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It's Rosie from CJ.
Dust is weird to say the least, but David is gorgeous in it. And After the Deluge (Region 4) is wonderfully angsty. But you should also try to get Stiff and The Brush Off to see the character that David describes as the closest to himself.

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Hey, guess what? We can all stop arguing about same-sex marriage in New Mexico, because it turns out that it's totally protected by the state constitution! Shwew. So glad that we finally settled that one.
The area around the Pit won't be the pits anymore.
Remember how everyone always thought Michelle Shocked was gay? Well, she just came out! As a huge asshole!
Speaking of assholes, Sandy Hook truthers are still insisting that those kids never got killed. Won't their parents be relieved.
The Westboro "God Hates Fags" Baptist Church is really warming up to the new rainbow colored house across the street.
Why are goat populations exploding? Global warming.
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We're 50 days out, and both campaigns start off the week in a not-so-comfortable place… For the Obama camp, it's the unrest in the Middle East; for the Romney camp, it's the circular firing squad… Team Romney goes up with new TV ads as conservatives begin to grow restless… Obama, in Ohio, to announce WTO demand to crack down on China… Romney, in Los Angeles, to make his pitch to Latino voters… And new Obama TV ad -- on fourth anniversary of Lehman collapse -- argues that the country IS better off than it was four years ago.
NBC's Chuck Todd reports on how the Mideast violence is impacting the 2012 presidential race, and what it means for both sides.
*** 50 days out: With 50 days to go until Election Day, neither campaign is starting off this week in a comfortable place. The Obama camp is dealing with the start of a second week of protests in the Arab world over that anti-Muslim movie. If this story doesn't die down in the next few days -- and NBC's Richard Engel reported on "TODAY" that the protests don't appear to be as vigorous as they were last week -- then this could be a major problem for the Obama White House and the re-election campaign. Meanwhile, Team Romney, after being criticized last week for its response to the embassy attacks, is contending with a different kind of unrest: a blame game for all of its current problems and strategy. We also are just a little more than two weeks out before the first debate, and both principals are studying hard. NBC's Garrett Haake reported that Romney spent hours yesterday morning at a hotel in Burlington, MA, doing debate prep with Rob Portman serving as the Obama stand-in. And we can report that when President Obama visited the DNC on Friday, it was for a debate practice session with Sen. John Kerry, who is playing Romney in the mock debates.
As the White House gets defensive over the Middle East turmoil, the Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd discusses whether the protests will increase or end this week.
*** The finger-pointing begins: Last night's Politico story -- describing disorganization inside the Romney campaign, with most of the attention focused on campaign strategist Stuart Stevens -- isn't surprising in a presidential campaign. After all, when the going gets tough, campaign advisers and consultants start pointing fingers. But what IS surprising is that such an article is coming so soon, before the debates and before this race is truly decided. But the Politico piece is more than a story about Stevens and other Romney officials; it's a story about Mitt Romney. How could someone who has campaigned on his managerial experience, including running a billion-dollar enterprise -- in Politico's telling -- make something as basic as writing a convention acceptance speech seem so chaotic? As the article even quips, the campaign structure has become so unwieldy that it badly needs a consultant from Bain & Co. to fix things. Bottom line: This kind of article doesn't get written about winning campaigns. Then again, this race isn't over. But oh, what a bad narrative it feeds at the start of this week.
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
*** Romney's response and conservatives growing increasingly restless: Given that the race isn't over, how does the Romney campaign -- down in the polls after the conventions -- respond? Well, this morning it's out with two new TV ads, one of which argues that Obama has failed middle-class families with household income declining and the nation's debt increasing. The other TV ad lays out what Romney would do for the middle class: crack down on China, balance the budget, and champion small businesses. They are more sharply focused spots than we've seen previously; they even have the feel of a "re-launch" if you will. But will these ads be enough to placate restless conservatives? Erick Erickson at Red State today has a piece entitled: "If the Election Were Held Today Barack Obama Would Win." The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin, who has been a staunch defender of the Romney campaign, argues that it has five problems: 1) poor surrogates, 2) too slow to respond to events, 3) too little explanation, 4) not enough leadership talk, 5) and not enough context. And Bill Kristol, writing in the Weekly Standard, contends that Romney needs to distance himself from George W. Bush and talk more about national security.
*** Going big (at least this week): The Romney campaign, at least this week, appears to be back believing they need to win a NATIONAL argument, not get caught up in state-by-state spats (like sequester in Virginia, or Medicare in Florida). But how big will they go? To beat an incumbent, you don't do it state by state. Rather, you win the LARGE argument. That's the unifying critique of the Romney campaign in all these conservative criticisms above. Win the larger message and the state polls will follow.
*** The politics of China: Dealing with China is one issue where the Obama camp has been VERY sensitive and where the Romney camp has been VERY aggressive (just see that new Romney TV ad mentioned above). As Obama stumps in Ohio today, the Cleveland Plain Dealer first reported that the White House will ask the World Trade Organization to demand that China "stop subsidizing auto parts made for export, arguing the practice undercuts manufacturers in Ohio and elsewhere by reducing the cost of Chinese auto parts." This is the second China announcement we can remember Obama making while campaigning in the battleground of Ohio. We've said it before, and we'll say it again: Bashing China is always good populist politics. The question is if it's good policy, especially when you're sitting in the White House. Every president has had to change his tune once in office.
*** The politics of the Latino electorate: While Obama talks about cracking down on China, Romney today will speak to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles. According to excerpts of his speech, Romney will mention that Latinos have been disproportionately hurt by the economy. "While national unemployment is 8.1 percent, Hispanic unemployment is over 10 percent. Over two million more Hispanics are living in poverty today than the day President Obama took office." And he will pledge to work with Democrats and Republicans to fix the immigration system. "I believe we can all agree that what we need are fair and enforceable immigration laws that will stem the flow of illegal immigration, while strengthening legal immigration." Yet the Obama campaign responds with a web video arguing that Romney has undergone an "extreme makeover" when it comes to immigration reform, citing his call for "self-deportation" at that NBC debate back in Jan. 2012.
*** Obama ad answers the "are you better off" question: Remember right before the Democratic convention when Obama campaign officials and surrogates had a difficult time answering the question if Americans were better off than they were four years ago? Well over the weekend -- on the fourth anniversary of the Lehman Brothers' collapse -- the campaign went up with a new 60-second TV ad answering that question in the affirmative. "Here's where we were in 2008: 'The worst financial collapse since the Great Depression… American workers were laid off in numbers not seen in over three decades.' And here's where we are today: 30 months of private sector job growth, creating 4.6 million new jobs. We're not there yet. But the real question is: Whose plan is better for you?" If this ad was in the works for weeks, then how did the two chief strategists for the president (Plouffe and Axelrod) fumble this? We're guessing this ad was NOT in the works for weeks and only came to fruition post-Clinton speech.
*** On the trail: Obama, in Ohio, holds a rally in Cincinnati at 12:25 pm ET and then in Columbus at 4:20 pm… Marco Rubio has a competing rally in Columbus at 3:00 pm ET… Romney, in Los Angeles, addresses the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce at 3:15 pm ET… Vice President Biden stumps in Iowa, in Burlington… Paul Ryan also is in the Hawkeye State, in Des Moines… The first lady campaigns in Tallahassee, FL… And John McCain holds events for Romney in New Hampshire.
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It's a story as old as time: alien girl sings about how she's bored, alien girl steals spaceship for planet earth, girl dances with snakes, elephants, and stereotypical African natives. And she does it all in sequins. It's just a normal day on the set of the German musical revue Bühne frei für Marika.
This film, which translates as The Stage is Set for Marika, is a series of song and dance numbers featuring Austrian-German singer and actress Marika Rökk. This number is called "Mir Ist so Langweilig" or "I'm So Bored," and it's pretty self-explanatory, even without a German translation.
And, as one Metafilter user notes, it looks like we've discovered the secret origin of Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" dance lean.
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Are there such thing? I have a sneaking suspicion that some of mine are fake?! Gasp!!
Monday, May 23, 2011
Fake Followers?
Posted by Gleatie at 12:49 PM 9 comments
Friday, May 20, 2011
Happy 400th!
Happy 400th post to me! I know they have been few and far between lately but we got there. The weather in Germany has made a miraculous turn around over the past month and we have actually had multiple days and stretches of sunshine. With temperatures above 70. Beware, I'll probably start complaining about the lack of AC soon! At least this summer I am not a huge pregnant blimp! It is hard for me to believe that Evans will be 9 months old next week. He continues to be the best baby alive (and I swear I am not the only one who thinks this). He has mastered sitting up in the past month (we were a bit slow on that) and he seems to be nowhere near crawling or standing up. I am not sure he knows that his legs exists as he draws them up every time I try to make him stand. While some parents might be freaking out about this lack of advancement, I continue to be happy that in a 4 story house with marble floors thru out, my child is still basically immobile. Ask me again in a few months and I might be more concerned.
Some of our favorite things to do these days are to watch Elmo. And particularly, only the Elmo about Flowers, Plants, Trees, Bananas and Hair. I changed the video last week and he cried. How in the world can he possibly know the difference?Playing with Baby Sophie. We especially like to try and swipe her binky straight from her mouth.Playing in his bedroom with anything he can get his hands on.And watching the laundry go round and round in the washer while Mama folds the clean clothes.And especially walking down to the river and the wine stand on most pretty days! Please disregard that in this picture, someone (Daddy) did not bother changing him out of his PJS shirt.When the sun comes out in Germany, Germans drop everything they are doing, migrate to the river, and take off their clothes. I'm not lying. Last time I was down there there was a lady lying spread eagle in the grass with her bike tipped over next to her. Like the sun had come out and she immediately fell off her bike to enjoy the rays.That is all for now. I have made myself late for lunch by posting this but hopefully it is worth it. More to come, I hope........
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
I am in love with this photograph. I want to stare at it all the time! I have the sweetest boy in the world. And a fantastic photographer and friend, Jessica Ceason! I love you both!!
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The story of Disney's America is probably familiar to most of you. Back in the early nineties, Disney planned to build an American history-themed amusement park in Prince William County, VA. The notion of a plastic interpretation of our nation's heritage in an area rich with actual history and undeveloped landscapes sparked quite an uproar, and ultimately the preservationists sent Mickey scurrying back to corporate headquarters with his skinny black tail between his legs.
Although the proposed park went the way of the Wicked Queen and her poisoned apple, some of the publicity and planning materials made their way onto the World Wide Web. I won't actually post them here, since we're talking about the same company that once sued a day care center for painting Mickey and friends on their walls. Instead, I'll offer a few links where you can see them for yourself.
Wikipedia offers a map and a description of some of the proposed attractions, including a family farm with hands-on learning experiences, a recreation of the Monitor-Virginia battle, and an Ellis Island area with "a great live show presentation." I'm not sure what constitutes a live show presentation at Ellis Island, but I'm envisioning lines of Eastern Europeans in drab clothing who suddenly break out into song and dance–sort of like the immigration scene from the Broadway musical Ragtime, only more upbeat. As for the others, a petting zoo seems kind of low-key for a Disney park, and as much as I'd like to see some ironclads in action, I don't know if I could stand in the sun that long.
Here's a website with conceptual artwork by Disney planners. The Industrial Revolution seems like an unlikely basis for a roller coaster, but the image here looks pretty impressive. Who says the Progressive Era can't be fun?
Like most history buffs, I look back on the defeat of Disney's America with tremendous relief. Northern Virginia isn't the place for a theme park. Furthermore, Disney's post-Walt efforts at historical interpretation leave quite a bit to be desired. I want to stress that I'm not opposed to theme parks on principle. Quite the opposite; Orlando was an annual pilgrimage destination for my family, and I used to devour the guidebooks to learn about the new rides every year. I still head down to Disney World and Universal when I'm able, and it's an experience I enjoy. You may not appreciate the unceasing bombardment of zip-a-dee-doo-dah optimism, but the degree to which the park designers immerse their visitors in a three-dimensional world of enormous scope and intricate detail is an impressive achievement.
My problem with Disney history is based on the content of their presentations. Take the American Adventure at Epcot, seen here in a photo from Wikimedia Commons (and therefore most assuredly in the public domain, thank you very much). It's a theater presentation that combines animatronic figures, moving sets, and film to tell a slapdash version of American history from the Pilgrims to the present day. It combines the cliches of cherished myths with the banalities of politically-correct inclusiveness. It comes across as superficial and rather thoughtless.
We get the troops huddled around the campfire at Valley Forge and the can-do attitude of Rosie the Riveter, juxtaposed with the pessimistic lamentations of Frederick Douglass, Chief Joseph, and Susan B. Anthony. The show is neither hot nor cold; the generally rosy approach trivializes the somber moments, while these somber moments in turn dampen the inspirational qualities of the positive scenes. Our triumphs and our failures are all mixed up together, and there's no effort to make sense of it.
I'm certainly not trying to say that any presentation of American history must choose between the positive and the negative. I do think, however, that a production of this scale should give us something more than a pageant of America's Greatest Hits with occasional tragic interludes. The American Adventure gives me the impression that the planners really wanted to wave the flag, but felt obligated to deal with our national sins, and so they threw in all the pieces without trying to fit them together.
I'll continue to visit both historic sites and theme parks, but for different reasons and in proper proportion. A little junk food in moderation won't kill you, as long as you can distinguish real food from empty calories. Disney's America struck me as an attempt to give us a huge slice of birthday cake while telling us it was a good, square meal. Its downfall wasn't just a victory of preserving one historic region's physical integrity. It was a victory over the entertainment industry's attempts to redefine and package truth and authenticity.


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Chicago Tribune HOF Ballot is Laughable
7 Ballots were cast and here is the vote total:
|Roberto Alomar
|Tim Raines
|Burt Blylevan
|Jack Morris
|Lee Smith
|Barry Larkin
|Don Mattingly
|Alan Trammell
|Larry Walker
|Harold Baines
|Dave Parker
|Edgar Martinez
|Jeff Bagwell
|Rafael Palmeiro
|Mark McGwire
|Kevin Brown
|Fred McGriff
|John Olerud
Not a single vote for Bagwell? No vote for Palmeiro or McGwire. Harold Baines has a vote. Lee Smith has 4 out of 7 votes. Tim Raines is at least getting some respect.
I definitely have a bone to pick with Dave Van Dyck's ballot. I don't have a problem with a small ballot. Heck, I love them. I wish that I had the ability to look past some of the lesser cases and only vote for the top 1%. Mark Gonzales tried to do that with his ballot and he had the best ballot of anyone on the Chicago Tribune staff. He only listed three names: Alomar, Blylevan, Larkin. I'm okay with that because those three could be considered the best on the ballot outside of Bagwell. (more…)
BBA Hall of Fame Results
The BBA (Baseball Bloggers Alliance) was formed in 2009 as an internet version of the BBWAA (Baseball Writers Association of America) and was created to vote on and produce awards in a similar fashion. As a member of the BBA we are given ballots for all major awards and the Hall of Fame. 154 ballots were cast and here are the final voting results:
Roberto Alomar, 75.97%
Bert Blyleven, 75.97%
Barry Larkin, 70.78%
Jeff Bagwell, 62.34%
Edgar Martinez, 59.09%
Tim Raines, 54.55%
Mark McGwire, 44.16%
Lee Smith, 38.96%
Alan Trammell, 35.71%
Don Mattingly, 33.12%
Larry Walker, 31.17%
Fred McGriff, 27.27%
Jack Morris, 25.97%
Rafael Palmerio, 20.78%
Dale Murphy, 16.23%
Dave Parker, 12.34%
Harold Baines, 10.39%
Kevin Brown, 9.09%
John Franco, 7.14%
Tino Martinez, 5.19%
John Olerud, 5.19%
Al Leiter, 4.55%
Bret Boone, 3.90%
Juan Gonzalez, 3.90%
Marquis Grissom, 2.60%
Benito Santiago, 1.30%
Bobby Higginson, 0.65%
Charles Johnson, 0.65%
Kirk Rueter, 0.65%
Carlos Baerga, 0.00%
Raul Mondesi, 0.00%
BJ Surhoff, 0.00%
The BBA has correctly predicted 14 of 16 awards voted on since it's inception. I am glad to see Alomar and Blyleven get their due but very sad that us internet bloggers found a way to keep Bagwell, Raines, and a few others out.
2011 HOF Ballot
Here is a quick look at the stacked 2011 Hall-of-Fame ballot and who I would definitely vote for, who I would definitely leave off, and who is borderline (in order from top-to-bottom):
|Roberto Alomar
|Dale Murphy
|Alan Trammell
|Jeff Bagwell
|Jack Morris
|Barry Larkin
|Bert Blylevan
|Dave Parker
|Edgar Martinez
|Mark McGwire
|John Franco
|Larry Walker
|Tim Raines
|Juan Gonzalez
|Fred McGriff
|Rafael Palmeiro
|Don Mattingly
|John Olerud
|Harold Baines
|Kevin Brown
|Tino Martinez
|Bret Boone
|Raul Mondesi
|Bobby Higginson
|Al Leiter
|Marquis Grissom
|Benito Santiago
|Lee Smith
|Carlos Baerga
|Charles Johnson
|Kirk Rueter
|B. J. Surhoff
|Lenny Harris
My "Yes" group is the group I would vote for 100% of the time, no questions asked. The "No" group is the group that I would say no to 99% of the time. I may give a vote once or twice to a couple of the guys if I was given 1000 votes but that's about it.
My "Borderline" group is a group that has compelling cases for but, me being a "Small Hall" guy, I am on the fences. Yes, The borderline group, even some of the no group, are better than some guys already in the HOF but that is not an argument for someone to be enshrined. The only thing that accomplishes is watering-down the HOF, and I am not about that.
If I were a Small-Hall guy I would probably vote for my borderline group, but I am not a Small-Hall guy. As it stands now I would probably vote for Trammell, Larkin, and Martinez. I plan on making a case for each in the "Borderline" group soon. Stay tuned…


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Liberty News
Chancellor, wife treat students during finals
In light of a bittersweet goodbye for Christmas break, Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. and his wife, Becki, treated all LU students to free kettle corn this week. The perfect combination of sweet and salty popcorn put smiles on students' faces during the first two days of final exams.
"We know what a stressful time finals week is for students, and a few years ago Becki suggested that we treat the students to a free giveaway, and now it is a tradition," Falwell said.
Students were allowed one bag per visit, with a total of 5,000 heaping bags of sweet and salty goodness distributed outside the Arthur S. DeMoss Learning Center over two days.
"It seems to be very popular; it looked like there weren't less than 20 people in line at all times throughout the day," said Lee Beaumont, LU's director of auxiliary services.
Falwell and his wife have become known for their friendly gestures during finals; an ice cream truck appeared on campus at the end of the spring semester.
"Sometimes it is the little things that mean a lot to students," Chancellor Falwell said.


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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – The Nevada state Senate will remain in Democratic control following Tuesday's election after three Republican candidates won victories in five closely contested races, one short of the number needed for a change of power.
Democrats won two of the five races in play for control of the Senate, maintaining the 11-10 status quo over Republicans.
Republicans needed to win four of the five contested seats to achieve an 11-10 edge and win control of the Senate. Democrats have controlled the Senate since 2008.
But Republicans won only three of the five races, all of which were closely contested.
The results ensure that both the 21-member Senate and the 42-member Assembly will remain in control of Democrats in the 2013 session, requiring GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval to work with the opposing party in both houses to push through his education reform agenda in the 2013 legislative session.
There were 12 Senate races in the Tuesday election, but only five were considered in play by the two parties.
Mark Hutchison, Republican victor in Senate District 6. Image from Nevada News Bureau.
In Senate District 5, former state Sen. Joyce Woodhouse, D-Henderson, defeated Republican and former Henderson city councilman Steve Kirk for the four-year term. The final vote had 52 percent for Woodhouse to 48 percent for Kirk. Woodhouse served previously but had lost a re-election bid in 2010.
In Senate District 6, GOP attorney Mark Hutchison narrowly defeated Democrat businessman Benny Yerushalmi, 50.8 percent 49.2 percent.
In Senate District 9, Democrat Justin Jones defeated Republican Mari St. Martin by a margin of 50.4 percent to 49.6 percent.
In Senate District 15 in Washoe County, a closely watched race that pitted Sen. Greg Brower, R-Reno, against former state Sen. Sheila Leslie, D-Reno, Brower eked out a narrow victory. Leslie had resigned her previous seat to face Brower, but lost the hotly contested race 50.2 percent to 49.8 percent. More than $1 million was spent on the race by the two candidates, with Brower winning by a mere 266 votes.
In Senate District 18, GOP Assemblyman Scott Hammond defeated Democrat Kelli Ross, 51.4 percent to 48.6 percent.
Both GOP caucus leader Sen. Michael Roberson, R-Las Vegas, and Democratic leader Mo Denis, D-Las Vegas, had high hopes for their slate of candidates.
In the Assembly, Democrats picked up a seat to take a 27-15 edge over Republicans, although there were some significant developments in a handful of the races.
Assembly Majority Leader Marcus Conklin, D-Las Vegas, expected to be the next Assembly Speaker, lost a fiercely contested race to GOP newcomer Wes Duncan, by a margin of 51.1 percent to 48.9 percent.
Assemblyman Marcus Conklin, D-Las Vegas. Image from Nevada News Bureau.
Conklin's loss opens up the leadership post among Democrats for the 2013 session.
In Assembly District 20, Democrat Ellen Spiegel, who lost a re-election bid in 2010, won her election bid over Republican Eric Mendoza.
And in a race sure to cause some difficulties for Democrats, candidate Andrew Martin won over Republican Kelly Hurst, despite being found ineligible for the seat by a Clark County District Judge on Monday due to a residency issue. Evidence presented at a court hearing resulted in a ruling that Martin did not actually live in the district.
In other races, President Obama's strong showing in the Silver State did not have the coattail effect that Rep. Shelly Berkley, D-Nev., needed in her challenge to Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev. Heller narrowly defeated Berkley to keep the Senate seat for the GOP, even though Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will maintain his position in the U.S. Senate with victories elsewhere across the country.
In the state's four House races, former Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., won election in the 1st Congressional District. Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., won a full term to the 2nd District, and Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., defeated challenger John Oceguera for a second term in the 3rd District. The most closely watched race, in the new 4th Congressional District, saw state Sen. Steven Horsford, D-Las Vegas, defeat GOP candidate Danny Tarkanian.
Horsford will be Nevada's first African American member of Congress.


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The Medicines Company Announces Positive Results in a Phase 3 Trial of Cangrelor in the Treatment of Patients Undergoing PCI
PARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwire - Jan 8, 2013) - The Medicines Company (
Following the recommendation of the trial's Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) in July 2012 to continue the protocol as planned, the CHAMPION PHOENIX trial completed enrollment in October 2012. After successful data lock, the data analysis revealed that the protocol defined primary composite efficacy endpoint of death, myocardial infarction, ischemia driven revascularization and stent thrombosis at 48 hours was met. Cangrelor demonstrated statistically significant improvement as compared to clopidogrel. Safety outcomes were similar to those observed in prior trials. The trial results are planned to be presented at a major upcoming scientific meeting.
Commenting on the trial and its conduct, Dr. Robert A. Harrington, MD, Professor of Medicine and Chairman of Medicine at Stanford University and Co-Principal Investigator said: "The PHOENIX trial was designed with careful consideration of the prior studies to determine whether cangrelor is associated with improved ischemic outcomes compared with the usual treatment of oral clopidogrel. We are grateful to the many investigators around the world who enabled rapid enrollment and the collection of high quality data. We are pleased that the trial delivered such clear results."
"We are looking forward to presenting detailed results to the medical community as soon as the data are fully analyzed," said Dr. Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, Chief of Cardiology at VA Boston Healthcare System, Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-Principal Investigator of the CHAMPION Trials.
Clive Meanwell MD, PhD, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Medicines Company added that the Company expects to submit data both from the CHAMPION PHOENIX trial and from the BRIDGE trial in the USA and EU for regulatory review in 2013. "We believe that fast acting and rapidly reversible cangrelor may have an important role to play both in patients undergoing PCI and in patients who need to discontinue oral P2Y12 inhibitors prior to surgery," he said.
About Cangrelor
Cangrelor is an investigational agent not approved for commercial use in any market. Cangrelor, an intravenous small molecule antiplatelet agent, is in development to prevent platelet activation and aggregation that leads to thrombosis in the acute care setting including in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The CHAMPION PHOENIX trial was a double-blind parallel group randomized study, which compares cangrelor to a clopidogrel loading dose administered as soon as possible after it is determined that the patient will undergo PCI. In 2011, the Company reported results of the BRIDGE trial, a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multicenter trial which evaluated cangrelor or placebo in 210 patients with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) or treated with a coronary stent and receiving a thienopryidine awaiting coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.
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When I was about seven or eight, I watched The Parent Trap II with my brother and our cousins. The storyline isn't that important (best friends want their single parents to marry, and — coincidence? — one of those parents is a twin played by Hayley Mills) but what stuck with me for some reason was a scene early on in the movie where the two young girls bake cookies. They had a huge mixing bowl on a kitchen countertop, and the two kept on throwing in what seemed to me to be the craziest ingredients into their dough: marshmallows! Cap'n Crunch! M&Ms! pretzels! Then the girls formed their cookies and put them in the oven, and all I could think was, Gross.
I really think that that movie is what turned me off of baking. Interestingly enough, it didn't turn me off of cookies.
In the time that's passed since The Parent Trap II, I've made my peace with baking, and with what my seven-year-old self would have thought to be gross cookie ingredients. As a seven-year-old, for example, I never would've even considered eating anything with coconut in it; like my former teacher Steve Almond wrote in his excellent book Candyfreak, "Oddly, it isn't the flavor of coconut that troubles me, but the texture… I feel as if I'm chewing on a sweetened cuticle."
I like coconut, I really do, but its cuticleness just drives me bananas. I think that's why I'm so surprised that I adore these cookies as much as I do. The trick, with these not-overwhelmingly-sweet cookies, is toasting the cuticle out of the coconut and amping up the richness of its natural flavor. As a result, you get these little soft bites of truly intense coconuttiness — which just so happens to pair quite nicely with a luxe dark chocolate, I might add.
Have these cookies changed my mind about coconut? Perhaps not. But they've definitely got me thinking about coconut a bit more, and with something like a smile on my face.
Toasted Coconut Chocolate Chunk Cookies, from Cooking Light
Makes about twenty-five cookies
1 cup flaked sweetened coconut
1 cup all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
¾ cup packed brown sugar
¼ cup unsalted butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg
2 ounces dark chocolate (70% cacao), chopped
Cooking spray
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Arrange coconut in a single layer in a small baking pan. Bake at 350° for 7 minutes or until lightly toasted, stirring once. Set aside to cool.
- Weigh or lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl; stir with a whisk until blended. Place sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended. Beat in vanilla and egg. Add flour mixture, beating at low speed just until combined. Stir in toasted coconut and chocolate.
- Drop by level tablespoons 2 inches apart onto baking sheets coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 10 minutes or until bottoms of cookies just begin to brown. Remove from pan, and cool completely on wire racks.


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Imagine walking down the street, minding your own business. Maybe you've got a coffee. Maybe you're carrying an umbrella. Normal stuff. But then, out of the corner of your eye, you notice a 50-foot-long bright yellow rubber duckie, floating right down the middle of the river.
That would be a pretty awesome day, and that's the day Londoners had Tuesday when a gaming website kicked off a new campaign by sailing a giant duck down the River Thames. It totally makes me want to hug something.
Why the rubber duck?
The website Jackpotjoy.com said the giant duck was meant to encourage people to laugh more. Which I imagine totally worked. (Can you see it? A 50-foot rubber duckie floating past the Statue of Liberty? Amazeballs.) The site's FUNdation hopes to get behind other wacky ideas that promote fun, too.
Promoting fun and laughs sounds like a great way to engage the masses and, maybe more importantly, make a lot some random busy people's days.
Check out the once-in-a-lifetime sight for yourself.
Bring on the giant rubber duckies!
What wacky idea would you propose for some fun?
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Dallas Tusk JewelryEllen's collaboration with TUSK began in early 2015 features a range of wildlife themed gold plated jewelry, all handmade in NYC. A portion of the jewelry sales goes to TUSK, a wildlife conservation foundation.
About The Collections
Based in Manhattan, Ellen Hunter NYC boasts a unique and eclectic collection of combs, headbands, and unique flexible wreaths. Anyone donning an Ellen Hunter creation can truly boast that she is wearing a one-of-a-kind. Her collections can be found in some of the most prestigious stores across the country, including Manhattan's own Henri Bendel. Ellen has also been featured in multiple national and local publications including, Town and Country Weddings, In Style Weddings. Her unique designs have been seen on celebrities such as Beyonce and Carrie Underwood.
About Ellen
Ellen graduated from the University of Alabama in 2003 with a degree in apparel design. In this time, she was able to uncover her true passion: creating jewelry and headpieces. This discovery led Ellen to the London College of Fashion in 2004 where she enrolled in a summer intensive program to study wire wrapping and beadwork. Upon graduating college, Ellen returned to her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee to work for a local headpiece designer. During this time, Ellen learned the ins and outs of making headpieces, from hand painting and baking ceramic flowers, to handcrafting ornate jewelry.
Ellen moved to Manhattan in the winter of 2007 when she was offered a position at Nicole Miller as a bridal specialist. During her time at Nicole Miller, Ellen became enamored with the process of getting to know individual customers and helping them create a look that would be personal, meaningful and beautiful.


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With the radar having been pointed north of the border for some time, and flashing bright red with alarming regularity in recent months, one band who seem to have slipped by almost unnoticed are Glasgow-based six-piece Make Model.
Formed just over a year ago and comprised of former members of underground Scottish acts Fickle Public (vocalist, guitarist and all-round spokesperson Lewis Gale and bass player James Cameron), Carson (singer/guitarist Gordon Skene and fellow six-string accomplice Matthew Casey) and Dance Lazarus Dance (drummer Ray Black). Add to that five the vocal and keyboard talents of Aimi Gold and you've Scotland's answer to Broken Social Scene. Potentially, at least.
DiS caught up with the band ahead of some epic touring with the likes of New Young Pony Club, The Twilight Sad and Blood Red Shoes for a mushroom burger and a pint or two at Nottingham's Rescue Rooms.
You're on the road for pretty much the first quarter of 2008. Busy times ahead?
Lewis: Yeah, our focus is always on playing live. We're gonna finish mixing the album with Rich Costey (whose credits include Franz Ferdinand) at the end of February for a week, and then we're off to South By Southwest. Then, when we come back, we'll be doing another tour for the next single. I don't see us saying goodbye to the tour bus until mid-April at the earliest.
And what is the next single going to be?
Lewis: We're putting out 'The L.S.B.' again. Last time we did it as a limited run on our own label (The Biz), so now we're on EMI we want to give it a full-on, nationwide release. Again we've been working with Rich Costey on the single and his mix has brought the song on no end. There's a lot of belief around that song within the band and it's also one of our less poppy tracks, more of a statement of the band's roots if anything.
Video: 'The Was'
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Do you see Make Model's sound developing in a more diverse route in the future?
Lewis: Definitely. I think we're already hard to pin down in terms of where we are, genre-specifically anyway, and I think lyrically we aren't your average predictable band writing about the same mundane things every day.
Yeah, I'd agree with that. 'The L.S.B., for example, sounds quite upbeat and jolly, but underneath the lyrics seem to say something else entirely.
Lewis: It is. It's about these kids that used to break into the houses on the close where I lived and they'd spray things on the wall like "The LSB".
Which stands for?
Lewis: To be honest none of us really know but we've come to define it as "The Less Said (the) Better", as it pretty much sums up the kind of people who talk it a lot harder than they actually walk it, if you know what I mean!
Going back to the album, have you got a release date planned?
Lewis: Originally it was scheduled for March, but the record label want us to hold it back a wee while longer, so we have to go along with that really. We're hoping for mid-summer now as we really want to get it out there.
Do you feel constrained by the label in some ways?
Lewis: Not so much constrained, more governed if you like. But the other side of the coin is that they're financing the record so we have to be patient. I mean, we've all been in bands before on indie labels with no money, so it's not as if we're one of those bands who've just appeared on a major from out of nowhere. Some of us have been involved in the music industry for a very long time, so we know how it works and, more importantly, the disadvantages and pitfalls of having no money and not being able to get your record out at all.
Financial aspects aside, what are the other main differences between being on a major as opposed to a small indie?
Lewis: Funnily enough, the fact that everything takes longer! You basically have a team of people whose job is to ensure you get recording time, get a tour together, get a soundman organised, transport, et cetera. I suppose it can make you lazy, particularly when we've all been used to doing it ourselves beforehand, but then because all of these different people are assigned one task each, it can also take longer to co-ordinate than if you were doing it for yourself too.
On the down side, though, I would imagine you're under more pressure to achieve sales targets and the like?
Lewis: Yeah that's true, but I do think that's the nature of the whole industry in general now. I think whatever level you're at as a band, you can't survive without an audience – they are ones who pretty much control your overall destiny.
It seems to be a pretty exciting time for Glasgow's music scene at the minute. What do you think has caused so much attention to be focused over the border just lately?
Ray: I think Glasgow has always been on the ball musically, for a number of years now. I think a lot of it has come via the underground, whether that's emerging club nights and promoters, new festivals such as Connect, and obviously a dearth of new bands not just in Glasgow, but Scotland in general.
Lewis: I think one big difference about being in Glasgow is that because there isn't so much media and industry focus bands are able to develop at their own pace, so instead of being thrust into the limelight after one single or whatever, they're allowed to write and rehearse an album or so's worth of songs before anyone outside of their immediate circle has heard them.
Video: 'The L.S.B.' live
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It's interesting you mention Connect. The festival certainly gave a lot of exposure to new Scottish bands and was the first place I got to see Make Model play live.
Aimi: I think Connect was a good opening for us because it seemed to be a festival that appealed more to what I'd expect our audience to be into. I mean, T In The Park does the T-Break Stage for unsigned bands and stuff, but I don't think bands get the same levels of exposure Connect can give them.
You've been compared with the likes of Broken Social Scene, The Delgados and Arcade Fire. Do you think that being mentioned in the same breath as such established artists can heap pressure on a new band?
Lewis: We're quite honoured to be talked about in the same sentence as those bands, particularly Broken Social Scene, but at the same time we'd obviously like Make Model to be judged on its own merits. For example, although I think we're quite folksy in our outlook and the way we structure our songs, we also use a lot of beats and samples in there which I'd like to think makes us pretty unique for what we do.
Finally, are there any other bands out there you think we should be DiScovering that aren't necessarily getting the attention they deserve at this moment in time?
Ray: (pointing at his t-shirt) Copy Haho.
Lewis: A new band from Birmingham called Calories. It's basically a couple of ex-members of Distophia's new band. They're gonna be quite special.
Aimi: We're also going to try and keep our own label going and hopefully be able to start releasing records by smaller, unsigned bands in the near future. There isn't enough space within the industry to get everyone's discs out there, so small independent labels are the way forward in that sense.
Catch Make Model live at the following venues:
4 Canterbury UCCA (Club NME)
5 Southampton Joiners (w/ Blood Red Shoes)
6 Aldershot West End Centre (w/ Blood Red Shoes)
8 London The Aquarium (Modular w/ Who Made Who, Metronomy and Herve)
12 London Koko (NME Awards show w/ New Young Pony Club)
14 Edinburgh Heriot-Watt University
19 Carlisle TCs (Club NME)
21 Hull The Welly (Club NME)
22 Swansea Sin City (Club NME)
23 Exeter The Hub (Club NME)
20 Edinburgh The Liquid Rooms (w/ The Twilight Sad)
The single 'The L.S.B.' is out on April 7 through EMI. For a free download of the track 'Alive-Alive-O' click HERE. For more information on Make Model visit their MySpace.


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When choosing an over-the-counter (OTC) drug, know what ingredients are in the product and what those ingredients do.
Compare ingredients
A drug that is marketed for cold and sinus symptoms may contain exactly the same ingredients as another marketed for allergy symptoms. Know what ingredients your medicine should have. This is especially important with combination drugs that are designed to treat a variety of symptoms. Check all the ingredients, so that you don't unintentionally take a double dose of one ingredient that is present in two different drugs you're taking.
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"I was such a good blocker, that the men they put in front of me—and some were stars who were supposed to be making a lot of tackles—they would have their coaches saying, 'why ain't you making any tackles?' they'd say, 'that bum Turner is holding.' Well that wasn't true…I could handle anybody that they'd put in front of me."
(Hardin-Simmons)...6'1'', 237...Clyde Douglas Turner ... Hardin-Simmons Little All-American ... Bears' No. 1 draft pick, 1940 ... Rookie starter at age of 20 ... Terrific blocker, superb pass defender, flawless ball-snapper ... Had halfback speed ... Led NFL with eight interceptions, 1942 ... Stole 17 passes in career ... All-NFL seven times ... Anchored four NFL championship teams ... Intercepted four passes in five NFL title games ... Born March 10, 1919, in Plains, Texas ... Died October 30, 1998, at age of 79.
Clyde "Bulldog" Turner excelled as a premier center and linebacker for the Chicago Bears for 13 seasons. Yet had it not been for a fortunate set of circumstances while he was still a college player at Hardin-Simmons University, he might never have had the chance to play in the National Football League.
Pro football scouting was in the early stages in the late 1930s. Most teams relied on football magazines with their traditional pre-season All-America selections. Players from little-known colleges simply weren't included. Yet not one but two NFL teams eagerly sought Turner.
A Hardin-Simmons fan tipped off Frank Korch, a Bears scout, about Turner's abilities during his junior season. After watching Turner, Korch convinced coach George Halas the Bears should draft him. Meanwhile, the Detroit Lions were so sure they had convinced Turner to turn down offers from other NFL teams they didn't even bother to draft him.
For the Bears, acquiring Turner in the first round of the 1940 draft proved to be a masterstroke. For both, the 1940 season marked the beginning of a period of dominance of their particular specialties, the Bears in winning championships and Turner in becoming the best all-round center in pro football. As a linebacker who was blessed with halfback speed, Turner, in 1942, led the league in interceptions with eight.
On offense, he was a flawless snapper and an exceptional blocker who could also play guard or tackle. Never was his versatility more evident than in 1944 when he was asked to fill in as a ball carrier in an emergency situation. He consistently ground out long gains, including a 48-yard touchdown romp. Three years later against Washington, Turner came up with what he called the favorite play of his career, a 96-yard interception return for a touchdown.


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Argonne research unveiling the secrets of nanoparticle haloing
A glass of milk, a gallon of paint, and a bottle of salad dressing all look to the naked eye like liquids. But when viewed under a microscope these everyday liquids, called "colloids," actually contain small globules or particles that stay suspended in solution.
Colloids require a delicate balance of opposing forces for them to be stable: attractive forces must be matched by repulsive ones. A new colloidal stabilization method characterized by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory may give scientists a new way to control the stability of some colloidal suspensions.
In this approach, known as nanoparticle haloing, highly charged nanoparticles and negligibly charged colloidal microspheres are mixed together in solution. The nanoparticles self-organize around the microspheres to form a halo-like structure that stabilizes the solution. This new pathway to produce materials would not be possible through traditional routes.
The structure of the halo – the key to understanding this kind of stable colloid – has remained a mystery because the nanoparticles that form it are more than 100 times smaller than the microspheres that they surround.
By using x-rays produced by Argonne's Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, were able to finally discover the structure of the nanoparticle halo.
The researchers used the ultra-small-angle x-ray scattering (USAXS) instrument at the APS to discover that nanoparticles form a loosely organized layer a small distance from the surface of the microspheres. This discovery suggests a weak attraction between nanoparticle and microsphere, corroborating earlier theoretical predictions that the halo can form only in such an environment.
"Because we have established a methodology to determine the structure of nanoparticle halo, it opens a window to the systematic study of the entire nanoparticle-microsphere phase diagram for this type of novel colloidal stabilization mechanism," said Argonne's Fan Zhang, a coauthor on the Langmuir paper.
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Drinking the Bottom Shelf: Christian Brothers Frost White Brandy
Will Gordon drinks his way through the bottom shelf of the liquor store...so you don't have to.
This weekend Bottom Shelf research director Emily and I are going to Original Portland to drink great beer and pretend not to notice how cold it is, because that's the deal you make with yourself when you go to Maine in January. Weather aside, O.P. is a fantastic tourist's city because it's fairly walkable and affordable, and you can't swing a dead moose in southern Maine these days without hitting a top-notch small brewery.*
*The comments section below would be a great place for you and everyone you know to say, "Man, if I ran a big food site I would definitely pay Will Gordon to write about Allagash and Zephyr and Maine Beer Company. That would be a great article that more than justified the outrageous expenses he would incur by drinking enough to make sure his research was sound."
Boston to Portland is a very easy trip made easier still by the happy coincidence that a bunch of you guys live there and have come through with good suggestions in the past. See you all at the Great Lost Bear for lunch Monday. But the one sticking point to this particular mission is that there's a big, important football game that needs watching Sunday night, and great local beer selections and great television situations tend not to coexist in the same bars, so a compromise will likely be in order.
I want the Patriots to win because I want the Patriots to win, but also because I don't want to spend the Super Bowl rooting against the team that got there by beating them. I prefer my rooting interests to be based on love for the Pats rather than hatred for the Ravens. I'm not a super-positive person, but I don't like to express my joys in terms of contrast to my pains. I don't trust those people who tell you that Milwaukee's great because it's better than Cleveland, or that Sierra Nevada rules because it's not shitty, watery Bud Light. Drinking a Sierra Nevada in Milwaukee sounds like a really nice way to pass an afternoon—there's no reason it needs to entail criticizing the poor saps drinking Bud Light in Cleveland.
Emily and I are on the same page with this, so we spend very little time discussing things that displease us. But since we do the majority of our eating and drinking together, I've needed to memorize the very short list of things she doesn't care to ingest: Mushrooms, black olives, second cheeseburgers, red wine. I like all of those things, but red wine's the only one I truly miss. It's one of the suspected triggers for Em's occasional migraines, though, so I don't push the issue. Instead, I just take my red wine in concentrated form. I find that a couple stiff half-pints of brandy a month is sufficient to tame my cravings and make me the most supportive husband I can be.
I recently happened upon a bottle of Christian Brothers Frost White Brandy, and while I have no idea what color grapes are used in its production or what part of the wine-reddening process allegedly haunts my lady's brain, I figured this could be a nice compromise brandy we might both enjoy on the bus to Portland Sunday morning. Christian Brothers ages this for 18 months in oak, yet it's still perfectly clear, so it's definitely magic and therefore probably a migraine cure. Unless it sucks, in which case I don't need a hook to sell Emily on it. Quick, to the bottom of it!
Christian Brothers Frost White (70 proof, $8.99/750 mL) calls itself "grape brandy with natural flavors," but it smells like flower-juiced vodka. The scent is not unpleasant but also not in any way evocative of grapes. I'd guess maybe orange blossom and lavender; I've seen reviews that cite rose petals. Pretty!
Alas, it tastes straight-down-the-drain awful, which means I wasted $8.99 and a story about Portland, but at least it allows me to maintain my record of perfect matrimonial honesty. This isn't the sort of thing one lies to one's wife about. This is the sort of thing one yells at the Internet about. The best thing about Frost White is that the harsh, cheap alcohol—feels more like 140 proof than 70—numbs your tongue, which protects your taste buds from some of the burnt-fruit flavor. Don't buy this garbage.
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In order to undergo a liver transplant, a patient must be placed on the national waiting list. The list is managed by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), which collects and manages all data that pertain to the patient waiting list, organ donation and matching, and transplantation occurring on the OPTN, the nation's organ transplant network. All liver transplant candidates in the United States must be listed with UNOS before a donor liver can be allocated.
Currently there are nearly 17,000 people waiting for a liver transplant in the United States. The median national waiting time in 2006 was 321 days.* This does not take into consideration in what part of the country a patient lives or their status at the time of transplant. Therefore, a patient's median wait may be longer or shorter depending on how sick the patent is or where they live.
The severity of liver disease in patients waiting for transplant ranges from having mild complications to being critically ill in the intensive care unit. UNOS has developed a scoring system known as the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease, or MELD, in which the sickest patients are given priority for organ allocation. Every center in the U.S. must follow the UNOS MELD system.
The MELD system involves a numerical scale, ranging from 6 (less ill) to 40 (gravely ill), used for liver transplant candidates age 12 and older. It gives each person a 'score' (number) based on how urgently he or she needs a liver transplant within the next three months. The number is calculated by a formula using three routine lab test results:
- Bilirubin, which measures how effectively the liver excretes bile;
- INR (prothrombin time), which measures the liver's ability to make blood clotting factors; and
- Creatinine, which measures kidney function. (Impaired kidney function is often associated with severe liver disease.)
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are known by other clock names, particularly in Western Europe where they originated. Most people in the United Kingdom refer to grandfather clocks as Tall Case (or sometimes Tallcase) Clocks or Long Case (or sometimes Longcase) Clocks. Other grandfather clock names that are sometimes used that are more or less synonymous with grandfather clocks are Floor Clocks, and less frequently, Hall Clocks. The styles of grandfather clock design cut across all of these names for grandfather clocks. Certain styles of clocks are also or alternatively referred to as , with roughly an 80 inch height break being the dividing line …. but it is a gray area and open to personal and professional discretion (and occasionally debate).
It was not until some time after 1876 when wrote "My Grandfather's Clock" - and known by many as The Grandfather Clocks Song - which became extremely popular especially in the USA, and gradually replaced the names of longcase and tallcase clocks to grandfather to most people. The Chorus of the Grandfather Clock Song is perhaps the part that will look and sound most familiar to people.
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Ninety years without slumbering,
His life's seconds numbering,
It stopped, short, never to go again, when the old man died.
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My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf,
so it stood ninety years on the floor.
It was taller by half than the old man himself,
though it weighed not a pennyweight more.
It was bought on the morn of the day he was born,
and was always his treasure and pride.
But it stopped, short, never to go again, when the old man died.
Second Verse:
In watching its pendulum swing to and fro,
many hours had he spent while a boy.
And in childhood and manhood the clock seemed to know,
and to share both his grief and his joy.
For it struck twenty four when he entered at the door,
with a blooming and beautiful bride,
But it stoped, short, never to go again, when the old man died.
Third Verse:
My grandfather said that of those he could hire,
not a servant so faithful he found.
For it wasted no time and had but one desire,
at the close of each week to be wound.
And it kept in its place, not a frown upon its face,
and its hands never hung by its side.
But it stopped, short, never to go again, when the old man died.
Fourth and Last Verse:
It rang an alarm in the dead of the night,
an alarm that for years had been dumb,
And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight,
that his hour of departure had come.
Still the clock kept the time, with a soft muffled chime,
as we silently stood by his side.
But it stopped, short, never to go again, when the old man died.
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I'm in Arizona, on my way to Orange County, but that doesn't stop me: I've given my students a take home final exam. I wouldn't want them to be bored over finals week, you know.
1. In the last lecture, I tried to give you a little context, and explained that a dynamic picture of biology would include evolution, ecology, and development, all subdisciplines that deal with change over time. You're all upper level students; explain to me how developmental biology fits into the perspective on biology that your experience here at UMM has given you so far. Are there pieces you wish our curriculum emphasized more? Why?
2. We've spent most of the semester talking about animals — as it currently stands, evo-devo has an unfortunately limited emphasis on metazoans, with an occasional nod to higher plants. Explore a little deeper. What would an evo-devo of fungi, or bacteria, or protists talk about? Is the toolkit we've been talking about truly universal? Give me a brief precis of the developmental principles for any other kingdom.
3. Imagine that after you graduate, you find yourself in an unexpected job: you're working in university press office or as a science journalist. You have to explain scientific research to the public every day. What general principles would guide you? These should be ideas about ethics, effective communication, psychology, etc. in addition to purely scientific concerns. Tell me what standards you'd have to become a great reporter of science.
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As the summer gets busier here in Hollywood, it is important to have something that makes the experience for the guest memorable," says David Levy, general manager of Jane's House in Hollywood, Calif.
Creating a memorable experience has been Levy's motto, so when Cabana Cachaça reps came to him offering an alternative to "shot girls" to entice guests to try the brand, he obliged.
Throughout the summer, and potentially into the fall months, the group at Cabana brings in mixologists to create variations on the Caipirinha cocktail and offer straight samples for patrons to enjoy from a special table set up in the bar's back garden.
The table display is like a typical bottle service presentation and is refreshed with a constant supply of mixers, fruit, ice and glassware, which the bar offers alongside Cabana's provided spirit. Guests select their fruits and mixers and the mixologists create the drink, to avoid over-serving.
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Whaling may be sunk by commercial reality
Japan's annual research whaling expedition is now being carried out in the Antarctic. As always, the controversy over whaling receives more coverage in the foreign press than it does in the Japanese media, which for all intents and purposes doesn't normally pay attention unless arrests or violence is involved. However, Tokyo Shimbun last week reported on some of the commercial aspects of the issue.
According to the newspaper, in 2011 the amount of frozen whale in storage and designated for retail distribution exceeded 5,000 tons, which is almost three times the amount of frozen whale meat in storage 10 years ago. There are two sources of this meat: imports from other whale-catching countries, and the research whaling program carried out by Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research and the company Kyodo Senpaku. The purpose of the research is to "determine growth by means of checking weight and body length" of whales that are caught and killed. Afterward, the whale meat is sold to help pay for the research, which costs about ¥6 billion a year. The Japanese government provides a subsidy of ¥1 billion, which means the meat sales have to cover the remaining ¥5 billion.
The increase in frozen inventory means that the costs aren't being covered, and that the research project is operating in the red, though Tokyo Shimbun doesn't say by how much. Until 2006, the amount of yearly stock kept increasing because the annual catch quota was also increasing, but ever since the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society started interfering with the Antarctic hunt the amounts caught have not increased. However, overall stocks have. At the end of 2010, they amounted to 5,300 tons, and though Kyodo Senpaku only brought back 18 percent of its planned catch last year after it cut short the hunt, as of last October stocks of whale meat had increased to 5,400 tons.


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For those familiar with the Cliffs of Moher, part of the Burren and Cliffs of Moher UNESCO Global Geopark, the name Cornelius O'Brien might ring a few bells
Cornelius was a busy man. Landlord, solicitor and County Clare's representative in the British Parliament. He was even in a duel once. Well, almost.
He also built a certain tower. In order to harness the views of and from Moher, O'Brien decided to commission a viewing platform at the cliffs' highest point. But it wouldn't just be practical, it would be pretty, too. The result? O'Brien's Tower.
Arguably, the finest views from O'Brien's Tower are the cliffs themselves. Depending on the mist, the day and the weather, you might be lucky enough to see the Aran Islands. The panorama of the Atlantic stretches wide across the horizon and the islands, a traditional Gaeltacht (Irish speaking) region, spread themselves across it.
It seems a little greedy that from somewhere as engrossing as the Cliffs of Moher, a visitor to O'Brien's Tower can also clap eyes on Connemara's Twelve Bens (also known as Twelve Pins) mountains. Fringed with scree and stony peaks, the 12 mountains (the highest of which, Benbaun, rises to 729m) congregate in a grand circle, encasing a valley which floods with sun at the slightest invitation.
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Swing round south from the tower and your eyes will settle on Loop Head and its formidable, impeccably whitewashed lighthouse, manned until 1991, when it became automated. When you're gazing dreamily on the lighthouse from O'Brien's Tower, know this: you can rent the lightkeeper's house from the Irish Landmark Trust.
According to the Trust's Karen Johnston, the views from here aren't half bad, either: "You feel like the only person in the world as you gaze, uninterrupted, out to sea from the upstairs viewing room. If you are lucky, you'll spot dolphins and whales as they pass by."
Come for the Cliffs, stay for the whales and dolphins.
Thanks, Cornelius.
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Dev. Games for the Common Good (JUFTi), creator of Cornhole All-Stars (TMA review), is stymied, and on good moral footing, has created a Facebook Group in opposition to Apple's ban-hammer: Stop App Store Censorship. While this blogger cannot suss out what got under Apple's bonnet, it is likely sexual innuendo – or at least, their understanding of it. Despite this, Apple continue to support racist, sexist, and feral fetishes to users without constraint – even if the apps support abuse. Meanwhile, JUFIi's app has been censored.
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Students at a Manhattan high school staged a riot when their bathroom privileges were taken away. We can't say we totally blame them.
According to New York 1, principal Andrea Lewis of Murry Bergtraum High School said yesterday that bathrooms would be closed in response to fight that broke out in the morning. This caused students to begin "running through the hallways and basement, screaming and shouting" for about 20 minutes. Gotham Schools says the students used their cell phones — which are prohibited in class — to set up the disturbance.
We don't condone teen violence — and at least one teacher apparently "feared for her life" during the riot. But since when is locking the bathrooms for all students a good punishment for a fight? Lewis said students could use bathrooms in the nurse's office if they had an "emergency" — but still, restricting them from peeing just sounds like an unhealthy and ineffective way to combat bad behavior. Teachers union leader John Elfrank-Dana hints that Lewis has had similar problems in the past — he said that "her record has been one of success in academics" but "she has failing grades for security from her previous school. That is a concern of the staff."
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Oh, John, what a beautiful family you have! How can you get any sewing done with those cute faces around? I would have a hard time not stopping to hug and kiss them all the time!ReplyDelete
What happened to your little girl's eye?
Have a perfect weekend!
What a happinessReplyDelete
Have a nice weekend with your family and maybee there is going to be some stitching minutes.
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What adorable kidlets you have! Hope you have a wonderful time in Charleston. I'm highly jealous. I love it there. I even found a great quilt shop!ReplyDelete
your kids are precious!ReplyDelete
What great pictures! Enjoy your weekend away.ReplyDelete
You have such a beautiful family! What a blessing.ReplyDelete
What a wonderful looking family you have. Take care, hope you enjoyed the wedding and have a great week.ReplyDelete
John, you and your wife make a good looking couple. The kids are adorable. I love taking family pictures. My parents took hardly any of us while we were growing up. I have made about 20 video's with the pictures I've taken and put them on DVD's to preserve them.ReplyDelete
Hope you had an enjoyable trip.
Very, very cute - love those pigtails.ReplyDelete
cute kids :) have a nice weekend!ReplyDelete
Awwww! They're three peas in a pod. :-DReplyDelete
the kids are cute...you have a nice family of fire fighters and ballerinas :)ReplyDelete
too cute!
thanks for sharing...and have a great vacation!
Hi John,ReplyDelete
I just discovered your blog and had to go and have a look at your older postings. You make beautiful quilts and I love the fabrics that you choose.
I can see why people loved the bags that were part of your giveaway- they were gorgeous.
I hope you and your family had a fabulous time at the wedding. I will return again to see what new projects that you are creating.
Regards from a Western Canadian Quilter,
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Hi John,ReplyDelete
I spent a week in the Charleston area last fall. What a beautiful part of the country! Have a great weekend.
Also, cute, cute, cute kids and a lovely wife too. You go, Quilt Dad!
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NEW YORK — The Women's Media Center is deeply disappointed with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation's decision to cease funding breast cancer prevention, education, and screenings at Planned Parenthood health centers. We urge our friends and supporters to join us by standing in solidarity with Planned Parenthood Federation of America and all of the women and families they serve to ensure that almost 750,000 women in rural, underserved, and low-income communities continue to receive comprehensive and accessible preventative care.
The Komen Foundation provides an important voice and services in the movement to find a cure for breast cancer. We applaud them for this work but are troubled by the foundation's public explanation that the decision to cease funding Planned Parenthood had nothing to do with abortion politics.
Since 2005, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) and STOPP (most recently known as the Society To Outlaw Planned Parenthood), have pushed a very public campaign aimed at ending Komen Foundation funding of Planned Parenthood services for breast cancer screening. Dr. John Willke, a former President of the National Right to Life Committee has promoted a STOPP research report about the Komen Foundation support of Planned Parenthood (http://www.lifeissues.org/AbortionBreastcancer/komen/fact_sheet.pdf). In October, 2011, Carol Tobias, the President of the National Right to Life Committee, wrote a column for Legatus Magazine that criticized the Komen Foundation with sentences like, "Komen's support of the nation's largest abortion provider is ironic in that, while Komen works to find a cure for breast cancer, Planned Parenthood is providing a "service" that contributes to the increase of breast cancer." [NOTE: According to the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, over 100 of the world's leading experts have concluded that having an abortion or miscarriage does not increase a woman's subsequent risk of developing breast cancer Summary Report: Early Reproductive Events and Breast Cancer Workshop]
The National Right to Life Committee was originally created by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the President of the National Right to Life Committee has a platform and megaphone that extends far beyond the NRLC federation of 50 state right-to-life organizations and 3,000 local chapters nationwide. In light of the public campaign against the Komen Foundation by the anti-choice movement, it is difficult to understand how the decision by the Komen Foundation is not related to abortion politics.
From a media perspective, the enormous outcry by women everywhere on Twitter, Facebook and blogs indicates the Foundation's media team and leadership miscalculated the public's reaction to their decision. Politico reports that in a video posted yesterday, Nancy Brinker, the founder and CEO of the Komen Foundation, said that the decision had been "mischaracterized" and that "the scurrilous accusations being hurled at this organization are profoundly hurtful." (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/72360.html)
The Women's Media Center is a pro-choice organization and fully supports the movement to find a cure for breast cancer.
The Women's Media Center urges the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation to respond to press inquiries about the long-time anti-choice campaign for the Komen Foundation to stop funding Planned Parenthood to clarify that there was in fact no connection between a highly orchestrated anti-choice campaign and the decision of the Komen Foundation to end its support of Planned Parenthood for breast cancer prevention, education, and screenings. The firestorm from this decision is not going to go away until the obvious links and questions are fully discussed.
Julie Burton, President
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