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Judge Blocks Emigration as Seized German Children Now Go to Government School
The youngest Wunderlich children entering school on their first day.
A German court that ordered four homeschooled children to be removed at gunpoint over homeschooling has since said he won't let the family emigrate to another European country where homeschooling is legal. The children were returned three weeks after being taken, following an international outcry spearheaded by HSLDA.
The father of the children, Dirk Wunderlich, has told HSLDA that his lawyers requested confirmation from social workers that they wouldn't interfere if his family emigrated to a neighboring country where homeschooling is legal. But the judge told his attorneys if he left the country before a scheduled December hearing he would make sure that they were brought back to face criminal sanctions.
The Court had awarded social workers legal custody over the children in 2012, then, in August 2013, a different judge authorized the armed raid to seize the children. The children were placed in a group home where tests showed the children were doing well socially and academically. The judge then made the family promise to send the children to school before he would allow them to go home.
The parents told HSLDA that they had no choice but to agree.
"What other choice did we have?" asked Dirk Wunderlich. "They had our children. We feel ravaged by the government. We don't want our children in school but we have no choice—we can't leave and if we don't comply they will take our children away. We will make the best of it because we know if we tried to leave, the authorities would separate us and we might never see our children again or for a very long time."
On October 28th all four of the Wunderlich children spent their first-ever day in government school.
The parents told HSLDA that the children were handling it well. They were also thankful for some school authorities who allowed the children to be paired up in their respective schools. Mr. Wunderlich explained that the forced schooling has significantly disrupted the rhythm of their previous family-oriented lifestyle. The children told their parents that they are already tired of school.
"Now the little ones go to school from 8–12:30 and the elder until 1:00. We are home together for lunch. Then they have homework to do," he said. "The children find it strange and have commented on how confusing the school environment is. They tell me 'Papa, the teacher takes a lot of time explaining what we must do and telling the other children to be quiet. We don't get to actually do most work until we get home.' My youngest son says he misses working on his projects."
"I think homeschooling is much more effective because you can actually do the work and don't have to lose time on all the other things that go into school," said Wunderlich. "We hope with all our heart to get back to homeschooling somehow."
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"In the weeks before, it was terrible to think of my children going to school. I'm trying to have a more practical view. We will have a court date in December and hope we can get the full custody back and perhaps be able to go where homeschooling is tolerated. Our lawyers have made emergency requests and we hope perhaps an answer will come sooner. We don't think we could do this for years, but for a few or more weeks we can. Anyway, we don't really have any choice."
HSLDA's Attorney for International Affairs, Michael Donnelly, said that the organization will continue supporting the family and continues to hope for changes in German laws to make homeschooling legal.
"We are working with the family's attorney and we hope we can bring international pressure to bear on this situation. For example we are now waiting and hoping the Supreme Court will take our Romeike asylum case. And we have other plans to bring international attention to Germany's human rights abuses in this area," he said. "As a Federal Republic the hope for homeschooling is in the state legislatures. We need some German statesman to step up and do the right thing here."
"As a nation the culture has been hostile to homeschooling for some time. Our strategy has been to try to change that," Donnelly continued.
"It's a big job to try to change the mindset of an entire country. Germany is 80 million people with a long history of educational and cultural conformity. But we fought similar obstacles in the past in the US and today homeschooling is legal and flourishing in all fifty states. Americans have helped rescue the German people from totalitarianism once before, maybe we can do it again."
Michael Farris, HSLDA Chairman, holds an LLM in Public International Law from the University of London. He said that Germany is not upholding its obligations in human rights.
The older Wunderlich children outside the school the German government has forced them to attend.
"Germany has signed numerous treaties that recognize that the family has a superior right to make educational decisions vs. the government. Germany's treatment of homeschoolers is a clear human rights violation. It's not physical violence but lots of human rights are not physical, like free speech and freedom of religion and political opinion," he said.
"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted in direct response to what happened in Nazi Germany. It recognizes that parents have a prior right over the government to decide how children are educated. That's because German Nazis took over the country's educational system and used it as a weapon of social dominion."
Donnelly agreed.
"Of course, today's German Government isn't teaching kids to be Nazis or carting homeschoolers off to labor camps. But many parents object to some things being taught and how they are taught on both religious and philosophical grounds. If parents can't homeschool, what are they to do? Especially when you consider that private school curriculum must be state approved. It's totalitarian—German judges and policy makers have their reasons, bad ones in my view, but this is a human right we are talking about. Which side of human rights does Germany want to be on?" he asked.
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After receiving the door panels from Mendoza's Off-Road Center, we were really seeing the detail work start to come to an end. This meant the task of tying up all of the loose ends. One of those tasks was installing the door glass and regulators. After cutting the rear doors down to half of their original size, we thought this was going to be quite a challenge. As we told you earlier, we stole the rear glass from my wife's 2009 four-door JK.
The curve of the glass, size of the glass, and even the notched corners on the bottom of the glass fit perfectly. It was as if they were straight from the factory for a four-door Samurai. It turned out to be a fairly simple job to fabricate the parts needed to make the rear windows work. We had a set of old Bronco doors laying around, so we took the window guide that separates the wind wing from the window and took the wind wing off of it along with all of the rubber.
We then cut it to length and welded tabs onto it so that we could bolt it into the Samurai door. We also made fillers out of some sheet metal. Now came the regulators. Because our rear doors were so much smaller than the original, using a scissor regulator was not going to work. We decided to get some universal power window regulators, which are most commonly used in street rods and muscle cars.
Previous Project Samurai Stories
Part 8 Completing Interior & Controls
Part 6 Exhaust, Driveshafts, Lighting
Part 5 Instruments and Hoses
These regulators use a cable to raise the window up and down. Power windows using cables usually have a limited life span, especially in an off-road vehicle and we definitely did not want to be doing this again. So we got on the Internet and found Nu-Relics Power Windows. We spoke with Dusty, a former off-roader, about our project. Nu-Relics has all kinds of patterns for street rods and muscle cars but, you guessed it, nothing for a Suzuki Samurai, let alone a four-door.
But he was up for the challenge. He located an old Suzuki door through a friend, and with just a few pictures and some measurements he was able to build gear-driven regulators for our four-door Suzuki. This made the installation a breeze and it came with a lifetime warranty, making the money spent on this well worth it. On every build, you'll always have that one part of the project that's intimidating, even to a seasoned pro. And figuring out these power windows would work was that for me, but Dusty made this issue almost embarrassingly simple.
Halfway through this part of the project, we went to the SEMA show in Las Vegas to see all of the new toys and products. As all of us off-roaders know, bead locks can be very expensive. And because of that, not everyone on the trail has them.
The first thing we do on the trail is to air down to 5-10 psi, and those without bead locks will try to stay safe by only going to 15 psi. The inevitable will always happen and someone will break a bead. Out comes the ratchet straps and the cheesy little 12V compressors, while we try to kick and pull on the tire, even pour a little beer on the rim trying to lubricate and reset the bead.
I found a very compact cure for this situation. It's called a Bead Bazooka. This needs to become part of your survival gear, just as you carry a high lift jack or a snatch strap. It can reduce down to as small as 12 inches in length. You will tempted to use it as potato gun or a golf ball launcher, and some "Tim Taylors" may be tempted to clear a drain with it. But let's keep it real. It's made for making the job of resetting the bead easy on the trail. And you don't have to remove the tire from the vehicle for it to work. No more gasoline, carb spray, or ratchet straps that could possibly take your head off.
On our project Samurai, we don't have the room for on-board air, so while we were at SEMA, we looked for a high-volume 12V compressor. We came back empty handed. So I dug into my memory bank and remembered seeing an impressive portable 12V Oasis compressor one time on the trail. This compressor is primarily used in the industrial/commercial industry. Although a little spendy, as all good tools are, this is ideal for on the trail. This is the only 12V compressor on the market able to run a 1/2" impact without a tank. This compressor is able to fill a completely flat 37-inch tire to 35 psi in about 3 minutes.
While at the SEMA show, I ran across the Gear Wrench booth and shook a few hands and thanked them for the new pry bar I recently picked up on a tool truck. The toe of the bar is fully adjustable so that you able to get that perfect prying position, allowing the bar to do all of the work. The length of the bar is adjustable as well, from 30 inches to 4 feet. This bar can be used to dig like a hoe, pry rocks out from under your vehicle, straighten tie-rods, and pry damage away from the wheels or steering after having that unfortunate incident on the trail or race course. It has enough leverage and strength to handle the situation you may be tempted to use your winch on.
We used it to pick up one corner of the Samurai. We did it with very little effort and it didn't bend or bow. Its an absolutely great tool for Baja Trophy Truck teams and for any rock crawler or trail rig to have on board. It can easily be strapped to the roll cage without using much real estate. This is a serious tool. It will get you out and get you home. This also needs to become part of your trail survival kit.
Another neat little thing we ran across was the Factor 55 Prolink. This is a replacement end for your winch cable. It not only dresses up the look of your winch, but with the shackle it's quite adaptable to use other types of riggings, such as a strap, instead of using your rope line. That helps eliminates frays and snags on your synthetic winch line. It fits winches up to 20,000 pounds and stops hook rattle as well.
Before we headed to the dyno, we set up the warning lights on our ISSPRO gauges. A computer and the USB cable from ISSPRO is all thats needed to set it up. We will very soon find out if this Suzuki is truly a Jeep Killer.
Previous Project Samurai Stories
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Part 6 Exhaust, Driveshafts, Lighting

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This journal can help you plan, live out and record every stage of your journey to Chad — from pre-trip, to getting there, to being there, to getting home, and afterwards.
The first part of the journal is for PRE-TRIP PLANNING and contains sections for important information, a page to write about what inspired you to make the trip, a page to write about the who, where, what, when, how of the journey, a page to make note of your travel companions, a number of pages to organize your travel research.* Plus, you will find sections for drafting an itinerary and keeping a journey to-do checklist.
The second part of the journal deals with GETTING THERE, containing sections to describe getting there and arriving.
The third part of the journal is all about BEING THERE. There are sections for: tracking the stuff you buy and for your daily adventures there are 50 two-page daily records to keep notes on: day #, date, weather, places visited, what happened today + thoughts on what happened, the highlight of the day and extensive notes (with a handy reminder list of things to write about). Because there are about a whole lot of people in Chad, there's also a section to record the names and contact info of the people you meet along the way.
The fourth part of the journal is for GETTING HOME, that fateful day you depart and the days that follow. There are sections for describing your departure, for making your own top 10 highlights lists, a country radar to help you create a signature review of the country, and an afterwards where you can sum up the meaning of your trip.
When a trip is over, Cormac Younghusband recommends you start planning YOUR NEXT TRIP. To help, there is a section where you can make a travel wish list.
Also included is a COUNTRY BRIEF to give you important info on the destination and a MAP to give you an idea of the lay of the land. Plus, at the back of the book there are sections for: generic packing ideas, measures and conversions, and pages for notes, sketches, maps and such
'Find a place in the world you haven't been, and go there.' - Cormac Younghusband, The World's Most Legendary Nomad
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* Research Such As: places to go / explore, places to stay, places to shop / must have souvenirs, cultural / sporting events to attend, historical / religious sites of interest, pubs-bars-places-to-party, beaches / forests / natural wonders to see, parks & gardens to wander through, things to eat and drink / dining experiences, festivals & events to attend, stuff for kids, seniors, and such, experiences to experience, important local customs, etiquette, laws, and more.
'Why visit Chad? Because, it's there.' - Cormac Younghusband, The World's Most Legendary Nomad


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A great example of this is the Inspira Cowl by Marcy Clark (aka celerystalk on Ravelry). Knit in the round, the Inspira Cowl is a great introduction to Fair Isle, using a corrugated rib pattern with 2 different colors of yarn.
Our friend Jane had the marvelous idea to use 2 different colors of Liberty Wool to make her cowl. Look how great it came out:
Inspired by Jane's cowl I immediately logged into Ravelry to see if anyone else had this great idea. I was pleased to see that several people had! I really love the way that each one is so different because of the long color repeats of Liberty Wool. With over 20 colors available the possibilities are endless. Check with your LYS to see if they have a Liberty Wool subscription; if so they will be receiving two additional colors every month. Here are just a few of the many colors available:
You can only imagine my surprise when yesterday morning I logged onto Facebook and saw that Colorful Stitches announced that they were hosting a knit-a-long for the Inspira Cowl using Liberty Wool! You can join their knit-a-long here. Betsy Perry, President of Classic Elite Yarns will help judge the winner for the knit-a-long.
Have you made an Inspira Cowl using Liberty Wool? We would love to see it. Post your pictures to our Facebook page or send them to us at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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"Je veux pisser" ... with courtesy
Gerard Depardieu pissed on a plane yesterday. He had to go, and the seatbelt light was on, and they were about to take off, and he kept repeating "Je veux pisser, je veus pisser" and he was asked to hold it, and he couldn't, so he just took care of it right in front of his seat. This, while gross, is not actually the funniest part of the story. The funniest part of the story is the eyewitness account of it. A fellow passenger told a French radio station that:
"And there and then he stood up and did it on the floor. We could see he had been drinking. The stewardess was dumbfounded. No-one said anything. It all happened with courtesy. Mr Depardieu sat back down and the plane returned to the parking area to be cleaned."
So some dude sprays the cabin and, you know, "it all happened with courtesy" - DO YOU LOVE IT??? I can almost hear this woman, the tone of her voice, saying it in French. It ain't no thing. He pissed, they cleaned, and off we go.
And then there's the airline (CityJet) response:
"I will only confirm that he, in effect, urinated in the plane."
Like urinating on the plane is, in effect, the least of concerns.
As for Gerard - totally uncivilised? Sure. Of course. That's why this is making headlines. But you know, I do always envy a man's ability to just... relieve whenever and wherever. Like on a golf course. It's totally pedestrian for a man to go at the bushes. Totally, totally normal. And totally, totally impossible for a girl to squat one out in the same location. I have a small bladder. I feel this inequity all the time. And when you're an uptight neurotic, it's even worse. Sometimes I have trouble on a proper toilet. And I can never giv'er on one uninterrupted stream. There is always at least a pause in my pee. Too much information?
By the way, Gerard Depardieu is a winemaker these days.
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The Alchemy SOC family is based on an Alchemy-proprietary MIPS32 core. The models are called Au1000, Au1100, Au1500, Au1550, Au1200, Au1210, and Au1250.
Alchemy Semiconductor has been acquired by AMD in 2002, which recently (summer 2006) sold the Alchemy processor line to Raza Microelectronics, Inc.
Devices based on the AMD Alchemy
- 4G Systems mtx-1 (MeshCube)
- Embedded Planet EP1000
- FIC Vassili Personal Media Player uses 400 MHz Au1200 Processor
- Mechatronic Brick mb1100
- MyCable XXS-1500
- Bright Star Engineering picoEngine 400 MHz Au1100
- Tinnos Blufin, PMP and PDA in one. Includes 30 GB hard drive, 128MB of RAM, 4.3-inch color LCD (480x272), OtG USB, SD slot, integrated 2 megapixel camera and an Au1200 processor.
- Samsung LMD10A-51W mobile Digital Multimedia Broadcast TV (DMB-TV) player, has a 10-inch WVGA (800x480) screen. Based on the Au1200 and Linux 2.6.
- Samsung SPF-71V Digital Photo Frame (Au1200, WindowsCE )
By default the YAMON bootloader only enables the UARTs it is using, two at max. For Au1100/1550 only UART0 and UART3 are enabled, leaving UART1 non-functional. You can simply edit the reset source file named arch/init/reset_<name of your platform>.c to enable it. Check for the uart_enable register (Offset=0x0100 from the base address) in the databook. After you've enabled it, the Linux kernel serial driver is able to detect it.
See also
- http://www.razamicroelectronics.com/products_alchemy/ RMI's product page
External links
- AMD spins off Alchemy processor line article @Linuxdevices


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Rburt necesitaba un nuevo diseño de banner publicitario y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 86 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
My company generates leads for the automotive industry by asking users to complete free car quotes at auto-price-finder.com. This contest is to develop an ad for people to click through to our site and fill out a new car quote form. I would be happy to have a phone, skype, or email conversation to go over the contest or answer any questions. If all goes well we will be looking for a designer to develop our future creatives too. We usually need a couple of new creatives each month.
Individuals interested in purchasing a new car, more specifically a new Toyota Avalon or Honda Accord. Ages 18+. US population.
Attached are two pictures - one of the new Toyota Avalon, and one of the new Honda Accord. These two pics will be combined along with the text mentioned below to create a complete ad. This should be a simple contest because we are only asking the designer to piece information we provide together to build a final creative. Requirements:
1) Develop a 600x600 ad using the 2 pictures provided
2) Seperate the picture into 2 clickable areas -1 click box for toyota and 1 for honda. Toyota picture is to be placed on top and Honda to be placed below Toyota.
3) Remove all Toyota and Honda logos and symbols from creative
4) Add a heading above the Toyota to read "FIND THE LOWEST PRICES ON THE NEW TOYOTA AVALON"
5) Add a clickable button below Toyota to read "Get Incredible Savings NOW!"
6) Add a heading above the Honda to read "AND THE NEW HONDA ACCORD"
7) Add a clickable button below Honda to read "Get Incredible Savings NOW!"
6) Smaller text at the bottom of the creative to read "Auto-Price-Finder helps you find the lowest new car prices in your local area. Our network of thousands of dealers across the country is looking to compete for your business. We offer all major makes and models including the new Toyota Avalon and Honda Accord. So find the absolute best price on a new car, truck, or SUV today!"
7) Our logo is attached if you could nicely place it in the ad.


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The history of interracial sex is often told from the perspective of either legislatures or lynch mobs. The approach has a certain appeal; it allows us to track the ideological currents of the dominant society, as they ebb and flow from passive acceptance of the practice to outright hostility. But the approach also minimizes the role of the participants, routinely casting them as unimportant players in the overall history of sex and race in this country. In this book chapter, I look at the subject of interracial intimacy from the perspective of the people involved: one story involves a white man and black woman from slavery times, and the other involves a black man and white woman from the turn of the century. The purpose is to add some depth and detail to our understanding of some of these relationships, in the process upending some of our basic assumptions about what they might have been like. Indeed, by shining a light on individual cases, we begin to appreciate both the contradictions and complexities of interracial unions, breathing life into a portion of history too often left untold.
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Telling Stories of Love, Sex, and Race is a new paper by Jason Gillmer, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law. Here's the abstract:
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Java Implementation
You might first ask why I was motivated to implement Forth in Java and the answer would be to see how it might be done. Before being flamed, I should state the implementation I provide should really be called "Forth-like" as it stems from my recollection of how Forth works rather than a strict adherence to Forth standards. Also it was not done with any practical purpose in mind other than as a feasibility demonstration for fun. Finally, the Java implementation which I call "JForth," is not particularly efficient in terms of speed, memory usage, or anything else, but it served its purpose. The complete source code for JForth (packaged in a jar file which contains all of the javadocs, compiled classes, and source files) is available online.
Running JForth
Running JForth requires a Java 1.5 or newer JRE being available on your target machine. The jar file, Jforth.jar, available from DDJ, contains all of the javadocs, source code, test code and executable code required to run JForth. The code can either be run in a command shell directly out of the jar file using the command:
java -jar com.craigl.jforth.JForth
or the code can be extracted from the jar file and compiled in your preferred programming environment. Either way, once the main JForth class is executed you will be given the prompt > and the program will wait for you to enter Forth expressions. Type the Forth word "bye" to end your Forth session.
The file of test code, "testcode" must be extracted from the jar file to be executed. To compile and run this test code at the JForth prompt type:
> "path_to_testcode_file/testcode" load <Enter>
In JForth, all words are derived from the abstract class BaseWord which implements the ExecuteIF interface. The BaseWord class maintains the name of the Forth word, a flag indicating whether the word is immediate or not and another flag indicating whether this word is a primitive.
The ExecuteIF interface consists of a single method that all words must implement:
public int execute(OStack dataStack, OStack variableStack);
This method takes references to the data and the variable stacks and returns a non-zero int value on success.
Derived from BaseWord are the PrimitiveWord and NonPrimitiveWord classes. Primitive words are defined in Java code; non-primitive words contain a list of BaseWords (both primitive and non-primitive) that make up the definition. A primitive word is executed by calling its execute method to run the Java code which makes up its definition. The execute method in a non-primitive word traverses its list of BaseWords calling the execute method of each sequentially. Listing Two shows the definition of the Forth multiplication operator as an example of how primitive words are implemented.
... new PrimitiveWord("*", false, new ExecuteIF() { public int execute(OStack dStack, OStack vStack) { if (dStack.size() < 2) return 0; Object o1 = dStack.pop(); Object o2 = dStack.pop(); // Determine if both are of the same type if ((o1 instanceof Integer) && (o2 instanceof Integer)) { int i1 = ((Integer) o1).intValue(); int i2 = ((Integer) o2).intValue(); i2 *= i1; dStack.push(new Integer(i2)); return 1; } else { System.out.println("* - cannot multiply strings"); return 0; } } ...
The Forth dictionary is provided by the WordsList class which encapsulates a typed LinkedList. Helper methods in the class provide required functionality. Both the inner and the outer interpreters are methods in the JForth main class.
Two stacks are used in this implementation -- the data stack and the variable stack. Both use the stock Java Stack class. These stacks only contain objects. Currently the allowed objects on the stack are: Integers, Strings, BaseWords, and various types of control words used for conditional expressions and loop constructs. (Note: Since generics are used in this JForth implementation, Java 1.5 or newer must be used to compile and run the provided code.)
See the sidebar Running JForth to see how to run this code.
Typing "words" at the command line prompt will show you all available JForth words as shown below:
bye key random load array @ +! ! [email protected] r> >r variable constant forget wordsd words ; : hex decimal binary spaces cr . xor or and abs min max mod / * 2- 2+ 1- 1+ - + false true not 0> 0= 0< > = < depth rot over swap drop dup end begin +loop loop leave j i do else then if execute ' (
To see details about the defined words type "wordsd" at the command prompt.
Words: Name: "bye", Primitive: true, Immediate: false Name: "key", Primitive: true, Immediate: false Name: "random", Primitive: true, Immediate: false Name: "load", Primitive: true, Immediate: false Name: "array", Primitive: true, Immediate: false
Most of the words implemented in JForth work as they do in Forth. To understand behavior in detail, consult the file JForth.java (available in JForth.jar) where all of the primitive words are defined.


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All matters which are regulated by Pueblo's governmental organizations can be found within each agency's municipal codes. These codes have the force of law, and intend to promote and protect public peace, health, safety and welfare, and to guide growth and development in keeping with the comprehensive plan for the community. Pueblo's governmental organizations work to uphold these codes, but as times change, so do these laws.
The following are links to the current codes for the governmental organizations within Pueblo County:


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Adrafinil chemical structure
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Adrafinil is a mild central nervous system stimulant drug used to relieve excessive sleepiness and inattention in elderly patients. It is also used off-label by individuals wishing to avoid fatigue, such as night workers or others who need to stay awake and alert for long periods of time.
Adrafinil is a prodrug; it is primarily metabolized in vivo to modafinil (Provigil®), resulting in nearly identical pharmacologic effects. Unlike modafinil, however, it takes time for the metabolite to accumulate to active levels in the bloodstream. Effects usually are apparent within 45-60 minutes when taken orally on an empty stomach.
Adrafinil, also known by the codename CRL 40028, has as its chemical name 2-(Diphenylmethyl) sulfinyl acetohydroxamic acid. Its molecular formula is C15H15NO3S. The drug's molecular weight is 289.4 daltons.
Adrafinil does not currently have FDA approval in the United States, although it is used in France and elsewhere in Europe. The drug is marketed by the American pharmaceutical company Cephalon, which acquired Group Lafon in 2001, under the brand name Olmifon.
Adrafinil was discovered in the late 1970s by scientists working with the French pharmaceutical company Group Lafon. The drug was first offered as an experimental treatment for narcolepsy in France in 1986. Later on, Lafon scientists developed modafinil as a stand-alone drug because the latter drug was understood to be a more highly selective alpha-1 adrenergic and also featured less in the way of side effects such as stomach pain, skin irritations, feelings of tension, and an increase in liver enzyme levels.
The metabolites of Adrafinil contains sulfur, and can easily be detected by a peculiar odour of the urine of the person who has taken it.
- SID 184744 -- PubChem Substance Summary. The PubChem Project. National Center for Biotechnology Information. URL accessed on 7 December, 2005.
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- Adrafinil: A Novel Vigilance Promoting Agent by Norton W. Milgram, Heather Callahan, and Christina Siwak of the University of Toronto at Scarborough, CNS Drug Reviews, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 193-212 (PDF)
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West Kendall Baptist Hospital has named Miami Dade College (MDC) Kendall Campus president Dr. Armando Ferrer to its board of directors. Dr. Ferrer has served MDC for 36 years in various capacities, including dean of students at North and Kendall campuses. Appointed president of the Kendall Campus in 2009, Dr. Ferrer provides leadership and direction to more than 5,000 full- and part-time employees who serve more than 72,000 credit and non-credit students.
The seasoned educator is an active member of the State of Florida Council of Student Affairs, Florida Association of Community Colleges, American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, and was awarded a Kellogg Fellowship in Expanding Leadership Diversity. In addition to his professional accomplishments, Dr. Ferrer is actively involved in community activities where he works in partnership with community organizations, such as the Kendall Business Association and Chamber South, to organize job fairs and family-oriented programs.
"I am sure Dr. Ferrer will find the experience of serving this wonderful institution as rewarding as it has been for me," said Tony Alonso, a current board member at Baptist Health South Florida. "I look forward to working with him in the years ahead."
Scheduled to open in the spring of 2011, West Kendall Baptist Hospital will be a teaching hospital with surgical, emergency, maternity and diagnostic units. The hospital represents the first completely new, nonreplacement hospital built in Miami-Dade County in more than 35 years.


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The genetic material of mammals, the DNA, can be compared to an enormous encyclopedia containing the complete blueprint of the animal in question. Yet this comparison is misleading: over the past few years it has been realised that on most pages of the encyclopedia there is no information at all: they contain a chaotic sequence of letters. Mixed in among these pages there are intelligible pages from time to time, the genes.
The DNA encyclopedia is stored in the nuclei of the cells. If the body is to produce a specific protein, the appropriate page of the encyclopedia is copied (rewritten or 'transcribed'). Only the copies can leave the cell nucleus. They consist of a DNA-like material known as mRNA. Each mRNA contains the blueprint for precisely one specific protein - this at least has been the traditional doctrine.
Three years ago the DNA of the mouse was completely sequenced. An international research team consisting of more than 100 scientists has been attempting since then to isolate and analyse the entire mRNA transcripts in the mouse. Their most astonishing finding is that more than 60 per cent of all mRNAs are not protein blueprints at all. 'We don't know what the function of these RNAs is,' the Bonn neurobiologist Professor Andreas Zimmer admits. However, they seem to be extremely important: even in such different organisms as hens and mice these ostensibly so unimportant RNAs are very similar. If they really had no function they would have mutated during the course of evolution so quickly that there would nowadays be hardly any similarity between them.
The scientists came across an additional interesting phenomenon when they tried to find the 'original sources' of the mRNA copies in the DNA encyclopedia: information and nonsense are apparently not distributed randomly. Instead there are entire chapters with many different protein blueprints, which are separated by long passages devoid of meaning - Professor Zimmer talks of transcription 'forests' and 'deserts'.
Although the DNA encyclopedia only has a few tens of thousands of intelligible 'pages', the researchers counted more than 180,000 different mRNAs. 'The genetic information is arranged on the DNA in a very complex way,' Professor Zimmer concludes. For example, the 'copiers' in the cell nucleus combine the different 'paragraphs' in the DNA encyclopedia with each other in different ways. Thus there may be several different mRNA copies derived from the same page, which in turn serve as a blueprint for different proteins.
Only twice as many genes as a threadworm?
This observation might also explain the big question why mammals only have about twice as many genes as threadworms, which have a much simpler structure. 'Our study calls into question the classic view that one gene contains the information for exactly one protein,' Professor Zimmer explains. 'Mammals frequently use the selfsame place on the DNA several times over, as a partial blueprint, so to speak, for different proteins. It is becoming more and more evident that mammal genes do not have any clearly defined limits.'


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Sen. Michael Crapo, R-Idaho, center, followed by his wife Susan, arrives at Alexandria General District Court in Alexandria, Va., on Friday, Jan. 4.
Idaho Republican Sen. Michael Crapo will lose his license for a year after pleading guilty Friday to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge in a Virginia court.
In exchange for his plea, prosecutors dropped a charge of failing to obey a traffic signal.
After the hearing, Crapo gave a statement outside the Alexandria City courthouse apologizing for his actions. The senator said he had been drinking vodka and tonic at home on the night of the offense, became restless, couldn't sleep and went out for a drive.
His Dec. 23 arrest stunned colleagues and constituents alike, not only because of his squeaky-clean image but also because he's Mormon and had said he didn't
Crapo said the night of his arrest was the first time he had ever driven under the influence, but that he has, in the last year or so, imbibed
"As a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, I have endeavored all my life to be an outstanding member," Crapo said. "I will carry through on appropriate measures for forgiveness and repentance in my church."
He had been driving for about 30 minutes when he realized he was in no condition to drive and started to return home, he said. It was then that he ran a red light and was pulled over.
"I am grateful, truly grateful, that no one was injured," Crapo said.
The senator was stopped after a patrol officer saw his vehicle go through a red light. After failing field sobriety tests, he was arrested and "taken into custody without incident," according to Alexandria police. He registered a blood alcohol level above the legal limit, police said.
After his plea, Crapo received a $250 fine and a 12-month suspension of his driver's license. He will also be required to complete an alcohol safety program. As long as he remains on good behavior, he will not have to serve a 180-day suspended jail sentence.
"There was no refusal (to take sobriety tests), no accident, no injuries," Alexandria Police spokesman Jody Donaldson told The Associated Press at the time of Crapo's arrest.
Crapo has served in the Senate since 1998, where he has built a reputation as a staunch social and fiscal conservative. He is currently in his third term and won't have to run again until 2016.
Crapo said he felt like he owed people a full explanation of his behavior and took numerous questions outside the courthouse.
He is from Idaho Falls, Idaho, and has five children with his wife, Susan.
NBC's Frank Thorp and The Associated Press contributed reporting.
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Lady Cougars Fall On the Road to No. 13 Campbellsville
Campbellsville, Ky. -- The Lady Cougar basketball dropped a road game at Campbellsville (Ky.) University by the score of 73-59 on Monday night. Columbia, ranked No. 21 in the NAIA Preseason Top 25 Poll, falls to 4-3 on the year with the defeat, their second loss to the Tigers (6-2) this season.
The Lady Cougars allowed Campbellsville to get to the free-throw line 45 times on the night and the Tigers were able to convert on 33 of those attempts to finish at 73 percent for the game. Despite being held to just 31 percent shooting and 2 of 18 from beyond the arc, Campbellsville's advantage at the charity stripe proved too much to overcome as Columbia shot 38 percent from the field and hit just 3 of 12 (25 percent) from three-point range. The Lady Cougars kept the rebounding margin close at 45-41, but committed 32 turnovers and allowed the Tigers to rack up 51 points in the paint.
Heather English finished as the lone Columbia player in double figures with 18 points on eight for 13 shooting. Lily Abreu added nine points and a team-high five rebounds.
Campbellsville was led by Mrashi Karumba with 14 points.
The Lady Cougars will make the trip to Williamsburg, Ky. tomorrow to take on the No. 18 ranked University of the Cumberlands at 4:00 p.m. The two teams met on November 3rd in Columbia, with the Patriots claiming a 70-65 victory.


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The Forest Stewardship Council, or FSC, is an international non-profit forest certification and labelling system that was established to offer a single, easily recognisable label for wood and forest products that consumers can trust. This label certifies that forest products come from responsibly managed forests.
Founded in 1993 through the collaborative efforts of more than 100 participants representing economic, social, indigenous and environmental interests, the FSC issues certificates for well managed forests.
The FSC was created to allow corporate buyers and the public to identify products coming from responsibly managed forests, with the aim of redirecting the forest products industry towards more sustainable paths.
The FSC has grown rapidly since it began. It has over 800 members in over 80 countries on 5 continents - from large players in forestry to smaller companies, from community forestry groups to indigenous peoples' organisations, from environmental organisations to progressive forestry and wood retail companies - all working in a balanced partnership to improve forest management worldwide. Greenpeace is a founding member.
With certified forests in 80 countries on 5 continents, FSC is the leading standard for responsible certification. Currently, 7% of the world's forests area - around 180 million hectares (roughly the same size as Indonesia) as of 14 June 2013 - are FSC certified.
Small and community producers manage 24% of all FSC Forest Management certificates.
Support for the FSC label is high among major purchasers and retailers of forest products, but the tens of billions of dollars of demand for FSC products still far exceeds supply. And sustainable management of the world's ancient forests is still the exception rather than the rule.
The FSC oversees third party, voluntary certification of forests. The certifications cover all types of situations, including community and group certifications, natural and semi-natural forests, government owned forests and plantations.
The FSC certification also means that the forest has been independently inspected and evaluated for compliance with local laws, respect for indigenous and traditional peoples rights, the health, safety and rights of forest workers, and the provision of a wide range of social benefits.
Established nearly 20 years ago, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is widely recognised as the highest global certification standard for forest management. But, as the FSC has been growing rapidly, there is also a growing level of weak interpretation of FSC standards and gaps in the system, which is resulting in an increasing number of certificates being awarded to controversial forest management operations that shouldn't be in the system.
To keep FSC certification as a credible tool to help protect forests, Greenpeace is publishing a series of case studies to expose controversial operations that are posing the greatest risk to the FSC's integrity. We are also highlighting best practice operations that are meeting and/or exceeding the FSC's principles and criteria. These case studies will show the standards that must be consistently met if the FSC is to maintain its credibility.
The FSC must address its gaps and strengthen the certification process to prevent any more certificates from being awarded to operations that fail to meet FSC standards, as well as removing bad operations from its system until they sufficiently reform their practices.
A powerful group of large retailers have expressed their strong support for the FSC to continually improve its system in order to reinforce its position as the global standard for forest management and wood fibre certification. Long-term FSC supporters such as, Marks & Spencer, IKEA, Kingfisher and Tetra Pak, believe that if the FSC is able to resolve some key areas of concern as raised by Greenpeace, then FSC certified products will continue to enjoy the market benefits of using the FSC label with the full support of major environmental and social organisations.
The FSC needs to apply its world-leading criteria consistently in order to maintain the integrity of the FSC brand.
FSC supporters need to work together to keep the FSC strong as it continues to grow.
Keeping the FSC credible
Greenpeace considers other schemes such as PEFC (The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification), SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative) and MTCS (Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme) as fake forest certification labels and systems. These schemes are controlled by and for the forestry industry and their loose rules do not provide any assurance in the ability of these schemes to halt natural forest conversion, biodiversity loss and the violation of indigenous peoples' rights. The other systems lack robust requirements to protect social and ecological values.
Strong public demand and pressure from non-governmental organisations, combined with real commitments from corporate buyers to purchase products only from FSC certified forests is one way to help stop ancient forest destruction and promote ecologically and socially responsible management of the world's forests.
Whether you are buying as an individual or as a company, demand products from FSC certified forests and insist the product has an FSC label. Find out more here.
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Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell ended a meeting in his office by touting the effectiveness of an anti-inflammatory pill marketed by the wealthy businessman who showered him and his wife with thousands of dollars in gifts and loans, a state official said Monday.
Sara Wilson, director of the Virginia Department of Human Resource Management, testified about the meeting as the public corruption trial of McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, entered its third week. The McDonnells are charged in a 14-count indictment with accepting more than $165,000 in gifts and secret loans from former Star Scientific Inc. CEO Jonnie Williams in exchange for promoting his company's nutritional supplements, primarily Anatabloc.
Wilson said that when the March 2012 meeting to discuss health issues was breaking up, McDonnell pulled a bottle of Anatabloc from his pocket and mentioned that it was helping him and his wife. Wilson said she had already met about three weeks earlier with Star Scientific executive David Dean and rejected his request that she add Anatabloc to the list of items covered by the state employee health plan.
Wilson described the February meeting with Dean as a salesman's "cold call" and said that, to her knowledge, McDonnell had nothing to do with it. She said that after Dean told her he wanted the dietary supplement added to the health plan, she told him: "This is going to be a short meeting."
However, she said she was interested in Dean's pitch and asked to see scientific studies. He brought a Power Point presentation to a second meeting, but Wilson said that was marketing material and not what she wanted to see. She offered to make arrangements for a state employee discount on Anatabloc but never heard back.
On Monday, the jury also heard from McDonnell's former chief of staff, Martin Kent, who testified that he had no idea at the time that his boss and Maureen McDonnell had received gifts and loans from Williams. Several other former administration officials have testified that they, too, were in the dark about the extent of the cozy relationship until the scandal began making headlines in March 2013.
Kent also testified that Williams and his company received no state funds, board appointments or special legislation — a point that defense attorneys have emphasized in arguing that McDonnell extended routine political courtesies and nothing more.
On another matter, Kent testified that he received a heads-up from Col. Stephen Flaherty, superintendent of the Virginia State Police, that investigators were planning to interview Maureen McDonnell in February 2013. The jury was shown an email in which Flaherty told Kent: "We want to wrap up the Chef Todd case."
Todd Schneider was the Executive Mansion chef who was indicted and accused of embezzling food from the kitchen. Schneider, who ultimately pleaded no contest to reduced charges, provided information that prompted the McDonnell investigation.
Kent said he had planned to sit in on the interview with Maureen McDonnell but was told by Flaherty's top deputy that he couldn't. He said he spoke to Bob McDonnell about the interview less than 24 hours after it was conducted.
"He was upset," Kent said. McDonnell told him that "the interview was not what it was purported to be for."
Former mansion director Sarah Scarbrough testified last week that Maureen McDonnell also was upset and felt she had been set up.
Kent also testified about an August 2011 luncheon at the governor's mansion that prosecutors have described as the official launch for Anatabloc. McDonnell arrived for the latter part of the event and made some brief remarks.
McDonnell was swamped that week dealing with an earthquake, Hurricane Irene and a huge fire in the Great Dismal Swamp in southeastern Virginia. Kent acknowledged that McDonnell, who generally considered public safety the only thing more important than economic development, could have removed the luncheon from his schedule but didn't.


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(Bloomberg ) General Motors Co. (GM), the largest U.S. automaker, said its OnStar unit will begin offering 4G LTE service in vehicles next year in a partnership with AT&T Inc. (T)
The faster mobile data speed will first be available in most 2015 model year vehicles in the U.S. and Canada, GM said today in an e-mailed statement. Additional markets and service providers will be announced in coming months, the company said.
"We're making a global commitment to embed 4G LTE mobile broadband across all of our vehicles," Mary Chan, president of GM's Global Connected Consumer, said in an interview. "This is the largest commercial deployment of 4G LTE services in the auto industry."
The move marks an evolution for GM's OnStar, which has 6 million subscribers in the U.S. and Canada for the in-car communication service. The Detroit-based automaker traditionally emphasized OnStar's operators while other automakers have developed programs that used onboard navigating systems with video screens or systems that piggybacked off of connections with smart phones.
GM's OnStar operator-emphasis strategy is changing with the introduction of new telematic systems in Cadillac and Chevrolet and today's announcement.
"This is a big deal," said Thilo Koslowski, an industry analyst with Gartner Inc. based in San Jose, California. "They want to actually have embedded connectivity in their connected vehicles rather than relying on a mobile phone going forward, that's a pretty big shift in terms of where other vehicle manufacturers are today."
Faster Speeds
Long-term evolution, or LTE, is a higher speed, fourth- generation wireless technology compared with third-generation, or 3G. AT&T, Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) and T-Mobile USA Inc. are adding LTE to their networks. LTE allows mobile users to load videos and stream music as much as 10 times faster than 3G, according to the statement.
With 4G, GM said it could include in-vehicle Wi-Fi hot spots, streaming videos and faster application downloads.
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Nov 18th, 2011
Just a quick note that a planet for Mozilla Tools & Automation (the so-called "a team") is now up, thanks to Reed Loden. With the exception of Jeff Hammel, everyone there was already being syndicated on Planet Mozilla, but this should offer a more focused feed of our doings for those who can't always keep up with the firehose. Have a look:
Who should care? Well, we maintain all the major testing frameworks like Mochitest, Reftest, and Talos as well as automated tooling for QA like Mozmill. Our latest work is focused on making sure that Firefox is as robust, responsive, and performant as possible on desktop and mobile. In short, if you're writing or verifying code from mozilla-central, what we're doing probably affects you. Please let us know what you think about our projects and whether there's anything we can do to make your job easier: we're listening.
Quick bonus note: It's not immediately obvious (or at least it wasn't to me), but Mozilla has some fairly finely tuned infrastructure for running planets. If your team or group wants one, it's definitely better to plug into that instead of rolling your own. 😉 Reed Loden is the maintainer and the source lives in subversion.


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Home » Our Work » Research » Research Grants » Familial Risk for Suicide and Self-Injury: Testing Theories in Multigenerational Pedigrees
Familial Risk for Suicide and Self-Injury: Testing Theories in Multigenerational Pedigrees
Sheila Crowell, Ph.D., University of Utah
2012 Pilot Research Grant
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Bio: Dr. Crowell received her doctorate from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2009. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Utah.
Research Categories: Population-level research on suicide, multi-generational pedigrees
Abstract: Completed suicide is relatively infrequent and large samples are needed for informative family genetic studies of suicide. Because of this, the first recommendation in the Institute of Medicine's report on suicide was for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to "develop and support a national network of suicide research Population Laboratories devoted to interdisciplinary research on suicide and suicide prevention across the life cycle." The University of Utah houses the Utah Population Database (UPDB), a unique database that contains linked, de-identified medical, census, birth/death, marriage/divorce, driver's license, and demographic records on over seven million individuals dating from 1750 to the present. The goal of this pilot study is to lay the foundation for a sustained research program of population-level suicide research. Dr. Crowell's study has two primary aims: (1) to construct high risk family trees or pedigrees of families with multiple suicides, and (2) to examine the relative risk for suicide and intentional, non-fatal self-injury within those family trees in comparison with families without suicidal behavior. She hypothesizes that rates of suicide and self-injury will be elevated within high-risk pedigrees relative to case-matched controls. The establishment of this database will provide a national resource that can be linked with other public databases for studying suicide and suicidal behavior.
Impact: To use the developed familial database to study and identify biological, psychological, and environmental factors related to suicide.


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RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian prosecutors have filed charges against a high-ranking Olympic official in connection to a ticket-scalping case that unfolded during last month's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Marcos Kac, a state prosecutor, said on Tuesday he decided to charge Olympic Council of Ireland President Patrick Hickey and nine others with ticket scalping, conspiracy and ambush marketing, after reviewing the police investigation.
"We found enough evidence linking Hickey to this plot to sell tickets by a company that was not authorized," Kac told The Associated Press. "These are tickets that were sold for up to $8,000."
Earlier Tuesday, Hickey arrived at police headquarters, but declined to answer additional questions after he was summoned in the wake of new findings. Hickey, 71, also made no comment to reporters upon leaving.
The OCI head was arrested on Aug. 17 during the games in his Rio hotel room. Also the head of Europe's Olympic bodies, Hickey was jailed in a prison complex after a two-day stay in a local hospital to undergo tests because of his medical history.
He was set free last week when a judge ruled that he wasn't a risk to the public or the investigation. His passport was confiscated, and he must remain in Brazil until the case is concluded.
Police have said that Hickey plotted with businessmen to transfer tickets illegally from a sports company called Pro 10 to hospitality provider THG Sports, which was a non-authorized vendor and allegedly sold them for very high fees. Police investigators said the scheme was planned to rake in $3 million.
The head of THG Sports, Kevin James Mallon, was arrested on Aug. 5 in the case, but was set free, like Hickey. He is also facing the same charges and must remain in Brazil.
The eight other suspects are businessmen with Pro10 and THG Sports who are not in Brazil, including Marcus Evans, who owns THG Sports' parent company, as well as English soccer club Ipswich Town.
Hickey has stepped aside "temporarily" as an IOC member and all his other Olympic positions.
Police investigator Aloysio Falcao said they wanted to talk to IOC President Thomas Bach about email exchanges between him and Hickey related to ticket allocations to Ireland but learned he
"During his stay, we were going to summon him to speak to us," he said. Still, investigators said they have not found any evidence of Bach's knowledge of the alleged scheme.
Investigators have also found evidence linking 35 other National Olympic Committees to the Marcus Evans group. Rio police will communicate this to other governments but are not expanding their own investigation.


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Cask ale sales are "nose-diving' but it can be brought back from the brink.
Reporter Charlie Bullough talks to beer expert Pete Brown about the rise and fall of the hand-pulled pint.
A pint of cask ale can be sublime at its best but might look like a glass of 'porridge' at its worst.
That's the varied experience of leading beer writer Pete Brown who has been probing people's attitudes to the hand-pulled pint.
He is the nine-time writer of the ale industry's Cask Report and has provided the research for this year's edition: 'Cask Reconsidered'.
The bleak picture for ale aficionados is that cask beer is in double-digit year-on-year decline.
It has been through peaks and troughs before. And only five years ago it was the most popular sector of the beer market. But Brown says: "In about 2014 to 2015, when you get craft beer coming in other formats, that's when it goes off a cliff and it starts this precipitous decline, which is the worst it has been for a long time."
So what, as Brown aptly puts it on his blog, is "ailing cask ale?"
The question is complex and down to a range of factors.
The author added: "Ten years ago we were saying the trends people were wanting were more small producers, more variety and more local things. If all of those trends have changed and people were saying, 'we don't want that anymore' then you might write off cask ale as a lost cause. But those are still what people want.
"So all the factors that drove cask ale into growth a few years ago are still there, so it's obviously something else that is going on with cask. It should be growing alongside craft beer. That was my going in point."
During his two-part blog on the cask ale question Brown picked out three strands: variable quality, the temperature it's served at and its pricing.
Taking those in turn, he says: "At it's worst it could put you off beer. People think they don't like beer because of it. I've had pints that have made people throw up. A friend of mine had a pint with line cleaner still in it. He threw up immediately, he should have sued the pub. I've had pints that look like porridge and been told they are meant to be like that."
But at the other end of the spectrum cask can be a thing of wonder. Brown became a bit weary of drinking ale following his summer of research for the Cask Report and supped mainly lager. But he said: "I then had this pint of Hawkshead Pale Ale and it was that kind of monumental moment. It was excellent and a pleasure to drink. I thought, 'this is what it (cask ale) can be like, why isn't it like that all the time?'.
Temperature, meanwhile, is a divisive issue. The Cask Report, which is published by quality control group Cask Marque, revealed two-thirds of cask drinkers preferred cask to be served at a cooler temperature than the recommended 11 to 13°C. But traditionalists aren't too keen on drinking it at cooler temperatures like those for lager or craft beer.
Brown said: "I've seen some reaction on social media from people saying 'If they don't like the temperature it's at they should just drink lager or craft beer instead'. That is exactly what they are doing, which is why cask ale is nose-diving. So if you are happy for the brewers that you drink to go out of business then carry on with that attitude. If you want to support the brewers then it's time we had some cooler beers."
Price is also an issue. The stakes of getting lumbered with a bid pint during a session could cost you as much as £6 nowadays, says Brown. People's perception of cask ale pricing compared to other drinks is also confused. The report revealed a quarter of people think cask is more expensive than mainstream lager, it isn't.
So what can be done to get cask back to the glory days?
Brown believes there should be an industry-wide marketing campaign to change attitudes towards cask.
He added: "Cask needs to be more salient and relevant on the bar. It needs to start putting some different messages out that appeal to people: talk about it's naturalness, it's freshness and its flavour in ways that are relevant to people."
He thinks all is not lost for cask. Brewers like Cloudwater and BrewDog have recently announced they are going back into cask ale.
He also sees a future where cask becomes a niche product in centres of excellence, like at micropubs.
Brown concluded: "There is also a generational skip as well. When I was in my twenties cask ale was the boring drink old men drank, and lager was the cool drink.
"That first wave of lager drinkers is now in their sixties and seventies, so Carling is now the drink that old men drink in corner pubs.
"I think it allows for cask to come back at some point. The craft beer market is so fickle that at some point people are going to say 'Hey! Look cask ale is cool now' because it gets to a point where it is so uncool that it will be cool again."


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From Veterans Day festivities to a jazz concert, circus and wood carving show, this week offers a variety of events.
Loveland will honor veterans
Loveland will celebrate Veterans Day beginning at 4 a.m., when veterans will begin driving through the streets to ring bells, in memory of the early morning in 1945, when men began waking members of the community to let them know World War II had ended.
Following bell ringing, a 6-9 a.m. breakfast will be held at the Associated Veterans Club, 305 N. Cleveland Ave., Loveland.
At 11:11 a.m., a Veterans Day parade will start at Fourth Street and Railroad Avenue and head west on Fourth to Garfield and up to Dwayne Webster Veterans Park, where events will culminate with a special program.
Hospice program recognizes vets
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The event will include a color guard, special music, inspirational speaker, personal recognition of veterans and a reception.
For details, call 663-3500 or visit pathways-care.org.
MVHS jazz students to play with DKO
The Mountain View High School Jazz Ensemble and the Ultraviolet Choir will perform with Darren Kramer and DKO, a world-class instrumental horn band, at 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.13, at the school, 3500 Mountain Lion Drive, Loveland.
DKO plays funk, jazz and Latin music composed and arranged by bandleader/trombonist Darren Kramer.
Tickets are $10. They will be available at the door or by calling 613-7842.
For details, visit darrenkramer.com.
Cirque du Soleil brings Quidam to Loveland
Cirque du Soleil: Quidam opens at 7:30 p.m. today at the Budweiser Events Center, 5290 Arena Circle, Loveland. Shows continue at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, along with a 3:30 p.m. performance Saturday, and performances at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 18.
Tickets start at $35, plus applicable fees, and are available at ComcastTIX.com, 877-544-8499 and the Budweiser Events Center box office.
Fort Collins celebrates natural areas
The city of Fort Collins Natural Areas Program will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a program from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia St., Fort Collins, in the Canyon West Room.
A video, "Celebrating Your Natural Areas," will be screened, Mayor Karen Weitkunat and City Manager Darin Atteberry will speak, and long-time open space advocate, Mayor Pro Tem Kelly Ohlson, will give the keynote presentation.
The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Call 416-2815 or visit fcgov.com/webtrac and register for activity No. 49903-01.
Harrington actors perform 'Into the Woods'
Harrington Arts Academy, 575 N. Denver Ave., will offer its latest production, "Into the Woods," at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday.
The play blends various familiar fairy tales with an original story of a childless baker and his wife, who catalyze the action of the story by attempting to reverse a curse on their family in order to have a child.
Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door.
For details, call 372-9822 or visit harringtonartsacademy.com.
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The Northern Colorado Wood Carvers Club will present its 20th annual Show/Competition and Sale Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 17-18.
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Harvard fields 42 varsity teams, the most among the nation's NCAA Division I colleges and universities. Nearly 1,200 Harvard undergraduates - or 20 percent of the student body - participate in intercollegiate athletics.
Since its participation in the nation's first college athletic event - a two-mile crew race against Yale in 1852 - Harvard has been a consistent leader in the world of college sports.
- Harvard teams have won a combined 141 national or NCAA championships, including at least one in 28 of the last 30 years.
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- Alumni of Harvard's athletics programs have gone on to succeed in Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Hockey League, the National Basketball Association and Major League Soccer. Others have gone on to success in professional golf and tennis, and still more move on to ownership and management roles in professional athletics.
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