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RuPaul's "No T, No Shade" Year In Review
We had the crazy idea that instead of us, your favorite magazine editors and writers, reciting our faves, raves and roastings of the year that was 2013, why not hand things over to a true pop-culture expert. So naturally we asked self-professed "ultimate observer" RuPaul, performer, host, producer and (in our humble opinion) the fiercest and most fabulous of the divas. No topic was off limits, no
2013: It was the best of years; it was the worst of years. On a professional level for me, it was fantastic. I've been doing this coming up on 32 years, and who would have guessed that I could have the kind of success that I have right now in this very moment? On a personal level, though, the challenges, as you stay on this planet long enough and you see the dichotomies so clearly, are heartbreaking at times. The longer I've stayed on the planet, the more challenging it becomes to stay balanced and not get too angry at the polar opposites that exist.
I've always been around super-sensitive, super-creative people, and usually those people have a hard time because they see things that other people can't see. They have the high highs and the low lows. So keeping that balance is always a challenge, specifically the unconsciousness that exists. We love our smartphones and texting and all that stuff, but along with that comes this unconsciousness that makes me feel that much more alone. This sort of feeling that everyone's asleep. It's no accident that in the past 10 years we've had more and more zombie movies, because zombie movies are a parable for being unconscious. Being the walking dead. And it just does something to me when I see someone walking down the street just looking at their phone. It just pushes up against this area in me that reminds me of when I was a kid, when I would think, "Am I the only one that's awake?"
This year we've seen advancements that aren't even gay issues; they're human rights issues. If you pay taxes, then you deserve equal treatment under the law. It's absurd that it's gone on this long! I've been around for many years now, and I've seen the pendulum swing both ways. So yes, let's celebrate, but let's really understand what lies beneath laws that discriminate, and make sure that it doesn't happen again. And I hate to burst your bubble, but it usually does.
George Orwell explained it really well in his beautiful parable Animal Farm, where the animals forget why they had a revolution in the first place. And that's a very huge, huge fear. It's human nature that we just forget and we take things for granted. But we could put some things in place that would help us remember. And what helps us remember is self-love. It all starts with us. If you love yourself, you'll realize that there are other people on the planet who deserve to be loved, who deserve recognition.
We have to wake up and realize that we are not separate from one another. That's where it really all begins. But we have to be very careful when aligning with straight celebrities that come out for gay issues, that it's not this thing where we're saying, "Look! So-and-so likes us, so we can stand up proud." Or putting straight people on the cover of gay magazines just because. It sends this subconscious message of shame. It says, "Look! So-and-so likes us, so we can like ourselves." The truth is that it all starts within. The biggest threat to gay people is self-loathing and shame. And that is something that each of us can change right now in this very moment. But I think we perpetuate that shame when we align ourselves and say, "Look. Straight people like us." We should say, "Wait a minute. Why wouldn't straight people like you?"
And look, I'm fucking old! I've seen this shit, and I've been paying attention. I went to my first gay pride parade in Atlanta in 1982, and I've seen how certain cycles continue over and over. You see the gay rights movement, the civil rights movement, the women's movement, and you see how it changes. You would think that black folks would naturally align with the women's movement or the gay rights movement—or vice versa—because it's the same fucking thing. But you realize that the human ego wants to isolate itself. The ego wants to make things separate.
But this is something that anyone reading this can do on a personal level. This is not something that you get together and banter. This is something each person has to choose to do individually. So why don't we start the new year off by being present and recognizing that we're not separate from one another.
This year has been a challenge. I've been challenged to let go of old ideas and to walk in a new consciousness. It's very easy to just go on the same old directives, the same old ideas I have of myself. It's important for me to change my personal identity, to redefine myself.
And I've said this in every single interview, but that's the whole thing of what drag is all about—not taking yourself too seriously. Understand that this is just a shell and that your hairstyle, your car, your politics—it all comes and goes. No structure is stable, but what is stable is the common bond between us. That's where you put the focus.
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Once a last resort for epilepsy because it was so difficult and risky, surgery is now a more viable option for patients of all ages as reported in The Boston Globe. Recent advances in imaging have enabled surgeons to be more certain where seizures originate in the brain, which tissue they can cut safely, and how to minimize damage along the way.
"Advances of imaging have really changed the way we think about things, turning children we didn't think about as surgical candidates into surgical candidates — and surgery can be a cure," said Dr. Elizabeth Thiele, director of the pediatric epilepsy program at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Read more about pediatric epilepsy patients and their experiences with image-guided surgeries.
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It's now part of the national conversation.
Headlines from coast to coast have forced it there.
Two Columbine High School students in Littleton, Colo., shoot 13 classmates before turning their guns on themselves.
A 13-year-old Missouri girl who hangs herself after being cyberbullied by the mother of a classmate.
A Rutgers University freshman jumps off the George Washington Bridge in New York City after a secretly recorded video of him kissing a guy is posted on the Internet.
Three teenage boys – one in Houston, another in Greensburg, Ind., and the third in Tehachapi, Calif. – commit suicide within a matter of weeks in 2010, all after being bullied.
Sadly, these stories are not unique.
Bullying is happening everywhere, including Illinois.
About three hours southeast of Morris, a 10-year-old girl named Ashlynn Conner committed suicide last year because she was being bullied.
"She had been hurt by her classmates and neighborhood kids ... They called her fat and they called that little girl ugly," said Rachel Plasch, a member of MWAH! Performing Arts Troupe – Messages Which Are Hopeful – to the students at Marseilles Elementary School, Marseilles, Monday, Sept. 10.
Ashlynn had begged her mom to home-school her, but her mom didn't understand why, so she didn't allow it, Plasch continued.
The very next day, on Nov. 11, 2011, Ashlynn's eighth-grade sister found Ashlynn's dead body. Ashlynn hanged herself with a knitted scarf in her bedroom closet all because she had been bullied and didn't know how to cope.
Even closer to Morris, about an hour north, in Batavia, a 15-year-old high school freshman named Dylan Wagner also hanged himself.
According to published reports, Wagner's mother told the audience at a previous MWAH! presentation she and her husband came home after taking a walk to find a note from their son on the kitchen table and his body in the basement.
What is bullying?
Researchers traditionally have defined bullying as a repeated pattern of aggressive behavior that involves an imbalance of power and purposefully inflicts hardship or harm on those who are bullied.
Leading research on bullying indicates that there are serious and long-term consequences to bullying, such as increased depression, substance abuse, aggressive impulses, and school truancy.
"When I was growing up, I got bullied and it was a rite of passage, but we didn't have the degrees of violence that we have now," said CJ Harmer, a peer intervention specialist with Pioneer Center for Human Services in McHenry.
"I think we're just noticing it more now because we choose to look at it."
Bullying also is getting more attention with high-profile documentaries like "Finding Kind" and "Bully," formerly known as "The Bully Project." More and more celebrities are admitting that they, too, were once bullied and are speaking out against it now.
When he was still alive, Jamey Rodemeyer's idol was Lady Gaga, according to Plasch.
After Jamey, a 14-year-old boy from Williamsville, NY, committed suicide because he couldn't handle being taunted anymore, Lady Gaga tweeted that bullying is a hate crime and it should become illegal, Plasch said.
"All of us here need to respect each other for our differences, whether it's racial, religious, sexual orientation or physical and developmental challenges," Plasch continued. "Nobody deserves to suffer or die because of ignorance."
But when does bullying become more than just kids being kids?
It's a fine line between harmless teasing and bullying, said Judy Freeman of Glenview, author of "Easing the Teasing," a book and program that many schools across the country have adopted.
There is teasing when no one's feelings are hurt, in a sort of affectionate or harmless way, like laughing with somebody, Freeman explained. But there also is cruel and hurtful teasing, such as insults, name-calling or embarrassing someone.
As bullying moves along what Freeman calls a continuum, it becomes more aggressive. There's exclusion, or the "you can't play with us, or you can't sit here" mentality, known in psychology circles as "relational aggression."
"Kids typically use relationships rather than their fists," Freeman said, explaining that is often referred to as "mean girl" behavior, but she acknowledged that boys, too, can exhibit such behavior.
These behaviors are more subtle – gossiping, glares, stares. And moving along the continuum, hostile teasing becomes more abusive.
It becomes bullying when the behavior is intimidating, threatening or abusive, typically verbal but it also can be physical, Freeman said. Bullying is repeated, persistent and characterized by a power imbalance.
"A lot of these kids acting in these aggressive ways feel pretty darn good about themselves," Freeman said. "They can be the smart kids, cool or popular kids that are just getting pleasure out of this. That is very scary."
The Internet and social media websites ushered in a whole new arena for torment – cyberbullying, and with it came new and dangerous dimensions to conventional ideas about bullying.
"What used to happen in the schoolyard or cafeteria can go global in a few seconds," Freeman said.
Hank Nuwer is a professor at Franklin College in Indiana. He has written several books about bullying and hazing.
"It's a whole different kind of bullying today than people were used to 20, 30 years ago," Nuwer said. "It's the ganged-up type of behavior. People cannot only [bully] you in the halls, but also online. Students feel like they have a [constant] target on them."
Are we overreacting?
But with bullying suddenly thrust into the national dialogue, some are asking – are we overreacting? Is society labeling normal childhood behavior as bullying?
"We as a community, as a society, I think what we need to do is really understand that there are differences in bullying so we don't drown out that particular term," Harmer said. "Because it is a serious issue. Saying everything we're doing is bullying won't have the effectiveness that it needs to have."
In a society where everybody gets a participation trophy, are children simply getting weaker?
"I'm talking about young children specifically, I see that they have weaker coping skills now than they did 15 or 20 years ago," Freeman said. "They don't get a lot of experience to cope with experiences that are not going their way. They may have more meltdowns if things don't go their way.
"Some of this has to do with parents rescuing kids very quickly and not letting them work things out themselves," Freeman continued. "As parents, we don't want our kids to have heartache or pain, we want to kiss it and make it better."
But the statistics don't lie.
An alarming 39 percent of middle school administrators and 20 percent of elementary and high school administrators reported that bullying took place on a daily or weekly basis, according to a student survey by the National Center for Education Statistics. Ninteen percent of middle schools and 18 percent of high schools reported daily or weekly problems with cyberbullying, either at a school or away from school, the study found.
As the incidents of bullying get more serious and more commonplace, school administrators are often charged with finding ways to curtail it.
"I don't think there's ever going to be a time that bullying is not going to be around," Harmer said. "... But I think we can make it harder for bullies to be bullies."
Getting help
Following Wagner's death, MWAH! troupe members reached out to his sister.
"She wanted us to tell you guys that we need to understand that dark moments and sad thoughts do not last forever," Plasch said. "And that asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness."
Marseilles Elementary School Social Worker Stacy Brannan encouraged the students in her school to speak up for themselves, to tell an adult.
"If you are being teased so much that you are having trouble eating, trouble sleeping, you're upset and hate school and don't want to come, tell somebody," Brannan said.
She also encouraged Marseilles students to tell a second or third adult if the first one doesn't act.
"We all really, really care about you," she continued. "We will take care of you if you tell us something is wrong."
At the same presentation in Marseilles, State Representative Pam Roth told the students to be themselves.
"If you love you and you are you, then everyone else is going to love you, too," Roth said.Confronting the Bully


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CCR Motors bad??
Posted 27 March 2007 - 02:32 PM
My brother blew his motor in 92 and I told him about ccr. But his shop in Westminster told him that he has had lots of problems in the past with their motors.
Posted 27 March 2007 - 03:22 PM
hell no ccr has an awsome reputation. as far as i am concerned they are the only shop i trust my stuff to. they rebuilt my transmission 9 months ago and i havent had a problem with it. i'm about to send my svx trannie there in the next week or three when ever i get it out
Anyone here anything back about them?
My brother blew his motor in 92 and I told him about ccr. But his shop in Westminster told him that he has had lots of problems in the past with their motors.
Posted 27 March 2007 - 03:26 PM
hell no ccr has an awsome reputation. as far as i am concerned they are the only shop i trust my stuff to. they rebuilt my transmission 9 months ago and i havent had a problem with it. i'm about to send my svx trannie there in the next week or three when ever i get it out
That is what I have heard also, just wanted to make sure my info was not bad. I have never heard anything but good about them.
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Posted 27 March 2007 - 09:42 PM
CCR motors are bad?
Bad? Well Bad Assed maybe. . .
Sorry, just had to be said. I would steer any of my customers that needed a new engine that just had to be right straight to them. They are that good.
Posted 27 March 2007 - 09:46 PM
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someone just did a BBB check on them, zero complaints in 3 months..or 6 months or something. another company had like 60 or something insane.
Posted 28 March 2007 - 05:48 PM
Remember there are this many EJ22's out there:
2-95 with EGR port on the head
3-96-00 or so. (single port exhaust)
On top of that there has to be a core factored in. Whether or not you have one or not, or what might be internally damaged on yours. Excluding a giant hole in the top of the block there usually isn't going to be something that makes you have to pay a core fee but again, they need to discuss with you "what happened to your old engine".
And they have to ship the engine to you so quotes have to include shipping.
So call for quotes. Emily and Terry like talking to you.
Posted 28 March 2007 - 06:09 PM
They get them from japan and chop them out of the cars over there and ship them here. They are great engines and are dirt cheap.
Your usually talking about 400-600 for one.
You know they are good because they have the compression on each cylinder.
That's about it hope that helps anyone out near here, but they also ship out cross state I believe
Posted 28 March 2007 - 06:35 PM
Below is a descripion of the guy who's page I stole this from explaining what to expect as well .
For guys looking for clean used Japanese engines and transmissions here is a list of the So Cal companies that import them. Prices vary a lot between them, for the most part you get what you pay for. Between them all, usually one or two will have a 1.6 turbo motor or trans. I have never seen a 1.8 at any of them, best to stick with Cork Sport for those.
When calling these guys you may have to deal with some heavy accents. We ask for "four by four" on the transmissions. "Four wheel drive" can be confused with "front wheel drive" sometimes. Motors go from $600-800 including manifolds and turbo. You have a 75% chance of getting a early 1.6 with the bigger intake manifold but smaller turbo.
They usually have a distributor, the cap and rotor may be cracked from shipping. The timing belt upper covers can also be slightly damaged. AWD trans go from $450-700 including transfer cases. If it has a cable actuated clutch (the hydraulic clutch parts swap right over) it will have a slightly lower gear ratio. Most trannys come with the center diff locking motor, the wires may be cut.
There is no way to determine the mileage on these. They will always quote 40,000-60,000 but there is no way to really know. Most are very clean. They guarantee the motors and trans for 6 months and usually 6,000 miles, but just the parts and not the labor or shipping. In Japan they have very strict licensing laws and regulations which get older cars off the street at a young age.
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Soen Trade Corporation
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Soko America
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Cary, NC
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Midwest Engine Sales
14502 South Industrial Ave.
Cleveland, Ohio 44137
216-475-3180 / Fax 216-475-4091
A-1 JDM Engines http://www.a1jdmengines.com (416) 496-9822
Street Imports http://www.streetimports.com (800) 839-4536
J Spec Auto http://www.jspecauto.com (514) 917-6978
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Chico, California 95973 http://www.risingsunengines.com (888) 660-4664
In Ca. (530) 895-0300
Japanese Used Engines http://www.japaneseusedengines.com (888) 4GO-MOTOR
Premium Used Engines and Transmissions
111 Bond Street
Westbury, New York 11590 http://www.enginereplacement.com 1-866-Japan-NY
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MONTREAL - Think of buying a guitar like having a child.
In your eyes, it comes into this world looking like the most amazing thing you have ever seen. It makes ungodly noises at even more ungodly hours. And eventually, it gets hurt. A guitar, like a toddler, will fall down. It will get scratches. And unlike a human, it won't heal on its own.
That's where Dan Daoust comes in.
Daoust is the owner of Broken Headstock House of Repairs on Parc Ave., a hospital for guitars that are in desperate need of life-saving surgery. Unlike most music stores around the city, he doesn't just do repairs; he also performs the far more involved service of guitar restoration, a fountain-of-youth process that he describes as "like turning back a clock."
"In a broad sense, a repair is a restoration, because you're fixing something," he pointed out. "But a restoration is trying to make that instrument look as original as possible. It's very time consuming, and it's very difficult to basically undo 60 or 70 years of use and abuse."
Restoration is not just a matter of soldering a few broken wires and throwing on a coat of polish. Guitars are made of wood, and over the course of years, wood can warp, causing damage that is both cosmetic and able to destroy a guitar's individual sound — a nightmare for a musician who spends his entire life, and much of his money, in a quest for the perfect tone. In the worst-case scenario, a restoration can take as long as a year.
While each case is different, a restoration could include such delicate surgeries as gluing each crack in the wood separately (each of which can take several days to dry), humidifying the wood for weeks and eventually painting, sanding and finishing the guitar several times.
"It's a lot of small increments of work that are very precise, and you always have to be careful," Daoust said. "You're working on really expensive and generally very fragile instruments."
Due to the expense that can be involved, Daoust is in frequent communication with his customers about cost and the processes that could be required to fix or restore a guitar, which can range from $55 for basic maintenance and cleaning to several thousand for a total restoration of an instrument in brutal shape. Clients are often willing to pay, and it's for a simple reason: the kind of person who usually walks into Broken Headstock doesn't consider guitar-playing a hobby, but a lifelong passion.
"I'd say on average, most of my clients at least have two guitars," Daoust said. "A good percentage probably have half a dozen or more. Some of them have 100."
The flannel-clad Daoust, with his long hair and beard, looks like the prototypical guitar geek that he is, especially when surrounded by six-strings in various states of destruction and reconstruction in the backroom of his Mile End shop. Having spent most of his life around guitars — first in bands like local hard-rockers Dutch Oven, and later as a repairman for the Canadian distributor of Ibanez guitars — opening Broken Headstock a year and a half ago was a natural move. It's the culmination of experiences that go all the way back to when he was a kid watching his father work.
"My dad is a master woodworker, so I've always been working with my hands. Always helping him and learning a lot about how things are put together, pulling things apart and trying to put them back together — sometimes with more success than others," he recalled with a chuckle.
While restoration is the most involved service Daoust provides, he also handles the day-to-day repairs that any guitar aficionado will need. Straightening crooked necks, cleaning out dirty electronic components, replacing worn-out parts — these are all things that Montreal's many guitar owners need to have done frequently. Guitar repairs are the great equalizer, as they are a necessity for the weekend warriors and the rock stars; players in both categories have visited Broken Headstock.
"Arcade Fire, Trigger Effect, Priestess, Barn Burner," Daoust rattled off when asked to name some of his more well-known clients. "Last year during the jazz festival, we had people who came into the shop who needed instant repairs because they're only here for two days. I don't know who they are, but obviously if they're on the main stage of the jazz festival, they're a big deal to somebody."
Daoust is already running out of space in his small store, and has hired a full-time employee and two potential apprentices to help out. Business has been brisk, and he's thinking expansion. If that happens, he'll be able to cure even more people's babies — no matter how sick they look.
Broken Headstock House of Repairs is at 6500 Parc Ave. For more information, visit facebook.com/brokenheadstockguitarrepair or call 514-903-4323.


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Christine Benz: Hi, I am Christine Benz for Morningstar.com. Large-cap growth stocks have been on a tear recently, but fund investors have been shunning the sector. Joining me to discuss that phenomenon is Shannon Zimmerman. He is associate director of fund analysis for Morningstar. Shannon, thank you so much for joining me.
Shannon Zimmerman: Good to be with you, Christine.
Benz: So, let's talk about large-cap growth stocks and funds they've really been leading the way.
Zimmerman: That's right.
Benz: What in your view has been driving that level of outperformance? And is that typical of what we would expect during a period of economic recovery like what we seem to be going through?
Zimmerman: To your first question, most of the fund managers who I cover are sort of value specialists, but they're also gravitating toward growth stocks, as well, which you can sort of back your way into what might be going on. If investors like Bill Nygren of Oakmark Funds, who is a very successful value investor over the long haul, has a preponderance of assets in one of his funds--Oakmark Select--in the large-growth square of the Morningstar Style Box, that probably suggests that he is seeing bigger gaps. And I should say from the outset that he doesn't do any top-down investing at all. But he is backing his way into a substantial stake in that part of the style box because that's where he is seeing the widest margins of safety. He's always looking for discounts there, and as at other value shops, as well, discounts between the market's price that's been assigned to a company, and then what [the fund managers] think that the company is actually worth.
So, why would that be? And if you look at the three-, five-, and 10-year trailing periods, right now large-cap growth actually holds sway over the large-blend and large-value stocks, which for investors of a certain age, who remember large growth being an underperforming category for so long, might come as a surprise. It's still an underperforming category over the 15-year period and that kind of go-to-the-value proposition. If you think the mean reversion is going to have impact at the level of fund style, there is a way that large-growth funds tend to catch up to the large-blend and large-value categories because still over that 15-year period, it's an underperforming category.
Benz: Let's discuss the point we are at in this economic recovery. Is this recent level of outperformance for growth stocks typical of what one would expect at a period like right now?
Zimmerman: Is anything typically anymore...
Benz: That's true.
Zimmerman: I don't know. I think that it sort of depends on the nature of the economic recovery and how confident people are in the long-run economic prospects. Typically when people are feeling confident about the future, they do tilt toward risk and toward growth and expect a higher risk premium. And that kind of comes with a territory for growth investors, as well. Then also you look at how low inflation has been for so long, again mean reversion will suggest that inflation is probably destined to tick higher, rather than lower in the foreseeable future, and that usually tilts people toward growth as well because they're looking for a better returns to kind of stave off the erosion of purchasing power. And growth stocks, at least in theory and sometimes in practice hold that promise, as well.
Benz: Even though performance has been relatively good in the large-cap growth space, investors have been selling the funds. Why do you think that is?
Zimmerman: Right. It's a good question because that's the opposite of what you typically see: When a category is doing well, investors are stampeding into it. I think that folks are still just feeling skittish about what happened in 2008, which was such a searing experience for so many investors that there is some relative caution. There is equity exposure, and then there is growth-equity exposure. And for the most part investors are leaving those funds in droves.
Benz: Even though large-cap growth stocks didn't necessarily perform any worse than value during the downturn, that downturn coupled with the dot-com bust really soured investors?
Zimmerman: Exactly, and a distant memory of [the dot-com bust] that might be a bigger impact for investors of a certain age.
Benz: Shannon, you mentioned Bill Nygren actually having some concentration in the large-cap growth square of the style box. You've actually identified some other funds, well-known value-oriented funds that are liking this square of the style box, as well. Let's talk about some of the other ones.
Zimmerman: Well, Sequoia is one, and, like Oakmark and other value investors, they are always looking for the big gap between [price and] intrinsic value, which is just their estimate of what they think the company is actually worth. And there are various valuation metrics that they look at to do that. At Oakmark, one of the big ones is to look at what they call true business value. And I think that all of the value investors who are absolute value investors are making investments not based on whether or not a company looks cheap relative to industry averages, but whether or not it looks cheap relative to their estimate of its actual worth.
Neither [Sequoia or Oakmark] is doing anything on a top-down basis and trying to find the area of the market that's a sweet spot. But that they are backing their way into those positions, to me it's even more compelling evidence that in the large-growth square that's where you can find some of the most the widest margins of safety.
Benz: Shannon, what's your advice to people looking at large-cap growth now. This is a category that's had a tremendous run. How should they be viewing this category given its recent runup?
Zimmerman: They should be viewing it in a way that you view any area of the style box now. So you want to make sure that you have an understanding of what your current portfolio composition is before you buy the next fund or send the next round of investment dollars. But to the extent that you are perhaps underexposed to large-cap growth, I still think that there is plenty of room to run. You look at that 15-year track record, and even though large growth now, as I was saying, holds sway during the three-, five-, and 10-year periods versus value and blend, during that 15-year stretch of time, it does not. That implies that if mean reversion holds, that there is room for that category to continue to run.
Benz: But do investors necessarily need a dedicated large-cap growth fund, or could they perhaps obtain exposure in some other way?
Zimmerman: That's an excellent question. You look at just an S&P 500 Index tracker. Well, how does it get to be a blend fund? It chooses from growth and value, and then core, as well. So you may have ample exposure to growth as it stands now.
Benz: Well, Shannon, thank you so much for sharing your insights with us.
Zimmerman: Absolutely. Good to be with you, Christine.
Benz: Thanks for watching. I'm Christine Benz, for Morningstar.com.


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Second annual 'Chateau Stay-cation' returns May 27
- Written by Woodinville Weekly Staff
Chateau Ste. Michelle will host their 2nd annual "Chateau Stay-cation" Sunday, May 27 from noon - 4 pm to give Seattleites a fun, local, unique event as part of their Memorial Day weekend plans. The event will feature a stunning exotic cars show from Exotics@RTC, some of Seattle's hottest food trucks, music and of course great wine.
There is no admission fee. Food & Wine available at additional cost.
Last year's inaugural event was an overwhelming success and we expect another great turnout this year.
The winery is located at 14111 NE 145th, Woodinville.
Food providers will include:
Skillet Street Food
Marination Mobile
Los Chilangos
Veraci Pizza
Dante's Inferno Dogs
Snout & Co
Parfait Organic Artisan Ice Cream
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Disko is a user interface application framework for the fast and simple development of flexible applications on embedded Linux systems, with a particular focus on interactive user interfaces. It is high-performance and easy to learn, and due to its architecture is well suited to creating complex applications.
The GUIShell project is a collection of utilities facilitating the use of the GTK+ toolkit in shell scripts through the gtkshell utility. The ACE configuration environment provides sample scripts utilizing gtkshell for desktop utilities. rootcat provides the ability to display messages to the root window using Xft, allowing one to write status display scripts.
KeyFrog monitors the keyboard and visualizes its usage statistics. The user can obtain much information about keyboard activity: the intensity of keyboard usage, how was it distributed in time, which applications were used, etc. This may be very useful, for example, to developers to monitor their productivity. The environment being monitored is the X Window System (text applications are explicitly supported if run inside an X terminal).
The aim of LucED is to be a fast and responsive X11 text editor with a simple but powerful user interface similar to NEdit. It uses Lua as an embedded scripting language, and features syntax highlighting that is configurable via PCRE regular expressions with arbitrarily nested patterns.
Lunchbox is a dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It allows windows to be resized by squishing them against the edge of the screen. In a step away from the desktop metaphor, all programs are given a separate workspace and unique arrangement of windows, and any window can become the desktop. It offers an in-built scalable tab replacement called the Title Menu, which allows any window to be swapped with any other window that fits, allowing very fine grained control over the layout of the screen. Finally, although many windows default to tiling, any window can be changed to a Floating mode, which dialog boxes default to.
MeeGo is a Linux-based mobile and embedded operating system. It brings together the Moblin project, headed up by Intel, and Maemo, by Nokia, into a single open source activity. MeeGo currently targets platforms such as netbooks and entry-level desktops, handheld computing and communications devices, in-vehicle infotainment devices, connected TVs, and media phones. All of these platforms have common user requirements in communications, application, and Internet services in a portable or small form factor. The MeeGo project will continue to expand platform support as new features are incorporated and new form factors emerge in the market.


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Amy Jackman hauled her coffee cart from Wasilla into Kenai on the back of a Suburban.
Kristen Every took over the first coffee stand built in Kenai after working there for six years.
The walls in Tiffany Palm's stand are covered in dry-erase board material that hold everything from inspirational messages to drink orders and inventory numbers on them.
Each opened her stand, works long hours and multiple shifts to gain a share of the coffee market on the central Kenai Peninsula and while running the business is tough, local coffee stand owners say the benefits are many and they enjoy their jobs.
Each morning between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. on the central Peninsula, coffee stands light up, open their windows and start brewing for customers who need an early morning kick.
There are several stands, but no official number from either Kenai or Soldotna. When asked, city planners can count on their hands which ones there are and where each is located.
"There's one over by the car wash. There's one over here on Main Street Loop by the Kenai Merit Inn. There's Amy Jackman's which is over by Olga's. There's the one in the Carrs Mall," said Nancy Carver, planning assistant for Kenai.
In Soldotna, city planner Stephanie Queen came up with an informal list of her own including The Grind, in Bailey's parking lot, Clark's Espresso, in Beemun's parking lot, The Daily Buzz, Java Junction and Hooked on the Bean on K-Beach.
Every's shop, The Espresso Barn, open in 1996, but she did not buy it until 2007.
"I was emotionally attached to it and it was something that I was very passionate about," Every said. "I love doing it, I love being in customer service ... the coffee stand that I work at, we have such a return in clientele, it's the same people that have been coming here for as long as I've been working here."
Palm's shop, Hooked on the Bean, sees the same customers every day as well.
"To me, it's almost like family. I get to know them and their kids. Then, their kids bring their kids in, then I meet their parents then they have people who fly up from out of state and we get to meet them to and it's fun," Palm said.
Running her own business is in her blood, Palm said.
"I come from a family who, everyone owns their own business," she said. "Whether it's a restaurant or their own day care. I have a cousin who owns Northwest Customs, my parents own an asphalt business."
While business was slow at first, Palm said she and her sister paid for almost everything "out-of-pocket," and built themselves up to where they are now.
"We started out (with building colors) brown and yellow and we did not like it. But my sister and I ... let the business pay for itself. Then, over time we changed the color and updated the equipment," she said.
Each coffee shop owner said the business was difficult to run and often while the shops themselves stay in the same locations, they often change ownership.
"Back when all the plants were running and everything, it was a pretty big market in Kenai," Every said. "We were definitely busier ten years ago then we are now just because there's more competition now and there's a lot of restaurants that are serving coffee now."
While several stands have opened in Kenai, Every said they're just as quick to close.
"Kenai just can't support as many as Soldotna," she said.
Jackman, who owns C Cups Specialty Coffees in Kenai said she has had a hard time keeping costs down.
"It's very hard to make ends meet," Jackman said. "Not only do you have a hard time getting the supplies, you have a hard time getting the supplies that are at a reasonable cost. (Shipping) even from Anchorage to Kenai, they charge more. The customers are already paying $4.00 to $5.50 a drink, depending on what they get so you can't really pass that along to them."
Jackman said she may find keeping her business in the black a bit more difficult because she does not use generic coffee, she sources her beans from Raven's Brew, an Alaska-based company.
Despite being the newest coffee stand in Kenai, Jackman said she's growing and she's optimistic for the future.
Each stand owner said they spend a lot of time working in their own shops, training their employees — usually other women — to make coffee the same way they learned.
"It's balancing family and work and employees and just trying to keep everything running every day, the same way," Every said. "I train my girls exactly the way I learned, I try to keep everything consistent and keep things running smoothly. Everyone thinks it's just the easiest thing in the world and it's not. If your beans are too dry or too dark or too cold it changes the taste. It takes some training."


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With panoramic views of McLane Stadium and downtown Waco, Baylor Club provides an elegant setting and signature service to help you coordinate your special event from beginning to end. Baylor Club consists of a variety of private event space to accommodate groups of all sizes – including a dramatic ballroom with 40' ceilings for up to 450 seated guests, an outdoor terrace overlooking the football field, suite lounges and more. Baylor Club has already booked multiple weddings for 2015, as well as non-profit galas, class reunions and a multitude of additional business and social functions.
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The full school boards and superintendents of three Morris school districts convened Wednesday evening to discuss ways to continue combining forces to save dollars.
The first official meeting of the Morris Community Schools Shared Services Committee, composed of Morris Community High School, Morris Grade School District 54 and Saratoga District 60C, met in Saratoga's gymnasium to hear a presentation by an expert in school consolidation and to discuss shared services issues.
The board members of the three districts are considering commissioning a study on the feasibility of consolidation of the Morris schools and invited Dr. William Phillips, a member of the University of Illinois-Springfield group that would conduct the study, to talk and answer questions about consolidation.
Superintendents Kathy Perry (Saratoga School), Dr. Patrick Halloran (Morris Community High School) and Teri Shaw (Morris District 54) presided over the joint meeting. The three school boards are expected to vote on whether to participate in the consolidation study at their next respective board meetings.
Among other items, the four-month study would examine the schools' present enrollments, future projected enrollments, facility comparisons, transportation systems and trend analyses of the districts' finances.
Board members and the audience were encouraged to ask questions. Arthur Hornsby asked Phillips a question that has been on the minds of many in the community regarding consolidation of the schools – what about current bond obligations of each district?
Phillips said that if the districts were to consolidate, the county clerk would continue to levy the original constituents of the bonded district. The bonds of one particular district would continue to be the responsibility of the taxpayers of that original district, not suddenly spread among the taxpayers of all of the three districts.
"And if one of those districts was in deep operational debt," he added, "the state of Illinois will pay that for one time, and you start even."
The new school board created would then assume the other assets and liabilities of the old school districts. The previous three school boards would become one, and there would only be one superintendent of the new consolidated district.
The process of consolidation would begin with votes by the current individual school boards. If all three districts agree that consolidation would be advantageous, the issue would be put before voters.
Phillips said there are various ways the community voting could be conducted. One option would be that a yes vote by the voters in the high school district and one grade school district would be enough to consolidate the two districts together, but not the one that voted against it.
"The district that voted against consolidation cannot be forcibly consolidated if the people in that district do not want it," Phillips said after the meeting.
The high school's board members John Maddox and Judie Roth asked questions of Phillips regarding the issue, as did several audience members. Maddox asked if there were other things the district could learn from the study besides consolidation issues.
Phillips said yes.
"It's very telling, the information you get," he said. "Sometimes we do not recommend consolidation. ... It won't always save the districts money. But almost universally, we find that a better curriculum is offered with consolidation."
Phillips said there is more to consider from consolidation than just dollar savings.
"The most important thing is to think about what's best for the most kids," he said.
After the meeting, Halloran explained that consolidation can give more than just financial savings in districts. It can also make sure students throughout town receive consistent curriculum and that they are all on the same page as they move from one grade level to the next.
Consolidating districts can also be advantageous to establishing better gifted and remedial programs, he added.
The school superintendents Wednesday also gave summaries of how the districts have been sharing services for several years and have saved thousands of dollars by going together on such services and purchases as bus transportation, utilities, professional development and office supplies.
District 101 and GAVC Technology Director J.D. Morrison also explained to the joint boards and audience about the savings to all the schools and other public agencies, such as Grundy County and the library, through the Morris Area Technology Coordinators Consortium, MATCC.
District 54 and Saratoga have also shared the services of their building and grounds director and their food services director.
Shared services have paid off for the districts in big ways, Halloran said after the meeting.
"Shared services are very important," he said. "As resources become scarce, it's even more important to be as efficient as possible."
Shared transportation services, in particular, Shaw said, have saved the districts a combined $25,000 per district each year for regular education students and about $500,000 a year for special education bus services.
Perry said MCHS and District 54 currently share contracted bus services, whereas Saratoga uses an in-house service, leasing their buses. Under consideration is a tri-district sharing of that system, she said, which would add a combined $410,000 per year savings among the three schools.
"We would see significant savings by doubling routes," Perry said.
However, the districts would have to carefully coordinate their schools' start and end times, staggering them so that the buses can transport students to all four schools. Other area districts that have made this work, Perry said, are Channahon, Coal City, and the Minooka and Plainfield elementary districts.
State representative Pam Roth also spoke at the joint meeting, giving updates as to what is happening in Springfield and how it relates locally.


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Police sent to Chris Brown home in latest 911 hoax
- Associated Press
- January 22, 2013 - 12:18 AM
LOS ANGELES - Police have responded to Chris Brown's home after they received a call about a domestic violence situation that turned out to be false.
The Los Angeles Times reports ( http://lat.ms/XSUFYQ) police were contacted shortly before 5 p.m. Monday about a domestic violence incident. When police arrived, members of Brown's staff were at the home, but the singer wasn't.
Police searched the home and didn't find any problems.
It's the latest so-called "swatting" prank targeting celebrities. The practice is intended to get multiple officers, including specialized SWAT teams sent to a home.
Last week, Beverly Hills police responded to a fake armed robbery call at Tom Cruise's house. Other hoax calls have been made involving the homes of Justin Bieber, Ashton Kutcher and Miley Cyrus.
Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com
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Users / Re: TV keeps crashing!« on: August 29, 2007, 07:30:26 pm »
I've similar problem. It sometimes crashes every minute or so and sometimes takes 15 minutes to crash. I'm using nvidia 7050 and homerun capture card. Still couldn't find a solution for it.
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User:Andrew L. Chang
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Contact Info
- Andrew L. Chang
- Smolke Lab, Stanford University
- Y2E2 Building, Room B07
- 473 Via Ortega
- Stanford, CA 94305
- andrew.l.chang (at) stanford (dot) edu
- Ph.D. candidate in Chemistry, Stanford University
- 2011, M.S. Bioengineering, Stanford University
- 2008, A.M. Chemistry, Harvard University
- 2008, A.B. Chemistry and Physics, Harvard College
Research Interests
Engineering synthetic RNA devices to program biological systems and dynamically control gene expression in response to small molecule inputs. Applications toward cellular therapeutics and metabolic engineering.
- Chang AL, Wolf JJ, and Smolke CD. Synthetic RNA switches as a tool for temporal and spatial control over gene expression. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2012 Oct;23(5):679-88. DOI:10.1016/j.copbio.2012.01.005 |
- Liang JC, Chang AL, Kennedy AB, and Smolke CD. A high-throughput, quantitative cell-based screen for efficient tailoring of RNA device activity. Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 Nov 1;40(20):e154. DOI:10.1093/nar/gks636 |


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Brazilian goalkeeper Michel Alves has seen his star rise dramatically over the past 24 hours but, unfortunately for him, this cannot be attributed to any distinguished displays.
No, the 31-year-old's new found fame comes from an almighty clanger during Criciuma's defeat to America Mineiro on Saturday, and it will be a moment he will never be able to escape.
After saving a straightforward shot from the opposition forward, Alves tries to spring to his feet with the ball in his grasp, but inexplicably stumbles and fumbles and the ball squirms into the net.
Is it the most embarrassing own goal of all time? Watch the video above to decide for yourselves, while the video below suggests some other contenders.
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Beevers rescues Lions at Palace
Mark Beevers denied Crystal Palace a fifth straight win as Millwall came from two goals down to snatch a point in a 2-2 draw in the south London derby.
The on-loan Sheffield Wednesday defender struck with 13 minutes remaining, diverting the ball into the net with his thigh on only his second appearance for the Lions.
In-form Palace only had themselves to blame as they were 2-0 up and apparently cruising as half-time approached, thanks to a stunning goal from skipper Mile Jedinak and Damien Delaney's header.
But when defender Dean Moxey handled Darius Henderson's header on the goalline, referee Phil Dowd sent him off and Liam Trotter tucked in the penalty to drag Millwall back into the game.
Palace survived with 10 men until the 77th minute, but when Josh Wright swung in a corner Beevers was on hand to bundle the ball home.
The Eagles had bossed the first half until Moxey's moment of madness, with Wilfried Zaha again the most dangerous player on show.
The winger had a #20million price tag slapped on him by chairman Steve Parish this week, and he showed why so many top clubs are watching him with two marauding runs to the byline to set up chances squandered by Glenn Murray and Kagisho Dikgacoi.
Zaha then effortlessly beat two Millwall players out on the wing before curling a 20-yard effort narrowly over the crossbar.
Delaney was also inches from giving Palace the lead when he headed Murray's cross into the side-netting.
The Eagles were living dangerously at the back, though, and could have been reduced to 10 men when Henderson was tripped by Peter Ramage as he was about to burst through on goal, only for referee Dowd to wave play on.
Palace promptly went ahead in the 35th minute in spectacular fashion when Jedinak collected the ball 35 yards out and unleashed a fierce, swerving shot which flew past David Forde and into the net.
Four minutes later they doubled their advantage, Owen Garvan swinging in a free-kick and Delaney rising highest to glance a header past Forde.
However, Millwall were handed a lifeline - literally - by Moxey three minutes before half-time.
The full-back punched Henderson's header from underneath the crossbar to earn a red card, before Trotter calmly rolled in the penalty.
And the Lions almost levelled in first-half stoppage time when Chris Taylor's header rattled the crossbar.
Palace felt they should have a penalty early in the second half when Murray tumbled under Danny Shittu's challenge, but Dowd was unimpressed.
Instead the visitors completed their comeback when Beevers popped up at the far post grab the equaliser, and Palace had keeper Julian Speroni to thank for preserving a point when he denied Henderson in stoppage time.
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Archived Boards and Threads... > Install and Upgrade Help
Upgrading and Moving DIR
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So long ago in a galaxy far far away.... I accidentally installed SMF directly into my website root. So if you go to the site, www.ipmsorlando.com you will see our site is just a forum. This wasn't the original idea but the club liked it and so it was left alone. However, I still thought the forum should have resided in a /forum folder and a real "index.html" should give our users basic info before the forum. Now cut to present day and people have decided I was right all along.
So here is what I am looking at doing.
1. Upgrading from 1.1.12 (updating to 1.1.16 is messing up...) to 2.02. This way I have the latest and greatest
2. Moving the site into the /forum folder
3. Not losing anything, users, posts etc..
SO I did read the guide on upgrading and it is helpful. If I were merely upgrading, I would probably only ask if the Users info is included in the database backup? I'm not sure if it is and if not where is it to back it up also? I'd hate to have to have everyone reregister, just not practical but I doubt such a thing is overlooked in the smf backup either, but better to ask than not know for certain.
The more difficult question, what's the best way to MOVE the site from root to /forum ?? I suppose there is more to it than just copying from root and pasting into /forum cause I tried that as a test, the second you click on a link for any category or on the home button you are returned to the forum in the root folder.
I was kinda hoping I can do a Clean install of smf 2.02 in the correct folder then upload my database and "POOF" it works. I'm probably in fantasy land on that but hell, if the site died and I had to restore it with only the database, it would have to have a way?
So I know you guys and gals know SMF better than I. What is my best course of action besides not installing the wrong place 2 years ago...
thanks for your help
you're awesome
"Poof!" isn't too far from the truth, mate!
Move everything, as you thought.
Dump your themes and mods, coz they won't work with v2.
Then, use this: http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Repair_settings.php
to sort your paths out and all that stuff.
Once that's done, you can go for the upgrade.
Just remember my sig, before you start all this... ;)
I am attempting to give it the old college try...
I have backed up my site and my database to begin with.
I was attempting to remove the 2 modification packages I have installed and ran into these errors..
"Anti Bot: Unrecognizable Form"
Installing this package will perform the following actions:
Type Action Description
1. Execute Modification - Modification parse error
hit uninstall anyway and it says, "The package has been uninstalled, it should no longer take effect. "
"Simple Image Upload"
Installing this package will perform the following actions:
Type Action Description
1. Execute Modification - Modification parse error
2. Delete File ./addform.html
hit uninstall anyway and it says, "The package has been uninstalled, it should no longer take effect. "
yet they remain installed! argh!
Ok, so I did some RTFM and manually removed the 2 offending mods and realized I had some dir permissions issues and fixed those as well.
Next for the move and upgrade attempt!
Praying to the internet! :o
LOL :). Good luck and let us know if you run into any trouble.
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There are a number of fun patents, and there is even a website for absurd patents.
Patents are still very much in the news. I discussed a broad review of patents in my last column. This month, I will drill down a bit. I hope you went to Google Patents and downloaded one or more just to see what they look like.
Only utility patents will be discussed here. Design patents are not usually obtained by engineers. A utility patent document usually has several distinct parts, some of which are legal requirements. The first page of the patent has a title section across the top with the first named inventor, patent number and date of issue. Next is the title of the patent, and then a complete listing of the named inventors and their residences, followed by an application number and the date of filing. The field of search is a listing of numerical categories the patent office uses to sort out different fields of invention. It's just an indexing system where similar inventions might be found. A list of references provides sources of similar patents and publications that can be used to fill in the background and demonstrate what has previously been done. The patent office examiner and the representative of the inventors are identified. A brief abstract summarizes the invention. And a representative drawing appears on the first sheet.
Next are the drawings made according to patent office rules. Two general types of drawings are functional block diagrams and flow charts. The elements of the drawings are numbered, and the text refers to the numbers when describing the drawings.
The text of the patent is called the specification. It begins with a section called the background of the invention. This describes the general area of the invention and the problems in the prior art. These are the problems the new invention seeks to ameliorate or solve. A good invention will solve a "long-felt need" and will succeed where others have failed. The background section will broadly describe what "one of ordinary skill in the art" would be expected to know. This is important because you can't describe everything that goes into the invention. You have to make some assumptions about what the reader will know and what sort of background knowledge he or she will have. Carl Sagan famously said: "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." This can't apply here.
The summary of the invention is just that. It's a brief description of what has been invented and how it solves the problems with the prior art described in the background section. It often has several paragraphs that begin with: "It is an object of the invention to provide an apparatus and method to. …" The brief description of the drawings follows with just one sentence per drawing. There is very little detail in this listing.
Next are two sections that do the heavy lifting: the detailed description of the preferred embodiments and the claims. You will recall from the discussion in the last column that a patent can be considered a deal between the inventor and society, wherein the inventor makes a complete disclosure of the invention and how to practice it in exchange for a limited period of exclusivity, during which the inventor has the right to preclude others from making, selling or using the invention. The inventor is not required to describe every possible way of practicing the invention, just at least one preferred way, called a preferred embodiment. More than one embodiment is better, but not all need be disclosed. The figures play an important role in this section. As mentioned earlier, each element of a drawing is numbered. Those numbers are called out in the specification, and the associated elements are described in detail, along with any interaction there might be with other elements.
The preferred embodiment section usually ends with a statement that other variations and modifications that would occur to one of ordinary skill in the art are included as part of the invention.
The claims are the heart of the patent. They define the scope of the invention. If a feature or function is not covered by a claim, it is not part of the invention, even if it is described in detail in the specification. The creation of claims is highly technical and should only be done by an experienced patent attorney or patent agent. Reading the claims of a patent will convince you of this.
There are a number of fun patents. Patent number 6,733,362 covers a bra. Another example is 5,443,036, "A method of exercising a cat." It's a very short patent, only four pages, having only four claims and one drawing sheet. I have personally infringed that patent, since I used it. However, we are unlikely to ever know if it is a valid patent because no one will challenge it in court. That's an expensive exercise, and there is no financial motivation to do that.
There is even a website for absurd patents [1]. Visit it and get a laugh or two.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Patents are still very much in the news. I discussed a broad review of patents in my last column. This month, I will drill down a bit. I hope you went to Google Patents and downloaded one or more just to see what they look like. Only utility patents will be discussed.


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Browse by Medical Category
Friday, December 19, 2008
When the clinical team gathered in the cardiac catheterization lab at Massachusetts General Hospital on a recent Tuesday morning, its objective was to treat the patient for a heart condition that was causing her shortness of breath, dizziness and chest pain. To alleviate these symptoms the patient was about to undergo a procedure that is – in essence – a planned heart attack.
This unique procedure is also allowing researchers a chance to see metabolic activity that occurs in the blood after the onset of a heart attack. Researchers hope that the changes they have identified will lead to a blood test that would confirm within minutes, instead of hours, if a patient is having a heart attack, allowing a more rapid treatment that could limit damage to heart muscle.
"The blood test that is in current clinical use for heart attacks can not confirm if a person has had one for nearly four to six hours. Because our treatments for heart attacks are most effective in the first hours after symptoms occur, these newly identified markers could help patients sooner," says Robert Gerszten, MD, a cardiologist with the Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center and the study's senior author.
The "Planned" Heart Attack
Dr. Gerszten, was considering the possibilities of a new advanced mass spectrometry technology to analyze the metabolic changes in blood after a heart attack. However, he had not figured out what the research model would look like given the unpredictable nature of heart attacks. "One day, I was talking with Dr. Michael Fifer in the cardiac ICU, and he was telling me about a patient who was coming in for a planned heart attack. It was then that the idea sort of clicked for us both," said Gerszten.
Michael Fifer, MD, director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory, was referring to alcohol septal ablation, an innovative therapy for the treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HCM). HCM occurs when a segment of thickened heart muscle blocks the flow of blood out of the left ventricle to the body. When the patient's symptoms can not be controlled with medication, alcohol septal ablation can be an option.
Introduced in London 13 years ago, Dr. Fifer brought the technique to MGH in 1999. During the procedure, a catheter is threaded through the patient's femoral artery into the aorta. An interventional cardiologist then injects a small amount of alcohol into the thickened heart muscle at the location of the blocked blood flow. The process destroys the excess tissue in a scenario that mimics the damage that occurs during a heart attack.
New Possibilities
Thanks to the possibilities offered by septal alcohol ablation, Gerszten and his team were able to take blood samples before and after patients received this procedure, enabling study participants to act as their own experimental controls.
The researchers analyzed blood samples from 36 patients taken before and at several points after the ablation. Using the advanced mass spectrometry system that can assess hundred of metabolites in as a little as 10 minutes, researchers were able to identify several metabolites that significantly changed directly following the ablation process. Some of the changes occurred within 10 minutes of the procedure, in great contrast to the currently available blood markers for heart attack that take several hours to change.
"We are very excited by these findings and hope this new technology will lead to innovations in the diagnosis of heart attacks," said Gerszten, who is also a senior associate member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.
In addition, the team studied the metabolites' effects on cultured animal heart cells to see if they were harmful of beneficial to the cells. One of the metabolites increased cell death, with two others had a protective quality.
"We think this could open the road for new therapies in the future," said Gerszten. "Someday we may be able to reverse the damage caused by a heart attack using a 'cocktail' made up of these protective metabolites."
The research was published this fall in the Journal of Clinical Investigation and was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, and the Leducq Foundation. The study's lead author is Gregory Lewis, MD, of the Mass General Hospital Heart Center.
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Story of Blackburne's mud withstands test of time
I kept reading. The weeks became months before evolving into years and decades as I kept going back in time.
Finally, I returned to the summer of 1977, when I wrote a story for the Cincinnati Enquirer with the headline "Baseball's Dirtiest Trick ... Family secret changes magical mud for baseballs into gold."
My story went nationwide on the Associated Press.
Now back to the future with that MLB.com piece, which was titled "The Mudville Line: The legend of mud rubbing." As was the case with my 35-year-old story, this one was only partly about how the game uses mud to knock the slickness from new baseballs.
The rest of the story? Well, since the late 1930s, baseball has settled on a special mud from a secret place in New Jersey. Not only that, the number of those who know the location of that mud -- and then travel there every year to gather the mud for packing and shipping around the Major Leagues -- could fit into the corner of a dugout.
If that.
So MLB.com's Doug Miller was among the blessed when he was allowed to visit the mud hole last year. Miller wrote about his experience in the "Mudville Line" article, and he began by mentioning that he was blindfolded for the trip, made in a pickup truck through the backwoods of southern New Jersey.
The driver? Jim Bintliff.
Bintliff. Bintliff. That sounded familiar.
I kept reading, and the article mentioned the "Lena Blackburne Baseball Mud." It is mandated by the rule book that, courtesy of the mud, "[baseballs] are properly rubbed so that the gloss is removed."
Bintliff. Blackburne.
I kept reading, and I got to the part describing that Blackburne was a former Major League player and manager whose best friend was named John Haas.
Bintliff. Blackburne. Haas.
That's when I went scrambling for the scrapbook.
Was it 1978? 1979?
There was that old Cincinnati Enquirer article, still looking surprisingly fresh against the page.
It was July 17, 1977, when I mentioned all of those names (and others) in a story I was inspired to write after watching umpires rub something on baseballs before a Reds game at old Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati.
Legendary umpire Dutch Rennert held up a can filled with the mud while reading Blackburne's name on the label. Then he said, while puffing on his long cigar, "Where ... do they get this stuff? All we know, it's here when we get here."
I decided to answer Rennert's question.
After a slew of phone calls, I hit (ahem) pay dirt with Fred Fleig, the National League secretary-treasurer in charge of the league's umpires at the time. He said of the mud, "They've been using it since before I got here, and that was in the 1960s. Before, they would just go out to a nearby river, say the Ohio, for the mud. Then a fella by the name of Lena Blackburne said he had a new type of mud that worked well on the ball.
"Well, the National League liked it and had him send two coffee cans of it to every ballpark."
Where did they get the mud?
Fleig didn't know.
More phone calls. Then some more.
Eventually, I was on the line with Betty Bintliff. She lived in Willingboro, N.J., and was the daughter of John Haas.
Bintliff told me that for decades, Blackburne was the only person who knew the exact location of the mud and how it was processed. Then she said that with Blackburne on his deathbed in 1968 and with her father at his side, Blackburne gave her father enough money for a drinking party to be held in his honor at a local bar ... and the secrets to the mud.
Haas became the sole operator of the business.
I mean, literally.
Nothing changed until about the time I wrote my story in 1977. Haas was 84 then, and his trips to the lake for the mud were becoming rougher every year.
That's when he brought his daughter into the mix.
Bintliff confided in a few more people back then, but they were all from her immediate family.
"My husband, [Burns], goes out to the place where the mud is found every year," she told me at the time, "and he gets it with help from our five sons."
Her five sons? Let's return to Miller's piece, which talked of how Burns and Betty Bintliff had nine children.
Wrote Miller: "There were five boys and four girls, and [Burns] only took the boys to the spot once he was old enough to need their help lugging those buckets and once he could trust that they'd keep their traps shut about where to find it."
Jim Bintliff was one of those five sons about whom Miller and I wrote -- nearly 35 years apart.
In Miller's piece, Jim Bintliff is described as the same solo act in the mud business that his father, Burns, was before him ... and what Burns' father-in-law, Haas, was before that ...
And what Blackburne was before all of them.
Miller added near the end of his piece that Jim Bintliff's daughter, Rachel, is the heir apparent to the business. She attends a local community college with hopes of becoming a high school teacher of American history.
As for baseball mud history, this is what Betty Bintliff also told me during the summer of 1977, when granddaughter Rachel was years from being born: "I think we'll be doing [the mud business] as a family as long as the Major Leagues request it. The time will come when our grandsons will take it -- if they want it."
Betty Bintliff was right about baseball's extended love affair with her family. She was wrong about the grandsons.
Terence Moore is a columnist for MLB.com


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Diary of an author, waiting. part 15.
"It is strange... that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting." -- Elizabeth Taylor
The author checks his calendar. only nine days till his book, The Fate of the Artist comes out. Meanwhile, he reads an interview with his editor at www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/resources/interviews/4610 and makes sure Siegel is saying nice things about him.


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A monumental screwup
Our weekend trip turned out to be a real goatfuck.
by Nick Sangia March 26, 2003
by Chilley April 10, 2011
A common situation, experience or every day activity that inexplicably becomes disorganized, confused or grossly fucked up.
Similar to but more severe than goat rope.
Similar to but more severe than goat rope.
by Q-Ball August 11, 2005
Being in a situation SO screwed that there is no hope of recovery or clean withdrawal. also see FUBARnext stage up from Cluster Fucksimalar to goat rope.
Everybody was instructed to not fire until authorized by HQ (head quarters) while taking heavy incoming fire from the next block. The soldiers wondered how to get out of this Goat Fuck situation.
Also used in a question of responsability " who's in charge of this Goat Fuck?"
Also used in a question of responsability " who's in charge of this Goat Fuck?"
by FrontierViking June 23, 2005
A decision between staying with your friends/colleagues at the bar or going to sleep.
I want to hang with the guys at the bar but I've got an early flight tomorrow. This is a real goatfuck.
by Shiftylifty January 25, 2017
All control is lost. Esp. concerning restaurant production.
There's 25 pizza's to make, 2 people making pizzas and the lobby is filling up with drunkards singing American Pie. The phones won't stop and the oven can't hold as many pizza's as have been sold....i.e. Total GoatFuck! At this point, you must "Baaaaah", there is no other option. The goat is creeping up on you. Watch your ass! Baaaaaahh.
Usually happens around 2:15am.
Usually happens around 2:15am.
by Antix April 20, 2006
After things start out with good intentions and become completely screwed up beyond all recognition. Goat Fuck is beyond a cluster fuck, worse than a FUBAR. Continued attempts to correct the situation only make the situation worse and more embarrassing.
Term believed to be originally coined by G. Kirker around 1998 in Tennessee.
Term believed to be originally coined by G. Kirker around 1998 in Tennessee.
I volunteered to work on this old car before I realized what a goat fuck it really is.
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MN – 30 years of Locas (… and Counting) Exhibit
August 12, 2013 by Colin Solan
Filed under Art Show, Comic Books, Minnesota, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Top Stories
Jaime Hernandez appears on Friday, August 16th, 2013 at Minneapolis College of Art and Design as the special guest for an artist's reception from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, surrounding a talk at 7:00 PM in Auditorium 150.
About the exhibit:
This solo exhibition features the work of renowned comic artist Jaime Hernandez who, with his brothers Gilbert and Mario, published the first issue of Love and Rockets in 1982. The black-and-white magazine ushered in a new alternative comics scene, featuring stories of high comedy and drama and spotlighting people who had rarely been seen in comics before.
Over the years the brothers developed their own storylines and spinoffs. Jaime's Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories, tells the story of Maggie Chascarrillo, a bisexual, Mexican-American woman attempting to define herself in a community rife with class, race, and gender issues. As the New York Times Book Review described Locas, "These stories have all the visual smarts of film and the narrative smarts of literature….Hernandez specializes in psychological detail; we see both text and subtext immediately ….What better than to open a book that shows there is more going on than we dream of in our workaday philosophies?"
The retrospective show in MCAD Gallery will include examples of Jaime's original drawings and publications from the early 1980s to the present.
Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD)
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's abrupt reversal on Wednesday to challenge the painful NCAA sanctions imposed on Penn State's football program came as a political head-scratcher to many outside observers.
But the decision likely has as much to do with the governor's attempt to restore his standing with Pennsylvania voters ahead of his 2014 reelection bid as with the intricacies of sports law.
In the wake of the scandal that roiled the university in 2011 and led to the dismissal of iconic head football coach Joe Paterno and the criminal conviction of assistant coach Jerry Sandusky for child sexual abuse, Corbett, a Republican, was roundly lampooned by critics on all sides for his handling of the case.
There were those who said he didn't act quickly enough, motivated by the desire to appease Penn State's powerful fan base. During Corbett's tenure as attorney general, from 2004 to 2010, it took state prosecutors three years to charge and arrest Sandusky. That fact alone became a major campaign theme for Democratic Attorney General-elect Kathleen Kane, who won statewide election in November promising a probe into why the investigation took so long and criticizing Corbett's conduct.
There is also lingering discontent from a sizable contingency of Penn State and Paterno loyalists who believe the institution, the football program, and the state have been unjustly scapegoated for the decidedly vile actions of a few and that Corbett is partly to blame.
With Corbett's approval ratings languishing in the 30 percent range and the Penn State scandal one of the major albatrosses hanging around his neck, detractors view his decision to file a federal lawsuit contesting the NCAA sanctions as a last-ditch attempt to rehabilitate his image in a state where the university still holds considerable cultural currency.
"This issue is undoubtedly been one that has become problematic for him, and there's probably a hope in his camp that they can move this issue from one that is clearly a liability to one that they might actually get some positive public reaction to," said Chris Borick, a political science professor at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania. "The governor is getting out in front and becoming, in some ways, a voice for the critics of the sanctions."
When the NCAA first handed down the unprecedented penalties, Corbett and Penn State accepted them quietly.
"We have taken a monster off the streets, and while we will never be able to repair the injury done to these children, we must repair the damage to this university," Corbett said in July when the measures were initially announced. "Part of that corrective process is to accept the serious penalties imposed today by the NCAA on Penn State University and its football program."
Fast-forward to Wednesday, and his tune had changed. "They used Penn State's tarnished public image as an opportunity to force the university to endure harsh, unjustified, and unprecedented punishments," Corbett said in a press conference Wednesday. "This was a criminal matter, not a violation of NCAA rules."
Political observers in Pennsylvania say the case isn't viewed as nearly as black and white in the state as it is nationally. While there is near-universal support for the criminal investigation and indictment of Penn State officials involved, the NCAA sanctions—including a four-year bowl-game ban, reduced football scholarships, and the forfeiture of 112 games won under Paterno's reign, in addition to a $60 million fine—are deeply unpopular among voters.
"When you look at [the NCAA sanctions] from the outside, you think this is common sense. When you think about it internally, you think what does this have to do with the team? And what does it have to do with the players? This was a criminal case involving the coaches and the administrators," said Terry Madonna, a political scientist at Franklin & Marshall College. "Pennsylvanians tend to view this quite differently."
"This is less about the Sandusky affair itself and what's right for the taxpayers of Pennsylvania," added Pennsylvania Republican strategist Ray Zaborney, noting the economic ramifications in the state as a result of the NCAA sanctions. "He believes it's the right thing to do."
For now, nonetheless, Corbett's 2014 prospects look dicey, whether the lawsuit is successful or not.
Democrats in Harrisburg are salivating over the prospect of unseating a governor for the first time since the 1970s, with state government veteran John Hanger already tossing his hat in the ring and questioning the motives behind Corbett's NCAA lawsuit. Republican Bruce Castor, a lawyer who has said he is actively mulling a primary challenge, also piled on, saying that the move "smacks of political gamesmanship."
And that leaves out all the sports columnists far and wide, who have, among other things, called the lawsuit a "grotesque act of political grandstanding"—a fact not lost on the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania which quickly blasted out the critiques in a Thursday press release.
With the scandal still a sensitive subject for many, Pennsylvania political analysts too said the move is far from a slam dunk and is fraught with risk.
"It's the most daring and in some ways controversial proposal or action that this governor has ever taken," Madonna said.


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The following are a couple of requests for the Accordance app:
1. Make the instant details popup a little taller when in horizontal mode. (right now it only shows 3 lines and I think one should be able to get a bit more.)
2. Also with the night mode, the main text is in a dark mode, but there are other areas of the app that don't change. It would be nice if the night mode was consistent throughout.
iPod Touch 2nd generation, Accordance 1.5.3
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One of the questions regarding the new edition of his book, which is now updated to match Xcode 3.1 and Mac OS 10.5 Leopard, concerns if developers who already know the basics about Objective-C can still make use of the book. "The typical self-taught Cocoa programmer has mastered a few concepts and uses them in every situation. By going through the book from beginning to end, the reader gets familiarity with a large collection of ideas and technologies," the author explains, "This deeper understanding results in better, more reliable applications - because the reader uses the Cocoa frameworks as they were intended to be used."
To developers trying to figure out if they should learn Objective-C or use one of the Cocoa scripting bridges, he says:
Perl and Objective-C have three things in common:
- They come with incredible libraries. Perl has CPAN and Objective-C has Cocoa.
- They don't get in your way. Both languages have good performance and loose typing.
- They are easy to learn.
Ruby and Python are lovely scripting languages, and you can write Cocoa applications with them after you learn Objective-C!
The Mac has been making serious inroads into the consumer market, but InformIT wonders if Hillegass feels that the Mac is also making inroads into the corporate world. His answer is, shall we say, clear.
Corporation: Hey, does Cocoa include something to help us write apps that talk to our Oracle database?
Apple: Um, nope. But isn't GarageBand cool?
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A little over one-third of the way in and this current Oriole team is no playoff contender. At this stage in the game, it does not even look like either of the two wild cards are going to come out of the east division. Don't get me started on the TWO (2) wild card teams and one game winner-take all scenario. That is bogus! For future (and from a past) blog – I say 142 game season (players salaries adjusted/decreased), season is from mid-April to mid-September, 3 division winners/ 1 wild card, 3 out of 5 Division series, 3 out of 5 Championship series, 4 out of 7 World Series. Season over by 2nd week of October. Ok enough, had to get that out there. Bottom line – O's at current rate there will be no October ball anyway.
Oriole Issues – challenged starting pitching, questionable middle relief, no closer threat (yet), minimal clutch hitting, to many men left on base, increased errors, no catcher and lack of team discipline. All that and they are in second place of the American League East with a 31 – 30 record. To put in perspective -that is the 7th best record out of 15 teams in the American League and 14th out of 30, in both leagues. It is amazing they have been able to hold on as long as they have, considering the inflated pitching ERA and loss of their major signal caller and part backbone of the team (Wieters).
I see a team not focused. Next time you're at the Yards, check out the dugout, during and in between innings. Buck-Buck does NOT have a handle on the boys. There should be a rule – 'No one goes down the tunnel unless you are due up and require warm-ups for your at-bat. No buffet snacking during game. No video games. Just stay out of the tunnel and all it's amenities." Watch game, with teammates, on bench. That should not be tough requirement for the over-paid, spoiled, self-indulged roster players. Buck-Buck should remind them of their hourly rate.
I see a major bust in Jimenez. BTW – nice move Orioles magazine editor – putting Ubaldo-more on the cover of the first Oriole magazine this year. See blog from Opening Day – "Play Ball". One, maybe two decent games? He's 2 -7 with a 5.01 ERA. Yeah, there's a #2 starter for ya. "O" wait-a-minute, that's right the weather has to warm up in order for him to perform at a comfortable level. Hmmm – seemed pretty warm to me for about a month now.
I saw a youngster breakdown and act his age this past weekend. Well, actually the over-paid, spoiled, self-indulged "star-in-the-making" acted more like a 10 year old. Team discipline? Manny-O-Manny, did you need your Mommy this weekend? Over -reaction on Friday night. Whined all weekend. Lackluster performance on his Bobblehead night annnnnnnnnd thennnnnnnn, yesterdays throwing of the bat. Fine him, suspend him, send him to his room with no snack before bed time. Maybe he was just miffed that they used a JJ Hardy look-a-like bobblehead instead of using the picture of himself he has hanging above his bed as the model.
Whatever the case, Machado still has some growing up to do. Ok, he's still young, he will be 22 in July. Nope, not buying that one either. He needs a mentor. He needs a taste of Humble Pie. He needs a butt kicking. He also needs to be put in the 6th hole and out of the #2 spot. He's an inning killer. In particular, the first inning. Markakis is rolling at that top spot and it's getting wasted. This is a case for Buck-Buck, Jones or Markakis to take control in the clubhouse. Actually, it's a job for his parental units. Enough of that embarrassing situation.
The team appears in disarray at the moment. The boys holding this thing together are: Markakis, Jones, Cruuuuuz (until they pop him for juicy juice again) and Hardy. Pitching: Thank you Wei-Yin Chen, Bud Norris and Zach Britton – saving graces. Wieters being out – hurts offensively and defensively. The captain on the field is out and it shows. If the Orioles stay at current pace, it's going to be a frustrating year. It's time for Buck-Buck to "Whip It" – Devo. And whip it good! Get the boys back on track. How about one step at a time – just beat the Bosox!


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eTIR: Towards Paperless Cross-border Trade (July 2016)
A new protocol for the Georgia-Turkey eTIR Pilot Project (January 2016)
TIR at the seventh UNESCAP Asia-Pacific trade facilitation forum (October 2015)
TIR and eTIR in the ESCAP region (October 2014)
TIR and eTIR in the ESCAP region
UNECE, in collaboration with ESCAP, prepared a Policy Brief for the 2014 Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum held in Bangkok on 24-25 September 2014. The objective of this brief is to shed light on the current use and benefits of the TIR Convention in the ESCAP region and raise awareness about the computerization of the TIR procedure (eTIR project).
eTIR Reference Model – Version 4.1a (EN/ FR/ RU)
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A Homeowner's Guide to Cleaning the Fireplace
There are few things guaranteed to warm the heart (and the limbs) faster than a beautiful open fireplace. As a design feature, it is delightfully sophisticated and wonderfully stylish. While many of the traditional Georgian and Victorian fireplaces have now made way for more contemporary shapes and forms, Australian homeowners still love the crackle and heat of real wood fires.Read more
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Are your once beautiful blinds starting to look old and worn out, are they not operating a well as they did when new? Might be time to call in a professional blind cleaning and repair company.Read more
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