away Hunger food drive a great success.
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"Our business supplied a tractor and trailer for them to drive around and pick up food. And then we had food bags and envelopes on our front counters for customers to pick up and take home," said Clarke of Robertson Implements' efforts to contribute to the cause.
"It's a great cause and we're very happy to support it."
One of the stops along the tractor drive was at Carghill Limited where the entire crew of FCC volunteers was treated to a barbecue lunch, as well as a personal thank you from FCC president and CEO Greg Stewart who spent the day hauling food and loading tractors with the rest of the volunteers.
"It's lots of fun to be involved in and it feels pretty good to do our little bit to help," said Stewart in an interview after the barbecue. Stewart says that as president of FCC, he feels a responsibility to give back to the communities it does business in, and the takes great satisfaction in the FCC's ability to help others.
"There's great people everywhere and you just need to give them a chance," said Stewart. "We're fortunate enough to be able give people a chance to give back to their communities, and when you give them that space and allow them to do it, they can do great things."
Stewart said that often it's easy for companies to write a check to give to a cause, but that to make lasting impressions it's best to really get behind a cause and do the good work face-to-face in the communities.
"We get the chance to teach young kids that giving back to their community at nine or 10 years old is a great thing to do. What's better than that? You're changing lives by giving people a helping hand who need it, and then also hopefully changing people's lives by helping them become better community citizens as they go forward for the rest of their lives."
The FCC Drive Away Hunger food drive wrapped-up at the Moose Jaw Warriors' game Tuesday evening where the final tally was announced.
A total of 15,533 pounds of food, as well as $16,614 in monetary donations, was collected in Moose Jaw on Tuesday.


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Buddy Roemer seems like the closest thing to a front-runner in the Americans Elect race, as he's attracted by-far the most support of any declared candidate for the AE nomination. Yet, because of the rules currently in place, he still may not qualify for the next round of voting in the organization's online caucus.
Roemer's campaign, now flush with $185,000 in public matching funds, is working on an all-out effort to register at least 1,000 supporters in each of at least 10 states over the next 27 days. Thus far, only about 3,000 people in total have signed-up to back the former Louisiana governor in his quest for a spot on all 50 state ballots. What's worse is that in Roemer's very best state, California, he's only about 30% of the way to the required threshold. Other states in his current top 10 include Florida (140 supporters) and Ohio (104 supporters).
With the recent signs of trouble coming from the non-profit organization, it's unclear how the process would move forward if no candidate managed to secure the required support. Would Americans Elect cease to exist? Would their millions in ballot access spending go totally to waste?


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Wyatt, Christina M MD*; Hoover, Donald R PhD†; Shi, Qiuhu PhD‡; Seaberg, Eric PhD§; Wei, Catherine MA‖; Tien, Phyllis C MD¶#; Karim, Roksana MD**; Lazar, Jason MD††; Young, Mary A MD‡‡; Cohen, Mardge H MD§§; Klotman, Paul E MD*; Anastos, Kathryn MD‖‖
From the *Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY; †Department of Statistics and Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick NJ; ‡School of Health Sciences and Practice, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY; §Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore MD; ∥Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; ¶Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA; #Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Medical Service, San Francisco, CA; **Departments of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; ††Department of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY; ‡‡Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC; §§Department of Medicine, Cook County Hospital, Chicago IL; and ∥∥Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Population Health, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
Received for publication October 9, 2009; accepted November 13, 2009.
Support for this work was provided by the National Institutes of Health.
The WIHS is funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (UO1-AI-35004, UO1-AI-31834, UO1-AI-34994, UO1-AI-34989, UO1-AI-34993, and UO1-AI-42590) and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (UO1-HD-32632). The study is cofunded by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Funding is also provided by the National Center for Research Resources (UCSF-CTSI Grant Number UL1 RR024131).
C.M.W. is supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (K23-DK-077568). P.C.T. is supported by NIAID (K23-AI-66943).
The contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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Objectives: Prevalence of microalbuminuria is increased in patients with HIV. Microalbuminuria is associated with increased mortality in other populations, including diabetics, for whom microalbuminuria testing is standard of care. We investigated whether microalbuminuria is associated with mortality in HIV-infected women not receiving antiretroviral therapy.
Methods: Urinalysis for proteinuria and semiquantitative testing for microalbuminuria were performed in specimens from 2 consecutive visits in 1547 HIV-infected women enrolled in the Women's Interagency HIV Study in 1994-1995. Time to death was modeled using proportional hazards analysis.
Results: Compared with women without albuminuria, the hazard ratio (HR) for all-cause mortality was increased in women with 1 (HR: 3.4; 95% CI: 2.2 to 5.2) or 2 specimens positive for either proteinuria or microalbuminuria (HR: 3.9; 95% CI: 2.1 to 7.0). The highest risk was observed in women with both specimens positive for proteinuria (HR: 5.8; 95% CI: 3.4 to 9.8). The association between albuminuria and all-cause mortality risk remained significant after adjustment for demographics, HIV disease severity, and related comorbidities. Similar results were obtained for AIDS death.
Conclusions: We identified a graded relationship between albuminuria and the risk of all-cause and AIDS mortality.
Chronic kidney disease and overt proteinuria have been associated with adverse outcomes in HIV-infected patients.1,2 Lower levels of urinary albumin excretion, or microalbuminuria, have also been associated with increased mortality in other patient populations, and routine microalbuminuria testing is now considered standard of care in diabetics.3 Several studies have demonstrated an increased prevalence of microalbuminuria in HIV-infected individuals both before4 and after the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)5,6; however, the prognostic significance of microalbuminuria in HIV-infected patients is not known.
The Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) has collected information on HIV disease characteristics, comorbidities, and outcomes in a prospective cohort of women enrolled in the pre-HAART era.7 An earlier analysis in WIHS demonstrated an association between overt proteinuria and increased mortality risk.1 We sought to determine whether microalbuminuria testing also provides prognostic information.
The WIHS design has been described previously.7 Briefly, WIHS is an ongoing prospective cohort study that enrolled HIV-infected and at-risk seronegative women in 5 metropolitan areas in the United States. Only HIV-infected women enrolled between October 1994 and November 1995 were included in the current analysis. Demographics and social, medical, and detailed HIV disease history were collected by standardized interview. Prior AIDS-defining illness (ADI) was defined based on the 1993 Centers for Disease Control case definition for AIDS, excluding CD4 <200 cells per cubic millimeter. Laboratory data including CD4, HIV-RNA, hepatitis serologies, hemoglobin, serum albumin, and routine urinalysis were collected at enrollment and semiannually. Serum creatinine testing was performed at enrollment and annually. Estimated Glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was estimated using the 4-variable Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) equation. Because currently available GFR estimates have not been validated in HIV-infected populations, we selected the abbreviated MDRD equation because of the established relationship between decreased MDRD eGFR and increased mortality in other patient populations.8,9 The WIHS was approved by the institutional review boards of all sites, and participants provided written informed consent. The current analysis was also approved by the institutional review board of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Urine specimens were collected at study entry and every 6 months. To minimize artifact from cystitis, specimens were excluded from this analysis if the corresponding urinalysis demonstrated pyuria (leukocyte esterase 1+ with a positive or missing urine culture, or leukocyte esterase >1+). By WIHS protocol, urine specimens were not collected during menses. Women with 2 eligible urine specimens were included in this analysis. The index visit was defined as the first visit at which an eligible specimen was obtained. Specimens with protein <1+ were tested for microalbuminuria. Semiquantitative microalbuminuria testing was performed in banked urine specimens under standardized conditions using Clinitek Microalbumin Reagent Strips and the Clinitek 50 Analyzer (Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Deerfield, IL). This point-of-care dipstick assay has a sensitivity of 86% compared with clinical laboratory testing and was selected because of its applicability to clinical practice. Frozen specimens (−70°C) from the Division of AIDS central repository were thawed completely before testing. Quality assurance testing was performed with standardized controls (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA). Microalbuminuria was defined as an albumin to creatinine ratio >30 mg/g.
The study exposure was hierarchically defined as follows: (1) Women with urinalysis protein ≥1+ at both the index visit and the next consecutive eligible visit were considered to have "confirmed proteinuria." (2) Women with microalbuminuria at both visits or with microalbuminuria at one visit and proteinuria at the other were considered to have "confirmed microalbuminuria." (3) Women with proteinuria or microalbuminuria at only 1 visit were considered to have "unconfirmed albuminuria." (4) Women without proteinuria or microalbuminuria on either visit were considered to have no albuminuria.
Data on vital status were collected from medical records, providers, and personal contacts of WIHS participants and from the National Death Index. In cases where the death certificate was not available, the cause of death was ascertained from medical records, providers, or personal contacts, in that order. The cause of death was categorized as AIDS, non-AIDS, or indeterminate, as previously described.10
Clinical characteristics at the index visit were summarized for each albuminuria group. When data were missing at the index visit, the value was obtained from the most recent prior visit. Continuous and categorical variables were compared using Kruskall-Wallis and chi-square tests, respectively. All P-values are 2-sided. Kaplan-Meier and proportional hazards models evaluated associations of albuminuria with time to death. Proportional hazards models included baseline characteristics that have previously been associated with short-term mortality in WIHS1,11: demographics, prior ADI, hepatitis C coinfection, log transformed HIV-RNA, CD4, hemoglobin, and serum albumin. Diabetes, blood pressure, and eGFR were also considered for inclusion because of their known association with albuminuria. Survival analyses were left-truncated at the second eligible study visit and were censored at October 31, 1997, based on a prior analysis of WIHS demonstrating minimal HAART use and little effect of HAART exposure on the relationship between other covariates and death before this date.11 In addition, a sensitivity analysis including HAART use as a time dependent variable in the multivariate models was performed. All analyses were performed using SAS (version 9.1.3; SAS).
Among 2059 HIV-infected women enrolled in WIHS during 1994 to 1995, 1547 (75%) had at least 2 eligible urine specimens available. Women with inadequate specimens were similar to included participants with respect to age and race ethnicity (data not shown). One-third of women included in this analysis reported a history of ADI at or before the index visit, and only 1% reported HAART use at the time of the index visit (Table 1). Fifty-seven women (3.7%) had confirmed proteinuria, 64 (4.1%) had confirmed microalbuminuria, and 165 (10.7%) had unconfirmed albuminuria. Compared with participants with no albuminuria, women with any level of albuminuria had more advanced HIV disease and were more likely to classify their race as black and to have an eGFR below 60 mL·min−1/1.73 m2.
During a median follow-up of 2.1 years, there were 135 deaths, including 97 from AIDS. Kaplan-Meier curves demonstrated a graded relationship between the severity of albuminuria and time to all-cause and AIDS death (Fig. 1). Compared with women with no albuminuria, women with unconfirmed albuminuria (HR: 3.4; 95% CI: 2.2 to 5.2) and confirmed microalbuminuria (HR: 3.9; 95% CI: 2.1 to 7.0) had a higher risk of all-cause mortality, whereas women with confirmed proteinuria had the highest risk (HR: 5.8; 95% CI: 3.4 to 9.8). A similar relationship was observed for AIDS death.
After adjustment, the association of albuminuria with all-cause mortality was partially mitigated but remained significant (Table, Supplemental Digital Content 1, http://links.lww.com/QAI/A27). Compared with women with no albuminuria, the adjusted mortality risk was 2-fold higher in women with unconfirmed albuminuria (adjusted HR: 2.0; 95% CI: 1.2 to 3.2) or confirmed microalbuminuria (adjusted HR: 1.9; 95% CI: 1.0 to 3.8) and nearly 3-fold higher in women with confirmed proteinuria (adjusted HR: 2.8; 95% CI: 1.5 to 5.2). Other variables that were independently associated with mortality included CD4, HIV-RNA, prior ADI, and hemoglobin. Diabetes was excluded from the final model because there were no deaths among the small subgroup with diabetes at the index visit (0/40 versus 135 of 1372 with no diabetes, P = 0.04), which prevented the proportional hazards model from converging. Systolic and diastolic blood pressures were highly correlated; only systolic blood pressure was included in the final model. Similar results were obtained in multivariate analysis when the outcome was AIDS death, and in sensitivity analyses including HAART use as a time-dependent covariate (data not shown).
In this well-characterized cohort of HIV-infected women enrolled before the widespread introduction of HAART, we identified a graded relationship between the degree of albuminuria and the risk of mortality. Although overt proteinuria has been associated with adverse outcomes in previous studies,1,2 the prognostic significance of microalbuminuria has not been described in HIV-infected individuals. In the current analysis, the detection of proteinuria or microalbuminuria on a single urine specimen was associated with an increased risk of mortality, even after adjustment for markers of HIV disease severity. These data suggest that microalbuminuria testing may provide useful prognostic information in HIV-infected individuals.
Although this is the first study to investigate the prognostic significance of microalbuminuria in patients with HIV, a number of limitations must be acknowledged. First, this analysis included only women enrolled before the widespread use of HAART, and results may not be generalizable to men or HAART-treated individuals. Although more than 50% of participants had a CD4 >350 cells per cubic millimeter at the index visit, the majority of deaths occurred in women with lower CD4. The relationship between albuminuria and all-cause death was consistent when stratified at a CD4 of 350 cells per cubic millimeter, although we had limited power to detect differences in the strength of this relationship between CD4 strata (data not shown). Because more than 70% of deaths were attributed to AIDS, we had limited power to analyze the relationship between albuminuria and non-AIDS death. Second, a small number of participants initiated HAART before the end of the study period. In a previous WIHS analysis using the same study period, the percentage of person-time on HAART was very low, and HAART use had no significant influence on mortality.11 Results of the current analysis were similar when HAART use was included as a time-dependent variable. Finally, it is possible that misclassification occurred due to the use of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and other agents known to reduce albuminuria, limited sensitivity of dipstick assays for protein or microalbumin, or decreased sensitivity of microalbuminuria testing in banked urine specimens.12 This potential misclassification would be expected to bias our results toward the null.
The current study suggests that microalbuminuria testing may identify HIV-infected patients at increased risk for mortality. Although the mechanism of the observed association is not known, microalbuminuria has been hypothesized to reflect generalized endothelial dysfunction.3 In patients with HIV, microalbuminuria is associated with more advanced HIV disease5 and longer duration of infection.6 Consistent with these reports, the incremental risk of mortality associated with microalbuminuria was reduced, but not eliminated, after adjusting for markers of HIV disease severity. Nonetheless, microalbuminuria could serve as a noninvasive and accessible prognostic marker, particularly in resource-limited settings, where extensive laboratory testing is not feasible. Future studies should investigate whether microalbuminuria is associated with mortality in other HIV-infected populations and whether microalbuminuria testing is a cost-effective approach to identify patients who may benefit from earlier intervention.
Data in this article were collected by the WIHS Collaborative Study Group with centers (Principal Investigators) at New York City/Bronx Consortium (K.A.); Brooklyn, NY (Howard Minkoff); Washington DC Metropolitan Consortium (M.A.Y.); The Connie Wofsy Study Consortium of Northern California (Ruth Greenblatt); Los Angeles County/Southern California Consortium (Alexandra Levine); Chicago Consortium (Mardge Cohen); Data Coordinating Center (Stephen Gange). We are grateful to Johanna Goderre and Henry Sacks for their assistance.
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TRACKING DECISION-MAKING DURING ARCHITEC... [paper 2005/10]
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ITcon Vol. 10, pg. 125-139, http://www.itcon.org/2005/10
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SUMMARY: There is a powerful cocktail of circumstances governing the way decisions are made during the architectural design process of a building project. There is considerable potential for misunderstandings, inappropriate changes, change which give rise to unforeseen difficulties, decisions which are not notified to all interested parties, and many other similar problems. The paper presents research conducted within the frame of the EPSRC funded ADS project aiming at addressing the problems linked with the evolution and changing environment of project information to support better decision-making. The paper presents the conceptual framework as well as the software environment that has been developed to support decision-making during building projects, and reports on work carried out on the application of the approach to the architectural design stage. This decision-tracking environment has been evaluated and validated by professionals and practitioners from industry using several instruments as described in the paper.
KEYWORDS: decision tracking; architectural design; versioning of information.
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Morning Jac: First Take on MCLA Tourney
It's March, right? Time for my first shot at the tournament
seeds for the MCLA Division I tournament. Don't get crazy on me;
we're just spitballing here. I'm going on what we know, polls, and
1. Michigan (CCLA) – Whatever.
2. Colorado State (RMLC) – This spot proved uncomfortable for the Rams in '10.
3. BYU (At-Large) – Cougars appear to be a threat for No. 2 at this point.
4. Chapman (SLC) – No. 4 & 5 are interchangeable depending on SLC champion.
5. Arizona State (At-large) – See: Chapman.
6. Duluth (UMLL) – We'll know a lot more after this weekend.
7. Colorado (At-large) – Going on a bit of faith with this pick.
8. Florida State (SELC) – Virginia Tech appears to be the only threat.
9. Michigan State (At-large) – That schedule is going to score points.
10. Cal Poly (WCLL) – WCLL title appears to be in the bag. Playing for a seed.
11. UCSB (At-large) – Needs some magic on the Michigan trip to move up.
12. Utah (At-large) – This one is still up in the air. It's the Utes now, but many in the mix.
13. Texas (LSA) – There's no weight to the schedule. A nightmare No. 13 without question.
14. Oregon (PNCLL) – Still a long way to go, but that's big hole to dig out of.
15. Boston College (PCLL) – UNH will be here if the Wildcats snag the PCLL.
16. Illinois (GRLC) – I'll give the Illini the nod now, but plug in whatever GRLC team you want.
SIDENOTE: I've posted Schooling Schooler and Coyne v. Censer pick 'em competitions in the last couple of days. Look for the Weekender sometime this afternoon.
Best & Worst
- Best Thing About Today: The contest between No. 8 Minnesota-Duluth and No. 4 BYU. Two teams ticketed for Denver that can lay it all on the line tonight in Provo.
- Worst Thing About Today: I'm bringing my 4-year-old son to a Monster Truck 'show' this evening. The idea of telling people I spent my Friday evening at "Thunder Slam" isn't gratifying, but my son is a junky. Sadly, no Grave Digger.


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The Road
In his national best seller book, "The Road," author Cormac McCarthy makes two provocative references to trout. Thanks to my son for loaning his copy. I highly recommend it.
he grew up in Knoxville and went to UT, but you probably already know that. His novel "Sutree" takes place in Knoxville.
No, I didn't know that. Interesting.
John Ehle wrote a novel called 'The Road' as well [1966 IIRC] which is set in the Carolina mtns. Ehle is a NC writer-considered 'regional'. Oddly enough, his style has the noir aspects of Cormac. Ehle has several books based in the appalachians and on 'mountain' society. Ghost
The movie opens Nov 25. I don't think we're going to enjoy the images of the streams.
Is The Road partially set in the Smokys? Given that it is post-apocalyptic movie I would think you are right about not enjoying the images of the streams.
You could easily conclude the book was based on crossing the S. Appalachian Mtns someplace and going in the direction of the Carolina coast. Being its the Park's anniversary, hopefully the screen writer chose not show it devastated.
Not that it would come out from watching the flick, but one photo on the promo web site looks a lot like the Lakeview Drive bridge over Noland Creek. Using that stretch of pavement for a scene would be pretty fitting given its infamous alias, The Road to Nowhere.
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This movie is manipulative crap. Apparently the book is really good. I won't be reading it though, because the movie has ruined it forever.
Yes, Hathaway's accent is terrible. Even by the end, I couldn't work out what it was supposed to be. But I'm startled that most reviewers had picked that out as the film's worst sin.
Maybe it's the storytelling conceit that you only see these two one day in every year, but Dex is an unredeemable douchebag and Emma is a doormat. There seems to be nothing romantic about their interaction at all. And the fact that she DIES made me about as angry as that equally idiotic piece of dross City of Angels where the same thing happens. Couple finally unites, only to have one of them smashed into the road. Awesome.
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Four men, including two who allegedly are members of Hezbollah, were indicted in the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
A United Nations-appointed special tribunal based in The Hague handed over the indictments Thursday to Lebanese prosecutors.
Hariri was assassinated in February 2005 when his motorcade was bombed in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. Hezbollah has blamed the slaying on Israel.
Hezbollah in January brought down the government led by Hariri's son, Saad, after he refused to stop cooperating with the U.N.'s Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
Hezbollah, which is part of the current government, rejected the indictments.
One of those indicted is said to be Moustapha Badreddine, brother-in-law of Imad Muginyeh, a Hezbollah commander who was killed in 2007. Hezbollah also blames his killing on Israel.
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It wasn't a typical open house in Sackets Harbor Tuesday.
Visitors were given a first-hand look at the village's brand new, state-of-the-art sewage treatment plant and new Department of Public Works garage.
The $9 million project, at the site of the old treatment plant, had been in the works for more than a decade.
Community members who toured it say it was worth the money.
"We really need to thank the community for being patient with all the construction process as we worked through that," said Kris Dimmick, vice president of architect Bernier, Carr and Asscoiates.
"I think it's a lot more sanitary and a lot more green," said Sackets Harbor resident Dorothy Arnold, "and we'll see a lot of good things come from it."
The new facility has already received awards for its focus on environmental sustainability.
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The Wii has certainly become home to many a feel-good game since its launch over three years ago. Games such as NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, Super Paper Mario, and LostWinds have managed to combine excellent gameplay with a touching, emotional story that just tugs at your heartstrings. Enter: A Boy and His Blob. While certainly a little easy on the storytelling and narrative aspects, this reimagining of the 1989 Nintendo Entertainment System original tells a tale all its own through the use of beautiful visuals, a heart-warming soundtrack, and engaging puzzle gameplay.
Much of the story in A Boy and His Blob is left for interpretation, but the main aspect of the tale is clear. The evil King of Blobolonia has enslaved all of the resident blobs except for one who manages to escape. The small jelly-bean shaped blob makes his way to earth and befriends a young boy. And so begins our quest. While there are hardly any cut scenes in the game, you'll get the feeling that the boy and his squishy pal are forming a deep bond.
Through the course of the game, you'll jump over chasms, climb ridges, and take out enemies. While this sounds like typical platform game fare, A Boy and His Blob is a puzzle game at its core. Getting through the stages requires both the boy and his blob to work cohesively. The blob has the ability to shift into a number of different objects, and this is done by feeding it different jelly beans. The numerous jelly beans can turn the blob into a ladder, a trampoline, a flotation device, an anvil, and a rocket to name a few. You'll have to employ each of the blob's abilities if you want to clear each stage.
What makes A Boy and His Blob so much fun is that it doesn't have one or two puzzles scattered throughout the stages. Instead, the majority of the level progression is done by solving puzzles. You'll be feeding your blob jelly beans at a brisk rate and solving puzzle after puzzle as you make your way through a forest, a city, and space itself.
The first few stages feature hints, and the puzzles are fairly straightforward. As you progress, however, you'll have to figure out which abilities to use, and the puzzles will certainly get tougher. Granted none of the puzzles will cause you to throw your controller on the floor out of sheer frustration, the game's later brain teasers will elicit many a head-scratching moment.
The gameplay isn't without its flaws, though. The blob tends to trail behind quite a bit, and you'll constantly find yourself hitting the "call" button three times in a row as doing so makes the blob go straight to your location. The little gelatinous creature also gets stuck in a lot of places. Many times you'll see that it's stuck a level lower than you are. This is something that happens a lot, and many players will likely get frustrated with the blob's somewhat lacking AI.
A Boy and His Blob is definitely a treat for the eyes. The bulk of the game consists of hand-drawn animation, but you'll also see watercolor, acrylic, and graphic design elements thrown into the mix. Simply put, Wayforward really managed to create a beauty of a game. The locales are rich in color, and subtle things such as leaves blowing in the wind and lively backgrounds only sweeten the eye candy.
The game's soundtrack is almost as rich as its visuals. You'll hear calm melodies throughout the majority of the game, but boss battles as well as the final set of levels all feature intense themes. It's a collection of music that hits all the right notes. There are no big surprises in regards to the musical score, but for a game such as this, a pure soundtrack works extremely well.
A Boy and His Blob will take you anywhere between 10 and 15 hours to complete. The game features 40 normal stages, and each one is decent in size. Additionally, each stage contains three treasure chests. Finding and collecting all three chests opens up a bonus stage. This brings the game's total to 80 stages. Completing bonus stages unlocks concept art and other little treats. While not a huge game by any means, A Boy and His Blob is a pretty lengthy adventure with a good amount of extra content for completists.
A Boy and His Blob has some flaws, especially in terms of the blob's AI, but those who look past that will find a true gem of a game. The game's beautiful presentation and solid soundtrack only accentuate the game's enthralling gameplay elements. The constant puzzle-solving makes this game worth playing, and while it offers a moderate challenge, this title will likely never result in frustration. Ultimately, A Boy and His Blob manages to bring a lengthy quest filled with great puzzles to the Wii. Those who want to play something that has a steady pace and keeps you immersed need look no further.
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In response to Mr. B's comment the other day, I bought a number of books about taste, smell and food including In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan which I brought with me to read at the squirt softball game this evening. One can only watch so many walks, you know.
Anyway, it is a fairly good read, trotting through slightly familiar territory but placing it all into a very useful argument pitting, in the bit I have read so far, the forces of food (yea!) against the forces of nutritionism (boo!). This bit early on particularly stuck out for me.
The 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act imposed strict rules requiring that the word "imitation" appear on any food product that was, well, imitation. Read today, the official rationale behind the imitation rule seems at once commonsensical and quaint:" ....there are certain traditional foods that everyone knows, such as bread, milk and cheese, and that when consumer buy these foods, they should get the foods they are expecting... [and] if a food resembles a standard food but does not comply with the standard, that food must be labeled as an "imitation." Hard to argue with that...but the food industry did, strenuously for decades, and in 1973 it finally succeeded in getting the imitation rule tossed out, a little-noticed but momentous step that helped speed America down the path to nutritionism.
You can see where we are going with this. When we think of moving from the real, to the embrace of additives and processes of consumables, beer made by the big brewers has to be one of the greatest success stories in servicing imitation in the guise of a traditional. So why don't we call it what it is - imitation beer.
Put it this way - we can all agree that scale in itself is not definitive of what makes beer real or authentic. It is not the macro that makes for macro beer but the processes used by the macro. It's all that science tweaking a molecule here and a compound there to make what does not go into beer appear something like beer. So, just like we think of processed cheese food product or imitation cheery pie filling like substances, so too should we be talking about "imitation beer" for all that chemically gak that the scientists and industrialists put on the shelves. Your thought for the day.


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Crime and punishment
Everyone has an opinion about the death penalty. Theoretically (and abstractly) I have always been opposed to it, for the usual reasons: there are too many mistakes for such a permanent solution; there are too many racial, IQ and class inequities; there is no conclusive evidence that the death penalty deters violent crime—and there is a good bit of evidence that it is violent crime. Also, it seems to me as a Christian that it contradicts the gospel call for forgiveness and truncates the possibility of transformation.
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Dr. Green (top row, third from the right) with his B-29 crew members in Xian, China. | Image courtesy of Dr. Alex Green.
On March 12, 1945, the newly-minted U.S. Army Air Corps Operations Analyst Alex E. S. Green was 28,000 feet above Kure Anchorage and nearby Hiroshima Bay. The Brooklyn, New York, native was serving aboard a B-29 reconnaissance aircraft. The crew's assigned mission was to find enemy ships before the planned U.S. invasion of Okinawa. During this time, now Dr. Green saw firsthand how important energy is to military operations when his crew spotted Japanese warships stuck in place from a shortage of fuel.
"We couldn't figure out why they were sitting there next to each other, but later it came out that they didn't have oil" and were unable to disperse as a result. Then there was the Japanese battleship Amato, which was dispatched to Okinawa, but was only given a one-way supply of oil because of their petroleum shortage.
Later, Operations Analyst Green's B-29 was running low on gas and the crew almost had to bail out over China, making a "skin of the teeth" landing in Xian. "Our flight engineers were always worried about having enough aviation gas that came across the Pacific from Los Angeles and Oklahoma," observed Green. The young analyst also invented many technologies important to the war effort such as the first instrument to measure fuel burn in the B-29. For his heroics, Dr. Green was awarded the Truman Medal of Freedom.
After World War II, Green received a Doctorate in Physics at the University of Cincinnati and began an academic career. However, "When we had our first oil crisis (1973)," said Dr. Green, "I changed my focus to look for alternatives to oil largely because my generation knows the importance of running out of fuel."
Dr. Green got involved with Florida farmers who were interested in growing energy crops on non-food producing land. As a professor (now-emeritus) at the University of Florida, partly in the School of Forestry, he developed a program to convert Solid Waste to Energy by Advanced Thermal Technologies (SWEATT). Its purpose is to assist farmers to convert agricultural residues and energy crops. Since 1986, he has co-authored many technical articles and books on the use of agricultural residues and energy crops.
Dr. Green is convinced these biomass sources can be developed to provide some 25 percent of the national energy needs, rather than only three percent at present and help prevent the energy shortages he's witnessed throughout his life. Those events over the Pacific continue to fuel his desire to advance and promote this renewable, domestic fuel source – even at the age of 92. His efforts strengthen our national security and help troops have access to the resources they need to do their job.


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There were many lessons learned this season.
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The Five Hills Chito Ryu Karate Club recently travelled to Edmonton, Alta. for the Satewin Friendship Tournament. The club sent 11 competitors and brought home a combined 21 medals. Front row (L-R), Jordan Coates and Ryland Morhart. Middle row, Brett McLean, Jacob Selby, Janae Morhart and Callum Maitland. Back row; Colin Rosnes (instructor), Brandon Rosnes, Owen McNabb, Emma Coates and Nancy Rosnes (instructor). Times-Herald photo by Katie Brickman
At the final wrap up tournament, the Five Hills Chito Ryu Karate Club put everything they have learned together to win a combined 21 medals.
The club sent 11 competitors to the Satewin Friendship tournament in Edmonton, Alta. recently and everyone won a medal.
"Confidence was the biggest thing I noticed to come out of this. It is nice to see that confidence grow throughout the year and they are actually applying that confidence," said instructor Colin Rosnes. "From a technical standpoint, their basics are all improving. They are applying what we taught them throughout the year and we will just keep building on that."
The tournament had almost 100 competitors from Alberta and Saskatchewan and the local club sent kids ranging in age from seven to 14 years old.
This was the fourth tournament for Emma Coates and she won a bronze in team kata.
"I feel like I am getting stronger," she said. "I am proud of myself what I've done."
This was the third competition for Jacob Selby and had to deal with some nerves and some adversity before winning silver in kata and kumite.
"I am proud that I was able to push through when I cut my toe," he said. "There were a lot of kids there and it was a little intimidating, but I feel more confident."
Brett McLean also competed in his fourth tournament, winning a gold in kata and a bronze in kumite.
"I knew if I tried my best, it didn't matter if I won a medal," McLean said.
As the kids head into the off-season, Rosnes hopes they take what they learnt and put that into the daily lives.
"My hope is that they take it home into their lives, into school. We want them to wait their turn, be patient and being respectful. That is the direction I want them to talk in life," he said. "Each year, we want to build a deeper foundation than the year before."
Callum Maitland won bronze in kata and kumite, Brandon Roses won gold in kata, and Janae Morhart won bronze in team kata, silver in kata and bronze in kumite. Rylan Morhart won bronze in team kata, gold in kata and in kumite, Owen McNabb won silver in kata and gold in kumite and Kristupas Seirys won gold in kumite. Autumn Norman won bronze in kata and gold in kumite and Jordan Coates won bronze in kata and kumite.
"The biggest one that stood out to me was Jordan (Coates). This was his second tournament. In his first tournament, he sat out — he put on his outfit and sat and watched," said Rosnes. "In his second one, he put it on and took two bronze medals. That is the confidence I was referring to. He is so shy and quiet. It was nice to see him come out and actually succeed."


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RUSH: You ought to take a look at the Drudge homepage. This is classic. Herman Cain with three women and a guy. Does that picture make women look uncomfortable, do you think, in the era now of sexual harassment? He's got his arm around two women, and they look really happy, satisfied, women look very pleased. You know how that picture is just ripping the left? Can you imagine how the left feels today? CNN is beside themselves today. CNN literally is beside themselves today. They said they're reporting that Cain has raised $9 million in six weeks and they claim now, get this, CNN claims that Herman Cain is unfairly cashing in on this controversy. Who knew this had been going on for six weeks, does it seem like six weeks to you? Time is really flying here.
So CNN is pulling out the big guns, they're showing clips of Jonathan Leibowitz mocking Cain on The Daily Show, that will teach Cain. (laughing) They're mad at Herman Cain for using the media to raise money. Can you imagine? After all this? See, he was supposed to be gone, supposed to have tucked his tail between his legs and grab the nearest woman and faded stage left, get outta here. They were supposed to have shamed him, scared him, exposed him, whatever, out of the race. His fundraising is up. Hi polling is holding fairly steady, raised $9 million so now he's cashing in. (laughing) And then that picture on Drudge.
RUSH: Now, this morning on Jansing and Company on MSNBC -- and once again I have to observe that were it not for that network, we wouldn't have any liberal sound bites. We really wouldn't, which may be an argument for keeping a network alive. That may be the only argument for keeping it alive so that we have sound bites. This is the-fill-in host Richard Lui. He reported this about Herman Cain accuser Karen Kraushaar.
LUI: (dramatic music) One of Herman Cain's accusers has canceled plans to hold a news conference. (swoosh sound) Karen Kraushaar wanted to hold a news conference as you might remember here with three other accusers but then changed her mind because two of the women have not returned her calls.
RUSH: He read that with a straight face. I wouldn't have been able to read that bit of news with a straight face. I'd-a been cracked up through the whole story ,as I was earlier when I mentioned to you that Krauckaar cracked out because the other women wouldn't call her back and wouldn't appear with her on the panel. But the Herman Cain train keeps on heading down the tracks. He was in Kalamazoo, Michigan, yesterday at a campaign event, he said this about his staff reacting to his having said the American dream's been hijacked.
CAIN: Some of my staff members say, "hijacked is" a very strong word. Shouldn't say that. I should not say that. It's not politically correct. Remember, I didn't go to political correctness school.
PEOPLE: (applauding)
CAIN: That's not my forte, political correctness.
RUSH: So Herman Cain still having fun. Can't say "hijacked," can't say "princess;" you can't think a lot of things. By the way, Obama and Moochelle Obama have departed for a nine-day tour of the Far East. So, so much for that laser-like focus on the jobs bill.