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Disney wants YouTube's cachet and YouTube wants Disney programming, so the two companies are partnering to bring original programming to both Disney and YouTube.
The new co-branded channel will be distributed both on Disney.com and YouTube, an affiliate of Google. YouTube will still continue to feature amateur video on the channel, according to the New York Times. Google will pay up to $15 million to Disney for the original programming.
Disney Interactive has been losing money, about $300 million over the last year, and losing millions of visitors. James A. Pitaro, the co-president of Disney Interactive, has a new strategy -- creating Web content that can be monetized quickly and some some of YouTube's established audience. Pitaro said that he plans to have eight original series in production at any given time. The first series will be "Where's My Water?" an animated program based on a popular mobile phone application.
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While in Round Top, a couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege of going to an open house at The Vintage Round Top, pictured here. The minute I walked through the door, I immediately felt a sense of calm come over me. Owners, Paige and Smoot Hull, so beautifully married modern and vintage together in the design of their lovely vacation home. I must say, they have mad stylizing skills like the use of this old bedspring repurposed into a memo board in the entryway.
The next thing that grabs your attention is their creative use of stenciled numbers on the stair risers that, may I add, takes you up and past the most amazing vintage luggage art installation.
See what I mean? Smoot did mention it took a couple of challenging days for him and Paige to work out the mathematics on this project. But boy was it worth it! Hats off to the both of you.
How about this clever use of an old metal awning as a stand-in for a vent-a-hood? It's absolutely chock full of character.
In the corner of the living area sits this welcoming daybed. Notice the vintage door turned headboard and the industrial pieces fashioned into wall sconces. Smoot and Paige are definitely in sync when it comes to design.
If that isn't enough to wow your senses, then check out the beautiful salvaged wood ceiling. It's all in the details for sure.
I love the dramatic use of vintage screens as art above the clean lines of the fireplace. In my excitement of taking in the house, I failed to get an overall shot of the living room. Oh well, good reason to hop on over to their site and pay them a visit.
Another piece de resistance is the light infused dining area. The long farmhouse table provides a great place to dine, linger or play games for that matter.
I guess there's no better way to bring this tour to an end than to share a peek of the master bedroom. I love how Paige formed the headboard from old ceiling tins and framed it out with architectural wood pieces.
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Bobby James, a country singer from Nashville, Tenn., will be performing solo at Boots N Buckles Saloon in Lakeland. "It's more of an intimate show, mor
If you're male and you call yourself a country singer, you have to wear a cowboy hat. Right?
Bobby James doesn't think so.
Look at the photos of James on his website, and you can actually glimpse the pate of his shaved head. That's right — no hat.
"That probably confuses a lot of people," said James, who plays Tuesday night at Lakeland's Boots N Buckles Saloon. "I haven't thought about it, but I think (the hat) just doesn't fit with me. I just try to keep it honest. It's not something I do as far as my everyday style."
James, a Nashville-based singer-songwriter, also goes against the country grain in listing his vocal influences. Two of the three singers to whom he compares himself in his website's biography are rockers — Paul Rodgers of Bad Company and Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes.
But fear not, country purists. One description says James' vocals also have "the flavor of Travis Tritt."
James, 33, is touring the Southeast in support of "Burn," his second album. The appearance in Lakeland will be a solo acoustic show, in keeping with Boots N Buckles' format of hosting unplugged concerts on Tuesdays.
James hails from Kentucky and has lived in Nashville for about a decade. He released his first album, "Me, Myself, & I," two years ago.
He said he's open to selling his songs to more established singers but conceded, "There about 3 billion songwriters in Nashville."
In recent years, James said, he has mostly split time between Nashville and Key West, where he plays regularly at three clubs. Key West, a tourist town whose Southern identity is more geographic than cultural, might not seem the ideal place for a country singer, but James said the audiences appreciate his music.
"You'd be surprised," he said. "The people are pretty big country fans. I'd say 80 to 90 percent of the people who come in there are hard-core country fans. It's a real cool scene down there."
And James is prepared when he hears the inevitable requests for Jimmy Buffett songs.
"You do get some Parrot Heads down there," James said, deploying the nickname of Buffett fans. "Man, it's all good."
James said his repertoire includes songs by alternative rock bands the Foo Fighters and Kings of Leon. To reassure country fans again, he's also well-versed in the songs of Merle Haggard.
The current tour is part of James' attempt to expand his fan base beyond Nashville and Key West.
James has a band that supports him when he plays in Nashville, and "Burn" features the full sound, including his own playing on lead guitar. But he said he's perfectly at ease playing alone with his acoustic guitar.
"Most of the venues I've been playing down here in the Southeast, it's geared toward acoustic sets," he said. "It's more of an intimate show, more conversing back and forth. The people feel more part of the show instead of separated from a band. They can hear the lyrics."
Lance Dunagan, marketing and promotions manager for Boots N Buckles, said the saloon began holding Tuesday acoustic shows about two months ago. He said the management closes one half of the club, creating a smaller setting better suited for non-electric performances.
He said James is the first artist from outside the area to appear for one of the acoustic shows.
"We're pretty excited about having him," Dunagan said.
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It's officially Avengers week, and fans aplenty are counting down the hours until the midnight reveal of Joss Whedon's superhero team-up pic on Thursday/Friday at midnight. Not only is this the first time fans get to see all their favorite Marvel superheroes come together onscreen, but we'll get our first look at Mark Ruffalo's iteration of the Hulk. Early word on the film has had many singling out Ruffalo's performance, and the Hulk character in general, as one of the highlights of the film.
Most critics and fans have been singing high praises of Whedon's take on the character, yet when Steve asked Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige if a new standalone Hulk movie was in the cards, Feige claimed there were no plans at the moment. However, it appears the overwhelmingly positive reaction may have convinced Marvel to change their tune, because another studio exec recently said we might see a standalone Hulk flick as soon as 2015. Hit the jump for more.
First off, let's go back to Feige's response to Steve's inquiry about a new Hulk movie:
"…Every time I see a good take or a good storyline or read some good pages, I think, 'Oh should we make a movie about this?' But with the Hulk we're gonna play it very carefully. We had varying degrees of success on those first two movies, so we're not gonna say, 'Oh we did it! Another one!' We're gonna be smart about it and play it out. There are no plans right now to do another Hulk. Hulk might be just the special guest in Avengers movies, who knows?"
I was a bit surprised by Feige's response at the time, mostly because I didn't expect them to sign an actor of Ruffalo's caliber and simply use him as a supporting player. Feige even went so far as to tell Huffington Post that they put "everything they had and everything they were going for into Hulk's appearance in Avengers," so he's in the mindset of "mission accomplished at this point."
Cut to an enormously enthusiastic reaction to Whedon's Hulk, and now other execs at Marvel are seeing dollar signs. Speaking with Forbes (via The Playlist), Marvel Entertainment's President of Consumer Products for North America, Paul Glitter, noted that they were "pleasantly surprised by the phenomenal response," to Avengers Hulk, and hinted at what's to come for the character:
"If the Hulk's successful turnaround continues, Glitter says Marvel will 'spin him off to a stand-alone [TV] program next year,' supported by a big budget franchise movie in 2015."
The Hulk TV series is already a project we've known about for quite some time. Guillermo del Toro and Battlestar Galactica producer David Eick have been working together to develop the original story of Bruce Banner in his mid-20s, and Jeph Loeb, head of Marvel Television, recently confirmed that the live-action show is in active development at ABC.
Marvel has yet to reveal release dates beyond 2014 (Captain America 2 and an Untitled Marvel Film are slated for early 2014), so this is the first we've heard of their plans for the deeper future. It's important to note that Feige is in control of the creative side of the studio, so Glitter could very well have misspoken or jumped the gun. Still, I've heard nothing but great things about Ruffalo's Hulk and I'd be more than happy to see him carry a film of his own.


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Richard "Rick" Josiassen, 65, is about as brilliant and cerebral as you would expect a scientist and specialist in schizophrenia research to be. Josiassen, who has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Fuller School of Psychology in Pasadena, California, and a NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) post-doctoral fellowship in clinical neuroscience, is a research professor of psychiatry (psychology) at Drexel University College of Medicine as well as the Chief Scientific Officer for Translational Neuroscience, LLC, which is next door to the Spring Mill Cafe in Conshohocken.
Rick's wife, Rita Shaughnessy, who has both M.D. and Ph.D. degrees, is a psychiatrist and currently the director of outpatient psychiatric services for Drexel University College of Medicine. In fact, Rick and Rita "do a fair amount of research together." Rick's daughter, Rachel Doria, of North Wales, was working with autistic children until recently, when she gave birth to a son.
As an example of the research of this scientific couple who live in Mt. Airy (Rick has lived there for 25 years and Rita since they got married 17 years ago), they have raised awareness of an often overlooked aspect of schizophrenia, low serum sodium. They reported a case study in the June, 2011, issue of Psychiatric Annals, a professional journal, that could theoretically help long-hospitalized schizophrenia patients to become clinically stable enough to be discharged into the community.
The paper was an extensive study of a 64-year-old schizophrenia patient who was discharged from Norristown State Hospital after 48 years, once his serum sodium was corrected! Rick and Rita and three colleagues concluded that "The prevailing view … has resulted in poor management of this condition (low serum sodium). Insufficient diagnostic tests are ordered, and patients usually remain untreated … after two years of ongoing treatment with tolvaptan, the patient was deemed sufficiently clinically stable to be discharged into the community…"
But along with his sober, scientific passion for making life more rewarding for schizophrenic patients and their families, Rick also shares a passion for another discipline that might seem to be as incompatible with brain research as a man on roller skates is with mountain climbing. Rick is in love with his family's farm, the Lofgren Brothers Farm, which was founded in 1912 by his forebears, Sam and Paul Lofgren, then 23 and 21, respectively, in Richvale, north central California.
According to information provided by the family, the Lofgrens had left Sweden and crossed the ocean to a sod house on the prairie outside Loomis, Nebraska, where they found not abundance but blizzards and hail, drought and tornadoes and crop failure after crop failure. The Richvale Land Company in California had promised Midwestern farmers a garden spot where orchards, vineyards and row crops of all kinds could be cultivated year-round. Upon their arrival in December of 1912, however, Sam and Paul Lofgren found "a muddy bog of impassable sloughs." There was only open space in all directions and worthless mud everywhere. A traveling companion disembarking in Richvale simply sat down on the railroad tracks and cried.
Thanks to their impossible work ethic, however, the Lofgren brothers eventually established one of the original rice farms in California, an industry that produces more rice today than any other state in the nation except for Arkansas. The original Lofgren homestead remains an active family farm and has passed into the hands of Rick's brother, Curt Josiassen, and his family, sister Joan and mother Orpha, 89, the fourth generation of Lofgren descendants. Their dad died in the early 1990s. Rick grew up on the farm, although he moved to Philadelphia in 1978 to do a research fellowship with the late Dr. Charles Shagass, who was head of the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute. At first Rick lived in Ambler and has stayed in this area because he "fell in love with Philly …
"I have not put a shovel in the rice fields since I left high school, but I still love the land … Most of the rice in California is farmed industrially with little respect for the land and its wildlife, using pesticides and herbicides. In contrast, my brother Curt saw the destructive results of industrial farming, and as a youngster he resolved to grow rice differently, using the traditional methods of his grandfather and great-uncle.
"So in the 1990s, Curt began cultivating rice organically, using no chemicals and allowing fields to rest three years before planting any organic seed. All of the Lofgren Brothers rice is grown and milled to strictly organic standards. These include the U.S. Department of Agriculture's standards as well as the California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) official certification."
Now, 100 years after the Lofgren brothers sank their boots and their life savings into the mud of Richvale, the farm sells their organic rice primarily to large brokers, who in turn sell it to large food chains like Trader Joe's and Cosco. But thanks to an agreement Rick recently helped to negotiate with the Weavers Way Co-op stores in Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy, the co-op purchased a ton of the family's aromatic Heirloom Red Rice and Harvest Medley, a blend of several organic varieties. As of September, it has been on the shelves in both stores. (The price may fluctuate in the neighborhood of $2.79 a pound.)
According to Norman B. Weiss, purchasing manager, as of last week, "We sold about 150 bags of the Organic Harvest Medley and about 110 bags of the Organic Heirloom Red so far. I think this is a little better than what we expected. We are also going to start featuring the rice in a prep food dish or two. While direct price comparisons are difficult due to things like items not being exactly the same and some items going on promotion a few times a year, the Lofgren Brothers rice branded as Weavers Way everyday price is about 20% below the main competing brand."
Glenn Bergman, Weavers Way store manager, added that they "are also gearing up to provide a 5% discount on the rice for any WW member … and we are also planning to sell to other co-ops (under the Weavers Way label)."
Geechee Girl Rice Café in Mt. Airy has also been using the Lofgren Brothers' Heirloom Red Rice for three years, and Rick says at least two other restaurants in our area have recently begun purchasing the rice and should be using it in their cooking.
In addition to his obvious skills as a scientific researcher and now a rice salesman, Rick took 10 years of classical piano lessons and paid his way through graduate school by playing guitar, piano and bass. Under the name Back Alley Productions, Rick, Rita and neighbors also stage about three or four concerts each summer in their own Mt. Airy backyard. Usually there are about 60 to 70 people in the audience, and some of the area's most prominent jazz musicians have performed there such as Doc Gibbs with the late Syd Simmons, Sherry Butler, Minas and Denise King.
Weavers Way recently did a tasting for the public of the Lofgren Brothers rice, which was such a success that they will be doing another one at the Mt. Airy store on Saturday, Dec. 1, noon to 5 p.m. For more information, call 215-843-2350, ext. 133, or visit www.weaversway.coop


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So you've created an awesome, play-anything media centre with XBMC, but it's a too hard for your less tech-savvy friends and family members to use. Here are a few ways to make your home theatre PC so easy that your four year old could use it.
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Get a New Skin
The default Confluence skin is pretty good-looking, and there are some even prettier ones out there if you look around. However, not all of them are exactly easy to navigate, especially for those unfamiliar with XBMC. For example, Confluence's horizontal menu is hard to see, and its Movie and TV show menus are in a cluttered submenu. Experiment with some other skins and see which ones are easier to navigate.
I personally really like "Transparency" for its easy-to-read vertical menu. You can see every menu item on the menu page (that is, you don't have to scroll to see any of them), and nothing is buried in a submenu. From the main menu, you can see the Movies, TV Shows, Play Disc, and other options. It's much easier for an XBMC newbie to navigate than something like Confluence, Aeon or Alaska, and it's still pretty darn attractive. Of course, there may be others out there, so search around and see what else you can find.
Program Your Remote for Easy Navigation
Certain remotes work out of the box with XBMC, but sometimes getting a simpler remote and programming it yourself can be more user-friendly than a PC remote with a ton of buttons. Even then, take care to program buttons in a way that makes sense — I spent years with an unintuitive button layout because I just matched XBMC's functions to the buttons they sounded like, which wasn't ideal. Play around with your remote and see what layout makes the most sense. Watch out for the "back" and "menu" buttons, which I found the trickiest to assign to something intuitive. If you really want to see if you've done it correctly, hand it off to someone else that hasn't used XBMC and see if they can find their way around without help. If they can, you've found the ideal layout, and you should stick with it.
You might also try going with a remote designed specifically for XBMC, like one that works on iOS or Android. Not only will they have buttons assigned to specific XBMC features, but you can even browse your library right from your mobile device and get it to play on the TV. It doesn't get much simpler than that.
Lastly, if you really want an easy-to-use remote, the Apple TV remote is about as simple as it gets. It takes no setup, anyone can use it, and it comes with the cheapest XBMC box you can create. This won't matter if you've already put together a non-Apple TV box, but if you have an Apple TV, consider using it as your XBMC box for some serious ease of use.
Clean Up Your Main Menu
Head on over to Settings > Skin Settings and search for the menu-editing section. Take some time to remove all the things you don't use, like "Pictures", "Music" and "Weather". Make sure to clean up the submenus too, if your skin has them — things like "Recently Added", "Random" and "Browse by Genre" aren't exactly confusing, but they can create a lot of clutter, which makes the menu a lot harder to navigate. Some skins will even let you remove the submenus altogether. Remove the "Videos" option and replace it with separate "Movies" and "TV Shows" menu items. And, if "Play Disc" isn't enabled, make sure you turn it on for those occasional DVDs you rent or borrow from friends.
Put Add-Ons like Blu-ray on the Main Menu
Next, put some of your most used add-ons on the main page, so you don't have to go digging through other menus to find them. This takes a few steps, but is really quite easy:
- Navigate to one of the add-ons you want on the main menu (say, XBMC Flicks — the Netflix add-on for XBMC). Bring up the context menu and choose "Add to Favorites". This step isn't necessary for all skins, but it is necessary for many — including Transparency.
- Head to Settings > Skin and find the option for customising the main menu (in Transparency, it's called "Menu"). You should see some "Custom" or "Favorites" slots, where you can add custom menu items. Enable these and choose the add-on you want from the favourites menu.
- Repeat this process for all the add-ons you want on the front page, Blu-ray. They should all show up on your main menu for quick, easy, pain-free access.
If you've cleaned up your main menu as we described in the previous section, you should now have a menu that's incredibly easy to navigate and has movies, TV, streaming video, Blu-ray and everything else you could ever want.
Enable Kiosk Mode
One of the most confusing parts about XBMC can be when you accidentally enter the "View" menu while scrolling through your movies or TV shows (the one that's hidden behind the right edge of the screen). Once you've got everything set up the way you want, you can turn on "kiosk mode" to lock your chosen views and get rid of this hidden menu. That way, when someone's browsing through your videos, they don't accidentally stumble on this menu or change your view mode by accident. In Transparency, you'll find kiosk mode under Settings > Skin Settings > General > Enable Kiosk mode. Check your skin's documentation for more info on whether it has kiosk mode and where to find it.
XBMC has come a long way, but it's still not the most user-friendly program on the planet. Hopefully, with these simple tweaks, you can get just about anyone using your XBMC box in no time. Got any of your own suggestions for making XBMC easier to use? Be sure to share them in the comments below.


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From a student paper: "Maybe they are just senile or have oldtimer's."
Easier to spell than Alzheimer's.
Already in the Database: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/337/old-timers/
Many of those who comment on it there consider it a deliberate pun rather than a true eggcorn.
I've seen it in student papers, and I've also heard students say it. I think it's an honest mistake. It's way more understandably descriptive than Alzheimer's, after all. I think it's a real eggcorn.
I couldn't find it in the database; maybe I used the wrong search technique. Anyway, given the level of sophistication of the student who submitted the paper where I found it, I'd say it's a true eggcorn.
I included the address for the Database entry in my first response—if you click on http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/337/old-timers/
you should be taken right to it.
I think it's possible that this is spreading as an eggcorn—if so, it may be like "a mere bag of shells." Jackie Gleason made the latter popular when it was used as a joke (for "a mere bagatelle") on the Honeymooners back in the 50s. But I suspect there are now people out there who use "a mere bag of shells" without realizing its origin.
I really doubt Old Timer's started as a true eggcorn—the phonological differences between the two phrases set off my alarm bells. And it's far easier to find people on the internet who are talking about the eggcorn rather than committing it. But I'm willing to believe it's possible that the joke has become so widespread that some people are unaware of any other name for the disease. I'm not sure—but it's possible.
There are many hits for Oldsheimers. Some of these will be intentional, too, but these partial transformations seem more credible than Oldtimer's. Oldsheimers is a demi-Lehmann's term. Related to a Wisenheimer, maybe.
An alternative that makes the old explicit:
you know your like an old simers victim at a hau house. Constantly surprised that you been screwed


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WoW: Is Ashran The Worst Thing to Happen to PVP?
I started out wanting to write a nice little opinion piece on the new PVP zone. Right after launch (well, after the launch DDOS/lag fest/6 hour queues fiasco) and leveling to 100, the zone clearly had some issues – but what … Continue reading


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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Greene on the Origins of Originalism
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- Shag from Brookline said...
Greene has another article titled "Selling Originalism" in the Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 97:657, that I'm about a third through and so far it is a great read. There have been a series of articles on originalism recently that use the Heller decision as a base to demonstrate that originalism may be losing its touch, with perhaps a third or fourth wave of originalism in the making. Perhaps as more such articles appear, it may turn out that ironically Heller may end up shooting holes in originalism, at least the current versions. And might newer versions of originalism be oxymoronic?
This new paper by Greene may be an extension of the theme in his paper I am currently reading. He does have a good writing style.
- March 25, 2009 at 7:30:00 AM EDT
- Shag from Brookline said...
I finished Prof. Greene's "Selling Originalism" and was quite impressed. Then I started on his "On the Origins of Originalsim." Part II was somewhat repetitive of the earlier article. When I started on Part III dealing with Canada and Australia, I was at first put off as I did not immediately understand why it was important to look at these countries on the matter of originalism. But then Greene painted his stories, concluding with comparisons between the U.S., Canada and Australia regarding originalism. Greene's writing style, his storytelling, is amazing. Greene may be part of a new wave of challengers to originalism post-Heller. He is a young man and I suspect Pres. Obama knows or him, or soon will. I have visions that Greene may be considered for nomination to the Supreme Court, perhaps as a counter to Justice Thomas. (I understand he clerked for Justice Stevens.)
I wonder how legal historians may react or respond to Greene's articles. It's not clear to me that legal historians are necessarily originalists.
- March 28, 2009 at 5:04:00 PM EDT


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It seems that someone turned off the Internet in Syria. A U.S.-based network security firm said in a statement that Syria basically disappeared from the Internet at 12:26 p.m. local time on Nov 29. Rebels blamed the government; the government denied that there was a nationwide outage.
Early last year Egypt and Libya's Internet were disabled during the height of civil unrest — and given the integral role that the Internet and Twitter have played in organizing activists, it seems likely we'll hear about more instances of Internet shut-offs in the future.
But could it happen in the U.S.?
Iljitsch van Beijnum explains in Ars Technica that in the Middle East and Europe, almost all interconnection happens in the capital of a country — so killing the connections between ISPs wouldn't be too hard. But the U.S. is so much larger and traffic volumes are so immense, that large networks interconnect in at least 20 separate cities, not just one central capital. Numerous intercontinental sea cables land in the Boston, New York, Washington D.C., Miami, Los Angeles and Seattle, which would make it difficult to kill the connections between ISPs.
Some kind of "Internet kill switch" isn't really a reality, since shutting down the international connections alone would require a tremendous amount of manual work. Van Beijnum's verdict is that it would be "surprisingly hard to kill. It can be done, however, if you're a government and you try really, really hard."
But as David Clark, an MIT computer scientist whose research focuses on Internet architecture and development, puts it: "Whether or not other governments — for example, the U.S. government — are able to shut down the Internet is a regulatory question." He says, "In a time of crisis, does a government have the powers to compel the ISPs to take such an action?" In the U.S., the answer is no — not only does President Barack Obama, or any president, not have access to a physical "switch" that turns off the Internet, he also has no control over ISPs.
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Having trouble finding the perfect holiday wrapping paper that says "hey, I actually put some thought into this gift this year"? Over on MiniEco Kate Lilley has provided a lovely set of non-traditional pixelated designs that you can download for free, and print off on your company's laserjet.
Technically the designs are actually cross-stitch patterns, but no one's going to notice or care. They'll be too excited that their present is wrapped in an army of space invaders. You'll just have to make sure that the gift inside lives up to the awesome presentation. [MiniEco via Apartment Therapy]


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Study to Evaluate the Urate-Lowering Activity and Safety of Oral BCX4208 Administered in Subjects With Gout
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00985127
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : September 28, 2009
Last Update Posted : January 23, 2012
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|Condition or disease
|Drug: placebo Drug: BCX4208
|Phase 2
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|99 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase 2, Randomized, Double-Blind, Dose-Ranging, Two-Part, Multi-Center Study to Evaluate the Urate-Lowering Activity and Safety of Oral BCX4208 Administered in Subjects With Gout
|Study Start Date :
|September 2009
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|September 2010
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|September 2010
Experimental: 40 mg
40 mg BCX4208
Drug: BCX4208
Administered daily for 21 days.
Experimental: 80 mg
Drug: BCX4208
Administered daily for 21 days.
Experimental: 120 mg
Drug: BCX4208
Administered daily for 21 days.
|Placebo Comparator: sugar pill
Drug: placebo
administered daily for 21 days
Experimental: 160mg
Drug: BCX4208
Administered daily for 21 days.
Experimental: 240mg
Drug: BCX4208
Administered daily for 21 days.
Experimental: 320mg
Drug: BCX4208
Administered daily for 21 days.
- To determine the effect of different doses of orally administered BCX4208 on serum uric acid (sUA)levels in subjects with gout. [ Time Frame: Day 22 ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 69 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age ≥18 to <70 years
- Have read and signed the ICF after the nature of the study has been fully explained
- Screening sUA ≥8.0 mg/dL
- Diagnosis of gout according to the preliminary criteria of the American Rheumatism Association (1977)
Female participants must meet at least one of the following specifications:
- Be surgically sterile
- Be post-menopausal as defined by:
- females ≥55 years of age whose last menstrual period >1 year
- females between ≥45 and <55 years of age whose last menstrual period > 1 year and FSH >40 mIU/mL and estradiol <40 pg/mL
- Use oral contraceptives or some other form of hormonal birth control including hormonal vaginal rings or transdermal patches for 3 months prior to study drug dosing through 4 weeks after study drug administration
- Use an intrauterine device as birth control for 8 weeks prior to study drug dosing through 4 weeks after study drug administration
- Use (or ensure male partner[s]'s compliance with) a barrier contraception method (condom or diaphragm with a spermicide) for 4 weeks prior to study drug dosing through 4 weeks after study drug administration
- Male participants must be considered not of child-bearing potential defined as >1 year post-vasectomy or use a condom for 4 weeks prior to study drug dosing through 4 weeks after study drug administration. In addition, they must ensure their sexual partner complies with the female contraception requirements specified above.
- Be willing to avoid procreation for 3 months after study drug administration.
- Be willing and able to provide authorization for the use and disclosure of personal health information in accordance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability policy.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unstable angina
- History of cardiac arrhythmia
- History of congenital long QT
- Presence of cardiac signs or symptoms compatible with New York Heart Association Class III or Class IV functional status for congestive heart failure or angina
- Uncontrolled hypertension (above 150/95 mm Hg)
- History of moderate or severe renal impairment and/or previous clinical laboratory data indicating an estimated calculated creatinine clearance < 60 mL/min during the previous 12 months
- ALT/AST values >2.0 x ULN
- CD4+ cell counts by flow cytometry <500 cells/mm3 or >1600 cells/mm3
- Hemoglobin <12 g/dL or >17 g/dL (males) or < 11 g/dL or >16 g/dL (females)
- Hematocrit <37% or >51% (males) or <33 % or >47% (females)
- WBC <3.7 x 109/L or >11 X 109/L
- Immunocompromised due to illness or organ transplant
- Current use of systemic immunosuppressive medications or treatments
- Gout flare during the Screening Period that is resolved for less than 3 weeks prior to first treatment with study drug (exclusive of chronic synovitis/ arthritis)
- Recipient of any live, attenuated vaccine within 6 weeks of Screening
- History of clinically significant and relevant drug and/or food allergies
- History of chronic or recurrent infections
- History of any type of cancer (hematologic or solid tumor), that has required chemotherapy or radiation therapy in the previous 12 months, excluding non-melanomatous localized skin cancer
- Use of uric acid-lowering drugs within 30 days prior to the first dose of study drug or other prohibited medications within the timeframes specified in the protocol
- ACTH administration within 30 days of first treatment with study drug
- Intra-articular corticosteroid administration within 30 days of first treatment with study drug
- Systemic or oral glucocorticosteroid use within 4 weeks of first treatment with study drug or for a period of ≥ 6 months out of the last 12 months prior to the first treatment with study drug
- History of alcohol or drug abuse within the year prior to the signing of the ICF, or current evidence of substance dependence or abuse (alcohol intake > 3 drinks per day)
- Female subjects who are pregnant, planning a pregnancy or breastfeeding
- Positive pregnancy test
- Positive serology for hepatitis B or C surface antigen or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1
- Have been the recipient of any investigational drug within the last 30 days prior to the first treatment with study drug
- Other medical conditions which, in the opinion of the Principal Investigator, would jeopardize the safety of the study subject or impact the validity of the study results
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00985127
|Responsible Party:
|BioCryst Pharmaceuticals
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|First Posted:
|September 28, 2009 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|January 23, 2012
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|January 2012
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Strawberry Pineapple Pie
Total TimePrep: 30 min. + chilling
Makes8 servings
- 1 can (20 ounces) crushed pineapple, undrained
- 10 frozen unsweetened whole strawberries, thawed
- 3 tablespoons quick-cooking tapioca
- 2 egg yolks
- 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar, divided
- 3/4 teaspoon lemon extract, divided
- 5 drops red food coloring, optional
- 1 pastry shell (9 inches), baked
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- Place pineapple and strawberries in a food processor; cover and process until smooth. Transfer to a saucepan. Stir in the tapioca, egg yolks and 3/4 cup sugar; let stand for 5 minutes.
- Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture comes to a full boil. Remove from the heat; stir in 1/2 teaspoon extract and food coloring if desired. Pour into pastry shell; refrigerate for 1 hour.
- In a small bowl, beat cream until it begins to thicken. Add remaining sugar and extract; beat until stiff peaks form. Spread over top of pie. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours or until set.
Nutrition Facts1 piece: 663 calories, 20g fat (10g saturated fat), 97mg cholesterol, 118mg sodium, 127g carbohydrate (102g sugars, 7g fiber), 4g protein.
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May 30, 2010
This pie is fantastic! I think I finally found something to take with me to my Grandmother's house for Christmas dinner!
May 13, 2010
My mouth is texture sensitive. Can anyone tell me a little bout the texture. Applesauce consistency, firm, like jello with lumps. Sounds good want to try it but don't know. ty
May 10, 2010
To save a ton of calories, make this delicious recipe as is but do not pour into pie shell! Instead, put in a nice bowl, refrigerate and serve with low-fat whipped topping when set. It is still yummy!
May 10, 2010
Strawberry pineapple pie is delicious and easily made. The only thing I would not include is the tapioca, as some of my children are deathly allergic to it and I will not hurt them that way. This pie is a keeper, though, and definitely going in my recipe box.


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Diatoms are important primary producers in the northeast Pacific Ocean, with their productivity closely linked to pulses of trace elements in the western high nitrate, low chlorophyll (HNLC) region of the oceanographic time series transect 'Line P.' Recently, the coastal-HNLC transition zone of the Line P transect was identified as a hotspot of phytoplankton productivity, potentially controlled by a combination of trace element and macronutrient concentrations. Here we describe diatom community composition in the eastern Line P transect, including the coastal- HNLC transition zone, with a method using high-throughput sequencing of diatom 18S gene amplicons. We identified significant correlations between shifting diatom community composition and longitude combined with concentrations of dissolved copper and 2 other dissolved trace metals (dissolved Fe [dFe] and/or dissolved zinc) and/or a physical factor (salinity or density). None of these variables on its own was significantly correlated with shifts in community composition, and 3 of the factors (dFe, salinity, and density) correlated with one another. Longitude could incorporate multiple factors that may influence diatom communities, including distance from shore, proximity of sampling stations, and an integration of previous pulses of macro- and micro-nutrients. We also evaluated in situ Fe limitation of the diatom Thalassiosira oceanica using a quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction method, and found biological evidence of Fe stress in samples from the coastal-HNLC transition zone. Combined, our results support a prior hypothesis that dissolved trace metals as well as longitudinal distance may be important to diatom diversity in the coastal-HNLC transition zone of the Line P transect.
Genomics, Metagenomics, and Bioinformatics, Marine Microbiology, Plankton Ecology and Food-Web Interactions, Biogeochemistry, Marine, Atmospheric, and Aqueous Tracers, Marine Chemistry
Mailing Address: SIO DeptScripps Institution of OceanographyUC San Diego9500 Gilman Drive #0218La Jolla CA, 92093-0218
Location: 3119 Sverdrup HallTel: 858-822-4339Fax: 858-534-2997Lab website:
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Undergraduate-level mathematics and experience with basic computer operations
This program has been approved by GARP and qualifies for 21 GARP CPD credit hours. If you are a Certified FRM or ERP, please record this activity in your credit tracker at http://www.garp.org/cpd
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A big item of discussion in the market this week — other than the resignation of the legendary Apple founder, Steve Jobs — was Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-B) providing a $5 billion capital infusion into Bank of America (NYSE:BAC).
So does this buy by Warren Buffett mean that Bank of America stock is also a buy for regular investors?
Some skeptics are reading the Warren Buffett deal as a negative for BAC. After all, CEO Brian Moynihan told the world only two weeks ago that the bank didn't need any more capital.
But a closer reading of the terms Buffett obtained leads to a different conclusion. Back in the fall of 2008, when the Oracle of Omaha pumped cash into Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and then General Electric (NYSE:GE), he demanded a Mafia-style payoff.
Both GS and GE swallowed a usurious 10% coupon on the preferred stock they issued to Berkshire Hathaway. In addition, the warrants attached to the preferred allowed Buffett to purchase GS and GE common stock at a significant discount to the prevailing market price.
In effect, both companies were signaling that Buffett had them over a barrel. Small wonder the price of their common plummeted over the next few months, until the market indexes bottomed in March 2009.
What's different now? BAC agreed to pay only 6% on Berkshire's new preferred — substantially less than the 8% or so that "straight" (non-convertible) BAC preferreds were yielding Wednesday, before the deal was announced.
Furthermore, the conversion price for the Oracle's warrants was set at $7.14 per share, above BAC's Wednesday close of $6.99 but slightly below the intraday trading Friday around $7.50.
So yes, Buffett got a good deal. (He doesn't have to pony up a dime for the common shares until he's ready to convert his warrants.) But it wasn't a fire sale.
It couldn't be — because Buffett knows, and Brian Moynihan knows, that Bank of America today doesn't face a liquidity bind, as most of our giant financial institutions did in 2008. As of June 30, the company held $706 billion of cash equivalents, versus only $125 billion at year-end 2008. A "run on the bank" now is almost inconceivable.
The real question is how much the stock might be worth, once the current economic uncertainty clears up and the bank bulldozes through its mile-high garbage pile of litigation.
Assuming a 1% return on assets (typical in good times for a megabank), and full conversion of Buffett's warrants, I figure BAC could earn $2 a share within the next three years. Even at a paltry P/E ratio of 8, the common would fetch $16, more than double Thursday's close.
Accordingly, I think BAC stock is a buy for speculators. Pay up to $8 for BAC stock if you're an aggressive investor.
Richard Band is recommending BAC as an aggressive buy for his Profitable Investing newsletter subscribers. Richard also personally owns a position in Bank of America, Berkshire Hathaway and General Electric stock.


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From indulgent romantic escapes to fun family getaways there are plenty of accommodation options in the Barossa to choose from, catering for all budgets and desires.
You'll discover picturesque bed and breakfasts nestled in private vineyards; family friendly caravan parks; modern motel establishments; country cottages; stylish apartments and wonderfully luxurious and indulgent retreats. Or you could simply pitch a tent or park a caravan at one of our six caravan and tourist parks with great family friendly facilities, shady sites and a range of cabin options.
Wherever you choose to stay, you'll never be far from favourite local cafes, renowned restaurants and cellar doors set amongst idyllic vistas. You might spend your day exploring heritage trails, food and wine trails or just lose yourself in the Barossa's natural beauty – and once you're done, there'll be a lodging just perfect for you to return to.
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First U2 concertSaw U2 for the first time at the Manchester Apollo theatre after I went with a friend who had been a fan for a couple of years. I have been hooked ever since and have not missed a tour since. I recall what a showman Bono was and he used to climb the sound equipment (wouldn't be able to now with health and safety!!) I remember some kid being thrown out mid set and Bono stopped the concert and stated that unless this kid was allowed back in the show was over. Needless to say he was brought straight back in to the roar of the crowd. Happy memories!!!!!


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Sunday, November 29, 2009
Bunker Hill full picture redoubt
This is the Bunker Hill redoubt and one of the three fletches I made for an up and coming event using the British Grenadier AWI rule set at next years TACTICA event in Hamberg where we will be putting on a demo of The Battle of Bunker Hill.
The redoubt is pretty simple as was the actual one on the day of the battle.I'm not even sure they reinforced it with planking,but I wasn't happy with just a simple earth embankment and so I took a bit of artistic license and added a very simple planking scheme to the walls of the redoubt.I added some of my miniatures to get a sense of scale and I think the size will work nicely with what we have in mind.
BTW this Bunker Hill is the actual model for the game and the other one in the diorama's is only a corner piece used for an advert.The background is largely for color as I'm putting the focus on the redoubt.
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Is there a way to tweak the amount of padding inside UI elements in Ubuntu, besides installing a different gtk theme?
This is how eclipse looks in Ubuntu (with the Radiance theme)
And this is how it looks on XP
What I would like to do is reduce the padding around the icons in the toolbar or the padding around text in tabs. Is there an app or some config file I could edit?


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The Community Food Bank depends on its hundreds of volunteers to bring food to Southern Arizona. Volunteering is rewarding, productive, and easy. There are opportunities to help with special events, or to volunteer on a regular basis. There are opportunities for groups and for individuals, both short term and longer term.
To volunteer, follow these steps:
- Complete and submit an application online. The Volunteer Department will respond to your online application via email. If you want some additional information, feel free to contact the Volunteer Department by sending an email and we will respond to you by email. You may also call the Volunteer Department at (520) 882-3292.
- The Volunteer Department will give you available dates to tour the main facility at 3003 S. Country Club Road, where you will hear about volunteer opportunities, and decide what you'd like to do. (If you prefer, you can print out an application and bring it with you to your scheduled tour, or get one at the tour while you are there.)
- Set up a date to begin. Then go to work!
- Complete and submit an application online. Please note that there are unique applications for all our locations. If you want some additional information, feel free to contact the Volunteer Department by contacting us here and we will respond to you by email. You may also call the Volunteer Department at (520) 882-3292.
- Set up a date to work. There is no need for an orientation tour.
If you are a group:
- Contact the Volunteer Department by calling (520) 882-3292 or emailing us. The Volunteer Department will respond to your online application via email. We will work with you to identify upcoming opportunities for your group to work.
- Complete a group application, and submit on line or fax to (520) 670-9484. Please be sure and identify the contact person for your group, and his/her contact information. The Volunteer Department will respond to your application via email.
- Individual Application (short or long term)
- Group Application
- Location Specific Volunteer Forms:
- Printable Applications
The CFB always needs volunteers. Many people volunteer on a regular basis, devoting a morning or afternoon once a week or once a month. In addition, some volunteers work once or twice on a short term basis. Groups are also welcome. We ask that individuals work a minimum of three hours between the hours of 9 am and 4 pm on Monday (Monday's have limited work options), between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm Tuesday through Friday, or between 9 am and noon on Saturday. Each shift offers limited availability, so needs to be scheduled in advance. There are several locations, so you can work close to home. There are sites in Tucson, Marana, Nogales, Amado, Green Valley/Sahuarita, and Graham, Greenlee and Cochise Counties. The most common work is:
- Pack food boxes or sort food (Great for both groups and individuals.)
- Work in our gardens: (Volunteer garden workdays every Wednesday from 9am-12pm at the Community Food Bank Garden [3003 S. Country Club Rd., 85713] Support us with starting seedlings, transplanting, harvesting worm castings, making compost, seed saving and packing seeds and other garden maintenance work!)
- Glean food (picking citrus food during January, February and March, or picking pumpkins at the beginning of November.)
- Help with the Farmer's Market
- Distribute food: greet clients; check clients in; hand out food; load carts; help clients to car; shag grocery carts.
- Office work/ computer work
- Maintenance work
- Work at our Las Milpitas de Cottonwood Urban Farm.
- Work at Caridad Community Kitchen
- Youth & Family Volunteer Days (for families with children under 16)
- We also have need of professional services to assist the Food Bank. To volunteer professional services, contact the Volunteer Department by calling (520) 882-3293 or sending an email.
- There are also many special events that benefit the CFB for which we need volunteers. Some examples include the Winterhaven Festival of Lights (Dec), the annual Mail Carriers Food Drive (May) and citrus gleaning days (January, February, March.)
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EvoSwitch Datacenter first 100GE AMS-IX backbone location
Amsterdam, January 10 2012 – EvoSwitch Datacenter has today officially been added to the list of colocation providers with an AMS-IX Point of Presence (PoP). In addition to being an AMS-IX collocation connecting with multiple 10GE, EvoSwitch will be the first datacenter of its kind for which AMS-IX uses a single 100GE backbone connection.
EvoSwitch, who became an AMS-IX reselling partner in 2010, already has connected numerous networks and built a solid reputation and experience in the interconnection market. The state-of-the-art and energy-efficient site has 10,000 m² of space and is located in the Amsterdam region, with close proximity to the main airport of the Netherlands. Today, EvoSwitch serves more than 35 regional carriers and thousands of hosting, telecom, IT and enterprise customers.


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How to keep patients safe in the sun
Summer means plenty of fun in the sun, but that fun comes with risks. The AOA offers information you can share with patients to help them understand the dangers of long-term exposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays-and what they can do to stay safe.
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By By Andrew Drwiega, International Bureau Chief | April 15, 2013
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With the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) currently focused on how it is going to manage the capability sustainment program of its Apache Longbow attack helicopters, Lockheed Martin is keen to add its VUIT video networking technology to the potential package of improvements.
U.S. Army Apache D models have operated in Iraq and Afghanistan with VUIT, which allows Apaches to receive video feeds from unmanned aircraft (UAS) and transmit them to ground forces. The UK military currently operates the Watchkeeper WK450 (Army) and the Reaper (RAF), as well as smaller UAS systems.
The export version of Lockheed Martin's VUIT could be incorporated into the Westland WAH-64D Longbow Apaches, stated Michael Taylor, Lockheed's program director. "There is space within the Fire Control Radar dome for the VUIT antenna and modem, with a small keypad added into the cockpit and another downlink aerial on the bottom of the airframe.
Taylor stated that the initial gate for the MoD's decision would fall between May and July this year, with the main gate falling around September. This would allow the British Apaches to receive and retransmit video data from UAS.
Said Taylor: "The system could have been used when the UK Apache's were operating in the maritime environment from HMS Ocean during Operation Ellamy (the coalition operations against the forces of Col. Gadaffi in Libya). They could have had target situational awareness being fed to them as they were leaving the carrier so that they were tactically up to date as they arrived over the shore to begin their mission."
In another development, Lockheed Martin is also updating its modernized target acquisition designation sight (M-TADS). Having previously improved its night sensor, current work will introduce color and low-light sensitivity into the day picture and will match the FLIR field of view (before the magnification was different when switching between day and night sensors).
The upgraded laser rangefinder is already in production while the MDSA is fully funded, according to a Lockheed Martin spokesperson. Qualification of this will begin in July 2013 with flight tests by the end of the year. The goal will be to have the MDSA installed into Apache E airframes from 2016 as a Lot 6 insertion.
In February 2013 Lockheed Martin received a $161.7-million contract from the U.S. Army to continue its M-TADS/PVNS (pilot night vision sensor) upgrade program.


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Pull Up A Stool With Jamie Bartholomaus
Foothills Brewing Co. Winston-Salem, NC
Besides being the brewmaster at Foothills, you're the president of the North Carolina Brewers' Guild. What do you see in the future for NC breweries?
I think therewill continue to be an awakening of spirit in the state's breweries as people gain confidence. They'll push the envelope of brewing styles and business plans will develop, and hopefully lead to some larger microbreweries. The largest guys here in North Carolina and the South―barring Sweetwater―are pretty tiny compared with the rest of the country.
Hopefully we'll increase collaborations among brewers here in the state as the guild develops. We can reach out to each other for innovation and to do business together.
You're involved in a collaboration brew right now.
Yes, that's a perfect example. It's collaboration between Olde Hickory Brewery, Duck-Rabbit and Foothills. Basically, me and one of my guys drove to Kentucky and bought a bunch of special bourbon barrels, a very nice bourbon in particular. It's our philosophy that the barrel is what makes the beer better. There are two philosophies: one, people say that the freshest barrel is better; and other people say that the best bourbon is better. I go for the better liquor, versus the absolute freshness of the barrel.
All three breweries made an imperial stout. For Paul [Philippon] at Duck-Rabbit, it's his Rabid Duck. Ours was our Sexual Chocolate, and Olde Hickory made an imperial stout just for this project. We're going to blend them, and―after several steps required for federal label approval―we'll hopefully be selling the bottles on November 21. It'll be called Olde Rabbit's Foot.
How much will you make?
Seven hundred bottles, approximately. We're actually bottling it at Olde Hickory Brewery: as part of the collaboration, we're splitting up the duties. The Duck-Rabbit guys are going to put in a lot of the labor for bottling and labeling, and we're going to sell it here. We think we have the best vehicle for the release of the bottles, based on our geography and our success with the Sexual Chocolate release.
How long has that been going on? It's become quite an event for beer lovers.
Just two years. We've made Sexual Chocolate for three years. After the first year, I started getting e-mails from people asking me how I'd recommend hand-bottling it from the growler. One guy said he wasn't even a homebrewer, and he was wondering how to sanitize and hand-fill bottles. And I said "My recommendation is that you don't do that. In fact, please don't. It could mess up the beer."
So, as a reaction, that day we cut off growler sales of the beer. The next year, we started bottling it ourselves so it could get out to people and we could control the quality and make sure it was going out as we wanted it.
The first year we made one batch; the second year, two; the third year, three; and this year we'll probably make four batches, which will be about 60 barrels. Last year we had to turn away about 80 people who got no bottles, and we may try to change some of the rules to try to accommodate more people. We'll bottle some more, but since we're still basically hand-bottling, we don't want to do a whole lot more.
Is that the only beer you bottle?
Yes. It's worth it, just to get it out there. We hand-number each bottle.
I'm a great admirer of your label art. Is the same artist doing the label for Olde Rabbit's Foot?
Yeah, the three of us talked about it, and decided that Dave Shapiro, our guy, would be the one to do the label. He also did the logo for the brewers' guild. It's been interesting to work with him on these projects, and come up with a new identity, because I certainly don't want people to feel like this is something like the Foothills Club. We made a real effort to make sure that the image and feel is different: the Brewers' Guild is 25 North Carolina breweries; it's not us. The same's with Olde Rabbit's Foot. It needs to show the three breweries working together.
November 21 will come up fast, with label approval still to go through. The first step is the SOP―the statement of process―on how the beer's made, and I just got my approval for our part. We had to get an SOP to put cocoa in the beer. Then we needed an SOP to put the cocoa beer in barrels. I just got that approval. Paul's still waiting on his, Then once Paul and I get ours, Stephen can get his, referencing our SOPs as ingredients
Since we're bottling the beer at Olde Hickory, according to the TTB it's an Old Hickory beer. So he has to reference the ingredients, which include our beers and his own, then he can get federal label approval, followed by state approval. We're all a little worried that it will be hard to hit our deadline.
You've said you'd like this to be an in-state phenomenon.
I'd be happy if all the bottles of Olde Rabbit's Foot stayed in North Carolina―even though they won't. I'm hoping this will lead to other brewers in the state being maybe a little envious of attention and that will spark other breweries to do similar things together.
You are one of our most visible brewers on the national scene, at SAVOR in DC, the GABF, and a couple of Beer Advocate events.
In the long run, hopefully it will bring us more business. But in the short-to-medium term, we're really trying to get exposure and knowledge that our state has great beer, that it can be a beer destination. I met with a guy just this week who's spending a week touring the state.
We want North Carolina to be seen as a great beer state, certainly one of the better ones in the South, if not the country. But to do that, you've got to get out there and let people know what you're doing. And the only way to do that is to expose beer lovers to the beer.
We'll be at the GABF, and we've been invited to the Rare Beer Tasting in Denver. We're really happy about that: in a place where 500 breweries congregate, to be in a group of 20 is a good thing. We're happy to be part of something special, in the circle of breweries involved.
We like to be associated with our North Carolina peers, but we also want to be associated with some of the great breweries on the national level. Getting mentioned in the same sentence with some of the big guys kind of propels you forward.
By my calculation, you opened Foothills just before the Pop The Cap legislation [raising North Carolina's alcohol-by-volume limit from six to 15 percent] went through.
That's right, St. Patrick's Day of 2005.
How'd you get into brewing in the first place?
I started reading Charlie Papazian's New Complete Joy of Brewing after my freshman year in college, and was pumped up about brewing beer. My sophomore year, I had an apartment instead of a dorm room, so I was able to get into it. There was just one guy in Athens, GA who was selling raw materials for homebrewing, John Gayer. He didn't have a homebrew shop, so he delivered. You'd call him up and tell him what you wanted, and he'd bring it over. It was neat, because you could show him all your homebrew stuff and he'd give some tips.
When the first brewery in Athens opened up, Blind Man Ales, John became the brewmaster, and pretty immediately he asked if I'd be interested in helping out. Before long, I was volunteering about 30 hours a week. The process fascinated me.
I worked there most of the way through college. It was a 17-barrel homebrewery, basically, and none of the tanks that were pressurized or sealable. No temperature control. No pressure control, so all the beer we did was bottle- or keg-conditioned. It led to a lot of inconsistency, because we couldn't control anything. It was a good way to learn what not to do. Our distributor would show up and have to wait two hours for the kegs to fill. Not the ideal situation.
I graduated in archaeology, and got a job in Columbia SC at Vista Brewing. It was an up-scale martini bar with a French chef and sous-chef. that happened to have a brewery. It was great place to experiment, I had pretty much free reign in what I wanted to do. Different raw materials, hops, yeast strains―it didn't really matter, as long as there was beer and we kept the same names and a similar theme.
While I was still working there, I moved to Asheville, but I continued working at Vista and working on archaeological teams, wherever that took me. I did a big stint north of Fayetteville for about 10 months. And I kind of decided that beer was more my calling than archaeology, which is a sort of gypsy life, moving around, and ultimately your work gets put into a report that no one ever looks at.
I was trying to get a job in Asheville, at Jack in the Wood or Highland, but there weren't opportunities. So I heard that Olde Hickory was looking for someone, so interviewed there and got the job. I moved off the mountain down to Hickory. My dad used to joke when I moved to Asheville, "Son, you've gone straight from college to retirement. You can't live there, you work two hours away and five hours away." Ultimately he was right.
I worked at Olde Hickory almost five years. I had to work at night in the little brewpub. There were three rooms where the brewery was, and the kitchen was right in the middle, so you couldn't work while the place was open. So I came in at 11 when the kitchen closed, and worked through to seven in the morning.
Steve [Lyerly] and Jason [Yates, Olde Hickory owners] bought a bigger system from Middlesex Brewing Co. in Boston, so we went up there and dismantled the system, then spent the next 18 months building the new brewery. By the time we opened the production facility, I'd learned a lot about the infrastructure of a brewery operation. We ran the glycol lines, the water lines, a lot of the electrical stuff, it was very hands-on, as much as we could.
That experience helped me build Foothills. From the time we bought the building until when we opened was about 15 months, and we'd rehabbed the entire building. You run into some unforeseen things as you do demolition and rebuild, then it's "Oh, look the trusses are sagging 21 inches in the middle and the roof is about to collapse" and you buy $20,000 worth of steel to support the roof. That's the fun of remodeling.
We're [business partner Matt Maston] really excited about growing the business. There's a bottling line in our future, probably in a new facility, but that's a couple of years away, when we're projected to max out this place. But right now, draft is growing steadily, so there's no point yet.
What's your barrelage?
We're hoping for 4,000 barrels. Last year, we did 2,900. There are four of us brewing, we work seven days a week in the brewery. My opinion is that breweries work best when there's always someone in there keeping track of stuff. Take two and a half days off for the weekend, and something's bound to be off by Monday morning.
So you're happy not to be a field archaeologist?
Making beer is a lot more satisfying, very fulfilling. It's also somewhat addictive. I love hearing people say they love my beer, but I also love hearing people say they hate my beers because it gives me a chance for reflection, you can always make it better. If it's constructive, I love it. It can be hard, but you've gotta hear it.
That's one reason I go to beer festivals out of state. I don't have the allegiance of the local people. If you go to Boston, there's nothing stopping them from crushing your beers, you get more unbiased feedback. A lot of the beer geeks here in North Carolina I've befriended, so it's harder for them to say if they don't like my beer.
You reserve some of your most limited beers for festivals?
Yeah, our barrel-aged beer, for example, we don't sell, we just give it away at beer festivals, get it out to the maximum number of people. If we don't make enough and you sell it to one guy, bars two, three and four aren't happy. But they can't get upset if you just give it away.


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Children are every country's most vital resource; yet even high national incomes do not guarantee children's well-being. According to a new UNICEF study, societies that have a strong commitment to equal opportunity for all of their children – and that are prepared to invest public funds on their behalf – tend to end up with the highest economic returns.
NEW YORK – Children are every country's most vital resource. This is true not just morally, but also economically. Investing in the health, education, and skills of children offers the highest economic returns to a country. A new study by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) shows which high-income countries are doing well when it comes to making these investments – and which are doing poorly.
The report, Child Well-Being in Rich Countries, takes a holistic view of the conditions of children in the United States, Canada, and Europe – 29 countries in all. The top-ranked countries, where children are best off, are the social democracies of Western Europe. The Netherlands heads the list, followed by Norway, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, and Germany.
At the bottom one finds a major surprise: the U.S., the richest large economy in the world, is in 26th place, followed by three much poorer countries: Lithuania, Latvia, and Romania. France and the United Kingdom are ranked in the middle.
The study assesses children's well-being in terms of material conditions (related to household-income levels); health and safety; education; risky behavior (such as excessive alcohol consumption); and physical environment, including housing conditions. Although the study is limited to high-income countries, national governments – and even cities – in other parts of the world should replicate it to analyze their own children's well-being.
The gaps between the northern European countries and the U.S. are the most telling. Northern European countries generally provide cash support to families to ensure that all children are raised in decent conditions, and they undertake ambitious social programs to provide high-quality day care, pre-school, and primary and secondary education. Moreover, all children are well covered by effective health-care systems.
Related: Gender Equality: Key To Wealth & Happiness In Nordic Countries
Related: Emerging Markets Need A Higher-Education Rethink: Shaukat Aziz
The U.S., with its individualist, free-market ideology, is very different. There is little cash support for families. Government programs supposedly provide a social safety net, but politicians are, in fact, largely indifferent to the well-being of the poor, because poor voters turn out in lower numbers and do not finance America's expensive election campaigns. Indeed, the evidence strongly suggests that U.S. politicians tend to listen and respond only to their richer constituents. The so-called safety net has suffered accordingly, as have America's poor.
The differences between the social democracies and the U.S. show up strongly in category after category. In the social democracies, less than 10 percent of children grow up in relative poverty (meaning households with less than half of the country's median income). In the U.S., the rate of relative poverty exceeds 20 percent.
The differences between the social democracies and the U.S. show up strongly in category after category. In the social democracies, less than 10 percent of children grow up in relative poverty (meaning households with less than half of the country's median income). In the U.S., the rate of relative poverty exceeds 20 percent.
American children suffer far more from low birth weight (a major danger signal for later life); being overweight at ages 11, 13, and 15; and very high rates of teenage fertility. There are around 35 births for every 1,000 girls aged 15-19, compared to fewer than ten per thousand in the northern European countries.
Likewise, U.S. children face considerably more violence in society than children in other high-income countries do. That may not be surprising, but it is deeply troubling, because children's exposure to violence is a major threat to their physical, emotional, and cognitive development. Homicide rates in the U.S. are roughly five times higher than in northern Europe.
Related: America's Real Freedoms: Jeffrey Sachs
Related: Infographic: Prison Spending vs. Education Spending in the US
One fascinating aspect of the UNICEF study is its use of what is now called "subjective well-being." This means asking a person directly about his or her life satisfaction. There have been many recent studies of the subjective well-being of adults around the world. But I know of no comparable research in which children were asked directly about their sense of well-being – a very smart question indeed.
Here, the evidence suggests that northern Europe's children generally appreciate their remarkable advantages. The children were asked to rate their "life satisfaction" on an 11-step ladder. In the Netherlands, a remarkable 95 percent of children set their rating at six or higher. In the U.S., the proportion is much lower, at around 84 percent. These subjective rankings also correlate highly with the children's reported quality of interactions with their peers and parents. Some 80 percent of Dutch children report their classmates to be "kind and helpful," compared to just 56 percent of American children.
The costs to the U.S. of allowing so many of its children to grow up in poverty, poor health, poor schools, and poor housing are staggering. A shocking proportion ends up serving time in prison – especially in the case of non-white poor children. Even those fortunate not to fall into the trap of America's vast prison system often end up unemployed and even unemployable, without the skills needed to obtain and keep a decent job.
Americans have been blinded to these calamitous mistakes partly by a long history of racism, as well as by a misplaced faith in "rugged individualism." For example, some white families have opposed public financing for education, because they believe that their tax money goes disproportionately to help poorer non-white students.
The result, however, is that everybody loses. Schools underperform; poverty remains high; and the resulting high rates of unemployment and crime impose huge financial and social costs on U.S. society.
Related: Breaking the Inter-Generational Poverty Curse: Jeffrey D. Sachs
Related: More Than 1 in 5 US Children Living In Poverty
Related: Infographic: Are Education & Life Expectancy Correlated?
The UNICEF findings are powerful. High national incomes are not enough to ensure children's well-being. Societies that have a strong commitment to equal opportunity for all of their children – and that are prepared to invest public funds on their behalf – end up with much better outcomes.
Every country should compare the conditions of its young people with those reported by UNICEF, and use the results to help guide expanded investment in their children's well-being. Nothing could be more important for any society's future health and prosperity.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
Copyright: Project-Syndicate, 2013
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a Professor of Economics and the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also a Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals, as well as being the founder and co-President of the Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger. Sachs has authored numerous books, including The End of Poverty and Common Wealth. In 2004 and 2005, He was named among Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World".
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Talented young musician Michael Hope will be returning to his hometown of Watford for the Radlett Choral Society's 60th anniversary concert, which has commissioned him to compose a piece of music for the celebration.
The piece, Jubilate Deo, is an eclectic mix of styles, but with strong Anglican, choral traditions throughout.
"It's a jubilant, celebratory song very fitting for the occasion" says composer Michael, 19 who is studying compostion at Manchester University.
"It is a great honour to have been asked to compose the piece. I want to thank Nikki Webb and Alex Flood of the society as without them, I wouldn't have this opportunity to have my music performed."
Michael was born in Watford and after his first choral experience with the English National Opera he began to pursue music as a career. After performing in many further operas he joined the St Albans choir at the age of seven and learnt the art of conducting.
Consequently, he was awarded a scholarship to the Purcell School of Music in Bushey.
"Purcell really broadened my horizons and opened my mind to different styles of music, which has definitely influenced my own music," says Michael.
The concert marks the launch of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of Christ Church in Radlett and features the Choeur de Louveciennes, the choir of Radlett's twin town in France. The concert will culminate in the two choirs performing Vivaldi's Gloria.
"I am very much looking forward to the performance of Gloria," says Michael. "I am familiar with the piece and it ties in nicely with my own."
- The concert takes place at Christ Church, Watling Street, Radlett, on Saturday, June 28, at 7.30pm. Details: radlettchoral.org


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Is the OPC Computer Amplifier a guitar amp with a bonus computer or a computer with a bonus guitar amp? The look suggests the former. The 500GB HDD, GeForce 9300 graphics card, and Windows 7 OS suggest the latter.
OK, to be honest, the answer is A. The OPC is the latest and greatest from Orange, a well-respected British amp-making outfit, though that doesn't necessarily mean the system skimps on the specs:
4GB DDR2 RAM, 500GB Hard Drive, Intel chips, Windows 7 x64 home premium, 8 x USB2.0 ports, is Wi-Fi enabled and has an integrated GeForce 9300 graphics card with an optional dedicated ATI 5670 512MB card for those who may want to play a few games while they put their guitars down.
The OPC will include software that models a number of vintage amps and features a unique cooling system that uses the air blown out of the speaker. The company also claims that it's the first computer to have a built-in universal input jack for recording from instruments, microphones, and other digital sources like MP3 players.
OK, so it might not be the most obvious pairing, but for a music-making geek with an itty-bitty apartment, it's certainly one way to save space. Though the price hasn't yet been announced, the OPC will be available in June. [Orange via Awesomer]