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Comparison of Antibiotic Therapy Alone or Combined With Corticosteroids for the Treatment of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Cervicofacial Lymphadenitis in Children: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Study
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Nontuberculous mycobacteriae (NTM) are a group of bacteria that typically cause infections of lymph nodes in the neck and face of otherwise healthy children.
There are currently 3 strategies to manage these infections. Yet, all are not "ideal" and each has downsides.
- Surgery: removal of the affected lymph nodes is the most common approach but has the disadvantages of potential facial nerve paralysis, the possibility of recurrent infection that would require another operation and resolution with a cosmetically disturbing scar.
- Antibiotics: The antibiotic courses are prolonged and are associated frequently with adverse reactions. It is unclear if this treatment has a significant effect on the "natural" resolution process of the infection.
- Observation: follow-up the healing process without intervention. However the resolution may last a long period of time even more than a year. In almost all cases there will be spontaneous discharge of pus from the involved lymph nodes onto the skin that may last a few days. Later on a scar will form that may also be disturbing cosmetically.
The inflammatory response of the body to infections may occasionally be severe. As a matter of fact its harmful consequences can be sometimes more serious than those of the bacteria that cause the infection. Prednisone and other anti inflammatory drugs have properties that could possibly prevent this.
There is medical experience in using prednisone and similar drugs in addition to antibiotics in infectious diseases to decrease the inflammatory response against the infection. One of these infections is tuberculosis. The tuberculous bacteria have some common features with the nontuberculous mycobacteria. The investigators believe that the inflammatory process in infected lymph nodes with nontuberculous mycobacteria is the major cause for the discharge from the skin which later leads to the formation of a scar and to the prolonged resolution from the infection. Thus in order to hasten the resolution and to avoid formation of a neck or facial scar with its cosmetic consequences we suggest the use of prednisone in treating nontuberculus mycobacteria lymph nodes infections. Since prednisone depresses the inflammatory process as well as the immunity response, we chose to study the effect of prednisone combined with antibiotics (as the later will help to overcome the bacteria).
The purpose of the study is to determine whether the addition of prednisone to antibiotic treatment of nontuberculous mycobacteria lymph nodes infections in the neck and face of children can hasten the resolution process and improve its cosmetic results.
The diagnosis of nontuberculous mycobacteria lymph node infection will be based on evidence of bacterial growth in culture or on the presence of DNA of the bacteria in pus obtained from the involved lymph nodes by fine needle aspiration.
Generally healthy children with evidence of infection will be offered to participate in the study. They will be randomly assigned into the following 2 groups for 8 weeks treatment:
- Antibiotics (2 types) and prednisone.
- Antibiotics (2 types) and placebo (a material that tastes and look like prednisone but does not have any medical effect).
Prednisone will be given in a dose that will decrease into half twice: after 2 and after four weeks.
Follow-up visits for monitoring the inflammatory process and its resolution as well as adverse reactions will be done around 2 weeks, 4 weeks 3 months and 6-8 months after beginning therapy,
Blood tests and chest X-rays will be taken prior to the beginning of treatment. Blood tests will be also taken at the first follow-up visit.
A photo of the face neck and the site of the involved lymph nodes will be taken before starting therapy and at each of the follow-up visit.
|Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lymphadenitis.
|Drug: Methylprednisoline
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Comparison of Antibiotic Therapy Alone or Combined With Corticosteroids for the Treatment of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Cervicofacial Lymphadenitis in Children: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Study
- Resolution process of the involved lymph nodes [ Time Frame: 3 years ]The primary end points of the study will be the color of the overlying skin, lymph node consistency, formulation of a fistula, and lesion area at the second and third follow-up visits.
- Adverse reaction to the medication [ Time Frame: 3 years. ]The secondary end point will be any adverse reaction to the medication
|Study Start Date:
|October 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|May 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Methylprednisolone
Drug: Methylprednisoline
Methylprednisolone (Danalone) 1mg/Kg/dose twice daily for 14 days followed by 1mg/Kg/dose in the morning once daily for 14 days,
No Intervention: Placebo
Detailed Description:
The objective of the study is to compare the effect of antimyocbacterial therapy alone or combined with corticosteroids for the treatment of NTM lymphadenitis in children.
The study will be conducted over a 3-year period in the Day Hospitalization Unit and ward C of the Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel using a double- blind placebo-controlled design.
Eighty children aged 3 months to 20 years treated for laboratory-proven subacute/chronic NTM lymphadenitis at the Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel will be enrolled in the study.
Children with any of the following findings will be excluded:
- congenital or acquired immunodeficiency
- chronic disease, such as diabetes mellitus, chronic renal failure, chronic liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease, or chronic arthritis
- immunosuppressive drug use (except inhaled steroids)
- elevated hepatocellular enzyme levels (more than twice the upper limit of normal) --- clinical suspicion of tuberculosis or a first-degree relative with tuberculosis.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|3 Months to 20 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- children aged 3 months to 20 years treated for laboratory-proven subacute/chronic NTM lymphadenitis.
Exclusion Criteria:
- congenital or acquired immunodeficiency
- chronic disease, such as diabetes mellitus, chronic renal failure, chronic liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease, or chronic arthritis
- immunosuppressive drug use (except inhaled steroids)
- elevated hepatocellular enzyme levels (more than twice the upper limit of normal)
- clinical suspicion of tuberculosis or a first-degree relative with tuberculosis.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01614977
|Principal Investigator:
|Yishai Haimi Cohen, MD
|Responsible Party:
|Rabin Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01614977 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|June 6, 2012
|Last Updated:
|November 26, 2014
Keywords provided by Rabin Medical Center:
nontuberculous mycobacteria
Therapeutic intervention in immunocompetent children with nontuberculous mycobacterial lymphadenitis.
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lymphatic Diseases
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Prednisolone acetate
Methylprednisolone acetate
Methylprednisolone Hemisuccinate
Prednisolone hemisuccinate
Prednisolone phosphate
Anti-Infective Agents
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Autonomic Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Gastrointestinal Agents
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Neuroprotective Agents
Protective Agents
Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
Antineoplastic Agents
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ByWSJ Staff
The Republican Party is at a crossroads after losing its bids for the White House and for control of the Senate in November. Kicking off a series of articles examining the future of the GOP, reporters Neil King Jr. and Mark Peters examined Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's experiment in Kansas "to create growth by dramatically revamping state tax codes." If the experiment works, Mr. Brownback and governors who use his "red-state model" could be well positioned for potential White House bids.
We asked readers to weigh in on what direction the GOP should take in blog comments and by using the hashtag #futureofgop on Twitter. Here are some responses from WSJ reader comments below, followed by related tweets on Twitter. Keep the conversation going by tweeting your own thoughts to #futureofgop.
Reader responses:
The centrist wrote: No future going further right. They should try to fight for the moderate center because the democrats have to achieve the politically costly progressive reform agenda.
Martin Earle wrote: The country needs both models. The social welfare state (blue model) needs capital to function. It consumes it. The red generates it. It is necessary for Republicans to show the world how best this is done. On the other hand we need to work with the blues to expose their waste of capital as with the Medicare system … . The truth is whether we like it or not, the blues not going away and we have a symbiotic relationship with them in desperate need of repair.
Anonymous wrote: Individual freedom and individual rights, pure and simple. Stop trying to be "Democrat Lite." It never was a good idea and should be jettisoned.
James wrote: I'm a conservative who works for a non-profit and grew up in a liberal state. In conversations with friends, liberal, conservative and independent I feel most Americans are moderate and beliefs lean slightly left or slightly right. If the GOP wants to win elections their platform should continue to boast a strong economy and strong defense, they need to get out of the home and stop telling people what to do – stop telling women what to do with their bodies, stop opposing gay marriage. The social issues cost Romney the election – most Americans don't care about those issues, they care about the economy. However, the media shoves the social issues down everyone's throat.
[What's the Future for the GOP?" on Storify]

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Should B-triple trucks be permitted on the Hume Highway between Sydney and Melbourne?
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Amid all the negativity surrounding Windows 8 and recent news that it wasn't selling, it seems like sales are actually not too shabby after all. At an investor conference held by Credit Suisse, Tami Reller, head of finance and marketing for the Windows division, she compared sales with Windows 7, although it wasn't a direct comparison. In the one month since it was launched, Windows 8 has sold 40m licences, while Windows 7 reached 60m after 10 weeks back in 2009 and claimed that "Windows 8 upgrade momentum is outpacing that of Windows 7".
Of course, 40m licences doesn't equal 40m users. Most of these have gone to OEMs, who buy them in bulk and sell the computers to companies, very few of which are actually using Windows 8. According to research firm StatCounter, of the 15b PCs out there, around 1% are actually using Windows 8, making for 15m PCs, Perhaps brisk sales of Stardock's little Start8 utility to bring back the Start menu, that we reported on, is making a difference here?
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Keyport Woman's Famly Shocked At Murder-For-Hire Plot In Michigan [VIDEO]
The brother of former Keyport resident Julia Merfeld is shocked at how calmly she tries to arrange the murder of her husband, Jacob.
Nick Antonaccio, one of the 21-year-old Merfeld's 11 siblings, told WPIX "I think it's upsetting that she can talk about it so lightly and laugh about it." He said he thought their marriage was good.
Julia Merfeld met with a hitman to arrange for the murder of her husband in Michigan in April reasoning that it was easier than going through a divorce. The hitman was actually an undercover detective who arrested her.
Antonaccio says their two 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son are now living with husband Jacob Merfeld's parents in Wisconsin. The family moved to Michigan a couple of years ago when Jacob was re-assigned by the US Coast Guard he told WPIX.
Keyport Mayor James Meehan, who received first communion with Merfeld's father Joe Antonaccio, woke up to the news. "To see something like that on the news, it's just shocking."
He says that while Jacob doesn't want his wife to face any jail time, maybe the reality of what his wife did will set before final sentencing on July 30. "Maybe it will sink in, and he'll change his mind,' said Meehan.
Muskegon County, Michigan Prosecutor D.J. Hilson tells MLive.com that Merfeld's "cold and callous" demeanor in the video played a role in the case. "Sometimes the best evidence is video evidence, and this particular video basically laid out exactly what her intentions were and how she wanted it done." It was very clear to Hilson that this was a "money-driven motive" for Julia.
At sentencing Hilson is counting on the video to drive home that "this was a cold and calculated plan on her part, and that she really wanted her husband killed."


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Mrs. Sagrario Amo Arturo receiving communion from her son.
I am the mother of Father Angel Amo Arturo, LC.
A few months ago my son was ordained a priest
and I still feel a tremendous excitement in my heart.
This is without a doubt the greatest thing that can
happen to a mother. Throughout our lives we have a
series of momentous events such as the birth of a
child, a wedding, a graduation, but nothing can compare with
the overwhelming sight of your son consecrating the bread and
the wine into the Body and Blood of our Lord.
It´s as if something inside you were about to explode
with joy as you realize what God has done with
your own son and what this grace means for your
whole family. I have to be sincere and recognize that
it was very difficult not having him at home with
me. He is the "baby", the youngest of three children,
very joyful, mischievous and enthusiastic, which meant we felt his
absence all the more. It wasn´t easy and I cried
many a tear. When I look back and remember those
moments I realize that those tears were watering the seed
of his vocation so that it would be
Father Angel Amo, LC, with his family after his first Mass.
fruitful. Little
by little seeing him so happy and so secure, I
began to accept more peacefully the dynamics of the love,
sacrifice and donation it involved as I realized that I
had a part to play in my son´s vocation. The
last thing I could be was an obstacle. On the
contrary, I had to be a source of encouragement, getting
excited with his experiences and achievements, praying all the while
that our Lord would show him his Face, helping him
to feel strong and at peace with his decision to
follow Christ. In the beginning I had my doubts but
later I saw more clearly that my son was privileged
because God had chosen him to be his priest. He
could count on our Lord to be with him wherever
he went and believe me, living this with faith is
a magnificent experience; a mixture of joy and responsibility as
I feel that my son´s vocation and mission is something
that is mine as well. (June 26, 2003)
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SANTA CRUZ -- Police arrested three men possibly connected with the deadly shooting of Santa Cruz resident Pauly Silva in downtown early Saturday, Deputy Chief Steve Clark said.
Silva, 32, was shot multiple times on the sidewalk outside the entrance to the Red bar on Locust Street near Cedar Street about 12:30 a.m., Clark said. Silva died at the scene.
Two Norteño gang members from Watsonville were arrested soon after the shooting on charges not related to the homicide, including probation violation, being a felon in possession of a firearm and resisting arrest, Clark said.
Another man was arrested early Saturday in Santa Cruz on several outstanding warrants.
Clark said the names of the men arrested won't be released until detectives solidify any role they might have had in the killing.
Police say Silva, a martial arts expert, was not a gang member, though he was known to
"We have good leads and we've been very aggressive in following up on those leads," Clark said. "We have a lot of cloudy or spotty information coming to us and fragile cooperation."
Editor's Note: This story has been updated. Pauly Silva had an arrest record in Santa Cruz. In 2001, he went on trial for mayhem and two counts of assault. A mistrial was declared on the mayhem count and one of the assault charges. He was convicted on the other assault charge and sentenced to time served.
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Removing pilot bushing and more.
"Hydraulic" It Out!
Many times we run up on a pilot bushing/bearing that just won't come out! Here's a technique that has worked very well for me.
First off, be sure to use eye protection! You will need a 6- to 8-inch-long 1/2-inch drive extension and a socket of a given size. Place the socket on the extension backwards. The outside diameter of the socket should just fit the inside diameter of the bushing, use a round or two of rubberized electrical tape around the socket to act as a seal. Next pack the bushing full of axle grease. Then place the socket in the bushing and strike it with a hammer. Repeat once or twice and you will "hydraulic" it right out. Make sure to clean up all of your grease, because clutch assemblies don't like lubricants.
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Hi all I have been lurking for a while and have benefited so much to everybody's posts.
This is my first year playing and i am loving it. I would like to get some advise on what disks to get in the near future as my power is increasing.
Currently I am throwing max at 360-370 ft. I am using disks that weigh around 168 for the longer ranges. The disks I am throwing that far are a Surge, Latt 64 vision and River (175g river), gateway Apache.
I can flip over a 166g diskcraft stalker but a 173 stalker will hold up pretty good. The 175g river will do a nice "S" flight for me if I give it a hyzer or fade out for me if I thow it flat. If I throw a 175g surge it is clear I don't have the juice yet (but it is getting better and I see some serious potential) as it will only do about 340ft and have a strong hyzer finish but the 165 surge will go straight with only a slight hyzer finish out to 360 ft.
I am just now starting to get a more fluid throw and better whip. It is not consistent but every now and then I have hit another level in power/distance and break through my current plateau. When that happens I am assuming that some or all of the current disks will be to under stable as they are flying straight now or am I wrong? None of the disks are above a 10 speed and the slower ones are 173-175g which is helping but the 165 surge had gotten a little flippy on me a few times when thrown hard.
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Summer in the Black Hills
The Black Hills National Forest encompasses an area 125 miles long and 65 miles wide over western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming.
HIKING & BIKING: Whether on foot or riding a bike, the roads and trails of the Black Hills offer endless hours of exploration and breathtaking scenery.
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ABUNDANT TRAILS: The George S. Mickelson and Centennial trails each encompass over 100 miles for hiking, biking, and horseback riding. Visitors can jump on the trails at various trailhead locations throughout the hills.
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BLACKBURN Rovers' red-hot striker Rudy Gestede has been nominated for the Championship player of the month award for April.
But Rovers boss Gary Bowyer is not in the running for the manager of the month prize – despite boasting a better points return than the four bosses nominated.
Gestede scored six goals in six starts in April. He netted a hat-trick of headers in the 4-2 win at Birmingham City and also was on target in the victories over Ipswich Town, QPR and Charlton Athletic.
Gestede's fellow nominees are Burnley's promotion-winning captain and centre-back Jason Shackell, Bolton Wanderers' goalkeeper Adam Bogdan and Millwall midfielder Nicky Bailey.
The nominees for the manager of the month award are Leicester City's Nigel Pearson, Burnley's Sean Dyche, Brighton & Hove Albion's Oscar Garcia and Millwall's Ian Holloway.
Pearson led Leicester to promotion and then the title in April, picking up 14 points from a possible 21, while Dyche's Burnley secured the second automatic promotion spot with a haul of 13 points from six games.
Garcia's Brighton and Holloway's Millwall both went unbeaten in the month, taking 13 and 12 points from seven and six matches respectively.
But Bowyer's Rovers also went unbeaten in April but they took 15 points from a possible 21, winning four and drawing three of their seven games, and scoring 17 goals.
Young Rovers midfielder Josh Morris, on loan at Fleetwood Town, has been nominated for the League Two player of the month award. The winners will be announced tomorrow morning.


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SWINDON Rangers A roared to the top of Under 12 Division One courtesy of a 3-0 win against FC Abbey Meads.
Spurred on by man of match Toby Kutassy who scored a first-half double, Rangers wrapped up the scoring midway through the second half when Dan Hopper crashed home a low drive.
Ferndale YCFC opened up a 3-1 half-time lead against FC Calne courtesy of a sublime hat-trick from debutant Callum Barrett.
Calne scored a second goal after the break but Ferndale held on.
Under 10 Division 1
GOOD defending from James Quick and top saves from Archie Atwell meant Liden kept out Bassett in the opening stages.
After the break Sam Morse gave Liden the lead and they held on to record a 1-0 victory.
Cyril Koomson scored in the first half to give Greenmeadow Youth a 1-0 lead over Shrivenham & Watchfield heading into the interval.
After the resumption Shrivenham levelled but five minutes from time, Thomas Lane popped up with the winner for Greenmeadow.
Highworth Town Juniors H and Croft Juniors Red fought out a tense 0-0 draw at the Rec, with Alfie Eddy, Louis Rendell and Liam Hares all going close for Highworth.
Under 10 Division 3
STRATTON Juniors Black won 2-0 against Stratton Youth with goals from Jamie McConnell and Callum Lewis.
Highworth Town Juniors T scored four second-half goals to win 4-0 at home to Cricklade Youth.
Thomas Harris opened the scoring seconds after the restart with a long range effort, and was followed up with goals from Will Webster and Josh Uzzell and a penalty from Jack Bourton.
Under 10 Division 4
HIGHWORTH Town Juniors J battled superbly but were sunk 2-1 by Swindon Centurions. James Whettam scored Highworth's only goal of the game.
Under 11 Division 1
SHAW ran out winners over Forest Green Rovers thanks to goals from Tom Pugh and Connor Butler.
Under 14 Division 3
HIGHWORTH Town Juniors T stunned hosts South Cerney with a superb second-half comeback to win 4-3.
Trailing 2-0 at half time, Arek Labieniec scored twice after the break with Ollie Mulraney and an own goal four minutes from time sealing the win for Highworth.
Only being able to field 10 men, Sevenfields United were unlucky to lose 2-1 to Brinkworth Cats. Owen Lewis slotted calmly past the keeper to net Sevenfields' consolation.
Under 15 Division 2
ELDENE Rangers took the lead against Stratton through Luke Gay and should have increased their lead in the first half.
After the break Stratton won a penalty which was saved by Aiden O'Neill.
However, Stratton were not to be denied and scored an equaliser deep into injury time.
Under 16 Division 1
FIRST-HALF goals from Thomas Whitham and Bradley Keene were enough as Ferndale ran out 2-1 winners against Calne.
Under 16 Division 2
CROFT went down 3-0 at half-time against Wootton Bassett but battled back to 3-2 thanks to Joe Stadddon and Harry Timbrell.
Under 11 County Cup
ROBINS progressed in the cup after winning a penalty shootout 4-2 against Highworth.
Highworth twice took the lead but Robins equalised before triumphing on spot kicks.
The goalscorers in regulation time were Bradley Hirst and Cameron Braganza-Osman for Robins and Harvey Flippance (2) for Highworth.
Under 9 League Cup
CROFT progressed to the semi-finals of the cup after running out 5-2 winners in extra time.
William Collis-Smith (2), Reegan Messenger (2) and Lewis Hutchison all found the net.
Under 12 League Cup
A FREE kick gave Ramsbury the lead against Swindon Rangers but Joe Tyson levelled shortly before the break.
Dan Hopper hit a superb strike from the edge of the box to put Rangers in front before Tyson turned well and sent home a superb finish.
Ramsbury pulled one back but Rangers' Dan Hopper then put the game out of reach.


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A resurgence of corporate relcations and commercial developmentse have made Dallas one of the fastest growing centers of business in the US. Just last year, nearly 100 developments have been announced or initiated.
The Downtown commercial office market is generally defined by two primary submarkets: the Central Business District (CBD) and Uptown/Turtle Creek.
The Downtown CBD submarket is comprised of approximately 30 million square feet of multi-tenant office space, and contains more Class A space than almost any other regional submarket at over 20 million square feet. Class A property represents a vast majority of the inventory, in fact.
In the Uptown/Turtle Creek part of town, approximately 11 million square feet of multi-tenant office space is available, with 87 percent classified as Class A space.
More than 50 companies relocated to or renewed their leases Downtown in the last year.
Downtown Dallas is a lively district with tons of attractions, from fine dining restaurants to shops and numerous cultural events in the Arts District, which rivals any cultural center in the country.The Dallas Museum of Art, the Perot (yes, Ross), Museum of Nature and Science, and the AT&T Performing Arts Center offer non-stop programming worth a visit.
Furthermore, the culinary and nighlife scene make for a happy workforce. Diverse food options and boisterous bars offer working professionals a bevy of lunch spots and happy hours.
Dallas is widely regarded as one of the best places to do business in the US. With favorable rents, state-of-the-art commercial space, and a vibrant cultural scene, you can see why.


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Christmas Braising Recipes
The most wonderful time of the year is here, with plenty of holiday parties, shopping, and other errands to tend to. Leave more time for the fun side of the season with my secret weapon for holiday cooking: Christmas braising recipes!
Braising has long been a favorite form of cooking meat and vegetables, particularly in the winter, with delicious results. This set-and-forget technique similar to using a crockpot involves early preparation and cooking ingredients at low temperatures for long periods of time. The result: warm, tender comfort food infused with flavor.
If you've been tasked with hosting a holiday meal this year, take a stab at these easy, appetizing Christmas braising recipes so you can spend less time in the kitchen and more time picking out the perfect party dress.
Braised Country Style Kurobuta Pork Ribs – Serves 4
5 ½ Country Style Kurobuta Pork Ribs
1 Tsp. Black Peppercorns
3 Cups Chicken Stock
1 Large Garlic Head - Peeled, Chopped
6 Large Shallots - Chopped
1 Large Carrot - Peeled, Chopped
1 Fennel Bulb - Chopped
2 Bay Leaves
1 Sprig of Thyme
1 Tbsp. Kosher Salt
1 Tbsp. Olive Oil
Preheat oven to 400° F. Pour olive oil into a large ovenproof pot, and set on medium high heat. Season pork ribs with salt and pepper and sear ribs on all sides. Remove from the pot and let the ribs rest on a plate at room temperature.
In the meantime, sauté garlic, shallots, carrots, and fennel in the fat remaining from searing the ribs for about 5 minutes (or just until the vegetables are translucent). Add the pork ribs back to the pot on top of the sautéed vegetables, add stock, thyme, bay leaves and place lid on pot or cover tightly and bake until pork is very tender, about 2 hours. Transfer pork to bowl or platter once done, and place pot onto the stove top on medium high heat. Boil liquid in pot until reduced to 1 ½ cups, about 30 minutes. Return pork to pot; simmer until heated through, about 5 minutes.
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AVONDALE, Ariz. — Austin Dillon will drive Richard Childress Racing's No. 33 Sprint Cup car in the Daytona 500 in February.
Which begs the question, when will he race the No. 3, the car number Dale Earnhardt made famous, in a Sprint Cup race?
Dillon, 22, has driven the No. 3 in the Camping World Truck Series and the Nationwide Series, but taking it back to the Sprint Cup Series, where Earnhardt won seven championships and became a legend, is another matter. The famous car number is considered sacred to longtime Earnhardt fans, many whom don't want to see it raced again.
But it could return as early as next year and it appears that with each passing day, team owner Richard Childress is leaning more toward bringing it back to Cup for the first time since Earnhardt's death in the 2001 Daytona 500.
Childress indicated in June that if Dillon did drive a No. 3 in Cup, it wouldn't be the stylized, slanted No. 3 made famous by Earnhardt. But Childress wouldn't even rule that out Friday after announcing that Dillon, his grandson, would run the Daytona 500 next year.
"There was no consideration for the 500 (next year) but there is consideration that someday we may end up running a 3 in Cup with him," Childress said. "It's not going to be popular with everybody, but so many of the fans, after seeing it on this car, love it and ask for it back.
"It reminds them of seeing Dale. It brings back the memories of Dale. We haven't (totally) made our mind up (on what style of 3)."
— MORE: Dillon would be excited to drive No. 3 in Cup
Dillon said he would be more comfortable if he begins using the number when he becomes a full-time Cup driver, probably in 2014. He will run six or seven Cup races in 2013, depending on sponsorship (Honey Nut Cheerios will sponsor him for the Daytona 500).
Both of the numeral 3s on RCR's No. 33 cars are Earnhardt's slanted, stylized 3.
"There was probably thought put into it, but moving forward, if we do something like that, we want to do something full season," Dillon said. "This is just a great opportunity to take the number 33—I'm real close to that number, too. It has run well in the past."
Childress, who keeps a photo on his phone of Austin in victory lane with Earnhardt, said RCR is looking for a lot of options for when to bring back the No. 3 with Dillon.
Dillon is the grandson of Childress, who has said that only one of his family members or an Earnhardt family number would run that number. Ty Dillon, Austin's brother, also runs the No. 3 in the Truck Series.
"Until he ran it all year and we've seen the great response we've had, it's been overwhelming the people that's wanted to see it back on the track," Childress said.
"Knowing that he is part of the whole family … Earnhardt would have loved to have seen him in it if he was here today."
With a Camping World Truck Series title last season and two Nationwide victories this year, Dillon has been convincing enough to get Childress to allow him to keep the stylized No. 3.
"There's going to be people that don't want to see it back," Childress said. "I've given it a lot of thought. The reason I would even consider it is because he is family. … I've gotten more comfortable because of the response of the race fans.
"That's helped me get a lot more comfortable."


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New York State now has one of the lowest corporate income tax rates in the Northeast. In addition to lower corporate taxes, New York offers a variety of incentives to companies expanding or relocating in the Empire State. These include:
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Sales Tax Exemptions. New York State offers exemptions for purchases of production machinery and equipment, research and development property, and fuels utilities used in manufacturing and R&D. Other exemptions may be available through local Industrial Development Agencies (IDAs). Visit your local regional office page for a list of IDA contacts in your area.
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Oil prices climbed to $78 a barrel Wednesday amid hopes that Europe will contain the debt crisis that has engulfed Greece and threatens to destabilize other countries that use the euro.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for November delivery was up $2.45 to $78.12 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell $1.94 to close Tuesday at $75.67 a barrel in New York.
In London, Brent crude was up $1.97 to $101.76 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange. Brent fell $1.92 to finish at $99.79 per barrel on Tuesday, the first time it ended lower than $100 since February.
Oil prices on the Nymex have fallen from $100 in late July as the financial crisis swirled around Greece. The country, which is on the brink of bankruptcy, will not receive its next installment of a rescue loan without meeting strict austerity measures imposed by international lenders.
But sentiment recovered on Tuesday following reports that Europe was taking steps to bolster its banking sector, which is thought to be heavily exposed to Greek debt and could face crushing losses if the country defaults. Wall Street ended higher after a day of wild gains and losses. The Dow gained 1.4 percent, while the Standard and Poor's 500 rose 2.2 percent and the Nasdaq composite rose 3 percent.
"The rebound in stocks managed to pull the energy complex off the bottom from what had been a steep late-session sell-off," energy trader and consultant The Schork Group said in a report. "Which way the equities go (Wednesday) will determine much of where oil will go."
While stock markets were mostly lower in Asia, European ones were posting strong gains. London's FTSE 100 was up 2.3 percent and Germany's DAX index had advanced 3.7 percent by 1130 GMT.
Prices were also supported by a report from the American Petroleum Institute which said U.S. crude stocks fell 3.1 million barrels last week, while gasoline stocks were down 5 million barrels.
Analysts polled by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos., had been expecting builds of 2.5 million barrels in crude and of 1.3 million barrels in gasoline stocks.
The inventories report from the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration — the market benchmark — will be out later Wednesday.
MasterCard SpendingPulse also said that American drivers continue to cut back on gasoline purchases.
"According to MasterCard, the demand for gasoline over the past four weeks was down an average of 2.5 percent year on year. It has now been retreating steadily year on year for 28 successive weeks," said analysts at Commerzbank in Frankfurt. "Consequently, prices are unlikely to recover any further."
In other energy trading in Nymex November contracts, heating oil rose 4.35 cents to $2.7669 per gallon and gasoline futures gained 5.93 cents to $2.5477 per gallon. Natural gas rose 2.5 cents to $3.663 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Pamela Sampson in Bangkok contributed to this report.
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My WH said:
I thought you were going to leave me anyway.
I thought I would be able to say no when she wanted to get physical.
She was very forward and I was weak.
Your period was too long.
I was stressed out at work.
You are better than me.
I hit rock bottom and figured "why not. I've already f'd up, she's going to leave me anyway."
Her husband won't fuck her. Her marriage was already over.
I didn't think you would find out.
I was hoping it would just stop and we could all continue to be friends without you ever having to know.
Crazy making.
Wasn't really a reason for the affair but his explanation of how the kiss happened.
Why couldn't she have felt wild and pretty while jumping off a cliff?
Married Aug/95
DDay Nov/12
Separated Mar/13
Finally divorced Jul/17
The best thing about hitting rock bottom is that everything after that looks fucking fabulous!
Latest DD - April 2013, PA
Her: WW/57 Me: BS/63 24yrs M
3 great kids, now 22, 20, 17 b,b,g
D-Day 8/14/08, D 1/13/11
Thing is, when we really started talking about everything, we pinpointed when I started pulling away emotionally. It was in a specific conversation where I was super stressed with my horrible workplace and he said to me "I don't want to hear it. Either do something about it or stop bugging me."
This is a man who, for the longest time, I could never get to actually talk to me about some things. He wouldn't open up to me but expected me to be open to him.
A man who I supported through a HORRIFIC custody battle for his son that he won. There were times when he was so depressed and worn down from it all that I was the one that took care of his son's bedtime routine.
Then when I needed some moral support, he couldn't be bothered. So I pulled away, not the smartest thing to do but what I did. Rather than pursue me, he just gave up and turned his focus elsewhere.
To his credit, he has since seen the error of how we both handled it, but admitted that he was keeping too much close to his chest and placing unfair expectations on me. We communicate so much better now. I just wish it hadn't taken an affair to get us to this point.
It's been 8 years. I still fume when that line replays it's self in my head.
1) pregnancy just doesn't turn me on (three days ago he actually contacted a woman from CL that advertised she was pregnant and horny)
2) you won't have sex with me. (He always asks when I have a fever over 100, during menses, or I've had an exhausting day)
3) I feel inferior to you bc you "flaunt" your college to me. (This was after an argument about helping our kids through college and what our responsibilities are)
4) you are boring in bed
His answer to why he stayed in contact with her during our false R.
" I thought you were going to leave me and I didn't think anyone else would ever love me."
What he said he told MOW on their 'date.'
"I told her I really want to get back together with my wife." Me wonders if that was before or after the sex?
What he said about their 'experience.'
"I wasn't going to sleep with her, but she came on to me."
"I didn't even like her, she was vague."
duh, she was married too....rolls eyes and


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While working on films like Moulin Rouge and 300, photographer Catherine Nelson learned cutting edge compositing techniques that she's now using to make fantastical planets out of her favorite landscapes.
"I guess you could say that they are impossible photos that are absolutely inspired by the real," she says. "They are my interpretation of the environment around me."
Inspired by the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel, who was known for including several different scenes in one painting, Nelson said she chose the shape of a circle — as opposed to a traditional rectangle — because it allowed her to do something similar. She wanted to take the best moments from a various landscapes and piece them together in one frame.
Working in the movie industry as a compositor, she would often combine multiple elements — live shots, green-screen shots, still images, etc. — into one scene using meticulous digital manipulation. That attention to detail makes the mysterious orb photos eye-catching: believable, yet obviously fake.
"I was definitely exposed to all the latest techniques," she says.
Nelson says there is no rhyme or reason to the way she shoots a landscape scene. Instead of trying to shoot panoramas or use some kind of hardware like a GigaPan system, she says she simply stands in a place she finds beautiful and takes several hundred pictures at various focal lengths and angles.
"There are no real tricks," she says. "I just take the best moments out of an area of land."
The real magic happens when she sits down in front of computer, often for weeks on end, to carefully piece the photos together in Photoshop.
"While I'm putting those elements together, that's where my imagination really kicks in," she says. "I have a certain degree of loyalty to the place I've been but at the same time it's my interpretation of that place, just like a painter."
Most times she says she ends up with a photo that has hundreds of layers and takes up several gigabytes. After stitching everything together and finding an arrangement she likes, she then compresses the photos into a format that is 2 meters by 2 meters, or more than 6 feet on each side.
When the photos are printed and hung in one of the various galleries around the world that show her work, they are either 100 by 100 or 150 by 150 centimeters. She only prints a limited edition of each photo and they sell for thousands of dollars apiece.
While she's an expert in Photoshop and relies heavily on technology to complete her works, Nelson says she constantly reminds herself to not get too caught up in the ever-advancing world of gadgetry and technique. She always wants the photos to principally be about moments and seeing. She doesn't want herself or the viewer to focus too closely on how she did it.
"I take my hat off to technology because eight years ago [when I started] I couldn't have done this, it would have been too difficult with just a home computer," she says. "And at the same time I don't want technology to get in the way. I want to keep my vision clear."
While Nelson has shot in spots around the globe, including the Danube Delta in Romania, China and California, it doesn't always take an exotic location to make a compelling picture. Her first photo in the series was shot at a park near her house in Ghent and she likes the way her technique can make most places compelling to look at.
"Everywhere I go is a potential artwork," she says. "It's always surprising to me how much beauty is around you if you look. It makes me realize that I can kind of go anywhere and with a small amount of energy can find a place worthy of a work. That's a very encouraging feeling."
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The US food giant has negotiated an agreement with CSPI to remove strawberry imagery and list the percentage of fruit content on its Strawberry Naturally Flavored Fruit Roll-Ups. Both changes will take effect in 2014, resolving the lawsuit.
General Mills settled the changes in light of a class action lawsuit brought against it by a consumer last year that alleged the range and its Fruit by the Foot products mislead consumers into believing the snacks are healthful.
The allegations said that packaging stating 'made with real fruit' and depicting strawberries incorrectly described the ingredients in the strawberry-flavored product made with 'pears from concentrate'.
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The new agreement stipulates that so long as the product continues not to contain strawberries, the new labels will not depict images of the fruit and so long as the product's label carries the claim 'made with real fruit' it will be required to list the actual percentage of fruit in the product.
Steve Gardner, CSPI litigation director, said: "By stating the actual percentage of fruit in the product, these labels will be less likely to lead consumers to believe that the product is all or mostly fruit."
"A more accurate name for the product would be Pear Naturally Flavored Fruit Roll-Ups, since pear is present and strawberry is absent. But the removal of pictures of strawberries is a step in the right direction. We are pleased to have worked cooperatively with General Mills to reach this agreement."
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Meeran Mahmud's eldest sister in Pakistan has waited years to join her family in the U.S. Though their mother applied to sponsor her three years ago, she'll have to wait another 11 years because of the growing immigration backlog for married children.
With the U.S. Senate passing a comprehensive immigration reform bill last month that would curb the family-based immigration system and with various ideas floating in the House of Representatives, the 27-year-old Hollywood resident says she's concerned that her sister and others like her might not be able to come at all.
"I'm not quite certain the way the bill is going to fare in the House; it's really up in the air," Mahmud, a staff attorney for Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles, said. "There's a lot of anti-immigrant sentiment. They want to cut out siblings altogether. ... I think it would have a really devastating impact on a lot of people."
While much remains to be done before an immigration reform law is passed, Asian-American and Pacific Islander leaders are urging their communities to prepare for any unfavorable scenarios. In light of the recently approved Senate bill they say would be a blow to family unification, they are urging immigrant families who are considering submitting applications for their relatives to do so right away.
"The Senate bill weakens family-based immigration and would eliminate the ability of U.S. citizens to sponsor their sisters, or brothers or adult married children 31 years of age or older," said Stewart Kwoh, president and executive director of Advancing Justice-LA during a press conference at the group's office Tuesday. "These are provisions that the Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities have used very heavily since the 1965 immigration law has passed."
With about 55 percent of U.S. immigrants from Asian countries coming via a petition from a relative, experts say the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community would be disproportionately affected if any changes are made to the family immigration system.
In recent decades, "we've seen repeated attempts to limit family immigration, particularly with regard to Asian countries," said Mike Eng, an immigration attorney, a trustee for the L.A. Community College District and former Democratic state assemblyman representing Alhambra. "And let me tell you that this, No. 1, is the most far-reaching, invasive and detrimental proposal for immigration reform on the Asian-American community in probably at least the last four to six decades."
Advancing Justice-LA, formerly known as the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, announced Tuesday that it will host immigration reform informational sessions and family petition clinics -- whereby attendees will receive help in submitting a petition for a family relative for a $100 fee -- at its Wilshire office starting next month. The clinics will also serve same-sex binational couples in sponsoring their partners.
While there is no guarantee that their relatives will ultimately be included in any future immigration reform law if they file now, they will almost certainly be excluded if they apply after such a law is passed, Kwoh said.
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But that's how it goes when a supposedly noble cause feels compelled to hide its true nature. Nor is the case of Kermit Gosnell the only recent example of how desperately the politics of abortion have come to depend upon denial, cowardice, stupidity and outright lies.
Technically speaking, abortion rights are not on trial in Pennsylvania. The 72-year-old Gosnell is accused of killing seven babies born alive after the 24-week gestation period protected by the state's abortion laws, along with a 41-year-old south Asian refugee who died in his clinic after allegedly receiving improper medication and medical treatment.
But make no mistake: Abortion-rights supporters understand only too well what is at stake in that Philadelphia courtroom, which no doubt is one reason why so many people are so eager to ignore testimony that under other circumstances would be dominating the headlines.
Clinic employee Lynda Williams recalled how one baby reacted when she turned it over in preparation for death. "It jumped, the arm," she stated. "I only do what I'm told to do . . . what I was told to do was snip their neck."
The testimony of another employee was even more gruesome. Sherry West told the story of how a newborn placed in a pan "didn't have eyes or a mouth but it was screeching, making this noise. It was weird. It sounded like a little alien . . . I saw it and thought, 'What do you expect me to do?' "
This is the reality of abortion, which is why so many of its apologists resort to euphemisms. It's not snipping the neck of crying, struggling pain-sensitive babies they support – it's a "woman's right to choose."
The Gosnell case is ignored because it exposes the lie without which abortion on demand cannot survive – as big as the lie Norma McCorvey told when she claimed to have been raped in order to seek an abortion. The lie gave birth to the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, and has done its best to avoid scrutiny ever since.
And as those lies pile up, one on top of another, those who have been duped resort to tactics far more bizarre than simply refusing to report uncomfortable truths. Just this month alone:
*An Ohio woman sued an Akron abortion clinic for negligence after giving birth to a healthy daughter. Ariel Knights had sought the abortion believing that giving birth could endanger her life, but she is fine, too.
*In Indianapolis, meanwhile, about 100 people rallied in support of a woman who had been charged with murdering her unborn baby by drinking rat poison in a failed suicide attempt. Well, why not? If the IPFW Women's Studies Department can "celebrate" abortion, as it did last month, what's wrong with supporting someone who intentionally kills her 8-month-old baby?
*In Columbus, a young woman on the campus of Ohio State University was filmed as she stomped on an anti-abortion sign and asked onlookers whether they really want an "overpopulated earth . . . with a generation (of babies) born to crackheads."
*Almost simultaneously, North Carolina abortionist offered a more honest version of her rant: "Let me see you adopt one of those ugly black babies," he told pro-life activists.
Were abortion not involved, such a statement might be condemned as not only racist but genocidal. Nationwide, blacks accounted for 37 percent of the abortions in 2010 despite comprising just 12 percent of the population – many of those minority abortions no doubt taking place in Gosnell's clinic.
Some will insist that such horror stories are aberrations. But they are, in fact, consistent with the vision of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. A supporter of Nazi-style eugenics, she called for the "elimination of human weeds" and wrote that blacks "breed carelessly and disastrously."
Most supporters of abortion rights no doubt would recoil at such words, just as most Americans fervently believe they are more civilized than barbarians who plant bombs that tear even innocent children limb from limb.
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Wed, 04 Sep 2013 17:30:00 GMT —
The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa has filed new court documents seeking a judge's order to keep Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz from using a federal immigration database to try to find voters registered in Iowa who may not be citizens.
Schultz received permission Aug. 14 from the government to access federal immigration records.
The ACLU is asking a judge to rule on its lawsuit filed last year or at least issue a temporary order to keep Schultz from using the data until the lawsuit can be decided.
The ACLU says Schultz doesn't have the authority under Iowa law to remove voters by comparing state records with federal immigration data.
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Special Care & Awareness: Allergy to iodine, seaweed or shellfish. As with all food supplements, seek advice from your doctor prior to use if you have high blood pressure, heart or thyroid disease, diabetes or if taking a MAO inhibitor or any other prescription drug. Do not use if pregnant or nursing. Reduce if nausea occurs. Not intended for use by persons under the age of 18. Keep out of reach of children. Do not use if cap seal has been broken. Store in a cool, dry place. Food supplements should not be used as a substitute for a varied diet. For best before date, see base of carton.


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Robin Brownlee
September 10 2012 11:12PM
It's been 11 years since the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. It doesn't seem that long ago since the world watched in shock and disbelief at what was unfolding before our eyes. It doesn't feel like 11 years ago, but it is.
I won't begin to presume to write anything here that hasn't already been said or express an emotion that hasn't been felt 1,000 times over by those who lost friends, family and loved ones that terrible morning. If what we witnessed that day is still fresh in my mind, I can't imagine what it must be like for them.
Having been fortunate enough to work in the same circles as Los Angeles Kings scouts Mark Bavis and Garnet "Ace" Bailey, who both perished that morning, during my years on the beat covering the Edmonton Oilers, doesn't put me in the same emotional place as so many others who'll mark this day.
This, as those with a stake in the great game of hockey, emotional and otherwise, await word on if or when we'll have a 2012-13 NHL season – the juxtaposition with what we saw 11 years ago makes that seem remarkably unimportant – is just my way of taking a moment to reflect out loud. This is a hockey website, after all, and not the place to delve deeper than that.
Bless you, Ace. I miss that big toothy grin of yours. So many people do. Bless you, Mark. Bless everyone who didn't make it home that day. Bless the mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters whose lives forever changed on September 11, 2001.
Listen to Robin Brownlee Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the Jason Gregor Show on TEAM 1260.
September 10 2012, 11:27PM
September 11 2012, 12:53AM
I met Ace when I was a 17 year old rink rat hanging out at the Coliseum during high school lunch breaks in '78. He signed a broken stick for me and we spoke for a minute. He was a decent man and like all who perished that day I am sure he is sadly missed and fondly remembered. God truly moves in mysterious ways.
September 11 2012, 06:02AM
...Thankyou Robin
lest we forget...I broke bread and enjoyed great times with Ace over the years back in the day...his widow still raises money in his name via the Ace Bailey Foundation ...I always email a message at the site and she always says thankyou for keeping his memory alive...
September 11 2012, 07:21AM
Classy words from an even classier man! Thank you Mr. Brownlee, for that short but heartfelt piece...
September 11 2012, 07:44AM
Robin...he woulda been a treat to meet right outta the gate when you got there...he was generous to a fault and couldn't be more welcoming...a true gem of a man...
i sent the site this and got this reply
... i will always remember you Ace for being so kind and welcoming during my years around the team you loved so much ... now being an old retired Oiler fan I will pray that one day we'll feel each others' energy again in heaven where you surely are...God bless
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Barbara Pothier
8:05 AM (1 hour ago)
Thank you very much for your kind words Paul and for remembering Ace to his family on this day. It means a lot that you took the time. Thank you very much.
Best wishes,
Barbara ( Ace's sister-in-law )
Executive Director Ace Bailey Children's Foundation 135 Langdon Street Providence, RI 02904 firstname.lastname@example.com www.acebailey.org
My thoughts and prayers go to those who lost loved ones during the 9-11 attack. They go out two-fold to the Emergency Personnel who perished while serving the citizens in peril. Likewise, the brave few on Flight 93 who prevented an even bigger disaster from occurring... you'll live on in my memories until my dying day.
September 11 2012, 10:00AM
I remember getting ready for work that morning when news of the first plane striking the towers broke and then watching the tv in disbelief as I wondered how a pilot could make such an error... and then the truth slowly poured out by the time that the second plane struck the second tower as a third went for the Pentagon... I also remember how the tone of that day changed for everyone, even for those being hundreds or thousands of miles away, as they thought of friends and their families affected by these sad and unfortunate events... I never had the good fortune to meet Ace, Mark or any of the others that lost their lives that day, but may each of you rest in peace and may your legacies and memories live on.
Well said Robin. May those who died rest in peace and may their families have found some measure of comfort all these years later.
September 11 2012, 11:48AM
We should also take a moment to think about the hundreds of thousands of people (military service men and women, as well as civillians) that have died since the events of September 11 changed out world. Puts our worries about a hockey lock-out into perspective, especially when you dont have to worry about random drone attacks.
September 11 2012, 05:12PM
Thank you for this wonderful piece Robin.


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Video submissions arent due until June 16th. Just got an email from Troy Brokl
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Video submissions arent due until June 16th. Just got an email from Troy Brokl
Thanks Mr O your a lifesaver!
All the people who have auditioned so far look like scrubs. Area 55 will never have a better crew than in its inaugural season.
DG for 3
Yeah because we wont have cole the mole there to tell us who we hate
I have watched some of the audition videos they are kind of boring.
Hi my name is steve and I like the Pacers pick me for area 55
I hope we get some crazy guys people At kroger at least or it is gonna be a long year.
we need to post the instructions for an area 55 audition video.
Step 1
Don't be Trader Joe
Step 2. Don't wear a clippers jersey
I plan on throwing me hat in the ring.... If I can come up with an idea for a 30 second video.....
"Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "
God, tomorrow's gonna be the longest damn day. I'm so excited. Can't wait for the softball game, can't wait for the Draft Party.
I've been asked if 2 people can audition in the same video clip. Does anyone know the answer to this, or is there someone that can be contacted at PS&E?
Group videos are allowed; group auditions @ Kroger are not.
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Rob laycock says yes but in the terms and conditions it clearly says no. I would think rob trumps that though
On a darker note, I will now not be able to attend the softball game. Can somebody please get in a I LOVE YOU LARRY for me? I don't care if he won't be there, he'll be there in spirit. He's everywhere in spirit.
Good Larry Almighty
So true!
I wish that 4-hour struggle of man against fish could have been captured on video. Inspirational! Old Herman was some fish. I've seen nothing on River Monsters to equal him. I've been in awe of Pacero ever since. Que macho!
I know it I am ready to go give out some hib hib's aqnd some hoo haaas!
U mad bro?
only 2 more days till Area55 Auditions...
From what I got from Rob, you can do a group video, but you still have to have a different video for each person. And I don't think a family video is going to fly this year either. Not applicable to residents of Nevada.
Hmmm. You are talking about RobfromthePacers, right? I may have to e-mail him directly. I think my wife and son now want to do this. Even though they can make nearly every game and there is no doubt that they would be loud and proud, my son can't drive himself to games, so it would have to be both or none. They would be fine additions to Area55 if there is a search for some new blood; much better than I would ever be. Although I wouldn't want their inclusion to come at the expense of members of this board who are in Area55. You folks did a great job last year.
If you have to have a different vid from each person, then why do a group vid?
I don't get it.


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Consumer Reports: Best gadgets for your grill
CONSUMER REPORTS -- Looking for more from your grill? Consumer Reports tested three gadgets that aim to make grilling even better.
First up: GrillGrates. It has interlocking panels that sit on top of your grill. They promise to help cook more evenly and keep your food juicy while reducing flare-ups.
Consumer Reports' lab found the GrillGrates did improve evenness with one of the two grills it tested. Although the GrillGrates didn't totally eliminate flare-ups, they did deliver some nice grill marks.
"If your grill is uneven heating and you're maybe even contemplating replacing your grill, this would be a less expensive option to try, and they do offer a money back guarantee," said Tara Casaregola of Consumer Reports.
Next up: the $150 Bakerstone Pizza Oven Box. It uses your grill to make wood-fired-style pizza. After a 30-minute warm-up, it turned out delicious pizzas every four minutes.
Finally, the $130 Grillbot. It's a grill-cleaning robot that promises to scrub your grill grates automatically.
Consumer Reports let the robot loose on a grill caked with cooked chicken. It is noisy, but after 20 minutes the Grillbot tidied up some of the mess - and still took a grill brush to clean up the pieces of burnt chicken stuck in between the grates. A grill brush is a faster, less expensive solution, but it's not as fun.
To make grilling fish and vegetables a little easier, Consumer Reports likes the $17 Master Forge Grill Wok from Lowe's. It's good for grilling small batches of food.
And, if you love barbecued ribs, the Brinkman Rib Rack holds a full rack of ribs without taking up too much space. It's about $18 at The Home Depot.


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Matt Mayforth '12 is Muskingum's first undergraduate Fulbright recipient and earns Phi Sigma Iota scholarship
University's Matt Mayforth '12 will spend the next academic year in
Braunau am Inn, Austria, as a result of being awarded an English
Teaching Assistant scholarship through the 2012-2013 Fulbright U.S.
Student Program competition. He is the first undergraduate student at Muskingum to earn this award.
The Fulbright Program, established in 1946, is
the largest American international exchange program and is sponsored by
the U.S. Department of State. The prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student
Program competition offers opportunities for students and young
professionals to teach in elementary and secondary schools worldwide,
and to undertake international graduate study and advanced research. The
Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture is
underwriting Mayforth's Fulbright support.
As a student, Mayforth studied abroad at
Muskingum's partner universities in both Passau, Germany, and Toledo,
Spain. Prior to enrolling at Muskingum, he spent six weeks in Germany.
On campus, Mayforth was involved in the
German Club and Phi Sigma Iota, the international foreign language honor
society. In addition, he was a resident of the university's
German House, and was actively engaged with both German- and
Spanish-speaking students who have travelled to Muskingum from abroad.
Mayforth's nomination for this scholarship was
supported by his faculty advisors, Assistant Professor of Spanish Dr.
Beth Butler and Professor of German Dr. Franz-Joseph Wehage.
Additional honors
Mayforth was also named one of only 50 recipients of the Dr. Anthony S. Corbiere Scholarship from Phi Sigma Iota, the international foreign language honor society. Established in 1970, the award is named in memory of the society's long-time national historian, editor and executive secretary.
Earlier this year, the Ohio Foreign Language Association granted Mayforth a scholarship to attend its conference in Columbus. That support allowed him to attend sessions related to his teaching interests, as well as to preside over other sessions.
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I hate how every time I buy a pair of board shorts after 2 weeks of surfing the waist size stretches out like 2 sizes. I usually buy 30s and my suit size is 32. Even then, after a while I feel like im going to lose my shorts duck diving. I know I am not the only one. Why cant they just make some with a real drawstring? ..and I realize the pockets go back so youre not lying on your keys but a real pocket would be nice too for when you're not in the water.
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Art Exhibit: "Reconceived Bodies (in Three Parts)"
1:00pm - 5:00pm CST February 9, 2014
Fine Arts Gallery
The focus of the exhibition is linked with the theme of the Brown Symposium: Healing - The Art & Science of Medicine.
The art exhibition Reconceived Bodies (In Three Parts) by Patricia Olynyk presents selections from three distinct groupings of work, which explore medical, scientific, technological, and symbolic representations of both human and non-human life. These photographs, prints, and lightboxes investigate an array of themes that include: The Posthuman; Elective Biohancement and Cyborg Identity; The Gendering of Medical Knowledge; and The Body as Code.
The exhibition is curated by Victoria Star Varner, Professor of Art and will be presented in the Fine Arts Gallery at Southwestern University. The opening reception is February 6 from 4:30 - 6 p.m. and the exhibition continues through March 6, 2014.
Free and open to the public.


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For an estimated one in 10 women of child-bearing age, an imbalance of hormones can lead to a medical condition called polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS. It is one of the top two leading causes of infertility, says Dr. Christopher Stroud, an obstetrician-gynecologist with Parkview Physicians Group-OB/GYN. The other leading cause is endometriosis.
With PCOS, several serious health concerns co-exist with the infertility issue, concerns that many women may ignore if they are not trying to get pregnant, Stroud explains.
The woman with PCOS usually has painful menstrual periods or ones that are shorter or longer, heavier or lighter than normal. Some women with PCOS have only two or three periods a year. The ovaries may develop multiple cysts — thus the name, polycystic. A spectrum of other symptoms such as acne, weight gain and insulin resistance often coincide.
"At one extreme, you get a picture of a woman who is typically obese, has unwanted hair, has acne and is infertile," Stroud says. But a woman with PCOS can also be thin, have beautiful skin and few or no cysts on the ovaries, the paired female glands which produce eggs.
The ovaries contain follicles, or tiny fluid-filled sacs in which the eggs develop. In the first half of a woman's menstrual cycle, estrogen helps eggs grow. As that process moves along, the woman starts producing more of the hormone progesterone.
As progesterone levels increase, the fully mature egg bursts out of the follicle. This is called ovulation. The egg then begins its journey through the fallopian tube in search of sperm for fertilization.
But in the woman with PCOS, an egg rarely or never develops and the follicles turn into cysts.
"If you don't make the egg and (the follicle) doesn't rupture, you don't get progesterone," Stroud says.
Additionally, most women with PCOS produce higher than normal levels of male hormones. That leads to acne and hirsutism, which is excess hair growth on the body, particularly on the face, chest, back, thumbs and toes. Abnormal levels of male hormone can also cause loss of hair on the head.
Normally, a woman produces 10 to 20 follicles a month but only one follicle in one ovary grows an egg that reaches maturity and pops through the wall of the ovary. The undeveloped follicles are reabsorbed.
But with PCOS, the cysts remain in the ovary. Doctors sometimes describe what they see on an ultrasound as "a string of pearls," Stroud says, noting, "The ovaries are usually enlarged and full of immature follicles or cysts."
Besides an ultrasound of the ovaries, diagnosis comes through checking hormone levels and taking a medical history. PCOS has a genetic link. Further complicating the PCOS puzzle is insulin resistance, so blood glucose levels are checked.
"You make too much insulin, but you don't respond to the insulin you make," which indicates type 2 diabetes. "That creates other problems," Stroud says, including obesity, high levels of bad, or LDL, cholesterol and hypertension. "I try to get my patients to think of (PCOS) as a pre-diabetes state."
Medications that decrease the amount of glucose absorbed from food and increase the body's response to insulin are commonly prescribed.
Other treatments include regulating periods with birth-control pills and surgery. Though birth-control pills are the most common treatment, they are not always the best treatment in the long run, Stroud says, pointing out the teenage girl who is prescribed birth control pills to regulate her periods may be on them for a decade or more.
Then, several years after marriage, she wants to get pregnant but is unsuccessful. She is then diagnosed with PCOS and begins treatment. By then she may also be 50 pounds overweight and pre-diabetic.
"I want to impress upon women to find out why they've got irregular periods," Stroud says. "Maybe the pill will be the treatment of choice at the end of the day, but find out what's wrong."
A lesser-used but quite successful treatment for PCOS is ovarian "drilling."
In a laparoscopic procedure, the ovary is punctured with a needle. A current of electricity destroys a small section of the ovary. This causes the ovary to produce less male hormone and increases ovulation. The effects last only a few months, however, so the woman's best chances of getting pregnant are soon after the procedure.
The most serious complication of PCOS is endometrial cancer, which can develop when a woman doesn't ovulate, is not producing progesterone and doesn't regularly shed the lining of the uterus, or endometrium. The lining thickens and predisposes a woman to cancer.
Stroud recently diagnosed a woman in her early 30s for endometrial cancer. She had undiagnosed PCOS for years. Because children were not in her future plans, she had just lived with heavy periods. Though her prognosis is excellent, a hysterectomy, including removal of her ovaries, was required.
"This is something that should not be ignored," Stroud says of symptoms that may indicate PCOS. "Women with PCOS are more likely to develop diabetes and heart disease and endometrial cancer."
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PCOS study plannedThe Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Indiana University School of Medicine is seeking healthy women for a research study on polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Women must be between ages 18 and 40, have regular periods and have a body mass index from 30 to 40.
The study involves two blood draws, a glucose tolerance test and an ovarian stimulation tests at the IU Clinical Research Unit in Indianapolis. Compensation will be given to participants. For more information, call Tammy Garrett at 1-317-948-7064 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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IT will come as scant consolation to the hundreds of Burnley supporters who braved the storm-lashed south cost in search of FA Cup glory last weekend, but as they lick their wounds and reflect on what might have been, they can at least be secure in the knowledge that their team played their part in one of the most thrilling ties of third round weekend.
Quite rightly, Sheffield United's acts of derring-do at Villa Park and Rochdale's humbling of Leeds United garnered all the headlines.
But only at St Mary's was there a seven-goal thriller which oscillated with such wild abandon and unpredictability.
It's a shame that those responsible for choosing which ties were to be televised overlooked this gem.
It was, as former Claret and ex-Saints manager Dave Merrington put it, "a belting cup tie"; one to revive even the most jaded of FA Cup palates.
Here was 90 minutes of attacking intent, goals and drama.
It's knocking on for a century since Bert Freeman's strike gave the Clarets their singular success in this competition and it would have been fitting had Burnley been able to enjoy an extended run.
But if you have to leave early, then best to do so kicking and screaming rather than following the path of least resistance.
Few and far between are the teams who will go to deepest, darkest Hampshire and draw level from a two-goal deficit. Rarer still are those sides who will score three and come away with nothing but pride to show for it.
Sean Dyche's men may not have done enough to claim the Saints' scalp but their efforts were certainly deserving of a Turf Moor rematch.
That Jay Rodriguez won't be revisiting his roots next week was largely down to Kelvin Davis' wonder-save from Sam Vokes and a stubborn upright which thwarted Danny Ings.
Speaking of Ings, the striker's 20th goal of the season will have done nothing to quell the interest in him from various clubs.
Sean Dyche and the board have consistently toed the same line when asked about the player's future – namely that every player has his price but the club are on a financially sound footing and have no need to sell anyone.
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NEW YEAR 2013 to Open at Margaret Thatcher Projects, Jan 17
Margaret Thatcher Projects will present NEW YEAR 2013, a selection of new works by many of the gallery artists, including Frank Badur, William Betts, Freddy Chandra, Kevin Finklea, Jus Juchtmans, Tad Mike, Maria Park, Robert Sagerman, Heidi Spector and William Steiger. They exhibition grew out of the need to "have eyes on" all the artists' works following the destruction of Hurricane Sandy and a desire to leave the storm behind, and bring together the artists and their works in the new year and with a view toward the future.
NEW YEAR 2013 will be on view from January 17 to February 9, 2013. Reception: Thursday, January 17, 6-8 pm.
Embodying the glimmer of possibilities in the new year, paintings by Kevin Finklea, Jus Juchtmans, and Freddy Chandra offer unique encounters based on times of the day and interactions with daylight. Light and shadow are equally important in the paintings of Robert Sagerman. In his works, Sagerman emphasizes the materiality of paint itself to explore paint's materiality. Spector's punchy color sits playfully on the wall alongside establishEd Gallery artists Frank Badur and William Steiger. The paintings of Badur and Steiger are especially notable for their subtle and graceful control over reductive, balanced compositions, and a commanding use of color.
Tad Mike and Maria Park explore an interest in the conceptual possibilities of representing nature -- and our place in it. Drawing inspiration from the mountains of Zakopane, Poland, Tad Mike Layers mark upon mark of walnut ink and swiss varnish, using stones gathered from Zakopane as his brushes, producing wonderous, crackled and patterned abstract compositions on linen. Maria Park constructs her images, both natural and artificial in feeling, by stenciling and layering distinct shapes and blended fields of color, creating a perceptual play between the crisp, flattened characteristics of screen graphics with the gestural and visceral effects of the painterly surface.
William Betts' Pool Paintings incorporate Bett's signature application of acrylic paint applied in a grid of small dots of pure color, using the artist's proprietary software computer program to lay down the color; the resulting compositions calling to mind the much earlier painting technique of the Neo-Impressionist Pointillists.
In exploring the possibilities, and the materials and processes available to them, the artists included in this exhibition push the limits of their 'contemporary' practices in while paying homage to the rigorous traditions of painting. The artists employ both classic and industrial materials and techniques, bridging and blurring the conceptual and compositional boundaries of painting.
Margaret Thatcher Projects is located at 539 West 23rd Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm. For further information, contact the gallery at: email@example.com, or 212.675.0222, or visit www.thatcherprojects.com.
Artwork: Jus Juchtmans, 20121116, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 63 x 51 inches (160 x 130 cm)


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Is this the next evolution of Boho Chic — Bag Lady Chic? After a recent shopping excursion in LA, Halle Berry headed back to her car with not one, but three purses, including the silver Chloe Paddington that she has been wearing lately. But what about the other two? Did she just buy them and couldn't wait to wear them, like Britney Spears? Or maybe she just has a lot of stuff to tote around? We'd certainly be happy with just the Chloe and those rocking Tom Ford sunglasses. What's your take on Halle's bag trio?
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Civil & Mechanical Engineering Operatives
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- Promec Engineering Ltd
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- Bristol (City Centre), City of Bristol
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- 06 Jan 2017
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Civil & Mechanical Engineering Operatives (Full time)
Expanding civil and mechanical engineering company working in the sectors of oil, gas, power generation and utilities are seeking motivated and forward thinking individuals for their civil and mechanical departments.
Experience in the engineering field will be an advantage however training will be provided for right candidates.
Remuneration will depend on experience and qualifications.
Based in Bristol with working throughout the UK.
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- Clean Driving licence
- Sound knowledge in maths and English
- Be able to work under own initiative
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Strawberries with Lemon Sugar and Lavender SyrupPublished: March 2005
Ingredients8 Servings
- 1/3 cup plus 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon peel
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 teaspoons dried lavender blossoms*
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- 3 1-pound containers strawberries, hulled, sliced
- Crème fraîche or sour cream
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- *Available at natural foods stores and some farmers' markets.
Mash 1/3 cup sugar and lemon peel in small bowl to blend well. DO AHEAD Lemon sugar can be made 3 days ahead. Cover and store at room temperature.
Bring 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup water, honey, and lavender to boil in heavy small saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Reduce heat to medium and simmer until lavender flavor is pronounced, about 3 minutes. Strain syrup into small bowl. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and let stand at room temperature. Rewarm syrup before continuing.
Place berries in large bowl. Pour warm syrup over berries; stir to coat. Divide berries and syrup among 8 bowls. Spoon crème fraîche over berries, sprinkle with lemon sugar, and serve immediately.
Photograph by Brian Leatart