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Snow Fairy lights up Leopardstown
Racing:Snow Fairy gained a dazzling success over Nathaniel in the Red Mills Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.
Ed Dunlop's globe-trotting mare settled nicely for Frankie Dettori and always looked to have Nathaniel covered as he was driven to overhaul pacemaker Daddy Long Legs rounding the bend.
Nathaniel (13-8 favourite) was in front and kicked on entering the straight, but Snow Fairy (15-8) quickened smoothly to take closer order and was always on top as the line approached. St Nicholas Abbey ran a gallant race as he tried to close in third.
Dettori, who had made the dash to the Dublin track in a helicopter from Haydock with Nathaniel's jockey William Buick, was deputising on Snow Fairy for the injured Ryan Moore.
He had also ridden Snow Fairy 12 months ago when Dunlop's star found only So You Think too good.
The Italian's delight was clear as he performed his famous flying dismount, much to the delight of the crowds surrounding the winner's enclosure.
Snow Fairy had only recently returned from a serious leg injury when winning the Prix Jean Romanet at Deauville, and was taking her Group One haul to a magnificent seven.
Dettori, winning his fifth Irish Champion, said: "Usually I don't notice these things, but I could hear the crowd really get behind her and the roar when she crossed the line.
"The crowd at Leopardstown are fantastic. I've had some great days here. It's all about the filly, she's so popular. Everyone was delighted to see her win like that in a fighting finish. She got a tremendous cheer.
"She's a popular as Kauto Star over jumps and for racing we need superstars like that. She's small but she comes with a big punch!
"All the credit goes to Ed and the team for bringing her back after her serious injury, this race has been won by some great champions and she is one of them.
"It has been an honour to be on her again. Ryan said be patient and she'll quicken when you ask her. Ryan has been a gentleman, a great help."
Dunlop said: "I've lost my voice. I'm relieved for the horse more than anything, the owner and for Frankie who's obviously now won on her.
"Ryan Moore has won six out of six on her, so Frankie needed that. This filly is simply unbelievable."
Asked where the win stood among his career achievements, Dunlop said: "No disrespect to the others, but I think this is the best, to beat some of the best colts around and to break the track record, coming back from a major tendon injury, it doesn't get better than this.
"She showed an amazing turn of foot again. This is the third time I have had a go at this race, so this is very nice on my CV.
"A lot of her rehabilitation from injury was done here (Ireland) and I can't tell you how many people have helped us. It doesn't get much sweeter."
On future plans, Dunlop said: "We've always said this year we will take each race at a time after the injury she has had.
"She seems fine after the race, she's in the Arc, she's in the Champion Stakes,
obviously Frankel is in that and that is a different level entirely.
"We'll see. I've said before I'd like to go to the Breeders' Cup, she hasn't done that and I'd love to take her to America and maybe win in a sixth country."


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Just a quickie today, I've had these floral trousers from Primark (£5 sale bargain!) for a while now but I just really didnt want to wear them until I had a nice biker jacket to go with them. I love this jacket, I got it 5 days ago and it's not come off my body since. It's from H&M and comes in cream aswell. I'm considering buying the cream one to customise with studs but at the moment I have so many things to save for and so little time. Maybe if it goes into the sale :)
I hope everybodys had a wonderful weekend!

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The city of Strawberry Fields was once just a trackless, mosquito infested swamp, full of alligators, that was given to the Duke of Ranang after he saved the life of King Henry the Miser, who earned that name through imposing high taxes on everybody who lived in his kingdom, no matter what social class they belonged to. At first the Duke thought that it would always be useless to him, but then, after three famines in a row, a charismatic preacher of Mammon called Peter the Hermit had a dream that strawberries sprouted from the swamp, that he thought was a sign from his God. He got the Duke's permission to lead a band of craftsmen and peasants into the swamp to try and make his dream come true.
The first thing they did was to throw up windowless shacks of wood to keep out the mosquitoes at night. Then with only knives and farming tools they killed some of the alligators, turned their skins into bags and breastplates and sold them to the wealthy. They paid a quarter of the money that they earned to the Duke and brought strawberry seeds, which they planted in furrows that they dug.
And after a month the strawberries did indeed sprout from the swamp, and people came from miles around to buy them. For several years they grew them, paying a quarter of the money they made to the Duke and using the rest to improve their lives. Wooden duckboards were thrown up and proper houses were made, with nets to keep the insects out and small luxury items. And what had been just a poor shantytown become a thriving town in it's own right.
Then the King's tax collectors came and demanded that the townspeople pay a huge tax, which they refused as it would drive them back into poverty again. The King was furious and decided to come personally with three troops of horsemen to make an example of the troublesome town. When he heard that the soldiers were coming, Peter prayed to Mammon, not to let His Holy vision be destroyed. As soon as the soldiers got into to the swamp a swarm of insects flew up, stinging and biting the horses until they threw their riders into the mud. The Royal Crown sunk deep into the ooze and the King was furious, for the crown went back many centuries and for him to lose it would be seen as an ill omen indeed.
When his men continued the attack, the ground grew sticky and the heavily armoured knights sunk to their shoulders. Realizing that Mammon was angry with him, the King begged the Hermit to intercede with him and the Hermit told him that Mammon would release his knights and give him his Crown back if he swore on his soul to leave the town alone, which he did. At last the knights were set free from the slime that held them and the Crown raised itself magically from the mud and flew into the King's hands. The King kept his promise and the Hermit for his part allowed him to collect moderate taxes from the town since it was within his kingdom.
Then a vein of iron ore was discovered within the swamp, and many new people came to settle there to escape King Henry's extortionate taxes. The iron was crafted into tools, armour and weapons and the town grew richer, and then richer still when Peter opened a bank within the town with a good reputation. The more people settled there the more money was generated, for nobody who was unwilling to work was allowed to settle in the town. The Duke of Ranang, who was given a quarter of the town's wealth each year as he owned the land, became hugely rich. The profits from the strawberries, the tools, the banking, the arms trade and the taxes snowballed and the town became a major city-state in it's own right. As the numbers of people grew a Mammon Militia was created to keep law and order and a reasonably fair judge and jury system was set up, with strict but generally fair punishments for lawbreakers. Murderers are fed alive to the alligators.
On the outskirts of the town is a moat full of alligators and a wall of iron, ten feet tall with spikes at the top and a single gate, with a drawbridge that is raised at sunset and lowered at sunrise. The streets are duckboards with narrow mesh nets on both sides and above to keep out the insects. The houses are log cabins with mesh on the windows. From the outside they look rough and ready but on the inside they are full of ornate furniture and luxury items. There is an ornate temple to Mammon where Peter the Hermit lies buried and people leave offerings, and extensive strawberry fields and mineshafts in parts of the city. Most of the laws are the same as would be found in other cities. Weapons and wands must be left at the gatehouse, beggars, the lazy, and known criminals are not permitted to enter, and, after taxation, every citizen receives his or her equal share from the profits of the town. All have become rich and happy and keep to a strong work ethic by law with the exception of three days.
On Father Olaf's Day they celebrate, feast and enjoy the gifts which Father Olaf has brought them the night before in his Sleigh of the Storm. No non-essential work is done and they eat roast boar and Sunreturn pudding.
On New Year's Eve they make as much noise as they can to scare away spirits, jump off chairs into the New Year and cremate an effigy of the Old Year. There are fireworks, wild parties and much drinking to excess, the sort of things that are normally much frowned upon, but on this night of nights even the Militia joins in. Non-essential laws are relaxed so that people can really have fun.
On Peter's Day when the town was founded, there is a great parade led by a Bishop of Mammon, the current Duke of Ranang, and the current Mayor of the city, which goes to the tomb of Peter to thank his spirit for his founding of the city and to thank Mammon for protecting it.
Plot Hooks
Fire, Fire
A faulty firework on New Year's Eve has caused a fire, which threatens to set the whole town alight. The PC's must do their best to put out the flames.
The Great Escape
The PC's must rescue someone from the city prison before he or she becomes live gator food.
The PC's are trying to release a dangerous drug into the town's water supply, to turn its hardworking citizens into lazy bums.


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It goes without saying that the majority of content and services on the internet are completely free for users: e-mail, social networks, news portals… Yet have you ever thought 'why'? Maybe you pay for free internet content a great deal more than you can imagine?
The illusion of "free"
Facebook, Google, news website – this is a simplified version of most internet users' everyday itinerary. This route is completely free and absolutely safe: you move from one destination to another almost automatically. But what would happen if one day you visited your favorite (free!) news portal and found out that you were could not read a single article. Instead, you would be asked to pay if you want to access the materials.
Your nice walk would definitely be spoiled. "Why, for God's sake, do I have to pay for it?" – many users would exclaim. "Why can I use Google or Facebook completely free? Who do the editors think they are, asking me for money?" A lot of people think that those who work in such large corporations, like Google or Facebook, are passionately dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers, who everyday sacrifice themselves in the name of "the user-oriented internet". Well, numbers speak louder than words: in 2014 the annual Facebook's profit was 12 billion dollars, Google – even more, 66 billion dollars. Do you still believe in the "the user-oriented internet" mission?
Our news portals can barely imagine such sums. "Not my problems, sorry" – a typical, brought up by the miracles of the free internet user would state. "The fact that there are people who read their portal is already a big achievement for them". Such logic proves that users do not realize that they are involved in the process of capital accummulation – and in this "game" their role is truly unenviable. The internet, as a matter of fact, is not a place where everyone is equal, but a hierarchical pyramid governed by those at the top.
The Internet Pyramid
The examples of Google and Facebook (there are much more of them) are the examples of "those at the top". They create the illusion of "free". "So, what's wrong with it?" – one more possible question. Paradoxically may it be, but the root of the problem is nothing but the fact that everything is (at first sight) free.
To prove yourself that "everything is free" is a mere illusions you may wonder how come these "free" services get so much money. The rule is simple: if you do not pay, somebody else does. This somebody is not a generous daddy, ready to pay his last cent so that you could scroll through your news feed on Facebook or find where to spend your evening on Google. This somebody is… advertising.
To clear it up, if the websites dictate the rules from the top of the pyramid, advertising is its owner, who create these rules. Were you looking for the place to have dinner? Awesome! Google will offer you a bunch of romantic venues so you would for sure find what you had been looking for. Is that all? Sure it is not: the next time you will be scrolling through your news feed, you will (surprise-surprise!) stumble into the pictures of the place you have visited, sending you quite a linear message: visit us again! Alternatively, you can see the pictures of other places, implying that it is high time you went somewhere out. It is the first trap of "the illusion of free" – you are tracked and your personal information is used without your permission.
The second trap is even more dangerous – probably you do not even know that but you are a means to produce capital for websites placed at the top of the pyramid. Yes, nobody pays your for that. The stolen information is used to steal your attention – and it is advertising that does it. Ads are everywhere: on your personal page, in your news feed, in search engines, even in your e-mail – nobody warned you about it and nobody asked whether you allow to use your personal details for such purposes. Google and Facebook made this decision on your behalf and on behalf of millions of other people: well, guys, we provide our services for free, we neglect your attention and get our billions for that. As simple as ABC.
Just use the services Google, Facebook and others offer you for free. But is it fair?
How the audience is transformed into traffic
The mechanism of exploitation on news websites is even more uncanny. If before the internet was a promise of the platform where everyone is equal, everyone can express their opinion (and would definitely be heard), where local and global problems are solved cooperatively, and accessible to all people media foster civil society, today, as so much time has passed, this only puts a sad smile on our faces. All of the mentioned goals could be achieved only on condition that a human being would be respected. From the very moment you open the news portal, you are not a human being anymore – you become a part of traffic.
"But is it so? I can comment, argue with others, finally, I can stop visiting this site!" – one might argue. It is true, but, unfortunately, your opinion and arguments you provide are no big deal: in the existing system you are either 1, or 0 – either you are, or you are not. This is one more trap of "the illusion of free" – the illusion of participation. You are nothing but 1 – and there are plenty of such 1s. You are neither a client nor a user, you are never right nor are you wrong, you are just a figure, a part of traffic. And yes, you got it right: your favorite news portal everyday sells you to advertisers stealing your attention.
Should we blame the owners of news portals for it? No. In such a system they have no choice. Should we blame journalists for a low-quality, ill-prepared and sometimes even silly content? No, they do their job as long as the results satisfy their employer – advertising. You visit the site – you become 1, you read the material – once more time, you become 1, you like or do not like what you have read and you have decided to share your thoughts – yes, you become 1. The quality means nothing in the pyramid, what really matters is quantity, your attention, you as 1, which can be easily converted into bucks.
The outcome is that journalism as the fourth power does not perform its main social function – to inform the society and form its self-consciousness. Instead, it offers the illusion of participation which is, as we know, a traffic generation tactic to attract advertisers. So, do you agree to hand over power to unfair advertising?
The system must be reformed
As we can see, a safe walk on the internet can be potentially dangerous: advertising steals your personal data as well as your attention, corrupts quality journalism, transforming it into one of its manipulation tools. Yet we can change this. We need to get rid of "the illusion of free".
First and foremost, paid subscription has to be brought back (as it was with newspapers). We need to understand that, as long as somebody else pays for us, somebody else decides who you are and what you will read. To bring back paid subscription means to rehabilitate quality analytic journalist and to give back journalism its legitimate power. Paying for the content, you become one of the responsible for the news portal. While journalists will be motivated to meet high standards, you will get only high-quality content.
Second, we need to change how advertising works and is perceived by others. APM Agentur (www.adpays.me) has already been doing that, trying to change the existing advertising system.
We provide everyone who joins us the APM Board – Own Advertising Board, where users see only those advertisements they personally are interested in, and only when they wish to. Most importantly, we believe that every user is a human being, for this reason advertisers, who have chosen our website, will pay you 90% of the cost of the ad you will see.
We are against pyramids and labels put on us by the owners of the pyramid. Advertising is not by nature evil, it is a helpful tool for you to find what you need. Journalism is not a traffic generator, it is an essential social institution, which has to be financed by those for whom it works. Trust us: to create the user-oriented internet, the internet where you respect others and others respect you is still not too late.


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Sorry. I'm just getting the circa-1996 USA Today Larry King out of my system before I attempt a review of his venerable CNN talk show. Only after I dispense with the cusp-of-consciousness musings about sandwiches and Don Johnson's blinding talent can I get around to the real business at hand: Namely, acknowledging that Tony Danza is as much a national treasure as Yellowstone National Park.
Damn, that's a hard bit to abandon. OK, where was I? Oh -- Larry King, the preeminent interviewer in the history of the televised medium.
Nobody comes close
That's not an overstatement. There have been a handful of brilliant news-first interrogators (Charlie Rose, Ted Koppel, Ed Bradley) over the years and about as many sublime celebrity wranglers (Tom Snyder, Jonathan Ross, Chris Farley). But in terms of being equally at ease with actor, politician, jock, doctor and media personality alike, nobody comes close to Larry King.
Until recently, King's presence registered in my life in a single way: an inability to call Grandma between the hours of 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., because she'll slice any sumbitch who interrupts her when she's getting her L.K. on. While stuck in an airport lounge, however, I happened upon Larry's recent interview with Ryan Seacrest, one of the personalities who have been floated as a potential replacement when King retires in 2048. During that interview, King was at turns smooth, sly and casually dismissive, exposing the able Seacrest as a relative lightweight. The message sent? "You'll get this job when you pry it out of my cold, dead, spray-tanned hands."
Natural conversation
Maybe all the succession speculation has relit King's competitive flame. He comes across much livelier nowadays than he did a few years back, relying less on the notes splayed across his desk and more on shooting the breeze. While he still gets roped into the occasional image-rehab assignment -- "spontaneously" noting how Denise Richards wears a crucifix; introducing the world to Paris Hilton, humanitarian -- such silliness sponges up less airtime than it used to.
Even when "Larry King Live" veers in that direction, King keeps the conversation flowing naturally, the way it might if the cameras were turned off. He doesn't necessarily ask the questions younger viewers want answered, mind you ("Denise, when you and Neve Campbell filmed the pool scene in Wild Things, did you expect that it would someday be enshrined in the source-material wing of the Self-Gratification Hall of Fame?"). But he alone among today's mainstream TV interviewers makes those interactions feel genuine. King has also retained his innate sense of conversational rhythm and timing. You rarely catch him tripping over a question or bulldozing a subject's response.
Demographic shift
"Larry King Live" has shaken up its bookings a bit, getting younger and airier in its choice of subjects. Yeah, there's still the occasional eyes-glaze-over dud -- like Tuesday's alarmist survey of the possible link between cell phones and cancer, which started out as a tribute to brain-cancer victim/cell-phone zealot Johnnie Cochran. Most episodes, however, smartly riff off and around whatever happens to be buzzy that week, whether election-related banter or the OMG!!! celeb scandal du jour or gas prices or the "American Idol" moppets. When all else fails, the show stunt-books with aplomb: Mötley Crüe is scheduled to sit down with Larry within the next few weeks. I defy anyone on this or any other planet to talk me out of watching that.
Marketers may have noticed the attitudinal/demographic shift of "Larry King Live" ahead of the rest of us. Watching four full episodes over the last two weeks, I logged a mere six ads that appeal exclusively to the coffin-shopping set: Reclast for postmenopausal osteoporosis, Plavix to prevent clots, Fidelity, Ancestry.com (the site isn't necessarily for oldy-old-olds, but the commercial sure is), AARP's "Divided We Fail" campaign and the alarming Sea Bond spot populated by dementia-addled musical-theater retirees.
Glut of advertising
Most surprising is the glut of brand advertising, whether for UPS, Chevrolet, Boeing (a classy Memorial Day-themed spot) or Comfort Suites. As far as youth-leaning brands go, these aren't exactly Apple or Red Bull. But neither are they the pharma products or Buicks people associate with a supposed grandma-magnet like Larry King. A single recent show featured four Diddy-saturated ads for Cîroc, a fancy-shmancy vodka that, I imagine, rarely finds its way into retirement-community pantries.
I'm not saying that "Larry King Live" has reinvented itself for the internet/mobile era or anything. Some of CNN's efforts to that end, such as the Larry King ringtones, come across as comically misguided... though I'd happily sign up for the "Larry King Live" text alerts if they included USA Today-ish nuggets of insight about Burt Reynolds or flavored coffee.
The point here is that he's trying. Unlike any number of his contemporaries, King doesn't bemoan changes in the media landscape or question the taste, sanity or proclivities of the younger generation. For that reason alone, he deserves our respect and admiration during the final act of his first-class career.


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Once upon a time, if The Birmingham News got out of line, the Birmingham Post-Herald was there to offer a contrary perspective. Likewise with The Huntsville News, and the historically Democratic Decatur Daily used to circulate more widely in Huntsville. (Things were less helpful in Mobile, where the Mobile Press and Mobile Register were co-owned by Newhouse even before their 1997 consolidation.) Even in the absence of alternate news sources from the Internet, these correctives kept a significant number of voters aware of alternate perspectives and narratives. But we now live in the age of the one-newspaper town.
This dominant position by one news source has had a serious impact on the events of the last week, and on Alabama politics of the last decade in particular. The coverage of the current indictment of legislators and gaming-industry lobbyists and executives has overlooked one critical point. If not for the efforts of Republican Governor Bob Riley, and those of the GOP Legislative leadership in his hip pocket, there would have been no need for the gaming industry to go all-out in an effort to secure something as simple as the people's right to vote on the issue. There is certainly reason to believe that Riley has been the beneficiary of millions of dollars of bribes, er, contributions, from out of state gambling interests, most notably the operators of Mississippi Choctaw casinos. This, of course, would give Riley all the incentive he needs to repay his political (and maybe financial) debts to the Choctaw casinos. The first leak of links between Riley and out-of-state gambling interests came in Congressional hearings in 2005, in which sworn testimony was given before a Congressional committee that the Choctaw had pumped $13,000,000 into Alabama to buy Bob Riley a house on South Perry Street.
This year, as Bush-appointed, and Obama-not-yet-fired U.S. Attorney Leura Canary continued her partisan witch hunt of Democrats, Bill Johnson, a former Riley cabinet member who was running for governor, asked to testify to the same grand jury that eventually produced last week's indictment. He wanted to testify about the other side of the coin: Riley's receipt of that Choctaw money. Johnson's letter to Canary was specific enough to make any non-corrupt prosecutor drool:
Bill Johnson Canary Letter
|"Riley" in same paragraph as "Choctaw"*
|"Democrat/s/ic" in same paragraph as "indict/ed/ment" or "investigat-/e/ion"
I may have to apologize to Fox News. Even they aren't that one-sided in their coverage. I should point out that many of the handful of Riley-Choctaw hits were in letters to the editor or online comment hits - not on more widely-read front page stories, as most of the Democratic hits were. The Mobile Press-Register has not mentioned the Riley-Choctaw connection since April 10, 2010, even in any published letter to the editor. From the perspective of a political professional, this sort of coverage is nonexistent. A thorough reader of The Birmingham News is going to see one Riley-Choctaw reference every other month. That kind of repetition is not going to move voters away from Riley and the Republicans.
The implications for this kind of lopsided, biased emphasis are obvious. It's not surprising that many Alabamians - who don't have the time to dig for the truth - think the Democratic Party is corrupt, and the Republicans, including Bob Riley, are reformers riding white horses up Dexter Avenue to clean the State House of wickedness. Take the modest example of the front page of last Tuesday's Press-Register, shown on the left. You will note it even has a story showing Bob Riley trumpeting his moral disgust at the evils of gambling. He should know. As Democrats, we don't have the Choctaw money, and when we try to exercise our First Amendment rights to receive contributions from the other side of that fight, it's a "bribe" and everyone gets indicted. All I can counsel for now is to stay mad, and do what we can to get even. One way to vent some steam this weekend would be to write letters to the editors of Alabama newspapers (even the Newhouse ones!) demanding to know why there isn't more investigation - and coverage - of the Riley-Choctaw connection. The IT folks at the Alabama Democratic Party have put up a useful page here, which allows you to email your letters to the editor. Just remember to take an extra moment, to email each paper its own copy of a letter. Editors will deep-six a letter with a string of addresses of other papers. Knock on doors, and talk about Riley and Choctaws at every opportunity - canvassing, in the coffee shop, over the church lunch, wherever. A little paid TV about Johnson's spurned testimony might not hurt, either. The TV newscasts might be embarrassed enough to cover it if ads during their programs keep mentioning it. In the long run, there is always the free market. I have always wondered why, if The Cullman Times can at least break even with 10,363 weekday readers, a daily in Birmingham couldn't. It can't cost that much to cover the Courthouse, City Hall, wrecks and murders, and keep one good reporter in Montgomery. And if a Birmingham paper (with a semi-decent web presence) scooped the News on a Riley corruption story, or something similar, the circulation gap would close quickly. If that doesn't work, there are other solutions to market dominance available.
Before anyone posts a comment, yes, I know that we live in an online age, and a thousand journalistic flowers bloom online. But the fact remains, most Alabamians get their news from print or broadcast. And even those who do venture online tend to get their state and local news from al.com, the online presence of the Newhouse newspapers. The better "inside baseball" sources like Doc's Political Parlor and Home of Lawn Mower Repair, and the tenacious Democratic/progressive sites like Legal Schnauzer and the Locust Fork News, just don't have the page views that the mass media sites do. (Not that this blog does, either, but I'm not writing for a mass audience.)
* I do want to note that the numbers for "Riley"-"Choctaw" are less than the raw number of hits. However, I omitted those stories (about half the raw hits) that made the list by containing a reference to Choctaw County, Alabama, not the Indian tribe peddling influence in Alabama.


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Takin' It to the Streets
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The Most Analougue Sounding Doobies SACD So Far
Sonny Blu | Quezon City, Philippines | 06/09/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I think this is the most "soulful" album of the Doobies. And this sacd version blows away similar tracks in my DCC Compact Classics The Best of the Doobies 24K gold cd. The most analogue sounding too! The percussion sounds were clean and vibrant but never bright. The bass is tight and just sounds right. The vocals are clear and dead centered. How I hope "What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits" in sacd format will also be released soon!"
Exceptional remaster job highlight on seminal Doobie Brother
Wayne Klein | My Little Blue Window, USA | 06/16/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Lately Mobile Fidelity has been hitting a lot of home runs with their releases and this remaster of "Takin' It To the Streets" is no exception. Sharp, well defined with great dynamic range and a warm analog sound, this dual layer (CD Redbook layer and SACD layer for higher definition playback)remaster proves that Mofi hasn't lost any of their magic. How does this compare to the original CD edition mastered by Lee Herschberg? That one still sounds quite nice but the sound stage, depth, detail and warmth of this version beats it.
From the opening notes of "Wheel of Fortune" to the closing notes of "Carry Me Away" this was very much a transitional album for the band in terms of their sound; Tom Johnston was easing back on his contribution to the band after a major illness and Michael McDonald a session player who had performed with Steely Dan stepped in to fill Johnston's shoes. McDonald's warm, gruff tenor, songwriting chops and keyboard playing moved the band further into a mixture of jazz/rock and blue eyed soul territory particularly with the addition of Jeff Baxter (another Steely Dan alum and session player who had joined with the previous album). Guitarist/vocalist Patrick Simmons stepped up his contribution along with McDonald to make up for the songwriting/singing void left when Johnston stepped back from the forefront in the band.
The title track, "It Keeps You Runnin'", "Rio"(with guest vocalist Maria Muldaur), "Wheel of Fortune" (with Simmons and Johnston trading vocals) all are top notch make this an essential Doobie Brothers album to have. Bassist Tiran Porter steps in with a song written in tribute to Johnston ("To Someone Special")to help pick up the songwriting slack as well.
A minor issue that I contacted Mobile Fidelity about for the completist; this comes in a miniature replica gatefold sleeve similar to the original vinyl release. For those who are sticklers about such things be aware, however, that the interior gatefold picture is reproduced in black and white (and it's a bit muddy looking on my copy) while the original was in color. Evidently the digital artwork for the interior that Warner forwarded to Mobile Fidelity was for the CD booklet NOT the original color graphics. It's a minor hiccup that Mofi didn't catch (they're usually pretty good at catching these errors before issuing the album). It doesn't effect my rating simply because Mofi did a terrific job with the remaster. This edition also includes a small booklet like the previously issued Doobie titles ("Toulouse Street", "The Captain and Me")that Mofi has issued. It's a pity that they won't be able to do "Stampede" or "What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits" both strong albums from the band. The regular CD copies of those titles sound quite nice but I'd love for Mofi to upgrade them.
While the band was changing directions with this release, they still managed to carve out a unique sound for themselves and create a bestselling album in the process. Recommended."
Great album, exceptional remastering.
Music Omnivore | Boston | 07/15/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)
"One of the Doobie Brothers' best efforts (after Toulouse Street and The Captain and Me), Takin' It to the Streets shows the initial influence of Michael McDonald, but as a sort of fusion rather than the full-blown takeover in Minute by Minute. MFSL's SACD remaster sounds superb: A must-buy."


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I have received several get-together requests from Brazilian/American couples. Although there are more than a few Brazilian/American (or otherwise) couples here in Goiânia, there really is no network. The best bet is through my blog, and through the Expat Blog. I actually know of about a dozen American/Brazilian couples living in the area, though I have not met them personally. We honestly have no idea how many of us there are, but it might be a nice change of pace to have that camaraderie.
It seems that April would be ideal to allow ample time to get the word out, and to accommodate everyone's schedules. As this is the first function of this kind here in Goiânia, we would like to give everyone sufficient time to hear about it, so that we can fully take advantage of this special event.
In my hometown of Austin, Texas, there was a large group of Brazilians that were able to get together regularly for bar-b-ques and soccer games, having found each other through the local Brazilian food/goods store. Here, there is nothing like that, but it appears that my blog is bringing people together. Cool! I have received several requests for meet ups, and it seems the best solution is a meet & greet in April.
Please let me know if you think you will be able to attend, and which Saturday in April would be the best for you. Let's not forget that 2 of these weekends are holiday weekends:
Friday, April 6th - Sunday, April 8th: Easter Weekend
Saturday, April 21st & Sunday, April 22nd: Tiradentes
Ha-ha! In my search for appropriate visuals, I ran across this cartoon by Maria Scrivan.
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We're not sure what's up with the mega-dramatic letdowns this season, but last night's episode took the remaining seven designers "around the world" in a paint can with only $500 and a trip to Michael's…
Which designer would you like us to interview here on AT? Survey after the jump!
After being told to pack a bag and bring a passport, the Design Star "big trip" ended in a warehouse. Each designer drew an inspiration destination from a paint can (Italy, Thailand or Mexico), except Michael who drew a blank paint can lid and chose his own destination inspiration, Spain. With all the drama that we've seen, it was nice to watch them work as individuals and get a glimpse of what they would look like as host of their own show – no finger pointing this time (right?).
The wood-painting duo Jennifer and Stephanie squeaked out a victory, much to their own surprise. We think Stephanie was the only one to actually use the provided Lovesac in an interesting (successful) way, and Jennifer really stood out with her wonderfully creative solution to remedy big, blank walls on a budget.
For the first time this season Matt let us down. We don't understand what he built and we don't know why it was all beige, but we're glad they didn't send him home for it. At least he's always thinking about his design. Michael, on the other hand, has been all talk all season and this was his moment to back it up, but he dropped the ball. That room was awful – bad proportions, bad color, bad floor, and it looked nothing like Spain. Vern's comment: "I look more Spanish that that room." Priceless.
And then there's Tracee – crafty, gondola queen. It looked like a Halloween costume. And since when does pink and black say Italy? After more green room breakdowns and tears (does anyone else have a hard time imagining these people seriously hosting their own show?), it was Michael that got the boot, crying the whole way. Did he really say he wanted his mommy? Tracee lives to lose another day…
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Kristen--thanks so much for doing this! I can't wait to see everyone's systems and ideas. You are, of course, my hero in this department, so I was so excited to see what you posted.ReplyDelete
I think that I will have to break down and make a toolbox. With increasing enrollment for next year, I'll have to cram more desks into my room and downsize some things. Maybe my desk is one thing that I can reassess. Were those labels something that you shared with us? Last summer I had no interest in these, so I didn't pay much attention. Guess that will teach me...ReplyDelete
Thank you again for hosting this linky. It has been an emotionally tough week for me so far, so this linky was truly a highlight of my week. That may sound weird, but sometimes it's the little things ;)
Thanks for all that you do!
Fifth in the Middle
Love your labels! How did you get them so small on the organization drawers?ReplyDelete
What I Have Learned
ooOOO I just LOVE your stationary supply container! It's such a perfect size and so adorable with the labels. I love looking at everyone else's awesome ideas so can't wait to look at the other links :)ReplyDelete
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Liz - BaysideMathTeacher
Thanks for the info for your toolbox - it's on my summer bucket list! The tubs for each table are great! Thanks for hosting!ReplyDelete
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I don't think I could live without my toolbox! I love the idea of having one for the kids for writing supplies. I think I might adapt that to math supplies for my class!! Great idea. I have always loved your labels for everything!!! I really am leaning towards the labeled bins for students. I think I could avoid a lot of clutter around the room if I took the plunge and bought them. (I think I just added this to my to-do list!) Thanks for co-hosting with me, Bloggy Bud! I can't wait to see what everyone adds. I'm loving every post so far...that to-do list is a-growin'. :)ReplyDelete
Fun in Room 4B
It's great seeing what everyone else does. I'm already making a list of what I want to do!! I think this is a sickness. :o)ReplyDelete
First Grade Lyons' Den
Thanks so much for hosting! I am learning so much from the posts. Great idea. :)ReplyDelete
Brandee @ Creating Lifelong Learners
I love your toolbox! I want to make something like that for my classroom. Thanks for sharing the labels.ReplyDelete
Recess and Beyond
Organization is probably my most favorite thing in the whole world! I'll have to take pictures and link up!ReplyDelete
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Smiling In Second Grade
Great linky Kristen, you know I love all things organization :)ReplyDelete
I love your toolbox, but the only reason I haven't made one is because I would need larger drawers, I know I shouldn't have so many sharpies, post its, etc. but I do :/ Hmmm, is there a downsize linky in the future?
First Grade Dual
I am so linking up to this...I have something that worked WONDERS this year:)ReplyDelete
Tonya's Treats for Teachers
Hi there. I remember everyone was making these last year. I didn't, but totally think I need to for next year. Where do you buy the toolbox? Is there a certain kind to buy? Why does everyone spray paint them? Sorry for all the questions, but if I'm going to do it...I've gotta do it right! :)ReplyDelete
Kristen, I love the labels for the sterlite drawers. I use them on my mailboxes. I see you ave to different labels on those drawers. Did you share both files or just the one? If it was both, can you tell me where to find them? Thanks!ReplyDelete
This is great! I am wanting to start fresh next year with fancy teacher labels for all of my containers. My husband is about to rue the day he bought a color printer ;-)ReplyDelete
Love this linky! Makes my OCD heart go pitter patter to see all this organization in one spot. ; ) Love my toolbox! Love it daily!ReplyDelete
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Okay, had to share this on my Five on the Fifth post because it's such an awesome collection of ideas! Loving that it's going to continue!Delete
I Teach. What's Your Super Power?
Thank you for hosting such a wonderful linky. My summer to do list is getting terribly long! I have found some great ideas.ReplyDelete
Your organization is ON ANOTHER LEVEL!! I LOVE your teacher toolbox and all of the fabulous ideas you are constantly posting! I have told EVERYONE in my building about your student drawers because they are such a great idea! Thanks for an awesome link up! :)ReplyDelete
Young Teacher Love Blog
Your toolbox label drawers are adorable! Where did you get them? I actually think I like leaving the drawers uncovered better than covering them with paper. I had almost decided against making the toolbox but now I may have to give it a go. Do you also have a teacher desk?ReplyDelete
Polka Dot Lesson Plans
Thank you for hosting this. I need to get a handle on my paper clutter.ReplyDelete
Love this! I need to work on an organization kit like yours this summer!ReplyDelete
I finally linked up! Yay!ReplyDelete
I can't wait to make a teacher toolbox! I'm going to do it the way you did, I think, where I can see inside!
Thanks for the linky!
Collaboration Cuties
Love this linky!! I love organizing :) Your little drawer idea is great!ReplyDelete
A Sunny Day in First Grade
I love your toolbox and think that is a project I will have to tackle this summer! I used your drawer labels this year, only I used them to label their books, my students have class numbers and I wrote their names on the little book label - they looked fantastic. Thanks so much for sharing your files and ideas. This is a great linky!ReplyDelete
Looking From Third to Fourth
Hi Kristen! The toolbox does look awesome! I will work on that for my classroom this coming year! I'd like to link up within the week if I can grab a minute to do a post on organization. :) As always, you do a fantastic job!ReplyDelete
I want to make the teacher toolbox, it's on my summer "to-do" list! I'm ridding myself of a desk next year & can't wait for this! Where did you get a toolbox like that with the different sized drawers?ReplyDeleteReplies
Where might I find that toolbox?ReplyDelete
I'm hooked!
I am hooked also... Where did you find this toolbox?ReplyDelete
Love this linky and your shares! Thanks for creating this awesome linky. Also, love everything you've shared, but especially interested in the plastic paper trays large enough to hold papers and in such cute colors- where did you find these? I have been looking all summer for some that are just the size you have pictured. Any suggestions?ReplyDelete
Bought the same one as you by accident! THANKS I love the labels.ReplyDelete


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What: Shares of Liberty Media (NASDAQ:FWONA)were being reported down 65% due to a virtual 2-for-1 stock split as the company today introduced new Class C shares trading under the ticker LMCK.
So what: In May, the media conglomerate said it would distribute two shares of Series C nonvoting stock to holders of LMCA and LMCB stock, thereby diluting the other shares by tripling the number of shares outstanding. Series A shares offer one vote per share while Series B offers 10 votes per share. Companies often create nonvoting classes of shares when they are interested in buying another company with stock. Earlier this year, Liberty expressed interest in acquiring Sirius XM Radio with Series C stock, but Liberty has moved on from that offer.
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George Jonas Allen 1937
There are six generations in his family(1937). His mother, he relates lived to be 112. Two brothers and two sisters are living.
All just as limber as young peoeple. A brother five years older.
George was born Jan. 6, 1845 six miles south of Lexington, Kentucky
died Apr. 17, 1949 Doniphan, Ripley, Missouri. First married in 1864
Kentucky to Jessie Pontius born Apr 15, 1846 died of smallpox 1866
Arkansas. On Nov 15, 1865 there daugther Jessie was born. George took the child back to Kentucky to reared by her grandmother.
George tramped around 35 states unitl 1879 in Wisconsin he met a woman and was married Oct 26,1879 Wisconsin to Maria Alevia Sabin New York died Nov 30, 1935 Harrison County, Missouri. To this union five children were born Nellie Bell Sept 28, 1881 Iowa died Sept 24, 1958 Lordsburg, New Mexico Lillie Dell born 1882 Iowa died Dec 8, 1933 Stella May born Oct 26, 1883 died Apr 4, 1907 Harrison, Missouri
George Edson born Apr 11, 1885 Iowa died Apr 23, 1972 Hatfield, Harrison, Missouri Frank Charles born Jun 13, 1886 died Oct 9, 1898 Harrison, Missouri.
On Sept 3, 1939 George married Rosa Tune born 1888 died Jun 10, 1942. On March 3 1944 Randolph County, Arkansas George married Laura Jane Freeman born Jan 8, 1891 Doniphan, Ripley, Missouri died Oct 31, 1944 Arkansas. On Apr 11, 1946 George again married Azilee Taylor born 1872.
George was considered the oldest farmer in Missouri when at age 102
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New York died Nov 30, 1935 Harrison County, Missouri. To this union
five children were born Nellie Bell born Sept 28, 1881
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There were some definitely perks to this. LEDs last for a really long time and hardly use any electricity. This light was hardly noticeable compared to the old light switch cover; it really keeps a low profile. It doesn't take up an outlet, which is good, because we have several outlets that are covered by furniture. It turns on and off automatically when it gets darker and lighter, and you can manually adjust the brightness.
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It is signed by the author, Jean B. Lumsden, dated 1955.
According to the book jacket,
Miss Lumsden is a teacher of domestic science and has had plenty of experience in the practical field of stitchery. The result is an excellent handbook on all varieties of sewing which every housewife will want to have in the house. It should also be of considerable use in Training Colleges and Secondary Modern Schools. The book includes chapters on embroidery, the pricking out of a design and drawn thread work, and the use of sewing machines, but the greater part of it is devoted to all aspects of dressmaking, including a section on the choosing of materials and coloursAll for 12s 6d net or, in today's used bookstore pricing, £4.50.
The book was presented as a prize for First Place in Form I to Veronica Pierce-Butler.
It could be that Veronica Pierce-Butler is a member of the English Peerage, where both a Charlotte Veronica Pierce-Butler and a Nora Veronica Pierce-Butler are listed: C. Veronica P-B was born in 1942 and would have been about the right age to have topped the First Form in Easter Term 1955.
I find all of this enchanting. I even like Headmistress Dorothy R. Thompson's penmanship. Also included in the book was an old pattern piece for a belt, with no printing on it, just little holes.


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We take you on a journey through each January of the 90s, picking out one key track from each year to remind you what you were buying with your wages/pocket money, delete as applicable. Some classics, some forgotten gems, but each one somewhat surprising as a festive hit.
Download, share, enjoy. And come join us on 14th January at Vogue Fabrics 10pm-4am, £3 all night, for more 90s archive fun as we play the best RnB, Pop, Dance, Handbag, House, Gina G from our formative years.
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Spotting duplicate classes in Jar files
October 20th, 2008 by Stefan Fußenegger | Published in Maven, Shell | 6 Comments
After more than a month it's time for another post. Sorry to all of you for keeping you waiting … well, honestly I don't think somebody even noticed 🙂
Today, I stumbled upon a classpath related problem – once again. As I doubt that I am the only one to ever face this problem, I want to share a short shell script that came to the rescue.
But first, what was the problem? After adding some additional dependencies to our POM – quite carelessly I have to admit – our application started sending mails without subject, sender address and messed up special characters. Interestingly enough, I didn't touch the mail part at all. I added Apache CXF dependencies, i.e. web service stuff. So what was wrong?
CXF comes with quite a lot of transitive dependencies (that should be declared optional, I'd say), including some Geronimo Spec jars. One of them was org.apache.geronimo.specs:geronimo-javamail_1.4_spec that superseded classes from javax.mail:mail. A simple exclusion fixed the problem.
However, I wanted to be prepared for the next time as this tends to happen quite regularly with a growing number of transitive dependencies. There are packages with same content and different id, (e.g. org.mortbay.jetty:servlet-api and javax.servlet:servlet-api), artifacts that contain subsets of other artifacts (e.g. org.springframework:spring contains everything from org.springframework:spring-web), and artifacts that should be replaced in favor of others (e.g. slf4j instead of commons-logging.
That's why I wrote this little bash script:
#!/bin/bash for lib in `find . -name '*.jar'`; do for class in `unzip -l $lib | egrep -o '[^ ]*.class$'`; do class=`echo $class | sed s/\\.class// | sed s/[-.\/$]/_/g` existing=$( eval "echo $CLS_${class}" ) if [ -n "$existing" ]; then echo "$lib $existing"; fi eval CLS_${class}="("${lib} ${existing}")" done done | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
These few lines of code print packages and the number of their common classes. Sample output is:
stf@crabman:/path/to/my/webapp$ duplicates.sh 127 ./WEB-INF/lib/aspectjweaver-1.5.3.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/aspectjrt-1.5.3.jar 117 ./WEB-INF/lib/spring-2.0.8.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/spring-web-2.0.8.jar 83 ./WEB-INF/lib/commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/commons-beanutils-core-1.7.0.jar 38 ./WEB-INF/lib/servlet-api-2.3.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/servlet-api-2.5-6.1.11.jar 10 ./WEB-INF/lib/commons-beanutils-core-1.7.0.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/commons-collections-3.2.jar 10 ./WEB-INF/lib/commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/commons-beanutils-core-1.7.0.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/commons-collections-3.2.jar 9 ./WEB-INF/lib/spring-2.0.8.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/aopalliance-1.0.jar 6 ./WEB-INF/lib/commons-logging-1.1.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/jcl104-over-slf4j-1.5.0.jar
The code isn't very fast, but makes solving a common classpath problem a lot less painful. (Note that I am using plain unzip instead of jar as didn't have a JDK installed on this server/)


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Offshore matters: failure to notify penalties: overview
CH73200 sets out the maximum and minimum penalty percentages that normally apply. Higher maximum and minimum penalty percentages may apply where
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Funny Face DVD
Starring Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng, Dovima, Virginia Gibson, Suzy Parker, Sunny Harnett
Directed by Stanley Donen
Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire and Kay Thompson star in this 1950s romantic musical comedy which features songs by George and Ira Gershwin.
Jo Stockton (Hepburn) is a bookshop worker with intellectual pretensions.
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As she and Dick embark on a series of photo shoots around the city, they begin to develop romantic feelings for one another.
Will Jo's passion for philosophy affect her commitment to her work and to Dick?
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Last Friday at school we had a top house competition. The top house competition is when all the Houses (Teams (Tui, Kea, Takahe, Hoiho and Pukeko) compete against each other for house points that are added up at the end of the year. I was the leader of my team we were Tui 3. One of the games was pass the baton. We started at a cone and had to pass the baton along shoulder to shoulder. As soon as we had passed the baton on we had to run to the other end of the line and have another turn. We had to keep doing that again and again until we got to the other cone. There was another game that was half a three legged race half cricket. We had to walked (3 legged) to a cone and from the cone we had to throw a ball at the cricket wicket. We did ok at that game but I don't think we won. My favorite game was the first game. We had to throw medium sized inflatable jacks (spiky ball things) into a bucket. We did really well, we got more than thirty. I haven't heard the results yet and don't know who won but it sure was fun.


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When my parentsdivorced I was only six. Being so young I wasn't really sure what was occurring. It took about four more years for me to realize that this wasn't how it was supposed to be. Living with my mom in a new house and new surroundings soon became overbearing. I became sad and depressed. The next couple of years went by slowly and the situation didn't seem to be getting any easier.
It wasn't until I was about ten years old that I realized if I didn't make things better than I would end up miserable for the rest of my life. Of course I couldn't make my parents get back together, so I decided to change my whole perception of the ordeal. I sat down and began thinking, in search for the brighter side of things. I soon realized that if my parents had stayed together they both would have been very unhappy causing me to feel just as bad. This was the first time in my life I actually felt that the divorce was for the better.
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February 25, 2016—(BRONX, NY)—Juvenile idiopathic arthritis, or JIA, is the most common form of childhood arthritis. It appears to be an autoimmune disease, caused by antibodies attacking certain proteins in a person's own tissue. But no "autoantigens"—the proteins triggering an immune attack—have been linked to JIA.
Laura Santambrogio, M.D., Ph.D.Now, a new study offers evidence that a human protein called transthyretin (TTR) causes an autoimmune reaction in the joints of JIA patients. The study, led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Children's Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM), was published online today in the journal JCI Insight.
"Our findings regarding TTR's involvement in JIA point to a potential treatment—encouraging news for children with this debilitating disease," said study leader Laura Santambrogio, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology, of microbiology & immunology, and of orthopaedic surgery at Einstein. JIA patients, she says, might benefit from a drug called tafamidis, which targets TTR. Tafamidis was approved in Europe and Japan for treating familial amyloidosis, which is also linked to TTR. The drug is now undergoing phase III trials in the U.S.
JIA affects about 300,000 children in the U.S. Symptoms include chronic joint pain, swelling and stiffness, which may persist for a few months or a lifetime. There is no cure. Treatments such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and biologic response modifiers are used to control symptoms and prevent complications.
In the current study, Dr. Santambrogio and her colleagues looked for abnormal accumulations of proteins in the synovial fluid (which bathes the joints) and blood of patients with JIA. They found a significant increase in TTR in 50 patients at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore, but not in any of the 26 control children who did not have JIA. Further analysis revealed that some JIA patients had unusually high levels of antibodies to the TTR protein. To validate this finding, the researcher analyzed 43 other JIA patients and found a significant increase in TTR autoantibodies in all of them.
"Our finding regarding TTR's involvement in JIA point to a potential treatment—encouraging news for children with this debilitating disease."– Laura Santambrogio, M.D., Ph.D.
TTR is a molecular "chaperone" that transports various molecules, including thyroxine and retinol (vitamin A), in the blood and cerebral spinal fluid. The researchers suspect that JIA begins when TTR collects in the joints.
"The TTR protein has a tendency to misfold and then aggregate, which for some reason seems to occur in children with JIA," said Dr. Santambrogio. "And when proteins aggregate, they tend to become more immunogenic." Using mass spectrometry and other biophysical techniques, the researchers observed misfolded and aggregated TTR in the synovial fluid of JIA patients. The patients' TTR protein was also heavily oxidized, which may further increase its immunogenicity. When abnormal TTR was administered to mice, it elicited a higher immunogenic response (i.e., caused more antibodies to be produced) compared to normal TTR.
The paper is titled "Autoimmune Response to Transthyretin in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis." The other Einstein-Montefiore authors are: Cristina C. Clement, Ph.D., Francesco Bauli, Fawzy A. Saad, Ph.D., Ginger Janow, M.D., Cristina Montagna, Ph.D., Neil Cobelli, M.D., John Hardin, M.D., Norman Ilowite, M.D., and Steven A. Porcelli, M.D. Additional authors include: Halima Moncrieffe, Ph.D., and Aditi Lele of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, Aniuska Becerra and Lawrence J. Stern of University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, and Giorgio Perino, M.D., of Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY.
The study was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (AG045223, AI38996, and AI48833, AR-47363, NIH AR-48929) and by the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation and the Cincinnati Genomic Control Cohort. The authors report no conflicts of interest.
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It was President Obama at his rhetorical best, mixing easy banter with a deeply serious expression of his commitment to the brain research initiative that he described as the "next great American project."
When he described the pathos of someone watching "a beloved family member slip behind the mask of Parkinson's disease," you could practically feel a shudder of recognition among the normally restrained scientists, government officials and advocacy group leaders like myself who packed the room. Perhaps "Empathizer in Chief" is more to the point; the guy really seems to mean it.
So what does this mean for Parkinson's? We won't know for sure at least until the President delivers his budget message to Congress next Wednesday, and possibly not even then. But the overall strategy of the BRAIN Initiative is clear: to use the resources of the federal government and private sectors to find out more than we know now about how the brain works – specifically, how the various parts connect with one another, and in what patterns.
All of this could have exciting implications for finding the solution to Parkinson's disease.
As Dr. Eric Kandel, the Columbia University scientist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on memory, said to me at a reception following the event, "this is an historic moment!"
We'll see. There are several big questions to be answered, beginning with money:
- The President is calling for initial spending of $100 million in the year that begins October 1, 2013, but it is far from clear how much of this will be new money and how much will be existing funds repackaged for the new initiative.
- Then there's the matter of who spends it and how between the NIH, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation. And there will be others.
- Lastly, how will patient advocates be involved? PDF certainly supports this initiative's collaborative nature, utilizing federal research agencies and private scientific organizations. We urge the President to expand this commitment to include patient advocates as we have done through the Parkinson's Advocates in Research program. After all, the people affected each day by Parkinson's disease are critical to our goals of finding better treatments at a faster pace.
The common thread through all of these triumphs was what he described as the American "genius for innovation," an outgrowth of a national character of "dreamers and risk-takers."
"How can we afford to do this?" he asked. Then he answered himself: "How can we afford not to?"
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Netflix's huge exclusive deal for Disney movies, which was negotiated in 2012, will finally begin to bear fruit this September. This deal encompasses the complete output of Disney, including Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar.
In a blog post, Netflix's head of content, Ted Sarandos, announced that "from September onwards, Netflix will become the exclusive US pay TV home of the latest films from Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar."
The deal actually began to take effect for all films released in theaters since the start of 2016 (sorry, no new "Star Wars"). But we didn't know how long it would take those releases to make their way out of theaters, and then through the DVD, Blu-ray, and digital release schedule. Now we know they will start to land on Netflix in September.
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Membership of the Scrapie Monitoring Scheme (SMS) is important to assist in export trade, including trade with NI. The Society has been extremely successful in recent years assisting with the removal of trade barriers and development of new heath certificates to countries outside the EU. Recent inward missions to the Royal Highland Show and Texel flock visits included Brazilian, Swiss, German and French breeders. All helping to raise the Breeds appeal which is now "World Class".
Additionally Scrapie Monitored flocks are required to purchase ARR/ARR stock or source from flocks of equal health status.
The Defra notice is now listed as a CIN on the Defra website:
– http://www.defra.gov.uk/animal-trade/
Also listed are two other CINs that might affect you or your connections:
1] All import matters are now being handled by the AHVLA Carlisle centre.
2] UKECP have just negotiated an export health certificate for sheep and goats to Serbia.
CIN in brief:
(i) the scrapie requirements for trade more in line with those recommended by World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) i.e. increases the surveillance period required to demonstrate scrapie freedom from 3 to 7 years; and
(ii) accepts it is unnecessary to restrict movement of animals where a case of atypical scrapie has been confirmed.
However, provisions have been retained to allow:
(i) movement between holdings within the EU which have demonstrated freedom for 3 years; and also
(ii) sheep belonging to the scrapie resistant genotype ARR/ARR.
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week seven over.
Posted April 26, 2009on:
i only lost one pound last week, which was sort of a bummer since this upcoming week is my last week on medifast, and i was really hoping to be under 140lbs. by the time i had to pull off of the diet, and that leaves me 3-4lbs. to lose this week in order for that to happen. we'll see. but yeah, total of 23lbs. now in 7 weeks. not too shabby.
other than that nothing exciting is happening. i am rushing to finish the semester and be done with the semester from hell. kill it with fire.
i'm really broke now. but oh well, its almost summer and i can return to dummy's and be miserable all summer. miserable but somewhat wealthy. hopefully.
end of week six.
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lost 3 pounds last week. so i'm at a total of 22 pounds, 144lbs., and 14 away from my goal. cool. since this is my last month formally on the diet, i'd have to lose 7lbs. each week in order to get to my goal. so instead, i'm aiming for getting under 140lbs. before i have to get off the diet, so i can knock out the last >10lbs. on my own. hopefully i get over being sick soon so that i can exercise again while being able to breathe. i'll def be going to megan's hip hop classes both monday and wednesday and maybe i'll squeeze in a jog on friday.
last night was my NRHH inductions (National Residence Hall Honorary). being inducted means that i have been recognized as being one of the top 1% of residence on campus. it was fun, i got to hear a blerb that was written about me by strangers with the help of my boss. there were cookies and cake. i wanted them. but i didn't touch them.
i'm broke btw. i make stupid money mistakes constantly. but whatever. that's why i am working an extra 2 hours today and sitting at a desk indoors for 5 hours straight while quadmania is going on, girltalk is playing, and it's 75 degrees outside. oh well, i can leave the window open i guess. but i want nothing more than to get a good book and sit outside in the grass and read all day. or have a picnic.
on the note of money, i really want a robe. a silk robe.
and a new phone. mine sucks.
yeah i still suck at this.
Posted April 17, 2009on:
too much has been going on. literally life as i knew it at home no longer exists. when i go home for summer break, i am going to be entering in to a strange, unfamiliar world where i have no idea how anything is going to play out. it used to be that when i was home i longed to be in school, and when i was at school i longed to be at home. now i long to be at school minus the classes all the time. this semester has been so incredibly tough for me. but hey, i have lost 19 lbs. as of last Saturday. tomorrow i will post in here and let you know the end of week six results.
Week One – Saturday March 7th, 2009
Weight: 166
End of Week One – Saturday March 14th, 2009
Weight: 156
Weight Loss: 10 POUNDS!
End of Week Two – Saturday March 21st, 2009
Weight: 153
Weight Loss: 3 pounds.
Total Weight Loss: 13 pounds!
End of Week Three – Saturday March 28th, 2009
Weight: 152
Weight Loss: 1 pound
Total Weight Loss: 14 pounds!
End of Week Four – Saturday April 4th, 2009
Weight: 149
Weight Loss: 3 pounds
Total Weight Loss: 17 pounds!
I tried cauliflower pizza crust. It was pretty tasty, here is the recipe if anyone wants it, its a really healthy alternative to pizza. Just be sure to get fat-free cheese and low carb sauce.
You Won't Believe it's Cauliflower Pizza Crust
1 cup cooked, riced cauliflower*
1 egg
1 cup mozzarella cheese
1/2 tsp fennel
1 tsp oregano
2 tsp parsley
**pizza or alfredo sauce
toppings (make sure meats are cooked)
mozzarella cheese
Delicious and easy.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees Farenheit.
Spray a cookie sheet with non-stick spray.
In a medium bowl, combine cauliflower, egg and mozzarella. Press evenly on the pan. Sprinkle evenly with fennel, oregano and parsley.
Bake at 450 degrees for 12-15 minutes (15-20 minutes if you double the recipe).
Remove the pan from the oven. To the crust, add sauce, then toppings and cheese.
Place under a broiler (grill for the Europeans) at high heat just until cheese is melted **.
End of Week Five – Saturday April 11th, 2009
Weight: 147
Weight Loss: 2 pounds
Total Weight Loss: 19 pounds! 17 left to go!
End of Week Two Measurements:
Upper Arms: 11.5 inches
Chest: 38.8 inches
Waist: 32 inches
Hips: 41.8 inches
Thighs: 23.5 inches
End of Week Four Measurements:
Upper Arms: 11 inches
Chest: 36.6 inches
Waist: 30.3 inches
Hips: 37.2 inches
Thighs: 22 inches
End of Week Five Measurements:
Upper Arms: 10.4 inches
Chest: 34.2 inches
Waist: 29.5 inches
Hips: 35.4 inches
Thighs: 20.8 inches
Total Measurement Loss To Date:
Upper Arms: 1.1 inches
Chest: 4.6 inches
Waist: 2.5 inches
Hips: 6.4 inches
Thighs: 2.7 inches
its insane how different i look and feel. and i love that my bmi is of average weight now. so all i have to do really is tone up my stomach area, because i looked up my measurements on an online clothing store and my hip size was to fit in to their extra small and my waist size was to fit in to their small. i am so stoked, i just can't wait until the summer when i can wear bathing suits and stuff.
this is probably my last month formally on medifast, after this month i think i will be ordering just a few boxes of things and incorporating them in to my diet in order to work my way back to eating normally.
i cannot wait to have turkey on wheat bread again. sometimes the dining hall doesn't have chicken, so i have to eat lunch meat turkey by itself. and that is no fun. so i cannot wait to have it on wheat toast or even in a wrap. i don't even remember what white bread is like, which is good i guess since i shouldn't really have it.
updates tomorrow.
…but i am going to start using it a lot. starting tomorrow i am beginning the medifast diet. (http://tsfl.com/program_weightloss.asp) and i am expecting a lot from myself and this diet. i am going to lose weight this time, i mean it. so i might as well keep it updated on here, ya know? for the record my goal is somewhere between 25-40 pounds. because i don't remember what i look like skinny anymore, i am going to base it off looks more than i am going to be basing it off of numbers. i don't want to look too thin but i want to look thin. hm. but yeah i've been scouring the internet for all the cute clothes i'm gonna buy once i drop it all. and i'm most excited to wear a bathing suit this summer. more specifically, i keep dreaming of myself in this one :
but i have to lose weight or else my love handles will be popping out everywhere and noone wants to see that mess.
alright, time to wait impatiently by the door until UPS gets here with my fooooood.
end of semester rush.
Posted December 2, 2008on:
i just realized how much stuff i have to do before winter break. my show opens tomorrow and runs until sunday. i have a french exam thursday. monday there is auditions for next semester shows, which i need to memorize both monologues for and read the plays. i have to finish the group project for my theatre history class by tuesday, and then write an 8 page paper that we luckily coerced my teacher in to post poning and making it due on the day of the final. then i have a break to study and i have 3 finals on one day. the 16th. my math final, my french final, and my theatre history final. the same day i have to turn in the 8 page paper. that i haven't started. or decided what i'm writing it on yet. then i have to study everything we've learned in movement, which is a lot of random crap for our final. and have to work on my monologue and write a short paper on the methods i've learned in that class. i want to scream. just, scream. if i get cast next semester i'm just straight up dropping class. forget this 23 credit mess. next semester i'll be almost a junior, according to my advisor. and i came in with zero AP credits. i can make it one easier semester. no classes that require me to read for every class, jsut two performace classes, french, and math. i have intro to scene on my schedule right now but if i get cast, it's just going out the window. i can take it later i suppose. i just want to go back to my apartment and sleep through all this. but my birthday is friday, that's cool i suppose. i just can't deal with all of this stuff coming in on me. oh well, i'll make it i suppose.
breaking off.
Posted October 21, 2008on:
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yesterday was such a bad day. but i got a lot of sleep to try and beat this sickness that is trying to take over my body, i cannot afford to get sick. if i get sick, i'll just give up, i know it. part of me thinks i am overwhelming myself with 23 credits, one of those classes being a show that my director expects us to devote all of our free time to, and the other half doesn't want to admit it. however, today was so pretty. i love when it starts to get cold and i can put on my $8 goodwill peacoat and walk around with a scarf or a hat. the wind was blowing in such a way that all of the orange leaves were falling off the trees and it was like it was raining spiraling leaves. even though my nose was running and i had previously been craving the feeling of lying in bed until my next class, i just wanted to stand there and let all the leaves hit me. and the second i got in to my jail cell of a room that feeling dissappeared. there are days when all i need is someone to help me acknowledge that this school is not my life, not my home. that i have a home 2 and a half hours from here with a warm bed, food, and two parents who love me. and that i have an amazing sister 12 hours away who loves and believes in me. but sometimes its hard to acknowledge that when every day i feel as though i only have about an hour to myself and then i lose that to working on things for my classes.
i'm a new girl.
Posted October 20, 2008on:
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i've grown up so much in the last year and a half. so much. i love it. as much as i miss being a little kid where i was able to ask anybody what to do and they'd show me the best choice for me, i love being grown up. being capable of making informed decisions. i can vote for the first time in my life and i'm not going to waste that. i'm going to do as much research on my own that i can and look in to everything and make as informed a decision as possible. because i don't want to grow up into one of those ignorant americans who votes based on their friends or on who is black or white or female. i want to vote for who i think is going to take this country in the right direction. i love me. you know that? for the first times in my life i am capable of saying that.
now i'm going to go organize my fridge. ❤


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But the thing that's even more important to the business is the logo. I'm so glad I decided to use Joy Nevada because the final logo couldn't be more perfect. Thanks again!
My meeting with my mentor went really well. It was so positive, it really gave me a boost. Apparently everything I'm doing so far is right! So nice to know I have someone whose there at the end of the phone/email to offer support. People ask me a lot "How's the business?", I often feel lame because it hasn't progressed much since they last asked me, but I will say that the progress is slow but steady. Even though I don't have a lot of time to devote to it right now I'm still loving it all the same. It's still so exciting when I get a little bit done. Through much research I have found a really great company for all the arts and crafts supplies. I was beginning to lose hope, and they even have superb customer service...I know, shocking!
The company; 'Eat 'n' Mess Craft Cafe Ltd' is now official. It's registered (finally)! We have domain names registered too. So anyone thinking about nicking eatnmesscraftcafe.com or .co.uk don't bother, because they're mine!
Hopefully I'll get some 'business-y time' soon where I can crack on....but with an active three year old son and a husband who works crazy shifts, it doesn't look too hopeful! But I'm not complaining because I'd hate to lead a quiet life.


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September 17, 2013
Last week had a day in point. Uptown at a hotel so the team i was training could be off site. I had four hours of their time and a brief to discuss issues to do with being out 'in the field' as its known as opposed to the particular issues of being in head office which is what my training usually concentrates on. So I'd spent quite a bit of time pulling a presentation and exercises together trying to make what can be viewed as an essentially dry subject in to something a little more fun. A bit more practical application and less this is what the rules say. So exercises, scenarios, quizzes, yes no cards. You get the drift. And it's a bespoke session for this particular team so I've not tried it out before so don't know exactly how the timings will run. Have I got enough stuff? Will I run out of time to get through it all? It's a bit of a whistle in the wind but all down to how much interactivity and discussion, challenge and debate I allow. Because that's the best bit really. The on-the-spot Q and As. The real stuff they are dealing with – what should they have done in this situation? So often training is theoretical, hypothetical and avoids giving clear direction – as these are the judgement calls that need to be made and people can find it difficult. But that's the bit I probably enjoy the most as it shows people are actually engaging with the session and coming up with stuff that will actually help them in their day job.
The four hours flew by for me – might have seemed longer for them – but grabbed a nice buffet lunch and headed back to Paddington station only 3 minutes away. Perfect placement for me. Then off for a meeting with an agency to discuss a conference that is happening next month and the agenda, presentations and the like need to be decided and sorted. Three hours flew by and hopefully much was decided so it felt a worthwhile meeting as opposed to the pointless work-avoidance, decision-revision scenarios they so often are as I may have mentioned.
Then straight to the train station and uptown to a burlesque show via Pizza Express. Oh yes, it was a great day from beginning to end. Full on to full off (apart from nipple tassels) and loving every second.