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Cranberry Frost Slush for Game, Beef Bourguignon and Raisin Jumbo Cookie Recipes: Helen Dollaghan
Helen Dollaghan, food editor of The Denver Post from 1958-1993, selected recipes she felt were the best and published them in this 1987 special section called "30 Years of Rocky Mountain Cooking." Most are recipes Helen or her readers developed.
On Fridays we share several of the recipes from her collection.
Week 19: Cranberry Frost Slush for Game, Beef Bourguignon and Raisin Jumbo Cookies
This colorful offering
appeared in one of our
popular holiday cookbook
sections during the '70s.
Cranberry Frost Slush for Game
1 lb. fresh uncooked cranberries, ground or finely chopped
1/2 cup water
2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
2 cups 7-Up
Combine cranberries, water, sugar and lemon juice. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer, covered, 10 minutes. Add lemon rind. Cool. Add 7-Up. Mix well. Freeze until slushy. Serve in small cups to be sipped or eaten with spoon. Serve as a condiment for poultry or game. Serves 8.
At fun apres-ski parties
in the '70s, bourguignon
with French bread and
burgundy was the piece
de resistance. You could
ski all day and still
manage the meal, for the
bourguignon was better
when it mellowed
overnight in the
Beef Bourguignon
10 slices lean bacon, cubed
3 lbs. boned, lean chuck, cut in 2-inch cubes
3 tablespoons flour
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
3 medium yellow onions, sliced
4 medium carrots, thickly sliced
1 medium rib celery and leaves, chopped
2 medium cloves garlic, crushed
1/2 cup cognac
3 cups dry, red Burgundy
1 can (14 1/2 oz.) beef stock
1 large bay leaf
3/4 teaspoon thyme
18 small white, whole onions, peeled and cooked
1 lb. small, fresh whole mushrooms, whole or halved, sauteed in 3 tablespoons butter Chopped parsley
Fry bacon in Dutch oven until crips. Drain and reserve on paper towel. In the drippings, brown beef on all sides. Remove beef with slotted spoon to a bowl; toss with flour, season with salt and pepper. Saute sliced onions, carrots, celery and garlic in drippings until onions are soft. Warm cognac in a saucepan. Pour into onion mixture. Ignite. Shake pan and stop flame by putting lid on momentarily. Add burgundy, beef stock, bay leaf, thyme, bacon and beef. Season with salt and pepper. Bring to boil, then transfer to preheated 325-degree oven. Bake, covered, about 3 hours or until beef is fork-tender. Stir occasionally. Cook and refrigerate, covered overnight. Discard grease that rises to top. Reheat, covered, in 325-degree oven about 30 minutes or until hot. Scatter whole, cooked onions over top during last 15 minutes. If sauce is too thick, add a small amount of beef stock. Correct seasoning. Remove bay leaf. Scatter mushrooms and parsley on top. Serves 8 or more.
In 1972 when Ellen
Ann Dunham decided to
move from White Plains,
N.Y., to retire in Denver,
she held the distinction of
being the first woman vice
president in the history of
General Foods. After 40
years with the food
corporation she brought along
this, her favorite cookie
Raisin Jumbo Cookies
2 cups raisins
1 cup plus 1 tablespoon water
4 cups flour, sifted before measuring
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup solid shortening
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
Combine raisins and one cup of the water. Cook, uncovered, at rolling boil 3 minutes or just until raisins are plump. Cool raisins in their liquid to room temperature. Sift together dry ingredients. Cream shortening and sugar together until light and fluffy. Mix in eggs and vanilla. Add raisins and their liquid and remaining 1 tablespoon water. Gradually add flour mixture. Add nuts, drop by tablespoonfuls about 1/8-inch apart on greased baking sheets. Bake in preheated 375 degree oven 12 to 15 minutes or until done. Makes 3 1/2 dozen large cookies.


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In western Broward County, where Lt. Col. Allen B. West, 43, is preparing to start life over as a high school social studies teacher, the grass is green, the air is moist and the pressure is barometric. Iraq seems very far away, as does the night last August when Colonel West used his gun to coerce an Iraqi police officer during an interrogation.
Intent on foiling a reported plot to ambush him and his men, Colonel West, a battalion commander, made a calculated decision to intimidate the Iraqi officer with a show of force. An interrogation under way was going nowhere, Colonel West said in an interview, and he chose to take the matter into his own hands.
''This could get ugly,'' he told his soldiers. But, he said, he imposed limits: ''This man will not be injured and he will not have to be repaired. There will be no blood and no breakage of bones.''
Still, Colonel West wanted the Iraqi policeman, Yehiya Kadoori Hamoodi, to think ''this was going to be the end'' if he did not divulge what he knew. So Colonel West presided over what he considered a time-sensitive interrogation that grew steadily more abusive until he himself fired a pistol beside Mr. Hamoodi's head.
A strait-laced, by-the-book senior officer, Colonel West deliberately disregarded Army rules and regulations, gambling -- and eventually losing -- a successful 22-year military career that seemed destined for further advancement.
''There are rules and regulations, and there's protecting your soldiers,'' Colonel West said, sitting by a man-made waterway behind his family's new home in a Florida subdivision. ''I just felt I'd never have to write a letter of condolence home to a 'rule and regulation.' ''
''The fact is, I made a choice, the choice had consequences and I accept that,'' he continued.
But, he added, the events of that hot, dusty night still disturb him: ''I'm not some bully who goes around threatening men's lives. Certain things we have to do in war are outside our character.''
Many months before the Abu Ghraib prison scandal raised questions about whether the military was permitting or tolerating the mistreatment of detainees, the Army pointedly rejected Colonel West's aggressive tactics during that single interrogation.
Expressing concern that his behavior could send the signal that abuse was acceptable as a means to an end, the Army relieved Colonel West of his command and contemplated court-martialing him on assault charges.
When Colonel West's case became public last fall, it, too, provoked a debate about appropriate conduct during wartime. But that debate had a far different tenor than the much larger one raging now.
No one is suggesting now that the abuse of the Abu Ghraib detainees was justified or that the military is being overzealous in policing itself. Then, however, Colonel West's many defenders argued that the military should have viewed Colonel West as a hero who did not disobey rules so much as rise above them.
The conservative media personalities and Web sites that raised money for his legal defense portrayed a military hamstrung by concern for the human rights of Iraqi detainees. The more than 2,300 letters and e-mail messages that he received were mostly ''thank you'' notes for putting his men first and resisting the pressure to treat suspects with kid gloves.
Ninety-five members of Congress signed a letter to the secretary of the Army supporting the colonel.
Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, a Republican and chairman of the Armed Services Committee, who has pressed for accountability in the Abu Ghraib affair, expressed empathy for the colonel in a letter to constituents. ''As a former Marine Corps officer, I support Colonel West's judgment,'' he wrote. ''I understand the colonel was well-intentioned and his efforts appear solely intended to protect the lives of troops under his command.''
In his letter, Senator Warner stated that one potential attacker was apprehended and potential ambush sites were identified and avoided as a result of Mr. Hamoodi's interrogation. Colonel West notes that there were no further attacks on him or his men after the interrogation.
But the record of his case is unclear on whether the Iraqi officer provided valuable information, and Mr. Hamoodi said in an interview that he did not, because he knew nothing.
Neal A. Puckett, a lawyer who represented Colonel West and now represents Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, who oversaw Abu Ghraib and other prisons, said the intelligence officers he interviewed in Iraq last fall were highly frustrated with their inability to extract information.
''The detainees would regularly treat interrogators with contempt, spit on them, laugh at them and say, 'We don't have to answer your questions,' '' he said. ''They would turn our humanity and our following of the Geneva Conventions against us.''
The information-gathering system was not running efficiently, either, Mr. Puckett said. The interrogation specialist at Colonel West's base was a ''nice young gal oblivious to all things Arab,'' like the common phrase ''inshallah,'' or ''God willing,'' Mr. Puckett said. Information collected was not systematically compiled, he added.
''Problems like that, I've got to believe, put pressure to bear on folks tasked with gathering information,'' he said.
Colonel West was not tasked with that duty. Before that August night he had never conducted or witnessed an interrogation. He was a commander, overseeing an artillery battalion of some 650 soldiers and officers.
He had started in such a role early in life, as an R.O.T.C. battalion commander at an Atlanta high school. His father, a World War II veteran, encouraged him to pursue a career in the military ''because he felt that it was a good place to be for a young black man,'' Colonel West said.
Commissioned as an officer even before he graduated from the University of Tennessee, he steadily climbed the ladder, serving in Italy, South Korea and the Middle East, during the 1991 gulf war, while winning medals and gaining parachuting proficiency and master's degrees. He is married to a financial planner, and they have two young daughters.
Colonel West said he could remember one time before last summer that he committed an infraction: he got a traffic ticket in 1990 in Kansas ''right after they changed a sign.''
He is the very picture of clean cut. In the interview, he wore wire-rim glasses, pressed jeans, a neat yellow shirt and tassled loafers without socks. His Army dog tag and a Christian shield hung on a chain around his neck. Several times he exclaimed, ''Aw, jeepers!''
It was in April 2003 that Colonel West's Second Battalion, part of the Fourth Infantry Division, arrived in Iraq and set up camp at Taji, a former Iraqi air force base north of Baghdad. ''We experienced contact from hostile forces from the time we got there,'' he said in a hearing last November.
Colonel West said he spent much time searching for weapons caches and trying to disrupt the arms market in the area. He would advise his soldiers to keep alert at all times. ''You ride along and say to yourself, 'Is that dead sheep a dead sheep, or is it a dead sheep stuffed with a bomb?' '' he said.
He also tried to kick-start some projects, engaging Iraqis in repaving roads, restoring drinking-water supplies and rebuilding the police station, he said. Twice a week, he traveled to the nearest big town, Saba al-Boor, for community meetings.
''There I'd be, an inner-city kid from Atlanta sitting on the floor like Lawrence of Arabia, with 30 Arab sheiks,'' he said.
The first time, the sheiks challenged him about America's intentions in Iraq and, he said, he pulled out a family photograph and told them that the only land he wanted to occupy was the plot his house sat on in the United States. Eventually, platters of lamb and rice came out and he ate with his fingers like everybody else, he said. (He also ended up so ill from the meal that he had to be hooked up to an intravenous drip, his wife, Angela, interjected.)
In August, Colonel West learned from an intelligence specialist of a supposed plot to assassinate him, which would endanger the soldiers who traveled with him, too. The plot reportedly involved Mr. Hamoodi, a police officer who occasionally worked for the Americans. Although Mr. Hamoodi is a Shiite Muslim, and most attacks against Americans were carried out by Sunnis loyal to Saddam Hussein, some police officers do cooperate with the insurgents and several have been accused of attacking foreigners.
Colonel West said he initially thought ''the information was a joke.'' But a week later several of his officers were ambushed when he was supposed to be traveling with them. A roadside bomb sheared off the back panel of a Humvee, and a firefight ensued. None of his men were seriously hurt, but Colonel West began taking the risk of an assassination seriously.
On Aug. 20, he asked his men to pick up Mr. Hamoodi and bring him to the base. ''There was a sense of urgency because I felt in the next couple of days, something was going to happen,'' Colonel West testified at his hearing.
In an interview in Baghdad, Mr. Hamoodi, a thin, bespectacled 31-year-old, said aides to Colonel West stopped by his police station and asked him to join them on patrol. Mr. Hamoodi climbed into the back of their open Humvee, he said, and the vehicle soon jerked off the road.
Soldiers testified later that Mr. Hamoodi appeared to go for his weapon and needed to be subdued. Mr. Hamoodi said that one soldier punched him several times, and that he was handcuffed, shackled and blindfolded.
At the base, he said, they threw him, still bound, off the Humvee, then led him into the jail and eventually into an interrogation room. They pressed him for the details of an assassination plan, about which he knew nothing, he said. During the interrogation, he said, the translator kicked him in the shin and told him he needed to confess before Colonel West showed up to kill him.
Mr. Hamoodi said he felt relieved to hear the colonel was expected. He considered Colonel West to be ''calm, quiet, clever and sociable.'' When the colonel first entered the interrogation room, Mr. Hamoodi said, he thought, ''Here is the man who will treat me fairly.''
Then, he said, Colonel West cocked his gun.
Colonel West said that he did not then put a round in the gun's chamber but that he did place the pistol in his lap. He asked Mr. Hamoodi why he wanted to kill him. Mr. Hamoodi said that he protested, ''I've worked with you, I like you,'' but that Colonel West silenced his protest. Colonel West pressed for the names and locations of those involved in the supposed plot, and he got no answers.
Soon, the soldiers began striking and shoving Mr. Hamoodi. They were not instructed to do so by Colonel West but they were not stopped, either, they said. ''I didn't know it was wrong to hit a detainee,'' a 20-year-old soldier from Daytona Beach said at the hearing. Colonel West testified that he would have stopped the beating ''had it become too excessive.''
Eventually, the colonel and his soldiers moved Mr. Hamoodi outside, and threatened him with death. Colonel West said he fired a warning shot in the air and began counting down from five. He asked his soldiers to put Mr. Hamoodi's head in a sand-filled barrel usually used for clearing weapons. At the end of his count, Colonel West fired a shot into the barrel, angling his gun away from the Iraqi's head, he testified.
According to the interpreter, Mr. Hamoodi finally ''admitted there would be attacks, and called out names.'' Mr. Hamoodi said that he was not sure what he told the Americans, but that it was meaningless information induced by fear and pain.
At least one man named by Mr. Hamoodi was taken into custody, according to testimony, and his home was searched. No plans for attacks on Americans or weapons were found. Colonel West testified that he did not know whether ''any corroboration'' of a plot was ever found, adding: ''At the time I had to base my decision on the intelligence I received. It's possible that I was wrong about Mr. Hamoodi.''
When the interrogation was over, a physician's assistant checked Mr. Hamoodi and found ''swelling but no bruises,'' according to a hearing transcript. He was detained another 45 days and released without being charged, he said.
Mr. Hamoodi said he did not really blame the Americans for ''arresting and torturing me.'' Obviously, someone had informed on him, he said, and they had to act on the information they obtained. Still, he trembles now when he sees a Humvee and he no longer trusts or works with the Americans.
After the interrogation, Colonel West woke up his superior officer to recount what had occurred. The superior officer testified that he did not remember Colonel West's offering specifics, beyond saying that he had discharged his weapon during an interrogation and that no one was hurt.
Indeed, it is possible that the abusive interrogation might never have come to light if a sergeant in another battalion had not subsequently written a letter of complaint about the ''command climate'' under Colonel West's superior officer. In that letter, the sergeant mentioned almost as an aside, according to Mr. Puckett, that Colonel West had interrogated a detainee using a pistol. An investigation was set in motion.
In the fall, a helicopter arrived at the Taji base to ferry Colonel West to Tikrit for the duration of the investigation. As he looked down at the soldiers gathered to see him off, he said, he knew his career was over.
The hearing in November was meant to determine whether Colonel West would be court-martialed. News accounts described a highly emotional scene in which the colonel fought back tears as he testified, saying he would ''go to hell with a gasoline can in his hand'' to protect his troops. His soldiers filled the hearing room and greeted him with hugs and words of support during breaks.
Soldiers testified that they felt safer when Colonel West was in charge. The interpreter, who works for a private contractor, said that ''the American soldiers were protected by the tribes'' in the area because of Colonel West's good relationship with the community, and that the situation became more dangerous and chaotic after he left.
The military decided against court-martialing Colonel West. He was fined $5,000, and he submitted his resignation, which becomes effective this summer, when he will retire with full benefits.
Colonel West said he had spent many months grappling with disorientation, wondering, ''What is my purpose now, my reason for being?'' Shortly after he arrived back in the United States, he got a lucrative job offer from a private contractor to return to Iraq, he said, but he was not interested. Instead, he decided to start again in the world of education.
He is awaiting placement in a high school in Broward County and, he said, he prays that God will see to it that he gets a spot in one of the low-performing, predominantly black schools, where he can try to make a difference. Ever the striver, he plans to begin studying for a master's in education so he can advance into administration ''within five years.'' he said.
In an e-mail message, Colonel West described a recent motorcycle trip through affluent Palm Beach County, with its smells of ''fresh air, green grass, ocean salt air and suntan oils,'' and then back through a depressed, poor strip where the air reeked of ''garbage, smoke and alcohol.''
''Sorry for the pontification,'' he added, ''but you must understand. I lived in a sort of 'Matrix' world for 22 years and now I have been unplugged.''


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Marketing executives at sports apparel company Under Armour had a lot to cheer about this month as the American women's soccer team made a run at the World Cup.
The team ultimately lost to Japan, but the international visibility the players received was priceless for Baltimore-based Under Armour, which has endorsement deals with three of them: Heather Mitts, Lauren Cheney and Becky Sauerbrunn.
Under Armour, which has built itself from a basement startup to a billion-dollar enterprise, wasn't always able to afford the big endorsement deals of its more established competitors like Nike and Reebok.
The company instead turned to athletes like the soccer players to push its brand. The athletes were well-respected in their sports — some of them rookies with the potential to become stars — but not necessarily known to a broader audience.
"We have positioned ourselves as a brand for the next generation of athletes," said Matt Mirchin, Under Armour's senior vice president of sports marketing.
Athletic endorsements mean big money for sports apparel companies.
The first endorsement deal was thought to have been made in 1905 when Honus Wagner signed a deal with Hillerich & Bradsby Co., which put his name on bats, according to the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association.
But it was Nike that proved the practice could be lucrative for companies, signing greats such as Michael Jordan in the 1980s and Tiger Woods in the 1990s.
Most companies, including Under Armour, don't disclose how much they pay for endorsement deals, but the largest contracts can be in the tens of millions of dollars.
"The good athletes are walking, talking, breathing billboards for companies," said Mike May of the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association. "They become a great showcase for the brand."
A study by a Harvard University professor and an analyst from investment banking firm Barclay's Capital found that endorsement deals on average generate a 4 percent increase in company sales.
Endorsements can also increase a company's stock return by 0.25 percent, according to the study.
And the economic rewards just get better over time. If an athlete wins a major championship, stock returns and sales increase even more, researchers found.
"It's hard to imagine building a blockbuster sports brand and not having any major athletes connected to it," said Anita Elberse, the Harvard professor who conducted the study. "It suggests that if you're good enough for the athlete, you must be good enough for the masses."
In the beginning, Under Armour used a grass-roots approach to getting its brand recognized, putting its product in the hands of little-known — but hardcore — athletes.
Under Armour's first endorsement deal was struck more than a decade ago with Eric Ogbogu, a football teammate of Under Armour founder Kevin Plank at the University of Maryland.
Ogbogu wasn't a star in the NFL — he played for the Dallas Cowboys — but he became known for his role in Under Armour commercials. Known as "Big E," he made famous the company's now-ubiquitous slogan: "We must protect this house."
The company has since signed a variety of athletes, including last year's Heisman Trophy winner, Cam Newton, and fellow NFL players Miles Austin and Anquan Boldin.
The company is using a small group of up-and-coming players to help build its basketball line. Under Armour recently signed Brandon Jennings of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks and NBA rookie Kemba Walker.
The newest member of the Under Armour endorsement team is Derrick Williams, the second-overall pick in the NBA draft who will play for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Williams said in a telephone interview that he got a call from Under Armour the day after the NBA draft. He also talked to Nike, he said, but felt he might receive better exposure with Under Armour. He also said he liked the fact that Under Armour had signed a number of younger players to build its basketball line.
"One of my big goals is to get my own shoe, and I can see that happening with Under Armour," Williams said.
As it has become more profitable, the company has been able to target a few better-known athletes.
Hometown hero Michael Phelps signed with Under Armour last year — the Olympic swimming champion agreed to wear the company's products outside the pool.
"For Michael, this was really all about finding a way to work with a brand he loves," said his agent Peter Carlisle. "Michael and Under Armour both hail from Baltimore, which makes it a natural fit; but what really drives it is his affinity for Under Armour, its brand, products and people."
The company also signed last year what it called its highest-profile athlete ever, NFL quarterback Tom Brady. The agreement gave the New England Patriots player equity in the company to help seal the deal.
"They've been aggressive for guys with smaller checkbooks than their peers," said Michael Binetti, an analyst with UBS Investment Bank.
The endorsement issue came up during a recent event for investors at Under Armour's Tide Point headquarters. Plank said endorsements are important but said the company picked them strategically.
"We don't believe we have to pay a ransom for it," he said at the time.
CEO Plank often calls athletes personally to persuade them to join the company. He also looks for athletes who want to grow along with the firm.
"Other companies have so many athletes that they sit around for years with hopes of being marketed," Mirchin said. "If they want to pick up a check and not build a brand, that is not the person we are looking for."
Newton, who will play for the Carolina Panthers this season, said at a recent Under Armour shareholders meeting that he chose Under Armour over Reebok and others because he likes the direction it's taking.
"Y'all have seen just the appetizer of where this company is going to go," Newton said.
Under Armour's strategy of generally hiring less-than-megastar athletes is not without risks. Rookie players don't always live up to their potential. Younger players may not be as mature as older players and more likely to get into trouble off the field, sports marketing experts say.
"They could identify people who never make it," said Amna Kirmani, professor of marketing at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. "There are plenty of rising stars who don't make it as professional athletes."
Mirchin said the company is aware of the risks but said it chooses athletes carefully. Under Armour has a team that follows young athletes throughout their college careers.
"Every athlete doesn't have to succeed," Kirmani said. "If they get one or two [who] really make it, that will benefit the company."


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well, i have this question ->to write a simple hangman games where user A enters a phrase to guess. Then the program should display the phrase where characters are changed to *. Eg. "hello" is displayed "*****"
Then user B has to enter 5 valid consonants, eg. h,l and a single VALID vowel eg. o
the program should then display the phrase with the guessed characters, eg.
i have to write its code in java
i would be grateful if someone could help me about this
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(a) Subject to subsection (c), for purposes of Federal law, all State laws pertaining to the licensing, regulation, or prohibition of gambling, including but not limited to criminal sanctions applicable thereto, shall apply in Indian country in the same manner and to the same extent as such laws apply elsewhere in the State.
(b) Whoever in Indian country is guilty of any act or omission involving gambling, whether or not conducted or sanctioned by an Indian tribe, which, although not made punishable by any enactment of Congress, would be punishable if committed or omitted within the jurisdiction of the State in which the act or omission occurred, under the laws governing the licensing, regulation, or prohibition of gambling in force at the time of such act or omission, shall be guilty of a like offense and subject to a like punishment.
(c) For the purpose of this section, the term "gambling" does not include—
(1) class I gaming or class II gaming regulated by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, or
(2) class III gaming conducted under a Tribal-State compact approved by the Secretary of the Interior under section 11(d)(8) of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act that is in effect.
(d) The United States shall have exclusive jurisdiction over criminal prosecutions of violations of State gambling laws that are made applicable under this section to Indian country, unless an Indian tribe pursuant to a Tribal-State compact approved by the Secretary of the Interior under section 11(d)(8) of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, or under any other provision of Federal law, has consented to the transfer to the State of criminal jurisdiction with respect to gambling on the lands of the Indian tribe.
(Added Pub. L. 100–497, §23, Oct. 17, 1988, 102 Stat. 2487.)
The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, referred to in subsec. (c), is Pub. L. 100–497, Oct. 17, 1988, 102 Stat. 2467, which enacted sections 1166 to 1168 of this title and chapter 25 (§2701 et seq.) of Title 25, Indians. Section 11(d)(8) of such Act is classified to section 2710(d)(8) of Title 25. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2701 of Title 25 and Tables.


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Nagga was a legendary sea dragon said to live during the Age of Heroes, and was slain by the Grey King.[1]
According to the ironborn legend, Nagga was the first sea dragon, able to feed on krakens and leviathans and drown islands when angry. The Grey King, helped by the Drowned God, managed to slay her on the shores of the island Old Wyk and built there his hall out of her bones. Her jaws became his throne and her teeth made his crown. He warmed his hall with her living fire. However, when the Grey King died, the Storm God drowned out her fire and the sea took the throne. Only her bones that made the pillars and beams remain.[1]
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Euron Greyjoy is chosen King of the Iron Islands in a kingsmoot held amongst the sea dragon's bones at Nagga's Hill.[1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 19, The Drowned Man.


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Asclepias physocarpa (E. Mey.) Schlechter - Balloon Plant
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Key concepts
- Olives are stone fruits, like cherries and plums. So real extra virgin olive oil is fresh-squeezed fruit juice – seasonal, perishable, and never better than the first few weeks it was made.
- Bitterness and pungency are usually indicators of an oil's healthfulness. Sweetness and butteriness are often not.
- There are 700+ different kinds of olives, which make thousands of different kinds of oil. Asking "what's the best olive oil?" is like asking "what's the best wine?" The answer is, "depends on what you're eating it with."
- Know the when, who, where of your oil: When it was made (harvest date), who made it (specific producer name), and exactly where on the planet they made it.
- Like everything on Truthinoliveoil.com, this guide is work in progress, and is upgraded as I learn about new tips, scoops . . . and frauds.
- Read my book Extra Virginity to understand the bigger picture about where olive oil, great and bad, comes from, and who is making it.
Buyer's guide
- Unlike many wines, which improve with age, extra virgin olive oil is perishable: like all natural fruit juices, its flavor and aroma begin to deteriorate within a few months of milling, a decline that accelerate when the oil is bottled, and really speeds up when the bottle is opened. To get the freshest oil, and cut out middle-men who often muddy olive oil transparency and quality, buy as close to the mill as possible. If you're lucky enough to live near a mill – common around the Mediterranean, and more and more so in other areas of the world with a Mediterranean-like climate, like Australia, S. Africa, California, Texas, Georgia – visit it during the harvest to see how olives are picked, crushed, stirred, and spun into olive oil. I've included many profiles of millers and oil makers in the US, the Mediterranean, Australia and elsewhere to be found in my book Extra Virginity, which captures their craftsmanship and perfectionism despite a day-to-day struggle with fraud.
- If a mill is out of reach, find a store where you can taste olive oils in a range of styles before you buy them, and where the staff can answer a few basic questions about how, where and by whom the oils were made. Specialty olive oil stores and oil bars are becoming more common, and a growing number of delicatessens, markets and supermarkets have an oil bar. In North America, model institutions include Zingerman's Deli in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Gustiamo in the Bronx; Eataly in Manhattan; The Olive Press in Sonoma; and Amphora Nueva in Berkeley, though specialty olive oil stores and oil bars are becoming more common, and a growing number of delicatessens, markets and supermarkets contain an oil bar. Franchise chains like We Olive and Oil and Vinegar also offer a wide selection and often knowledgeable salespeople.
- When you can't taste the oil first, visit a vendor that performs stringent quality control in their production and selection of oils, such as Corti Brothers, Gustiamo, Zingerman's, Fairway Market, or the superb selection offered online at Olive Oil Lovers.
- When choosing bottled oil, prefer dark glass or other containers that protect against light, buy a quantity that you'll use up quickly, and keep it well sealed in a cool, dark place. Even an excellent oil can rapidly go rancid when left sitting under a half-bottle of air, or in a hot or brightly-lit conditions.
- Don't pay much attention to the color of an oil. Good oils come in all shades, from vivid green to gold to pale straw, and official tasters actually use colored glasses to avoid prejudicing themselves in favor of greener oils. Both in flavor and aroma, genuine extra virgin oils have, a marked fruitiness reminiscent of fresh olives, and typically have some level of bitterness and pungency (pepperiness at the back of the throat). In great oils these characteristics are harmoniously balanced, together with complex aromas, flavors and aftertastes that bloom gradually on the senses.
- Don't be put off by bitterness or pungency – remember that these are usually indicators of the presence of healthful antioxidants, anti-inflammatories and other healthful "minor components" of top-quality olive oil – unless one of these characteristics is overwhelming and disproportionate to the others.
- Above all, seek out freshness, choosing oils that smell and taste vibrant and lively, and avoid tastes or odors such as moldy, rancid, cooked, greasy, meaty, metallic and cardboard. Also pay attention to mouthfeel: prefer crisp and clean to flabby, coarse or greasy.
- Labels: If you aren't able to taste an oil or get help from a knowledgable salesperson, you'll have to rely on the label for information about the oil. To begin with, be sure your oil is labeled "extra virgin," since other categories – "pure" or "light" oil, "olive oil," not to mention "pomace olive oil" – have undergone chemical refinement which strips away olive flavors and many of the oil's health benefits.
- To ensure freshness, look for bottles with a "best by" date, or better still a date of harvest. Try to buy oils only from this year's harvest. "Best by" dates are usually two years from the time an oil was bottled, so if you see a date that is two years away, the oil is more likely to be fresh. That said, many olive oils, particularly in the EU, are stored for years before being bottled, yet their "best by" dates are (wrongly) determined by the date of bottling, not of harvest. In fact, most supermarket extra virgins are blends of fresher oil from more recent harvests with flatter oil from earlier harvests. So far, no system has been found to calibrate the "best by" date to the chemical freshness of the oil when it is packed.
- Phrases like "packed in Italy" or "bottled in Italy," do not mean that the oil was made in Italy, much less that it was made from Italian olives. Italy is one of the world's major importers of olive oil, much of which originates in Spain, Greece, Tunisia and elsewhere, so don't be taken in by Italian flags and scenes from the Tuscan countryside on the packaging. Some of the oil imported into italy is consumed by Italians, but much of it is blended, packed and re-exported. Generally speaking, avoid oils whose precise point of production – a specific mill – is not specified on the label.
- Chemical parameters like free fatty acidity (FFA) and peroxides are sometimes mentioned on olive oil bottles. In general terms, FFA indicates the breakdown of the basic fat structure of an oil, whether due to poor-quality fruit (bruising, olive fly infestation, fungal attack) or most commonly, by delays between harvest and extraction of the oil; a low FFA doesn't guarantee high quality, but high FFA almost always means poor oil. An oil's peroxide value indicates the extent to which a young oil has been oxidized, typically through breakdown by free radicals or by exposure to light. The levels set by the IOC and EU (and followed recently by the USDA) for the extra virgin grade – 0.8% FFA and a peroxide value of less than 20 milliequivalents per kilo – are by no means stringent enough to guarantee good oil, which frequently has 0.2 percent or lower FFA and peroxides at well below 10 meq/kg.
- An oil's polyphenol content contributes significantly to its antioxidant properties, and is therefore an important indicator of a range of health-giving characteristics, taste qualities, and shelf life (polyphenols work to preserve the oil as well as the bodies of those who consume it). The IOC recently approved a method of measuring an oil's polyphenol content, so this indicator may become increasingly common on olive oil labels. At least in health terms, the higher the rating, the better, with numbers below 300 being low, and above 500 being high – though the latter can be too bitter, peppery or both for many consumers. (Some oils rate as high as 800 in polyphenols.)
- Though not always a guarantee of quality, several certifications mentioned on olive oil labels can provide a level of confidence that an oil has been properly made.
- Look for PDO and PGI certification. PDO is the acronym for "Protected Designation of Origin" ("DOP" in Italian), a legal definition, similar to the Appellation d'origine contrôlée designation in French wines, for foods (including extra virgin olive oil) that are produced or processed in a specific region using traditional production methods. (PGI, or "Protected Geographical Indication" ("IGP" in Italian) is a similar though less stringent designation. The production process of PDO and PGI oils is laid down by a specific protocol and overseen by a quality control committee, which further helps to maintain the quality of the oil. PDO status is legally binding within the EU, and is gradually being extended to areas outside the European Union via bilateral agreements
- Olive oils certified by national and state olive oil associations, such as the Australian Olive Association, the California Olive Oil Council and the Association 3E. The North American Olive Oil Association and the International Olive Oil Council also run certification programs, though I personally think their standards should be improved.
- Organic certification can (but doesn't always) offer further assurances of quality and healthfulness.
- Oils that scored well in recent, reputable olive oil contests are often a good choice, especially when the oil you are buying is from the same harvest as the oil that won the award (and not, say, from a decade earlier). Leading olive oil contests include:
- Extrascape
- Sol d'Oro
- New York International Olive Oil Competition
- Mario Solinas
- Ercole Olivario
- Olio Capitale
- Los Angeles International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition
- Yolo County Fair Olive Oil Competition
- Napa County Fair Olive Oil Competition
- The National Extra Virgin Olive Oil Show run by the Australian Olive Association
- TerraOlivo
- Flos Olei (new, growing out of the excellent international olive oil guidebook)
- Olive Japan
- For information on some of the more prominent olive oil competitions around the world, see the competition list of the Olive Oil Times and the Olive Oil Source.
- Start noticing the cultivars (ie the varieties) of olives that are used to make the oils you like best, as you do the grape varietals of your favorite wines. There are 700+ different kinds of olives in the world!
- Certain terms commonly used on olive oil labels are anachronistic, and sometimes indicate that the producer is paying more attention to the image of an oil than what's actually inside the bottle. Take the terms "first pressed" and "cold pressed," for example. Since most extra virgin oil nowadays is made with centrifuges, it isn't "pressed" at all, and all true extra virgin comes exclusively from the first pressing of the olive paste. EU regulations state that "cold pressed" can be used only when the olive paste is kept at or below 27º C during the malaxing process – a level respected by nearly all serious producers-and when the oil is actually extracted with a press, not a centrifuge.
- Unfiltered oil and filtration: Some consumers view unfiltered olive oil, with tiny bits of olive pulp and skin floating in it, as more authentic and flavorful. Improper or excessive filtration can attenuate certain flavors and aromas, and many producers of fine oil prefer simply to rack their fresh-pressed oil repeatedly, removing sediment, rather than to filter it. However, other top oil-makers swear by filtration, which can significantly increase an oil's shelf life. In either case, be on the lookout for a layer of sediment at the bottom of the bottle, which often spoils faster than the oil itself, and can produce the taste flaw of muddy sediment.
- As you would with a wine, choose a style of oil that fits the role it will play in your meals. Pick a powerful oil – variously described as "robust," "early harvest" or "full-bodied" – to accompany foods with strong or distinctive flavors, such as pepper steak; bruschetta or fett'unta (toasted bread with oil and salt, often rubbed with garlic; fresh, flavorful vegetables like arugula; or to drizzle over vanilla ice cream (try it before you scoff!)). Choose a milder oil – often called "mild," "delicate fruit," or "late harvest"- for foods like fish, chicken or potatoes.
- Olive oils are also flavored with a range of fruit, vegetable and other extracts; some of the most popular are made with lemons, blood oranges and other citrus fruits. While many olive oil cognoscenti (and most Europeans) turn up their noses at these oils, they have a wide following in North America and Down Under. The best are made by crushing whole fruit or peels together with the olives, a process called agrumato. Make sure that the base oil flavor isn't rancid, and that the flavoring itself is fresh and not artificial tasting.
- Avoid bargain prices, because producing genuine extra virgin oil is expensive. Though high prices don't guarantee great oil, low prices – under about US$10 for a liter – strongly suggest that the oil you're buying is inferior. Having stated these general guidelines, it's worth considering two potential exceptions. First, new mechanized methods of olive growing and harvesting (such as super-high-density cultivation) are reducing production costs, Allowing excellent oils to be made at lower prices than with traditional methods. Second, government subsidies to olive growers and oil makers in the European Union and elsewhere allow subsidized producers to charge far lower retail prices for their oils than producers in the US and Australia, where no subsidies exist.
- Once you've bought your oil, store it in a place where it is protected from light, heat and oxygen, the three enemies of good oil, which speed spoilage. And don't hoard it! Even great oils deteriorate with each passing day, and will all too soon become ordinary, even rancid, if not used quickly.
- There is a great deal of disagreement, and a fair bit of misinformation, concerning whether to use extra virgin olive oil, rather than refined ("pure," "light") olive oil for frying. Quality extra virgin olive oil is a fine choice for sautéing and shallow frying, so long as its flavor doesn't overpower the food; an aggressive early-harvest oil would be a poor choice to saute fish, for example. Using extra virgin olive oil for deep-fat frying at higher temperatures is uneconomical, and can even be counter-productive, because the cooking process can accentuate the harsh flavors in the oil, and many of the flavors and aromas of fine oils will volatilize and disappear. Refined olive oil is probably a better choice for deep-fat frying, though there are undoubtedly many extra virgin olive oils that hold up well to frying – the lower an oil's free fatty acidity, the higher its smoke-point (the temperature at which it begins to smoke, producing unpleasant and unhealthful byproducts), and the more times it can be re-used. (Each time the oil is heated its acidity rises, meaning that its smoke point will and quality will both decline.)
- Depending on their composition, most oils harden when chilled to around 3 degrees Celsius. As they cool, a waxy sediment settles out of them. Freezing does not harm an oil – in fact, it is a good method of preservation – but may reduce its shelf life if substantial sediment is produced. The idea that the freezing point of an oil indicates whether an oil is adulterated is a myth. For more details see the excellent précis here.
Olive oils are different each year, because they're made from freshly-harvested olives, which vary in quality and character as much as wine grapes do. So guides to great oils must be annual, and not all oils that win a major competition one year are of equal quality the next. However, the following resources provide valuable leads to olive oil excellence.
+ Der Feinschmecker, a German-language wine and food guide, produces a fine yearly guide to some of the best olive oils of the season (in German)
+ Good yearly guides to the olive oils of Italy are produced, in Italian, by Slow Food, Gambero Rosso, and several other publishers.
+ Experienced oil expert Marco Oreggia produces Flos olei, a yearly guide to oils worldwide – see here and here. Though producers have to pay to be included in the guide, many excellent oils are covered, some from lesser-known production areas.
+ The California Olive Oil Council certifies member oils here.
+ Olive Oil Times, a vital source of information on the industry, is compiling an Olive Oil Times guide, together with an iPhone app. Although at this point the guide is self-nominating – ie producers nominate themselves, and aren't vetted by independent experts – it contains a number of good oils with useful tasting notes and food pairing information.
+ Another iPhone app is GoEVOO, by olive oil writer and enthusiast Carol Firenze, author of The Passionate Olive. This too is self-nominating, and limited at this point to California, but contains some good oils.
Web resources
- Olive Oil Times: The best source for daily news from the olive oil world.
- Teatro Naturale in Italian and in English (the Italian site is better and more comprehensive): Olive oil news with a European perspective, sometimes taking the side of the larger producers and bottlers.
- UC Davis Olive Center: The new olive oil research center at one of America's most important agricultural universities, which has an IOC-recognized taste panel, and performs important research into sensory analysis. The UC Davis Olive Center has the potential to become one of the world's leading voices regarding extra virgin olive oil.
- Olive Oil Source: An excellent and diverse array of resources covering many aspects of olive oil chemistry, tasting, and production.
- Slick Extra Virgin: A highly entertaining and informative blog by Richard Gawel, Australian chemist, oil taster and consultant who is as meticulous about facts as he is caustic about slippery behavior in oil. Gawel also sells an ingenious plasticized wheel containing the terminology used in oil tasting, which is a convenient reference tool.
- CalAthena: Smart, savvy, commonsense wisdom about olive oil from Alexandra Kicenik Devarenne, a California-based olive oil consultant and quality activist.
- Australian Olive Association: The trade association of the Australian olive oil industry, whose stress on olive growing and oil-making skills as well as innovative chemical testing has pushed the envelope of olive oil quality throughout the world.
- ONAOO: A good site, in Italian and English, by one of the world's pioneering olive oil sensory analysis groups, the National Organization of Olive Oil Tasters, located in Imperia, Italy.
- Modern Olives: One of the world's premier laboratories for the chemical and sensory analysis of olive oil, based in Jeelong, Victoria.
- Olive Oil Testing Service, Leading olive oil chemical and sensory testing laboratory based in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.
- California Olive Oil Council: The leading association of olive growers and oil producers in America, which compiles a list of certified oil producers and offers a range of other useful information.
- North American Olive Oil Association: The trade association of the olive oil industry in the United States, which runs quality tests and a certification program, and recently encouraged the USDA to upgrade its trade standard for olive oil to meet international norms.
- Merum: The superb, in-the-know, highly opinionated website by olive grower and oil-maker Andreas März, a Swiss who lives in Tuscany, which considers a wide range of Italian oils and wines (in German).
- Gustiamo: An importer of top-quality olive oils from Italy, which they sell online, as well as passionate activists for food authenticity issues.
- Zingermans: One of the best selections of olive oils – and a great many other exotic foods – available by mail-order in America.
- Harold McGee: Journeys through the science of food, including olive oil, led by a world authority in the chemistry of food and cooking.
- Association 3E: A perceptive look at both the philosophical and the pragmatic aspects of quality in olive oil, and an introduction to "super-premium olive oil," which 3E proposes as a new designation for top-quality oil, to replace the now meaningless adjective of "extra virgin". Featured in Extra Virginity.
- International Olive Council: The historic intergovernmental olive oil body representing growers in countries around the Mediterranean, whose tasting protocol helped create the modern definition of extravirgin.
- Corporazione Mastri Oleari: An authoritative group of top extra virgin olive oil producers (in Italian). The organization and its corageous head, Flavio Zaramella, are profiled in Extra Virginity.
- Veronica Foods: A high quality source for olive oil for a growing number of specialty stores across America, as well as its own outlet, Amphora Nueva in Berkeley, California.
- The Olive Press: the slick website of the equally slick Sonoma oil mill and shop, owned by wine stand-out Fred Cline.
- Marco Oreggia: An independent olive oil taster who writes one of the more important yearly guides to top olive oils worldwide (in Italian and English).
- UCCE Sonoma: High-class technical resources for olive growers and millers.
- Slow Food: The global food NGO offers important information on top oils and oil producers, and compiles a yearly guidebook (in Italian) that is required reading for oil aficionados.
- Gambero Rosso: A leading Italian wine and food association whose new guide to italian extra virgins, updated each year, is a useful reference.
- CHOICE magazine – Australia's premier consumer magazine, which publishes regular surveys of olive oil quality in Australian stores.


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Led by Joseph Ross, MD, MHS, Assistant Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine and of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, a team of six investigators analyzed 30 randomized, placebo-controlled trials of Vioxx that were made available through litigation and published their findings in the November 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. Under new FDA disclosure requirements, the analysis may also serve as a blueprint for other independent post-market pharmaceutical safety studies.
"Independent, objective investigators can play a more active role in pharmaceutical safety surveillance, ideally in concert with the FDA and industry," said Dr. Ross. "Our study is an analytic approach that can be used to inform public health efforts. Comprehensive, rigorous analysis of clinical trial data allows the earlier identification of drug risks, promoting more informed treatment decisions, protecting the public's health, and perhaps saving lives."
The research team identified 30 randomized, placebo-controlled trials that enrolled a combined 20,152 individuals, lasted from four weeks to four years and assigned a range of 17 to 2,586 participants to take doses of Vioxx ranging from 12.5 milligrams to 50 milligrams. The authors pooled the data from these studies and analyzed the results cumulatively, as information from each newly completed clinical trial became available.
Their analysis showed that safety concerns arose almost four years before the drug was withdrawn from the market. Dr. Ross and his colleagues found that as of December 2000 — when 21 of the 30 studies had been completed — there was a strong concern that patients taking Vioxx were at a greater risk for adverse events or death from cardiovascular conditions or blood clots. Thereafter, collected data through June 2001 showed Vioxx to be associated with a 35 percent increase in risk of a cardiovascular event or death. The association with cardiovascular risk strengthened as more data became available. As of April 2002, the pooled analysis showed a 39 percent increased risk, and as of September 2004, a 43 percent increased risk.
Merck introduced Vioxx to the market in May 1999 and the drug quickly became a commercial success, with sales reaching $2 billion annually.
Dr. Ross and his colleagues performed their analysis in an effort to provide a blueprint for use of clinical trial data. In their paper, the authors concluded, "Because the recently enacted FDA Amendments Act requires public disclosure of trial results within the ClinicalTrials.gov database within 12-24 months of study completion, including both efficacy and safety outcomes, clinical trial data should be available to conduct iterative meta-analyses independent of the FDA and manufacturers."
"Physicians and the public deserve to be in a position to make informed choices about risk and benefits [of pharmaceutical products]," they wrote. "And the early disclosure and dissemination of information about potential risk after its recognition must be required."
Substantial amounts of clinical trial data that have rarely been fully utilized to understand drug efficacy or safety should now be available and can be used by independent investigators to complement and corroborate surveillance done by the FDA and the companies.
About the Authors
The authors of the study include Joseph S. Ross, M.D., M.H.S., of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, NY; David Madigan, Ph.D., of Columbia University in New York, NY; Kevin P. Hill, M.D., M.H.S., of the Harvard University School of Medicine in Boston, MA; David S. Egilman, M.D., M.P.H., of the Brown University School of Medicine in Providence, RI; and Yongfei Wang, M.S., and Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D., S.M., of the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, CT.
Financial Disclosure Note: All of the authors have been compensated for their work as consultants at the request of plaintiffs in litigation against Merck & Co. Inc. related to rofecoxib in the United States. Co-author Dr. Madigan is currently a consultant at the request of plaintiffs in litigation against Merck and Co., Inc. related to rofecoxib in Australia and has been a consultant to Pfizer, Wyeth, Sanofi-Aventis, and Takeda and currently serves on the clinical review team of iGuard.org. Co-author Dr. Krumholz has had research contracts with the American College of Cardiology and the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care; has previously served on the advisory boards of Alere and Amgen, and currently serves on one with UnitedHealthcare; is a scientific advisor for Centegen; has been a subject expert for VHA, Inc.; has received speakers' compensation from the American College of Cardiology; and is Editor-in-Chief of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, and Journal Watch Cardiology of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
About The Mount Sinai Medical Center
The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The Mount Sinai Hospital is one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. Founded in 1852, Mount Sinai today is a 1,171-bed tertiary-care teaching facility that is internationally acclaimed for excellence in clinical care. Last year, nearly 50,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients, and there were nearly 450,000 outpatient visits to the Medical Center.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine is internationally recognized as a leader in groundbreaking clinical and basic science research, as well as having an innovative approach to medical education. With a faculty of more than 3,400 in 38 clinical and basic science departments and centers, Mount Sinai ranks among the top 20 medical schools in receipt of National Institute of Health (NIH) grants. For more information, please visit www.mountsinai.org.
Vioxx Trial Data Shows Early Cardiovascular Risk, Provides Lessons for Post-Market Pharmaceutical Safety
Led by Joseph Ross, MD, MHS, Assistant Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine and of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, a team of six investigators analyzed 30 randomized, placebo-controlled trials of Vioxx that were made available through litigation and published their findings in the November 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. Under new FDA disclosure requirements, the analysis may also serve as a blueprint for other independent post-market pharmaceutical safety studies.


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According to Webroot's State of Spyware Report the first quarter of 2006 marked a dramatic increase in spyware attacks as well as spyware sophistication. For example, Webroot reports significant rise in Trojan horse infection rates with an increase to 29 percent, up from 24 percent during the fourth quarter of 2005. The report confirms that the only way to effectively combat complicated spyware, like Trojan horses and system monitors, is with best-of-breed software, such as Spy Sweeper Enterprise. This best-of-breed approach gives Webroot's Channel Edge Partners a substantial competitive advantage and will continue to be of key importance in the sales process as spyware becomes more convoluted.
Webroot also found that more than 50 percent of small to medium sized businesses (SMB) experienced a spyware attack in Q1 2006. In its recently released "Spyware & Small Business", an informative guide developed exclusively for SMBs to educate and inform them about the massive risks spyware poses, Webroot explains that smaller businesses are especially vulnerable to spyware attacks. This is due to their often limited IT resources and lack of network security. Webroot's Channel Edge Partners will play an increasingly important role moving forward to deliver Spy Sweeper Enterprise to this market segment more rapidly to better protect, detect and remove spyware from these vulnerable enterprise networks.
"This fight has only just begun. Our research shows us that spyware is on the rise and is not going away any time soon. The good news is that Webroot and its channel partners are committed to protecting businesses with the best anti-spyware protection," said C. David Moll, CEO of Webroot Software Inc. "Our channel partners have already established themselves as trusted IT security resources for their customers and as Webroot executes its channel strategies and grows as a channel-focused organization throughout 2006 and beyond, we will continue to provide the resources and support services to help our partners succeed in arming their customers with the best anti-spyware protection."
Since the introduction of Webroot's Channel Edge Partner program earlier this year, Webroot has seen a 62 percent increase in its channel related sales. To support this important program, the company has rolled out several valuable resources and incentives to support its channel partners throughout the sales process and further drive global sales of Spy Sweeper Enterprise. One such resource is the Webroot Channel Edge Partner Portal. This password protected and secure online tool is available exclusively to Webroot partners and provides an unrivaled lineup of ROI driven sales tools, training materials and marketing support.
Webroot also granted its Premium Channel Edge Partners access to the Enterprise Spy Audit tool to quickly, easily and accurately evaluate customers' level of spyware risk. This unique tool gives Premium Partners a clear competitive advantage to increase profitability and shorten sales cycles. Already, more than 70 percent of Webroot's Premium Partners are actively using this tool. Also recently introduced was Webroot Opportunity Registration, a simplified process to register new deals. This incentive program was specifically designed to increase profit margins, mitigate channel conflict and fuel consistent revenue growth for Webroot's valued Channel Edge Premium Partners.
"We've had a great experience working with Webroot thus far. The value Spy Sweeper Enterprise provides is undeniable as the threat of spyware spreads throughout the enterprise, worldwide," said George Vahle, executive vice president, The I.T. Pros. "That, combined with the excellent partner support services Webroot offers have contributed to a simplified and seamless sales process. We value the relationship we have built with Webroot and envision a long–term business alliance."


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PBS will premiere a new documentary tonight that profiles young playwrights Tarell Alvin McCraney and Rajiv Joseph. McCraney is the super-talented 32-year-old Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright sometimes described as the "heir" to August Wilson's legacy. McCraney—who is openly gay—is also one of the 24 winners of the 2013 MacArthur Fellows.
Playwright: From Page to Stage will be broadcast tonight on PBS's Independent Lens. The documentary is largely by the numbers but does feature several "candid moments that go deeper than we're used to seeing," writes Neil Genzlinger in his review at The New York Times.
The film focuses on Rajiv Joseph and his Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" and Tarell Alvin McCraney and his trilogy The Brother/Sister Plays. We see Mr. McCraney's work as it is being produced at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J., in 2009.
The film does pick up substance in a couple of spots. At the McCarter, several of the principals wonder bluntly how Mr. McCraney's work will be received by the theater's older, largely white audience, since Mr. McCraney is young, gay and black, and his trilogy is drawn from his world. And when it seems likely that Mr. Joseph's play will transfer to Broadway, those involved with the West Coast production talk glumly about the celebrity-driven reality of Broadway and contemplate who is likely to be replaced. Robin Williams was pretty good in the tiger role in the Broadway production, but you have to feel sorry for Kevin Tighe, the original tiger.
McCraney is only momentarily seen in two of the four online previews offered by PBS—which focus on Rajiv Joseph's productions and Robin Williams. Maybe the documentary or the preview page were completed before McCraney's "Genius" grant. Maybe. But there are a number of videos produced by the McCarter Theater that feature McCraney discussing his influences and his craft. Watch two AFTER THE JUMP ...
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The Sitka History Museum YouTube Channel offers original documentary shorts, speakers series, and more! Click here to explore Sitka's history.
The Sitka Historical Society works with KCAW Raven Radio 104.7 FM to produce Sitka History Minutes. Written by Society Executive Director Hal Spackman, Museum Curator Kristy Griffin, and Collections Fellow Caitlin Rogers, these short weekly programs highlight the intriguing people, events, and stories in the history of Sitka. Tune in on Thursday mornings around 8:30 am after The Writer's Almanac to hear the latest episode. If you've missed any, you can find them all right here.


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Evie DressCamilla and Marc
The Evie Dress in Classic Mid Blue by C&M is a relaxed denim mini dress. Style it with sneakers or slides for the perfect weekend look.
- Vintage classic mid blue wash
- Chest pockets
- Front placket with CAMILLA AND MARC branded shank buttons
- Traditional tobacco topstitch details
Please note this denim is 100% Cotton and will feel extremely firm on the first try, as they will mould and soften to the body during wear.
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Grumpiest Cat
For a festival plump with PLUR, it was certainly odd to see a Grumpy Cat prowling amid the bubblegum-colored tutus. He was testing the saccharine smiles of kandi ravers. But nothing, not even this guy, could bring the party down with a frown. Well, maybe the stench lurking under that rubber mask might.
See also: Ultra 2014's Ten Sleaziest T-Shirts
Best Sign Ever
Yes. After anything, we eat Taco Bell. See you there, brah.
Best Place to Meet a Bro: Ultra Worldwide
This is the "tent" at Ultra where folks who don't know a whole lot about quality go to pump their fists hard as fuck and sweat stinky bullets. If you have a hankering for a bro or babe with mediocre taste in music and a deep desire to bounce around like they're surgically attached to a pogo stick, the Worldwide structure was made just for you.
See also: Meet the Beefcakes of Ultra Music Festival
Best Place to Meet Your New Gay Boyfriend: Carl Cox Tent
No, we're not saying the Carl Cox tent is the best place to snag your next homosexual partner because it's got the word "Cox" in it. It's because Carl Cox is playing inside! House music is the erotic elixir of the gay community. This is where muscles come to find romance.
Baddest Bitch
OK, no clue how old this lady is, but she's looking fierce as fuck! Dude, one day, we plan on having a bod as smoking hot as this woman's. Lord have mercy! And the way she's working that lace? We bow down before you, most mature babe at Ultra. We'll even figure out how to use a treadmill if you make us your disciple.
Finest Use of Feathers
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Miami's Cuci Amador of Afrobeta (which performed this year again) is one of the most flawless dressers in the state of Florida. Amador never falters. This Ultra, she brought the feather look that was so popular to the next level. She puts parrots to shame. And on the back of the jacket is the Afrobeta logo. Un-toppable.
See also: Ultra 2014's Top 20 Raver Looks
Best Question of the Weekend
Well, are you?
Coolest Cool Guy
It may have been 90 degrees in downtown Miami this weekend, but this guy didn't even break a sweat. Not only is that actually cool, but he was wearing this fascinating kabuki-inspired ensemble that out-hipped the whole affair. His friend had a Maison Kitsune shirt on too. So yeah, he's cooler than you.
Sweatiest People
There were two magical ladies riding around the festival grounds on the backs of huge white alien creatures, creating a memorable spectacle everywhere they went. Only thing is, those aren't actual alien creatures. Nope, they're human people wearing a hot costume and carting around probably 120 pounds' worth of human flesh, bone, muscle, hair, and makeup on their backs. They were likely the sweatiest people ever.
See also: Ultra Ravers Answer: What's in Your Fanny Pack?
Most Clever Use of Symbols
You know exactly what kind of music this guy loves. He doesn't even have to shout over the jaw-chattering bass. He loves house, and we love his ability to communicate, simply and clearly.
Craziest Look
He's wearing top and bottom vampire grills. He's got on a floral blazer. All that jewelry on his head and hanging from his neck has to have been borrowed from a flapper. And those tight pink leggings? This is by far the craziest look of Ultra 2014.
Most Delicious Looking Chow
We're way to poor to buy food at a festival, but we did a ton of sniffing and eyeing of other people's munchables. And we have to say, the teriyaki chicken tent had the flyest looking meals.
See also: Ultra 2014's Top Ten Fashion Trends: Unicorns, Muscles, and More!
Most Fabulous Gay
This is a message to all the young, almost fab queer kids out there: Follow this guy's lead! He is more than adorable in his shiny, sexy club kid fashions and Bjork-inspired hair. Love it all the way into tomorrow. Werk!
Most Frightening Troll
One day, children will only know trolls as those assholes who say mean things on the Internet. But we know there were hideous dolls that we were expected to collect in middle school, and those were a different kind of troll. This chick donned a modern interp of that classic monster.
Healthiest Raver
You can eat drugs or you can eat pineapples. This health-conscious raver chooses the fruit.
See also: Ultra Ravers' Ten Tips for Finding Love at an EDM Fest
Largest Kandi Biceps
Fashion tip! If you didn't have time to pump up your arms with endless dumbell curls, you can create the illusion of swollen biceps with beads.
Most Likely to Get Twitter Followers
Don't lie, you just logged in to Twitter to follow this chick.
Most Literal Ravers
These two girls took candy to heart and nipple and bum with these sugary sweet ensembles.
Most Normal People at Ultra
These must have been the children of a vendor or maybe the festival's CFO. Why else would two seemingly well-adjusted dudes be hanging out at a grimy, bass-inflated shitshow? (We know one good reason, not to be mentioned here, and it has five letters.)
See also: Ultra Ravers Talk About the Meaning of Life
Most Revealing Raver
Dude ... This chick was so revealing, you can literally see inside her.
Weirdest Getup
We hope this is just a leftover Halloween costume and this guy didn't buy a Boy Scout outfit specifically for Ultra. There are so many strange things about a man dressed as a young boy at a rave.
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Suggestive Floral Arrangement
Flowers represent one thing: vaginas. And yes, we're now looking at that rose and thinking about a vagina. Thanks, DIY raver girl!
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Education & Public Programs
Education & Public Programs offers a wide array of educational activities and resources for teachers, students, families, community members and visitors of all ages and backgrounds. Our role is to offer opportunities to our community to get inspired by and learn from the extraordinary diversity of the museum collections and related research. Through partnerships and collaboration with UAF research departments and community members, we are proud to connect the public with Alaska's science, arts, and cultural diversity. Join us during weekly hands-on family programs, learn about our school field trip opportunities, spend a night in the museum or trigger your curiosity on your own using our object-based kits, exhibit activities and museum boxes. Year after year, we are grateful to have students and devoted volunteers to help us deliver and develop fun programs.
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Virgin from AUS to USA
Virgin Australia promoted its long haul flights from Australia to the United States with a billboard featuring the close connection between the two countries' abbreviations. Just move the A from the beginning to the end and you're there. "From AUS to USA. Virgin Australia. Now you're flying." The billboard won a Gold Outdoor Lion at 2012 Cannes International Festival of Creativity.
The AUS to USA billboard was developed at Clemenger BBDO, Sydney, by executive creative director Paul Nagy, creative director Luke Chess, copywriters Ryan Albuino and Josh Braithwaite, art directors Andrew Chu, Sebastian Vizor, Sarah Parris, Michael Dole, illustrator Ben Greenfield, photographer Nick May, account supervisor Chris Yong, account manager Kevin Doyle, account executive Grace Kluver, producer Steve Tindall and head of production Chris Bear.
Filed under: Billboards, Print, Virgin, Virgin Australia
Tagged: Andrew Chu, Ben Greenfield, Clemenger BBDO, Josh Braithwaite, Luke Chess, Michael Dole, Nick May, Paul Nagy, Ryan Abuino, Sarah Parris, Sebastian Vizor
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BOULDER, CO - March 26, 2010
Webroot, a leading Internet security provider for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, today announced that dozens of higher education institutions, including the University of Missouri, Residential Life, Dallas County Community College District and the Trinity School for Ministry, have selected cloud-based security services from Webroot to protect them from data loss, network downtime and other security threats.
At the University of Missouri, Residential Life, Missouri's largest public research university, users were inadvertently clicking on malicious links or visiting sites that were infested with malware. The IT team – User Support Analyst Justin Harris and Support Systems Administrator Eric Leiss – were fighting an uphill battle; malware infections were coming in so fast that machines were being rendered unusable. Already strapped for resources, the team was rebuilding one or two machines per week, leaving no time for the other work to be done.
"Our endpoint security used to be enough, but it can't keep up against today's threats," said Harris. "We still need it for remediation, but we needed that extra layer of defense at the perimeter and selected Webroot® Web Security Service to protect us from the Web attack vector. We no longer have to re-image machines weekly and end users have not been affected – aside from being glad that the machines are running faster."
Dallas County Community College District, a long-time user of Webroot AntiSpyware Corporate Edition on the desktop, evaluated Webroot Email Security Service and saw immediate results. Not only was the IT staff impressed with the ease of implementation, but they also recorded an immediate reduction of spam. The service blocked as many as 60,000 more spam messages each day than both of the district's previous anti-spam appliances combined.
"The results we saw during our initial trial of Webroot Email Security Service were so impressive that we decided to fully implement the service to our 9,000 faculty, staff and administrators before the trial was even complete," said Lilith Calbridge, network support specialist, Dallas County Community College District. "Users saw an immediate increase in productivity once their mailboxes were not cluttered with spam messages. With its advanced features and capabilities, this product is better suited for the needs of a large institution like Dallas County Community College District than any other system I have worked with."
The Trinity School for Ministry, a graduate school of religion located in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, was using another vendor's antivirus software at the endpoint, but it was not stopping the infections. IT Manager Heather Henkel said things were getting so bad she had to find a new solution. The school chose the Webroot Web Security Service and replaced Kaspersky on the desktop with Webroot AntiSpyware Corporate Edition with AntiVirus. Since deploying the Webroot solutions in September 2009, Trinity has had a clean, malware-free network.
"Webroot security solutions have made my life easier," Henkel said. "We are saving users from being infected, which is a boost in productivity for everyone. It's really a win-win. We haven't had to call support yet for anything. It simply works and does what it says it does. You can't ask for more than that!"
"Organizations of all sizes and types are experiencing threats that lurk on the Web," said Gerhard Eschelbeck, chief technology officer at Webroot. "Places of higher education are no exception. We encourage businesses, government agencies and schools to adopt a layered approach to security. Filtering Web and email threats in the cloud increases network performance while simultaneously increasing overall security."


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Wonder how to work catwalk cool into your own closet? Here's how to translate the trends for real life.
Simple black, gray, navy and camel pants are certainly safe, classic and go with pretty much everything. But fun? No, we wouldn't call those colors fun, exactly. If you're looking to spice up your wardrobe a bit, it's time to check out all the wild, bold patterned bottoms out there. Available in all sorts of fabrics and styles – from denim to pajama-style silks – there are plenty of printed pants to up your fashion game.
But while some designers showed crazy pants paired with equally zany tops on their runways, we suggest flipping your normal routine and wearing your simple black, gray, navy or camel on top to tone things down just a tad. Remember: It's prints charming, not alarming, OK?
THE RUNWAY: Mara Hoffman, fall 2013
Pops of neon and a repeated pattern made these pants a serious standout on Hoffman's fall runway, and, mixed with the patterned top and blazer, on this model, anyway, it's fierce. But if you show up to the office Christmas party in all these prints, your boss might suspect you've been dipping into the eggnog a bit too much.
A new spin on denim: Just like colored denim was all the rage for summer, printed denim is hot for fall. If you're a little unsure of the trend, start with simple polka dots. Once you get used to that, edge into full-on animal prints or abstract patterns. Just add a black or gray sweater and pumps and you're ready for the holiday party circuit.
Kate Spade Broome Street leopard jeans, $228, Nordstrom.com; Lands' End dotted jeans, $64, landsend.com; Hudson printed denim, $227, yoox.com
Wear pajamas to work: Lots of designers have been trying to bring the silk pajama look out of the bedroom and into the office. The key is to find a pretty style you can pair with more structured material – say a black wool blazer – to keep it from looking like you raced in after sleeping through your alarm clock.
Piamita Alexa pajama-style pant, $225, jcrew.com; Haute Hippie drawstring pants, $395, saksfifthavenue.com; ASOS floral-print pants, $19, asos.com
Get dressed up: Nothing says you're ready for a special night out than a fab pair of luxe patterned pants. If you want some holiday glitz, look for brocade or jacquard fabrics. If you prefer to be a bit more subtle, a great bold plaid is fun and festive. Party!
Classiques Entier mosaic jacquard pants, $168, Nordstrom.com; Lands' End plaid pants, $40, landsend.com; Leifsdottir brocade pants, $168, anthropologie.com
Lesley Kennedy writes for ShopAtHome.com. Email her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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It's not too late to see some of the best spots on OSU campus! Here are some of my favorites from undergrad and this past year in the Fisher MAcc:
Orton Hall
I love hearing the chimes of the Orton Tower bells when I'm walking along the Oval on campus. If you're lucky, you can hear them playing "Carmen Ohio," our school's alma mater. One of my favorite memories from my time here as an undergrad was walking across the Oval back to my dorm on South Campus with my sister one winter evening. It had just snowed, so there was a foot or two on the ground. We proceeded to drop our backpacks and make snow angels in the fresh snow when "Carmen Ohio" started playing on the bells. I'll never forget times like that when I felt so happy to be a Buckeye!
For anyone interested, you can actually climb the Orton Bell Tower next Wednesday, May 1, from 6-9 PM, as part of OSU Commencement Week!
Ohio Stadium
I can't think of any fall quarter or semester here at Ohio State without recalling some incredible football games in the 'Shoe. I walked across the field at convocation to start off my freshman year at Ohio State, and I cannot believe it's already next Sunday when I'll be crossing the field again, this time as a graduate. This is definitely a must-see on any tour of campus, and I highly suggest taking photos outside the 'Shoe on graduation day!
Mirror Lake
This area of campus is special to me, because South Campus was my home as a freshman. I crossed the South Oval and saw the fountains of Mirror Lake every day walking to class. Although the most memorable time at Mirror Lake for many students is the Mirror Lake jump before the Michigan game, it's definitely still a great place to check out on any spring day.
Thompson Library
Any tour of campus is incomplete without stopping into Thompson Library to see the giant book stacks and take a trip to the 11th floor Reading Room. The 11th floor offers 360-degree views of campus and downtown Columbus. But be careful – this is a quiet study room, so you might get glares from students trying to study during finals week if you're too loud!
There are plenty more special spots for OSU students. That's one of my favorite things about being part of such a huge campus: 50,000 students all love something different about this university. You can actually take a "Things You Never Got To See" Tour during Commencement Week as well to check out some of the more popular buildings. For all of you graduates – don't leave campus without at least taking a stroll through the Oval and soaking up some sun with your fellow Buckeyes before taking off and starting your new careers!