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I hike and hunt some of the most rugged country west of the Rockies. My philosophy is the steeper the better, the further the better, the tougher the better. The only difference in 2011 was that my hikes and hunts were steeper, further, tougher, and ultimately better than years before.
If you are like me, you are constantly looking for gear that can not only withstand the relentless punishment of the backcountry, but also provides you an edge when you need it. There is a lot of essential gear to consider for serious backcountry travel but I don't think there is a piece of gear more important than your boots. If your feet break down due to poorly designed boots you aren't going anywhere.
Crispi – I know, it sounds more like something you'd eat rather than a boot brand built to last in the roughest backcountry environments. Founded by Italian Alessandro Marcolin, Crispi has been making top of the line boots since 1975. I recently learned that CrispiUSA (the US division of the company) is currently working to bring the Crispi line of high-quality boots to retail stores. Knowing of Crispi's long history as a premium boot maker, along with getting a recommendation from a couple friends that spend a lot of time in the backcountry, I bought a pair prior to my Oregon and Montana 2011 hunting seasons.
Would you buy a boot if a trustworthy source told you they were the most comfortable boot they have ever had straight out of the box? Or that they have better ankle support than most if not all the boots on the market right now? That they have a sole that grips to nearly any surface, they don't leak period, and they have stood up to over 500 miles of rugged backcountry hiking? If so, please read on. I will my share my experience with the Crispi Kanada HTG GTX boots to help you make a more informed decision, and putting you one step closer to summiting that backcountry peak or tagging that trophy of a lifetime!
Key Features:
GORE-TEX-Waterproof, breathable liner
- A.B.S.S.-Ankle bone support system
- Vibram Super Grip Technology
- S.W.C-Single Wave Construction for ease on and off
- Protection: Rubber heel and toe-cap
- D.T.L-100% waterproof, breathable, long-lasting footwear
- Monster asymmetric sole Vibram sole with shock absorbing "plugs"
- Height: 8" tall
- Weight: 800 grams or 1.77 lbs per boot
Honestly, I was a little uneasy about buying a boot that I couldn't try on before purchasing but the moment my Crispi Kanada boots arrived I called my friend and told him how impressed I was with the boots right out of the box. Specifically, I was impressed with how well they appeared to be made, the quality of leather they used, and how incredibly comfortable they were! The fit was nothing short of perfect for me. They fit like I had been hiking in them for months.
I wore the boots around the house for a few days to make sure they felt good and were going to work well for me. Crispi's return policy states that the boots must be clean and in "New" condition so this step will ensure you get the right boot. The fact that Crispi boots are sized in both U.S. and European sizes may help you get the perfect fit.
While the Crispi boot insoles are of high quality, the first thing I do with every new boot is replace the insoles with Superfeet insoles. They really make a difference for me when I'm loaded down with a heavy pack.
I wore the boots for a few weeks without issue and before long it was time to head out for my month-long wilderness elk hunt where I'd put them to the real test.
My first hike took place over a few days, hiking over 20 miles a day. I opted for my old boots because I was worried that I hadn't broken in the Crispi Kanadas enough for such a long hike. While I was carrying a 60+ pound pack and traversing some rocky terrain, I stumbled on a loose rock, severely spraining my left ankle. Back at camp, I taped up my ankle and switched over to my Crispi Kanada HTG GTX. With the support of the tape and the Crispi's A.B.S.S. (Ankle Bone Support System) specifically designed to provide ankle sprain protection, I was back on the trail with very little pain. The Crispi A.B.S.S. gave me such solid support that my ankle was bearable when I was wearing my boots, but once I took them off I could barely walk on it. I tried my old boots several times and the lack of ankle support was so noticeable I didn't wear my old boots again the rest of the season! The Crispi boots provide more ankle support than all my other boots, even my taller boots.
Within a week I was out of tape and putting on the miles. I hiked hard the rest of the season, taking longer hikes and attacking steeper country, pushing my entire body to its physical limit. Amazingly enough, even though I was hiking long distances in some of Oregon's most rugged and steep country, my ankle was able to heal allowing me to finish out the season and take a good bull. Packing that bull out by myself really put me and my Crispi Kanada boots to the load test; mile after mile, trip after trip, navigating a natural obstacle course of blow downs, rock ledges, creeks - steep and deep!
Then I was off to Montana, dropping into dozens of coulees full of sticky gumbo mud, crossing countless creeks, navigating rock fields, and covering seemingly endless country. My Kanada HTG GTX boots supported me every step of the way, day in, day out.
The proprietary Vibram Crispi boot sole with Super Grip Technology is the best I've ever experienced. It had great traction in mud and loose shale. They were incredibly "sticky" on large boulders, giving me confidence in my footing under heavy loads. Due to my ankle situation, I was lacing my boot up really tight, putting lots of strain on the lace hooks. None of them pulled out of the leather or failed in any way.
The lacing configuration and tongue design are made to fit together in a way that completes the ankle support system while keeping water out. Additionally, the tongue is designed so that it doesn't create a pinch point at the front of the ankle. No runner's lace or special lacing required for these boots.
Unlike a lot of other well-made, high-end boots, these Crispi boots utilize state of the art materials to make them very lightweight for how robust they are. The sole and upper bond stayed married without a hint of separation between the two. My Crispi Kanada HTG GTX boots saw plenty of extremes, from 80-90 degree heat during the early season to 22 degrees during the late season, water, mud, and snow. Crispi's DTL technology (Dual Tech Lining) truly provides a 100% waterproof, breathable, long lasting boot. Though they are a minimally insulated boot, they were comfortable in both extremes and all points in between.
The on-line price is $369.00 from the CrispiUSA site. These boots aren't cheap but the cliché rings true for Crispi - you get what you pay for! There wasn't one detail about these boots that I really didn't like. The only component that wore out was the rubber toe cap or toe rand, which took an immense amount of abuse on sharp rocks. It performed its job of protecting the leather toe but in the end it perished after the 500+ miles of abuse I put it through. Despite the wear and tear, the leather underneath was untouched and in new condition. I fixed the rubber with some glue and the boots are ready for more backcountry action.
As my hunting season came to a close, I actually missed not wearing my Crispis as much. The two of us had been through so much together that they truly had become a part of me. For the first time, I never had to think about my feet during an extreme hunting season. They took me through crusty spring snow, down incredibly steep cliffs, across raging spring rivers, and allowed me to safely traverse jagged boulder fields. And they carried me every step of the way while packing my Oregon bull out of some of the most rugged backcountry in Oregon, through some of the slickest sticky Montana mud or "gumbo" I have ever experienced, and through three foot of new snow in the late fall - all without a single blister. They are truly the perfect balance of innovative technology and Italian craftsmanship in footwear.
I doubt you can find a pair of boots that have seen more miles, more country, and more abuse in one season than my Crispi Kanada HTG GTX boots, or a boot more highly recommended by a true hardcore hunter. To me, Crispi sounds like the perfect Italian-crafted boot for hardcore backcountry adventures where only the best survive.


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In this X-Play Review, we take a look at a classic RPG bundle 'Legacy of Ys: Books I & II' for the Nintendo DS. Is this port worth your hard earned dollars? Find out in this review!
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Mortality and cancer incidence in a pooled cohort of US firefighters from San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia (1950–2009)
- Robert D Daniels1,
- Travis L Kubale1,
- James H Yiin1,
- Matthew M Dahm1,
- Thomas R Hales1,
- Dalsu Baris2,
- Shelia H Zahm2,
- James J Beaumont3,
- Kathleen M Waters1,
- Lynne E Pinkerton1
- 1Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- 2Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
- 3UC Davis Department of Public Health Sciences, Davis, Sacramento, California, USA
- Correspondence to Dr Robert D Daniels, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Mailstop R-13, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA; rtd2{at}cdc.gov
- Received 12 June 2013
- Revised 10 September 2013
- Accepted 23 September 2013
- Published Online First 14 October 2013
Objectives To examine mortality patterns and cancer incidence in a pooled cohort of 29 993 US career firefighters employed since 1950 and followed through 2009.
Methods Mortality and cancer incidence were evaluated by life table methods with the US population referent. Standardised mortality (SMR) and incidence (SIR) ratios were determined for 92 causes of death and 41 cancer incidence groupings. Analyses focused on 15 outcomes of a priori interest. Sensitivity analyses were conducted to examine the potential for significant bias.
Results Person-years at risk totalled 858 938 and 403 152 for mortality and incidence analyses, respectively. All-cause mortality was at expectation (SMR=0.99, 95% CI 0.97 to 1.01, n=12 028). There was excess cancer mortality (SMR=1.14, 95% CI 1.10 to 1.18, n=3285) and incidence (SIR=1.09, 95% CI 1.06 to 1.12, n=4461) comprised mainly of digestive (SMR=1.26, 95% CI 1.18 to 1.34, n=928; SIR=1.17, 95% CI 1.10 to 1.25, n=930) and respiratory (SMR=1.10, 95% CI 1.04 to 1.17, n=1096; SIR=1.16, 95% CI 1.08 to 1.24, n=813) cancers. Consistent with previous reports, modest elevations were observed in several solid cancers; however, evidence of excess lymphatic or haematopoietic cancers was lacking. This study is the first to report excess malignant mesothelioma (SMR=2.00, 95% CI 1.03 to 3.49, n=12; SIR=2.29, 95% CI 1.60 to 3.19, n=35) among US firefighters. Results appeared robust under differing assumptions and analytic techniques.
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If it is going to be cloud based the worlds internet connections really need a good look at. On a broadband connection with cable and wireless (Im in the indian ocean by the way) connection is choppy to say the least. Other people in other places are going to continue to feel the slow down...We arent ready at all for next gen esp if things are meant to be all nicey nicey online...bandwith is a thing reserved maily for buinesses and government, and they wont even let the average user go to places like facebook or a computer games online mag. So we will all be relagated to trying to use our poor home connection.Content delivery is still a problem (i payed twice for the orange box once at the store then again to my isp just to finish the instal)now what happens when someone tries to take things next gen and the requirements have shot up.
John Carmack, technical director of id Software, said in an interview about his thoughts about next-generation video games and video game consoles. According to Mr. Carmack, one of the next-gen consoles will be released well ahead of the competition, one will lack optical disc drive and in general next-gen consoles will feature 2GB of memory. Moreover, the generation of game systems after next may rely on cloud computing technologies.
Next-Gen Game Console May Be Out Sooner, Rather than Later
One of the main reasons behind the success of Microsoft Xbox 360 is its release one year ahead of Sony PlayStation 3 as well as considerably lower pricing. Mr. Carmack believes that Sony might want to release its PlayStation 4 ahead of its arch-rival. Moreover, despite of the fact that both Microsoft and Sony claim that their Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 will have a decade long lifecycle, the game developer suspects that one of the companies may release the next-generation systems much sooner than expected.
"The whole jockeying for who is going to release the first next gen console is very interesting and pretty divorced from the technical side of things. Whether Sony wants to jump the gun to prevent the same sort of 360 lag from happening to them again seems likely. As developers, we would really like to see this generation stretch as long as possible. We'd like to see it be quite a few more years before the next gen console comes out, but I suspect one will end up shipping something earlier rather than later," said John Carmack in an interview with Polish CD-Action magazine (excepts from the interview were published at DigitalFoundry blog).
Digital Delivery Model Is the Future, Optical Disc Drives Set to Disappear
Mr. Carmack seems to be a big believer in digital delivery model. Even though he said that the next-generation id Software's title called Rage will be distributed on numerous DVDs or on one Blu-ray disc because of its storage requirements, he is sure that one of the next-generation video game systems will come without optical disc drive at all.
"I think that Xbox Live, the advent of that and the App Store with the iPhone are wonderful signs of the future of digital distribution. I think there's a decent chance that one of the next gen consoles will be without optical media. The uptake rates of people who have broadband connects surprised everyone this generation. It is higher than what the core publishers and even the first party people expected," said Mr. Carmack.
Perhaps, the successor of Nintendo Wii, which will be aimed at casual gamers and not optimized for titles by id Software, may end up without optical drive. It is doubtful that the successors of PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 will not feature removable media since storage requirements of next-gen video games may grow faster compared to capabilities of broadband networks.
During the interview, Mr. Carmack also speculated that next-generation video game consoles will have at least 2GB of random access memory, which seems to be quite logical. Moreover, it is rather likely that even more memory will be available inside next-generation systems due to increased system requirements.
Cloud Computing May Take Off
But what will happen after the next-generation game consoles? The technical director of id Software believes that cloud computing may become a viable alternative to endless boosting of internal performance of video game systems. One issue that has to be resolved before cloud computing takes off in the computer game world is latency, which may be too high to play comfortably via the Internet.
"We talk about these absurd things like how many teraflops of processing and memory that are going into our game machines. It's great and there's going to be at least another generation like that, although interestingly we are coasting towards some fundamental physical limits on things. We've already hit the megahertz wall and eventually there's going to be a power density wall from which you won't get more processing out there. There'll be questions of whether we shift to a cloud computing infrastructure... Loads of interesting questions about whether you have the computing power in your living room versus somewhere else," said Mr. Carmack.
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On Friday, June 6, 2014, at 6:00 pm, an unknown black male entered Elida Grocery store located 101 North 53rd Street and walked behind the counter pointing a handgun at the employee, a 40 year-old female, demanding money. After taking an unknown amount of cash from the cash register the suspect fled the store in an unknown direction. Surveillance video shows the suspect entering the store several times prior to the robbery.
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In this study, we determined the effect of U50,488H (a selective κ-opioid receptor agonist) on pulmonary artery in rats and investigated its prevention and treatment effects on hypoxic pulmonary hypertension (HPH). Isolated pulmonary arterial rings were superfused and the tension of the vessel was measured. The model of HPH was developed and indexes for hemodynamics and right ventricular hypertrophy were measured. We found that U50,488H relaxed the pulmonary artery rings in a dose-dependent manner and the effect was abolished by nor-binaltorphimine, a selective κ-opioid receptor antagonist. Intravenous administration of U50,488H significantly lowered mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) in normal rats and this effect was also abolished by nor-binaltorphimine. Hypoxia induced severe HPH in rats and intraperitoneal administration of U50,488H (every other day) during chronic hypoxia reduced mPAP and attenuated right ventricular hypertrophy compared with the control group. Moreover, acute intravenous administration of U50,488H after the rats subjected to chronic hypoxia for 4 weeks significantly lowered mPAP. Thus, U50,488H has significant vasorelaxant effect in rat pulmonary artery and has certain preventive and therapeutic application in HPH.
The underlying mechanism of hypoxic pulmonary hypertension (HPH) is still not fully understood and an ideal prevention and treatment strategy is still lacking. It is believed that pulmonary artery contraction and smooth muscle proliferation are 2 important processes of HPH pathogenesis. Therefore, molecules that have pulmonary artery vasodilatory property may have certain effects on the prevention and treatment of HPH.
Endogenous opioid peptide plays an important role in the modulation of cardiovascular activities. Radioimmunology competitive binding assay and functional studies also show that κ-opioid receptor is the predominant type of opioid receptors in the heart and peripheral vessels.1 Our previous study2 demonstrated that a selective κ-opioid receptor agonist U50,488H relaxes the aortic artery and lowers the blood pressure of systemic circuit in rats, but the effect of U50,488H on pulmonary circulation has not been previously studied. The purposes of the present study were to determine the effect of U50,488H on pulmonary circulation and investigate its preventive and therapeutic efficacy in HPH. Thus, we observed the effect of U50,488H on the pulmonary artery and also determined the effect of U50,488H on pulmonary artery pressure and right ventricular hypertrophy in both normal and HPH rats.
Healthy Male Sprague-Dawley rats (250±20 g, from the animal center of the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China) were used for all experiments. U50,488H (trans-3,4-dichloro-N-methyl-[2-(1-pyrrolidinyl)cyclohexyl]benzeacetamide) and nor-binaltorphimine (nor-BNI) were both purchased from Sigma (St Louis, MO).
After decapitation of the rat, the pulmonary aorta was separated and immediately placed in 95% O2/5% CO2 saturated Krebs solution (mmol/L: NaCl 118.4, KCl 4.7, MgCl2·6H2O 1.2, CaCl2 2.5, KH2PO4 1.2, NaHCO3 25.0, Glucose 11.1 pH 7.4). Connective tissue was discarded and the vessel ring segment was prepared with a length of 3 mm. The vessel ring was suspended in Krebs solution (8 mL, 37°C) bath and continuously bubbled with a gas mixture of 95% O2 and 5% CO2. Each ring was connected to a FORT-10 force transducer (WPI, Sarasota, FL) and the tension of the vessel ring was recorded via a MacLab data acquisition system. The preload was adjusted to 0.75 g and the fluid in the bath was replaced every 15 min. After equilibration for 1 h, norepinephrine (NE) at l μmol/L was added to the bath to examine the constriction activity of the segment, and those segments with <300 mg developed tension were not used for further study. NE was then washed out from the bath and segment tension was allowed to return to baseline. After another 40 min of equilibration, NE was added again. When the contractive response of the vessel ring reached a steady state (taken as 100% contraction), U50,488H (10–140 μmol/L) was added in an accumulative fashion and concentration-relaxation (reduction in tension after each dose/the maximal NE-induced tension×100%) curve to U50,488H was constructed. The maximal relaxation effect (Emax) and the concentration that produces half-maximal effect (EC50) was determined.
Hypoxia was performed for 8 h every day by exposing rats (hypoxia group) to low pressure and low oxygen in a homemade automodulating cabin (air pressure 50 kPa, oxygen concentration 10%). The animals in the control group were kept in room air.
Animals were divided into normal control group, hypoxia for 1w group, hypoxia for 2w group, hypoxia for 2w+saline group (0.5 mL saline was intraperitoneally injected every other day) and hypoxia for 2w+U50,488H group (1.25 mg/kg/day U50,488H was intraperitoneally injected every other day).
To investigate the treatment effect, animals were divided into normal control group and hypoxia for 4w group. Then, all of the animals were injected U50,488H (1.25 mg/kg) through vena caudalis.
Sodium pentobarbital (40 mg/kg) was injected into the abdomen to anesthetize rat and the mean carotid artery pressure (mCAP) was measured by left carotid artery cannulation. A polyethylene microcatheter was inserted from right external carotid artery to right ventricle or further advanced to pulmonary artery to measure right ventricular pressure (RVP) or mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) as described previously.3 The mCAP, RVP, and mPAP were sampled and digitally processed via a hemodynamic analyzing system (Chengdu Instrument Co, China). After completion of the experiment, hearts were harvested and atria tissue was discarded. Right ventricle (RV), left ventricle (LV), and septum (S) were isolated, and RV and LV+S were weighed after absorbing water using filter paper. The ratios of RV/(LV+S) and RV/BW (body weight) were used as indexes for RV hypertrophy.
Values were expressed as mean±SD. One-way ANOVA was employed to determine the difference among groups. P<0.05 was regarded as the significant difference, whereas P<0.01 was extremely significant difference.
U50,488H, a selective κ-opioid receptor agonist, caused significant relaxation effect starting at a concentration of 30 μmol/L. U50,488H exhibited a dose-dependent relaxation effect within the concentration range of 30 to 140 μmol/L when added accumulatively. At the maximal concentration tested, pulmonary rings were fully relaxed (near 100%, n=10, Figs. 1A, B).
U50,488H at a single concentration of 70 μmol/L also induced a significant relaxation effect in rat pulmonary artery rings. The relaxation started 1 min after the administration of U50,488H; rapid relaxation occurred within 10 min, which peaked at ≈15 min after administration. The maximal relaxation effect was 61.4±4.2% (n=10, Fig. 2A). This vasorelaxing effect was completely abolished by nor-BNI, a selective κ-opioid receptor antagonist (5 μmol/L; Fig. 2B).
To verify that the vasorelaxing effect of U50,488H may lead to a decrease in pulmonary blood pressure, we observed the effect of U50,488H on mPAP in normal rats. U50,488H at 1.25 mg/kg was given to normal rats by vena caudalis injection. Within 1 min after injection, mPAP, mCAP, and heart rate (HR) all significantly decreased, and a recovery did not occur until 30 min later. These parameters returned to the normal level approximately 60 min after injection (Table 1). This effect was abolished by intravenous injection of nor-BNI (2 mg/kg, 10 min before U50,488H administration), which itself had no effects on mPAP, mCAP, and HR (data not shown).
After the rats were subjected to chronic hypoxia for 1w, 2w, or 4w, mCAP and HR in the hypoxic group showed no great variation compared with control group. However, the mPAP, RVP and ratio of RV/BW were significantly higher in the hypoxic group than those in the control group, and they increased progressively as the time for hypoxia extended (Table 2).
U50,488H was administered intraperitoneally during hypoxia as described in Materials and Methods. Compared with the hypoxia 2w group and hypoxia 2w+NS group, the hypoxia 2w+U50,488H group showed a significant decrease in mPAP, RVP, RV/(LV+S), and RV/BW ratios. However, mCAP and HR showed no significant difference among groups (Table 3).
After 4w of chronic hypoxia, rats developed severe pulmonary hypertension. Intravenous administration of a single dose of U50,488H at 1.25 mg/kg markedly reduced mPAP, mCAP, and HR. The time course of response to U50,488H in HPH rats was similar to that observed in normal rats (Table 4). However, the decrease in mPAP (31%) was significantly stronger than that in normal rats (24%).
κ-opioid receptor widely participates in the modulation of various functions of systemic circulation. It has been reported that selective κ-opioid receptor agonist U50,488H significantly relaxes rat abdominal aortic ring in vitro4,5 and reduces blood pressure in vivo. However, little has been unveiled about the relationship between κ-opioid receptor and pulmonary circulation. The present study and our previous observation discovered that U50,488H significantly relaxes rat pulmonary vessel ring in a dose-dependent manner in vitro.6 In the present study, we discovered that U50,488H significantly lowers mPAP in normal rats, and that this effect is totally abolished by nor-BNI. Thus, we conclude that U50,488H modulates pulmonary artery pressure by activating κ-opioid receptors.
Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction is one of the important mechanisms for HPH and the clinical use of drugs that relax the pulmonary artery shows certain preventive and therapeutic effect in HPH. To make it clear whether U50,488H has a preventive and therapeutic effect in HPH, we successfully established a rat HPH model by a hypoxia and hypopressure method. It was found that in chronic hypoxic rats, the level of mPAP began to rise and RV hypertrophy developed in 2w, and HPH became even more typical in 4w. Every other day, we intraperitoneally injected U50,488H to hypoxic rats to investigate its preventive effect on HPH. It was found that compared with control, hypoxia 2w+U50,488H group had a lower level of mPAP and RV hypertrophy. This result demonstrated that U50,488H effectively attenuated the process of HPH and RV hypertrophy, thus exerting preventive effect against HPH in rats.
In severe HPH induced by exposing rats to low oxygen for 4w, intravenous administration of U50,488H lowered mPAP rapidly, and this effect lasted for a relatively long period of time. All of these results suggested that U50,488H has some therapeutic effect on pulmonary hypertension.
Noticeably, U50,488H administrated intravenously lowered blood pressure and HR in both normal and hypoxic rats. This is in agreement with previous results on systemic circulation.2 Preventive application of U50,488H for a long time did not bring down systemic blood pressure and HR while it lowered pulmonary pressure and alleviated heart hypertrophy. Although the underlying mechanism is still unclear, this demonstrates a bright future for the application of U50,488H in pulmonary circulation because it suggests that this compound may have certain selectivity in pulmonary circulation.
Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction and smooth muscle proliferation are 2 important processes in HPH pathogenesis. Our previous study demonstrated that U50,488H depresses growth and proliferation of cardiac cells,7 and the present study proved that U50,488H relaxes pulmonary vessels and lowers HPH. Furthermore, it was also found that U50,488H slows down the process of RV hypertrophy in HPH rats. However, whether U50,488H attenuates pulmonary vessel remodeling in HPH rats through preventing hyperproliferation of pulmonary artery smooth muscle warrants further study.
Pulmonary hypertension, which is an important pathophysiological stage in the genesis and development of many cardiopulmonary diseases, still has no ideal therapeutic method. Given that the KV channel is the key factor in the genesis of pulmonary hypertension, especially HPH, much research has focused on the use of the KV channel agonist to treat HPH. Our recent study8 shows that κ-opioid receptor agonist U50,488H may be effective in the opening of KV channels, thus having great potential as a therapy against pulmonary hypertension, especially HPH. In recent years, the clinical use of opioid peptide as a treatment for cardiovascular disease has increased, so the study of the relationship between κ-opioid receptor and pulmonary circulation and HPH may provide new insight for the treatment of HPH.
In this study, we found that κ-opioid receptor agonist U50,488H relaxes pulmonary artery and decreases the pulmonary artery pressure by activating κ-opioid receptors. We also provide the evidence for the first time that U50,488H has certain therapeutic and preventive effects on hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension and RV hypertrophy.
The authors thank Mr M. Z. Li for technical assistance.
U50; 488H; hypoxic pulmonary hypertension
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How far has kosher dining really come?
The London kosher-restaurant scene has undergone a huge change. Take a trip along the Northern Line and you could stop off at 20 kosher restaurants. In place of traditional Ashkenazi food, you'll now find Persian, Israeli and American.
There is a flower shop selling pizzas and buffets groaning with curries and stir-fries. There's Mediterranean fish and pasta, a pub that does only chicken, steaks cooked on a griddle or served with foie gras - it all sounds good. There are over 100 kosher establishments in London. Boston, in the US, has just six. We should be grateful.
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The main course
Salt beef used to come with the fat on - a layer of comfort and flavour. The health police have consigned the fat to the bin. In its place is curried chicken or Peking duck. Perhaps through lack of confidence in an increasingly competitive market, owners have turned to Indian and Chinese dishes. t. It's novel and sometimes it succeeds. But fusing two cuisines is surely a mistake: Thai food alongside breakfast pancakes? Chinese and sushi on the same menu? Quantity is no problem. Kosher restaurants tend to follow the "Jewish-mother instinct", so no-one is allowed to leave the table hungry. Portions vary between large and "enough for four". Often the main course comes with salad, chips or rice, squashed on the side - an incongruous mix of cold and crunchy with hot and oily. The meat is usually good; sometimes, as in the case of the 86 Bistro in Hendon or Bevis Marks in the City, good enough for bankers to entertain their clients. The Israeli grills often deliver aroma-filled chops or steak but do not always get the cooking right; they assume that no-one really wants their meat rare.
One restaurant claimed to have a Jewish mama in the kitchen, turning out Iraqi food to be proud of: rice and hameen or a well-judged beetroot sauce. Sadly it went out of business, probably due to a lack of professionalism.
Kosher restaurants employ charming East European waitresses who cannot tell knaidlach from lockshen and find it hard to bring everyone's food at the same time.
The dessert
There are two kitchens that turn out brilliant desserts: Bevis Marks, which performs miracles with parev ingredients, and Novellino, with its professional patisserie. Apart from those, most places offer occasionally good baklava, invariably bad parev ice cream and fruit salad that's dominated by apple and grapes.
If I am hard on the owners and managers, here I think the customers are partly to blame. They are the ones who seem to enjoy a banana split or crème brûlée in which the main ingredient is like white shaving foam.
We are privileged to live in a city with so many supervised restaurants. But we should be more selective and only patronise the ones that offer great service and cuisine. Otherwise, for the same money we could buy several take-aways or treat ourselves to duck or a rib roast and cook it at home
Bevis Marks The Restaurant: Bevis Marks , EC3, 020 7283 2220
Bloom's Restaurant: 130 Golders Green Road, NW11, 020 8455 1338
Eighty Six Bistro Bar: 86 Brent Street, NW4, 020 8202 5575
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The company was made up of 36 investors in all with the main players being Phyllis Switzer, Moses Znaimer, Jerry J. Grafstein, and Edgar A. Cowan. CITY-TV was the dream of Phyllis Switzer and she held the title of Vice President. Moses Znaimer was President. Switzer had been in news and was a cable tv pioneer; Znaimer was known as a tv interviewer; Grafstein was a broadcast lawyer; and Cowan was a film producer and PA expert.
On May 24, testing began from the brand new CN Tower, 301 Front Street West. CITY-TV began broadcasting officially from the tower when it signed on the air for the day, May 31. At this time, effective radiated power increased to 208,000 watts video and 28,000 watts audio. Antenna height was 1,627 feet.
Multiple Access Ltd. of Montreal announced plans to acquire 45% of Channel Seventy-nine Ltd. Multiple Access was the owner of the CFCF radio and television stations in Montreal.
An agreement was reached August 21 where CHUM would acquire 89.1% of Channel SeventyNine Ltd. CHUM would then sell 21.9% to the CITY founders group and certain employees, reducing the company's interest to 67.2%. The deal required CRTC approval. Baton Broadcasting agreed to purchase 54.6% control of Multiple Access Ltd. (CFCF-AM-TV, CFQR-FM Montreal and 45% of CITY-TV Toronto). It was most unlikely the CRTC would permit Baton, owner of CFTO-TV in Toronto, to have an interest in a second TV station in the market, so CHUM stepped in and announced plans to buy MA's shares in CITY. The proposals posed added concentration of ownership problems for the CRTC, as both companies already had extensive broadcast holdings. The commission may be forced to establish a definite policy on limiting such holdings.
On July 26, the CRTC approved the transfer of effective control of Channel SeventyNine Ltd. as follows: (1) the conversion of 200 non-voting special shares held by a number of shareholders to common shares, at a rate of 2,500 common shares for each special share. The result: to increase the number of outstanding common shares to 500,000. (2) Transfer 2% of the common shares from Edgar A. Cowan to CHUM Ltd. (3) Transfer 54% from Multiple Access Ltd. to CHUM Ltd. (4) Transfer 33% from a number of minority shareholders to CHUM Ltd. (5) The subsequent transfer of 22% from CHUM Ltd. to the "Founders Group" and Fred Klinkhammer & James West ("The Employee Group"). The Founders Group: Moses Znaimer 201,833, Jerry S. Grafstein 171,025, Phyllis Switzer 121,422, Edgar A. Cowan 50,000. The Employees Group: Fred Klinkhammer 25,000, James West 25,000. Total: 594,280. (6) Enter shareholder voting agreement between CHUM and the Founder and Employee groups. Resultant ownership: Founders Group - Znaimer 291,709, Grafstein 229,781, Switzer 192,419, Cowan 50,000. Employee Group - Klinkhammer 29,000, West 95,835.
The CRTC noted that the former arrangement with Multiple Access produced interesting programming connections between CITY-TV and Montreal's CFCF-TV. Unfortunately Multiple Access was unwilling to continue to finance CITY while only holding 45.50% of the equity shares and not having control. Multiple Access advised the Founders to find a new partner. Under the new arrangement, CHUM Ltd. would acquire 67.2% and hold by way of pledge an additional 22%. It would have effective control, but would to an extent, share control with the Founders. The Founders group would be responsible for programming and CHUM would be responsible for sales and financing. Programming would be returned to the original "local" concept. Plans included retention of the present 90-minute City Pulse (Mon-Fri) program, the addition of 30-minutes news (Mon-Fri) between 7:30-10:30 p.m., stereo simulcasts with CHUM-FM of Canadian concerts, and use of a colour mobile unit. CHUM would also develop a $1.75 million production centre in Toronto to be used by CITY, CKVR and CHUM-AM-FM. The CRTC stated it was satisfied that clear and significant benefits would result, both for the Toronto audience and the broadcasting system generally. For the record, CHUM already owned 1050 CHUM and 104.5 CHUM-FM in Toronto. Also, the CRTC denied the transfer of the CFCF stations from Multiple Access to Baton Broadcasting.
Dini Petty was co-anchoring the news with Gord Martineau. Dave Reynolds did sports. Dan Rath, Denice Jenovi, Brian Hill (weather) and Beverly Gunn-Monroe (sports) were also at the station. Glen Cole was assignment editor.
At CanPro '81, CITY-TV took four top honours for Dini Petty's "Having A Baby", a music simulcast, "Reggae T.O.", and on air promotion.
News anchors included Gord Martineau and Dini Petty. Jim Tatti did sports. Jay Nelson was one of the weather people. Reporters included Barbara Laskin, Glen Cole (assignment editor), Colin Vaughan, Brian Hill, Jo Jo Chintoh, and John Saunders. J.D. Roberts handled entertainment.
Dennis Fitzgerald became vice president and general manager of CITY-TV. He had worked in the past for All-Canada, CTV and Goodlife magazine.
The CRTC issued short-term licence renewals to TV stations in the Toronto area, again complaining that the stations had failed to develop quality Canadian programs, particularly drama, musicals and children's shows. CBLT, CFTO, CITY, CHCH and CKVR were renewed for two years and 9 months while Global was only renewed for one year. CHUM Ltd. said it recently spent over $2 million upgrading radio and TV facilities in Toronto.
CITY's 10th anniversary celebrations included the creation of scholarships at all radio/TV arts colleges in Toronto.
Jeff Ansell (joined from CHUM-FM) and Bill Cameron were news anchors. In addition to Jim Tatti, Peter Gross (sports director) and John Saunders were doing sports. Brian Hill was the weatherman. Dick Smyth (CHUM) and Stephen Lewis did commentaries. Reporters included Anne Mroczkowski, Peter Silverman, Kevin Evans, Mark Dailey, Tarrelyn Joe, and Lorne Honickman. Jeanie Beker was now doing entertainment reports along with J.D. Roberts. Brian Linehan was a program host. Jay Nelson left CITY for CKFM-FM.
CITY announced it would produce three 30-minute TV dramas, based on scripts submitted to the station in a contest called "Toronto Trilogy". The series would be tied in with the Toronto's sesquicentennial celebrations.
On May 18, CITY-TV was authorized to move from channel 79 to channel 57. It would be allowed to simulcast on both channels during July to minimize inconvenience to viewers during the transition period when the change was to take place. The channel change request originated with the Department of Communications, to clear channel 79 for the land mobile communications service.
In July, CITY switched from channel 79 to channel 57. Power remained 280,000 watts video. President Moses Znaimer estimated technical costs alone at $600,000 for the channel change. There would be additional costs such as the change of identity (from channel 79 to 57) and change of corporate name (Channel Seventy Nine Ltd.). He said that when CITY was licensed in 1972, lower UHF channels were available but the Department of Communications urged the station to apply for channel 79, specifically to protect channels 70-83 from a land-mobile takeover which was already taking shape in the U.S. Znaimer added there was no benefit to CITY-TV in this move, noting companies like Bell Telephone who wanted to get into cellular radio would be the likely beneficiaries. The station made an appeal for fairness to the DOC, suggesting the Department and/or future users of channel 79 share the expenses of CITY's move to channel 57.
CITY applied to the CRTC to expand its viewing area to western Ontario. If approved, four transmitters would be built at a cost of $2.5 million. The transmitters would be located at Woodstock (channel 31 with effective radiated power of 8,831 watts), Brantford (channel 34, 4,379 watts), St. Thomas (channel 64 with 4,973 watts) and Stratford (channel 44 with 8,832 watts). A further plan for channel 60 in Ottawa was shelved. GM Dennis Fitzgerald said CITY, licensed to be a distinctly local service for Toronto, had been successful in other areas when carried on cable. Despite the expanded coverage area, CITY would not change its programming. Engineering director Ron Reid said CITY opted for four low-power transmitters instead of a single high power facility, for reasons of economy and reliability.
Greg Mudry, formerly of All-Canada TV, became general sales manager at CITY-TV. He replaced Dennis Watson who was appointed to head the marketing division of CHUM Group Television.
Anchors: Gord Martineau, Dini Petty, Anne Mroczkowski, J.D. Roberts, Mark Dailey, Jeff Ansell. Weather: Brian Hill. Sports: Jim McKenny, Debbie Van Kiekebelt. Entertainment: John Burgess (joined), Jeanne Beker, J.D. Roberts. For the record, Mroczkowski joined the station in 1978 as a writer. She moved up to reporter, then anchor. Stephen Lewis (commentator) left to become Canada's Ambassador to the United Nations.
Christopher Ward was now the host of the weekend video show "City Limits" and John Majhor was now hosting the daily "Toronto Rocks" afternoon show.
Debbie Van Kiekebelt was still at the station. John Burgess was now doing entertainment for CITY.
Joan Paley left CITY as promotions manager to become PR manager for the Metro Toronto Convention & Visitors Association.
Deborah Burgess (step-daughter of Charles Templeton) left CITY to live in Las Vegas.
David Onley (ex-CKO-FM) was now doing weather on CITY.
CITY went to all-night movies after the all-night videos were moved to MuchMusic.
John Burgess was an entertainment reporter.
Gord Haines left CITY news for First Choice television. Stephen Hurlbut was promoted to replace Haines as director of news programming. Marcia Martin (Andrea's sister) became director of news operations, in addition to being head of production.
CHUM Ltd. applied for a rebroadcaster of CITY at Woodstock, operating on channel 31 with effective radiated power of 70,600 watts. The station would cover much of south-western Ontario, including London and Kitchener. The CRTC later corrected the power for the transmitter from 70,600 watts to 706,000 watts.
Greg Mudry was general manager.
CITY-TV-1 Woodstock signed on the air September 1 as scheduled.
CITY introduced a two-hour (7:00-9:00) morning show, CityPulse Today. The show made use of CITY's 17 mobile units and 'Live Eye' microwave hook-up for on the spot coverage of news and traffic. CityPulse Tonight at 10:00 p.m. was shortened to a half hour. City personnel include Moses Znaimer as execuitve producer; Stephen Hurlbut, director of news programming; Clint Nickerson, producer.
Ann Rohmer replaced Debbie Van Kiekebelt as sports anchor. Debbie took the summer off to look after her baby.
Nancy Smith left as CITY's director of corporate communications to become vp of communications at Global.
City Pulse at 10 was cut from 60 to 30 minutes.
Libby Znaimer joined CITY as Ottawa correspondent. She had been with Global news.
CITY weekend anchor Terrilyn Joe left for CTV's Canada AM.
The building was constructed in 1914 and was originally owned by the Methodist Church, and was the head office of the Methodist Book Room. It was later known as the Ryerson Press, named in honour of Egerton Ryerson, a Methodist Minister. It then became known as the Ryerson Press Building.
Senior reporter and producer Jeff Ansell left City to open Public Eye Network, a communications consulting business.
The first newscast from 299 Queen Street West aired at 6:00 p.m. on May 4.
Dini Petty left the 6 p.m. news to prepare for a new show in the autumn.
Dennis Fitz-Gerald was vice president and general manager of CITY.
After giving up his "City Lights" program, Brian Linehan decided to go into partnership with Jeanne Beker in a new venture they call "MT - Movie Television".
Thalia Assuras left CITY for Global.
CITY became more international through a joint venture to adapt some of its programs for Finland's MTV 3, and MuchMusic, the U.S. version of which will be seen on Cablevision SA of Mexico.
CITY-DT was authorized on November 3 to reduce average effective radiated power from 1,300 to 1,200 watts. Industry Canada advised CHUM that the maximum ERP approved earlier by the CRTC exceeded maximum equivalent parameters for a Class C UHF DTV station. As a result, the ERP had to be reduced.
Allan Waters, the founder of CHUM Limited passed away at the age of 84, on December 3rd.
On November 22, the CRTC approved the transfer of effective control of CHUM Limited from Mr. Allan Waters to his estate, following his death in December 2005. The approval represented the preliminary step to enable the transfer of CHUM's shares to a trust, which received approval on July 12. This transfer was not related to the pending sale of CHUM to Bell Globemedia. Prior to his death, Mr. Waters was the sole shareholder of Allan Waters Ltd., which in turn, owned approximately 87% of CHUM's voting shares. The executors of the estate were James Allan Waters, Ronald Allan Waters, Sheryl Bourne and Robert Sutherland.


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PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University got strong pitching from Kelly Crain, Ian Thurman-Kelly and Jesse Garcia-Perez and swept a Lone Star Conference crossover baseball doubleheader from Cameron 4-1 and 1-0 on Friday at Greyhound Field.
Crain (3-0) pitched a seven-inning complete game — his third of the spring — while scattering five singles and allowing just a first-inning unearned run. He walked three and struck out seven.
Thurman-Kelly, making his first appearance of the spring after sustaining a shoulder injury, worked four shutout innings in the nightcap. Garcia-Perez (1-2) pitched the final three innings, and became the first ENMU pitcher other than Crain to pick up a win when Gilbert Alvarado — Eastern's fourth consecutive pinch-hitter — singled to center on an 0-2 pitch with two out in the bottom of the seventh to drive in Brett Scherer with the game's only run.
ENMU (4-8) had just six hits off CU's Derek Bennett in the opener, but bunched five of them in the third to score three runs and break a 1-1 tie.
Bryan Moore drove in the go-ahead run with an opposite-field single to left after Joey Aguilar led off with a single and stole second and third. Moore then went to third on a hit-and-run single to right field by Tyler Hayes, and both runners scored on a double up the right-center field alley by Boyd Erickson.
Eastern tied it without benefit of a hit in the second when the Aggies (6-4) made two errors, the latter a dropped pop fly in short right by Derrick Mihecoby which allowed Brian Green to score from second.
After starting the nightcap with a hit batsman a walk, CU right-hander Allen Mitchell (0-1) retired 16 of 17 hitters before Moore lined a two-out single to left in the sixth to break up his no-hit bid.
In the seventh, Erickson doubled to the base of the left field fence and took third on a pinch-hit infield single by Scherer. The Aggies then walked Mark Wallace intentionally, but Mitchell got Matt Hinojosa to roll into a first-to-home to first double play.
Alvarado then slapped a grounder to the right of second. CU's Ben Wyckoff deflected the ball into the outfield as he tried to backhand it.
The teams complete their four-game series with another doubleheader at 1 p.m. Saturday.
ENMU splits softball games — At Weatherford, Okla., catcher Courtney McClasky's two-run triple highlighted a six-run fifth that carried Eastern New Mexico University past Ouachita Baptist 11-5 on Friday in the Southwest Shootout, hosted by Southwestern Oklahoma.
Katie McDermott went 4-for-5 with three RBIs as the Zias (5-9) broke away from a scoreless tie after four innings, finishing with 15 hits against four Ouachita pitchers. Junior Chris McGee (2-2) went the distance in the circle for ENMU, allowing 10 hits with one walk and seven strikeouts.
Earlier in the day, the Zias lost to Washburn 8-7, with the Lady Blue scoring three runs in the top of the seventh off Lauren King (2-3) to erase a 6-5 deficit.
Senior Maegan Rhoten put the Zias in front 3-2 with a three-run homer in the fourth. The Zias then erased a 5-3 deficit with three runs in the bottom of the sixth.
ENMU finishes play in the event today with games against Pittsburg State and Emporia State at 1 and 3:30 p.m. (MST), respectively.
First game
ENMU 4, Cameron 1
Cameron 100 000 0 — 1 5 2
ENMU 013 000 x — 4 6 1
Derek Bennett and Chris Balsinger; Kelly Crain and Brett Scherer. W — Crain (3-0). L — Bennett (2-1). LOB — Cameron 9, ENMU 2. 2B — ENMU: Boyd Erickson. T — 1:39. A — n/a.
Second game
ENMU 1, Cameron 0
Cameron 000 000 0 — 0 4 0
Allen Mitchell and Balsinger; Ian Thurman-Kelly, Jesse Garcia-Perez (5) and Brian Green. W — Garcia-Perez (1-2). L — Mitchell (0-1). DP — Cameron 1. LOB — Cameron 7, ENMU 5. 2B — Cameron: Josh Burkhart. ENMU: Erickson. T — 1:44. A — n/a.
Southwestern Shootout
At Weatherford, Okla.
First game
Washburn 8, ENMU 7
Washburn 001 130 3 — 8 14 5
Fluker and Woodson; Lauren King and Courtney McClasky. W — Fluker. L — King (2-3). LOB — Washburn 8, ENMU 9. 2B — Washburn: Webb, Woodson, Fluker, Schmidt. HR — ENMU: Maegan Rhoten. T — 1:30. A — 23.
Second game
ENMU 11, Ouachita Baptist 5
Ouachita Baptist 000 011 3 — 5 10 2
Chris McGee and McClasky, Liz Navarro (6); White, Dedas (5), Whitney (6), Brettinge (6) and Maxton. W — McGee (2-2). L — White. LOB — ENMU 9, Ouachita Baptist 7. 2B — ENMU: Katie McDermott 2, Cindy Hess. Ouachita Baptist: Phipps. 3B — ENMU: McClasky, Rhoten. T — 2:00. A — 12.


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Time to put a bow on the month of October. Was it a good month for MMA? I don't know. Actually, not particularly. Was it memorable? I guess that's the point of this slideshow. The goal is to sift out those things that might be worth remembering and encapsulate them for posterity.
We've already celebrated the winners from October. Now it's time to single out the losers. Good stuff.


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Chris in Cincinnati says this came in the mail with no return address.
The butterfly sticker is a nice touch, no?
related: Welcome to the neighborhood. You're totally screwing it up.
Chris in Cincinnati says this came in the mail with no return address.
The butterfly sticker is a nice touch, no?
related: Welcome to the neighborhood. You're totally screwing it up.
Tags: Cincinnati · garbage · neighbors · unnecessary "quotation marks"
Jake in Vermont says that the sign of the left showed up after the sign on the right failed to get the job done. (And you thought you'd never put that high school chemistry to use!)
related: Right, I still don't understand this water/ice thing
extra credit: Mr. Wizard = kind of a jerk [youtube]
Tags: garbage · ice · It's science! · Vermont
Colette recently caught a glimpse of this note — though not the offender in question — in her U.K. apartment building.
related: Be more private with yourself
Tags: actually totally reasonable · garbage · neighbors · Won't somebody think of the children?
Apparently the employees of this retail establishment in North Carolina didn't take it seriously when the ladies from the shop next door asked them to stop blocking their employee entrance with garbage cans. (Perhaps they didn't understand what was meant by Don't make us bedazzle your asses?)
One day, our submitter says, one of the offending trash cans was found covered in gift wrap, complete with a bow. Sadly, no photo was taken pre-unwrapping, but this sign remains in the shared hallway as a reminder.
UPDATE: It looks like our crafty crafters followed through on their threats!
related: Girls gone wild…with colored markers.
Tags: garbage · North Carolina · rainbow-colored · retail hell
Our submitter in Chicago says that there a used to be a trash can near the front door of her apartment building, but because it was always overwhelming with doggie poop bags and other smelly trash, she wasn't sad to see it go. Apparently, some of her neighbors are still in denial.
related: I don't want to touch the bathroom door handle, so I'm just going to toss my paper towel on the floor
Tags: Chicago · garbage · neighbors · rebuttals · that's trashy
This note — from Ulladulla, NSW — is for the Aussies who were disappointed by the lack of the word "arse" in Sunday's post from Sydney.
related: No fridge 'til coffee!
Tags: Australia · garbage · sarcasm · thanks but no thanks
related: Down and dirty down under
Tags: garbage · you know who you are
Writes Matt in West Hollywood: "Apparently a certain 'Alex' in our neighborhood has been downing protein smoothies and then discarding the cups on the street." Not cool, man. Not cool.
related: The City of Brotherly Littering
Tags: California · littering · p.s.
David in Nottingham, England says that one of his neighbors has been continually leaving bags of junk in the building's common area, despite the fact that the communal waste bin is located just a few feet away on the other side of the door.
David says the first (un-photographed) notice said something along the lines of, "Come on man, we're not animals." The management company then wrote a letter to all tenants — again, to no avail. Apparently, the only recourse left was to get Liam Neeson on the phone.
Meanwhile, in Allentown, Pennsylvania:
related: Dear Whoever Stole My Amazon Package
Tags: garbage · most popular notes of 2013 · neighbors · Nottingham · shameless meme-mongering · U.K.
"Understand," writes Beck in Philadelphia, "I love this city. Filth and all." But he also had to give props to this guerilla PSA — done in the style of the Philly Tourism Board's "with love" ad campaign — adding, "I regret not actually being able to photograph all the trash that really was on the ground."
related: People of Philadelphia, these tomatoes are not for you!
Tags: heart · littering · Philadelphia · signed with love · xoxo


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Wizard came to live at Cat Tales after his owner attempted to have him euthanized rather find him a proper home. His owner had originally contacted Cat Tales asking us to take his Bobcat, since the authorities were forcing him to comply with the ordinance requiring proper housing for exotic animals. At that time Wizard's home was a small spare bedroom in the person's house which had no window or even a working light and was filthy with animal waste. Cat Tales advised the person that we would begin a search for available space, and contact him in a few days. This was not good enough for the owner so, after two days, Wizard was dumped off at a local Veterinarian's office with enough money to have him destroyed. As luck would have it, the Veterinary office they picked is also run by the Senior Veterinarian for the Zoo. We were called and took in the abandoned cat. We contacted the owner to notify him of the plan to take in Wizard. He said fine, and asked us if he could come visit his former "pet" since was just like his son. How tragic that he was will to pay to have his "son" put down. We renamed the Bobcat Wizard, derived from his former name "Lizard" that his owner had named him. Maybe he didn't know the difference from a reptile and a cat.


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Someone with ratings statistics correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that Days held a pretty constant 2.0 to 2.1 during the whole Santeen Ejamicus storylines. Since we've had the addition of our Passions friends we're getting alot of 1.9's and lower. I don't think the ratings have been good enough since the addition of the Hernandez family to say that these current storylines are some sort of success. Yes, I do think the ratings were better during the beginning of the baby switch, but at that time there wasn't the focus on the newer characters and actually EJ and Sami were still believed to be in love or at least dreaming of each other. Since then, the story has been drug out and the focus has moved from the ones who should be telling this story to new uninteresting characters, and the ratings are showing it.
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