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Reviews by rickyleepotts:rickyleepottsArizona 4.6/5 rDev +10.3% look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5 I have been wanting to try this beer for a long time. The beer manager at Total Wine & More in Scottsdale loves this beer. This might actually be his favorite beer of all time. The bottles fly off the shelf, and I am glad they had one the last time I was there. Reading the tasting notes on this one… well, it sounds amazing. I have always been impressed with this brewery, and am a big fan of their La Fin Du Monde. Before we decided to drink this one, I had no idea the brewery had so much history. I also find it funny they are in Canada. The beer just tastes like it comes from Belgium. Excited to drink this, and based on our experience yesterday with Westvleteren 12, this better be great! Bottoms up, people. In the Glass: First off, that was the hardest cork I have EVER popped. Not sure why, but it took me 5 minutes to get the bottle open. I was worried the thing would explode or something. But I finally got the cork out, and poured a little in the glass. It had a HUGE head. I poured one ounce, and the entire glass was full of head. I waited for that to go down, and when it did, the beer poured like soda pop. The head was thin, light, and even looked like I was pouring a can of pop. When I finally got the beer in the glass, I was impressed with the color. It's black. Pitch black in the glass. Nose: That is what a strong dark ale should smell like. I find it funny that a brewery in Canada is making Belgian beers… but if they pull it off, by all means. This smells like a Belgian beer, so they are on the right track. On a second sniff I am getting some dark chocolate aromas and maybe some light coffee notes toward the finish. I have been wanting to drink this for a LONG time… let's go! Flavor: Holy. Crap. That beer is amazing!!! There are three things going on here. First you are hit with sweetness. I am talking barleywine sweet. Not thick, but really sweet. Then you get some malty flavors leading to a ton of carbonation. More carbonation than I expected and more than I wanted, to be honest. But then you get the aftertaste. I will get to that, but man… this beer is incredible. Mouthfeel: The mouthfeel is nice. It starts smooth, and itching to be thick. We are drinking this cold, so I will let the second half of the glass sit here for a few minutes, but the main mouthfeel happens toward the back of the tongue. That is when the carbonation comes out. It explodes across the back of your tongue as you swallow leading to that impressive lasting aftertaste. Aftertaste: I love beers that have an aftertaste like this. Beers like this could sit for days because I don't want to lose that flavor by taking another drink! Maybe that is why some of the best beers are only available in bombers. Those can take an hour or more to drink. Good thing, because a lot of them have a HUGE ABV. Like this guy. 10.5% is nothing to mess around with. This aftertaste really sticks around for a few minutes, and is as sweet now as when it started. I can see why the beer manager at Total Wine likes this one. It's great. This beer is only going to get better as it heats up, too. This is a rare beer, and only available at a few bottle shops in the United States. Glad I have one right down the road. I will be buying this one again, that's for sure. I would LOVE to have this one with some nice cheeses or some smoked salmon. Great, now I am hungry! If you like beer, heck… even if you don't, get a bottle of this. You're welcome!!! Serving type: bottle 12-13-2012 22:56:06 | More by rickyleepotts More User Reviews:artoolemomoOregon 4.01/5 rDev -3.8% look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4 Appearance- Pours up a resounding amount of head that also appears to have really good retention. The head is a very light beige while the body is a dark chocolate black that shows small hints of maroon and garnet when held up to the light. Good amount of lacing has been left behind. Nose- Good amount of cloves, coriander, and banana with cloves being the most dominant aspect initially. The cloves are a little different than most in that they have a slightly savory quality- they're almost meaty. This meatiness is very strong from the glass. Hints of very fleshy raisins as well. This is very apparent after some swirling. Some brown bread. Taste- Strong front of raisins which have a strong vinous quality that moves in to brown bread, banana, and cloves. At the moment, it seems a little thin. Seems a little more substantial on subsequent tastes. Don't get a lot of presence from any one note (except for maybe the raisins) but this is because of incredible integration and balance. Certainly not in the same league as some of Unibroue's other beers (La Fin du Monde, Maudite, and Trois Pistoles) but still a pretty good beer. Figs and plums start to come out with some tart notes around the edges. In many ways, resembles a light sherry or port. Some straw and grass gives it a little more complexity. The yeast used is definitely unlike any other I've encountered- it seems to contribute to the savory, almost umami character of the flavor profile. Good to really good beer. Heavy amounts of brown sugar and molasses make this beer seem thicker and stickier than it actually is. Mouthfeel- Between light and medium bodied with a light amount of carbonation. Drinkability- Pretty easygoing. 10-11 is fair for this beer but when Unibroue's beers are cheaper, it's hard to justify. Overall- Good to really good beer. A must try and a possible gateway beer for a wine drinker. No flaws and very solid. Needs a little something more to attain that wow factor. Serving type: bottle 12-09-2013 03:05:04 | More by artoolemomo MavigoMichigan 4.35/5 rDev +4.3% look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25 Got this from Whole Foods for a 25% off all beer black friday special. Served in a snifter. A: Pours a dark, near opaque, reddish black color with a 1/4 inch beige head that dissipates fast and leaves small patches of lacing. S: Outstanding aroma. Smells of plums, cherries, red grapes, malts, barley, yeast, cooked brown sugars, cinnamon, other spices T: Tastes quite sweet. Plums, brown sugars, cherries, red grapes, malts, yeast, herbs, spices. Is quite boozey, makes you drink it slow. M: Has a full body to it, good amounts of carbonation, strong booze overtones. A slow sipper indeed. O: Overall, this was pretty good. Although I've had many beers from Unibroue, I'd say this might be my least favorite but that does not at all mean it's bad, it's very good. I just feel that I like all their other beers, especially Don de Dieu. Still, i recommend it. Serving type: bottle 12-01-2013 01:39:05 | More by Mavigo RutagerBritish Columbia (Canada) 4/5 rDev -4.1% look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4 Appearance. Pours a deep dark mahogany with two fingers of pale khaki head. Smell. Red grapes and prune plums, some earthy spice but mainly fruity and sweet. Taste. Sweet with a ton of fruit. Raisins, purple grapes, a bit of banana and some caramel and molasses. Also getting that signature Unibroue fruity and spicy yeast and a tiny bit of chocolate. Mouthfeel. Medium body, fairly strong carbonation. Overall. 4's across the board, can't be a bad thing. A quality brew for sure. If you like one Unibroue, you'll probably like them all. Serving type: bottle 11-28-2013 16:06:27 | More by Rutager GivemebeerNew Jersey 4.25/5 rDev +1.9% look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25 A: black with a large pillow like off white head S: wow. Intense on the nose. Tons of cherries, sugar, raisins T: tons of cherries. And raisins. Very fruity a bit acidic. Very close to a quadruple with the sweetness on this. Lingering cherry finish. M: medium bodied and sweet O: alcohol very well hidden on this gem. Loved sharing this beer. Serving type: bottle 11-27-2013 04:11:38 | More by Givemebeer hopsolutelyOntario (Canada) 4.18/5 rDev +0.2% look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25 An excellent beer that I'd recommend to any fan of Belgian darks. Pours an oily black with chocolate highlights at the edges of the glass. The impressive head has good retention and leaves lots of lacing. Overall this is a very attractive beer. Aroma of Belgian yeast with cloves and lots of roasted dark malts with candied plums. Has incredible depth and complexities that are totally beyond my abilities to describe. Likewise with the taste, that starts sweet and morphs into a finish that is simultaneously both dry and caramelized. As I have no idea how that is possible, will leave it for the experts to describe. The alcohol warmth is scarily well hidden, and I am glad to be sharing this bottle. Serving type: bottle 11-24-2013 22:09:29 | More by hopsolutely boonzesOklahoma 4.4/5 rDev +5.5% look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5 First off, I live in a US state where alcoholic beverages above 3.2% ABW cannot be shipped nor sold chilled, so many great beers are unavailable (New Belgium refuses to sell warm, for example) here. In addition, I'm sure this at least slightly changes the beer/experience. Second, while I've been enjoying beer for almost a decade, I wasn't the type to obsessively seek out the best beers until the past four or five years. I still am somewhat of an anti beer snob, as I don't much pay attention to nose, head (except when I'm pouring a beer at work), or speak the jargon. However, after reading many reviews of this beer, I feel confident that I am qualified to rate it. To explain, the other reviewers all sound very knowledgeable and speak a language I can understand and learn from but do not speak myself. Scanning quickly, I read many different and often contradictory terms and descriptions in reviews of la Terrible. Some of these guys (or girls) sound equally proficient yet describe characteristics of this beer oppositely, so I really don't know whose side to take, whether it smells like plums, bananas, or dentists offices. So here's my uneducated opinion: I love this beer. I would give it all 5s if it weren't strongly discouraged and I was more confident in my opinion/access to comparable beers. I stumbled upon a 12 oz. bottle of Trois Pistoles several years ago and thought the metal album cover artwork was hilariously awesome, so I bought it. But then I really loved the beer (and still do - it's my favorite of the brewery's "cheaper" beers). So I tried some others. Maudite, for sure (didn't like it. felt the evil horse beer made it a little redundant), Chambly Noire (i think), and definitely Quelque Chose (good but in a very different category). Anyway, flash forward until about a little over a year ago. I see this black bottle on the shelf with the others called "Terrible." It's comparatively expensive, but I can't resist buying it based somewhat, again, on comedy value. I chill it and some snifters, then pour a small glass for my (then) future wife and one for myself. I'm ready for it to be a bottle full of bar mat drain-off, what with the name and all, but it's amazingly delicious. I actually bought it several more times, despite the price and the fact that, when buying "good" beer, I am inclined to try something new each time. i was ready to be totally embarrassed reading my first ever beer review, but i totally stand by this. terrible kicks ass, and i sounded how i should. honest and new. four or five years later, i don't have the time to write beer reviews, but i brew when i can. i have a few recipes posted on brewtoad. nothing so far like la terrible, but i think they're good recipes. Serving type: bottle 11-21-2013 09:21:30 | More by boonzes ArceoCalifornia 4.19/5 rDev +0.5% look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25 this beer is quite a good belgian dark strong. smell is mostly yeasty dark fruits and char. it tastes like , a big belgian smack in the face with sweet tones of plum and dates. the alcohol is well hidden as I am pretty drunk of sharing a bottle with a friend, and cant detect the 10.5 abv. very pleasant and complex beer. 2 thumbs up Serving type: bottle 11-21-2013 05:22:01 | More by Arceo |
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Spent is a game about short-term personal finance, or the daily need to pinch pennies just to keep food on the table and provide a small levee against emergencies. Although the game's loose causal chain between decision and consequence (coupled with the emphasis on text-based delivery of information) provides a less pure procedural rhetorical model of poverty, it is nevertheless effective given an assumed target audience of middle-class teenagers and young adults. For many this game will merely serve as an exercise in sensitivity to the plights of the less fortunate (a balm to relieve conservative semantic engineering), perhaps inspiring a small donation at the end of the game. Instead of seeing Spent as a "call to action," it might be okay to settle for the more feasible--yet no less daunting or important--goal of educating young adults who are about to make decisions about whether to take out loans to go to college, keep an unwanted pregnancy, drop out of high school, or enter the job market.
Spent is a game about short-term personal finance, or the daily need to pinch pennies just to keep food on the table and provide a small levee against emergencies. Although the game's loose causal chain between decision and consequence (coupled with the emphasis on text-based delivery of information) provides a less pure procedural rhetorical model of poverty, it is nevertheless effective given an assumed target audience of middle-class teenagers and young adults. For many this game will merely serve as an exercise in sensitivity to the plights of the less fortunate (a balm to relieve conservative semantic engineering), perhaps inspiring a small donation at the end of the game. Instead of seeing Spent as a "call to action," it might be okay to settle for the more feasible--yet no less daunting or important--goal of educating young adults who are about to make decisions about whether to take out loans to go to college, keep an unwanted pregnancy, drop out of high school, or enter the job market.
The sheer scope of the logs presents an obvious problem for journalists attempting to find patterns across the documents. Many commentators have emphasized the small scale of the individual documents at the expense of any larger trends. For example, a Pentagon spokesman dismissed the leak as "raw observations by tactical units, which were only snapshots of tragic, mundane events"; even WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange says that the "snapshots of everyday events offered a glimpse at the 'human scale' of the conflict" (BBC). Accordingly, most news reports are heavy on raw data and light on meaningful information, even though several news organizations--The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, and Der Spiegel--received the information in advance in order to analyze it.
In their size and scope, however, the logs also provide an object lesson in the importance of interactive infographics in modern journalism. Used correctly, an infographic can help readers and analysts find meaningful patterns in an imposing set of data like this one. Most major news organizations have made infographics of one type or another, with varying results. Comparing the scope of these graphics may give us a cross-section of the current state of interactive journalism.
Colorado Backseat Budgeter is an interactive tool that presents the user with this difficult task of balancing the Colorado state budget. Budgeter is sponsored by Colorado State University's Bighorn Leadership Development Program and developed through EngagedPublic.com which seeks to promote "consensus, collaboration and creativity in the public sphere." While I could not find an explicit purpose statement anywhere within the Budgeter's documentation, in an article at Chronicle.com, Brenda Morrison, the director of the Bighorn Program states that "'by putting themselves in the governor's shoes,' people will better understand how the system works."
The July issue of Wired magazine featured an article titled "Cutthroat Capitalism: An Economic Analysis of the Somali Pirate Business Model" (pdf available), in which they attribute the rise in piracy on the Somali coast to economic factors. The print article features eight pages of text, infographics, and illustrations which have a distinctly game-like aesthetic. The article graphics are colorful and use rounded-edged pixel art to abstract the images of boats, people, and maps. It is divided into section, the different steps of an attack, and each of these sections is supported by some sort of infographic and text description.
The infographics in the article take the forms of fever charts, bar graphs, pie charts, organization charts, and a full-page map. The article also uses an unusually high number of fonts, generally to the effect of punctuating the different "economic" formulas laid out in the article, creating the illusion of action and dynamism.
This illusion of an on-going process is important to the article because it's supposed to convey the timeline of a highjacking and ransom attack. It calculates the value propositions of each of the steps of the attack (from the pirate, crew, and naval point of view as appropriate) and serves to explain the low-cost, low-risk, high-reward system of ransom based piracy.
It, of course, is no accident that the aesthetic of the article is game-like. The article is paired with a web-based component--a Flash game with the same name, which Ian briefly wrote about when it was released. Not only does the game use many of the same assets, but it operates under the mathematic logic of the article to support the conclusions of the piece. It takes the rhetorical stance of facts-in-action, creating a capture and negotiation simulation. Perhaps simulation is too strong of a word, as many of the concepts have been abstracted for emphasis, but it does operate under the same assumptions of the article about the piracy process.
Imagine this: a warm early summer's day. The sky looks cloudy, rain is immanent. Suddenly, the atmosphere takes on a green tinge. Is it your eyes? The wind picks up. And, without warning, pellets of ice begin falling from the heavens.
Hail. Effing hail. Is my car okay? This is so weird. Is my aluminum siding okay? (Why am I worrying about aluminum siding?) Woah, hail! Golf-ball sized pellets of ice in the middle of summer, piling up outside my front door. Effing hail!
Effing Hail by Jiggman and Greg Wohlwend of Intuition Games is a Flash game that looks like an infographic. It's an isometrically positioned diagram of the atmosphere sliced into fictionally named sections (the cleverly labled Aiesphere through Effingsphere). The player's mouse click acts as a strong updraft of wind that can lift falling precipitation back into the upper atmosphere to form large chunks of hail with which to pound the defenseless buildings on the ground. The goal is to make either an array of large hailstones or army of smaller hailstones to pummel an increasingly stronger set of buildings and objects in the sky within a time-limit.
An infographic titled "How Different Groups Spend Their Day," produced by the New York Times, recently circulated around the Internet, earning acclaim from casual news-readers and the multitude of Twitterers who passed the link around the net. People claimed they liked the infographic, which depicted how different population groups spend their day, because it was interactive, deep, multi-dimensional, and fun to investigate. People also spoke about the results of the quantitative information depicted: claiming that the results were fascinating, identifying trends and specific instances, and even noting some of the peculiarities (the unemployed spend less than 1% of the day working!).
There are at least two aspects of this New York Times infographic I'd like to explore, neither of which relate to the actual data itself. The first question I'm interested in is what it is about the graphic that, despite its flaws, people found so interesting? This relates to a larger question we've been exploring about "cool" infographics and chartporn—depections of data in which people are more interested in the graphic design than its utility. The second question criticises the graphic, examining what could have been done to actually make it live up to the commendations of its blog-sharers, Twitters, and Digg-ers.
Rosenstiel & Kovach use the idea of the awareness instinct to explain why we read the news. One purpose of the news is to influence public opinion in such a way that the force of the people's opinion can be brought to bear on matters of policy; however, not all reportage seeks this end. And we don't read the news just so we know what our government is doing. One way to explain the popularity of investigative reporting and seemingly unimportant news such a tech and beauty columns is this awareness instinct. It implies a basic human desire for any and all information. Certainly the idea is that we hope to synthesize some of this information and use it in our daily lives, but this doesn't explain why people are so glued to celebrity gossip and the latest specs on Sony televisions. To put it crudely: we want to know about stuff.
So goes the Press Release by EA introducing the feature to ESPN's football coverage this past September. The feature has garnered positive remarks by other sports news outlets, but what does the system offer sports journalism and how is it bridging the gap between games and journalism?
"EA SPORTS Virtual Playbook is born out of our deep football heritage at EA SPORTS and our drive to expand the impact of our innovative sports technologies beyond gaming," said Peter Moore, president of EA SPORTS. "Telecast on ESPN, EA SPORTS Virtual Playbook marks the future of sports production by allowing television analysts to highlight, critique and dissect on-field action more intimately than ever before. EA SPORTS Virtual Playbook brings an entirely new level of excitement and realism to football analysis to ESPN viewers this NFL season."
In keeping within the spirit of my infovis-related posts (see here, here and here) and being inspired by Ian's BusinessWeek Arcade post, I thought I'd mention some online infovis apps and, in particular, point to some examples of how infovis is being given larger contexts (i.e., devoted sections) within major news sources.
Open data sets and online visualizing apps are most often geared towards and most used by designers, scientists and statisticians. Information Aesthetics has a good list of some of the most popular of these apps in the first sentence of this post. But more examples are starting to creep into major news sources. Both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times have introduced new datavis sections in the past year that are aimed at allowing their readership more direct access to data sets.
The intersection between games and journalism does not only entail newsgames.
Here at JAG, one of our key realizations has been that interactive infographics already have game-like qualities, and might have something to learn from traditional game design wisdom. Adam, for example, has written about Martin Wattenberg's NameVoyager, pointing out that its users frequently interact with the dataset by setting their own goals (e.g. which of my friends has the most old-fashioned name?)
Interactive infographics should interest us because they are already so widely used in online journalism (just think back on all the interactive demographics maps that were deployed during the 2008 Presidential Election). To be honest, my own personal suspicion is that game-like interactive infographics ultimately make more sense than so-called newsgames - at least for many types of news stories.
In this post, I'd like to compare and contrast two similarly minded, game-like infographics (or rather, data exploration apps) about natural disasters.
Note: This post is one in a series of posts that seeks to examine ways in which information visualization (infovis) can be game-like, or gamey (an unfortunate, but fun, term we default to when discussing this topic as a group).
Moving on from my earlier discussion of narrative infovis, I will now engage what Bobby and I identified as free-form infovis.
Free-form infovis allows users to engage large data sets in relatively open terms. A nice game analogy might be something like the experience of playing Grand Theft Auto. Players are free to roam within a large gamescape and adhere to a set of play guidelines only if they choose to do so. Structure is available as something to adhere to, react against or simply ignore and these choices, or options, are inherent in the game's system.
Traditional works of journalism craft stories to present information in a cohesive manner. But what if there isn't any clear trajectory or narrative? What if a journalist really just wants to present an otherwise disconnected collection of references and fragments?
Digital media artifacts like palinaspresident.us suggest one interesting potential solution.
palinaspresident.us is a "click-through" flash app (developed during the election cycle) that satirizes the idea of Sarah Palin as president. The user clicks around the office to uncover graphics that poke at campaign issues and gossip in a humorous way. The content ranges from jokes about the "maverick" moniker, to dystopia visions of Palin blundering her way to nuclear apocalypse.
Admittedly, it seems dubious to deem palinaspresident.us as "journalistic." At the time, the game certainly played off relevant news topics (e.g. Troopergate, the "drill baby drill" chant), but the primary purpose here is clearly to amuse (or terrify), not to inform. Given its partisan nature, the website would probably be more fairly labeled as activism.
Nonetheless, we could certainly imagine using this kind of explorative, click-through interaction to craft engaging info visualizations. One might use this kind of framework to compellingly present a jumbled series of different issues and facts.
After a brief word on directed activity, I thought it might be useful to discuss a fundamental split in infovis that Bobby and I sussed out a few weeks ago. After some discussion, we noticed that most of the infovis examples we were looking at fell into one of two categories: narrative or free-form.
All infovis invariably boasts spatial exploration of data, but some follow a stricter pattern of narration to convey a cogent story with multimedia and infographics. Other visualizations, the free-form variety, are more open engagements with data sets, featuring multiple filters to achieve alternative perspectives on said data. Exciting right? In this post I want to explore two examples of what I believe to be narrative infovis.
A few weeks ago, Adam and I gave Democracy 2 a spin.
In Democracy 2, you play as a newly elected president who analyzes data, sets policies, manages a Cabinet, and responds to crises. There are a number of different scenarios (nations) to choose from. Most of them are fake names based on real configurations, although there is one explicitly real-named scenario (the United States).
The game is certainly fun. For our purposes, Democracy 2 is especially relevant because it acts as a kind of commentary on current issues. Admittedly, the game does not claim to be journalistic. Nonetheless, it does suggest a number of interesting challenges and solutions regarding the intersection of simulation and news.
One way we can consider infovis to be game-like is by exploring the notion of directed activity. Directed activity in games and in information visualizations influences the ways users navigate through the game or information space and it can occur implicitly or explicitly. In both games and information visualizations directed activity operates to guide the user to certain goals.

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In general, a species is in evolutionary stasis. Individuals maybe capable of variation within the genetic range, but that genetic range is fixed. So a particular species can be recognised over many millions of years, hence biostratigraphy works!
A new species can evolve only when a particularly small representative sample of a species is reproductively isolated and subject to heavy selection. An example may be the offspring of a single migratory reproductive female, or perhaps a single family/community that survives the destruction of the rest of its species (a bottleneck). This little population undergoes rapid and self-reinforcing (interbreeding) selection, and soon becomes geneticually distinct from its progenitor species. Once it becomes populous enough then the new species enters stasis until its extinction. There are certainly current examples of recent allopatric speciation (eg; the red back spider in Australia, evolved from an imported US black widow).
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Oregon school backers, retailers spar over lottery profitsNews StoryBar and tavern owners are squaring off with school advocates over the surge of new revenue that's expected to come from the Oregon Lottery's expansion into electronic slot machines.At a hearing yesterday, retailers said the Lottery is proposing a raw deal for them when it comes to sharing expected slot machine revenue.But groups advocating for children and schools say the retailers already are making excessive video lottery profits and should get less money, not more.At Gov. Ted Kulongoski's req ...Jan 12, 2005, 8:47 am - Lottery News forum
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Audit finds gaps in Oregon Lottery securityNews StoryA state audit has concluded that the Oregon Lottery should tighten user access to computer data and improve security at employee workstations.The points were raised in an annual financial audit that the state Audits Division released Wednesday. The audit found no major problems for the year ending in mid-2004 but brought up a few issues that require management's attention, the audit said.A letter accompanying the audit said that Oregon Lottery managers should review computer-access rights when ...Jan 6, 2005, 12:09 pm - Lottery News forum
Oregon lottery sales averaged $249 per resident last yearNews StoryFrom video-poker machines at bars and restaurants to ticket sales at convenience markets and grocery stores, Jackson County residents spent $42.2 million on the Oregon Lottery in the fiscal year that ended in June.Thats as if every man, woman and child in the county spent about $222 on Lottery games last year, slightly less than the state average.Of course, not everyone plays. Roughly a quarter of the countys population isnt even old enough to gamble. However, per capita spending sales divided b ...Dec 29, 2004, 8:19 am - Lottery News forum
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Alaska man wins lottery for-life prizeNews StoryAn Alaska resident has won an Oregon Lottery game worth $52,000 per year for life -- a prize that went unclaimed for more than a month.Roy Wilson of Cordova, Alaska, bought tickets for the Oct. 30 Win for Life drawing at an Albertsons supermarket in Salem while visiting relatives. Wilson, a fishing-business owner, returned to Alaska and was fishing when the drawing was held.His relatives read a Nov. 13 article in the Statesman Journal that said a winning ticket for the $1,000-per-week-for-life p ...Dec 6, 2004, 8:25 am - Lottery News forum
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Deanne Young: They do have antidepressants for depression. They work. You just have to find one that works with your body chemistry. Drugs and alcohol are definently not the route to go to escape your problems. They will only make them worse. If she knew that it was illegal and didn't want to put her and her baby at risk why smoke pot at all? I see she is already going down Amber's road of life.
OK i know she's done wrong and has for a long time but I dont think anyone should compare her to that stupid Casey Anthony. Im sorry to say this but i know she or someone else killed her daughter and all but i personally am tired of hearing of that woman. There are so many people out there that have done worse than her jsut to kill a child and you dont hear this much about them. On the note of Janelle she needs to let her Mom have that baby or someone else yes. SHe got help but didnt take it in like she should have. Im sorry I dont pity anyone like this or anyone worse.
WOW no way is this girl a good mother! Her mom shouldnt even have this little boy! He deserves so much better than what that crazy family can give him poor Jace! she will never change !!!
she is NOT a good mom.. she constantly puts herself before her kid.. she doesn't use the good sense God gave her.. yes her mom is a pain in the ass, but her mom has done more for her and her kid than anyone else did. more than she has done for her own kid. she needs to grow the hell up and quit complaining and take care of her kid. obviously she is picking herself over her kid once more ..every time she picks up a joint she is picking that over her kid. her mom needs custody of that kid... even tho she's a pain..that kid is being takin care of. she needs to just give up custody and be done w/ it. cuz she doesn't care to be responsible
She is a good mom, but she just need's help like every other citizen in this World. Everybody has something wrong with them but its just a matter of finding help. Jenelle is just like you and me. I know that she made a bad desicion of having a baby at 16 but come on, it wasen't her fault. She made a mistake, everyboddy makes mistakes. I'm through here but, just remember, we ALL make mistakes and we all need help in this world.
they need to find a loving family for that baby before there is another Casey Anthony out there.. Jenelle is a waste and her mother is a nut.....no wonder jenelle has no scruples. Once again the baby suffers.... don't wait till there is another Caylee. that's what is wrong people always step in when it is too late......
To bad she isn't rich like linsdey lohand she would be off scott free, some people just need a little help.. she will get it one of these days.. as fo her parenting, her mom has custody so he is in a good place and she is there to help learn to be a parent.
So she was never a mom to that baby and i agree with Nikol. I feel bad for the kid cause he never did anything to deserve what he got.
This girl just doesn't get it. I watched her "16 and Pregnant" and Teen Mom episodes and her whole family is jacked. Neither her or her mother do right by each other and for a mother to tell her daughter that she doesn't love her is just horrible. Janelle is only going to keep messing up. She doesn't feel loved so how on earth is she ever going to be able to be a good mother. I am worried about her son growing up with her mother. The woman is crazy and if she can't love her daughter how can she love her daughters son. Janelle needs to get her act together and get rid of all negative influences in her life before she winds up in prison. Her mother needs to go to therapy and learn how to be a proper mother. If Janelle had felt love as a child maybe she wouldn't be so bad now...but then again you never know.
It's just weed, they should be more worried about her horrific parenting, she obviously cares nothing about her child as you can clearly see in the show!!!


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The elderly and other vulnerable homeowners are losing their homes because they owe as little as a few hundred dollars in back taxes, according to a report from a consumer group.
Outdated state laws allow big banks and other investors to reap windfall profits by buying the houses for a pittance and reselling them, the National Consumer Law Center said in a report being released Tuesday.
Local governments can seize and sell a home if the owner falls behind on property taxes and fees. The process helps governments make ends meet at a time when low property values and the weak economy are squeezing tax revenue.
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The consequences are "devastating for individuals, families and communities," Rao said. He said states should update laws so speculators can't profit from misinformed homeowners and people who have difficulty managing their finances.
The rules for property tax sales can be confusing, especially to elderly people who can't keep track of their finances and people in minority-heavy communities that were targeted by subprime lenders. Here's how it works:
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— If the taxes aren't paid, the government auctions the lien to investors. Past investors include JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and people who respond to Internet get-rich schemes, the report said. Homes typically are sold at steep discounts.
— For a limited time, the homeowner may buy back the home by paying to the investors the purchase price of the lien, plus interest, fees and other costs. That's possible because investors haven't bought the home itself — they have purchased the tax lien, which gives them the right to seize the home later.
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I have been on HRT for 1 year now, originally test level 44 ng/dl due to heavy past steroid usage. My doc put me on 50 mgs Androgel, then 100 mgs. daily, then switched to 100 mgs. test cyp. per week, and highest my test level achieved was 430 ng/dl, still wasn't feeling too well. We switched to 100 mgs. Testim daily, and after experimenting for 3 months using numerous application techniques I finally found what works for me: Taking a hot shower, as hot as I can stand it, and using a lufa sponge on the application areas, immedatately dry off, and then apply Testim over a large surface area, inner biceps, upper chest, front traps, and directly under armpits (lat areas) and rub it in for sometime until there is no more residue (it's a godamn hassle), but my last 3 blood results have yielded test levels between 1160-1220. Doc says I'm way too high, he wants at max. 700 ng/dl. I refused and told him I feel great I want to stay where I'm at. He finally agreed, as long as my other values do not get out of whack. Anyway I feel great, making good gains in the gym, and in bed. Perhaps my experinence will help some of you. Take care, and I wish you boys all the best!


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text: Bone mineral density assessment is an appropriate monitoring tool for the management of strontium ranelate-treated osteoporotic patients Bruyère, Olivier ; Detilleux, Johann ; Reginster, Jean-Yves in Arthritis and Rheumatism (2006, November), 54(Suppl), 586 Detailed reference viewed: 5 (0 ULg)Analysis ofFeline uroliths -New data from Europe A retrospective study 1994-2005 Diez, Marianne ; ; Detilleux, Johann et al in Debraekeleer, Jacques; Sparkes, Andy (Eds.) Proceedings of the Hill's European Symposium on Advances in Feline Medicine (2006, April) Article présentant les données analytiques d'urolithes félins analysés pour l'Europe par le Minesota Urolith Center (1994-2005) Detailed reference viewed: 5 (2 ULg)Exercise and pharmacological stress echocardiography in healthy horses Sandersen, Charlotte ; Detilleux, Johann ; Art, Tatiana et al in Equine Veterinary Journal. Supplement (2006), 37 REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY: Stress echocardiography could be a useful diagnostic test in horses suspected to suffer from exercise-induced myocardial dysfunction as a cause of exercise intolerance ... [more ▼] REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY: Stress echocardiography could be a useful diagnostic test in horses suspected to suffer from exercise-induced myocardial dysfunction as a cause of exercise intolerance. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of treadmill exercise and pharmacological stress test on left ventricular echocardiographic parameters. METHODS: Echocardiography was performed in 2 groups of 5 healthy horses, either immediately after a near-maximal treadmill exercise (Group EXE) or during a pharmacological challenge (Group DOB) consisting of 35 microg/kg atropine, followed by incremental dobutamine infusion rates of 2-6 microg/kg bwt/min for 5 min duration each, which led to a cumulative dobutamine dose of 100 microg/kg. Left ventricular M-mode parameters were compared at rest and at heart rates of 80, 100, 110, 120 130, and 140 beats/min, within each group. RESULTS: In 2 horses of Group EXE, echocardiographic measurements were impossible at 140 and 130 beats/min, as their heart rates dropped too fast in the immediate post exercise period. In the remaining 3 horses image quality was not always satisfactory at heart rates of 130 and 140 beats/min. Systolic left ventricular parameters and fractional shortening measured at 130 and 140 beats/min were significantly different from values obtained at lower heart rates. Horses in Group DOB reached expected heart rates of 80 and 100 beats/min, after the administration of atropine and during a dobutamine infusion rate of 2 microg/kg bwt/min, respectively. Heart rates targets of 110, 120, 130, and 140 beats/min were reached at mean (+/- s.d.) dobutamine infusion rates of 2.8 +/- 0.4, 3.2 +/- 0.4, 4.0 +/- 0.7, 5 +/- 0.7 microg/kg bwt/min, respectively. Systolic left ventricular parameters and fractional shortening at heart rates of 110, 120, 130, and 140 beats/min, were significantly different from values obtained at lower heart rates. CONCLUSION: The pharmacological stress test induced changes in ventricular dimensions at heart rates of 80 to 140 beats/min. Using this test, high quality images can easily be obtained at heart rates of 140 beats/min. Conversely, in post exercise echocardiography, obtaining good quality images at heart rates of 130 and 140 beats/min is difficult, which limits use of the technique in routine clinical settings. POTENTIAL RELEVANCE: Further studies should demonstrate the potential of pharmacological stress test as a diagnostic tool in horses suffering from exercise-induced myocardial dysfunction. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 46 (4 ULg)Cardiac pumping reserve measured in healthy horses using a dobutamine stress test Sandersen, Charlotte ; Detilleux, Johann ; Art, Tatiana et al in Proceedings of the 45th Congress of the British Equine Veterinary Association (2006) Detailed reference viewed: 2 (0 ULg)Exercise and pharmacological echocardiography stress in healthy horses Sandersen, Charlotte ; Detilleux, Johann ; Art, Tatiana et al in Proceedings of the 7th ICEEP (Equine veterinary supplement 206, 36:159-162) (2006) Detailed reference viewed: 4 (0 ULg)Examination of non-genetics factors affecting the growth performance of Djallonke sheep at the Okpara breeding farm in Soudanian zone of Benin ; ; Farnir, Frédéric et al in Tropical Animal Health and Production (2006), 38(1), 55-64 Detailed reference viewed: 11 (4 ULg)Non-genetic factors affecting the reproduction performance, lamb growth and productivity indices of Djallonke sheep ; ; et al in Small Ruminant Research (2006), 64((1-2)), 133-142 Detailed reference viewed: 42 (9 ULg)Evaluation of respiratory function by barometric whole-body plethysmography in healthy dogs ; ; et al in Veterinary Journal (2006), 172(1), 67-77 The objective of the present study was to assess the validity of barometric whole-body plethysmography (BWBP), to establish reference values, and to standardise a bronchoprovocative test to investigate ... [more ▼] The objective of the present study was to assess the validity of barometric whole-body plethysmography (BWBP), to establish reference values, and to standardise a bronchoprovocative test to investigate airway responsiveness using BWBP in healthy dogs. BWBP measurements were obtained from six healthy beagle dogs using different protocols: (1) during three consecutive periods (3.5 min each) in two morning and two evening sessions; (2) before and after administration of two protocols of sedation; (3) before and after nebulisation of saline and increasing concentrations of carbachol and histamine both in conscious dogs and in dogs under both protocols of sedation. Enhanced pause (PENH) was used as index of bronchoconstriction. Basal BWBP measurements were also obtained in 22 healthy dogs of different breeds, age and weight. No significant influence of either time spent in the chamber or daytime was found for most respiratory variables but a significant dog effect was detected for most variables. A significant body weight effect was found on tidal volume and peak flow values (P < 0.05). Response to carbachol was not reproducible and always associated with side effects. Nebulisation of histamine induced a significant increase in respiratory rate, peak expiratory flow, peak expiratory flow/peak inspiratory flow ratio and PENH (P < 0.05). The response was reproduced in each dog at different concentrations of histamine. Sedation with acepromazine + buprenorphine had little influence on basal measurements and did not change the results of histamine challenge. It was concluded that BWBP is a safe, non invasive and reliable technique of investigation of lung function in dogs which provides new opportunities to characterise respiratory status, to evaluate airway hyperresponsiveness and to assess therapeutic interventions. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 36 (4 ULg)Prolactine triggers a pro-inflamatory response in bovine mammary epithelial cells Boutet, Philippe ; ; Detilleux, Johann et al in Proceedings: 24th World Buiatrics Congress (2006) Detailed reference viewed: 28 (3 ULg)Effect of atropine-dobutamine stress test on left ventricular echocardio graphic parameters in untrained warmblood horses Sandersen, Charlotte ; Detilleux, Johann ; et al in Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine (2006) Detailed reference viewed: 16 (1 ULg)Statistical relations between obesity in dogs and associated diseases ; Detilleux, Johann ; et al in Congress Proceedings 10th Congress of the ESVCN (2006) Detailed reference viewed: 4 (0 ULg)Mathematical model of the acute inflammatory response to Escherichia coli in intramammary challenge Detilleux, Johann ; ; in Journal of Dairy Science (2006), 89(9), 3455-3465 We constructed a mathematical model of the early response to Escherichia coli infection of the mammary gland and explored the roles and interactions between inflammatory cells and bacteria. The model ... [more ▼] We constructed a mathematical model of the early response to Escherichia coli infection of the mammary gland and explored the roles and interactions between inflammatory cells and bacteria. The model incorporates 3 equations that describe the interactions among bacteria, milk somatic cells, and blood leukocyte densities. These 3 equations were fitted to cell densities observed during acute inflammatory responses in unvaccinated and vaccinated heifers inoculated with 10(4) or 10(6) cfu of E. coli. The rates computed for the cellular transit from the storage sites to the blood and from the blood to the milk were lower in cows receiving 10(4) cfu but increased at approximately 6 x 10(-6) and 30 x 10(-6) microL/cfu per h in nonvaccinated or vaccinated cows inoculated with 10(6) cfu, respectively. The cellular rates of bacterial killing were highest in unvaccinated cows ( approximately 400 x 10(-6) microL/cell per h) when compared with vaccinated cows (200 to 300 x 10(-6) microL/cell per h). A critical density of milk somatic cells at which bacteria density is constant was computed from the model at 2 x 10(6) cells/mL, and a one-way sensitivity analysis revealed that the changes in milk cellular densities were mostly sensitive to variations in the rate of bacterial killing and in the rate of production of inflammatory cells. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 5 (1 ULg)Laryngeal paralysis-polyneuropathy complex in young related Pyrenean Mountain dogs. ; ; et al in Journal of Small Animal Practice (2006), 47(3) Detailed reference viewed: 13 (1 ULg)Is There a Difference Between Energy Balance of Cats Hospitalised for Surgical or for Medical Reasons? ; Claeys, Stéphanie ; et al in Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine (2005, November), 19(6), 939 Detailed reference viewed: 32 (4 ULg)Epidémiologie de l'obésité canine en Belgique et en France ; Detilleux, Johann ; Vandenheede, Marc et al in Le Nouveau praticien vétérinaire (2005) Etude épidémiologique de l'obésité canine auprès de 517 propriétaires de chiens de race prédisposée à l'obésité. Les facteurs favorisant l'obésité sont répertoriés et quantifiés Detailed reference viewed: 114 (14 ULg)A comparison of somatic cell count and antimicrobial susceptibility of subclinical mastitis pathogens in organic and conventional dairy herds ; Detilleux, Johann ; Motkin, Michel et al in Annales de Médecine Vétérinaire (2005), 149(3), 173-182 A comparison of somatic cell count and antimicrobial susceptibility of subclinical mastitis pathogens in organic and conventional dairy herds.Bovine subclinical mastitis is the most important disease ... [more ▼] A comparison of somatic cell count and antimicrobial susceptibility of subclinical mastitis pathogens in organic and conventional dairy herds.Bovine subclinical mastitis is the most important disease affecting dairy cows. The fluctuating increase in somatic cell count (SCC) that occurs causes major economic losses in dairy industry. This comparative study between conventional and organic dairy herds was conducted in the aim to better characterize which consequences might have different management practices on SCC but also on the frequency of pathogens isolated and their antimicrobial susceptibility. Four conventional and four organic herds, with bulk milk SCC >300x103cells/ml were selected, in which respectively 47 and 44 cows were investigated. Each quarter was sampled 3 times at 15 days interval for SCC, microbiological analysis and antimicrobial susceptibility. In both herd categories, major pathogens isolated were by order of importance Streptococcus uberis, Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus dysgalactiae with a great impact on SCC. Coagulase negative staphylococci were the most frequent minor germs and had a moderated but real impact on SCC. In certified organic dairy farms, the three most frequently isolated major pathogens were significantly more susceptible to antimicrobials in vitro. This study suggests that the limited use of antibiotics in organic dairy herds could explain, at least in part, the lower resistance obtained from analysed isolates. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 83 (13 ULg)Reference values for left ventricular echocardiographic parameters during atropine/dobutamine stress testing Sandersen, Charlotte ; Detilleux, Johann ; et al in Proceedings of the 44th Annual Congress of the British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) (2005) Detailed reference viewed: 2 (0 ULg)Cost-effectiveness analysis applied to the veterinary medicine: The economic value of packed cell value in the prognosis of horse surgical colic Detilleux, Johann ; Serteyn, Didier in International Journal of Applied Research in Veterinary Medicine (2005), 3(4), 309-318 Techniques of cost-effectiveness analyses were applied to determine whether or not it is economically efficient to measure the packed cell volume (PCV) on a colic horse before deciding on abdominal ... [more ▼] Techniques of cost-effectiveness analyses were applied to determine whether or not it is economically efficient to measure the packed cell volume (PCV) on a colic horse before deciding on abdominal surgery. The effects of this decision of uncertainty on the estimated values of the parameters (probability of survival after surgery, surgery costs, PCV positive predictive value, and length of survival after surgery) were considered along with the monetary values of collecting additional information on those parameters. The effects of uncertainty on the incremental net benefits of each alternative were depicted by tornado diagrams, cost-effectiveness acceptability curves, and posterior probability distributions. The worth of additional information was computed as the expected values of perfect and sampling information. Given previously published results, the best PCV cut-off point to distinguish between survivors and nonsurvivors was at 44%. At this threshold, the most economically effective alternative is to measure PCV before surgery providing the owner is willing to pay less than €672 for each year the horse survives. Uncertainty on probability of survival after surgery largely influenced the decision whether or not to measure the PCV, but one should spend at most €381 in research to reduce this uncertainty. A study of postoperative survival of 500 colic horses would ensure an expected gain of €370 associated with a reduction in uncertainty. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 35 (5 ULg)Comparaison du taux cellulaire et de la sensibilité antimocrobienne des germes responsables de mammites subcliniques entre les filières conventionnelles et biologique ; Detilleux, Johann ; et al in Annales de Médecine Vétérinaire (2005), 149 Detailed reference viewed: 25 (2 ULg)Genetic management of infectious diseases: An heterogeneous epidemio-genetic model illustrated with S. aureus mastitis Detilleux, Johann in Genetics, Selection, Evolution [=GSE] (2005), 37(4), 437-453 Given that individuals are genetically heterogeneous in their degree of resistance to infection, a model is proposed to formulate appropriate choices that will limit the spread of an infectious disease ... [more ▼] Given that individuals are genetically heterogeneous in their degree of resistance to infection, a model is proposed to formulate appropriate choices that will limit the spread of an infectious disease. The model is illustrated with data on S. aureus mastitis and is based on parameters characterizing the spread of the disease (contact rate, probability of infection after contact, and rate of recovery after infection), the demography (replacement and culling rates) and the genetic composition (degree of relationship and heritability of the disease trait) of the animal population. To decrease infection pressure, it is possible to apply non-genetic procedures that increase the culling (e.g., culling of chronically infected cows) and recovery (e.g., antibiotic therapy) rates of infected cows. But the contribution of the paper is to show that genetic management of infectious disease is also theoretically possible as a control measure complementary to non-genetic actions. Indeed, the probability for an uninfected individual to become infected after contact with an infected one is partially related to their degree of kinship: the more closely they are related, the more likely they are to share identical genes like those associated to the non-resistance to infection. Different prospective genetic management procedures are proposed to decrease the contact rate between infected and uninfected relatives and keep the number of secondary cases generated by one infected animal below 1. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 11 (2 ULg) |