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Efficacy of Fluocinonide Cream 0.1% (Vanos(R)) in Reducing Itch in Subjects With Atopic Dermatitis
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The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy and tolerability of short-term treatment with fluocinonide cream 0.1% (Vanos®) in the treatment of atopic dermatitis (AD). Our hypothesis is that subjects will have a reduction in Investigator's Global Assessment scores at Day 7 and Day 14 compared to Baseline.
Secondary objectives include the use of actigraphy monitoring to determine the ability of Vanos® cream to reduce itch, and thus nocturnal scratching, in AD. Our hypothesis is that subjects will have a reduction in nocturnal scratching activity, as measured by actigraphy movement count per hour, at Day 7 and Day 14 compared to Baseline. Other secondary outcome measures include Eczema Area and Severity Index (EASI) score, body surface area involvement, Visual Analog Scale for itch, and Subject Global Assessment. The investigators hypothesize that each of these measures will be improved at Day 7 and Day 14 compared to Baseline. Medication adherence will be determined using objective adherence monitors. The investigators also hypothesize that subjects will have improved adherence to a topical medication for AD, compared to published sources, if they are only required to use the medication for a short and defined duration.
Atopic Dermatitis
Drug: Fluocinonide cream
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Efficacy of Fluocinonide Cream 0.1% (Vanos(R)) in Reducing Itch in Subjects With Atopic Dermatitis
- Change in Investigator's Global Assessment of atopic dermatitis [ Time Frame: Baseline to 14 days ]
- Change in Actigraphy Movement Count per Hour [ Time Frame: Baseline to 14 days ]
- Change in Eczema Area and Severity Index Score [ Time Frame: Baseline to 14 days ]
- Change in Body Surface Area of atopic dermatitis [ Time Frame: Baseline to 14 days ]
- Change in Visual Analog Scale for itch [ Time Frame: Baseline to 14 days ]
- Subject Global Assessment of atopic dermatitis [ Time Frame: 14 days ]
- Adherence to Fluocinonide Cream [ Time Frame: 14 days ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|November 2011
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2016
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Fluocinonide cream
Subjects will apply fluocinonide cream 0.1% twice daily for 5 days.
Drug: Fluocinonide cream
Fluocinonide cream 0.1% applied twice daily for 5 days.
Other Name: Vanos
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|12 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male or female with mild to severe atopic dermatitis, 12 years of age or older, that agree to participate and provide written consent (parent permission and assent if applicable).
- Have an Investigator Global Assessment of mild to severe atopic dermatitis (IGA rating of 2 through 4 in the Investigator Global Assessment).
- Visual Analog Scale of Itch score at Baseline must be greater than or equal to 50 on a 100-point scale.
- Percentage of overall body surface area of involvement (BSA) must be ≥2%.
- Women of childbearing potential will be allowed to participate in the study, and will be required to use at least one form of birth control.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Use within four weeks from Baseline any systemic anti‐inflammatory medication, which may influence study outcome, such as systemic corticosteroids.
- Application or use within two weeks of Baseline topical corticosteroid medications or topical anti‐inflammatory medication, which may influence study outcome.
- Presence of a concurrent medical condition, which is determined by the investigator to potentially interfere with study outcomes or patient assessments.
- Introduction of any other prescription medication, topical or systemic, for atopic dermatitis while participating in the study.
- Use of anti-histamines while participating in the study will not be permitted unless the subject meets criteria for anti-histamine use on the VAS scale. Additionally, the subject must remain on a stable dose of anti-histamine throughout the study period. If a patient meets such criteria for anti-histamine use, this will be noted in the subject's chart.
- Amount of disease involvement that would require >60 gm of cream in a 1 week period.
- Subjects with known allergy or sensitivity to topical Vanos® cream or components.
- Pregnant women
- Women who are breastfeeding
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01469767
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|Wake Forest University Health Sciences
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|Principal Investigator: Steven R Feldman, MD, PhD
|Principal Investigator:
|Steven R Feldman, MD, PhD
|Wake Forest University Health Sciences
|Responsible Party:
|Steven R. Feldman, Professor of Dermatology, Wake Forest University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01469767 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|November 7, 2011
|Last Updated:
|May 5, 2016
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Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Dermatitis, Atopic
Skin Diseases
Skin Diseases, Genetic
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Skin Diseases, Eczematous
Hypersensitivity, Immediate
Immune System Diseases
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Anti-Allergic Agents
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on April 28, 2017


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Forged in the wake of World War II, the U.S.-Japan security alliance has served as one of the region's most important military relationships and as an anchor of the U.S. security role in Asia. Revised in 1960, the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security grants the United States the right to military bases on the archipelago in exchange for a U.S. pledge to defend Japan in the event of an attack. The partnership has endured several geopolitical transitions, rooting its framework in the postwar security environment and expanding in the aftermath of the Cold War with the rise of China and a nuclearizing North Korea. Cooperation during the Gulf and Iraq wars and the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake reaffirmed the strength of the alliance, but challenges remain. The U.S. military presence on Okinawa, North Korea's nuclearization, territorial disputes with China, and Japan's recent push to upgrade its defense preparedness have all challenged the alliance's resilience as the Obama administration considers the direction of its strategic pivot to the Asia-Pacific region.
U.S.-Japan Defense Treaty
Signed in 1951 alongside the Treaty of San Francisco that ended World War II, the original U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Treaty was a ten-year, renewable military agreement that outlined a security arrangement for Japan in light of its pacifist constitution. U.S. forces would remain on Japanese soil after Japan regained sovereignty. This early security pact with Washington dovetailed with the Yoshida Doctrine [PDF]—a grand strategy for postwar Japan laid out by then prime minister Yoshida Shigeru that saw Japan rely on the United States for its security needs so the country could focus on its own economic recovery.
At the time, the United States was keen on keeping its presence in Japan and using the alliance to bolster its strategic presence in East Asia. It faced a divided Korean peninsula in the wake of the Korean War, and a Cold War climate in which Chinese and Soviet militaries were expanding their breadth and capabilities. Against this security backdrop, Yoshida's government created the Self-Defense Force (SDF) in 1954, despite strong domestic objections based on Article Nine of the postwar constitution, which eschews the maintenance of military forces or the use of those forces to settle international disputes.
"With the ebb and flow of what's going on in the region, these are two countries that are highly incentivized to make this work." —Jennifer Lind
Japan had assumed a minimal military role within the alliance in the early post–World War II years, interpreting the constitution to prevent the overseas deployment of Japanese troops. The value of the security pact to Washington, however, was the use of Japanese bases that allowed for the forward deployment of U.S. forces in Asia. The U.S. military used Japanese bases for combat operations during the Vietnam War, which drew vehement opposition in Japan and triggered fears of entrapment within the security alliance. In 1967, then prime minister Sato Eisaku enacted the Three Non-Nuclear Principles—no possession, production, or introduction—in part to allay concerns that the presence of nuclear arms on U.S. bases in Japan would expose the country to attacks. Since then, Japan has relied on the U.S. nuclear umbrella for extended deterrence.
In the 1970s, Japan began to increase its role within the alliance, while the United States disengaged from the Vietnam War. In 1976, Japan put out a National Defense Program Outline, its first comprehensive postwar defense strategy. Two years later, the 1978 Guidelines for Defense Cooperation it signed with the United States established a framework for the roles between the two militaries for Japan's defense. Washington and Tokyo began joint studies on interoperability and, most notably, launched joint training and exercises. The 1990–91 Gulf War prompted a new debate in Japan about SDF participation in UN-sponsored peacekeeping operations. A new law was adopted stipulating the conditions for SDF deployment abroad in UN peacekeeping operations, and the first SDF unit was sent to Cambodia.
North Korea and the Nuclear Question
The fall of the Soviet Union marked a drastic shift in the regional security environment, with an ascendant China emerging alongside a nuclearizing North Korea. Pyongyang's fast-developing ballistic missile and nuclear program began to pose an existential military threat that exposed limitations [PDF] in the alliance.
Such fissures arose during the North Korean missile crisis of the mid-1990s. In May 1993, North Korea launched a Nodong missile into the Sea of Japan and withdrew from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to begin developing nuclear weapons material. The United States, keen on preserving stability in the region, found that Japan's constitutional limitations and the 1978 guidelines hindered its military preparations for a contingency on the peninsula. Exacerbating regional tensions was the 1996 Taiwan Strait Missile Crisis [PDF], during which two U.S. aircraft carriers flew over the strait in response to Chinese missile tests.
In response to the burgeoning security instability, the alliance adopted the new U.S.-Japan Defense Guidelines in September 1997 that expanded the allowance of Japan's military operations from its home islands to "surrounding areas"—a move some perceived as Japan taking greater responsibility for its own defense. "These crises reminded us in Washington and Tokyo that we weren't really quite out of the Cold War in Northeast Asia," says CFR Senior Fellow Sheila Smith. "The flash points [in the 1990s] continued to challenge the alliance and its response."
Tokyo and Washington consolidated their development of ballistic missile defense programs after North Korea fired another missile over Japanese airspace in mid-1998. A 2006 nuclear test and more recent provocations from North Korea ignited a debate in Japan about the acquisition of nuclear weapons for its self-defense. In 2008, the Bush administration removed North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism in exchange for concessions on its nuclear program. The shift toward negotiations with Pyongyang triggered fears in Tokyo that Washington could accept a nuclear North Korea, diminishing the U.S. security guarantee for Japan.
China and the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Dispute
As the United States makes its "pivot" to the Asia-Pacific region, China's rapid rise has been at the center of alliance concerns. In 2010, it surpassed Japan as the world's second-largest economy, and its growing assertiveness in the East and South China Seas have prompted worries about its regional ambitions. The escalating territorial dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, a cluster of uninhabited islets in the East China Sea, has riled bilateral relations and led many observers to fear a military clash in those waters. Although Washington has maintained that it does not take a stance on the islands' sovereignty status, it considers them to be under Japanese administration and thus covered by the security treaty.
"Here's an area where we see a really fascinating transformation in the alliance dynamic, where there's been a complete swing in the fear of entrapment," says Jennifer Lind, associate professor of government at Dartmouth College. "For sixty years, the Japanese were afraid that we would drag them into a war. Now, we have the opposite problem in the Diaoyu/Senkakus."
Though territorial skirmishes had flared in the area for years, Sino-Japanese relations hit a nadir in the summer of 2012, when Chinese activists landed on the disputed islands, triggering Japanese activists to reciprocate. Tokyo's government, led by then prime minister Yoshihiko Noda, proceeded to purchase three of the five islands from a private landowner for two billion yen in September, despite State Department warnings. The move ignited a wave of anti-Japanese protests across China that included a monthlong boycott of Japanese goods, bruising Japanese exports. The heightened tensions led the Japanese Coast Guard to bolster its surveillance of the waters and renew calls for stationing permanent structures and personnel on the islands.
Tensions flared again in November 2013, when China's Ministry of Defense announced the creation of an East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone. The protocol requires all noncommercial air traffic to submit flight plans before entering the area, which encompasses most of the East China Sea and includes the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands. In response, U.S. secretary of defense Chuck Hagel reaffirmed that the U.S.-Japan Mutual Defense Treaty covered the disputed islands, and Vice President Joe Biden, on a week-long trip to the region, expressed deep concern regarding China's assertions. Further underscoring U.S. support for Japan's security, President Obama backed Tokyo's administration of the islands during an April 2014 visit to the region. "What is a consistent part of the alliance is that the treaty covers all territories administered by Japan," he said.
Given the impasse between Beijing and Tokyo, many have called on the United States to increase its role as a mediator in the escalation.
"China will not listen to Japan about the [Diaoyu] Senkakus; it is only the United States that can deter their actions," said Yukio Okamoto, former special adviser to prime ministers Ryutaro Hashimoto and Junichiro Koizumi, in a September 2013 speech. "The United States has an even bigger role—to not only mediate, but create a new framework of cooperation in the region."
The Okinawa Issue
One of the most contentious issues in the alliance has been the stationing of U.S. Marines on Japan's Okinawa prefecture, which hosts around 65 percent of total U.S. forces in Japan and is also the poorest of Japan's forty-seven prefectures. Locals deeply resent the outsize burden of hosting U.S. troops at the Futenma base and have voiced serious concerns about the accidents and incidents of crime (including recurring cases of sexual assault) that have persisted on the base. The gang rape of a twelve-year-old girl in 1995 by three U.S. servicemen galvanized eighty-five thousand locals to protest. A year after the mass demonstration, then prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto directly asked then U.S. president Bill Clinton to return Futenma to Japanese control. Other allegations of sexual violence by U.S. military personnel in Okinawa surfaced in 2008 and 2012, and various plans for relocating Futenma were put forward, but they were met with local opposition.
In a more recent bid to reconcile tensions, the United States and Japan agreed in May 2006 to a U.S.-Japan Roadmap for Realignment Implementation that would relocate the Futenma Air Station out of the crowded city of Ginowan, build a new runway in the waters off of Camp Schwab, and transfer eight thousand Marines to Guam. But this proposal devolved into a political maelstrom when the Democratic Party of Japan's Yukio Hatoyama, who opposed the relocation during his campaign, became prime minister in 2009.
Since then, Washington and Tokyo have made other overtures to resolve the long-standing issue. The two parties altered the pact in April 2012, disconnecting the transfer of Marines from the construction of the new base, and in April 2013 they reached a deal to return Futenma—and five other U.S. bases—by the late 2020s.
"It's been very corrosive for the alliance," Smith says of the Okinawa issue. "It has focused our attention on this one particular base, when the real challenge for the alliance has been to come up with a broader framework for the sustainability of U.S. forces in Japan."
The Future of the Alliance
The coordination between U.S. and Japanese military forces after the devastating March 2011 earthquake and consequent tsunami that struck Tohoku demonstrated the resilience of the alliance. The SDF conducted rescue operations in tandem with thousands of U.S. forces under Operation Tomodachi, the largest bilateral mission in the history of the alliance. U.S. forces aided the SDF in clearing Sendai's airport, assisted in search-and-rescue teams, and prepared Japan's defense readiness.
This high level of support echoed Japan's own cooperation during the Gulf and Iraq wars. In November 2001, the government of Junichiro Koizumi dispatched the Maritime Self-Defense Force to the Indian Ocean to support U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, marking Japan's first overseas military action during a combat operation. A year later, Japan drafted a bill that would allow the SDF to be dispatched to postwar Iraq, and in 2003 it sent forces to aid in postwar reconstruction efforts.
At a 2 + 2 meeting in early October 2013, the United States agreed to deploy reconnaissance drones to Japan, which also pledged up to $3.1 billion to relocate five thousand U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam. Ministers also agreed to rewrite the guidelines for U.S.-Japanese Defense Cooperation for the first time since 1997 in revisions that would expand cooperation on counterterrorism and bolster the allies' ability to respond to an attack on Japan.
"The United States has an even bigger role—to not only mediate, but create a new framework of cooperation in the region." —Yukio Okamoto, former special adviser to prime ministers Ryutaro Hashimoto and Junichiro Koizumi
In July 2014, Japan took a step toward a more active role in regional security when Abe announced that his cabinet had approved a reinterpretation of the antiwar Constitution that would allow Japanese forces to aid friendly nations under attack. The decision marks a significant shift from a position that had strictly limited Japan to act solely in its own defense. "Japan, for half a century, has expanded its military capability in ways that raise questions about the interpretation of Article Nine in its constitution," says Smith. "And the question has become, 'How much can Japan do in the alliance?'"
Some experts have defined the modern-day alliance to be more inclusive, advocating initiatives such as trade and energy cooperation as the road to a future framework. "This is bigger than just the military. These are instruments we use to improve our own national prosperity and security, and that's fundamentally what this alliance should be about," Smith says.
The multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership has been a highly promising economic development that observers hope will tighten the alliance. After the Fukushima nuclear disaster forced Japan to reconsider its energy policies, Washington agreed to a long-term liquefied natural gas export deal with Japan that could see the United States become a supplier for the island country.
"This is the most relevant the alliance has been in a long time," says Lind. "With the ebb and flow of what's going on in the region, these are two countries that are highly incentivized to make this work."
Additional Resources
CFR's Sheila Smith delves into how the U.S.-Japan alliance fits into Asia's shifting geopolitics in this World Politics Review article and outlines a strategy for the alliance in this CFR Policy Innovation Memorandum.
George Packard reflects on the alliance on its fiftieth anniversary and debates its efficacy in this 2010 Foreign Affairs article.
Richard Armitage and Joseph Nye recommend steps forward for the U.S.-Japan Alliance in this 2012 Center for Strategic and International Studies report [PDF].
Yasuhiro Izumikawa explains Japanese antimilitarism and explores theories of Japan's postwar security policy in this 2010 International Security article [PDF].
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Stop Steelies, Browns Salmon Stocking?
I just heard about a draft being circulated by "our friend", TU.
Basically, they have "joined up" with Great Lakes United to put pressure on senators, congressmen, etc. to try to restore the Great Lakes to their pristine state, and original fish species. A "quickie" sketch of what they want to do is:
1. Stop stocking exotics (e.g. Pac. salmon.Steelhead, Browns, etc.)
2. Restore original fish (lakers, burbot, sculpin, coastal brookies, yellow perch, bloaters, etc.)
3. Amend existing law to prevent introduction of "exotics" (salmon, steel and browns, etc.)
4. Make it federal mandate so that State agencies must comply.
I am procuring a copy of the original draft, and will forward it. In the meantime, I am NOT going to renew my TU membership, etc.
Yes I would like to see that and will watch in my TU mgazine and other email newsletter for this.
What the Hxxx are they thinking sometimes I wonder about these purist stuff goes way to far. Besides it will never happen with the commercial sport fishing $$$ the andramous non native fish have brought to the great lakes.
Just remember the steelhead were stocked in the 1880s.
They must be atlantic salmon purists who want that species to have a chance again in Lake Ontario where it was once native.
Obviously you know which way vote goes on this one.
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Hal, I am getting a copy of the draft from a member of another site - www.lakeontario.org You have to scroll down to hit on the "click here" in bold print, then hit the first topic. He gives a little more detail. (Seven points, in all).
I think he is a charter captain - they have a lot to lose if this thing gets legs. I have e-mailed him to get a copy of the original draft, as he offered.
I am beginning to think that TU is falling into the tree hugger and Friends of Animals camp of eco-terrorists! Too bad - but you are right - "purists" can get carried away.
Incidentally, one of the problems with recovery of atlantics - atlantic salmon feed on alewives (among others), which result in a "vitamin blocker" in the fish producing limited stocking success. (I forget the details, but I believe it is a B vitamin derivative). Other salmonids are less susceptible to this.
I understand that Great Lakes United carries a lot of political clout on BOTH sides of the border - I guess it's up to us to turn public opinion the right way!
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Sounds exciting.....
Hey thats a fairly aggressive position, I am supriesed that TU has taken such a definitive position on the issue of introduced stock.
I am looking forward to this disscussion it will be a nice break from the normal problems of the West Coast Salmon Wars.
As to quitting TU because of this position, I would suggest just the opposte get in involved and learn all you can about how and why they came to take that position and then work towards either modifying the position or accepting it.
With all the problems that are fisheries resources are faced with today its not really a good time to br dropping association with "the oldest defender of the trout", over a policy statement!
Found it and read it, interesting, that will never fly in the great lakes due to the current sport fishery. TU needs to focus on saving our many rivers that are at risk and get off this non native stuff IMHO.
Interesting on the atlantics there if they ever get reestablished there in any numbers I will be out for sure. Lets hope for the best.
Alewife issue and atlantic salmon was new to me.
I think trying to have the atlantics spawn at the same fall time period with the kings, cohos, and browns is just to much competition for their already very limited numbers in the GL tribs. Thank god the steelhead spawn in the late winter and spring.
Keep us posted on developments.
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The great lakes is an inland ocean system that has a huge capability to produce gamefish as proven over the years. Whether indigenous species or exotics, I would think that it's yield would be great if as much energy went into producing native species as does into exotics.
If I were a stakeholder in this argument, I would clearly argue in favor of restoring native species and I take a stand with TU on this one all the way.
IMHO - to say that native atlantics, brookies, lakers, and the vast array of species that once filled the lakes is less desirable or important than the put-and-take pacific species is a sad indicator of the mentality behind the fishery.
Maybe it's not practical to try this on all lakes, but it seems that there is currently ZERO focus on native species that any progress in that direction is better than none. A phased, fully qualified step-by-step approach could do no harm.
Look where the distribution of browns for sport purposes got us - whirling disease and it's impacts on our native american trout.
It's not about sport or personal indulgence, it's about respecting and preserving what God gave us - and the responsibility that comes with it.
You have it exactly right.
We sportsmen sometimes don't realize that we can be part of the problem. That the non native fish we introduce or encouraged to be introduced over the years is a form of polution different from the steel mills of Gary, Indiana but still it is a form of polution.
Again with many sportsmen it comes down to catching when in this case and many others across the country should come down to the entire experience. Give TU great credit for what they are doing across the country from restoring native cuts in Wyoming to what they envision for our great lakes.
I hope our great lake friends will take the needed time and think about why they fish their local waters and that just maybe those waters will really become home waters when the native fish is king again.
I think you're on the wrong side of this one. The Great Lakes will never be "pristine" and support their native species again unless we do away with all human habitation around them. We would have to totally eliminate the cities of Green Bay, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester, Toronto, Montreal, etc. to name a few, do away with all habitation and farming, etc. and create wilderness areas within 100 miles of the lakes, not to mention disrupting too many people's way of life.
I guess it boils down to fishing for a select few elites, or fishing for the masses.
Choose sides VERY CAREFULLY on this one - I still have an open mind until I read the original document!
I am a retired chemist, and did a lot of environmental improvement in my day, including rivers. I am open to anything reasonable, but not dumb and shortsighted!
There's a reason why certain species are native to an area and why they thrive there....it's basic evolution and ecology. To say that an organization such as TU should "get off this non-native stuff" is like saying that doctors should stop looking for disease cures and simply continue treating the symptoms.
The balance of nature works. Certain areas can sustain non-native species, but it's almost always better for the indigenous species if non-natives are not introduced. It's simple biology.
Will everyone agree on this? Hell no.
BobK et. al. -
Let's not confuse the real discussion with rhetoric. No one in their right mind would think we could have a "pristine" G/L system anymore, that's not the issue.
Even less pertinent is "elitism". Why is it elite to try to restore native species? Would an equal number of atlantics, lake-run brookies, lakers and other native species be less of a working man's quarry or more so? More elite or less? Steelhead and steelheading is as elite as it gets in my book; it seems the masses want to eat cake. If it's really about fish for the masses, let's introduce tilapia.
It would be a miracle and victory for sportsmen if TU is able to accomplish awareness and some isolated progress in the restoration of native species in the region. It would help if some honorable anglers stood by this organization that has done so much for us.
I agree that the restoration of native species is the right thing to work toward in the GL and everywhere in the world. I am really surprised that sportsmen would react this way as if it posed some kind of threat.
Well if TUs agenda is now to restore all non native trout and salmon cold water species to U.S. cold water fisheries they should start with restoring brook trout, atlantic salmon, and graying, etc.. and remove the non native brown trout that were stocked starting in the 1880s which are now pervasive through out the U.S..
Browns are not native to the U.S. but there stocking has been highly successful just like the pacific salmon and steelhead have been to the great lakes. Maybe we should remove the non native browns and rainbows from the Beaverkill, Willowemuc, Pere Marquette, Ausable, Battenkill, etc and spend millions of dollars and decades trying to restore eastern brook trout and maybe even michigan grayling.
Will be watching TU to see just what there agenda is these days.
With all of the american rivers and fisheries on the endangered list impacting native and non native trout and salmon, why would TU spend precious time and limited money on trying to change a healthy non native fishery like the great lakes ?
They will never be successful on this issue in the great lakes, believe me and there are much higher cold water native and non native U.S. trout and salmon fishery issues for them to address.
Must be some political and corporate economic interests driving this, we will be watching this one for sure.
My 2 cents on this one
PM Out
P.S. Happy holidays from the great lakes in spite of this illogical thinking from a major trout and salmon conservation organization.
You said it best..."IMHO - to say that native atlantics, brookies, lakers, and the vast array of species that once filled the lakes is less desirable or important than the put-and-take pacific species is a sad indicator of the mentality behind the fishery" You may or may not know just how sad the mentality can be. We are at least 10 years behind in terms of fisheries issues thinking. I wrote to TU this morning and asked them directly and specifically where they stand on the issue. I'll post response when I get it.
Get real!
Too bad you guys are limiting your thinking - this is not restoring species - the lake habitat has changed so much that it's highly doubtful that it will work, and is esentially courting disaster!
I would LOVE to see the native species return. In the same vein, I have a highly technical education and a lot of work behind me that gives me a little vision to what is needed.
It was a totally different habitat that exists today. I won't go into detail (I will, if pressed!), but just look around you.
For starters, you would have to poison the lakes and their tribs to start from scratch. How long would it take to recover to the point where we could even begin putting "desired" species in? Well, try a couple of lifetimes.
Then, we have to get rid of all the cities, towns and people, dams, ad nauseum.
When our species goes extinct (sometime in the next zero to 200,000 years from the Yellowstone Caldera eruption which WILL occur), or maybe a passing asteroid will hasten it, then the lakes and rivers will revert.
For now, all you will accomplish will be to waste more taxpayer's money by pouring it down a hole.
I hate to get involved in this one...
What is TU's stance on the introduced species out west in the Henry's Fork? Silver Creek? Madison? Missouri? Man o man have I heard quite a defense when it comes to these streams, yet, 99% of their fish are introduced from California and Europe. What gives???
Juro- if you are going to take such a hard lined stance on this issue of restoring the earth, and it fishies, to what evolution provided, then let's take it to the next level and extrapolate out what you are saying and how it should also apply to human terms. Put your money where your mouth is- quit your job, pack up the family and migrate back to Europe/Scandinavia. And while you are at it, get the rest of the human population to follow suit.
Sound absurd?
Unless you live your life, beyond any shadow of a doubt, completely non consumptive and in 100% perfect balance with the earth, then you have already compromised your argument.
Enough on this.
Just a question here, not an opinion.
This is old memory time only:
Something tickles the back of my mind on why the Salmon/Steelhead were introduced into the Great Lakes. Remember something about one, or more, of the lakes being over run with a small fish (Alwaies, or something like that). Huge numbers would die and wash up on the beaches.
The salmon/steelhead were planted as an experiment to control the population(s) of these fish. It worked.
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Hi I am new to this forum! It has been such a long time since i last had a tropical fish tank (or any at all).....
I'm setting up a new tank, its 3 foot long, not very tall (15 inches) by about 13.5 inches front to back, and not very thick glass (3/16" or 5mm). The tank has no frame, its just all siliconed together , glass on glass.
The base I want to put it on is slightly curved (not flat) with a slight hollow in the middle. There is a dip in the centre of the base, looking from the front, that curves from nothing at the side edges, to a maximum of 1/16" (1.5mm) right in the middle of the tank. There is a very slight dip in the other plane (the front to back plane) , looking from the side lower edges of the tank the gap is a maximum of between 1/64" and 1/32" right in the middle of the sides. So the tank when placed right onto the wood is sitting mostly on the outer corners, with the very middle the least supported. As far as I can tell the curvature of the base is perfectly uniform (so there is no twisting forces at all, just what you might call in photoshop "pincushion distortion".) I have read that the tank only needs support around the edges and not in the middle. But mine would have more weight on the corners and less in the middle.
Those measurements are with the tank placed directly onto the wood base.
Note that my base has no lips around the edges, so i can see and measure the gaps easily. (Its really a wall unit, solid wood, extremely strong and stable, two or 3 people could all stand on it no problem at all). If there were lips to hide the bottom of the tank (like most dedicated fish tank bases), the non-flatness and gaps would be so small you might not even notice they were there at all.
I was planning to buy a think dense closed cell foam mat to place the tank on, of say 1/2" thick uncompressed thickness, from a rubber outlet. Which i was hoping would take up the up to 1/16" of slack space in the middle of the lower outer edges of the tank.
Do you think that would be enough padding for the tank to cope?
With a tank like this you need an even base to distribute weight. If you don';t have that it will crack.
Depending on the exact material your solution should work. Back in the day we used inch thick styrofoam sheets under tanks like these.My 33 gallon/125 liter tank. My photography on flickr.
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Thanks, i was thinking it would probably work if the mat was thick enough and dense enough. I read some threads on google about mats, people seemed to think the closed cell foam was the best choice. Im not exactly sure what that is but im thinking of the kind of stuff they make those interlocking gym mats like you would use for martial arts . ive seen them in two sizes about 1/2" and about 1".
I wonder if i would need a whole inch thick for a 3 foot tank? its not that long really or tall and only 1/16" of slack to take up
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Your tank looks great , thats something like the look i want. I like wood and rocks and lots of plants in there...
Go to a hardware store, and see if you can get a few decoupling mats. People use them to put under wood/laminate/vinyl flooring to make up for any gaps, and to provide a barrier between the floor and sub floor. They are relatively thin, but two or three layers, depending on the thickness, should get the job done. It is also dirt cheap.Money can't buy happiness, but it sure can pay the rent.


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7:50 am. Military Road. We're all lined up, unit by unit, waiting. Mist moves across fields of waist-high goldenrod, and someone offers me a pinch of snuff from a tiny tin box: one sniff sets off a carcinogenic light show behind my eyeballs. Yes, I am a soldier. I am something deadly, sheathed in tight hemp trousers, thumbing the butt of my saber — I hear the wet crackle of musketry up ahead and I yearn toward it.
To my left, the men of the 40th are playing a murmuring game of dice in an upturned hat. Deeply I love them, this July morning. To my right, a sociopathic lump of a sergeant is free-associating about death and buggery.
"You're from the 20th, right?" I ask him when he pauses for breath.
"You heard of us?"
"Don't you worry, boy. We'll have your ass bleeding by the end of the day."
On July 7, with my wife and son, I drive up to Vermont to take part in the re-enactment of the Battle of Hubbardton. We travel under the auspices of the 40th Regiment of Foot, a Rhode Island–based group that since 1989 has been recreating a British Light Infantry company — an enemy unit, for those who need a history refresher course — on maneuvers in the Revolutionary War.
Prior contact with the 40th, at a meeting down in Providence, had already enlarged my sense of the re-enactment world: expecting hermetic nerds or history-sozzled weekenders, I found instead a crew of trim, articulate noise-rock fans, into Lightning Bolt and Mastodon, cheerfully sewing buttons onto their regimental pants.
"Re-enacting is where the art fags and the guys who like putting on costumes meet the metal-shop guys and the history buffs," says 40th corporal Niels Hobbs, a 37-year-old marine biologist who has been "in the hobby" since he was 14. "It's one of the only places where that happens."
The 40th are actually very well regarded in re-enactment circles: not a "spit-and-polish" or "parade-ground" outfit, they are lean and dirt-covered "campaigners," committed to roughing it in the spirit of the original unit.
While Civil-War re-enactment can be complicated by regional allegiances, among Revolutionary War re-enactors there is no stigma attached to playing "the enemy." For Hobbs and his men, there is even a bit of bad-boy cachet: the 40th Foot were proto-commandos with woodsmen's ways and close-fitting rock-and-roll uniforms. Among 18th-century troops, they were almost evilly hip.
Within minutes of arriving on the re-enactment site at Hubbardton, as the evening condenses into rain, the four privates from our group disappear into the woods to hew themselves materials for a leaf-and-branch wigwam. At some events hay is provided as rudimentary bedding, but none is made available at Hubbardton. For my family and for corporal Hobbs and his girlfriend, though, there are authentic linen tents.
Despite being constructed entirely of natural camouflage, the green and shaggy wigwam stands out: it is the only one on the campground, and the 40th are pleased. With this rustic bivouac they are making a "progressive" statement. A fellow re-enactor from a different unit wanders over to salute their efforts: "Nice camp, dudes!"
"I dunno," says Hobbs, tattoos peeping out of his infantryman's jacket at collar and cuff. "I was hoping there'd be a few more of us here for this."
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Shares of Groupon (GRPN) today tumbled $1.39, or 21%, to close at $5.33, after the company yesterday reported Q1 revenue and a net loss per share that beat analysts' expectations, forecast this quarter's results below consensus, and raised its outlook for Ebitda this year.
The stock received several cuts in price target today, though Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster was an outlier, raising his price target a buck to $16 as he reiterated an Overweight rating. Munster wrote that North American billings in the local business were disappointing, but that "focusing on that metric misses the bigger story that Groupon's transaction of building a vibrant marketplace is largely on track.
Elsewhere, there was one downgrade, from Northland Securities's Darren Aftahi, who cut his rating from Buy to Hold, and cut his price target in half to $14.
The discussion today is what to do with the fact that the company is split between its original business of sending out coupons via email, and its newer business of running a marketplace, with the two businesses having different economics.
Wunderlich Securities's Blake Harper reiterates a Buy rating, but cuts his price target to $10 from $13, writing that its new businesses, while performing well, are not yielding as much profit as the traditional local deals business:
Local billings and revenue growth were up 7% Y/Y and 1% Y/Y, respectively, which has been disappointing due to the headwinds experienced with the transition to the Pull business, which has a lower lead time between purchase and redemption than email does. The company expects N. American Local business to be flat in Q2 before re-accelerating to double-digit growth in the second half of the year due to marketing and Pull transition. We expect Goods billings and revenues to represent an increasing percentage of the overall total, with revenue now over 51% of the business and expected growth from the acquired TMON and ideeli businesses. While the growth has been positive, we view it as an unfavorable mix shift given the lower gross margins, Groupon's cost disadvantage of 2x other ecommerce competitors, and intense competition in the segment compared to its Local business.
Harper slightly raised his 2014 estimates to $3.199 billion and 14 cents per share profit from a prior $3.196 billion and 12 cents.
Goldman Sachs's Heath Terry reiterated a Neutral rating, and cut his target to $8 from $10, writing that "While we continue to believe the opportunity in local is significant and Groupon's critical mass of users and merchants gives it a meaningful advantage in addressing that opportunity, we believe the degree of difficulty in executing on Groupon's many initiatives is significant."
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Parker-Hannifin (PH) has has dropped 3.8% to $122 in pre-open trading after the industrial company missed earnings estimates and offered annual guidance that was largely below forecasts.
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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 2:21 PM GMT on September 02, 2009
The tropical wave we were calling Invest 94 finally decided to stop dawdling and become Tropical Storm Erika yesterday. However, Erika seems intent upon keeping us guessing about its intentions, as the storm's future track and intensity remain highly uncertain. After a modest burst of intensification to a 60 mph tropical storm last night, Erika has become quite disorganized this morning. The Hurricane Hunters found multiple swirling centers inside Erika early this morning, and the main center took a jump to the southwest to relocate itself under a batch of intense thunderstorms. The exact location and path of Erika remain uncertain at this point, and it is possible the storm will have another center relocation later today. Wind shear analyses from the University of Wisconsin diagnose a moderate 10 - 15 knots of shear over Erika, a decrease from yesterday. SSTs are warm, 29°C. Why, then, is Erika so disorganized? The trouble with the various wind shear analyses we use is that they take a crude average of winds over a thick layer to arrive at an average shear, and this large-scale average shear does not capture thin layers of shear that can dramatically affect a tropical cyclone. Upper air data from Guadeloupe and Saint Martin from last night show a complicated shear pattern in Erika's region, with 30 knot winds out of the south to southwest at 200 mb height, nearly calm winds between 300 - 500 mb, and northeasterly winds of 10 - 20 knots from the surface to 500 mb. Some extremely dry air with humidities near 10% was present in a thin layer near 600 mb on the Guadeloupe sounding, so dry air from the Saharan Air Layer is probably being injected by a northeasterly jet of wind into the core of Erika. The shear of 30 knots at the top of the storm is ripping away the heat and moisture Erika's thunderstorms are lifting there, and the result of the shear and dry air is a very disorganized tropical storm.
Erika is embedded in a weak steering current pattern, and the future track of the storm will depend greatly upon how strong the storm gets over the next few days. A stronger Erika will extend higher into the atmosphere and be steered more to the northwest by upper-level winds. A weaker Erika will be steered more by the low-level winds, which will keep the storm on a more westerly track. Given the complicated nature of the wind shear pattern in the region, it is difficult to forecast how strong Erika will get. Virtually anything can happen over the next five days, from dissipation (as forecast by the ECMWF model) to intensification to a Category 3 hurricane (as forecast by the HWRF model). Large-scale wind shear is expected to increase to 20 - 25 knots between 3 - 4 days from now, so Erika will have to deal with an increasing amount of adversity. The storm is a long-term threat to the Bahamas and U.S. East Coast, particularly if the storm stays weak over the next three days. Potential landfall solutions from the models range from Florida on Tuesday (GFS model) to North Carolina on Wednesday (Canadian model).
Figure 1. Morning image of Tropical Storm Erika, showing a false center over Guadaloupe--one of several surface swirls the Hurricane Hunters found in the storm.
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The tropical wave off the coast of Africa we were watching on NHC's Tropical Weather Outlook as having a low chance of developing into a tropical depression has been done in by the dry air of the Sahara, and is no longer a threat to develop. A large and well-organized tropical wave will emerge from the coast of Africa on Thursday, and several of the models develop this low into a tropical depression by early next week. The remains of an old cold front off the coast of North Carolina could serve as a breeding ground for some tropical development Friday or Saturday, but anything that forms in this region would get swept quickly northeastward into New England by Sunday without enough time to become a tropical depression.
Hurricane Jimena nears Baja
Hurricane Jimena has steadily weakened over the past day, and is now down to a Category 2 hurricane with 105 mph winds. The storm should continue to steadily weaken over the next 24 hours as the waters under the hurricane cool from 28°C to 27°C. Jimena is battering a relatively unpopulated stretch of coast, and largely spared the tourist mecca on the southern tip of Baja. It now appears unlikely that moisture from Jimena will reach the Southwestern U.S., and the hurricane appears poised to stall out over Baja and die five days from now.
Figure 2. Hurricane Jimena on Tuesday, Sep. 1, 2009, as seen by NASA's MODIS instrument. Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory.
Baja's hurricane history
The most powerful hurricane on record to hit the west coast of Baja occurred last year, when Hurricane Norbert made landfall on the central Baja coast with sustained winds of 105 mph (Category 2) . Norbert's central pressure of 956 mb at landfall made it the 3rd strongest hurricane to hit the Pacific coast of Mexico since record keeping began in 1949. Norbert killed eight, knocked out power to 20,000 homes, and damaged or destroyed 40% of the homes on the islands of Margarita and Magdalena. Norbert crossed the Baja Peninsula and made landfall on Mainland Mexico as a Category 1 hurricane with 85 mph winds.
Only two major hurricanes have made landfall on Baja since record keeping began in 1949. Both hurricanes hit the east (Gulf of California) side of Baja. The first was Hurricane Olivia of 1967. Olivia made landfall on October 13, 1967 as a Category 3 hurricane with 125 mph winds. Due to its small size and the unpopulated region of coast it hit, damage was minimal. The second major hurricane was Hurricane Kiko, which made landfall on August 27, 1989, as a Category 3 hurricane with winds of 115 mph (minimal Category 3). Kiko was a small hurricane and hit a relatively unpopulated area, resulting in no loss of life and only scattered reports of damage.
Figure 3. A plot of all the major hurricanes to pass within 200 miles of Mexico's Baja Peninsula since 1949. Image credit: NOAA Coastal Services Center.
California fire webcams
As I discussed in yesterday morning's post, you can use our wundermap for Los Angeles with the fire layer turned on to see where the fire and smoke are located, and track the temperatures and winds during today's air pollution event. We also have two webcams with views of the fire: Altadena and Tujunga.
I'll have an update by 4pm this afternoon, when the data from the next hurricane hunter flight into Erika will be available.
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Lois E. Meighan, age 96 of Monroe, died Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at Monroe Clinic Hospital. Lois was born June 22, 1916 near Winslow, IL, the daughter of Clarence E. and Phebe M. (Reck) Wales. She was the last survivor of the Winslow High School class of 1935. Lois married Clarence E. Meighan on June 4, 1938 in Dubuque, Iowa. They farmed in the state line area before moving into Monroe in 1966. Lois worked for Advance Transformer for 10 years. She loved to travel having visited Italy, the Bahamas, and all 50 states. She enjoyed bingo, volunteering at Pleasant View and Churchill Woods Apartments, and was a huge packer fan who dressed in Green and Gold on game days.
She is survived by six children, Loreane (Kim) Hendrickson of Argyle, Joan (Gerald) Miller of Browntown, Virgil (Pat) Meighan of Scioto Mills, IL, Daryl (Judy) Meighan of Monroe, Gary (Betty) Meighan of Darlington, and Dennis (Regina) Meighan of Monroe; 19 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; 5 great.great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Dorothy (Irvin) Seuring of Baileyville, IL, and Letha Leverton of Lena, IL. She was preceded in death by her parents; a son, Wayne Meighan; a grandson, Brian Meighan; and two brothers, Ralph and Robert Wales.
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For many juniors and seniors, Princeton's 11 historic eating clubs — the first opened in 1879 — offer a hub for dining and social life. The clubs, which are located in architecturally distinctive houses along Prospect Avenue, serve daily meals prepared by a head chef and staff.
Each club typically includes 120 to 180 members who eat together in the club's private dining halls. Most students who join a club continue to live on campus while eating at their club. Guest meals and meal exchanges for the eating clubs are available to all students.
Princeton's eating clubs are governed by student officers under the auspices of independent alumni boards. Each club works to provide an array of community service, athletic, leadership and academic extracurricular programs. The clubs also sponsor joint educational and service initiatives through the Princeton Prospect Foundation.
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Do you keep a daily log of each dogs performance and/or other information involving client info or test dates?
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Do you keep a daily log of each dogs performance and/or other information involving client info or test dates?
I don't keep a daily log but I do keep one. I fill in progress and things to work on. I don't have clients but if I did I probably would. It's been fun to look back and see where we started and issues we worked through and what we have a acomished.
Keep info coming. I'm thinking of making an app that would handle and organize all this info. Trying to decide if people would use this and also trying to decide what all to put in it.
Just started keeping a journal on my herd about 2 months ago. I make note of what training we did and how the dog was progressing, Location, also make note if weather is out of ordinary. And anything else I feel pertinent.
I started keeping daily training notes early on. Many years ago I was a chess coach and a quote by a Grandmaster chess player/author became my journal's supporting rationale.
Journal Entry:
Learning how to train dogs is a long-term process. What you know and can apply at any one time is critical to the advancement of your dogs. Dog training is somewhat like chess. "It depends a great deal on how much you know. But, what you know is really everything you've learned, minus all you've forgotten.........and the forgetting process is powerful". by Rolf Wetzell
Therefore, it would seem a daily record enhances
"remembering" and is a wise course of action. It provides a reference with context. This "paper trail" will provide quick recollection and inhibit the "forgetting process". You will know more because you have planned to forget less.
I started keeping one this year after taking on client dogs full time. I record all correction instances, handles, sketches of test setups (marking, blinds, etc) and any comments I want to record on performance.
I voted Yes, although I wouldn't say I keep a DAILY log, I do write down a lot of stuff. Some of my writings are training notes, plans, and what happened during training. Others are blogs or email posts. I also make test results sheets prior to every show to record set-ups, results, etc. I'm trying to get better about writing training plans for the day before I start training. It helps me stick to the program and not veer into something I'm not prepared for.
I keep most eveything in a loose-leaf notebook. At the end of the year, I transfer the year's writings to a folder (one of those kind that lets you bind together a big stack of paper). Always fun to pick up a prior folder and read about where I was.
I didn't vote. I've kept logs in past years but am not currently keeping one. I should be, going back to them helps a lot. By not keeping records on what they're doing I'm sure I'm missing some minor things that could grow into more major issues.
If you are planning on making something I could keep on my computer, then I'd like the ability of a putting a picture of the test on it with easy access to a way of editing the pic to put lines on it to show what each dog did. Probably a way to keep it as a thumbnail on the page of the log to be clicked on and brought up to full size.
I used to take digital pix of each test, edit the pic with what the dog's did and store it in an excel based report. Waaaay cumbersome.
Jim that was a great quote.
Howard the plan is to make a way to import a photo of the setup and allow editing of the photo with the line that that dog took. Also import a google image and edit that with placing marks and blinds as well as lines to bird. I have lots of things planned so we will see how it works out. I'm would like it to work as a iPad or iPhone app as well as a computer version.


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This collection of historical election data contains state files that list county-level returns for over 90 percent of all elections to the offices of president, governor, United States senator, and United States representative from 1824 through 1968. The data files include returns for all parties and candidates (as well as write-in and scattering votes if available for individual states), and for special elections as well as regularly-scheduled contests. Over 1,000 individual party names and many additional unaffiliated candidates are included.
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My mother always tells me, ' go and take a rest instead of making this and that', kuihs especially. I remember very well the last time when i passed her some angkoo kuehs and loh mai chee , she said, 'just go and get it from outside, why take the trouble to make these?' That is also because she doesnt know how to make those and that it seems a lot of work to her, well, ..maybe a bit. But i also remember the time when i told her that i wanted to make Tau foo fah, she said' oh make them, it's very easy' .You see, she used to make those when she was young so she knew. Same as this kaya. She told me that if i can make my own kaya and if it's a good one, i will never regret doing it. Asked her how to make kaya, she said, 'oh, forgot already...but make the caramel and use duck eggs.
For the benefit of some overseas friends who are not familiar with kaya, it is a coconut egg jam or more commonly known to us as 'Kaya' (加央) over here in Malaysia and Singapore, is a type of jam or spread made by using four main ingredients that are eggs, coconut milk, sugar and pandan (screwpine ) leaves.
It is very sweet usually and comes in original flavour and pandan flavour and most common way to enjoy kaya is by spreading on bread or toasts, like a normal jam.
I then searched the internet for the recipe and came upon Gertrude's kaya ( My Kitchen Snippets ), read the recipe and Whoah.. got to stand in front of the stove and cook for an hour! Ok, ok ..can do cos i really wanted to make it. Gertrude's recipe calls for 8 eggs, i dont know why i kept thinking 6 eggs so i ended up getting 6 duck eggs and when i came back, i realised i'm short of 2 more eggs so i grabbed 2 chicken eggs from the fridge. Feel free to use all chicken eggs if you want. I used double boiled method and it took me close to an hour to get this done. Keep stirring all the time.
|this is how the mixture looks like after 10 minutes cooking in the pot. See the yellow bits ? those are the caramel that got a little harden before i cook them together.
|this is after 40 minutes
|after 50 minutes before blending. You can choose not to blend if you dont mind a lumpy texture like this.
|after blending..smooth. Can still be smoother if i blend further. You can stop the blender several times to chk the smooth consistency that you want.
Recipe ( from My Kitchen Snippets , i used double boiled method, makes around 700gms of kaya)
8 large eggs ( i used 6 duck eggs and 2 chicken eggs)
400ml thick coconut milk
450gm sugar
6 Pandan/screwpine leaves
1.Whisk the eggs and sugar till well combined and strain through a sieve. Add in the coconut milk.
2.Pour the mixture into a thick pot. Get ready another larger pot with boiling water. Take 5 tbsp sugar from the total sugar amount and cook in another small pot till they become caramel and brown, remove from fire and pour that into the coconut egg mixture. ( the caramel can get hard very fast or you can choose the cook the 5 tbsps of sugar with half of the coconut mixture first )
3.Put the thick pot ( with this coconut egg mixture and caramel) into the larger pot with boiling water( double boil way) and stir . Keep stirring continuously until the mixture becomes thick ( it took me about 50 minutes).
4.Remove it from pot , remove the pandan leaves and blend till smooth. Pour into a big bowl and let cool down before storing them in fridge.
|spread it on toasts..
|the coffee shop way...
Really nice and very fragrant! I find it slightly sweet for me but still nice. My mum said, 'if it's not sweet, then it's not kaya!' Yes, i would be making these again sometime, though it sounds a little tough standing there stirring continuously for an hour, i really dont mind, just cut down a little bit on the sugar perhaps the next round.


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What do you guys use and why? Pros and cons of each one...
Hey guys,
What do you guys use and why? Pros and cons of each one...
I use both, but prefer the Avery. I like them because they don't soak up water & they don't bounce a lot when thrown from the launcher. I've had Dokens bounce 3-4 times & end up 10 yards from where they initially hit.
1 knock against the Avery that I have heard is that they will crack if thrown on land when they are cold. I don't know this to be true because just to be safe I don't use them when this might be an issue (just to be safe).
I had one of my mallard dokkens snap a leg right off when it hit the ground.....not much of a warranty on them.
Avery EZ birds hold up extremely well for our water and land, I have no idea how many thousand times they have been launched and retrieved. I just bought my 3rd dozen, the 1st 2 dozen have been in use 3-4 years and are still good, we lose a few. I have tried the big ones and sold them after the 1st year.
I just have a hard time with the Dokkens smelling like cat urine and they have a limited life as the foam breaks down.
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I have used both I prefer the dokkens especially in the winter as they dont crack and shatter like the avery true birds. Dokkens do tend to get a musty smell if put up wet, of course the dogs dont seem to mind. I only have a few of the avery products left around the house because of the tendency to crack in cold weather. Hexa-bumpers are the same way even with the newer material so I just dont buy them anymore. Though I will say, Avery's customer service was very good, they did replace the ones I did break.
The kong I put a little peanut butter in them.Then on the top of the water bottle to teach to drink from it.GREAT TOY
I have a number of each and have found that the dokken has its issues. Have found that the head on the mallards crack and break leaving sharp edges along with soaking up water after repeated constant use. Water really isnt a problem but the head cracking has left me and my dog bleeding....UGGHH
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