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by cartmen1977 on 2012-11-11 07:17:59.3940
Hello everyone,
I have an old PODxt that I am finally trying setup a good amp for. I have tried a guitar amp and it just does not sound right. I have plugged it into an active monitor and it sounded great but I need more capabilites. I also want something more rugged that I can lug around.
I need something for my PODxt but also something that would sound really good for acoustic/electric and vocals. It should be loud enough to play gigs but easy enough just to bring to a friends house jam for awhile.
I have read great things about the Roland KC series with a POD and I am pretty set on the Roland KC-550. Recently I had someone tell me that the 15" speaker would make my guitar too "bassy" and that I should get a portable PA system. That just doesn't seem like an option since I don't want to carry around a small PA just to go play at a coffee house or maybe give some lessons at someone's house. I want something that sounds great but has a greater number of options and versatility.
I would greatly appreciate your feedback and experience with these setups. Should I go with the Roland or a portable PA?
by TheRealZap on 2012-11-11 08:19:27.2620
if you need more channels a PA might be a good option... but for simply the pod, i've heard good things about the roland.
by mikelippert on 2013-02-26 10:22:51.7150
the easiest way is to get yourself an active full range box and using a di box going from the pod to the foh and via link out into the active full range speaker. (RCF Art series 408 mk..)
try and you`ll see
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Aspirin in the Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries
Patterns of Use and Outcomes
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Background Although aspirin is an effective, inexpensive, and safe treatment of acute myocardial infarction, the frequency of use of aspirin in actual medical practice is not known. Elderly patients, a group with low rates of utilization of effective therapies such as thrombolytic therapy, also may be at risk of not receiving aspirin for acute myocardial infarction. To address this issue, we sought to determine the current pattern of aspirin use and to assess its effectiveness in a large, population-based sample of elderly patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction.
Methods and Results As part of the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project Pilot, a Health Care Financing Administration initiative to improve quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries, we abstracted hospital medical records of Medicare beneficiaries who were hospitalized in Alabama, Connecticut, Iowa, or Wisconsin from June 1992 through February 1993. Among the 10 018 patients ≥65 years old who had no absolute contraindications to aspirin, 6140 patients (61%) received aspirin within the first 2 days of hospitalization. Patients who were older, had more comorbidity, presented without chest pain, and had high-risk characteristics such as heart failure and shock were less likely to receive aspirin. The use of aspirin was significantly associated with a lower mortality (OR, 0.78; 95% CI, 0.70 to 0.89) after adjustment for potential confounders.
Conclusions About one third of elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction who had no contraindications to aspirin therapy did not receive it within the first 2 days of hospitalization. The elderly patients with the highest risk of death were the least likely to receive aspirin. After adjustment for differences between the treatment groups, the use of aspirin was associated with 22% lower odds of 30-day mortality. The increased use of aspirin for patients with acute myocardial infarction is an excellent opportunity to improve the delivery of care to elderly patients.
Aspirin is an effective, inexpensive, and safe treatment of AMI. In 1988, ISIS-2 reported that aspirin therapy reduced short-term mortality in patients with suspected AMI by 23%.1 An informal cost-effectiveness analysis estimated that the use of aspirin in this setting cost $13 per life saved.2 In 1990, a joint task force of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association recommended that aspirin therapy should be initiated immediately for all patients with AMI and continued for at least 1 month.3
Despite the importance of aspirin therapy, there is evidence that not all patients with AMI receive aspirin.4 5 6 The Survival and Ventricular Enlargement (SAVE) study investigators reported that the use of aspirin significantly increased among the patients entered in their trial after the publication of the ISIS-2 trial.6 They also noted that in 1989, the last year of the SAVE trial, more than a quarter of their patients did not receive aspirin for AMI. Other more recently published surveys have also suggested an underutilization of aspirin.5 7 Elderly patients may be the group that needs aspirin the most and is least likely to receive it. AMI is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the growing elderly population, with 30-day mortality rates >20%.8 Since a high proportion of elderly patients with an AMI do not have ECG criteria for thrombolytic therapy,9 aspirin therapy may provide the best opportunity to improve outcomes in these patients. Investigators have consistently reported that elderly patients are less likely than younger patients to receive a variety of cardiac medications, tests, and procedures.10 11 12 13 At least one report suggested that older patients with AMI may be less likely to be treated with aspirin than younger patients.14 There is a need to evaluate the use of aspirin in a large group of elderly patients to determine current medical practice and to characterize patients who are least likely to receive aspirin.
There is also a need to augment current available information about the effectiveness of aspirin for the treatment of AMI in actual clinical practice in the elderly population. Even though ISIS-2 did not have an age restriction, only 3411 of its 17 187 subjects (20%) were >70 years old. Furthermore, although the overall effectiveness of aspirin for AMI is widely accepted by experts,3 fewer than one half of the generalists and only three quarters of the cardiologists believe that it definitely improves survival even among patients <75 years old.15
We undertook this study to provide an in-depth analysis of the current pattern of aspirin use and to assess its effectiveness in a large, population-based sample of elderly patients. This study is part of the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project Pilot, a Health Care Financing Administration initiative to improve the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries with AMI.7 16 17 The Cooperative Cardiovascular Project Pilot cohort includes more than 16 000 Medicare patients discharged from hospitals in Alabama, Connecticut, Iowa, and Wisconsin from June 1, 1992, through February 28, 1993, with a principal discharge diagnosis of AMI. Our objectives were (1) to determine the current rates of aspirin therapy in treating AMI in elderly patients without contraindications for aspirin therapy, (2) to identify the characteristics of patients not treated with aspirin, and (3) to evaluate the effectiveness of the short-term use of aspirin on 30-day mortality in this group by using multivariable methods to adjust for baseline differences between the patients who did and did not receive aspirin.
Study Sample
This cohort was drawn from patients identified from Medicare Provider Analysis Record (MedPAR) files with a principal discharge diagnosis of AMI (ICD-9-CM 410)18 in Alabama, Connecticut, Iowa, or Wisconsin between June 1, 1992, and February 28, 1993. Admissions that were not related to the care of an AMI (the fifth digit of the ICD-9-CM code, 2) and admissions that resulted from a transfer from another institution were not included. Hospital charts were requested for the admissions. The study sample included patients ≥65 years old who did not have absolute contraindications to aspirin therapy (active bleeding or allergy to aspirin). Patients were excluded if they did not have an AMI as documented by having a peak creatine kinase–MB fraction >5% or LDH2 >1.5 times the normal value and LDH1 > LDH2 or two of the three following criteria: chest pain, a twofold elevation of the creatine kinase, or new Q waves on the ECG. Patients were also excluded if they died on the first hospital day, since they might not have had the opportunity to receive aspirin.
Collection of Data
Trained nurses and medical record technicians abstracted hospital medical records. Data were directly entered into a computerized database management system using the Uniform Clinical Data Set System.19 On-line data definitions and range checks were used to decrease errors and variability. A 5% random sample of charts was reabstracted by a different individual to evaluate interobserver variability.
Variables in this study included age, sex, race, history of hypertension, diabetes, smoking, history of MI, history of congestive heart failure, prior coronary revascularization, history of stroke, history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, medications on admission, presence of chest pain on admission, duration of symptoms before admission, presence of congestive heart failure on admission, vital signs, admission laboratory tests (blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, hematocrit, and prothrombin time), treatment with thrombolytic therapy on the first day, β-adrenergic blocking agents within the first 2 days and/or heparin within the first 2 days, shock, intubation, and Killip class. Systolic blood pressure, pulse, and respiratory rate were taken as the highest value recorded within 24 hours after admission. Renal dysfunction was defined as blood urea nitrogen >40 mg/dL or creatinine >2.0 mg/dL. Patients were considered to have a terminal illness if their records documented that they were terminally ill or had a life expectancy of <6 months, if the admission orders indicated that the patient should be given palliative care only, or if a "do not resuscitate" order was written at the time of admission. To summarize risk for use in figures, the cohort was stratified by Killip class.
In the first set of analyses, the principal outcome was the use of aspirin within the first 2 hospital days. The time period was chosen to allow for the possibility that some patients might receive aspirin in the Emergency Department or just before presentation, and it might not have been charted in the medical record. Patients who were given any medications that contained aspirin were considered to have been treated with aspirin. We reabstracted 594 charts to test the reliability of the data collection. For the variable of aspirin during the hospitalization, the κ value was 0.966. The principal end point for the outcome analysis was 30-day mortality ascertained from the Medicare Enrollment Database. In addition, we tabulated potential complications that might have resulted from the use of aspirin, including in-hospital hemorrhage, transfusions, dialysis, and stroke.
Statistical Analysis
First, we evaluated the bivariate association between the use of aspirin and a family of variables that included demographic (age, sex, and race) and clinical (coronary artery disease risk factors, past medical history, admission cardiac medications, cardiac history, acuity of presentation, and ECG presentation) characteristics. Variables that were associated with the use of aspirin with a value of P<.10 in the bivariate analysis were considered to be candidate variables in the development of a stepwise multivariate logistic regression model with use of aspirin as the dependent variable. This model was constructed with an entry significance level of P=.01 and exit significance level of P=.05. Partial residual plots were used to identify possible problems with the model.
Second, we compared the rates of potentially aspirin-related complications between the two treatment groups. χ2 analysis determined whether the proportion of patients with complications differed significantly between the patients who did and did not receive aspirin.
Third, we determined whether the use of aspirin was associated with better 30-day survival after adjustment for potential confounders. We developed a series of logistic regression models to predict 30-day mortality. The model began with aspirin only, and demographic variables, clinical variables, and cointerventions were added in sequential steps. For each model, we calculated an OR and 95% CI for those who received aspirin compared with those who did not receive aspirin. In addition, we report a χ2, probability value, and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for each model. A survival analysis was performed after patients were stratified by Killip class and by whether they received aspirin. A log-rank test was performed to compare the aspirin and no-aspirin groups for each of the Killip subsets.
The analysis was repeated with a cohort of ideal candidates for aspirin. This smaller cohort of 7917 patients was developed by excluding patients with any possible contraindication to aspirin therapy, including history of a hemorrhagic stroke, active bleeding, history of peptic ulcer disease, history of gastrointestinal bleeding, suspected aortic dissection, allergy to aspirin, history of a bleeding disorder, platelet count <100 000, hematocrit <30%, prothrombin time >14 seconds, creatinine >3 mg/dL, or terminal illness with death expected within 6 months. All calculations were performed with the software system stata 3.0 (STATA Corp).
Study Sample
There are 16 189 patients in the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project Pilot database (Table 1⇓). After patients <65 years old (1074 patients), patients transferred from another institution or who were found not to have a principal diagnosis of ICD-9-CM 410 (2543 patients), those who died during the first day (237 patients), and those who did not have an AMI confirmed (1798 patients) were excluded, the remaining sample was 10 537. Among these patients, 387 were excluded because of an allergy to aspirin, and an additional 132 were excluded because of active bleeding. The remaining 10 018 were the study sample for the subsequent analyses.
Use of Aspirin
Among the 10 018 hospital admissions in the study sample, 6140 patients (61%) received aspirin within the first 2 days of presentation. The use of aspirin was also evaluated in a more restricted cohort of patients who were ideal candidates for the therapy by virtue of their complete lack of relative or absolute contraindications. In this group of 7917 patients, 5103 (64%) received aspirin within the first 2 days of presentation.
Table 2⇓ presents data from the overall study sample and compares the use of aspirin in patients with various characteristics. There were differences by demographic and clinical characteristics. Patients who were older, female, or nonwhite; had more comorbidity; and presented without chest pain and did not receive thrombolytic therapy, β-adrenergic blocking agents, and heparin on admission were significantly less likely to receive aspirin. Patients with higher-risk characteristics were much less likely to receive aspirin. This relation is illustrated by the association of Killip class and the use of aspirin (Fig 1⇓).
In the multivariate model, 19 variables were strongly associated with the use of aspirin (Table 3⇓). The variables that were associated with the use of aspirin included better overall health status (lower age, no history of stroke, no history of peptic ulcer disease, no evidence of terminal illness, and hematocrit >30%), presence of chest pain, and lower-risk characteristics at presentation (absence of congestive heart failure, absence of intubation on admission, absence of renal dysfunction, pulse rate <100 beats per minute, respiratory rate <30 breaths per minute, and highest systolic blood pressure >125 mm Hg).
Aspirin and Complications
The use of aspirin was not associated with an increased risk of complications. The rate of hemorrhage during the hospitalization was slightly lower among patients who received aspirin (139 of 6140, 2.3%) compared with those who did not receive aspirin (122 of 3878, 3.2%). The rate of transfusions was also lower in patients who received aspirin (471 of 6140, 7.7%, versus 446 of 3878, 11.5%). The incidence of severe renal failure in the cohort was very low; only 3 of 6140 patients who received aspirin and 5 of the 3878 patients who did not receive aspirin required dialysis. The number of strokes in the two groups was similar (103 of 6140 who received aspirin, 1.7%, versus 67 of 3878 who did not receive aspirin, 1.7%, within the first 2 hospital days).
Aspirin and Mortality
The 30-day mortality rate in the study sample was 18.0% (1893 of 10 018). Patients given aspirin within the first 2 days after admission had a 30-day mortality rate of 14.0% (860 of 6140) compared with 24.3% (943 of 3878) for patients not given aspirin (P<.0001). The length of hospital stay was 9.1±6.5 days for patients who received aspirin versus 10.2±7.7 days for patients who did not receive aspirin.
In each Killip class, patients who were given aspirin had a significantly lower 30-day mortality than patients who did not receive aspirin (Fig 2⇓). A series of multivariate logistic regression models was developed to test the association of use of aspirin and survival (Table 3⇑). In a model that adjusted for demographic and clinical variables, aspirin remained strongly associated with a lower 30-day mortality (OR 0.74; 95% CI, 0.66 to 0.83). After variables indicating the use of thrombolytic therapy, β-adrenergic blocking agents, and heparin were added, aspirin remained strongly and significantly associated with lower mortality (OR, 0.78; 95% CI, 0.70 to 0.89).
The analyses were repeated after patients who died on the first hospital day were included, and there was no substantial change in the results. In the final multivariable model predicting 30-day survival that adjusted for demographic, clinical, and therapeutic differences between the groups, the OR for aspirin was 0.73 (95% CI, 0.65 to 0.82). The analyses were also repeated with a restricted cohort of 7917 ideal candidates for aspirin therapy. In the final multivariable model, the results were virtually identical, with an OR for aspirin of 0.77 (95% CI, 0.67 to 0.89).
In this study, we demonstrate that about one third of elderly patients with AMI who are candidates for aspirin therapy do not receive it within the first 2 days of hospitalization. We also report that better outcomes were associated with the use of aspirin. The use of aspirin was associated with 22% lower odds of 30-day mortality, even after possible confounders were considered. These findings strongly reinforce the value of aspirin in treating AMI in the elderly.
Our data are consistent with the reports from selected patients suggesting that results from clinical trials do not always translate into clinical practice.4 5 6 One possible explanation is that, despite the findings of ISIS-2, some physicians are still uncertain about the efficacy of aspirin. A recently reported survey of physicians in New York and Texas found that only about half of internists and family practitioners and three quarters of cardiologists believed that aspirin definitely improves survival after MI in patients <75 years old.15 These numbers might have been much smaller if the physicians had been asked about patients ≥75 years old.
To understand better why physicians do not always prescribe aspirin for the treatment of AMI, we sought to characterize the patients who were the least likely to receive aspirin. Our analyses suggest that patients who did not present with classic signs and symptoms of AMI were less likely to be given aspirin. For example, elderly patients who presented to the hospital without chest pain received aspirin significantly less often than patients with chest pain. This observation is particularly important for older patients, since atypical presentations of AMI occur commonly in this group.20 21 For many of these patients, appropriate treatment with aspirin was not started in the hospital, possibly because of uncertainty about the diagnosis. Since atypical presentations of AMI are common in the elderly, a substantial proportion are at risk of not being treated with aspirin.
Another important group that did not receive aspirin were the most critically ill patients. Patients who presented with characteristics that were associated with a higher risk of mortality from AMI were much less likely to receive aspirin, and these factors were independent of whether the patient presented with chest pain. While the explanation for this observation is not obvious, it may be that physicians focus on high-technology interventions in high-risk patients and inadvertently neglect the simple use of aspirin. Also, patients who are intubated may not have aspirin ordered because nasogastric administration is not considered.
This information provides an excellent opportunity for improvement in our care of patients. Since aspirin tablets are inexpensive, efficacious for the treatment of AMI, and relatively safe, physicians should have a low threshold for administering aspirin to patients whose signs and symptoms are compatible with MI. Elderly patients with atypical presentations or with high-risk characteristics should be identified soon after their arrival to the hospital as candidates for aspirin therapy.
In addition to clinical characteristics, we also found some demographic characteristics associated with the use of aspirin. Older patients, female patients, and nonwhite patients were significantly less likely to receive aspirin, even after adjustment for clinical factors including the presence of chest pain and the acuteness of the presentation. Other studies have found similar results with respect to invasive cardiovascular procedures.4 12 22 23 24 Although it seems implausible that aspirin is being withheld from certain patient groups on the basis of their age, sex, and race, further investigation is required to determine the reasons for these findings.
The use of aspirin in our sample was strongly associated with other pharmacological interventions. Patients who received aspirin were significantly more likely to be treated with thrombolytic therapy, heparin, nitrates, and β-adrenergic blocking agents. These associations suggest that it is important to consider cointerventions in multivariable analyses of outcomes, since the use of aspirin may be a surrogate for an aggressive pharmacological management style or an earlier recognition of an MI.
Aspirin was not associated with complications in our sample. We compared the rate of potential complications in the two treatment groups and found no excess risk among those who received aspirin. On the basis of the results of ISIS-2,1 we did not expect an increased rate of bleeding or transfusions. Our observation that there were slightly fewer bleeding episodes in the aspirin group is consistent with our observation that patients with bleeding risks were less likely to receive aspirin. For this reason, we repeated our survival analysis after excluding patients with any risk of bleeding. The rate of stroke was almost identical in the two groups, as would be expected on the basis of the ISIS-2 results.
Since the value of aspirin for the treatment of AMI was demonstrated by ISIS-2, a large randomized trial, we expected that patients who received aspirin in our cohort would have better outcomes. To test this assumption, we undertook to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of aspirin in our study sample. One important limitation of this analysis is the nonexperimental selection of treatment strategy. Since our analysis lacks the unique strength of randomization in allocating potential confounders, we adopted a methodology to minimize the problems inherent to drawing inferences from observational data.25 We defined a restricted cohort of patients who were free of contraindications to aspirin. We designated the first day of admission as the reference time at which baseline clinical status was characterized and from which the subsequent follow-up was counted. We excluded patients who died on the first hospital day to remove the possibility that some patients died before they had the opportunity to receive aspirin. Also, we collected the detailed clinical data available on admission so that we could adjust for differences between the treatment groups in their initial susceptibility to 30-day mortality.
In a series of multiple logistic regression models developed to adjust for these baseline differences in the groups, we showed that differences in baseline characteristics between the groups explained some, but not all, of the benefit associated with the use of aspirin. Aspirin was strongly associated with a favorable outcome even after demographic, clinical, and treatment characteristics were added to the multivariate models. Although it is possible that there were important unmeasured differences between the groups and despite important differences from ISIS-2 in the definition of the study sample, the 22% odds reduction associated with the use of aspirin in our study bears an encouraging resemblance to the results of the ISIS-2 trial.
Patients in every Killip class who received aspirin had a significantly better chance of survival than the patients who did not receive aspirin. Although highest-risk patients were the least likely to receive aspirin, they were just as likely to benefit from its use. In fact, the highest-risk patients had the greatest absolute difference in mortality between the aspirin and no-aspirin groups. Similarly, aspirin would be expected to provide more absolute benefit for older patients than younger patients.
This study suggests that thousands of lives a year could be saved by improvements in the process of care for patients with an AMI. More than 200 000 elderly Medicare beneficiaries are hospitalized annually with an AMI.8 Our data imply that as many as 70 000 are not receiving aspirin on presentation. According to our findings and the results of ISIS-2, aspirin for the treatment of 70 000 patients with an estimated mortality without aspirin of ≈20% could result in more than 3000 lives saved annually.
This investigation was a result of a Health Care Financing Administration–based initiative to improve health care for Medicare patients by providing data in an attempt to improve health care delivery. These results identify an excellent opportunity for improvement by increasing use of a simple, inexpensive, and yet highly effective intervention, ie, administration of aspirin to all elderly patients with an AMI. The data also show an association between good process of care (the prescribing of aspirin) with better outcomes (lower mortality). Our findings suggest that efforts to develop programs that will ensure that all eligible patients who are suspected of having an AMI receive aspirin on a timely basis may have the potential to save a large number of lives.
Selected Abbreviations and Acronyms
|acute myocardial infarction
|International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification
|Second International Study of Infarct Survival
|myocardial infarction
|odds ratio
This study was supported in part by the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation. We are indebted to the members of the Peer Review Organizations from Alabama, Connecticut, Iowa, and Wisconsin and to all the other individuals, hospitals, and organizations who contributed to the development and implementation of the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project. We are also indebted to Drs Ralph Horwitz, Viola Vaccarino, Carlos Mendes de Leon, Barry Zaret, John Finkle, and Richard Krumholz for their constructive comments regarding the manuscript.
Reprint requests to Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, Cardiovascular Section, Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, PO Box 208017, New Haven, CT 06520-8017.
1 This article does not necessarily represent the official position of the Health Care Financing Administration.
- Received April 26, 1995.
- Revision received June 23, 1995.
- Accepted June 25, 1995.
- Copyright © 1995 by American Heart Association
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Edington claims second gold of Games
Australia's Sophie Edington won the women's 50 metres backstroke final by the smallest possible margin at the Commonwealth Games this evening.
Edington edged out compatriot Giaan Rooney, the world champion, by 0.01 seconds in a time of 28.42.
Tayliah Zimmer finished third in 28.71 as Australia made a clean sweep of the medals.
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UPDATE, JUNE 6, 12:33 P.M.: The Irvine Police Department has released parking details for the throng of media and mourners expected at this evening's memorial service for Ashton Sweet, who was killed in a Memorial Day weekend DUI crash.
Meanwhile, the accused murderer of the 14-year-old Irvine freshmen cheerleader says in a published interview that he is a "human being" and not the "monster" the media make him out to be.
"As a human being, as a person, I feel terrible for their family," Austin Jeffrey Farley
tells the Daily Pilot, whose Lauren Williams interviewed the 26-year-old Irvine man from behind a glass partition at Orange County Jail in Santa Ana.
"They're making me out to be a monster, and I'm not," he reportedly continued. "Like any
average American human being with a heart, it's a tragedy. Whether I was
in the accident or not, I would be upset. I'm not an animal. I'm just a
He did not deny nor claim responsibility for the crash, which has earned him a possible 22-years-to-life sentence in state prison. Farley earlier pleaded not guilty to one felony count of murder and one felony count of
driving under the influence causing bodily injury with sentencing
enhancement allegations for causing great bodily injury or death to more
than one victim and inflicting great bodily injury.
According to the Pilot piece, Farley would not discuss the circumstances of the May 28 crash. Sporting a shaven head and a left arm sleeved with tattoos, he did reportedly talk about his long criminal rap sheet, which he blamed on obsessive-compulsive disorder.
an anxiety disorder that has been torturing me for years," Farley reportedly said.
"It hasn't made life easy for me. Every little daily routine is more
Told that the other passengers of the car Sweet was riding in are expected to make full recoveries, Farley reportedly exclaimed, "Great!"
Today's memorial service for Sweet begins at 5 p.m. at Chinese
Baptist Church of Central Orange County in Irvine, but city police, who are handling traffic control during the duration of the services, has set up a
reserved parking area at the east edge
of Canyon View Elementary School, which is directly across the street from the church at 12012
Yale Court. The public can begin parking there at 3 p.m.
Sweet's family has allowed media inside the service, but videography and photography will be limited to pool representatives
UPDATE, JUNE 3, 10:59 A.M.: A public memorial service for Ashton Sweet, the 14-year-old Irvine girl killed in a Memorial Day weekend DUI crash, is set for 5 p.m. Monday at Chinese
Baptist Church of Central Orange County, 12012 Yale Court, Irvine.
The church is near Northwood High School, where Sweet was a freshman cheerleader.
"The service will be open to all who wish to come," Elizabeth Sweet, the girl's mother, tells The Orange County Register. "We
will wear one of Ashton's favorite colors–green–as a celebration of
life and renewal."
The mother tells the Santa Ana daily that every day is a struggle, but she has found comfort–or delayed grief–in keeping busy preparing for the service, the condolences from the community and the knowledge that the lives of others are being extended thanks to donations of her daughter's organs.
One Legacy, an organ-donation group, reportedly informed Mrs. Sweet that Ashton's heart, liver,
kidneys and pancreas will be donated to six people. Her liver was split in two parts to go to two patients, and each kidney went to different people. Ashton's corneas, skin and other tissue will also be donated to those in need.
In other crash-related news, 15-year-old Krista Merassa, who was critically injured and had been the last passenger in her car still hospitalized, is now recovering at home.
UPDATE, JUNE 1, 6:09 P.M.: The Orange County district attorney's office amended the charges today against Austin Jeffrey Farley. But whatever prosecutors threw at the 26-year-old Irvine man, he pleaded not guilty to them at today's arraignment in Newport Beach.
Actually, he declared his innocence to one felony count of murder and one felony count of
driving under the influence causing bodily injury with sentencing
enhancement allegations for causing great bodily injury or death to more
than one victim and inflicting great bodily injury.
However one slices it, the amended charges could draw Farley slightly more prison time if he is convicted of Ashton Sweet's murder: He could now get 22 years to life in state
Still being held on $1 million bail, Farley has a pretrial hearing scheduled for June 24 and a
preliminary hearing set for July 15, both at the Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach.
In another heart-breaking development, Farley's mother said today she would give her own life to bring the back 14-year-old Sweet, who, like her son, attended Irvine's Northwood High School.
family, including Austin, is deeply saddened by this horrible traffic
accident, which has caused such tragic consequences to those involved,
including their families," Cynthia Farley said through her son's
attorney (and via The Orange County Register) before the defendant's court appearance.
thoughts and prayers go out to them during their time of grief," she continued. "While I find myself searching for reasons, as this awful event is
investigated, I would personally give my life if it would bring back
Ashton Sweet."
UPDATE, JUNE 1, 12:17 P.M.: Alleged drunken driver Austin Jeffrey Farley has been charged with murder in the early Saturday crash in Irvine that killed 14-year-old Ashton Sweet.
The 26-year-old Irvine resident, who was alleged to have a
blood-alcohol level that was 2.5 times over the legal limit to drive,
also faces charges of driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury
with a sentencing enhancement for intentionally and personally
inflicting and causing great bodily injury.
The Orange County district attorney's office statement below reveals Farley could
get up to 20 years to life in state prison if convicted:
June 1, 2011
SANTA ANA – The Orange County District Attorney's Office filed charges
today against a drunken driver for murdering a teenager and injuring
four others in a Memorial Day Weekend crash. Austin Jeffrey Farley, 26,
Irvine, is charged with one felony count each of murder and driving
under the influence of alcohol causing injury with a sentencing
enhancement for intentionally and personally inflicting and causing
great bodily injury. If convicted, Farley faces a maximum sentence of 20
years to life in state prison. The defendant is being held on $1
million bail and is scheduled to be arraigned today, June 1, 2011, at
3:00 p.m. in Department CJ-1, Central Jail, Santa Ana.
On the evening of May 28, 2011, Farley is accused of leaving his truck
at a friend's Irvine home, taking a cab to a bar with his girlfriend,
and consuming alcohol. The defendant is accused of leaving the bar with
his girlfriend and taking a cab back to his truck. He is accused of
getting into his 2003 Dodge Dakota to take his girlfriend to get food
and driving under the influence of alcohol.
At approximately 1:15 a.m. on May 29, 2011, Farley is accused of driving
southbound on Culver Drive toward Irvine Boulevard with his girlfriend.
Driving northbound on Culver Drive toward Irvine Boulevard, Mohammad
G., 48-year-old father of 15-year-old Parisa G., was driving home his
daughter and her three teenage friends. At the intersection, Farley is
accused of making a left-hand turn against a red arrow into Mohammad
G.'s Mercedes-Benz sedan, which was entering the intersection on a green
light. The defendant is accused of crashing into the driver's side of
Mohammad G.'s car with four teenage girls inside. The impact of the
crash caused fatal injuries to the left rear passenger, 14-year-old
Ashton Sweet, who suffered brain swelling, a skull fracture, collapsed
lung, facial, rib, and spinal fractures, and traumatic brain injury. The
other three girls sustained injuries, 14-year-old Krista M., who was
sitting in the middle rear seat, sustained a broken nose, rib fracture,
lacerated spleen, lung injuries, and was rendered unconscious . Allison
R., 15, seated in the rear right seat, Parisa G., seated in the front
passenger seat, and Mohammad G. suffered minor injuries.
The Irvine police were contacted and arrived at the scene. The victims
were taken to Western Medical Center in Santa Ana, where the Mohammad
G., Parisa G., and Allison R. were treated and released. Krista M. was
admitted into the Intensive Care Unit. Sweet was pronounced brain dead
at 5:00 a.m. due to the injuries she sustained in the crash.
At the scene, Farley is accused of displaying objective signs of
intoxication including being disorientated, emitting a strong odor of
alcohol, slurring his speech, and having bloodshot, watery eyes. The
defendant is accused of not being able to keep his balance when he got
out of his car. Farley is accused of having a blood alcohol content of
.20 percent, two and a half times the legal limit.
Farley is accused of having prior knowledge that driving while under the
influence of alcohol could result in the death of another person based
on a prior misdemeanor driving under the influence charge, to which he
pleaded guilty on June 18, 2009. At his sentencing,
the judge advised Farley that he could be prosecuted for murder if he
killed someone while driving under the influence. He also learned about
the dangers of drinking and driving in alcohol awareness courses as a
condition of his sentence.
The case was investigated by the Irvine Police Department. Senior Deputy
Attorney Alison Gyves of the Homicide Unit is prosecuting this
UPDATE, JUNE 1, 8:58 A.M.: Alleged drunken driver Austin Jeffrey Farley, who is being held in lieu of $1 million bail for causing the early Saturday crash in Irvine that killed 14-year-old Ashton Sweet, is due in court today.
It's a place the 26-year-old Irvine man knows very, very well.
As The Orange County Register's Ronald Campbell reports, Farley has pleaded guilty 19 times in local courts over the past seven years. The charges have included contempt of court, misdemeanor drunken driving, violating a protective order, battery (including once on a peace officer or emergency worker), dissuading a witness from
reporting a crime and refusing to take a chemical test while his license was suspended.
The most serious charges were ultimately dismissed: assault
with a deadly weapon other than a firearm and battery with serious
bodily injury (both felonies), with sentencing enhancements claiming Farley inflicted or tried to inflict great bodily harm.
UPDATE, MAY 31, 6:39 P.M.: The Irvine Police Department this evening released the booking photo of Austin Jeffrey Farley, the alleged drunken driver with a past DUI conviction blamed for causing the crash that killed 14-year-old Ashton Sweet.
Northwood High School freshman cheerleader and three other girls
were being driven home from a birthday party by a passenger's
father around 1 a.m. Saturday when their E-Class Mercedes was
struck on the left side by a pickup truck in the Culver Drive and
Irvine Boulevard intersection. Farley, 26, was later identified as the
truck driver, arrested and held in lieu of $1 million bail.
UPDATE, MAY 31, 3:45 P.M.: Sad but expected news from the Irvine Police Department:
This afternoon, Irvine Police Traffic
Investigators were informed by the Orange County Sheriff /Coroner's
Office that Ashton Sweet was declared deceased. As previously
reported, Ashton's parents had made the determination to allow for
organ donation.
. . .
The arrestee in this case, Austin
Farley, remains in custody pending his arraignment. Farley's bail
has been set at $1 million.
UPDATE, MAY 31, 2:37 P.M.: As more grief counselors
were dispatched to Northwood High School in Irvine to help students cope
with the loss of a 14-year-old to a driver charged with DUI, word comes
that an Orange County state legislator crossed party lines to support a
Democrat's bill to regulate sobriety checkpoints.
Assemblyman Chris Norby (R-Fullerton) says he voted for Assembly Bill 1389 because checkpoints are "fishing expeditions" for unlicensed drivers.
Norby also complained that cities often make money from the operations by impounding vehicles that often belong
to illegal immigrants who can't get licenses and end up stranded.
The legislation introduced by Assemblyman Michael Allen (D-Santa
Rosa) passed 51-19 on Friday. If it is ultimately signed by the governor, it would confine checkpoints to streets where drunken
driving is a problem.
UPDATE, MAY 31, 9:20 A.M.: The countywide effort to keep drunken drivers off the road Memorial Day weekend resulted in at least 45 arrests by 38 law enforcement agencies. That compares with 41 DUI arrests the previous year–and not all 2011 results are in yet.
But all the DUI enforcement in the world did not spare the life of 14-year-old Ashton Sweet of Irvine.
The Northwood High School freshman cheerleader and three other girls were being driven home from a birthday party by one of the passenger's fathers around 1 a.m. Saturday when the E-Class Mercedes they were in was struck on the left side by a pickup truck in the Culver Drive and Irvine Boulevard intersection.
The father, Michael Ghaemi, 48, and the girls in the Mercedes were all injured. The most seriously injured were Sweet, who suffered an irreversible brain injury that had her on life support, and Krista Merassa, 15, who was listed in critical
Informed by doctors they would be unable to bring Sweet back, her family decided Sunday night to sustain her on a breathing machine so her organs could be evaluated for donation, according to an Irvine Police Department statement.
Sunday morning, police arrested Austin Jeffrey Farley, the 26-year-old driver of the pickup. He was held in lieu of $1 million bail on charges of suspected driving under the influence. In June 2009, Farley pleaded guilty to DUI, battery on a police officer and driving with a suspended license.
A celebration of Sweet's life is scheduled today at Northwood High.
ORIGINAL POST, MAY 27, 7:42 A.M.: The Anaheim Police Department Traffic Bureau is letting you ring in the long holiday weekend–with a sobriety checkpoint on west Ball Road between Gilbert and Magnolia avenues from 8 tonight to 2:30 a.m. Saturday.
Meanwhile, the Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD)-administered "Avoid the 38" task force from 6 tonight through midnight Monday have DUI checkpoints and saturation patrols running countywide.
"The Avoid the 38 DUI Task Force will have a zero tolerance policy in effect during the enforcement period," Sergeant Mark Daigle of the OCSD Traffic Bureau says in a statement. "If you are caught driving while impaired, you will be arrested and taken to jail. The impact a DUI arrest can have on a
driver, as well as their family, is devastating. Think twice before getting behind the wheel and driving impaired."
Besides Anaheim, checkpoints where officers will look for boozehounds behind the wheel and unlicensed drivers will be held tonight in La Habra and Rancho Santa Margarita. Special DUI saturation patrols blanket Anaheim and La Habra tonight as well.
Buena Park holds a DUI checkpoint Saturday night, while Seal Beach runs one Sunday night.
Saturation patrols are also planned over the long weekend in Brea, Buena Park, Fountain Valley, Fullerton, Irvine, Laguna Beach, Los Alamitos, Newport Beach, Placentia, Santa Ana, the campus of UC Irvine and OCSD contract cities.
The California Highway Patrol will also make a show of force on freeways and county roads within the agency's jurisdiction.


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Author Notes: I have always loved the concept of a good, Tuscan panzanella salad to use up leftover stale bread. Over the years, I've played around with ingredients, and this is my favorite simple combination that allows the flavor of the heirloom tomatoes to really shine. I know "traditional" recipes use vinegar, but I prefer the lightness of the lemon juice. You can serve it 'as is' or spoon it on top of a bed of green. I like using arugula, to add a little bitter, peppery flavor to the recipe. —Tommy Hensel
Serves 6 - 8
- 1 cup stale bread, crusts removed and cut into small cubes
- 2 cups ripe, heirloom tomatoes, washed and diced
- 8-10 basil leaves, torn into small pieces
- 1 small red onion, thinly slices, rings separated
- 1 small cucumber, peeled and diced
- 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons capers
- salt, to taste
- freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- Place the bread into a large bowl, then add the remaining ingredients, a little salt and a little pepper. Toss well, and set aside for at least ½ hour to let the flavors meld. Toss the salad to mix and then serve. Drizzle on a bit of olive oil and additional salt and pepper if desired.
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Be prepared to find trout close to home
Published 12:50 am, Friday, March 23, 2012
This is a rare year in terms of weather. At my house, the snowblower has only been fired up twice over the winter (which was a good thing because it needs a tune-up). Typically, there is still snow on the banks of most trout streams when opening day rolls around, but this is one year when there's a good chance for success on April 1.
In our area, we have some decent trout streams, and we have a few that are better than average. While we are not exactly known for our trout waters like the Adirondacks and the Catskills are, there are some nice places to fish around the State Capital.
In Albany County, one stream that I've fished early in the season is Catskill Creek in the Town of Rensselaerville. The creek gets a decent amount of stocked browns. In the town of Coeymans, the Hannacroix Creek receives the most trout of the stocked waters in Albany County. Another stream worth checking out is the Onesquethaw, where you should be able to find both stocked fish and a few wild trout if you look hard enough.
Over in Rensselaer County, the Walloomsac in the town of Hoosic is a good stream to try. The Walloomsac has some nice browns, including some big ones. The Kinderhook in the towns of Nassau and Stephentown is one of the bigger trout streams in our area, and fishes well throughout the season. The Kinderhook also continues into Columbia County. The Poesten Kill in the towns of Brunswick and Poesten Kill is a good prospect for a smaller stream on that side of the Hudson.
For Saratoga County anglers, the Kayaderosserass is an opening day favorite with plenty of access, including areas where just about anyone can wet a line. Geyser Brook in Saratoga Springs is a nice venue to take kids to fish once it gets stocked each year. It usually gets stocked at some point later in the month.
Columbia County has a number of good trout streams including the Kinderhook (towns of Chatham, Kinderhook and New Lebanon), the Roeliff Jansen Kill (towns of Clermont and Gallatin), and Taghkanic Creek (town of Greenport) to name a few.
Regardless of where you fish, the first part of the trout season is the time when bait fishing rules and everything else isn't usually as effective. If you are going to be releasing fish, think about the type of hooks you plan to use. Manufacturers now produce circle hooks for trout fishing, which reduce hooking mortality. In the absence of this, you can always go with larger hooks which prevent them from being swallowed.
Baits are simple, yet everyone has their own magic formula. Some anglers do very well experimenting with prepared baits like Berkley Power bait. Others swear by minnows, and there are devout garden worm anglers. I have friends that insist on using corn for rainbow trout. The best bet is to bring a couple of different baits and find what the fish want.
On any of these streams, public access rights are available only where they are marked. In other words there may be spots where you can fish along the roadside, but anglers must get permissions from landowners before going on private property. There are high quality maps of the public access along trout streams where it is available on the NYSDEC website at http://www.dec.ny.gov.
For those who have fond memories of wading through the snow to get to the stream, and freezing while trying to catch a trout or two are about to have a rare treat, an ideal opening day. Unless we get huge amounts of rain, this should be a good start to the trout season, so get out there and enjoy!
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Last night I was starting the laundry and from the living room I heard "Uh-oh."
Uh-oh says Husband, laughing.
Ouchie! declares Bean.
Can you show mama? asks Husband.
I heard the clomp clomp clomp of Bean's little feet as she ran down the hall saying Ouchie Ouchie.
When I looked down, I saw Bean holding out her stuffed monkey. This monkey had an unfortunate run in with our dog Pup quite a few months ago, and since that incident his head had been rather poorly attached. I could see now that the head had come clean off, and Bean offered up the poor headless body with great concern.
Ouchie she said.
Oh it's okay, Bean I replied and kissed the poor beheaded monkey on his gaping neck wound.
All better I said, handing the lifeless corpse back to the Bean.
Bean gave me a look as if to say Are you out of your f*$king mind? His f*&king head fell off! before walking away, leaving me holding the pathetic body of her forlorn little toy.
I thought I had 13 more years before Bean was rolling her eyes at her totally lame mother, but it's looking like the honeymoon is already over.
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Scientists may be zeroing in on the cause of the skin condition rosacea – and it might involve mites.
Rosacea, an inflammation of facial skin (typically that around the nose, chin and cheeks), affects about 3 percent of the adult population worldwide, mostly fair-skinned women ages 30 to 50, according to the paper. It's three times as common among women than men, the paper notes, but men tend to have more severe cases. The condition can range in severity from reddening of the skin to lesions and permanent disfigurement of the skin.
A review of existing research conducted by scientists at the National University of Ireland and published online Aug. 29 in the Journal of Medical Microbiology suggests that rosacea may be caused by bacteria carried in the digestive tracts of a species of mite that populates human facial skin.
You probably didn't know (and would perhaps prefer not to find out) that a worm-like species of mite known as Demodex folliculorum resides around the hair follicles on our faces. These usually harmless mites are found in higher numbers on the skin of people with rosacea, the paper notes.
Rosacea is often treated with antibiotics, the paper explains, despite the fact that no bacterial cause of the condition has yet been identified. Perhaps, the paper reasons, the bacteria in these mites' bellies might be the culprit; that would explain why antibiotics often keep rosacea in check.
The connection's not been fully established yet, the authors note, but evidence suggests that when these mites die, their bodies may shed bacteria on the skin, where they leak molecules that trigger an immune response. That reaction may signal the start of rosacea, the paper notes; from there, a vicious cycle may ensue wherein mites and bacteria make bigger inroads where skin is inflamed or damaged.
The paper's authors note that their work may point the way toward more effective treatments for an annoying, sometimes disfiguring condition.


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Marshawn Lynch showed up for the Seattle Seahawks media availability session at the team's hotel today, less than 24 hours after setting the Prudential Center and Twitter alight by not being able to stand speaking to reporters for more than 6 minutes and 21 seconds. He didn't do much better today, lasting an unofficial time of 6 minutes and 47 seconds before leaving.
Lynch was described as "uncomfortable" throughout the extended session and apparently climbed over some chairs to get away from reporters when he finished getting grilled by teammate Michael Robinson:
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Marshawn Lynch during media availability: "I'm just here so I won't get fined bro." Then bounces after 6 min, 47 sec. New record.
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With escort from NJ State Police, Marshawn Lynch leaves Seahawks media availability. pic.twitter.com/jDdIO4qLZV
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Meanwhile, the Pro Football Writers of America released a statement today saying that they were "disappointed" in Marshawn's lack of availability and that the NFL condoning his actions yesterday were an "affront." Ugh. As if you'll get anything substantial out of him if he sits in front of you for six minutes, six hours or six years.
The backlash against Lynch seems to be stronger today than it was yesterday, when his actions seemed cheeky rather than "an affront" to journalism:
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And now we know that Marshawn Lynch has a vocabulary that runs out after 7 minutes.
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Tip to Lynch, You can't hide from the media obligations. Just give us boring, cliche answers, and we'll leave you alone
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Peppers, sweet
The sweet pepper, or more commonly referred to as the bell pepper, is a member of the capsicum family. Its name was given by Christopher Columbus who naturally, but mistakingly, associated it with the peppercorn (an unrelated plant), as Europeans often did with many fruits and vegetables that had a slightly spicy taste. Unlike other members of the capsicum family, the sweet pepper does not contain capsaicin, which is the chemical responsible for the spicy heat of the chili pepper, and thus has a sweeter, more mild flavor. While the US commonly refers to this culinary vegetables as a "pepper," many other countries refer to it as "paprika," like the spice that is created from the dried plant. Green peppers, or green paprikas, are the unripe form of the fruit and although they may taste more bitter, they are still edible. The colored varieties, which come in shades of yellow, orange, red, purple, and rainbow, tend to contain more nutrients and vitamins, and the red pepper has twice the vitamin C than its greener sibling.
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Center of Our Universe
June 11, 2006
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation [ CMB ]:
1. Credit NASA See: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031231.html
2. "True" notation found at: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=602
3. First report found at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2814947.stm
Gamma Ray Burst [ GRB ]:
4. Power Curve Graph of GRB Trigger 1406 above:
- 4A – http://cossc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/cgro/batse/4Bcatalog/html/1406.html &
- 4B – http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/grb_profiles.html
5. Supernovae Cosmology Project – Distribution Graph ( See figure 1 above)
6. Explosions in SLOW MOTION see # 6 – 11
Check out –
- 6A bottle, half filled with water, exploded by a firecracker
- 6B – http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~dga/high_speed_video/#Fire_Smoke_Explosions
7. http://www.slowmotion.com.au/
GexCon is an independent consulting company operating in the field of gas and dust explosion safety. Provides the following 4 Explosion Animations from their web site:
The following animations show FLACS simulations of the effect of varying the geometry by locating vessels differently:
8. 3-dimensional flame development simulation.
9. dimensional pressure development simulation.
Dust explosion in vented vessel simulated with FLACS
In a double pie wedge view – looking "east and west" from Earth's position in the center of this graph. Credit: The 2QZ Team – Astrophysics Research Institute – Liverpool John Moore University – Australia
12. http://www.2dfquasar.org/wedgeplot.html
The Speed of Earth Through SPACE form NASA:
13. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010128.html
Abell's Halo #14 & Einstein's Cross #15 – from APOD:
14. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980111.html
15. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950711.html
Scientists Create Matter Out of Light:
16. http://leiwen.tripod.com/create_matter.htm
"No apparatus on Earth can compress water (or steel) to half its volume":
17. http://super.colorado.edu/~astr1020/l5body.html
Earth next to the Center of our Universe Views from NASA and 2dF:
18. http://www.sdss.org/news/releases/20010605.edr.img11.html
19. http://www.sdss.org/news/releases/20060515.structure_enlarge.html
20. http://www.atnf.csiro.au/pasa/17_3/colless/paper/node2.html
21. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031028.html<
22. http://magnum.anu.edu.au/~TDFgg/Public/Pics/2dFGRS_side_view.gif
Current Cosmology:
23. Sean Carroll, Assistant Professor in Physics at the University of Chicago wrote in a web article for the Cosmo-02 workshop [that I attended] held at the Adler Planetarium: "We know much and we understand nothing." http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/02/020806.cosmo-02.shtml
24. That point was reiterated in a February 21, 2003 Chicago Tribune editorial titled "The end of the universe, cont'd." by this: " 'We know much and understand little,' says University of Chicago cosmologist Michael Turner."
Universe not random [ NOT Homogeneous]:
25. "Past surveys have revealed that the large-scale distribution of galaxies in the universe is far from random: it is highly structured over a vast range of scales."
See: http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=


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Published 7:00 pm, Tuesday, June 17, 2008
With the temperatures topping 100 lately, it's hard to think about going into the kitchen to cook dinner, especially if you are planning on using your oven or stove. How about making a cold dinner? Salads are not only cooling, but they can be very filling and you won't feel "cheated" out of a big meal.
The type of salads listed today each have some type of meat included in them. Chicken, beef, turkey, tuna and ham are all delicious when added with an assortment of other ingredients to make a cool and satisfying salad. Many of these meats can be purchased cooked and are just waiting to be added to your dish. Some salads however, can be enhanced by grilling the meat for added flavor as in the marinated strawberry chicken salad or the flank steak salad with cantaloupe.
A salad can also be a low-calorie meal all by itself. If you use lots of fruits and vegetables, you are adding vitamins and also antioxidants to the salad. Once you find a salad you really enjoy, you may want to change the ingredients each time you make it. For example, you might want to substitute beef for turkey or chicken.
Sometimes a cool salad such as the fruited turkey salad is just resting on a bed of greens; the lettuce is not the main ingredient. For this salad, you could purchase pre-cooked turkey or chicken or cook it the night before and mix it up before you head to work. When you get home, you will have a deliciously cool dinner waiting for you.
If the salad calls for tomatoes, remember to be careful what kind of tomatoes you use with the salmonella incidents. Most of those affected have been pulled from shelves, so the ones in stores should be fine.
Many of the salads today use fruits of the season such as cantaloupes, grapes, peaches and strawberries. Take your kids with you to the store and let them pick out what fruits or vegetables they would like to add to the salad. The Hawaiian chicken salad can be cut in half if you need a smaller amount. Several of the salads have to be made ahead of time so they have time to chill, so check your recipe.
Fruited Turkey Salad
From "Taste of Home, Holidays and Celebrations 2002"
6 cups cubed cooked turkey
2 cups chopped celery
1 cup green grapes
3/4 cup sour cream
3/4 cup mayonnaise
1 1/2 teaspoons dried tarragon
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1/2 cup chopped walnuts, toasted
Leaf lettuce
In a bowl, combine the turkey, celery and grapes. In a small bowl, combine the sour cream, mayonnaise, tarragon, salt and pepper. Add to turkey mixture and toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate for at least 5 hours. Just before serving, stir in walnuts. Serve in a lettuce-lined bowl. Yield: 8 servings.
Flank Steak Salad with Cantaloupe
From "Better Homes and Gardens Annual Recipes 1997"
1 8-ounce bottle Italian salad dressing
2 teaspoons finely shredded lemon peel
1 pound beef flank steak
Lemon-pepper seasoning
8 ounces tender green beans, trimmed
5 cups torn leaf lettuce
3 cups watercress or arugula
1 medium cantaloupe, cut into wedges
Teardrop or other cherry tomatoes, optional
Mix salad dressing and lemon peel. Sprinkle steak with lemon-pepper seasoning. Place steak in a plastic bag set in a glass dish; pour 3/4 cup of the dressing mixture over the meat. Seal bag and marinate in refrigerator for 12 to 24 hours, turning occasionally. At serving time, remove steak from bag; discard excess marinade. Grill steak on rack of an uncovered grill directly over medium-hot coals 12 to 15 minutes or till desired doneness, turning once.
Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan, add beans to boiling water. Simmer, covered, about 2 minutes or till crisp-tender. Drain; rinse in cold water and set aside. In a large mixing bowl, toss the green beans with the lettuce and watercress or arugula. Arrange tossed salad mixture on individual dinner plates.
Thinly slice the flank steak across the grain. Arrange slices on top of the greens. Serve with cantaloupe wedges and, if desired, garnish with tomatoes. Drizzle salad with remaining 1/4 cup dressing. Makes 6 main-dish servings.
Ham and Spinach Salad
From "Meals in Minutes"
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons orange juice
3 teaspoons raspberry vinegar
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
3 cups cooked ham, cubed
7 cups spinach leaves, chopped
3/4 cup cantaloupe, chopped
1/2 cup peaches, pitted, peeled and diced
1 sweet onion, thinly sliced
Whisk first 4 ingredients together; set aside. Toss remaining ingredients together in a large serving bowl; pour mustard mixture on top. Serve immediately. Makes 6 servings.
Bean Salad with Tuna
From "Southern Living's Easy Weeknight Favorites"
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
2 tablespoons roasted garlic oil or olive oil
1 tablespoon lemon juice
3/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 large cloves garlic, crushed
1 (15 1/2-ounce) can garbanzo beans (chick-peas) drained
1 (15-ounce) can cannellini or other white beans, drained
1 (12-ounce) can albacore tuna in spring water, drained
4 plum tomatoes, chopped
12 Bibb lettuce leaves (about 1 head)
1/2 small purple onion, thinly sliced
Freshly ground pepper (optional)
Combine first 6 ingredients in a large bowl; stir well. Add beans, tuna, and chopped tomato; toss gently. Place lettuce on individual serving plates; top evenly with bean mixture. Top with onion slices, and sprinkle with pepper if desired. Serve immediately at room temperature or cover and chill. Yield: 4 servings.
Marinated Strawberry Chicken Salad
From "Notably Nashville"
Dijon Marinade:
1/4 cup whole-grain Dijon mustard
3 tablespoons water
1 tablespoon raspberry wine vinegar
1 teaspoon olive oil
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon pepper
4 skinless boneless chicken breasts
1 head red leaf lettuce, torn
4 ounces bleu cheese, crumbled
1/4 cup toasted walnuts
1 pint strawberries, sliced
Raspberry Maple Vinaigrette
1/4 cup raspberry wine vinegar
2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
2/3 cup vegetable oil
To prepare the marinade, combine the Dijon mustard, water, vinegar, olive oil, garlic, brown sugar and pepper in a sealable plastic bag and mix well.
For the salad, add the chicken to the marinade and turn to coat well. Marinate in the refrigerator for 2 hours or longer; drain. Grill the chicken for 7 minutes on each side or until cooked through. Cut diagonally into thin slices.
For Raspberry Maple Vinaigrette, combine the vinegar, maple syrup and vegetable oil in a jar and shake to blend well.
Arrange the lettuce on serving plates. Sprinkle the bleu cheese, walnuts and strawberries over the lettuce. Arrange the chicken slices over the top. Add the Raspberry Maple Vinaigrette and toss to coat well.
Cold Pasta and Chicken
From "Atlanta Cooknotes"
1/2 pound vermicelli or spaghetti
1 cup garlic vinaigrette dressing, divided
10 fresh mushrooms, sliced
1 cup broccoli flowerets, blanched
1 cup green peas, cooked until tender but firm, or 1 ten-ounce package frozen peas, cooked and drained
12 to 14 cherry tomatoes
2 cups cubed cooked chicken
1/3 cup chopped fresh basil
Optional 1/3 cup chopped pecans or pine nuts
Cook the pasta until al dente and drain. In a bowl, toss pasta with one-third cup dressing. Cool and chill, covered, at least three hours. In a separate bowl, toss vegetables with remaining dressing. Cover and chill three hours. When ready to serve, add chicken to pasta and toss. Add vegetables, basil, and optional nuts, tossing well.
Hawaiian Chicken Salad
From "Paula Deen's Kitchen Classics"
4 cups cubed cooked chicken breast (4 large breasts)
2 cups diced celery
1 cup mayonnaise
1 cup sliced almonds
Two 11-ounce cans mandarin oranges, drained
1-20-ounce can pineapple tidbits, drained
1 pound seedless green grapes cut in half
In a large bowl, combine the chicken, celery, mayonnaise, and almonds, and mix well. Gently fold in the oranges, pineapple, and grapes. Serves 8-10.
Taco Salad
From "Lone Star Legacy"
1 pound ground beef
1 package (1.5-ounces) taco seasoning
1 can (15-ounces) kidney beans, drained and rinsed
1 head of lettuce
2 avocados, chopped
2 tomatoes, chopped
4 green onions, chopped
1 bag (1 3/4-ounces) corn chips
1 can (2 1/4 ounces) ripe olives
1 bottle (8-ounces) sweet and spicy French dressing
Brown ground beef in skillet; drain and add taco seasoning and kidney beans. Wash lettuce and break into bite sized pieces and place in bowl. Add avocados, tomatoes, onions, corn chips and olives to lettuce, then add meat mixture. Toss with dressing. Serves 6.


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Holy hats, Batman! The Millinery Exhibit at the Danbury Museum
June 7, 2011 in Costume, Design, Fashion, Fashion Anthropology, Style by alliemcc
Mega millinery is now up for viewing at the Danbury Museum. Read my preview here, with an interview with the guest curator.
And here's what folks were wearing at the exhibit opening this past Saturday, June 4:
I had a nice chat with this lovely lady, a Museum volunteer whose name I forgot, who helped with researching newspaper articles and ads for hat shops as part of the exhibit.
Her whole look is just perfectly pert, and classy – really impressive color work. Lucky for her, she was getting double duty out of her outfit because she had a New Orleans-style jazz funeral/memorial to attend later in the day.
Another classy outfit. Not traditional summer colors, but that cardigan is so preppy and cute, it feels summery.
The Mayor's wife, Phyllis Boughton, who "cut the ribbon" for the exhibit, and spoke about her love of hats and pride in Danbury's enterprising women. We had an interesting conversation later about how much her husband criticizes her hats — I would expect such a smart, independent lady to give less of a shit what her husband thinks, but…
Very classy black and white outfit, but the white coat was a little too medical…
[Former?] Museum Director Brigid Guertin, sporting an adorable fascinator designed by guest curator Erika Askin (several more designs for sale in the gift shop!).
Guest curator, my friend, Erika Askin, looking oh-so-very late 1910's – early '20s bohemian artist…


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Today I woke up with this thought in my mind for the nth time, and found out how to do it, and I figured some of you might like it too.
I really like Adblock and Adblock Plus. But I also really like Project Wonderful, and if I find out that a site I like runs ads with PW I tend to unblock ads on that page. I just saved about 5 and a half minutes of the rest of my life with this handy advice. I don't know if I'm the only one, but if I'm not, viola:
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It doesn't matter what sort of foods you eat, clothes you wear or supplements you take. You gotta move if you want to build round, firm and sexy buttocks. Strong, toned muscles are the key to enhancing your booty to its best advantage. Incorporate these exercises for a bigger butt into your daily routine, as we guarantee you'll see results.
Toning Other Muscle Groups to Make Your Butt Look Bigger
Part of what makes your butt look bigger is the contrast between your butt and your waist. So, exercises that slim the waist are also, in their own way, exercises for a bigger butt, as well.
Your abdominal muscles work together with the muscles in your back to hold your organs in and improve your posture. These muscles, known together as your core, look firm and flat when they are in peak condition.
Firm thighs also help emphasize a round and luscious booty. In many cases, your thigh muscles can be worked in some of the same moves that help support a better butt.
Best Exercises for a Bigger Butt
The secret to a bigger butt involves a lot of targeted exercise that focuses on building the size and strength of your glutes. Don't tag a few butt-enhancing moves at the end of your regular workout. Instead, dedicate thirty minutes or more to exercises that work specifically on the muscles that will give you the best benefit in this area.
1. Weighted Squats
(Gluteus Medius, Gluteus Maximus)
Stand up with your feet shoulder width apart. Hold a dumbbell in each hand and lower your hips as if you were about sit in a chair. Make sure to keep your arms at your sides. Once your butt taps the seat, return to standing position.
2. Lunges
(Gluteus Maximus)
This is so perfect for inner thighs. Stand with your feet set about twice shoulder width apart, your feet facing straight ahead. Clasp your hands in front your chest. Shift your weight over to your right leg as you push your hips backward and lower your body by dropping your hips and bending your knees. Your lower right leg should remain nearly perpendicular to the floor. Your left foot should remain flat on the floor. Without raising yourself back up to a standing position, reverse the movement to the left. Alternate back and forth.
(Gluteus Maximus)
Start with a barbell over your legs. Roll the bar directly over your hips, then bring your shoulders to the edge/top of the bench. Driving through your heels, thrust your butt up in the air as far as you can, then slowly bring it down.
4. Donkey Kicks
(Gluteus Maximus, Gluteus Medius, Gluteus Minimus)
From a high plank position with core tight and hips level, jump feet up and kick butt with heels. Your weight should come forward onto hands, but shoulders should stay in line over wrists. Extend legs and land lightly on toes to return to starting position


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Genna is a 15-year-old girl who wants out of her tough Brooklyn neighborhood. But she gets more than she bargained for when a wish gone awry transports her back in time. Facing the perilous realities of Civil War-era Brooklyn, Genna must use all her wits to survive. In the tradition of Octavia Butler's Kindred and Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, A Wish After Midnight is the affecting and inspiring tale of a fearless young woman's fight to hold on to her individuality and her humanity in two different worlds.
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"Amazing performance"
I would definitely recommend this, because the narrator is fantastic and the story is great as well. The main character is a "quiet type," but she has a real inner strength and is a survivor whose story is compelling.
Also, the story touches on narratives about the Civil War that many people might have forgotten about, ignored, or never been taught. Jenna gets thrown back in time to a period just after the Emancipation Proclamation and just before the draft riots. A lot of the book is devoted to describing the rising tensions between the free African Americans and the Irish immigrants leading up to the riots. The two groups have to compete for jobs, acceptance, food, etc. while both being scorned by the upper classes. I'm a history nut so I knew about the events she describes, but some people might not even know there was a draft during the Civil War.
I have been listening to audiobooks for a little while now, and the performance of Quincy Tyler Bernstine is one of the best -- if not THE best -- audiobook performances I have ever listened to. She has such an amazing sense of the character's voice, intonations, emotions, pacing and speed, and just...wow, what a great "listen"!
This book is really intense, so I didn't want to listen to it all at once (plus, the length would make that a bit difficult). At times, it can feel like the characters are going through a neverending parade of misery, and you need a break from all the depressing stuff.
Not for the fainthearted, since parts are pretty violent.
Zetta Elliot is Octavia Butler for teens. In A Wish After Midnight her works shows a high level of research and artistry. She educates youth on issues of race and gender all the while entertaining them. Her character Jenna evolves from an insecure girl into a confident young woman. She tells stories that must be told.
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Indian retail-to-energy group Reliance Industries Ltd reported a record $1-billion net profit for the financial first-quarter, fuelled by a strong petrochemicals performance.
Reliance, controlled by the country's wealthiest man Mukesh Ambani, announced net profit for the three months to June climbed by a better-than-expected 13.7 percent to 59.57 billion rupees ($1 billion) in the same period a year ago.
The group, which owns a supermarket chain and a telecommunications company but derives most of its earnings from its massive energy operations, has "delivered a record level of consolidated net profit this quarter," Ambani said.
The company "has a great pipeline of new projects" that will keep Reliance ahead of rivals, Ambani said in a statement.
The performance beat analysts' expectations that the company, which runs the world's biggest refinery complex, would post a net profit of around 54 billion rupees during the first quarter of the 2014-15 financial year.
"The petrochemicals business performance highlights the strength of our portfolio-mix," Ambani said.
"Alongside, this robust financial performance, we also made significant progress on our growth commitments," he said.
The company's strong lineup of new projects "will give Reliance "an enduring competitive advantage".
He said that the company was further expanding its retail business in existing markets and "exploring newer markets".
Reliance's revenues jumped by 7.2 percent to 1.1 trillion rupees ($17.9 billion) in the first quarter from a year earlier.


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