text:
The 2014 UF Athletic Hall of Fame class features seven Gator Greats and one Distinguished Letterwinner that will join the 384 existing UF Hall of Famers next spring, the University of Florida F Club and Gator Boosters, Inc., have announced. The induction Banquet will be held March 7, at 6 p.m. in the Holloway Touchdown Terrace at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
This year's induction class includes Gator Greats Aury Cruz (Volleyball), Jenny Gladding (Softball), Justin O'Neal (Men's Tennis), Keiwan Ratliff (Football), Colleen Rosensteel (Women's Track & Field), Mike Stanley (Baseball) and Sarah Yohe (Soccer). Former UF swimmer, lifetime member of swimming and diving's Splash Club and Gator Boosters Board of Directors member Harrison "Harry" Wilder will be inducted into the UF Athletic Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Letterwinner .
Each year, the F Club Committee selects members to the Hall of Fame, divided into three different categories: Gator Greats, Distinguished Letterwinners and Honorary Letterwinners.
Gator Greats are letterwinners who have brought recognition and prominence to the university and themselves by athletic accomplishments as a student-athlete. Distinguished Letterwinners are former student-athletes who have made major contributions to the university's athletic program through personal time, effort, interest and many years of continued service. They also have distinguished themselves as exceptional in their chosen field of endeavor.
Honorary Letterwinners are coaches and athletic officials (after retirement) who were not letterwinners/athletes at UF, yet have rendered outstanding service to the intercollegiate athletic program through personal time, effort, interest and through many years of continued service.
Aury Cruz (Volleyball 2000-03): Three-time AVCA All-American...Three-time SEC Player of the Year...2000 SEC Freshman of the Year...Holds program record for kills (1,815) and points (2,188.5)...Ranks second in kills per set (4.58), attacks (4,096), service aces (220), service aces per set (.56), digs per set (3.33) and points per set (5.53) ...Sixth in career digs (1,320).
Jenny Gladding (Softball 2003-04): A 2003 All-SEC selection...Third lowest career ERA at UF (1.20)...Third most strikeouts in a season (285, 2003)...Recorded one perfect game and one no-hitter.
Justin O'Neal (Men's Tennis 1997-00): Three-time All-American...First Freshman All-American in UF history...Two-time All-SEC selection...Ranks first in career singles wins and second overall in career wins.
Keiwan Ratliff (Football 2000-03): The 2003 SEC Defensive Player of the Year...2003 First Team All-American...Two-time All-SEC selection at Florida.
Colleen Rosensteel (Women's Track & Field 1986-89): Six-time All-American in both the discus and shot put...Six-time SEC Champion (4-shot put; 2-discus).
Mike Stanley (Baseball 1982-85): Three-time All-SEC...Ranked in the top 10 in UF history for batting average, games played, hits and runs scored.
Sarah Yohe (Soccer 1996-99): The 1999 SEC Player of the Year...1998 NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team...Tied for second in UF History for game-winning goals (18)...Ranks fourth in UF History in goals (60), hat-tricks (3), assists (33) and shots (315).
Harrison "Harry" Wilder (Swimming 1961-63): Earned five All-SEC honors...A member of five SEC Championship relay teams...Member of three SEC Championship Teams ('61, '62 and '63)...Owned and operated eight successful McDonald's franchises in Gulf Breeze, Fla....Member of the Gator Boosters Board of Directors and past member of the F Club Committee...Lifetime member of the Splash Club...Major supporter of UF's Swimming and Diving program.
Contact Gator Boosters at (352) 375-4683 x 5000 for information on attending the 2014 Hall of Fame Induction Banquet.
Ratliff headlines UF Hall of Fame inductee class
The 2014 UF Athletic Hall of Fame class features seven Gator Greats and one Distinguished Letterwinner that will join the 384 existing UF Hall of Famers next spring, the University of Florida F Club and Gator Boosters, Inc., have announced. The induction Banquet will be held March 7, at 6 p.m. in the Holloway Touchdown Terrace at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.


text:
People have told Jack Horner he's crazy before, but he has always turned out to be right. In 1982, on the strength of seven years of undergraduate study, a stint in the Marines, and a gig as a paleontology researcher at Princeton, Horner got a job at Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman. He was hired as a curator but soon told his bosses that he wanted to teach paleontology. "They said it wasn't going to happen," Horner recalls. Four years and a MacArthur genius grant later, "they told me to do whatever I wanted to." Horner, 65, continues to work at the museum, now filled with his discoveries. He still doesn't have a college degree.
by Thomas Hayden (33.7 MB .mp3)
When he was a kid in the 1950s, dinosaurs were thought to have been mostly cold, solitary, reptilian beasts—true monsters. Horner didn't agree with this picture. He saw in their hundreds-of-millions-of-years-old skeletons hints of sociability, of animals that lived in herds, unlike modern reptiles. Then, in the 1970s, Horner and his friend Bob Makela excavated one of the most spectacular dinosaur finds ever—a massive communal nesting site of duck-billed dinosaurs in northwest Montana complete with fossilized adults, juveniles, and eggs. There they found proof of crazy idea number one: The parents at the site cared for their young. Judging by their skeletons, the baby duckbills would have been too feeble to forage on their own.
What we're trying to do is take our chicken, modify it, and make a chickensaurus.
Horner went on to find evidence suggesting that, once hatched, the animals were fast-growing (crazy idea number two) and possibly warm-blooded (that would be three), and he continues to be at the forefront of the search for ancient bits of organic matter surviving intact in fossils (number four). Add in his work as a technical consultant on the Jurassic Park movies and Horner has probably done more to shape the way we currently think about dinosaurs than any other living paleontologist.
All of which means that people are more cautious about calling him crazy these days, even when he tells them what he plans to do next: Jack Horner wants to make a dinosaur. Not from scratch—don't be ridiculous. He says he's going to do it by reverse-evolving a chicken. "It's crazy," Horner says. "But it's also possible."
Over the past several decades, paleontologists—including Horner—have found ample evidence to prove that modern birds are the descendants of dinosaurs, everything from the way they lay eggs in nests to the details of their bone anatomy. In fact, there are so many similarities that most scientists now agree that birds actually are dinosaurs, most closely related to two-legged meat-eating theropods like Tyrannosaurus rex and velociraptor.
But "closely related" means something different to evolutionary biologists than it does to, say, the people who write incest laws. It's all relative: Human beings are almost indistinguishable, genetically speaking, from chimpanzees, but at that scale we're also pretty hard to tell apart from, say, bats.
Hints of long-extinct creatures, echoes of evolution past, occasionally emerge in real life—they're called atavisms, rare cases of individuals born with characteristic features of their evolutionary antecedents. Whales are sometimes born with appendages reminiscent of hind limbs. Human babies sometimes enter the world with fur, extra nipples, or, very rarely, a true tail. Horner's plan, in essence, is to start off by creating experimental atavisms in the lab. Activate enough ancestral characteristics in a single chicken, he reasons, and you'll end up with something close enough to the ancestor to be a "saurus." At least, that's what he pitched at this year's TED conference, the annual technology, entertainment, and design gathering held in Long Beach, California. "When I was growing up in Montana, I had two dreams," he told the crowd. "I wanted to be a paleontologist, a dinosaur paleontologist—and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur."
Already, researchers have found tantalizing clues that at least some ancient dinosaur characteristics can be reactivated. Horner is the first to admit that he doesn't know enough to do the work himself, so he's actively seeking a developmental biology postdoctoral fellow to join his lab group in Montana. Horner has the big ideas, and he has some seed funding.
Now all he needed to make it happen, he told his TED audience, was a few breakthroughs in developmental biology and genetics and all the chicken eggs he could get his hands on. "What we're trying to do is take our chicken, modify it, and make," he said, "a chickenosaurus."
Horner's effort to reverse-evolve a dinosaur is not how most people envision T. rex making a comeback. That scientific scenario was essentially the premise of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park—namely that bloodsucking insects trapped in prehistoric amber could contain enough dinosaur DNA for scientists to clone the great beasts. Horner threw himself into assessing this idea after the book came out in 1990, and he was hired as a consultant on the film trilogy. He ultimately concluded that DNA breaks down too fast in amber and in bones (no matter how exquisitely well preserved). In other words, dinosaur cloning was not feasible. But Horner hadn't given up on owning a dinosaur just yet. "I didn't really think we could do it," he says, "until I had a much better understanding of what it was that we couldn't do."
So he started reading developmental biology papers. And in 2005 he read a book called Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Sean Carroll. In the 1980s, Carroll helped lay the groundwork for the field of evolutionary developmental biology—evo devo—which focuses on figuring out the molecular mechanisms of evolution. It's a basic fact of biology that living things change over generations, shaped by the randomness of genetic mutation and the winnowing effects of the environment. The biologists wanted to determine what, exactly, changes. Using fruit flies, they established that just a handful of genes—most famously the homeotic, or Hox, genes—control the basic framework of a fruit fly's body. Even more surprising, those Hox genes are found in everything from nematode worms to humans, in a nearly identical sequence of amino acids called the homeodomain.
These regulatory genes—the master switches of development—contain the recipes for making certain proteins that stick to different stretches of the genome, where they function like brake shoes, controlling at what time during development, and in what part of the body, other genes (for things like growth-factor proteins or actual structural elements) get turned on. The same basic molecular components get deployed to make the six-legged architecture of an insect or fish fins or elephant trunks. Different body shapes aren't the result of different genes, though genetic makeup certainly plays a role in evolution. They're the result of different uses of genes during development.
So making a chicken egg hatch a baby dinosaur should really just be an issue of erasing what evolution has done to make a chicken. "There are 25 years of developmental biology underlying the work that makes Horner's thought experiment possible," says Carroll, now a molecular biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Every cell of a turkey carries the blueprints for making a tyrannosaurus, but the way the plans get read changes over time as the species evolves.
All Horner had to do was learn how to control the control genes. He had spent decades studying fossilized dinosaur embryos, tracking in minute detail the structural and cellular changes in their skeletons as they grew. Now he immersed himself in what biologists had figured out about the molecular control of those changes. Horner reads scientific papers the way he hunts for fossils—scanning a barren landscape for rare bits of useful material—and he has found enough of them to feel optimistic.
Horner is a big man—6'3″ and over 200 pounds. It's a tight squeeze to reach the desk in his cluttered basement office at the Museum of the Rockies. Surrounded by four large LED monitors, Horner rummages among awards, family photos, and what looks like a triceratops horn in a canvas shopping bag before he finds what he's looking for: a mounted chicken skeleton. "The skeletons of a chicken and a T. rex really are very similar," he says. "We're going to focus on just a few of the major differences." He points out the 10 or so vertebrae, several of them fused and kinked upward, that pass for the tail on a chicken. Two-legged dinosaurs had long, dramatic tails, held up from the ground to counterbalance the body. Fixing the tail will be the first step.
Step two: the hands. Many dinosaurs had two or three fingers, with sharp claws used for grasping and tearing. Birds have a "hand" at the end of each wing, but the three digits are tiny and fused together. The trick will be unfusing them. Step three will be replacing the chicken's tough keratin beak with long rows of pointy dinosaur teeth. "That is one good reason to do this in a chicken instead of an ostrich," says Horner, whose deadpan humor comes in a slow, easy-to-miss burn. "You want something small enough to catch."
He didn't know how to actually do any of this, of course. It was just a theory. The breakthrough came in a bar. Horner doesn't remember exactly where—paleontologists tend to travel a lot—but he thinks it was in 2005. He was talking with Hans Larsson, a young Canadian paleontologist who had recently started teaching at McGill University; Horner had known him since Larsson was a graduate student at the University of Chicago. Larsson was interested in how dinosaurs lost their tails along the evolutionary road. "As soon as he started talking about looking for the genes that were responsible, I said, 'Well if you could find those, we could just reverse the whole process.'" Larsson was 34 at the time and as trim and energetic as Horner is burly and unhurried—a velociraptor to the older man's triceratops. He was taken aback but didn't dismiss the idea out of hand.
Larsson is a fairly unusual paleontologist in that he studies living animals as well as fossils. He trained in paleontology and biology and today splits his time between dig sites in the Arctic (and elsewhere) and an advanced developmental biology lab. "I became a little bit dissatisfied with just pure paleontology," Larsson says. "It seemed too much like going out and collecting something, adding it to the museum drawer, and not actually testing anything." It's a frustration that every student of extinct animals has to face sooner or later: You can't keep the darned things in a lab and do experiments on them. But because of the principle of genetic conservation—the idea that all living creatures carry a substrate of very similar DNA—Larsson can study chickens, alligators, and even mice to gain insight into dinosaurs.
That work got under way in 2008—in part thanks to Horner, who donated the money to fund a postdoc in Larsson's lab for a year. The first task was to spend several years developing exquisitely sensitive techniques to follow the activity of four key regulatory networks. One of these pathways includes a gene known as Sonic Hedgehog, which controls the proliferation of cells. Another is involved with wing outgrowth. The third helps establish a top-to-bottom axis in developing limbs, and the last controls skeletal patterning. Most of these activities can be manipulated—suppressed or even stopped—using pharmacological agents. Or you can just inject more of the protein that a particular gene makes, increasing its effect. "Our plan is to start working with this toolkit and manipulate it in different parts of the embryo," Larsson says.
Like Horner, Larsson is focused on the tail and wing for now. But he wants to learn how dinosaurs became birds, not turn back the evolutionary clock. That's just Horner's crazy idea.
Using advanced genetics and biological hacks, scientists could make dinosaur traits emerge from a chicken embryo.
Illustration: Ulises Farinas
In 2002, Matthew Harris sat down to dissect a chicken embryo. A grad student in developmental biology at the University of Wisconsin, Harris was trying to figure out how feathers evolved. As is common practice in his field, he had turned to a deformed animal for clues; figuring out what went wrong often shows what's supposed to go right. He was working with a talpid2, a particularly odd strain of mutant chicken best known for grotesque forelimbs and feet that can sprout up to 10 digits each—so many that fully developed chicks can't muster the biomechanical wherewithal to break out of their shells and hatch. Harris was looking beyond those obvious alterations, searching for oddities in skin, scales, and feathers.
It was one of several old specimens, collected by his PhD adviser, John Fallon, years before, right at the point of hatching. Preserved in thick, syrupy glycerol, the embryo had become nearly transparent. "I brought it out of the jar to look at it, and the outer beak, the rhamphotheca, started to come off," Harris says. "I peeled it back and then stopped—the specimen was smiling back at me." Scores of scientists had studied talpid2 embryos for years, but Harris saw what no one else did: a neat row of pointy, uniform structures running along the jawline, hidden beneath the hard outer beak. The bird had a mouthful of teethlike buds.
Harris and his colleagues soon discovered that by stimulating production of a protein called beta-catenin in chick embryos, they could get normal, nonmutants to produce neat rows of conical, crocodile-like tooth buds along their upper and lower beaks. "Chicks have the potential to create toothlike structures," Harris says. "They just need the right signal to come through."
Where Harris—now on the faculty at Harvard Medical School—saw an interesting bit of developmental biology, Horner saw yet another stepping stone to his dinosaur. The beta-catenin trick made growing chickenosaurus teeth relatively easy. Unfortunately for Horner, Harris is among those who don't see the path quite as clearly. "I respect him and what he does," Harris says. "But I think what he's trying to sell is a little outlandish."
Those chick's teeth were evidence, Harris says, that evolution had preserved the basic developmental mechanisms for making teeth. But they were mere buds, with none of the design and material flourishes that make teeth into tearers of flesh and crushers of bone. "Development has the capacity to remake a lot of things," Harris says. "But what you lose are some of the last bits, like enamel and dentine, that are specific for teeth. You can't even find a gene for enamel in the chicken genome."
Carroll, the evo devo expert, shares that skepticism. He has done plenty of body-changing experiments on insects, manipulating the order and structure of development, and let's just say that the resulting bugs are never happy. "It's not like a Mr. Potato Head, where you just give it a tail and new hands and voilè0: dinosaur," Carroll says. "That tail has got to work with the rest of the body. There's likely going to be some wiring problems, some coordination problems. Maybe some other body parts won't develop normally." He doesn't disparage the imagination behind the idea and thinks that with enough money and time Horner might get something done, but "even if you raised an adult chicken with teeth, you'd really end up with nothing more than Foghorn Leghorn with teeth," Carroll says. "And shitty teeth at that."
Horner's quest to make a dinosaur reflects what he sees as a broader problem in paleontology: Digging bones out of the ground has produced huge amounts of information about prehistoric life, but he has begun to think that scientists have learned just about everything they can from that method. "We'll get little chunks of DNA, and we'll figure out what colors they were," Horner says. "But the fossil record is pretty limited."
Having spent a career shaking up paleontology, Horner seems perfectly happy with the idea that even considering a chickenosaurus shakes up biologists. "Paleontology is ossified," says Nathan Myhrvold, the former Microsoft CTO who now dabbles in a bunch of different sciences and has worked extensively with Horner. "The methods haven't changed substantially in 100 years." Yes, researchers know more about dinosaurs and other extinct creatures now than they did a century ago—Myhrvold has been coauthor of several academic papers that contribute to that supply of knowledge. He sees Horner's work as the first real push to bring the tools and insights of molecular and developmental biology into the paleontological fold. "Normally, paleontologists go out and walk around until they find fossils," Myhrvold says. "But it turns out that there's a place to look that's just as good as the badlands of Montana, and that's the genome of living relatives."
And if Horner is right, do we get the joy of real dinosaurs menacing the San Diego suburbs? "A lot of people say, 'You worked on Jurassic Park, you should know better,'" Horner says with a laugh. "But contrary to Steven Spielberg's movies, animals don't want to get even with us. We actually could have dinosaurs running around and they wouldn't be any worse than grizzly bears and mountain lions." That might seem like scant reassurance to those who spend less time wandering the badlands than Horner does. But for now, Horner has no intention of letting any of his experiments hatch. (Just give him a few years and some funding.) And because he intends to tweak only development and not alter the DNA itself, any offspring of a chickenosaurus would just be a chicken. So what could possibly go wrong?
One project, if it ever happens, could give us an idea. In 2008, researchers at Penn State announced that they'd sequenced most of the genome of the woolly mammoth, extinct for 10,000 years, from samples of its hair. That prompted Harvard geneticist George Church to claim that for around $10 million he could resurrect the mammoth. He'd take a skin cell from an elephant, even more closely related to mammoths than humans are to chimps, and then reprogram the elephantine bits of its genome into something more mammothy. Convert that into an embryo and bring it to term in an elephant uterus. No problem.
If Church were to ever try it—and there are no signs he will—the project would have a few advantages over Horner's. DNA can last for around 100,000 years, so researchers actually have mostly intact genetic material from mammoths, avoiding the Jurassic Park degraded-DNA problem. And from a genetic perspective, elephants are practically mammoths already, whereas chickens have diverged pretty significantly from, say, a velociraptor. But the important part of all this is that the technology to do this kind of work didn't exist 10 years ago. It's now possible, for example, to make thousands of modifications to the genome in a single cell. Genomics has gone from an artisanal craft to something more akin to the mechanical looms of the early industrial revolution. Sure, to realize his reverse-evolution dream, Horner needs to take the technology even further. But the trend lines do seem to point in the right direction.
Back in his office, he picks up a heavy introductory developmental bio textbook from his desk. "All these books are about flies," Horner says, arching his eyebrows. "Flies are great. They're very interesting, and you can learn a lot by studying them. But… " He tosses the book onto a chair and stands up, walks down a long hallway to his crammed collection room and a drawer filled with every imaginable sort of bird skull—a toucan with its giant orange proboscis, a parrot's hooklike mouth, the flattened beak of a spoonbill. "Birds are pretty amazing, too," he says.
Developmental biologists talk about the regulatory machinery they study as a biological toolkit, a small set of mechanisms and processes that evolution uses to construct new and wonderful bodies. "Well," Horner says, "they've found the toolkit. But what good is a toolkit if you don't use it to build something?"
Thomas Hayden (www.lastwordonnothing.com) teaches science and environmental writing at Stanford University.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Womack Response to POTUS's Indefinite Cancellation of White House Tours
Congressman Steve Womack released the following statement in response to the cancellation of all self-guided White House tours due to sequestration:
"President Obama proposed the "sequester" and, since it went into effect, has been hell-bent on making its implementation as painful as possible. Today, he announced that the White House will be shutting its doors to Americans visiting our nation's capital.
"The White House belongs to the American people, not President Obama. I suggest he spends more time in that house - rather than jet-setting across the country to campaign and play golf - working on meaningful spending cuts that address the billions of dollars wasted every year on inefficient and ineffective programs before keeping the American people out of the house they own.
"My office will continue to welcome Third District Arkansans visiting Washington, D.C. with open arms and give them a full and complete tour of the U.S. Capitol regardless of any reductions in our office budget."


text:
Department of Health and Human Services
Public Health Service
|Los Angeles District
Pacific Region
19701 Fairchild
Irvine, CA 92612-2506
Telephone: 949-608-2900
April 29, 2011
Mark S. Phillips, President
Standard Homeopathic Company
210 W 131st St
Los Angeles, CA 90061-1618
Dear Dr. Phillips:
During our September 8, 2010 to October 28, 2010 inspection of your pharmaceutical manufacturing facility, Standard Homeopathic Company, located at 210 W 131st Street, Los Angeles, California, investigators from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) identified significant violations of Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) regulations for Finished Pharmaceuticals, Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.), Parts 210 and 211. These violations cause your drug products to be adulterated within the meaning of section 501(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) (21 U.S.C. § 351(a)(2)(B)) in that the methods used in, or the facilities or controls used for, their manufacture, processing, packing, or holding do not conform to, or are not operated or administered in conformity with, CGMP.
In addition, FDA reviewed your firm's labeling submitted to the export certificate program for homeopathic drug products and labeling and marketing information found on your website at the internet address http://www.hylands.com. This review revealed that your firm is marketing drugs that are misbranded in violation of sections 502 and 503 of the Act (21 U.S.C. § 352 and 353).
We have reviewed your firm's response of November 10, 2010, and note that it lacks sufficient corrective actions.
CGMP Deviations
Specific violations observed during the inspection include, but are not limited, to the following:
1. Your firm does not have adequate written procedures for production and process controls designed to assure that the drug products you manufacture have the identity, strength, quality, and/or purity they purport or are represented to possess [21 C.F.R. § 211.100(a)].
For example, your firm's mixing times in the approved records for Belladonna, Chamomilla, Calcarea Phos., and Coffea Cruda 1X dilutions, and the approved record for Hyland's Teething Tablets, are not supported by adequate process validation.
We acknowledge your action to recall the Hyland's Teething Tablets and your commitment to ensure that all (b)(4) tablet batch records will accurately reflect the times established in your mixing studies conducted with the 150 gallon (b)(4) and the 15 gallon (b)(4) mixers. However, we cannot consider your response adequate until you scientifically justify the use of surrogates, such as (b)(4) , in your validation study instead of the actual ingredients used in your products. There is no assurance that the surrogates have similar mixing characteristics, particle size distribution, or other potentially important characteristics to accurately simulate the (b)(4) mixing process.
2. Your firm failed to establish time limits for the completion of each phase of production to assure the quality of the drug product [21 C.F.R. § 211.111].
For example, your firm has failed to establish hold times for the 1X dilutions of Chamomilla and Belladonna. Hyland's Teething Tablets (lot (b)(4)) were manufactured on May 26, 2010, using a Chamomilla 1X dilution (lot (b)(4)) and a Belladonna 1X dilution (lot (b)(4)) that were manufactured on January 27, 2010, and February 18, 2010, respectively. Your firm's hold times of (b)(4) for the Belladonna 1X dilution and (b)(4) for the Chamomilla 1X dilution are not supported by any scientific evidence showing the lack of blend segregation.
3. Your firm failed to conduct testing on in-process materials for identity, strength, quality, and purity during the production process, at commencement or completion of significant phases, or after storage for long periods [21 C.F.R. § 211.110(c)].
For example, your firm failed to conduct in-process testing to ensure blend uniformity for Belladonna 1X dilution (lots (b)(4)). Your firm only conducted an examination for color, odor, and taste.
4. Your firm failed to test each lot of a component with a potential for microbiological contamination that is objectionable in view of its intended use [21 C.F.R. § 211.84(d)(6)].
For example, your firm fails to analyze and test your botanically derived components for the presence of likely objectionable organisms prior to the manufacture of drug products, including those intended for infants and toddlers. Although your firm commits to test components used in the Hyland's Homeopathic Teething Tablets for total plate counts, Escherichia coli, Salmonella species, yeast, mold, and Clostridium botulinum, you have not committed to assess botanically derived components for other possible objectionable organisms such as Bacillus cereus. Furthermore, you response failed to address the other botanical components used to manufacture other marketed products, such as Hyland Colic Tablets, which are also intended for use in infants and toddler populations.
5. Your firm has not thoroughly investigated the failure of a batch or any of its components to meet its specifications whether or not the batch has already been distributed [21 C.F.R. § 211.192].
For example, your firm's Quality Control Unit (QCU) failed to identify the root cause and assess the impact on other related lots when approximately 62 kilograms of Restful Legs Tablets (lot (b)(4) ) were rejected due to the presence of brown specs on April 8, 2010.
In your response, your firm states that you will train your QCU on Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Action Prevention. However, your response is inadequate because your firm has failed to extend the investigation to other lots and products that may be associated with this failure.
This is a repeat violation from the January 2010 inspection.
Misbranding [§§ 503(b)(4) and 301(a)]
FDA reviewed your labeling submission to the Export Certificate Program dated August 5, 2010 and your website at the internet address http://www.hylands.com in January 2011. FDA reviewed your firm's labeling and website information for homeopathic drug products, including but not limited to: "Leg Cramps with Quinine Tablets," "Nighttime Cold 'n Cough 4 Kids," and "Bedwetting Tablets."
Your product labeling and website document the intended uses of your products including, but not limited to the following:
Leg Cramps with Quinine Tablets: "Viscum Album 3X HPUS – for symptoms of . . . sciatica" "Rhus Toxicodendron 6X HPUS – for . . . Sciatica with pains in tendons and ligaments."
Nighttime Cold 'n Cough 4 Kids: "Pulsatilla 6X HPUS – spasmodic cough . . . " "Sulphur 12X HPUS . . . burning runny nose"
Bedwetting Tablets: "Rhus Aromatica 3X HPUS – for incontinence with constant dribbling in children." "Belladonna 3X HPUS (0.0003% Alkaloids) – for frequent and profuse urination with sensation of motion in bladder. For incontinence and continuous dropping."
Based on the above labeling and claims, these products are drugs under section 201(g)(1)(B) of the Act (21 U.S.C. § 321(g)(1)(B)), because they are intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man, and under section 201(g)(1)(C) of the Act (21 U.S.C. § 321(g)(1)(C)), because they are intended to affect the structure or function of the body.
Section 503(b)(1) of the Act (21 U.S.C. 353(b)(1)) identifies criteria for determining the prescription status of a product. The products listed above are prescription drugs within the meaning of Section 503(b)(1) of the Act because they are intended to treat diseases that require diagnosis and treatment by a physician or are intended to provide treatment for symptoms usually caused by an underlying disease process that requires diagnosis and treatment by a physician. Because they may be dispensed only by prescription of a licensed practitioner, these products are misbranded under Section 503(b)(4) of the Act (21 U.S.C. § 353(b)(4)) in that their labels fail to bear the symbol, "Rx only."1 Your marketing of these misbranded products violates Section 301(a) of the Act (21 U.S.C. § 331(a)).
We recognize that these products are labeled as homeopathic drugs with active ingredients measured in homeopathic strengths.2 The definition of "drug" in section 201(g)(1) of the Act (21 U.S.C. § 321(g)(1)) includes articles recognized in the official Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States (HPUS), or any supplement to it. Homeopathic drugs are subject to the same regulatory requirements as other drugs; nothing in the Act exempts homeopathic drugs from any of the requirements related to adulteration, labeling, misbranding, or approval. We acknowledge that many homeopathic drugs are manufactured and distributed without FDA approval under enforcement policies set out in the Agency's Compliance Policy Guide entitled, "Conditions Under Which Homeopathic Drugs May be Marketed (CPG 7132.15)" (the CPG). As its title suggests, the CPG identifies specific conditions under which homeopathic drugs may ordinarily be marketed; thus, in order to fall under the enforcement policies set forth in the CPG, a homeopathic product must meet the conditions set forth in the CPG. One of those conditions is compliance with Section 503(b) of the Act. Under the CPG, only homeopathic products intended solely for self-limiting disease conditions amenable to self-diagnosis (of symptoms) and treatment may be marketed OTC. Homeopathic products offered for conditions not amenable to OTC use must be marketed as prescription products.
Misbranding [§§ 502(a) and 301(a)]
Your firm's products "Leg Cramps with Quinine" and "Leg Cramps PM with Quinine" are misbranded under Section 502(a) of the Act because the labeling is false and misleading. The labeling of "Leg Cramps with Quinine" and "Leg Cramps PM with Quinine" prominently displays the ingredient "Quinine" on the front of the package and in the name of the product. The labeling is false and misleading because it suggests that quinine is the active ingredient when in fact the active ingredient is "Cinchona Officinalis."
Further, the label indentifies this active ingredient as "Cinchona Officinalis 3X HPUS (Quinine)." According to the HPUS, although Cinchona bark contains quinine, it also contains other related alkaloids. Your selective identification of only one of the alkaloids in Cinchona bark is false and misleading because it incorrectly suggests that there is only one alkaloid in Cinchona bark.
Your marketing of these misbranded products violates Section 301(a) of the Act (21 U.S.C. § 331(a)).
The violations cited in this letter are not intended to be an all-inclusive statement of violations that exist at your facility. You are responsible for investigating and determining the causes of the violations identified above and for preventing their recurrence and the occurrence of other violations. It is your responsibility to assure compliance with all requirements of federal law and FDA regulations.
You should take prompt action to correct the violations cited in this letter. Failure to promptly correct these violations may result in legal action without further notice including, without limitation, seizure and injunction. Other federal agencies may take this Warning Letter into account when considering the award of contracts. Additionally, FDA may withhold approval of requests for export certificates, or approval of pending drug applications listing your facility, until the above violations are corrected. FDA may re-inspect to verify corrective actions have been completed.Within fifteen working days of receipt of this letter, please notify this office in writing of the specific steps that you have taken to correct violations. Include an explanation of each step being taken to prevent the recurrence of violations and copies of supporting documentation. If you cannot complete corrective action within fifteen working days, state the reason for the delay and the date by which you will have completed the correction. Additionally, your response should state if you no longer manufacture or distribute any of the products that are the subject of this letter, including Hyland Teething Tablets, and provide the date(s) and reason(s) you ceased production and if or when you plan to resume production.
Your reply should be sent to: Blake Bevill, Compliance Branch Director, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 19701 Fairchild, Irvine, CA 92612-2445. If you have question a regarding any issue in this letter, please contact Marco Esteves, Compliance Officer at (949) 608-4439.
Alonza E. Cruse
District Director
1We note that the Agency's Compliance Policy Guide entitled, "Conditions Under Which Homeopathic Drugs May be Marketed (CPG 7132.15)" (the CPG) states that, in accordance with § 503(b)(1) of the Act, homeopathic drug products offered for conditions that require diagnosis or treatment by a licensed practitioner must bear the prescription legend, "Caution: Federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription." The CPG was issued by the agency in 1988. In 1997, Congress enacted the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act (FDAMA) (Public Law 105-115); Section 126 of FDAMA amended section 503(b)(4) of the Act to require that the label of a prescription drug product must bear, at a minimum, the symbol "Rx only."
2For example, the label for "Bedwetting Tablets" includes the ingredients "Equisetum Heymale 3X HPUS, Rhus Aromatic 3X HPUS, Belladonna 3X HPUS."
This page was posted on May 20, 2011.


text:
As the More is More Mom®, I'm all about……more Cub's home openers! For those of us Cub's fans, Friday, April 1, 2011, is practically a Holy Day of Obligation…..Holy Cow, its opening day at Wrigley Field! While Ron Santo's color commentary will most certainly be missed in the booth with Pat Hughes, I think it's finally next year. Come on boys, you've got to do it for Ronnie!
The Friendly Confines is my neighborhood. I grew up four blocks from Wrigley Field. My dog's name is Wrigley Sheffield for Heaven's sake. I am what you would consider a diehard Cub's fan. A while back, in a show of devotion to my favorite team, I paid homage to the Cub's at Our Lady of Perpetual Donations Fourth Annual Trivia Night.
Trivia Night is a fun-d-raiser (emphasis on the "fun"….and heavier emphasis on the "raiser" hence our grammar school's name; Our Lady of Perpetual Donations) where a group of ten lively people (usually five couples) is assembled and your team competes in a trivia contest, against dozens of other teams, with categories similar to those found on Jeopardy, only way harder and more obscure. That part is definitely fun, but the very best part of this group's participation is that each table devises a theme for their group, which includes costumes, decorations and food. As the More is More Mom® I have taken this task quite seriously over the years, paying close attention to detail and authenticity. Our themes have included The Soprano's, Superhero's, The Cast of Gilligan's Island and saving the nest for last…..The Bleacher Bums.
Each team was provided with a round table and ten chairs, but because more of everything is always better, I typically require…more. I knew that the only way to do justice to my theme was to actually sit in the bleachers. I mean really, where else would the Bleacher Bums sit? Certainly not at a round table! My dream was to build a replica scoreboard, but the question was how? Suddenly I had a stroke of genius……I would make it all out of felt. It was brilliant and quite simple. I purchased three yards of wide width green felt. On my sewing machine, I ran a seam for rod pockets across the top, and down both sides leaving the bottom un-hemmed. I notched out both corners, leaving room for elbow brackets that would connect the side poles with the top. Chuck is a very good sport, and super handy, so we made a quick run to Home Depot to purchase two ten foot lengths of PVC pipe, two elbow brackets, two four foot lengths of PVC pipe, a t-bracket that allowed two inch pipe fittings on either side, and the top notch allowed for a ¾ "pipe to extend to the Heaven's. It worked out beautifully!
In the mean time my friend Judy and I got together and cut out 93 letters in varying colors of felt, and cut out 16 color coordinating banners to represent each on the 16 teams in the National League. We glued together the pennants, and then I punched two holes in the two corners on one side of each pennant and strung them together with twine, to hang in the wind at the top of the scoreboard. You will note that the pennants are in their final team standings for the end of the 2009 season, save for the Cub's. I, of course, have my Cubbies finishing 1st in the National League. Hey, it's my fantasy…….In the meantime I traced and cut out an additional 126 letters and numbers, and all of the lines for the scoreboard, made a clock for the sake of authenticity, and glued it all in place. Standing this sucker up was like an old fashioned barn raising. With the pipes in place, we made a notch at the very top of the ¾ "pipe, ran the twine across the notch and secured the twine on either side at the elbow brackets. From the top of the ¾" PVC pipe to the bottom, I ran the pennants for the Central Division, by adhering them with double sided carpet tape. It worked like a charm. We laid the scoreboard face down on the ground, attached a clamp-on bedside lamp at each corner (left over's from the days when my Nick still had bunk beds….I never throw anything away) because the only way to have a Night Game at Wrigley Field is with LIGHTS! We slid a six foot piece of one inch PVC in the slot of each of two umbrella stands (for your market umbrella on your patio), tilted them forward and then slid the two inch pieces of PVC over that for stability and brought them to a vertical position. I couldn't believe it…it worked! From the very top to the bottom my scoreboard stood fourteen feet in the air. It was a sight to behold.
Part of the experience of sitting in the bleachers at Wrigley Field is the wall of ivy. This was so very easy. On our trip to Home Depot we picked up a sheet of lattice. I purchased ivy garland from Hobby Lobby and intertwined it through the lattice. Making it stand up was easy too. I took the two pieces of the plywood base from a left over decorative round table and slid the lattice through and it stood like a champ! Chuck insisted we pick up chicken wire and we secured it to the front of the lattice from side to side to make the basket that runs along the ivy in the outfield. Because we would be at a night game, I draped Cubs twinkling lights across the front and made a 400 feet sign out of sticky numbers we had left over from a Science Fair project. Seriously, I never throw away anything.
To sit in the Bleachers one needs stadium seating. That was easy. I contacted my local party rental store and rented two 4 foot platform sections and we were off and running. Five chairs up top, five chairs on the bottom……voila, bleachers.
The clincher of course would be the authenticity of the food. We knew ballpark food was in order; pizza (gourmet), nacho's (out of this world), burgers (to die for), brats (of course), plus your basic popcorn, peanuts, and Cracker Jacks. The piece de resistance…..my friend Karen's homemade Chocolate Malt Cups. Because really, what would a trip to the Friendly Confines be without a Malt Cup?
We used our round table as a buffet was quite lovely. I brought an urn and filled it with baseballs; a sign with the rules of sitting in the bleachers, Cubbie blue and red Mardi Gras beads and lime green disposable cups reminiscent of the infamous Mai Tai glasses. I rented a 120" blue round table cloth, because who wants to look at the ugly table legs? I then covered it with 1 ½ yards of Cub's licensed fleece (makes a great table topper…and the beauty is that it's washable!).
With each round of Trivia or "inning" we were able to manually score the game with numbers I had cut out in advance. They were adhered with straight pins. In between each inning we did the wave, and we had a bucket full of squishy balls to "throw back" at surrounding tables. We were completely obnoxious, but we could have cared less, because we were having a blast! And why wouldn't we be? In my fantasy we were playing the White Sox in a Cross Town World Series…..and naturally, we won! At the end of the game we proudly hung our "W" flag and posed for pictures with Harry Cary. A one, a two, a three……. Let's get some runs!
More Friendly Confines, more Chicago Cubs, more Bleacher Bums, more remembering Ron Santo…….


text:
Nufloors has a large selection of custom window coverings and offer expert installation. We carry only the best quality brands: Hunter Douglas and Shade-o-Matic. Visit our showroom today to see demos on the latest products and to test the various lifting systems available to best suit your needs.
Window coverings provide you privacy but also affects the design of your home décor.Your choices today are endless:
- Sheers and shadings
- Woven woods
- Honeycomb shades
- Shutters
- Roman shades
- Vertical blinds
- Roller shades
- Horizontal blinds
Visit us today to explore your many options. Our window covering specialists will work with you to ensure your window coverings match your needs and look beautiful.


text:
Create an Account - Increase your productivity, customize your experience, and engage in information you care about.
Plaintiff must have the following when filing a claim:
By law, court clerks must remain impartial regarding any claim filed and cannot give legal advice. However, the clerks are able to answer questions about how to complete the form and file the claim.


text:
According to the Centers for Disease Control, heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States, killing about 600,000 Americans each year. There are five numbers, however, that each person should know to help keep their cardiovascular system healthy.
"These are the numbers doctors use to assess someone's risk for getting heart disease, both short term and throughout their lifetime," says Dr. Martha Gulati, director of preventive cardiology and women's cardiovascular health at Ohio State's Ross Heart Hospital. "When you monitor these numbers, you are empowered to work with your doctor to improve your heart health."
- Blood pressure – This is the force of blood against the walls of the arteries. It's measured as two numbers – the systolic pressure, as the heart beats, over the diastolic pressure, as the heart relaxes between beats. A normal blood pressure is under 120/80. Talk to your doctor if it is higher than that. Simple lifestyle changes can help you lower your blood pressure and potentially avoid medication.
- BMI – Body Mass Index is the measurement of your weight for your body surface area and it's considered a reliable indicator of body fatness for most people. A recent national survey commissioned by Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center found nearly 2 out of 3 Americans don't know what's considered to be a healthy BMI. Use this BMI calculator to get your number. A BMI less than 18.5 is underweight. Below 25 is normal. A BMI of 25 through 29.9 is overweight, and 30 or higher is considered obese. "Knowing where you lie within that spectrum is really important because sometimes people will be very accepting of their weight thinking 'Well, that number sounds reasonable.' But is it reasonable for their height?" Gulati said.
- Waist circumference – Fat that is carried around the abdomen increases the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Measure your waist at the belly button, not where your clothing waistband sits. Gulati says women should be at least less than 35 inches and men should be less than 40 inches at the waist.
- Cholesterol – While the body makes all of the cholesterol it needs, it is also readily found in food. High cholesterol can lead to heart disease and atherosclerosis, or build-up of plaque in the arteries. Gulati says it's important to know your total cholesterol number and your low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, number. That's the bad cholesterol that can cause problems. A healthy cholesterol number is below 200. A healthy LDL number is below 100.
- Blood sugar – This reading tells doctors how much glucose is in the blood. High levels of blood glucose cause diabetes, which increases the risk for cardiovascular disease. A healthy fasting blood sugar number is under 100 after not eating for eight hours.
Reposted by Tina Comston, M.Ed.
See original article at:… http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/mediaroom/releases/Pages/5-Numbers-You-Need-to-Know.aspx


text:
Shut Up And Talk
Design by Gulshan Kishor
Womens Dolman
Super soft cotton, polyester, and rayon blend. Slouchy in the most savvy fashion, the dolman tee drapes like a vogue vixen. A round neckline and curved hemline complete the look for a casual classic. Women may want to order a size down.
Heather Navy Regular Fit size info
This item comes with the Threadless Happiness Guarantee


text:
It took Shane Battier 832 regular season games and 69 playoff games to reach his first Finals this season with the Heat, and now the 33-year-old veteran is one game away from a ring.
After failing to score in double-digits in back-to-back games during the 2011-12 regular season, Battier put up 17 points in both Games 1 and 2 of the Finals, and has hit 12 of his 19 shots from behind the arc through the first four games of the series. He's averaging 11.8 points per game against the Thunder despite averaging just 4.8 points per game in 65 games during the regular season.
In the past Battier has attributed his success to TV shows and documentaries, but his Miami teammates have claimed it comes from hard work, dedication and practice. While the jump in Battier's game is the result of his on-court work, it's likely his mental pregame preparation also plays a role.
The first words Battier hears from his iPod while preparing for a game are those of Jimi Hendrix proclaiming, "There must be some kind of way out of here." But if the song is being used as motivation then "here" can't possibly mean the NBA Finals since that's the last place Battier would want to leave right now.
CBS Local Sports was able to get a look at Battier's pregame playlist, and as expected, it's the perfect mix of songs to inspire a veteran playing a for a title. Here is his playlist.
1. "All Along the Watchtower" – Jimi Hendrix
2. "Victory" – P. Diddy and the Family
3. "Interstate Love Song" – Stone Temple Pilots
4. "Seven Nation Army" – The White Stripes
5. "D.O.A." – Jay Z
6. "What More Can I Say? (Remix) – Danger Mouse
7. "In Bloom" – Nirvana
8. "When We Were Young" – The Killers
9. "All I Do Is Win" – DJ Khaled
10. "Made You Look" – Nas
11. "Enter Sandman" – Metallica
12. "Sing For the Moment" – Eminem
13. "Picture Me Rolling" – Tupac
14. "Paranoid Android" – Radiohead
15. "Given to Fly" – Pearl Jam
16. "Cult of Personality" – Living Colour
17. "Feel So Good" – Mase
18. "Eye of the Tiger" – Survivor
You must log in to post a comment.


text:
Box trucks full of winter clothes and supplies will be heading from our region down to Staten Island this week to help those suffering from damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.
Box trucks full of winter clothes and supplies will be heading from our region down to Staten Island this week to help those suffering from damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.
The team effort to reach out to those in the badly battered area began last week, said Charles Piper, Orange County deputy fire coordinator for Battalion 3, when his unit got a request from Ann Berardinelli of the Town of Newburgh to gather supplies.
"A lot of people were looking to do something and were looking for an avenue to do it," said Piper.
Berardinelli said her brother's home in Staten Island was saved from damage, but that he witnessed the island's battering from the Oct. 29 storm. Staten Island has seen 23 Sandy-related deaths, according to the New York Police Department.
The fear and destruction Berardinelli heard about from her brother and the news compelled her, and the Trinity United Methodist parish in Newburgh, to act.
Piper said he called Matt Schaeffer, pastor of the Bethel United Methodist Church on the southern tip of Staten Island, last week.
"He said 'Can you perform a miracle for me?'" said Piper.
From there, the ball got rolling. Word spread quickly and people began dropping off hats, jackets, gloves and cleaning supplies to fire stations from Cronomer Valley to Winona Lake.
Piper said that at one point, a line of cars formed at one fire station to drop off goods.
"The station looked like one of those gas lines," said Piper.
Piper said U-Haul in New Windsor donated box trucks to haul supplies, while the Valero and QuickChek gas stations in Middlehope donated gas for the trip down. By Sunday, two trucks were already filled.
"It's like everyone wants to come forth and do something," said Piper.
The trucks will be taken down over the course of the week, starting Monday, to help.
Berardinelli said needs change quickly — cleaning supplies and diapers have been requested; and with an abundance of lost or roaming dogs and cats, pet food and supplies are also in short supply.
Schaeffer acknowledged the good intentions of those wanting to help, but emphasized the importance of coordinating with a trusted organization to determine what's needed and when and how to best deliver those services.
"In a situation like this, everyone wants to react immediately and personally, and you have to kind of step back," said Schaeffer.


text:
Daigo led first with Essa tight on his tail, making no errors. Essa then took the victory on his lead run when Saito made an error and straightened out during drift.
This is Essa's first Formula DRIFT pro championship podium and victory, moving him into third place overall in the standings. Saito is now in first place overall, moving Vaughn Gittin Jr. closely behind in second place.
"It's surreal. We started this week with some issues and didn't qualify well," said Essa. "The team put together a solid car and thanks to Yokohama Tire, Bilstein, Garrett and the rest of the sponsors, we were able to win. We need to keep the momentum going and I can't wait for the next round."


text:
Under Mee Seva (meaning at your service) launched a year ago, the state government is offering 45 various services and plans to increase the same to 100 services in two to three months.
Services like issuance of birth, caste and income certificates are being performed for citizens in 15 to 20 minutes, which earlier used to take 10 to 15 days.
Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy Thursday agreed to a suggestion made by J. Satyanarayana, secretary, department of electronics and information technology, government of India at the eIndia event here.
Satyanarayana suggested to the chief minister to dedicate Mee Seva to the nation so that other state can take benefit of this ready-made platform with minor customizations and use of cloud technology.
He pointed out that under various e-governance projects across the country citizen services were being offered to 8.2 crore people. "We plan to increase this number to 15 crore by March 2013 and 30 crore by March 2014," he said.
The chief minister claimed that the Mee Seva initiative has immensely benefited the common man. According to one estimate, this has saved annually Rs.4,000 crore to Rs.6,000 crore which the citizens used to pay as bribe to government officers at various levels for the services.
Reddy said he now planned to use the information and communication technology in health services aimed at pregnant women. He explained how the use of this technology in student scholarships helped the government save Rs.300 crore every year, which was being misappropriated.
He said as the state was giving Rs.26,000 crore subsidies to various sections of people every year, the use of ICT would ensure that the subsidies reach the targeted group.
The state is now planning to link all the welfare schemes to Aadhar to check the leakages. It has already covered six crore out of 8.3 crore people under Aadhar.
For the latest tech news and reviews, follow Gadgets 360 on Twitter, Facebook, and Google News. For the latest videos on gadgets and tech, subscribe to our YouTube channel.


text:
Willowbrook Mall
Now Open!
Houston , TX 77070
(281) 640-7012
Store Hours
11:00am - 7:00pm
11:00am - 7:00pm
11:00am - 7:00pm
11:00am - 7:00pm
11:00am - 7:00pm
12:00pm - 6:00pm
Welcome to Tillys Willowbrook Mall located in Houston, TX, where you'll find casual clothing for men, women and children from quality surf, skate and streetwear brands you trust. Tillys is not just a clothing store, it's a culture.
At Tillys in Houston, TX, you can shop the latest trends in casual clothing and accessories, like joggers, flannel shirts, snapback hats and more. Get the complete Tillys look with cool backpacks, shoes, and Penny Boards. Tillys is your go-to for every season, with warm flannels and hoodies for winter, and boardshorts and bikinis for summer. Update your wardrobe and shop at Tillys for a great selection of brands and products that will reflect your own personal style, from clean cut, casual fun, to stylish bohemian.
Visit Tillys Willowbrook Mall in Houston, TX for a total shopping experience and let one of our experienced staff help you pick out the perfect items for you and your friends! Shop online or visit our store today!


text:
Premium mountain bike apparel that provides great warm/hot weather performance, quality materials and new tech features.
Sugoi is a Canadian clothing company with a Japanese name that has been around for many years. SUGOI is a long time manufacturer of high-end cycling, triathlon, and run apparel (Sugoi is the official performance apparel of Ironman as well as the maker of the official team jersey of Cannondale Pro Cycling). But they have recently ramped up their mountain bike specific clothes and a key part of this is their top of the line RSX models which are promoted as "Pro-level fit for the performance trail rider, featuring advanced fabrics and innovative details". For the past few weeks, I have been testing the new Sugoi RSX Jersey and the 2014 version of the RSX Short.
Sugoi RSX Jersey
The mountain bike jerseys that Sugoi make follow very closely with their offerings for road cyclists in regards to material and fit. The RSX jersey is a very sheer, light weight jersey that is great in warm to hot weather. The lightweight Icefil synthetic material does an excellent job of wicking away moisture and allowing your skin to breathe.
Besides the material, the construction uses mesh inserts in key areas to provide comfort and increased airflow. The single back, zippered pocket went mostly unused since I ride with a pack 95% of the time, but it's nice to know it's their if need be. There is a nice sun-glass wiper material on the underside of where the Sugoi logo is located that did come in handy.
The fit is "roadie" snug, but not uncomfortably so. I've grown accustom to jerseys with long front zippers so at first, I thought the zipper on the RSX jersey was a bit short, but with the excellent moisture wicking of this jersey, the shorter zipper wasn't an issue. The RSX jersey comes in 5 sizes (SM, MD, LG, XL, XXL) and 3 colors (White, Cyan, Black/Lotus) with an MSRP of $100.00.
The features of the Sugoi RSX Jersey are:
- Raglan sleeve construction contours for an optimal fit when in the ride position
- Zone construction featuring mesh panel inserts for airflow and breathability
- Front zipper for ventilation
- Bonded rear pocket construction optimized for carrying ride essentials
Continue to page 2 for the Sugoi RSX Short, Review Rating and Conclusion.


text:
- This event has passed.
Walk Aerobics
May 25 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
|Recurring Event (See all)
An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Monday and Wednesday, repeating until June 24, 2020
Walk Aerobics is a low impact exercise for adults of all skill levels. It's free, co-ed and just drop in.


text:
It was eliminations night on "The Voice," which meant one singer, either from Cee Lo Green or Blake Shelton's team, had to be sent home right before the finals.
Trevin Hunte, Nicholas David, Cassadee Pope and Terry McDermott all sang their hearts out last night in hopes of moving forward in the competition, but were the fans on their side?
Let's see...
U.S. & World
But before we got to who was eliminated, the show featured multiple performances (they had an hour to fill, remember?).
Team Blake performed a duet of "Little Talks" by the Icelandic folk band Of Monsters and Men, who just so happened to be in the audience. They seemed to appreciate the duo's cover, so that was good. Team Cee Lo also took the stage near the end of the night with Mariah Carey's "Hero."
In between all that, "The Voice" brought back some memorable alums from last season. Juliet Simms, who is now being managed by former coach Cee Lo, reminded us how much we love seeing her perform when she sang her rock single "Wild Child." Team Blake's blond, country singer RaeLynn, slowed things down with her new single "Boyfriend." And last, but certainly not least, we were reunited with opera powerhouse Chris Mann from Team Xtina, who performed his ballad "Roads."
Watch Maroon 5's "Daylight" video
And then, it was time.
Host Carson Daly finally announced the one singer that got the boot, and it turned out to be--drumroll please--Trevin Hunte.
"Thank you for pushing me, motivating me," Hunte said to his coach. "I love you, Cee Lo. I will always love you. I'm just happy to be here."
Do you agree with Trevin getting sent home? Sound off in the comments!


text:
Afyon Grey, Palisandra Multi Finish Rhodes Marble Waterjet Decos size: 8 13/16x 14 5/16
Fluid, arabesque, intertwining, lacework in stone and marble.
The new TalyaT Collection consists of beautiful, fine mosaic artwork by Sara Baldwin, exclusively for Marble Systems. Sara and her prolific team, design, research and develop new designs using high technology water jet cutting, creating fluid and arabesque flowing lines in stone, inspired by Moorish decoration. Her breathtaking designs have gained international attention, and her new designs are being introduced by Marble Systems.
Weight : 5.9928 lbs / pcs Types : Best Sellers, Waterjet Decos Usage : Thickness : 3/8 Style : Modern Size : 8 13/16x 14 5/16 Finish : Multi Finish Edge : Straight Cut Design : Rhodes Category : Marble Collection : Talya Waterjet Designs Color : Multicolor Area : Bathroom, Kitchen, Living Room Frost Resistance :
Special Notes
Natural stones are products of nature, and no two pieces are exactly alike. These codes are intended as a general guide to how much variation in color, movement, and veining can be expected. All natural stones have unique natural variations and inclusions that are impossible to show in a photograph or sample. For this reason, all stone should be unpacked and inspected prior to installation, as Marble Systems cannot accept claims for variation in any stone after install.
- Some Medium and Heavy Duty stones cannot be used in exterior applications in areas that experience freeze/thaw conditions. Please use specific stone in the Usage Guide for this information.
- Some Medium Duty stones may be subject to scratching or etching when used as countertops.
- Light, Medium and Heavy Traffic refer to pedestrian traffic only. If the stone is to be installed in an area with vehicular traffic, please contact a sales representative to inquire about thickness and installation requirements.
- Stone in this group must be sealed periodically as a normal maintenance routine if used in wet areas.
- These materials may contain areas of open or dry seams that can appear dull in reflective light. This is not a defect, but rather an inherent characteristic of the stone.
- White thin-set or mortar is required. This is the case for all limestone, tumbled stones, "antiqued stones" and light color marbles.
- These stones may be characterized by dry seams, pits, and fossils. In polished and honed stones, these areas are often filled at the factory. In rustic or tumbled stones, as well as with some honed limestone, these are often filled with grout during installation. Whether filled at the factory or during installation, the fill can work its way out of the voids. In these instances, it may be necessary to refill these voids as part of a normal maintenance routine.


text:
T.J. Montgomery teaches son about motocross
Picking a sport for his 4-year-old son to play was easy for T.J. Montgomery.
He just looked into his own past.
Logan Montgomery, now 6, was among the more than 400 riders participating in the Yampa Valley Sports Riders Club and Rocky Mountain Motocross Association weekend event in Craig.
The two-day event featured riders from ages 4 to older than 50 racing around the mile-long track.
And racing is just what the younger Montgomery wants to do.
"It feels good to race," Logan said. "I like jumping, and going fast."
Being on the sidelines gives T.J. a completely different view of the sport.
"I do get nervous when he gets some air," he said. "I guess you do get used to it after a while, I'm just not there yet."
Donna Zulian and her family, along with the YVSRC, hosted the races for the 10th year.
Zulian said this year's event featured more riders than usual.
"I think a lot of people, especially those with trailers, didn't want to make the trip before because of gas in the $4 to $5 a gallon range," she said.
"But this year, there are a lot of people, which is good for Craig, too. It fills up the hotels and restaurants."
One of those families, the Montgomerys, didn't need to travel very far.
For the weekend, Logan rode his new KTM bike.
"I like it better than my old bike," he said. "It's bigger and faster, and has better suspension."
On Sunday, Logan had a small spill on his bike, which resulted in a small bruise near his elbow.
He was thankful he was on his new bike, though. Had he been riding his older one, the bumps might have been worse, he said.
"When I jump, the suspension helps me not hit hard," Logan said.
"It stops me from going off the bike and crashing."
Logan knows he has a little ways to go before he can call himself a champion, and it comes down to experience.
"I need to use this bike more before I go to the championship," he said.
His father couldn't be happier with the zeal Logan has for riding.
T.J. was thrilled when his son got on his first dirt bike.
"It's something I've done all my life," T.J. said. "It's something I did for a living."
Although he might have nudged Logan towards the handlebars, it is Logan who continues to have a passion for motor sports.
"It might have been the other way around," T.J. said, thinking about who wants Logan to race more, him or his son. "He watched me race and wanted to do it."
Racing has brought the two closer together, but not just because they both enjoy it.
Unlike most other sports, motocross gives T.J. more time with his son.
"It's good, because afterwards we talk about his run, and we discuss lines," he said. "We talk about what he could have done differently.
"He listens, too. He's starting to find his own lines, but he still listens."
Being out on the dirt track filled with jumps serves as a classroom in life lessons, T.J. added.
"The one big thing is he gets out and builds confidence," T.J. said. "It instills confidence at a young age, and confidence is everything. And that carries through in everything you do, no matter what."
Motocross is filled with other lessons, as well.
"They learn to compete at a young age," T.J. said. "And they learn to lose gracefully."
T.J. gets something else from watching his son race, too.
"Yeah, I might live vicariously through him," he said. "Just a little bit, though."
Ben Bulkeley can be reached at 875-1795 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Support Local Journalism
Support Local Journalism
Readers around Craig and Moffat County make the Craig Press' work possible. Your financial contribution supports our efforts to deliver quality, locally relevant journalism.
Now more than ever, your support is critical to help us keep our community informed about the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the impact it is having locally. Every contribution, however large or small, will make a difference.
Each donation will be used exclusively for the development and creation of increased news coverage.
Start a dialogue, stay on topic and be civil.
If you don't follow the rules, your comment may be deleted.
User Legend: Moderator Trusted User


text: We're thankful the GOP contenders and their various "oops" and "Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan" moments have given Jon Stewart such good material to work with. Ever since Indecision 2000, The Daily Show has simultaneously made a complete mockery of, and shed a poignant light on, every presidential election. This year, as Republicans decide who will face off against President Barack Obama in 2012, each GOP candidate has stepped up to the plate against front-runner Mitt Romney and, in most cases, crashed and burned. In the last show taped before Thanksgiving, Stewart gave a hilarious play-by-play of the campaign so far, complete with the ridiculous trappings from the left, right and center of the media. Stewart has also taken plenty of shots at individual candidates: Herman Cain for "not liking to read," Michele Bachmann for, well, having all sorts of issues and Rick Perry for being "George W. Bush on steroids." Not since Stewart shamed Donald Trump for eating pizza with a fork has the show been this good. We can only hope it will continue into the general election.


text: Those are my photos! On that CD album art and liner notes! Be sure to keep an eye out for the awesome new album from Jeff Scroggins and Colorado, both eye AND ear pleasing! If you want to check them out, check out their facebook or website. My photos are there as well!


text:
Paint Type : Solo Goya Finest Oil Colour | Quantity : 20 ml Tube
SOLO GOYA Finest Artists' Oil Colors
❚ With one and a half centuries of experience and produced according to the most advanced painting technique knowledge
❚ A pure oil paint with excellent brilliance and high lightfastness
❚ The brilliance of the 48 color shades is unsurpassable
❚ Only selected pigments of highest quality and purity, dried oils without resin additive are used
❚ The colors are economical to use, have butter like consistency, and are smooth in texture
Colour in the image may not match the final colour of the paint due to display limitations of digital content delivery. The swatch in the image is supplied by manufacturer and image is shot by skillsuppies under controlled condition to represent closest possible colour. However the perceived colour also depends on the display system on which it is viewed and hence consistency is almost impossible


text:
Above: Karl Urban in uniform as Judge Dredd. Copyright 2000ad/DNA Films 2010.
Via the 2000ad forums, comics and movie concept artist Jock has released the first image of local action-hero Karl Urban suited up as Mega City One's top cop in the upcoming comic adaptation simply titled Dredd.
Above: Judge Anderson of Psi Division (as illustrated by Arthur Ranson) and played by Olivia Thirlby.
Currently filming in South Africa under the watchful eye of director Pete Travis (Vantage Point), Dredd is scripted by novelist turned screenwriter Alex Garland (The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine) and is expected to follow the brutal lawman on an average day on the beat in Mega City One, as he breaks in his new partner, Judge Anderson played by Olivia Thirlby (Juno).
Dredd will be presented in 3D, and is expected to hit cinema screens in 2012.


text:
This is not an offer for credit and should be used for estimation purposes only based on the information you provided. You should not base your decision on this estimate alone. Title, registration, tax and other fees, and personal circumstances such as employment status and personal credit history, were not considered in the calculations.
Great looks, comfort and convenience highlight this special edition. The Mule™ 4010 TRANS4X4® SE side X side is a versatile mid-size two to four-passenger side X side that's capable of putting in a hard day of work as well as touring around the property.
Front - Four-wheel hydraulic drums, sealed
Rear - Four-wheel hydraulic drums, sealed
Front - 3.9 in.
Rear - 2.8 in.
Front - 23 x 11-10 tubeless
Rear - 23 x 11-10 tubeless
Front - Independent, MacPherson strut; 3.9 in. travel
Rear - Semi-independent, De Dion axle with leaf springs and shocks; 2.8 in. travel


text:
Natalie Barr
2012 Longstreth/NFHCA Division I All-Region Teams
Liberty field hockey standout Natalie Barr has been named to the 2012 Longstreth/National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Division I All-South Region second team. Barr becomes the second Lady Flame to ever earn All-Region honors, joining Ann Jefferis, who was also named to the second team last year.
This marks the third post-season honor for Barr in 2012. On Oct. 31, Barr was named the NorPac East Offensive Player of the Year and was also tabbed a member of the NorPac All-Conference squad.
Arriving on the Liberty campus after the start of the season, the Northern Ireland native earned her first start on Sept. 8 against Penn. Barr made an immediate impact for the Lady Flames, scoring two goals on seven shots and adding an assist versus the Quakers.
The freshman's top game came on Oct. 19 against fellow NorPac opponent Appalachian State. Barr tallied a single-game program record four goals and nine points as Liberty rolled to an 8-1 victory.
On the final day of the regular season, Barr helped the Lady Flames knock off Davidson, 3-2, to claim their first NorPac East regular-season title. Barr notched a pair of goals, including the game-winner with just over a minute remaining in regulation.
Barr finished the season with a team-best 16 goals, eight assists, 40 points, 100 shots and four defensive saves. She ended up second in the conference in points per game (2.0) and third in goals per game (0.8).
With only one statistics update remaining, Barr ranks 17th in the nation in both points per game and goals per game. The midfielder also sits in 13th place in the country in defensive saves. Barr's 16 goals and 40 points are the most among Division I freshmen this season.
A strong contingent of players joins Barr on the All-South Region team, including 19 players from the ACC. Following the ACC with seven representatives is the CAA, while the NorPac and Atlantic 10 have three players each on the squad.
Like Us on Facebook
Follow Us on Twitter
Follow Us on Instagram


text:
This lowfat salad is quick and easy while retaining its authentic Thai flavors.
Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 10 mins
Combine the pork and the juice of one lime in a saucepan. Cover with the salted cold water and bring to a simmer until the pork is cooked. Ground pork should take about 3 minutes. Other pork will take longer.
Strain the pork in a colander, pat between two paper towels to remove excess fat. Toss pork with the sliced shallots, mint and cilantro. Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
For added flavor, after all ingredients have been mixed, try adding 1/4 cup of dry roasted peanuts or a tablespoon of peanut butter. But remember, this will increase the fat content of this recipe dramatically!
Serving suggestion is not included in the recipe analysis.


text:
2 Item(s)
Footjoy Pro FLX Glove
Available in White
Starting at $US 19.99
Footjoy WeatherSof Glove
Available in White
Starting at $US 10.99
2 Item(s)
It's always wonderful to have a nice golf bag. But if that bag is empty, it becomes a little boring. When playing a round, it's always useful to have the most tools possible at your disposition. This is why you need to stuff it with some of Golf Avenue's most practical accessories. First off, you will certainly want to keep you driver in one piece. We recommend getting some tees so you don't have to drive your ball off the tee box turf. We also want you to stay healthy and the best way to do so is to get one of golf bottle. It is the best way to remain hydrated. Staying hydrated will help you avoid cramps when you're hitting your driver, fairway woods, hybrids, irons, wedges and putter. Plus, having a glove on your hand will help you have a better grip on your club. It will also help you avoid calluses, keeping your hands away from harm. Another great accessory to add to your bag is one of our stylish towels. With towels from NHL and Puma, you'll never have to keep your clubs dirty for too long. You will definitely find a product for your next round with one of our accessories.
Show more
Show less


text:
You've just completed an interview for a position that interests you, or perhaps you met with a networking contact who offered some insight into your job search. Now that the interview is over, it's time to swing into action with some memorable follow up activities. Depending on the nature of your interview, follow up can take several forms. What you do can greatly influence whether you succeed in generating a second interview or benefit from your networking meeting. Review the checklist below for specific activities that may apply to you.
Thank you note.
A thank you note should be sent immediately following an interview to each person with whom you met. A thank you note may be handwritten if it is brief (the "breadandbutter" thank yous our mothers taught us when we were children). However, a more effective followup is a wordprocessed letter that reinforces the points you made during the interview and reiterates your qualifications for the position. Thank you notes should always be personalized. If you are writing to more than one person at a company following a group or successive interview, do not send the same note to each; vary your missives so that the person reading it knows you recall and related to the specific information they provided.
Preparation of additional information/documentation.
During the interview, did you offer to put together a rough outline of a marketing idea you discussed? Were you asked to forward your college transcripts? Did you volunteer to send a great article you'd read about manufacturing in rural areas? Be prompt, precise, and proactive in providing additional material that may help support your candidacy. You may cover these materials with a brief handwritten note or your business card with a word or two jotted on the back.
Follow up phone calls.
It is perfectly appropriate to follow up with the interviewer after a period of time to determine the status of the position and your candidacy. One of your final questions at the end of your interview might be, "When may I expect to hear from you? May I check back with you in two weeks?" Enter the date in your calendar and follow up as promised.
Continued networking.
A successful networking interview should result in additional contact names. Follow through on all leads, and give occasional status updates to the person who originally referred you.
In all your followup activities, be sure to spell the person's name correctly and use his or her correct title. If you failed to get a business card during the interview, call the person's office to check on the name. It's a simple matter to say, "I'm sending a letter to Mr. Yastrzemski. Would you verify the spelling of his name for me?" You do not need to identify yourself in these calls, but if you enjoyed a friendly chat with a secretary or receptionist, it would be a good idea to call that person directly, identify yourself, and ask for his or her help. This is another way to keep your name and candidacy in the forefront.
Prompt, polite followup is an indicator of good business etiquette and will help to set you apart from candidates who do not follow up. Be sure you do all you can and all you've promised to cement yourself and your candidacy with potential employers. And if you need help with letter writing or have business etiquette questions, drop us an e-mail! We'll be happy to help you shine even after the interview.


text:
Hooray! Saturday was the big chopping day for my hair! I must admit, the night before and leading up to it, I was pretty nervous because the previous times I cut my hair I wasn't totally sold on it being short. I looked like a little girl and didn't really like the a-line bob cut I had. I told my amazing stylist to not give me an a-line bob and she promised she wouldn't.
I also made sure that she took lots of picture s throughout the whole process! Once she did the first snip of the ponytails I knew there was no turning back! I instantly felt way lighter… Here's the first picture right after the cut.
Yup! I was really nervous still, because these were sitting in front of me.
All my hair! I felt so light and fresh and my hair was so clean! Then it was time to wash and style. I was really nervous about styling part, I didn't know how it would come out. Kelly knew what she was doing though.
I was SO happy with how it turned out! It's so cute and fun and sassy!
The highlights that I already had that were way more obvious in the short hair, which I liked.
The ponytails are heading on their way to locks of love!
after the haircut, Shea and I were off to do some last minute shopping for christmas, and for once, Shea has longer hair than I do! :)
So the next morning I went for a 6 mile run and wore my hair up in it's little baby ponytail and washed it after. Which was pretty scary because I had no idea if I could do the hair the same way Kelly did it. With a much shorter blow drying time, and a little work with the straighter, my hair was done and I was ready to go much quicker than normal. The short hair cut down my getting ready time by 30 minutes! I must admit, I think it came out exactly how I envisioned, just like Kristin Wiig in Bridesmaids! I'm so glad it all goes up in a ponytail… granted it's a baby ponytail, but that's all I asked for. So glad I donated!
Hooray for Locks of Love! I'm so glad I did it again and can't believe I have short hair again. B finally came back home from working a few extra days yesterday morning and he LOVES it! He's never seen me with short hair and he thinks it looks great, which was another thing that I was pretty worried about, that he wouldn't like it! But, it came out great and I'm so happy! If you wanted to make a donation to Locks of Love, I will leave up the donate button until the end of the month!
Big Thanks to all those who helped me reach my goal already and thanks to Kelly who made my hair look awesome!


text:
Copper Rooster Weathervane
This weathervane purchase includes the copper figure, copper spacer balls, brass directionals, rod and ring.
Approximate figure dimensions: 20"L X 26"H
Add approx. 10" to dimension height for directionals and spacer balls
Directional Dimensions: 18"L with 3" lettering
Weathervane Options: natural or patina copper //// standard or scrolled directionals
Weathervane figure is Made in Maine using 16 ounce copper
Ships in 4-7 days
Please note: Roof Mounts and Cupolas are NOT included with weathervane purchase.
Tags: rooster, roosters, weathervane


text:
M WAQAR..... "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary.Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." --Albert Einstein !!! NEWS,ARTICLES,EDITORIALS,MUSIC... Ze chi pe mayeen yum da agha pukhtunistan de.....(Liberal,Progressive,Secular World.)''Secularism is not against religion; it is the message of humanity.'' تل ده وی پثتونستآن
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)


text:
XBubble - News
posted by mquinson, Mon 22 Sep 2003 01:04:36 PM UTC - 0 replies
News: drastic speed improvement plus some more graphical effects
posted by mquinson, Sat 12 Jul 2003 02:45:14 PM UTC - 0 replies
In short, it looks even greater. Check the changelog for details.
posted by mquinson, Mon 05 May 2003 01:48:07 PM UTC - 0 replies
Changes include a real theming mecanism, 2 other themes and a bunch of bug fixes. More details in the ChangeLog.
posted by mquinson, Wed 16 Apr 2003 07:51:32 AM UTC - 0 replies
Most noticable changes:
- new balls can only be from the colors already on the board.
+ bug fixes
posted by mquinson, Thu 10 Apr 2003 08:47:05 AM UTC - 0 replies
This is my first release of xbubble since Ivan gave me the cvs right access. I hope I didn't mess anything...
- Fully internationalized
- Fully translated to french
- level files are now fully compatible with the ones of frozen-bubble
posted by ivan, Wed 09 Apr 2003 03:05:11 PM UTC - 0 replies
Not a major release, but still:
- single player mode with 90 levels
- demo mode
and lots of bugfixes, speed improvements, code cleanups.
Basically I don't have time to work on XBubble right now,
I hope to get back to it as soon as I can ...
posted by ivan, Thu 22 Aug 2002 01:27:15 PM UTC - 0 replies
This release provides brand new graphics, a few bugfixes but no
new feature yet.
posted by ivan, Fri 08 Mar 2002 11:02:43 PM UTC - 0 replies
Just a small bugfix regarding a compiling error on RedHat/Mandrake systems.
posted by ivan, Fri 08 Mar 2002 03:12:09 PM UTC - 0 replies
This is the first release of XBubble. Go grab the source tarball in the download area and have fun !
This alpha release features:
- a "Two Players" mode
- a "Player vs Computer" mode
- crappy graphics (hopefully much nicer in the next release) ...
[Read more]


text:
35 Posts
Discussion Starter • #1 •
I would recommend this dealership to anyone. I traded in a 2004 Toyota 4Runner Sport with 98K miles on it and they gave me $10K without even seeing it. I was fine with that amount but I think I could have got a little more for it. But my new 2010 Silverado LT Z71 started out at $38,484.00. After all the rebates it brought it down to $30K. After the trade in and $5K down, my finance total was $15K. Thankfully when I get home next month from this deployment I will be paying the remainder off. These guys were top notch. Very friendly and very professional. By far they had the best prices around where I live. The next closest deal was over in Lubbock, TX but they just couldn't beat these guys.


text:
Letter Press Set
2018 marks 80 years of Wiltshire.
Wiltshire is an iconic Australian kitchenware brand here to help create quick, delicious meals that bring your family and friends together on the days that matter most – every day.
Known for the iconic & patented Staysharp knives. Today, Wiltshire extends into a comprehensive range of kitchenware products (bakeware, baking accessories, barbecue tools, chopping boards, cookware, cutlery, knives, salt and pepper dispensers, scissors, kitchen tools and gadgets) designed to suit every household, and all are made to the same high standards that characterise the Wiltshire brand.
It's available through leading retailers in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Wiltshire Staysharp is available in over 20 countries globally.
You May Also Like
Rose Gold Springform Pan 19cm
Whether it's traditional or a "no bake" cheesecake, you can prepare, bake, then clean easily with this pan. It's 6.5cm deep which means it will be perfect in height and enough for the whole family.
Here's why it's the best: it's designed for balanced, all-round heat distribution (if you are baking), it's non-stick with a removable base, ensuring none of the heart-warming goodness gets left behind and has embossed product measurements so you can easily match up your pan with your favourite recipe. Not only is it easy to clean by hand, it's also dishwasher safe, so that's one less thing for you to do.
Size: 19cm x 6.5cm
Rose Gold Bundt Pan 21cm
Transform a simple cake recipe into an impressive piece of art (with little fuss) thanks to the shape of this pan.
Here's why it's the best: it's designed for balanced, all-round heat distribution so it'll cook evenly, the shape means the cake will look beautiful even with a simple dusting of icing sugar and it's non-stick, ensuring none of the heart-warming goodness gets left behind. Not only is it easy to clean by hand, it's also dishwasher safe, so that's one less thing for you to do.
Size: 21cm x 9cm
Poachies Pack of 20
Poachies make poaching eggs quick and easy!
They are compostable and a no mess, no fuss way to prepare an egg-citing breakfast. With 20 in the pack, there is enough to prepare brunch or a breakfast for the whole family.


text:
"After I returned to Aotearoa from attending and exhibiting in the Moon Mothers: Keepers of Knowledge exhibition at the Spirit Wrestler Gallery in Vancouver, I completed this group of pendants. The series was inspired by the paintings by June Northcroft Grant and the sculptures by Tim Paul that were in the exhibition. I decided that I wanted to have fun and make a collection of moon pendants with pounamu rims and bone inlays. Each face is unique and different."
Lewis Gardiner
Te Arawa, Ngāti Awa, Whanau a Apanui, Ngāi Tahu
(1972- )
Lewis Gardiner is regarded as one of the most innovative and respected Māori jade artists of his generation. In 1994, he graduated in Māori Craft and Design at the Waiariki Institute of Technology in Rotorua. During his final year he was introduced to the valuable medium of pounamu (jade) and was immediately attracted to its artistic possibilities. Māori had always valued pounamu for both its hardness and for its translucent beauty. Lewis was no different — as he says, "Our tupuna (ancestors) have given us, the Māori people, the resource and knowledge base to provide a reference for us and our children for years to come."
© 2020 Spirit Wrestler Gallery. All Rights Reserved.


text: Several waterproofing systems can be applied to the negative pressure inner side. KÖSTER KD 2 Blitz Powder and KÖSTER Waterstop can be applied to stop small leaks. Joints can be repaired with KÖSTER Repair Mortar or KÖSTER Repair Mortar Plus and KÖSTER NB 1 Grey can even be applied on surfaces as negative side waterproofing.


text:
But, since it's July 4th, I'm going to write about an American most of you have probably never heard of. Although he certainly wasn't the first American to carry out a dangerous mission, he did what many thought was impossible.
During the American Civil War the new technology of iron warships was being repeatedly put to the combat test- with stalemate results. Although metal ships could easily destroy wooden ones, clashes between ironclads typically resulted in a lot of smoke and noise, but both opponents survived. Sinking a solid ironclad remained a challenge.
In 1864 a single, dangerous, Confederate warship, the Albemarle, was guarding the North Carolina Sounds from Union forces. She was small by today's standards, and had been built in a cornfield because of a lack of shipyards. But in her iron hull she had 2 powerful cannons, and had proven herself in combat. Her existence was a thorn in the side for Union forces, who didn't have an available ironclad that could travel far enough to reach her. Her location, and potential to get out and cause trouble, prevented more extensive military plans from being carried out.
Even when young, William Barker Cushing was a chronically ill man, with recurrent respiratory infections and headaches. He was, nevetheless, admitted to the U.S. Naval Academy- only to be expelled in his 2nd year for pranks. But when the Civil War started 3 weeks later officers were needed, and he was reinstated. In spite of his multiple health problems he proved himself to be a relentless warrior, and at age 19 was given command of 2 ships that had been taken as prizes.
He excelled in daring missions, leading a raid into a confederate harbor to burn ships, and later several missions behind enemy lines to destroy military supplies. He was promoted rapidly, and was even brought to meet President Lincoln to give him a personal appraisal of the war. A few weeks later Cushing's brother was killed in the fighting at Gettysburg.
In 1864 he led a covert raid to capture a Confederate general, Louis Hebert. The raid was almost successful- but Hebert had traveled to Wilmington on business the day before. Cushing took other prisoners, and left a signed note on Hebert's desk saying "I deeply regret that you were not here when I called."
Cushing thought about the Albemarle hiding upriver, and how to stop the seemingly invincible ironclad. He finally came up with the idea of a surprise attack using a small boat and explosives.
It seemed like a suicide mission, and hadn't been done before. But the Albemarle was a problem that had to be dealt with, and Cushing had shown a remarkable ability to do the impossible. His commanding officer recorded that he personally felt Cushing's idea was "a forlorn hope... I have no great confidence in his success" but, since a failed mission would cost the Union only 2 boats and a small group of men, was willing to proceed.
Cushing went from ship-to-ship in the blockading Union squadron, asking for volunteers. He told them of the dangers: traveling up the Roanoke river, trying to slip by confederate outposts and sentries, and sinking an ironclad.
On October 27 he and his handpicked crew had a champagne dinner to celebrate the coming success of their mission (or their last meal) before leaving. They sailed at 11:00 p.m. on a small wooden steam-powered boat, with an explosive charge mounted on a long pole in front.
It was a dark night, with rain. Cushing and his men managed to slip past several Confederate stations before the Albemarle's night watch saw him and rang the alarm He was too close at that point for the ironclad's cannons to be used, but her crew, and shore troops, opened up a withering fire.
Cushing continued on, only to discover the Albemarle was surrounded by a floating log boom, linked by heavy ropes. It was too far away from the ship for his explosive to work. By this time one of Cushing's men had been wounded by enemy fire, and Cushing himself, while unharmed, had his clothes shot through in 3 places.
He turned his boat away - and for a few minutes the Confederates thought he'd been driven off. But Cushing just wanted to build up speed. After traveling 100 yards downriver he turned around, and throttled to full speed. He and his men knew there was no way to get back over the boom once they crossed it.
The heavy fire continued. Cushing was shot in the left hand, and the back of his jacket and sole of one shoe had been shot off. But he didn't flinch. His boat struck the logs and went over, driving the explosive charge into the Albemarle. The force of the blast "blew a hole you could drive a wagon through" and the ironclad rapidly settled into the mud as her crew jumped to shore.
Their boat trapped, Cushing and his crew abandoned it. Only Cushing would return to safety, the others all surrendering or drowning. But they had done what no ship had been able to: sink an ironclad.
Cushing swam downriver that night, and spent the next day evading Confederate patrols in a swamp. That evening he stole a rowboat and paddled back out to the waiting Union fleet. With the news of the Albemarle's loss the Union forces moved rapidly, and successfully, upriver.
Cushing's star was bright, but brief. After the Civil War he began having debilitating attacks of hip pain, and his headaches and respiratory problems worsened. He married and had children. In spite of his health issues he tried to remain in active service. At age 30 he became the youngest man in U.S. history (up to that time) to become a Commander.
His pain worsened, and spread. The medical science at the time didn't find a cause for his worsening (now suspected to be either Tuberculosisis or metastatic cancer). On Thanksgiving 1874 it was incapacitating, and he became delirious. He died 3 weeks later, and was buried at the U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery.
He was 32.


text:
February 6, 2012
LS travel retail North America and ZoomSystems are pleased to announce the opening of the first iStore Express automated retail shop in a Canadian Airport.
Opened in Calgary International Airport (YYC) - Terminal D - on January 27th, this automated retail shop offers consumers a wide range of personal mobile electronic devices and accessories - including best-seller tablets, headphones, speakers and portable games – from leading brands Apple, Sony, Monster, Blackberry, and many more.
More units are currently being deployed in various Canadian airports, including Vancouver, Edmonton, Montreal and Ottawa. Additional locations are being discussed for deployment later in 2012.
"It brings us great pleasure to partner with both ZoomSystems and Boutique iStore to bring to Canadian travelers and consumers such a compelling retail offering. We look forward to continued placement and growth through this strong partnership" said Jonathan Alpert, Vice President Merchandising for LS travel retail North America.
"We are excited to license our brand for this innovative retail channel and bring our products to customers in a way that is fun, fast and secure. We look forward to eventually bringing iStore Express machines to other retail venues beyond airports in future" said Mike Battat, President of Boutique iStore.
"This is a great partnership. The combined branding, merchandising, technology and distribution expertise will allow the iStore Express Automated Retail shop to deliver an immediate and rewarding experience to the customer" said Jack Lawrence, President and CEO of ZoomSystems.
© Calgary Airport Authority - All rights reserved