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Dodd, Cancer and Health Care "Reform" – Be Careful What You Wish For
First let me wish Sen. Chris Dodd a full recovery from the prostate surgery he will undergo soon to remove the cancer he's been found to have.
But with all things personal, politicians try to turn them into "teachable moments" that support what they're trying to do. And Dodd is no exception.
"I wanted to let you know that I've been diagnosed with an early stage of prostate cancer," Dodd wrote. "Luckily, a routine test allowed my doctor to catch it at a very early stage, and my prognosis is excellent – we expect a full and speedy recovery. I want to assure you that I am feeling fine."
"After the Senate adjourns at the end of next week, I'll have surgery to remove the cancer," Dodd wrote. "After a week or two of recuperation, I expect to be right back to work. After all, as a member of Congress, I have great health insurance. I was able to get screened, seek the opinions of highly skilled doctors, consider all the available options, and choose the treatment that was right for me."
He added, in a reference to his current work to pass healthcare legislation, "I know you'll agree that every American deserves the same ability. We have healthcare legislation to pass – and an election to win. And I can't thank you enough for your support."
The implication, of course, is that without universal health care or universal health insurance, detection and survival rates must be lower than they could be.
But a quick check of systems with universal care and insurance doesn't at all back up the implication:
Survival was significantly higher in the United States for all solid tumors, except testicular, stomach, and soft-tissue cancer, the authors report. The greatest differences were seen in the major cancer sites: colon and rectum (56.2% in Europe vs 65.5% in the United States), breast (79.0% vs 90.1%), and prostate cancer (77.5% vs 99.3%), and this "probably represents differences in the timeliness of diagnosis," they comment. That in turn stems from the more intensive screening for cancer carried out in the United States, where a reported 70% of women aged 50 to 70 years have undergone a mammogram in the past 2 years, one-third of people have had sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy in the past 5 years, and more than 80% of men aged 65 years or more have had a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. In fact, it is this PSA testing that probably accounts for the very high survival from prostate cancer seen in the United States, the authors comment.
99.3% survival rate on prostate cancer in the US vs. 77.5% among the "universals". How can that be, given Dodd's indication that he's just among the lucky ones? How in the world can the US, with such a badly broken system manage to save all but 0.7% of the prostate cancer patients, while the exemplar of universal care – Europe – loses 22.5% of theirs?
The PSA? It is a blood test. It is a test routinely run in the US when people have bloodwork done. And look at the testing for breast and colon cancer – isn't that "preventive medicine"? So why aren't the Europeans running all of these tests?
Good question. My guess would be cost. Here's the result:
The age-adjusted 5-year survival rates for all cancers combined [Europe] was 47.3% for men and 55.8% for women, which is significantly lower than the estimates of 66.3% for men and 62.9% for women from the US Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program ( P < .001).
The point? Don't buy into this "the system is broken" rhetoric in which politicians claim to have a better way of providing health care. My guess is a significant portion of Europeans diagnosed with various cancers would much rather be treated here than there.
[HT: Carly B.]
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At 65, there are a lot of countries where Dodd wouldn't even be allowed to have the surgery, since he'd be considered too old, and the surgery would go to someone younger.
And I like how a 47.3% survival rate is "just slightly lower than" a 66.3% rate.
He needs 'End of Life Counseling' and pain killers. Just like he wants for the peasants.
Interesting that no mention is made of which European nations are compared with, and which people – does it include ALL Americans, or just those with insurance, or just those with insurance for that particular condition, or is it a straight comparison of people actually diagnosed then successfully treated ?
Why just wonder about it? Have you heard of this innovation called Google? Or there's a new alternative called Bing. They're quite amazing really. You can go look stuff up, and then come back here with some counter-evidence to support your point.
If there is any, of course.
Dodd is an older man. There's no real reason to waste valuable resources on him.
Mr. Dodd, please do the younger generations a service and forego treatment and die, just like you want regular Americans to do under your plan.
Get to the death chamber, one-nut.
Dodds medical insurance is paid for with money stolen from the citizenry, and he wants the same thing for the citizenry.
Thieves love company I suppose.
I'd like to see Dodd swinging from a lamp post on Pennsylvania Av ala' Mussolini……death to tyrants!
McQ – "Don't buy into this 'the system is broken' rhetoric in which politicians claim to have a better way of providing health care. My guess is a significant portion of Europeans diagnosed with various cancers would much rather be treated here than there."
"Providing health care" is, I think, NOT the real goal of this sorry exercize. Rather, it is designed to:
1. Provide an ILLUSION of improved health care, mostly through giving (forcing?) coverage to people who neither want or need it;
2. Provide yet another vehicle for taking money from the citizens to give to Washington politicians to spend as THEY see fit;
3. Provide more control over the people;
4. Drag everybody down to the same level of mediocrity in the interest of "fairness". As I've often said, you could line liberals up against a wall and shoot them, and they'd go with a smile on their faces so long as they could look down in the mud and see that some "rich b*stard" went first;
5. Provide politicians with a great cause to justify their existence, bloated staffs, and the general worship they get from the chattering classes. Let's face it: if not for the "banking crisis" and the "mortgage crisis" and the "health care crisis", trash like Dodd would be ignored… or in jail.
"After all, as a member of Congress, I have great health insurance. I was able to get screened, seek the opinions of highly skilled doctors, consider all the available options, and choose the treatment that was right for me."
"He added, in a reference to his current work to pass healthcare legislation, "I know you'll agree that every American deserves the same ability. We have healthcare legislation to pass…."
This guy is so full of crap. Providing that level of coverage for five hundred forty people is a lot easier than it is to provide it for three hundred million individuals.
"After all, as a member of Congress, I have great health insurance. I was able to get screened, seek the opinions of highly skilled doctors, consider all the available options, and choose the treatment that was right for me."
"He added, in a reference to his current work to pass healthcare legislation, "I know you'll agree that every American deserves the same ability. We have healthcare legislation to pass….
So why isn't the legislation to give us ALL the same magic treatment as he gets?
I have two words for Dodd: Renew! Renew!
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"The co-ops remind us all of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac," he [John McCain] told anchor John King. "And so I have not seen a public option that, in my view, meets the test of what would really not eventually lead to a government take over."
Fact Check Health care Check Again!
Look these up if you can get a copy of the bill They're rushing thru
Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services
Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.
Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU,UAW and ACORN)
Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No "judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.
Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.
Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll
Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll
Page 167: Any individual who doesn't' have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.
Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).
Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.
Page 203: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax." Yes, it really says that.
Page 24 1: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you'll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)
Page 253: Government sets value of doctors' time, their professional judgment, etc.
Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on "community" input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals
Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia
Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.
Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient's health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.
Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.
Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.
Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services
After all, as a member of Congress, I have great health insurance. I was able to get screened, seek the opinions of highly skilled doctors, consider all the available options, and choose the treatment that was right for me.
Wait a second. So far, every congressman that has been asked if he would give up his health insurance and enroll in the government plan being implemented in Obamacare has hemmed and hawed, or just admitted that no, they wouldn't. So how can Dodd claim that under Obamacare, we'd be getting the same care and options that he got under PrivilegedCare?
just curious, I don't doubt the stats in the above blog…but can you source some of teh other data points. I know you sourced some of it from US Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results but where we the rest sourced from?
I can say this unequivocally – I just got done battling cancer. I left my home state because the care is sub par and I went to MD Anderson in Houston. The top cancer center on the planet …bar none. And guess what nationalities, and demographics I met there as fellow patients? Nationalities? – French, Spanish (from spain), Portugeuse, German, Norweigan,English, Jamaican, South African, Australian, Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Etheopian, Suadi's, Kuwaiti's, and a boatload of Americans from other cities and states. And demographics…from the poorest of the dirt poor Americans on medicare and medicaid, to the royalty or high level government officials of Europe and the middle east. Literally, the healthcare available to impoverished Americans is better then the care available for the welthy and diplomts in Europe (that's why if Europeans can afford it they leave their own miserable system and come here to be treated).
Because the truth is, everyone can whine about the quality of American healthcare, but when teh rest of teh socialized medicien world gets really sick? They do whatever they can to get to MD Anderson in Houston. I kid you not, there is an entire healthcare tourism industry surrpunding the Texas Medical Center hospital complex (Easily, The largest most comprehensive health center in the world). And entire hotel/motel/apartment industry had built up around the place just to supply people from around the world enough rooms to stay in while they or their family are being treated.
The rest of the world comes here for their healthcare – there's a reason.


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10 things we learned about the American Athletic Conference after four weeks:
- SEPARATION HAS BEGUN: Almost half way through league play, the AAC is splitting in two directions. The top five schools all on multi-game winning streaks and the bottom five are on multi-game losing skids.
- KEEP ON TRUCKIN': Cincinnati is off to its best 21-game stretch (19-2) since the 2001-02 season when it finished 31-4 under Bob Huggins and went to the Round of 32 in the NCAAs.
- DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS: Rutgers became the second school (UConn) to find out how tough a Texas two-step can be, dropping road games to Houston and SMU. Due to scheduling, only one other school has to try it, and that will be Temple next month.
- SOUND OF SILENCE: UConn guard Shabazz Napier has pulled of some amazing moments this season, but quieting a sold-out crowd at the RAC in the second half Saturday night ranks up there. Napier scored 20 of his 26 points after the break in a full gym that at times was so silent you could hear coach Kevin Ollie talking to his assistants from halfway up in the stands.
- TEMPLE'S TROUBLES: OK, the Owls entered the season short-handed with just 10 players and have battled injuries, but here's the troubling sign with Fran Dunphy's group – they don't defense (76.4 ppg, last in AAC).
- STAND AND DELIVER: SMU and UConn have garnered votes in the polls, but beating up the Rutgers of the league won't get them in. They need a statement win. The Mustangs can try it against Memphis while UConn hits Cincy next week.
- FUNNY MAN: Memphis coach Josh Pastner not only knows how to win games, but work a room. He opened a press conference congratulating the Tigers' beat guy on the birth of his son and also informed the media his wife's birthday gift this year was the two wins Memphis picked up last week.
- SHARP SHOOTER: Louisville's Russ Smith is shooting 3-pointers (.613) better than anyone is from the field (Louisville's Montrezl Harrell .597) in AAC play. Smith has made 19 of 31 attempts in seven games.
- HARD TIMES: The schedule makers didn't UCF any favors with a stretch that started last week with SMU and at Cincinnati, but now shifts to Memphis and at Louisville. The Knights have dropped four straight.
- ANKLE WOES: The Bearcats and Huskies each had key players go down with sprained ankles over the weekend. Justin Jackson played only eight minutes against Temple due to his injury, while DeAndre Daniels left and returned in the second half against Rutgers despite suffering a high ankle sprain.
Cincinnati at Louisville, 7 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday – AAC's top defense visits the top offense in a perfect game to showcase the league's best teams in prime time. The Bearcats hold a 1.5 game lead over Louisville for first place.

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18 August 2007
A: It is the third film in a series telling of the unlikely pairing of LAPD detective James Carter and Hong Kong inspector Lee.
Q: Who plays Detective Carter?
A: Chris Tucker.
Q:What is the manner of Chris Tucker's acting style in terms of his recitation of dialogue, his physical movement, and his nonverbal expression of emotion?
A: Loud and spastic.
Q: What does Rush Hour 3 prove about $25 million?
A: It proves that $25 million does not buy a good, or even bearable performance.
Q: And who plays Inspector Lee?
A: Jackie Chan.
Q: What is the manner of Jackie Chan's acting style?
A: A combination of poorly-enunciated English and comic martial arts.
Q: Is the poorly-enunciated English meant to be comic?
A: Yes.
Q: Is it comic?
A: No.
Q: Are Chan's comic martial arts skills as virtuosic as they have been elsewhere in his career?
A: No.
Q: Why?
A: Chan is now over 50 years old, and he is no longer capable of performing such elaborate and dangerous stunts as he once did.
Q: Are there other reasons?
A: The director is awful.
Q: Who is the director?
A: Brett Ratner?
Q: Why is he awful?
A: I don't know. I assume because he is in film only for the money, and not for the love of the art.
Q: No, what about him is awful?
A: He uses a consistent style that tends to make the action sequences less interesting, by reducing them to short takes which almost all use the same medium-length shots that do not give us a good sense of the physical location of the fight, or of the fighters' relationships to each other, and the frequent cutting tends to make the fights seem much choppier and less fluid. The overall effect is of something being made for television, not the cinema.
Q: What are the other awful things that he does?
A: He uses jokey musical cues frequently. He uses jokey reaction shots frequently. He permits Chris Tucker to ad-lib unfunny jokes.
Q: What is the plot of Rush Hour 3?
A: Immaterial.
Q: Is it well-plotted?
A: It is not well-plotted. It brings the two characters together in a contrived way, sets them on a series of arbitrary events that only occur because they are necessary to advance the story, and it ends abruptly, without resolving most of its central tensions.
Q: Is it otherwise well-written?
A: It is not otherwise well-written. It is casually racist and the dialogue is all completely artificial.
Q: Are there any entertaining action setpieces?
A: No, there are very few setpieces and they are not entertaining.
Q: Oh, right, because of Brett Ratner.
A: That's right.
Q: What normally fine actors are in this film whose presence can be explained only by their desire for a paycheck, and who therefore embarrass themselves completely?
A: Philip Baker Hall, Max von Sydow and Roman Polanski.
Q: Is Philip Baker Hall credited?
A: No.
Q: Good for him. Who does he play?
A: The LAPD police captain that he also played in Rush Hour.
Q: Who does Max von Sydow play?
A: The villain.
Q: Is that meant to be a twist?
A: Yes.
Q: Is it a twist?
A: No.
Q: Why?
A: Because he is Max von Sydow.
Q: Is Roman Polanski actually an actor?
A: Well, he is acting here.
Q: Who does he play?
A: A French police detective.
Q: Does he embarrass himself the most of anyone?
A: Yes.
Q: What does he do that is so embarrassing?
A: The first of this two scenes ends with the implication that he is going to stick his finger up Chris Tucker's ass.
Q: Christ.
A: No kidding.
Q: Is it possible that this is the worst major release of the summer?
A: It is surely possible.
Q: Is it easily the worst major release of the summer?
A: Summer ain't over yet.
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Hilarious review, Tim. Nothing like an awful movie to bring out the best writing in a blogger.
I have yet to hear from anyone who liked Rush Hour 3. I didn't realize Jackie Chan was 50 years old already. Combine that with the fact that Chris Tucker didn't even want to do this and it explains a lot.
- Jack said...
you know it's a good summer when four movies get labeled crimes against art. Last summer there were only two!
*cough* get this in development *cough*
- Ellen said...
If you want to read something truly egregious, enjoy this long, ass-kissing Ratner profile that ran in LA Weekly.
Truly, it made me want to vomit repeatedly. Not unlike most of Ratner's movies. Friend of mine briefly worked for him and he's every bit as much a douchebag as you'd imagine him to be.
- Rebecca said...
My favorite question is "Oh, right, because of Brett Ratner."


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Typical factless cartoon from the halfwits on the Right. A little research shows Federal spending has been flat for the past 4 years. And a little more shows revenue has been increasing, so the deficit is decreasing. What we need is a little intelligence and get to work on reducing the national debt.
And if one does not quit borrowing money to pay interest on the money already borrowed, AND if one does nothing to limit the amount you spend, how do you propose to reduce the debt?
Is it "intelligent" then to ignore the mounting debt and continue spending more than you make?
And while I agree with closing loopholes in the tax code, shoot total reform into a fair tax would work for me where NO ONE gets ANY deductions other than the STANDARD ones, raising revenue will not fix the problem. What happened to the first tax increase? It was spent on an "emergency" spending bill over and above the budget. And if you are of the opinion that spending is not the problem then why would I give you the power to borrow more?
pay me now or pay me later.
Deficits have been CUT IN HALF since Bush left office, and 2013 is projected to be lower than 2012 (which was lower than 2011). What a dumb cartoon. Deficits are not nearly the problem that joblessness is. And now the GOP is refusing to propose a way to avoid the sequester. Latest estimate is over one million jobs lost. How much do they think they have to punish Americans before they'll start voting Republican?
OH NO you DIDn't. Deficits have been cut in half. UH-HUH.
let's see. Obama said that Bush's spending deficit of 500 billion in his first campaign was "unpatriotic". Do you feel the same way?
And yes. Obama promised to cut the "deficit" in half if he were elected.
Now how did he do? I went here to compare and feel free to find another numbers place that will dispute my observations. I WILL be interested to see it.
One chart presented the information this way:
by fiscal year:
2011-2012 Obama 1.224 trillion
2010-2011 Obama 1.228 trillion
2009-2010 Obama 1.651 trillion
2008-2009 Bush/Obama 1.885 trillion
2007-2008 Bush 1.017 trillion
2006-2007 Bush 500 billion
2005-2006 Bush 574 billion
2004-2005 Bush 553 billion
2003-2004 Bush 595 billion
2002-2003 Bush 554 billion
2001-2002 Bush 420 billion
2000-2001 Clinton/Bush 133 billion
So what I see is a "trend" for a steady increase in the deficit. Yes, it varies from year to year. Oscillates if you will a small percentage. Over all the trend is up and by all means tell me how these figures equate to Obama "cutting the deficit" in half. Even if you use the combined deficit that you say is all bush's responsibility he failed. His deficit would have had to be 600 billion or less each year. At the risk of offending some and possibly you, and reminding you that some questions are rhetorical and are simply not meant to suggest any defect in your person, I must ask. Are you really this dense?
OH and the other thing about jobs lost. I thought Obama had job growth every year and had "saved or created" millions on millions of jobs and the economy is booming so why are you concerned about jobs?
Actually, the polls show that the majority of Americans are NOT with "Stupid." They're just held hostage by the fact that Stupid has enough people in the Senate and House to prevent the legislation most Americans want. And enough hack cartoonists willing to put their brains on "hold" and churn out party-line cartoons.
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Father of Sociobiology
Deciding when you reach the point of diminishing return in one direction and you really ought to be picking up your gear and moving over to another sector on the advancing front. So I have, in a sense, been an opportunist. The one common thread in my scientific career has been the devotion to one group of organisms, the ants, which I set out to learn thoroughly for the pleasure of it, but also developed for the richness of new material and opportunities for discovery that they could provide. Given that as a kind of anchor, and given evolution as a grand organizing theme for developing research programs, I began with the relatively simple program, actually in my teens, of studying ants and their classification and a little bit of the natural history. View Interview with E.O. WilsonView Biography of E.O. WilsonView Profile of E.O. WilsonView Photo Gallery of E.O. Wilson
I am by nature a lateral thinker and an imperialist. I'll admit it. That is to say that if something is working at one level or one area, I like to say, "Well, maybe it will work at a broader area or across a larger span of time or biological organization." So (I was) encouraged by that success, it's true, and it was very successful. It really had an impact on ecology, and also on the study of biodiversity, and ultimately on conservation biology, because obviously, the processes of immigration of new species and extinction of resident species is fundamental in understanding the preservation of biodiversity in reserves and in the world generally. View Interview with E.O. WilsonView Biography of E.O. WilsonView Profile of E.O. WilsonView Photo Gallery of E.O. Wilson
Edward O. Wilson: Interesting question. I would have written it differently. I think I would have written a much longer chapter, and of course, I would have been ignorant of so many things we know today in terms of how biology and culture might interact. I didn't start studying that until about four years afterwards anyway, myself, but I certainly would have taken a very cautious tone, and I would have put in a lot about the political dangers on both sides. I would have tried to bulletproof myself from the left, and at the same time, I would have made concessions to the left about the high risk of misuse of any kind of biology on the right. I think that would have defused a lot of it, but I think there would have been a strong controversy. There wouldn't have been the one coming from my colleagues here quite as strong anyway, because that would have disarmed them. View Interview with E.O. WilsonView Biography of E.O. WilsonView Profile of E.O. WilsonView Photo Gallery of E.O. Wilson
You know, I was a loner, a solitaire, so this is the perfect sport for that. Those were very romantic days in which no one knew what the human limit was. No one knew what individual limits were. That still was the case when I became a jogger -- before the big running craze in the '60s -- and had one more go at it, trying for master's running, and discovered that my limitation that I found in myself at the college age was still there, adjusted for age, almost mathematically predictable what it would be when I would reach my maximum ability, which I think I did. So I did not become Roger Bannister. He beat me to it, and if I had been given the opportunity for a thousand years, I never would have made it. View Interview with E.O. WilsonView Biography of E.O. WilsonView Profile of E.O. WilsonView Photo Gallery of E.O. Wilson
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I was the only Negro in a pageant of all red-haired girls and it's the "Miss Fire Prevention" contest. So the Lord knows, I'm not going to win. So I was very relaxed about it. I thought, "Well, I got a new gown, and this is great." So when it came time for the question and answer period, they asked, "What would you do if you had a million dollars?" And one girl said, "If I had a million dollars, I'd buy my mama a Frigidaire and my dad a truck." Someone else said if they had a million dollars they'd buy their brother Bubba a motorcycle because, "He's always wanted one," or they'd give it to the poor. And I said, all totally relaxed because I'm not going to win anyway, "If I had a million dollars, I would be a spendin' fool. I'm not quite sure what I would spend it on, but I would spend, spend, spend. Spendin' fool." Well, I ended up winning. And there was another question about what I would like to do with my life, my career. Well, everybody wanted to be a nurse, or a teacher, and I made this big speech about broadcast journalism -- mainly because I had seen Barbara Walters that morning on The Today Show. So I thought, "Well, what can I be? I can't be a nurse, can't be a teacher because that's what they were." So I said I wanted to be a broadcast journalist because I believed in the truth. I was interested in proclaiming the truth to the world and all. And I won the contest. Well what a shocked Negro, me. View Interview with Oprah WinfreyView Biography of Oprah WinfreyView Profile of Oprah WinfreyView Photo Gallery of Oprah Winfrey
I was working in Nashville, and so I moved to Baltimore, and I thought "Well, I'll do this for a while, and then I don't know what I'll do." So when I was called in and put on the edge of being fired and certainly demoted and knew that firing was only a couple weeks away. I was devastated. I was 22 and embarrassed by the whole thing because I had never failed before. And it was that failure that led to the talk show. Because they had no place else to put me, they put me on a talk show in the morning. And I'm telling you, the hour I interviewed -- my very first interview was the Carvel Ice Cream Man, and Benny from "All My Children" -- I'll never forget it. I came off the air, thinking, "This is what I should have been doing." Because it was like breathing to me, like breathing. You just talk. "Be yourself" is really what I had learned to do. View Interview with Oprah WinfreyView Biography of Oprah WinfreyView Profile of Oprah WinfreyView Photo Gallery of Oprah Winfrey
Recently, someone criticized us for airing a show on mothers who had gone through postpartum depression and had killed their children. They were saying that the show should not have aired in the afternoon because of other children watching. I absolutely agree with that. That's a very valid point. We should have considered that. That's one of the things I did not think about. I'm thinking that I'm going to help all these mothers who are going through this, but that person was absolutely right. So if the criticism is valid and comes from a point of view of being well thought out, and not just to attack, I accept it. I accept it and I usually get better as a result of it. Critics have actually helped me to get better. View Interview with Oprah WinfreyView Biography of Oprah WinfreyView Profile of Oprah WinfreyView Photo Gallery of Oprah Winfrey
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So I managed to get into that program at Yale, which turned out to be a terrific choice for somebody who wants to write. A bad choice if you want to -- as I was going to do -- be a teacher, because there are not that many American Studies departments. And a lot of the people who graduate from that program would end up at the bottom of the heap in somebody's history department or English department. But, it's absolutely great for writers. I discovered sociology there, which was like a light bulb going on over my head. Like most liberal arts students, I'd always looked down my nose at sociology as this kind of bogus science. When I finally had to deal with it in graduate school, I quickly came to the conclusion, which I maintain to this day, that it is, in fact, the queen of the sciences. I won't get into this, but biology, in my mind, is a subset of sociology, not the other way around. View Interview with Tom WolfeView Biography of Tom WolfeView Profile of Tom WolfeView Photo Gallery of Tom Wolfe
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State Water Resources Research Institute Program
Project ID: 2012MN314B
Title: Tracing nutrient sources at the land-water interface in urban environments
Project Type: Research
Start Date: 2/ 1/2012
End Date: 10/31/2013
Congressional District: 4th
Focus Categories: Water Quality, Hydrogeochemistry, Management and Planning
Keywords: eutrophication, storm water, urban ecosystems, phosphorus, nitrogen
Principal Investigators: Finlay, Jacques C. (Univerity of Minnesota); Hobbie, Sarah
Federal Funds: $ 29,742
Non-Federal Matching Funds: $ 56,737
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Reconfiguration of IIR filters in response to computer resource availability.
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A truly two-dimensional systolic array FPGA implementation of QR decomposition.
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Application development with the FlexWAFE real-time stream processing architecture for FPGAs.
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An approximation algorithm for scheduling on heterogeneous reconfigurable resources.
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Slotless module-based reconfiguration of embedded FPGAs.
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A packet-switched network architecture for reconfigurable computing.
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Growing evidence points to a connection between Alzheimer's disease and poor blood flow to the brain. Signs that a stroke has occurred are often found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. Meanwhile, there is evidence that stroke and Alzheimer's disease share similar risk factors, including high blood pressure and atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).
A new study strengthens this connection by showing that beta-amyloid – the protein fragment that plays a defining role in Alzheimer's – can stimulate the formation of resilient blood clots. The study also found that an anti-clotting drug (anticoagulant) had beneficial effects in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.
Although used in select patients at risk for stroke, anticoagulants carry a risk of hemorrhage and are not considered an option for treating Alzheimer's disease. But further research to identify how beta-amyloid stimulates blood clotting could lead to the development of more specific drugs that do not interfere with normal clotting, says Sidney Strickland, Ph.D., the study's senior author and head of the laboratory of neurobiology and genetics at the Rockefeller University in New York City.
The study, published in Neuron* and funded in part by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, represents an evolving view of Alzheimer's disease and the effects of beta-amyloid. Beta-amyloid accumulates in the brain tissue of people with Alzheimer's and has a toxic effect on brain cells. Efforts to sweep beta-amyloid plaques out of the brain have been a major focus of therapy development.
However, beta-amyloid also accumulates in the blood vessels that feed the brain, a condition known as cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). These beta-amyloid deposits appear to gradually cut off the brain's blood supply, adding to the damage caused by beta-amyloid in the brain. But exactly how beta-amyloid causes a reduction in blood flow is unclear. Dr. Strickland's team is among the first to investigate this question.
Their research points to an interaction between beta-amyloid and fibrin, a protein that forms a mesh-like structure at the core of blood clots. The team found that beta-amyloid alters the structure of this fibrin mesh, making it resistant to clot-busting enzymes in the blood. They also found that fibrin accumulates in blood vessels at the same sites as beta-amyloid. This was true in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease carrying a rare mutation that is associated with the disease in humans, and in postmortem tissue from Alzheimer's patients.
To further investigate how beta-amyloid affects blood clotting, the researchers monitored cerebral blood flow in normal and transgenic mice by live imaging. They found that the transgenic mice were more prone to develop blood clots when they were exposed to damaging chemicals or to a laser beam precisely aimed at their blood vessels.
Finally, the team tested the effects of depleting fibrinogen (the precursor of fibrin) – and thus reducing the tendency to form blood clots – in the transgenic mice. In one set of experiments, they depleted fibrinogen genetically and in another, they gave the mice a month-long infusion of ancrod, a potent anticoagulant that works by inactivating fibrinogen. Both experiments reduced signs of CAA in the mice and improved their performance on spatial memory tests.
It is not yet clear if beta-amyloid and fibrinogen/fibrin interact directly, or indirectly via other proteins. Dr. Strickland and his team hope that by dissecting the interaction, they will be able to develop drugs that are capable of safely improving cerebral blood flow and staving off dementia in Alzheimer's disease.
- By Daniel Stimson, Ph.D.
*Cortes-Canteli M, Paul J et al. Fibrinogen and beta-Amyloid association alters thrombosis and fibrinolysis: A possible contributing factor to Alzheimer's disease. Neuron, 10 June 2010, Vol. 66 (5), pp. 695-709.
Rings of beta-amyloid (red) collect along the inner walls of blood vessels in a transgenic Alzheimer's disease mouse. The blood inside the vessels is labeled with a green fluorescent probe. Image courtesy of Neuron.
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I'm a Pepper!
Furst a Yummer! Then a Bummer...April 22nd 2011 3:57 pm
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I gotta go to the office with Ma today! Yay, I like goin' along! Anyhowls, we had important business to do! Hadta walk to the bank to deposit sum checks. Nuthin eventful on the way over. After makin' the deposit Ma threw my ball fur me a bit at the little park behind the bank. As usual I had lotsa fun with that.
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Laughing... alot......
NEVER EVER would I have spit out a 'chiggen drumstick! I's have rather choked trying to swallow it down whole! What was you thinking Pepper?!
You have amazing self-control! That was a very good girl to spit out that yummy drumstick!
LOL oh poor Pepper...but good job listening to your Momma!
Flicka, glad you had a laugh at my expense. Grrrr...
Ebby, I know, I know! I shoulda made her grab it outta my mouth!
Tux, it was not self control! It was Ma's mind control!
Thanks Fizzy! But now sum other pup is gonna eat MY lucky drumstick!
I agree! What a bummer!
The other day, growlmy dropped a big hunk of well buttered bread...and before she could blink, I had it in my jaws! She told me to drop it, tried to block me with her knee, and so on...but it was all mine! Mmmm!
I guess if it had been that drumstick she would have had a kind of handle to get it from out of my jaws...but this was made to fit mine...
I have selective deafness/disobedience...But if growlmy had realized that she was dropping that bread, she would have told me to leave it before it hit the floor...and more than likely then I would have not grabbed it!
Evfurryone thinks I am such a model pup...Hee-hee! I know better! BOL!
Wow Pepper momma thinks you are a great pup with all your minding your momma and stuff but i think you are setting a bad example for us pups...now momma thinks I should listen.BOLBOL Sorry, I would of gobbled down the chicken!
Woof Woof, Molly
MrJack, I'm glad fur ya that ya got that bread! That's one fur us dogs!
Hi Molly! I wish I woulda at least tried to gobble it down! But once I let go I got pulled away from it so fast!
Never spit out chicken Pepper! Just never!!
Da mama's is sneaky! Kinda hard NOT to listen to da mama. Poor Pepper, but youse a good girl.
I think your Mom wanted that chiggen drumstick for herself! That's what I think!
Darn!! That automatic reaction strikes again... sneaky mommas...
Whitley, I know, I know! Howlz!
Ooo, Ceeley! You might be onto sumptin there! I've seen her eating chicken befur, just never off the street!
Hey Lil Bear and Finley, yes, those sneaky, mind controlling mamas can be soooo annoyin'!
Pepper - CGC
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- This recipe is a bit of a cheat, really, because we are using three different types of fig: dried figs, some that have been made into jam and the fresh ones.
- Cut these fresh figs into small pieces. Now you can peel them if you like, but I never do.
- And because the chutney will go with all sorts of terrines, patés and cold meats, you can add your own spice mix.
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PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.-Safavieh has launched a series of product and lifestyle catalogs as part of its strategy to redesign its print and marketing efforts.
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The Holy Spirit is the Trinity's own 'breath of freedom'
In theological study, it's easy to get a little dizzy with "ologies." There's Christology, the subject of which is obvious to even the greenest layman. There's ecclesiology, the study of the structure of the church. There's Christian anthropology, the study of humans as created in the image and likeness of God.
Last but not least there's pneumatology, from the Greek word for breath, which is the study of the Holy Spirit.
It's a fitting name, considering that several scriptural passages, like Genesis 2:7, use the image of God's breath to depict the spirit.
Last but not least because, as most ministers will admit, our theology of the Holy Spirit is rather weak.
Christians tend to have highly developed theologies of the father and son, perhaps because they're human-centered images, and it seems rather easy to marshal scripture in support.
For example, the opening of the Gospel of John tells us that Jesus, the eternal word of God, pre-existed from all time with the father. Using Greek philosophical concepts, early theologians of the church expressed that as "homoousios," or one-in-being-with the father.
Pretty technical stuff.
The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, tends to be the explanation, or personification, we give whenever the father or son isn't immediately recognizable as the doer of the action.
Thus we get the amorphous yet rather beautiful depiction of the spirit as God's invisible, ubiquitous breath.
One professor has referred to the Holy Spirit as the Mrs. Rochester of the Trinity, referring to the mad wife of the male lead in the novel Jane Eyre. Throughout most of the novel she's locked in the attic and largely ignored.
Tomorrow churches in the Western liturgical traditions celebrate Pentecost, the event, related in Acts 2, when the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus' followers after his resurrection.
In the Bible, Pentecost is kind of a rock and roll event. Tongues of fire descend from the sky. There's all sorts of ecstatic behavior, speaking in tongues and whatnot. It's indicative of the worship of some contemporary Christians, most notably Pentecostals.
The descent of the Spirit is unscripted and freewheeling, perhaps even a little dangerous. The apostles are emboldened to come out from hiding and run amok.
Maybe it's fitting that pneumatology is an underdeveloped discipline. It seems counterintuitive that the most exciting and unpredictable person of the Trinity should be pinned down and systematically explained.
Perhaps the most inspiring passage of scripture that speaks of the Spirit associates it with escape from bondage, with newness and abundance of life.
Second Corinthians 17 says, "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." What a nice thought for Pentecost.


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- Title
- Design research journal ranking study: preliminary results
- Author(s)
- Friedman, Ken; Barron, Deirdre; Ferlazzo, Silvana; Ivanka, Tania; Melles, Gavin; Yuille, Jeremy
- Abstract
- Australian universities recently received a list of journals from the Australian Research Council (ARC). This list was the proposed set of journal rankings for the new Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative. This list includes journals for design and design research. Few design research journals appear on the list, and moist of those few have low rankings. The ERA journal-ranking proposal is intended to cover all appropriate journals across all fields. Journal rankings for any specific field should represent an appropriate distribution of journals for that field. Journals are described as A* journals representing the top 5% of journals in a field, A journals representing the next 15%, B journals representing the next 20%, and C journals for all the rest. The political and financial importance of the ranking system is one aspect of the new government's move from the former Research Quality Framework (RQF) to the new metric assessment system developed for the ERA. We identified several problems in reviewing the proposed list. Some problems affect the field of design and design research. Other problems affect all sectors. To examine some of these problems, we will refer to the results of our study. We therefore outline our study before going further. To identify appropriate journals for the design sector, we conducted a worldwide study by inviting leading scholars in design and design research to list leading journals in the field. Our next study will use several comparative methods to measure the validity of this first study and to draw on a larger sample with more definitive results. We hope to develop a more fine-grained analysis to answer questions we do not address here. We are completing this study in the time required to meet ARC response deadlines. This the first study of its kind in the field, based on a large and reliable sample. The titles are well known. The reputations, impact factors, and index standing of the top journals supports our results. Based on responses to the survey, the journals that we will recommend for the levels designated A*, A, and B follow.
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- Report
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Design
- Publication year
- 2008
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- ARC; Australia; Australian Research Council; Bibliometrics; Colleges; Criticism; Design research; ERA; Excellence in Research for Australia; Journal rankings; Rankings; Research assessment exercises; Research impact; Research quality; Scholarly journals; Scholarly publishing; Surveys; Universities
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- Faculty of Design, Swinburne University of Technology
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- Copyright © 2008 Ken Friedman, Deirdre Barron, Silvana Ferlazzo, Tania Ivanka, Gavin Melles and Jeremy Yuille..
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- This report is discussed extensively in: Cross, N. (2009). Editorial. Design Studies, 30(1), 1-3. See: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2008.11.002.
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'Canes rout Panthers after fast start
In the midst of tight division race and the Olympic break a day away, Carolina dominated from start to finish in a 5-1 win over Florida.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Carolina Hurricanes (26-21-9) have just one game left before the Olympic break, and the sense of urgency showed in a 5-1 dominating win over the Florida Panthers (22-29-7).
"That was actually the game plan was to come out, just stay on them, get pucks behind them, get shots to the net, keep getting our chances and wear them out," defenseman Brett Bellemore said.
The Hurricanes took a 2-0 lead in the first 10:44 of the game and never looked back, rolling their lines with ease throughout. And it's a good strategy -- they are 16-1-4 this season when scoring first. Too often, it's been a bad omen when even a lesser opponent has come on to the ice at PNC Arena and gotten a quick goal. That didn't happen, and the Hurricanes were completely focused.
That focus is necessary, though. The Hurricanes are now fifth in the Metropolitan Division, but every team from 3-7 is separated by just three points. And even the second-place team (the Rangers) is just six points ahead of the Hurricanes (and two other teams tied at 61 points).
"These are big games right now. If you look at the schedule and look at the standings over there," Bellemore said, pointing at a white board in the corner of the Hurricanes' locker room with the standings written on them, "it's pretty tight. So every win right now is pretty big."
Bellemore certainly played that way. He had just the second goal of his NHL career, but the highlight of the game for the fans certainly seems to be his five-minute fighting penalty he got for mixing it up with Florida's Erik Gudbranson.
"Lately I've been kind of trying to get back into playing mean, playing with an edge and maybe I'll mix it up a little bit. I'm happy with it and hopefully I can continue to do that," Bellemore said.
He was playfully critiqued on his fighting style afterwards -- he went to the body, a somewhat unorthodox NHL fighting style -- but he wasn't too worried about the aesthetics of it. "I was kind of in the position where I couldn't really reach high. It was there, so why not?" He grinned.
Bellemore didn't dress from January 18-28 -- missing seven games -- and the 25-year-old clearly got the message his head coach, Kirk Muller, was trying to send.
"I think for the young guys, it's always good sometimes to send a little message, and it's great to say how they respond," Muller said. "I think (Bellemore) realized that hey, you're as good as your last game. He has to play hard and compete. So he took it in stride.
"He wasn't happy about it, but when he got a chance to get back in, he was playing aggressive again. He got his big goal tonight. But it's his overall physical presence that I thought his been good since he's been back in the lineup."
His teammates feed off of that, too.
Goalie Anton Khudobin, who was the second star of the game for his 34 saves on 35 shots he faced, appreciated Bellemore's effort.
"His work ethic, it was at a really, really high level. I think he battles every game. That's what I can tell," Khudobin said. "He battled so hard today. He saved one goal in the third period and if they had scored that, you never know how the game would turn on. So he was really big for us tonight."
Khudobin was named the First Star for the month of January earlier this week, and he showed why at times against the Panthers, having to do a lot more work in goal than he perhaps anticipated as the defense left him out to dry a few times.
"He's unbelievable. The defense, we have a good trust in him if we miss up or it gets through somehow, that he's there to bail us out," Bellemore said.
The Hurricanes' longtime fixture in goal, Cam Ward, is back and healthy. So it remains to be seen if Khudobin will start in goal for the Hurricanes against the Canadiens in the final game before the Olympic break on Saturday, particularly since it's a back-to-back. And Muller wasn't telling. "We'll find out tomorrow," Muller said with a sly grin.
Khudobin is rolling, though, and it's going to be difficult to pull such a hot goalie when every point is so critical.
This is the place Khudobin has worked so hard throughout his career to be at, too.
"I was getting to this level I would say all my six years, I guess," Khudobin said. "I wanted to be that kind of guy, to get in this rhythm and just play and play and play. I think coaches trust me right now and are going to continue to trust me. It's going to be great. For goalies, it's always important to play a lot of games to feel comfortable."


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The delay was announced in an obscure parliamentary written answer by Home Office minister Lord Rooker who told parliament that the firearms database would go live "as soon as possible" following the upgrade.
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The database will provide a central register for people who have applied for, or been given, firearm or shotgun certificates.
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An unidentified worker is in serious condition Tuesday night after being shot in the head while laying carpet at the Pacific Terrace Apartments in Browne's Addition.
Police say there was a conflict between 28-year-old Justin Werle and the man, when Werle allegedly drew a gun and fired, hitting the man in the head.
According to reports that man was walking and talking when medical assistance arrived, and was transported to an area hospital.
Police set up a perimeter around the apartment complex which expanded after negotiators spoke with Werle's family and learned he may have been at a nearby home and not at the complex.
Eventually police located Werle near the home at 13th and Cedar. He was on foot and taken into custody without incident.
Detectives took Werle to the police department for questioning and will also interview the shooting victim.
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One year they're in, and the next they're out. Whether the major fashion trends of 2011 are here to stay or not, they definitely gave us something to talk about. Here's a look at some of the hottest and wackiest styles of the year...
Leopard Print: It was no doubt one of this year's hottest trends - from dresses to blouses, jackets to shoes and even maternity wear (we're talking to you, Jessica Simpson!).
Hats: The royal wedding put this accessory back in fashion. Just ask Sarah Jessica Parker.
Color Blocking: Plenty of A-List ladies hit the red carpet in contrasting hues.
Feather Extensions: Young Hollywood starlets such as Demi Lovato jumped on this bandwagon.
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How to Make Monkey Bread
Learning how to make monkey bread will give you an alternative to cinnamon rolls the next time you're looking for a home-baked breakfast. One of the identifying features of monkey bread--also referred to as sticky bread, African coffee cake and/or pinch-me cake--is that it's made up of segments that can be easily pulled apart by hand. When shaping the individual balls of dough, it's important that each one is relatively uniform in size. If some pieces are significantly larger, they will need more time to cook, and smaller pieces will dry out. Prior to assembling, be sure to grease the baking pan--it will allow the monkey bread to be easily removed. After cooling the bread for 10 minutes in the pan, turn it onto a wire rack to cool completely. This will allow for even cooling, as the air can circulate around the monkey bread.
-Hey everyone, I'm Judith. We'll today, we're making something that all of the kids love, that's right. We're making Cinnamon Monkey Bread. So what you will need for this is 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar; 1-1/2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon; 3-1/2 cups of biscuit mix; 1/2 cup of milk; and 1/3 cup of granulated sugar; 3 tablespoons of butter or margarine, softened; 1 teaspoon of vanilla; 1 egg; 2 tablespoons of butter or margarine, melted; half a cup of powdered sugar if desired; and 2 to 3 teaspoons of water if desired. So, preheated our oven to 335 degrees Fahrenheit. Now, in our low pan right here, we've greased the bottom and the sides with shortening. So, that's ready prepared. So, first of all, in a small little bowl, we're gonna make some cinnamon sugar. That's right, so in goes the cinnamon, very easily and in goes the smaller amount of sugar. We're just gonna stir that up, and that's gonna be a lovely topping for our little monkey break balls, fun. Oh that smells good. Okay. So, into a large bowl, we're gonna add in our biscuit mix, out butter, our softened butter, not the melted butter, our sugar, and our egg. Our vanilla goes in there too. So, we're gonna mix that up until we get a nice dough forming. So, get your arm muscles working there and get it all together. So, once you've set it all together, let's get our hands in there and we wanna from a dough like so. So, it's all coming together like that. Get all the crumbly bits in. So with our dough, we're gonna get about 1 inch and we're gonna roll it into our 1 inch bowl like that. And that goes into our lovely cinnamon sugar, which we prepared, and we're gonna place them randomly into our loaf pan. So, we're gonna repeat with our remaining dough. So basically wanna roll it up into 1-inch balls, sprinkle them in that cinnamon sugar, get it covered there and we're gonna place some in our pan like so. Alright, we'll keep going. Great, so our little cinnamon balls are rolled up there into the loaf pan. So, last but not the least, we're just gonna drizzle our melted butter on the top of that to cover them. Oh, they are gonna be so good, and the melted butter is on, we're then just gonna sprinkle our remaining cinnamon sugar on top of that too. Give that extra little sweetness and flavor. Fantastic, so that is gonna go in the oven at 275 degrees Fahrenheit for about 25 to 30 minutes. Once, it's been in there for that time, then we're just gonna let it cool for 10 minutes before we transfer it to wide rock. Well, our monkey bread is out of the oven. It's been in there for about 25 to 30 minutes. We've let it cool for about 10 minutes, and that is ready to eat just looks and smells wonderful with our cinnamon. So, you can cut that up and serve that to the kids or to you guys of course and that will be delicious. So there you go, that's how you make cinnamon monkey bread.
What You'll Need
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 3 1/2 cups Original Bisquick® mix
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 3 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar, if desired
- 2 - 3 teaspoons water, if desired
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Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease bottom and sides of loaf pan, 9x5x3 inches, with shortening. Mix 2 tablespoons granulated sugar and the cinnamon in small bowl; set aside.
Stir Bisquick mix, milk, 1/3 cup granulated sugar, 3 tablespoons butter, the vanilla and egg in medium bowl until soft dough forms. Shape dough into 1-inch balls; roll in cinnamon-sugar. Place dough randomly in pan. Sprinkle with any remaining cinnamon-sugar; drizzle 2 tablespoons melted butter over dough balls.
Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until golden brown. Let stand in pan 10 minutes. Remove from pan to wire rack.
If desired, make glaze by mixing powdered sugar and water in small bowl until thin enough to drizzle; drizzle over loaf. Cut into slices. Serve warm.
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Foxy Brown's Former Manager Files $100,000 Lawsuit Against Her
While Foxy Brown continues to prep her return to music, her former manager is lashing out against her with a $100,000 lawsuit.
As previously reported Brown was unexpectedly absent at New York's Club Jelani on Christmas Eve where she was scheduled to drop her "Christmas Massacre" Lil Kim diss record.
While the rapper cited her absence to a death in her family, her former manager Bernadette Brennan has planned to file a six-figure lawsuit against her for unpaid studio bills.
Brennan's lawsuit comes on the heels of the rapper's outburst on Twitter earlier this week where she accused Brennan of posing as her manager and releasing false information about her to outlets.
According to her ex-boss however Foxy just needs to get help for her "self destructive" behavior.
She tells the New York Daily News,
"It's always sad when an artist has everything they need at their fingertips but still displays such self-destructive behavior. I hope she gets the help she needs, I was one of the few people in her corner."
In addition to calling out Brennan, Foxy also previously addressed rumors that her Christmas Massacre diss was aimed solely at Lil Kim and not Nicki Minaj saying,
"And contrary to the bulls–t that was posted…"Christmas Massacre" is NOT supporting homegirl and dissin' shorty! "Massacre" is the response to Beyotches thinkin' its sweet insinuating my name in that beef! "Machine Gun Kelly" Beyotch!! I am the streets! I aint' taking NO sides….FOX stand alone!"
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"No. I haven't been. I'm at a phenomenal place in my life."
He cited his family, his Outdoor Channel show, and his occasional WWE roles as keeping him busy.
He said the following about his ref role for the Triple H vs. Undertaker WrestleMania 28 match.
"There's a chance - I can tell you here that I'm going to try to be objective, but then you get out there and then I'm in a conflict with myself - I'm Mr. Hall of Fame and I'm Mr. WrestleMania and I'm so used to having the spotlight on me - am I going to be able to share it with these other two guys? That is a lot to put on a man," Michaels said, being playful at the end. Michaels also joked that he'll have to review the Hell in a Cell rulebook, but at least he can still count to three. "My children help me out with that on a regular basis."
Michaels also said he likes the direction that the John Cena/Rock feud has taken, comparing it to his "personal feud" with Bret Hart and saying WWE has lost "that kind of competition."
"Sometimes, I feel like WWE has lost that in a lot of respects. John and Rock have brought back what somebody like me used to do on a regular basis back in the day," Michaels said. "I think it's refreshing, it's good, good for business, and good for them to bring out the best in each other. There's nothing wrong with making it personal; that's better business, whether people like it or not."


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Must Watch: Part of the Family
The Potsdam Sandstoners high school football team is undefeated. They're rolling their way through Section X. But Friday night's win against Tupper Lake was unlike any other win this year. That's because there was an extra body on the sideline.
Jeffrey Moody debuted as the team's waterboy. The 34 year old has down syndrome. But tonight, that's not getting in the way of his love for the game.
He's a big Potsdam football fan, in his opinion, their biggest fan. His most prized possesion is a jersey that is signed by the whole team. His love of the team grew from a friendship he developed with lineman Jordan Buffham.
"Kids like that, they don't really have a chance to play football with us," said Buffham. "So it's nice to have someone like that come out here and show support for us."
"It's a good group of kids. I'm not overly surprised they did something like this. It's nice to see kids give back. It's great," said Potsdam head coach Jim Kirka
Down syndrome prevents Jeffry from playing his favorite sport. But for one night at least, acting as his favorite team's waterboy, his dreams are coming true.
Potsdam beat Tupper Lake 56-12. As for Jeffrey, he's now part of the Potsdam football family.
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Clutching shopping lists and forgetting their trailing I.V. poles for at least a few minutes, patients did some back to school time shopping at Children's Medical Center on Aug. 14.
School Services hosted its fifth Back to School Fair in the Butterfly Atrium at the hospital setting up the event like a warehouse store with tables piled high with stacks of notebooks and packs of pencils.
While some of the patients might not be entering traditional classrooms when school starts at the end of the month, there's no chance they will fall behind in their studies thanks to Children's School Services.
Kelly Ihejiawu, Children's School Services pediatric education manager, explains that depending on the patient's length of stay at the hospital, School Services assesses the needs of each patient and coordinates either tutoring or home schooling while working closely with Dallas ISD and Plano ISD or with the child's home district, even if it's out of state.
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It doesn't end there. When the child is ready to leave the hospital and head back to school, Children's helps make the transition back to the classroom as smooth as possible, too.
We are Children's teachers who serve the patients and do a whole lot of other things.
"We make sure that anything that we've done here at the hospital, if it is educationally relevant, that the school district can duplicate that for them," said Ihejiawu.
Brooke Soard, Children's School Services teacher, says, the annual Back to School "event has a dual purpose to provide information, school supplies and snacks to patients at Children's, but it also lets us advertise who we are and what we do. A lot of people think we are Dallas teachers that serve the patients, but actually we are Children's teachers who serve the patients and do a whole lot of other things."
Typically, eight to 10 students are enrolled at any given time during the school year.
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Soard said that one case stands out in her memory because coordinating this particular patient's education involved Translation, Social Work, Child Life, School Services and Dallas ISD officials all working together.
The patient was at Children's for a liver transplant and only spoke Burmese. "That was a bit of a challenge, because there aren't that many translators who speak Burmese," Soard learned.
"It took a whole lot of coordinating in the midst of her getting a liver transplant," Soard said. But eventually, all the groups worked to get the child enrolled in school and arranged for home schooling during her recovery from a successful transplant.


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Use Historical Visitor Data to Predict Successful Future Content
I was sitting back and examining some of my site's statistics today in the brand new version of the Woopra client, which we'll be releasing to you all very, very soon, when I realized that I was looking at some very valuable analytical data that might be worth sharing.
I'm not sure how many people have paid attention to the detail available on the LIVE tab of the Woopra client, but there are a couple of great ways to get valuable information out of that area.
First of all, there are several icons present just below the live map and above the list of visitors. Selecting those icons will display the visitors based on their various characteristics such as what Web browser they are using, or what page they are viewing.
Personally, my favorite is to group them by the page they are on. Now, earlier when I was watching a large number of visitors on the site I decided to see if there were differences which I could key in on that separated the popular content from the not so popular content. You see, I normally have a hard time determining in advance what will be a hit and what won't.
So I was looking at a game that I posted on my site which also happens to have a fairly catchy title, "Bubble Shooter – The Most Addicting Game of All Time". Most interestingly, when I was looking at the live visitors, I noticed that most of them were return visitors – some were very regular.
As you can see, one of these visitors has actually been back 116 times and has spent nearly 60 hours playing this game. One of these people had an average time on the page of almost 50 minutes! And notice that the final visitor in this example used a Google search for "one man's blog bubble shooter" to come straight to the page.
Now this particular page generates, on average, well over 1,000 visitors per day. So the question is, why? (By the way, the screen shot below is part of the new Segmentation Analysis feature which lets us narrow in on a single page, referrer, or other variable.)
Unfortunately, Woopra can give me the information I need to track down and understand the frequency of visitors to the site, but after that we have to use our own common sense to learn from it. My suspicions about what make this post popular are as follows:
- I picked some good keywords for the title. "Bubble Shooter" is obvious, in case people are looking for that. But also, the word "Game" is good. Clearly these help from an SEO perspective.
- Even though the title has the keywords in it, it's still pretty catchy. (And apparently very true as well!)
- Games, at least good ones, seem to just be "sticky" in general. They probably get bookmarked, and in this case they are also specifically searched for on Google.
- It's not just games. I've noticed that some reference type pages on my site are also highly visited. So providing authoritative information such as tutorials can be attractive.
To me, the lessons from this exercise are fairly obvious.
- Clearly I could post some more games.
- I could try and better present links to related content on these highly visited pages to encourage visitors to check out more content.
- I can really try and focus more attention on writing content that I think is likely to be reference-able and authoritative for future blog posts.
If you are trying to attract more visitors to your own site, I'm going to recommend that you do some analyzing of your own popular pages, and work on putting up more attractive content like it. I'd love to hear your observations about these theories. And I'd enjoy even more hearing stories about what you've learned from using Woopra on your sites!


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Honoring the state champs
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The decibel level was off the chart Friday morning at a pep rally honoring the Sandy Creek Patriots football team and their victory to become state champions. The school was presented proclamations by representatives from the Tyrone Town Council and the Fayette County Board of Commissioners. Photo/Ben Nelms.


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