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Drew, Ellsbury, and Napoli decline one-year qualifying offers
The Boston Red Sox announced today that shortstop Stephen Drew, centerfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, and first baseman Mike Napoli declined one-year qualifying offers from the club.
Drew, Ellsbury, and Napoli were tendered qualifying offers on November 4 and had until 5:00 p.m. today to either accept or decline.
Under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, a free agent is subject to draft-pick compensation if his former club offers him a guaranteed one-year contract with a salary equal to the average salary of the 125-highest paid players from the prior season.
Clubs retain the right to negotiate and/or enter into a contract agreement with any of their free agents, regardless of whether an offer was made or accepted. There are no deadlines for such negotiations and/or agreements.


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I have a new interview in Moving Image Archive News on my recent book, Streaming.
As I note in the interview, "I've watched film change and morph for more than half a century. As I grew up, everything was being shown in theaters in 35mm, and at colleges, universities and libraries in 16mm, and there was, of course, no such thing as home video, VHS or DVD. Films screened on television were really 'streaming' – they were broadcast at a certain date and time, and you had to be present at that time to see them.
I remember vividly setting my alarm clock for 1 a.m. or later to see films on WCBS TV's The Late Show, and then The Late, Late Show, and even The Late, Late, Late Show, which is how I saw most of the classics growing up. I would also haunt revival theaters in New York City, such as the Thalia and the New Yorker, to see the classics projected in their proper format.
Video, of course, has been around since the early 1950s, but I don't think anyone, even professional archivists, ever thought it would completely replace film, but it has. 16mm is completely defunct as a production medium, except in the case of Super 16mm which is used sometimes in features (such as The Hurt Locker) to save costs, but then blown up to 35mm, or now, skipping that step entirely and moving straight to a DCP.
Film is finished. It's simply a fact. 35mm and 16mm projection are now a completely rarity, and screenings on actual film are becoming 'events,' rather than the norm. This is simply a platform shift, and it comes with various problems, mainly archiving the digital image, which is much more unstable than film.
But with the image quality of RED cameras for production, and digital projection taking over, it's an inescapable fact that shooting on film is now the moving image equivalent of stone lithography. So now, my own viewing habits have moved to DVD and Blu-Ray, and I have a ridiculously large collection of DVDs in my home library, some 10,000 or more.
I have to have them in this format, because I can't count on the quality of streaming videos from Netflix, Amazon, or other online sources. Blu-Ray, in particular, yields a truly remarkable image. So that's how I watch films now, and in any event, the revival houses, even in major cities, are all now pretty much a thing of the past."
You can read the entire interview by clicking here, or on the image above.
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News for December 2011
Meet Lasersaur, an open source laser cutter with SVG input
We already reported before on Inkscape related projects that assist and promote personal fabrication, such as Egg-Bot and Inkcut. There is another project that used to be consistently slipping our attention, but recently moved into focus at last. It's Lasersaur, an open source laser cutter that is being worked on by folks from Nortd Labs. The device is controlled via a web app that can use SVG for input.Read more


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Simvastatin Therapy for Moderate and Severe COPD (STATCOPE)
This study has been terminated.
University of Minnesota - Clinical and Translational Science Institute
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
University of Minnesota - Clinical and Translational Science Institute
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: February 2, 2010
Last updated: March 12, 2015
Last verified: March 2015
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Detailed Description:
To determine the effect of daily administration of 40 mgms simvastatin taken for at least 12 months (range 12-36 months) on the frequency of exacerbations of chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) in patients with moderate to severe COPD who are prone to exacerbations and do not have other indications for statin treatment.
|Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
|Drug: simvastatin Drug: Placebo
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Prospective Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial of SimvaSTATin in the Prevention of COPD Exacerbations (STATCOPE)
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: COPD
Drug Information available for: SimvastatinU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by University of Minnesota - Clinical and Translational Science Institute:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Rates of COPD Exacerbations [ Time Frame: up to 37 months ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Time to First COPD Exacerbation [ Time Frame: up to 37 months ]
- Change in FEV1 (% Pred) From Baseline to Last Measure [ Time Frame: Baseline, last measure at up to 37 months ]
- Acute Exacerbation COPD Hospitalization Rates (Events/Patient Year) [ Time Frame: up to 37 months ]
- Systemic and Lung-specific Biomarkers of Inflammation and Procoagulant Activity [ Time Frame: up to 37 months ]
- Rate of Combined Cardiovascular Events [ Time Frame: up to 37 months ]
- The Effect of Current Smoking Status on Inflammatory Biomarker Levels and Response to Simvastatin Treatment [ Time Frame: up to 37 months ]
- Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacoepigenetics of Statin Therapy in COPD [ Time Frame: one time point within study period ]
|Study Start Date:
|March 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: simvastatin
40 mgms of simvastatin daily
Drug: simvastatin
40 mgms of simvastatin daily
Other Name: Zocor
Placebo Comparator: placebo
Matched placebo pill daily
Drug: Placebo
Matched placebo pill daily
Other Name: sugar pill
Detailed Description:
COPD exacerbation is a common complication that significantly contributes to the high morbidity, mortality and costs associated with COPD. COPD exacerbations are associated with heightened lung inflammation that may have systemic implications (e.g., peripheral muscle weakness, cognitive impairment, depression, stroke, acute coronary syndrome, and atherosclerosis). Statins are potent agents that significantly reduce vascular events in patients with increased risks due to prior cardiac or cerebral vascular events and elevated lipid profiles. Statins have pleiotropic effects that extend well beyond their lipid lowering effects and may be potent anti-inflammatory agents. Retrospective data conducted in COPD patients indicate that statin use is associated with markedly decreased rates of COPD hospitalization and stabilization of lung function. Decreases in mortality in COPD due to complications of flu-like illnesses and deaths due to cardiovascular events have also been reported. Inflammatory biomarkers (C-reactive protein and interleukin- 6) are reported to be elevated in moderate to severe COPD patients who are prone to exacerbations. Inflammatory biomarkers (C-reactive protein and interleukin- 6) are reported to be reduced by statin therapy in patients with hyperlipidemia and cardiovascular diseases. Treatments that can effectively lessen the prevalence and severity of COPD exacerbations are desperately needed
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|40 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male and female subjects, 40-80 years of age.
Clinical diagnosis of at least moderate COPD as defined by the GOLD criteria:
- Postbronchodilator FEV1(forced expiratory volume at one second)/FVC(forced vital capacity) < 70%,
- Postbronchodilator FEV1 (forced expiratory volume at one second) < 80% predicted, with or without chronic symptoms (i.e., cough, sputum production).
- Cigarette consumption of 10 pack-years or more. Patients may or may not be active smokers.
Must meet one or more of the following 4 conditions
- Be using supplemental oxygenate
- Receiving a course of systemic corticosteroids and/or antibiotics for respiratory problems in the past year,
- Visiting an Emergency Department for a COPD exacerbation within the past year, or
- Being hospitalized for a COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) exacerbation within the past year
- Willingness to make return visits and availability by telephone for duration of study.
- Free of active coronary disease
- Subject with expected life expectancy > 36 months
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients who:
- are on statin drugs.
- should be on statins based on established risk stratification using the ATP-III (Adult Treatment Panel) to determine 10 year risk.
- Documented history of active coronary heart disease, such as unstable angina, prior myocardial infarction, stroke, symptomatic peripheral vascular or carotid artery disease, or congestive heart failure within the past 3 months.
- A diagnosis of asthma.
- The presence of a diagnosis other than COPD that results in the patient being either medically unstable, or having a predicted life expectancy < 3 years.
- Special patient groups: prisoners, pregnant women, institutionalized patients
- Women who are at risk of becoming pregnant during the study (pre-menopausal) and who refuse to use acceptable birth control (hormone-based oral or barrier contraceptive) for the duration of the study.
- Woman using estradiol compounds for contraception. Postmenopausal women on estradiol compounds for hormone replacement therapy will be allowed into the trial.
- Participants otherwise meeting the inclusion criteria will not be enrolled until they are a minimum of four weeks from their most recent acute exacerbation.
- A clinical diagnosis of bronchiectasis defined as production of > one-half cup of purulent sputum/day.
- Participants using niacin, azole antifungals (itraconazole, ketoconazole, posaconazole), fibric acid derivatives, erythromycin, clarithromycin, telithromycin, diltiazem, amlodipine , ranolazine,HIV protease inhibitors (such as indinavir), amiodarone, gemfibrozil, cyclosporine, verapamil, danazol, nefazodone, and red yeast rice extracts are excluded
- Active liver disease. Active liver disease is defined as ALT (alanine aminotransferase), AST (aspartate aminotransferase) as greater than 1.5 times the upper limit of normal.
- Patients with renal failure defined by serum creatinine greater than 3mg/dl.
- Alcoholism. Alcoholism is defined as > 35 drinks per week. A drink is defined as one bottle of beer, one 8-ounce glass of wine, or one ounce of hard liquor.
- Hypersensitivity to HMG CoA (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A) reductase inhibitors. Hypersensitivity is defined as an allergic reaction to statin, prior history of myopathy, rhabdomyolysis or previous intolerance to statin use.
- Participants drinking greater than 4 cups (1qt) of grapefruit juice per day.
- Participants drinking greater than 3 cups of green tea per day.
- Diabetics will be excluded. Diabetics are defined by:
1. A CURRENT physician diagnosis of diabetes OR 2. CURRENT use of diabetic meds OR 3. Elevated HbA1c > 6.5% 18. The discretion of the Principal Investigator that the potential participant will not be a reliable study subject to complete the study requirements.
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01061671
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01061671
Show 51 Study Locations
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Minnesota - Clinical and Translational Science Institute
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
|Principal Investigator:
|John E Connett, PhD
|University of Minnesota (Data Coordinating Center)
|Principal Investigator:
|Steven M Scharf, MD, PhD
|University of Maryland
|Principal Investigator:
|Mark Dransfield, MD
|University of Alabama at Birmingham
|Principal Investigator:
|George Washko, MD
|Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston
|Principal Investigator:
|Richard K Albert, MD
|Denver Health Medical Center
|Principal Investigator:
|Richard Casaburi, MD, PhD
|Harbor-UCLA Research & Education Institute
|Principal Investigator:
|Dennis E Niewoehner, MD
|Minnesota Veterans Affairs Medical Center
|Principal Investigator:
|Gerard J Criner, MD
|Temple University Philadelphia
|Principal Investigator:
|Frank Sciurba, MD
|University of Pittsburgh
|Principal Investigator:
|Stephen C Lazarus, MD
|University of California at San Francisco
|Principal Investigator:
|Fernando J Martinez, MD
|University of Michigan
|Principal Investigator:
|Don Sin, M.D.
|St. Paul's Hospital
|Principal Investigator:
|Shawn Aaron, M.D.
|The Ottawa Hospital
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Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Keywords provided by University of Minnesota - Clinical and Translational Science Institute:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Criner GJ, Connett JE, Aaron SD, Albert RK, Bailey WC, Casaburi R, Cooper JA Jr, Curtis JL, Dransfield MT, Han MK, Make B, Marchetti N, Martinez FJ, Niewoehner DE, Scanlon PD, Sciurba FC, Scharf SM, Sin DD, Voelker H, Washko GR, Woodruff PG, Lazarus SC; COPD Clinical Research Network; Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Simvastatin for the prevention of exacerbations in moderate-to-severe COPD. N Engl J Med. 2014 Jun 5;370(23):2201-10. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1403086. Epub 2014 May 18.
|Responsible Party:
|University of Minnesota - Clinical and Translational Science Institute
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01061671 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
U10HL074424 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|February 2, 2010
|Results First Received:
|January 29, 2015
|Last Updated:
|March 12, 2015
Keywords provided by University of Minnesota - Clinical and Translational Science Institute:
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Lung function
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lung Diseases
Chronic Disease
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Disease Attributes
Pathologic Processes
Lung Diseases, Obstructive
Anticholesteremic Agents
Hypolipidemic Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Lipid Regulating Agents
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Nearly two years after a 20-year-old woman was abducted and killed, police have filed a murder charge in the case.
Kenneth Thompson, 26, was long considered a person of interest in the January 2011 slaying of Michelle McCoy. He was the last person seen with McCoy the day she disappeared.
Thompson was arrested in connection with robbing a Metro PCS just a couple weeks after McCoy's disappearance. He was later convicted of armed robbery and other offenses in connection with that holdup and is serving a life sentence.
Thompson was returned from state prison to Duval County on Tuesday and booked on charges of kidnapping and murder.
The Metro PCS robbery is connected to, and the motive behind, McCoy's death, investigators said.
"We believe Kenneth and Michelle were acquaintances, they knew each other," said Lt. Rob Schoonover, of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. "She was in possession of a stolen item, a phone. We believe he was trying to get that phone back."
An autopsy report released last year is graphic in detailing how McCoy died slowly and violently.
All of McCoy's fingers and thumbs were cut off, her left leg was nearly amputated at the hip and her vertebrate was fractured, according to the report, which suggests torture or an attempt to keep her body from being identified. McCoy also suffered blunt force injuries to the face, neck and head, according to the report.
Some injuries appear to have been the result of McCoy being run over with a vehicle. There were burn marks all over her body that were post-mortem, according to the report.
The cause of death was listed as crushing blunt trauma.
DOCUMENT: Michelle McCoy Autopsy Report (Warning: Report contains graphic information)
McCoy was seen being dragged into a minivan by a group of people in Northwest Jacksonville on Jan. 10, 2011. She was reported missing Jan. 13, and police did not go public with her kidnapping for nearly three weeks. Her remains were found days later in a Northside lot.
No one had been charged with murder in McCoy's death until Thompson's nephew, Kenneth Thompson, was charged Tuesday.
According to a police report, Kenneth Thompson admitted he helped kidnap McCoy, but Larry Thompson strangled, pistol-whipped and drove over McCoy with their minivan.
"Whatever happened out there that night, they blunt force trauma and killed her and buried her in the ground," Schoonover said.
Kenneth Thompson went to trial in March this year for robbery. That's a key reason the murder charge took as long as it did to file and why Thompson didn't face the murder and kidnapping accusation in 2011.
"At that time, you got to look at the circumstances of the case, and what we had -- and the robbery was a strong charge, not saying murder is not -- but that was one to proceed with, get that out of the way and move on with the murder charge," Schoonover said.
McCoy's father and sister did not want to comment Wednesday on the murder charge being filed.
The state attorney's office released this statement on the murder charge:
"The investigation into Michelle McCoy's death has been exhaustive. We have worked tirelessly, with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Homicide Unit, to put the pieces of this puzzle together. While collecting information on what happened to Ms. McCoy, the State Attorney's Office was able to put Kenneth Thompson in prison for life on an unrelated robbery charge. While the SAO cannot discuss specific details of the murder and what led to Thompson's arrest, the SAO is ready to fight for justice for our victim Michelle McCoy."
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Borago officinalis (generic name)
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Alternate TitleBorago officinalis
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Borage, borage oil, Borago officinalis, borage seed, gamma-linolenic acid (GLA), Glandol®, n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), n-6 PUFA, starflower, starflower oil.
Borage (Borago officinalis) is an herb native to Syria that has spread throughout the Middle East and Mediterranean. Borage flowers and leaves may be eaten and borage seeds are often pressed to produce oil very high in gamma-linolenic acid (GLA).
Borage is popularly used for premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and menopausal symptoms. Borage is also popular among elderly women. Borage is known for its anti-inflammatory properties and has been studied for the treatment of gum disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and asthma.
There is currently controversy about the safety of borage. Consumers should use caution when taking borage as there have been cases of poisoning after confusion with foxglove.
EvidenceDISCLAIMER: These uses have been tested in humans or animals. Safety and effectiveness have not always been proven. Some of these conditions are potentially serious, and should be evaluated by a qualified healthcare provider.
Acute respiratory distress syndrome:
Acute respiratory distress syndrome occurs when the lung malfunctions due to injury to the small air sacs and the capillaries of the lungs. Borage may improve heart and lung function and reduce lung inflammation in acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Periodontitis / gingivitis:
Preliminary evidence suggests that borage has anti-inflammatory effects that may make it beneficial in treating periodontitis (gum disease). Additional research is needed to determine the best dosing and administration of borage oil.
Rheumatoid arthritis:
Preliminary evidence suggests that gamma linolenic acid (GLA) has known anti-inflammatory effects that may make it beneficial in treating rheumatoid arthritis. Additional research is needed to determine the optimal dose and administration.
Alcohol-induced hangover:
Borage oil may help treat or prevent alcohol-induced hangovers, although additional study is needed in this area.
Preliminary evidence suggests that gamma linolenic acid (GLA) may have some immunosuppressant activity that may be helpful in reducing asthma symptoms.
Atopic dermatitis:
Atopic dermatitis is a skin disorder that is characterized by itching, scaling, thickening of the skin and is usually located on the face, elbows, knees, and arms. The evidence for borage oil in the treatment of atopic dermatitis is mixed. Additional study is needed in this area.
Cystic fibrosis:
Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder affecting the mucus lining of the lungs leading to breathing problems and other difficulties. Preliminary evidence indicated that borage oil may have some benefits in cystic fibrosis patients.
Hyperlipidemia :
Hyperlipidemia means that there are excess levels of fats in the blood. These fats can be triglycerides or cholesterol. Hyperlipidemia is often associated with increased risk of heart disease and strokes. Gamma linolenic acid may decrease plasma triglyceride levels and increase HDL-cholesterol concentration. However, more research is needed to define borage's effects on lipid levels in the blood.
Infant development / neonatal care (in preterm infants):
Preterm infants may need essential fatty acid supplementation. Gamma linolenic acid supplementation may increase cognitive development, weight gain, and length gain, particularly in boys. Another study is needed to confirm these results.
Malnutrition (inflammation complex syndrome):
Currently, there is insufficient available evidence evaluating the effectiveness of borage in the treatment of malnutrition.
Seborrheic dermatitis (infantile):
Seborrheic dermatitis is a type of inflammatory skin rash. Currently, there is insufficient evidence to support borage in the treatment of seborrheic dermatitis.
Borage oil may decrease heart changes to acute stress. More high quality studies are needed in this area.
Supplementation in preterm and very low birthweight infants (fatty acids):
A borage oil-containing formula does not appear to affect preterm and very low birth weight infants, although more study is needed in this area.


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Stylish Gatwick Airport hotel near London and Brighton with a restaurant and free WiFi The Holiday Inn® Gatwick - Worth hotel offers comfortable, modern accommodation within 10 minutes of Gatwick Airport (LGW). London's Victoria Station is 30 minutes north by train, while the historic seaside city of Brighton is 35 minutes south. The shops and restaurants of Horley and Crawley are within a 10-minute drive.
You can get fresh air on the famed pier at Brighton, 35 minutes from the hotel. Stroll through the leafy botanical gardens of Wakehurst Place, a 16th-century manor house just a 20-minute drive away. And for evening entertainment, head to Crawley's Hawth Theatre for award-winning plays. The hotel has four naturally lit meeting rooms where you can host up to 250 guests. The Manor Royal Business Park is a 10-minute drive from the hotel. It's home to 500 companies including Thales, Varian Medical Systems, Doosan Babcock Energy and Grant Thornton. The on-site Lytton's Bar and Brasserie provides a full menu of traditional British and international fare, and kids eat free. Free WiFi, the use of the fitness centre next door at discounted prices and ample parking for a small daily fee are also available. Flying out from Gatwick? The Park, Stay & Go package allows you to catch your flight refreshed, leaving your car at the hotel.
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Jef Pryor, a foodservice industry veteran, has joined the Eagle-based Idaho Potato Commission as foodservice promotions director for the Southeast.
Pryor will lead marketing outreach to distributors and produce specialists in his territory, conduct Idaho potato product seminars and educational sessions, and represent the commission at foodservice trade shows, according to a news release.
He will work with Don Odiorne, foodservice vice president, and succeeds Ray Hepler, who is retiring after 16 years.
Before joining the commission, Pryor spent 25 years leading produce procurement for Quality Foods Inc., Little Rock, Ark., and then Richmond, Va.-based Performance Food Service once it acquired Quality Foods in April 2002.
In that role, he was responsible for produce purchasing, education, sales training and customer support.
Pryor also was a regional sales manager at Sysco and a territory sales manager for Fort Worth, Texas-based Ben E. Keith.
He is a graduate of Arkansas State University, Jonesboro.


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Wide receiver Calvin Johnson provided the most memorable moment of a most forgettable season for the Detroit Lions by setting the single-season record for receiving yardage with a 11-catch, 225-yard performance in Saturday's 31-18 loss to the Atlanta Falcons.
Johnson in just 15 games shot past the mark of 1,848 Hall of Famer Jerry Rice set with the San Francisco 49ers in 1995. It was Johnson's eighth consecutive game with at least 100 yards receiving, and his second 200-yard game in that stretch.
The Lions have now lost the past seven of those games to fall to 4-11, a season after making the playoffs at 10-6.
— Falcons-Lions recap | Week 16 picks | Standings | Week 17 schedule
While Detroit will hope to end its freefall with a home win against the NFC North rival Chicago Bears in Week 17, the focus will remain on Johnson. Now with 1,892 yards for 2012, Johnson has a good chance, with a modest (for him) 108 against the Bears, to become the first NFL receiver to surpass 2,000 yards in a season.
It's appropriate that Johnson, who grew up near Atlanta in Tyrone, Ga., and attended college in Atlanta at Georgia Tech, was able to break the record against the Falcons.
The Falcons still got their job done, clinching the top seed in the NFC playoffs. Meanwhile, the Lions, their fellow NFC wild card from a season ago, have had so many problems this season that they're left celebrating the amazing individual accomplishments of their most talented player.
While Johnson is stuck waiting to enjoy the type of team success Rice did in his career, it's remarkable that Johnson has entered the same stratosphere as someone who many consider to be not just the best wide receiver of all time, but best offensive player of all time.
Consider the NFL has seen many big, fast, big-play receivers since Rice's best playing days. Future Hall of Famers Terrell Owens and Randy Moss have their name high on many all-time reception, yardage and touchdown lists. But Johnson at 6-5, 236 pounds has dominated the modern, pass-heavy game by putting it all together — size, speed, hands, route running — to more than live up to his devastating nickname, Megatron.
Johnson is in his sixth season, and has shaken off early-career injuries to become a durable, physical force. Looking at how long Owens and Moss hung around to be productive, Johnson has many years left to build on his legend. He likely won't catch Rice's career marks, but he has a good chance of going down as the best Lions player of all time.
That distinction now belongs to Hall of Fame running back Barry Sanders. Sanders was an electrifying player in Detroit, and like Johnson, produced even when his support system was letting him down. Johnson is fortunate to have a quarterback in Matt Stafford who can get him the ball often everywhere, and that on-field rapport puts him in position to have several additional eye-popping seasons.
Sanders retired after 10 seasons, making us what wonder what could have been. Johnson seems to be just getting warmed up with what he's done in the past two.
When Johnson suits up next Sunday to wreak havoc on the Bears' secondary, the number to watch is 2,054. That would give him one more receiving yard in a season than Sanders had rushing in his best season — 15 years ago in 1997.
Whether Lions fans prefer Sanders or now Johnson as their favorite all-time great, one thing won't be up to debate — it would be nice that now their team has another once-in-a-lifetime talent, it can find a way to consistently win around him.
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Gardy wants to see Arcia improve vs. southpaws
CHICAGO -- Twins manager Ron Gardenhire wants Oswaldo Arcia to be an every day outfielder.
Yet the left-handed-hitting Arcia's .155 average vs. southpaws -- the eighth-worst mark in the Majors with a minimum 50 plate appearances -- has relegated the second-year outfielder to a platoon role for the bulk of the season. He's played in 58 games, batting .222 with seven homers and 22 RBIs entering Sunday.
"I don't want him sitting here," Gardenhire said. "If he's sitting every time they have a lefty out there, that's not going to help him. He's got to learn to hit these guys. The only way to do that is face them."
Arcia brought home the go-ahead runs in the Twins' 8-6 win over the White Sox on Saturday, but the 23-year-old was on the bench Friday until left-handed Chicago ace Chris Sale was relieved.
Arcia started Sunday's finale vs. White Sox left-hander Jose Quintana, against whom he was 1-for-8 with four strikeouts.
"Sale would be mean for me to do it to him, if you're not swinging good on lefties," Gardenhire said. "Quintana's no easy chore, either, but he's got to hit them."
So what has been the major problem, and is it fixable?
"He's just trying to hit the ball 8,000 miles right now," Gardenhire said. "Every swing he takes, he swings so frickin' hard that I don't know any way possible that your head can be on the ball. His good swings to this point have actually been those swings where he's shot a ball the other way or whatever, a little line drive to right field where he didn't go crazy and try to kill it."
Daniel Kramer is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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NFL-Licensed Steelers Baby Doll In Team Jersey And Cap
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Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to run for president.
Right … of the United States.
No, I don't know if he knows about that rule.
According to the New York Post, the former governor of California has been lobbying for support to change the constitution to allow him to run for president in 2016. Sources told the paper Schwarzenegger has been openly talking about his political ambitions while in New York to promote "Escape Plan," his new movie with Sylvester Stallone.
Maybe Stallone could be his running mate. World War III would break out before the swearing-in ceremony was over.
A source told the Post, "Schwarzenegger has been talking openly about working on getting the constitutional rules changed so he can run for president in 2016. He is ready to file legal paperwork to challenge the rules."
Sure, why not? I mean, the way he deftly and skillfully turned around California's economy would give him scads of leverage.
Or maybe not.
Schwarzenegger was born in Austria, which is not in the United States (believe me, there are people who may not know that). Our constitution requires presidents to be born here. Amending said constitution requires a two-thirds majority in the House and the Senate — yes, the same House and Senate that can't even agree whether the sun is up or not.
In 2010, Schwarzenegger told Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" he would make a White House run if the law were changed.
Good luck.
Contact Tony Hicks at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/insertfoot.


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Meyer hits Minor League DL with shoulder inflammation
BALTIMORE -- Right-hander Alex Meyer was placed on the seven-day Minor League disabled list with right shoulder inflammation on Sunday, effectively ending the top prospect's season.
Meyer, ranked as the No. 30 overall prospect by MLB.com,, left his start with Triple-A Rochester on Saturday after facing just six batters. The Twins said he had trouble getting loose and was taken out for precautionary reasons.
The 24-year-old finishes his first season at Triple-A with a 3.52 ERA with 153 strikeouts and 64 walks in 130 1/3 innings. The injury also means he won't be a September callup for the Twins this year. He also dealt with shoulder problems last season, so the Twins monitored his workload this year, limiting both his pitch counts and innings.
To replace Meyer on Rochester's roster, the Twins brought up fellow top prospect Jose Berrios from Double-A New Britain.
Berrios, ranked as the No. 36 overall prospect by MLB.com, has posted a 2.43 ERA with 137 strikeouts and 35 walks in 137 innings between Class A Advanced Fort Myers and New Britain this season.
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A TEXTILES firm that manufactures soft furnishings for John Lewis has announced plans to expand in Darwen.
Following recent business growth, bosses at Herbert Parkinson want to increase warehousing capacity at the site in Monton Road, which has been operating in the area for more than 80 years.
They said the expansion could create 30 new jobs.
Plans include incorporating the space currently used for the staff dining room and offices into the production areas.
The plans also include the reconfiguration of the car park to increase the number of spaces by 16 and a new car park entrance in Mostyn Street.
Before a planning application is submitted, a consultation event will take place at the site for local residents tomorrow and Wednesday, from 6pm to 8pm.
Visitors will be able to view and discuss further information on the plans, ask questions and provide their feedback.
Stuart McDonald, managing director of Herbert Parkinson, said: "Our proposal will ensure that we can continue to meet the needs of our customers as well as their future requirements.
"We have experienced steady growth since we first started manufacturing here back in 1935, making investments in the mill, so that we now offer our own design service, six lines for making curtains and blinds, lamination for printed or woven fabrics, as well as three duvet-filling lines.
"We now need to adapt our space to enable us to build on this success and boost production.
"Over the next three years, we anticipate that this could result in up to 30 additional jobs for local people."
Established in 1935 and acquired by the John Lewis Partnership in 1953, Herbert Parkinson makes, on average, more than 1,700 made-to-measure curtains and blinds, 9,000 cushions, 1,000 duvets and 2,800 pillows every week.
Following the consultation and after reviewing all of the feedback received, a planning application is expected to be submitted by May this year.
If approved, the work is scheduled for completion by summer next year.


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Harold wrote:What I fear are that people can claim that they are "RINPOCHE'S" simply by saying they have students.
The title of RINPOCHE will have no value because anyone with a few students can now use this title.
People with no background in Tibetan Buddhism will be easily conned by these RINPOCHES or should I say WOLVES IN LAMAS ROBES.
This is happening as we speak.
The Tibetans I feel need to put limits on who and when someone can use this title.
Practice the tecqnique as taught by Siddarth Gotama purify the mind and become your own island, then you will not worry about the wolves.


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Under the terms of the agreement, Agenix will license exclusive world-wide royalty free rights to the human health application for Tyrian's proprietary DiagnostIQ® rapid point-of-care test platform.
In return, Agenix will provide Tyrian with Agenix shares to the value of $0.5million payable in installments to be completed by June 2014.
The DiagnostIQ® platform comprises a patented disposable test device which can be used for various applications either alone or together with the DiagnostIQ® Reader for various human, animal and agricultural applications to determine action to be taken at the point of care for human and veterinary tests or point of need for agricultural and environmental tests.
Agenix has licensed the rights to develop the DiagnostIQ® platform for human health applications and aims to develop the technology into a micro-array device so that it will process multiple human health diagnostic tests on the one system.
The device is currently licensed to Bayer CropScience AG for an agricultural application.
In an addition to the licence, to be finalised in the near future, Agenix will also acquire a patent for Tyrian's antibody-based test for active tuberculosis. This patent covers a novel biomarker, discovered by Tyrian, which has the potential to distinguish patients with active TB infection from those that have been infected in the past, or have been vaccinated.
Agenix Limited Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Nicholas Weston said, "This acquisition advances our product pipeline and adds to our human health diagnostics business. We now have a platform for human health array and micro-array technology developers globally, as well as a medical device product for our expanding China business."
Tyrian Limited Chairman, Roger Amos said the licence agreement with Agenix was part of the company's continued efforts by Tyrian to monetise its diagnostic testing assets following the recent company restructuring. It follows a 2011 licence to SpeeDx Pty Ltd for active TB testing approaches outside of the antibody field.
Mr Weston said Agenix did not anticipate the closing of the deal would impact its immediate cash requirements. The shares to be issued to Tyrian currently represent less than 20% of the issued capital and will be fully paid ordinary shares ranking equally with existing listed shares. The share issue will be made within Agenix's 15% annual placement capacity under ASX Listing Rule 7.1 and will not require shareholder approval.
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Good morning everyone. It's good to be in Philadelphia and to join Senator Specter in this important event to talk about Veterans and Veterans' issues. Senator Specter—many thanks for your support of Veterans over the years, and for inviting me to be here today.
President Obama has charged me with transforming VA into a high-performing 21st century organization, one that serves Veterans by increasing access to services and benefits they earned, by providing them the highest quality of healthcare available, and by controlling costs for them to the best of my abilities. Doing so will make VA a model of governance. It will be a different organization from the one that exists today.
Five years from now, we want to be the provider of choice for Veterans in insurance, in healthcare, in education, in home loans, in counseling, and in employment.
To achieve that kind of regard from Veterans, we must make it easier for them to understand their entitlements and then make it much simpler for them to access their benefits. In the short term, we're working as fast as we can on issues that have an immediate, positive impact for our Veterans:
All of this is part of advocacy for Veterans. VA cares for Veterans. We are going to provide that care where they live, not where it is convenient for VA. More must be done to earn a "provider of choice" reputation amongst Veterans. Thanks to President Obama and the support of Congress, we're a lot closer to that objective.
Again, I'm glad to be here and I look forward to your questions.


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Welcome to the ICCFA Blog
This is a new communications vehicle for the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association. It will serve a variety of purposes, the most immediate of which will be to provide a simpler format for updating the Industry News listings.
Instead of going to the News Page each day, you will be able to come here to the Blog, where you can not only read the news but discuss it if you are so inclined.
Also, the "National/International" and "Opinion" news feeds from here on out will be of the self-serve variety: Simply peruse the lists for General News, Opinion, and Blogs, on the sidebars of the page, and visit the ones that interest you.
It may take a wee bit of adjustment to reading the news in the new format, and we appreciate you bearing with us as we bring the listings up to date.
The Blog will also provide a convenient way to distribute timely information about events that fall between the publishing cycles of the ICCFA Magazine and ICCFA Wireless newsletter. Time permitting, for instance, we should be able to provide coverage of next week's ICCFA Convention in Las Vegas.
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Two teachers at Branciforte Middle School in Santa Cruz went from being technophobes to technology innovators, not only bolstering instruction in the classroom, but also transforming their entire school. They ended up writing a business plan for a school technology center.
It all started with enrollment in the Krause Center for Innovation's MERIT (Making Education Relevant and Interactive through Technology) program at Foothill College. The professional development program for K-12 teachers gives them the tech tools needed to up their instructional game, inspiring them to innovate and try the untried. As a result, teachers and students work more collaboratively and student learning increases dramatically.
"Before I started with MERIT, I didn't even know Google had apps," said Lisa Highfill, a Pleasanton fifth-grade teacher who entered the program in 2010. "When I learned how to authentically integrate web tools, my lessons took on a whole new level of engagement and effectiveness. … I now design webpages for teachers and students and create digital lessons that integrate all subjects and project-based learning activities."
Highfill is now an instructional technology coach with the Pleasanton Unified School District.
Despite the program's success, MERIT staff wanted a thorough evaluation of the program beyond teacher testimonials. As a result, the program is in the middle of a two-year third-party study to examine effectiveness.
"Preliminary results are excellent," said Liane Freeman, KCI's strategy and marketing director.
The 10-month MERIT program culminates in two weeks of intensive training over the summer, with instructors applying their tech tools to actual classroom projects and presenting the projects to one another for feedback.
"We stress free web-based tools," Freeman said. "You have access wherever you are in your environment."
Teachers work on projects that emphasize collaboration with students. Last year one instructor set up a business with special-education students to sell items on eBay. Another created a website and ran a campaign with students to keep the Pigeon Point Light Station open.
The MERIT program accepts approximately 50 teachers a year, most from around the Bay Area but some from out of state and overseas. Since its inception in 2001, approximately 800 teachers have participated in the program.
Although most of the operations take place at the KCI campus, MERIT personnel have begun to conduct outreach at schools via "mini-MERIT" programs, Freeman said, including one at Egan Junior High School in Los Altos.
Freeman said the MERIT program is especially vital now in helping instructors adjust to new Common Core State Standards that emphasize not only getting the right answer, but also showing how students arrived at that answer.
"Twenty-first-century learning is all about collaboration, critical-thinking problem solving, communication," Freeman said. "We're building a pro-learning community."


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Vestibular System in Migrainous Vertigo Patients
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified May 2009 by University of Bergen.
Recruitment status was: Enrolling by invitation
Recruitment status was: Enrolling by invitation
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Sorlandet Hospital HF
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First received: May 12, 2009
Last updated: May 14, 2009
Last verified: May 2009
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Do migrainous vertigo patients have more pathology in their vestibular system than migraine patients without vertigo?
The aim of this study is to compare the vestibular system of migraine patients with and without vertigo in the symptom-free period by vestibular function tests, videonystagmography, vestibular evoked myogenic potentials, and subjective visual vertical.
|Migraine Disorders Migraine Variant Episodic Recurrent Vertigo
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|Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Do Migrainous Vertigo Patients Have More Hypersensitivity in Their Vestibular System Than Migraine Patients Without Vertigo?
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MedlinePlus related topics: Dizziness and Vertigo MigraineU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by University of Bergen:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Differences in vestibular function [ Time Frame: Symptomfree interval ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Differences in hypersensitivity [ Time Frame: Symptomfree interval ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|May 2007
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|September 2009
|Primary Completion Date:
|May 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
migrainous vertigo
migraine without vertigo
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|16 Years to 61 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
Migraine patients: primary care clinic
Migrainous vertigo patients: Neurological outpatients clinic, Sorlandet Hospital HF, Kristiansand and Spesialistsenteret, Tollbodgata 4, Kristiansand.
Inclusion Criteria:
- migraine according to IHS criteria
- migrainous vertigo according to the Neuhauser-criteria
Exclusion Criteria:
- no history of other neurological, vestibular, opthalmologic and ENT disorders
- no medications that could possibly influence test results
- intact hearing measured by audiometry
- pregnancy
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Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00901953
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00901953
|Dept. of neurology, Sørlandet Hospital HF
|Kristiansand, Norway, 4604
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Bergen
Sorlandet Hospital HF
|Principal Investigator:
|Åse Mygland, PhD
|Institute of clinical medicine, university of Bergen, Norway
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Keywords provided by University of Bergen:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Marion Ingeborg Boldingh, Departement of Neurology, Sørlandet Hospital HF , Kristiansand, Norway
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|NCT00901953 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|May 12, 2009
|Last Updated:
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Keywords provided by University of Bergen:
migrainous vertigo
vestibular evoked myogenic potentials
vestibular function test
vestibular disorders
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Vestibular Diseases
Migraine Disorders
Vestibular Neuronitis
Headache Disorders, Primary
Headache Disorders
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Labyrinth Diseases
Ear Diseases
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
Neurologic Manifestations
Signs and Symptoms
Sensation Disorders
Vestibulocochlear Nerve Diseases
Retrocochlear Diseases
Cranial Nerve Diseases
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Schaghticoke is a village in Rensselaer County, New York, USA. The population was 592 at the 2010 census.
During the colonial period of 1640-1750, this area was occupied by a mixed group of Native Americans — Mohicans, who were local, and remnants of numerous New England tribes who had migrated west away from European encroachment and warfare.
The Village of Schaghticoke is in the Town of Schaghticoke, near the east town line. Schaghticoke is west of the Village of Valley Falls.
In the colonial era, Native Americans at Schaghticoke included a mixed group of Mohicans, and members of several tribes from New England who had migrated away from Anglo-European settlement, including the Abenaki, Cahoo, Pennacook, Wampanoag, Narraganset, Sokoki, Nipmuc and others. Their societies had been disrupted due to a high rate of fatalities from new infectious diseases, to which they had no immunity.
This mixed group, which was at times 1000 men strong, were the dominant Native Americans of the area from circa 1640 -1750. While they paid tribute to the Iroquois to the west, they controlled their own territory here. By 1750, the majority of the land had been sold to European settlers. When the last of the Schaghticoke group moved north to escape European encroachment, the Iroquois laid claim to what was left. In 1769 settlers paid 5000 pieces of Spanish Gold for the area of the Kaydeross Patent.
The European Americans named the village "Harts Falls." It was incorporated under that name in 1867. It was reincorporated under the name of "Schaghticoke" in 1881.
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Double Chocolate Brownie Roll Out Cookies
I saw these cookies in Deb's blog and knew I just had to make them. Since then, I've seen them pop up in many blogs all with rave reviews. And with St Patty's day coming up, I knew I wanted to make sugar cookies.
A few years ago I did this and I had to go to 5 different stores to find a shamrock cookie cutter! While there I also grabbed a pot of gold cookie cutter. That year I made black frosting that turned everyone's mouths black. I decided that this year it would be a perfect opportunity to make the pot of gold cookies again but using this chocolate roll out cookie recipe instead of black frosting.
The cookies came out of the oven and they weren't too dark. I also had some leftover ganache from a recent baking adventure that I wanted to use up. I decided to dip the cookies in ganache to use up my leftover ganache and also to make the cookies darker without having to use black frosting or sprinkles. I love how they turned out. And adding the ganache enhanced the chocolate flavor of the cookie.
I made the dough and rolled out the cookies about two weeks before St Patty's day. Then I froze the unbaked cookie shapes and baked them closer to the holiday. When it was time to bake, I put the frozen cookie directly only the cookie sheet and added an extra minute to the baking time. This worked out well for me.
I also made some regular sugar cookies using my shamrock cookie cutter. I used my Aunt's recipe that I grew up eating. I did a comparison post back during the holidays. You can find the recipe there. I also froze these cookies and baked them a couple days before the big holiday. I used royal icing for the first time, and followed the directions on Katie's blog. Definitely check out her blog if you've never worked with royal icing.
Brownie Roll-Out Cookies – from Smitten Kitchen – I got 3 dozen cookies3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup lightly salted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
Preheat oven at 350 degrees. Whisk dry flour, salt and baking powder in bowl and set aside. Mix butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla and cocoa in mixer. Gradually add flour mixture, and mix until smooth. Wrap in plastic and chill for at least one hour.
Roll out cookie dough on floured counter. Cut into desired shapes, brushing extra deposits of flour off the top. (It does disappear once baked, though, so don't overly fret if they go into the oven looking white.) Bake on a parchment-lined baking sheet for 8 to 11 minutes (the former for 1/8-inch thick cookies, the latter for 1/4-inch cookies) until the edges are firm and the centers are slightly soft and puffed.
Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
Chocolate ganache1/4 cup heavy cream
4 oz. bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
1 tbsp. unsalted butter, softened
In a small saucepan, heat cream over medium heat until steaming, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat, add the chocolate and let stand for 5 minutes. Add the butter and stir until smooth.
When cookies have cooled completely, use a spoon to spread ganache over cookies. Allow ganache to set before adding any other frosting/decorations.
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Those are SOOOOO cute!
You did such a good job decorating these!!!
So cute! I love the little pots of gold!
The cookies are all SOOOOOO cute! I seriously love them! btw -thanks for the hsout out. You are too sweet. I'm so glad it could help. They look fantastic!
I love the Pot'O Gold. And I've been eyeing that brownie rollout recipe myself to make something special for a friend's birthday!
They're so good. You should definitely make them. I would also recommend not rolling them too thin. The thicker ones are much better. I wish mine had been about twice as thick as they were. Guess I'll just have to make them again!
These are too cute! You must have a steady hand for the detail around those clovers. Nice job!
So cute, love the pot of gold! You put in a lot of work for sure.
Thanks for sharing!
I just stumbled upon your blog and I'm really enjoying it (I'm from Boston too)!
The pots of gold are adorable!


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Posted 30 August 2002 - 07:24 PM
Ask yourself and/or your Team the following questions.
1. Do you want it to inform, or sell something?
2. What are your qualifications?
3. Who are your users?
4. What is your target market?
Then, you must understand how users interact with websites. They are task and goal oriented. They want to get in, and get out, or if you have some cool stuff, they want to see more of it. They want to do this in 3 clicks or less. Preferably LESS.
How do you offer that? By way of a good navigation scheme that includes main navigation, subnavigation, hubs, buckets, and breadcrumbs. To name a few. Stay tuned to learn more or ask questions and we'll tackle it together.
Posted 31 August 2002 - 02:08 AM
On reading your post, the following quote came to mind:
I talk to many young painters, because I teach in art schools. I ask them: Why do you think that what you do ends at the edges of the canvas? Think of the frame. What frame are you working in? Not just that bit of wood 'round the edge, but the room you're in, the light you're in, the time and place that you're in. How can you redesign it? I would say that to musicians, too. I see them spending a lot of time working on the internal details of what they're doing and far less time working on the ways of positioning in in the world. By "positioning it" I don't only mean thinking of ways of getting it to a record company, but thinking of where it could go, and where it fits into the cultural picture -- what else does it relate to?
-- Brian Eno
Of course, if we were to say this to web designers, I would have to add that by "positioning it" I'm not just talking about getting it to show up in search engines...
Posted 31 August 2002 - 06:20 PM
I know what subnavigation and breadcrumbs are, but what are hubs and buckets?
How do you offer that? By way of a good navigation scheme that includes main navigation, subnavigation, hubs, buckets, and breadcrumbs. To name a few. Kim
Can you tell I'm not a designer?
Posted 31 August 2002 - 11:02 PM
Well, imagine hubs and buckets like that.
The Joker is the homepage. A hub is an Ace, King, Queen or Jack. The buckets are the numbered cards. You can even do it so that all the diamonds are sub-hub, all the hearts are a sub-hub, etc. with buckets underneath them.
Another way of looking at is a product website. There's a homepage. There's About Us, Contact Us, Sitemap (if they're smart), Product Catalog.
The Product Catalog is a "homepage" IF there's several product lines, such as Executive Line, Small Business Line, Budget Line. Those "lines" each have a hub page that launches each line. The Product Catalog homepage is their "jump page". (or doorway, if optimized like one.)
Each product line "hub" contains different items. They can be divided into "buckets", where each individual product is a "bucket". Every time a new product is added to the line, a new bucket is added to the hub.
When a webmaster uses templates in their design, the theory of hubs and buckets is all the easier. Each hub can be template, and each bucket can be a different, but related, template design. I've seen some very nice sites that use color to help differentiate hubs. For example, the Executive Line would have a template that features the color blue in the background, and the buckets inside can be a lighter shade of that blue. Another hub would be green, with its buckets being a lighter shade of that green. This is good usability.
Navigation is easier when the drilldown is user friendly. When each hub is linked to from a homepage with a text link, and the page and the link are optimized, this affords much easier access by search engine crawlers. This navigation makes it easier for search engines to find pages, and users as well!
The use of breadcrumbs and how to design the navigation of them, intertwinded with hubs and buckets is another step to all this.
I can talk about that if anyone's interested
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Posted 31 August 2002 - 11:26 PM
Posted 01 September 2002 - 03:46 AM
Ok, I give in. What on earth are breadcrumbs?
Phill, for that you should follow the breadcrumb path:
Home > Explainations > Breadcrumbs
(I couldn't resist )
Any path like that is 'breadcrumbs', where each part of the path is a breadcrumb trail back to home.
Posted 01 September 2002 - 02:02 PM
Large sites really need to work things exactly that way!
Posted 01 September 2002 - 02:23 PM
Or popcorn trail.
Can be something like
Home > Hub> Bucket A > Bucket B > Bucket C
Home > HubA > HubB > HubC with a sub-breadcrumb nav for buckets.
Breadcrumbs are used in conjunction with regular navigation. They don't replace it. And, they're nearly always in text form (text only links). Really big sites have top navigation to the top level pages, hub navigation on the left with breadcrumb navigation inside, and footer navigation is the bottom. The footer is important. When all else fails there must be a fast way "Home" or to "Contact" at the very least.
The idea is to never design a user right out of the Web site. Do everything to keep them there, clicking around...
Posted 02 September 2002 - 04:05 AM
And what an awesome way to get your keywords into the hyperlinks...the exact ones that describe the page you're pointing too!
Home > Hub> Bucket A > Bucket B > Bucket C
I love stuff that makes perfect sense to your visitor and also to the search engines...exactly as it should be :!:
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Posted 02 September 2002 - 02:09 PM
home > Kim > Jill > Judi >
...but definitely not breadcrumbs :oops:
Of course, if it went...
home > Kim > Jill > Judi > Ammon
...then breadcrumbs would be better :?
Posted 02 September 2002 - 03:14 PM
Posted 02 September 2002 - 07:04 PM
I believe it was Hansel and Gretel. Snow White had Dwarves to help her find her way home.
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Posted 06 September 2002 - 03:04 AM
Damn you've just figured out my secret weapon Jill.
And what an awesome way to get your keywords into the hyperlinks...the exact ones that describe the page you're pointing too!
Great info Kim - thanks!
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Posted 06 September 2002 - 09:27 PM
It looks like a nice place to hang out!
Posted 11 January 2003 - 06:33 AM
Just a little note about breadcrumbs? Using them depends on site architecture. If you have a larger site with main categories, subcategories, and such, then it's logical to use breadcrumbs.
If there is little or no categorization, then don't use breadcrumbs.
Just a pet peeve of mine. I can just see keyword stuffing in breadcrumb links happening even though they aren't necessary in some types of site designs.
Posted 11 January 2003 - 12:23 PM
1 - little or no organization of elements on a website
2 - little or no pointers on where the user is, where they can go and how they can get back to where they were
It's great to have you here Shari.
Posted 11 January 2003 - 01:51 PM
Just a little note about breadcrumbs? Using them depends on site architecture. If you have a larger site with main categories, subcategories, and such, then it's logical to use breadcrumbs.
I don't know, I think they can be useful on most sites, even if they're small. Certainly, they're necessary on large sites, but I don't think I've seen an instance where they detract from the user experience, even on a small site.
Posted 11 January 2003 - 06:35 PM
The size of the site doesn't matter. I think they are a great navigational tool - it's always nice to see a sign post, wether you use it or not.
Keyword "stuffing" is up to the individual. And Google
Posted 11 January 2003 - 07:00 PM
One of these ways is with color, look and feel of the hub itself.
Obviously it's not a black or white issue or one size fits all. With navigation I think some creative people are still finding new ways to encourage clicking around without the user getting lost or confused.
Posted 05 March 2004 - 04:43 PM
I would like to thank you guys for clarifying the breadcrumbs. All these years i've been associating bread crumbs with just specifically this:
one : two : three
Thanks for the clarifying.
Posted 05 March 2004 - 07:44 PM
Thanks for the enlightment on breadcrumbs.
Posted 12 March 2004 - 05:40 PM
they have some other issues but they do the breadcrumb thing well
Posted 17 August 2004 - 09:31 AM
- Let you know what page you're on
- Let you know where you are in the scheme of things
- Let you get back up anywhere in the tree with one click
I'm aware of a couple of interesting variants:
The Hansel & Gretel thing isn't actually very accurate. Their breadcrumb trail showed where they'd *been*, not where they *are now in the hierarchy*. So, one kosher use of a breadcrumb is actually to leave a trail of the pages you've been on, a bit like the context-back button in browsers. Theseus did the same thing when penetrating the Minotaur's labyrinth..
However, I don't really like this idea very much, partly because it's not the conventional approach, and partly because my web browser gives me that functionality.
One variant of breadcrumbs that really kicks it is this: http://widget.elegan...m/node/view/112, where the breadcrumb is combined with a dynamic drop-down to give you very wide access to the whole site. There are a couple of options, when hovering over a breadcrumb element:
- Drop-down could offer all peers of element
- Drop-down could offer all children of element
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Posted 27 August 2004 - 06:10 PM
As I finally realized what breadcrums are like (nothing to do with the kitchen), it made me wonder if it were possible to make a script for real breadcrumbs trail - so it would show where somebody has visited. For example "last 24 hours - something - What to do before you code - something" and so on?
You have to be careful with this type of breadcrumbs though. The crows might follow behind you and eat them all up, and then you'll be stuck in the woods at the witch's house watching her pre-heating the oven.
OK. Seriously.
I've seen some scripts on how to do this. I know it's possible. I don't know if it's worth doing. A back button seems to handle this pretty well.
How comfortable are you in using php or asp or perl? There may be ways of doing that type of breadcrumb with those.
Posted 27 August 2004 - 06:33 PM
Yes...this sort of breadcrumbs are not very practical :roll:
I've seen some scripts on how to do this. I know it's possible. I don't know if it's worth doing. A back button seems to handle this pretty well.
How comfortable are you in using php or asp or perl? There may be ways of doing that type of breadcrumb with those.
But the idea fascinates somehow. All those crows and dark woods..mm
Maybe a counter that would show like this the paths visitors have traveled thru the site would be more useful, sometimes.
Php, asp and perls may wait me somewhere in the future, as I'm a newbie and amateur.
Posted 27 August 2004 - 06:52 PM
Maybe a counter that would show like this the paths visitors have traveled thru the site would be more useful, sometimes.
That's another matter, and a good one to think about.
It's really helpful to see how someone travels through your web site.
Which page do they arrive upon, and which pages they visit, where they go from one page to another?
I exchanged some words on a forum recently with someone who was an architect before becoming a web designer, and he said that one of the things that always intersted him the most about architecture was circulation - how people traveled from one part of a building to another, and how to design they way people moved from area to area. He said that it was something very similar to what he tries to do with web sites.
There is software that looks at the log files of your web site and can help you see some of those paths through your site. Other software is like a counter, and tracks people with software known as cookies, or by tracking who downloads different images on your pages.
This thread on our forums had someone who writes that type of software describing little of how his software works:
There are other programs that do that too.
Have you ever looked at the log files for a web site? If not, it's an interesting thing to do, and can tell you what words people are searching for when they find your site, and which pages they visit. Log file analysis programs make interpreting all of the information easier, too.
Posted 27 August 2004 - 07:22 PM
No, because I don't have a domain of my own yet. Some time ago it was possible to track some routes with counters, but nowadays thre's too much traffic. It was very interesting - they use very natural path, after all. Usually not those they are meant to do.
Have you ever looked at the log files for a web site
Sometimes I've watched a friend visiting my site for the first time. It gives good information indeed.
And, if it were easy to get "breadcrumbpaths" of visitors rambling around, you could make some links more visible if needed, or remove dead ends.
Somewhere was ads about visitorville or something like that, it sounded a bit like this.
BTW, is there any method to know where are from visitors, who arrive via redirecting frame? I have hunreds of exotic visitors daily from Africa and Near East, but no idea how they found the site.
This week google sent a visitor who searched "Who is the best woodcut artist in the world". I was number one.
Posted 27 August 2004 - 08:17 PM
No, because I don't have a domain of my own yet.
Something for you to look forward to. The log files can tell you where people came from. If they used a search engine, they can tell you what words they used to find your site. How did you find out about the google visitor who found the "best woodcut artist in the world"?
It was very interesting - they use very natural path, after all. Usually not those they are meant to do.
It is funny sometimes the path that people will take. If you are careful, and have some experience at it, I think that you can get good at getting people to follow the paths that you design for them on your site.
This is one of my favorite articles on that subject:
Getting Confidence From Lincoln
Some good lessons there:
[list]Use the words that people expect to see on your site when you write about a specific subject.
Use enough words in the link, and in text surrounding and supporting the link so that people have a good idea what is on the other side of the link before they even click upon it.
Build pages that work from broad categories to specific topics - So that people's confidence in finding what they are looking for grows with each page they visit.[list]
The breadcrumbs we were describing in part of this thread are some other things that can help people figure out where they are in a web site, and where they can visit, and help them travel through the site.
Sometimes I've watched a friend visiting my site for the first time. It gives good information indeed.
That's a great idea, and something that a number of people recommend. It's hard to sit quietly besides them and not tell them what to click upon, but it's worth seeing what they do.
And, if it were easy to get "breadcrumbpaths" of visitors rambling around, you could make some links more visible if needed, or remove dead ends.
It really does help. Another thing worth doing is seeing the words they use to find the site. Sometimes people are using words that appear on your site, but you can tell that they really weren't looking for your site. Or they use words that you wished you had used more of, and can add to the site.
Somewhere was ads about visitorville or something like that, it sounded a bit like this.
I had heard about visitorville before. It looks like it could be fun to use, but expensive if you get a lot of visitors.
BTW, is there any method to know where are from visitors, who arrive via redirecting frame? I have hunreds of exotic visitors daily from Africa and Near East, but no idea how they found the site.
Identifying redirecting pages can be difficult. Have you looked in Yahoo or alltheweb for your URL to see which sites it might be located upon? Google doesn't show all of the pages that link to a site, especially if those pages have below a certain page rank.
BTW, excellent woodcuts.
Posted 28 August 2004 - 03:50 PM
BTW, excellent woodcuts.
Thanks ...isn't it so that Google MUST be right, whatever they talk about it... :sunny:
Visitorville was really funny with firetrucks and helicopters delivering people to to suburban pages. But expensive, really. No matter how many visitors, it isn't cheap.
I have used http://stats1.webpalvelut.com/ which shows search terms and referrers well, but they are going to cost more than until now, so I'm going to quit this counter. I use also Nedstat, but it shows referrers only for 100 last visitors and details of 10 last pageviews, so it's not very helpful.
The lincoln article had a lot of things that sound easy to believe. I probably think like that myself when surfing, but it haven't thought it out as clearly.
Sometimes friends are shy to surf your site if you watch. For example one not so close friend first looked at galleries the way most visitors seem to do. - first the general galleries, then she selected more spesific ones.
Mm - that's what the lincoln article said?
But afterwards I she visited the site from home - first place was then CV and other pages with personal info.
The latter seems to be the most usual way for those who know me personally.
Those who are looking for art, but don't know me, do as the the friend did first.
There's something strange with the dot.tk-addres - no search engine finds anything. Maybe it's language problem, :rainbowafro: they don't spider so effectively arabic sites?
Posted 20 November 2004 - 12:51 PM
I believe it was Hansel and Gretel. Snow White had Dwarves to help her find her way home.
Don't forget Bobby Brady's popcorn trail into Mr. Hanalei's cave in the Brady's go Hawaiian episode
Good gawd I need a life. Someone sell me one cheap please.
Posted 10 February 2006 - 04:23 PM
Anyway, I just wanted to add that you should, as a web developer or webmaster, pitch this idea to your boss/company. In fact, set up a page with an example on it and then say "hey, what do you think of putting these across our website?". I guarantee they'll love it, and you look like the master of all things usability and search engines and then get a $10K raise...or just an appreciative glance
But seriously, great for any size corporate website, and honestly I'm skeptical about what sort of chain to put on certain pages on our company's site. If I'm skeptical, that means the user is probably skeptical about clicking into those areas. Another way of checking for usability, eh?
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Police: Man out to sea couldn't have killed Bakersfield girl
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) Coming under fire by a former Kings County Sheriff's commander, Bakersfield police is defending the integrity of its investigation of the 23-year-old unsolved murder case of 4-year-old Jessica Martinez.
She disappeared on May 10, 1990, while playing outside her home at an apartment complex on the 5000 block of Belle Terrace.
Ex-commander Mark Bingaman questions the way BPD homicide investigators have handled the case. Bingaman believes BPD investigators failed to perform due diligence in ruling out a convicted sex offender as Jessica's killer, and questions why it took police 18 years before performing a DNA test on another suspect.
Not so, said BPD Detective Marcela Garcia, who is currently assigned to Jessica's case.
"All the investigators involved in the case from the very beginning till now have followed up on all and every lead that have come in to the department," said Garcia.
Bingaman successfully lead a team of investigators in Kings County to crack the murder case of 8-year-old Maria Piceo of Lemoore. In 1995, the child was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered. Her body was dumped and found in Poso Creek in Kern County. Navy Petty Officer Gene McCurdy, of Wasco, based at Lemoore Naval Air Station at that time, was convicted for the murder of Maria Piceo. McCurdy received the death penalty and is currently on death row.
Bingaman said there were signs raised during the Piceo case that indicated to him that McCurdy also had a hand in the murder of Jessica. Further, Bingaman claimed he and fellow Kings County investigators brought this information and shared it when they met with Bakersfield police in the mid 1990s.
Again, not so, said Detective Garcia.
"I've personally spoken with the investigators that had been previously involved in this case," said Garcia. "They have never spoken with Mister Bingaman. Mister Bingaman has never contacted them."
A key question in whether McCurdy could have been involved in Jessica's death centers on the whereabouts of McCurdy on May 10, 1990, the day Jessica disappeared. Bingaman questioned if BPD investigators meticulously checked Navy records that would show McCurdy's location.
"I personally contacted Navy criminal investigators to confirm the information that I had previously received from (previous) investigators," said the BPD's Garcia.
And, where was McCurdy on May 10, 1990?
"He would of been out in the middle of the Indian Ocean," said Garcia. Specifically, she said Navy records indicate McCurdy was aboard the USS Carl Vinson.
Asked if she could definitively say that McCurdy is not responsible for Jessica's murder, Detective Garcia said, "Yes, sir."


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California dairy farmers behind the state's "Happy Cows" dairy ads have been ordered by a state Superior Court to answer questions from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), according to Merced Sun-Star newspaper.
The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by PETA against the California Milk Advisory Board for "making false and misleading advertising claims about the treatment of cows on California dairy farms and for withholding thousands of related documents that PETA believes will expose the extent of their false claims," the group said in a statement last summer.
Martina Bernstein, senior litigation council for PETA, claims the milk board has no evidence to support its pro-dairy campaigns that promote the health, safety and comfort of California dairy cows.
"The milk advisory board continues to tell consumers about the great standards of care that cows receive," Bernstein said in the Merced Sun-Star report. "There has been absolutely no evidence to that fact. If they have this evidence, they should be required to show it."
After the court's latest order, PETA attorneys will have opportunity to question members of the milk board over the next two months.
PETA has a history of targeting California's dairy industry. The Sacramento Business Journal reports that the milk board was sued by PETA in 2002. The action ended in 2005 when courts found that the board, as a quasi-state agency, could not be sued under California's unfair-competition law. PETA filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission in 2009.
If PETA wins its latest lawsuit, both the milk board and the agriculture department, that certified the campaign could be found in violation of the California Market Act and California Milk Marketing Order,. A ruling in favor of PETA would require the board to provide evidence before making claims about dairy industry conditions.