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Insulin potentiation therapy (IPT) is one of several unproven, dangerous treatments that is promoted by a small group of practitioners without trustworthy evidence that it works. It is claimed to be effective against cancer, infectious diseases, arthritis, and many other conditions. Several patents have been issued, but patents are based on whether or not something appears to be original. Proof of effectiveness is not required.
Background History
IPT is based on the notion that intravenous insulin increases the effect of medications so that lower doses can be used. Its promoters suggest that somehow the insulin "opens the pores" of cells throughout the body so that certain drugs enter more easily. It is used mainly for treating cancer. The leading proponent is Stephen B. Ayre, M.D., of Burr Ridge, Illinois, who coined the treatment's name in 1986 [1]. In 2003, his Web site stated:
The treatment . . . features an innovative low-dose chemotherapy protocol called Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT) that uses 75-90% less chemotherapy than the traditional treatment to destroy cancer cells. This low dose treatment causes little to none of the negative side effects such as loss of appetite, nausea, hair loss and fatigue.
IPT was developed in Mexico City in 1932 by Dr. Donato Perez Garcia, Sr. and was used by him for decades to treat a wide variety of cancers, including cancers of the breast, lung and prostate. His son, Donato Perez Garcia Bellon, M.D., and his grandson, Donato Perez Garcia, Jr., M.D, followed Dr. Garcia in this work. Collaborating with these two physicians over the last 25 years, Dr. Ayre studied and researched IPT, resulting in their publication of scientific articles on the therapy in medical journals.
Cancer cells have 20 times more insulin sensitive receptors than normal healthy cells. By introducing insulin into the body before the chemotherapy drugs, the insulin highlights the cancer cells due to their higher insulin receptor content, and selectively enhances their absorption of the chemotherapy. Less chemotherapy is needed to kill the cancer cells, with less dose related side effects. Glucose is given to counter insulin's other effect of lowering blood sugar [2].
IPT is performed by injecting insulin into the patient's vein. After the blood sugar falls, the practitioners rapidly inject chemotherapy drugs in doses that are below the amounts that have been proven effective. Immediately thereafter, a strong sugar solution is injected to arouse the patient. In some cases, several chemotherapy agents are mixed together even though one or more may not have been validated in full doses for the patient's tumor. This procedure is typically performed in medical offices where resuscitation equipment and training are minimal to nonexistent. The practitioners who perform this are "trained" in two-day courses and "licensed" to perform IPT. In 2003, about 100 were listed in the directory on IPTO.org and one practitioner's Web site quoted a cost of $15,500 to 17,500 for 3 to 4 weeks of "intensive" IPT therapy plus $2,000 to $3,000 per week additional for up to 4 weeks of "home maintenance" therapy." [3] About half of the 69 listed doctors who practiced in the United States also offered chelation therapy, which is equally disreputable.
Proponents claims that IPT is free of side effects, However, a rapidly falling blood sugar level can produce coma, shock, stroke, and even death, and I also know of at least one case where the patient got side effects from the chemotherapy. In 2003, Ayre's Web site further stated:
Steven G. Ayre, M.D., has spent twenty-seven years single-handedly researching, publishing, and speaking at meetings on the science of Insulin Potentiation Therapy. He began practicing IPT in the United States in 1997, after he had become convinced, due to his lengthy study, that this therapy was a much improved way of using chemotherapy. In September of 2000, Dr. Ayre and his colleagues made a presentation before the Cancer Advisory Panel of the National Center for Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. This meeting has led to a collaborative effort with cancer researchers at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to design and perform clinical trials on IPT. The funding is provided by the National Cancer Institute. Because of the perceived patient need, and because all drugs used in the therapy are already FDA approved, IPT treatments are now being made available to persons here in the USA. Good patient reimbursement by health insurers is the rule [4].
This statement is very misleading. Ayre's "researching" and "lengthy study" did not include any appropriate study to test whether IPT worked. Nor has the clinical trial to which the passage refers been carried out. To maintain FDA approval for a clinical study it is necessary to have approval from an Institutional Review Board. The "review board" that approved the study was composed of dubious practitioners (most of whom promote chelation therapy) and was ordered to shut down in January 2001 after the FDA concluded that it was run improperly. In retrospect, it appears to me that the board and the proposed study were part of an scheme to make patients think they were part of a legitimate study. It is also curious that the study is still mentioned on Ayer's Web site even though it was canceled more than a year ago. Ayre did attend a meeting of an NIH advisory panel at which possible preliminary investigation was discussed [5]. However, there has been no visible evidence that the suggested data collection has taken place. As far as insurance coverage is concerned, I do not believe that insurance companies knowingly pay for IPT therapy. One IPT provider's Web site states that "some insurance companies . . . will cover IPT treatments the same way they would cover standard chemotherapy." However, coding IPT as standard chemotherapy on a claim form would constitute insurance fraud. BlueCross of California classifies IPT as "investigational/not medically necessary" and does not cover it [6].
IPT is often described as an "off label" use of insulin, with a claim that this is "allowed." This description is not quite accurate. The FDA only regulates the sale of products that cross state lines, and approves labeling of drug products for particular uses. Violation of those uses can result in seizure of products and stoppage of further sales. However, under some circumstances a physician can take a drug licensed for one use and use it for another or may use dosages higher than those on the label. This concept is not a wide open door to illicit use; nor can it be used to justify unapprroved "research" that lacks a rational basis. Licensed physicians are expected to conform to a standard of care and do what is clinically acceptable and safe. IPT does not fit this description. No major medical school, hospital, or other institution has embarked on a clinical trial, largely because the "therapy" is dangerous, potentially lethal if too much insulin is administered, and does not a have a sound biological basis.
Lack of Evidence
IPT's promoters use vague and misleading language to make it seem legitimate. It is not. When examined even casually, the claimed "cures" are bogus. Besides the danger of insulin shock and death, using the wrong chemotherapeutic agent(s) or doses that are too low can foster the development of resistant cancer cell strains. Thus, IPT can prevent appropriate chemotherapy from working later and make an otherwise curable cancer incurable.
Ayre's home page states that, "while individual anecdotal case reports over forty years suggest that this treatment may be effective, there is at present no collection of scientific data to validate insulin potentiation iherapy as a treatment for malignant neoplastic diseases, or cancer."
The IPT.org Web site is operated by Chris Duffield, Ph.D., a man who says he became "entranced by the IPT story" Dr,. Ayre told him and helped form a company that tried unsuccessfully to attract investors to fund IPT research [7]. Duffield discusses 19 "mechanisms proposed for how IPT works," but he notes that "no one knows really for sure" whether the explanations are valid [8]. He also states:
Many doctors and patients are looking for statistics, and we simply have to tell people that we do not have them. If they insist on having statistics, IPT is not yet for them. However, a lot of people have heard about IPT from friends, or have talked with doctors who have had excellent results with IPT. For some people, the IPT concept makes sense, and the reported benefits are so attractive, that they decide to give it a try.
Here is the closest thing we have to statistics. It is an estimate from Dr. Donato Perez Garcia 3, based on his many years of IPT experience, and from experienced passed down from his father. While stated as facts, these are just his personal opinions, and are not agreed on by all other IPT doctors. This text is from an email he sent to a patient on June 6, 2002. . . .
The email describes "response rates for a full remission" of 25% to 95% for various situations [9], but it provides no details that would enable independent assessment of the claims.
In 2003, a scientific journal reported that women with breast cancer received methotrexate plus insulin did better than women treated with methotrexate alone [10]. Although the report suggests that insulin may have a short-term effect, it did not any data on long-term effects or health outcomes. Moreover, in 2007, two of its five authors were charged with fraud in connection with another cancer scam [11], which may mean that their 2003 data are not trustworthy.
Dubious Theories
Duffield's mechanism list mixes a few truths with a lot of speculation to reach unjustified conclusions. Item #7, for example, states:
More insulin receptors on tumor cells increase drug uptake. Proposed. Uncontrolled proliferation of cancer cells is stimulated by a number of growth factors, including insulin (which stimulates energy uptake) and insulin-like growth factors (IGF) I and II (which stimulate cell division and growth). There are many more receptors for these hormones on the cell membranes of cancer cells than there are in normal cells. And some cancer cells actually secrete these hormones themselves, resulting in still faster growth. More insulin receptors means more insulin effect, so more drug will enter cancer cells due to the various mechanisms already outlined. This allows the drug to be given in a smaller dose, far less toxic to normal cells, while building up lethally toxic concentrations in cancer cells. Thus the growth mechanism of the cancer cell is used against it in IPT.
- There is no such thing as a "cancer cell." There are many types of cancer, and even within each "type," cells can be very close to normal in look and behavior, or, at the opposite end of the spectrum, can be embryonic and undifferentiated. Even within a single tumor mass, there can be groups of different types of cells. All cancers involve uncontrolled growth, but one cannot legitimately characterize "cancer cells" as being identical in look, behavior, biochemistry, growth control, or any other feature.
- Cell proliferation is stimulated by a number of growth factors, but this is not unique to "cancer cells." Moreover, growth factors alone don't cause uncontrolled proliferation. It is the presence and activity of certain genes and the lack of others that causes loss of growth control. In some settings IGF may stimulate growth of certain cells, but there is no particular relationship between IGF and cancer cells. Ira Goldfine's group at UCLA has studied breast cancer cells and found that tumor cells with a normal amount of insulin receptors may be more similar to normal cells and more subject to normal controls on cell growth, and therefore less likely to grow back aggressively [12,13].
- Hormone-secreting cancers (insulinomas) are very rare, and their secretion of insulin is irrelevant to their own growth. The more insulin that is secreted, the more "normal" they are. More insulin receptors does not automatically mean there is more insulin effect—the receptors have to work, and the insulin levels must be adequate.
- There is no published evidence that insulin causes more drug to enter the cancer cells or that giving insulin enables chemotherapy drugs to build up within these cells while sparing normal cells.
Dubious Device
The IPT.org Web site states that during the 1950s and 1960s, Dr. Garcia and his son developed a device that could detect cancer and other diseases [14]. Called the "OncoDiagnosticator," it consisted of a glass container that held a neutral solution into which two copper wires connected to a 32-volt power source are placed. The site states that the device was "extremely simple" and that "any high school student could make one for a science project." Testing was conducted by placing a few milliliters of a patient's serum (the clear fluid that remains after cells and clot are removed from a blood sample) into the solution and seeing what happens after two hours. According to the story:
The Drs. Perez Garcia found that the serum would often change to a violet color, readily visible when the serum was poured into a test tube at the end of the reaction. Based on their experience, they believed that absence of violet would mean absence of cancer, pale violet would mean susceptibility to cancer, darker violet would indicate early-stage still-hidden cancer, and very dark violet would indicate the presence of later-stage cancer discoverable by standard methods. Later work found other colors, again seeming to correlate with the type and severity of disease.
Although for them the color was the primary indicator, they also found that the pH of the electrolyte solution in the beaker would change depending on the patient's condition. In healthy people the pH would be below 8.5. And in cancer patients the pH would be higher: 8.5-9.5 or more in males, and 9.5 to 10.5 in females. They also found that the temperature of the electrolyte solution would become higher in cancer patients than in normal people, and would be higher in female cancer patients than in male cancer patients. I assume that higher temperature means higher current flow, and indeed the doctors also measured current (milliamps). . . .
Dr. Perez Garcia y Bellon 2 told me that the color, pH, and temperature would move closer to normal as a patient underwent weeks of IPT treatments. So apparently their method could be used to monitor the progress of a patient's condition [14].
If these claims were valid, this would have been one of the greatest medical discoveries of all time. Unfortunately, there isn't the slightest theoretical reason or scientific evidence that the device works as claimed.
Regulatory Actions
At least three IPT providers have been severely disciplined by their state medical boards:
- In 2007, Russell Hunt, M.D., who operated the Preventive Medicine and Wellness Clinic in Old Hickory, Tennessee, signed an agreed order under which he surrendered his license and was assessed $10,000 in civil penalties, plus costs. These penalties were applied because the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners found him guilty of (a) unprofessional, dishonorable or unethical conduct; (b) making false statements or representations, being guilty of fraud or deceit in obtaining admission to practice, or being guilty of fraud or deceit in the practice of medicine; and (c) conviction of a felony. The unprofessional conduct included treating a patient with chelation therapy, intravenous hydrogen peroxide, and insulin potentiation therapy. His criminal conviction was for conspiring to submit false information to Medicare which paid approximately $92,000 for screening tests that were not medically necessary, were not performed, and/or were miscoded [15].
- In 2012, the Medical Board of California revoked the medical license of Les Breitman, M.D., who operated the Alternative Cancer Treatment Center of Southern California in Oceanside, California. The clinic Web site stated that he specialized in "IPT Treatment for cancer and natural bio-identical hormone replacement and optimization for women and men." The board concluded that Breitman had negligently treated a cancer patient and that his Web site had generally misrepresented the benefits and underplayed the risks of IPT treatment [16].
- In 2012, Juergen Winkler, M.D., who operates Quantum Functional Medicine in Carlsbad, California,was placed on probation for three years and ordered to enroll in an ethics course and a clinical evaluation and training program. He was also prohibited from making or disseminating false or misleading statements about IPT. The accusation stated that Winkler had described IPT as a way to administer standard chemotherapeutic drugs at much lower doses so that patients do not suffer severe side effects. Howeverm, the board concluded that the drugs and dosages Winkler had administered to five cancer patients were inappropriate [17,18].
The Bottom Line
Although IPT's proponents have been treating patients for decades, they have no tested theory and have produced at most only one properly designed clinical study of one cancer. If you would like to bet your money and your life on their general impressions, they'll be happy to do business. However, the lack of evidence should serve as a powerful warning to stay away.
- Nationally recognized innovative cancer care physician now serving Chicagoland area. Press release, July 14, 2000.
- Local physician to present findings on innovative cancer treatment to the Cancer Advisory Panel at the National Institutes of health. Contemporary Medicine Web site, accessed Oct 12, 2003.
- Therapy costs. Integrated Medical Specialists Web site, accessed Oct 12, 2003.
- Dr. Ayre. Contemporary Medicine Web site, accessed Oct 12, 2003.
- Minutes of the Third Meeting of the Cancer Advisory Panel for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAPCAM), Sept 18, 2000.
- Insulin potentiation therapy. BlueCross of California medical policy #DRUG00034, Feb 5, 2007.
- Duffield C. My IPT story. (A 5-part series of articles.) IPTQ.org Web site, accessed Oct 13, 2003.
- Duffield C. How IPT works. IPTQ.org Web site, accessed Oct 12, 2003.
- Duffield C. Cancer and IPT. IPTQ.org Web site, accessed Oct 13, 2003.
- Insulin-induced enhancement of antitumoral response to methotrexate in breast cancer patients. Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology 53:220-224, 2004.
- Barrett S. Seven indicted for PharmaBlood cancer fraud. Casewatch, March 9, 2007.
- Papa V and others. Insulin-like growth factor-I receptors are overexpressed and predict a low risk in human breast cancer. Cancer Research 53:3736-3740, 1993.
- Mathieu MC and others. Insulin receptor expression and clinical outcome in node-negative breast cancer. Proceedings of the Association of American Physicians 109:565-571, 1997.
- Onco. IPTQ.org Web site, accessed Oct 17, 2003.
- Barrett S. Russell Hunt surrenders medical license, Casewatch, Nov 4, 2007.
- Barrett S. Les Breitman loses medical license. Casewatch, Aug 31, 2013.
- Accusation. In the Matter of the Accusation against Juergen G. Winkler, M.D. Medical Board of California Case No. 10-02009-200762, Filed June 9, 2011.
- Decision and order. In the Matter of the Accusation against Juergen G. Winkler, M.D. Medical Board of California Case No. 10-02009-200762, June 13, 2012.
Dr. Baratz is president and medical director of South Shore Health Center in Braintree, Massachusetts, where he practices general and occupational medicine.. He has extensive training and practical experience in internal medicine, emergency medicine, oral medicine, dentistry, material science, and research methodology. He also serves as a medical and dental consultant to many state licensing boards, federal agencies, insurance companies, and the legal profession.
This article was revised on August 31, 2013.


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Lobster, you are a tireless worker and really to be commended mate Smile
Yes Lobster, Im glad you have so much enthusiasm after all of the rebuilds of that youve had to do to get it just right. Thank you for inviting feedback and taking on our ideas.
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Lobster, you are a tireless worker and really to be commended mate Smile
Thanks guys
The code is designed to be simplistic enough for a crustacean to understand.
. . . so now I am asking another member of the community to step forward and work on it . . . this is a community edition after all . . .
The sfs download part of the code works on a small test sfs at the moment.
Remember this code can be used by any puplet (not just Talking Stick)
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I can reveal........
There is somone that has contacted me (who has asked to remain nameless) has found a way to increase the number of .sfs modules that puppy can add.(>5?) .mo Slackware modules are the equivelent of .sfs's (Squash filesystem). This will add MASSIVELY to the amount of useable, tested, and useful applications puppy can run. It will also mean that the support for this version of puppy linux will be longer, as the kernel version will have to be fixed, so a large number of drivers for different devices can accumulate over time.
The relevance to this thread: This will be the mechanism for loading the Slackware modules.
May I take this opportunity to thank the members of the slackware community (in advance) for the contribution they will make.
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are you saying that TS3.3ce will have a recompiled kernel?
you realize that the more .sfs or .mo you mount the slower your system gets?
mergeing the sfs's is the best solution....
unmerge should also be possible if the original .sfs are kept
I am pro adding to the number of loops that you can mount sfs's on but it is not a good long term useage solution.....but merging is
modules you always use absolutly should be merged....
perhaps ask the user if he/she wants to merge cartain sfs modules if they have been used for over a week in the same configuration....
isn't the maximum number of sfs modules around 256(not reccmmended...)?
if the kernel is recompiled I suggest that at least one of the alphas or betas have an SMP kernel for testing.... if we want to progress we need to test....
Taking Puppy Linux to the limit of perfection. meanwhile try "puppy pfix=duct_tape" kernel parem eater.
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I can't exactly see how having multiple sfs files over one file would have a significant change in speed, if any. We shall find out when we test it I presume. The new kernel should be 2.6.24 when it is released, as it is packed with _many_ new drivers.
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Lobster I like the way this is going. Users dont know about files and locations (many of them dont even know about directory "hierarchies", especially in linux). The "my document"isation of windows has unfortunately meant this basic knowledge is lost on a great many people.
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@ Jonjo
This is true. Most end users dont know the inside of their pup_save files from the outside! Our challenge is to make a linux where they dont have too. At the moment Users are saving all of their files to "/root", and when this fills up their puppy's are dying because there is no mechanism for handling full pup_save.2fs's (currently when this happens, their icons disappear and they are left (in their eyes) with a non-working computer.
Im not saying this is good, Im saying, from what Ive seen working with people this is what happens.
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I was not clear.. this part applies to me..
ecomoney wrote:
Users dont know about files and locations (many of them dont even know about directory "hierarchies", especially in linux). The "my document"isation of windows has unfortunately meant this basic knowledge is lost on a great many people.
I am more often than not, at a loss when folks who know linux give solutions to problems here in the forum. Mostly gibberish..to me.
I pick up the odd thing here & there..bit by bit over time. Took me ~ 3 mths to figure out how to copy paste in the console..
Still can't believe it when I think about it now..did lotsa accurate typing there for a bit..
Took ~ a year to figure out a linux wifi connection..
Easy (as possible) = works real good for me!
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And just to underscore the difficulties that us win refugees
can encounter in coming over to linux..here's another example. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=154379#154379
I have dabbled with a number of linux distros over the last 4 years
and despite being very keen none have ever managed to last very long (less than a day for most) as just setting them up made my head hurt.
I have used a number of live cd distros including knoppix
but never could get onto the internet with any
and yet
After about a year of no experimenting
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, I thought why not.....
well I popped the cd in my Toshiba Satellite Pro Laptop and within 2 mins was wirelessly browsing the interne
t, fantastic. I had a bit of a play around and was very impressed with the general speed and feel, it made my 1.7 ghz P4 with 256MB Ram feel like a power machine. After about an hour using it and setting up my email and MSN I decided to install puppy over, yes over Windows XP and use it as my OS full time on my laptop.
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Thanks Jonjo for persevering and giving so much feedback to this project. I had you down as a "power user"!
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Okay, first thing I noticed is that you use absolute paths for icons that you include with the script. These should probably be relative paths, so that the script runs properly from wherever it may be. This makes the script more robust.
Second thing, the offline links to programs should try to run "/usr/local/bin/default***" instead of a specific program. For instance, I clicked on "Edit" and it tried to open Leafpad, which I do not have installed. If it refers to "/usr/local/bin/defaulttexteditor" it will work on any Puppy system. Again, this makes the script more robust and allows for better portability to other Puplets and future versions of Puppy.
Third thing, a common error I am getting is:
** (gtkdialog2:5989): WARNING **: Invalid borders specified for theme pixmap:
borders don't fit within the image
I assume that this has to do with the specific theme I am using since it refers to the themes directory.
Fourth thing, the first window has both "Yes" and "OK" which do the same thing. One should probably be removed, I would remove the "Yes" if it was me.
Fifth thing, I must agree that the tail-wagging dog needs to go. If we were making a Puplet specifically for young children he might be okay. Otherwise, he just looks like an even more useless Clippy, and makes me want to reach for my longsword (okay, so I was only reaching for my dagger, but that's because the sword is in another room).
Otherwise, it's looking good right now. I think I concur that the list of squash files should be pulled from a seperate list rather than being hardcoded. I will try testing its functionality when I boot into a clean save file. I will also take a look at the code and see if I can understand it enough to be of any further help.
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this is the complete Scruffy prototype 2.5 MB
it will install into a directory called 'photon5'
Community help required
Wot no community inspired coders?
Who want's a community edition?
How much?
Just remember, any work done will lead back into your own projects . . .
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The passion that J.T. has for his client and for doing an excellent job shows through in each cleaning task. He loves to talk with his customers, and his people-oriented vision is what makes customers share their testimonies about his excellent work and customer service. His goal is to do such a good job that every client sends a referral. It's not just about making money, but about making customers happy and building a reputation of integrity and greatness.
The services that are provided by A&J are extensive. They provide carpet cleaning to remove stains, pet odors and allergens, tile, natural stone and grout cleaning, and upholstery cleaning to extend the life of your furniture. They even work on small restoration jobs to help get their clients back in their home as soon as possible after a flood. A&J has been satisfying clients since 1999, and their experience is a great testimony to the quality they have been able to implement into their service over the years.
So whether you are in need of a good carpet cleaning, or you are interested in restoring your bathroom tile, no matter what your cleaning need may be, J.T. Burchett at A&J Cleaning will be a listening ear and a quick and steady hand to clean whatever you need in the best way possible.


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The Atrium at Drum Hill is an assisted living community in North Chelmsford, MA designed exclusively to serve the needs of individuals with memory loss. Our goal, in everything we do, is to create an environment that feels safe and familiar, empowering and fulfilling.
Each detail of our unique, single story residence is the result of our efforts to create an environment that helps residents maintain their independence and continue to lead safe and rewarding lives. "Neighborhoods" create home-like social groupings and encourage interaction and activity participation, while indoor space is arranged to facilitate easy maneuvering and cue action through visual orientation.


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Saturdays and Sundays: 3:30pm – 5:30pm
at Monkeypod Kitchen by Merriman – Ko Olina Center & Station
Genre: R&B, Soul, Electronica, Jazz, Hip Hop
Izik plays the acoustic guitar and performs with a percussion artist as well. Izik does a range of covers from pop and modern music to contemporary Hawaiian.
Dates and times may change without prior notice.
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Control Diabetes with a Healthy Diet
Three-Pepper Dipping Oil / Cooking Light
Enjoy a heapin' helpin' of a few great-tasting ways to help control diabetes.
Defy Diabetes
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There are 20.8 million children and adults in the United States (7% of the population) who have diabetes. Although the management approach and medications for diabetes vary depending on the type of diabetes, age, health status, and lifestyle factors, diet is always a key factor.
And the good news is that there are foods you can add to your diet that will help control diabetes. There's no reason to be deprived of the pleasure of great food–defy diabetes and eat well. For more information on diabetes, visit the Amercian Diabetes Association.
And the good news is that there are foods you can add to your diet that will help control diabetes. There's no reason to be deprived of the pleasure of great food–defy diabetes and eat well. For more information on diabetes, visit the Amercian Diabetes Association.
Pick Produce
Autumn Salad with Red Wine Vinaigrette / Cooking Light
Eat at least 5 to 8 servings of vegetables and fruits each day. Here are a few recipes to help you get started.
- Broccoli with Orange Sauce
- Spinach, Pear, and Pancetta Salad
- Herbed Carrot Soup
- Autumn Salad with Red Wine Vinaigrette
- Roasted Apple, Bacon, and Frisee Salad
- Green Beans with Bacon
Go for Grains
Quinoa, Corn, and Tomato Salad with Chive-Infused Olive Oil / Cooking Light
Choose whole grain foods such as brown rice, barley, bulgur, and oats over processed grain products. It's easy with these hearty dishes.
- Quinoa, Corn, and Tomato Salad with Chive-Infused Oil
- Barley Sausage Skillet
- Hearty Minestrone with Barley, Sage, and Beans
- Oatmeal with Apples, Hazelnuts, and Flaxseed
- Miso Chicken with Brown Rice
Benefit from Beans
Mother's White Beans / Sunset
Include dried beans, canned beans, and lentils in your meals. Enjoy them alone, or add to dips, soups, salads, and sandwiches.
- Beef, Black Bean, and Chorizo Chili
- Mother's White Beans
- Crudites with White Bean Hummus
- Red Lentil Dal with Charred Onions
- Lentil and Rice Pilaf
Go Fishin'
Cedar Plank-Grilled Salmon with Avocado-Orange Salsa / Cooking Light
Eat fish 2 to 3 times a week to help your diabetes and your heart. Even canned fish counts.
- Cedar-Planked Grilled Salmon with Avocado-Orange Salsa
- Seared Mediterranean Tuna Steaks
- Vegetable Panzanella with Tuna
- Broiled Red Snapper with Sicilian Tomato Pesto
Dairy Delights
Vanilla Honey-Nut Smoothie / Cooking Light
Choose non-fat and low-fat dairy products instead of the high-saturated fat versions. Make the most of milk, yogurt, and cheese with these calcium-rich recipes.
- Banana Cream Pie Smoothie
- Raita (Indian Yogurt and Cucumber Condiment)
- Leek and Potato Fritters with Lemon-Cumin Yogurt
- Creamy Pumpkin Soup
- Cheddar Cheese Sauce
Don't Forget the Fat
Three-Pepper Dipping Oil / Cooking Light
Eat moderate amounts of heart-healthy fats such as olive oil, peanut butter, and nuts.
- White Bean Dip with Rosemary Olive Oil
- Three-Pepper Dipping Oil
- Asian Peanut Dip
- Almond-Crusted Salmon


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Steve Watson
September 29, 2008
With major European banks now failing, calls have increased for an entire restructuring of the financial system under a centralized EU supervisory body.
With Belgian-Dutch group Fortis becoming the first major European bank to buckle, British mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley also being nationalized, as well as several other banks failing in Iceland, Denmark and Germany, economists have warned that more are teetering on the brink and only a radical centralization of power in Europe can stave off financial ruin.
Earlier this month, German economist Daniel Gros warned in a report for the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) that several European banks have become so large that their governments would no longer be able to save them. Should they fail no rescue would be possible because the economy of the home nations are smaller than the banks that reside within them.
Now, in an interview with Dutch newspaper Volkskrant, Gros warns that European giants like Deutsche Bank, Barclays and UBS (Switzerland) are dangerously close to folding.
The Deutsche Bank has 2, 000 billion euros of open credit, one fifth of the german economy, while Barclays has 1, 640 billion euros of open credit, more than the entire UK economy.
Gros has proposed that European Parliament balance the books of the affected banks and that a new system of financial supervision is created with a 12 member body to overlook the European financial market.
In October the European Commission will propose new rules governing how much banks must keep in reserves, and set rules on how regulators should act if a bank is in danger of collapse.
Top EU officials, including economy commissioner Joaquin Almunia, have stated that the EU should have greater powers to regulate and intervene in the operations of financial institutions across Europe.
"The latest events in financial markets have made it clear that the current model of regulation and supervision needs to be revamped," Almunia has said.
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KeatsConnelly specializes in advising cross-border clients, so it's only natural that international investing should be a part of their clients' portfolios.
Chief Investment Officer Peter Eickelberg (left) said that the firm not only invests internationally, but "follows the abundant academic evidence that managers can't beat the market by picking stocks."
The firm relies on funds that passively purchase, but at the same time it doesn't "buy everything at market weight," he said. Instead, it considers a number of factors when making its decisions.
The investing strategy is to "look at decades of performance and boil down returns to [several] factors: what [investments] have returned and what cash has returned," Eickelberg said. Value stocks "have tended to provide a certain amount of return, and smaller companies have produced more than large," he said, adding that this doesn't hold true for every stock and every market.
The international focus has been part of the firm's approach for "as long as I've been here and for many years before that," he said. "I started in 2006. [International investing at KeatsConnelly goes] all the way back to inception, probably, but at least the last 10 to 15 years.
"It's basic thinking. The world is big place; the U.S. is probably about 45% of the world's publicly traded equity markets, and that leaves 55% somewhere else. Why would we assume the U.S. is the best place?" Eickelberg said.
Of course, it is the country he knows best. "Unfamiliarity keeps people away," he said.
Also, before the financial crisis, common wisdom said not to put more than 25% into foreign stocks. "Back before the crash, people believed in the Markowitz mean variance optimization—that the best tradeoff of risk/return is 25% in international stocks," Eickelberg said. Not at KeatsConnelly. "We think, because the world is divided the way it is, and we don't have a view on a particular country being the best place to invest, why not have all out there? So [we invest] half in the U.S. and half in the rest of the world."
KeatsConnelly supports global diversification and opportunities, rather than focusing on a specific country or region, according to Eickelberg. "It invest[s] in all global markets with liquid trading markets," he said, adding that it will "sometimes overweight one region for a specific reason."
For instance, "Japan and the Pacific Rim were overweight up till a couple of years ago. We thought low interest rates would stimulate a higher return; it didn't work that well."
But one overweight strategy that did work was emerging markets. "We had it at a higher weight than the rest, and felt it would have higher growth," he said. "So during the 2002–2006 era, [gains] came from emerging markets and [the sector] was higher than market weight. The market had bid it up to about the market weight, so we increased it again. About 30% of [our] foreign stock is in emerging markets." Using unhedged vehicles in foreign equity markets allows the firm to get an added benefit for clients: currency float. It allows currencies to work themselves out, so the firm doesn't have to pick which currency to invest in. The 30% weighting will have 30% of the currency as well, Eickelberg said.
In addition to un-hedged vehicles, the firm uses factor funds and occasionally ETFs. "The best thing is an enhanced index fund, but it's not really an index fund because it doesn't have to change when the index changes," he said. "Sometimes we use ETFs if we want to weight something in particular; we go shopping for a low-cost product that gives exposure to what we want, rather than stock picking."
Currently, "The basic core equity mix is half U.S., half non-U.S., with an overweight in emerging markets and small cap," he said. "We're planning to maintain tilts toward those things because of the long 10-year plus potential."


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I was the only first-grader to use plunge in my response to Ms. Hill-Rounds' prompt: Write a story about a time you learned how to do something. I could swim almost as soon as I could walk – my dad says I should have been born a fish – but I wasn't comfortable until I was in the water, so the summer my younger sister was old enough for swimming lessons, my mom took the opportunity to sign me up for diving lessons. My story for Ms. Hill-Rounds was five pages of fear and trembling and running away at the last second, and a paragraph of finally plunging heels first off the high dive into 12 feet of rec-center-pool water. Ms. Hill-Rounds gave me high praise for 'being a writer' but it would be another two decades before I'd be able to commit to jumping all the way in.
Since age four, I had feared I was meant to be a writer. Inchoate as they were, I knew I had things to say about trees and walking to your friends' houses in the dusty light of after-dinner street games and how sad stray paper bags are. But that was just it – shouldn't I be doing something about those stray bags or the denuding of the planet of its trees? When I was three, I started having nightmares where the whole world would slowly become covered in steaming crude oil with all of us and all beings beside trapped underneath. If these weren't messages that I should spend my time somehow working toward environmental restoration or some other necessary endeavor, my parents' unspoken vocational expectations were, much more clearly.
Success looked like being a doctor or an engineer not because of the money or status attending those careers but because doctors and engineers help people. How could writing poems about talking flowers or stories about getting in fights with siblings help anyone?
But I didn't feel life's fire doing anything else: I felt compelled to keep writing, at least until I found "the real thing" I was going to do with my life. Something that would benefit people beyond myself, that would address, even in a small way, the mounting issues that made the future look wobbly and dark, if it existed at all. Environmental degradation. Homelessness. Poverty. I had to do something, something more than rhyme about the moon, much as that nourished me. I took novels and notebooks to baseball games we went to as a family, to sleepovers and birthday parties, on field trips, thinking I could hide my little hobby even as I hoped I would grow out of it.
I wrote poems in the back of history class, in the margins of spiral-bound notebooks meant for math practice and, as soon as I became proficient in Spanish, began writing poems in that language, too.
All while looking for my "real" calling, of course, the non-selfish, "actually useful" thing I could make my life about. I had not grown out of writing by the time I left for college, so I ran like a fugitive from it. There are starving kids in Africa and stories won't feed them. Children are sick in the slums of India and poetry is not penicillin. I tried nearly every major available at university; I even studied chemical engineering just long to tank my GPA. I volunteered with environmental clubs, demonstrated with activist organizations, took on leadership roles in sustainability groups and political causes. I took on saving the world for years; that I had less and less time for poetry I mistook as finally growing out of a childhood habit. I persisted for several years and eventually, I did feel fire here, too. That of burnout.
My soul sore from the vicious contortions I was asking it to do in the name of what ultimately amounted to fear, I had no energy left to do much beyond rest. During, but not because of my collapse, a friend sent me a link to a recording of the late David Foster Wallace's graduation speech to Kenyon College's class of 2005, This is Water. Pay attention, he urges us with a parable: an older fish swims by two younger fish and says, 'Morning boys, how's the water?' The two young fish look at each other and ask, "what's water?"
As it turns out, the answer to that question for me is writing. My moral dilemmas of spending the immense time it takes to get good at the feisty yet stubbornly shy craft of writing have not been resolved in the sense of dissolved. And I still have some pretty ragged fear about imminent and global catastrophe. But perhaps one way to contribute to light for others rather than feed the rampant (and even understandable) cynicism, fear and apathy is to find and dive into the genuine joy of one's work. It requires telling the truth to and about yourself and then breathing deep and plunging in.
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m.nicole.r.wildhood is a Colorado native who has been living in Seattle - and missing the sun - since 2006. She has been a saxophone player and registered scuba diver for over half her life. In addition to blogging at http://megan.thewildhoods.com/, she writes poetry, fiction and short nonfiction, which have appeared in The Atlantic, xoJane, The Atticus Review, and Five as well as anthologies like Clash of the Couples and magazines like The Sun, journals like Lodestone and Ballard: A Journal of Street Poetry and blogs like ditchpoetry.com and Café Aphra. She seeks to be an advocate for those experiencing mental and emotional suffering and celebrates the misfits, the non-conventional and the bold. She currently writes for Seattle's street newspaper Real Change and is at work on a novel, two chapbooks (one in Spanish) and two full-length poetry volumes.
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Say Goodbye to State Inspection Sticker
Texas motorists need to get ready for a big change coming in March 2015. At that time, vehicles registered in the State of Texas will no longer need separate inspection and registration stickers.
One less thing to worry about, right?....Not exactly.
Inspections and registrations will continue, but you will only need to show the registration sticker as proof of both. And with this new standard, there is a set time when you must get your vehicle inspected. Within 90 days before the vehicle's registration is set to expire, you'll need to make sure your vehicle passes the state vehicle safety and emissions tests.
The change could mean a temporary break from annual inspections for some drivers, depending on the timing of their inspections and registrations expiring. If someone's registration expires in May and their inspection tag expires in June, for example, they will not have to get their car tested until prior to renewing their registration in May 2016.
Click to the story in the Houston Chronicle for more details.


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ASP.NET Developer Techniques for Dealing With Long Running Processes
In most ASP.NET Web Applications interaction with the user is fairly simple and can be accomplished within the normal page life cycle. The client web browser dictates the amount of time allowed which is normally 30 seconds, so any processing must be accomplished within that period. Lets say your process takes 15 seconds, you could simply perform the process during the
Page_Load or another
Event. However, causing the user to wait 15 seconds could lead to user frustration and clicking multiple times. Ideally you want to minimize the amount of time used for the page life cycle to keep your web application responsive. So when you have a long running process you have conflicting needs, both to stay responsive to the user and to provide sufficient time to complete your task. To satisfy both needs we need a happy medium to stay responsivle and complete the task.
When you make the leap to perform a long running tasks in the background we need to design the page in a manor to allow the user to launch the process, monitor the process and see the results. To get started we will create a page which will be used to perform these three tasks.
To simplify the process we will create a single
ASP.NET AJAX page to perform these three functions. Three different functions will be grouped into 3 separate views withing a multiview control. The multiview control is contained with an update panel which will be used to provide seemless feedback to the user as shown in the figure below.
Figure 1 - Page Layout
The first of the three views above simply provides the mean to start the process. The second view contains an ASP.NET AJAX loading image, status text and an AJAX timer. And finally the third shows completion. The markup for these views is listed below.
<asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager2" runat="server"> </asp:ScriptManager> <asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel2" runat="server"> <ContentTemplate> <asp:MultiView ID="mvvProcess" runat="server" ActiveViewIndex="0"> <asp:View ID="vLaunch" runat="server"> <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" onclick="Button1_Click" Text="Start" /> </asp:View> <asp:View ID="vProgress" runat="server"> <asp:Image ID="Image1" runat="server" ImageUrl="ajax-loader.gif" /> <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Starting"></asp:Label> <asp:Timer ID="timUpdate" runat="server" Enabled="False" Interval="1000" ontick="timUpdate_Tick"> </asp:Timer> </asp:View> <asp:View ID="vComplete" runat="server"> <asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Text="Complete"></asp:Label> </asp:View> </asp:MultiView> </ContentTemplate> </asp:UpdatePanel>
Next we jump into the code behind the first view and the Start button. The click event handler for the Start button is listed below:
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { //Start the Process lock (Session.SyncRoot) { Session["complete"] = false; Session["status"] = ""; } Thread t = new Thread(new ParameterizedThreadStart(ThreadProcess)); t.Start(Session); //Switch the View mvvProcess.SetActiveView(vProgress); timUpdate.Enabled = true; }
The Start button click event handler first sets a complete and status session values to the desired inital values. You'll notice we are locking the Session object. The purpose behind this is to prevent conflicts and/or the possibility for corrupting Session when the thread is running. Next we create a new Thread and give it the handle to a
ThreadProcess method. Then we start the thread and pass in the Session object to the thread. You may be thinking why the Thread needs Session since the method is in the code behind. The answer is simple, Session is tied to the life-cycle of the page, so while the page is active Session is available. But when the page is not being processed the Session object is invalid. So in order for the Thread to access Session and save provide status updates back to the user we need to give it a handle. Finally the button click sets the active view and enables the AJAX update timer. The next code block is for the
ThreadProcess method used to perform the background process.
private void ThreadProcess(object data) { System.Web.SessionState.HttpSessionState s = (System.Web.SessionState.HttpSessionState)data; int i; for (i = 0; i < 30; i++) { //Update the status for the user lock (s.SyncRoot) { s["status"] = "Running: " + i.ToString(); } //Add some delay to simulate work System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000); } lock (s.SyncRoot) { s["complete"] = true; } }
ThreadProcess method first grabs the reference to Session passed into the method. Then it performs a simple loop for 30 times, updates session status each time, putting the thread to sleep for 1 second each time. After finishing the loop the session complete status is updated and the thread terminates. Note, again we are locking session each time it is accessed to prevent collisions with the main page.
The next code block is for the AJAX Update timer Tick event.
protected void timUpdate_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e) { Label1.Text = Session["status"].ToString(); if (Session["complete"] as bool? == true) { timUpdate.Enabled = false; mvvProcess.SetActiveView(vComplete); } }
This event handler first updates the status and checks to see if the session complete flag has been set. If the session complete flag is set, it will then disable the update timer and set the multiview to the Complete view. After pressing the Start button, the user should see the status change from Running 1 thru Running 30 and finally to Complete as shown by the following 3 images.
Figure 2 - Start View
Figure 3 - Running View
Figure 4 - Complete View
While this is effective and does provide a simple method for performing long running background process it does have its disadvantages. Using Session for communication does add overhead, not to mention the other drawbacks related to Session including scalability and memory usage. Since this example used Session we also need to lock the Session object to prevent collisions and/or corruption this again adds overhead. As an alternative to using Session you could also use a Database table for status information. While this eliminates the Session and locking overhead it does mean additional hits to a table; however, it eliminates the scalability issues associated with Session.
In addition to the alternative for Session we can also look at different ways of background threading. The most obvious is to take advantage of the
ThreadPool. Simply put, we could add an item to the
ThreadPool and allow it to perform the work. While at first this may sound like a good idea; in ASP.NET the
ThreadPool serves a very important role. In fact the
ThreadPool is used for processing all requests from the user. So if you were to start tying up the
ThreadPool with background work you could eventually cause the application to become unresponsive. Another method you could use is to perform a JavaScript call to a web service/method which could perform the process; however, this method does not allow you to provide feedback to the user until the request either fails or completes.
It is also important to note that during the second step in the process above, the AJAX timer is being triggered once per second which causes the UpdatePanel to refresh and the code behind to be executed. In a production situation it more realistic to increase the Timer interval value to 3 to 5 seconds to reduce the number of hits to the server.
There are alternative methods for executing background tasks within ASP.NET, the simple technique used above is just that simple. There is very little to setup and easy to learn, making it quick to implement and support in your next project.


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The ECE has worked with more than 100 congregations throughout the United States. These congregations have varied by size (150 to nearly 3,000 member units), geography (urban, suburban and ex-urban in multiple regions), movement (Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, Orthodox, and non-denominational) and culture. In some of the congregations, learning was central before starting, and in some other congregations, learning was active only in the religious school for young children.
The ECE has supported these congregations through a variety of local and national initiatives in partnership with community agencies.


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New Orleans Restaurants: Boucherie
Most nights at Boucherie, the converted wooden house in New Orleans's Carrollton District, the dining room is packed with regulars and in-the-know foodies (on a recent visit, we sat next to a four-top of Food Network celebs). What's attracting them is chef Nathaniel Zimet's pitch perfect take on what he calls "fine dining for the people," which means turning typically low-grade fare – grits, collard greens – and transforming it into something transcendent. Take his collards, for example. Made with homemade bacon and duck stock, they take about 10 hours to cook down. Right before serving, the Le Cordon Bleu-educated Zimet mounts the collards with slabs of butter to give them an extra pop of richness. The result is, especially to lovers of Southern cuisine, tantamount to a religious experience.
Zimet treats every dish with such care. The pork cake, one of a few entrees that stays on Boucherie's menu full-time (most dishes, such as the duck and brisket, go through bi-monthly permutations), is so exquisitely crafted – topped with a three-inch pillar of citrus and cilantro red cabbage slaw – that it gives some pause before dismantling it. But everyone does. And then they start planning their next trip back so they can do it all again. [8115 Jeannette Street, 504-862-5514, boucherie-nola.com]
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Tagged: Oliver Perez
For all intents and purposes, the Astros have always had an ace. A dominant pitcher who could be given the ball every fifth game and be expected to shut down the opposing team as often as not. In 2001, a skinny, unseemly right-hander from Weir, Mississippi was called up in May and asked to do just that. Less than a month later, he was entered into the starting rotation, and the team won the next eight games he started, with him collecting the W in six of the eight games.
He went 12-2 as a starter that year, with three complete games including a shutout. He threw 127.2 innings as a starter, with 130 strikeouts, 17 walks, a 2.82 ERA, and a 1.03 WHIP. He was second in Rookie of the Year voting, fifth in Cy Young voting, and 22nd in MVP voting.
Eight seasons later, Roy Oswalt is the undisputed ace of the Houston rotation, but in 2001 – despite the tremendous year by Wade Miller – the ace was Shane Reynolds, who went 14-11 with a 4.34 ERA. Not ace-type numbers, but Reynolds had been the de facto ace since his 16-win campaign in 1996. Though Darryl Kile and a young Mike Hampton also pitched well for that team, Reynolds was clearly the leader.
Before Reynolds' emergence, most people would probably have pointed at veteran Doug Drabek. Before that, Pete Harnisch. Mike Scott. Nolan Ryan.
Other teams, on the other hand, have trouble defining an ace. Specifically, the Pittsburgh Pirates – an intradivisional foe – have had a string of seriously bad luck with their aces.
In 2006, after a 14-win campaign, Ian Snell was annointed with the "ace" title. Entering the 2009 season, he has only managed 16 wins in the two years since then. In 2007, Tom Gorzelanny was the 14-game winner on the roster, and now he finds himself in minor league camp.
It seems that, as an organization, the top of the Pirates' rotation has been befuddling at least since Oliver Perez's Dr. Jekyll-and-Mr. Hyde act from 2004-2006. This year, their hope lies in the left arm of Paul Maholm.
Maholm is a sinkerball pitcher who has gone 19-24 over the past two seasons with 244 K and 112 BB in 384 IP. Over that time, he has an ERA of 4.31 and a WHIP of 1.35. His DIPS was 4.26 and his DICE was 4.18. By almost any metric, saber or otherwise, he's at best an above-average pitcher.
And last month, they awarded him with a three-year, $14.5m contract to avoid arbitration.
That's a lot of money for a guy who had 2.7 Value Wins a year ago. So does Maholm have ace-type stuff, or is he merely benefitting from being part of a weak pitching staff?
Maholm's VORP in 2008 was 40.8 – 30th in the majors among pitchers with a minimum 100 IP. Roy Oswalt's 43.3 was just five spots ahead at 25th. It was almost double the next-highest VORP on the team, reliever John Grabow with 22.3, and far away above Zach Duke, who had the second-highest VORP among Pirates starters in 2008 with 5.3.
Compare that to Gorzelanny in 2007, whose 41.5 VORP was 31st in the majors and just 0.2 ahead of rotation-mate Ian Snell. In 2008, Gorzelanny's VORP had tumbled to -13.2; in other words, worse than a replacement-level player. Snell's was "better" at -3.9, but hardly good. There is some indication that Snell, at least, was the victim of bad luck, as his BABIP was a hefty .360, compared to Maholm's .298.
But Pirates coaches believe Maholm has the mental makeup of an ace, which can of course be important. Pitching coach Joe Kerrigan, who used to work with the Yankees and the Red Sox, told Sporting News "If you've seen him throwing on the side, see his understanding of the
game, the understanding of his craft — pitching — you can tell he has
a great idea," Kerrigan said. "He's a coach's dream. The effort he puts
into the side sessions, his bullpen sessions, is translated into the
That's great, but it doesn't exactly make him an ace.
Maholm has been coolly efficient this spring, going 2-0 with a 0.46 ERA, 12 K, and 1 BB in 19.2 IP. He's run out of innings in games well before hitting the maximum pitch count set aside by his coaches this spring.
Considering the rapid falls from grace many of the Pirates' other "aces" have seen in recent years, it's definitely too early to give Maholm the title – and as of right now, he is being vastly overpaid – but there's certainly room for hope for the Pirates, who need as much as they can get.


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I need to make one :-DTommyt
The nice thing about buying on e-bay - You have payed more than anybody else thinks its worth! :evil: (if not they would have out bid you)
Quote from: Tommyt on February 14, 2011, 08:30:35 amI need to make one :-DTommytYeah, I was thinking I need to start carving on a pattern and go into production.Haven't figured out how the drum is made.Or rather how to do it low tech, low production numbers.Etched? CNC mill? Lost wax casting? EDM?Would cast brass hold up on the roller?I'm pretty sure aluminum wouldn't.


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Gravitational pull: Do the math!
The Background
Ahh, love. If only it could be quantified as simply as gravity's acceleration (which, of course, we all remember from physics is 9.8m/s2). Unfortunately, attraction is a bit more complicated. But this week, perhaps, we'll be able to deduce a formula that will enable lovebirds everywhere to calculate whether their love will fly or will sink like a stone. Call it nostalgia for final exams...
Let's look at our "factors": Cynthia (for our purposes here, we'll call her "C") is a 23-year-old psychology grad student who likes movies ("M"), music ("Mu"), and reading ("R").
Jay (who we'll refer to as "J"), is a 24-year-old neurosurgery resident who likes working out ("W"), dining out ("D"), reading ("R"), and football ("F").
So, complicated as it may be, the problem we're attempting to solve here is: Does CMMuR=JDRF?
The Date:
Cynthia and Jay met at Gravity Lounge on a Wednesday night for some light dinner. After the meal, they stuck around to hear Greg Howard play his Chapman Stick (a long stringed instrument). So now, since we know the value of gravity, our equation gets even more complex:
Let's do the math...
Describe your predate preparation...
JAY: I got home, showered, and went out.
CYNTHIA: Well, it took me a long time to get ready, because I wanted to look good for the date.
JAY: I have to admit I read some of the old blind-date archives on the web the night before... a few of which were pretty off-the wall. I was just hoping for someone who would be cool to hang out with. I wouldn't say I was nervous, though.
CYNTHIA: I was trying to imagine what he looked like because I was so nervous
First impression?
JAY: She was wearing a red sweater and pants.... definitely attractive, although she struck me as being pretty cerebral.
CYNTHIA: He was H-O-T... I couldn't take my eyes off him all night. He was wearing this polo shirt tucked into his pants, which nicely showed off his chest... he was also wearing khakis.
Would you say this person was your type?
JAY: I couldn't really tell if she was my type or not.
CYNTHIA: Definitely. I love the doctor-beeper...
What did you think of Gravity?
JAY: I really liked the ambiance, interesting books, good view of the stage. My only complaint was that the music was a bit loud.
CYNTHIA: It was cool... I didn't know that they had all this stuff there to look at (art, books, CDs...)
What did you order?
CYNTHIA: The people at Gravity Lounge ordered us appetizers. We had sandwiches, which turned out to be messier than we thought, and an amazing dessert with some Raspberry Lambic Ale.
JAY: We were waited on hand and foot. We had tortilla chips and some kind of vegetable plate as an appetizer. Then I ordered a ham and cheese croissant for the main course. Excellent food, though we were talking too much to finish everything.
Did you share?
CYNTHIA: Oh, yes, Lady and the Tramp style.
How was the music?
CYNTHIA: The musicians didn't like us. They shushed us for talking.
JAY: It really wasn't my thing... a bit too loud, and I wasn't really into the whole Chapman stick sound. I found myself trying to talk over the band, even though we were seated faaaaaar in the back. At one point, someone in the band came up to us and said we were making too much noise, so we had to move to the computer area.
Uh-oh... Looks like we'll have to subtract...
What did you talk about?
JAY: A number of topics, including developmental Mexican food. The conversation seemed to flow very well. I can't really say that there were many dull moments, although there were times the conversation kinda stalled. I guess that happens on blind dates.
CYNTHIA: Everything... he was a good listener. I couldn't believe how much we had in common.
What did you find out that was interesting about your date?
JAY: We're both from out of town and recently moved to Charlottesville. I think our social circles are very different... hers seems more artsy than mine. I enjoyed hearing about the clubs she goes to.
CYNTHIA: He's a 24-year-old neurosurgeon resident! What more could you want!?... He's going to be rich!
How was it toward the end?
CYNTHIA: I never wanted it to end. I wanted to kiss, but I think he was nervous, so we just shook hands... I know he liked me, though.
JAY: We exchanged emails and left. There really didn't appear to be much going on elsewhere... I guess that's what you get for going out on a Wednesday night.
Did you have fun?
CYNTHIA: Of course!
JAY: Yeah, the conversation was interesting, and I liked the Gravity Lounge.
Would you see this person again?
CYNTHIA: Definitely, even if I have to get surgery.
JAY: Probably as a friend.
On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the date?
Well then, we've explored the factors in our love equation. Now, it's time to do our calculations:
The original problem again was does CMMuR=JDRF*9.8m/s2.
If C=10, and J=6 and we can balance out R, we're left with this question:
Does 10Mmu=6DF*9.8m/s2?
Hmmm. [Headscratch. Knucklecrack.] Nope, can't do it! Drat and double drat! Another flunk for matchmaker!
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