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As companies are increasingly advertising gluten-free on their products, questions are starting to pop up on the benefits or issues with gluten. Diets have been started, books have been written and people have started spending more money to add the phrase "Gluten-Free" to their chosen lifestyle. While this is an excellent advancement for the gluten-intolerant community, there seems to be some misconceptions concerning gluten.
Where is gluten found?
Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. However, due to the extensive processing of most foods we consume today, we find gluten showing up in places it normally would not. Ice cream, vitamin supplements, toothpaste and even the glue on envelope seals often contain gluten.
Why would someone choose gluten-free?
Celiac disease, gluten intolerance and wheat allergies are disorders that require constant attention and diet adaptation from those who suffer from them.
NOTE: These conditions are the only reasons an individual would be required to eliminate gluten from his or her diet.
What is celiac disease?
People with celiac disease lack the ability to absorb gluten in their intestines. When the gluten goes undigested, the protein triggers an immune response, resulting in damage to the intestines. These continual immune attacks can compromise the body's ability to adequately absorb nutrients and result in permanent absorption problems.
How do I know if I have gluten intolerance?
Recently, there has been a significant increase in the amount of people with some type of intolerance to gluten. If you find yourself suffering from frequent bloating, diarrhea or abdominal pain, it is certainly worth being tested for. If you have an intolerance, it is best to avoid commercially processed foods completely. Fresh produce or meats and foods bearing the "gluten-free" stamp of approval are the safest way to go.
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I generally agree with you. Firehouse makes very good pizzas and some of the things you didn't like about it are things that I also had issues with—the tip sag, the paltry amount of basil, and that they're uncut. But I think all of those things are hallmarks of traditional Neapolitan pizzas. So it just is what it is with respect to those things.
In general, I was not super-impressed by Firehouse's crust. It looked pretty and had great springy-spongy texture at the edges, but it lacked the savoriness of Ken's. And I'm not a huge fan of the origami-paper thinness of the traditional Neapolitan pie.
For me Firehouse can't compete with Ken's. But then, I think Ken's is atop the Portland pizza pyramid and possibly the best pizza I've had on the West Coast. Scholls is my #2 PDX pizza, but has the advantage of playing more to my preferences in terms of style (NY thin crust). Firehouse falls in the same plane as Pyro and Wy'east. Really, truly delicious, but I'm not gonna go across town for it on the regular or wait over an hour for it (which, thankfully, none of these three require... actually, my friends and I got 6 pies from Pyro last night and it only took 15 or 20 minutes).
Hey, Flushy. Sorry to hear that you don't like Firehouse's crust. While it's true that Ken's definitely has the superior crust (and in fact the only crust I've ever had that beats Ken's is Pizzeria Bianco's in Phoenix), I still think Firehouse's dough recipe is delicious. It's really just a classic Neapolitan crust, so as you said, if you don't like that style of crust, you won't like Firehouse's.
I disagree about the comparison to Pyro and Wy'east. I think they're both good for cart pizza, but neither reaches anywhere near the quality of Firehouse's pizza. I mean, it's not even close.
I do agree that Ken's is #1 in Portland (and indeed the west coast), with Apizza Scholls a close second. For me, Firehouse is #3.
Another thing I love about Firehouse: their pizzas are inexpensive, with not a pie over $12. Compare their $11 Margherita to the grossly overpriced version at Seattle's Serious Pie. $15 dollars for an awful pizza half the size of one at Firehouse. No thanks.
Thanks for the comments!
Well, it's all relative, ya? I mean, I do enjoy Firehouse's pizza. Their crust is better than 90% of the pizzas out there. But when it's set next to Ken's and Scholls—I mean, that's some tough competition.
Also: that oven is pretty piece of work. I want one!
Yeah, that is a nice oven. It's from the same company that made Nostrana's.ReplyDelete
Whenever we stop by Portland, we always eat at Firehouse. Like Flushy, I'm very much in love with the crust. Actually, I eat it last! And I also like the fact that the whole restaurant was built in a real firehouse. When my cousin applied for restaurant loans and merchant loans to expand his catering business to a restaurant, he also named his business after the old building where it was located. It worked well because it was something that people were already familiar with.ReplyDelete
@John: Isn't Firehouse great? They've really come a long way from their early days. I don't live in Portland anymore, so I really miss eating there.ReplyDelete
Firehouse ROCKS! Whenever we eat there, it just feels right. Why don't you make traveling to Portland a goal for this year so you could eat there again? I'm sure the Margherita misses you now.ReplyDelete
@John: Since I'm in Seattle, getting to Portland isn't too much of a hassle. I'll be back there at least once this year, hopefully more.ReplyDelete


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O26 Storylines: Regular Season Champs and Potential CinderellasPosted by Adam Stillman on March 11th, 2014
Championship Week is in full swing. For the O26 conferences, it's more than halfway over. Eight automatic bids have already been handed out as of Monday night. Let's take a look at this week's storylines before Sunday's Selection Show.
Should one-bid leagues send their regular-season champion to the NCAA Tournament?
It's in the best interest of one-bid leagues to send their best team to the Big Dance. That increases the likelihood of an upset, and thus more exposure for the school. We've already seen seven teams that won their respective conference's regular-season title fall in the conference tournament. Enjoy the NIT, fellas. Belmont (Ohio Valley), Davidson (Southern), Florida Gulf Coast (Atlantic Sun), Green Bay (Horizon), High Point (Big South), Iona (Metro Atlantic) and Vermont (America East) all were #1 seeds in their conference tournaments, and all probably were legitimate threats to win a game or two in the NCAA Tournament. Instead, those leagues will be represented by weaker teams that don't have much upset potential. Those top seeds aren't rewarded for season-long excellence. Instead, they're being punished for one slip-up. It won't change because there's no way any league's going to want to lose the exposure that comes along with their tournament title game being broadcast on ESPN. It's just a shame we won't get to see those teams dancing, and as a result, we have a watered down NCAA Tournament field. Matt Norlander made an interesting argument here.
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Irish government to legalize life-saving abortion (Update)
Ireland's government pledged Tuesday to pass a law soon that will allow women to receive abortions if continued pregnancy threatens their lives—including from their own threats to commit suicide if denied one.
The announcement comes after decades of inaction on abortion in Ireland, and just weeks after the predominantly Catholic country faced international criticism over the death of an Indian woman hospitalized in Ireland with an imminent miscarriage.
Health Minister James Reilly said parliamentary hearings on the issue would begin next month, lawmakers would receive a bill by Easter and they would be expected to vote on it by the summer. This would mark the first time that Irish lawmakers have ever voted on abortion, arguably the most divisive issue in a country whose constitution bans the practice.
The government of Prime Minister Enda Kenny promised a swift response after the Oct. 28 death of 31-year-old dentist Savita Halappanavar. Authorities did not make public the woman's death at the time, but her widower accused doctors at University Hospital Galway of refusing to terminate the pregnancy because the doomed 17-week-old fetus still had a heartbeat.
Halappanavar spent three days in increasing pain and illness before the fetus died and its remains were surgically removed. She then died from blood poisoning and organ failure three days after that. Her husband has refused to cooperate with two official Irish investigations into her death and instead is planning to sue Ireland in the European Court of Human Rights.
For two decades, successive Irish governments have resisted passing any law in support of a 1992 Supreme Court judgment that abortion should be legalized in Ireland in exceptional cases where pregnancy endangers a woman's life. Ireland's highest court ruled that a 14-year-old girl who had been raped by a neighbor should be provided an abortion because she was making credible threats to kill herself if denied one.
In 1992 and 2002, governments asked voters to approve constitutional amendments that would permit abortions only in medically essential circumstances, and exclude suicide threats as valid grounds. Voters rejected the proposals on both occasions.
Catholic conservatives oppose the court's suicide-threat justification, arguing it could be used to expand access to abortion beyond relatively rare cases where a pregnancy endangers a woman's life.
Reilly said the government would ensure "that the issue of suicide is not abused as it has been perceived to be" in other countries.
Kenny, a Catholic conservative himself who rose to power in March 2011, has fiercely criticized the Vatican over its involvement in the chronic cover-up of child sexual abuse by church officials in Ireland. He said all lawmakers in his party must vote in support of the government's eventual abortion bill or risk expulsion.
The Catholic Church's four archbishops in Ireland issued a joint statement urging the government to exclude any threat of suicide as grounds for granting abortion—and called on lawmakers to resist Kenny's insistence on party discipline.
The government normally has an unassailable majority in parliament, but any abortion vote could threaten it. About a dozen lawmakers in Kenny's party already say they oppose voting in favor of any access to abortion. This means Kenny could require support from left-wing opposition lawmakers to ensure passage.
The archbishops said the Supreme Court judgment was flawed, and passing a law in support of that ruling "would be both tragic and unnecessary."
"The lives of untold numbers of unborn children in this state now depend on the choices that will be made by our public representatives," the archbishops wrote.
They said the government should afford lawmakers "complete respect for the freedom of conscience. No one has the right to force or coerce someone to act against their conscience."
Dr. Berry Kiely, spokesman for an Irish anti-abortion pressure group called the Pro Life Campaign, said the suicide clause would be exploited by pregnant women and represented a choice to kill an unborn baby, not a medical requirement to save a woman's life.
"A woman who says she's suicidal because of being pregnant with this baby, what she's saying is she doesn't want a living baby at the end of this procedure," Kiely said. "You're actually, in that situation, proposing to directly and intentionally ensure the death of her baby."
The Supreme Court judgment did legally empower Irish hospitals to begin providing such abortions, but doctors in practice have often refused to provide them anyway, citing the risk of facing lawsuits or criminal charges because of lawmakers' refusal to provide any definitive legislation on the matter.
Two years ago, Ireland lost a lawsuit in the European Court of Human Rights brought by three Irish women who said their health had been needlessly jeopardized by the lack of any explicit, clear Irish abortion laws.
The court agreed with litigants that Ireland failed to provide clear access to information on when abortions could be performed lawfully in the country. It also ruled that one woman, a cancer survivor in remission, should have received clear medical advice in Ireland as to whether her pregnancy posed a severe risk to her health. She ended up researching her medical circumstances on the Internet, then traveling to England for an abortion, but suffered severe medical complications because of the delay involved.
Approximately 4,000 women travel from the Republic of Ireland annually for abortions in England, where the practice was legalized in 1967.
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Giggs adds to doubts over future
Ryan Giggs appeared to join the crying game on Tuesday night and admitted he does not know what the future holds for him.
The interim manager produced what could have been interpreted as a tearful farewell, as a player at least, after a cameo for his 963rd Manchester United appearance in a 3-1 win against Hull in his club's final home game of the season.
Giggs is trying to keep his focus is still on United's last game of the season, against Southampton, on Sunday, but looked like he had joined a series of the Premier League's highest profile players - including Luis Suarez, John Terry and Ashley Cole - to have let emotion get the better of them in the face of disappointment with the season nearing its conclusion.
Giggs said: "When the season is over, I'll have to seriously consider what I'm going to do in terms of my career.
"There have been times this season when I have felt that it wouldn't be right for me to play on next year.
The Manchester United way
- James Wilson was one of two Manchester United debutants against Hull at Old Trafford as the club continued its tradition of blooding young talent. The question for their next manager is whether they are the key to a successful future.
- ESPN analyses their chances of ushering in a new era at Old Trafford here
"But after other games, like the win over Olympiakos, I have had the urge to keep going. I've not made my mind up either way and there is lots to consider, not least discussing the matter with the new manager.
"I will wait until the season has finished and then get a holiday and think about it in the next couple of weeks."
Giggs believes he, and fellow United veterans Patrice Evra and Rio Ferdinand will know their fate in the next few weeks but also expects United to sign players in their positions.
He added: "For myself, it is pretty relaxed. I don't know if it is the same with Rio and Patrice, I expect it is, it is not as if they are young players and they are up in the air. If they carry on, they carry on and if they leave, they leave. New players are going to come in anyway, whether they stay so it is up in the air but in the next couple of weeks, I think it will get sorted [for] the three of us."
United are keen to keep Giggs in a coaching capacity with Louis van Gaal expected to be appointed as the successor to the sacked David Moyes as manager in the next week.
But Giggs is unsure of the timescale for an appointment, saying: "It could be the next few days, it could be the next couple of weeks."
Whether or not Giggs is retained as a member of the coaching staff remains to be seen, but he is in pole position to become the Dutchman's No.2.
"My concentration has not changed, I will do my job on and off the pitch and we will see what happens after Sunday," Giggs said after getting a two-goal reward from James Wilson for giving the 18-year-old his debut.
"The fans have kept supporting us and they will carry on supporting us. I said when I took over I wanted to bring excitement back. Some of the forward play from the three young lads was brilliant. We got the young lads in to train with us and they never looked out of place.
"I wanted to freshen things up from Saturday and they never let us down. James Wilson is not just a finisher, his all-round play is very good and he is exciting."
In an address to fans from the Old Trafford pitch, Giggs paid special tribute to departing defending Nemanja Vidic, who will leave United for Inter this summer. Vidic was presented with a special gift by Sir Bobby Charlton before the game and came off the bench to rapturous applause when he replaced the injured Phil Jones after 22 minutes.
"Nemanja Vidic has been a brilliant player for us, a brilliant defender. He shared so much success with the lads, he goes with our good wishes and hopefully he does well," Giggs said.
Vidic also addressed the fans after the final whistle and paid tribute to their support throughout his time at the club.
The Serb spoke after the game of his time at United and insisted it was maybe the "best part of my life".
He added: "It was hard in many ways, because it was my last game at Old Trafford, we did not have a great year as it was my first year not celebrating a trophy. It was a tough season.
"This is maybe the best part of my life. I have three kids, won lots of trophies and have been loved by fans. The fans showed their class when we didn't do well this season.
"I was very emotional. I have to say my heart will always be at this club. I have spent so many years here and been part of such a good time and worked with so many great people.
"It is for the board to decide but Ryan has a real talent to be the manager and a good manager. If he is not successful this time then in the future he should be considered to be manager of this club."


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Other than 2-1B the weapons are at least "common", right?
Yup, I've been doing that with I am Sith. Other than 2-1B the weapons are at least "common", right?
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I haven't posted in ages, mostly because there is a cycle of not posting, so no one is reading, so I figure, why post. That and a lack of time or energy. I mean, what really could I say now that isn't already being said by someone else online, only better.
My time these days is divided between working, taking care of the kids, gaming (twice a week if I'm lucky, not at all if I'm not), and playing EveOnline in a few snatches of time here and there. And paying bills. Lots of those. My daughter is just about done with Kindergarten, which is cool. My son is talking and basically potty trained, which is a relief after almost six years of diapers between him and his sister.
And one more big milestone: the kids slept in their own bed last night - well, they slept together, and not in my bed, which happens basically never. Maybe they'll do it again tonight. I have my doubts.
Finally, I wish I had a new computer. I suppose I don't really need one - my last one I got the week before my son was born, so about 39 months ago, but it'd be so nice to get one. I even cleared some space for it. I could play computer games with my daughter together. Yeah, that's the ticket.
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Android users worried about the new Android permissions aren't the users this update was intended to help. The minority of Android enthusiasts know enough to protect themselves against the perceived flaws. The controversy that surrounds this update is clearly an example of what Voltaire referred to when he said "perfect is the enemy of good" two and a half centuries ago.
The typical Android user is better off, though. The new Android permissions present app updates more clearly for the everyday Android user. The granular permissions presented by previous releases have now been grouped into families of related permissions to streamline the approvals of permissions during updates.
Critics claim that because of this grouping of permissions an unwanted change could slip past the user's scrutiny and result in harm. The important point is Android doesn't silently and automatically approve additional app permissions. If a user has set automatic apps to update automatically, updates are automatic, and when the update finishes the user receives a notification. If the app update requests additional permissions, the user is asked to approve the update.
This is the point of contention. Previously, changes in any of the more than 40 permissions were presented in granular detail for approval. The critics don't want this change because they like to consider each change before accepting the update. But many users can't interpret the consequences of the app changes, and oftentimes indiscriminately accept them all.
Consolidating similar permissions into more general and understandable categories is more actionable. It's easier for the typical user to decide whether or not to accept a permission change by comparing a meaningfully named permission to the apps function. For instance, a user would instantly understand that a flashlight app shouldn't need to request permission to use the SMS function. The Play store also has automated systems that check apps against policies.
The tradeoff that comes from approving a group of permissions may result in the approval of one permission one layer below the group that could cause harm. For instance, a user could approve an app that legitimately should read incoming SMS messages to send billable SMS messages. Whether this is an improvement or not depends on your point of view. For the many users who would simply click a longer, more granular list of permissions, it doesn't change their vulnerability. This threat might be categorized as a nuisance, but it's not serious.
Hiding a lower-level permission to create a serious exploit below a grouping really isn't possible. For example, a user might accept the "Format external storage" permission hidden in the top level Photos/Media/Files permission, but actually formatting storage such as an SDCard and deleting a user's data would also require an independent installation of a device management app and the user's unlikely activation of device administration policies. Also, a change in permissions can't change the Android security model that isolates apps from other apps, limiting the effect of permission changes to only the updated app.
The more knowledgeable users aren't limited by this change. They can examine the requested permissions in detail on the Play Store or afterwards under the apps section of the device settings.
There is an app called ManifestViewer that that will display an app's manifest that includes all the permissions. The manifest is a complicated XML file that is used to specify the environment during installation that most except for the Android enthusiast wouldn't. The presentation by ManifestViewer is meaningless to the general public. An app could be written that compares the app update's manifest to the previous versions, identifying and presenting the exact change in the lower-level permission within the group. This still wouldn't mean much to most users.
This is an opportunity for a developer, though. An app that could interpret the permission and explain its meaning in plain language would be immeasurably useful. The real challenge is to translate the permissions into terms that those users who otherwise would indiscriminately click through accepting all permissions will understand, take pause, and make good decisions.
Microsoft's approach to these permission decisions is "contact your system administrator." Apple's is to disallow decisions. Android's new approach to permissions is good.


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Whether we like it or not, Osama bin Laden changed America. With that September morning in 2001, he introduced fear and ingrained the threat of terrorism into the daily lives of anyone who lives in a big city, travels by air or enters a federal building.
For more than a decade, bin Laden managed to elude the U.S. military and intelligence establishments, and he taunted three U.S. presidents. That finally ended last Sunday, and the last thing bin Laden saw was a Navy SEAL in the third floor bedroom of his compound in Pakistan.
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Now, for the first time, we hear the story from President Barack Obama, who spoke with us on Wednesday at the White House. He explains how the plan was prepared and carried out, what was going through his mind as he watched it unfold, and the secrecy leading up to his historic announcement last Sunday night.
"Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaida," the president announced in a televised address to the nation late Sunday night.
STEVE KROFT: Mr. President, was this the most satisfying week of your presidency?
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Well, it was certainly one of the most satisfying weeks not only for my presidency but I think for the United States since I've been president. Obviously, bin Laden had been not only a symbol of terrorism but a mass murderer who had eluded justice for so long and so many families who have been affected I think had given up hope. And for us to be able to definitively say, "We got the man who caused thousands of deaths here in the United States" was something that I think all of us were profoundly grateful to be a part of.
Special Report: The killing of Osama bin Laden
KROFT: Was the decision to launch this attack the most difficult decision as that you've made as Commander-In-Chief?
OBAMA: Certainly one. You know, every time I send young men and women into a war theatre, that's a tough decision. And, whenever you write a letter to a family who's lost a loved one, it's sobering. This was a very difficult decision, in part because the evidence that we had was not absolutely conclusive. This was circumstantial evidence that he was gonna be there. Obviously it entailed enormous risk to the guys that I sent in there. But ultimately I had so much confidence in the capacity of our guys to carry out the mission that I felt that the risks were outweighed by the potential benefit of us finally getting our man.
KROFT: How much of it was gut instinct? Did you have personal feelings about whether...
OBAMA: You know, the thing...the thing about gut instinct is if it works then you think, "Boy, I have good instincts." If it doesn't, then you're gonna be running back in your mind all the things that told you maybe you shouldn't have done it. Obviously I had enough of an instinct that we could be right, but it was worth doing.
Obama's campaign promise on bin Laden
A "60 Minutes" producer connects the dots between a controversial campaign pledge and the president's decision to go after Osama bin Laden.
KROFT: When the CIA first brought this information to you...
OBAMA: Right.
KROFT: ...what was your reaction? Was there a sense of excitement? Did this look promising from the very beginning?
OBAMA: It did look promising from the beginning. Keep in mind that obviously when I was still campaigning for president I had said that if I ever get a shot at bin Laden we're gonna take it. And I was subject to some criticism at the time because I had said if it's in Pakistan and, you know, we don't have the ability to capture him in any other way, then we're gonna go ahead and take the shot.
Video: President Obama, Part 1
Video: President Obama, Part 2
Video: President Obama, Part 3
So I felt very strongly that there was a strategic imperative for us to go after him. Shortly after I got into office I brought Leon Panetta privately into the Oval Office and I said to him, "We need to redouble our efforts in hunting bin Laden down. And I want us to start putting more resources, more focus and more urgency into that mission."
So by the time they came to me they had worked up an image of the compound, where it was and the factors that led them to conclude that this was the best evidence that we had regarding bin Laden's whereabouts since Tora Bora. But we didn't have a photograph of bin Laden in that building. There was no direct evidence of his presence.
And so the CIA continued to build the case meticulously over the course of several months. What I told them when they first came to me, with this evidence was, "Even as you guys are building a stronger intelligence case, let's also start building an action plan to figure out if in fact we make a decision that this is him or we've got a good chance that we've got him, how are we gonna deal with him?"
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Andy Warhol (American, Pittsburgh 1928? - 1987 New York)
Brillo Boxes, 1970 (enlarged refabrication of 1964 project)
Commercial silkscreen inks on industrially fabricated plywood box supports
Each: 20 x 20 x 17 in. (50.8 x 50.8 x 43.2 cm)
Gift of John Coplans in memory of Ruth C. Roush, 1980
More than thirty years after their first exhibition at Stable Gallery (in 1964) in New York, Warhol's Brillo Boxes continue to unsettle museum visitors through their deadpan replication of American commercial culture.1 As part of Warhol's first sculptural project, the Brillo Boxes comment on the commercial framework behind the pristine spaces of the art gallery and art museum, while rubbing the nose of high culture in the mundane disorder of the supermarket stockroom.
Warhol's work of the early 1960s consciously destabilized the distinct domains of high culture and commercial art. His background as a commercial illustrator and his rapid success as a graphic designer and window dresser after his arrival in New York City in 1950 placed Warhol firmly beyond the pale of Greenbergian Modernism's Manichean divide between art and kitsch.2 Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, both gay artists struggling to escape the machismo posing of the New York School, had opened paths in the late 1950s that had immediate relevance for Warhol. Their critique of the obsessive, autographic practices of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a broad embrace of the detritus of American visual culture--flags, targets, newspaper photographs, and found objects--gave Warhol the impetus to embrace commercial culture as the central source of imagery for his work. The simultaneous emergence of artists like Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol (b. 1930), and James Rosenquist crystalized a new movement, Pop Art, with record speed. Through his adoption of not only the images of commercial culture, but also its organizational and promotional techniques, Warhol soon consolidated his position as the moot Pope of Pop.
Warhol's commercial art business had accustomed him to the use of assistants and the opportunistic nature of the work-for-hire economic environment. This modus operandi emerged equally in Warhol's studio art practice as well. In 1963 Warhol moved his visual arts operations to a building at 231 East 47th Street in New York, a space dubbed The Factory by Warhol and his growing circle. The Factory, its interior sheathed with silver foil and aluminum paint by Billy Name, one of Warhol's most fanatic assistants during the 1960s, theatricalized the mock-industrial mode of production Warhol had adopted for his paintings and the films he had begun to make earlier that year. The exploitative character of Warhol's enterprise earned him a new nickname amongst his entourage: Drella, a conjunction of Dracula and Cinderella.3 The Brillo Boxes emerged from this heady and ultimately destructive milieu, the setting for what might arguably represent the most potent phase of Warhol's career. This moment was brought to an end by the 1968 murder attempt on the artist by Valerie Solanis, for whom Warhol represented the ultimate white male exploiter. The Brillo Boxes were but one type within a group of replicas of commonplace supermarket packaging--Del Monte Peach Halves, Campbell's Tomato Juice, and Heinz's Ketchup--included in the 1964 Stable Gallery show. Unlike the other "products," however, several types of Brillo boxes were replicated, including a smaller yellow "3 ¢ off" version. Warhol had delegated the selection of the carton prototypes to Nathan Gluck, one of his commercial art assistants,4 but rejected Gluck's campier choices in favor of the most banal examples of supermarket packaging.5 The boxes were fabricated in plywood by an outside manufacturer, and then painted to mimic the models. The lettering and logos were screenprinted on the prepared boxes, replicating the originals with uncanny accuracy. The first group of boxes was screenprinted in The Factory by Warhol and his principal assistant of the '60s, Gerard Malanga,6 the mode of production aping the assembly-line techniques then thought to be the sole paradigm for industrial production. Seldom was the brute act of repetition as evident as in the box project.7
Critics and scholars have long sought to pierce the neutral facade Warhol carefully maintained with regard to the meaning of his work. Does Warhol's artistic practice admit of any critical distance from the images it reproduces? In this regard it is worth noting that the Brillo Boxes represent the only product, among the box sculptures, that is not (processed) food, and the commodity, Brillo, is perhaps the most radically transformed through its presentation. A peach is a peach, whether Del Monte or not. The case of Brillo differs. Brillo is nothing other than steel wool, an industrial product available under a myriad of brand names in any hardware store, a part of the masculine world of car refinishing, boat repair, and industrial labor. Yet the product Brillo belongs to the domestic order, a feminine-gendered space in 1960s America.
Steel was no dead metaphor to Warhol, a gay man who came of age in a Pittsburgh still synonymous with the steel industry, a city glowing at night and blackened by day through the action of blast furnaces and smelters. Yet steel, the stuff of I-beams, also becomes wool. Brillo, through simple packaging, transforms steel wool into the perfect housewife's friend, a faithful ally in the never-ending pursuit of shining aluminum cookware. With the Brillo Boxes, Warhol captured the power of advertising at its most alchemical, powerful enough to mutate substance and gender at will. Yet a further twist can be discerned in the Brillo project. The Brillo Boxes are empty, filled with nothing but air, as hollow as the rhetoric so boldly emblazoned upon them.
P. Walsh
Work (C) 1998 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, New York
In keeping with the example of the Hollywood stars that were his first heroes, the details of Warhol's birth remain a matter of dispute: 6 August 1928 in Pittsburgh; 28 September 1928 in Forest City, Penn.; and 28 October 1928, also in Forest City, have been put forward by Warhol and others. Other years ranging from 1929 to 1933 and other locations, including Philadelphia, Cleveland, and McKeesport, Penn., have also circulated.8 Warhol was born Andrew Warhola, Jr.; he took the name Andy Warhol in 1949 after he established himself in New York City.
Warhol's parents were first-generation Czechoslovakian immigrants. His father, Andrej, was a blue-collar laborer; Julia, his mother, supplemented the family income with piecework handcrafts during the Depression. Later she would live with Warhol in New York.
Warhol graduated from Schenley High School in Pittsburgh in 1945. He then studied Pictorial Design at Carnegie Institute of Technology, graduating in 1949. At Carnegie Tech he formed a bond with painter Philip Pearlstein; the two lodged together in New York during the summer of 1949. Warhol quickly established himself in New York graphic design and "applied arts" circles, and in 1957 he founded Andy Warhol Enterprises, Inc., a commercial design firm. By 1958 he began to collect the work of contemporary artists, including Jasper Johns; in 1962 he purchased Duchamp's Box in a Valise (see AMAM inv. 73.13). In 1960 he produced paintings based on popular comic strips, including Popeye, Dick Tracy, and Nancy. In the summer of 1962 his Campbell's Soup Can paintings were shown at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles; the show aroused controversy but sold weakly. Subsequently, with the example of Robert Rauschenberg in mind, Warhol adopted photo silkscreen as the major vehicle for the production of his paintings. In the fall of 1962 his work was shown at the Stable Gallery in New York. In 1963 Warhol added filmmaking to his repertoire; he established a new studio on 47th street to accommodate his visual arts practice and the growing entourage that participated in its production. In 1964 he began to exhibit with Leo Castelli, then New York's most influential dealer of contemporary art. Warhol's fame and production burgeoned through the 1960s, the latter checked only by a near-fatal assassination attempt in 1968. Warhol's later career is characterized by a vast and multivalent production including paintings, graphics, films, advertising, books, and magazine publishing, coupled with an opaquely public reclusiveness openly modeled on Greta Garbo's retirement. He patronized younger artists, notably the Haitian-American Jean Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). He died after gall bladder surgery in New York City on 22 February 1987.
General References
Andy Warhol. New York, 1968. Published on the occasion of the 1968 Stockholm exhibition.
Coplans, John. Andy Warhol. N. p., n.d.
Warhol, Andy, and Pat Hackett. Popism: The Warhol 60s. New York, 1980.
Smith, Patrick S. Andy Warhol's Art and Films. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1986.
Bourdon, David. Warhol. New York, 1989.
McShine, Kynaston, ed. Andy Warhol: A Retrospective. Exh. cat, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1989.
Mamiya, Christin J. Pop Art and Consumer Culture. Austin, Tex., 1992.
Doyle, Jennifer, et al., eds. Pop Out: Queer Warhol. Durham, N.C., 1996.
Gift of the artist to John Coplans (1970)
Lent to the museum by Coplans in January 1980, then given in memory of Ruth Roush in December 1980.
Warhol gave the Pasadena Art Museum one hundred boxes fabricated for the Andy Warhol exhibition, held 12 May - 21 June 1970. Oberlin's boxes were among a group of reserve boxes produced at this time but not exhibited. Nor have they subsequently been exhibited outside of the museum.
The Oberlin Brillo Boxes
Selected Literature on the Brillo Boxes as a group
C., L. [Lawrence Campbell]. "Andy Warhol." Art News 63, no. 4 (Summer 1964), p. 16.
T., S. [Sidney Tillim]. "Andy Warhol." Arts Magazine 38, no. 10 (September 1964), p. 62.
Danto, Arthur C. "The Artworld." The Journal of Philosophy 61 (1964), pp. 571-84.
Schwartz, Estelle. "Advertising, Advertising: Some Cases in Point." Artscribe International 71 (September-October 1988), pp. 70-74.
Danto, Arthur C. Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective. New York, 1992.
Danto, Arthur C. "Andy Warhol: Brillo Box." Artforum 32, no. 1 (September 1993), pp. 128-29.
Technical Data
The Oberlin boxes were fabricated by the Jan Art Screen Processing Company of Pasadena in May 1970. Each box is constructed of five plywood sheets, glued together. These panels are painted with white semigloss paint and bear red-and-blue Brillo packaging emblems silkscreened on their surfaces. The bottom of each box is covered with a sheet of felt glued to the box, obscuring the material. It has been suggested that the bottom panel is cardboard. Close examination of each box reveals multiple minor paint losses and subsequent inpainting, similar to other Warhol boxes in public collections.
1. Eleanor Ward of Stable Gallery has described the flight of one female viewer from the first exhibition of the boxes: "She said that it reminded her of her mother's grocery store." Quoted from Christin Mamiya, Pop Art and Consumer Culture (Austin, Tex., 1992), p. 48.
2. Clement Greenberg, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch," in John O'Brien, ed., Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, vol. 1 (Chicago, 1986), pp. 5-22. Originally published in The Partisan Review (Fall 1939), this famous essay was reprinted in a collection of Greenberg's writings entitled Art and Culture (Boston, 1961), making the text readily accessible to Warhol and his circle. A later formulation of Greenberg's theory of Modernism is presented in his 1960 essay "Modernist Painting," in O'Brien, op. cit., vol. 4, pp. 85-93 (originally published in Forum Lectures [Washington, D.C., 1960]).
3. See Mary Woronov, Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory (Boston, 1995), pp. 91-92.
4. As Gluck later recalled, he chose " very nice boxes. You know, for grapefruit with maybe palm trees or crazy flamingos or some kind of oranges--maybe they would be called Blue Orchid Oranges, and the box would have a blue orchid on them." As interviewed by Patrick S. Smith, in Warhol: Conversations about the Artist (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1988), p. 67.
5.In an odd quirk of fate, the Brillo box design itself had been generated by James Harvey, an artist of the Abstract Expressionist generation moonlighting as a graphic designer. See Irving Sandler's remarks during an interview by Patrick S. Smith, in Warhol: Conversations about the Artist (Ann Arbor, Mich. 1988), p. 235.
6. Warhol and the poet-muse Malanga had worked together on many of Warhol's silkscreened paintings of this period.
7. Indeed, for later exhibitions, Warhol elected to have the boxes completely executed by outside fabricators.
8. See Patrick S. Smith, Andy Warhol's Art and Films (Ann Arbor, 1986), p. 13; Carter Ratcliff, Andy Warhol (New York, 1983), p. 117; Kynaston McShine, ed., Andy Warhol: A Retrospective (exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1989), pp. 401-2; David Bourdon, Warhol (New York, 1989), p. 14, among others. Given his circle of acquaintances in New York City, it is likely that Warhol was equally aware of James Abbott McNeill Whistler's similar (and largely successful) efforts to dissimulate the conditions of his birth.


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DETROIT — With forwards needing to be moved, the Wings have been in discussions with the Nashville Predators about sending one of them back to his former team.
According to a source, the Wings have had discussions with the Predators about sending forward Jordin Tootoo back to Nashville.
The Wings will have too many forwards and continue to climb over the salary cap once they sign restricted free agents Gustav Nyquist and Joakim Andersson.
Tootoo, 30, has two years left on a deal at $1.9 million a season.
Tootoo played eight seasons in Nashville appearing in 486 games. He registered 46 goals, 79 assists and 825 penalty minutes.
With needing to move a forward or two, the Wings would have difficulty trying to deal Todd Bertuzzi or Mikael Samuelsson because both have no-trade clauses in their deals.
Patrick Eaves is also a candidate to be dealt.
Center Cory Emmerton may need to be held onto if Darren Helm, who played just one game last season due to an injured back, is unable to start or play next season.
Tootoo spent most of the postseason with Detroit, like he did in Nashville two years ago, mainly watching from the pressbox.
Tootoo played in just one of the Wings' 14 playoff games last season, being a healthy scratch the other 13.
"Playoff hockey is very intense and that's my kind of game," Tootoo said after cleaning out his locker at Joe Louis Arena on Friday. "Obviously you've got to make sure what you think is the right combination of guys in the lineup to win, and obviously I wasn't part of that combination. But you never know, guys go down, things happen, there are a lot of ups and downs. Mentally, physically, I was prepared to be thrown into the battle."
Tootoo was also a healthy scratch in six of the final 23 games in the regular season.
Tootoo played in Detroit's series opener with Anaheim, totaling just a little over six minutes of ice time in a 3-1 defeat.
"I thought Toots was great for us," Wings coach Mike Babcock said at the time. "He did everything we wanted. He was physical, he gave us energy. The type of player he is, he gets way more opportunity early in the season when it's being silly and then he doesn't in the end. But I thought he was fantastic for us. We're thrilled with him. Maybe if you're on the outside looking it, you say Toots never played, but I thought he was great."
In his only appearance in the postseason with the Wings he recorded their first penalty of the series for a crosscheck that the Ducks promptly scored on just four seconds into the man advantage.
Tootoo played in just three of the Predators' playoff games a year ago after coming off a career-high 12 postseason appearances where he registered a career-high six points.
The Wings signed Tootoo this past offseason to a three-year deal worth $1.9 million a year.
He played in 42 of Detroit's regular season games, registering three goals and five assists to go along with a team-high 78 penalty minutes.
"You come in with the right mindset knowing that you're going to have a chance to play every night," Tootoo said after the locker clean out. "I kind of went through this last year with Nashville in the playoffs, not being able to play, but you know, you've got to go with what's put in front of you. Obviously when you're told that you're not going to be in the lineup, I'm sure every hockey player can attest to this, it's not a good feeling. We're born to be competitive and play with our hearts out, and when you're told that you're not going to play it's tough to swallow. But as a professional you have to be able to handle those situations."
A move to the Eastern Conference, which is believed to be a more physical league, could open up more playing time for Tootoo next season.
"They know what I bring night in and night out, and obviously next year we're moving over to the East so there's going to be a lot of differences," Tootoo said. "I've only played in the Western Conference my whole career, it'll be interesting to see what happens.
"For me, it's making sure that I'm physically and mentally prepared for training camp and the beginning of the season," Tootoo added. "I let the business side deal with itself, and I've just got to make sure that I'm ready."
Tootoo led the Wings with eight fighting majors, which was six behind the league leader this season, Tampa Bay's B.J. Crombeen.
Despite this being a lockout-shortened 48-game regular season, Tootoo registered high most fighting majors since totaling 10 in the 2008-09 season with Nashville.


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Several officers rushed to the "Dirty Harry" legend's property this week after a 911 call was placed, alleging that men with assault weapons were in the actor's house and people had been shot.
However, when cops arrived at the scene they found nothing wrong, leading them to believe it was a "swatting" prank, according to TMZ.com.
Tom Cruise, Chris Brown, Ashton Kutcher and Justin Bieber are among the stars who have fallen victim to the worrying practice, in which callers phone in fake crimes to elicit an urgent police response.
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Fox anchor Bill O'Reilly just weighed in on the pending election results, saying the photo-op of President Obama surveying affected areas with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has skewed the odds in the president's favor.
"There was Chris Christie and President Obama walking down the beach, you know, with a little 'Seth in the Moon Glow' music behind them, and it just wiped the governor's campaign off the map for five days," O'Reilly said.
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Reasons Why Copyright On Art And Music Could Be Deemed Unconstitutional
from the arguments-in-the-extreme deptI've often discussed the original constitutional reasoning behind patents and copyright law, specifically the phrase we all know in Article 1, Section 8:
The Congress shall have Power... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;From this, I still believe it's quite clear that if copyright or patents are used in a way that does not "promote the progress" of those things, then it is unconstitutional to use copyright or patent law in that way. Not everyone agrees with me, of course. However, I've mostly focused on the "promote the progress" side of things, but haven't delved as much into the details of "science and useful Arts." I have read up extensively on what the founders meant by that, which can be simplified as "science" meaning scientific publishing/books and "useful Arts" meaning inventions. There's also a fair bit of evidence that the real focus of the founders was on patents, rather than copyright. It wasn't that they weren't concerned at all about copyright (they were), but that the bigger issue was patents, and copyright was a sort of "throw in" at the behest of some vocal authors, along with some remembrance of states' fights over local copyright policies. But, on the whole, it was patents that were considered of much more importance to progress than copyrights.
And, not only were copyrights initially for a "limited time" (14-years) but the first federal copyright law in the US limited copyright to books, maps and charts. Tom Bell points out that, based on this, and some other aspects of the early intentions of the founders, you can make an argument that copyright law, as per the constitution, was never intended for things like art and music. After all, what does art or music have to do with "science"? And if it really was intended to cover art and music, then why didn't the founders have it cover music that was being composed at the time? Perhaps it was because they realized that music and paintings had nothing to do with science, and the Constitutional clause is only limited to promoting the progress of science and the useful arts (and, again, in the parlance of the day, "useful arts" was inventions). As Bell states:
Here as elsewhere, acquiescence to long-accepted practices has dulled us to the Constitution's bracingly straightforward words. We should read them anew and reflect that the Founding generation did not evidently think that granting statutory privileges to such purely artistic creations as romantic operas or pretty pictures would promote the progress of both science and the useful arts. Furthermore, most citizens today would, if presented with the Constitution's plain language rather than the convoluted arguments of professional jurisprudes, probably say the same thing about pop songs, blockbuster movies, and the like. That is certainly not to say that purely expressive works lack value. They may very well promote such important goals as beauty, truth, and simple amusement. The Constitution requires that copyright promote something else, however--"the Progress of Science and useful Arts"--and a great many works now covered by copyright cannot plausibly claim to do both.Bell is interpreting the Constitutional clause in an even stricter manner -- suggesting that any work covered by patents or copyright needs to promote both progress in science and in the useful arts, which is an even higher bar, though I'm not sure I'm convinced it was meant to be both. Also, many would retort that the Constitution grants the Congress the ability to determine if such monopolies promote the progress of science and the useful arts -- and as long as Congress says they do, then we should consider that they do (no matter how wrong they might be). For a variety of reasons, that line of thinking is problematic, but it is the line that the Supreme Court has taken with copyright before (such as in the Eldred case). I'm not necessarily convinced of Bell's thinking here, but it's certainly a point worth pondering (and discussing).
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Thomas Matlack didn't *quite* appreciate my "faint praise" of his GMP, which is sort of understandable--who loves faint praise? And yet, I think his response to my criticisms deserves a response. Thomas says:
Well as the founder of THE GOOD MEN PROJECT I take this as faint praise as worthy of the cause. I actually think manhood in 2011 is a complex topic that doesn't fall easily into one user fits all definition, of what it means to be good, a good dad, husband, worker, son or man. That's why we promote discussion rather than playing God. If you want to hear what you already believe perhaps that is uncomfortable. But we think its important. Please come join us.
So. Here goes.
Thanks for stopping by--it's always nice when the A-listers (a published book and a for-profit blog? I say you're an A-lister!) take notice.
I do have to ask: Are the ALL CAPS really necessary? I mean, I already linked to your site a couple of times. Then again, you're making money and I'm not, so what do I know about promotion? :)
I don't appreciate the condescension ("if you want to hear what you already believe perhaps that is uncomfortable"), but such a response does rather reinforce my point that I don't enjoy GMP as much as The Takeback, in part because the GMP isn't explicitly pro-feminist. If you *really* think that my preference for explicitly pro-feminist writing means that I only want to hear what I already believe, then we probably don't have a lot to "converse" about. :)
That said, I've already responded on your site (in some comments) to all y'all's "boilerplate" response to criticism, which amounts to, "Hey, we don't take sides (or, "play God", as you put it--though most people wouldn't count necessary, practical editing of content as playing god) because we want everybody in the conversation."
I had a complaint, which was part of a conversation, on your site. The "conversation" that was being had started with a post that can be summed up as "men shouldn't get married because women are gold-digging bitches and the courts hate men because of feminism" included this super interesting sage advice:
Learn from your partner's behavior. How does she act when you disappoint her? What is her reaction to hearing the word "no," or when you choose your way instead of her way? If she takes it in stride and moves on, then you might have a keeper. However, if she responds to the fact that you went golfing when she didn't want you to by cutting you off in the bedroom for a few days, or by telling you how selfish and immature you are for having any interests that don't revolve around her, what do you imagine she will do when she fully believes that you are responsible for every ill in her life?"
When some folks (who are, y'know, part of the conversation that you're all wanting to have, right?) criticized the author (I use the term loosely) for not only his bitterness, but also his thinly veiled misogyny, and then criticized all y'all for your editorial decisions around letting this douche post his bile, one of your editors chimed in with your boilerplate editorial response to criticism:
Henry P. Belanger says: Mordicai, would you like our staff determining / defining "good" for everyone? It's unfortunate that our name can be misleading, but I think you'd agree that a magazine that told everyone how to be good wouldn't be around very long. Goodness also entails being open, listening to divergent voices, allowing for the possibility that people's minds can be changed, believing that "once bad" doesn't mean "always bad," etc, etc. I can't tell you how many comments we've had in the past 8 months that sarcastically put "good men" in quotes, suggesting that we did not meet their standards for goodness. these commenters have come from all across the political / ideological spectrum. The more it happens, the more confident I am that our approach here — being a wide, open marketplace for ideas — is the good approach to take.
I responded with this:
Your "editorial" position is either not well thought out, disingenuous, or both. Putting forward that you want to encourage conversation doesn't absolve you of drawing *some* lines. There are men, after all, who believe that "being a good man" includes physically and emotionally dominating women and other men–-presumably you wouldn't allow a well-written, clear article which centered "being a good man" on how to beat the crap out of any person who challenges one's opinion. So, you do draw lines circumscribing the conversation that have nothing to do with how well-written something is. You just don't keep folks like Paul Elam from adding his voice to the conversation. What folks like Mordicai and SaraMC are saying (in part) is that this sort of unsupported tripe isn't just one more opinion among many (as you imply)–rather, it's unsupported misogynist tripe.
Which is fine. It's your site. Just don't expect everybody to pretend along with you that it's a useful conversation.
Short version: Criticism of your site and/or its authors is part of the conversation.
I'll probably keep reading The GMP (for some reasons I'll give below). So, in effect, I already have joined your conversation. But I'll likely keep complaining that you're giving voice to opinions that aren't "complex"--they're sometimes misogynistic. And you'll continue to get called out on that for as long as people who read your site care about women (and men, and folks of all genders). Saying "it's all a conversation" doesn't get you off the hook for criticism of the editorial choices you are making.
Having said all of that, there are some things I like about the GMP, in the way that I will read BUST magazine, but prefer Bitch magazine, if I can get it--you're writing to men about alternative masculinities, even if I'm of the opinion that at least some of those masculinities aren't alternative at all, but rather more of the same (e.g. MRAs who love privilege and making more money than women but hate alimony). I mean, right now you've got a great post by a transguy. It will be a long time before traditional men's magazines have such an article, I'd guess. So, yay, I welcome the GMP. That doesn't mean I have to always loooooove it.


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If you visited an Apple retail store (c'mon admit it) this holiday season then you most likely noticed a cordoned-off area jam-packed with iPods. Jacqui and I visited the Woodfield Apple store on the 23rd and noticed the employees stuck behind the ropes looking half-bored and answering questions during the time we spent there. The Apple Retail blog, ifoAppleStore, spent some serious time in their local store and noticed some serious sore spots:
The intent of the iPod Express tables and wireless devices was to speed up purchases during the busy holiday season. But the plan included cordoning off a disproportionately large area of the store for iPod-only sales–an entire display table, the space to its left and right, and the aisle and wall counter behind it.
The emphasis being ifo's. They mention the handheld card swiping machines not working reliably, that most people misunderstood the purpose of the table, and even a weird email-receipt scheme:
Perhaps the most serious glitch was procedural–using e-mail to generate a receipt for the customer when checking them out with a portable device. Several customers reported being surprised at the requirement, and were reluctant to give out their e-mail addresses for fear of receiving unsolicited marketing e-mail or even spam. In some cases customers requested a printed receipt, slowing down the otherwise prompt check-out.
Have the receipt emailed to me? Yes, please. I'd be thrilled to get all my receipts in soft copy, however I'd be a little embarrassed spelling out "email@example.com" or "email@example.com" in public. Did you have any interactions with the iPod Express station? How did it work out for you?
Pic courtesy of François @ Edito.qc.ca on Flickr.


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There's almost no real reason to own a flashlight now that all smartphones have bright flashes that work as flashlights.
If, for some reason, you do want a dedicated flashlight in your life, a 15 year-old genius, Ann Makosinski from Victoria, B.C. has developed a new, innovative version of the flashlight.
Instead of using batteries, the flashlight converts the heat from your palm into energy that powers LED lightbulbs.
The best part of this invention is not the flashlight, which, as we already noted is obsolete*. The best part is knowing that a 15-year-old is already playing around with this energy technology.
Hopefully in the next ten years she can do the same sort of thing for smartphones. Imagine just having to hold your smartphone for it to have enough energy to run?
Makosinski is a finalist in Google's Science Fair. To see who she's going against, click here »
*Lots of you are taking issue with the idea that the flashlight is obsolete. You all have a fair point. In emergencies, they're useful. This flashlight in particular would be super useful.


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This past Friday, I talked to my friend Billy online for a little bit and by the time the conversation ended and before I even knew what I was doing, he got me to sign up for a little local 10k in Playa del Rey. For some reason, Billy ALWAYS gets me to sign up for races, but I never regret any race he's made me do. I don't know why he always gets me to sign up for races, but he was the one who got me to sign up for Malibu 25k Trail Race, for San Diego RnR and I'm sure at least one more. Though the 10k is my most hated distance, it was for a great cause, benefiting brain tumor research, and I knew I would get to see Billy's gal and my good friend Sara there as well. Though I was a little worried about doing some actual racing or running since I haven't run really at all for two weeks because of my cough and being sick, I decided to go for a 6 miler on Saturday morning to see how I could hang and if my cough would hopefully stay at bay during the race.
The run on Saturday went great and I knew I would at least be able to hang in the race and I then I decided that I really wanted to race the race. I haven't really 'raced' in a long time and I felt like I would feel good if I raced, even though I have Malibu next weekend. Anyways, I had kind of a late night the evening before the race hanging out with my little brother and talking and I didn't get to sleep until about 11:45 and I was worried that my 5:30 wake up call would come to early.
When my alarm went off in the morning, I realized, oh DUH, since I hadn't run in 2 weeks, I was ummm SORE from running 6 miles the day before. I tried to loosen up my legs and did some stretches and got ready to make the 40ish minute drive to Dockweiler Beach. Once there I picked up my race shirt and number and sat in my car for a little bit. I got there about an hour and 15 minutes before the race started. Then Billy and Sara showed up and we did some picture taking, walked around the little mini expo and snagged some food samples for after the race and some mini cupcakes that I would later devour. I have to give a BIG thank you to Billy for taking a billion pictures from the day so I could post some online. He also was out on the course and cheered and was super helpful throughout the entire day.
Pre-Race before we walked over to the starting line. Yea, I was wearing that in public. I know. What was I thinking, but those pants are so bomb. $5 bucks at Walmart. I have 3 pairs and they come in a ton of colors! They are perfect for lounging around the house and pre-race attire and looking homeless.
I really wanted to wear a bow in my hair and luckily I found a huge pink bow to tie into my ponytail. I don't know why I'd never thought of it before, but it was fun! I think I will for sure be wearing it again next weekend in Malibu. Pink Power bow!
Here's Sara and I right before the start of the race. As you can tell it was a smaller race, but it was still really fun and sometimes the smaller races are the best!
Then, we saw our friend Cody before the race too! He's training for an Ironman and him and his friend ran this race to get their heart rates for training. Anyone who trains for an Ironman or does one, HUGE respect from me!
Billy took this right before the start, I think I was probably laughing because we were SO close to the front. Um, you start to realize that when people are doing the sign of the cross right next to you before the horn goes off, it's a little intimidating! Those people mean business!
I love this picture! So once the race started I pretty much I started off way to fast, WAY too fast. Mile one went by pretty quick and mile two was more of the same, then around mile 3 I was dunzo already and I really had to push to not walk. It sounds weird but I was SO tired and I realized that DOY, maybe I should have eaten before I ran, normally I don't eat because of some issues, but I also normally race much sooner after I wake up. I felt like I hit the wall and my legs were really heavy early on around mile 3 and a half. I just kept telling myself, go, go go, go, go, the faster you get done, the faster it's over, the faster you can drink water, and cough, and stop moving!
How cute does Sara look in this picture! She passed me right after mile 1 and I just kept telling myself to keep going. I grabbed some water from an aid station at mile 1.5 and tried to cool the throat. Sara is such a strong runner and I really am glad I met her and Billy! They are some of the nicest people!
Another action shot from the wonderful Billy. Around mile 3.5 I also really started to feel the pain in my feet on the forefront of my foot. I get this pain when I try to race because I strike a lot on my forefoot when I attempt to run faster. I realized that when I run longer distances I really focus on switching up how I step to make sure that my feet don't hurt. When I run shorter distances, and push myself, it's a whole different ball game because my brain doesn't always function the same as longer distances.
Miles 4-6 were pretty hard for me but I knew where I was placed in categories in the race and I just kept telling myself to hold on and that it was almost over. I took some Nuun from Billy in a bottle at mile 4.5, and I was running with it, it has a squeeze top and it was open and I totally squeezed it on accident as I was pumping my arms and got it all over my face. I kind of laughed and then realized I had to keep going! UGH! At mile 5, I told myself, come on, ONE more mile! I did have a little cough happen about at mile 5.5 and I just tried to breath and keep going. It felt like forever until the finish line came. 10ks are EVIL!
Finally! The finish line! I passed a guy right at the end of the race, and then he did some crazy weird sprinting moves and totally had to pass me again before the finish. Guess he didn't want to get beat by a girl! The race started at 8:30 and it was a little warm by the time we got to the finish. I was pretty sweaty and I was STINKY! ha ha, I guess that's what happens. Luckily, it wasn't windy and was actually a great day for a race.
I totally started coughing and drinking ton of water right at the finish line. I felt bad people probably thought I was going to throw up or something! Ha! I was glad it was over and Sara finished 2nd female overall and I finished 3rd female overall! There were some really fast people in the race, and I actually also know who was the 1st female overall! The race was pretty flat with some camber which kind of was annoying at some points, but it was a decently fast course. I ran it in 47:41. My mile splits were 1- 7:13, 2- 7:37, 3- 7:56, 4- 7:48, 5- 7:56, 6- 7:41, .2- 1:28.
We watied around for a little bit and then the little awards ceremony took place. Sara was 2nd in her age group and 2nd overall. I was first in my age group and 3rd overall. Small races rock! :)
After we got our medals!
This is one of my friends, Colin's wife. She was the first female overall and also the first female in Sara's age group. She is an AMAZING runner and it was so nice to meet her and get to talk with her for a little bit! She recently ran Chicago with Colin and her time is amazing. It's so inspiring to meet real people who are fast and are SO nice! She was so sweet :) So here is 1st place, 3rd place and 2nd place in the race for females.
Here's all of us at the race including my friend Colin! He also won his age group in the race and is super fast too! I am so lucky to have met some great people who are such an inspiration to me as well. Looks like we need to start working the local small race circut. I think we should start a racing club called, "Do Work!" I was really glad to meet up with everyone even though it was kind of a last minute race that I signed up for. Best part about the race was that they raised $45,000 for the charity!!! How great is that! That's so much money for a great cause!
After the race, we went to a little place for breakfast called Maxwells and it was so delicious. I got an omlette called the garbage omlette and, get ready for it, it had spinach in it! It was so, so good! It is a step to me one day eating lettuce I guess. I wore my medal inside because I felt like complete doof wearing uggs and booty shorts around in public. My shirt was so stinky from the race that I put on my race shirt after.
Also, at the race they had some of the magazines that actually featured an article on me in it. The magazine is called LA Sports and Fitness. It's SO weird to me that they wanted to interview me about my blog and racing, but I was so flattered and humbled! I got a few copies and will try to scan the article to share with you guys. It's so weird seeing myself in the magazine, but it means so much to me that they wanted to do a story on me!
So all in all, the race and weekend was pretty gosh darn successful if you asked me! Now, I'm SO sore today! ha ha, I forgot how many muscles you use when you push yourself to work and try to get a good time. My calves are really sore and the front of my quads are a little sore. It's totally a different type of sore than when I run longer distances. I'm still glad I did the race and now must start getting pumped up for another race. Malibu Marathon this weekend!


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U.S. Rep. Walter Jones has taken up the case of a number of desperate North Carolina parents who are hoping state lawmakers will legalize medicinal marijuana for children with uncontrollable seizures.
In a statement, Jones said that several North Carolina parents of children with life-threatening illnesses have come to him with a "compelling argument that political leaders in North Carolina should consult with medical professionals to determine the efficacy of the use of medical marijuana in certain instances."
The Republican congressman, whose 3rd District covers parts of Pender and New Hanover counties, said these parents have "exhausted all other available options to provide relief for their kids."
"I believe this issue should certainly be studied at the state level, and I encourage our state elected officials to give this, and other potential treatment options, the attention that they deserve."
In an interview with the StarNews several weeks ago, Gov. Pat McCrory said he didn't know much about the issue, but he promised to study it and get back to the paper. His office, though, has since refused on numerous occasions to comment on his position regarding legalizing medicinal marijuana for children with epilepsy.
"If there isn't legislation, we will pass on commenting," said Ryan Tronovich, McCrory's spokesman.
Several parents of children with uncontrollable seizures have joined together via a Facebook page to advocate legalizing a treatment option in North Carolina that has shown some promise for children with epilepsy in other states.
For children, the marijuana is taken orally and not smoked. The strain given to children is low in tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the component of marijuana that's psychoactive, and high in cannabidiol, or CBD, which has been shown to have medical qualities.
Another one of the parents advocating for legalization of medicinal marijuana for children in North Carolina is Liz Gorman of Raleigh. She's been at the forefront of many of the discussions with political leaders in recent weeks.
"I don't feel we've gotten as far as we've wanted to" in talks with politicians, she said, but added that she had a "fruitful conversation with Congressman Jones in September."
"He understood the issue we were facing with our kids and felt that CBD oil did show promise in children with severe epilepsy, given that it didn't have psychoactive properties."
Though it's a state, not federal, issue, Gorman said Jones offered to help facilitate meetings with members of the North Carolina House and Senate to discuss it.
"That is what we're looking forward to getting going sometime soon," she said. "I had a meeting yesterday with a North Carolina representative that went quite well, and a lot of people have spoken to their representatives or staffers, and a lot of people are working on it right now. I'm hopeful we're actually going to get somewhere, get some momentum behind us."
Gorman said she's hopeful for legislation in the short session that begins in May.
But she's not waiting for that time. Gorman is moving to Colorado with her daughter Madeline on Thursday. Her husband will stay in Raleigh because of his job.
Madeline, 7, suffers from catastrophic epilepsy and functions at the level of a 1½-year-old. At the worst, she was having 300 to 400 seizures a day, or seven to eight seizure "clusters" lasting up to 40 minutes each. Madeline had experienced some reprieve from her seizures following a risky brain surgery, but the seizures are returning, Gorman said.
"So we're going to move on to Colorado," she said. "I wish that it were available here but I can't wait months in hopes we can address it during the short session, so we've decided to go on out there and get her treated there."
Gorman said she'll continue the fight from afar and hopes she can eventually return home.


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As millions of fans worldwide anxiously await the release of Michael Jackson's "This Is It" in theaters on October 28, the King of Pop's mother, Katherine Jackson, and sister La Toya Jackson spoke to Access Hollywood about the upcoming final chapter in Michael's legacy.
La Toya sat down with Access' Billy Bush to watch some of the behind-the-scenes footage from the upcoming documentary for the very first time, including a 50-year-old Michael teaching his 20-something dancers the steps for "Bad."
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"When you saw Michael teaching these kids to dance, I saw the emotion kick in," Billy told La Toya.
"He's just an incredible person. I just always like to speak of him like he's still with us — just an incredible talent. To see the love and the joy that he gets out of when he performs and how we're going to miss him immensely, it's just so moving and so touching," she said.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Hollywood Remembers Michael Jackson
"I am pleased to see him mentoring, but I do know, however, Michael likes everyone to see him at his best and this is not a full-out rehearsal for him," she continued. "There's so much more to him. The energy he puts behind him, I do not see it there. But it's good to have that as a memory as well."
And while she was pleased to see her brother passing on his talents to the performers around him, viewing the "This Is It" clips was all La Toya cared to see of the film – at least, for now.
"I have no plans to see it," she admitted. "It's a bit too soon for me. It really is."
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In fact, it's a sentiment also echoed by Michael's mother, Katherine, who exclusively spoke with Access Hollywood on Tuesday night following the "Dancing With the Stars" tribute to her son.
"I don't think I can bear to look at it right now," Katherine said of the film. "But eventually in time, I will watch it."
But as far as the "Dancing" tribute to Michael, both mom and sister, as well as brother Jermaine Jackson, who were all on-hand, said it was a touching performance in honor of the King of Pop.
"I loved it and I thought they did a really wonderful, beautiful job," Katherine told Access.
"I felt great because to see the tribute through dance was just a great feeling," Jermaine added.
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text: Thursday, May 19, 2011 APTA Voices Concern to CMS About New Enrollment Policies APTA recently met with officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) Center for Program Integrity to discuss several concerns related to new enrollment policies outlined in a rule issued in February aimed at curbing fraud and abuse under Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program. One area of concern is the placement of physical therapists in private practice (PTPPs) in the "moderate risk" category rather than the "limited risk" category, which includes physicians and other therapists. APTA explained that the reports the Office of Inspector General used for the basis of the decision were not focused specifically on private practice settings, but rather on all outpatient therapy settings. APTA requested that CMS amend the rule to classify PTPPs in the "limited risk" category instead of the "moderate risk" category. The discussion also addressed the "high risk" classification assigned to PTs and physicians who also enroll as durable medical equipment and orthotics (DMEPOS) suppliers, such as hand therapists. APTA requested that CMS change the rule so that physicians, PTPPs, and other professionals who also enroll as DMEPOS suppliers to provide items as an integral part of their plan of care, be placed in the "limited risk" category when enrolling (or re-enrolling) as a DMEPOS supplier. However, changes to these classifications would require rulemaking. The association also raised concerns with potential delays in enrollment that could result from the onsite visit that is required prior to enrollment for private practice office settings. In addition, APTA advised the officials that some PTs have reported that they have been charged a $505 enrollment fee. The agency confirmed that PTPPs should not be charged this fee. CMS stated that it will refund the fees collected and further educate Medicare Administrative Contractors about this topic. If you are experiencing delays in enrollment due to site visits or contractors are requesting $505.00 enrollment fees, contact APTA at firstname.lastname@example.com. Comments I am really curious. How do these risk categories affect a PTPP who is not affiliated with physicians. Our practice totally meets the definition of high risk: A hand practice that is a DME provider. What is the impact of this? Thanks. Posted by Michael Strakal on 5/20/2011 3:49 PM I am curious to scrutinize the data behind the classification for determining "high" "moderate" and "limited" risks? Isnt there a bit of profiling going on here? I understand the classification is somewhat based on the degree of services (and billing) these entities may encompass, but does that render them "high" risk necessarily? All feedback is welcome Posted by Dave Ravnikar PT, DPT, CSCS on 5/21/2011 10:45 AM As expected the government has succeeded in making life more expensive and difficult for the average Joe How bout allowing the profession the opportunity more leverage in creating our own oversights with less a more more moderate level of governmental management Posted by Bruce forsyth on 5/21/2011 12:16 PM My enrollment is on hold pending this so called office visit. Anyone has any idea of what is required for this site visit? Is it an audit? Do we get a notice on when the visit will take place? Thanks Posted by Ibrahim Arowolo -> >MVbAG on 5/24/2011 3:34 PM Hi, my name is Diana Burket and my husband and I run our privately owned PT Clinic. My husband is the PT and I do all the billing/ect. :) My quest. is - we are looking to hire another PT or PTA. Does this mean that Medicare would need to do an onsite visit even though my husband is already a provider with Medicare? I ask this because if we hire a PT - we would want to get them a provider number with Medicare.? Thank you in advance with your feedback. Posted by Diana Burket on 5/24/2011 3:39 PM I enrolled last summer (2010) with Medicare through the PECOS online enrollment. It took until the fall of 2010 to be credentialed and approved. They gave me the wrong NPI number and it took another several months to get it worked out. I was not charged a fee but sure felt like charging CMS one! Posted by Carol Link on 5/29/2011 2:45 PM