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Facebook is NOT Shutting Down
By David Hurth - Posted on January 9th, 2011
You may have heard reports that Facebook is going to close down on March 15th. In case you where wondering, Facebook has confirmed that they are not closing down the site. The site that originally reported this is one of those sites that reports things like the President surrenders to aliens from Mars.
The most interesting thing about this is how fast fake news can spread with social media. I guess this is the worst part of social media.
Submitted by Alexandre Mercier (not verified) on January 9, 2011 - 11:18pm.
The only thing that can kill social media is social media...


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Reviewer: Leah
Detectives Micki Dare and Zach Harris are back in their second adventure to battle evil. Detective Dare has worked her way up the New Orleans Police Department ladder and had recently been paired with Detective Harris, to protect him as he utilizes his unique abilities. Detective Zach "Hollywood" Harris is not your average person. He is a Half Light, child of a lightkeeper and human; this ancestry giving Harris the ability to read emotions and memories, pick up on how many people have been in the area, and track down the "Dark Bearers", evil ones who are dedicated to destroying the world with evil.
Harris hasn't told Dare about what he really is, pretending to be psychic, but unfortunately Dare had became involved in the middle of a fight between the Lightkeepers and Dark Bearers. She was shot, but healed by another Lightkeeper and while can only remember little of what occurred, she is insistent to search out what happened. She also has become more ingrained in the Lightkeepers, when she unknowingly offered her home to one of the Lightkeepers, Angel.
New Orleans becomes racked with home invasions, and Dare and Harris are put on the case. What they discover is strange: a band of young teens who are destroying homes and attacking adults, yet playing with the children and gaining their trust. Meanwhile, Angel has been approached by a handsome, older, man. They begin a relationship that moves incredibly fast and starts changing her personality worrying the Lightkeepers and Dare. But the two instances become connected and reveal a much darker plot than any had thought of.
I thought this book was amazingly well done. It constantly kept your interests from beginning to end making it near impossible to set down, as you had to know what was to happen next and whether or not the characters would survive. I found myself glued to my kindle as I followed the novels twists and turns to its conclusion.
Besides being a captivating and thrilling story, the characters were interesting and relatable. Each one comes from a different walk of life and the obstacles, challenges, and history the author created in these characters really captured your attention and creating a desire in wanting to know more about them and who they are.
As this is the second installment in the series and had not had the opportunity to read the previous piece, I was initially confused as to who the characters were and what creatures the Lightkeepers and Dark Bearers are. However, even though I did not have the opportunity to read the books in series Spindler is able to craft a well-done story that quickly brings the reader up to speed with the world the characters live in.
This book was phenomenal and I'm looking forward to reading the books that came before, and any to be published in the future. I give it five out of five stars.

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Facebook becomes Google advertising ally
Google-owned online ad-placing service DoubleClick on Friday announced that the way has been cleared to include space at Facebook.
Google-owned online ad-placing service DoubleClick on Friday announced that the way has been cleared to include space at Facebook.
Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., two Internet companies that have long cultivated relationships in Hollywood, are nevertheless placing ads on sites that feature pirated movies, TV shows and music, a new report says.
Google is paying a $22.5 million fine to settle the latest regulatory case questioning the Internet search leader's respect for people's privacy and the integrity of its internal controls.
Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL unveiled a joint advertising agreement on Tuesday designed to take on Internet giant Google.
Google spent more than $500 million to acquire another 27 companies during the third quarter, ensuring this year will be busiest shopping spree in the Internet search leader's history.
By signing in to many of the Web's most popular sites, consumers send their names, email addresses or other personal information to other websites and data-collection companies, according to a Stanford University study that ...
Google said Wednesday the US Justice Department has asked for more information about its bid for Motorola Mobility but expressed confidence the $12.5 billion deal will get the green light.
(AP) -- Federal regulators are seeking more information about Internet search leader Google's proposed purchase of digital advertising company Admeld.
MySpace on Thursday announced that Google will continue to power advertising and search at the flagging online social network under pressure to improve its financial performance.


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Awards contract for purchase of 50-foot command and control vessel
A top priority for the Port of New Orleans moved closer to reality, as the Board of Commissioners selected a firm for the engineering and design phase of the Port's new Riverfront Cold Storage Processing Facility project.
State capital outlay funding through the Division of Administration Office of Facility Planning will fund the $30.5 million project at the Port's Governor Nicholls Street Wharf, which will provide a new home for New Orleans Cold Storage on the Mississippi River.
'I am proud to say the project is moving forward,' said Gary LaGrange, the Port's President and CEO. 'This first-class facility will allow a valued and longstanding Port tenant to grow its business and provide well-paying jobs for many years to come.'
New Orleans Cold Storage found itself forced to look for a location on the Mississippi River after silting and the impending closure of the Mississippi River ' Gulf Outlet reduced deep-draft access to its dockside cold-storage facility following Hurricane Katrina. In 2005, NOCS generated 718 direct and indirect jobs and had a $35 million economic impact on the local economy. NOCS officials predict the company could double its cargo at a facility on the River.
Board members selected New Orleans-based Morphy, Makofsky Inc. as the prime consultant for the project. The firm's fee and the project's timeline will be based upon final negotiations with the firm.
In other Board action, Monticello, AR-based Sea-Ark Marine, Inc. was awarded a $1 million contract to purchase a new 50-foot Command and Control Vessel, which the Harbor Police Department will use to patrol and answer calls on the Mississippi River, throughout the Port's jurisdiction. Department of Homeland Security Grant funding will fully pay for the vessel, along with Maritime Situational Awareness technology to be installed onboard for $99,250.


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If you want to be outstood (which is what happens to you when you attend something outstanding) on a next level, come down to the UnPlaned FunRaiser on the 24th of Feb. Featuring:
- Dizraeli (solo set from the BBC Slam Champion, UK Farrago Slam Champion)
- Bellatrix (The World Female Beatbox Champion)
- The Boxettes (All-female acapella supergroup)
- Cosmo (George Formby for the 21st Century, slinging bawdy songs of theft and rebellion).
Plus games, trains and a brand noo short film! And lush food, too.
Upstairs at the Passing Clouds, Dalston
Wednesday, Feb 24th 2010. 7.30pm til 11pm.
£5 on the door. All proceeds go to the project!


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Excel Gas And Repair Becomes A Massachusetts Vehicle Inspection Service Provider
Excel Gas and Repair is a top automotive repair and service company based in Massachusetts. As a leading service provider in Massachusetts, the company's quality service delivery has been recognized as it becomes an authorized Massachusetts vehicle inspection station. This is to ensure that car inspection is brought closer to the people of Massachusetts, and only the state-of-the-art equipment and tools are used.
Massachusetts vehicle inspection is one of the measures taken by the state to ensure the safety of drivers and other such road users. Vehicle inspection is aimed at ensuring that all vehicles on any of the roads in and around the state are in perfect working condition. In a bid to facilitate the inspection process and reduce the time spent by car owners at inspection stations, the state partners with different companies to create more stations. Excel Gas and Repairs is one of such companies, as the car repair company becomes an authorized vehicle inspection station, issuing inspection sticker to vehicles after a thorough assessment.
The vehicle inspection service is just one of the several services offered by Excel Gas and Repair. In addition to its vehicle inspection service, the company also offers vehicle maintenance, the tire fix, replacements, and alignment, as well as oil and brakes checks. The company also offers tow truck, battery change, and engine repair services to businesses, individuals and other such drivers and car owners in and around Massachusetts.
The combination of affordability and quality service delivery by experienced mechanics has distinguished the service provider from others in the industry.
More information about the vehicle inspection service and other such services provided by Excel Gas and Repair is available on Facebook.
About Excel Gas and Repair
Excel Gas and Repair is an automotive repair company headquartered in Massachusetts. Committed to providing top repair services to owners of domestic and foreign cars, Excel combines the use of state-of-the-art technology and techniques with experienced hands to ensure car owners in and around Massachusetts get the best possible car repair service.
Excel has also become an authorized Massachusetts vehicle inspection station, bringing the service closer to the people of the state. Excel Gas and Repair has consequently become a one-stop shop for all car repair and inspection needs.
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I just got back from a long weekend in San Francisco. I know this is ridiculous but my husband( I mean future husband) and I decided to drive there and stay for a day and a half and drive back.
The drive took us a really long time… but it was definitely worth it, the market was the highlight of my trip. Foodie paradise is an understatement.
Now I am carlagged, we got home at 2 A.M and I need to go back to sleep. I started reading a few blogs on the internet because that's what food bloggers do. I saw this article about making homemade ice cream in David Leibovitz's blog.
The funny part is that I saw a link to it in Serious Eats. It happened to be my first blog read today. I read David's blog almost everyday anyway. That Serious Eats crew, they know everything about anything. If you want to audition for Top Chef, you can find out how to on their website.
Now, this article is particularly interesting because it shows you how to make it without a machine and because the whole drive I have been debating buying an ice cream maker.
I thought of all the weird flavors that I would make if I had one, peanut butter and jelly, lavender chocolate, strawberry basil. The whole need for this machine started as a result of reading too many cooking magazines, every magazine has a new ice cream flavor waiting to be made. David Leibovitz was in town a while ago and I really wanted to go to the cooking class he taught at Sur La Table but I didn't go because I would be too tempted to buy an ice cream maker and I had just returned from vacation the night before.
So the question is: Do I really need an ice cream maker even if I saw one for under 20 bucks? Am I being greedy? Do I need another machine in my tiny kitchen to take up 40 percent of the counter space? If you have one, please tell me how many times you have made ice cream since you got it? Do you make weird flavors like booger ice cream?
I learned about booger jelly beans when I visited the Jelly Belly factory. I will write about it when I get a chance.
So what do you think?
Note: I know that this machine can also be called an Ice cream Machine. No need to write comments accusing me of warping the name of this machine.


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September 14, 2016
SAN ANTONIO – Six compassionate individuals who have distinguished themselves in helping those with special needs will be honored at the 7th Annual "Free to Soar" Gala at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, at Morgan's Wonderland.
The fundraiser will benefit both non-profit Morgan's Wonderland, the world's first theme park designed with special-needs individuals in mind and built to be enjoyed by everyone, and next-door The Academy at Morgan's Wonderland school for students with special needs.
The six honorees – Heather Astuto of McKinney, Texas; Kevin and Melissa Johnson of San Antonio; Susan Moulton of San Antonio; Mindy Scheier of Livingston, N. J.; and Dr. Barbara Whinery of Enid, Okla. – will be saluted at the gala as well as at a luncheon Friday, Sept. 23, hosted by Fleming's Prime Steak House & Wine Bar at Alamo Quarry Market. Their names will be permanently placed on the Wall of Fame in the heart of the park.
Joining them in the spotlight will be special guest of honor Amy Purdy, 2014 Paralympic Games bronze medalist in snowboarding, Team Toyota Athlete and spring 2014 "Dancing With the Stars" finalist on ABC-TV. Purdy's lost both legs below the knee as a result of meningococcal meningitis complications. Through her positive attitude and strength, she has used this life-altering experience to motivate her to accomplish incredible goals.
Another one of the evening's highlights will be a 23nd birthday celebration for Morgan Hartman, daughter of philanthropists Gordon and Maggie Hartman and the inspiration for Morgan's Wonderland as well as other major initiatives to benefit the special-needs community.
"Each year we honor incredibly wonderful individuals who have dedicated themselves to promoting inclusion," said Gordon Hartman, CEO of The Gordon Hartman Family Foundation (GHFF), "Once again, we received nominations from coast to coast, and each one was carefully reviewed by a panel of judges from Morgan's Wonderland and GHFF. Those judges told me how tough it was to select the winners from so many deserving nominees, however we believe the values exhibited by the Wall of Fame honorees clearly mirror inclusion and other principles on which Morgan's Wonderland was founded."
Free to Soar master of ceremonies will be meteorologist Adam Caskey of KSAT 12 TV, and Rick Shaw will conduct the live-auction part of the program.
The Wall of Fame honorees' noteworthy contributions to the special-needs community include the following:
Heather Astuto, McKinney, Texas – In 2010, Astuto founded the non-profit Especially Needed organization to offer year-round special events for special-needs children and adults in the McKinney area. The events include a fall carnival, A Special Time With Santa, an Easter egg hunt, the Super Owls summer camp and monthly birthday parties. She also worked closely with the Kiwanis Club of McKinney to start up the Angel League Halos T-ball team for younger children with special needs. Grants and gifts help Astuto stage the various events, however she oftentimes spends her own money to cover expenses in order not to disappoint families who really look forward to the various activities. She accomplishes all that she does as a single mom, caring for a 5-year-old daughter and a 13-year-old daughter with Down Syndrome.
Kevin and Melissa Johnson, San Antonio – The Johnsons co-founded Project Angel Fares (PAF) in 2011 to enable deserving families with special-needs children living away from San Antonio to visit Morgan's Wonderland. They created PAF after learning that many families cannot afford to travel to San Antonio because of bills for doctors, medicine, therapies, etc. So they started raising money to help pay for transportation, hotel and some miscellaneous expenses. Joining them in this effort are the employees of their business – Johnson Bros. Bakery Supply, which operates in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Over the past five years, PAF fund-raisers and the Johnsons' generosity have made it possible for many families with special-needs children from across Texas and the U. S. to experience Morgan's Wonderland and make lasting memories together.
Susan Moulton, San Antonio – The tragic death of her 8-year-old son in a car accident in 2007 spurred Moulton to create the Will Smith Foundation, which supports programs like Kinetic Kids and Any Baby Can that directly impact the lives of special-needs kids. The foundation hosts annual events in San Antonio and in Hawaii that honor Will's memory as well as the ranching legacy of B. L. Naylor, Moulton's great-grandfather, and her father, B. Naylor Morton. Moulton's giving to the Witte Museum makes her its largest donor to date, and her generosity will lead to the opening of the Naylor Family Dinosaur Gallery at the Witte next year. Moulton has said that the Will Smith Foundation is "my way of healing. I didn't get to finish raising Will, so this is a huge part of my life."
Mindy Scheier, Livingston, N. J. – Scheier is the founder of Runway of Dreams, an organization working with the fashion industry to bring mainstream clothing options to the differently-abled community. A fashion designer by trade, she was inspired to create the organization when her son, Oliver, who was born with a rare form of muscular dystrophy, wanted to wear the same clothes as his peers. After months of research, Runway of Dreams created a toolkit of wearable technology, design modifications and customer-service-sensitivity training for brands to access and incorporate into their existing lines. This spring, Runway of Dreams partnered with Tommy Hilfiger to launch an adaptive version of the brand's children's line, the first time a major name-brand designer sold an adaptive version of an existing clothing line. Scheier aims to partner with additional brands and designers to make fashion accessible for all.
Dr. Barbara Whinery, Enid, Okla. – Inspired by her son, Jake, who has Down Syndrome, Dr. Whinery led a group of parents in the creation of the 4RKids Foundation in 2003. It serves children and adults with special needs in northwestern Oklahoma, and its mission is to promote awareness of individuals with disabilities and to provide them with vocational, educational and recreational opportunities. The foundation owns and operates a wheelchair-accessible miniature golf course that provides employment for special-needs individuals; the 2nd Story Employment Center, which also offers employment in document-shredding and product-manufacturing; and two gift shops where products from the Employment Center are sold by people with disabilities. 4RKids, which co-created a special-needs baseball league, annually hosts social events such as Valentine's and Halloween dances.
Morgan's Wonderland, which is completely wheelchair-accessible, features more than 25 elements and attractions including rides, playgrounds, gardens, a catch-and-release fishing lake, 18,000-square-foot special-events center, 575-seat amphitheater, picnic area and rest areas throughout the park. (Check www.MorgansWonderland.com for the latest information on days and hours of operation.)
The gala's other beneficiary – The Academy at Morgan's Wonderland – is located next to the theme park and accommodates students ages 12 through 24. The school focuses on getting each student ready for independence and employment through reading and math instruction as well as social and life skills and vocational training. For more information, visit www.MorgansWonderland.academy.
With Toyota as presenting sponsor, Morgan's Wonderland is located in Northeast San Antonio a half-mile west of IH 35 at the intersection of Wurzbach Parkway and Thousand Oaks Drive. For more information, call (210) 495-5888. Other details about the Free to Soar Gala are available from Becky Thomas, gala chair, at (210) 493-2811.


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Wild Medicine in the Tropics
Explore the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory's A World of Plants to discover plants used for health and wellness.Learn More
The Orchid Show
Now in its 16th year, The Orchid Show will showcase thousands of dramatically displayed orchids in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory featuring a series of installations crafted by Daniel Ost—each a living sculpture that celebrates the complex beauty of these stunning flowers.Learn More
Out of the Woods
Out of the Woods features an exhibition of work by the American Society of Botanical Artists, which is headquartered here at the Garden. Forty-two selected artworks capture strikingly detailed images of trees, all of them cultivated in public gardens and arboreta.Learn More
Learn Something New This Season!
Beginners and advanced students alike can enjoy classes in Botanical Art and Illustration, Floral Design, Gardening, Horticulture, and more!Learn More
New Year, New Projects
NYBG Press offers the best supplemental material for independent botanical projects, anthropology, and natural resources coursework. Publications include case studies and references.Learn More
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This year's series stays close to home—and heart—as three renowned garden designers, plantsmen, and environmental stewards take us inside their own personal gardens.Learn More
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He handed her a prescription for medical strength Vitamin D and another for Iron and suggested she also up her Vitamin C, but he didnt' dispense one gram of advice on which foods contain them. Perhaps he didn't know, perhaps he didn't feel it was his role to talk about a topic so un-medical as the dinner plate. Perhaps he just never thought to mention that if she ate more cauliflower soup (high in C and shown in pic above!) she may not even need those pills that turn sideways on their descent. But doctors are trained to write prescriptions not shopping lists.
I created the list below (showing which foods provide which level of nutrients) as a result of the conversation I had with this friend. She told me about the vitamin and mineral that were being threatened because of the drug's pillaging of her body and we spoke about what foods she could eat to make up for the destruction medicine can leave as its making us better (or that stress can leave as it's making us human.)
I'm by no means anti-supplements and there may be times when taking them is the only way to get what we need, it's just that I'm radically pro-food. I'm pro trusting that red pepper are loaded with Vitamin C even though there is no label telling us so. I'm pro keeping the yolks in eggs since that's where all the precious oils live. I'm pro eating plain yogurt to get mounds of calcium and I'm pro discovering how good cardamom and nutmeg are in cauliflower soup so that I can't not be excited about eating it for its Vitamin A!
I should add that I was not always such a fierce advocate of "Food First", so take my preachings as coming from a reformed vitamin-isle junkie. Five years ago a tingle in my throat had me on Vitamin C like it was candy (because that was the kind I bought – the orange ones, the ones that taste like Sweet Tarts, the ones you're meant to grow out of by the time you stop carrying a lunch box.) These days I've culled my supplements to simply fish oil (for the Omega 3) and cod liver oil (for the D). I'm generally more comfortable with supplements that are the actual nutrient (in the case of fish oils) than those that are a synthetic version and though chemically identical, are not themselves the nutrient. That may be splitting hairs or simply justifying my practice, but it feels right for me.
Below are some examples of which foods contain what quantity of some of the more commonly bottled nutrients.
An important note re the RDA (recommended daily allowance), there is enormous debate over the levels, with many "experts" feeling these are far too low (especially for D, which some believe should be 10x this level), so take these as a mere guideline and adjust to suite your needs.
Vitamin A (RDA 5000 Int'l Units)
Kale (1 cup raw), 10,ooo IU
Cantaloupe ( 1/8 of a large melon), 3,000 IU
Folate (B Vitamin) (RDA 400 milligrams)
Spinach (1 cup cooked), 194 mg
Lentils (1/2 cup cooked), 180 mg
Vitamin C (RDA 90 milligrams)
Red Pepper (1 cup chopped), 190 mg
Cauliflower (1 cup chopped), 52 mg
Vitamin D (RDA 600 Int'l Units)
Sunshine (Hard to say how much time you need since there are so many variables (time of year, time of day, color of skin). But unless you're a lifeguard who's sworn off sunscreen, you're likely not getting all that you need from the sun.)
Tuna (1 tin), 300 IU
Vitamin E (RDA 15 milligrams)
Almonds, (1/4 cup), 10 mg
Avocado (1/2 avocado), 10 mg
Calcium (RDA 1000 milligrams)
Yogurt (1 cup plain whole milk), 296 mg
Mustard Greens (1 cup cooked), 104 mg
Iron (RDA 8 milligrams)
Kidney Beans (or Adzuki) (1/2 cup), 2.5 mg
Beef (4oz sirloin or one hamburger patty), 1.6 mg
See a more comprehensive list of foods here.
But back to the cauliflower soup…it's in season now in the NE and though I love to eat it roasted, I've been whirling it into its liquid version with outstanding results. A few of the secret ingredients I used are celery leaves, cardamom, and nutmeg. Chive blossoms lie on top.
To prolong the blossoms, stick the chives in a jar of water in the fridge and they'll be in bloom for weeks.
I tossed about 6 cardamom pods into the soup, simmered it and blended. Do not do this. The pods do not blend and you'll wind up pulling bits of cardamom husk out of your mouth. Crack open the pods, and use the seeds only.
So what's your take on supplements? Or what are your favorite ways to get what you need "Food First"?
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United Therapeutics' Lung Drug Rejected by U.S. FDA
United Therapeutics Corp. (UTHR), a maker of vascular-disease medicines, failed to win U.S. approval for an oral version of Remodulin to treat a lung disorder.
The shares fell as much as 16 percent in extended trading after the Food and Drug Administration rejected the drug, questioning whether it slowed the progress of the disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension, in three final-phase studies, the Silver Spring, Maryland-based company said today in a statement. The FDA also questioned the lack of a statistically significant effect on a six-minute walk distance in two studies.
United Therapeutics' therapy is an oral version of treprostinil, which is already approved to treat the life- threatening lung disorder by injected, intravenous and inhaled administration. While the company said the FDA is unsure if an additional clinical trial would alter the agency's impressions of the oral version, regulators recommended the company consider a fixed-dose design and more frequent dosing, if it decided to conduct another study, United Therapeutics said.
"We will continue using our best efforts to gain approval of oral treprostinil, and we will focus on doing so within the next four years," Martine Rothblatt, chairman and chief executive officer of United Therapeutics, said. "We will convene with our experts over the next several weeks to decide which of several paths forward to pursue."
United Therapeutics fell 9.9 percent to $48.02 at 5:12 p.m. New York time after declining as low as $45. The company dropped 2.2 percent to close at $53.28.
The FDA approved injectable Remodulin in 2002, according to the agency's website.
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Do you have metal or other materials that need cutting and need to learn how to use a plasma cutter? If so, you have come to the right place. During the course of this article you will learn what a plasma cutter is and how it works. First of all, a plasma cutter is used to cut materials such as metal and steel of various thickness. A plasma cutter is great for cutting because it leaves a clean, non-sharp cut. If you have metal or steel that needs cutting, read on to learn how to use a plasma cutter.
- You will need protective gear during the cutting. Glasses, goggles or a face shield must be worn when using plasma cutters. This protects the face and eyes from debris and prevents damage to the eyes, a condition which in this case is called arc eye. Arc eye creates a feeling of grit in the eye and can become painful. It is occurs when protective eye wear is not worn.
- Next, it is time to start the arc. Some arc machines may be started by putting the metal or steel you will be working with in place. Others will use high voltage switches to start. Determine what type of plasma cutter you are using before you begin.
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(Chico, CA) – Cicerone Certification Program™ founder, Ray Daniels, sparked some debate on Twitter over the past 24 hours when he shared comments regarding cans from Boston Beer Chairman, Jim Koch. A few tweets:
Jim Koch (Boston Beer) says they're working on beer in cans, but "the plastic absorbs some of beer flavor". From @CraftBizDaily
— Ray Daniels (@Cicerone_org) July 17, 2012
Koch: "You can't put the same beer in cans that you put in a bottle." Agree when I taste Torpedo in can. From @CraftBizDaily
— Ray Daniels (@Cicerone_org) July 17, 2012
I regularly buy some beers in cans. But when I taste a beer I've loved for years from a can (yes, in a glass silly), it tastes different.
— Ray Daniels (@Cicerone_org) July 18, 2012
I don't care where a great beer comes from and obviously they can come from cans. But stupid to ignore differences.
— Ray Daniels (@Cicerone_org) July 18, 2012
Yep. "Stupid."
BeerPulse pinged Sierra Nevada Brewing Product Development Manager, Bill Manley, to get his take on it all. Coincidentally,
Daniels actually certified Manley as a Cicerone™ Manley passed Daniels' Certified Beer Server exam (and awaits results of the Cicerone exam) so one would think Manley speaks from a position of credibility when it comes to beer flavor and science…
Says Manley, "I respectfully disagree with the notion that there is a flavor difference between our bottles and cans. We've done extensive (exhaustive?) sensory and analytical analysis that suggests otherwise. In hundreds of double-blind trials we've found no statistical or analytical difference in flavors. There is literally no difference between the beer in the can and the beer in the bottle. Occasionally they come from the same bright beer tank."
Sierra Nevada puts live yeast into its Pale Ale cans so that it will 'condition' after packaging, much like it does with bottles. Torpedo, meanwhile, is not can-conditioned though it is tank-conditioned just like the bottled version.
Manley continues, "The plastic argument also doesn't hold much water with our lab analysis. The plastic lining in cans can scalp flavor but crown liners can scalp as much, or more, than can liners. The plastic under a crown is more dense than can-liners and can have a far more detrimental effect on flavor, specifically hop flavor. Our research shows little-to-slight deviation in longevity and hop aroma trials over extended aging. In fact, it gives a slight edge to cans at 120 days."
On a related note, sales for cans have been solid thus far, though, due to capacity constraints, the company has no plans to can additional brands through 2013.
"The latest numbers (through mid-June) show that we've sold about 240,000 case equivalents of cans so far this year. Overall, we are up significantly year-to-date with both Pale Ale and Torpedo. Most of that growth is coming from packaged beer rather than draught."
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Lovecraftian rant about the horrors of Blackboard
Moodle is the wsy to go. I refuse to use Blackboard.
No doubt BlackBoard is dreadful. I would recommend Canvas by Instructure any day. Luckily that is what my place witched over to after spending years on WebCT. The cool thing about Canvas that it has iPad apps and is built around making it very easy to grade. Don't get me wrong it has its moments, but much better than nearly anything I have used.
Taught in it full-time for nearly three years. For 18 months of that, we kept being promised an upgrade to a newer version at some ever-moving date in the future.
I once counted how many clicks it took me to set up my courseroom including "private feedback areas" for each of my 25 students. The number was well over 1000. I had RSI within a few months of starting that job, and all the physical therapy and adaptive technology in the world couldn't really mitigate the effects of the horrible design, impossibly kludgy UI, and shitty Java implementations.
Has anyone checked out hub.edu?
Java is an affront to humanity and should be destroyed. It has literally no place on the desktop and only serves as a vector for malware infections. Only the laziest, most unsympathetic coders would insist on using it. It's easily replaced with a number of other, better implemented frameworks, for instance .NET, which itself isn't wonderful, but is certainly better than Java.
Every time I see an unnecessary java applet I die a little inside.
Fortunately, I've never had to use Blackboard. The two schools I've taught at moved on from Blackboard before I started. One moved to Moodle, which I've had great experiences with.
The other moved to Sakai. Which I really don't like. Moodle seems very dynamic and flexible. Very user friendly. Sakai is frame-based and really clunky for creating an integrated course with easy to follow flow.
I'm told Sakai has fans and was told by the university tech people it's better. But I don't know anyone, teacher or students, who like it.
part of me feels bad for agreeing with you, since my dad worked for Sun before the Oracle buyout (he was part of the team that made Java 3D) but yeah, modern java is a bloated, insecure, overused crapheap.
I actually attended a Blackboard meeting on Thursday. The sound crashed through the whole session. It was a trainwreck.
Not a fan.
Have you seen the percentage of campus laptops with a distinctive glowing fruit adornment? Desktop java is, indeed, a pox on mankind (and really has no place in a 'web interface'); but it does have the advantage that there is a JVM for approximately every turing-complete thing with sufficent RAM. Other options, less so.
I am oblivious regarding Blackboard, but I can't read "Lovecraftian rant" without thinking about that lovely StackOverflow bit on parsing HTML with regex (previously on BoingBoing).
And there's that old Penny Arcade comic; I'm still waiting for the day someone causes a sh*tstorm by trying to inflict that on an oblivious member of the public.
Fine then. Most of this stuff could be coded in python easily enough. And python's fairly portable. Use that instead.
There's no reason to use Java for anything really anymore. There are tons of solutions to replace it, and a number of apps I support at work crash every time a Java update rolls out. Also any time IE gets updated. Also anytime chrome gets updated. Also anytime a new version of the corporate VPN client is pushed out. It's a godawful mess right now. Our time-keeping system has been broken for a week because of a non-optional java update we can't block unless we block Java from even using HTTP ports. Which would break the timekeeping applet all over again.
This is why I just build Wordpress-based sites for every class I teach now.
Oh, don't get me wrong. I completely agree that they should quit pretending and build their 'webapp' using actual web technologies. Wrapping a big chunk of java in a thin HTML shell is about as 'web based' as putting a win32 executable on your server and claiming that it's 'web based' because users can download it over HTTP.
My point was just that, if somebody is depraved and/or forced enough to use java applets on the desktop, java's ability to be equally frustrating across all major platforms and some minor ones is a fairly major advantage. Even Flash doesn't have quite the same breadth, and sucks at least as much if not substantially more.
Using a JVM on the server is substantially more defensible; but is also largely invisible to the poor users.
(At work over here, we have some very expensive-and-fancy-when-they-were-new heating/cooling control systems with java based interfaces. For the moment, carefully maintaining IE6/Java 1.4 is more attractive than shelling out ~30k per unit to have the vendor swap the boards, no software update here, everything burned into hardware; but it hasn't created warm feelings about java.)
Yeah. Cross-platform frameworks are very important. I'd be delighted if one actually existed and it wasn't shite. The closest I've seen is Python, but that's really not saying much. There's so much variation in the executable libraries of the numerous spinoffs of Python that it seems there's a lot of room for improvement.
As it is, I'm simply astounded that every minor Java patch and update manages to almost completely break backward compatibility with my company's timekeeping software. It's a common software too, I've used it at every job I've worked.
Either Java is just garbage, or the timekeeping software is terribly designed, or both. And I'm pretty sure it's both.
That reminds me of a discussion I once had with a developer about an "improved" interface for my main work program. I pointed out that functions that had once been activated with a single click now required a minimum of three. He replied that three clicks wasn't "a big deal".
I said, "It is if it's something you're doing a hundred times a day."
That led to the inevitable reply of, "Well you just need to change what you're doing."
I've never heard of Blackboard so I googled it and all I got was instances of Blackboard at various education establishments. Seems like a bit of an SEO fuck up there.
Well, for a Lovecraftian bit, there is Charlie Stross's bit on Perl: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/old/attic/perl/lurker.html
We use Canvas now at the community college network in my city. I quite like it. Or at least what little I've used of it thus far.
Oof, yeah. I take classes in Blackboard now (including web development classes) and it is the worst.


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Nemanja Vidic's agent has confirmed that the defender is 'just details' away from signing for Inter.
The Nerazzurri owner Erick Thohir confirmed on Thursday that the Serbian centre-back was '90 per cent' their player.
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Me, my mom and my sister drove from Utah to Anaheim for the first supercross. Now I know why James Stewart, Chad Reed, Ricky Carmichael & supercross are household names – it was incredibly exciting!
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- building(s) where instruction in one or more branches of knowledge takes place.
- Roosevelt Elementary School (2km)
- Rogers Elementary School (2.6km)
- Holy Innocents School (2.7km)
- Fife High School (2.8km)
- Gualt Junior High School (3km)
- Fife Elementary School (3km)
- Gault Middle School (3km)
- Hawthorne School (3.4km)
- Lister Elementary School (3.5km)
- McKinley Elementary School (3.8km)
- Eastside Christian Academy (3.8km)
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- Willard School (4.4km)
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- Meilvaig Junior High School (4.6km)
- McIlavigh Junior High School (4.6km)
- Holy Rosary School (4.6km)
- Mary Lyon Elementary School (5.1km)
- Local Feature;
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- Reservation (1.4km)
- Fife Valley Mart (2.3km)
- Fife Square (2.4km)
- Fife Interchange (2.5km)
- Pier Number 7 (4km)
- Pier Number 4 (4.2km)
- Union Station (4.3km)
- Pier Number 2 (4.4km)
- Pier Number 2 (4.5km)
- Port of Tacoma (4.5km)
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- City Waterway (4.3km)
- Milwaukee Waterway (4.4km)
- Middle Waterway (4.5km)
- Sitcum Waterway (4.6km)
- Saint Paul Waterway (4.8km)
- populated place;
- a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
- Tacoma Junction (0.8km)
- Fife (2.5km)
- Salishan (3.6km)
- Fife Heights (4.1km)
- building(s);
- a structure built for permanent use, as a house, factory, etc..
- Hylebos (3.6km)
- Carlton Hotel (4.5km)
- Massasoit Hotel (4.6km)
- Pantages Theater (5.1km)
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- Turning Basin (2km)
- Upper Turning Basin (3.4km)
- Lower Turning Basin (3.8km)
- Hylebos Waterway (4.5km)
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- Clear Creek (0.9km)
- Swam Creek (1.2km)
- Squally Creek (2.8km)
- West Hylebos Creek (4.9km)
- park;
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- Swan Creek County Park (2km)
- Portland Avenue Park (2.3km)
- McKinley Park (3.1km)
- Firemans Park (4.9km)
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Seattle tacoma international(SEA), Seattle, Usa (27.2km)
Boeing fld king co international(BFI), Seattle, Usa (37.4km)
Snohomish co(PAE), Everett, Usa (85km)


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Webcams Inside Bird Boxes at Agricola Romanelli
In 2008 the Romanelli family positioned bird boxes throughout their farm, with live webcams inside the boxes to monitor the birds' activity and lifecycles. The intent is to safeguard local species and provide nesting places, which have been decreasing in number. In turn, the birds eat disadvantageous insects, and an increased number of birds of prey – those falcons on the mountain of Montefalco – helps minimize rodents. Watching the webcams from home, either before you visit or after, solidifies the experience.
Wine Tasting along the Sagrantino Road
Sagrantino, the signature grape of the Montefalco wine region of Umbria, is enjoying a resurgence. In 1971 there were less than 10 wineries in the area; today there are more than 80 with many of them coming online in the last 10 to 15 years. Local businesses have adopted the idea of wine tourism step by step. Its momentum is driven in part by Marco Caprai of Arnaldo-Caprai (which was named European Winery of the Year in 2012 in the international press) and Guido Guardigli, owner of Perticaia Winery and President of the association for the Sagrantino Road, which now has more than 100 members from several hospitality categories including restaurants, hotels, and wineries.
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Well, y'all. Today is the day. I am finally getting to officially announce and show you the project I've been slaving away over for the past five or so months. If you had told me even eight months ago that this is what I'd be sharing with you today I wouldn't have believed you. I am so thankful that the opportunities that have been thrown my way and am excited to jump full force into them!
This project has been a labor of love. Let's talk about the fact that prior to October, I had never even USED Adobe Illustrator. Nope. In fact, the thought of it terrified me. Luckily, I have a dear friend (who happens to live right behind me! Hi Lauren!) who helped me tremendously during this project (and continues to do so!). Having someone close by to help me with my random middle of the night questions was invaluable!
INTRODUCING… my very first collection of fabrics: Gleeful.
(would you guys mind doing me a HUUUUUGE favor by pinning the image above? I would forever be grateful to you!)
While designing this line of fabric I couldn't get away from bright and cheery colors. I love them.. they're my favorite to sew with, to wear, to decorate with, etc. So it was only fitting that my debut line of fabric be FULL of color and F-U-N. I hope you love these prints as much as I do and are starting to plan your wardrobes with them! 😉
I am SO thankful to Pat Bravo and Art Gallery Fabrics for choosing me to join them on this inaugural journey. WOW… feeling overwhelmed with gratitude to them doesn't even begin to describe it.
And thank YOU for joining me on this journey. If I hadn't started this little blog back in 2010, who knows what I'd be doing, right?!
Check out this video below to learn a little more about Sara, April, and me and the inspiration behind our limited edition fabric lines.
Limited Edition Collections by Art Gallery Fabrics from Art Gallery Fabrics on Vimeo.
SO, now on to more important things.. WHO do I get to meet at Spring Quilt Market in Pittsburgh?!


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We are less than two years removed from her first naked photo spread, but veteran internet model extraordinaire Cindy Margolis is back in the pages of Playboy, only with much less fanfare this time around. We guess you can only be nude for the first time so many times before it starts to lose a little of its juice. Still, she is a busty babe photographed without her clothes on, so it probably wouldn't kill you to "download" her one more time.
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The week is done. The 2011-2012 theater season is growing short. And 5,000 shows are opening in the next twelve days. On your mark, get set…
- Jesus Christ Superstar's Josh Young almost didn't make it to the church… I mean theater… on time this week thanks to a crappily-timed illness that sidelined him for the show's final previews. He was well enough on Thursday night to open the show –- and shore up his chances of a Tony nomination. No word on how he was feeling after he realized that half of the critics reviewed his understudy.
- Smash will return for a second season — without creator Theresa Rebeck at the helm. She may stick around to write some episodes, and will continue to executive produce, but she won't be overseeing the show day-to-day. Bottom line: We don't care what they do as long Will Chase stays, and continues to remove his shirt at least once an episode.
- Sting's musical The Last Ship, which he's working on with Pulitzer Prize winner Brian Yorkey, and which actually sounds interesting — check the description behind the link — has been postponed. Not a lot of word on why, but we're not-so-secretly hoping it comes back to life and brings Colin Donnell and Michael Esper with it.
- Speaking of new musicals… This sounds
awful amazing ridiculous curiouslike it might be kind of good: Sheryl Crow is writing songs for a musical version of the 1982 movie Diner, which will debut at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco in the fall before making a go at Broadway. Worth a trip across the country? Probably not. Worth coercing someone to give us a bootleg? Probably.
- Aaaaand we're back to talking about Les Miz: the Movie Musical. This time because the first images of Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean have just leaked. BRB. Gotta go file these under: Hugh Jackman Looks Unsurprisingly Perfect.
- Gavin Creel's badass new album, Get Out, dropped this week, and immediately made the iTunes bestseller list. The launch party at Joe's Pub involved a newly-shorn Steel Burkhardt, dancing, and Ben Cullum — all things we love.
- Looks like the grand and continuing experiment known as Carrie has come to another untimely end. MCC's planned extension of the show was abruptly canceled this week. Apparently audiences in the 80s weren't completely full of shit. Except for the whole Phantom thing.
- The hilarious, disgustingly talented, handsome Vince Gatton, as it turns out, is also a genius/trivia nerd. Mr. Gatton was on Jeopardy this week, which we think is the COOLEST THING EVER. We won't spoil the episode for you, but you can read a bit about his experience — in his own words — right here.
- Since Johnny Gallagher decided to go and get all Hollywood famous and be on a big Aaron Sorkin TV show, we've missed having his pretty face in NYC all the time. So it was damn exciting to see pics from the American Idiot tour opening in LA this week. His smile — and nerdy glasses, and messy hair — were just the hit we needed to get us over our withdrawal.
- SHUT UP THIS IS ABOUT THEATER. We hate ourselves for loving it, but R. Kelly's musical (?) of extreme fabulousity and ludicrousity, Trapped In the Closet, will continue. New episodes will air on IFC. As Sylvester would say, OH SHIT.
- A few months back, the esteemed posters on All That Chat attempted to compare Jeremy Jordan to John Raitt. It didn't go well. This week, they tried to compare him to Gene Kelly. In the coming weeks, they'll try George Clooney, Jon Hamm, Errol Flynn, and Paul Newman, to see if any of those work any better.


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The HiRISE camera just keeps snapping cool things, and in the latest issue of Geology, Milazzo et al. have spotted something particularly cool in this image of the rim of this crater. It seem this particular impact punched right through a large basalt lava flow, and tilted the exposed edges skywards, allowing us to see: columnar basalts!
Below I've sketched in some interpretation of the features in these images, which show multiple layers of columnar basalt separated by massive (featureless) layers. In at least one place (in the middle figure), you can see columns which are much more irregularly spaced and oriented.
These are all features you can see within large basalt flows on Earth: take, for example, the Isle of Staffa, off the west coast of Scotland, which formed as part of the same volcanic episode responsible for the Giant's Causeway. The cliffs of this island are basically a section through a single basaltic lava flow, with lovely regular columns at the base and more massive basalt, with irregular fanning columns seen in places, at the top.
The columns in a columnar basalt are basically joints; cracks that formed during cooling and shrinkage of the lava. Their regular spacing is due to the cooling rate being fairly constant throughout the entire flow. The more irregular, radiating columns found close to the top of a flow are thought to record interaction with water percolating through cracks in the surface and causing localised cooling. By analogy, Milazzo et al. argue that the flows they see on Mars were also water-cooled. Of course, the age of these lavas is presently unknown, so I'm not sure how signficant this is in terms of charting the history of water on the the Martian surface; but it shows that looking at volcanic features, as well as sedimentary and mineralogical ones, might be useful in working out that story.
M.P. Milazzo, L.P. Keszthelyi, W.L. Jaeger, M. Rosiek, S. Mattson, C. Verba, R.A. Beyer, P.E. Geissler, A.S. McEwen (2009). Discovery of columnar jointing on Mars Geology, 37 (2), 171-174 DOI: 10.1130/G25187A.1


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The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi- sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exception of 1942 and 1946, which were canceled due to World War II, has taken place every four years since then
The games are overseen by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), which also controls the sporting program and selects the host cities. A host city is selected for each edition. 18 cities in seven countries have hosted the event. Apart from many Olympic sports, the games also include some sports that are played predominantly in Commonwealth countries, such as lawn bowls and netball.
The Commonwealth Games is a unique, world class, multi-sports event which is held once every four years. It is often referred to as the 'Friendly Games'.
Although there are 53 members of the Commonwealth of Nations, 71 teams participate in the Commonwealth Games, as a number of dependent territories compete under their own flag. The four Home Nations of the United Kingdom—England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland also send separate teams.
Only six countries have attended every Commonwealth Games: Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Scotland, and Wales. Australia has been the highest achieving team for twelve games, England for seven, and Canada for one
The first Commonwealth Games, known as the British Empire Games at the time, were held in Canada in 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario. 'Bobby' Robinson, who was a major player within athletics in Canada at the time, was the driving force behind the event. The first Games included 400 athletes from 11 countries.
From 1930 to 1950 the games were known as the British Empire Games, and then the name was changed to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games until 1962.
From 1966 to 1974 they had the title of British Commonwealth Games.
From 1978 onwards they have been known as simply the commonwealth Games.
Visit us on: – Official Website: http://www.thecgf.com
– Facebook Page: Commonwealth Games Federation
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Pictoplasma 2012
Pictoplasma Festival & Conference.
Picture 1: Low Bros
Picture 2 & 3: Andy Rementer
Picture 4: Gemma Correll
Picture 5: Miss Lotion
Picture 6: Gemma doing her talk, I laughed quite a lot. This is my number one favourite of her illustrations.
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yey, I love Pictoplasma, i bet u had wonderful time and Gemma is so sweet*ReplyDelete
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I like Andy Rementer's work so much, could be love, even.
that 'seal of approval' is HILARIOUS. also, that art show looks freaking fantastic. i'm jealous! :)ReplyDelete
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it´s so funny....., i made a simular photo like your first ones, to write a post about pictoplasma... huuuuuuu. now i´m thinking, to take another one. or maybe i will take the simular one, anyway.
Oh wow! I love all of these. Thank you for all the links. I will definitely be checking them all out and finding out more.ReplyDelete
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Reasons to believe
The World of Santa Claus
Santa figurines
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The Reluctant Mythmaker
Dateline: 12/10/97
Truth be told, the nineteenth-century author who
bequeathed us the image of a fat, jolly, white-bearded
St. Nicholas ("His eyes -- how they twinkled! his
dimples how merry!") was himself a dour, straitlaced
academician. As a professor of classics at the General
Theological Seminary in New York City, Clement C.
Moore's most notable work prior to "A Visit from Saint
Nicholas" was a two-volume tome entitled A Compendious
Lexicon of the Hebrew Language.
Fortunately for us, the man had children.
Legend has it that Moore composed "A Visit from St.
Nicholas" for his family on Christmas Eve of 1822,
during a sleigh-ride home from Greenwich Village. He
supposedly drew inspiration for the elfin, pot-bellied
St. Nick in his poem from the roly-poly Dutchman who
drove his sleigh that day. But from what we know of
Clement Moore, it's much more likely to suppose that he
drew his imagery from literary sources, most notably
Washington Irving's Knickerbocker History (1809) and a
Christmas poem published in 1821 called "The Children's
Friend." Irving's History, a satire on the transplanted
customs of New York's Dutch population, contained
several references to the legendary Santa Claus (Sinter
Klass in Dutch), a stern, ascetic personage
traditionally clothed in dark robes. It was a character
we would scarcely recognize as the Santa Claus we know
today, apart from his annual mission of delivering gifts
to children on Christmas Eve.
"The Children's Friend," a poem for young people,
harkened from the same tradition but also added some new
elements to the "Santeclaus" myth: the first known
references to a sleigh and reindeer. The poem begins:
Old Santeclaus with much delight
His reindeer drives this frosty night.
O'er chimney tops, and tracks of snow,
To bring his yearly gifts to you...
According to Duncan Emrich in Folklore on the American
Land (Little, Brown: 1972), when Moore sat down to
compose a Christmas poem for his own children, he took
inspiration from the details he had read in these works
- and not just those pertaining St. Nicholas himself.
Emrich observes:
From Irving and the Dutch tradition he drew St.
Nicholas, the traditional St. Nicholas. But from his
past reading of the Knickerbocker History, Moore
remembered most vividly the descriptions of the fat and
jolly Dutch burghers with their white beards, red
cloaks, wide leather belts, and leather boots. So, when
he came to write a poem for his children, the
traditional and somewhat austere St. Nicholas was
transformed into a fat and jolly Dutchman. Also, from
"The Children's Friend" of the year before, which he had
probably purchased for his own youngsters, he drew not
one lone reindeer, but created the new immortal and
fanciful eight.
Still, it seems reasonable to suppose that Moore's most
profound inspiration came not from his readings but from
a keen appreciation of his audience. He wasn't writing
for publication, but to delight his own six children. To
that end, he transformed the legendary figure of St.
Nicholas, the patron saint of children, into Santa
Claus, a fairy tale character for children. It was
perhaps Moore's greatest contribution to the tradition,
and at least partially explains Santa Claus'
overwhelming popularity in American culture ever since.
Moore, stodgy creature of academe that he was, refused
to have the poem published despite its enthusiastic
reception by everyone who read it. Evidently his
argument that it was beneath his dignity fell on deaf
ears, because the following Christmas "A Visit from St.
Nicholas" found its way into the mass media after all
when a family member cunningly submitted it to an
out-of-town newspaper. The poem was an "overnight
sensation," as we would say today, but Moore was not to
acknowledge authorship of it until fifteen years later,
when he reluctantly included it in a volume of collected
works. He called the poem "a mere trifle." The irony of
this, as Duncan Emrich points out, is that for all his
protestations, Professor Clement Clarke Moore is now
remembered for little else at all.
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In the past 24 hours since seeing the news of Ruination's demise on Stone's Facebook page and subsequently their blog post, I've experienced all of the five stages of grief:
Denial: NO. No way they can do this, holy crap no.
Anger: That's really messed up. Ruination is an iconic beer with a 100 rating on Ratebeer and a world class rating on Beer Advocate. Idiots!
Bargaining: Ok Stone, give me another chance. I'm going to my local beer store to buy some right now, ok? Ok?!??
Depression: Ruination 2.0? Just not going to be the same. Man that really sucks.
And finally, acceptance: Ok, I get it. Ruination was seeing some decline in numbers and 2.0 is bound to be amazing. Way to stay relevant guys.
Then, after acceptance finally sank in, a final feeling swept over me: guilt. Continue reading How we're killing craft beer classics: The death of Stone Ruination.


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By Ben Hirschler
LONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca expects earnings to continue to fall in 2014 as generic competition to its popular heartburn and ulcer drug Nexium takes a big bite out of U.S. profits from May.
The British drugmaker said on Thursday that group sales this year were likely to decline by a low-to-mid single digit percentage figure, with earnings per share falling "in the teens", due to the loss of such profitable medicines.
Shares in AstraZeneca fell 1 percent in early trading.
"In the near term these headwinds will remain challenging, however I am confident that we can return to growth faster than anticipated," said Chief Executive Pascal Soriot.
He reiterated a recent forecast that 2017 revenue would be broadly in line with 2013 and said a restructuring programme had now been expanded to deliver a total $1.1 billion (£674,350,171.65) of annual benefits.
Despite the tough backdrop, AstraZeneca has decided to keep investing in priority areas such as diabetes, where its presence has been bolstered by a recent $4 billion deal to take full control of an alliance with Bristol-Myers Squibb.
AstraZeneca is also throwing resources behind its new heart drug Brilinta, which has got off to a slow start but is seen as a long-term winner. The drug sold $92 million in the fourth quarter.
Brilinta's prospects have become less certain, however, since it was revealed in October that U.S. authorities were looking into a major clinical trial that was used to win marketing approval.
A company spokeswoman said the media attention surrounding the case had "put in place some headwinds" for Brilinta but the company was confident in the integrity of the study.
Sales in the fourth quarter of 2013 fell 6 percent to $6.84 billion, generating "core" earnings, which exclude certain items, down 28 percent at $1.23 a share.
Industry analysts had, on average, forecast sales in the quarter of $6.88 billion and earnings of $1.16 a share, according to Thomson Reuters.
Soriot, who has been in the job for just over a year, has previously warned that turning around AstraZeneca will take several years as he rebuilds a pipeline of new medicines to replace those going off patent.
But he put a floor under the group's decline last month by predicting 2017 revenue roughly in line with 2013, while stopping short of giving a medium-term target for earnings.
Britain's second-biggest drugmaker is already suffering from generic competition to its antipsychotic Seroquel, while top-selling Crestor, for high cholesterol, faces U.S. competition from cheap copycat drugs in 2016.
The patent expiries are putting downward pressure on AstraZeneca's sales at a time when many of its rivals have put their biggest patent losses behind them.
Soriot has been striking a number of bolt-on deals to refill the company's thin pipeline of new medicines and accelerating in-house research programmes.
The group now has 11 new-drug programmes in late-stage Phase III testing, almost double the number a year ago, and 19 candidates that could start late-stage Phase III trials in 2014 or 2015.
Hopes are particularly high for its cancer research, where it has started trials for immunotherapy combination treatments for which the first results are anticipated in 2014/15.
AstraZeneca is behind the likes of Bristol-Myers, Roche and Merck & Co in the race to develop immunotherapies - a hot new area of cancer research - but it is betting on combination treatments to help it to catch up.
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Antibiotic Developed 50 Years Ago May be the Key to Fighting 'superbugs'
Jun 18, 2014 - 12:23:31 PM
A $4.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow UB researchers to develop new dosing regimens for polymyxin antibiotics.
Developed more than 50 years ago, polymyxins were not subject to modern antibiotic drug development standards. And they have proved to be toxic to both the kidneys and nervous system.
But they're also effective against superbugs such as Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae and other gram-negative bacteria that are resistant to all current antibiotics and which can cause a variety of diseases, ranging from pneumonia and other respiratory infections, to serious blood or wound infections.
The grant is the largest NIH grant in the history of the UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the largest active R01 at UB and among departments of clinical pharmacy in the U.S. The research is led by Brian Tsuji, PharmD, associate professor and director of clinical research in the Department of Pharmacy Practice.
The aim of the project is to evaluate novel dosing regimens for polymyxin combinations to maximize antibacterial activity and to minimize the emergence of resistance and toxicity, says Tsuji, principal investigator on the grant.
Tsuji and his team will then translate this knowledge back to the bedside by proposing new, optimal regimens that can be utilized by patients.
A photo of Tsuji is available at: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/
Gram-negative bacteria, which do not retain a gram-staining process used in the laboratory to differentiate bacteria, are causing a global health crisis, Tsuji explains.
"This is a massive public health problem because the emergence of these new highly resistant strains has been coupled with a dwindling pipeline of development and approval for new drugs," he says.
Polymyxins remain a viable option, but there is mounting evidence that resistance even to polymyxins is also increasing, Tsuji notes, and no new antibiotics will be available for these superbugs for many years to come.
Because of this, clinicians often are left with little or no option but to use polymyxins (polymyxin B and colistin, i.e. polymyxin E). Resistance to polymyxins is increasing because plasma concentrations at recommended daily doses are not effective in reducing infection in critically ill patients. Increasing the dose is not an option because they may cause kidney toxicity at higher doses.
"Therefore," Tsuji says, "we needed to think innovatively and differently about how to attack this problem."
Researchers will use an innovative Hollow Fiber Model System in Tsuji's lab to mimic the concentrations of antibiotics in patients against bacteria from critically ill patients.
"We want to mimic conditions seen in real patients who are infected with these deadly strains by using model systems that mirror exact drug concentrations in the body," he says. "In the lab, we can study these combination regimens very intensely over the same time frame that we would treat a patient with bacterial pneumonia (14 days) to understand the fundamental basis for drug resistance.
"This will allow us to address the public health disaster of antimicrobial resistance and to fight these deadly infections in severely ill patients where no traditional treatments exist."
Tsuji has put together a team of world-renowned experts in polymyxin pharmacology, genomics, animal models and pharmacokinetics/
The international, interdisciplinary team is also co-led by Jian Li, PhD, PI, and includes Roger Nation, PhD, and John Boyce, PhD, all from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; and Thomas Walsh, MD, and Vidmantas Petraitis, MD, from Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City.
The research team also includes experts in PK/PD, including Alan Forrest, PharmD, and Gauri Rao, PharmD, from the UB Department of Pharmacy Practice, and former UB postdocs Juergen Bulitta, PhD, and Cornelia Landersdorfer, PhD, both now of Monash University.
The team of Forrest, Bulitta, Landersdorfer and Rao, which will develop mathematical models to perform computer simulations that propose optimal doses of polymyxin combinations for patients in the study, was critical for the success of the grant, Tsuji says.
Technicians and students in his lab, including Patricia Holden and Neang Ly, generated key preliminary data to make the grant possible.
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For my upcoming Life 3.0 we're talking about moves someone can make on a first date that would make it the last. This does not include finding out he's a smoker or that she doesn't like U2 (those may fall more in the general deal breaker category), but rather general ticks and habits and things people could say or do.
A couple examples:
- He says "don't let my food touch" when placing his order.
- Every time you spill a drop of soy sauce, or a crumb, he reaches across the table and cleans it up.
- She talks about her ticking clock.
Kind of like when comments are being chosen for the WTEN segments, these should be short and concise. Humor is always good, calling people out by name is not.


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My purpose in establishing this website is to encourage and inspire people living with chronic pain or crushing stress to learn the skills necessary for dealing with these often catastrophic situations. Even if you are taking medication, seeing a physician regularly or already have established a formal meditation practice, I believe it is in your daily life and everyday activities that you will find the antidote to your distress. Therapy and formal meditation may provide relief for a couple hours a week. But when our misery has become so pervasive that it is actually mundane, a condition of our life, then we must explore our hours and days with an eye to their healing and comforting possibilities.
Though I was ordained as a zen priest in 1999, I have always been more interested in what happens when we get up off our meditations pillows and face our everyday work and family situations than in a strictly monastic setting for practice. I spent the vast majority of my zen training -- 30 years -- as a laywoman, working along with my husband to support our family: first as a legal secretary downtown to save money to train at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center; Then after developing the rheumatoid arthritis that also plagued my mother, I became a bodyworker/movement teacher for people with joint restrictions. Finally, longtime experience with clients in unremitting pain and my own physical difficulties rendered me a resource for people in pain.
I quite intentionally emphasize the importance of pleasure and delight in lives made difficult by crushing stress and exhausting pain. I don't mean the pleasure that we strive after and finally gain, but rather the kind of sweet and unexpected delight that suddenly reveals itself under our noses, right in the middle of what we thought was all-consuming misery. For this reason I have developed a number of meditation practices we can do in our every day lives that refine our consciousness and make us more sensitive to happiness wherever it may exist. These forms work very well as adjuncts to our more traditional practices.
I give workshops at meditation centers, seminars at medical facilities, do public speaking at conferences, and counsel private clients on living with "mundane anguish" and how we might make the relationship between suffering and delight more fluid in our own experience.
Recently, as I approach my 6th decade, I have also become interested in the options for spiritual practice available for people in their middle years. Traditionally in other cultures people in middle age, having fulfilled their familial and societal obligations, are free to turn their attention to their own spiritual/creative development. This may mean for us that we can begin a new life: whether of service to others, bringing forth our artistic leanings or starting a new business on our own, it certainly means that we are free to envision the rest of our lives in different terms. I've been exploring these questions with many other people, those who have already established a meditation practice, and those who haven't but are curious because they are interested in living the remainder of their lives very consciously pursuing what couldn't be pursued before. You might relate to my thinking on this topic so far.
So please explore the possibilities presented here as your curiosity guides you. Thank you so much for your interest in my work.


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Chadk wrote:
stevo_ wrote: Why would anyone buy a Dell to get linux preinstalled?
Great that you can buy a Dell with nothing installed, but linux?
You need to remember. Some people like Linux and swear by it. I respect that. I find Windows to be the best.
If they want a machine pre-installed with linux, go ahead.
But i dont think that this is gonna by worth anything to the general public.
But they're not announcing computers with linux pre-installed, they're announcing computers certified to run linux on. I'd hoped for pre-installed linux with support options. As it is right now you're better off (financially) buying a box with windows and installing your distro of choice. It's cheaper anyways.