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Graphics are commonly used in Web pages, desktop publishing, authoring programs, tutorials, presentations, and games. The type of graphics that you choose for your website requires knowledge about file sizes, compression rates, resolution, and other specifics.
A graphic can be a chart, a drawing, a painting, or a photograph. It can be solid black and white; in grayscale, which uses many shades of gray ranging from white to black; or it can use the full spectrum of colors. Some pictures are still pictures, and some use animation. Graphics can illustrate or demonstrate procedures, clarify data, convey ideas, and tell stories. Sometimes, they serve simply as a decorative element, adding visual appeal to information and helping to keep readers interested.
The expression "a picture is worth a thousand words" is as true today as ever.
Visualizations can be an important part of the communications process and graphical images can be used to add emphasis, direct attention, illustrate concepts and provide a background for content.
Computers create images by arranging tiny dots of light, called pixels, on a monitor. Pixel means "picture element." If you look very closely at your monitor or use a magnifying glass, you might be able to see the individual pixels. A digital image does not have a physical structure. The particular way in which the computer stores the image data is called the image format.
Raster graphics, also known as bitmap graphics, store information about color and location on a rectangular grid of the pixels that make up the graphic. The dimensions of a raster graphic are the number of pixels in the rectangular grid. We measure the quality of a raster graphic in the number of pixels per inch or dots per inch. Another name for image quality is resolution.
Raster graphics, also known as bitmap graphics, store information about color and location on a rectangular grid of the pixels that make up the graphic. The dimensions of a raster graphic are the number of pixels in the rectangular grid. For example, if an image is 800 x 600 pixels, the image contains 800 times 600 pixels (or 480,000 individual pixels).
We measure the quality of a raster graphic in the number of pixels per inch or dots per inch. Another name for image quality is resolution. When you increase the size of a raster graphic, the same number of pixels takes up more space, and you have fewer pixels per inch. The result is that the image will be less detailed (lower in resolution). When you decrease the size of a raster graphic, it has the opposite effect—the resolution of the image increases.
When you enlarge a raster image, the pixels become stretched. The two suitcases on this Webpage are the same image file; however, the suitcase on the right has been enlarged using the html width attribute. The suitcase on the right has a fuzzy appearance because the pixels have been stretched in order to make the picture larger. We refer to this phenomenon as "pixelated."
Two very popular raster based graphics are the .GIF (pronounced Jiff or Giff) and .JPG (pronounced j-peg).
GIF Files—Graphics Interchange Format
JPEG or JPG—Joint Photographic Experts Group
Computer programs that help you create raster graphics include Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Paint, and any sort of digital camera or photo editing program.
Have you ever copied an image from the Internet and found it to be too small for your needs? When you made the picture bigger, the image probably distorted and pixelated like the suitcases above. To solve this problem, the vector graphic was created and a major advantage of vector graphics is that they do not pixelate. You cannot stretch pixels because there are no pixels. Vector graphics are sometimes referred to as draw-type graphics. Designed specifically for the use on Webpages, vector graphics represent an image as a geometric shape made up of straight lines, ovals, and arcs
Vector graphics store information about images using lines, shapes, and colors represented by mathematical equations. Because they use shapes and math to describe images, you can make vector graphics larger or smaller without affecting the image quality. Vector graphics work great for illustrations, logos, buttons, shapes, and even some more complicated types of graphics and text. What they don't work well for is photographs. This is because photographs contain so much detail that it's not economical, from a file-size perspective, to convert them into lines and shapes.
Computer programs that work with vector graphics include Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, and any illustration application.
Raster graphics used to be the only game in town when it came to the Web—but no more! The latest generation of Web browsers (including Chrome, Safari, and most mobile browsers) contain built-in support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). SVG is a widely-deployed royalty-free graphics format developed and maintained by the W3C SVG Working Group. SVG is an XML vocabulary that you can use to describe computer graphics. A computer program (such as a browser) that knows how to interpret SVG uses the code to display images.
If you typed everything correctly, the lower-right pane of jsfiddle.net will display a circle with a black border and green on the inside. Try changing some of the values in the
SVG is resolution-independent, uses less bandwidth, and renders color more accurately. Other advantages of SVG include:
You can learn more about creating SVG at W3Schools - SVG Basic. Visit What is SVG at About.com to learn more about Scalable Vector Graphics. In summary, SVG is a W3C-recommended language that uses XML to describe graphics and graphical applications.
Directions: Let's compare the pros and cons of each type of image formats. Create a chart (or table) of the types of images. Download my template or create one of your own. You may use your lesson, the Internet, or other resources that you have available to you. I've even included a few image formats that we didn't cover in the lesson as a challenge to you.
For each format, list at least 3 advantages (pros), 3 disadvantages (cons), and an example of an image displayed that each particular file format. Download the template (opens in Microsoft Word) to get started. Submit your finished comparison chart to itsLearning.
Images, video, and sound all contribute to the size of a Webpage which translates to load time. Google's research has found that a half-second longer load time for search results decreased traffic and ad revenue by 20%. Amazon found that its revenue increased by 1% for every 100 milliseconds faster the site loaded. In 2001, a study found that the longest a typical user would wait for a webpage to load is eight seconds. Today, this number is way too long for most Internet users. A much higher percentage of users have high-speed Internet connections. More recent studies have found that most broadband users won't wait four seconds for a page to load.
Raster (bitmap) images and video account for a large percentage of the data that travels over the Internet every day. In fact, network equipment maker Cisco Systems has predicted that video alone will soon make up 90% of all Web traffic. Compression is the process of making files take up less digital storage space by reducing the amount of digitized information needed to store a visual image electronically. Files are compressed to:
Lossy compression works by discarding aspects of an image that are insignificant. For example, if a photo contains 30 different shades of black, lossy compression will get rid of some of those shades. It is referred to as "lossy" because lossy image compression results in a loss of image fidelity. When used correctly, it's difficult or impossible for most people to detect. Lossy compression:
Lossless compression compresses images in such a way that they can be exactly reproduced from the compressed file—with no loss of fidelity. Lossless compression works great for icons, clip art, logos, buttons, and the like. The most popular lossless compression formats on the Web are GIF and PNG because of the limitation in colors. Lossless images:
You can read more about image compression in Cameron Chapter's blog, Everything You Need to Know About Image Compression. The blog includes great visual examples and is worth reading.
When you are saving pictures to your hard drive or saving pictures to post online or email, you're going to want to know about lossy vs. lossless image compression. Stacy Reed explains this important computing concept.
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Directions: Describe how image file size can affect the download time of a Webpage and ways that image file size can be reduced. (~150 words). Post your essay directly to the itsLearning textbox. Do not submit a separate document and be sure to proofread before submitting.
Directions: Download the Comparing Image Compressions Worksheet and the yellowstone.jpg image and complete the worksheet.
Copyright cannot be stressed enough. We've talked about the benefits of images in our Webpages and multimedia presentations. They most certainly engage the visitor and enhance the presentation. Users have come to expect a visually pleasing experience that can only be achieved with the use of images. The World Wide Web has made it easy to share images and to purchase images through stock photographs and photo-sharing Websites. You can also create original images using image-creation software. You can scan hard-copy images (with copyright permission) or take your own images.
Stock photography is images that you can purchase the rights to use in printed material or on a Website. Professional and amateur photographers file their images with an agency that acts as a go-between to negotiate licensing fees on behalf of the photographer. Stock photo images are licensed from the agency. Many modern stock photography distributors offer still photos, video and illustrations. Millions of photos are available for licensing, and all images on stock photography Websites are easily searchable by keywords. Stock photography can be sold with a royalty-free license that allows the buyer to use the image without having to pay a royalty each time the image is used. Stock photography can also be obtained with a rights-managed license. A rights-managed license permits the purchaser to rent an image through negotiation of a specific price for a specific use.
Some Websites offer digital photos for personal and commercial use free of charge, with restrictions such as:
There are many free images offered through the creative commons copyright. Be sure to read the fine print of any restrictions that are associated with the creative commons copyright.
Another possible source for free images is photosharing Websites, although photographs on these Web sites are copyrighted to the photographer and you must contact the photographer or owner of the photo to obtain permission to use the images. For example, I could place my picture of the Thunder Bay River that I took with my smartphone Photo-sharing Web sites where you would be allowed to upload, organize, view, share and download the photo and other image files. Some sites are free, whereas others offer subscription-based services. Free sites generally rely on advertising or the selling of prints to make a profit. These sites often feature online advertisements. Some sites offer subscriptions for their premium services, and a scaled down version with fewer features as their free package.
Directions: Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. You can also emphasize a word or two by repeating (multiple times) the word in your list. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Create a Wordle of at least 10 words that have significance to you. You cannot save a Wordle but you can screen shot it (press your print screen key next to F12 in a Windows PC) and paste it into your word processing program. If you have Microsoft Word 2010 or higher, right click on the picture and you can save it as a picture and crop out any parts of the computer screen that you do not need). Drop it in the unit drop box and tell me in the message box why you chose those 10 words to create your Wordle. Upload your Wordle to itsLearning.
There are many tools that can be used for creating and editing images. Use can use graphics software to:
Adobe Fireworks (formerly Macromedia Fireworks) is a bitmap and vector graphics editor. It was originally developed, using parts of xRes, by Macromedia, which Adobe acquired in 2005, and aimed at web designers (with features such as: slices, the ability to add hotspots etc.) for rapidly creating website prototypes and application interfaces (Wikipedia).
Pixlr.com is a free online photo editor just waiting to edit, adjust, and filter your images. Reviews compare it closely to Photoshop.
Other popular image-creation applications include:
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It is possible to license (and share) your work using licenses known as Creative Commons licenses without the use of lawyers or expensive fees. Creative Commons a nonprofit organization devoted to making it easier for people to share and build upon the works of others by offering free licenses and legal tools with which to mark creative works.
Attribution (cc by): The simplest of all Creative Commons Licenses, in which any user (commercial or non-commercial) can distribute, modify, or enhance your work, provided you are credited.
Attribution Share Alike (cc by-sa): The same as Attribution, except that the new owners must create their license under the same terms as you.
Attribution No Derivatives (cc by-nd): Your work can be distributed by others, but not modified and in its entirety, with you being credited.
Attribution Non-Commercial (cc by-nc): Your work can be distributed, modified, or enhanced, with credit to you, for non-commercial purposes only. Derivative works do not have to be licensed.
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (cc by-nc-sa): Your work can be distributed, modified, or enhanced, with credit to you, for non-commercial purposes only, but must be licensed under the identical terms. All derivative work must carry the same license, and be non-commercial.
Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivative (cc by-nc-nd): This is the most strive license category. Redistribution is allowed as long as credit is given. The work cannot be modified or used commercially.
Source: Bishop, Shuman, Reding, The Web Collection
Directions: Create a postcard of 2 places you have visited around the world that includes pictures and text descriptions. Address the postcard to Mrs. Rush. You may use any image editing program (such as Photoshop) that you choose.
Download the full project instructions here: Been There; Seen That. Please upload your completed assignment to itsLearning.
Directions: Create 1 paper currency design (front & back) & 1 coin currency design (front & back) for a country of your choosing. Research this country's current design and then create an updated version for both coin and paper currency for your country. You may use the layout of the current currency but just changing colors around will not suffice. Countries are usually known for something… structures, famous people, geography, political involvements, etc. Use your country's history to help you in designing their new and improved currency. These designs should be created using Image Editing Software. This project should be taken seriously… no pictures of explosions, convicts, anything questionable, etc. Once complete, compile the four images on a Word document to be graded. You will be graded on originality, craftsmanship/technical skill, composition, & following of directions.
Download the project instructions: Currency Remix Project and rubric. Please upload your completed assignment to itsLearning.
Directions: You are on the staff of a large marketing firm in New York City and Miles Stanish has hired your firm. He is opening a bicycle store in New York and plans to name it Cycle Fitness. Your firm is to design a new logo for this new shop and as well as for future locations he plans to open. Cycle Fitness plans to hold free seminars on bike safety, cycling for fitness, what to look for when buying a bicycle, choosing the right bike, choosing a bike for a child, and creating a cycle group that will be doing monthly cycle trips. Your firm must design the new logo, a grand opening postcard for mailing, a business card, a rack card that will sit on the counter in a holder indicating all the seminars offered, and a quarter-page advertisement. You may use any graphics and software programs to create your logo and documents.
Download the Digital Design and Promotion project instructions. Please upload your completed assignment to itsLearning.
If you are having problems viewing this page, opening videos, or accessing the URLs, the direct links are posted below. All assignments are submitted in itsLearning. If you have having problems, contact Mrs. Rush through the itsLearning email client.
Dithering and Anti-aliasing Pixel Art video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7xVhjblXt8
Pixlr: http://pixlr.com/ (note: MyScrapNook navigation bar is just an advertisement)
Understanding lossy and lossless compression video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qo5prktYNQ
Review: https://www.examtime.com/p/1064479-Images-Review-quizzes
Transcript: http://mrsrush.net/digitaldesign/graphics/index.pdf
Vintage Suitcase image: dryicons
Interlace/Non-interlace flowers image: Web Style Guide http://mason.gmu.edu/~acarrott/index.html


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Recently, I was featured alongside my husband, Ian Locke, in a Wiltshire Business article focussing on our independent separations from corporate life to run coaching businesses; me business life coaching and Ian personal training and nutrition.
The headline was, perhaps inevitably, "jumping off the corporate hamster wheel". http://www.wiltshirebusinessonline.co.uk/magazine/
No offence to my corporate clients but it is how a lot of us who move to running our own businesses feel. we want control over our own destiny, choice over how and when we do things.
However, I had a couple of conversations recently with people who are running their own businesses, following their own plans and goals but who were struggling to keep up with the demands of their businesses. They were overwhelmed, frustrated, wondering what they were doing it all for…
Hello? Haven't these people just created another hamster wheel, jumped on and started sprinting for all they are worth? In business we sometimes feel we have to do everything at the same time, take on and implement all the advice we've been given and do it all ourselves. We just want to make our businesses work and in so doing, we lose clarity and focus and tire ourselves out instead. And unlike in corporate life, we do all this on our own.
The good news is that you have a choice. This is not corporate life so you have more power to change your approach. You can:
- Call in reinforcements and get some much needed specialist expert help so you can work smarter and on the things which get most results
- Call your business to heel by setting priorities and going back to your values and the reason you set up the business in the first place
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing" – Theodore Roosevelt
Remember that everything you are doing today is the result of a decision so if you don't like the consequences of a decision, make a different decision! You can shape and reshape your plans and business model until it works for you. I had a mini meltdown the other day (I am prone to these https://www.thechangeagent.me/coaches-need-fresh-perspective-too/) when for a little while I wondered what I was doing, and why, and began doubting the quality of my decisions. I started to panic but I was liberated from those feelings when I remembered that at any time I can decide to do things differently, I can even make a U-turn if I like or take a completely different approach. It is entirely up to me – so long as I make those changes for the right reasons. When I say "right reasons" I mean that I have given it my best shot and held the faith. I have looked at my results and weighed up the options. I have consulted others. I haven't run away in a moment of panic or frustration because it is difficult or outside my comfort zone.
"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks" – Warren Buffett
Just reminding myself that I had this power led to instant relaxation, greater clarity and most importantly, the ability to enjoy my business again. That's what we all want, right?
Do get in touch with me if you need fresh perspective on your life in business.
A clarity call costs nothing but could help you to shape a working life that brings out the best in you so you can give your best to your business. Call me on 07990 514537.
For more information on face to face and on-line personal training, do feel free to call Ian Locke on 07900 692014, https://www.thrivepersonaltraining.co.uk/

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Fall Leaves —Managing A Beautiful Resource
Each fall, property owners repeat the cycle of managing the leaves that drop from the trees into their yards. What you do with these leaves can either benefit or harm your yard's environment — as well as that of the lake or other waterway downhill from your property.
Because leaves contain significant concentrations of phosphorus and other nutrients.
One way of handling leaves is to use a mulching mower to mulch the leaves right back into your yard. By mulching them into fine particles, the nutrients in the leaves will be released by decomposition back into the ground and then reused by the trees and grass as nourishment.
It's free fertilizer.
It's wise to mow up the leaves frequently, though, before rain and snow compress them into your lawn.
Another benefit of mulching leaves back into your lawn is that it recharges your soil with organic matter. This material acts like a sponge, allowing the soil to absorb more rainwater and hold it for your trees, grass and other plants to use. This will lessen the impact of drought. In other words, your plants and grass will stay greener longer during dry periods if your soil has more organic matter.
If you are a village or city resident, mulching your leaves can also help keep municipal costs down since it reduces the amount of leaves the public works department needs to haul away.
If you cannot mulch all of the leaves into your lawn, collect them and compost them to improve the soil in your garden. The compost will be a wonderful resource for increasing your garden soil's fertility, its moisture-holding and infiltration capacity and its attractiveness to beneficial soil organisms such as earthworms.
Never rake, blow or dump your leaves into the street or a storm drain. The leaves will be swept away by storm waters into Chautauqua Lake or another body of water, where their nutrients will end up fueling nuisance aquatic plant growth and accelerating sedimentation. You may not realize it, but you live on "waterfront property." Most everyone in Chautauqua County lives on a lake or stream when it comes to storm water runoff.
That's because the distance between your yard and the water's edge is as close as the nearest storm drain or road ditch. Depositing your leaves into the street or storm drain can also clog storm drains, causing flooding during heavy rains and significant cost and time to municipalities to unclog them.
Leaf burning should also be avoided. It not only causes air pollution that adversely affects human health but also water pollution as the phosphorus and nitrogen compounds in the leaves are released in the atmosphere and then fall back to earth with precipitation, resulting in over-fertilization of our waterways.
Fall leaves are not just beautiful to look at — they are a valuable natural resource. Recycle them back into the earth so their nutrients can be used by the trees and plants of your yard over and over again.
The Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy is a local, private nonprofit organization with a mission to preserve and enhance the water quality, scenic beauty, and ecological health of the lakes, streams, wetlands and watersheds of the Chautauqua region. To sign up for e-news updates, find more information on watershed care or support CWC's conservation activities, visit us at chautauquawatershed.org or facebook.com/chautauquawatershed or call 664-2166.


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Welcome dear friend, so lovely to have you drop by...I have some Pikelets (mini pancakes) with strawberry jam & a dollop of cream for our treat. Have you noticed that waiting is one of the hardest things to do & can be one of the most frustrating to go through! So why is waiting so... Continue Reading →
Tea party of Life…
Welcome to my abode, I have prepared a special tea just for the two of us today...I love having a special time around tea, it is so calming & refreshing... For those of you who prefer coffee I do have some interesting coffee blends on hand...vanilla, salted caramel or white chocolate are your options. Our... Continue Reading →
My neighborhood…
G'day from wintery Australia! Today we are going to stop to smell the roses...meaning we are going to take time out from the busyness of life with all its tensions, expectations & anxiety of performance... To enjoy a time of stillness, quietness & refreshment for the soul within the beauty that surrounds us... We begin.... As walk...... Continue Reading →
A new lens needed!
Welcome! It's so lovely that you dropped by, I look so forward to your visit each week...I have the kettle boiling & a selection of teas, coffee & hot chocolate to choose from today... Our treat is a Gf Raspberry & Coconut slice & I have chosen an Australian afternoon tea blend for my cuppa.... Continue Reading →
Only one earth life…
Hello & welcome, I have been waiting with excitement to share our time together today... I have made Gf carrot cup cakes with cream cheese frosting & brewed a new Morning black tea blend, grown & refined here in Australia. The cup cakes are so moist & delicious, with the frosting so creamy & tasty!... Continue Reading →
Home sweet home
!I heard what I thought was a knock at the front door, I opened it...sitting on the mat before me....is my big Russian Blue cross, Bobbie...& my work Australian Kelpie Polly... How lovely to have you drop by for our time of tea & reflection together...I am reminiscing today... We have traveled back to 2002 I... Continue Reading →
Mending brokenness
Today I'm brewing an interesting blend called Russian Caravan tea...welcome dear friend, how lovely to have you drop by...it is just about ready...come let us begin our time together... I have some delicious gf Macadamia shortbread to accompany this tea blend. I was introduced to this tea many years ago...it isn't readily available in our... Continue Reading →
French tea time…
Bonjour! It is lovely to have you drop by, let's begin our time of tea & reflection together... This particular blend I'm brewing today was given to me as a Mother's day gift. It is Earl Grey blended with lavender & rose petals. As I sip this very tasty blend, the taste & aroma instantly... Continue Reading →
Seasons & generations…
How lovely to have you here for a time of quiet reflection...have you got your beverage & tasty treat...you do, let us begin.... The main ingredients for my tea blend today are rather unusual; Hibiscus, Apple pieces & Cranberries. I was introduced to this tea last month, a small pack was included in a birthday... Continue Reading →


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MAYWOOD, Ill. – Leukemia survivor Anna Kaiser had an emotional meeting Sunday with a bone marrow donor who saved her life.
Kaiser is in remission after undergoing a successful bone marrow transplant at Loyola University Medical Center. She received the life-saving bone marrow donation from a complete stranger, Matthew Danter of Lexington, Ky. Danter signed up to become a donor after seeing an ad on Facebook.
They met for the first time – and gave each other a big hug – during Loyola's 26th annual Bone Marrow Transplant Celebration of Survivorship.
"I'm almost positive I would not be here today without him," Kaiser said. "How do you thank someone for saving your life? There are no words."
Kaiser, who lives in Mundelein, Ill., was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in January 2012. AML is a cancer that starts inside bone marrow, the soft tissue inside bones that helps form blood cells.
Kaiser was told that without a bone marrow transplant, she had only about a 10 percent chance of survival. So she transferred from another hospital to Loyola, which has done more bone marrow transplants for leukemia patients than any other center in Illinois.
To kill the cancer cells, Kaiser received high-dose chemotherapy and whole-body radiation. She then received an infusion of healthy new blood-forming stem cells from Danter's bone marrow.
Kaiser's Loyola physician, Dr. Patrick Stiff, said that without a bone marrow transplant, Kaiser likely had less than two months to live. But since receiving the bone marrow transplant, she has been in remission for more than two years, and is probably cured, Stiff said. Stiff is director of the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center.
Danter said he signed up to become a potential bone marrow donor after seeing a Facebook ad in 2011. He registered online and received a kit in the mail. He swabbed his cheeks and mailed back the samples. Then he almost forgot about it.
Fifteen months later, Danter was notified he was a match for a patient who needed a bone marrow transplant. Danter, who is studying for a masters' degree in public health from the University of Kentucky, said it was an easy decision to donate.
"If my own family was affected by leukemia, I would hope that someone would do the same for me or a family member," he said.
Danter flew to Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington D.C. to donate. While he was under anesthesia, a physician used a large needle to withdraw liquid marrow from both sides of the back of his pelvic bone.
For some donors, recovering from this procedure can be painful. But Danter experienced minimal discomfort, and spent the following day seeing the White House, Lincoln Memorial and other Washington sights.
"I had a great experience, and would do it again in a heartbeat," he said.
Stiff said he is continually amazed that donors such as Danter "are willing to go through a potentially painful procedure to save the life of someone they have never even met."
More than 300 patients, family members, caretakers, donors, doctors, nurses and other medical staff attended the Bone Marrow Transplant Celebration of Survivorship.
Loyola has treated more leukemia patients with stem cell transplants than any other center in Illinois, and has one of the largest unrelated donor transplant programs in the world. Loyola physicians have performed more than 2,800 stem cell transplants, including about nearly 200 umbilical cord blood transplants.
Loyola receives referrals from throughout the Midwest, including other academic medical centers in Chicago. Loyola is among the first centers to use umbilical cord donations for the treatment of certain adult cancers.
Loyola University Health System (LUHS) is a member of Trinity Health. Based in the western suburbs of Chicago, LUHS is a quaternary care system with a 61-acre main medical center campus, the 36-acre Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus and more than 30 primary and specialty care facilities in Cook, Will and DuPage counties. The medical center campus is conveniently located in Maywood, 13 miles west of the Chicago Loop and 8 miles east of Oak Brook, Ill. The heart of the medical center campus is a 559-licensed-bed hospital that houses a Level 1 Trauma Center, a Burn Center and the Ronald McDonald® Children's Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center. Also on campus are the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Loyola Outpatient Center, Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine and Loyola Oral Health Center as well as the LUC Stritch School of Medicine, the LUC Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the Loyola Center for Fitness. Loyola's Gottlieb campus in Melrose Park includes the 255-licensed-bed community hospital, the Professional Office Building housing 150 private practice clinics, the Adult Day Care, the Gottlieb Center for Fitness, Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care and the Loyola Cancer Care & Research at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center at Melrose Park.


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In 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five young children in the bathtub of her Houston home while experiencing severe postpartum depression. She was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Pleading insanity didn't help Jack Ruby, the man who killed President Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, though -- the jury found him guilty of murder and convicted him. Who's to judge another person's sanity? In the end, it all comes down to how convincing their argument is.
When you use the insanity defense, you're pleading that you are not guilty by reason of insanity or guilty by reason of insanity, or some variation along those lines, depending on the state in which you're charged. If you can prove you were legally insane at the time you committed the crime for which you're on trial, you can expect to be sentenced to psychiatric treatment rather than convicted and imprisoned.
We have an insanity defense to help protect people with mental illness. As you'll see, though, convincing a jury of your insanity is tricky, and only about 1 percent of cases that use the insanity defense are successful (and of that successful 1 percent, only about 15 to 25 percent of those cases are acquittals) [source: Lilienfeld]. Societies have been using some form of the insanity defense throughout history, and we're going to begin our list with Richard Lawrence, the man who tried to assassinate President Andrew Jackson.
Richard Lawrence
Richard Lawrence, a house painter in his mid-30s, was the first man to be charged for the assassination attempt on an American president, Andrew Jackson. On Jan. 30, 1835, Lawrence shot at Jackson in the Capitol Rotunda but his derringer -- and then his backup derringer -- misfired, giving Jackson opportunity to retaliate with his cane.
Lawrence was found to have delusional thinking, including the belief he was the king of England and that Jackson had killed his father. He was acquitted by reason of insanity and committed to a mental asylum, but the experience left Jackson suspicious. The president believed that because he opposed the national bank of the U.S., the Whig Party was trying to remove him from office.
Daniel M'Naghten
Daniel M'Naghten believed that Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel was conspiring against him. In 1843 in London, he shot and killed the secretary to the British prime minister -- but he meant to kill the prime minister. M'Naghten was tried and acquitted by reason of insanity, and sentenced to spend his life confined in Bedlam, the first mental asylum in Europe.
Due to public outcry over his acquittal, the M'Naghten rule was established by the House of Lords, which stated if a person charged with a crime was unable to distinguish right from wrong while in the act of committing that crime, he can plead the insanity defense and prove he was not sane at the time. The M'Naghten rule was the standard method of determining a person's sanity in the eyes of the law for more than 100 years after the M'Naghten case, until John Hinckley, Jr. attempted to assassinate now-former President Reagan to impress actress Jodie Foster -- we'll get in more detail about Hinckley later on.
Ezra Pound
It's quite possible that Ezra Pound was not actually insane; rather, he just didn't want to stand trial for treason.
American poet Ezra Pound is well known for leaving an indelible mark on modern poetry, but you may not know he was also a controversial political creature. Pound admired fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, and moved to Italy in 1925 where he began writing and broadcasting pro-fascist, anti-Semitic, anti-Roosevelt radio commentaries during WWII. The American government considered this an act of treason, and Pound was arrested and imprisoned in Italy after the end of war.
After Mussolini's death, Pound was extradited to the U.S., facing charges that he aided American enemies during WWII. He pleaded insanity, was found not to be competent to stand trial, and was hospitalized at St. Elizabeth's in Washington, D.C. where he remained until 1958.
Pound may have been a narcissistic fellow, but whether or not he was insane is still debated today -- new documentation has scholars and mental health professionals pointing fingers at the abuse of the psychiatric system and the power of his literary friends for enabling Pound to skirt being tried for treason.
Anthony and William Esposito
It was the New York police commissioner who would nickname brothers Anthony and William Esposito 'the mad dog killers,' a description that would catch on in the press. On Jan. 14, 1941, the Esposito brothers held up office manager Alfred Klausman for the $649 payroll he was carrying, shooting and killing him in the elevator of an office building in Manhattan. What followed was a spectacular mid-day gun chase along Fifth Avenue, with the pair running and shooting in and out of department stores and taxis -- William, shot in the leg, fell to the ground, and while pretending to be dead surprised, shot and killed the policeman who chased him. Fifth Avenue shoppers and pedestrians overtook William, beating him unconscious, and police arrested Anthony in a convenience store nearby.
During their trial, the brothers made an effort to convince the court they were insane; they barked, howled and made other animal noises, drooled and banged their heads on the table. But the barking and drooling wasn't compelling evidence to the jury, and the brothers were both found guilty of first-degree murder. The two continued their behaviors, including speaking in gibberish and undertaking a hunger strike, while incarcerated at Sing Sing until both were put to death by electrocution in 1942.
Dan White
Dan White assassinated San Francisco mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, America's first openly gay elected official, at City Hall in 1979. White was acting because the mayor refused to reinstate him to the Board of Supervisors after he resigned only one year into his position.
White pleaded diminished capacity. In court, his lawyers argued that White had been depressed and was unable to control his impulses at the time of the crime because his depression over his Board position had left the formerly health-conscious 32-year old on the couch watching TV and eating doughnuts, soda and Twinkies. You might know Dan White as the man who pleaded the "Twinkie Defense." The jury, however, found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and in the end, White served five years in state prison. White was released from prison in 1984, and in 1985 he committed suicide.
John Hinckley, Jr.
It was John Hinckley, Jr.'s assassination attempt on President Reagan outside the Washington Hilton in 1981 that ignited a change in the U.S.'s way of thinking about how a person's insanity is evaluated and determined in the eyes of the law. Hinckley was tried and found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1982 and confined to a psychiatric hospital. The verdict stunned the country -- a poll at the time found 76 percent of Americans felt Hinckley should have been convicted and incarcerated -- and more than 40 bills went before Congress in an effort to put an end to the insanity defense [source: Lilienfeld].
The insanity defense was not abolished, though, and the Comprehensive Crime Control Act (CCCA) was passed in 1984. Under the mental health provisions in the CCCA, a defendant must prove that because of mental illness or mental defect he did not have the cognitive or moral ability to comprehend his criminal acts at the time of the crime. The competency of the defendant must be determined (including competency to stand trial, to plead guilty or no contest, and to waive counsel, as well as competency at sentencing and during appeal), and sentencing is to be determined under the included Insanity Defense Reform Act, which sets sentencing guidelines intended to protect mentally ill criminals.
Jeffrey Dahmer
Just as John Hinckley, Jr.'s successful use of the insanity defense stunned the nation, Americans were also surprised when Jeffrey Dahmer's insanity plea was rejected.
Dahmer was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and 13 counts of first-degree intentional homicide between 1978 and 1991. All were young men whom he not only murdered but also mutilated (some he attempted to lobotomize while they were still alive, others he molested) and dismembered, keeping their heads and genitals in his refrigerator -- to be eaten at a later date. Sometimes, he had sex with the corpses.
Dahmer's case went to trial in 1992, and while he originally he pleaded not guilty, he changed his mind and his plea to guilty by virtue of insanity. The jury, however, was not convinced of Dahmer's insanity at the time of his crimes, found him guilty on all charges, and sentenced him to 15 consecutive life terms.
In 1994 while on prison work duty, Dahmer was killed by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver.
Lorena Bobbitt
In June 1993, Lorena Bobbitt infamously cut off her husband's penis with a kitchen knife. She then drove away, throwing the penis out the car window, later to be found alongside the highway and reattached to its original owner.
Lorena pleaded self-defense, claiming her actions were because her husband, John, had raped and abused her for years, and she had post-traumatic stress disorder. A jury found Lorena not guilty by reason of temporary insanity, and she was sent to a psychiatric hospital where she remained for 45 days. If found guilty, Lorena could have been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
John denied the charges, and was acquitted of assaulting Lorena.
Andrew Goldstein
Andrew Goldstein pushed Kendra Webdale in from of the N train at the 23rd Street station in New York City on Jan. 3, 1999 during a psychotic episode.
Goldstein was a rising star as a teenager, attending the Bronx High School of Science, but began having delusions during his freshman year of college. In 1989, he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after pushing his mother; Goldstein was diagnosed with schizophrenia. After his release, he continued to experience delusions, psychosis and paranoia, and his violent behavior continued. In 1996, he was hospitalized for attacking a woman on a subway, and would continue to spend time in and out of care between then and the day he found himself in the same subway station as Webdale. In fact, Goldstein was voluntarily hospitalized a total of 13 times in 1997 and 1998, the two years before he killed Webdale, and was released into outpatient care just a few weeks before the attack [source: Magnus, PBS].
Goldstein's been on trial three times for the murder of Webdale. He pleaded insanity in his first trial, which ended with a hung jury, and again during his second trial in 2000, where the jury found him guilty of second-degree murder. After the highest court threw out his second case due to unsubstantiated testimony, Goldstein went to trial for the third time in 2005 -- this time he pled guilty to first degree manslaughter, and was sentenced to 23 years in prison plus 5 years of probation.
Goldstein's case inspired Kendra's law, New York state legislation that allows courts to order involuntary outpatient treatment for anyone with severe mental illness and a mental illness and treatment history suggesting he or she may not be able to live safely within the community without supervision.
John Delling
In 2007, John Delling shot three men, killing two and wounding the third, concerned someone was stealing his powers [source: Boone]. Delling is a paranoid schizophrenic who experiences severe delusions and violent outbursts, and he is serving two life sentences in solitary confinement and without parole in the Idaho prison system as his punishment -- despite the prosecution and the judge agreeing that his mental illness both led to and impaired his understanding of his crimes. Why didn't Delling use the insanity defense? Because Idaho, where he was convicted, doesn't recognize a person's right to plead not guilty by reason of insanity.
Delling's case has put the spotlight on whether or not the insanity defense is a Constitutional right, protected under the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendments. Delling appealed to the Idaho Supreme Court, which in 2011 upheld 4th District Judge Deborah Bail's original ruling. In 2012, Delling's lawyers appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where in November 2012 the petition was denied, continuing to keep the insanity defense out of Idaho.
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Author's Note: 10 Uses of the Insanity Defense
I admit that I never knew Andrew Jackson was so tough -- how did I miss this all these years? While most of us would likely duck and cover -- or do whatever we could to get out of there, and fast -- when a man points a loaded gun at us, Jackson instead attacked his attacker and beat him with his cane. How times, and security, have changed.
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- American Psychiatric Association -- Psychiatric News Alert. "Supreme Court Won't Hear Insanity Defense Case." 2012. (Feb. 22, 2013) http://alert.psychiatricnews.org/2012/11/supreme-court-wont-hear-insanity.html
- Biography. "Dan White." (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.biography.com/people/dan-white-17169664
- Biography. "Jack Ruby." (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.biography.com/people/jack-ruby-20640181
- Biography. "Jeffrey Dahmer." (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.biography.com/people/jeffrey-dahmer-9264755
- CBS News. "Lorena Bobbitt, 15 Years Later." 2009. (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500185_162-4207517.html
- Constitutional Accountability Center. "Four States Have No Insanity Defense. All 50 Need It." 2012. (Feb. 22, 2013) http://theusconstitution.org/text-history/1663/four-states-have-no-insanity-defense-all-50-need-it
- Cornell University Law School -- Legal Information Institute. "Insanity Defense." 2010. (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/insanity_defense
- Donohue, Andrew; Arya, Vinay; Fitch, Lawrence; and Debra Hammen. "Legal Insanity." Psychiatry. Vol. 5, no. 3. 2008. (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2710106/
- Fuchs, Erin. "The Supreme Court Is Being Urged to Force States to Allow Insanity Defense." 2012. (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.businessinsider.com/john-delling-insanity-defense-2012-7
- Gado, Mark. "The Insanity Defense." TruTV. (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/psychology/insanity/1.html
- George, B.J. Jr. "Mental Health Provisions." National Criminal Justice Reference Service. 1988. (Feb. 22, 2013) https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/Abstract.aspx?id=119242
- Hartocollis, Anemona. "Nearly 8 Years Later, Guilty Plea in Subway Killing." The New York Times. 2006. (Feb 22, 2013) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/nyregion/11kendra.html
- History. "Andrew Jackson narrowly escapes assassination." (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/andrew-jackson-narrowly-escapes-assassination
- KBOI 2 News. "John Delling receives two life sentences." 2009. (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.kboi2.com/news/local/53569797.html
- Life. "Murder in Manhattan." Pages 28-29. Jan. 27, 1941. (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.originallifemagazines.com/LIFE-Magazine-January-27-1941-P1224.aspx
- Lilienfield, Scott O., and Hal Arkowitz. "The Insanity Verdict on Trial. Scientific American. 2001. (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-insanity-verdict-on-trial
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- Los Angeles Times. "Dahmer Pleads Guilty but Insane in Serial Killings." 1992. (Feb. 22, 2013) http://articles.latimes.com/1992-01-14/news/mn-261_1_jeffrey-dahmer
- Magnus, Edie. "A deadly encounter." Dateline NBC. 2007. (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16713078/#.USLStqUqanE
- Mitgang, Herbert. "Researchers Dispute Ezra Pound's 'Insanity'" The New York Times. 1981. (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/31/books/researchers-dispute-ezra-pound-s-insanity.html
- New York State Office of Mental Health. "An Explanation of Kendra's Law." 2006. (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.omh.ny.gov/omhweb/Kendra_web/Ksummary.htm
- PBS -- American Experience. "Biography: John Hinkcley, Jr." (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/reagan-hinckley/
- PBS -- Frontline. "A Crime of Insanity: Other Notorius Insanity Cases." (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/crime/trial/other.html
- Poetry Foundation. "Ezra Pound." (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ezra-pound
- Prentice, George. "U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Appeal From Idaho Killer." Boise Weekly. 2012. (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.boiseweekly.com/CityDesk/archives/2012/11/26/us-supreme-court-rejects-appeal-from-idaho-killer
- Ross, Michael. "Lorena Bobbitt Acquitted in Mutilation of Husband: Maiming: Jury agrees abuse triggered insanity that led to attack. She is sent to a mental hospital for 45 days." Los Angeles Times. 1994. (Feb. 22, 2013) http://articles.latimes.com/1994-01-22/news/mn-14293_1_lorena-bobbitt
- Spokane Daily Chronicle. "Esposito Brothers Die at Sing Sing." March 13, 1942. (Feb. 22, 2013) http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19420313&id=ZNdXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TvUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4048,2707472
- UPI. "Highway killers are target of FBI." 2010. (Feb. 22, 2013) http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/10/05/Highway-killers-are-target-of-FBI/UPI-62641286299749/
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Aly and AJ Michalka love to do everything together such as being photographed. So recently the famous sisters took part in a photo session posing completely naked. From the clothes the girls had only red and blue gloves to the elbow with which they covered their awesome tits and sweet pussies. The girls' buttocks looked just stunning when they lay in the foam baths.
Aly Michalka Shooting Herself In See Through
American actress and singer, Aly Michalka could not resist the trend to take a selfie and share it with us, but it is not certain if this babe was aware that her shirt was see- through or not. We are not saying that it is a bad thing, it is very good, but maybe she wanted it to be less revealing and now it's too late to take it back.
Aly Michalka is one dirty little slut. Late at night she enjoys recording herself while skinny dipping and posting the provocative footage on her Instagram account. She recorded herself soaking wet, curled up in a tub with her knees firmly presses against her pesky natural breasts. Despite the low lighting, you can still clearly see her beautiful cleavage and porcelain skin. We can only hope to see more nudes from this aspiring actress.


text: Subscribe to our newsletter This thingy has to be empti pwieshh Nov 6, 2016 VanWyck - Issue #27 # 23. Wandering man - wayward girl started in Spain, finished in Amsterdam VanWyck - Issue #27 By VanWyck • Issue #27 • View online # 23. Wandering man - wayward girl started in Spain, finished in Amsterdam Trying to catch a swallow. This summer I was in Spain. The window of my hotel room looked out over a narrow backstreet that swallows used as a kind of race track. They dived and danced through the street in continuously altering formations. Most of the day the street was in the shade and you could hardly make them out, but at midday, when the sun was at its highest, for ten minutes the street lit up and the swallows drew their shades across the tarmac, sharp like knifes. I tried to capture them in flight, but almost always failed. Too late, phone empty, memory full. In the meantime I caught other things: people, a car, shades. Songwriting sometimes flows along the same lines. It' s like you try to catch something that is fleeting, or try to tie something down that is fluid, and then suddenly something else pops up. I couldn't find a chorus to this song - or actually anything other than the first verse. In trying to finish it I wrote about half a dozen other songs, now all nearing completion. They are my wandering men, I try to keep on being their wayward girl. And in the end, I did catch that one swallow, briefly. Love, Christine PS This is a home recorded demo. Lyrics can be found in the description on Youtube (below the 'show more' button) YouTube www.youtube.com • Share Did you enjoy this issue? By VanWyck Digest of my ventures in songwriting and recording Tweet Share If you don't want these updates anymore, please unsubscribe here. If you were forwarded this newsletter and you like it, you can subscribe here. Powered by Revue Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Subscribe to our newsletter This thingy has to be empti pwieshh


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Temperature for January 1986
In January 1986 the average high temperature in Great Falls, MT was 47.8°F, and this was 12.1°F warmer than the average of 35.6°F. The hottest day in January 1986 was 20 January when the temperature reached 61.0°F. Overnight the average temperature in January is 14.5°F and in 1986 the average overnight temperature was 12.4°F warmer at 26.9°F.


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The federal government has announced that, as of July 2013, all departments will be required to publish their documents in an electronic format on their websites. This new policy will make documents more accessible to the public, reduce paper waste, and save the government a significant portion of the $19 million it spent on the printing, distribution and storage of these documents in 2011-12.
President of the Treasury Board Tony Clement said the goal of the policy is "delivering information to Canadians in the most efficient and cost effective way."
In addition to savings and accessibility, the policy has other potential benefits: it could provide better preservation of government documents, including audio and video recordings, through emerging digital technologies.
Those who prefer hard copies of documents need not fear, however. Although electronic publishing will be the primary standard for the distribution of documents, publications will still be printed for those who request it. Publications related to health, safety and security will also continue to be published in print formats.
This policy is just one of many ways the government is turning to technology to decrease costs, boost efficiency, and demonstrate that it can innovate. In recent years, they have also looked at using social media, mobile, and cloud technology to distribute information and connect with citizens.


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Is Mary Drake Really Jessica On 'Pretty Little Liars'? This Theory Would Answer So Many Questions
In the latest episode of Pretty Little Liars, Spencer and Peter Hastings had a casual father-daughter chat during which he casually revealed that Mary Drake had murdered Jessica. It was a fairly anti-climatic moment because pretty much everyone suspected that Mary had offed her sister... but maybe it's more complicated than that. Ever since Mary made her first appearance on the show, there's been a fan theory that Jessica DiLaurentis is alive and pretending to be Mary on Pretty Little Liars. Peter's reveal about Jessica's death couldn't have possibly been more boring, especially because this has been one of the show's longest-standing mysteries — so there has to be more to the story. A brilliant theory formed by the hosts Bustle's Pretty Little Liars podcast Taking This One To The Grave suggests that Mary Drake's true identity could be the key to a number of major questions.
First of all, it's no secret that Jessica and Mary absolutely hate each other — so either would kill the other without batting an eyelash. Then there's the matter of Jessica absolutely despising the Hastings — what better way to torture them than by tearing apart the entire family? Sure, there's never a shortage of tension in the Hastings home, but Spencer's discovery that Mary Drake is her biological mom has been completely devastating for Peter, Veronica, and Spencer. (I'd ask how Melissa feels, but she's AWOL — doing something sketchy, I presume.)
Another major clue that Mary Drake is dead came from Charlotte herself. During her "big reveal," she was visibly emotional as she described finding her mother's body. She repeatedly stated "mom was the only one who loved me." We didn't know about Mary Drake at the time of the reveal — but Charlotte knew for a long time that Mary, not Jessica, was her mom. Although it remains unclear exactly how much contact they had, it stands to reason that she'd be way more emotional about Mary's death than Jessica's.
Much like Mary, Charlotte was wrongfully institutionalized and grew up at Radley. Meanwhile, Jessica's the one who put her there. Sure, she visited Charlotte and brought her clothes — but that's about it. If all this comes to fruition, another major plot twist could be in store — Jessica would have killed Charlotte because she was the only person who knew that she wasn't truly Mary Drake. The last thing in the world she would want is to have her cover blown, and Charlotte could have done just that if she'd survived.
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Table-top Cooking: Sukiyaki
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As promised, the second part of the Table-top Cooking series features the ever-popular Sukiyaki. Like teppan-yaki style grilling (BBQ pork and bun post), there's no reason this entertaining communal style of dining has to be regulated to exotic evenings out at a Japanese restaurant. With the small investment of a single burner butane stove ($15-30, depending on your neighborhood), a few butane cartridges ($1-3 a piece), and some basic cookware, you can create this meal any time at home. A suitable pan for sukiyaki is one that is relatively low-brimmed and wide, with no long handles -- in this photo, we are using a paella-style pan.
Sukiyaki (SKI-yah-ki) is simply a braised meat and vegetable "stew" featuring thin-sliced beef, tofu, negi (Japanese leeks), enoki and shiitake mushrooms, spinach or shingiku (chrysanthemum leaves), and shirataki (yam noodles. a form of konnyaku). Traditionally, sukiyaki was a winter meal cooked over a charcoal brazier built in to a table. The brazier served both to warm the room and the diners, as well as to cook the meal. Usually one person is in charge of keeping the pot full and evenly cooked, and the other diners select cooked pieces from the bubbling pot to put first into an individual serving bowl. Often each diner has a second smaller bowl with a beaten raw egg in it —- the hot pieces of meat and vegetables are dipped into the beaten egg before being eaten with rice. The beaten egg serves 2 purposes, first to cool the hot food coming directly from the fire; second, to envelop each bite in a silken robe of deliciousness that (for me) is the signature of sukiyaki. The egg, however, is completely optional and, of course, should not be consumed by anyone with a compromised immune system, very young children, or pregnant persons. Use only the freshest eggs available, carefully washing each egg in a solution of 2 TBL. white vinegar in 1 quart/liter of water.
Sukiyaki is more a method than a recipe, like the Way to Cook. Besides cleaning and prepping all the ingredients, the only thing requiring a recipe is the braising sauce in which all the ingredients are cooked. Because the ingredients may be a little strange to most people, a brief description and tips for prepping each are included below. If some ingredients are not available to you, suggestions for substitutions are included.
SHIRATAKI: A form of konnyaku, shaped as "noodles"; konnyaku is a gelatin-like product made from the root of the "devil's tongue plant," a relative of the sweet potato. Konnyaku and shirataki have been gaining ground in Western kitchens as health and diet food because they have virtually no calories, and are flavorless on their own so will absorb the flavors of whatever medium they are cooked in. Konnyaku (and shirataki) is also recognized for its ability to rid the body of toxins -- in Japan, it is known as "the broom of the body" as it contains a dietary fiber that is indigestible yet gentle to the stomach and intestines, sweeping away undigested food and other sediment on its journey through the system. Both shirataki and konnyaku come in white and brown varieties; since it is flavorless, choice is a matter of your aesthetic, but the white form is more often used. Shirataki has a definite gelatinous quality — imagine if you could cut jello into strips and pick them up with chopsticks — and some people balk at this texture. Think of them as noodles, though, and they may be less objectionable. Remove from package and rinse well under running water and drain. Cut into roughly 3" lengths.
Substitutions: really, only konnyaku, which is in block form, is a substitute; you can slice it lengthwise into a noodle-like shape, or try the decorative style used in another Japanese classic, Oden or Kombu (directions here). Konnyaku and shirataki are always kept in the chilled section of your market -- on Oahu, virtually every grocery store carries it. Because of its new-found popularity, you may be able to find konnyaku, if not shirataki, in a health food store if you don't have a well-stocked Oriental market nearby.
NEGI: Japanese leek, has a sharper flavor and firmer texture than the more familiar leek. Rinse whole leek, especially the root ends, then begin slicing on a sharp diagonal up to the light green tips. Fill a large non-reactive container with a solution of 1 TBL. white vinegar for every 1 quart/liter of water used, and place sliced leeks in this solution. Swish around gently, then let sit for about one minute. Swish again, then gently lift out all the leeks and place in a colander. Rinse well with running water and drain well. (Use this method for cleaning regular leeks as well). Substitutions: regular leeks (if neither is available, thinly sliced yellow onions may be used)
SHIITAKE: Dried Shiitake Mushrooms, see Braised Mushroom post for how-to prepare. Substitutions: any earthy fresh mushroom might work, shiitake, portobella, cremini, even oyster.
ENOKI MUSHROOM: Fresh tendril-like enoki are another sponge-like ingredient that readily absorbs the braising sauce. To prepare, rinse gently under running water and pat dry. Substitutions: shimeji mushrooms or leave out all together.
TOFU: Firm or extra-firm plain tofu found in the chilled area of the grocery/health store. To prepare, remove and drain, then wrap tightly in a clean kitchen towel and place in a container with a heavy dish pressing on the tofu (you're trying to extract as mush water as possible from the tofu). Leave in fridge for at least 2 hours. Remove toweling, and cut tofu into 1.5" (8cm) blocks. Tofu is a sponge for flavor, and the savory broth and braising liquid in sukiyaki makes bland tofu quite delicious and meaty-tasting.
When cleaned and prepped, assemble these ingredients in a large platter.
BEEF: Paper-thin slices of very lean beef are traditionally used. In Japan, as in most Asian cultures, meat is used as a flavoring agent rather than a focus of a meal. Therefore, 1/2lb. (250g) is enough for 4 persons. Almost every grocery on Oahu carries sukiyaki-sliced beef (it's actually labelled that way), but I've found the leanest and thinnest slices from Star Market. Elsewhere, Vietnamese and Korean markets have similarly sliced cuts. If you don't have an Asian butcher in the vicinity, ask your butcher to slice a round roast into paper-thin slices (about the thickness of deli-meats). Substitutions: maybe pork or chicken (haven't tried it). Place meat on a separate platter.
GREENS: Spinach and/or Shingiku are the traditional greens used. See Gai Choy post for cleaning and prepping leafy greens. This photo shows spinach and watercress. Substitutions: any quick-cooking leafy green or combination of greens. Place drained greens in a large bowl.
In Japan, diners begin their meal with a saying that is part exclamation, part blessing, "Itadakimasu!" (EE-tah-dah-kee-mas'). There is no direct English translation, but it is an older expression meaning, "I will receive" and is said to express the diners' thankfulness for the food about to be consumed — gratitude not only for the actual food, but also for the sacrifices and hard work (in the farm, field and kitchen) that produced the meal. I hope this meal will inspire a mood of both celebration and thankfulness at your table too!
(for 4 persons)
Prepare the braising sauce:
1 packet instant dashi no moto (dashi broth)
3 cups hot water
5 TBL. brown sugar
6 TBL. soy sauce
6 TBL. mirin
3 TBL. sake
In a small sauce pan, dissolve dashi no moto in hot water, then add sugar to blend completely. Add soy, mirin and sake, stir to blend. Set aside to cool while preparing vegetables (see above) and plating meat (see above). When ready to begin, put braising sauce in a pitcher-like container for easy pouring at the table. You can keep refilling the small table-side pitcher as needed from the sauce pan.
To set the table:
Place butane stove and pan at center of table, closest to the designated cook. Each diner will need a rice bowl, a wide shallow bowl for their individual serving, a smaller cup-like bowl for the beaten egg (if using), and chopsticks. The cook will need to have close at hand:
long chopsticks or tongs
the assembled ingredients
the braising sauce
cooking oil (only at the start of the cooking)
a tall cold drink (this is going to be hot work, tending the pot and watching everyone else eat!)
To begin, pre-heat the pan over a medium fire then add a scant 2TBL. olive oil and 3-4 slices of beef, and allow to brown very well. It's okay if the meat sticks slightly to the pan, but don't let it burn. Those browned bits are an important flavor base for your sauce. Once the meat has browned, add 1/3 of the negi (leeks), 3-4 more slices of beef, and enough braising sauce to come up about half way up the ingredients in the pan. Now add small handfuls of each of the other ingredients to the pan and keep the braising liquid simmering — you'll have to turn the heat up as you add ingredients and sauce, then back down as things get cooked. Try to keep similar ingredients together, both for aesthetic reasons and to help the diners locate what they're hungry for next! When adding more raw meat to the mix, I try to push all the fully cooked ingredients to the other end of the pan, as far away as possible.
To eat, the cook can either serve each person a portion of all the cooked bits in their individual serving bowls, or the diners can fill their own bowls with what they like. A note about etiquette at the sukiyaki table: diners should not dip their chopsticks into the sauce, or touch food that they do not put into their own bowl (i.e., don't use your chopsticks to move food around in the pan). One way around this is to have a set of serving chopsticks or tongs to allow diners to choose foods from the pan, or allow the chef to use the cooking 'sticks to fill bowls. Of course, when it's just family, who's gonna tell on you, right? : ) From their individual bowls, diners can then dip each mouthful in a beaten egg, and savor.
Aahhh, sukiyaki in the comfort of your own home. "Itadakimasu," indeed!
I"ve received a couple of emails about the use of udon noodles with sukiyaki. We always added cooked udon noodles at the very end of cooking, after most of the diners were sated and the last of the ingredients were fully cooked in the pan. The noodles sit in the braising liquid overnight in the refrigerator and fully absorb all the flavors of the pan by morning. You will have a wonderful breakfast or bento once re-heated fully in a microwave or by returning the pan to the fire. I always understood using udon as a way of not wasting the flavor-laden sauce at the end. I suppose you could include udon earlier in the process as well, and enjoy it as a substitute for, or in addition to, plain rice. Thanks to Debi and to Karl for your questions!


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If you're alleging assault, don't get loud with the Officer there to take a report. Especially if you have Felony warrants.
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If you're alleging assault, don't get loud with the Officer there to take a report. Especially if you have Felony warrants.
*This blog post was originally published at GruntDoc*
A few years ago I wrote about the "Suitability" of a patient for plastic surgery. I was reminded of this topic by two cases in the recent lay media:
The first involves Heidi Montag, 23, who in November had multiple surgical procedures and is being compared to Joan Rivers.
According to People, Montag even kept her family in the dark about her intended transformation to become her "best me." Telling only her husband Spencer Pratt, Montag had a nose job revision, chin reduction, mini brow lift, Botox in her forehead and frown area, fat injections in her cheeks, nasolabial folds and lips, neck liposuction, ear pinning, liposuction on her waist, hips, inner and outer thighs, buttock augmentation and breast augmentation revision. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Suture for a Living*
Thanks to Medscape for including my take in their recent article, "Is Twitter a "must" for doctors?"
I discuss some common sense tips doctors should follow while using Twitter:
1. Patient privacy is paramount. Do not discuss individual cases or provide patient advice via Twitter.
2. Use Twitter to point your patients to trustworthy online health information sources.
3. Use Twitter as a tool to promote your practice's brand. More and more patients are using Twitter; those who do are likely to feel positive about their physicians using it as well. More than just a fad, Pho says that Twitter is here to stay and offers tremendous potential.
4. Remind your patients using Twitter: Be careful whom you follow. Anyone can sign up for Twitter claiming to be a physician. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at KevinMD.com*
Empowered health consumers know how to take charge of their health and are proactive in their care.
Whether they're surfing the web for health information, visiting their doctor or health care professional, or a patient in the hospital; empowered health consumers know how to question and communicate.
This blog is a continuation of the "He Said, She Said" post where I promised to give you tips about how to be an empowered health consumer.
Sabriya Rice, CNN Medical Producer had a similar idea.
*This blog post was originally published at Health in 30*
Top 10 lists are back!
I forgot about this kind of post, and a reminder by a reader is bringing them back. They are really a fun and easy kind of post to write, so you may see a fair number of them (read: Rob is getting lazy). I thought I'd start back with some suggestions for disgruntled patients (or gruntled ones, for that matter) to make their doctor's day much worse.
1. Require the doctor to keep things secret from your child or your elderly parent. Insist that they can't know about their cancer, depression, ADD, or foot fungus. Call the medication the doctor prescribes "vitamins." Alternatively, you can threaten your child by saying that if they don't behave better, the doctor will give them a shot. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Musings of a Distractible Mind*
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