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Revit Parameters
I had a client email me about Parameters. They were having a tough time getting their head around the different types, so I thought I would make a quick post about it.
In Revit there are
four five kinds of Parameters:
System Parameters
Shared Parameters
Project Parameters
Family Parameters
Global Parameters (New in 2017)
System Parameters which include the two you highlighted are built-in to Revit and cannot be changed, but they are always available. This means they show in tags, schedules, projects, families, etc. Project Parameters are custom parameters you add to a project. When adding a project parameter, it is available to all objects of the specified category throughout the project and CAN appear in schedules but NOT tags. You create them with the command on the Manage tab of the ribbon. Family parameters are only available to the Family in which they are added. They do NOT show in tags or schedules nor to other Families of the same category. However, you can make a custom parameter (Project or Family) available to tags and schedules by making them a Shared Parameter. Shared Parameters are defined in an external text file (a Shared Parameter file) and you can access them also on the Manage tab. It is VERY important that you have a single shared parameter file for the entire firm to "share" thus the name. You do NOT want more than one Shared Parameter file. All this file is used for is to define the parameter. Once defined, it knows how to behave. So ALL shared parameters will be created from this single source file. The end users will not need to have access to, nor do they need to even know about the Shared Parameter file. Kind of like a recipe for your favorite cookies. You need the recipe to get the cookies right, but you don't need the recipe to enjoy eating them.
If you think there is any chance that a custom parameter will want to be scheduled or tagged, you should make it a shared parameter. So on your titleblock, you need to make those custom parameters at LEAST a project parameter. This will tell Revit what to do with them. But consider making them Shared for additional flexibility down the road.
*Update for 2017 – Had a comment below about Global Parameters (GP). So I added them to the table. Global parameters work in a project environment. They can be assigned to drive the values of instance and type parameters of elements in the project. So if you flex the global parameter, it can potentially impact several objects or types across the project. They are user-defined, but can be pre-built in your office standard template (RTE) files if you want. They can only be assigned to properties that are "exposed" by the factory. So certain things cannot yet be driven by GP. Most dimensions can also be labeled directly in a project environment with GP as well. This allows you to build relationships across the project to elements that are not necessarily physically next to one another.
|Kind of Parameter
|Who Creates it
|Where does it live
|Appear in Tags
|Appear in Schedules
|System Parameters
|Built in
|Project and Family
|Built-in to Revit, You cannot change it
|Shared Parameters
|User Defined
|Project and Family
|Custom Parameter created for the highest portability and flexibility
|Project Parameters
|User Defined
|Custom Parameter accessible to all objects in a Project
|Global Parameters
|User Defined
|Custom Parameter that can drive exposed instance and type parameters in the project
|Family Parameters
|User Defined
|Custom Parameter accessible only to the Family
Hope that helps to clarify things a bit.
39 Responses to Revit Parameters
Hi, thanks for all the information you put out there for us.
I have a question regarding Shared Parameters.
I have in my project a shared parameter for Wind Zone, it is an instance parameter and I have it marked for "Project Information".
When I start a New project I add the wind zone through the project parameters and it reports to tags in the project, but it will not report to schedules.
When I create a new schedule I add the wind zone parameter to the schedule and ensure it is marked for the schedule ie "Structural Foundations is ticked in the Categories list", the parameter appears in the schedule but will not report the wind zone? Any help would be great.
Hello, first of all thanks for your clarification.
I have a question relevant the System Parameters:
I understood that the Room Bounding is a System Parameter and it's possible to find it in some categories or families (and chang it as yes/no) but not in all.
Finally my question is: there is a way to include this kind of system parameter in the Structural beam family (as structural esposed element inside of room)? I not understand very well the reason why the Structural Column is considered as Room Bounding and structural beam no
This will be helpful in order to calculate the net Volume of some room where are exposed not only the Column but also the beams.
Thanks in advance for your eventyally cooperation.
Best Regards
How to find unused parameter in a family because I used no of parameter some are assigned and some for mathematical purpose and some are create and used initially, after optimizing the family formula some parameter are unused. I would like to identify and Delete those parameter that are not assigned.
Another distinction between shared and project parameters is that project parameters are available to key schedules, while shared parameters are not. An unfortunate side effect of this is that information that is controlled by a key schedule cannot appear in a tag. Do you know of a work around for this?
So, i deeply need an advice about sth. Like can we assign a yes/no parameters for rooms. This will sound crayz but i have to do 2 different functions in same model. That means some rooms for Design 1 let's say, some are Design 2 option. We have to place those in the same place and hide on of them in a single option.
We need to show these two options to the client whenever he asks for it. Design options don't work good for us, it has such a big project and got a few linked files in it. We can't do 2 model files it's such a big scale and we're a copule of people.
What would you suggest for this?
Filters? Phase? Rooms and Spaces? Design Options?
Anything ?
It's because of we need to make groups. It's a residental project but as i tried to explain we always need to work as if it is a office function.
So i guess we gonna do 2 different model based on flat and links each one for each option.
I will check out design options again basen on your idea though. Thanks so much
Dear Paul,
I have a very simple question:
As far as I understand floors are System Family, so are their parameters, right?
So how can I show a floor Thickness ( the actual parameter) in a tag?
I use revit 15 and when I try to create a tag I can only choose from Shared Parameter, but in summary table you say that system parameters CAN appear in tags and schedule. So how?
Thanks in advance
Hello Paul,
Thank you for the explanation, very calrifying.
But since we have Global Parameters, how would you complete the table? Do you think they would fit in it?
I think I could answer this:
User defined
Live in Project and Family
But not sure of the other aspects you are considering.
Thank you!
Paul – Is there a way to use the system parameters for a profile in a parts schedule?
Thanks – again for your timely reply.
Mr. Aubin,
First a sincere "Thank you!" for all of your efforts in the Revit community. When it comes to looking for answers, I look for your content first.
My team uses "Conduit Run Schedules" in conjunction with "Conduits without fittings". We have created shared parameters with the ability to be shared with Schedules enabled. We then bring these Shared parameters into our Project and assign them to Conduits, Conduit fittings and Conduit Runs. We enter data such as ???Feeding To???, ???Feeding From???, ???Feeder No.??? etc??? When creating a Conduit Run Schedule we don???t see any of our information populated in the Feeder Run Schedule. In fact, unless we enter the feeder No. into the Comments parameter, they don???t even populate the schedule. Why is this, and is there a way around this? Currently we have to enter data in twice. Once during the modeling process, and the 2nd on our Schedules. It is so time consuming and leaves the door open for inaccurate information if changes occur.
Once again,
Thank you for all you do for the community!
There is also calculated parameters, my problem currently is using this "calculated parameter" inside a family/titleblock
Hi Paul,
Thank you for the information,
I have problem,
In dome of our project's files I some rooms system parameters are not available in Room Style Schedule's Fields (Key schedule), such as Wall finish, floor finish, etc.. I do not know the reason ???? is it system bug??
Good morning Paul,
I have a client that wants to tell if a beam has been designed or not in their structural model. Possibly by a color I remember seeing info on doing this but can't find anything anymore. I first instinct is to create a parameter and then implement a filter to control the color. I was looking for your thoughts. Thank you for your time.
i am having two families, namely floor based insert plates & wall based vertical insert plates.. the parameters defined in the floor based horizontal plates families are L1, W1 & D and they can be called in the material take off sheet so that the dimensions are visible.. but the parameters in the vertical insert plate family are not possible to call… may i have a solution??
Hi Paul,
Thanks for all the post. Your posts and book are my go to source when I have revit issues.
I have a question regarding families and schedule.
We are trying to custom make all of our medical equipment families, somewhere around 600 families which we use in almost all the projects.
We would like to add roughly 10 parameters that schedules when we make the equipment schedule in Revit. The plan is to fill in the parameter such as provided by / installed by/ make / model etc in the family and when we bring that family in our project our equipment schedule would populate automatically.
We tried in couple of families but it did work, family would bring the parameter but we had to fill up the schedule each time we bring that family.
Can you please help? You might have working solution for this issue.
We are unsuccessful to find the straight forward solution except making two schedules.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Paul,
Thank u very much for your reply. I am not that familier with the shared parameter therefore I started to read the blog posts regarding shared parameter. I will post the update once I try shared parameter.
Thanks again,
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Shenzhen Stock Exchange
By Ulf Meyer
From the "VIP Club" on the 46th Floor of the new Shenzhen Stock Exchange, designed by Rem Koolhaas from OMA in Rotterdam, people look down onto a sterile ideal city.
On the road 255 meters below plow those who haven't made it (yet) into the dizzying heights of communist turbo-capitalism: Countless road workers move the red earth from left to right, guarded by men in military uniforms with green camouflage patterns, who stand around the new building under small umbrellas. They make sure that no one gets too close to the new building.
The vast Plaza at the foot of the 500-million dollar new Shenzhen Stock Exchange is totally empty. Framed only by a three-storey podium that cantilevers far from the high-rise stem with its dark gray grid façade. The price for such acrobatic tectonics is a rather complex structure whose diagonal bracing dominates the facades of the lower floors of the new building. The square grid facade in gray is clad in coated textured glass.
At the Shenzhen Stock Exchange shares are traded of approximately 1,500 companies – usually from one government pocket to another. The stock exchanges of Shanghai and Hong Kong are still far ahead of Shenzhen in terms of trading volume, but it does not have to stay that way forever. The Shenzhen Stock Exchange is designed for growth: For the time being it only uses the lower ten floors of its new building, the rest is rented out.
Stock exchanges as a building type for people are long dead – there is no dealer left, who flits from trading booth to the next or makes the best prices with cryptic calls or obscure hand signals. In Shenzhen only giant computer servers purr. More than thirty managers follow the digital market activity on their monitors. They must get tired a lot – their offices even have showers and beds.
The import building is surprisingly well built – a reversal of previous practice in Koolhaas' office, which has traditionally been proud to ignore detailing work. Also, almost all Western architects in China complain about the lousy construction quality. So, how did Rem do it? The high building standard was made possible only by the continuous presence of OMA architects on the site.
The Dutch designers are particularly proud of the walls made of cast stone that characterize the foyer below and the Club floor above. Their patterns are reminiscent of Chinese landscape painting in ink – only on closer inspection do they turn out to be the motives of price fluctuations of stocks.
The surrealism of the building shape fits its surrounding city, which has made its artificiality its identity. Its raison d' être is making money. That it what Chinese president Deng Xiao Ping wanted in 1979, when he set up China's first "special economic zone" in Shenzhen. Deng's slogan was "Let in the West Wind. Wealth is glorious".
The building is supposed to signify the climax of market forces like a totem pole of capital – but seems rather like a strange, mysterious and enigmatic flying object. Koolhaas has assembled two designs of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe into a "collage": The McCormick Convention Center in Chicago was grafted onto the stem of the Seagram Building in New York.
The most important intangible process of a stock exchange, the virtual speculation, it can not represent. Although the raised podium is supposed to look like it would held up only by "speculative euphoria" (Koolhaas). 27,000 tons of steel is required to create the illusion.High-rise towers like the new Shenzhen Stock Exchange Building are less an expression of economic market conditions as of political ambition. Koolhaas himself had drawn attention to these puzzling phenomena with his contribution at the documenta art show in Kassel in 1997 called "The Speed of Shenzhen". Now he has come full circle: The autistic giant buildings of Shenzhen, standing rather lonely on their sites just do not find together to form a city. Koolhaas has now added his architectural legacy to Shenzhen. In five years it will be considered old.


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Kurt Nimmo
January 11, 2011
The shooting of Rep. Giffords and others by a mentally deranged man in Arizona has brought anti-Second Amendment ghouls out of the shadows.
Dedicated gun-grabber Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, is renewing his effort to chisel away at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. "The only reason to have 33 bullets loaded in a handgun is to kill a lot of people very quickly. These high-capacity clips simply should not be on the market," Lautenberg said on Monday following the weekend shooting.
MSNBC, outraged over Second Amendment, interviews gun-grabber Carolyn McCarthy.
The poster child for the destruction of the Second Amendment, New York Democrat Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, has also crawled out of the shadows. She announced plans to introduce legislation aimed squarely at the right of Americans to own firearms.
California Democrat Dianne Feinstein has joined McCarthy in the renewed effort to rob Americans of their right to own firearms. Feinstein wrote the 1994 assault weapons ban, which outlawed gun clips holding more than 10 bullets. The law expired in 2004.
McCarthy's enemies of liberty will team up with establishment Republicans in a new effort to trash the Second Amendment. A McCarthy aide said her office was consulting with newly anointed House Speaker John Boehner's office.
As should be expected, the Brady Campaign exploited the incident to attack the right of Americans to own firearms. Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign, said in a statement that "if Congress had not allowed the 'Assault Weapons Ban' to expire in 2004, the shooter [Loughner] would only have been able to get off 10 rounds without reloading. Instead, he was able to fire at least 20 rounds from his 30-round clip."
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In short, according to Helmke, the Second Amendment is responsible for Loughner's rampage. Not the gunman, but the founders.
Kristen Rand, legislative director of the Violence Policy Center, admitted the gun-grabbers are determined to exploit the pain and suffering of Loughner's victims in order to attack the Bill of Rights. "In the wake of these kind of incidents, the trick is to move quickly," she told NBC.
Democrats and their Republican allies are miffed they cannot exploit the tragic incident more effectively. As noted by Politico, the massacre has not kick started a larger debate in the district of criminals.
"Those who have brought up gun control in light of the Tucson shooting have largely been the issue's regular standard-bearers on Capitol Hill. Even gun-control advocates aren't very optimistic about their chances," the newspaper writes.
Rand and her co-conspirators are discouraged by Obama's lack of movement on gun control. "I frankly don't know what it's going to take to get the Obama administration to do even the most minor positive policy change on guns," Rand said. "They have a war basically brewing on the border, and there's a lot they could do without legislation to address that problem, but that hasn't moved them to act."
The government insists guns used by the bankster supported drug cartels in the Mexican narco state originate in the United States, although there is scant evidence of this.
"They just ignore the issue as if it's not there," Rand said. "I think they buy the hype about the power of the gun lobby. I think they and the Democratic Party buy into this idea that if you cross the gun lobby, you'll lose."
In other words, the Obama administration realizes attacking the Second Amendment is for now a losing strategy. It is not the "gun lobby" – epitomized by a sell-out NRA that supports themicrostamping of firearms and Gestapo tactics at legal gun shows – but the sentiment of millions of Americans who support the Bill of Rights that has Obama and crew holding their cards close to the vest.
Even the liberals over at the Huffington Post admit many Americans support the Second Amendment and any attempt to diminish the amendment will be an uphill battle.
In the days ahead, as discussion of Loughner's rampage continues, we can expect the gun-grabbers to heatedly make their case. They will not rest until the Second Amendment is stricken from the Bill of Rights.
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India school lunch food poisoning leaves at least 22 children dead, dozens more hospitalized
Updated at 1:10 p.m. ET
PATNA, India The children started falling violently ill soon after they ate the free school lunch of rice, lentils, soybeans and potatoes.
The food, part of a program that gives poor Indian students at least one hot meal a day, was tainted with insecticide, and soon at least 22 of the students were dead and dozens were hospitalized, officials said Wednesday.
There were conflicting reports on the number of children killed Tuesday. A local government official, Poonam Kumari, told the Reuters news agency that at least 25 children died.
"The administration has helped cremate 21 children and, unfortunately, four more children have to be cremated," she told Reuters.
It was not immediately clear how chemicals ended up in the food at the school in the eastern state of Bihar. One official said that the food may not have been properly washed before it was cooked.
The children, between the ages of 5 and 12, got sick soon after eating lunch Tuesday in Gandamal village in Masrakh block, 50 miles north of the state capital of Patna. School authorities immediately stopped serving the meal as the children started vomiting.
Savita, a 12-year-old student who uses only one name, said she had a stomach ache after eating soybeans and potatoes and started vomiting.
"I don't know what happened after that," Savita said in an interview at Patna Medical College Hospital, where she and many other children were recovering.
The lunch was cooked in the school kitchen.
The children were rushed to a local hospital and later to Patna for treatment, said state official Abhijit Sinha.
In addition to the children who died, another 25 children and the school cook were in hospital undergoing treatment, according to P.K. Sahi, the state education minister. Three children were in serious condition.
Authorities suspended an official in charge of the free meal scheme in the school and registered a case of criminal negligence against the school headmistress, who fled as soon as the children fell ill.
Angry villagers, joined by members of local opposition parties, closed shops and businesses near the school and overturned and burned four police vehicles.
Sahi said a preliminary investigation suggested the food contained an organophosphate used as an insecticide on rice and wheat crops. It's believed the grain was not washed before it was served at the school, he said.
However, local villagers said the problem appeared to be with a side dish of soybeans and potatoes, not grain. Children who had not eaten that dish were fine, although they had eaten the rice and lentils, several villagers told the AP.
Sinha said the cooked food and kitchen utensils have been seized by investigators. "Whether it was a case of negligence or was intentional, we will only know once the inquiry has been conducted," he said.
India's midday meal scheme is one of the world's biggest school nutrition programs. State governments have the freedom to decide on menus and timings of the meals, depending on local conditions and availability of food rations. It was first introduced in southern India, where it was seen as an incentive for poor parents to send their children to school.
Since then the program has been replicated across the country, covering some 120 million school children. It's as part of an effort to address concerns about malnutrition, which the government says nearly half of all Indian children suffer from.
Although there have been occasional complaints about the quality of the food served, or the lack of hygiene, the tragedy in Bihar appeared to be unprecedented for the massive food program.


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Committee rejects Milwaukee bar's liquor license renewal
12 News has learned the Rec Room bar in Milwaukee could soon lose its liquor license.
The bar has made headlines since New Year's after a UWM student disappeared following a night of drinking there.
Nick Wilcox vanished after being kicked out of the Rec Room early in the morning on Jan. 1.
Alderman Tony Zielinski told 12 News the decision was based on some complaints from neighbors and the fact that the bar has not fulfilled its operating plan to provide lunch.
The decision was made Dec. 3, before Wilcox disappearance.
The bar's attorney, Michael J. Whitcomb, told 12 News the punishment is severe and excessive.
"Neighborhood complaints don't justify non-renewal," Whitcomb said.
The bar said it's received an injunction to stay open while they fight the decision.


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This blog post was written by Victoria Collie, Special Collections and University Archives Intern.
An exhibit highlighting the Metcalf Collection of Books on T.E. Lawrence is now open on the main level of Payson Library. Housed in the Special Collections and University Archives, this is the first time the books have been on display. The book collection and associated Metcalf papers were donated to Pepperdine by Edwards H. Metcalf (1911-2001), a Pepperdine University board member and grandson of millionaire Henry Edwards Huntington. Metcalf was a T.E. Lawrence enthusiast, and helped plan Pepperdine's T.E. Lawrence Symposium in 1988. The book collection alone contains over 400 books on Lawrence and the Middle East. If you would like to learn more about T.E. Lawrence and the book collection, check out the new InfoGuide! It provides a good starting place for research.
T.E. Lawrence, or "Lawrence of Arabia," was an extremely intelligent and complex person, who seemed restless until he found his calling in the Middle East fighting alongside the Arab leaders during the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918. He had been familiar with the region before, taking several trips to the area and becoming used to the language and the Arab way of life. His use of guerrilla activities against the Turks during the revolt gained him sudden notoriety. After the war, he ran from his new found fame, using assumed names when enlisting in the Royal Air Force. He died in 1935 at the age of 46. Lawrence wrote a variety of works, including Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which is on display. Also included in the exhibit is his college thesis, Crusader Castles (1936). There are many controversies surrounding Lawrence's career and life, but he will continue to be the subject of admiration and speculation for years to come.


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Brown inconsistent on local-control issues
Jerry Brown expressed some controversial views on his "We the People" radio show in the mid-1990s, some of which I quoted back to him in a telephone interview while he was running for attorney general in 2006. Brown's response was reasonable: As a radio host, it was his job to explore various and sundry ideas.
Even people who don't like Brown's politics often enjoy his willingness to toss out interesting terms and political theories. Yet after all his years in politics, observers still struggle to find ideological consistency behind his musings.
For instance, one principle Brown detailed in his State of the State address in January was the concept of subsidiarity. It is "the idea that a central authority should only perform those tasks which cannot be performed at a more immediate or local level," he said.
Brown used the idea to defend his education-funding proposal that shifted decision-making to districts. As EdSource explained, "Subsidiarity, from the Latin word subsidiaries, for assistance or help, was developed as Catholic social doctrine by Pope Leo XIII in the late 19th century ... ." Leave it to the Jesuit-trained Brown to make something simple sound highfalutin.
Other commentators have analyzed the Brown governorship in the context of subsidiarity. GOP Secretary of State candidate Pete Peterson recently lauded Brown's grasp of political philosophy, but asked if subsidiarity is "a convenient excuse for pushing budget responsibilities off Sacramento's books and onto those of counties, cities and special districts."
Brown's realignment plan, meant to save the state money and respond to a court-ordered reduction in the prison population, is an example of a policy that warrants Peterson's concerns. County officials speaking at a Sacramento Press Club panel last week made the same point about realignment – the state was not just giving them power, but imposing new financial obligations.
A U-T San Diego editorial from May wondered whether the effort to push decisions back to school districts was really about empowering teachers' unions, which have so much control over decisions made at that level. The Brown plan didn't address the real problems with education, it argued.
But whatever one's views of realignment and the Brown school policy, there's no question they do indeed shift decisions to localities. The bigger question is whether Brown – who has never thoroughly detailed the idea to the public – really means it.
"We've debated this since the beginning of the republic," said Fred Smoller, a political science professor at Chapman University in Orange. "There's always a tension between the state and municipalities." But he says Brown's approach is a bumper-sticker slogan: "There needs to be more beef to be taken seriously as a theory of government."
Brown seems unwilling to look deeply at what works and what doesn't work within the government at all levels, he adds. "It's not just the level of government, but whether government."
Brown's signings and vetoes are all over the map regarding local government decisions. In June, the Sacramento Bee's Dan Walters argued that the governor's belief in subsidiarity will be tested on SB 7, which withholds state funds to charter cities that don't pay union (i.e., "prevailing") wages on public-works contracts when using city funds. In October, the governor signed the bill.
Chris McKenzie, executive director of the League of California Cities, said the group's board was encouraged by the view on subsidiarity he expressed during a speech. The governor, however, said he "sometimes had to balance that philosophy with other imperatives -- such as the strong desires of the legislature." Brown signed 85 percent of League-sponsored bills, but vetoed only 25 percent of the bills the League opposed, McKenzie added.
"He seems to pick and choose what he wants to preserve for local control," says Lawrence McQuillan, economist for the libertarian Independent Institute in Oakland. " McQuillan is glad, for instance, that Brown vetoed a bill that would have jump-started local inclusionary housing programs.
Picking and choosing is justifiable given that some local-control issues are good and others are bad. But it isn't a principle. So subsidiarity may just be an interesting idea – "wordspray," as Smoller calls it – that's fun to discuss on a radio show.
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Today in awful: a 16-year-old Moroccan girl has reportedly committed suicide after being forced to marry the man who raped her. There is absolutely nothing good about this story.
According to The Delta Herald, the young woman was raped by a man 10 years her senior last year. The family brought charges against him, and, after intervention from the girl's family, the man's family, and acquaintances of both families, a judge decided that instead of subjecting the man to any form of legal punishment, it was probably a good idea to force the two to get married, man and victim. According to Moroccan penal code, a rapist who marries his victim is exempt from legal punishment.
As a result of the crime, the girl was rejected by her father and forced to live in the home of her rapist. And last week, she ended her life by eating rat poison.
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text: Welcome Andrew J. Kerwin, M.D., FACS Chief Welcome to the division of acute care surgery in the department of surgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville. Acute care surgery is a new practice model that encompasses three different aspects of patient care: Trauma Surgery Surgical Critical Care Emergency Surgery The trauma service provides around-the-clock attending coverage for care of the seriously injured at the UF Health Jacksonville Trauma One Trauma Center, the region's only Level I trauma center. The trauma service evaluates and treats over 4,000 injured patients each year from 27 different counties in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia. The surgical critical care service provides state of the art, life saving care for all critically ill surgical patients with a wide variety of medical conditions ranging from respiratory failure to septic shock and multiple organ dysfunction. The emergency surgery service provides care to all patients who present with a surgical emergency whether it is appendicitis, diverticulitis, or perforation of an ulcer. Attending surgeons are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to provide prompt care of these patients. Usually, the attending surgeon can evaluate these patients within one hour of the request for consultation. On the academic front, we offer specialized clinical training to surgeons with our accredited surgical critical care fellowship program. We offer this website to provide information on our faculty and health care services. If you have any further questions about our division, please contact us. Thank you for your interest in our division. Andrew J. Kerwin, M.D., FACSAssociate Chair, Department of Surgery; Chief, Division of Acute Care Surgery


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The following information is published here to guide students through the graduate application process, though scheduling time with a graduate advisor is also recommended.
Required Materials
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White Blood Cell Signaling and Defense Mechanisms in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 and Periodontitis (DMS)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01848379
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified June 2017 by Dr. Jens Martin Herrmann, Zentrum fuer Zahn-, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde.
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
First Posted : May 7, 2013
Last Update Posted : July 2, 2017
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White blood cell membrane and surface structures are affected by the metabolic disorders and complications found in diabetes mellitus. Therefore, cellular activation, signal propagation, intracellular signaling as well as bactericidal effector functions are altered.
When diabetic symptoms are corrected by the systemic intervention and treatment of the patients (Anti-diabetic Therapy/ADT, i.e. anti-diabetic medication, diet and dietetic supervision, physiotherapy and physical exercises), white blood cell functions will then normalize and reach the functionality comparable to those cells derived from healthy subjects.
Gum diseases like periodontitis have long been associated with and termed complications of uncontrolled diabetes mellitus. Vice versa, after diabetic conditions are corrected, periodontitis treatment will be proven effective, when oral hygiene regimen, full mouth decontamination (FD, i.e. the oral use of topical antiseptics prior and after professional mechanical tooth cleaning, tooth as well as root surface planing, polishing as well as gum and soft tissue decontamination in combination with systemic antibiotics) are performed. To reinforce gum healing, reinfection prevention (RP) as well as supportive periodontal therapy (SPT) will be administered by dental professionals on an individual basis and a detailed schedule.
If periodontal pockets critical for participant's self care are not eliminated by FD including RP and SPT, and niches >5mm after 6 month persist, patients are informed and offered surgical intervention as indicated for gum disease elimination.
Dental follow up exams will be offered to all participants.
|Condition or disease
|Chronic Periodontitis Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
|Procedure: ADT+FD Procedure: FD
|Not Applicable
Specific Aims
- To investigate if cytosolic Ca2+- ( delta[Ca2+]i) and pH (delta_pHi) signaling responses and bactericidal effector functions of PMN dependent upon the status of diabetic control and are reduced or increased when compared to age and gender matched controls
- To determine the biochemical basis for diabetic PMN alteration of motility as well as bactericidal functions: production of superoxide and release of elastase, respectively
- To characterize the molecular basis of the observed alterations in the regulation of cytosolic calcium (delta[Ca2+]i) and pH (delta_pHi) exhibited by diabetic PMN
- To investigate if the pre-activated state and altered bactericidal functionality of diabetic PMN are reversed when the patients' glycemic control is normalized, blood glucose levels as well as periodontal disease are corrected
- To evaluate, if systemic and periodontal intervention can lead to clinical attachment gain in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|45 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Single (Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Basic Science
|Official Title:
|Human Polymorphonuclear Neutrophil (PMN) Cytosolic Signaling and Effector Functions in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 and Periodontitis
|Study Start Date :
|January 2012
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|December 2017
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|December 2017
Experimental: Antidiabetic Therapy(ADT)+Full Mouth Decontamination(FD)
(Par-)enteral, anti-diabetic medication, diet and dietetic supervision, physiotherapy and physical exercises
The oral use of topical antiseptics prior and after mechanical tooth debridement, tooth as well as root surface planing and soft tissue decontamination in combination with systemic antibiotics (a combination of amoxicillin and metronidazole - if no microbial resistances were detected)
Procedure: ADT+FD
Other Name: Anti-diabetic Treatment and Full Mouth Decontamination
Active Comparator: Full Mouth Deconatamination(FD)
The oral use of topical antiseptics prior and after mechanical tooth debridement, tooth as well as root surface planing and soft tissue decontamination in combination with systemic antibiotics (a combination of amoxicillin and metronidazole - if no microbial resistances were detected)
Procedure: FD
Other Name: Full Mouth Decontamination
No Intervention: No Treatment
Healthy individuals to be monitored cross-sectional
- Change from Baseline in Clinical Attachment Level (CAL) at 6 and 12 Months [ Time Frame: 0, 6 and 12 months ]CAL: Clinically and quantitatively, level of attachment is defined as the distance in mm from the cemento-enamel junction (CEJ) of the teeth to the bases of the periodontal pockets. Attachment gain may be found during healing or periodontal treatment procedures.
- Probing Pocket Depth (PPD) [ Time Frame: 0, 6 and 12 months ]PPD: also called periodontal probing depth is defined as the distance in millimeters from the gingival margin to the base of the sulcus or periodontal pocket. It is measured on six surfaces/tooth (disto-buccal, mid-buccal, mesio-buccal, disto-lingual, mid-lingual, and mesio-lingual) of all teeth present using the pressure calibrated Florida probe.
- Bleeding on Probing (BOP) [ Time Frame: 0, 6 and 12 months ]BOP: will be determined by recording the presence or absence of bleeding following probing to determine pocket depth (PPD). This parameter will be expressed as % bleeding sites out of all examined sites in the dentition and will be documented with the Florida probe software.
- Body Mass Index (BMI) [ Time Frame: -3 weeks; 0, 6 and 12 months ]The body mass index will be assessed as the participants' body mass divided by the square of their height
- Glycated Hemoglobin (HbA1c) [ Time Frame: -3 weeks; 0, 6 and 12 months ]Physiological levels of blood glucose result in a normal amount of glycated hemoglobin. Treatment procedures may help to reduce plasma glucose in individuals with diabetes mellitus type 2, thus, in a timely extended fashion the fraction of glycated hemoglobin.
- Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Calcium Concentration ([Ca2+]i) [ Time Frame: -3, 0 and 2 weeks; 6 and 12 months ][Ca2+]i: ex vivo 2nd messenger cytoplasmic calcium concentration resembles a key parameter for chemoattractive or phagocytic PMN-receptor activation.
- Neutrophil Cytoplasmic pH (pHi) [ Time Frame: -3, 0 and 2 weeks; 6 and 12 months ]pHi: ex vivo liganded neutrophil receptors initiate a series of signals, resulting in phagocytosis of an entity and release of the phagocyte granules' contents as well as oxidative products. The specific mechanisms by which these effector functions occur depend upon the receptor involved among [Ca2+]i is changes of pHi.
- Release of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) [ Time Frame: -3, 0 and 2 weeks; 6 and 12 months ]ROS: these NADPH products are predominantly found within phagolysosomal compartments of the neutrophils. During phagocytosis, neutrophils may release ROS resulting in collateral tissue damage. The reactivity of ROS release will be assessed ex vivo after activation of chemoattractant as well as phagocytic receptors of the cells.
- Release of Neutrophil Elastase (EA) [ Time Frame: -3, 0 and 2 weeks; 6 and 12 months ]EA: residing in the azurophilic granules of the neutrophils, elastase is activated after phagolysosomal fusion; thence, in proximity to the engulfed entities it unfolds bactericidal activity by degrading valine-rich proteins. The elastolytic activity will be assessed ex vivo after chemoattractant as well as phagocytic activation of the neutrophils' receptors.
- Gingival Crevicular Fluid (GCF) [ Time Frame: -3 and 0 weeks ]GCF: a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the serum like exudate in the gingival crevice will be performed.
- Global Luminol Dependent Chemiluminescence of Stimulated Neutrophils (CLt) [ Time Frame: 0 weeks ]The detection of total ROS will be performed ex vivo with a kinetic chemiluminescence assay after receptor activation of neutrophils.
- Extracellular Luminol Dependent Chemiluminescence of Stimulated Neutrophils (CLex) [ Time Frame: 0 weeks ]The detection of extracellular ROS will be performed ex vivo with a kinetic chemiluminescence assay after receptor activation of neutrophils.
- Cellular Immune responses [ Time Frame: 0, 6 and 12 months ]Analyses of leukocyte subsets, i.e. T-lymphocytes from the peripheral venous blood samples
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type II
- Glycated Hemoglobin ≥8.5%
- Chronic Periodontitis
- Patients and controls should have at least 12 natural teeth (without subgingival fillings, crowns or caries)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnancy
- Smoking
- Low Body Mass Index (BMI <18.5kg/m*m)
- Severe cardiovascular disease including coronary artery disease, cerebral vascular disease, peripheral vascular disease, valvular heart disease, and congestive heart failure
- Other major illnesses including cancer, liver disease, pulmonary disease, chronic infectious disease other than periodontitis (HIV, hepatitis, etc.), rheumatological disease, hematological disease, or any condition requiring hospitalization or chronic medical therapy other than diabetes.
- Major psychiatric illness requiring treatment, or that might interfere with the ability to understand or cooperate with the protocol
- Ongoing alcohol or drug abuse; all forms of medication or illegal substance abuse
- Systemic enteral or parenteral medication, in part daily vitamin or anti-oxidative supplementation and certain calcium channel blockers (i.e. Nifedipine); but anti diabetic drugs or insulin substitution
- Allergies to antibiotics or adjuvant medication / antiseptics as well as dental materials in use (including gloves) in particular those against topical antiseptic solutions i.e. chlorhexidine / N',N'''''-hexane-1,6-diylbis[N-(4-chlorophenyl)(imidodicarbonimidic diamide)] or povidone iodine / 2-Pyrrolidinone, 1-ethenyl-, homopolymer, compound with iodine
- Severe dental disease defined as severe dental caries, and/or severe pulpal disease requiring surgical correction, or any other mucosal or dental condition not readily treated, or requiring extensive dental, oral surgical or prosthetic treatment, or any other oral treatment which could affect the outcome of periodontal therapy or diseases or syndromes that require systemic medication.
- Systemic, topical or inhaled steroid treatment for more than 30 consecutive days within 6 weeks of baseline.
- Any periodontal treatment within 6 months prior to baseline
- For controls: a periodontal screening index (PSI) > 1
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01848379
|Department of Periodontontology, ZentrumZMK
|Giessen, Germany, 35392
|Principal Investigator:
|Jens Martin Herrmann, Dr.
|Department of Periodontology, ZentrumZMK
|Responsible Party:
|Dr. Jens Martin Herrmann, research associate, Zentrum fuer Zahn-, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|May 7, 2013 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|July 2, 2017
|Last Verified:
|June 2017
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Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
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Your cooking advice for my home improvement advice. Im a moron in the kitchen, but I gained $50,000 in sweat equity on my home in a declining real estate market with ease and very little invested in only three months. I grew up in foster homes, moving from home to home my whole life so cooking and family weren't something I was exposed to. As I said in my first post, I can't even cook an egg. Problem is, I have two kids and eating out every night sucks up that $50,000 we made faster than you would believe. Not only do I need help with cooking, I need help with shopping and preparing. I need to be taught like I'm 8 years old.
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In a little time you will be a great chef
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thanks for your vote of confidence, I wish I was that confident in myself. Actually, I'm getting better already, I just never realized how much work things were that don't come in packages. Obviously, the cooking is easy and demands little attention, but the prep takes forever and I feel like I do a million dishes.
So far since these posts, I've made tuna casserole, stuffed peppers, Chinese beef and broccoli, and a pasta salad all with positive feedback and without all the sodium that packaged food usually has. I cant say it was cheaper than eating out though. Theres like a million different spices out there and these things run sometimes 8 bucks each, times 3 spices often, theyre like a mini investment!
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My recommendation for a good start:
Food Network
30 Minute Meals with Rachel Ray
Semi Homemade with Sandra Lee
those are both awesome shows with super easy to make meals that usually taste pretty good and are healthy.
Alton Brown is my favorite, because his show is both entertaining and educational. I love learning the science behind food and cooking. His show is called "Good Eats".
I would say I've learned up to 50% of all my cooking ability from Food TV or other cooking shows.
Also..look for your spices in the little plastic bags or go to a store with bulk spices and buy them in bags. I keep most of my spices in zip-locks with labels on them.
If you can get your hands on a TiVo or your cable company offers a DVR for a few extra bucks a month...that's an awesome way to watch a cooking show and pause while you prep something.
Good luck!
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Post subject: Hey roofer
Penzy's is a good source for fresh and affordable spices. You can get them in bags, saves on the cost. (online)
I admire your efforts here! To my mind the secret to good cooking is to pay attention. Experiment, fail, learn. I have made some great dishes, and some REALLY REALLY awful ones, so bad all I could do is laugh and throw it away. I am famous for my "fish frappe", a concoction I made trying to reproduce a tamara salata that we used to get at a greek restaurant. It was miserably vile, and I am still remembered for it. Though now I know how to make a good tamara salata.
It's not just about saving money on food, it's about teaching your kids to cook, to eat, and giving them good nutrition. It's also about teaching them to learn, and to tackle new tasks. And spending time with them.
Thats my Hallmark moment for today.
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I wouldn't necessarily say that charging my iPhone with the included sync cable is inconvenient, but I can definitely see the advantage of being able to just drop it on a table to top off the battery. And the Hug from Case-Mate uses Fulton Innovation's eCoupled Wireless Power system to enable you to do just that.
Now since the iPhone's battery isn't removable or even accessible the Hug enables wireless charging via a plastic case. And because there's an induction coil inside there and other electronicy bits, you'll have to deal with a bit more bulk than you may otherwise be used to. But the case does still allow the use of the camera and access to the dock connector on the bottom, and it comes with a charging pad that's compatible with other eCoupled devices if you don't happen to have a desk with that functionality built-in.
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Last Saturday (20 Sept) was Software Freedom Day 2008 worldwide. For Singapore, it was held at the Singapore Management University (SMU) School of Information Systems. The website for this event is at http://www.softwarefreedomday.sg
I had the privilege to present a topic at the Technology/Consumer Track. My topic titled "Road to Freedom: Practical Steps to Linux and Open Source Productivity". As this is a consumer track, I wanted to educate the public on the latest openSUSE 11 and how it can become a productive end-user desktop... using Windows analogies to bridge the gap in understanding Linux and Open Source tools.
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NEW YORK - New York City police say a hip-hop mogul who managed Sean "Diddy" Combs, 50 Cent and others was found dead in an apparent suicide.
Chris Lighty was discovered Thursday at his home in the Bronx with a gunshot wound to the head. The 44-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. Chief police spokesman Paul Browne says a 9mm handgun was found at the scene. No note was found.
The medical examiner's office will determine a cause of death, but authorities say the shooting appears to be self-inflicted.
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Pigeons are watching you, and they don't forget a face.
A new study shows that pigeons can distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar human faces, according
to Mat McDermott at Care2.com. The study was published in Avian Biology Research. Researchers seemed surprised, apparently because they thought pigeons were fairly dumb (or, as they put it in scientist-speak, not "considered highly cognitive"). As usual, people tend to presume animals are stupid until proven intelligent.
This study comes on the heels of one finding that ravens can recognize the voices of friends and foes even after years of separation.
Consider pigeons' memory and the likelihood that they have cognitive skills we have yet to acknowledge the next time you let your child chase and bully them into flying away: do you really want your kid on their bad side? (More to the point, do you really want your child to learn to abuse her or his power over weaker creatures?)
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|Colt Ford (Rescheduled from 3/20)
|Jergel's Rhythm Grille Warrendale, Pennsylvania
|Oct 3
|Colt Ford LIVE
|MO Country Grain Valley, Missouri
|Oct 30
|Hillbillie Haunted Wknd with Colt Ford in concert
|Hillbillie Offroad Jerseyville, Illinois
|Nov 18
|Colt Ford
|The Machine Shop Flint, Michigan
|Dec 19
|Colt Ford
|Hub City Brewing Jackson, Tennessee
|Feb 26
|Colt Ford
|Golden Nugget - Lake Charles Lake Charles, Louisiana
|Mar 6
|Colt Ford: We the People
|The Eclectic Room Angola, Indiana
|Jul 31
|Colt Ford (Rescheduled from 8/15/2020)
|The Shed Maryville, Tennessee
Colt Ford is a walking, talking 300-pound celebration of country music and country living. His songs pay tribute to the people, pastimes and attitudes that define a lifestyle embraced from Texas to Wisconsin, from Florida to Washington State and a lot of places in between. For all the bigger-than-life excitement that defines his music and his stage show, though, Colt is quick to point to what lies underneath it all.
"I'm just an average Joe who's been blessed with the ability to write music and who loves to perform," he says. "I talk about everyday real country life and I believe in real country values—God, family, friends, and hard work. And if that ain't country, I don't know what is."
His connections to the lifestyle run deep. An avid sports fan and outdoorsman, he wrote "Buck 'Em" for the Professional Bull Riders Association, and "Huntin' The World," the award-winning theme song of the popular Outdoor Channel show of the same name, and he capped a lifetime of appreciation for country music's rich musical heritage when he made his debut early in 2010 on the Grand Ole Opry.
Colt's specialty is spoken-word country in the tradition of a line of hits that travels from Toby Keith's "I Want To Talk About Me" to Charlie Daniels' "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" (a song he covers to huge effect in concert) through Jerry Reed's "Amos Moses" and C. W. McCall's "Convoy" to Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue" and "What Is Truth." His latest CD, Chicken and Biscuits, sets his world-class story-telling ability to cutting-edge music played by some of Nashville's best players. It brings together the energy of hip-hop and the depth and rootedness of country in a project destined to carry Colt's unique sound to an even wider audience.
Chicken and Biscuits, produced by Jayson Chance and Shannon "Fatshan" Houchins, is Colt's second studio album, following his 2008 breakthrough Ride Through The Country, which catapulted the Georgia native to mainstream status, with sales of more than 150,000 and paid downloads approaching half a million,
C&B "is one hundred percent me with a lot of growth from the first record," he says, "but I didn't lose who I was." A high-octane excursion through the best of life and love, it celebrates country women ("Chicken & Biscuits," "All About Ya'll," "She Ain't Too Good For That"), country life ("Cricket On A Line," "We Like To
Hunt"), and the blue collar people who keep it all running ("Tool Timer" and a fiery remake of C.W. McCall's classic "Convoy"), among other subjects.
The project provides plenty of examples of the wealth of peer respect and support Colt has earned. It features a long list of all-star guest vocalists, including Rhett Akins, James Otto, Randy Houser, Josh Gracin, Darryl Worley, Joe Nichols, Ira Dean and DMC, to name just a few. The world-class musicians backing the project include a Who's Who of Nashville's session greats, on board because of their appreciation for Colt's musical approach.
Chicken and Biscuits perfectly captures the spirit that has energized packed houses across the country and spurred many Colt fans to drive hours to follow his shows from town to town. It's a reaction that has made him one of the most genuinely grateful and fan-friendly performers in the business—he is in touch with fans on a daily basis online and he is adamant about meeting with them after hi
shows."I'm a big boy and you can bet I get tired up there," he says, "but I do what I do visiting with people and signing autographs because I have the best fans in the world. I'm inspired by their energy and I want to give them everything I've got."
In part the connection is there because Colt Ford is cut from the same cloth as the people who flock to his shows. He grew up outside Athens, Georgia, drinking in Southern country culture with the water, developing a deep appreciation for the outdoors and enjoying every kind of popular music that floated across the airwaves in a state whose musical icons are as diverse as they are talented.
"I never got into music," he says. "Music got into me. It's always been a part of my life."
His first concert was Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, but as a teenager his appreciation for hip-hop and R&B led him in that direction as well. A sports enthusiast from early on, he excelled at both golf and music by the time he reached adulthood. When, as a young married man with a baby on the way, his wife advised him to choose one and throw himself whole-heartedly into it, he chose golf.
"I figured I had a better chance of making a living at that," he says.
He spent more than a decade doing just that with his golf clubs, but he kept making music on the side.
"Even though I was doing something else for a living," he says, "I could never just cut this off. It's who I am."
With encouragement from his wife, he wrote "Buck 'Em" for the PBR, and the organization quickly made it its anthem. Colt made his musical and video debut on national television at the VERSUS Invitational Pro Bull Riding competition in Madison Square Garden in January 2007. He was off and running.
His unique combination of musical styles came about in part because of what he saw in honky-tonks, where when the country band took a break, "The DJ's would play hip-hop and those country girls would be out there on the floor dancing to it. I knew there was a place for combining them."
Talent and stage presence were essential, but Colt knew the bottom line was keeping it real.
"I tried to write songs I would like and that I thought people like me would like," he says. "I wrote about things they know about, and I can't tell you how often
someone will say, 'Are you from my home town?' I'll say no and they'll say, 'You must be, because you write about exactly who we are and what we do.' That's the connection. I just tried to be honest and real, and this is what happened. They know I'm one of them."
Putting it on stage was just a matter of letting his Inner Country Boy out, and that's where the Colt Ford persona let him become a true force of nature with no hesitation about taking country music and the country life over the top.
"I'm really just a guy who put on different clothes to be himself," he says. "I'm probably more comfortable in Colt Ford's skin than in my own. I know I don't necessarily look like the average country star, but I think when people see me on stage they think, 'Wow, man! Is that dude having fun!' They'll never see me just go through the motions. I've been up there with a 103 degree fever, during a bout with kidney stones, and when I'm beyond tired, but that adrenaline and those crowds guarantee that they'll know this fat Georgia boy is giving them every single thing he's got."
He and his friend of 20 years Shannon Houchins arrived in Nashville "not knowing anything about the way the business was done," he says, but they began meeting people and impressing them with their music and their drive.
There were two huge signs that he had turned a corner and gone from dream to reality. The first was when John Michael Montgomery and Jamey Johnson agreed to be part of his record.
"That was really cool," he says. "I thought, 'I'm not paying these guys. They're doing it because they like the music,' and I knew I was on to something."
The second happened at a Fourth of July show in Valdosta, Georgia, two years
"We were taking the band live for the first time in a big way," he says. "There were five thousand people in the crowd. I got off that stage at 10:00 and I signed the last autograph at 1:30 in the morning. I thought, 'Holy Cow! These people came to see me!'"
Colt and Shannon formed their own label, Average Joes Entertainment, both to stay in control of their approach and to put their own vision into play.
"We're a true independent," says Colt. "We came to town as two dudes nobody knew from Adam's housecat and started this. We found our own manufacturer and our own distribution deal. Yeah, it's harder in a lot of ways, but it is absolutely more satisfying. You can't put a value on sweat equity, and I love doing it. Shannon and I are best friends and we don't agree all the time but at the end of the day he's still my best friend and we're still in this together."
Along the way, Colt Ford has become one of the hardest working entertainers anywhere.
"I played 210 shows last year and I'll probably do that many this year," he says. "The truth of the matter is I love playing. It's tough being away from home, from my wife and kids. They get to come out now and then, but the best time to sell peanuts is when the circus is in town. When people want to see a fat boy from Georgia get up and do this thing, I'm going to do it. I know every time I step on that stage and see that crowd reaction that fans are hungry for something different, and I'm here to give it to them."
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Here's an interesting news story, via a blog devoted to John Brown, about an event attended by descendants of Brown and his followers. One of the attendees was Brown's great-great-great granddaughter, Alice Keesey Mecoy of Allen, Texas.
For some reason the notion that I'm sharing the planet with John Brown's great-great-great granddaughter struck me as pretty darn cool.
I had a similar feeling a few years ago when I saw a local TV spot here in East Tennessee. It was a campaign ad for Andrew Jackson VI, who was running for a judgeship in Knox County. The background music was an instrumental version of "The Battle of New Orleans." I had no idea there was an Andrew Jackson VI, and I certainly didn't know he lived in Knoxville. But lo and behold, it was true.
Technically, of course, he's not a biological descendant of Andrew Jackson, who fathered no kids of his own; he's descended from Rachel Donelson's nephew. But Old Hickory adopted the nephew and named him Andrew Jackson, Jr. That's good enough for me.
I actually met a John Sevier descendant once. She was a delightful lady, and strikingly resembled the Peale portrait of him.
I decided to see what I could find out about people who are carrying history around in their genes. Web browsers make it a lot easier to indulge this kind of idle, unproductive curiosity.
- News story about the release of the John Adams dollar coin, with a picture and quote from a seventh-generation descendant. I think he looks more like Sam Adams than John, but that's just me.
- Jefferson descendants have their own organization. Benefits include burial at Monticello. Last I heard there was a Hemingses-need-not-apply policy, but that might have changed by now.
- Madison's relatives also have a group of their own, with a spiffy website.
- There's also a group for Washington relatives, although His Excellency (like Jackson) had no biological children of his own, and thus no direct descendants.
- No Lincoln descendants left either, though if I had one of those John Adams dollar coins for every time somebody told me they were in Abe's direct line, I could buy an original Gettysburg Address. But here's an item about a modern-day Abraham Lincoln who claims a distant relation. Imagine the trouble this guy has passing checks.
- Back in May, a Virginia reporter caught up with U.S. Grant's great-great-grandson—who's a Confederate reenactor.
- A fellow named David Morenus has a website on his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandma, Pocahontas.
- Davy Crockett's descendants and relatives are taking applications for new members at their website.
- If you're one of the millions of Mayflower descendants, maybe you'll be interested in joining this group. Given the math, though, this is about as exclusive as having your name listed in the white pages.
- Kenneth B. Morris, Jr., direct descendant of both Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, runs a foundation that opposes modern-day slavery, which seems very appropriate.
- Here's an old news item about an event with appearances by various relatives of Ohio's presidents. One of the guests of honor was a guy named Rick Taft, great-grandson of you-know-who. According to the news item, he's a lawyer and software developer. Here's a picture and blurb from his company's website.
- The same event also hosted Stephen Hayes, great-great-grandson of Rutherford B. He's a consultant with one of those firms which have really impressive-sounding names, the kind for which you see commercials on television that never actually explain what service they offer. I think this one finds people to run companies. (Wouldn't it be easier to just promote somebody from the ranks?)
And finally, for the rest of us whose family trees are undistinguished, weep no more.


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We will complete the tour in the weeks ahead. But for now, we would like to share an encyclopedic photo slideshow, composed of Julie's images, that provides a total, visual immersion in the world of The Lost Symbol.
Highlights include the House of the Temple, the Washington Monument, the Capitol Rotunda, the Capitol Visitor's Center, the National Cathedral, the Library of Congress, the George Washington Masonic Memorial, and the US Botanical Gardens. The music, by the way, is taken from Mozart's Masonic compositions.


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The Brewers of Indiana Guild's Winterfest 2010 tickets are on sale now online and will soon be available at breweries across the entire state (hopefully starting next week). Winterfest will be held in the Ag/Hort building of the Indiana State Fairgrounds on Saturday, January 30th, 2010 from 3pm to 7pm. Tickets are $30.
As we receive information from the breweries as to what they are bringing, we will let you know. Our first Winterfest update provided the beer lists for Upland, Great Crescent, Mad Anthony, and Brugge. Our second Winterfest update included Bee Creek Brewery, Lafayette Brewing Company, Two Brothers, Rust Belt, Bell's Brewing Co., and Atwater Block. Our third Winterfest update included Crown Brewing, Big Woods Brewing, Power House Brewing, and Rock Bottom Brewery North. This is our forth update to the beer list...
Back Road Brewery
LaPorte, Indiana
On draft at their booth:
Maple City Gold
Millennium Lager
Polt Shift Pale Ale
Small Beer Barleywine
In the outdoor beer garden:
2012 IPA (firkin)
TBD (pin)
Broad Ripple Brewpub
Indianapolis, Indiana
On draft at their booth:
Winter Wheat
In the outdoor beer garden:
2001 "A Stout Odyssey" (firkin)
Mishawaka Brewing
Mishawaka, Indiana
On draft at their booth:
Four Horsemen Irish Style Red Ale
Replicale (Coffee-Oatmeal Stout)
Lake Effect Pale Ale (American Pale Ale)
Sun King Brewing
Indianapolis, Indiana
On draft at their booth:
Sunlight Cream Ale
Wee Mac Scottish Ale
Bitter Druid ESB
Osiris Pale Ale
Winter Replicale: Coffee Oatmeal Stout w/ coffee from B•Java
Amarillo the Princess Warrior Imperial IPA
Crab Apple Wit
Chile Cream Ale
In the outdoor beer garden:
Firkin TBA
Schlafly Beer
St. Louis, Missouri
On draft at their booth:
Dry-Hopped APA
Coffee Stout
C1 Oak Aged Dry Hopped Smoked Rye Pal Ale (Schlafly/NABC/O'Fallon)
Bottles at their booth:
Grand Cru
In the outdoor beer garden:
Smoked Porter (firkin)
2009 Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout (bottle)
2009 Oak-Aged Barleywine (bottle)
Goose Island Brewing Co.
Chicago, Illinois
On draft at their booth:
Bourbon County Stout
Pere Jacques
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In bottles at their booth:
North Coast Brewing Co.
Fort Bragg, California
Bottles at their booth:
Red Seal Ale
Old #38 Stout
Scrimshaw pilsner
Acme IPA
Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout
Brother Thelonius Belgian Abby Ale
Prangster Golden Belgian Style Ale
Left Hand Brewing Co.
Longmont, Colorado
On draft at their booth:
Milk Stout
Sawtooth ESB
400# Monkey English IPA
Polestar Pilsner
Look for more updates in the coming weeks. Plus, we'll be giving away two tickets to Winterfest 2010, so stay tuned!