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Fort Lamotte is a construction of a civilian style early 19th century American fort, featuring a two story block house and small log cabin. Construction began in spring of 2007 with all volunteer labor, donations of materials by various people and businesses. The block house is mainly constructed of popular logs as is the cabin. Local hickory was used for the cantilever logs, between 1st and 2nd stories with a puncheon 2nd story floor and persimmon trusses. The stockade walls are of locally grown hedge and black locust. This is the third fort to bear the name Lamotte.
Six log cabins recreate life as it had been in Illinois back in 1812. Visit the homestead belonging to the Hutson family before a fatal Indian attack killed Isaac Hutson's entire family.
Featuring original art by Regional artists, fine art photography, fine art prints, custom framing.
Features many items such as birdhouses, quilt racks & shelves, benches, stools, tables, chairs, Coca Cola items and much more.
Coon Hollow features watercolor, pen & ink, acrylics, or Larry will personally recreate your special objects.
Located east of Lawrenceville on Old Rt. 50, Fry's features Moses Williard lighting, made to order florals, McCalls Candles, and much more.
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Evening services are held in this log cabin church every other Sunday, beginning with the first Sunday in June and running through the last Sunday in September.
This five-screen multi-plex theater screens all of the latest movie releases.
Illinois Oilfield Museum & Resource Center
One of only seven of its kind in the nation, this museum at Oblong Park highlights an industry that revolutionized the country.
The Lincoln School Museum is a restored 1880's one-room brick school located one mile north of Martinsville, Clark County, Illinois on a spur of the National Road. The Lincoln School is representative of the brick construction of one-room schools built during the 1880's, representing the typical one-room school of the era, and the education available of that time. The Lincoln School Museum is open to the public on weekends from June through August and any time by appointment.
Visit our shop in downtown Casey and your creative spirit will soar. The newly renovated space provides a relaxed atmosphere for browsing. Our supplies include items for knit, crochet, spinning, and weaving. Many items are sold exclusively through independent retailers. We strive to help the beginner as well as motivated advanced knitter. Home to the World's Largest Knitting Needles and Crochet Hook.
Features a wide variety of quilt fabrics & supplies, home decor items, gifts & clothing, and much more.
Crawford County VFW 459 Military Museum and Memorial Wall
The remodeled ICCR depot features an etched granite memorial wall and various artifacts of military memorabilia.
Located one block off Main in Oblong, Henpeck features Painted Cabinets, birdhouses, curtains, candles and all weather baskets.
Weighing in at 1,144 lbs and measuring 5'8" by 4' 5/8", this horseshoe is sure to bring good luck to all that visit. The Martinsville Horseshoe gained its Guinness Book of World Record status in 2013. The horseshoe stands at the entrance to the Martinsville fairgrounds.
Have you heard the expression BIG things come in SMALL packages? The same holds true for a small Central Illinois town of 3,000 named Casey. To date, it is home to 8 Guinness World Records World's Largest attractions; the wind chime, golf tee, knitting needles, crochet hook, pitchfork, mailbox, wooden shoes and rocking chair! Take Exit 129 off Interstate 70, and you will be able to easily find all of the local attractions within a 3-mile radius. Tourists also can enjoy several large objects along the way that make unique photo opportunities, such as a 36-foot pencil and ruler. There is even a bird cage that you are able to swing in. Casey offers several food and retail establishments that add to the uniqueness of the small town. Each year this small town grows a little bigger, with more attractions and shopping. Make sure to visit often, so you don't miss out on the journey!
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It looked like a Ducati, with working lights, spinning tires, even a speaker that mimicked its wha wha wha whoom exhaust.
But anyone familiar with Duff Goldman's work knew better. Slicing into the bike's saddle, gas tank and tail, the "motorcycle" was, in fact, a cake.
Little did Goldman know when he baked and frosted the black Ducati four years ago that he would receive an actual Ducati as a tip from the motorcycle dealer for whom it was made. Nor did he predict the passion it would inspire in the celebrity baker best known as the Ace of Cakes.
When he first got the new bike home he would wake up in the morning and walk outside just to look at it.
"It totally changed my life," said Goldman, a 38-year-old biker-baker, who keeps the gifted Monster 696 in his native Baltimore. He bought a second, larger Monster last year, when he moved to Los Angeles to set up Charm City Cakes West.
Standing outside his shop last week, suiting up for a ride, Goldman displayed a common gear head affliction. His eyes wandered out to the road, following an orange Lotus, then a matte black Harley-Davidson V-Rod. The vehicular eye candy is one of the perks of his Melrose storefront, he said.
Goldman, who rides his motorcycle with a helmet that reads "Cake Mix," is best known for his sculpted, oversized and impossibly tiered cakes. He's created characters such as a baked R2D2; life-size animals as big as elephants; and the six-level edible he was commissioned to bake for President Barack Obama's inauguration last month. A dummy cake displayed in the lobby of Charm City Cakes West showcases the outrageous creations for which he's developed an enormous following. A giant cake is the base for a cylindrical bon bon topped with three more cakes, a fistful of lollipops, a slice of cake ... and a cup cake.
It is, without question, a cake shrine. Still, shortly before joining me for a ride along the Pacific coast, Goldman was eating a store-bought doughnut.
"I love cake," said Goldman, whose T-shirt – an upside-down cupcake and crossbones – bore proof. "Sometimes, I just get sick of it."
His baking often has an auto connection. In the 11 years he's been in the business, Goldman has made countless cars and car-related cakes, including a replica of a Hemi engine for Jay Leno and, late last year, a life-size NASCAR (for Time Warner Cable) to reveal the new paint job for Kasey Kahne's race car, with color-matched frosting for Kahne's Quaker State sponsor. The cake was so large it contained 30,000 servings and took nine people an entire month to build.
"Our task was to make the cake look exactly like the car so that when the curtain dropped and everybody looked at it, they'd think it was the car," said Goldman, who found a used mobility scooter and gutted it for the motor, which he used to spin the tires and shoot smoke from the cake's back end.
"People want cakes that move," said Goldman, who declined to reveal the cost of his more elaborate cakes, divulging only that the NASCAR project cost "more than a birthday cake but less than a real car."
Goldman's love of mechanical things began young, as a child who spent his earliest years in Detroit. At that time, he was more obsessed with motorcycles than he was with cars. Goldman recalls straddling his grandfather's suitcase as if it were a motorcycle and rocking it back and forth pretending he was one of the racers he saw on TV. It wasn't until he was living in Baltimore as a young adult that he decided to ride for real and bought a Vespa, which was promptly hit by a car and totaled. He bought a replacement Vespa that he "loved," he said – at least until he was tipped with the Ducati Monster 696.
His mechanical cakes have their origins in actual mechanics. When Goldman was 16, he said, a friend's dad bought a broken 1968 Ford Mustang, hoping the boys would stay out of trouble if they had a project. Goldman and his pal set to work repairing the car, buying the Chilton manual for guidance and visiting the auto parts store to source parts they didn't understand but learned how to use. Not surprisingly, for a baker who would eventually be known for molding everything conceivable out of flour, oil, eggs and sugar, Goldman discovered, "I was really good at Bondo. I was really good at reshaping body panels."
Working on the decrepit Mustang and other wheezing relics, Goldman learned many of the skills he would eventually apply to the bakery business. He's carried those skills with him during the 10 seasons he has appeared as the Food Network's "Ace of Cakes," using welders and power tools as well as traditional whisks and mixers.
One of his earliest applications of his amateur mechanic work was in college, when he began making mechanical metal sculptures that "used lots of gears and railroad spikes and cool-looking things" he welded together. Cooking was merely a side job to pay for the metal he needed to make sculptures, he said.
The trick with baking, whether it's car or elephant shaped, is: "It's still a cake," said Goldman, who bakes his cakes to be 11/2 inches thick and never stacks more than three layers at a time before putting down cardboard or, with tiered cakes, employing straws. "Its main purpose is to be eaten, so you've got to make sure it tastes good. It would be great if we could over bake a cake and turn it into a good sculptable material. But we can't.
Oddly, Charm City Cakes West does not smell like a bakery. All the cakes Goldman and his staff create at Charm City and offer for personalized decorating at Cake Mix, next door, are cooked in a separate Goldman-owned facility some 10 blocks away. Goldman's shop feels more like a design studio, with rows of ribbons and beads and canisters of colors used to make frosting. On a recent Thursday, a young woman stood at a table, brushing the sole of a gym-sneaker cake, while another employee consulted with a woman who walked off with a an open box, so as not to crush the elaborate decorations on the cake inside.
Goldman pointed out that cakes, generally, are "unstable," and that's particularly true of motorcycle cakes.
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Ever wonder how science-fiction heroes, busy hurtling through space or battling evil robots, find the time to eat nutritious meals so they can keep going? The classic science-fiction solution is that in the future they'll take in a day's nourishment by popping a pill crammed with the RDAs (recommended dietary allowances) for all the food groups, along with a pleasing taste and a satisfying sense of fullness. One little tablet and your favorite hero is good for another 24 hours of action.
Although no one has yet managed to pack 2,000 flavorful calories into a pill, NASA tried something like that for its first astronauts. According to the space agency, the only nourishment those intrepid adventurers got were "bite-sized cubes, freeze-dried powders, and semi-liquids stuffed in aluminum tubes." Sounds delicious, doesn't it? Fortunately, NASA's space catering later reverted to more traditional foods so astronauts did not have to make this particular sacrifice for their country.
But if NASA has not come up with tomorrow's ideal food, science fiction has brought new approaches to nutrition, though few seem like improvements. As usual, H.G. Wells was a pioneer. In The Food of the Gods (1904, film versions 1976and 1989, with another film version in the works), chemists develop Herakleophorbia, the perfect nutritional formula for Hercules-like growth and strength. Alas, in true calamitous science-fiction style, it escapes the lab to produce monster rats, wasps, and worms along with a bad human outcome—all-out war between the Children of the Food, who are 40-feet tall, and regular people.
Then in 1953, in their classic science-fiction novel The Space Merchants, set in a future, hugely overcrowded Earth, Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth took nutrition in a different direction. They introduced Chicken Little, an enormous pulsating chicken breast 45 feet across that thrives and grows in a tank on a diet of pond scum. In what may be the least appealing "presentation" ever in the annals of fine dining, workers regularly hack off slabs of Chicken Little's protein to feed the hungry populace. Rounding out the meal, people drink a concoction called Coffiest, which seems to be to real coffee what truthiness is to truth.
Though a lump of Chicken Little and a mug of Coffiest are terminally unappetizing, what's served up in the film Soylent Green (1973) has to be the most repellent future food yet. In that story of upcoming global devastation, seemingly innocuous green wafers are produced in their trillions in automated factories to feed a world starved for natural foods. Unfortunately, they turn out to incorporate—brace yourself, there's no nice way to say this—dead people. Ick.
But even cannibalistic Ritz crackers have competition in the foods that alien creatures supposedly like, a favorite topic of science-fiction–oriented foodies. One Star Trek websitelists items from nearly two dozen alien cuisines that appear in various installments of the series. The tasty Klingon treat gagh consists of live, squirming life forms called serpent worms, whereas the Ferengi favor equally yummy larva-like tube grubs, also served live.
These alien foods are loathsome but at least they are natural and unprocessed. Science fiction suggests the opposite for humans, projecting that we'll be eating ever more artificial and highly processed food in the future. This reflects the ongoing evolution of food and kitchen technology. For instance, after cooking over open flames for millennia, humanity moved away from fire with electric stoves in the 1920s and with microwave ovens in the 1970s, an outgrowth of World War II's radar technology. Science in the kitchen even produced "molecular gastronomy," where chefs use liquid nitrogen, insulating foams, and other laboratory methods to produce exotic flavors and textures. And going yet further, we can now fundamentally change what we eat in the form of genetically engineered food.
But as the science-fiction examples show, excessively high-tech food processing can be deeply unappealing. Consider the "food printer," a form of digital kitchen technology developed at Cornell's Computational Synthesis Lab. This is like an inkjet printer, which works by squirting ink droplets on to paper in patterns under computer control. Replace the ink with various foodstuffs, currently anything that can be squeezed out of a syringe, such as melted cheese or cake batter, and you're ready to print edible things. Instead of recipes like the hand-written ones passed down from grandma, computer programs called FabApps let you construct and tweak your biscuits, say, just as you want—if your appetite can survive watching them being slowly excreted out first.
At least one chef, Homaro Cantu of Chicago's Moto Restaurant, who does inkjet printing of sushi, thinks that such printers would alter more than how we cook; they would change food distribution. "Imagine," he said, "a 3-D printer making homemade apple pie without the need for farming the apples, fertilizing, transporting, refrigeration, packaging." But this seems more science fiction than real science or real cooking, because what goes into even a computer-generated pie still has to come from somewhere. And how many of us would call a pie sprayed from a printer "homemade"?
Still, with some imagination, I can see unique possibilities for the food printer. Picture loading one of its reservoirs with chocolate chip cookie dough, and one with fresh, wriggling serpent worms. Then program the printer to extrude and bake the first, and to gently extrude the second just as is. Now you're all set to throw a party for both your human best friends and your favorite Klingons.
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Spotlight for Career Services ProfessionalsSpotlight for Recruiting ProfessionalsAugust 20, 2014
The general use of social networking as a job-search tool continues its upward climb, according to results of NACE's 2014 Student Survey.
Over the past five years, the percentage of graduating seniors using social media has grown from approximately 37 percent in 2010 to 58 percent in 2014. (See Figure 1.)
The percentage for the Class of 2014 is up from 53 percent for the Class of 2013, which marked the first time since NACE began asking about the use of social media that a majority of graduating seniors stated that they actively used social networking technologies as part of their job searches.
NACE collected data for the 2014 Student Survey from February 15 to April 30, 2014. A total of 43,864 students responded from 696 NACE-member institutions throughout the United States. Of these responses, 10,210 came from bachelor's degree seniors who indicated that they would be getting their degrees by August 2014. This story is based on the responses from this group of seniors. NACE will release the 2014 Student Survey report in the fall. The 2014 Student Survey was sponsored by Enterprise.
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U.S. Sues S&P Over Mortgage Bond Ratings
McGraw-Hill and its Standard & Poor's unit were sued by the U.S. over claims S&P knowingly understated the credit risks of bonds and derivatives that were central to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
The U.S. Justice Department filed a complaint Monday in Los Angeles, accusing McGraw-Hill and S&P of three types of fraud, the first federal case against a ratings company for grades related to the credit crisis. McGraw-Hill tumbled the most in 25 years yesterday when it said it expected the lawsuit.
S&P issued credit ratings on more than $2.8 trillion of residential mortgage-backed securities and about $1.2 trillion of collateralized-debt obligations from September 2004 through October 2007, according to the complaint. S&P downplayed the risks on portions of the securities to gain more business from the investment banks that issued them, the U.S. said.
"It's going to be a tricky time for rating agencies," Fred Ponzo, a capital markets analyst at Greyspark Partners, said in a telephone interview. "S&P is probably just the first to face the music."
Under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, the U.S. seeks civil penalties of as much as $1.1 million for each violation.
Settlement talks broke down after the government sought a fine of more than $1 billion and an admission of wrongdoing from S&P, The New York Times reported. That amount would wipe out the profits of McGraw-Hill for an entire year, the newspaper said.
Before the case was filed, McGraw-Hill fell 14% to $50.30 in New York trading on Monday. Moody's Corp., owner of the second-largest ratings provider, fell 11% Monday to $49.45. Yields on McGraw-Hill's $400 million of bonds due November 2037 rose 31 basis points yesterday to 5.75%, the highest level since May, according to Trace, the bond-price reporting system of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
Ratings firms have faced criticism from U.S. lawmakers over how they granted top grades to securities that packaged home loans from the riskiest borrowers, leading to a credit seizure, starting in 2007, that sent the world's largest economy into its longest recession since 1933 as defaults soared and home values plummeted.
"S&P's desire for increased revenue and market share in the RMBS and CDO ratings markets led S&P to downplay and disregard the true extent of the credit risks," the U.S. said.
According to the U.S. complaint, S&P falsely represented to investors that its credit ratings were objective, independent and uninfluenced by any conflicts of interests.
The company bent rating models to suit its business needs to the extent that one CDO analyst commented that loosening the measure of default risk for a certain security in 2006 "resulted in a loophole in S&P's rating model big enough to drive a Mack truck through," the U.S. said.
Banks create collateralized debt obligations by bundling bonds or loans into securities of varying risk and return. They pay ratings companies for the grades, which investors may use to meet regulatory requirements.
"A DOJ lawsuit would be entirely without factual or legal merit," S&P said in a statement yesterday before the case was filed. "It would disregard the central facts that S&P reviewed the same subprime mortgage data as the rest of the market, including U.S. government officials who in 2007 publicly stated that problems in the subprime market appeared to be contained."
S&P, in its statement, cited court rulings that have dismissed challenges to the opinions of ratings firms. The company also said it planned to fight any lawsuits.
Catherine Mathis, a spokeswoman for S&P, had no immediate comment on the complaint after it was filed.
Analysts at New York-based S&P, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings, majority-owned by Fimalac of Paris, were pressured to give their stamp of approval to complex investments in a "race to the bottom" to win lucrative business from Wall Street banks, the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said in an April 2011 report.
The Justice Department cites emails from S&P employees discussing the need to modify ratings criteria to win business after the company's grades were more conservative than competitors.
"Losing one or even several deals due to criteria issues, but this is so significant that it could have an impact on future deals," one analyst said in a May 2004 email cited in the lawsuit. "There's no way we can get back on this one but we need to address this now in preparation for future deals."
The credit-grading business was targeted by lawmakers in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act after the collapse of top-ranked mortgage-backed securities contributed to $2.1 trillion in losses at the world's largest banks. Reports from the Senate panel, along with the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, cited failures of the companies as a reason for the financial crisis.
While the 18-month recession ended in June 2009, with the global economy contracting 2.4% that year, the U.S. has yet to recover 3.23 million of the 8.74 million jobs that were lost. The unemployment rate last month was 7.9%, compared with 5% in January 2008.
More than a dozen state attorneys general may join the federal lawsuit and New York officials are preparing a separate action, The New York Times said.
Attorneys general from at least two U.S. states have filed claims against S&P challenging its method of rating mortgage-backed securities.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan accused the ratings firm of putting profitability before accuracy.
"S&P ignored the increasing risks posed by mortgage-backed securities, instead giving the investment pools ratings that were favorable to its investment bank client base," Madigan said in a January 2012 statement announcing the filing.
In a Nov. 7 decision, Cook County, Illinois, Circuit Court Judge Mary Anne Mason rejected defense arguments that ratings firms' opinions were protected by constitutional guarantees of free speech. A status conference is scheduled for March 26.
In 2009, then-Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray sued S&P, Moody's and Fitch at the U.S. court in Columbus, accusing the firms of issuing faulty ratings that caused five public employee pension funds, on whose behalf he sued, to buy money-losing investments.
U.S. District Judge James L. Graham threw out the case in September 2011, ruling the ratings were "predictive opinions" and that absent specific allegations of intent to defraud, the firms could not be held liable.
A Cincinnati-based federal appeals court unanimously upheld that decision in December.
Cordray was appointed by President Obama in January 2012 as director of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
In November, an Australian judge ruled S&P misled investors by giving its highest credit grade to securities whose value plunged during the global financial crisis.
The companies also face European Union curbs on how they update markets about the quality of government debt under plans approved by the bloc's lawmakers last month. Some governments in the EU, including France and Germany, have called for tougher rules on ratings companies, saying their decisions risk harming the bloc's fight against its fiscal crisis.


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UFA Options: Third Line Centre
Jonathan Willis
July 20 2009 01:30PM
Three weeks into free agency, the casual fan could be forgiven for thinking that the list of available players is bereft of useful pieces. That isn't the case, and for some roles – in particular the veteran third-line centre role the Oilers need to fill – there are still a bunch of players who might fit the bill.
I've excluded Mike Peca from this group because of his quick departure from Edmonton after his last stint with the club (he didn't like the travel). I've also excluded some fourth-line types who could very well be of interest to the Oilers (Mike Zigomanis, Blair Betts, Boyd Devereaux, Chris Gratton, Marcel Goc). All of those guys would come relatively cheap, and could help address the holes on the penalty-kill (in other words, I hope the Oilers are at least kicking the tires) but expecting them to step in and fill the third-line role may be asking too much (just as it might be to ask Pouliot, Brule or Cogliano to fill the role). A pair of other players (Rob Niedermayer and Andy Hilbert) were ignored because they play wing.
Here's the list of four, presented in reverse order of their expected price tag:
Mike Sillinger
Vitals: 5'11", 198lbs, 38 years old Stats Line: 59GP – 16G – 12A – 28PTS, -15 over the past two seasons Other Numbers: 56.3% on faceoffs, 28 hits, 3:10 SH TOI, 18:36 Avg. TOI (from two seasons ago) Best Guess Contract: One year / 750,000$
Mike "Suitcase" Sillinger has played for twelve NHL teams over the span of an 18-year career. He's been remarkably durable for the majority of that time, up until February of 2008 when he suffered a hip injury that has derailed much of the last two seasons. In the seven seasons prior to suffering that injury, he'd missed a total of 30 games.
When last we saw him, Sillinger was a gifted two-way centre who combined defensive ability with goal-scorer's hands (he's never had less than a 12.1 SH% since 2000). He'd be an ideal fit – if he's still the same player he was before the hip injury. At this point, the injury and age combine to make Sillinger a gamble – he probably will be forced to either accept a training camp tryout or a low money contract to get an NHL shot.
Radek Bonk
Vitals: 6'3", 213lbs, 33 years old Stats Line: 66GP – 9G – 16A – 25PTS, -12 Other Numbers: 59.9 % on faceoffs, 58 hits, 0:26 SH TOI, 15:26 Avg. TOI Best Guess Contract: Three years / 1.4 MM per season
Radek Bonk has been passed over on the Predators penalty-kill (given that Nashville already had established options in Legwand, Fiddler and Nichol), although he has been effective in that role elsewhere (he led Montreal in short-handed ice-time in 2006-07). He combines size with some offensive ability.
Bonk has reportedly been approached by KHL clubs, but I imagine the security of a multi-year NHL contract would keep him in North America. He's on of the game's best face-off men, and is well-qualified to anchor the third line.
Dominic Moore
Vitals: 6', 188lbs, soon to be 29 years old Stats Line: 81GP – 13G – 32A – 45PTS, -2 Other Numbers: 54.1 % on faceoffs, 75 hits, 2:19 SH TOI, 16:50 Avg. TOI Best Guess Contract: Two years / 1.8 MM per season
It's been a rough summer for Moore, who turned down a two year, 3.4 million dollar contract from the Maple Leafs, but hasn't been seriously pursued in free agency. His price-tag, which was once rumoured to be in the 2 MM/year range, has likely dropped as a result.
That said, Moore may not be the best option. He's a tireless worker and a good penalty-killer, but his offense was likely a one-off and he doesn't have the frame that the Oilers need down the middle (given that they already have a ton of smallish centres). I like Moore, but I think Bonk or Malhotra would be a better fit. Also, unlike most of the players on this list, Dominic Moore didn't play in a checking role last season – he played on an offensive line for the Leafs.
Manny Malhotra
Vitals: 6'2", 217lbs, 29 years old Stats Line: 77GP – 11G – 24A – 35PTS, +9 Other Numbers: 58.0% on faceoffs, 74 hits, 2:49 SH TOI, 18:00 Avg. TOI Best Guess Contract: Three years / 2.0 MM per season
Malhotra is hands-down the best qualified player for the Oilers third-line position, but his price tag has kept him from being signed until now. He's big and plays a relatively physical game, plus he's a good skater. On top of that he's a good faceoff man and an experienced penalty-killer.
The only downside to Malhotra is a limited offensive game, and that previously mentioned price-tag.
HAZER wrote:
Totally off topic, but i think that the Oil should go after Bertuzzi aswell.. I think if we can trade some assets to fill our 3rd line centre spot (maybe nilson), bertuzzi would fit nice with gagner on the second line. Hes still got great hands and brings grit to the lineup. He's cheap too, we should jump on it.
Signing Beruzzi is the one thing the Oilers could do that would make me put my jersey away. Completely unacceptable.
July 20 2009, 10:06PM
Bertuzzi NO NO NO NO NO, and again NO
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Regardless of the forwards most posters would prefer, the Oilers have to subtract contracts to add to their roster.
Considering they're currently about 4 or 5 contracts under the limit, they can certainly add a player and then worry about moving a contract later.
I would've thought that Malhotra was a no-brainer, even @ 2.5. He's young enough, yet experienced enough that he could become a valuable part of the core. This is a guy that since his draft year has been pegged as a future NHL captain. I'd take him @ 2.5 over Ethan @ 2. And thats no slight on Ethan. I also would've kept Brodziak over Pisani.
July 20 2009, 11:24PM
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@ Ogden Brother: Trouble is at that point you are dealing from a point of weakness. Once they know you need to shift a player the deals are down right pathetic (just ask Ottawa or KLowe)
That still is a better solution then trading quality assets for lower quality assets to fill holes.
Sign your 3rd line center for free (asset wise) And if you are forced to waive Nilsson or trade O'sully for a decent prospect you are still better off then swapping cogs or Gilbert for a Vermette (or any 3rd line center)
July 20 2009, 11:27PM
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I would've thought that Malhotra was a no-brainer, even @ 2.5. He's young enough, yet experienced enough that he could become a valuable part of the core. This is a guy that since his draft year has been pegged as a future NHL captain. I'd take him @ 2.5 over Ethan @ 2. And thats no slight on Ethan. I also would've kept Brodziak over Pisani.
Ya the fit seems to good to be true to me. Give him the 2/2.5 million and then cut the worst of MAP/Nillson at camp.
Sillinger would be a good fit, however his hip injury is forcing him to retire this year...
July 22 2009, 08:38AM
Apparently Bonk hasn't received an offer from any NHL teams yet. He also has a canadian wife. Might be a good option, I don't know alot about him though. Obviously have to dump some salary.


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Once again, the area's top home bakers came together in November to share their best cookie recipes in our annual cookie contest.
The event — officially, the Dallas Morning News-Central Market Holiday Cookie Contest — raises money for charity and kicks off the holiday baking season.
More than ever, innovative flavor combinations and the exemplary skills of the entrants wowed the judges.
Peppermint stands out as a trend this year, and toffee continues its run, along with chocolate, of course. But chocolate is boosted with unusual ingredients such as candied jalapeños, bacon and bourbon.
"It's reflective of how we're eating now in general," says David Brawley, executive pastry chef of Princi Italia and a longtime judge for the contest. "Years ago, the contestants used simple, straightforward ingredients. People are more adventurous now, going beyond basics. They're using more components, not just chocolate, but chocolate with cinnamon, chocolate with chili powder. It's much more diverse."
Judges also were impressed with the contestants' inventiveness.
"Look at this," said David Uygur of Lucia, drawing other judges' attention to Crunchy Popcorn Cookies, made with popcorn, butter, sugar and salt. "Only four ingredients, but it's really different. I like the sweet and savory flavors. It's very clever."
The other judges must have agreed, because that cookie came in third place in its category.
Now in its 17th year, the contest, co-sponsored by Central Market with additional support from Promised Land Dairy, raises funds to benefit the Dallas Morning News Charities. Entry fees from this year's contest bring the total raised to date to more than $20,000 to benefit the hungry and homeless.
The judging was held Nov. 2 at Central Market's Lovers Lane location. Finalists and their supporters gathered to swap cookies and baking stories while judges met behind closed doors to choose the winners.
Three top winners were chosen in each of five categories, with prizes of Central Market gift cards of $150, $100 and $50 for first, second, and third places, respectively. Suzy Cravens won the sixth category, Cookie Man, which is judged only on appearance. Cravens took home a stack of cookbooks as her prize.
This year's finalists ranged in age from college students participating in their first cooking contest to retirees who've been comfortable in the kitchen for decades and are longtime participants in this and other area competitions.
Newbie Tiffany Ho, 22, of Dallas garnered a finalist spot with her inaugural entry, Rice Crispy S'mores. "I went with what I like," she said. "S'mores are fun!" Lest you think her skill level basic because she opted for s'mores, take note: She recently completed an undergraduate degree in psychology at Rice University, which included a summer scholarship to study pastry making in France, Italy and Greece. She now co-writes a baking blog, 3PastriesADay.wordpress.com.
Finalist and former winner Janet Sheppard, 63, of Plano brought her friend, Anita Wormald, 70, of Fairfield to see the results of prior research on her entry, Nona's Lemon Drops. "Before the contest, Janet makes samples and asks her friends to vote on the taste, texture and appearance," Wormald said. "I came today to cheer her on."
While they're competitive, many in the crowd have become fast friends from years of facing off in area cooking challenges. Veteran contestants universally say it's the camaraderie and inspiration gained at the gathering, not the prizes, that bring them back again and again.
"This is the magic of the holidays," said judge and cooking teacher Carol Ritchie, looking over dozens of carefully prepared trays of cookies. "There's a lot of love in this room."
"You Be the Judge" cookie connoisseurs David Sywak and Mia McCallum concur with the sentiment. They submitted essays to win their spots on the judging team.
"My friends suggested I apply to be a judge. I feel as if my entire life up to now has been research for this," Sywak said and laughed. A viola musician with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Sywak travels to national and international destinations to perform, and is known for checking out the best local bakeries wherever he goes.
How did his experience on the panel judging cookies stack up? "I expected it to be very good, and I was not disappointed," he said.
McCallum, an engineer, agrees. "There is such a variety of textures, flavors, appearances. This feeds my imagination and is so inspiring. I wish I could do this for a living!"
Valerie Jarvie is a Dallas freelance writer.
Introducing Cookie Man — er, Gnome
Meet Gnome for the Holidays, the new official mascot of our annual cookie contest, created by Suzy Cravens. Gnome won the category known as Cookie Man — with the judges as well as in online voting. He captures the spirit of the annual contest: Joy, generosity and sweetness are the gifts of the season.
Cookie categories (click for winners and recipes)
Meet the judges
Our panel of professionals judging this year included:
Eric Brandt, executive chef of Bistro 31
David Brawley of Princi Italia
Mynetta Cockrell, private chef
Mary DiCarlo Francis, pastry chef at Jimmy's Food Store
James Johnson, executive chef of Pappas Bros. Steakhouse
Tom Johnson, senior vice president of sales at Promised Land Dairy
Jason Maddy, executive chef of Oak
Roshi Muns, owner of Society Bakery
Carol Ritchie, cooking teacher
David Uygur, chef and owner of Lucia
Joining the pros were two "You Be the Judge" winners, nonprofessional cookie buffs selected by an essay competition:
Mia McCallum, 51, of Murphy
David Sywak, 48, of Dallas


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This lesson will help learn to verify your ancestor's locality information by using maps and gazetteers. Once you have solid locality information you can use the Family History Library Catalog to locate records. The lesson utilizes two case studies to demonstrate the use of these tools. You will also find links to online resources included within the lesson.


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Milan dismiss Ramirez talk
AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani has played down reports linking Southampton's Gaston Ramirez with a move to the San Siro.
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It has been suggested that the Uruguayan playmaker, who only joined Saints in the summer from Bologna, could be set for a return to Italian football.
However, Galliani says Milan are not considering a move for Ramirez as they are happy with the options currently available within the squad.
"Gaston Ramirez? We are OK in terms of player numbers and then we'll take someone only if someone leaves," he told Sky Italia.
One player set to join Milan in the summer is Riccardo Saponara, after a deal was agreed to bring in the midfielder from Empoli.
Galliani said: "I like Saponara and he fits in with the parameters with which we want to make AC Milan grow, because we are implementing a policy of young players."
Saponara told La Gazzetta dello Sport: "When I heard the news I started to cry for joy, I never thought I could achieve such a goal.
"I could not ask for more, it is a dream. Kaka has always been my idol."
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May 01 2013 01:18PM
We are legitimately distressed with the Oilers failing to make the playoffs this year. We really thought when they held the 8th place position for all of 37.2 seconds they had turned the corner and the good times that we have all been promised for so long had finally arrived.
So where does a heartbroken fan run to in times of need? How about somewhere where the home team hasn't won anything in over 100 years and yet people still regularly part with their hard earned money to watch them rebuild for the 1,506th time. A Cubs game in Chicago is the perfect play.
The poor old Cubs haven't won a World Series since 1908. Other than Jason Gregor - who we calculate was 12 when they won - few people can remember that far back. So Cubs fans have to content themselves with making their own fun, much like a certain rabid fan base of a certain Mighty Hockey Team in the best city in the world.
One of their hilarious traditions was seizing on a scene in Back to the Future II when the sports almanac that Biff steals predicts the Cubs will win the World Series in 2015. There are many references around Wrigleyville to "see you in 2015" and "wait till 2015."
We don't quite follow how a book that clearly only shows scores until the year 2000 can say what will occur in 2015 but that's one of those things you don't bring up when you are looking a crazed Cubs fan in the eye who is desperately grasping for any glimmer of hope at all.
We went to Harry Caray's restaurant at the Navy Pier for lunch yesterday and they even had the actual prop book used in the movie and the hoverboard too. We had to restrain ourselves from smashing the display case and looking up the future hockey results and screaming "WHEN DO OILERZ WIN DAMMIT?! TELL WANYE YOU STUPID MOVIE PROP."
Ahem. If the Cubs do win the World Series in 2015 that will be just hilariously awesome life imitating art. If Back to the Future II can be considered art. Which it can. Remember the self tying shoes? That's art.
Having never been to Chicago before we can now unequivocally state that it is awesome here. The City itself has a ton of things to do (and drink) they are all about their sports here (and drinking) and everything so far has been quite reasonably priced (including but not limited to beer.)
Cubbies tickets are reasonably cheap too we sat in the seats pictured above for about $40 beans a seat thinking we were very clever. And once our eyes adjusted to being outside in the "sun" we looked across the infield and saw stadium seating on the rooftops of buildings across the street.
Meaning: Outside of the ball park they have seats.
Meaning: The Cubs let people sit in stands and drink beers and watch their baseball team but they aren't sitting in their stadium nor drinking their beer.
It turns out that the Cubs and these building owners across the street have one of the odder relationships in pro sports. Bear in mind that Wrigley Field could simply build normal outfield bleachers and block these bootleg views with a single stroke of the pen. But instead the team has embraced these folks and over time a formalized relationship has grown between the two parties who have opted to work together instead of do battle.
As with any sports team you gotta have drama with the City to keep things interesting. In Edmonton we have our never ending arena saga which is now entering its 22nd year of public feuding. In Chicago it's installing a video scoreboard in the outfield allowing Cubs fans to see live replays at the game and allowing the team to generate much needed revenue to facilitate a restoration to the building without dipping into public funds.
But it might screw with the views across the street and so the battle rages on.
The rooftop owners, who charge fans for access to watch Cubs games and other Wrigley events, worry such a board would block their views and have previously threatened legal action. Murphy said she was confident their contract would hold up and protect their businesses. In 2004, the team -- under previous ownership -- and the rooftop owners entered into a 20-year deal in which the Cubs allow access to views of Wrigley in exchange for 17 percent of rooftop revenues.
"The fact that we are limited on advertising in our own outfield has an annualized opportunity cost of $20 million," Ricketts said. "These limits on advertising are obvious because of our relationship with the rooftops across the street.
"The rooftops have grossed over $250 million in the last 10 years. And while I think many people view rooftops as incremental group events, over time they have shifted to selling individual tickets and have become direct competitors, selling both season tickets and aggressively discounting tickets on Groupon and other sites.
You read that correctly gentle reader. The people across the street that have no more to do with the Chicago Cubs or Wrigley Field than you or I have made over $250 million in ticket revenue in the past 10 years. And as a result the team is one of the few in North American sports that doesn't have a video scoreboard capable of instant replays for the fans.
Bizarre and yet simultaneously awesome if you ask me.
Well the baseball game highlights include a bunch of pitches of varying speeds, a cool 7th inning stretch where we all got to sing take me out to the ball game, some hits and some running around the bases.
We ate 4 hot dogs which was pretty awesome and one of our plans with the boys prior to the trip was to bet on the home team in every game. We bet on the Cubs to win and for added difficulty correctly predicted the over under. So we were 1-0 going into the Hawks game last night - more on that later.
Cubs fans have a mega odd relationship with their team by the way. They publicly predict they will lose, want them to win but expect them to suck. After the win people were already laughing that the Padres would exact a terrible revenge the following night with the rematch.
But the victory was hard earned and for a brief moment high fives were being handed out, smiles were free and life was good.
Upon the conclusion of the game the ballpark DJ played this song aptly titled "Go Cubs Go!" Give it a listen - at first blush it is crap but after you download it and listen to it a couple hundred times - also paying $10 at a Piano Bar last night for a live show - it really grows on you.
Why don't the Oilers have a song like this? It would be so glorious. We can't get this thing out of our brain try as we might and the three amigos down here have been singing it at the top of our lungs at inappropriate intervals ever since.
Next up: Hawks game and getting into an argument in the mens room about Dave Manson with a Hawks fan.
The Ministry of Squee was a tad late to the party signing up after the games ended last night but we are here now. Here to win. Here to win in the Playoff Pool Game - StreakCred. For $20 you can support the MS Bike Tour and the Edmonton Down Syndrome Society and have a crack at wicked prizes including a trip for 2 to Oktoberfest in Germany.
Some people have already gone 3 for 3 on the first night of games. But best believe they will collapse under the weight of their early glory and fall back to Earth. You can play this thing as often as you like and can sign up anytime.
In the words of douchebags everywhere "come at me bro."
May 01 2013, 01:32PM
amazing park to visit as any sports fan. i hate baseball now (its not the same fun as the 70s-80s. sorry) and going there a few years back for the first time still had some magic in it. its way better to see a game there in some history than in some modern hospital with digital diarrhea everywhere (aka Miller Park, etc).
May 01 2013, 01:37PM
Love Wrigley. Saw a couple of games in the bleachers over a weekend, and the place is like a big outdoor bar. Everyone thought it was cool that we were down from Canada, and we hung out with a bachelorette party from St. Louis who were there to watch the Cards demolish the Cubs.
Midwesterners are the best - they're down for a good time.
May 01 2013, 01:52PM
amazing park to visit as any sports fan. i hate baseball now (its not the same fun as the 70s-80s. sorry) and going there a few years back for the first time still had some magic in it. its way better to see a game there in some history than in some modern hospital with digital diarrhea everywhere (aka Miller Park, etc).
& Wanye
The whole 'digital advertising' is a huge financial booster for clubs. Think of increasing the revenue from rink board advertising 5x - 10x and what impact that has for small-market clubs.
I agree with not wanting to be bombarded by advertisement - wouldn't you just like to have a pleasant afternoon at the ballpark? But more and more Pro Sport is a business first and a passtime second, and not taking advantage of it puts a club at a huge disadvantage.
The bleachers on the buildings across the street is super cool. I would definitely vote against anything that would ruin that nice bit of cultural architecture!
May 01 2013, 06:58PM
For like $100 you get access to the condo bleachers along with a buffet of Bud Lights and endless BBQ. Usually they're rented out for great staff parties, but for weekend games they're a party and a half.
May 01 2013, 09:41PM
Eating 4 hotdogs at the ballpark.
Not real processed beef by-products??
The sports Almanac in Back to The Future doesn't say the cubbies would win the series in 2015. It happens earlier in the movie Marty sees a headline on a big screen in the town center saying my how the Cubs had just won the World Series. Boom.
May 02 2013, 12:20AM
& Wanye
The whole 'digital advertising' is a huge financial booster for clubs. Think of increasing the revenue from rink board advertising 5x - 10x and what impact that has for small-market clubs.
I agree with not wanting to be bombarded by advertisement - wouldn't you just like to have a pleasant afternoon at the ballpark? But more and more Pro Sport is a business first and a passtime second, and not taking advantage of it puts a club at a huge disadvantage.
i'm not even talking 100% about the ads. i'm talking about lame visual monitors and digital stats all over.
Miller Park feels like youre sitting in a space station on Mars watching guys stand around. the appeal is nil for me to ever go to games there (its right around the corner from me).
Visiting Wrigley was almost as good as old Yankee Stadium. We made a day out of it, tour of the park in the morning, game from the bleachers in the afternoon. The fans out there are dedicated most had no problem sitting through a 3 hour rain delay and really make a party out of it.
It is quite fun to go to a place where they really avoid the digital advertising, though we had a good time at US Cellular the night before as well.
Great city to visit.
If you need any fresh and unknown material on sir charles manson.. I'm your guy.
Sure to curl the hair of the uninitiated Chi towners whence tales of Prince Albert are revealed.
May 03 2013, 08:54PM
I now think Democritus is the greatest person to ever live. He embraced atomist theory, stars as distant objects, a whole bunch of good social stuff; maybe the founder of democracy. The ancient greeks founded modern sports AFAIK. For the history lesson, I suggest Thracians or Ionians as the new Ottawa franchise name. Latter rolls off the tongue.


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A plant the United States Forest Service once considered a noxious weed may be beneficial for use in treating cancer patients. What is commonly called the skunk cabbage, corn lily or its proper name of Veratrum californicum is a source of cyclopamine.
Crews have been working in gathering the cancer fighting plant at the top of Huntington Canyon. The crew is in its third year on the Manti-LaSal.
After the roots of the plant are gathered from an area, then reseeding is taking place to return natural grasses and plants to the area. The crew leader said a mixture of nine different seeds are used to reseed the area. Kelly Olsen talked of the reseeding program, "We have placed fences around the areas which are being reseeded. The two year areas are really doing well and the regrowth is as high as the fence now. The areas we harvested last year are coming back really well too. The areas from this year's work will be reseeded at the end of the season. We can keep working for awhile yet until the weather forces us to stop."
Most of the crew this year is from Sanpete County. They work for Infinity the company that is developing this potential cancer treatment drug. The workers are hired from a staffing service in Orem. Ken Madsen is the crew supervisor. This is his third summer with the crew. He said each year a few of the workers have come back, but mostly it's new guys each year. They make pretty fair wages and during the early part of the season they see a considerable amount of overtime. Bart Olsen and Kelly Olsen operate the tractors. The supervisor at the scene is Josh Monson.
Monson explained the tractors have a lift attachment that pulls the plant out of the ground. It's not the actual plant itself they are after, but the root of the plant and the root bulb in particular.
Madsen explained what the workers do after the soil has been lifted. "The workers come in with their tools and they chop the top off the plant. They have to shake all of the dirt and rocks off the roots and clean the roots the best they can. The rocks and dirt can clog the machinery when the plant is processed. After the plants are gathered then they are dried at the turkey farms in Sanpete County. The plants hang and dry throughout the winter. Then they are shipped back east where they are processed further and broken down to where the useful chemical is extracted. It takes a lot of skunk cabbage to make a batch of medicine.
"We have a really good crew this year. They are hard workers. This is hard work, getting the roots of the plants out of the ground and cleaning them off. We keep telling ourselves that the cure for cancer could be starting here. That's really what it's all about. If a cure for cancer could be found, just knowing we're a part of that is great," said Madsen.
Monson said on this year's project they have 17 acres where they can harvest the plant. They have been moving around to select spots where the plants are the thickest. The plants are mostly dead now and drying out. The growing season in these alpine meadows is very short. Monson said the cold and wet weather long into June this summer, did put them behind schedule this season. They hope the weather will hold so they can continue to harvest. Monson said the knowledge of the properties of skunk cabbage and its effects came about quite by accident. A group of sheep had many deformed lambs with several types of birth defects. The situation was looked into and it was discovered the sheep had eaten skunk cabbage during the early stages of their pregnancy. Some of the offspring had only one eye in the center of their head which was the origin of the name of the drug, cyclopamine.
Madsen said they have a great working relationship with the forest service. The forest service is especially grateful for the reseeding process. The skunk cabbage doesn't have any value as a feed for animals and is toxic. So the new grasses being planted will be a future benefit for forest animals.
Kelly Olsen said skunk cabbage might not be good for a food for animals, but his men have used the stalk of the plant to rub on rashes and the rash clears up. The stalks before they dry out have a coating on them that's useful, kind of like the aloe vera plant explained Olsen.
Olsen is also grateful to be part of this project, it gives a chance for employment for the local men and it's all for a good cause.
Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Massachusetts-based biopharmaceutical company is the company developing this product and they provided the following information about what they are doing. They are seeking new sources of a plant commonly known as corn lily, or Veratrum californicum, to help aid in the development of a potential new treatment for certain types of cancer. Also known locally as "cow cabbage" or "skunk cabbage," this plant has been found growing on hills and alpine meadows across the western United States, primarily in Utah, Idaho and Oregon and typically favors areas that are wet in the spring and 5,000 to 10,000 feet in altitude. Corn lily, which is often considered a "nuisance" weed, contains a key starting material for one of Infinity's investigational therapies, IPI-926, which targets difficult-to-treat cancers, such as pancreatic cancer and chondrosarcoma.
"It's remarkable to consider that this weed could ultimately be key to treating certain types of cancer for which there currently are no effective treatments," said Joe McPherson, Infinity's vice president of facilities and operations. "Our relationship with the U.S. Forest Service and several private landowners has enabled us to yield substantial sources of corn lily to date. As we move forward with further study and clinical development of IPI-926, we hope to work with additional landowners in these regions to harvest the plant, which could help patients for years to come."
Infinity has worked with the U.S. Forest Service since 2007 and has also established relationships with several private landowners in multiple states. The company has also invested more than one million dollars in the state of Utah through the provision of jobs and restoration of the land on which corn lily has been harvested.
"As cancer impacts all of us either directly or indirectly, it has been gratifying to work with Infinity on this project. In addition, we have appreciated the company's commitment to the community and the surrounding environment, including its efforts to restore the land after harvest," stated Pam Brown, Manti-La Sal National Forest.
IPI-926 belongs to a class of drugs known as Hedgehog pathway inhibitors. Research suggests that the Hedgehog pathway may play a key role in how and why certain types of cancer develop and grow. In healthy adults, the Hedgehog pathway is inactive in most cells. In people with certain cancers, the Hedgehog pathway is turned back on and helps promote cancer growth and survival. IPI-926 is designed to block the function of a key protein in the Hedgehog pathway and is being tested in clinical trials to treat multiple difficult-to-treat cancers.
Data from two clinical trials of IPI-926 were recently presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago, Ill. In these clinical trials, IPI-926 was well-tolerated and showed clinical activity in patients with basal cell carcinoma and metastatic pancreatic cancer. Infinity is currently enrolling patients in two Phase 2 clinical trials of IPI-926, one in pancreatic cancer and one in chondrosarcoma.
Infinity encourages people who have significant sources of corn lily on their land to contact the company by calling 617-453-1015 or sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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PR Dummies: 'Attack of the Man-Boobs'
The public relations industry is the sports bra of professions: outwardly flattering, but sweaty, oppressive, and unsexy beneath the surface. This is PR Dummies. The worst of the worst, every week.
Among the sins of this press release:
1. Using "man-boobs" as a quasi-medical term.
2. Being about man-boobs.
3. Including "Sample Interview Questions" in a press release.
4. Including the last "Sample Interview Question."
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Subject: INTERVIEW IDEA: Attack of the Man-Boobs — Why are they so common?
Male breast reduction now the world's fastest-growing cosmetic surgical procedure!
Attack of the Man-Boobs: Why men's bodies are becoming feminized, and what guys can do about it...
An interview with Dr. Paul Ling Tai, author of "The Thin Factors"
Gynecomastia is a term doctors use to describe the medical condition when a man develops "woman-like breasts."
To the layman, this condition is known simply as having "moobs," short for "man-boobs."
According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, hanging or protruding breasts on men are far more common than many realize. In fact, it's a phenomenon affecting an estimated 40 to 60 percent of the male population.
"Breast reduction surgery for men is now the world's fastest growing cosmetic surgical procedure," says Dr. Paul Ling Tai, author of the book, The Thin Factors.
Dr. Tai says that a biochemical process called aromatization is the reason most men develop feminine-like breasts.
"Aromatization is a problem that most men over 40 have, and it occurs when the body begins turning the testosterone in the blood into estrogen, a hormone responsible for development of the female reproductive system," says Dr. Tai. "When aromatization starts to occur in a man, you'll notice him start to have a bigger stomach, bigger hips, a rounder butt, and bigger, feminine-like breasts."
Dr. Tai says the phenomenon of aromatization is not very well known but extraordinarily important because it robs every man over the age of 40 his masculinity. It decreases his muscle mass, interferes with his positive outlook on life, inhibits normal sexual drive, and drastically alters his physical shape.
"The aromatization of testosterone to estrogen is also why men begin to have enlarged prostate glands in their 50's and 60's," says Dr. Tai. "It's the elevated level of estrogen which is enlarging the prostate tissue."
Getting Lean and Mean: How Men Can Reverse Feminization
Dr. Tai says men can shrink their man boobs and reverse all symptoms of feminization with a few changes in diet and lifestyle, as well as taking a few recommended dietary supplements.
Cut sugary drinks and alcohol from the diet. They increase estrogen.
Start a mild daily exercise or walking program as your energy allows.
Take Estrogen Defense, a supplement made from broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables, to protect your cells against the influence of estrogen.
Take Estrogen Detox, a supplement to help you flush estrogen into the digestive tract where it can be eliminated in a stool.
Max Andro, a natural calcium supplement that increases testosterone 30%.
Read the book The Thin Factors, and start Dr. Tai's step-by-step diet program. Because your body's fat cells are producing estrogen, melting off that fat is part of the long-term solution to putting an end to excess estrogen levels.
"The above program can begin to show results within 1 to 4 weeks," says Dr. Tai.
Sample Interview Questions:
1. How prevalent is the "moob" problem in men?
2. What's causing this epidemic?
3. How does a man know whether he needs to correct his estrogen/testosterone levels?
4. You, yourself, had a problem with excess estrogen production. Can you tell us about it?
5. You have developed dietary supplements which not only stop and reduce the production and presence of estrogen, but also increase testosterone. Tell us about these supplements, how they work, and how quickly they are able to produce noticeable results.
6. Your book is entitled The Thin Factors. Tell us why you wrote it, and why not only men with estrogen issues need to read it, but women as well.
7. The book and your supplements are available to order from your Web site. Give us the address, and tell us what else we'll find there.
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Everything was as described and as the pictures show. The appartment was in a very good condition and everything was clean. The host was very friendly and welcoming and also gave us some insider tipps where to enter the ski resorts and where good restaurants are available. The Wifi was stable and fast enough (approx. 6-7 MBit/s) The only downside isthat the appartment isn't very soundproof and after 10 p.m. you would need to be very quiet in the appartment but all in all we would come again and recommend this place to friends.
Die Wohnung ist sehr schön und groß, es ist alles vorhanden was man braucht,wir haben den Urlaub sehr genossen und kommen gerne wieder.
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This elegant silver hilted presentation sword, with belt and scabbard, was named to Royal Engineer Lieutenant Patrick Yule in 1811, who served at Niagara during the War of 1812. A presentation sword is typically awarded or gifted to an individual to recognize an important contribution in war or political life. The hilt of this particular sword bears the inscription of Yule's name and station, and the year it was presented to him. Yule is best known for his involvement in the repair of Fort George, and for the construction of Fort Niagara in 1813-1814. On July 15, 1814, Yule was captured in the confused night-time Battle of Lundy's Lane.


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