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Police blood-splatter expert by day, avenging angel by night, Dexter (Michael C. Hall) has killed dozens of people. If he were real, he'd be the worst mass murderer in history. Or the best mass murderer, as Dexter goes after unrepentant killers who have escaped the legal system.
Now in its seventh season, "Dexter" (Sundays, 10 p.m.) remains Showtime's most-watched series. And it continues to attract an audience of people "who are compelled to lean forward watching" while Dexter goes after his victims and tries to outwit his enemies, Hall said.
"We all have a shadow side," he said. "We all have secrets. We all have some kind of darkness that, in one way or another, we struggle to manage. And I think that's what compels people."
And it's what makes Dexter television's No. 1 antihero - and there have been a lot of great TV antiheroes.
Here's the rest of the Top 10:
2. Walter White (Bryan Cranston), "Breaking Bad" Walter has transformed from a mild-mannered, cancer-stricken schoolteacher into a ruthless drug lord and killer. His might just be the most fascinating character arc in TV history.
3. Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis), "The Shield" Vic killed a fellow cop in the first episode and was always running some scam when he wasn't beating up bad guys - and yet viewers found themselves rooting for him.
4. Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), "The Sopranos" We hadn't loved a mob boss so much since "The Godfather" - and this one was a flawed family man/murderer/adulterer.
5. Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), "24" Jack broke the rules, tortured people, killed people but he did save the United States time and again.
6. Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp), "Revenge" Emily is out for, ahem, revenge against the people who framed and killed her father. And she's happy to destroy anyone and everyone in her path.
7. Omar Little (Michael Kenneth Williams), "The Wire" A modern day Robin Hood of sorts, Omar robbed and murdered drug dealers.
8. Jim Profit (Adrian Pasdar), "Profit" This 1996 series was before its time (it was canceled after four episodes; there are nine on the DVD release), but Jim Profit was a compelling sociopath who would do anything to climb the corporate ladder.
9. Jax Teller (Charlie Hunnam), "Sons of Anarchy" Jax is the relatively good guy in the middle of all the motorcycle gang bad guys, but he uses whatever means necessary to try to be the hero.
10. Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), "Weeds" Widowed Nancy became a drug dealer to support her sons, but that didn't change the fact she was a narcissist always looking out for herself.
Scott D. Pierce covers television for The Salt Lake Tribune. Email him at email@example.com; follow him on Twitter @ScottDPierce.

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Sunday night's stirring victory over Dallas did not come without its casualties.
Linebacker Stewart Bradley is likely done for the remainder of the regular season and rookie defensive end Brandon Graham is done for the season after he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in the fourth quarter of the Eagles' 30-27 win over the Cowboys.
As for Michael Vick's bruised hand and DeSean Jackson's foot injury, Eagles coach Andy Reid said that both the quarterback and receiver were OK and would be able to play in Sunday's big game at the New York Giants.
Jackson, of course, put on an unbelievable performance. He finished with 210 yards receiving off just four catches and provided the game-winning touchdown on a spectacular 91-yard catch-and-run. Jackson caused a stir, however, when he stopped just short of the goal line and flopped backward into the end zone.
Reid, who said after the game that he was not pleased with Jackson's antics which drew an unsportsmanlike penalty, was asked where he draws the line with a talented player like that.
"Well, I'm going to sit him down for the rest of the year," Reid joked on Monday at the NovaCare Complex. "Listen, I love his enthusiasm. I've told you this from the get-go. He loves to play the game. There are not a lot of guys out there that love to play the game more than he does. ... Do I like those things? No, I don't like them. Do I express that to him? Yes, I do. And I'll leave it at that."
Bradley won't be placed on injured reserve, but Graham will, Reid said. The Eagles will add a defensive end in the next few days to take Graham's spot on the roster. Rookie Jamar Chaney will likely step in at middle linebacker with Bradley sidelined.
Reid said that he'll meet with defensive coordinator Sean McDermott before he makes a final decision. Akeem Jordan and Omar Gaither are other candidates but all signs point to the rookie being the man in the middle.
"His challenge will be now that he's on film people will get an opportunity to study him," Reid said. "He's got to take it up another notch."
Reid said that he expected cornerback Asante Samuel and tackle Winston Justice, both of whom didn't make the trip to Dallas because of knee injuries, to be able to return to practice by Wednesday. Samuel has missed three straight games with an MCL strain.
"Nobody wants to be out there more than Asante," Reid said. "The guy doesn't miss games. That's not his deal. He wants to be out there and he tested it and it didn't work. He had a good workout today, so we'll see how it goes."
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Microsoft Plans Shared Source .NETby David Sims, Tim O'Reilly, Rael Dornfest
On Wednesday, Microsoft announced plans to release what amounts to a shared-source version of its .NET infrastructure for Windows and FreeBSD.
Specifically, Microsoft says it has been working with the ECMA standards body and will release ECMA versions of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), a C# compiler, and an ECMAscript compiler. The CLI is similar to the Java virtual machine, in that it acts as a translator between the .NET infrastructure and other platforms. Program manager Dave Stutz says Redmond will work with Corel to develop the code.
The announcement comes against a backdrop of Microsoft's recent attack on some aspects of open source software development, particularly against the GNU General Public License (GPL). Microsoft considers the GPL impractical for business because of what it calls its viral nature, which forces developers to return any modifications to the community.
The day before the announcement, O'Reilly & Associates CEO Tim O'Reilly, Editor John Osborne, and O'Reilly Network's Rael Dornfest talked to Dave Stutz about Microsoft's first dip into the waters of public source.
Dave Stutz: One of the things we've talked about, and has been lost in the noise of the GPL issue is that there are a number of positive things about the open source movement, and we've tried to learn from those things. And we've actually been developing a family of licenses that are tools for preserving people's valuable property while enabling people to work together in business relationships ...
Certainly we are highly protective of the intellectual property that forms our crown jewel, which is Windows.... But one of the other licenses we've been working on will be associated with the code base we're talking about today. In this type of license, the goal is to put the body of the content and get as much uptake as possible, both in commercial implementations of the CLI and/or the C# language, and in terms of non-commercial derivative work.
Our intent is to have a license that is absolutely clear about people who want to look at the source code and then use what they've learned in their own source code. It will be permitted. The goal is to make that very clear, up front.
Additionally we want to make it possible for people who are doing non-commercial work, either personal hacking or research or teaching or courseware -- we want to make it very easy to use and easily available for those people ...
The licensing terms are designed so that people who want to do non-commercial ports to Linux [can do so]. That's well within the intended purpose of the license. We don't feel comfortable with Linux because of the GPL nature of the kernel ...
FreeBSD has traditionally been an operating system that encouraged unencumbered experimentation. ... And that's what we're using it for. We're using it to prove the point that you can actually implement the CLI on Unix. It's been around a long time, people use it commercially. Microsoft uses it commercially, actually. And the academic community is quite familiar with it as well.
John Osborne: So you're favoring FreeBSD over Linux because of the licensing?
Stutz: We have chosen FreeBSD because of licensing issues, yes.
Dave Stutz is speaking at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in San Diego, CA, July 23 - 27, 2001. Stutz will speak on a panel following Craig Mundie's talk on Microsoft's views on open source development and licensing. Dave will also speak at a session specifically on the ECMA shared source implementation. For more information, visit our conference home page.
Tim O'Reilly on Microsoft's Participation at the Open Source Convention -- Microsoft senior vice president Craig Mundie will speak at O'Reilly's upcoming Open Source Convention, and he'll debate Red Hat's Michael Tiemann and other open source leaders. Tim O'Reilly talks about how this came about and what he hopes to accomplish by bringing together Microsoft representatives and open source advocates at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention.
Microsoft's announcement is really a double announcement: They're releasing shared-source versions of their .NET framework to the curious eyes of the developer world, but they're also signalling that they're willing to work more closely with the open source community. Which part of this do you find more interesting?
What about commercial ports? Since Microsoft intends to license the Common Language Infrastructure commercially itself, it wants to license any others who want to make a business out of it.
Stutz: The terms of the licenses will be that if you're distributing it, you're distributing it for non-commercial use.
However, if somebody wanted to do a commercial implementation of the CLI on Linux, they could certainly look at our shared source implementation and learn from it. But then, we would insist that they use their own code, in that case.
We are definitely in the business of selling a commercial implementation of the CLI, which is what we call the .NET framework. Because we're in the business of making money on that, that's sort of where these restrictions on the commercial port side of it come from.
If people thought they were interested in licensing the commercial version, or a commercial license of the shared source version. We're willing to talk. We usually are.
Appealing to academia and open source communities
Throughout the interview, Stutz stressed the importance of offering code and tailoring a license that would appeal to the academic community.
Tim: You've mentioned the academic community a couple of times. And I know from previous conversations with people at Microsoft that one of your biggest concerns about Java is its penetration in university computer science curricula. It seems in that area at least that you have Java envy. Is this designed to attack that problem?
Stutz: We are certainly interested in making this something the academic community would embrace warmly. I would certainly not describe it as Java envy. We believe there's a lot of interesting content in the CLI, lots of very interesting language infrastructure there. The C# language is a great language. It's a nice modern language that fixes a lot of the things that were wrong with VB and fixes a lot of the things that were wrong with Java, and other languages that use runtimes in that way. So we definitely are trying to appeal to the academic community on this.
Tim: So when is it actually going to happen?
Stutz: I think that in fourth quarter we'll have beta bits. We're working with Corel. We have started, we do have dev teams in place. But it's not to the point where it's ready. You wouldn't want to look at it right now. It's limping along pretty badly.
Tim: So one of the differences between open source and shared source is no release-early, release-often?
Stutz: Well, actually that's good feedback. I think this is a pretty significant new development at Microsoft, this style of development. And I intend to learn from the community. And if you're giving me advice that we should think about releasing it earlier and in a more broken state, I'm willing to take that advice to heart and think about that and take that back to the team.
Tim: What are you doing to foster community?
Stutz: We're definitely going to try to foster multiple communities around this code base. ... In an independent announcement last week, Microsoft has started with a thing that's called the shared development process. We may try to be part of that kind of process. We will also certainly try to be part of the more traditional open source communities. This is going to be a learning adventure, for me.
Of course it won't be easy. Microsoft and the open source community have a history based on mutual suspicion.
Tim: There's a lot of skepticism about the subject of Microsoft and standards. Just for example, recent moves, such as changes to the SAMBA protocol are actually patented, so that people can't reverse engineer it without running into patent infringement. These are the kinds of things that make people say, are these really standards, or are they just standard when you can't get people by the short hairs?
Stutz: Tim, I would point you to the book you recommended to me, Cass Sunstein's book, Republic.com. He talks about this concept of deliberative discourse. And I think that's a great word to use for standards groups. Standards bodies don't exist just to stamp an existing implementation. They exist so that the members can actually work out consensus among themselves. And that is something we have been very good for the last n number of years. Certainly since the web services stuff has come up. We've really tried to create a basis based on standards coming from recognized standards organizations. I think that it's not fair to characterize us as someone who's not playing by the rules. We're definitely trying to be a good citizen when it comes to participating in these standards bodies, and now in granting our intellectual property into them.
Tim: I understand that, and in a lot of ways I agree. I guess what I'm trying to address is the feeling that whenever Microsoft says we'll play the standards game here, where's the other shoe? Where's the other piece that you think is going to be where the real value is?
Stutz: I don't think that's a fair characterization. We are in business to make money. We've never minced words about that. We believe in the commercial software model ... which says that we're in a purely intellectual property basis, which Microsoft is, and it's important to us to make money and have a sustainable business model around that.
Tim: But Cisco's in business to make money, as well. And there's a pretty clear dividing line between their standards work and their proprietary software.
Stutz: I think there's a very clear dividing line in our case as well.
Tim. Yeah, but when you take something like Kerberos and you say, let's extend it a little bit and --
Stutz: No, no, no. Let's look at that. Let's take the Kerberos case. We've been very clear about that. The Kerberos case is that, as part of the standards creation process it was recognized that all vendors would be interested in having an extensibility hook so that they could essentially incorporate their own native authentication into the Kerberos web of trust. And that's precisely what we did. We used that hook in a way that was intended. And we are willing to strike business deals with people who want to strike a business deal for that implementation detail. That is not a misuse of that standard. ...
Tim: It seems to be one of the sore points that people keep coming back to.
Stutz: There seems to be this belief that people should just give away what they've done to differentiate themselves, arbitrarily. And we're very up front about working with standards organizations and moving those standards forward. And at the same time, we are interested in having things that will allow us to differentiate ourselves in the marketplace and have a sustainable business model.
Tim: That's fair. I understand the concept. I think there is a trust issue that goes back to the Halloween Documents.
Stutz: There may be, with some communities, a trust issue. I agree with that. One of the intents of the project I'm working on, the CLI implementation, is to start to reach out to those communities.
What's In, What's Not, What's Next
Stutz says that the CLI being offered as shared source is a subset of what's in the .NET framework. The offerings include:
- the ECMAscript compiler, written in C#, which runs on both platforms (Windows, FreeBSD)
- the C# compiler, which also runs on both platforms
- and the shared-source CLI.
It doesn't include
- Windows Forms
Also, there are high performance memory managers, garbage collectors and compilers that are in the commercial version, but not in the shared source version. "That's something that we want to charge for."
When this shared license is revealed, it will certainly be the most liberal software license Microsoft has offered. But Stutz says it's not out of the question that in the future, Microsoft's licenses will become ever more open.
"This is all about Microsoft getting serious about sharing source code in a very wide way," he said. "And it's also a serious long-term commitment to establishing the CLI as a basis for web services. It's really not a short-term, tactical Java battle."
That said, Microsoft has yet to reveal a draft of the shared source license being announced today.
"We don't actually have a license for you because they're lawyers," Stutz said. "If it was me, I'd have the license."
David Sims was the editorial director of the O'Reilly Network.
Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. In addition to Foo Camps ("Friends of O'Reilly" Camps, which gave rise to the "un-conference" movement), O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the Web 2.0 Summit, the Web 2.0 Expo, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the Gov 2.0 Summit, and the Gov 2.0 Expo. Tim's blog, the O'Reilly Radar, "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim's long-term vision for his company is to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. In addition to O'Reilly Media, Tim is a founder of Safari Books Online, a pioneering subscription service for accessing books online, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, an early-stage venture firm.
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What do you do when mainstream media no long represents your interests or beliefs? When magazines opt for ab-enhancing techniques versus storytelling? Celebrity versus reality? What do you do when blogs fetishize consumerism and acquisition?
You make your own damn content, that's what. Photographers and storytellers, Daniel Wakefield Pasley and Emiliano Granado launch Yonder Journal today.
We like to think of ourselves as Cultural Anthropologists, armed with cameras and notebooks, compelled into the field to explore, document, digest and publish a lasting and meaningful record of our experiences there.
Yonder Journal will be a series of Briefs, Guides, and Studies that endeavor to understand and relate American Frontiers and Western Principles.
Today, we begin with our first of many Studies – Brovet. Inspired by the world of Randonneuring (long distance cycling), Brovet is a Guide book to American Permanents (predetermined routes) that aims to inspire, entertain, and inform.
Go Yonder.
I'm pretty excited about all this! They even give you the complete directions for an entire journey, along with a Brovet Card!
Hopefully you get one of the patches after proving completion of one of the STUDIES.
As Guy Clark would say, It's got that ol'time feeling and I can't wait to see what else comes tumblin' up the street from Yonder Journal! And if one of the studies is too much…definitely give the BRIEFS a look. There is something in there for everyone.


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Approximate date of purchase: November through December 2011 (2 purchases)
Where did you purchase the item(s) from: Facebook/Etsy listing
What did you buy: 2 amber necklaces, a mei tai, stretchy wrap, 2 taggie blankets, 2 pocket diapers.
How was the customer service: When I first met her, the customer service was great. She was very nice and allowed you to customize everything. Turnover time was pretty quick considering what I got. I first ordered an amber teething necklace from her in November off of Etsy. It was a very nice necklace, well made, with a cute little magnetic heart clasp. I liked it so much that I decided to order some other things from her during her Christmas specials. That's when I ordered everything else. I really liked her products, at first. They all seemed well made and were all extremely cute. The diapers were flannel, lined with PUL, then lined with minky and she provided one microfiber/flannel insert per diaper. The taggie blankets were adorable, minky on one side and flannel on the other, with different textures of tags around the borders. The mei tai was flannel on one side and minky on the other, with flannel straps. She was on back order for the amber so had to send the necklace separately.
The first problem I had were that the diapers leaked like crazy, no matter how long my son was in them. He was about 5-6 months at the time so was not a heavy wetter. When I contacted her, she suggested I start using 2 inserts. I did, and they still leaked no matter what. I tried "sealing" the PUL, everything..but nothing worked. She refused to make me new diapers or give me a refund.
The second problem I had was when I received my second necklace. The first one was great,I loved it. The second one, however, was made from a stretchy material..stretchy enough for my son to be able to stretch it into his mouth. Also, the beads were not knotted in between each bead, so if it did break, he'd have about 10 beads to swallow. When I mentioned it, she said it was 100% safe but still refused to give me a refund, even if I sent it back to her. I basically just threw it out.
The last, and most concerning, problem I had was with the mei tai. When I bought this, I was VERY new at babywearing. I had bought myself a Bjorn before my son was born and then bought myself a used Ergo after he was born. I thought I'd really like a mei tai and couldn't afford a name brand one so I ordered from her. I had worn it a few times around the house, my son was a small baby so I just wore him in the front but wasn't comfortable taking him outside in it just yet. One day, about 2 months after buying the carrier, I was putting him on my back and "bouncing him" to get him in the seat when I heard that telltale ripping of threads. I immediately took it off and talked to some people in my local babywearing group who told me that flannel was unsafe for a carrier since it rips extremely easily. They had me to a stress test on the straps and, sure enough, they ALL ripped. I contacted her immediately, expressing the dangers of the carrier, and she just said it was my fault. I don't understand how it's my fault that you claim to be a babywearing expert and a pro when it comes to sewing. She didn't give me a refund for the carrier either, and I just turned it into another blanket. Oh and then she threatened to sue me for warning people not to buy the mei tais from her.
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The Hollowman (Continued)
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You never disappoint.
So flippin' creepy.
Hope you get some good pics of kids running away from it. :-)
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Thanks so much.
I'm really happy with this year's crow. I never built one with my yard haunt in mind, so it was fun designing a scarecrow that would fit with the rest of my display.
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Recently, students from Georgia Tech and SCAD in cooperation with the Graz University of Technology showed how augmented reality can be used in gaming. ARhrrr is a zombie game created for the Tegra platform, bringing augmented reality to the world of table-top games.
The way how you play the game: use Tegra-based mobile device to capture the tabletop marker…
This title is the first time we've seen horror genre being deployed to the world of Augmented Reality and horror-aficionados should start pinging Georgia Tech about making this "proof of concept" into a commercial title. The effect of seeing zombies with real-world is a promising prospect not just for computer games, but may also spark the imagination of known interactive enthusiasts such as Robert Rodriguez or David Fincher.
…look out for zombies and then try to kill them. The game was captivating, but it takes some practice.
Augmented Reality was a term that was coined back in the 1980?s in contrast to the popularly known "virtual reality." Today, the term tends to mean "augmenting" the live views of the real word with added information in order to enhance the environment. Such examples exist as simple text tags, or complex 3D registered animated objects and characters. All of this was originally done via head mounted displays as opposed to cell phones. Now that we have mobile devices with cameras and large touch screens we now have mobile devices bringing augmented reality to the masses.
Augmented reality is all about the context of the objects in relation to the real world. This is one of the biggest challenges that augmented reality developer?s face. They must be able to take in the information and process it in a way that enables the user to have pertinent additional data. For example, there is the use of GPS which helps create a global relative context and then computer vision which creates an object relative context.
Some recent implementations of augmented reality include advertising in 3D magazine advertisements as well as in gaming where Sony implemented it in games for both the PS3 and PSP. There are also some iPhone and Android apps that implement augmented reality within the application to increase the information?s importance at that time.
How Augmented Reality becomes a reality: a lot of 3D processing.
One of the important ways augmented reality works is the use of markers and marker tracking, which enable the more accurate placement of certain objects in the environment. In order to create ARhrrr, the work on this game was split amongst the various groups allowing them to do what they did best in order to get this game created.
When it comes to the hardware aspect of this project, Tegra platform was selected as the optimal platform for development due to power efficiency and 3D horsepower needed for tabletop games. ARhrrr combines several parts of the Tegra SoC [System-on-Chip] combining the Camera, the CPU, and GeForce 3D subsystem to increase the quality and speed of the game experience.
The ARhrrr pipeline is simple: the camera uses OpenMAX [multimedia acceleration API] to take in the image featuring AR Tracker. Second step is using the GPU for creating the 640×480 EGLImage Textures [OpenGL|ES 2.0 API] which are then further processed inside the GPU to downsize the images to 320×240 at 8bpp and then sent to the CPU for the AR system [NFT tracker] to make the transformation from camera to real world.
Third step is game engine calculating and sending the needed 3D game objects back to the GPU so that it creates the final rendered image combining the camera stream with the 3D game objects. As you can imagine, the amount of video processing is significant and products such as 2nd Gen Tegra are extremely important to bring this vision in commercially-attractive package.
This is also the reason why Augmented Reality has a big bridge to cross: unlike the conventional game development pipeline, in which you pre-calculate the whole world, and just wait for user input in a form of key or gamepad input, Augmented Reality games require to use the 3D pipeline twice: once for input and once for output. This increases the demands on the processing side and brings in the challenge of additional latency to the game.
By utilizing power-efficient, yet powerful hardware, developers such as these students should be able to create a commercially viable Augmented Reality projects. For now, we would like to see Zombies, even if only in 320×240 resolution.


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The hiring of Mr. Dylan underscores a key component of the two rivals' similar strategies. Each is trying to draw new consumers with a blend of programming that attracts a broad audience - like major-league sports events - and talent that appeals to smaller but extremely devoted segments of fans, as is the case with the arrangement with Mr. Dylan....Dylan's is the first one I'm going to make a point of listening to. I kind of like this strategy of catering to "extremely devoted segments" of listeners. It's something satellite radio, with all those channels, should be good at doing. In a sense, Bob Dylan really does beat Howard Stern. That is the programming strategy represented by Bob Dylan beats the programming strategy represented by Howard Stern. Unlike broadcast radio, satellite radio doesn't need a dominant radio personality to hold the listeners in one place for hours. We've already bought the radio and the subscription, and one company owns all the many channels. The ideal strategy is to have lots of channels serving lots of distinct niches and impressing the customers with all the cool stops along the spectrum. Endear yourself to me before I buy my next radio.
Mr. Dylan's move also comes as an array of other stars are signing on to use satellite radio to maintain a link to their fans - at least those who subscribe - and broaden their reach by creating programming beyond their own songs. Eminem and Jimmy Buffett have offered their brand names to designated channels on Sirius; XM has tapped Snoop Dogg to produce programming on one of its rap channels, the Rhyme.
UPDATE: Minor Tweaks imagines how Dylan-the-DJ will sound. Feel free to write your own Dylan-the-DJ scripts, here in the comments or on your own blogs and email me and tell me about it -- using my last name followed by @wisc.edu -- so I can give you some front page links.


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Medical Rarity: Two Double Lung Transplants in Same Family
Article ID: 591768
Released: 23-Jul-2012 1:00 PM EDT
Source Newsroom: Loyola University Health System
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Newswise — MAYWOOD, Il. -- Three months after receiving a double lung transplant in 2006, Sarah Ridder returned to Loyola University Medical Center to visit another double lung transplant patient – her brother John.
Two lung transplants in one family is a rarity. The transplants were necessary because Sarah Ridder and John Grosvenor both had a progressive lung disease called pulmonary fibrosis, which causes scarring of the lungs that makes breathing increasingly difficult.
The siblings have an unusual form of pulmonary fibrosis that runs in families. They come from a family of 13 children, and two their brothers and two of their sisters have died of pulmonary fibrosis or its complications. John, who lives in Sheldon, Ill., and Sarah, who lives in Sauk Village, Ill., believe their father and paternal grandmother also may have died of pulmonary fibrosis. Without their lung transplants, John and Sarah almost certainly would have succumbed to the disease.
Both had their transplants at Loyola, and continue to receive follow-up care there. The Lung Transplantation Program at Loyola is the largest in Illinois and ranks among the nation's top four in patient volume, performing about 35 lung and heart-lung transplants each year.
"Loyola has great doctors and nurses," John said.
Doctors and nurses, in turn, said John and Sarah are inspiring. "Both have greatly impressed me with how they hold such a zest for life, with their careers, hobbies and families," said Dr. Daniel Dilling, an associate professor in Loyola's Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.Sarah and her husband ride off-road ATVs, drag race a 1980 Starfire Oldsmobile and are rebuilding a 1980 Kawasaki motorcycle. John owns a trucking business and is building a rail mud dragster.
When Sarah first experienced shortness of breath, she thought she was just out of shape. But a chest X-ray she received following a skiing accident revealed the scarring in her lungs. By the time she received her transplant, Sarah's lungs were at only 40 percent of normal capacity, and she needed supplemental oxygen 24 hours a day.
Sarah received her transplant on March 15, 2006. John's transplant occurred June 8 that same year. Sarah was in a coma for three weeks and nearly died when her heart stopped and she had to be resuscitated. John also went into a coma, and had organ rejection episodes and other serious complications. It took him two years to recover.
But today, their lungs are functioning well, and they both are in good health. "It is a miracle that two years post-transplant, we had our second son," said John's wife, Danielle.
Living with a lung transplant requires multiple medications and frequent check-ups. "We talk all the time," Sarah said, "We give each other tons of moral support and lectures as needed." John added, "When Sarah is sick, she has someone to call and talk to. When I'm sick, I have someone to call."
Both say their spouses played critical roles in their recovery. Danielle didn't leave John's side during his three months in the hospital, leaving their 5-year-old son with his grandmothers. "It was very hard for me to leave him, but things were so critical at the hospital," Danielle said. "We were living day to day."
While Sarah was in the hospital for three weeks, her husband, Kevin, would get their son off to school, work all day, then stay with Sarah at the hospital until 10 p.m. Kevin's mother, Donna Ridder, stayed with Sarah at the intensive care unit during the day. "Love is so great and rewarding for the other to survive this journey and share a very special gift," he said.


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Red Wings reclaim 8th seed with win against Kingsby Brian Hedger / NHL.com
DETROIT -- It was a victory the Detroit Red Wings needed badly, and they made sure to get it Wednesday against the Los Angeles Kings.
Despite a game effort by the Kings, who played their second in as many nights and didn't have suspended captain Dustin Brown, the Red Wings chalked up a big 3-1 win at Joe Louis Arena to edge one point ahead of the idle Columbus Blue Jackets into eighth place in the Western Conference.
"Our problem hasn't been giving up goals, our problem has been scoring goals," Detroit coach Mike Babcock said. "Tonight we were able to get three, which is real positive for us. For a long time we lost games because we could never get the next one. I thought we played well. [You've] got to score goals."
Pavel Datsyuk, Jordin Tootoo and Johan Franzen scored the goals for the Red Wings (22-16-8), who took a big step toward extending their run of 21 straight seasons qualifying for the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Detroit (52 points) and Columbus (51) each have two games left and will sprint to the finish vying for the West's final playoff spot with the Dallas Stars (48 points) just off the pace. The Blue Jackets face the Stars on the road Thursday, and the Red Wings will play host to the Nashville Predators to conclude their final back-to-back set of the season.
Detroit will end its season Saturday in Dallas, and Columbus is home against Nashville in what could be a photo finish of sorts for the last postseason berth.
"We still have two more games to go here," said Tootoo, whose goal early in the third period put Detroit up 2-1 and led to Franzen's insurance marker midway through the final 20 minutes. "It's a matter of playing [Thursday] night here. We need points every night. [Against Nashville] the first five minutes are going to be absolutely important for us. We played tonight and Nashville hasn't. It's going to be all about good leadership in the dressing room and making good plays."
Kyle Clifford scored the goal for the Kings (26-16-5), who've lost two in a row and were fourth in the West coming into the game, tied with the San Jose Sharks at 57 points. Los Angeles has one game left, against San Jose, to make a bid for home ice in the quarterfinal round.
The Kings will again be without Brown, who was issued a two-game suspension by the NHL for elbowing Minnesota Wild forward Jason Pominville during Tuesday's game. Tyler Toffoli was called up from Manchester of the American Hockey League on Wednesday and played on the right side of center Anze Kopitar.
"I guess if you got [home ice], it would be important," Kings coach Darryl Sutter said. "Last year we were hanging on for the eighth spot and [this year] we clinched sixth two or three games ago. That's the only difference."
Goaltender Jonathan Quick took the loss, making 33 saves and keeping the Kings in the game when the Red Wings dominated the action early. Jimmy Howard picked up the win by making 23 saves and thwarting several prime scoring chances in the first two periods that could've swung momentum toward the visitors.
The atmosphere in the arena was akin to a playoff game, which makes sense considering how vital each point is to the Red Wings.
"It's important to get the points, get wins and get them in regulation time," said Detroit captain Henrik Zetterberg, who assisted on the goals by Datsyuk and Franzen. "[We've] got two games left, focus [Thursday] and win that one and then move on to Dallas."
The Red Wings came out as strong as expected. They led 13-4 in shots after 20 minutes, but the game was scoreless thanks to some outstanding work in net by Quick and a heady play by Detroit's Brendan Smith midway through to stop a sure goal by Mike Richards off a rebound of Toffoli's slap shot from the right circle.
Los Angeles didn't get a shot on goal until nearly four minutes into the game and by that point Detroit had put six on target. The Kings were credited with two power plays in the first period, but one lasted 10 seconds and the second was killed off without a shot on goal.
Detroit also carried the play early in the second until Clifford's sixth goals of the season put Los Angeles up 1-0 at 5:28, when he put home a rebound of Trevor Lewis' stuff attempt at the side of the net.
Datsyuk evened it 1-1 at 10:32 with his 14th goal of the season, and it was a pretty one.
After Red Wings defenseman Jonathan Ericsson threw a shot toward the net from near the half wall, Quick deflected the puck to Datsyuk on the left side of the net. Quick saw it and did the splits, but the Detroit center backhanded a shot underneath him into the net.
"It was nice to see the right guy got the puck there," Zetterberg said. "He had some patience."
That's how it stayed until 5:42 into the third, when Tootoo tipped a slap shot by Patrick Eaves in the slot and watched it go into the net. Franzen made it 3-1 on a power play with 6:26 left by tapping a perfect pass from Zetterberg through the pads.
Franzen, who might've been injured sometime after his goal, was unavailable to return. The goal was his sixth in the past six games and 11th point in April, so losing him would be a big blow.
"He's been real good for us," Babcock said. "He didn't finish the game, but hopefully he'll be fine for [Thursday]. Don't know a whole bunch. They just took him off the bench, or made him sit on the bench. I couldn't use him down the stretch. I'll find out [Thursday]."


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Lou Reed's whole career is full of great songs that bristle with life, even when he was exploring the dark places in the heart. He sang about twisted characters finding transcendent moments of love and human connection, even in the seediest circumstances. Nobody could match the snarl of his voice, the rabid intensity of his guitar. Yet for every one of his songs that turned into acclaimed classics, there are other essentials scattered through his catalog. So here are 20 hidden treasures that deserve to be cranked in celebration of the late great Lou Reed. Like the man used to say, walk it home.
Read Laurie Anderson's touching tribute to Lou Reed
"Here She Comes Now" (1968) This quiet tune is easy to overlook because there's no noise, no poetry – it's all in the rhythm, just two minutes of guitar and viola building into a drone-plus-rebop incantation. Everything the Velvet Underground set out to do seems to appear somewhere in this song.
"Sister Ray (3/15/69, Boston Tea Party)" (1969) Every version of "Sister Ray" is a different adventure. This one is the Velvets' peak, the absolute summit of human/guitar sex action: 24 minutes of demonic feedback glory, recorded live in Boston on March 15, 1969. (The YouTube link is mislabeled). It's from the famous "guitar amp" bootleg – you can hear Lou go loco around the 11-minute mark, whipping it on every Jim in the room. The second-best "Sister Ray" is the 12/12/68 Boston version, which has more organ and some surprisingly Byrds-ish guitar frills 14 minutes in. Third best is the 29-minute "Sister Ray/Foggy Notion" from The Quine Tapes, which begins with Lou warning the audience, "This is gonna go on for a while." You could devote your whole life to "Sister Ray" bootlegs, and some of us do.
"Move Right In" (1968) A showchase for Lou's jagged R&B guitar, always the heartbeat of his music. The Velvets burn through this groove in under three minutes (from the immortal Live '68 boot, also known as Problems In Urban Living), as Lou and Sterling Morrison pounce on that evil riff and ride it into the sun.
"Pale Blue Eyes (La Cave Version)" (1968) Like so many of his songs, "Pale Blue Eyes" can keep you company through a long night of dread, the kind of night Lou knew well. "Pale Blue Eyes" gets a wild treatment in this October 1968 performance from Cleveland's La Cave. Lou makes up new lyrics as he goes along: "The angels went to heaven and the devil went to hell, and I seen him coming down from the ceiling in my room. He looked like the mad monk who came here from Afghanistan. You should have seen the mother when he came down on his broom. I certainly couldn't get out of there too soon."
"I Found a Reason" (1970) A poetic doo-wop ballad disguised as a parody, this has some of his finest rhythm-guitar playing – especially that break from 2:38 to 3:15, 37 sections of glistening electric perfection. His guitar makes you want to immerse your head into the left speaker, all the more moving for being passed off as a sarcastic joke. Great lyrics, too: "I do believe / You are what you perceive / What comes is better than what came before."
"Going Down" (1972) A lost beauty from his muddled solo debut – one of those records a friend gives you just because they find it somewhere and think of you, so you play it a lot and like it, even though it's easy to hear why it has a bad reputation. (Paintings of hummingbirds on the cover are generally a bad sign.) "Going Down" is a moody piano ballad with a typical Lou theme: Some love makes you strong, some love makes you weak, and sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.
"Crazy Feeling" (1975) A girl-group gem worthy of the Ronettes, with church bells chiming. For Lou Reed, the human heart is like a big city – a funny place, something like a circus or a sewer, but a place where you can find other people as crazed as you if you search hard enough. So he goes looking for love in a bar full of drag-queen hookers. Best line: "Everybody knows that business ends at 3 / And everybody knows that after hours love is free."
"A Gift" (1975) Not to be confused with the Velvets track called "The Gift," the weakest thing they released during their lifetime – it's practically the "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" of their catalog. (Although the instrumental version, "Booker T," is great.) "A Gift" is a song he put far less work into, a throwaway delight from Coney Island Baby – just Lou strumming his guitar and sighing, "I'm just a gift to the women of this world" and meaning it, which was probably the hard part.
"Satellite of Love (Lou Reed Live version)" (1975)
The first Lou Reed I ever laid eyes on was the cover of his 1975 Lou Reed Live – not his best live record, or even one of his 10 best, but a hell of a cover-photo statement. Lou looks like a badly damaged psych-ward refugee posing as a rough-trade hepcat, rocking his pimp hat, scoffing at the world through shades too thick to let the world scoff back. From hearing his voice on the radio and seeing that album cover, I knew this guy was going to play a major role in my life, probably a dangerous one. He grunts "Satellite of Love" like he's trying to scoff at his own song, scoffing at the notion of true romance, but falling under its spell anyway.
"Gimme Some Good Times" (1978) Street Hassle is one of his best albums, haunted by the mysteries of human compassion. Sometimes you trust people and let them in, but they turn out to be dirt. Some people will give up on you as soon as you turn the wrong shade of blue – when you're weak and desperate, they'll ditch you on a side street and help themselves to the rings off your fingers before they slip away. But other people will stand by you, even when they know you're wrong. How can you tell which people are which? Lou seems to suggest you can find out by doing drugs with them, but it was 1978 and everybody thought that. This great opening song kicks off with the "Sweet Jane" riff – the song Lou couldn't stop rewriting, maybe because it couldn't stop rewriting him. Plus a line that gets downright terrifying when you listen close: "Some people say they can't move, no matter where they are."
"Think It Over" (1980) This gem got buried on the otherwise dull Growing Up In Public, setting the tone for the love songs Lou would pursue over the next couple of decades. He asks the woman to marry him. She wonders if he knows what he's getting into. ("When you ask for someone's heart / You must make sure you're smart.") He wants to rush, but she tells him to cool it down and think it over. Love is like a lot of other addictions – first thing you learn is that you always gotta wait.
"The Heroine" (1982) The Blue Mask has been a source of comfort and sustenance for me over the years, though it probably wasn't for Lou Reed. Teaming up with his toughest band since the Velvets, he takes on the terrors of monogamy. But this is him solo, voice and guitar sounding frail, taking his Velvets death trip "Heroin" somewhere different. What comes is better than what came before.
"Legendary Hearts" (1983) "Legendary loves haunt me in my sleep. Promises to keep, I never should have made. I can't live up to this. I'm good for just a kiss. Not legendary love." Anybody who makes his or her bed with another person knows what that late-night fear feels like. But Lou sings about it with the same fierce honesty he brought to any other topic. And his guitar interplay with the late great Robert Quine adds an air of autumnal wisdom.
"Bottoming Out" (1983) His account of a troubled marriage on Legendary Hearts is surprisingly specific, as "Martial Law" and "Don't Talk To Me About Work" get into the details of the basic problem: how to stop taking out your petty grievances on whoever you live with. ("Try not to take the garbage of the day any place but outside.") "Betrayed" is about not taking it personally when they lash out at you. And "Bottoming Out" is when the arguing won't stop, so you go for a motorcycle ride to clear your head, except you get wasted instead and then back on your bike and it all goes bad because this is a Lou Reed song, remember? No cheap happy endings around here, but loads of guitar.
"New Sensations" (1984) Lou makes poetry out of the mundane details of an ordinary bike ride: "I rode to Pennsylvania near the Delaware Gap / Sometimes I got lost and had to check the map." (It's the epitome of what Lester Bangs called "the Lou Reed 'I walked to the chair / Then I sat in it' school of lyrics.") The sound aims for synth-pop grandeur – it sounds like Depeche Mode, from the time when Depeche Mode were vowing "I will be a satellite of hate" on A Broken Frame.
"Down at the Arcade" (1984) The New Sensations album had a video game on the cover – all rock stars were required to do one of those in the Eighties, because that's how veteran rockers showed they were down with the MTV-era Space Age Whiz Kids. Yeah well, it's hard, as Pete Townshend would say. Yet Lou made his New Wave drum-machine phase as funny and personal as anything else he ever did, complete with a great song about playing Defender. "I call the disk jockey to dedicate a song to Blair / It's the Tempts singing 'I'll Be There.'" It's hard to say what's funnier – the idea of Lou hitting on a girl named Blair or the fact that 99% of his fanbase would instantly respond, "Wait, Lou, wasn't 'I'll Be There' the Four Tops?" Make no mistake, Lou knew what he was doing. The Eighties, ladies and gentlemen.
"September Song" (1985) By now, Lou was relishing his elder-statesman role. Those impossible-to-find Velvet Underground records got reissued in 1984, which meant fans could finally hear them, making Lou even cockier. (Who knew that was possible?) Here he does the 1930s Kurt Weill standard "September Song," from the tribute album Lost In The Stars, a tune best known via Frank Sinatra. Lou turns it into an uptempo choogle: "These precious golden days, I'd like to spend them witchoo."
"Halloween Parade" (1989) Any Lou fan who claims they didn't play this one on Halloween 2013 is lying.
"Big Sky" (2000) The finale on Ecstasy, which came out quietly in 2000 and turned out to be his last proper album, a tribute to the love he'd found with Laurie Anderson. "Big Sky" is an urgently optimistic, unapologetically loud rocker about two people, already well into their lives, looking forward to a future that seems boundless just because they're together tonight. Here's to the heroine.
"Tell It To Your Heart" (2004) Lou originally stranded this New York love song on the 1986 flop Mistrial, where nobody noticed it at all. (Except David Fricke.) It really comes alive in this magnificent slow-jam version from his 2004 live album Animal Serenade. It presents New York as a city of lights, where every light is a star, and every star is a satellite of love in a big sky. "You never know what you might see if you look up in the sky" is what he spent his career telling us.


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Carmelized Black Pepper Chicken
Caramelized Black Pepper Chicken has become very popular in Thailand although originally brought from Vietnam. Many Vietnamese have immigrated to Thailand bring along their favourite recipes and often have opened restaurants.
I first ate this wonderful dish in a small family restaurant in Isan, Northeast Thailand. The restaurant was offering such as Vietnamese breakfasts and popular clay pot dishes and stir fries like this one.
The Slanted Door restaurant in San Francisco serves a Caramilized Black Pepper Chicken by Chef Charles Phan and this is almost the same taste. I have altered the original Vietnamese taste with more garlic, ginger and of course chiles. This is a spectacular Vietnamese dish that I have Thaid Up to an intensely flavoured sweet and savory peppered chicken that will become a favourite of yours. You can adjust the heat upwards to Thai-it up a bit more like I do.
I do not like recipes that are overly sweet but this one works with the balance of the chiles. If you don't have Thai chiles you could use Serrano chiles or even dried chile flakes.
This is a wonderful prep before dish for company meals. Be sure and have plenty of rice as the sauce is so amazing with layers of flavor that everyone will love.
Yield: 4 Servings
1/2 cup Date Palm Sugar or Brown Sugar
3 Tbls Fish Sauce
1/4 cup Water
3 Tbls Rice Vinegar
1 Tbl Garlic,Minced2
1 tsp Fresh Ginger, Finely Grated
1 tsp Pepper, Coursely Ground (to taste)
4+ Thai Chiles, Halved
1 Tbls Peanut or Vegetable oil
1 Shallot, Thinly Sliced
1 lb Boneless, skinless chicken thighs, cut Into 1-Inch pieces
Garnish with cilantro sprigs
In a medium sized bowl, combine the date palm sugar, fish sauce, water, rice vinegar, garlic, ginger, pepper and chiles. Add the chicken and allow to marinade for 20 minutes if you have time.
Heat the oil in a wok or large, deep skillet, add the shallot and cook over moderate heat until softened, about 4 minutes.
Add the marinated chicken and fish sauce mixture and simmer over medium high heat until the chicken is cooked through, about 10 minutes. Transfer to a serving plate or bowl and garnish with the cilantro.
Serve with steamed Jasmine rice.
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December 17, 2013
(JACKSON, Miss.) - December 17, 2013 - Dr. Charlie Wingard has been elected as a regular faculty member at Reformed Theological Seminary's Jackson campus. He will begin as assistant professor of practical theology on Jan. 1, 2014.
Wingard's dad, a Presbyterian minister, worked in orphanages in Arkansas and Missouri and adopted him into their home in 1958. Wingard recalls, "Dad became the most influential person in my life - my father, pastor, adviser, and friend. I made no contribution to the most important decision ever made about me - my adoption. That is a good truth for a future Presbyterian minister to keep in mind."
At age 14, during a Lay Renewal Conference at his dad's church, Wingard sensed a call to the gospel ministry. "Dad frequently took me on hospital and home visits," he said. "I saw him read scripture and pray with patients and families. All of this was a valuable introduction to pastoral theology."
He went on to receive a B.A. in Political Science from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn, an M.Div. from Vanderbilt and a D.Min from Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
His hobbies include hiking, reading political and military history, and traveling with his wife Lynne. He and Lynne have four sons and one granddaughter.
"The faculty position for Practical Theology is both the easiest and the hardest of all positions to fill," said Dr. Guy Richardson, president of RTS Jackson. "It is the easiest to fill because many people qualify 'on paper' to take the role. It is also one of the hardest to fill because it takes a person who not only has the necessary academic credentials, but also a love for our Lord and his Word and a determination to teach others how to communicate those wonderful truths. That means he must have both passion and patience- and they are hard to find in one person! We are so grateful to God that he has led us to Charlie. He not only fills both needs, but he brings many years of deep pastoral experience to help prepare our students for ministry. We could not be more pleased and excited!"
Whether you're a prospective student, current student, alumnus, donor, or friend of RTS, we would love to hear from you.


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Spiced Pear Crumble Recipe
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Guests at my bed and breakfast rave about this pear crumble recipe. They get to enjoy a sweet treat that doesn't expand their waistline. —Barbra Annino, Galena, Illinois
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- 4 medium pears, peeled and chopped
- 1/4 cup dried cranberries
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons reduced-fat butter
- 1/2 cup reduced-sugar orange marmalade
- 1/4 cup sugar-free maple-flavored syrup
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-1/2 cups crushed reduced-fat vanilla wafers (about 45 wafers)
- 1/4 cup chopped almonds
- 1-1/2 cups reduced-fat vanilla ice cream
- In a small bowl, combine the pears, cranberries and lemon juice. Transfer to an 8-in. square baking dish coated with cooking spray; set aside.
- In a small saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Stir in the marmalade, syrup, cinnamon, ginger and allspice until blended. Bring to a boil. Remove from the heat; stir in vanilla. Drizzle evenly over pear mixture. Sprinkle with vanilla wafers and almonds.
- Bake, uncovered, at 375° for 20-25 minutes or until pears are tender and topping is golden brown. Serve warm with ice cream. Yield: 6 servings.
Editor's Note: This recipe was tested with Land O'Lakes light stick butter.
Originally published as Spiced Pear Crumble in Healthy Cooking August/September 2008, p33
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Reviewed Nov. 4, 2012
"My 10 and 7 year olds made this completely by themselves. The house smelled wonderful and we all enjoyed the final result! We served it with heavy whipping cream instead of icecream. I think we will double the amount of pears the next time we make this."
Reviewed Sep. 28, 2010
"Usually not a fan of pears, but this is an outstanding pear dessert recipe!"


text: Din758 371 Report post Posted July 13, 2011 #RedWings looking to add..Holland wants a top 4 d-man and depth forward..$7M in cap space.."He will use the $$ no question" per source #NHL This account is usually pretty credible on rumors, at least they have so far. The only problem I see here, is that I dont believe there is anybody left we could be interested now that we have signed White and Commo. That leads me to think this is wrong. What do you guys think? Who else is even out there? Would it have to be a trade to get anyone else? 1 seeinred reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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A new app that promises to save lives pairs a breathalyzer with your smartphone.
It's called "Alcohoot" and claims to be the first of its kind in the world. The creators said it's as accurate as breathalyzers used by law enforcement and discourages users from getting behind the wheel of a car.
Ben Biron said his app and mobile breathalyzer is easy to use, affordable at less than $100 and is the next big thing in the fight against drunk driving.
"We wanted to do something that had a social mission and not just generate money," Biron said.
Biron is a senior at Wingate University in North Carolina. Before that, he served in the Israeli Army where he said his time in the service exposed him to the effects of drunk driving, prompting him to create Alcohoot.
"Every time we came to the base, we saw the number of people that died from car accidents in the military - and the number was exponentially growing," Biron said.
He said he worked with a partner for months developing a compact, accurate device that is also user-friendly.
Alcohoot works by plugging the breathalyzer device into a smartphone's audio jack, then users open the app, are instructed to blow into the breathalyzer and within seconds, users' blood alcohol content (BAC) pops up.
But that's not all. The app also brings up restaurants where users can sit and eat, numbers for taxi companies and even users' contacts lists to call a friend for a ride.
The app lets users track how much they have been drinking using a chart.
FOX Carolina wanted to see how well Alcohoot works against officers' breathalyzers.
FOX Carolina photographer Dal Kalsi volunteered to help by drinking three 16 ounce beers. Then the Wingate Police Department tested his BAC using a certified law enforcement field breathalyzer.
His BAC registered at 0.03. Then he tested Alcohoot twice, which came within 0.002 of a percentage of the police's test.
The officer said despite Alcohoot's accuracy, he did not recommend using it to decide whether or not to drive after drinking. Biron agreed.
"My opinion is don't drink and drive at all," said Biron. "My opinion is buzz driving is drunk driving."
Alcohoot is not available yet but is accepting pre-order online for $75.
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Fixed-Dose Combination Efavirenz/Tenofovir/FTC for South Africa
May/June 2013
After a considerable wait (and considerable campaigning), in 2012, the South African Minister of Health, announced the award of a new antiretroviral tender -- worth R5.9 billion (£406,226,800).
For the first time since the ART program began, the tender includes a triple fixed-dose combination (FDC). The FDC is efavirenz/tenofovir/FTC for first line treatment and it is anticipated that over 90% of new patients will be eligible to initiate this FDC, including pregnant women.
The Southern African Clinicians Society advice document. Fixed-dose combination for adults accessing antiretroviral therapy. SAHIVMED Vol 14, No 1 (2013).
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(CNN) -- Throughout history they've been hum?ankind's most convenient, unwitting and trustworthy scapegoats for missing homework assignments and olfactory mishaps.
And now a Massachusetts man is telling cops that if they think he was responsible for his own car sinking to the bottom of a local pond, then they are barking up the wrong tree.
When Canton police responded to a 911 call Sunday for a vehicle that had gone into a local pond, the car's owner -- who police aren't naming -- said it was the doing of Rosie, his 5-month-old German Shepherd puppy.
"Rosie got her leash entangled in the [gear] shifter," Rob Quirk of the Canton Police Department said, repeating the driver's explanation. "While [the dog was] trying to break free [the owner] stated the puppy fell onto the driver's side floor and hit the accelerator sending the vehicle into the pond."
The man and his dog were both in the Dodge Neon as it floated about 30 yards offshore before it sank, according to Quirk, who said a witness rushed into the pond to help get Rosie safely out of the vehicle after the driver had to untangle things to free himself.
"While this story has a happy ending," said a Canton police press release, "we would encourage drivers to keep their pets safely secured in the rear of their vehicle where they cannot interfere with operation."
Both man and dog emerged unharmed.
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Def Leppard's Phil Collen: Whitney Houston's Death a Sad Reminder of Steve Clark's Passing
We recently had the opportunity to talk to guitarist Phil Collen about his bands Def Leppard and Manraze, and one of the topics that came up was the recent death of pop superstar Whitney Houston.
Collen told us that the news hit home as it brought back memories of the tragic loss of Def Leppard guitarist Steve Clark, who passed away in 1991 as the result of a lethal mix of prescription drugs and alcohol.
"It's awful and it really hit me," Collen told us about Houston's death. "I've known people and lost people who've been through the exact same thing. What really irritates me when someone special dies is the outpouring and everyone loves to show up for the funeral but they don't really want to help when the person needs it."
Collen added, "When Steve [Clark] died, that really pissed me off. There were people coming out of the woodwork and I was like, 'Whoa, where were you when he really needed you?' and in fact all they were doing at that time was actually encouraging him to be the way that he was that ended up killing him. So I have a very kind of weird attachment, even to Whitney, it's like, 'Wow, she came out of the same time as us.' It really sucks because she was so talented and amazing."
Collen went on to mention a few music stars who've recently passed away under similar circumstances. "The Michael Jackson thing — it happens all the time. With Steve, it would be the same thing, in and out of rehab centers. Amy Winehouse, same deal. There's some people trying to help but I think there are a lot of enablers around there and they really need a lot of help. It's just tragic and what a great voice [Houston had], she was the blueprint of, certainly now, how people sing. You see 'X Factor' and 'American Idol' and they're all doing Whitney Houston stuff because that's how you want to sound."
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Last Thursday, a kickoff event was held marking the beginning of development at Commonwealth Crossing Business Centre.The event at the 740-acre site attracted members of the U.S. Congress, state leaders, local officials, and citizens and neighbors from both Virginia and North Carolina. The CCBC project began in 2007 when Henry County purchased the land. Earlier this month, the grading permit was awarded by the Army Corps of Engineers.Chairman of the Henry County Board of Supervisors H.G. Vaughn, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, U.S. Congressman Robert Hurt, U.S. Congressman Morgan Griffith, and Virginia House of Delegates member Danny Marshall delivered remarks. U.S Senator Mark Warner could not attend the event but had his remarks delivered by a member of his staff.Henry County officials said their plan is to create about 140 to 170 acres of useable pad space for potential companies. Grading work on the site is expected to begin within two to three weeks and it could take up to 18-24 months to complete that work. The Martinsville-Henry County Economic Development Corporation will be the lead agency in marketing the property.CCBC is a prime location for advanced manufacturing companies, including automotive and aerospace. The business park is located in an Enterprise Zone, which allows companies to apply for special zone grants and incentives. CCBC is located 33 miles from the Piedmont Triad International Airport and is adjacent to the Norfolk Southern Railway Mainline. Funding partners for CCBC include Henry County, the City of Martinsville, the Martinsville-Henry County Economic Development Corporation, the Tobacco Commission, The Virginia Economic Development Partnership, the Small Business Administration and the Mid-Atlantic Broadband.CCBC is another example of the pipeline of premier business parks that keeps manufacturing companies coming to the Commonwealth. To learn why manufacturers have invested more than $13.7 billion in Virginia over the last decade, click here.Federal, state and local officials celebrate the groundbreaking of CCBC, a 740-acre business park in Martinsville-Henry County.
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COLUMBUS — This time, Michigan finished the comeback — and polished off a decade-old streak.
The 15th-ranked Wolverines wiped out a double-digit deficit to shove aside Ohio State 70-60 on Tuesday, snaring their first victory in Columbus since 2003 before a raucous sold-out Schottenstein Center.
Unlike last year's rivalry game in Columbus, when the visitors could not overcome the Buckeyes' blistering start, Michigan (18-6, 10-2 Big Ten) answered with one rally after another to vault alone back atop the Big Ten standings.
In a game between two teams passing in the night — No. 22 OSU the winners of three straight games, Michigan the losers of two of its last three — Nik Stauskas scored 15 points, Derrick Walton, Jr., added 13 points and 10 rebounds, and UM rerouted course.
The Wolverines were more physical, outrebounding Ohio State 39-27. More important, they were more clutch, overcoming a 10-point first-half deficit and pulling away late.
Depending on your allegiance, one late three-possession sequence captured the euphoria and the heartache. Glenn Robinson III hit a 3-pointer to push Michigan ahead 59-52 with 2:52 left, Ohio State's Aaron Craft airballed a deep but open shot, and OSU fouled Walton on a 3-point attempt with seconds left on the shot clock. Walton made all three free throws.
LaQuinton Ross led OSU (19-6, 6-6) with a game-high 24 points.
"It felt like were getting ready to play a Final Four game here, it was so loud," Michigan coach John Beilein said. "I don't think you ever get used to the environments in this league. But our guys settled down."
Ohio State, meanwhile, wore throwback gray jerseys for a throwback performance, evoking the days when the peach buckets did not yet have openings. The Buckeyes made 3 of 20 shots from beyond the arc as their January shooting woes returned in force.
It also didn't help that Michigan enjoyed a ticker-tape of second-chance points, with the Buckeyes allowing 14 offensive rebounds.
"We weren't the tougher basketball team down the stretch, and that hurts," Craft said. "We just didn't have it."
Added Ross: "At the end of the day, they wanted it more."
For Ohio State, it was a sour finish to a night that began with a rare excitable February scene, with the crowd of 18,809 including the Wolverines' one-time top football recruit. Five-star Kentucky running back Damien Harris — ranked by Rivals.com as the No. 5 overall prospect in the Class of 2015 — decommitted from Michigan last month, and made Ohio State his first visit in a reopened courtship Tuesday night. Harris and OSU coach Urban Meyer emerged from the tunnel leading to the court to loud cheers beforehand, then watched together as the Buckeyes fumbled the regular-season football/basketball sweep of their rivals.
Save for the late twist, the night played out as a small-scale version of UM's last visit to Columbus, when the Buckeyes raced to a 28-9 lead before holding on for a 56-53 win.
OSU took early control. Ross hit his first five shots and the Buckeyes ran and ran, with Craft — a former quarterback at Liberty-Benton — launching on-the-mark pass from just inside halfcourt to Sam Thompson for a rafter-rattling alley-oop. OSU led 19-10 and built the lead to double digits late in the half.
Like last year, though, a Michigan team that starts four freshmen or sophomores did not fold. Stauskas brushed aside his no-shows in UM's two losses at Indiana at Iowa, and his teammates followed. The Wolverines pulled within four points at halftime and went ahead 44-43 on a pair of Stauskas foul shots with 10:56 remaining in the second half.
They did not trail again, finally chasing fans to the exits with the 13-2 run that put Michigan ahead 64-52.
Michigan moved a half game atop Michigan State in the conference standings. It closes with four of its final six games at home, including Sunday's visit from No. 21 Wisconsin. The Wolverines host No. 9 Michigan State on Feb. 23 in their season's last meeting with a ranked opponent.
"I don't know if we expected this this year," Beilein said. "It's great to be at the top of the conference, but we've still got some tough days to go."
The Buckeyes, too, have left behind the meat of their schedule, with a season-ending visit from the Spartans their only remaining game against a ranked team. OSU next plays Saturday at Illinois.
Zak Irvin added 10 points for Michigan, which shot 41.5 percent from the field. Lenzelle Smith had 13 points for OSU. The Buckeyes shot 44.2 percent overall.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 21st May 2013 15:53 UTC
The new WebKit Opera for Android has been released. "Opera 14 for Android is built on top of Chromium 26, with a total overhaul of the UI in native code, making it fit well with the latest Android design guidelines. Go get the build from Google Play or point your browser to m.opera.com, and give it a spin!"
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Goodbye, Mr Opera (for now)
by orfanum on Wed 22nd May 2013 06:38 UTC
I am not usually this blunt but this latest version of Opera compared to its immediate predecessor is utter pants (Galaxy S2, Android 4.04):
UI: why is the default screen in use the view of one's history, seemingly?
Constant hanging
Can't deal with webforms
Copy and paste is borked
To name but the most obvious cock-ups.
Honestly, it's so bad I have reverted to the stock Orange/EE browser, which is actually *better* now in comparison!
I have supported Opera for years. I am very sad.
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Looks like fun, I saw my old jon boat drive off today, now to find me a Nucanoe I can afford.
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. Mark Twain
I am picking up a Frontier 12 tomorrow.
Brown or Green?..............decisions decisions.
Fly fishing and fly tying are two things that I do, and when I am doing them, they are the only 2 things I think about. They clear my mind.
The seat base has been changed for 2013 Warren but that looks great,
Looks like room for a tackle box or flybox under that.
Maiden voyage later this week...........pillaging and plundering.......Crappies.
very nice set up, love the trailer, just the right size for the yak.
My friend has a NuCanoe, and he really likes it. It's a little heavy and ponderous in the water for my taste, but hey, to each, his own. He catches a lot of fish in it, so I'm not going to knock it. He has even done some whitewater with me. It handles like a pregnant manatee, but it is pretty much indestructible. He just bounces off of rocks and trees and keeps going.
Nice ride. That's a Commander, isn't it? Sweet.
Nice ride. That's a Commander, isn't it? Sweet.
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Submission + - Invent the medical tricorder win $10,000,000 (marketwire.com)
GeneralSecretary writes: "Ever watch Star Trek and say "Hey, I could build that", well now's your chance. Qualcomm and the X PRIZE Foundation have teamed together to offer ten million US dollars to whomever can invent "a mobile solution that can diagnose patients better than or equal to a panel of board certified physicians", the Tricorder X Prize. Hopefully the Tricorder will join the cell phone, MRI, and tablet computer in the list of Star Trek devices that are now part of our lives."


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Norwich boss Chris Hughton was happy with an away point from Reading
Chris Hughton was pleased with an away point as Norwich extended their unbeaten Premier League run at Reading.
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Chances were at a premium at the Madejski as the Canaries held the Royals to make it four top-flight games undefeated in a row and Hughton was delighted to take a clean sheet away from the game.
He told Sky Sports: "I think you have to be happy with any point away from home in this division. For us every game is a tough game and they tested us today.
"They are a side that are of course looking for that win here, very direct and very physical in their game, a lot of running capacities that they've got and you've got to match all of that and I thought we did that today.
"We probably didn't play as well as I would have liked and the opportunities that perhaps we did have and the space that we did create we didn't make the most of it but away here, yes it's a decent result."
Hughton thought the Canaries defended well, adding: "They got a lot of balls into the box, we played into their hands a little bit, we gave away a few free-kicks, needless free-kicks which gave them the opportunity for the two centre-halves to get forward so I think on the basic defending I think we've done that really well.
"As the game opened up I thought we were perhaps the more likely to break away and score but it wasn't to be."


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In this production, conducted by Antonio Pappano and directed by Francesca Zambello, very little goes wrong. Antonacci's uncanny performance makes her the Carmen of her generation . . . Watch her at the end of Jonas Kaufmann's "La fleur que tu m'avais jetée": her "Non, tu ne m'aimes pas!" nearly freezes the blood.


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Hey, guess what? Vernon Wells has decided to bait the entire internet. How is he doing that exactly? Check out this exchange he had on Twitter over the weekend.
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@VernonWells10 we need a VernonWood sign in the outfield 18 hours ago
VernonWells10 Vernon Wells "
@CollinTaylorInc: @647Fsnowboarder @VernonWells10 I was thinking more like Vernonheim, or Vernonhills….???" there should be a vote
VernonWells10 Vernon Wells Submit all the names and then I will put together a poll 17 hours ago
Submit names to "honor" you and your fans in left field? Sure, Vernon! Thanks for asking. I may not be able to come up with anything as clever as "ToriiWood" or "MatsuiLand," but here are a few I think everyone will enjoy. And just remember, Wells asked me to do it:
- The Money Pit. This one would be even better if it had one of those debt clocks like they have for the national debt, constantly ticking down how much money Wells has left on his contract at that very second.
- The Black Hole. That's already the unofficial name for the batter's box when he is in it, but I'm sure it can handle the double duty.
- Help Wanted: Man in White. Farbeit from me to presume someone cheated, but when Wells actually could hit back in 2010, it was mostly at home in Toronto where they supposedly had the aid of the fabled "man in white" tipping pitches to Blue Jay batters from the outfield.
- The Walking Dead. If you are really still a Wells fan, then you must be a mindless zombie… or Lyle Spencer, either way.
- Vernon's Disciples. Let's just go ahead and save everyone time by shortening it to VD, since it feels like the Angels have contracted VD since they acquired Wells.
- This space reserved for Mike Trout. Truth in advertising if I've ever seen it.
- Reagins' Folly. Alaska was Seward's Folly as it was seen as an extraordinarly unwise and expensive purchase of property from north of the border. Do I really need to explain it beyond that?
- Wishing (You Weren't) Wells. Lame, I know, but I would have failed the internet if I didn't make one trite attempt at wordplay on his name.
- Hit it Here, Because We All Know Vernon Can't. A classic sign with a personal twist just for Vernon.
- The Big Splash Zone. Incredibily obvious, but ultimately the best. Reagins and Moreno promised a "big splash" in the 2010 off-season and they ended up with Wells. It would be a disservice to the history of the Angels to not commemorate this term that is sure to go down in infamy.


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Digital marketing company BlueGlass Interactive has acquired marketing firm Quaturo, the company announced Thursday. Quaturo will become BlueGlass UK, with its principal office in London. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
BlueGlass is both a thought-leader in online marketing, and a cutting-edge service provider offering all forms of online marketing services, including Paid, Organic, Social and Content Marketing. The company's main focus is on search marketing campaigns.
Basically, the company helps brands market themselves online. For example, getting more exposure on social networks, like Facebook, through ad campaigns.
In an interview with VatorNews, Chris Winfield, Co-Founder & CMO of BlueGlass, said the addition of BlueGlass UK is the first step in the company's European expansion, which will eventually include other markets, which he would not name. The company will now have offices in London, New York, Florida, California, South America, and Australia.
The reason that the company decided to start in the UK, Winfield said, is that it was a large market that was being underserved. It has a lot of networks to support, and is behind in how it is looking at digital marketing.
According to a study by Forrester last year, the interactive marketing industry is growing radiply in the U.S. By 2016 the U.S. interactive marketing spending is expected to reach $77 billion and will represent 35% of all advertising.
BlueGlass also points to an October 2012 Econsultancy study, which revealed that only 38% of companies in the UK have a content markering strategy, and that 66% don't have any money allocated toward it at all.
For these reasons, the UK was always on BlueGlass' roadmap, but the company was just looking for the right fit to break into the market. They found in in Quaturo, and its founder, Kevin Gibbons, who was a friend of the BlueGlass team for a few years.
Founded in June 2012 and based in London, Quaturo delivers content marketing and SEO services to a range of clients in the UK, most notably Vistaprint, Wonga, UCAS, Audley Travel and Premier Farnell.
Winfield says that the acquisition of Quaturo gives BlueGlass an already established presence into the UK market, which it can leverage.
Quaturo can also help with possible cultural differences that may arise, and that BlueGlass would have trouble understanding without having a foothold in the country.
What makes BlueGlass different than other similar companies is how it approaches its marketing campaigns, Winfield says. There is a large disparity between the big 5 holding companies (WPP, Omnicom, Publicis, Interpublic and Hava), who own most of the largest digital marketing firms, and the other 99.9% of the smaller companies, like BlueGlass, which can use their smaller size to be more innovative and nimble.
"We're a fundamentally different kind of digital marketing agency, created to fill a void in a crowded marketplace. Larger agencies are often slow moving and lack the ability to quickly shift gears. Small agencies often have trouble properly servicing large accounts or maintaining consistency and reliability," Winfield said. "We combine the best of both types of agencies: we're nimble and innovative, while offering the scalability and reliability necessary to take take on even the most challenging projects."
Tampa, Florida-based BlueGlass was founded two years ago, in July 2010, as the merger of four profitable boutique agencies with an existing client base: 10e20, Search and Social, Brent Csutoras and Second Step Search. For this reason, the company has been profitable from the beginning, and has not needed to take any outside money. BlueGlass says it has seen revenues grow 65% year over year.
This is BlueGlass' third acquisition. It previously purchased search marketing company 3 Dog Media in October 2010, and in January 2012 it bought Voltier Digital, a digital agency specializing in content marketing, infographic creation and data visualization.
Winfield said that BlueGlass acquired Voltier for its expertise on the marketing side.
BlueGlass' clients include both larger and mid-market companies, including Masco,eBay, Thomson Reuters, Conde Nast Digital, Ipswitch, COLOURlovers, and Edmunds.com.
According to Winfield its latest expansion will help it to push both the mid-sized business, as well as help the big multinational companies with local market advertising.
Winfield has been featured in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Investor's Business Daily, The Boston Globe, and Entrepreneur Magazine.


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Eric Brody, Sunrise, right, gets a fist bump from his attorney Lance Block, Tallahassee, center, after the Florida House passed Brody's $10.75 million claims bill, Thursday. Brody was permanently injured by a speeding Broward County Sheriff's deputy 14 years ago. His mother, Margie Weiss, and father, Chuck Brody are seen on the left in the House visitors gallery. [Scott Keeler, Times]
A proposal to award $10.75 million to a Sunrise man who was permanently injured by a speeding cop 14 years ago is on a fast-track to the governor's desk after a new agreement to eliminate all fees associated with the claim. The bill passed the House on Thursday by a wide margin and now heads back to the Senate, where it is expected to be passed on the final day of Session.
Ten other claims bills passed the House as well, and are headed back to the Senate.
An internal squabble between the lawyer representing Eric Brody and his former employer is behind the sudden decision to scrap all fees.
"By declining all fees it will make sure that Eric doesn't have to pay $1 million to a bunch of rich lawyers that never did anything" on the case, said Lance Block, Brody's attorney. Block said his former employer, West Palm Beach law firm of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, hired a lobbyist to try and collect part of the $10.75 million payment.
The role of lobbyists in the claims bill process has been decried by lawmakers, and threatened to kill the claims bill for Brody this year.
Read the blog about the attorney's fee squabble from earlier today here:


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This tragic love story as seen through the eyes of Francois Seurel concerns the larger than life Antoine Meaulnes affectionately known as Le Grand Meaulnes by his classmates. Set during their final years at school this is an adolescent story of love and longing. Meaulnes chances upon a strange and wonderful wedding party where he meets and falls in love with Yvonne the daughter of the owner of the grand house where the party is taking place. Alas the ...