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By Steven Terrell: The Santa Fe New Mexican
State Land Commissioner Patrick Lyons, who also sits on the State Investment Council, on Monday defended the SIC's request for millions of dollars in additional legal fees to a San Francisco law firm conducting an internal review of documents related to federal investigations of state investment practices.
However, some members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has been conducting hearings related to the controversies surrounding the SIC, said Monday that the SIC's request for $4 million in additional funds and $1.7 million in budget readjustments are bound to provoke a fight on the Senate floor.
Lyons said when he first met lawyers from the Paul Hastings firm last year, he wanted to "run 'em out of town." However, Lyons said he's since been convinced that the firm has been extremely helpful in uncovering wrongdoing in the investment process.
The land commissioner said some of the information about third-party placement agents uncovered by the Paul Hastings firm led to the resignation of former state investment officer Gary Bland last year. Lyons previously has said this information showed that Bland pressured investment firms doing business with the state to hire certain third-party marketing or placement agents.
If Paul Hastings doesn't do the review of all the documents, who will? Lyons asked. He said if the state quit paying the firm, it would take months for another team of lawyers to get up to speed on the case.
Bryan Otero, lawyer for the SIC, said Paul Hastings is in the process of converting thousands of documents — subpoenaed by the FBI and Securities Exchange Commission — into an electronic database. Otero said the work likely will result in recovering money lost in bad investments and fees paid to third-party marketers.
Paul Hastings, Otero said, will file a report that will be turned over to the state attorney general for possible prosecutions.
But some senators weren't convinced.
Sen. John Ryan, R-Albuquerque, pointed out that Bland is the one who originally hired the Paul Hastings firm to help out with "alternative" investments. It's possible, Ryan said, that the firm could be investigating some deals in which it played a role.
Ryan said it would be better if the state attorney general investigated the matter.
Senate Republican Whip Bill Payne of Albuquerque argued that a whistle-blower lawsuit filed by Frank Foy, former investor for the state teachers' pension fund, is trying to recover money for the state. Payne said that when the attorney general in 2008 decided not to take the case, the Foy suit became the proper vehicle to try to recover the money.
Last week Foy told the committee that the state was paying the Paul Hastings firm millions of dollars to help cover up the whistle-blower suit, which claims Gov. Bill Richardson's administration pressured the Educational Retirement Board to make investments to benefit political allies. Foy said the SIC was "stonewalling" his requests for documents.
Otero denied that charge, saying the Paul Hastings firm is focusing on preparing documents under federal subpoena.
The federal government is looking into the role of third-party placement agents in state investments.
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It's not Home, but it's a step in that direction. Microsoft's long-rumored environment for Avatars is first coming to fruition through the retro-themed Xbox Live "Game Room," a concept confirmed in a leaked (but now removed) video with Microsoft head of entertainment and devices Robbie Bach. It's assumed the video is tied to a CES 2010 announcement, as the event's mentioned in the clip.
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"Game Room is in some ways a retro approach and it's interesting," says Bach. "There's a generation of people -- my advanced, mature age -- who grew up with a set of games like Centipde that are favorites. They look almost like casual-fun games today. At the time, they were high-end, edgy games, so Game Room was the idea of bringing that back to the market and bringing that to a very broad audience and I think what we're going to find is when people can get 30 or more of these types of games, they're going to love it for the experience."
It's unclear what Game Room actually encompasses other than a virtual arcade stand for Centipede. Are these games free, a new addition to the Xbox Live Gold membership?
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By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
|1. Identify the degrees
of objectivity and persuasiveness appropriate for a given presentation.
2. Compose behavioral objectives in terms of measurable performance by the learner.
a Manipulator?
Back in grade school, it was probably enough for you to stand up at your seat and share your treasure with the other students at "Show And Tell." Unfortunately, too many people never advance beyond the Show-and-tell technique for giving presentations. They come as they are, without a plan or rehearsal, and they talk at us without making eye contact. When they are done talking, their presentation is over, whether or not we learned anything.
Instead, picture yourself as a manipulator of other people. As a presenter, imagine that it is your purpose to change the behavior of every individual in your audience. (After all, if your presentation has absolutely not effect on their behavior, how can you justify it?)
Sometimes effective presenters get us to believe a lie at first, and then show this to be a lie. They use tools of rhetoric to persuade us.
However, in general, technical presentations tend to lack the schemes of rhetoric, and cover an objective report on the facts, including an evaluation.
"So, which is it, Prof? Are we supposed to design presentations to persuade others, or should we design them to be objective and strictly factual?"
Just as with technical writing, the answer lies in the purpose of the presentation and the understanding of the audience. If you are justifying the existence of your department, or if you are making a plea for greater environmental responsibility, your presentation may well use more of those persuasive techniques. However, if you are presenting the results of an experiment to colleagues, it would be appropriate to maintain objectivity.
What are your objectives in giving a presentation? Let's say the presentation deals with new information regarding the proper use of hearing protection devices (HPDs.) Read over the following six objectives. Which do you feel is the best?
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Objective 1D:
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Well, did you make a decision about which objective is the best?
My opinion is that they are all terrible. The purpose of a presentation like this one should be to effect a change in the behavior of the audience. This presenter seemed to use a show-and-tell approach.
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Glazed Tzimmes (Crock Pot)
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Prep 20 mins
Cook 10 hrs
From a crock pot cookbook (not sure which one) submitted by Elaine Vigoda from Rochester, NY. Perfect for the busy Jewish holidays or for an interesting harvest side dish!
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- 1 sweet potato
- 6 carrots, sliced
- 1 potato, peeled, diced
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 apples, peeled, sliced
- 1 1⁄2 lbs butternut squash, peeled, sliced
- 1⁄4 cup apple juice (or dry white wine)
- 1⁄2 lb dried apricot
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon apple pie spice
- 1 tablespoon honey (or maple syrup)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- Combine all ingredients in a large slow cooker and cover.
- Cook on low for 10 hours.
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The store was out of squash, so I added another sweet potato and a bit of extra liquid. I used Trader Joe's spiced cider instead of the apple juice and spices, and used a pound of baby carrots. It was delectable wtih our Thanksgiving turkey! My kids are busily eating up the leftovers and it may become a Thanksgiving tradition. :)
This recipe was simple and delicious. I made some very minor adjustments... dried tart cherries instead of apricots...YUM, and dehydrated onion (stick with the real thing. ) It was done in far under 10 hours leading me to believe that my crock pot's "low" setting might not be low, but the good new is that based on this, if you're pressed for time, you might be able to cook it on "high" for 4 or 5 hrs.


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Millionaire's chocolate tart
A dinner party version of teatime favourite, millionaire's shortbread. It's not too bitter, so the kids will love it too
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Nutrition: per serving
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- fat39g
- saturates18g
- carbs62g
- sugars41g
- fibre2g
- protein9g
- salt0.59g
- 375g pack dessert shortcrust pastry
- 1 tsp vanilla paste or extract
The sun-dried seed pod of a type of climbing orchid, vanilla has an inimitable soft, sweet…
- flour, for dusting
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- 250g/9oz caramel (we used Carnation caramel from a can)
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- 100g 70% plain chocolate, broken into pieces
- 100g white chocolate, broken into pieces
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Break the pastry into chunks and drop into a food processor. Drizzle over the vanilla paste and pulse until the vanilla is speckled through the pastry (the extract should be completely absorbed). Tip out onto a floured surface, bring together into a ball, then roll out to line a 23cm tart tin (leave any overhanging pastry as you will trim this away when the tart is baked). Chill for 30 mins.
Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Line the pastry with greaseproof paper. Fill with baking beans, bake blind for 15-20 mins, then remove the paper and beans and bake for 5-10 mins more until pale golden. Carefully spread caramel over the base and set aside while you make the filling. Lower oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4.
Melt the chocolates in a bowl over a pan of barely simmering water, then stir in the melted butter. Whisk the eggs, yolks and sugar together with an electric whisk in a large mixing bowl for 10 mins, until pale and thick enough to leave a trail when the beaters are lifted up. Fold in the melted chocolate with a large metal spoon, then scrape into the tin.
Bake for 20-25 mins – the surface should be set and puffed but still with a slight wobble. Cool, then chill for at least 3 hrs or overnight, before dusting with icing sugar and serving.
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This was more difficult than I thought!!!
First problem - pastry. I blind baked it but when I took the beans out and put the pastry back in to cook for 5-10 minutes, a gigantic bubble formed which I then had to break after I took it out and it made it difficult to spread the caramel.
Second - I put it back in with the chocolate mix at the right temp, and when I went to check it at 20 mins..it was black!!! I was terrified that I had burnt it even though I checked it at 20 and the recipe says 20-25 minutes.
It turned out okay in the end, slightly over cooked but still good. Had to hide the blackness with icing sugar. I can only imagine how divine it may have been if it had cooked for a few mins less.
One of the best tarts I have ever tasted! I didn't use the caramel though the second time round because it dosen't really add much flavour, but then again that makes it just a chocolate tart so you can't really compare the two. Also, concerning the eggs, the white and yolk ratios are spot on so don't try to add more or less of either than you should.
Fantastic recipe!
An amazing dessert! I made my own sweet pastry as I couldnt find any ready made. It was quite rich so you only need a small slice. I used a loose bottomed quiche tin to cook it in. It tasted lovely served with creme fraiche. I will definately be making this again but I am also going to try the no-cook chocolate tart recommended by rebecca.
I made this as an alternative dessert for christmas day. It was easy to make - although I admit I did use readymade sweet shortcrust pastry. I made it xmas eve and on xmas day let it warm to room temperature - this was a mistake! Whilst it was very nice it was far too soft. On boxing day and 27th we ate the leftovers cold from the fridge and it tasted much much better. I would advise making it at least 24hrs before you want it and serve cold. Was good with creme fraiche or vanilla whipped cream. Pastry was excellent, really yummy - suspect any made by me would have been much heavier! Overall very good but not as good as the 'no-cook chocolate tart' recipe also on this site which I have made 10+ times.
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There is something that happens every first Friday of the month. People get together downtown for art galleries, music, and to stroll the local shops. This thing is called Art Crawl. This last Art Crawl may have been my favorite one yet and you should check it out if you haven't yet!
A few tidbits on art crawling:
It's always easy to find live music. Top spots are Black Cat, Boone Saloon, Murphy's Pub. Or just look on the street. There was some really good folk music happening near Bead Box.
You'll probably want to stop in at Anna Banana's. It's a little like finding good deals while simultaneously having a party. (One trio traveled in from Charlotte called Of Good Nature and put on an awesome jam in front of Anna Banana's.)
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts is non-optional. They are always at work showcasing new creativity and attract a big crowd. One of their recent exhibits is titled "Stuff: Where does it come from and where does it go". Shown at the top is a picture of it in the making (photo credit: Ben Wesemann).
Another gallery called The Collective features work from local artists and musicians and is located on Depot st. right beside Black Cat. There are different booths showcasing different artists with a little more laid-back atmosphere. Check it out.
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Espresso News is now open until midnight. With their recent addition upstairs you now have your choice between wine, watermelon wheat beer or mocha. Sounds good to me.
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Through two weeks (well, one-and-a-half) of training camp, we've already been treated to enough news to temporarily quench the football thirst. Unfortunately, much of the news regarding the Indianapolis Colts has been negative, revolving around catastrophic injuries.
But as the Colts approach their first preseason game against the New York Jets on Thursday, there is positive feedback to reflect upon and look forward to as well. While the accuracy of training-camp analysis can be questionable, and actual preseason games will be more informative, my attendance of training camp last week provided a unique perspective toward the team as it heads to the Big Apple.
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Address: Supreme Court Bldg., 1163 State St., Salem 97301-2563
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Created in 1969 as a five-judge court, the Court of Appeals was expanded to six judges in 1973, to ten judges in 1977 and to 13 judges in 2012. The 2012 House Bill 4026B amended ORS 2.540 to increase the number of judges and to provide that the new positions be filled by gubernatorial appointment. The judges, otherwise elected on a statewide, nonpartisan basis for six-year terms, must be United States citizens, members of the Oregon State Bar and qualified electors of their county of residence. The chief justice of the Supreme Court appoints a chief judge from among the judges of the Court of Appeals.
Court of Appeals judges have their offices in the Justice Building in Salem and usually hear cases in the courtroom of the Supreme Court Building. The court ordinarily sits in panels of three judges. The Supreme Court has authority to appoint a Supreme Court justice, a circuit court judge or an Oregon Tax Court judge to serve as a judge pro tempore of the Court of Appeals. The 1997 Legislature created an appellate mediation program called the Appellate Settlement Conference Program; see ORS 2.560(3).
The Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to review appeals of most civil and criminal cases and most state administrative agency actions. The exceptions are appeals in death penalty, lawyer and judicial disciplinary, and Oregon Tax Court cases, which go directly to the Oregon Supreme Court.
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Seed companies have already announced a number of new cotton varieties and/or traits for 2011, which are detailed below. The list includes cotton varieties adapted to the Southeast, Southwest and Mid-South.
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PhytoGen is hoping to ride the success of PHY 375 WRF, which in 2010 was the No. 1 planted variety in the Mid-South for the second year in a row, with the release of two new varieties.
PHY 569 WRF — "PhytoGen variety PHY 569 WRF is a good fit to fill the 555 footprint," said Joel Faircloth, PhytoGen cotton development specialist for Dow AgroSciences. "It is similar in maturity to PHY 565 WRF, but matures a little later. This variety is available in very limited quantities for its introductory year."
PHY 499 WRF — "PhytoGen brand PHY 499 WRF is a mid-maturing, very high-yielding variety," Faircloth says. "It has performed very well in our breeder trials over the past several years and is offered in very limited quantities for 2011. We've had a tremendous amount of interest in this variety because of its yield performance, but again, it's available in a very limited supply this year. This is one to watch for 2012."
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Age columnist Martin Flanagan's big picture warning about Tasmania becoming the Greece of Australia ( TT here ) could be worth considering. If our country operated as a bank, rather than as federation of states and territories, Tasmania would have been shut down long ago.
More disturbing is Flanagan's dismissal of Professor Jonathan West's comments on Tasmanians' attitudes towards education, published in the Griffith Review's Tasmania; The Tipping Point? ( TT here ) While West's essay lacks the persuasive charm of Martin Flanagan's subjective literary stylishness, there is much to be heeded from his urgent insight, especially when it comes to too many Tasmanians' educational outlooks. Martin Flanagan disagrees.
In his 23rd of February Age column, Flanagan quotes West as below;
West: A recent study undertaken by an education foundation unearthed the startling conclusion that a large proportion of Tasmanians specified not being educated as an important aspect of a "true Tasmanian".
Flanagan: "Really? I was born in Tasmania and lived there for 28 years. I never encountered this attitude. West continues: "Educated people were regarded as less Tasmanian and probably worse people." "Never met that one either", writes Flanagan.
Evidently, Martin Flanagan hasn't come across the anti-educational fatalism still prevalent here. But while it might be assumed from Jonathan West's analysis that these attitudes arise mainly from within Tasmania's burgeoning population of welfare recipients, in truth the island's tribally differentiated elites are as much to blame for negative attitudes towards higher learning, not to mention its positive outcomes.
Tasmanian political tribes often send mixed messages, particularly on the subject of educating our young. In recent years, rural communities have passionately argued against the closure of small country schools, while their opponents accuse them of having a horse and buggy mindset in not wanting to drive the extra distance to schools in larger centres. We've heard jeers at the elaborate celebrations year 10 Tasmanian school leavers enjoy because the milestone may discourage higher school retention rates. This is little more than an example of provincial classism to me; a misguided distain for a ritual of teenage arrival occurring annually throughout the developed world. At policy level, we've been damned by a series of state government incursions into the island's education system, from the unaccounted for wastage of the Intelligent Island initiative, to the ill fated Essential Learning Curriculum, to Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap, clap clap. More chest thumping over Tasmania's dismal OECD educational ranking from a government that habitually casts aspersions on the messenger rather than to take responsibility for the damning facts. Jonathan West himself has been a casualty of this type of intellectual knee-capping. Tribalism lies at the heart of these discouraging outbursts of protective ignorance. Public accountability and educational attainment are the biggest casualties.
At a private Hobart gentlemen's club several months ago, I met young and old Tasmanians whose combined wealth could fund a small state government department. All were complaining about the current business climate, but as impressive as their financial worth may sound, the attitudes expressed in conversations that evening illuminated a deep seated hostility towards higher learning.
In Tasmania's current difficult economic climate, I couldn't help wondering if a little more education would have guided more sustainable solutions for these well dressed diners' struggling companies.
My questions about their children's futures were met with a unified chorus of foregone conclusions. Private single sex schools would continue family traditions and admit arrivistes; suitable marriages would be more likely just as school connections would enhance advancement in business life. All present insisted their kids have above average IQs, but their children's vocational futures were of little interest. One man said his son is so far ahead of his year one primary school class, he'd rung the headmistress to demand the child be put up a grade, threatening to withdraw his support for the school if she didn't oblige.
By far the preferred conversational topic amongst my fellow diners was their own school days. It's no secret that many Tasmanians prefer to live in the past. In a discussion about resuming tertiary studies, one guest commented that being on a university campus was risky, because you'd be forced to meet "those kinds of people". This is an admonition Tasmanians can no longer afford to accept.
Interestingly, while most had visited MONA at least once, none cared for the art within, or for the impact this art might be having on the wider Tasmanian community. Not for the first time it struck me that while Tasmanians continually tell you how MONA is "world class", they themselves rarely if ever visit museums or galleries when travelling interstate or abroad. Unsurprisingly, my fellow diners' views on human rights, gay marriage, refugees and immigration were predictably laced with the kind of "them and us" assumptions that continue to lock Tasmania out of mainstream Australia's many 21st century culturally inspired commercial opportunities.
While education in this particular Tasmanian circle is evidently not the commodity many of us value so highly, access to and the exercise of provincial power in the face of perceptions of their own global helplessness, is in fact a vigorous life theme. Ideals of inclusion and exclusion are fostered by fresh and ancient tribal injustices, from the current premier's feat of having her father given an Australia Day award, to fatal anomalies in both political parties' pre-selection processes, to a near hysterical resentment of the Greens, to the anti-business administration of local planning laws.
Meritocracy deserves no place in this hierarchical view of Tasmanian life, in fact, other elites were cheerfully condemned; all guilty of the same kind of nefarious clannishness choking our chances for change here.
In my view, tribalism is the greatest obstacle Tasmania faces. Belonging is the blessing of conforming to historic assemblages built upon intractable factions, found within both mainstream political parties and public departments, university faculties, the legal industry and other professional fraternities, local councils and the union movement. Being ruled by a legal system that can at times sound downright hostile to cries for justice doesn't help either. You must belong to one or another power clan to get anywhere on the island. No wonder Tasmania is struggling so badly.
Elsewhere in my sacrificial immersion into Tasmania's self defined upper class, local standards of gentlemanliness were a challenge I struggled to accept. When I complained about being referred to as my partner's "Plus 1" guest, rather than by name, I was advised by a club official that I should understand that things moved slowly in such establishments. When I suggested that this was the 21st century and that speed is no longer an excuse for disrespecting women's identities, he told me he didn't like my tone. Although younger than me by at least fifteen years, this immutable bastion of provincial propriety had the practiced authority of a 1970s headmaster, embodying the wall of Tasmanian negativity I fled from long ago. I can well understand why progressive educated Tasmanians like Martin Flanagan might choose to shun the state's private clubs, although at the expense of empirical research this instance. I also agree with Natasha Cica's view ( Natasha Cica's full article, here ) that challenging these establishments has become an urgent cultural necessity.
Martin Flanagan makes short work of Cica's own essay in Tipping Point , ( Link on Flanagan's article, TT here ) ( Natasha Cica's full article, here ) which is a pity. His muscular narrative style has become something of a standard for telling the Tasmanian story, but this is bound to change. Cica writes from the heart and is an energetic editor; Jo Chandler's "The Science Laboratory" is an intensively researched reportage on Tasmania's scientific community, well worth reading, as is Kathy Mark's account of indigenous politics on the island. Human rights lawyer Greg Barns explores models for solutions to many Tasmanians' endemic poverty. Scott Rankin's Tasmanian Utopias begs a book of its own, while former TMAG curator David Hanson's "A Raid" is art history writing at its finest. Matthew Evans' fine food fight is a bit fatiguing; is it time Tasmania's gourmet celebrities mounted a "fair food campaign" for a change? Elsewhere in Tipping Point, unexpected new literary voices have been unearthed. David Walsh's candid optimism is becoming infectious, while his partner life artist Kirsha Kaechele's "Eat the Problem" proposes creatively converting invasive species into taste sensations. Yes change is about to become us.
What hasn't altered in Tasmanian culture, but must, is the peculiar habit local politicians have of adding their own literary works to undertakings like Tipping Point. I am unimpressed with Minister for Infrastructure David O'Byrnne's "right of reply" style article recently added to The Griffith Review's website. The Member for Franklin initially lavishes Jonathan West with praise but discounts his views nonetheless. And just what is David O'Byrnne's beef with the "art world" he claims MONA rejects? Elise Archer is if anything, even more brazen in her "Open for Business". Seriously though, can we picture Campbell Newman being granted the same privilege in future issues of The Griffith Review?
My experience of Tasmania is bound to be different from Martin Flanagan or Jonathan West's for that matter. I believe there is a need for an intervention. We need to open our minds and gain the courage to challenge our collective moral imagination. We need an empowering dose of creative irreverence shot into the veins of the island and a vigorous public challenge to the island's tribal clannishness; assailing the symbolic negativism that excluding of women from its private clubs promotes; unstitching the state Labour party's rusted-on factionalism; debasing the Opposition's feudal electoral nomination system and administering an intellectual enema for the business elites I've described. Tasmania's many welfare dependents rightly feel excluded from these entrenched sub-cultural trading systems. The Lions Club hampers at Christmas just don't cut it anymore. The rational for redundant strategies and protective decisions endlessly being hatched behind institutional firewalls is losing most of us. While our politicians are all too present, they've become morally aloof from the consequences of their actions. To me, unless they are prepared to be held truly accountable, their views in Tipping Point are unwarranted.
To me, Tasmania's intervention should take the form of a public piss take, parodying the hell out the self protective silliness you still hear so frequently from the mouths of powerful Tasmanians. Our intervention would reflect our many dated institutional and personal biases back at us, naming and shaming us into change.


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The Obama EPA has been sending up surveillance flights to monitor Nebraska and Iowa food producers and their livestock feeding methods.
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Whether it's standing up to Putin or falling-down houses, Americans think we have given up
When this paper broke the news that Barack Obama had chucked George Bush's bust of Winston Churchill out of the Oval Office there was a considerable commotion on our side of the pond. Britain snubbed! Special Relationship over! Revenge for abuses in Kenya etc!
In America, where I lived at the time, there were indulgent smiles; the kind you give a toddler who's making a fuss but, really, he's overtired, it's not his fault and we've had a lovely day at the beach so we won't spoil it now. Newsweek summed it up: "Has America's even-tempered new President already ruffled


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Women and Nutrition: A Menu of Special Needsby Dori Stehlin
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The recommendation is that no more than 30 percent of total calories come from fat. Food labels list fat in grams. To find out what your total intake of fats in grams should be limited to, multiply your daily calories by 0.30 (30 percent) and divide by 9 (the number of calories in a gram of fat).
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The Dietary Guidelines say that the many nutrients you need should come from a variety of foods, not from a few highly fortified foods or supplements. A good way to ensure variety is to choose foods each day from the five major food groups. USDA has developed a daily food guide for a well-balanced diet that suggests the following:
This food guide is "a useful, simple way for women to look at their own diets and see how to improve them," says Stephenson. By choosing different foods from each group daily, the food guide can serve as the basis for the dietary guideline "eat a variety of foods," says Stephenson, and "that's a tenet of nutritional advice for all people."
Finally, the guidelines are meant for the average person, cautions Walter H. Glinsmann, M.D., FDA's associate director for clinical nutrition. "Almost nobody is average, he says.Lifestyle, genetics and conditions such as pregnancy or disease can also affect a person's nutritional needs, he explains.
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Psychiatry is in disarray. Having abandoned Freud, it is struggling torestore itself as a medical science based on neuroscience. Author J. Allan Hobson, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, with the help of medical writer Jonathan Leonard, describes and applauds this transformation. Yet he argues that neuroscience alone is not sufficient: The role of experience in mental illness must also be recognized. Psychiatry, he suggests, "must rest squarely on the strong shoulders of learning theory."


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Borrowing from Pharrell's 24 hour music video for his single "Happy" Pharrell can be seen dancing while walking across a bridge with an animated Beats by Dre Pill dancing along side. Close friend and fellow VA native Pusha T also makes a cameo.
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Sometimes the Lord calms the storm.
Sometimes the Lord lets the storm rage—and calms His child.
How is it with you? Are you calm while storms rage all around you? Or do you spend your days trying to find peace in a turbulent world? The world looks for peace in an external sense. How am I being treated? How well do I get along with my spouse, my children, my parents, my boss? But true peace is not found in these things. Jesus said, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid" (John 14:27). The world does not have true peace. True peace means to avoid letting our hearts be troubled. True peace means freedom from being afraid, for perfect love (agape) casts out fear (1 John 4:18). Storms can rage all around us. Some may even come our way and slap us directly in the face. Paul says in Romans 12:18: "If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men," because sometimes we have to meet the storm head on, externally. But when you do have to meet these storms, how is it in your heart?
"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." Having said this nearly 2000 years ago, I can only conclude that God has already given us His peace. We don't have to look for it. We don't have to manufacture it. When you consider that the word of Christ has inherent within it the power to create what it says (Genesis 1), God created peace in us simply by making the statement. So, let it happen, let not your heart be troubled. Let God's strength and courage wash over you. Yield to the power of God. Back off and let Him have His way in your heart and life.
Have you ever thought about the things that bother us? Often, years after the fact, we may remember having a passionate discussion with someone, maybe with our spouse. We remember very well having the discussion, but when the question is asked about what the subject was, no one can remember! However, when a big issue arises, such as losing a job over Sabbath observance, for example, our hearts are at perfect peace. The reason for this dichotomy is our own selfishness, for when we go our own way we become defensive and are actually willing to defend to our spiritual death the most trivial of pursuits. On the other hand, when we are acting within God's will, He gives us perfect peace, even during the storm. "Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them" (Psalm 119:165). We need to let God choose our battles for us.
The world does not have true peace. So how do we obtain such a precious commodity? How do we avoid letting our hearts be troubled? How can we obtain courage and freedom from fear? Let's allow E. J. Waggoner, one of the 1888 messengers, answer this, for he says it so very well:
"Grace to you and peace from God the Father" [Galtations 1:3]—this is the word of the Lord and therefore means more than man's word. The Lord does not deal in empty compliments. His word creates, and here we have the form of the creative word."
"God said, "'Let there be light'; and there was light." So here, "Let there be grace and peace to you," and so it is. God has sent grace and peace, bringing righteousness and salvation to all men—even to you, whoever you are, and to me. When you read this third verse, do not read it as a sort of complimentary phrase or mere passing salutation, but as the creative word that brings to you personally all the blessings of the peace of God. It is to us the same word that Jesus spoke to the woman: "Your sins are forgiven." "Go in peace." Luke 7:48, 50.
"This grace and peace come from Christ, "who gave Himself for our sins." "Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ." Ephesians 4:7, KJV. But this grace is "the grace that is in Christ Jesus." 2 Timothy 2:1. Therefore we know that Christ Himself is given to every one of us. The fact that men live is an evidence that Christ has been given to them, for Christ is the "life," and the "life" is "the light of men." This life-light "enlightens every man." John 14:6; 1:4, 9. In Christ "all things hold together." (Colossians 1:17), and thus it is that since God "did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all," He cannot do otherwise than with Him freely "give us all things." Romans 8:32. "His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness." 2 Peter 1:3 (The Glad Tidings, pp. 10, 11).
So, what do we have to worry about? Check out 2 Corinthians 5:19, "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation" (emphasis added). God has nothing against you. Might we have something against Him?
What Is peace?—Most people have the idea that it is a sort of ecstatic feeling. They think that peace with God means an indescribable heavenly feeling; and so they always look for that imaginary feeling as evidence that they are accepted with God.
But peace with God means the same thing that it means with men: it means simply the absence of war. As sinners we are enemies of God. He is not our enemy, but we are his enemies. He is not fighting against us, but we are fighting against him. How then may we have peace with him? Simply by ceasing to fight, and laying down our arms. We may have peace whenever we are ready to stop fighting.
"Peace with God."—Note that when we have peace with God we are not simply at peace with him, but we have his peace. This peace has been left on the earth for men; for the Lord has said, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you." John 14:27. He has given it to us. It is ours, therefore, already. It has always been ours. The only trouble has been that we have not believed it. As soon as we believe the words of Christ, then we have in very deed the peace which he has given. And it is peace with God, because we find the peace in Christ, and Christ dwells in the bosom of the Father. John 1:18.
Peace and Righteousness.—"Great peace have they which love thy law." Ps. 119:165. "O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea." Isa. 48:18. Righteousness is peace, because our warfare against God was our sins that we cherished. God's life is righteousness, and he is the God of peace. ...
Peace and Feeling.—The question is asked, "Can one have peace with God and not have a feeling of peace?" What says the Scripture? "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God." What brings the peace? The faith. But faith is not feeling. If it were necessarily the case that there must be a certain feeling with peace, then if we did not have that feeling we should know that we were not justified; and then justification would be a matter of feeling, and not of faith. ... Peace that depends on feeling will depart as soon as we begin to feel tribulation. But nothing can make any difference with the peace that comes by faith. "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." John 16:33. (Waggoner on Romans, pp. 93, 94 (emphasis added).
~Craig Barnes


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Trust Away
- Artists Rik Parkinson
- Release Date 2012-09-03
- Labels Hailstorm
- Catalog HSM003
On 3rd September 2012 music producer and DJ Rik Parkinson announces the release of his second track 'Trust Away' with label Hailstorm Music.
The release of 'Trust Away' follows a busy summer for Rik after the launch of his first track with Hailstorm Music, 'Ain't No' in May. The success of 'Ain't No' took the house music scene by storm with fantastic feedback from a range of high profile DJs and support from music titles such as DJ Mag, which featured Rik as an up and coming DJ in the July issue of the magazine.
'Trust Away' follows in the footsteps of 'Ain't No' with its soulful vibe, captivating bass hook and mesmerising twisted vocals. It has already gained momentum with praise from DJs such as Aeroplane, Droog, Eats Everything and Nicole Moudaber for its groovy, deep and catchy vibes and has been played in clubs around the world including Pacha in Ibiza during the BBC Radio 1 Weekend and Fabric in London during the Hot Creations party.
Feedback from Rik's first track 'Ain't No':
"Really digging these strange vocals, cant wait to play it in the club" Pezzner
"Summer music at its best, lovely" Droog
"Killer track" LOPAZZ
"Sounds really good, slick production, good work" PBR Streetgang
For more information and bookings, please contact James Vaux at Hailstorm Music on email@example.com (+44 7710 739936) or visit www.rikparkinson.com


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I have played Valik through a bit of the first part of the Legacy of fire. I like him quite a lot and would love to finish it with him, if you don't mind a viking paladin of Sarenrae.
I would bump him back down to first, of course, I just wanted to get the character concept up there for you to see.
I don't remember much about the game so that won't be a problem...and I don't like to metagame.
"Lets try it. If it turns out to be too hard, we will back off and find another way. I want to make sure that we are in fighting strength for gnolls, rather than getting hurt climbing some rocks."
"Besides, it might be fun. Just don't scream when you jump for the cliff."
"Wait a second, if Felliped takes the rope with him when he swings to the cliff, how are we going to climb up too?" Valik asks, perplexed.
"Perfect. Lets see if we can get this to work. Felliped, you go up, get the rope tied off, then we can all climb the rope after you. We get easy access to the upper level. Since everything down here is ruined, we should go and see what we can do up on the top level. There might be an opportunity there that isn't down here."
"Dashki, please lead us to the building that has the intact second floor."
"Still looks green in the gills. Hmmm. Let me see the wound site for a moment."
Heal 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24
Valik works on the wound for a few moments, pulling items out of his pack, massaging the wound site and moving Dross's limb around.
"Well you will live." he says brushing off his hands as he looks around the room.
Was the snake on a straw bed? Can we arrange the snake so its wounds aren't immediately visible?
"Dashki, do you think the dogs were using the snake as a guard animal, or are they too hard to train? Also, do you think this town has sewers?"
"What are they feeding that thing? Horses?", Valik asks as the shadowed shape of the snake rears up out of its nest.
Eying the beast Valik opts for caution, dropping a stone into his trusty sling, then spinning it up to a thrumming blur before sending it at the creature.
miss? 1d100 ⇒ 91
"I think that Dashki has the right idea. Let's turn it into a pincushion!"
"Good enough for now. Let's go see if there are any patrols moving around down here, and lets check that domed building over there. Lead the way Dashki. Oh, I just remembered something. If we have to scatter, meet back at the river spot that Dashki led us to."
So building 1 is the domed building...looks like it has a roof still.
"Ok, that doesn't make any sense. It isn't chained up? At the first provocation the critter will just run off. And it didn't stop us from getting into the town, so what is the point of it guarding anything?"
"Dashki, do you think that you can get inside this building and poke around? Can we boost you over the wall maybe?" Valik whispers.
Valik looks at the buildings across the river, rubbing his beard.
"I don't like it."
"Look at the cliffs over there. Its basically a trap. If someone is watching the road and the bridge, we could get pinned over there pretty easily."
"So we are going to have to pull attention away from there before we do anything else."
"Lets go check out the building that gets food three times a day. If it turns out to be something mean...which I hope...between freeing that, and lighting some fires, we can cause some chaos, then go check out the building across the way."
"Thoughts? Dashki, anything to add?" Valik asks.
"Flame above, Dullen. You sound like a crying brat. Haven't you been with me long enough that you know I am fair about things? And to be honest, I had no idea that the brooch or the mace were magical. Since I think that I can trust you to smash what needs smashing, here." Valik says as he tosses the mace to Dullen.
"Now you are ready to smash some dogs into the dust, right?"
Valik jumps a bit at the mention of magic by Felliped.
Perhaps he can tell me about the sword! And the mercenaries will be happy if he can determine if any of the items are magical and what their value might be...that way I can get them paid.
"Ah. Felliped. I can help you chose gear if you wish. While you look over what the caravan has I would like to ask some questions about magic if you don't mind. I also may need your assistance with a small project."
"It is not right for us to sit by while the gnolls torture your comrades Felliped. Dashki's plan is sound. If the gnolls are going to execute your friends, they will do it soon."
"I think you are right Dashki. A quick strike could cause enough confusion so we can grab the prisoners and run like rabbits for a good ambush point. And attacking an execution party from behind, that would definitely cause confusion."
"Dashki says that the gnolls will execute the prisoners along the path of Felliped's escape, correct?" Valik says, looking at Dashki.
"If so, then we merely need to position ourselves in the abandoned houses on the edge of town so we can strike when we see a chance. If the gnolls don't help out and bring the prisoners out, then we will just have to go and get them. Our escape point will be whatever is the best place, tower, ruin or waterfall that is closest to wherever we are on the edge of town."
"Any problems with that plan? Its simple enough, but we can modify it if we need to." Valik finishes, looking around the group.
"Well I guess that answers my question about the "Battle Market", I really had no idea what such a thing was. Anyways, thank you Felliped. By adding to the information that Dashki had already provided you may have given us the edge that we need to see this through successfully." Valik says rubbing his chin.
"I really hate to sound like a crazy zealot, but this talk of Rovagug...Ameera, I have a duty to eradicate the gnolls. That may not exactly match up with securing the town. But you can be sure that unless the filth of Rovagug is burnt out it will spread and threaten everything you care about."
"I still think the original plan holds. We cause chaos, draw gnolls into traps and ambushes until their forces are weakened. Then we crush them." Valik finishes, punching his fist into his palm.
"Well I guess that answers my question about the "Battle Market", I really had no idea what such a thing was. Anyways, thank you Felliped. By adding to the information that Dashki had already provided you may have given us the edge that we need to see this through successfully." Valik says rubbing his chin.
"I really hate to sound like a crazy zealot, but this talk of Rovagug...Ameera, I have a duty to eradicate the gnolls. That may not exactly match up with securing the town. But you can be sure that unless the filth of Rovagug is burnt out it will spread and threaten everything you care about."
"I still think the original plan holds. We cause chaos, draw gnolls into traps and ambushes until their forces are weakened. Then we crush them." Valik finishes, slapping his fist into his palm.
"Felliped, when the Father is done with you, I need to talk to you. The rest of the mercenaries and myself are going to be heading to Kelmarane tomorrow. I need you to draw us out a map of the area and where you think that your companions are located. Also we heard mention that there were large beasts penned up in buildings. I hope you tell us where they were located."
Valik uncorks one of the remaining infusions and drains it in one gulp, then walks around picking up his gear off the ground.
Infusion 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
"Ameera, the man has not introduced himself, but I think that his name is Felliped...he sounds a bit like a pesh-addled madman to me.", Valik says from the archway.
"One of the guards caught the bird with an arrow as it was attempting to flee. Apparently it fell over the wall, so it might be prudent to send someone to get it."
Valik awakens with a start, swinging his arm and almost catching Dross across the temple, as he jerks back to consciousness.
"Gah!!..." He sits up, blinking for a moment, collecting himself.
"Well the Father was right about one thing. Those tonics of his don't taste that bad...a bit like eating a fist full of herbs, not great, but not bad. Thank you Dross. What happened to the bird? Also, did anyone check the corpse over there?" Valik asks, pointing at the body lying in the center of the courtyard.
"Ahhh. Flames to you bird! Well she is good and distracted, hit her from behind!", Valik bellows, ducking under the snapping beak.
As the bird turns away to look at Utarchus, Valik dances forward, slicing at the bird's neck.
Slice, flank 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8
The bird snaps its head up in time to evade the blow, and the scimitar slices through nothing but feathers.
"Blades against beak it is!" Valik thunders, dropping his sling and pack and drawing his scimitar, before moving across the courtyard towards the filthy bird.
Can we just consider that he wouldn't be wearing his backpack if they are fighting in the abbey? Valik knew he wouldn't be leaving for a while, so he would have had it off. I ask because without the pack, rations and waterskins he is back to a light load and the 30' move. It makes more sense to me.


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Miles Dewey Davis is, of course, a jazz legend. Without question he is the most influential trumpet player of his entire era, even including figures like Satcho (louis Armstrong) or Dizzy Gillespie. And when he joined forces with such premiere talents as Bill Evans and John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley and Herbie Hancock and John Scofield (and we could go on and on), his circle of influence only widened and still today is being continually felt and demonstrated in the works of artists as diverse as Christian Scott or Roy Hargrove or even Chris Botti. Miles Davis was and is a game changer, and we need to take his measure.
Born in 1926 in Alton Illinois, but raised in East St. Louis in a more affluent African American family (his father was a dentist, his mother a capable pianist), Miles was taking trumpet lessons (an instrument picked by his father) by the time he was 13. Unlike many jazz musicians of his era, Miles actually received not only musical lessons but was admitted to Julliard in N.Y. and received some classical training which was to serve him in good stead in his collaborations with Gil Evans. Like many young and talented jazz musicians, Miles chaffed at the formal training, and desired to spend most of his time playing in clubs in New York. His complaint about Julliard was it only taught 'white European' music, and in that era, that was a pretty valid complaint. Nevertheless, he later admitted his training their gave him a good handle on music theory, something he would need, for Miles was a prolific composer, not merely a performer and his training both in St. Louis and in New York allowed him to experiment with a wider range of music, including classical or semi-classical compositions, than any other jazz artist of his entire era. As a jazz composer, to a lesser degree as a player, Miles had few peers, and no superiors. It is thus not entirely astonishing to survey the huge scope of the musical styles and trends that he not merely sampled, but in various cases started. Miles' recording career began at the end of WWII in 1945 and continued until nevar the very end of his life in 1991.
By training, Miles was taught not to use much, if any vibrato in his playing, something which was clearly against the trend in jazz trumpet playing in the 20th century. He came to like the 'rounded' sound as he called it, without any quaver, and you could recognize in an instant his 'plain' style on a record when compared to other trumpet players. In addition that, his fondness for using the mute in many different and varied recordings also gave him a distinctive sound, often imitated, but never to this day equaled.
We could talk about Miles' struggles with drugs, something which plagued many jazz musicians of that era, including Coltrane and Evans, but somehow, unlike figures like Evans, it did not seem to diminish his art very much, or truncate his career. Though Miles grew up in the be bop and hard bop eras, he was noted for his 'cool' playing, and the label stuck in part because his first real landmark album was called 'Birth of the Cool'. In some ways this style was jazz minimalism, compared to the 'blowing sessions' in which it seemed a musician would try to squeeze as many notes as humanly possible into a four bar phrase. As such, Miles' music is more accessible to some who are not jazz aficionados. Without really intending to be, Miles was also a cross-over musician as well, exploring classical music in a jazz way, and later, pop music in a jazz way. This too gave him a broader audience than most any other jazz artist one could name, with the possible exception of Coltrane. And it certainly didn't hurt that when he was really emerging in a large way to public eye, his collaboration with Coltrane and Evans, entitled 'Kind of Blue' became an instant jazz classic. On October 7, 2008, his 1959 album Kind of Blue received its fourth platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipments of at least four million copies in the United States. Miles Davis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. Davis was noted as "one of the key figures in the history of jazz." 'Kind of Blue' is the best selling jazz album of all time and still today is a continual seller and rightly so.
It is difficult to select a fair sampling of Mile's diverse body of work to give the listener an idea of what he accomplished and all the different styles he put his finger prints on, including his ongoing more classical forays with Gil Evans, someone he worked with from about 1947 on, but here is a short list to give one a starter kit for his remarkable body of work.
Really it is necessary to start with 'Birth of the Cool' which is actually not a very daring album but has some interesting collaborations with Gerry Mulligan the saxaphonist who wrote various of the tunes on the album. There is in fact only one Miles original on the album— Deception, and it is very brief (2:45). In fact this album was not recorded all at once, but was a series of 'singles' which were then collected together under the now famous title, and released in February of 1957. A new era in jazz was dawning, and without entirely realizing it, Miles Davis was himself spearheading it. In fact, even before the release of 'Birth of the Cool' Miles had formed his first major quintet, had signed with Columbia Records, and in 1955 had begun a period of collaboration with John Coltrane that literally was to change the face of modern music. Miles first Columbia album 'Round Midnight' (named after the famous signature tune of North Carolinian Theolonius Monk who definitely had an impact on Miles), this album already shows great diversity— be bop, and hard bop are in evidence, but so is Miles penchant for ballads, something that would be true throughout his career, and we see as well his nodding in the classical direction too. Miles was one of those musicians who did a good deal to nurture along the gifts of others, and Coltrane and young players like Paul Chambers came into their own while working with Miles. 1958 saw the Stella by Starlight album and Cannonball Adderley was added to the mix, giving Miles two top drawer saxaphonists to work with. One of the things about Miles was that he was not a stage hog, and he was happy to have others solo at various junctures. Not threatened by other strong talented musicians, he actually seemed to attract and acquire them for his own projects and ensembles.
One of the staples of all jazz repertoires is of course show tunes, music for Broadway plays, or later for movies. Miles' collaborations with Gil Evans (not to be confused with pianist Bill Evans) tends in that direction. A good cross-section can be found on the sampler 'The Best of Miles Davis and Gil Evans' (Columbia CK 67425) which will introduce to you Miles doing Gershwin, and one could go on to his whole album of Porgy and Bess tunes. "Sketches of Spain' is an instant classic in this general sort of genre.
I cannot stress enough the synergy and influence of the Davis-Coltrane collaborations, often with Evans, and my suggestion would be to buy the remastered box set— Miles Davis and John Coltrane (The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-61). It repays one listening after another, and Columbia has done a fine job of remasters and repackaging things with helpful liner notes. You get remasterings of some of the classic tunes on 'Kind of Blue' and even some comments from Miles.
The next major 'Milestone' is of course 'Bitches Brew' perhaps the second most influential of all of Miles CDs. This work comes some twenty plus years into Mile's career, in 1969, and is a true game changer. Here we are dealing with jazz fusion and a host of other things, and all sorts of experimental sounds and sonic textures. It is a fascinating listen, but like much of jazz, it takes repeated listenings with concentration to really begin to understand what is going on and to sense the importance of the music. The musicians on this album read like a who's who of rising jazz stars–Wayne Shorter on sax, Chick Corea on piano, Jack deJonnette on drums, Dave Holland on bass, John McLaughlin on electric guitar. Miles was pulling out all the stops on this one, but one should also compare 'In a Silent Way' from this era as well. Thankfully, we now have a beautifully remastered 'Bitches Brew' so we can hear all the facets of this truly original composition.
There has been a tendency to disparage late Miles, but you will not hear that from me. Miles had always done ballads and his move to do some pop standards (see his 'Love Songs' CD) is not very different from the previous trend. Unlike some jazz musicians, Miles did not feel he had to prove his jazz credentials by ignoring pop and rock music. Instead he drew on it and used it. I can especially recommend some of the late classics like 'Tutu' or 'Amandla' both of which I love.
You could spend some years exploring the ouevre of Miles Davis, but perhaps the above will be a useful point of entry into his diverse work. One thing is for sure– if you are an American and ignore the work of Miles Davis, you have ignored a huge part of the musical legacy of the twentieth century, in an art form that is distinctively American— jazz.


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Treatment of 14 intracranial aneurysms with the FRED system
- 1Department of Radiology, Methodist Neurological Institute, Houston, Texas, USA
- 2Department of Neurosurgery, Methodist Neurological Institute, Houston, Texas, USA
- 3Vascular Neurosurgery, Madre Bernarda Hospital, Cartagena, Colombia
- 4Interventional Neuroradiology, Madre Bernarda Hospital, Cartagena, Colombia
- Correspondence to Orlando Diaz, Department of Radiology Houston Methodist Hospital 6565 Fannin M-204 Houston, Texas 77030, USA; tlgist{at}houstonmethodist.org
- Received 3 August 2013
- Revised 2 September 2013
- Accepted 3 September 2013
- Published Online First 23 September 2013
Background Endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms via flow diversion has become increasingly popular over the past several years. The flow redirection endoluminal device (FRED; Microvention, Tustin, California, USA) system is a next generation closed cell paired stent flow diversion device.
Objective Our initial clinical experience with the FRED system is described. We believe this series to be the first use of the FRED system in the western hemisphere.
Methods 14 aneurysms were treated utilizing the FRED system in 13 patients. Post-deployment angiography and fluoro CTs were obtained in all cases.
Results Immediate post-treatment angiography demonstrated reduced flow into all aneurysms although no long term angiographic data are yet available. The device proved technically easy to deploy and recapture after partial deployment if needed. No complications, technical or otherwise, were encountered. Radiographic visibility and ability to maintain its internal cylindrical shape in tortuous arteries, as demonstrated by fluoro CT, was at least as good as the pipeline embolization device.
Conclusions The FRED system was technically easy to deploy with no procedural complications occurring in this first reported series of 14 aneurysms. The ability of the FRED system to be recaptured after partial deployment and to maintain its internal shape in tortuous vessels was demonstrated well. Long term clinical and angiographic follow-up along with prospective studies are now needed to ascertain the role of the FRED in intracranial aneurysm treatment.