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The 2010 April Daring Cooks challenge was hosted by Wolf of Wolf's Den. She chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make Brunswick Stew. Wolf chose recipes for her challenge from The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook by Matt Lee and Ted Lee, and from the Callaway, Virginia Ruritan Club. You can find the complete challenge here.
When I read the recipe I had to smile a little bit because just a day earlier or so I had ordered a rabbit for Easter. My FIRST rabbit – cooking-wise and taste-wise. Perfect! The lady at the farm told me I was going to get a whole rabbit. WHAT? A whole rabbit? With the head and offals? I was about to chicken out and asked the hubby if he could cut the head off. He declined… In the end, he agreed to do it, but when I came home with the rabbit I thought I could do it as well. Interestingly, the people at the farm had wrapped up the head in aluminium foil (see picture below). I'll have to ask them for the reason next time I go there. I wonder if it's because they know many people would have problems cutting the head off, and if it doesn't look like a head, it would be a less a problem. Any other ideas?
Anyway, back to the challenge. As I had ordered that rabbit, I decided to take the first recipe Wolf offered which calls for a tiny amount of rabbit. She also offered a recipe for chicken broth, but I decided to make rabbit broth for the stew. So I cut the head off, discarded it (I know you can use it for broth, but I was absolutely NOT willing to unwrap the rabbit's head), deboned the rabbit which took me FOREVER and made the rabbit broth.
The mis en place was another thing that took forever. So many different things for this stew (see picture below). But the result was a very scrumptious dish. I just wish I hadn't added the lemon juice and red wine vinegar in the end. I tasted it before adding both, and it was perfect, but as I'm a rule obeyer I added both (just because the recipe calls for it). It was still good then, but without the sourness it would have been better. I should have trusted my gut over my brain, I think.
Without further ado, here are the recipes for the rabbit broth and the Brunswick stew.
Rabbit broth
(originally a chicken broth, adapted from The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook)
Makes about 1 quart
Estimated Time- 1 ¼ hours
- Bones and trimmings of 1 rabbit
- 1 large onion, peeled and quartered
- 6 large stems fresh parsley
- 1 stalk celery, cut into 2″ lengths
- 2 large bay leaves
- 5 cups cold water
- 1 cup crisp dry white wine
- salt and pepper to taste
- Place bones/trimmings in medium stockpot and add onion, parsley, celery and bay leaves. Add wine and water, liquid should cover all ingredients, if not, add more until it does. Bring to vigorous simmer over high heat, then reduce heat and simmer gently for roughly 45 minutes to an hour.
- Strain broth into bowl through fine mesh strainer. Discard the solids, then salt and pepper to taste.
- Store in tightly sealed container in refrigerator until the remaining fat congeals on the top. Remove the fat, and unless not using within 2 days, keep tightly sealed in the refrigerator.
Brunswick Stew
(adapted from The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook)
Serves about 4.
- 1 oz slab bacon, rough diced
- 2 tsp chili flakes
- 4 oz rabbit, deboned and diced
- 1 lb chicken breasts, diced
- 1 tsp sea salt for seasoning, plus extra to taste
- 4 cups rabbit broth
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/2 celery stalk
- 8 oz potatoes, peeled, rough diced
- 1 1/2 small carrots, chopped
- 1 medium onions, chopped
- 1/2 cup corn kernels
- 1 cup butterbeans
- 1 cup whole, peeled tomatoes, drained
- 0,5 oz red wine vinegar
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- In a large stockpot fry the bacon over medium-high heat until it just starts to crisp. Transfer to a large bowl, and set aside. Reserve most of the bacon fat in your pan, and with the pan on the burner, add in the chili flakes.
- Season liberally both sides of the rabbit and chicken pieces with sea salt and pepper. Place the rabbit pieces in the pot and sear off all sides possible. You just want to brown them, not cook them completely. Remove to bowl with bacon, add more bacon fat if needed, or olive oil, then add in chicken pieces, again, browning all sides nicely. Put the chicken in the bowl with the bacon, and rabbit. Set it aside.
- Add 1/2 cups of the rabbit broth to the pan and basically deglaze the pan, making sure to get all the goodness cooked onto the bottom. The stock will become a nice rich dark color and start smelling good. Bring it up to a boil and let it boil away until reduced by at least half. Add your remaining stock, the bay leaf, celery, potatoes, chicken, rabbit, bacon, and any liquid that may have gathered at the bottom of the bowl they were resting in. Bring the pot back up to a low boil/high simmer, over medium/high heat. Reduce heat to low and cover, remember to stir every 15 minutes, give or take, to thoroughly meld the flavors. Simmer, on low, for approximately 1 ½ hours.
- Add in your carrots, and stir gently, allowing it to come back to a slow simmer. Simmer gently, uncovered, for at least 25 minutes, or until the carrots have started to soften.
- Add in your onion, butterbeans, corn and tomatoes. Simmer for another 30 minutes, stirring every so often until the stew has reduced slightly, and onions, corn and butterbeans are tender. Remove from heat and add in vinegar, lemon juice, stir to blend in well. Season to taste with sea salt and pepper.
This recipe called for only 4 oz of rabbit. Stay tuned for learning what I did with the rest of the rabbit.


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|Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com>
|Re: Thoughts about large feature dev branches
|Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:48:22 GMT
Hope to have time to write up some more thoughts later, but some interesting reading is this document from Linux on how to contribute to that project: https://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6/blob/master/Documentation/SubmittingPatches Worth looking at other projects' guidelines to form our own if we're thinking of going this route. -Todd On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Jesse Yates <email@example.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Elliott Clark <email@example.com>wrote: > >> +1 on git, either on github or closer to the linux model with real >> distributed repos. >> >> - I've been using it for just about all of my development and it works >> pretty nicely. I push everything to github as I'm working. Then I >> squash commits and create a diff to post on jira. >> > > I do the same, just locally. Solid model. > > >> - I would suggest that since hbase's code base moves so rapidly, a >> rebased branch should probably be a requirement before merging. >> Otherwise the merge will get pretty interesting for very long lived >> branches. >> > > IIRC when Todd was working on some large stuff for HDFS he was doing this > in a feature branch every few days. Seriously helps with when things are > actually finished in terms of rolling it back in. > > Using github to keep a constantly rebased version (every few days) would be > a reasonble, super-low friction way of solving the problem for > non-committers. Further, for big changes, it would ensure that if the > people go away we aren't left with a bunch of dangling branches in the svn. > Problem here is also establishing the 'master' branch in github, though > that can be established on a case-by-case basis with the people involved. > >> >> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Jonathan Hsieh <email@example.com> wrote: >> > This has been brought up in the past but we are here again. >> > >> > We have a few large features that are hanging out and having a hard time >> > because trunk changes underneath it and in some cases because they are >> > being worked by folks without a commit bit. (ex: snapshots w/ Jesse and >> > Matteo, and have some other potentially in the pipeline -- major >> assignment >> > > I'm generally opposed to doing feature branches for a variety of reasons > (left behind functionality, hard to roll back in, difficulty of testing, > etc) and further don't really feel its really necessary for the snapshot > code given that the code doesn't touch all that much of the current > codebase. > > A lot of the pain with it right now is that the code has been broken into 5 > patches, making it hard to build a version of HBase that has snapshots 'in > its current form'. This gets even worse as I'm planning on doing a bit more > refactoring into a couple more patches to help make it more digestable > (e.g. see latest patch for 3PC https://reviews.apache.org/r/6592/ which > pulls out a lot of the coordination functionality)). This helps with > reviews, etc, but makes it a bit of a pain for people who want to do > advanced testing on the feature - hard to justify doing a lot of that work > though as if the code is changing a lot, then testing doesn't make much > sense. > > In terms of how the work is breaking down, with Matteo doing restore on top > of the taking that I'm working on, his part clearly depends on the taking > of snapshots. However, the filesystem layout hasn't changed at all in > nearly the last two months, meaning the work can proceed pretty much > independently (more or less). > > >> > manager changes with Jimmy and possibly me, >> > > This is a lot more high-touch with the codebase, making a branch (either in > sandbox or otherwise) more feasible. > > >> HBASE-4120, HBASE-2600, >> > removing root) >> > > Salesforce is planning on tackling at least the latter two in the next few > months, so this is something that we need to figure out :) > > >> > >> > Though I wasn't around yet, it seems like this is what we did for >> > coprocs/security, probably for the 0.90 master. >> > >> http://search-hadoop.com/m/byzZYZMktx1/hbase+windows&subj=Re+Proposed+feature+branch+for+HBase+security >> > >> > Where the folks working on those features committers at the time? What >> do >> > we do for contributions from folks who aren't committers yet? >> > >> > This was proposed over on hadoop-general by Todd -- what do you all think >> > about doing something like this for the major changes? (Github seems >> > easiest, svn seems "more official"). >> > >> > Here's one proposal, making use of git as an easy way to allow >> > non-committers to "commit" code while still tracking development in >> > the usual places: >> > - Upon anyone's request, we create a new "Version" tag in JIRA. >> > - The developers create an umbrella JIRA for the project, and file the >> > individual work items as subtasks (either up front, or as they are >> > developed if using a more iterative model) >> > - On the umbrella, they add a pointer to a git branch to be used as >> > the staging area for the branch. As they develop each subtask, they >> > can use the JIRA to discuss the development like they would with a >> > normally committed JIRA, but when they feel it is ready to go (not >> > requiring a +1 from any committer) they commit to their git branch >> > instead of the SVN repo. >> > - When the branch is ready to merge, they can call a merge vote, which >> > requires +1 from 3 committers, same as a branch being proposed by an >> > existing committer. A committer would then use git-svn to merge their >> > branch commit-by-commit, or if it is less extensive, simply generate a >> > single big patch to commit into SVN. >> > > Overall, this seems reasonable. I can imagine the work to merge back in > being a huge pain. It would be great to see if we can break down these big > changes into smaller patches and roll them in one at a time. Both in terms > of ease on a single committer as helping to ensure code quality of each > sub-piece; its easier to enforce good testing on smaller pieces and helps > with code reuse. > > My comments above obviously contradict this a little bit - its a huge pain > to work on the end functionality when the sub-pieces that you are building > on shift due to code reviews. In the end it leads to a better foundation, > but can be headache to keep everything in sync. > > The latter goes away a bit if we have a single branch with the majority of > the code then progressive commits to fix things, but still is terrible to > review (pot calling the kettle black here) that first massive code drop. > > TL;DR prefer smaller, independently useful patches that build to the bigger > change. Its may not be possible for some features, but should make it > easier to review, roll in, and in the end merge the final change while > being more generally useful. > > >> >> > Another alternative, if people are reluctant to use git, would be to >> > add a "sandbox/" repository inside our SVN, and hand out commit bit to >> > branches inside there without any PMC vote. Anyone interested in >> > contributing could request a branch in the sandbox, and be granted >> > access as soon as they get an apache SVN account. >> > >> > > This seems a little excessive. It would be nice for the more 'official' > status this confers, but seems to create more friction than its worth > (IMO). > > > TL;DR github with 'official' branches per umbrella JIRA seems a > low-friction way to do feature branches without the possiblitly of cruft in > the main repository. We should really be sure that we need a branch though > and still favoring smaller patches along the same branch for generally > useful features. > > ------------------- > Jesse Yates > @jesse_yates > jyates.github.com -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
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Having built over 20 start-ups in my life, I am no stranger to risk. You might even say we are kindred spirits. From renting out Seattle's football stadium to leasing the biggest space in Pike Place Market with no experience to leasing 10,000 square feet of warehouse space to make muffins for espresso stands to bringing CRAVE guides to Vancouver hoping that someone would help me sell them, I've taken leaps that probably shock some people. Over time, however, my risk taking style has evolved.
It was much easier for me to take risks when I was younger and more naive. I think the less you know about business, the easier it is to jump in headfirst and figure it all out as you go. I am the kind of risk taker that loves to come up with an idea and gets the ball rolling practically the next day. Sometimes it works and sometimes it either needs to be tweaked or abandoned altogether.
As I get older and (hopefully) wiser, I find that I am slower to take risks. I guess I have so many experiences under my belt that it has created a bit more fear. When I was 18, I opened a furniture store because my boyfriend was a custom woodworker and I thought, "why not open a retail store and fill it up with contemporary furnishings to compliment his pieces?". I didn't even think twice about signing a five year lease. It turned out just fine and the only reason I moved on is that I got bored. Several years and many signed leases later I was sitting in front of another 5 year lease for a fitness business without fear. Soon after I opened the doors I realized I did not have the patience for inspiring people to get fit. I since have discovered you can actually get out of a lease. I am pretty sure (but never say never) that I will not sign another lease again.
Some risks I take end up okay, some turn out really well, and others don't work at all. Something I've learned is that the worst time to make a decision is when you are in a desperate situation.
I've been in the food business for almost 30 years and have taken varying degrees of risks with each project or new division of the company throughout that time. One time, when I was really low on cash and didn't know how I was going to make the next payroll, an opportunity came my way to sell strawberry shortcake on a national tour with rock star Peter Gabriel. It would start in New York and travel across the country to San Francisco. In retrospect, this is a risk that I wish I hadn't taken. What can I say? At the time, I thought it would be quick cash! I sent my staff on the road in a 15 foot truck full of strawberries from Seattle to New York and flew in additional staff to man the concession stand. The wind got knocked out of me by the time they hit Chicago and I had lost money in each city. The event coordinator kept telling us to hang on, that in the next city we would hit gold. We couldn't keep losing, so I pulled out. Huge bummer! Not only did I have to borrow money to pay the payroll but I was deeper into debt than before because my quick cash scheme tanked. This was a case where doing NOTHING would have gotten me further ahead.
Since then, I resolved to think through decisions more thoroughly and talk them over with my husband and other mentors to see if I'm on the right track. I have my mental checklist of what constitutes a valid risk, which has helped me immensely. Being headstrong as I am, I might still move forward with something if I've got a fire in my belly.
I took time this last year to write down all the mistakes made and lessons learned from my numerous businesses, including that jaunt across the country with a rock band. The book will be out soon. I wish I'd done it much sooner so I didn't have to continue to learn the same lessons over and over again. Seeing it all in writing has helped me come up with some real key messages that I've been using in my decision-making ever since. I'm not saying that I will never again make a mistake, but now I'm much more aware of consequences based on decisions made.
For me, having the courage to do nothing was a hard lesson learned. Sometimes you just have to say no, and I think we are programmed to say yes way more than no. There's hope and excitement in saying yes and going for it. And who knows? Maybe you can do it all and go for everything you dream, but probably not all at the same time. Saying no now doesn't mean you can't try it down the road when the timing is better. I guess what I'm saying is to beware before you dare, but definitely dare if you can!
Having been through it all, I feel a bit schizo about risk taking. I still think you should go for your ideas and take big risks. I also believe in listening to your gut and taking some baby steps before you leap. What I know for certain is that it's crucial to use your personal experiences (and mine!) as a risk-taking guide and learn from your mistakes as quickly as possible.
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Live in Edinburgh This Week – 31st January 2011
It's relatively quiet in Edinburgh this week, but next week is going to be a bit mental, so perhaps taking it a bit easy for a few days is advisable, eh. Oh well, perhaps not then.
First up is the Lets Get Lyrical Festival. A bit more cerebral than your average stale beer-scented alternative music show, and hopefully as far as possible from the Drew Barrymore/Hugh Grant carnival of horror you see illustrated on the right.
Their full lineup of events can be found here, although sadly the King Creosote/Ziggy Campbell one at the Caves to tomorrow is apparently sold out. And then I am away down South for the rest of the week. Arse.
On the plus side, though, I am away down South to do a wee interview with BBC Introducing on Wednesday and then hang out with some of my long-neglected London pals for the next few days, so it should be an extremely good week for me, I reckon.
Thursday 3rd February: Born to Be Wide Music Photographers Night at Electric Circus.
This is almost sold out, apparently, so if you want to go I would recommend getting your tickets in advance. Sitting through seminars may not seem like the best way to go about doing something which most people do as a creative outlet, but I promise you that these things can be extremely useful either the more you go to, or the more specific the
Friday 4th February: Esben & the Witch, Trophy Wife & Wintergreens at Sneaky Pete's.
Presumably because of the name I think I dismissed Esben and the Witch as just another London (slightly)alternative folk band, but actually they are a bit more of a somewhat shoegazey guitar band. I'm not massively familiar with the album yet, but what I have heard sounds really quite promising. The Wintergreens are an Edinburgh band who are a little less loud, but who also make rather promising sounding atmospheric guitar songs – they've been around for a while actually, and I have still not managed to see them play live. Shame on me, I think it's safe to say.
Esben & the Witch – Marching Song
Friday 4th February: The Go Team at the Liquid Room.
This should be really quite fun. I've always been a passive fan of the Go Team for ages – never wildly excited, but nevertheless happy to enjoy their stuff as and when it has crossed my path. They have a new album out shortly too – in a week, I think – which I will review as and when I have had a chance to listen to it, which isn't quite yet. Still, there's a four hour train ride to London to deal with.


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Originally posted by lilblam
You know, like how you lure a fish to a hook? You usually do not just dive in and grab the fish - you let it come to you by its own will, completely ignorant of what is happening.
Originally posted by XL5
As for suicide, I think that any one with the balls should write down why they chose this path and use thier death to help certain causes, like walking into area 51 or something medical.
"According to many abductees, the reptiloids are not above eating human flesh. It has been said that they prefer flesh that is young enough to be free of toxins, yet old enough to be imbued with a lifetime of accumulated "emotional energy residue" which is resident within the human body."
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I have something that I'm confused about..
Liblam, you said that in order for us humans to move up into higher consciousness/graduate to higher worlds, that we must become more service to others.
Originally posted by smallpeeps
Liblam: Why would you post with an intention of helping people without offering clues? I mean even Titor has more credibility than you simply because he was willing to talk about the machinery of time travel. You've mentioned a five-year date and comets wrecking the earth and so on, but you aren't posting links to information so we can all try to get on your level. Why not? Can't you help us out as we try to walk the wonderful path you have worked so hard to follow?
Tell us what books you read to arrive at truth.
...it's a crazy story, but it's not beyond the bounds of possibility, I guess. It still couldn't be your world-ending, barf-inducing, super-truth, at least not for me.
Being a Chicken McNugget for some sort of super-entity seems karmically right since I've eaten so much animal flesh in my life. I do feel bad about such meals, however. Hopefully these super-dudes will feel equally bad when they eat me. Hopefully the dipping sauce will be a tasty one.
As for your term "density", this reminded me of the The Law of One and specifically the RA channeling sessions
Basically, the message from 'RA' is that light itself is 'infinite energy' and the illusion of the spectrum of light is analgous to the octaves in music. Essentially the term 'densitiy' is similar to the concept, 'dimension'. Also, the point is made in the RA material that it is still possible to graduate to higher levels of conciousness even if one follows the path of service to self. Evil is necessary to stimulate the good to action, or something like that.
Unfortunately, people who are suicidally depressed may as well be buried six-feet under bcause society does not raise us to be compassionate toward those who feel pain. We must choose to care, if there will be any caring.
easy to oversee if you're not really looking in the first place.
Originally posted by smallpeeps
Are we too dumb to follow in your footsteps?
lilblam: "Gurdjieff, Mouravieff, Ibn Al-'Arabi, Castaneda"
Originally posted by Kakugo
This thread started out as "unexlained" suicides and ended up in total mayhem. That's too bad.


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Marita Genesis of Potsdam, Germany has an interesting area of study: execution site archaeology. Genesis is just one of a number of scientists and scholars interested in finding out how those executed died and how executioners, particularly in the Middle Ages, lived. Matthias Schulz of Der Spiegel has the story.
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Background Frontotemporal dementia accounts for up to 20% of cases of dementia in the presenium, yet remains poorly recognised. Diagnostic criteria have been devised to aid clinical diagnosis.
Aims To provide an overview of clinical and pathological characteristics of frontotemporal dementia and its nosological status.
Methods The review summarises consensus diagnostic criteria for frontotemporal dementia and draws on the authors' clinical experience of 300 frontotemporal dementia cases, and pathological experience of 50 autopsied cases.
Results Frontotemporal dementia is characterised by pronounced changes in affect and personal and social conduct. Some patients also develop motor neuron disease. Mutations in the tau gene account for some but not all familial cases of frontotemporal dementia.
Conclusions Frontotemporal dementia is a focal form of dementia, which is clinically and pathologically distinct from other dementias. It represents an important model for understanding the functions of the frontotemporal lobes.
Over a century ago, Arnold Pick described focal syndromes associated with degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes. For many years these focal disorders were unrecognised, were subsumed within the broad rubric of dementia, and typically assumed to be Alzheimer's disease. Their rediscovery (Gustafson, 1987; Neary et al, 1988) led to the development of clinical and neuropathological diagnostic criteria (Anonymous, 1994), the clinical criteria having undergone recent revision (Neary et al, 1998). Frontotemporal dementia denotes a clinical syndrome, characterised by behavioural change. Only a minority of patients exhibit Pick-type histological changes, hence the term 'frontotemporal dementia' is preferred to ' Pick's disease', which forms part of the ICD-10 and DSM-IV classifications of dementia (World Health Organization, 1992; American Psychiatric Association, 1994).
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Frontotemporal dementia is the most common form of primary degenerative dementia after Alzheimer's disease that affects people in middle age, accounting for up to 20% of presenile dementia cases. Onset occurs most commonly between the ages of 45 and 65 years, although the disorder can present before the age of 30 years as well as in the elderly. There is an equal incidence in men and women. The mean duration of illness is 8 years, ranging from 2 years to 20 years. A family history of dementia is present in about half of cases.
The salient clinical characteristic is a profound alteration in character and social conduct, occurring in the context of relative preservation of instrumental functions of perception, spatial skills, praxis and memory. Behavioural features, specified in current consensus diagnostic criteria (Neary et al, 1998), are summarised in the Appendix. Decline in social conduct includes breaches of interpersonal etiquette, tactlessness and disinhibition. Impairment in regulation of personal conduct refers to departures from customary behaviour of a quantitative type and includes passivity and inertia as well as overactivity, pacing and wandering. Emotional blunting includes loss of the capacity to demonstrate both primary emotions such as happiness, sadness and fear, and social emotions such as embarrassment, sympathy and empathy. Impaired insight includes impairments both in explicit cognitive awareness of symptoms and in emotional awareness as defined by the lack of expression of concern or distress when confronted by difficulties.
Dietary changes typically take the form of overeating and a preference for sweet foods. Perseverative and stereotyped behaviours encompass simple repetitive behaviours such as humming, hand-rubbing and foot-tapping, as well as complex behavioural routines. Utilisation behaviour refers to stimulus-bound behaviour, in which patients grasp and use an object in their visual field, despite its contextual inappropriateness (e.g. drinking from an empty cup).
Speech output is attenuated and features of echolalia and perseveration may be present. Verbal stereotypies include repeated use of a word, phrase or complete theme. Mutism ultimately ensues. Cognitive changes are indicative of frontal lobe dysfunction. Patients show attentional deficits, poor abstraction, difficulty shifting mental set and perseverative tendencies. Although the primary tools of perception, spatial function and memory are preserved, performance on tests of these functions may be compromised by inattention, inefficient retrieval strategies, poor organisation, lack of self-monitoring, and lack of concern for accuracy.
Neurological signs are typically absent early in the disease or limited to the presence of primitive reflexes. However, Parkinsonian signs of akinesia and rigidity develop with disease progression and may be marked in a proportion of patients. A minority of patients with frontotemporal dementia develop neurological signs of motor neuron disease.
Routine electroencephalography is invariably normal. Brain imaging reveals abnormalities in the frontal and temporal regions that are bilateral but sometimes asymmetrical. Functional imaging techniques such as single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) are most sensitive to such changes. Structural imaging using magnetic resonance imaging is more sensitive than computed tomography.
Post-mortem pathological examination reveals bilateral atrophy of the frontal and anterior temporal lobes and degeneration of the striatum. Histological findings are of three main types (Anonymous, 1994). The most common (microvacuolar) type, accounting for about 60% of cases, is characterised by loss of large cortical nerve cells and a spongiform degeneration or microvacuolation of the superficial neuropil; gliosis is minimal and there are no distinctive changes (swellings or inclusions) within the remaining nerve cells. The limbic system and the striatum are affected but to a relatively mild degree. A second histological pattern (Pick type), accounting for approximately 25% of cases, is characterised by a loss of large cortical nerve cells with widespread and abundant gliosis but minimal or no spongiform change or microvacuolation. Swollen neurons or inclusions that are positive for both tau and ubiquitin are present in most cases, and the limbic system and striatum are more seriously damaged. The two different histological types share a similar distribution within the frontal and temporal cortex. In about 15% of cases, clinical features of both frontotemporal dementia and motor neuron disease are present during life, and microvacuolar (or very rarely Pick type) histological features are combined with those of motor neuron disease.
There is evidence of heterogeneity of clinical presentation. Some patients are disinhibited, fatuous, purposelessly overactive, easily distracted, socially inappropriate and lacking in concern. At the other extreme, patients are bland, apathetic, inert, lacking volition and mental effort, mentally rigid and perseverative. In a proportion of patients the salient presenting characteristic is stereotyped, ritualistic behaviour. The disinhibited form of frontotemporal dementia is associated with pathological changes confined to orbitomedial frontal and anterior temporal regions, whereas the apathetic form occurs when pathological change is extensive throughout the frontal lobes and extending into the dorsolateral frontal cortex. The stereotypic form of frontotemporal dementia occurs in association with marked striatal changes and variable cortical involvement, often with the emphasis on temporal rather than frontal lobe pathology.
These broad behavioural subtypes reflect regional but not hemispheric differences between patients. There is, however, some evidence that hemispheric asymmetries too may influence the behavioural presentation. Social behaviour has been shown to be more disrupted in patients with predominantly right-hemisphere pathological changes (Edwards-Lee et al, 1997), suggesting a particular role of the right hemisphere in social behaviour.
Patients with the behavioural disorder of frontotemporal dementia account for the largest proportion (at least 70%) of patients with non-Alzheimer frontotemporal lobar degeneration. However, other clinical syndromes share the same histopathological characteristics (Snowden et al, 1996; Neary et al, 1998). One is semantic dementia, in which there is progressive loss of concepts, affecting the ability to understand the meaning of words, objects, faces, non-verbal environmental sounds, smells, tastes and tactile stimuli. Pathological change is pronounced in the temporal neocortices, particularly the inferior and middle temporal gyri. Another syndrome is progressive non-fluent aphasia, in which a highly circumscribed disorder of language is associated with markedly asymmetric atrophy affecting the left hemisphere extensively. Occasionally patients may present with a circumscribed apraxia, in association with atrophy of the frontoparietal regions. These syndromes are less common than the behavioural disorder of frontotemporal dementia. Semantic dementia accounts for about 15%, progressive aphasia 10% and progressive apraxia 2% of cases of frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
The overriding feature of frontotemporal dementia is the profound character and behavioural changes and it is the historical account of these changes that plays the most critical part in diagnosis. In a study of the original consensus statement (Anonymous, 1994), Miller et al (1997a) made a comparison of 30 patients with frontotemporal dementia and 30 with Alzheimer's disease, classified clinically on the basis of SPECT findings; 8 of the patients with frontotemporal dementia had subsequent confirmation of diagnosis at autopsy. The behavioural features of loss of social awareness, hyperorality, stereotyped and perseverative behaviour, reduced speech output and preserved spatial orientation best discriminated the two groups, with sensitivity for frontotemporal dementia ranging between 63% and 73% and specificity between 97% and 100%. A discriminant function analysis correctly classified 100% of patients with frontotemporal dementia or Alzheimer's disease on the basis of these behavioural features.
Our own more recent studies provide further evidence of the importance of dietary changes and repetitive and stereotyped behaviours in differential diagnosis. We have found too that the loss of affective response (generalised blunting of emotions) is a key factor in distinguishing frontotemporal dementia from both Alzheimer's disease and cerebrovascular dementia. It is known that emotional unconcern may be heralded in the prodromal and early stage of frontotemporal dementia by symptoms of anxiety, depression and hypochondriacal rumination (Anonymous, 1994). However, these symptoms are typically transient, and provide a less reliable diagnostic marker than the blunting of affect. Similarly, although irritability may be reported in some patients with frontotemporal dementia, it is not more frequent than in other forms of dementia, and is therefore a relatively poor diagnostic marker. In line with the loss of social emotions, social behaviour is highly disordered in frontotemporal dementia, and is a valuable factor in differential diagnosis (Miller et al, 1997b; Sjögren et al, 1997).
Repetitive behaviours in frontotemporal dementia take a variety of forms. They include simple motor mannerisms as well as complex behavioural routines. They occur in the verbal domain in the form of stereotyped use of words or phrases, and in the motor domain as wandering and pacing. Some repetitive behaviours have a distinctly compulsive quality. Compulsive-type behaviours may take the form of clock-watching and adherence to a fixed routine, superstitious rituals such as avoiding standing on cracks in the pavement, or may involve a complex sequence of actions, such as tapping each wall twice upon entering a room.
At first sight the presence of compulsive behaviours seem at odds with the prevailing lack of emotional concern. However, ritualistic and compulsive behaviours are not present in all patients with frontotemporal dementia. Our own experience (Snowden et al, 1996) suggests that they occur in patients with predominantly striatal rather than neocortical pathological changes and in patients with the disinhibited form of frontotemporal dementia, in whom there are orbitofrontal and anterior temporal lobe changes, rather than in those with apathetic frontotemporal dementia who have widespread frontal changes extending into dorsolateral frontal cortices. That the temporal lobes, in addition to the striatum, may have an important role in compulsive behaviours is suggested, moreover, by the high frequency of these behaviours in patients with semantic dementia, in whom the predominant pathology is temporal rather than frontal (Snowden et al, 2001). In these patients clock-watching and adherence to a fixed routine are prominent features. Although the compulsive behaviours in frontotemporal dementia and related syndromes have affinities with those of obsessive—compulsive disorder, patients with frontotemporal dementia do not typically experience the feelings of anxiety and release from anxiety characteristic of obsessive—compulsive disorder.
Rational treatments for frontotemporal dementia are currently limited. Neurochemical studies indicate no abnormality of the cholinergic system, so that pharmacological agents designed for Alzheimer's disease are unlikely to benefit patients with frontotemporal dementia. Nevertheless, there is some evidence that behavioural symptoms, such as disinhibition, overeating and compulsions, may benefit from treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (Swartz et al, 1997), suggesting that a modicum of symptomatic improvement can be achieved at least in some cases.
Uncertainties regarding the nosological status of frontotemporal dementia have arisen for a number of reasons. The clinical syndromes arising from frontotemporal lobar degeneration are not uniform. The disorder itself can be separated into disinhibited, apathetic and stereotypic forms. In a minority of patients with frontotemporal dementia, extrapyramidal signs occur early and are marked, leading to distinct designations of dementia with parkinsonism. Clinically distinct syndromes such as progressive non-fluent aphasia and semantic dementia share the same pathological findings. Moreover, the pattern of histological change also is not uniform, being characterised by microvacuolation (frontal lobe dementia (FLD) type), sometimes combined with histological changes of motor neuron disease (MND type), or severe gliosis with or without inclusions and ballooned cells (Pick type). The clinical syndrome does not predict histological type, so that clinical distinctiveness itself does not imply aetiological difference. Nevertheless, the presence of distinct histological characteristics raises the question whether frontotemporal dementia reflects a single or multiple entities. Advances in molecular genetics are beginning to unravel this issue.
Genetic linkage studies have established the presence of a causative gene on the long arm of chromosome 17 (17q21-22) in some families with autosomal dominant inheritance, and mutations in the tau gene have been identified in some cases (Hutton et al, 1998). The identification of mutations in tau associated with Pick type as well as microvascuolar histological changes links the two histological patterns into the same disease entity. Nevertheless, tau pathology, as shown by immunohistochemistry and mutations in tau, accounts for only a proportion of patients with frontotemporal dementia (Mann et al, 2000). Moreover, a frontotemporal dementia clinical phenotype has shown linkage to chromosome 3 (Brown et al, 1995) and frontotemporal dementia occurring in association with motor neuron disease has shown linkage to chromosome 9 (Hosler et al, 2000). There is thus a need for caution in assuming that all cases of frontotemporal dementia represent tauopathies and have a common aetiology. The clinical and pathological variants of frontotemporal lobar degeneration may reflect different phenotypic expressions of particular genetic changes, some of which involve the tau gene while others relate to as yet undefined genetic variations at this or other chromosomal loci.
Until recently patients presenting with primary degenerative dementia in the presenium were invariably believed to have Alzheimer's disease. It is now recognised that approximately 20% of those patients have frontotemporal dementia. These patients' relative youth, physical well-being and bizarre, socially disruptive behaviour represent a unique challenge for medical, social and therapeutic management.
The nature of frontotemporal dementia forces re-evaluation of the traditional assumption of dementia as an undifferentiated impairment of intellect. Dementia syndromes have highly distinct characteristics, reflecting the regional distribution of atrophy, allowing accurate differentiation between dementing conditions on clinical grounds. Frontotemporal dementia gives rise to characterstic behavioural changes, which include altered emotions, changes in social functioning, altered eating habits, and a spectrum of repetitive and compulsive behaviours. Characterisation of behavioural changes may increase understanding not only of frontotemporal dementia but also of other neuropsychiatric disorders in which parallel changes occur. Future clinical research is likely to shed further light on the functions of the frontotemporal lobes, while basic scientific research may lead to identification of additional genetic loci and to effective treatment strategies.
Clinical Implications and Limitations
Frontotemporal dementia can be distinguished from other forms of dementia on clinical grounds.
The frontotemporal lobes play a critical role in emotion, social functioning, dietary behaviour, and in giving rise to stereotyped and compulsive behaviours.
Familial frontotemporal dementia is associated with genetic mutations at different loci.
Referral bias may distort estimates of prevalence of frontotemporal dementia and patients' demographic characteristics.
There may be geographical variation in the proportion of familial cases.
Diagnostic criteria for frontotemporal dementia require validation, in independent samples of autopsy-verified cases.
Behavioural features of frontotemporal dementia specified in diagnostic criteria
Care features
Insidious onset and gradual progression
Early decline in social interpersonal conduct
Early impairment in regulation of personal conduct
Early emotional blunting
Early loss of insight
Supportive features
Behavioural disorder
Decline in personal hygiene and grooming
Mental rigidity and inflexibility
Distractibility and impersistence
Hyperorality and dietary changes
Perseverative and stereotyped behaviour
Utilisation behaviour
Speech and language
Altered speech output:
aspontaneity and economy of speech
press of speech
Stereotypy of speech
Physical signs
Primitive reflexes
Akinesia, rigidity and tremor
Low and labile blood pressure
Neuropsychology: significant impairment on frontal lobe tests in the absence of severe amnesia, aphasia or perceptuospatial disorder
Electroencephalography: normal on conventional electroencephalography despite clinically evident dementia
Brain imaging (structural and/or functional): predominant frontal and/or temporal abnormality
- Received April 10, 2000.
- Revision received December 11, 2000.
- Accepted April 18, 2001.
- © 2002 Royal College of Psychiatrists


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Directions To Martz Hall
The "Mecca" Martz Hall
Martz Hall at DHH Lengel Middle School Martz
Hall is located on 16th Street and Laurel Boulevard in PottsvilleFrom Rt. 81: Take St. Clair Exit (Rt. 61 South) to Pottsville Diner (on right side)Make
right at Diner and follow road until you can go no further. Make left at that T (Centre Street) and follow to first light (City
Hall will be on your right).At that light (Laurel Blvd), make a right and go to fourth stop sign (16th Street)Make
a left and then an immediate left into Martz Hall parking lot.From 422 or 78: Take Rt. 61 North into Pottsville Turn left onto Rt. 209. Follow 209 to 16th Street (Brok Sel on your left)Make right
onto 16th Street and keep following for two blocksMartz Hall will be on your right. From 901: 901 runs into 209 North. Follow
into Pottsville until you get to Brok-Sel Markets (on right).Make left onto 16th Street and keep following
for two blocks. Martz Hall will be on your right.NOTE: Their
our 2 entrance for Martz Hall will be the main glass doors in front of Martz Hall on 16th Street, the second is around the back of the school lower parking
Hall is located on 16th Street and Laurel Boulevard in Pottsville
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ElementaryBox April 2016 Review – Kindergarten Box + Coupon (Save Every Month)
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First Look
There was a little introduction to this month's box.
The information card had a list of everything in the box, along with a description.
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There were sequencing questions.
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The problem with the redrawing of magisterial districts in Shelby County would seem to be one of simple geometry that anyone can appreciate:
No matter how you slice it, you can't create seven truly equal pieces of a pie.
Yet, that's the problem facing fiscal court as it goes through the suggestion/review process required every 10 years to ensure that each magistrate represents a nearly equal number of residents.
We were extremely pleased to see how significantly Shelby County's graduation rates have surpassed those of other school districts in the state, based on the new formula adopted for federal No Child Left Behind program.
We understand that statistics can be misconstrued and misleading, but clearly Shelby County High School was getting students through the receiving line on graduation day. We marveled, too, at the large percentage of African-American and female students who had earned diplomas. These were standard-setting percentages.
How many times has it been you? Awaken early, pile into the car and head down the road on a family vacation, excited, weary from a long preparation time, plotting a shortest-possible course across perhaps foreign territory to arrive at your destination.
Your anticipation is racing through your veins, adrenalin pushing it like a chemical locomotive, and you keep your eye on the ever-larger dot on the map as you dash toward its fullness, following that beacon to a place of joy and wonder and happiness.
A new budget plan
There is plenty of blame to go round for the protracted, embarrassing performance of our elected officials during the recent debt ceiling debate. The kamikaze tactics of the tea party crowd deserve special mention. However, to their credit, these folks did get me to take a new look at the federal bureaucracy and where significant savings might be realized.
It was my pleasure and honor to work with Mr. and Mrs. J. Edward Moore as the chairman of the O. L. Moore Memorial Scholarship Committee for the last 19 years of its 25-year existence. It was one of the most rewarding experiences in which I participated in my 43 years of educational work.
Law school's loss is East Middle School's gain. Because Myron Montgomery decided to become a teacher and not a corporate attorney, the Missiles now have a new assistant principal who said, "I knew this was something I wanted to do for a long time....This is an industry where everyone is invested in improvement of the product, and our product is a kid that we want to be successful."
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Politique : les apparences sont souvent trompeuses…
By hernandm on Oct 14, 2012 in France
I have been raised in a family where politics never played a major role. As both a French and Spanish citizen, I am entitled to vote in two countries and in Europe which should make of me a privileged citizen. As a female, I should be aware of all these years of battle and struggle my ancestors dealt with to be granted the right to vote. As a citizen of the world, I should be conscious of the privilege of being granted the right to vote and to express my opinion while in still many countries people are nothing more than a voiceless and anonymous crowd.
So why, after considering all these convincing arguments, am I still not into politics?
When you open a magazine, especially a feminine one, you're literally flooded by ads of all sorts. My favorite is the miracle cream ad. It promises you to look ten years younger or ten pounds slimmer or even both sometimes. Well, let me tell you something, this is how I see politics, electoral campaigns and candidates: miracle cream ads. In other words, they've been processed through a brilliant marketing team and their promises are both mouthwatering and utopian. How not to succumb?
Politics' world is the War of the Titans look-alike: Money versus Ideas. Power versus Values. And really, I don't mean to hurt a few remaining idealists' feelings that truly believe politics is about defending ideas and values and improving the world we're living in. Actually I admire them. But I guess I'm just too cynical and probably too disenchanted. I rather feel like a puppet, my strings being pulled by some omniscient and yet invisible power. Instead of feeling actively involved in the political future of my countries, I feel a dull inertness like anesthetized by a wave of unrealizable promises.
As a duty, I will continue to go to the poll and slip my small envelope in the ocean of hopeful pleas. As a right, I will continue to wish for a perfect and yet naive world where citizens would be performers on the stage and politicians would be the audience watching us pulling the strings.
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
― Groucho Marx


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New US Airways flight to Reagan National
Departs San Diego 11:00 p.m.; arrives 7:00 AM.
Departs Reagan National 5:40 p.m.; arrives 8:03 p.m.
Schedule will change July 11
Departs San Diego 12:30 p.m..; arrives 8:23 p.m
Departs Reagan National 8:55 a.m..; arrives 11:18 a.m.
Starting June 8, San Diego travelers will finally be able to fly nonstop to Reagan National, an airport that allows only limited long-distance service to cities.
US Airways will operate one flight daily to Ronald Reagan National Airport, the airfield closest to the nation's capital. The flight was made possible because of new legislation permitting major carriers already operating at the airport to swap out two of their long-haul service slots for new destinations.
US Airways chose San Diego after surrendering its two slots for flights going to and from Dallas-Forth Worth. No other carrier at Reagan National currently offers nonstop flights to Lindbergh Field.
"San Diego has a strong mix of business and government traffic from (Reagan)," said Liz Landau, a spokeswoman for US Airways. "There were several good choices but when we did a thorough review of opportunities, San Diego presented the best opportunity, and we could choose only one route."
Alaska Airlines had hoped to also provide nonstop service to Lindbergh and had applied to the Department of Transportation for permission. Reagan National is one of the few domestic commercial airports in the nation that requires an act of Congress to add flights.
Alaska had sought two of the four open round-trip slots for flights longer than 1,250 miles, but on Monday that just one of its requests was granted -- for Portland, Ore. San Diego did not make the cut.
The other airlines awarded slots by the Department of Transportation were: JetBlue Airways for San Juan, Puerto Rico; Southwest Airlines for Austin, Tex.; and Virgin America for San Francisco.
"We felt as though our proposed schedule in San Diego would have met the existing demand in San Diego and that there would have been enough traffic for both airlines," said Alaska Airlines spokeswoman Bobbie Egan. "But unfortunately, we didn't get that one."
Lindbergh Field official Hampton Brown agreed that while it would have been better to have two airlines serving Reagan National, San Diego fliers will still benefit from the new service provided by US Airways.
"Although we are disappointed that the DOT did not see the merits in additional Reagan National – San Diego flights, we are pleased that US Airways will commence Reagan National – San Diego non-stops in June 2012," said Brown, director of air service development. "The US Airways flight will begin to address the needed additional flight capacity from San Diego to the Washington area."Copyright © 2018, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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A league winning streak that has spanned seven years nearly came to end Tuesday. Despite scoring only six points and making just one field goal after intermission, Maple Hill managed to improve to 14-0 in Patroon Conference play and capture the league title.
Here is a closer look at Tuesday's action.
Canajoharie: The Cougars outscored St. Johnsville 12-5 in overtime to record a 57-50 win in Western Athletic Conference play.
Cohoes: The Tigers knocked on 14 of 17 free throws in the fourth quarter to help secure a 61-52 Colonial Council road win at Ichabod Crane.
Fort Edward: Nate Burkhardt scored 18 points, including a layup with one second lift, to lead the Flying Forts to a 49-47 triumph over Whitehall.
Mekeel Christian Academy: The Lions grabbed control by outscoring Schoharie 14-1 in the opening quarter and went on to register a 63-50 victory in the WAC.
North Warren: Rallied in the fourth quarter to produce a 61-59 decision over Corinth. The Cougars enjoyed a 24-16 edge in the final eight minutes.
Derek Durkee, Fort Ann: The junior put together a tremendous offensive display, scoring 35 points (16 of 17 at the foul line) as the Cardinals edged Salem 49-44.
Ralph Erickson, La Salle: A senior point guard, Erickson poured in 34 points to lead the Cadets to a 68-53 Big 10 victory against Bishop Maginn.
Joey Lufkin, Argyle: The senior standout scored 36 points as the Scots knocked off Hartford 80-32 in Adirondack League action.
Robert Knightes, Burnt Hills: Headed to St. John's to play baseball, Knightes is also adept on the hardwood — scoring a game-high 28 points as the Spartans beat Saratoga 66-53. The senior made four 3-pointers and went 8-for-8 from the foul line.
Joel Wincowski, Lake George: The area's second leading scorer delivered 26 points to help the Warriors post a 87-45 win over Hadley-Luzerne.
Glens Falls: The Indians produced a 33-17 advantage in the second half to rally for a 54-42 road victory at South Glens Falls.
Hudson Falls: The Tigers knocked off Foothills Council leader Queensbury with a 43-40 verdict.
Maple Hill: Nearly squandered a 24-8 halftime lead — needing two free throws by eighth-grader Sabrina Wolfe with 30 seconds remaining to edge Taconic Hills to win the Patroon Conference title and improve to 14-0 in the league. Maple Hill has now captured 110 straight league wins, a streak that dates back to December 2006.
Ravena: The Indians enjoyed a 16-7 advantage in the fourth quarter to generate a 56-49 victory over Mechanicville.
Scotia: Snapped an eight-game losing streak with a 43-41 victory over Broadalbin-Perth. The Tartans opened the season at 5-0 and improved to 6-8 overall with the win over the Patriots.
Cassidy Chapko, Hoosic Valley: The senior shooting guard scored 28 points, featuring four 3-pointers, to lead the Indians past Schuylerville 63-23 in the Wasaren League.
Jenna Erickson, Tamarac: Tallied 17 of her 22 points in the opening quarter as the Bengals cruised to a 77-23 decision over Granville. The junior point guard upped her career point total to 990.
Abby Fitzgerald, Cohoes: Buries five 3-pointers and finished with 17 points, helping the Tigers record a 54-35 win against Ichabod Crane.
Nicole Riddick, Colonie: The junior forward led the Garnet Raiders with 19 points in a 53-32 victory over Mohonasen.
Lashana Tolliver, Watervliet: The senior forward led all scorers with 30 points as the Cannoneers fired past Voorheesville 62-31.