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April 8th, 2015
Ruggedized, high-resolution digital HD CMOS cameras to expand identification capabilities in low light
BOSTON, Mass. – April 8, 2015 -- Adimec (www.adimec.com), a world leader in application-specific, leading-edge industrial camera solutions, will showcase its portfolio of vision products and technology optimized for the global security market at the 2015 edition of the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium event in Baltimore, MD., held April 21st through April 23rd. The company will display and discuss the enhancements to its TMX series of rugged full HD COTS cameras to provide full motion video in daylight on airborne payloads, long-range observations systems, and other sensor system architectures.
The new TMX74-60c/CL is the first rugged full HD daylight camera with global shutter CMOS technology. It provides excellent color imaging from low to high light scenes with optimal contrast reproduction. The interface and form factor is the same as the TMX7-DHD for the possibility to easily upgrade from the industry standard CCD to CMOS technology. The Camera Link base interface ensures easy integration with widely available frame grabbers.
Other available camera models include a 2/3" CCD image sensor or a ½" CCD image sensor for alternate optical formats and remote sensor head, cube outline, or board-level configurations. These cameras are optimized for lifetime extension and upgrade programs (standard definition to full HD) with various interfaces including Analog, HD-SDI, 3G-SDI, CoaXPress, and Camera Link.
All of the cameras in the TMX series offer 30 or 60 fps with optional color processing. Other key characteristics of the cameras include a rugged design (MIL-STD-810G qualified) for harsh outdoor conditions; operating capabilities in a wide range of temperatures (-40℃to +75℃); video enhancement, NIR sensitivity, light weight, and low power consumption. Adimec's rugged cameras offer extremely low failure rates, configuration control, and comprehensive obsolescence mitigation for long-term programs.
Visit Adimec in Booth #929 on the exhibition floor to see the TMX74-60c/CL in action or attend our product demonstration on the exhibition floor by Joost van Kuijk, CEO/CMO of Adimec, on April 21st at 10:30 AM with a discussion on the advantages of CMOS cameras in global security applications.
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Stony Brook, N.Y. – UMBC senior Matt Gregoire (Crofton, Md./South River) and sophomores Zach Esser (Forest Hill, Md./Fallston) and Pat Young (Ewing, N.J./Christchurch (Va.) School) earned America East Conference Men's Lacrosse First Team honors, the league announced at its pre-championship awards banquet this evening.
Six other Retrievers were honored for their performances on the field and in the classroom in voting done by the league's head coaches. Senior Phil Poe (Harwood, Md./DeMatha) and sophomores Jack Gannon (Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y./Sachem North) and Steve Winsor (Chapel Hill, N.C./Chapel Hill) earned AE Second Team honors. Freshmen starters Connor Gordon (Bourne, Mass./Tabor Academy) and Max Maxwell (Hamburg, N.Y./Hamburg) were named to the All-Rookie Team and senior Ryan Johnston (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown) was selected to the league's All-Academic Team.
The nine conference honorees for UMBC represents the most for the program since 12 Retrievers were cited in 2009.
The all-conference selections are the first for Gregoire and Esser. Gregoire, an attackman and team captain, is currently second in the nation with 3.15 goals scored per game. His 41 goals scored is currently tied for the fifth-most in school history and his eight-point effort (5g, 3a) at Vermont on April 26 moved him past the 100-point plateau (89-13-102) for his career.
Esser started all 13 games at close defense in 2014 and is tied for the team lead with 14 caused turnvoers. He is also third on the squad with 29 ground balls.
Young is a repeat First Team selection, after earning that honor to go along with his 2013 Rookie of the Year award. The sophomore midfielder has 27 goals and 36 points to date and has scored 59 goals in less than two full collegiate seasons. Young becomes the seventh player in school history to earn multiple AE First Team recognition.
Poe earns his third conference honor, after receiving First Team accolades in 2012 and 2013. The face-off specialist owns UMBC's single-game, single-season and career marks for draws won and is fifth amongst all active players in career face-offs won (632). He set the 2014 NCAA single-game mark and broke his own school record by controlling 28 draws at Vermont on April 26. He also garnered a school-record 20 ground balls in the game, tying a Division I mark for the season and vaulting into third place on UMBC's all-time list with 323.
Also a team captain, Poe is the fifth Retriever to earn placement on three all-league teams, joining attackman Brendan Mundorf (2004-06), attackman Drew Westervelt (2005-07), midfielder Terry Kimener (2006-08), and attackman Scott Jones (2011-13) to achieve the distinction.
Gannon, a sophomore midfielder, recorded a single assist in 2013, but has posted a 40-point season (18-22-40) in 2014. He is tied for 24th in the nation with 1.69 assists per game and has multiple points in 12 of 13 contests.
Winsor has seen action in all 13 games this season as a short-stick defensive midfielder. The sophomore has recorded three goals, 13 ground balls and is a valuable asset in clearing opportunities.
Gordon and Maxwell have both started all 13 games in their initial seasons of intercollegiate competition. Gordon, who suffered a torn ACL in the fall of 2012 and red-shirted last year, made 15 or more saves in three contests in 2014 and is currently sixth nationally with 12.2 saves per game. His 159 saves is two shy of the UMBC freshman record, held by Bob Bailey (1989).
Maxwell is tied with Gannon for the team lead in assists (22) and his 14 helpers (2.8 per game) in America East play is second in the conference. The attackman has the second-most assists of any freshman in school history, trailing only Chris Turner, who dished out 29 in 1996.
This season marks the fourth time that the Retrievers have placed two student-athletes on the AE All-Rookie team. Pat Young and sophomore Nate Lewnes (Arnold, Md./St. Mary's) earned honors in 2013.
Johnston, a senior who elevated his game in conference play, maintains a 3.32 grade-point average in the major of business technology administration. The attackman/midfielder has five goals and three assists to date. He tied a UMBC school record by scoring three man-up goals in a game versus Hartford on April 12.
The third-seeded Retrievers (7-6, 3-2 AE) take on second-seeded Binghamton (7-7, 4-1 AE) in the first semifinal match-up of the America East Tournament. The contest is set for Thursday, May 1st at Stony Brook's La Valle Stadium with the opening draw scheduled for 5:00 p.m.


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WARSAW, POLAND—In the largest nostalgia-driven military assault in history, 250,000 retro-crazed German teenagers and twentysomethings invaded Poland Monday.
"The '30s were, like, the coolest decade," said 17-year-old Grete Wunsch of Dusseldorf, one of the 840 young hipsters in the 55th Panzer Division who seized control of the capital city of Warsaw and set up a provisional German government. "The clothes, the music, the rallies—that whole Third Reich thing was just the best. I was so born in the wrong decade."
"Lebensraum is totally where it's at," said Günter Groff, 19, a high-ranking officer in the popular teen retro-club which calls itself "The S.S." "We're tired of the mainstream, corporate clothes and pop music of the '90s. We hunger for something more, something to call our own, and we understand that the Fatherland must gain more territory if the superior Aryan Race is to claim its rightful destiny as rulers of the Untermensch."
Throughout Poland, the air is filled with the exuberant sounds of traditional Bavarian "oom-pah" bands, the synchronized stomp of marching jackboots, and rousing songs of patriotic fervor, as German retro-fever takes the nation by force. The trendy German youths are getting Polish citizens into the act, too, issuing them passes, demanding to see papers, and strictly enforcing curfews on pain of execution by firing squad.
Despite the protests of the conquered Poles, who insist that the German retro craze is "played out," the trend shows no sign of waning any time soon. In fact, it seems to be gaining momentum, poised to sweep across all of Europe.
"The '90s are so boring. There are never any world wars anymore. That's why this retro thing is so awesome–it's finally our chance to do some of that cool stuff we missed," said Birgid Schumacher, 16, of Berlin. "I am so psyched to annex Czechoslovakia."
"Things go in cycles, ja?" said 17-year-old Otto Meine of Stuttgart, a German Youth Brigade junior officer stationed in Gdansk. "Last year, the big thing with all the kids at school was The Spice Girls, but this year it's the violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Next year, who knows? It could be the construction of massive, industrial deathcamps and the wholesale conversion of the native Jewry into soap. There's just so much great old stuff to bring back."
Meine's exuberant attitude seems to be contagious. Across Germany, young people are jumping on the retro bandwagon, wearing vintage brownshirt uniforms and attending massive "old-school" military rallies that draw hundreds of thousands to city squares.
The biggest event of the retro movement, observers say, will likely come this summer, when two million youths are expected to flock to the French border for a star-studded, three-day festival. Tentatively titled "The Claiming Of Alsace-Lorraine," the festival will feature rock bands, extreme-sports competitions, and the brutal occupation of the long-disputed French border region by Germany. Organizers are so confident the festival will be a success, plans are already underway for a follow-up event for next summer: London Blitzkrieg '99.
Despite the sudden and extreme nature of the current wave of retro fever, its young devotees insist that their love of the '30s and '40s isn't just a pose. It is, they say, a way of life.
"It's about finding real meaning, real truth, in your heritage, your nation and your race," said Berliner Klaus Hofbreit, 18. "This isn't just about the clothes I put on, or the music I listen to while marching across neighboring countries' borders. It's about finding strength in who you are and triumphing through sheer will. It's about my kultur, know what I'm saying? The totenkultur."
Added Hofbreit: "Deutschland über alles, baby!"


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$7 Resident Evil 4, $10 Child of Light, and More in Xbox One/360 Weekly Deals
Classic Call of Duty games discounted along with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD and Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 in Activision sale.
The well-realized license in this third-person shooter can hide the myriad problems for only so long.
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Classic Call of Duty games discounted along with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD and Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 in Activision sale.
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Activision and High Moon Studios tease new game announcement during "Marvel Video Games" panel at Comic-Con 2012 next week in San Diego.
High Moon Studios follow-up to War for Cybertron featured on November cover of Game Informer, billed as a successor rather than a sequel.
This year kicks off with Case West, MicroBot, MX vs. ATV, Ghost Busters, and many others.
It's Guybrush, racing, and trailers galore.
As the post-E3 dust settles, Microsoft prices Kinect at $150, NBA Elite gets a first look, Transformers is reviewed, and there's a whole lotta video goin' on.
This week, we take a look at TerRover, Legend of the Guardians, and point out a Killzone 3 multiplayer trailer.
This week we point out Bully: Scholarship Edition, a R.U.S.E. demo, and a Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock demo.
PlayStation Store Update: $10 add-on for Activision's shooter touches down; Piyotama puzzles PSP; four PlayStation classics hit PSN; PlayStation Plus gets free Critter Crunch, Syphon Filter, and Kahoots.
Can't make it to Comic-Con 2010? No problem. Check out full-length panels along with exclusive special features content in Comic-Con Uncut!
Hasbro and Activision team up to show off new toys and a new game: War for Cybertron.
Check out this interview for the new DLC for Transformers: War for Cybertron from the Comic-Con 2010 show floor.
A new downloadable content pack for Transformers: War for Cybertron will add five new playable characters; take a look at the trailer.
Tonight On the Spot we brought you to the Comic-Con 2010 Activision Preview Night! Check out the archive version of the live show.
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Bruceswar wrote:Also your neutral values seem a bit high. That is just what I think.
dana1971 wrote:That's interesting. The other map was last posted in May 2010.
So I don't have to read the thread what was the outcome?
Looking at the other cow map I think mine is a lot better looking and has more interesting game play elements.
Because it's been thought of before should I stop?
I'd like to make it. Perhaps I can succeed where the other map failed.
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tokle wrote:It should be "sirloin" not "serloin". Right?
QoH wrote:tokle wrote:It should be "sirloin" not "serloin". Right?
At least in America it is sirloin.
Silvanus wrote:perch is a North Korean agent to infiltrate south Korean girls
denthefrog wrote:tokle wrote:It should be "sirloin" not "serloin". Right?[/quote
in UK too
also tenderloin is use for pork cut mainly too
in beef its called Fillet
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Companies and gamers in the Ottawa and surrounding regions should really check out an amazing event coming up called Ottawa's Got Game. The event is a full day of game tournaments and casual play with prizes. Proceeds of the event are going to the charity Child's Play which is a really great charity that puts video games in hospitals and children's wards to provide some fun in an otherwise depressing environment.
So check out Ottawa's Got Game and register your company or go as an individual. There's also a huge Star Wars exhibit going on at the same time so there are plenty of reasons to attend.
Go to this Eventbrite link and register. Individual passes are only $10.


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Woody Paige, the orange person always yelling on your television set, recently disagreed with someone on the Internet. He then made a joke suggesting that the blogger still lives in his mother's house. Have you heard this one?
Here's what Paige wrote:
I give my opinion, which is based on sound information, thoughtful research and observation, unlike some kid in Arizona who is a Broncos fan and writes a blog, without proper grammar or punctuation or understanding, from his mom's laundry room and think [hilariously, awesomely sic] he knows what he's talking about, and people actually pay attention.
Aside from the fact that Paige has graciously moved the locus of blogging from mom's basement to mom's laundry room (as is often the case with these jokes, the blogger sadly appears to live in a fatherless home), it's the same old gag. You know the one. Blogger, underwear, mother's house. What follows is a collection, by no means exhaustive, of the bonnest mots flung by mainstream sports media in the direction of the blogosphere over the years. Print these out. Savor them. Read them in your underwear while holding down some couch springs in your mother's basement. I thinks you'll like them.
The Loop, Pioneer Press: "The Washington Post fired reporter Michael Tunison after learning of his raunchy posts on the 'Kissing Suzy Kolber' sports blog. Tunison is expected to join the rest of the sports bloggers in their mothers' basements."
The Loop, Pioneer Press: "The NCAA reversed course and will allow bloggers in the press box to file live updates from tournament games. It's a huge victory for the bloggers, giving them yet another reason to get out of their mother's basement."
Bob Costas, NBC: "It's one thing if somebody just sets up a blog from their mother's basement in Albuquerque and they are who they are, and they're a pathetic get-a-life loser, but now that pathetic get-a-life loser can piggyback onto someone who actually has some level of professional accountability and they can be comment No. 17 on Dan Le Batard's column or Bernie Miklasz' column in St. Louis."
Dan Shaughnessy, Boston Globe, writing in the voice of a blogger: "I'm living at home, in the basement, rent free, and I've got cable and plasma TV. Domino's delivers. I guess you could say I'm living the dream."
Scott Bordow, East Valley Tribune: "[Jim] Calhoun will have his defenders, of course, Huskies' loyalists who believe the story was a media smear job; some might even take Calhoun's tack that he doesn't read blogs, as if one of the most popular Web sites in the country is run by some kid wearing pajamas and writing from his basement."
Greg Couch, Chicago Sun-Times: "Look, independent blogs are not reliable news sources. They're entertaining. I read them. Some have credibility, others might be some guy in his underwear in the basement. But we can't tell the difference."
Ed Hardin, Greensboro News & Record: "[Dustin] Long is the president of the National Motorsports Press Association, not some blogger in his parents' basement."
Geoff Baker, The Seattle Times: "And the ability to think about those things beforehand, truly, is what separates real journalists — serious ones, not Jason Blair types — from basement bloggers."
Mark Bechtel, Sports Illustrated: "Remember the good old days, when sports bloggers were potty-mouthed reprobates who fired off ill-informed rants from a couch in their parents' basement?"
David Wharton, Los Angeles Times: "Critics have portrayed [bloggers] differently: the rabid fan sitting at a computer in his parents' basement, in his pajamas, spewing opinion."
Frank Fitzpatrick, The Philadelphia Inquirer: "Assuming George Mitchell doesn't find any grounds to shut it down prematurely, the 2006 baseball season is just days away. That means that for the next six months baseball fans have a license to behave like bloggers — sitting around their dens in their underwear, staring blankly at a screen, pontificating on subjects they know nothing about."
Frank Fitzpatrick, The Philadelphia Inquirer: "An Eagles fan named Enrico Campitelli Jr. decided to do a live blog while watching the Eagles-Texans season opener on Sunday. Not sure what Campitelli's credentials are — not that blogging requires anything more than a computer and a pair of pajamas."
Phil Reisman, The Journal News: "It may be time for Minaya to go, but not for any racist reasons put forth by mouth breathers who live in their parents' basements."
Jason Lieser, Palm Beach Post: "Mike Florio defies almost every stereotype affixed to bloggers. No braces. No pimples. No sitting in his underwear tapping away in his parents' basement."
Glenn Reeves, San Mateo County Times : "Leitch rarely loses sight. After all, he has a 10-second commute every day to where he works, making up jokes and typing in his underwear."
Jay Mariotti, Chicago Sun-Times: "Web sites peek around corners like sewer rats, operated by weirdos who live in their parents' basements, pretend to be experts and break 'stories' that gullible people actually believe."
Rick Morrissey, Chicago Tribune: "I'll give Mariotti this: Whether he realizes it or not, he might have been the nation's first blogger, without actually writing one. He has led the way by not leading the way to the locker room or the clubhouse. He writes what he wants without ever talking to a soul. The only difference is he travels often to events, unlike bloggers, many of whom sit in their underwear all day and update, update, update."
Tony Kornheiser, The Tony Kornheiser Show: "In fact, in fact, if a huge dumpster landed on their mother's house (cackling), and got all the way into the basement and crushed them (more cackling), nobody would care. Nobody would miss them."
Sam Smith, Chicago Tribune: "How is it I can work for decades developing contacts around the NBA and traveling regularly around the NBA and talking with the decision makers and some guy in his basement in his underwear is writing something that has credibility?"
Pat Forde, ESPN: "Everyone wants to be Bill Simmons, but to my knowledge there's only one him. Two hundred thousand bloggers cracking wise from their living room in their underwear all want to be the next Simmons, but how many of them are being paid (handsomely) to do it?"
Rick Reilly, ESPN: "I've been doing this 31 years, for a living, I feel like I go out there, I'm in the locker rooms, I'm in the clubhouses, I'm meeting these guys, I'm hearing what they are saying, whatever. It seems to me a guy like that has a little more valued opinion than some schmo who, as I say, is holding down couch springs on his mom's basement."
Rick Reilly, ESPN: "There's some good journalism, and some really horrible crap on there from guys holding down the couch springs in their mother's basement that have never been in a lockerroom but are pining on this and that. And this gives them cache [sic], and then they're being quoted? What? This guy is in his underwear."
Rick Reilly, ESPN: "I don't really care what people holding down couch springs do or say."
Illustration by Rob Zammarchi, via The Boston Phoenix


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Saturday, June 30, 2012
Latos'd again
3 comments:
- nomisnala said...
Giants can sure use a win on Sunday. Melky needs to get hot, and Belt needs to play. Losing to a jerk like Latos is unfathomable, but with Zito pitching I expected it. One of Zito's 6 (six) walks was intentional. The guy has 45 walks and only a few more K's on the year. He has to have good control to win, he certainly is not going to throw by some guys. Even though Ethier was in the dodger lineup for most of the 3 shutouts the giants tossed, it is looking as if the accomplishment was not so astonishing, as the Mets have just thrown back to back shutouts against the dodgers. Of course Ethier is out, but still, they are hardly hitting anything hard.
- Sat Jun 30, 07:14:00 PM PDT
- Brother Bob said...
I'm sure in LA the big story is the collapse of the home team. Blame the injuries, but they were probably never quite as good as they seemed early this season.
- Sun Jul 01, 08:18:00 AM PDT
Zito pitched well enough for a win. Our offense is flat. Since Tuesday, we have scored 2, 3, 5, 1 and 1.
Fortunately, we got two shutouts in that stretch. Latos was exceptional, but Leake was not.
- Sun Jul 01, 03:12:00 PM PDT


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I have a seemingly simple code which iterates through a list of feature classes and calculates an ID field in the attribute table that is equal to the first 5 characters of feature class name. The script works fine if I hard code the workspace. As soon as I change it to "Get Parameter as Text" I receive this error:
ERROR 000539: Error running expression: expression : name 'expression' is not defined Failed to execute (CalculateField).
The script is:
import arcpy, sys, array, time, datetime
#Get feature dataset
inws = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)
#Set geoprocessing environments
arcpy.env.workspace = inws
arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True
#Iterate through the list of feature classes
fcList = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses()
for fc in fcList:
print str("processing" + fc)
#Define field and expression
field = "SID"
expression = str(fc[:5])
#Create a new field name and expression
arcpy.AddField_management(fc, field, "TEXT")
arcpy.CalculateField_management(fc, field, "expression", "PYTHON")
does anyone know what is going on here? Thanks!


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Chicken mole with coriander rice
If you're a fan of chilli con carne, you'll love this dark, sweet and spicy South American stew with ancho, ground nuts and chocolate
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal690
- fat22g
- saturates5g
- carbs93g
- sugars13g
- fibre3g
- protein28g
- salt0.5g
- 2 ancho chillies
Part of the capsicum family, chillies come in scores of varieties and colours (from green…
- 2 tbsp sunflower oil
Sunflower oil
Sunflower oil is made from pressing sunflower seeds and extracting the oil. It's usually…
- 8 bone-in chicken thighs, skins removed
- 2 onions, chopped
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 2 tsp ground cumin
- 1½ tsp cinnamon
A fragrant spice which comes from the inner bark of a tropical tree. When dried, it curls into…
- 3 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
- 50g raisin
- 2 tbsp smooth peanut butter
Peanut butterpee-nut butt-ah
Peanut butter starts with dry roasting peanuts, which concentrates and heightens their flavour…
- 2 tbsp chipotle paste
- 400g can chopped tomato
- 25g dark chocolate (look for one with at least 70% cocoa solids)
Dark chocolatedahk chok-o-let
Dark chocolate means the shiny, dark-reddish brown treat produced from the cacao bean, theobroma…
- 1 small red onion, sliced into rings
- juice 1 lime, plus wedges to serve (optional)
The same shape, but smaller than…
- 150ml pot soured cream
For the coriander rice
Put the chillies in a bowl and add enough boiling water to just cover. Leave to soften for 20 mins. If you can't find anchos, grill red peppers until they're really blackened and soft. Cool them, then peel and use as needed in the recipe, adding 1 tsp smoked paprika and a little extra chipotle to re-create the sweet, smoky flavour.
Meanwhile, heat the oil in a flameproof casserole dish, season the chicken, then brown on all sides. You may have to do this in batches so you don't overcrowd the dish. Remove to a plate. Add the onions to the dish and cook for 5 mins until softened. Add the spices and cook for 1 min until aromatic.
Remove the chillies from their soaking liquid, reserving the liquid, and discard the stalks and seeds. Put in a food processor with 4 tbsp of the soaking liquid, the garlic and raisins. Whizz to a paste, then tip into the dish. Add the peanut butter, chipotle paste, tomatoes and 400ml water (fill up the tomato can and swirl to get all the tomato bits out). Return the chicken to the dish and season. Cover with a lid and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 1 hr.
Remove the chicken pieces to a plate. Using 2 forks, shred the meat and discard the bones. Return the chicken to the sauce, add the chocolate and continue cooking, uncovered, for 30 mins more. If the sauce looks like it's getting a little too thick, add some of the chilli soaking liquid or some water.
Cook the rice following pack instructions. Meanwhile, put the red onion in a small bowl. Add the lime juice and a pinch of salt. Leave to pickle until ready to serve. When the rice is cooked, add the coriander and lime zest and juice, and fluff up with a fork. Remove the mole from the heat, scatter with the pickled red onion and serve alongside the rice, with soured cream and lime wedges, if you like.
Recipe Tip
Chilli know-howAncho is the name given to the dried poblano pepper, which is grown in South America and used in its dried form to flavour sauces and stews. Ancho chillies are large, with dark brown or black skins and a sweet, raisin-like flavour. They have a medium spice.


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Danny may be dead, but the war still rages on!
Warner Bros. debuted a juicy sneak peek of what's next for the rebellion on Revolution at the show's WonderCon panel Saturday, moderated by this reporter. We knew war was coming, but the video below shows the dire consequences in store for both Monroe (David Lyons) and the rebels. Who will be taken hostage? Who shares a steamy kiss? And seriously, what was that little light-up pill that Rachel (Elizabeth Mitchell) removed from Danny's body? All that and more is featured in the video, so click play below!
Revolution Burning Questions: Can you believe who died?
Revolution airs Mondays at 10/9c on NBC.


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The testimony and music of recording artist Tye Tribbett will highlight the worship experience on Sunday, March 17, at 10:30 a.m., at Christ Our Redeemer A.M.E. Church, 46 Maxwell in Irvine.
"The God-given talents of Brother Tye are renowned across the country and beyond. As a singer, songwriter and musician, he has introduced Christ to multitudes of young people as well as positively impacted the gospel music industry," said Pastor Mark E. Whitlock, Jr.
"People of all ages will be blessed and inspired by his ministry, so we urge you to bring your entire family to fellowship with us."
For information, call (949) 955-0014.


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US sounds out IOC on possible 2024 Olympic bid
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SOCHI, Russia (AP) -- U.S. Olympic leaders are sounding out international officials in Sochi about a potential American bid for the games -- and the feedback is positive.
The U.S. Olympic Committee is currently weighing a possible run for the 2024 Summer Games. If that's ruled out, the 2026 Winter Olympics would be an option.
Sochi is giving USOC chairman Larry Probst and CEO Scott Blackmun the chance to talk informally with the voting members of the International Olympic Committee.
"We can get some really good input: Is it time for a U.S. bid and, if so, where should it come from?" Blackmun said in an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press. "I think people genuinely would like to see a U.S. bid. There are some that think winter would be better than summer and some who think summer would be better than winter.
"There's a recognition that the U.S. is an important market, and at some point in the future, the games should go back there."
The U.S. hasn't hosted the Summer Olympics since the 1996 Atlanta Games. The last Winter Games in the U.S. were held in 2002 in Salt Lake City.
The IOC may be eager to encourage another bid from the U.S. because it would bring a high-profile player into the race and boost interest in the Olympics. Whether IOC members want the U.S. to win is another matter.
The U.S. was shot down by the IOC in its two most recent bids, with New York rejected for the 2012 Olympics and Chicago for 2016.
The USOC has been consulting with cities interested in going for 2024, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Dallas, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington. Los Angeles has hosted the games twice, in 1932 and 1984.
The USOC hopes to make a decision by the end of this year. The IOC bid process begins in 2015, with the host city to be selected in 2017.
Other potential bidders for 2024 include Paris, Rome, Doha and a city in South Africa.
"The last thing we want is to bid and lose," Blackmun said.
The USOC resolved a long-standing revenue-sharing dispute with the IOC in 2012, paving the way for a potential new bid. Blackmun and Probst have continued to work to improve ties with the IOC.
Probst's election to the IOC on the eve of the Sochi Games and U.S. member Anita DeFrantz's elevation to the policy-making executive board would seem to boost the chances of an American bid.
If the USOC decides not to go forward for 2024, the 2026 Winter Olympics would come into consideration. Denver and Salt Lake City could be potential U.S. contenders.
Blackmun, however, insisted the focus is solely on 2024.
"We're not currently engaged in a process of weighing summer vs. winter," he said. "We're engaged in a process of looking at what our options would be for a summer bid and assessing the viability of a summer bid."
The process comes as the IOC is considers changes to the bidding system, including ways of reducing costs run up by the candidate cities.
Blackmun said New York and Chicago each spent nearly $100 million on their failed bids. Other cities spent more than $10 million just trying to be chosen as the U.S. candidate.
"We really don't want cities to go through that anymore," Blackmun said.
Also in play is the cost of hosting the games -- a major issue in light of the $51 billion that Russia spent preparing for Sochi. Most of the money went to long-term infrastructure projects like roads, railways and hotels, not the games themselves.
"We're going to take a close look at that," Blackmun said, noting that Los Angeles and Salt Lake City have more of the infrastructure already in place because they've hosted the games before.


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Carter's homer gives Astros 5-4 win over Arizona
HOUSTON (AP) — When Chris Carter stepped up to the plate with the game tied in the 10th inning, Houston manager Bo Porter wasn't thinking about his sub-.200 batting average and the fact that he had struck out twice Thursday night.
The only thing on Porter's mind was Carter's penchant for changing a game with one swing.
"He has the ability that when he steps into the batter's box he's in scoring position," Porter said.
Carter homered leading off the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Astros a 5-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Carter, who homered twice on Wednesday, hit his 13th homer of the season into the Crawford Boxes in left field off J.J. Putz (1-1).
"We found out again tonight why we keep running him out there," Porter said of Carter, who has had an up-and-down year and is hitting just .199.
There was no doubt about the second game-ending homer of his career.
"As soon as I hit it I knew it was going to be out and started celebrating almost in the box," he said.
Putz lamented the pitch he threw to Carter.
"He put a pretty good swing on it," Putz said. "There's nothing else to say. I just didn't make the right pitch, I guess."
Miguel Montero tied it at 4-4 in the ninth with a home run to left field on the first pitch from closer Chad Qualls.
It was a game that last year's Houston team would have almost certainly lost. But players and staff alike agree that things are finally starting to turn around for this team that has lost 100-plus games in three straight seasons.
"It's been real exciting compared to last year, it's like night and day," Carter said. "Last year we lost a bunch of games and guys were down on themselves and it just kind of seemed like there was a really bad vibe and this year everyone's excited, jumping around, having fun."
Carlos Corporan had a two-run home run and Jon Singleton homered and drove in two runs for the Astros (31-37), who have won six of their last eight games.
Tony Sipp (1-0) struck out one in a scoreless 10th for the win.
Singleton drove in a run with a sacrifice fly in the first inning and broke a 1-all tie with his solo shot to right field in the third. Corporan extended Houston's lead to 4-1 with his home run to left field in the fourth.
Chris Owings hit a solo homer to get Arizona within 4-3 in the seventh inning.
Houston second baseman Jose Altuve was hit on the right hand by a pitch in the seventh inning. X-rays were negative and he is listed as day-to-day.
David Peralta singled for Arizona's first hit with one out in the third inning. Ender Inciarte reached on an error by Altuve that left Peralta at third and he scored on a sacrifice fly by Didi Gregorius to tie it at 1-1.
Enciarte was shaken up in that inning when he took a knee to the head from Jonathan Villar while stealing second base. He remained in the game but was replaced by Cody Ross in the bottom of the sixth as a precaution.
Springer had two nifty defensive plays. The first one came when he sprinted from right field to center and dived to make the catch on a ball hit by Owings for the first out of the fifth.
Springer made another excellent diving catch on a fly ball by Martin Prado to start a double play to end the eighth. Paul Goldschimdt was on second and had almost reached home when Springer caught it, allowing Villar to step on second base to end the inning.
The Astros celebrated "Drake Day" on Thursday with the Grammy Award-winning rapper attending the game and talking to students from the Astros Urban Youth Academy before the game. Each player came up to bat to music by the rapper and Singleton chose the tune "All Me."
Seconds after the music trailed off with one out in the third inning, Singleton caught all of a 90 mph fastball from Wade Miley and launched a towering homer into the second deck in right field to give Houston a 2-1 lead.
NOTES: The Diamondbacks acquired INF/C Jordan Pacheco from the Rockies and designated INF/OF Nick Evans for assignment before the game. ... Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said he doesn't expect OF Mark Trumbo, who has been out since April 22 with a stress fracture in his left foot, to return to full baseball activities for at least three more weeks.


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DENVER The Legislature on Wednesday passed an extension of a tax deduction for wildfire mitigation, a bill sponsored by Sen. Ellen Roberts, R-Durango.
The state has offered a tax deduction for clearing brush and creating firebreaks around homes, but the deduction is scheduled to expire in July.
Roberts House Bill 1012 extends the tax benefit through 2024.
It passed the Senate 33-1. It already has passed the House and now goes to Gov. John Hickenlooper for final approval.
The bill allows homeowners to deduct half the cost of their wildfire mitigation work, up to $2,500, from their taxable income. Only about 1,600 Coloradans have taken advantage of the benefit in the last three years.
This is not as well-known as wed like it to be. Its not as big as wed like it to be, Roberts said during debate Friday.
The Falls Creek and Forest Lakes subdivisions in La Plata County have been especially good with fire mitigation and could be helped by the bill, Roberts said.


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AMI Chapter of Successful Women Aligning Together (SWAT)
Name: AMI Chapter of Successful Women Aligning Together (SWAT)
Date: January 16, 2020
Time: 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM EST
Website: http://www.swatnetworking.com
Event Description:
SWAT Networking is a wonderful organization that provides a venue for business women to gather and support each other. Successful Women Aligning Together - SWAT Networking holds lunchtime meetings in Bradenton, Lakewood Ranch, Manasota, Anna Maria Island, Parrish, Venice and Brandon. More information can be found by going to http://www.swatnetworking.com/ Bring business cards, brochures and flyers. Make friends and promote your business, service or product.


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5 Short Films That Would Make Great Feature Films
How'd you like to wake up with the knowledge that you've been shot in the head? Yeah, that would suck, but what if the bullet that was stuck in your skull triggered some pretty cool supernatural powers? Yeah, now we're talkin'! That's what happens to the protagonist in 'Bullet Head,' an awesome new short film directed by Franco Movsesian. We love it so much, we think Movsesian needs to turn this five minute short into a feature film. Actually, we've got a list of five sweet short films that would make great feature-length movies. Check 'em out.
1. Bullet Head
'Bullet Head' features some startling animation and an imaginative original story that threw us for a loop. This thing is all about atmosphere – it's dark and noir while blending action, mystery and science fiction elements into one great, weird entertaining little flick. A must-see.
2. Ruin
'Ruin' is another animated short, but this time, the film takes us to a sprawling post-apocalyptic universe. This tense shorty is action-packed, and the chase scene at the center of it all is probably more thrilling than anything you'll see in the new 'Die Hard' movie. Check it out, the animation, music and story really pack a punch.
3. The Chase
'Gorillaz – The Chase' offers a killer soundtrack -- of course, because Gorillaz rock -- some bold and fluid animation, and an infectious rebel spirit that's hard to deny. Like most of the shorts on this list, this one features a chase, but director Tomas Vergara's film takes its time to tell its story and allows you to really soak in the texture of the stylish animated world he's created.
4. The Raven
'The Raven' takes us away from the world of animation and into a strange and dark futuristic Earth not far removed from the place where Tom Cruise ran from the pre-crime police in 'Minority Report.' 'The Raven' begins with a chase, and it seems like your standard man vs. evil futuristic machine story, but there are much deeper, weirder, and scarier things going on here.
5. The Gift
'The Gift,' from director Carl Erik Rinsch, has the backing of 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' director Ridley Scott. This high-gloss sci-fi mystery short may have been made in part to advertise a new Phillips TV, but that doesn't mean it's not worth watching. Do you like spectacular car chases? Weird robots? Weird robots racing motorcycles through the street, crashing, burning and possibly saving the future of humanity? If ya do, check out 'The Gift.'


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Daughter Genesis is still getting used to seeing mom Viola Davis without her wigs, but the actress is covering up less and less these days, thanks to some encouragement from her husband.
Speaking to InStyle.com during a private dinner party in Los Angeles recently, Davis recounted a message from hubby Julius Tennon. "He said, 'If you want to wear it for your career, that's fine, but in your life wear your hair. Step into who you are,'" she said. "It's a very powerful statement."
Davis, who went au naturel recentlyfor the Los Angeles Timesmagazine, said she's not sure if she'll revert back to wearing her fake hair anytime soon. "We'll see," she said. "I think I'll change it up every once in a while. It gives me flavor. It makes me feel like I'm spicing up my life a bit." Tell us: Do you think Davis should go without her wig on Oscar night?


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An explorer's discussion forum for Donkey Kong Country
Cosmicman wrote:Just being nosy, if asked a % number of completion of this project what number would it be?
talaivaneizer wrote:...Qyzbud said there are no new sprites when team-ed up only when walking, but Dixie actually has some new sprites when throwing somebody...
Data # type notes/etc.
Style 2 bit value *0 is DKC, 1 is DKC2, 2 is DKC3. 3 is reserved for later use.
X Position 2 byte value
Y Position 2 byte value
Rotate On Load? 1 bit flag
Rotate After Shot? 1 bit flag
Rotate On ReLoad? 1 bit flag
Starting Direction 4 bit value *Not used in Rotational Tracker barrels.
Shooting Direction 4 bit value *Not used if Rotate On Load is 0
Return Direction 4 bit value *Not used if Rotate On Load or Rotate After Shot is 0
Starting Rot. Speed 6 bit value *Note, this is the number of logic frames to wait before changing image.
Return Rot. Speed 6 bit value 0 means no rotation, values 1-60 are that # of frames, 61-63 unused
ReStarting Rot. Speed 6 bit value
Intellibarrel Flags SIXTEEN 1 bit flags *Note that Intellibarrel settings are ignored if the barrel is autofire
Shot Speed 2 byte value
Antigravity Distance 2 byte value *how far DK must travel before gravity/friction are allowed to take over
Path Movement Number 1 byte value *A value of 00 indicates no movement
Move Onload/Immediately 1 bit flag *ONLY used if a movement is being used
Stop moving after DK is shot? 1 bit flag *ONLY used if a movement is being used
Qyzbud wrote:You've gotten off to a great start, by the looks of this.
Qyzbud wrote:How would you define an 'Intellibarrel'? Is it one which moves/rotates? I like that term, by the way.
That type of barrel is only useful when combined with the "revolver" type... a short explanation of the revolver would be a barrel cannon with programmable shooting, something like "if facing this direction then shoot in this direction".Qyzbud wrote:I can't see how a 'rotational tracker barrel' could but used, unless it was the centre of gravity. I'm proabably just looking at it the wrong way, though.
Specific To: [Revolver]
Defined Revolver Dirs. SIXTEEN 1 bit flags
*Disabled dirs will default to the main settings, and will not have the below settings defined
Shooting Directions SIXTEEN 4 bit values (8 bytes) *NOTE: Each Nth value corresponds to the Nth direction.
Return Directions SIXTEEN 4 bit values (8 bytes) So this means the 1st value is used for direction 0, 2nd for
Return Rot. Speeds SIXTEEN 6 bit values direction 1, and so on.
ReStarting Rot. Speeds SIXTEEN 6 bit values
Specific To: [Rotational Tracker]
Enabled Tracking Dirs. SIXTEEN 1 bit flags *Bits which are 0 mean the barrel won't rotate if DK is detected in that directional sector.
Specific To: [Tracker]
Use Angledtracker Flag 1 bit flag
Angledtracker Setting 4 bit value *ONLY used if Use Angledtracker Flag is 1
I don't know yet, but nevertheless it should be faster than Game Maker. Effectively the whole level would take a considerable amount of memory, since every image must be a bitmap whilst in memory. It shouldn't be a lot, though. I'll try to make it as efficient as possible.Qyzbud wrote:how RAM/CPU intensive are these levels going to be? I remember this being the primary reason for you switching this project from GM to C++, so hopefully things are becoming far more efficient.
I've played DKL on an emulator, I know what you're talking about. Although the DKCLB is mainly DKC-Trilogy-only, after everything in each game is completed, then features from games like DKL can be added.Kiddy14 wrote:But... Still... Have you played DKL? There's a level where you hit buttons in the ground by jumping on them and barrels rotate. You have to jump on them (the buttons) several times to get the desired trayectory. Do you think something like that can be added at the DKCLB? =D
It's alright, it's mostly a bunch of my technical descriptions on the oh-so-intricate inner workings of the DKCLB.Kiddy14 wrote:You know what's sad... I don't understand any of the stuff you guys are talking up there XD
Stone wrote:Maybe that is possible with GM
Stone wrote:Oops, I'm sorry! I've forgotten that this is made in C++ after reading cfh's comment on GM
Currently I'm working on making the display engine. This includes the camera, displaying stuff, etc. But, this is not the difficult-to-mimic DKC camera stuff, this just the basic display engine. In short, it will be the display method I described above. That method is important because it's faster and far less memory-consuming than my previous devised method. Previously I was going to have it render the entire level to one internal bitmap and copy parts for displaying, but that would take huge amounts of memory.Qyzbud wrote:What part of the programming are you working on most at present?
Cody wrote:Simion, is the game going to play 100% like Donkey Kong Country in terms of physics?
sektor88 wrote:*wasn't too thrilled with the GBA version*
Cody wrote:Oh. You certainly do know a lot; how on Earth did you learn how to program?
No campaigning needed - I'll add that to the to-do list. I also intend to add custom boss AI later on so that you can make bosses more difficult (and less predictable, of course). As long as said ideas are not purposeless and are not extremely difficult to code, I'm willing to add just about anything.In the Fake DKC Pictures thread, Qyzbud wrote:I say we campaign to have this become possible with the DKCLB.
I think having customized AI routines, esspecially for bosses, will be one of the better features of the DKCLB. Kaptain K Rool is fun to fight, but I'd like to have a rematch without his moves being entirely predictable. I will definitely add options to allow semi-randomization of AI.Qyzbud wrote:I personally cannot wait to start working with level design and AI routines...
I would have used them, but both Game Maker demos are old and are no longer being worked on; whereas the newest DELTA Game Engine doesn't have any graphics yet. The reason I used DKC things in the GM demos is because there were more DKC resources available at that time.Goe wrote:I see you are using only DKC scenarios...i think you should use DKC2 and DKC3 scenarios too...ships, castles, woods, jungles of DKC2 are really cool!
I'm not entirely sure, as the game engine has not progressed that far. I suppose I can make it so that you can control K. Rool, that would be awesome! He wouldn't have tons of moves, though.Krow1 wrote:Can you take control of bosses? Just curious.
Simion32 wrote:Also, the next update...
Yeah, "Veiw" should have been "View". Dev-C++ doesn't spell check so I must have missed that!Kiddy14 wrote:Will the GUI also be updated? Along with typos...
Krow1 wrote::idea: I was also wondering if you could enter a bonus barrel and fight a boss instead?
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Mich. priest indicted for nearly $700,000 church theft
TROY, Mich. — The suspended pastor and the onetime parish manager of Troy St. Thomas More Catholic Church were indicted Wednesday for allegedly embezzling nearly $700,000 in parish money, pilfering from special holiday collections, the church's travel group and the bequest of a deceased parishioner.
The Rev. Edward Belczak, 69, of Troy, and Janice Verschuren, 67, of Bloomfield Hills were named in a five-count indictment in U.S. District Court, alleging mail fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy involving missing parish funds from 2004 to 2012.
Among the allegations are that Belczak used $109,570.80 diverted from a parish bank account to put a down payment on a swanky Palm Beach, Fla., condo he purchased in 2005 from Verschuren, according to documents filed Monday by the FBI to seize the property.
Belczak, suspended in January 2013 as St. Thomas More's pastor, had approved and submitted false financial reports to the Archdiocese of Detroit in an effort to conceal the alleged thefts, according to a news release from the office of U.S. District Attorney Barbara McQuade.
In April 2006, a female parishioner, described as E.M., died and left $420,204.52 to be used "for the needs of the church," according to the indictment. Belczak received the parishioner's bequest in two checks, depositing them into a business money-market account he opened but kept secret from the archdiocese. Then he spent the money on himself, according to the indictment.
Belczak, assisted by Verschuren, is accused of stealing nearly $500,000 donated or bequeathed by church members, more than $26,000 in commissions paid to the St. Thomas More Travel Group, and more than $33,000 owed to St. Thomas More Church by Diocesan Publications — in addition to the amount used for the Palm Beach property.
The five-count indictment also details how Verschuren intercepted offerings church members gave on Mother's Day and Father's Day, passing along empty envelopes and checks but no cash.
In January 2013, the Archdiocese of Detroit suspended Belczak after an internal audit suggested Belczak embezzled some $429,000 from the parish he had led for nearly 30 years. Verschuren also left the parish at the time.
"We want to cooperate fully with the civil authorities," Catholic Archbishop of Detroit Allen Vigneron said Wednesday.
Belczak's attorney, Jerome Sabbota, said his client is innocent.
"My client is not happy. Nobody that gets indicted is happy. He looks forward to doing what he has to do," Sabbota said. Asked about whether Belczak has stayed at the Florida property, Sabbota said Belczak has remained in the Detroit area.
A website titled "Friends of Father B" at www.bringbackfatherb.com, promotes Belczak's innocence. It features photos of a smiling Belczak presiding over weddings, and a frequently-asked-questions section that seeks to explain allegations about some of the parish money at issue.
Supporters are encouraged to write Vigneron and even Pope Francis in an effort to return Belczak to his old parish. The site provides a P.O. box address to write to Belczak and asks for donations to provide for his defense. An e-mail to the site's contact was not immediately returned.
The site also features a note said to be written by Belczak in December:
"I would have never expected a year like this, yet I am at peace with all that has happened. Losing my job, home, and good reputation has brought me to my knees and here I found God awaiting me. His Grace has never left me and his assurance continues to direct me," the Belczak message reads. "I sense his presence everyday working on my behalf and I struggle to align myself to his time frame and not my own. I am reminded daily that faith is the assurance of things hoped for, perceiving as real fact what is not yet revealed to the senses."
Belczak has been allowed to conduct church services at other parishes throughout the Detroit area, provided he seeks permission in advance from the archdiocese, said archdiocese spokesman Joe Kohn.
Belczak recently had permission to fill in at masses at St. Kenneth Church in Plymouth, Kohn confirmed, while the church's pastor was on vacation. St. Kenneth's pastor is the Rev. Thomas Belczak, who is Edward Belczak's brother.
As a suspended priest, Belczak continues to draw his salary, said Kohn, but the archdiocese is not paying for his defense. Internal church proceedings to permanently remove Belczak as the pastor of St. Thomas More, however, are on hold because of the criminal proceedings and the intricacies of church law, said Kohn.
Kohn would not disclose Belczak's salary but noted pay for priests ranges from $27,500 to the mid-$30,000 range with benefits.
St. Thomas More Parish, meanwhile, cannot be assigned a permanent replacement pastor until the legal and church proceedings against Belczak are completed, said Kohn. In the meantime, a pastor from a nearby parish is temporarily assigned as an administrator of the 2,500-member parish.


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NEW YORK | Fri Mar 1, 2013 3:00pm EST
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite encouraging results in the past, melatonin pills did nothing to help advanced cancer patients eat more or stave off weight loss in a new clinical trial.
"We had great enthusiasm for it also based on these other trials, and were quite disappointed when it didn't work," lead author Dr. Egidio Del Fabbro told Reuters Health.
Some previous studies had suggested the hormone, which is involved in appetite and metabolism as well as sleep cycles in healthy adults, may increase appetite in cancer patients when taken in supplement form. But those studies did not include a group of patients given dummy pills for comparison.
"The reason for these other trials being positive was the placebo effect," said Del Fabbro, who studies rapid loss of muscle mass in cancer patients – a condition known as cachexia – at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Del Fabbro and his colleagues divided 70 patients with advanced lung or gastrointestinal cancer, poor appetite and recent unintentional weight loss into two groups. One group took 20 milligrams of melatonin every night for 28 days, and the other group took a placebo for the same period.
At the end of four weeks, the melatonin and placebo groups had essentially the same appetite, weight changes, pain levels and quality of life scores, Del Fabbro's team reports in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
For example, one representative patient in the melatonin group with a starting weight of 147 pounds lost almost two pounds during the study period, and one in the placebo group who started at 145 pounds also lost two pounds.
In late stage cancer, the body aggressively breaks down its own muscle mass, and patients have decreased appetite, nausea and reduced ability to absorb the nutrients they do eat.
"It's vital, it's probably the most under-recognized condition in advanced cancer," and often bothers families the most, Del Fabbro said. "Families feel (the patient) should just eat more, they should try harder," he said.
Treatment options are currently very limited, said Vickie Baracos, a professor of palliative care medicine who wrote an editorial accompanying the study.
High dose steroids can stimulate appetite, but extended use also causes muscle wasting and diabetes-like insulin resistance, so doctors often avoid using them, said Baracos, of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
Melatonin, which is produced naturally in the body and available in supplements, does affect appetite, metabolism and control of body weight in healthy adults, according to Baracos. But that doesn't mean it will work for people with cancer, she said.
Melatonin is available in pill form in the U.S. without a prescription. A bottle of 5- or 10-milligram capsules costs about $10 at a drugstore.
Many cancer patients turn to potential remedies found on the Internet that have not been studied, Baracos said. She has known late-stage cancer patients to take up plant extracts, juices from tropical fruits, horse milk, and diets consisting mostly of cottage cheese.
"It's important to vet these other options, the trouble is getting federal funding," said Del Fabbro, whose department financed the melatonin study without outside support.
The hormone didn't cause any negative side effects, even at the high dose of 20 milligrams per day, he said, and it could be tried in another trial with cancer patients earlier in the progression of the disease to see if the results are different.
If advanced cancer patients still want to take melatonin, Baracos said, this trial indicates at least that it's unlikely to hurt them.
"Now a doctor has some evidence of good quality to stand on: it doesn't work, but it also doesn't do any harm," she said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/WtQ0en Journal of Clinical Oncology, online February 25, 2013.
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Baby Tapir Born at Peru Conservation Project
Last month our Conservation Project in Peru was blessed with the birth of little Theo, a baby tapir!
Theo is the first tapir to be born at Taricaya Animal Rescue Center as part of our captive breeding program. He is doing very well and his mother, Isabella, is taking good care of him.
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Sugar Rush: The Good Batch, Stroopwafels at the Brooklyn Flea
At the Brooklyn Flea, the usual suspects are all there—cupcakes, more cupcakes, chocolate, more chocolate, yogurt. All that is great, but after a while, you can't help but crave something more exciting. That's why I was so happy to see The Good Batch, found by Anna Gordon, owner and baker. It was her boyfriend's family, originally from the Netherlands, who introduced her to stroopwafels. But it wasn't until a recent visit to Holland that Anna got the idea to just make them herself.
The Classic Stroopwafels, pictured above, are the foundation of the business, and the first you ought to try. Two very thin spiced waffle cookies with a lush caramel filling in the middle. The caramel is on the buttery side, and the whole cookie is best consumed after a brief sit atop a mug of hot tea—when the caramel gets all warm and gooey, the cookie itself softens just a touch, and the whole thing becomes melty and delectable. Each cookie is wide enough to rest atop even the largest of mugs.
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A Cocoa-Caramel Stroopwafel features the same caramel filling as the classic stroopwafel, but with a chocolatey cocoa cookie. And if that's not enough chocolate for you, try the Bonfire Stroopwafel. The same cocoa waffle cookies coupled with dark chocolate ganache, roasted meringue, salted caramel sauce. Indulgent to say the least!
The Honey Bear Stroopwafel showcases a housemade peanut butter filling, whipped with vanilla and plenty of honey. It's good enough that if the peanut butter filling were sold alone in jars, I would buy to slather on toast in the mornings.
Anna plans to introduce seasonal specials frequently, with the goal of using as many local and seasonal fruits as possible. One current special is the Strawberry Stroopwalfel. Here the waffle cookie is soft—unlike the crisp classics, these are more cakey and tender, with a sweet smother of jam made from local strawberries. In the specials category, expect to find an Spiked Arnold Palmer Stroopwafel this weekend at the Flea—black tea waffle cookies with a filling of mint-whiskey lemonade.
Find The Good Batch every Saturday at the outdoor Brooklyn Flea Market.
Classic and Cocoa Caramel Stroopwafel 8-packs go for $8. At the Flea, slightly larger individual stroopwafels are $2 each. "Specials" (Bonfire, Honey Bear, etc.) are $3 each.
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Occam's Razor: use the simplest means possible to accomplish your goal.
Scorpion: 1) An arachnid; 2) a genetic method, patented by ETS Labs, for detecting bacteria and yeasts in wine (or grape juice, or beer) samples based on real-time fluorescence PCR (poymerase chain reaction.)
Can Occam's Razor slice through a Scorpion?
"Plurality should not be posited without necessity" or, in the words of William of Ockham, "Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate." According to The Skeptic's Dictionary, the eponym was awarded to the monk from Ockham because he used the argument so often, even though it was already a common tenent of Medieval logic. Philosophers refer to the Razor in arguing over the existence of God, but most of us translate the phrase as "Don't make it more complicated than necessary (stupid.)"
If Ockham's monastery pew became a time machine one day and he was transported to 2010, the philosopher might be curious about the many incredible scientific advances we've made in the past 800 years.
In addition to being a cousin of the tarantula, Scorpion is ETS Labs' patented name for a genetic method to detect common spoilage yeast and bacteria in wine samples. Send ETS Labs 60 mL of your wine and they will send back a report listing which, if any organisms are swimming around in your tank or barrel or bottle. Scorpion analysis relies on differences between the genomes of different organisms. Probes designed to bind to DNA sequences that uniquely identify a species are labeled ("tagged") with fluorescent markers. Toss probes specific to many different organisms into a wine sample, and the tags show which probes are bound and, therefore, which organisms are in the sample. (This is a gross oversimplification, but I'm trying to avoid a detailed discussion of RT-PCR here. For a little more detail, see ETS Labs' website.)
The first assignment for my wine microbiology lab this semester is to identify the bacteria and/or yeast contaminating an unidentified wine sample. The professor will give each group two wines – one spiked with nasties – and ask us to give him a report on what we found in the wine and how we found it. The first part of the assignment is to propose a method for attacking the problem: when we have the wine, how will we analyze it?
Oooohhh…There are lots of ways to analyze wine, and I could show my prof that I know about them by including all sorts of nifty things in my report. Scorpion analysis is outside my budget, but I could always run my own genetic tests if I can find out where to buy the right genetic probes.
Or I could smell it. "The nose knows" may be cheesy (why cheesy? Why not yogurty, or cucumbery? There's a whole 'nother kettle of fish…) but such aphorisms arise because they are true. Looking at my lab manual and the list of microorganisms that could be the unknown contaminant, each has a peculiar smell. Brettanomyces bruxellensis is probably the most famous – many wine lovers can identify "Brett" – but Pediococcus parvulus, Acetobacter, and Lactobacillus species have distinctive aromas, too, as I know from culturing them in the lab.
Oenococcus oeni, a bacteria very often responsible for malolactic fermentation, is a little trickier to identify based on smell alone, so I might need to move up to the next level of complexity (by the way, we aren't allowed to use taste as part of our analysis; some of my classmates are underage.) If my nose isn't quite sure, I can drip a few milliliters of wine onto a Petri dish and see what grows. We make Petri dishes full of growth media for yeast and bacteria by combining sugar, some protein and a few other basic nutrients, and adding agar – a gelatin-like substance from seaweed – to make it solidify. Culture media in a dish is essentially Jello (mmmm….yeast extract-flavored Jello!) Any bacteria and yeast in my wine will grown and reproduce on this media and, after a few days in a nice warm incubator, each little microbe will have grown into a colony of identical offspring microbes that I can see with my naked eye. Different bacteria and different yeasts have different colony morphologies; they look different; even within the same species, different strains can have different morphologies. One of my favorite strains of Brettanomyces bruxellensis looks like this.
Between smell and colony morphology, I expect excellent odds of correctly identifying the bugs my professor has hidden in my wine. My nose, and Jello in a Petri dish. In terms of levels of complexity, I think that I'm ranking far below genetic testing even if I do need to use the Jello. I could spend several hundred dollars to use the fancier technology, but why bother when the good, old-fashioned, simple method will do? Now, I'm not at all knocking ETS Labs; Scorpion is a potent analysis when you need to know "how much" as well as "what," for complex microbial problems, and for busy wineries amongst other things. Scorpion analysis definitely has its place, but this isn't it.
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More than a year after his wedding to pop star Katy Perry, Russell Brand is starting to think about babies.
On Thursday, while sitting for an interview for Friday's "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," the British comedian and actor said he longs to hear the pitter-patter of little feet.
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"Katy says you are going to try and start a family. Are you going to have a family?" Ellen asked.
"I would like one. I love those little babies in the beginning," Russell answered.
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"Yeah, that's how they start out," Ellen chimed in.
"They're so lovely in that bit. Me and Katy are godparents to two twin boys. They're called Sam and Donovan," Russell said of the 1-year-olds.
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"At first they were boring. They were just essentially little fluid factories, generating fluids — no regard for what I was wearing," he said. "Now, they are interesting. They smile and look at me and wonder… I'm just observing them like I'm a scientist."
"I can learn from them," Russell continued. "Me and Katy are their godparents, which means we're responsible for their spiritual growth. Should be interesting."
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During his "Ellen" visit, Russell also hit back at the rumors he and Katy have split.
"There are always rumors aren't there? In the end you have to just not engage with Internet technology, which is difficult because [of] a lot of the nude women websites I quite enjoy," he said with a laugh. "But they've had to go. I've treated the whole Internet now like it's a wicked little liar. Yeah. I am really happily married."
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Swart, Gardner Receive Granskou Awards
One will investigate the toll of the economic crisis on the famed Sturgis Motorcycle Rally; the other will explore how to effectively blend online and classroom teaching.
Dr. William Swart, associate professor of sociology, and Shelly Gardner, assistant professor of business administration and accounting, will share Augustana's 2011 Granskou Award. Named in honor of Rev. Dr. Clemens M. Granskou, Augustana's 14th president, the Granskou Award is supported by an endowed fund and is designed to encourage and sponsor professional development. The selection committee accepts proposals from faculty and administrators in alternate years.
Swart received $1,000, which he will use to cover costs associated with interviewing Sturgis Rally officials and vendors about how the economic downturn has affected revenues, marketing strategies and the general commercial environment of the Rally.
"My previous research explored the transformation of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally from an authentic celebration of motorcycle culture into a mass-consumed, commercialized, and "carnivalesque" spectacle. This crisis of authenticity has occurred, at least in part, as the event has become hijacked by widespread and often unrelated economic interests and activities. But what effect does an economic crisis have on this process? Will the event return closer to its authentic core, or engage even deeper carnivalesque features in order to spur economic activity," Swart said.
Gardner received $1,500, which she used to pursue certification by Sloan-C, a consortium of individuals, institutions and organizations committed to quality online education.
"I have been teaching online for the past five summers and wanted some ideas to improve my courses and ensure that our students are achieving the learning objectives that I established. The Granskou Award will pay for the courses I am taking throughout the [Sloan] program … [which focus] on the fundamentals of teaching online versus face-to-face," said Gardner. "We discussed everything from learning objectives to assessment techniques. I have now moved on to my elective courses that will concentrate on blended learning, or using online resources to enhance my classroom teaching."
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No One Dies Alone - Sacred Heart Medical Center
No one is born alone, and in the best of circumstances, no one dies alone. Yet from time to time terminally ill patients come to Sacred Heart Medical Center who have neither family nor close friends to be with them as they near the end of life.
No One Dies Alone is a volunteer program at Sacred Heart that provides the reassuring presence of a volunteer companion to dying patients who would otherwise be alone. With the support of the nursing staff, companions are thus able to help provide patients with that most valuable of human gifts: a dignified death.
For additional information concerning the No One Dies Alone Program, sponsored by Mission Services — PeaceHealth Oregon Region, please contact program coordinator Anne Gordon 541-222-2263. To start your own program, click here for more information.
The following article by Sandra Clarke, CCRN, was originally published in the Summer 2002 edition [Vol. 8, No. 3] of Supportive Voice, the official newsletter of Supportive Care of the Dying: A Coalition for Compassionate Care, and is reprinted here with permission.
One rainy night at Sacred Heart Medical Center, Eugene, Ore., I had a brief encounter with a man whose name I cannot recall, a man I shall never forget. He was one of my seven patients, near death and a DNR. During my initial rounds, he asked, barely audible, "Will you stay with me?" He was so frail, pale, old and tremulous. I said, "Sure as soon as I check my other patients."
Vital signs, passing meds, chart checks, assessments and bathroom assistance for six other patients took up most of the next hour and a half. When I returned he was dead. I reasoned he was a DNR, no family, very old, end-stage multi-organ disease; now he was gone, and I felt awful. It was okay for him to die, it was his time—but not alone.
I looked around; scores of people were nearby providing state-of-the-art patient care. For this man, state-of-the-art should have been dignity and respect.
Since that night I have on occasion mentioned to peers and administrators my idea for putting together a group of volunteers made up of hospital employees who would be willing to sit with the alone and dying. Usually this is met with "Good idea," and sometimes, "I already give this place enough of my time!" For 16 years my vision quest remained only conversation.
The past 14 years I have worked where No One Dies Alone—the ICU. Speaking with nurses from other ICUs, there seems to be an unwritten universal protocol for the patient who is dying without the presence of friends or family. One's other patients' care will be taken over by nearby nurses. Rituals of passing are acted out: I've seen nurses quietly singing, holding the hand of the dying, and, in other manners of behavior, showing care and respect while an individual passes on to death. Nurses know the awe of being present at the birth or the death of another human. I believe awe and privilege is an innate human response at these times—the very essence of humanity.
The medical community has begun to focus on the need for specialized end-of-life care. Sacred Heart Medical Center has been proactive and innovative on this front. We have unit-based ethics resource teams in ICU and oncology. These teams are made up of staff nurses who teach, review patient care and assist other staff with complex ethical concerns that surface. We have protocols for palliative care and comfort care. We have music thanatologists on staff who play music for dying individuals.
In this climate, during casual conversation with another nurse, our pastoral care director, Bob Scheri, overheard me talking about my old idea for employee volunteers who would attend the alone and dying. Bob asked me to write a proposal, which he would take to PeaceHealth corporate headquarters for consideration. In six months an ad hoc committee, composed of various department heads and myself, created a complete program based on a simple plan without creating a new department and with only minimal financial impact. Bob deemed it a "virtual department."
No One Dies Alone has been up and running since November 2001. It is still a work in progress with a few things that need to be tweaked, but overall it fills the void for which it was intended.
What is satisfying for me is that my original plan, formed only in my mind, is essentially intact. Today, with computer technology, some things have been streamlined. No One Dies Alone has its own Web page on the Sacred Heart/PeaceHealth intranet where employees from any department can sign up. It includes a patient confidentiality agreement and a volunteer agreement that states that no one will be expected to perform his or her job while acting as a "compassionate companion." There is an orientation packet for volunteers. Once-a-month hour-long orientation sessions [for new volunteers] are held to answer questions and explain what might be experienced.
A staff nurse generally initiates No One Dies Alone by calling pastoral care or, after 5 p.m., the nursing supervisor. The person who has signed up for that date is called. It is totally a volunteer program, and no minimum or maximum time has been set. The "compassionate companion" is provided with a parking pass and a meal ticket. We have a supply bag with a CD player, various CDs, a journal and a bible. We emphasize that any religious behavior will be initiated by the dying patient and not by the companion. Staff and the "compassionate companion" use an evaluation form in an ongoing effort to improve the program.
At Sacred Heart Medical Center an estimated three or four people a month* die who have outlived their family members, or have alienated themselves from friends and family through lifestyle choices, or have had a catastrophic event while passing through Eugene. My goal is that not one of these persons will die alone.
The reasons individual employees have volunteered are fascinating and as varied as their departments. Hospital carpenters, administrative heads, maintenance workers, nurses, secretaries, and kitchen workers have come forward. Some who come from large families cannot imagine someone being alone; others are alone themselves. One nurse from the cardiac cath lab has seen many die in spite of the high tech environment and care. He wanted to experience once again "why I became a nurse in the first place—to care for those who can no longer care for themselves."
I am not an especially pious person. I do have a strong belief in human rights, particularly when a person is most vulnerable. No One Dies Alone has been a profound professional and spiritual experience. It gives both job satisfaction and a raison d'etre. It is a plan which could be readily implemented in any hospital. In time, it may be true that No One Dies Alone.
*Note: We have since found that the number is closer to two or three people a month.


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One of Delaware's most famous athletes took home gold at the Rio Olympics and that means each baby born Saturday in her hometown hospital is taking home a pair of sweet sneakers.
WNBA MVP Elena Delle Donne and the U.S. basketball team took home gold in dominating fashion Saturday – beating Spain by 29 points — and in honor of that big win, the parents of every child born at Christiana Hospital in New Castle County, Delaware, on the gold medal day got a special gift Sunday.
The bright green Nike kicks — with an orange swoosh — came with a special notice mentioning Delle Donne being born in the same hospital on Sept. 5, 1989. It just so happens that Delle Donne is a spokeswoman for the hospital as well as Nike.
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"It all starts now. 26 years ago, it started in Wilmington for a little champ just like you," read the message. "And today, Elena Delle Donne conquered the world. Maybe, someday, that could be you. Or maybe you'll choose to do something else. There really are no limits to your potential. Whatever you decide, get up. Get out. And get started. Life moves fast. And in these, it will move a little faster. Just do it. Unlimited future." [[390942751, C]]
The hospital, which says it delivers more than 6,000 babies each year, said it gave out around three dozens pairs of sneakers. Other hospitals in other athletes' hometowns, including Delle Donne's teammate Brittney Griner's birthplace, also had similar Nike promotions.
The hospital said it's "#DelawareProud" and can't wait to see what this next generation of Delawareans accomplish.
No word yet if any of the newborns have a jump shot.