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What is Personalized Cancer Medicine?
Personalized medicine can be used to learn about a person's genetic makeup and to unravel the biology of their tumor. Using this information, doctors hope to identify prevention, screening, and treatment strategies that may be more effective and cause fewer side effects than would be expected with standard treatments. By performing more genetic tests and analysis, doctors may customize treatment to each patient's needs.
Creating a personalized cancer screening and treatment plan includes:
- Determining the chances that a person will develop cancer and selecting screening strategies to lower the risk
- Matching patients with treatments that are more likely to be effective and cause fewer side effects
- Predicting the risk of recurrence (return of cancer)
How personalized medicine is different
Before personalized medicine, most patients with a specific type and stage of cancer received the same treatment. However, it became clear to doctors and patients that some treatments worked well for some patients and not as well for others. With the growth in the knowledge of genetics, researchers found that the genetic differences in people and their tumors explained many of these different responses to treatment. Although a person with cancer now may receive a standard treatment plan (such as surgery to remove a tumor), the doctor may also be able to recommend some type of personalized cancer treatment. Personalized cancer treatments may be offered as an active part of the treatment plan or as part of a clinical trial (research studies in people).
Examples of personalized medicine
Some examples of personalized medicine strategies for cancer include the following:
Targeted treatments. A targeted treatment targets a cancer's specific genes, proteins, or the tissue environment that contributes to cancer growth and survival. Researchers are identifying new targets each year and developing and testing new drugs for these targets. Breast cancer, colorectal cancer, gastrointestinal stromal tumor, kidney cancer, lung cancer, melanoma, multiple myeloma, some types of leukemia and lymphoma, and some types of childhood cancers are just a few cancers where targeted treatments are available. Of course, treatment with a targeted therapy depends on finding out whether the tumor has the specific target. This is usually done by testing a sample of the tumor obtained through a biopsy (the removal of a small amount of tissue) or during surgery.
Pharmacogenomics. Instead of testing the tumor for a specific gene or protein, pharmacogenomics looks at how a person's genes affect the way the body processes and responds to drugs. The differences influence how effective and safe a drug is for a person. For example, some people's bodies may process a medication more quickly than others, so that person would require a higher dose of that drug for it to be effective. However, if someone's body does not process a medication as quickly, the medication will stay in the bloodstream for a longer time and may cause more severe side effects.
How can pharmacogenomics be put into practice for cancer treatments? Here is an example: People with colorectal cancer that have a specific gene variation may have life-threatening side effects when treated with irinotecan (Camptosar). This altered gene makes it harder for the body to break down irinotecan. In these patients, doctors prescribe lower amounts of irinotecan so patients will have fewer side effects.
Future directions in personalized medicine
Despite the promises of personalized cancer treatments, not all types of cancer have personalized treatment options. Some of these are only available through a clinical trial and are not yet standard treatment options. Genetic testing of both the patient and the tumor sample may be costly and time-consuming, and many insurance plans may not cover the costs of these tests. Some personalized treatments, such as targeted treatments, can also be expensive. Finally, not enough is known yet for doctors to be able to make personalized recommendations for cancer screening and prevention.
Although personalized medicine is a new and exciting approach to cancer treatment, doctors still don't know everything about the genetic changes that occur in a cancer cell and how some of these new cancer treatments work. Sometimes a targeted therapy stops working and a promising treatment is no longer effective. Talk with your doctor to learn more about personalized cancer treatments and whether they may be a part of your treatment plan.
Questions to ask the doctor
To learn more about personalized cancer care, consider asking your doctor the following questions:
- What are my treatment options?
- What clinical trials are open to me?
- Are there tests available that can help guide treatment choices?
- Is this treatment considered an example of personalized medicine? If so, how?
- What are the benefits of this treatment?
- What are the potential side effects of this treatment?
- What is my prognosis (chance of recovery?)


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PRESS RELEASE: The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP) is excited to welcome legendary bassist Billy Sheehan for an interactive bass masterclass.
The class will take place on Wednesday, April 28th at their facilities in Kilburn, London.
Known for his work with Steve Vai, David Lee Roth and Mr. Big, Billy has won 'Best Rock Bass Player' five times by Guitar Player Magazine and has played in over 4,000 shows. Billy has also been hosting bass masterclasses for over 25 years in countries all over the world.
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Last week I did a post on the tricks to creating Sorbet and it got me thinking about ice cream. I always tend to make a big batch and then mash other ingredients into it. This way I can tailor the flavor to the dessert I am serving it with or the mood I am in. You have to start with a really great ice cream base, which for me means lusciously smooth, with a dense and silky texture. The flavor should be rich, but not too buttery (greasy) and I always start my "French custard" ice cream base with vanilla, there really isn't a flavor that it doesn't compliment.
When the first frozen dessert was created by the ancient Chinese, it was just a mixture of fruity syrups and snow, basically a sorbet. Not until the 18th century in England did you find the first ice cream made with milk, cream and eggs, no snow. Today homemade ice cream is still made this simple way. The secret to getting the perfect texture and flavor is not only the ingredients, but the technique of creating a custard and then freezing it. You want to cook the cream, yolks, sugar and vanilla until the eggs thicken slightly, known as creme anglaise (English cream), and then chill the mixture overnight in the refrigerator, about 6 to 12 hours. This last step is a bit of a mystery, but it works to create the best mouth feel. I have heard the overnight chill described as "maturing," "ripening," or "aging." You get the picture, it gets better with age. I find when I do this extra step my ice cream is smooth and less ice crystals form. The way big manufacturers get past this step is to add gums, starches, or gelatin. I'd rather not, so I just wait.
Once you have the base, you can freeze it as vanilla ice cream or add other flavors. For this recipe I am adding roasted bananas, which I just used in a banana bread post I wrote for the Cooking Channel. Roasting the fruit not only concentrates the sugars, but it also expels some of the water in the bananas, which can cause the ice cream to be icy. I don't stop there, I also mash in toasted maple-pecans, brandied cherries and chocolate ganache into the roasted banana ice cream, for a total of 4 flavors. What can I say, I like variety!
Vanilla Ice Cream Base:
2 1/2 cups heavy cream
1 1/2 cups whole milk
1 large vanilla bean, scraped
1 cup sugar
10 yolks
For Roasted Banana Ice Cream:
4 ripe bananas (they should be at least yellow with a few spots, but even better when overripe.) – Place the bananas on a Silicone Baking Mat or foil covered Baking Sheet with sides, which will catch the juices. Poke small holes in the peels and bake at 350°F for about 40-60 minutes, depending on how ripe the bananas are.
*See below for ideas of ingredients to mash into the frozen ice cream.
To make the Vanilla Base:
Heat the heavy cream, milk, vanilla bean and sugar in a medium sauce pan over medium-low heat. The longer you let this mixture sit, the stronger the vanilla flavor will be. I often bring the mixture to a simmer, turn off the heat and let it steep for an hour or so. Before you continue with the recipe, you will need to bring it back to a simmer.
Whisk together the yolks in a medium sized bowl. Remove the cream mixture from the heat and whisk a small amount of the cream into the egg mixture. Add enough cream to warm the eggs.
Once the eggs are warm, add them back into the pot of remaining cream.
Use a rubber spatula to gently stir the custard over low heat. Continue stirring until the mixture starts to thicken.
When the custard seems to be getting thicker, lift the rubber spatula and run your finger through it. It is done when the custard clings to the spatula.
Strain the custard through a fine mesh Strainer or Chinois into a shallow dish. Cover the dish with plastic wrap and immediately place in the refrigerator.
Allow the custard to "ripen" for 6 to 12 hours for the best result. If you are in a rush, at least make sure the custard is thoroughly chilled. As you can see above that the custard will be quite thick once it has chilled.
If you want vanilla ice cream freeze this custard in an Ice Cream Maker according to the manufacturer's instructions.
To make roasted banana ice cream:
Puree the roasted bananas in a food processor or using an immersion blender. It will make about 1 cup of puree.
Make sure the banana puree is chilled before adding it to the vanilla ice cream base.
Make sure the custard is smooth. Freeze in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Freeze a bowl and have it ready for the freshly made ice cream. Immediately freeze the ice cream to harden.
*Once your banana ice cream is done you can have fun mashing other ingredients into it. In this bowl I have added toasted pecans and a drizzle of maple syrup. You can do this to the entire batch or just an individual bowl.
Spread the top of the banana ice cream with a thin layer of chocolate ganache.
As you scoop the ice cream out of the bowl the ganache will swirl into it….
and add a wonderful chocolate fudge flavor.
I also soaked 1/2 cup dried cherries in 1 tablespoons brandy during the time it took to freeze the ice cream.
Then I strained the excess liquid off of the cherries and mixed them into the ice cream.
*While I was in college at the University of Vermont, I worked at Ben & Jerry's making the ice cream cakes. As a Vermonter I have a fondness for their ice cream and one of my favorite flavors is Chunky Monkey. If you mix all the nuts, chocolate and cherries together you can create a new version of this magnificent classic.


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So, three days from the end of the legislative session, Democrats and Gov. Jerry Brown unveil a package of changes they call pension reform.
This is, at surface level, the fulfillment of a promise. Of course, it's not completely unveiled yet. There are no financial projections of any value so far. Confusion dominates the coverage, as the labor left blasts the changes as draconian and the conservative pension critics say it's not nearly enough.
And they do this mid-week, with only 72 hours to review the whole thing -- those 72 hours taking place right before the Labor Day weekend, when most Californians, and many of their local officials, are off doing other things.
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So here's a little free advice -- that won't even add to long-term obligations:
At least a couple weeks. Give the public and the press and the players some time to chew this over. Put out the details. And then call the legislature back into session to flesh this out.
Yes, some lawmakers will complain that they should be out campaigning for themselves. Gov. Brown needs to be out flogging Prop 30. Labor unions have big fish to fry, with taxes they support (Prop 30 and in some cases Prop 39) and union dues changes they oppose on the ballot (Prop 32).
But, c'mon. Few lawmakers have real races this fall. Brown knows that a credible pension bill could help him with Prop 30. And labor, for all the criticism it's offering of the pension changes, could benefit from a credible pension bill in its fight against Prop 32.
Delay is good politics. And the pension bill is profoundly political. From what I can tell, this pension offers way more bang in politics than it does in policy -- not because there's no honest desire to reform pensions but because California's governing system makes big changes nearly impossible.
Waiting and getting a credible bill is thus the smart move. Ramming something through won't please anybody -- and will make it easier to suggest that this measure was flawed, phony, or both.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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It's been a while since our last update on Rick Péwé and his venture across America in his 1943 GPW, so we'll just pick back up where we left off! Our last post left off with Rick en route to Butler, PA to the Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival, he arrived just in time and we were there to greet him on his arrival and caught up on some of his travel stories.
After leaving Butler, Rick headed north to Nova Scotia, Canada. Rick stopped by Broken Road 4WD in New Hampshire for a hefty overhaul of Omix-ADA parts to make sure the GPW could continue the trip. Rick got a new front spring, adjusted his valves, changes the oil pan, and much more. Andy from Broken Road decided to join Rick on a leg of his trip, it's always good to have a co-pilot.
Rick's trip hasn't been exactly smooth sailing, but being the resourceful and knowledgeable guy that he is, and with the parts and services provided by us and shops along the way, he has been able to continue his travels successfully. Make sure to like the Rugged Ridge facebook page for more updates!
Here's some more photos from his trip.


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Reviewed By MACE J (Lake City, KS) Reviewed for a 2010 Chevy Silverado —12/15/2016 6:07 AM
I hatted too spend that much on a little light bar but after using it now for a couple weeks on old blacktop roads and dirt roads I am very happy I have it. It not only lights up everything way ahead of my bright head lights on high beam but it goes out wider so I can see further out too the sides now that I was ever able too before. Deer are a big problem in the early morning and after dark in the evenings and now i have no trouble seeing them. You won't be disappointed with the Rigid lights


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Since its establishment in 1987, Summit Funding has helped countless thousands of customers obtain mortgage financing in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. Our licensed professionals make the mortgage financing process easier, and provide top-notch advice for first-time and seasoned homebuyers alike. Our business is mortgage, and that's what we excel at.
When you choose to shop for a mortgage with Summit Funding, we make it our mission to advise you honestly, and to deliver a world class, hassle-free mortgage experience. We are always looking for new opportunities to enhance the quality of our services; the ceiling is never the limit!
By the end of our time together, when you are happily celebrating the close of your new home, we want you to feel confident in knowing that any friends or family that you refer to us, will be as properly cared for and nurtured as you were. In the mortgage business, repeat business is a big portion of a business' success, so we always strive to provide every one of our clients with the respect, honesty and quality service that they deserve. Buying a home is already stressful enough, so let us help make it easier on you.
At Summit Funding, our focus is on serving each and every client, working to meet their needs, rather than simply unloading properties onto people. We will never try to pressure you into settling for a home that doesn't work for you; you can't make a home out of a house if your heart isn't in it. From start to finish, you are in control of the mortgage financing process, and nothing will be done without your knowledge or say-so.
When working with you, we are always attentive to your wants and needs, and will be there every step of the way to ensure that your concerns and questions are addressed, so that we can help you in the most efficient manner. In order for you to make the best decisions for yourself and your family, you need to be an informed buyer. We make it our goal to educate you as best as possible, so that you are always well informed, and confident in the decisions that you make.
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I'm 37 years old and I've never met a racist.
I have however, met plenty of non-racists. You know the profile: people chase "I'm not a racist…." with the word "but."
Like an acquaintance who joked at a party about solving the immigration problem by "shooting them all;" or the commenter on my blog last week who wants land-mines on the border to keep "them" out (NOTE TO READERS: Landmines kill people indiscriminately). Or the reader I met in the library who was proud to tell me about his concealed-carry permit because "they're taking over our neighborhood."
The non-racist is quick to point out how non-racist they are by cloaking themselves in the superficial: stats, relationships, co-workers, church, history, etc… How can anyone be racist in our day and age, we're living in a post-racial society!
But are we truly living in a post-racial world?
Evangelical Michael Emerson from Rice University speaks to the incredible fluidity of racialization in US history. It seems to have near infinite capacity to adapt into new expressions and coded practices. In the formative years of our nation racialization led to extermination policies of First Nations peoples and legalized enslavement of Africans forcibly migrated. Racialization adapted under Jim Crow segregation to take a new form: the suffocating lies of "separate but equal," cross burnings, Christian white supremacy, "white only" establishments and public lynchings. During the civil rights era racialization morphed yet again into white tactics of hostile blockade, silence and subtle calls to "slow down." J. Edgar Hoover falsified documents and spread the lie that MLK Jr. was a communist not to be trusted.
Yesterday morning in his lecture at Healing the Brokenness Reverend William Lawson humbly told how he himself was reluctant to join the civil rights movement, and only did by "accident." When in 1960 MLK finally did come to Houston, he could not find a pulpit anywhere that welcomed him.
And now? Now you can't find a city across the country which hasn't honored (deified?) his memory with a Boulevard, or memorial in some way.
What changed?
Lawson told the fascinating behind the scenes story of how Houston, unlike any other major city, desegregated in one day. In closed door meetings in the then segregated Rice Hotel, business, religious, media and civic leaders from the black and white community met to address what could be done to ensure riots didn't come to Houston as they had to Birmingham and other cities.
It was here, without conflict, force or fight it was decided Houston would de-segregate in one day. The decision wasn't made on moral grounds, as if racism were wrong.
Instead, it was pointed out Houston was becoming boomtown USA- our reputation would be stained irreparably by riots. NASA, the ship channel expansion, and the Astrodome – the 8th Wonder of the World – had all just arrived in Houston and were altering world opinion.
So no, not for moral reasons. It was pure business decision to quietly, without fanfare, de-segregate Houston. On an agreed upon day, the "white only" signs simply disappeared. White children hopped onto de-segregated buses and found themselves finally free to sit in the back to look out those huge windows. Black woman could browse in Foley's and even try on that dress which had caught their eye.
Yes O yes, if racism couldn't be cured in our hearts, perhaps it could be cured in our pocketbooks. Glory!
Which of course is a much more likely explanation than the miraculous story my non-racist conservative friends expect me to believe: that racism could magically disappear from conservative white churches, people and institutions though they intentionally fought or resisted integration, never openly repented from hateful theological and cultural beliefs that led to conscious, unmotivated animus towards people of other races, and had diversity legislatively thrust upon them.
It also allows for their to be room for racism to have morphed yet again. Reverend Lawson mentioned three ways racialization continues to account for deeply ingrained patterns of privilege and inequality: Incarceration, Gentrification, and Criminal Justice. A powerful call of the brokenness yet to be confronted.
In other words, it still exists. But yes, it looks radically different.
So maybe its time to drop the word "racist" from our vocabulary. After all, I've never met one anyway (wink, wink). Which is why Emerson and others have begun to use the phrase "racialization."
Here's another suggestion, from author Chimamanda Adiche in her new book Americanah (review forthcoming):
Let's stop accusing each other of being racist and start talking about "Racial Disorder Syndrome" to differentiate between classic individual acts of racism (cross burnings, using the "N" word, etc….) and how race works in America today. Your diagnosis may be mild, medium, or acute.
To which a good response from me might be:
Hi, my name is Marty, and I suffer from RDS.
Marty Troyer is the pastor of Houston Mennonite Church: The Church of the Sermon on the Mount, a church seeking the peace of Houston. You can join us anytime in Spring Branch, or visit us online at houstonmennonite.org.
Marty tweets @thepeacepastor and is on Facebook as ThePeacePastor.
You might also like Marty's recent trip to the local Christian bookstore where he shopped in the White Male Theology section.


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Why the Cloud is Taking Over Traditional IT Systems
A number of important industry and technology events helping to make cloud computing possible and secure.
The world is rapidly moving toward the cloud and away from traditional IT systems. Browser-based security using https has evolved and is now accepted by customers as "secure." In recent years, many browser security flaws have been identified and fixed. A major industry shift occurred when some browsers were created and maintained as open source projects. This helped increase security thanks to a community of engineers reviewing and updating the code on an ongoing basis at no cost. Since some current browsers are not controlled by private corporations, this also creates a key element of trust.
Getting to this point has been a long journey, with a number of important industry and technology events helping to make cloud computing possible and secure.
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EMCDDA Cannabis production and markets in Europe
Of all the illicit drugs, cannabis is the one with which we are collectively most familiar. This is perhaps not surprising. It has a long history, with the earliest evidence of cannabis use by humans stemming from the Neolithic period. The cannabis leaf itself has at times been a symbol of youthful rebellion, and no other illicit drug has become so closely associated in the public imagination with some of the social changes that Europe has seen in the last half-century. References to cannabis use appear regularly across popular culture, and it is also the substance over which public and political sentiment is most conflicted. Today, cannabis is the most widely consumed illicit drug in Europe and the world. Estimates suggest that at some time during each year at least 22 million Europeans will use this drug. This use is not without cost, as illustrated by the fact that those with cannabis-related problems now represent a sizeable proportion of those receiving help from drug services in many countries. In parts of Europe, cannabis consumption is both visible and difficult to ignore. Yet despite all this familiarity, and the self-evident fact that a highly developed industry must exist to support current consumption levels, the cannabis market in Europe remains to a large extent an obscure and unexplored topic.
That we know so little about this market is surprising. The drug has been well studied, and we know in some detail about current patterns of use. It is a reality of modern life that wherever you live in Europe today, it is likely that not very far from where you are, cannabis is being bought and sold. You may or may not be aware of this fact, but in either case you are unlikely to be surprised by it. But what you are unlikely to be aware of is how the drug got there or what form it takes.
In this detailed assessment, EMCDDA, for the first time, brings together the available evidence in this area to provide the reader with a comprehensive analysis of what is known about the production of and market for cannabis across the European Union. This is a broad topic, and you will find it makes for some detailed, diverse and, I hope also, engrossing reading. To accomplish our task we must embark on a journey that spans not only the continents, as we look at how cannabis is grown, prepared and trafficked, but also topics as diverse as botany and plant genetics, the economics of cannabis distribution and the role of organised crime. This is the first time such a breadth of information has been brought together in one publication on this topic, and it provides an invaluable resource for understanding the dynamic market for this drug in Europe. The analysis is also timely, as some of the major developments that we chart are worrying ones.
Europe has become not only a major consumer of this drug, but also an important producing area. The consequences of this in terms of crime and public health are now becoming more visible, and in both areas they raise the concern that the future costs associated with the European cannabis market may be greater than the historical ones.
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It seems like Russell Crowe and his wife Danielle Spencer are calling it quits.
The duo, who wed at a chapel on Crowe's New South Wales farm in 2003, have reportedly separated after nine years of marriage, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
The 48-year-old Gladiator star and his musician wife met while playing lovers in the 1990 movie The Crossing, according to People.
Crowe and 43-year-old Spencer have two children together, Charles, 8, and Tennyson, 6.
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The zombie movie genre is clawing its way back to life – with a vengeance.
"Zombieland," a shoot-'em-up horror comedy starring Woody Harrelson, is slated to hit theaters Oct. 2. "Colin," an independent film reportedly made for $70 – with the help of a lot of living volunteers recruited through Facebook – made a bloody splash at Cannes in May.
George Romero, who first turned the undead into art four decades ago, premiered his latest romp, "Survival of the Dead" at the 66th Venice Film Festival last week, marking first zombie movie to grace the event.
Now the worm-eaten granddaddy of them all – Romero's 1968 "Night of the Living Dead" – is set to be remade as "Night of the Living Dead: Origins," reimagined as a 3-D CGI-enhanced movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Romero, who has brought six zombie movies to life, won't be involved.
So why are we in the middle of a zombie revival?
Romero's classic first outing was a movie for its times, a black-and-white parable about race and the state of the human race in an era of war and social upheaval. Influenced by Alfred Hitchcock, by then the grand old man of suspense, the film also scared the life out of many moviegoers.
The new movies come amid war and a myriad of fears for the future. The flicks also reflect the filmmaking methods of our time – from the do-it-yourself opportunities afforded by handheld digital video cameras to the knock-your-limbs-off special effects wizardry provided by CGI technology.
"Zombie films are always a vehicle to talk about something that happens in the present time," Romero told reporters in Venice last week.
"I think if I were trying to make serious films about some of these topics I wouldn't be able to," he said. "So it's great to be able to bring the zombies and talk about social issues and have fun at the same time."
But why are so many people fascinated by vacant-eyed brain eaters? As Romero told The Edmonton Sun last week, zombies "are us in a different state."
So, apparently, we'll always be hungry for more.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update March 2007
The end of the Leather Back Turtle season gives us the opportunity to wait eagerly to see their offspring hatch out in our corral. This year we found 24 Leather Back Turtle nests, which surpassed our expectations, as this species has a two year cycle lay period and last year we were amazed to collect 63 nests!
The increasing numbers give us hope that the Leather Back Turtle population is increasing locally and we expect that by the end of this year to have collected over 100 Leather Back nests.
In general at the Conservation camp there is a lot of work to do. There are developments in the infrastructure of the camp, we are working on some new buildings and we have to focus on preparing our equipment to be ready for the Olive Ridley high season, our aim is to surpass the 1,967 nests we collected last year.
To accomplish the work we depend upon the strong support and help that our volunteers give us.
We are also working on setting up new agreements between Projects Abroad and the local agencies that support the conservation projects in the State of Colima. We are a step ahead in creating an environmental consciousness in the local community and have a strong presence in the area.


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Meat and sweets: Main St. butcher, Water St. crêpes
Tired of the meat market? We're not talking about the bar scene. We're talking about the rows of glistening packaged flesh in local supermarkets. Here's a suggestion to liven up your meat-life.
"We want to bring back the village butcher," says Ryan Ford from behind his newly installed display case in the West Main shops, right next to Feast!
"There aren't many supermarkets in town that employ people who know how to cut meat," Ford says. "We felt there was a real void there." Filling that well-cut organic meat void is Ford's The Organic Butcher, which opened this past weekend.
Unlike most supermarkets, The Organic Butcher will work almost exclusively with the half-dozen or so certified organic farms in Virginia. In addition, Ford plans to dry-age the shop's meat. According to Ford, who opened the shop with his father-in-law and brother-in-law, this creates a more intense taste and allows the cow's natural enzymes to tenderize the meat.
"Most meat producers don't do this because they lose poundage," he says. Of course, this high-end beef has a high-end price, but Ford says that by using the "whole cow," he'll be able to offer cheaper cuts as well.
Ford also offers special orders. Need a couple pounds of Belted Galloway, Berkshire Pork, or some other rare breed you loved in New York City or enjoyed at a market in Paris? Ford will hunt it down.
What does all this mean for Charlottesville meat lovers? It means tasty premium meat and rare-breed cuts that can't be found anywhere else. It means knowing where the meat comes from– all selections will be identified by farm– and how it was raised. The shop will even offer field trips to farms at its other location in McLean, and might do the same here. It's about the old-fashioned art of butchery and the new organic trend: raising happy cows on fresh grass and open land.
Of course, there's still no happy ending for the cow, but what a way to go!
The Flat's opening act
Although The Flat sounds more like the title of a Harold Pinter play than the name of an eatery, when you find out it's a new crêperie, it becomes a delicious play on words.
Still, a theater reference isn't off the mark. The Flat's owner, Lauren McRaven, sister of local theater maven Amanda McRaven, got the idea for her crêpe place when she tagged along with LiveArts to a theater festival in Edinburgh.
"I loved the small crêpe stands at the festival," says McRaven. "They were so quick, just basic options, and fairly cheap."
If all goes according to plan– meaning if construction is finished and she gets her permits– The Flat will have its grand opening December 14. Dish took a look-see at the place behind the Jefferson Theater on Water Street. To the place whose former incarnations had been a popcorn factory and an apartment, she's added a brick patio, an iron gate, and two streetlights.
The Flat will serve both "savory" and sweet crêpes. "You can be very diverse– you can put anything in them," she says.
For example, order a crêpe stuffed with chicken and fresh vegetables, or dessert crêpes with fresh fruit, yogurt, and caramel. She'll also have a special hot chocolate made with real melted chocolate, and coffee from Lester's Best in Staunton.
The Flat will be open from 11am to 8pm Monday thru Thursday, and 11am to midnight Friday and Saturday.
So far, the biggest obstacle for McRaven has been setting up the unusual little space. "If I had known beforehand how difficult it was going to be," she muses." I might not have done it."
Fortunately for crêpe lovers, McRaven isn't psychic.
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Obama trip: Style over substance
SEOUL, South Korea — President Barack Obama returns from his maiden Asian swing with none of the concrete accomplishments that White Houses typically put in place before big trips, setting up a stark test for his idealistic theory that the United States should act more like a wise neighbor than a swaggering superpower.
Obama's minimalist approach was most consequential in China, where he did not meet with Christians, dissidents or bloggers, or directly challenge his hosts for repressive tactics that are again on the rise.
The Chinese in turn rebuffed longstanding U.S. concerns – whether on human rights, Iran or currency policy – in a heavily stage-managed visit where China, not Obama, clearly sought the upper hand.
It's an approach that carries great risk for Obama – playing straight into his critics' accusations that his new, more multilateral style isn't paying dividends, and worse, is making him look weak and ineffectual abroad.
"They don't want this narrative that the U.S. is a declining power and China is a rising power, and the trip just reinforced that," said Adam Segal, a senior fellow on China at the Council on Foreign Relations. "The sense of the trip was, 'We're not here to get in their face about these things.'"
Add to that the fact the main image of Obama abroad that really broke through to the American public out of the trip – Obama bowing to the Japanese emperor – didn't exactly reinforce the image of a muscular leader abroad.
But there were substantive problems as well. An early test drive of Obama's policy of engaging rivals and adversaries around the globe suffered a setback Wednesday, when Iran defied Washington and rejected a United Nations call for the regime to send enriched uranium abroad for processing, which would inhibit the building of nuclear weapons.
That plan was sort of Obama's ace-in-the-hole for dealing with Iran – and success would have been vindication for his approach to talk to the Iranian regime "without preconditions," as he said during the campaign. Now Obama is roughly back where President George W. Bush often found himself, trying to rally world support to crack down on an intransigent Iran.
Ironically, the disappointment did give Obama a chance to show he has a spine. At his final diplomatic event of the trip, a two-question news conference with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Obama sounded like a stern parent when he said: "We have begun discussions with our international partners about the importance of having consequences."
Through it all, the White House says it's not concerned.
After the press conference, U.S. reporters surrounded White House senior adviser David Axelrod, who said the goal of the trip "was to lay a foundation for economic progress, to open up markets for American goods, to lay a foundation for progress on mutual security issues…to lay groundwork on climate change."
"Though the President is demonstrably popular in all these countries and polling reflects that, we didn't come halfway across the world for ticker-tape parades," Axelrod said. "So we believe it was a successful trip."
In "key points" on the trip provided to reporters, a senior administration official contended: "American leadership was absent from this region for the last several years, despite the fact that it is increasingly central to our economic growth and our security. President Obama put our alliances on a firmer footing, reasserted our leadership in the region, and continued to advance a complicated bilateral relationship with China that will play a large role in shaping the 21st century."
Axelrod said the White House recognized "didn't have expectations that Barack Obama arrives in China or anywhere else and things change overnight."
"This is not an immediate gratification business," Axelrod said. "I understand that Washington is in the immediate gratification business. … [T]he ultimate measure is where these issues -- how these issues resolve in the weeks and months and years to come. And we have a greater chance for success because of this trip and others he's made."
But the formulation puts the White House in the awkward position of promising results down the road. It wasn't just the lack of hard results, but the tone of Obama's remarks, even passing up opportunity to speak out more vocally against the repressive Chinese regime.
At a "town meeting" with students in Shanghai, for instance, Obama avoided directly challenging the Chinese for blocking Twitter from the Web. Instead, Obama declared: "I'm a big supporter of non-censorship."
Segal said that while the trip succeeding on the White House's terms of sending a message of cooperation, Obama might have given a plain-spoken answer to the Twitter question, along the lines of: "I think the Chinese government is hurting itself."
Still, several national-security veterans agreed that the White House press corps had unrealistic expectations for the trip. Douglas H. Paal, a vice president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the reporters traveling with Obama seemed to think he should "punch [Chinese President] Hu Jintao in the nose."
Paal, who was on the National Security Council staffs of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, said Obama succeeded by reassuring other Asian nations – including during his other three stops in Singapore, South Korea and Japan – that the U.S. will serve as a counterbalance to China.
That was the administration's "We're back" message. And many foreign policy experts are giving Obama high marks for patience. Patrick Cronin, senior director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, has been able to establish a "new rapport with China – a relationship of almost parity."
Cronin said Obama "asked for something from each country, but also showed the United States will make compromises and recognize our own limitations and mistakes."
"He's not pointing a finger," Cronin said. "Conservative critics will say he gave too much away. But Asia is about relationship-building. This first trip was a good investment. He's playing a strategic game, not just a tactical one. It creates problems if others misperceive this as weakness."
Minxin Pei, a well-known specialist on U.S.-China relations who joined Claremont McKenna College last summer, said Obama missed an opportunity by not insisting that the town hall in Shanghai be nationally televised, and calling the Chinese government's bluff by threatening to cancel the event.
"Unlike previous American presidents, Obama went to Asia with a lot of baggage: Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and domestic difficulties," Pei said. "As a result, he had much less leverage. The Asians want business, but Uncle Sam is not in the mood for more free trade -- the politics in Washington does not allow that. And with sky-high deficits, Obama cannot promise anything else. So he carries neither a stick nor a carrot. It is not a good position to be."
Pei sees a possible silver lining for the White House. "Because the press coverage of his trip is quite bad, it may have caused some heartburn in Beijing," Pei said. "Chinese leaders know that a good relationship with Obama will be in China's interest. And a weakened Obama cannot manage U.S.-China ties effectively. So there is a chance that China will do something after the trip is over to show that Obama's visit is not fruitless after all."
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Every grade school has one. You know what I'm talking about – the kid who could climb onto the monkey bars and, in one or two deft maneuvers, defy gravity. At our school, it was a boy named Danny. He'd flip and spin; he'd hang upside down; he'd swing with ease from bar to bar.
In short, Danny was a lot like a white-breasted nuthatch.
About the same size as a sparrow – though sleeker in shape – sitta carolinensis is, first and foremost, an important member of our woodland ecosystems. But it also is one outstanding acrobat. If there's a tasty morsel at the end of a tree branch, it will swing and sway as much as needed to nab it. If there's a tasty morsel underneath the branch, it'll hang upside down to grab it. And if that tasty bit is way low on the tree's trunk, this talented bird will head down – with the greatest of ease – to stab at it with its narrow, upturned bill.
White-breasted nuthatches are easy to spot just about anywhere there are hardwood trees and, in the winter, bird feeders. Even better, they're easy to identify. The bird's namesake white breast is balanced by a blue-gray back and wings; its white head is topped with a black cap that extends down the nape, or neck. Many birds also have a light, rust-colored cast to the feathers on the lower part of the belly and underneath the tail.
At first glance, the white-breasted nuthatch can appear similar to another bird common in our area, the black-capped chickadee. But confusing these two birds is like getting Santa Claus mixed up with Father Christmas. The differences are significant, if you just know what to look for.
For one, chickadees' black caps extend below their eyes, and are accessorized with a black throat patch. The white-breasted nuthatch's black "cap" is really more of a toupee. It covers only the top of the head and neck; the bird's facial feathers are white.
Another difference is in the birds' bills. Chickadee bills are short and pointy, just right for carrying away small bits of wood as the bird excavates a nest. They also do a good job of pecking away at seed husks and nutshells.
In comparison, the white-breasted nuthatch's bill is longer and thinner. It can "hatch," or peck open, nuts and seeds but is not used for homebuilding. Instead, white-breasted nuthatches shop around for ready-made homes – cavities already created by chickadees or woodpeckers.
Then there's that distinctive nuthatch trait – the one that makes them the daredevil acrobats of our local woodlands: They hop down tree trunks face first. That's right, upside down. Just like Danny.
Although many local birds forage on tree trunks, only nuthatches glean with their head pointing downward. It's a behavior unique to the genus, and one that's unmistakable. And as any birder will tell you, unmistakable identifying characteristics are invaluable, no matter what the species. (Note: Red-breasted nuthatches also occur in Kane County, in winter, and display this same head-down behavior. But because they're typically associated with conifers, their distribution is limited. Count yourself lucky if you see a red-breasted nuthatch.)
White-breasted nuthatches occupy a broad niche in our local ecosystems. They feed on insects as well as seeds. In fact, many people first become acquainted with this bird when it visits a feeder to feast on two of its favorites, peanuts and sunflower seeds.
But it's in its natural habitat, our oak-hickory woodlands, that this bird really shines. There you can watch them flit from branch to branch, often hanging upside down as they poke and prod in search of food.
If you're looking for a locally common bird species with supreme acrobatic talents – and you know you are – the white-breasted nuthatch is the bird for you.
• Pam Otto is the manager of nature programs and interpretive services at the Hickory Knolls Discovery Center, a facility of the St. Charles Park District. She can be reached at 630-513-4346 or email@example.com.


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Normally I use the Topology Widget to light up an image file that I initially put together using Visio and the end-result typically turns out something like this…
The difference this time though was that I've been using a new Windows 10 laptop that has some pretty awesome specs and a kick-ass HD display. The downside of having a laptop with Windows 10 and these specs is that application scaling becomes a nightmare and there's a whole merry-go-round of custom tweaks that I needed to make when I started using it so as to deliver an experience where I don't need a giant magnifying glass to work!
Here's how I have my Windows 10 laptop scaling settings configured (notice the 250% size setting)..
With these scaling settings in place on the new laptop, I went about my business by first creating a new dashboard image in Visio and then saving it as a PNG file before finally importing the file into SCOM.
When I worked my way through configuring the Topology Widget wizard to map my custom IT services (Distributed Applications) onto the image, the dashboard disappointingly turned out like this...
The problem with this dashboard view is that its grainy quality and tiny health state icons make it hard to read and understand. I've created hundreds of these dashboard views in the past and this was the first time that I've encountered a problem like this so it was time to dig a little deeper to find the solution.
The first thing I tried was to copy the problematic PNG file to another SCOM environment and create a new Topology Widget dashboard there. In this separate environment, the grainy image and tiny health state icons were still there so the problem pointed to an issue with the PNG file.
Another test I tried was to import a completely different dashboard PNG file that I knew worked fine in another customers environment and thankfully this displayed as expected. With this validation, I was confident that I was dealing with an issue either with the original problematic PNG or the Visio image that I created the PNG from.
As I traced back through my steps, I opened the Visio file again that I created this dashboard in and clicked the the Save As option from the File menu to save it as a new PNG. When I did this, I was presented with the following PNG Output Options window:
Notice the default Resolution and Size settings Visio 2016 selects for me when I go to save a new PNG file. I figured that due to the 250% display scaling option that my laptop was configured with, these settings were creating the PNG file at too high a resolution for SCOM to work with.
I went back to the original problematic PNG file and checked the Image Properties and I could see that it was configured to use 2044 x 1548 pixels as shown here....
When I checked the other dashboard PNG file that I knew worked (and which I created on my old laptop), I could see that it was configured to use a much lower pixel size.
So, back to the Visio diagram of my new dashboard and this time, when I clicked the Save As option from the File menu, I manually configured the PNG Output settings to use a resolution of Source and a pixel size of 1123 x 794 as shown in this image...
When I imported this new leaner version of the PNG file back into the same Topology Widget, I finally got the results I was looking for where the health state and image quality were far easier on the eye.
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Monday, January 04, 2010
Mac envy
Has anyone else made this upgrade on an HP? I followed the instructions veeeeeeery carefully. Luckily, I backed up everything first. I say "luckily" because hours later I had to restore everything. I will spare you the details; the upshot is that after innumerable torturous hours and some pretty spicy curse words, my laptop is still running Vista.
The reason?
According to the upgrade software provided to me by HP, my "keyboard filter" driver needs to be updated.
According to my HP laptop, I do not have a "keyboard filter" driver.
According to the HP support website, there are a multitude of keyboard-related drivers for my computer for which updates are available. I have run them all.
And according to the upgrade software provided to me by HP, after all those updates have run, my "keyboard filter" STILL needs to be updated. This update is so critical, in fact, that the whole upgrade process screeches to a halt without it. There is, it seems, no work-around.
And so, I remain in the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad world of Vista.
So, two things:
1. Are any of you running Windows 7? Is it worth continuing this fool's errand?
2. What the heck is a keyboard filter driver and how in the world do I update it?
18 comments:
- Niksmom said...
This sounds like a cry for help from Kev L. or Dave S. maybe? I hope you don't mind that I'll wait to try my upgrade until I hear the end of your story!
- January 04, 2010 5:30 PM
I'm a mac girl through and through. I wish the same for you. ;-)
- January 04, 2010 5:35 PM
- KAL said...
What Kristen said...
- January 04, 2010 6:16 PM
I don't know what a keyboard filter driver is but I have Windows 7 installed on my Mac. No problems with the install, eazy peezy. I can run Windows 7 natively, which means that I can boot into either program and the OS doesn't recognize that I'm running it on a Mac. It just assumes it is a Windows PC. Windows 7 is better than Vista, but still not as good as Snow Leopard. If you can get a Mac, you will wonder how you did without it for so long.
- January 04, 2010 6:17 PM
- jypsy said...
I've heard of people having issues trying to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7. My daughter did it on her Dell notebook no problem (she does possess the geek genes...) She loves her Dell leaving just the rest of us with Mac envy (Alex is a Mac man). I'm still clinging to XP so I can't comment.
- January 04, 2010 6:41 PM
- VAB said...
7 is worth it. It is actually better than XP, which is saying something.
I found this:
"This keyboard filter is tied to HP/Compaqs Quick keys at the top of the keyboard for their laptops. What you want to do is remove the quick-launch software from the machine do your upgrade then install the newest quick-launch softpaq."
It seems you can remove via the add/remove programs thing in the control panel.
- January 04, 2010 7:43 PM
- kristina said...
No liking or loving for Vista here---I managed with the first version on Jim's laptop.
After which, I was finally able to convince him to get a Mac.
- January 04, 2010 7:50 PM
- Unknown said...
Try Ubuntu. I'm not kidding! It's linux. Its free. Its intuitive and it would probably load with no problems on your HP. It comes complete with a wonderful community that works on its creation and improvement. After a short culture shock you will never want to go back to paying for buggy software.
- January 04, 2010 9:15 PM
- Socrates said...
This comment brought to you by Ubuntu...
It's even cooler than having a Mac.
- January 05, 2010 6:47 AM
Ubuntu still requires a lot of geek knowledge. Not a lot of supported out of the box driver's for all your peripherals. You also need to know how to access and modify the API. If anyone is having problems with MS and drivers, Ubuntu is surely not going to be a solution for them. I have Ubuntu on my Mac as well. It's ok. I'd choose MS over Ubuntu because there is more support and solutions for MS. The Mac OS though is what all the others try to clone. Its intuitive and easy to use. You'll probably never have to do anything but turn it on to get it to work and do what you want.
- January 05, 2010 7:44 AM
- MI Dawn said...
We just had a computer crash so the new PC has Windows 7 already installed. (We're a mixed household...we have all Macs except for this 1 computer and we wouldn't have gotten this one except that our health care professional licenses have to be renewed on IE - no, you can't use Safari, Firefox, IE on a Mac...it's a pain). Windows 7 looks like they stole 90% from Apple. It certainly loads and shuts down faster than Vista or XP, though. Haven't installed too much stuff yet, so can't say if it works well with other programs yet. Need to get Open Office and some of our games on it.
Good luck with the upgrade, Mom-NOS!
- January 05, 2010 5:26 PM
"no, you can't use Safari, Firefox, IE on a Mac...it's a pain)."
Safari is a Mac browser, there is a firefox for Mac and IE can run on Mac with Windows installed. I actually have a Mac with IE that originally came with it, before Safari.
- January 05, 2010 7:34 PM
- pixiemama said...
hoo boy. I'm just going to insert a supportive grimace, because tech issues are not my forte.
- January 06, 2010 8:18 AM
- MI Dawn said...
@Anonymous: Ooops. Guess my comment, due to frustration, wasn't clear. I love Firefox and use it on both Mac and PC. However, unless I want to install Windows (and not Windows for Mac) on my Macbook, we can't renew our licenses on line. And because they require a credit card, I am very leery about doing it on a public library computer. (Yes, I know the sites are secure. I still don't trust public computers for personal information). The state licensing boards are very buggy, particular sites that will ONLY allow Windows Internet Explorer to renew. I don't want to install Windows on my Macbook. So, we have 1 PC in the house. At least that way we can still play Roller Coaster Tycoon...
- January 07, 2010 7:08 PM
- mothersvox said...
Don't have Mac envy! We had to upgrade to OS 10.6 and now our HP printer drivers don't work either. Aaaarrrgh. And HP isn't planning on doing anything about it, that way they can sell new printers and I'll be forced to throw out a perfectly good printer. I even have a spare toner cartridge.
Windows is bad, but at least it's less expensive. Those of us using Macs pay a 30% Mac tax. I'm about to switch to the other side!
So glad you're writing again! Have missed your wisdom, wit, wonderfulness.
- January 09, 2010 1:52 PM
- MOM-NOS said...
THANK YOU to all who have sent ideas and feedback, both here and through e-mail. I think I have a good plan of attack ready to go. Now I just need to find a day to devote to another round of madness. I'm giving myself some time to build up my courage, but I will keep you posted!
- January 11, 2010 6:30 PM
- neil said...
I know it's a bit late and I hope that all's well, but I upgraded from vista to windows 7 and had an issue with a modem driver. My service provider would only help if I went for premium service...read pay-for-it, but did give me the local microsoft support phone number. I explained my problem, which they agreed to fix for free, then in a leap of faith, let their tech support access my computer by remote and they fixed everything. Love windows 7 so far.
- January 14, 2010 5:05 AM
- David said...
Hello? You didn't ask me about this? I would have been only too happy to help. Upgrades are never recommended, even though they are possible. A clean install is best. It means backing up your stuff first, which in itself is always a worthwhile exercise. :o)
- January 17, 2010 3:51 PM


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When Burger King set about to fix its ailing empire, the fast food giant started by scrutinizing everything on the menu — even the mayonnaise.
A group of Burger King executives and franchisees last year sat through a lengthy presentation complete with charts and graphs on how oils and eggs affect the quality of the spread.
A blind taste test of 30 varieties followed. The verdict: They liked the one Burger King was already using.
"That was actually a pretty hard day," recalls John Koch, Burger King's executive chef.
It wasn't the only one. Over the past year, Burger King evaluated all of its ingredients from the bacon to the cheese slices it serves on its chargrilled burgers as part of a yearlong quest to reverse years of slumping sales of its Whoppers and fries. The result: On Monday, it plans to launch a lineup of smoothies, frappe coffees, chicken strips and snack wraps. The 10 new items mark Burger King's biggest menu expansion since the chain opened its doors in 1954.
Burger King's food odyssey shows how grueling it can be for a fast-food company to come up with new menu items — a process most Americans aren't aware of when they're handed a bag at a drive-thru window. Burger King is the latest chain to revamp its menu as part of the fast-food industry's move away from its nearly single-minded courtship of young men. Once the lifeblood of the industry, the economic downturn hit those junk food fanatics particularly hard. At the same time, Americans' generally have been demanding healthier options.
Burger King has failed to evolve even as competitors have gone after new customers with breakfast items and healthier fare. Last year, Wendy's for the first time edged out Burger King as the nation's No. 2 burger chain behind McDonald's. To stem the decline, Burger King executives last year decided to remodel its aging system of 7,200 stores to make them more contemporary, redesign worker uniforms with aprons so they stay clean and even serve the iconic Whopper in cardboard cartons instead of paper burger wrapping for the first time in more than 20 years. The food, however, is at the heart of its plan.
Consumers have longed for more food options at Burger King, but the revamp is a gamble. The new menu may not go far enough to differentiate Burger King from its competitors.
After all, there are striking similarities between Burger King's new items and the offerings of its much-bigger rival McDonald's. The Golden Arches already rolled out specialty salads in 2003, snack wraps in 2006, premium coffee drinks in 2009, and fruit smoothies in 2010.
"Being an innovator is critical in the fast-food industry," said Darren Tristano, an analyst for food industry researcher Technomic Inc. But in recent years, he said Burger King has been more of a follower.
Burger King executives don't deny that its new items are pretty close to those on McDonald's popular menu. But they say the new menu was created as a result of Burger King's own research.
"Consumers wanted more choices," said Steve Wiborg, president of Burger King's North America operations. "Not just healthy choices, but choices they could get at the competition."
The fast-food industry has undergone a shift in recent years. Just five years ago, the top three fast-food companies were all burger chains. But concerns over obesity have paved the way for competitors like Subway, now the second-biggest chain, and Starbucks, which climbed up the rankings to the No. 3 spot. Smaller players such as Five Guys, which sells made-to-order burgers, are gaining ground too.
McDonald's quickly adapted. The world's biggest burger chain reinvented itself as a hip, healthier place to eat by offering wireless Internet and rolling out a string of hit menu items such as fruit smoothies, iced coffees and oatmeal.
Burger King failed to keep up. Its share of sales among burger chains fell from 17 percent a decade ago to 12 percent last year, according to researcher Technomic. McDonald's share rose from 42 percent to 50 percent.
All Tom McDonald had to do was look at Burger King's competitors to see why sales at the chain were falling. A Burger King franchisee since 1989, McDonald said the chain's menu hadn't changed much over the years.
"We were getting behind with the wraps and salads that were coming on the market," said McDonald, who owns 19 franchises. "We had salads, but they weren't as good as the competition. We focused on burgers maybe longer than we should have."
McDonald said he expressed his concerns at the company's failure to keep up with the times. But the Miami-based chain had gone through a series of owners over the years, and McDonald said he got little response from corporate about addressing the problems.
He said the attitude from the top changed, however, after New York-based private equity firm 3G Capital bought Burger King last year. That's when Burger King assembled a group of 15 key executives, franchisees and suppliers to evaluate the chain's menu, item by item.
The process, which took three months of daylong meetings, was grueling at times. French fries took multiple days, given the various factors like seasoning, oil and frying method. Even the day for soft-serve ice cream, which was rolled out last summer, wasn't as fun as it might sound: A supplier that had 400 vanilla flavors presented the nuances between Madagascar and honey vanilla.
"Trying to come up with the exact intensity of vanilla you need is a little bit daunting," said Koch, Burger King's chef.
Burger King quietly put some changes in place over the past year. The French fries are thicker so they'll stay hot longer. Burgers now come with one slice of cheese instead of two, so it melts more evenly. And naturally-smoked bacon is now cooked at each restaurant. Previously, Burger King had used a pre-cooked variety with a smoked flavor sprayed on.


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In the pantheon of orphaned car brands, perhaps the most poignant today is Eagle, not because of its sales numbers but because of its lineage. Eagle was the bastard child of the 1987 AMC-Renault tie-up and its subsequent sale to Chrysler. At the time of the Chrysler buyout, AMC had product in the pipeline that Renault had a financial interest in seeing hit the market. Chrysler didn't want it — Jeep was their trophy — but Renault forced them to take the Franco-American models as part of the deal, so Chrysler spun them off into their own brand: Thus was born Eagle. Eagle initially offered the Eagle Medallion and Premier models through co-branded Jeep-Eagle dealerships. The Medallion, a rebadged Renault sold in four-door and wagon body styles, was practically orphaned at its introduction and disappeared after just two years. The full-size front-drive Premier soldiered on through 1992 along with its Dodge Monaco cousin, in part due to a contract Chrysler had with Renault to purchase 260,000 V6 engines for the cars. In the end, Chrysler broke the contract and paid Renault for the 121,000 engines it never needed, after selling just 139,000 Premier/Monaco models. Eagle made enough of a contribution to Chrysler's bottom line to continue the brand with rebadged Chrysler products after the French influence was exorcised. The Mitsubishi Mirage/Dodge Colt begat the Eagle Summit, the Mitsubishi Eclipse/Plymouth Laser produced the Eagle Talon and the Dodge Intrepid resulted in the Eagle Vision. Eagle never really developed a brand identity, however, and Chrysler allowed the nameplate to die off after 1998. Enter 2008. The weakest domestic automaker, this time Chrysler, is being shopped around, with Renault and General Motors both expressing different degrees of interest. Ironically, reports have Nissan/Renault interested solely in Jeep, though any deal would result in redundant brands. A new marque isn't in the cards, as it was with Eagle, but at least one will almost certainly die. [The Garage Blog; Image courtesy Eagle Premier Home Page]
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – The San Jose Earthquakes welcomed recent Portuguese loan acquisition Yannick Djalo in style last week, introducing him to local community figures and media at the posh Fogo de Chão in Santana Row.
Djalo joined the club on loan from SL Benfica on March 10, 2014. The creative attacker has spent the days since sorting out his P-1 Visa and acclimating to life in the Bay Area.
Guests of the event at Fogo de Chão were treated to caiparinhas, a rodizio-style dinner and the restaurant's signature papaya cream. Fogo de Chão celebrated the opening of its San Jose restaurant, the first Northern California location for the churrascaria, on Feb. 27, 2014.
Djalo posed for photos with members of the staff, signed autographs and met with local media members. He also had a chance to speak his native language with local Portuguese figureheads on hand. San Jose has the second-largest Portuguese community in the United States.
The nearly 9,000-square-feet, 250-seat restaurant, located on the corner of Winchester Boulevard and Olin Avenue at Santana Row, blends contemporary Northern Californian and Brazilian design and features a mix of textures, colors and materials. In addition to the main dining area, Fogo de Chão features outdoor seating, a lively bar, and three semi-private dining areas that can be combined to make larger rooms, seating from 22 to 110. With its location in the heart of Silicon Valley the restaurant was designed with the tech-savvy crowd in mind, offering fully connected private dining spaces including touch screen televisions and 60-inch projector screens, wired for everything from presentations to video conferencing. The focus on technology also flows into the bar area, which features numerous AC and USB outlets for charging phones and laptops as well as complimentary Wi-Fi.


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Am I boring you with my current fascination with Detroit? I just think it's going to be such an interesting city to follow, and I've been soaking in every article I come across about what people are doing to redesign it and help its recovery. The latest article I read was in The New York Times this week, and it chronicled what a community of artists are doing to help the city, including selling off square inches of property to help create a feeling of ownership, however small. When artists start to flock to an area, it's always the first sign of improvement. There's a sense of a new wave of Robert Smithson types with a penchant for industrial landscapes. Is the next step for Christo to wrap it all up in a bright color? Will Todd Selby* be heading there to photograph these artists at home? It's going to be really fun to watch. Check out the article here.
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The third Ironman Foundation eBay auction raised $43,400, which will benefit a variety of charitable organizations worldwide.
For a 10th consecutive year, The Ironman Foundation is conducting its annual auction with eBay, to benefit a variety of charitable organizations worldwide.
Since its inception in 2003, The Ironman Foundation has given more than $11 million in grants and donations to non-profit organizations around the world. The first auction raised $45,100.
More than 80,000 athletes vie for slots to the Ironman World Championship each year, while only approximately 1,900 make it to the starting line on race day. This year's auction gives athletes the opportunity to bid on one of six coveted slots to the 2012 Ironman World Championship, taking place on Oct. 13 in Kailua-Kona.
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I have more favorite pear recipes than for apple, peaches or most any other fruit. The reason for this might be that my daddy thought of an old family tradition to commemorate the birth of his baby girl. He headed right out to that pretty, field right beyond the pasture and planted a pear tree. Actually, he planted a bunch of pear trees, but I always knew which one he planted on the day I was born because he pointed it out to me regularly every time we took a walk in that direction. So, we have always had lots of canned pears on hand.
But that's not the only reason my childhood memories are packed with every kind of pear recipe from pear cobbler to Pear Butter most of which were cooked for our family by my grandmother who says that she did her best to duplicate her mother's recipes in spite of the fact that the only directions she was ever able to pry out of her was, "Oh, I throw in a little of this and a little of that and never have used a measuring cup or spoon".
I do not want my girls in the very distant future to have to guess at how I made their favorite old fashioned southern pear recipes like Pear Honey with Pineapple, pear preserves and mama's famous recipe for pear cobbler. My plans are to leave them with detailed recipes so that long after I'm gone they can enjoy natural goodies that they had when they were at home.
At the moment I'm looking at a bushel basket full of pears that need peeling. But right after I get through canning them I'm going to start typing out all those old fashioned, family pear recipes and if you make it back to Oh Baby Green Living, Family and Parenting Issues I'll share them with you and yours. There are lots of pear recipes on the net, but I may have a few old southern recipes that you might like better.


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Thanks to Charlie Purvis who gave me the Liebster Award. I enjoy visiting his blog: Carolina Family Roots. We have discovered that we are distant cousins & we met recently! Thanks, cousin!
1. Thank the blogger who presented you with the Liebster Award, and link back to his or her blog.
2. Answer the 11 questions from the nominator; list 11 random facts about yourself, and create 11 questions for your nominees.
3. Present the Liebster Award to 11 bloggers, who have blogs with 200 followers or less, whom you feel deserve to be noticed. Leave a comment on the blogs letting the owners know they have been chosen.
4. Upload the Liebster Award image to your blog.
Answers to the 11 questions Charlie asked me:
1. What is your most notable achievement, thus far, in life? Professionally that would be receiving the Elizabeth Ann Seton Teacher of the Year Award when I was teaching first grade in a small Catholic school.
2. What part has your education played in this achievement? I have Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Education.
3. What was your most "serendipity" moment in your genealogical research? I was visiting Ohio to research my maternal; grandmother's lines. I went into the Wayne County Library and introduced myself to the librarian explaining what I was looking for. She said I had to meet her husband. He had been researching the Ritter family line for many years. He is my third cousin, once removed. We met that evening and are still in touch.
4. Have you encountered any "brick walls" in your research? If so, were you able to resolve your brick wall? There are always branches where I want to learn more or move further back in time but basically I think I need to educate myself more before I can answer my own questions. If I still can't learn more that would be a brick wall.
5. Have you ever attended a National Genealogical Society Family History Conference? No. I have only been to one conference, for the Ohio Genealogical Society.
6. Do you do most of your research on-line or do your travel to courthouses and archives to do research? I prefer to travel to archives, courthouses & local libraries but when I cannot travel I use the internet.
7. Is your family research centralized to one location or spread over several states? My family roots spread across several states & countries.
8. How important is the Genealogical Proof Standard in your research and does your database meet that requirement? I'd like to know more about the Genealogical Proof Standard; how it came to be & why this is the form we should use.
9. Do you have an on-line tree? Is it public or private? The trees in my Family Tree Maker are private. Lines that I want to share are on my web site.
10. Do you intend to publish your research at some point in the future? Yes. I have written a book on my paternal grandmother's family & have begun on another book.
11. Have you participated in any DNA testing to resolve difficult genealogical stumbling blocks? Were the results beneficial to your research? Not yet. I would like to at some time.
11 Random Facts about Me:
1. I plant a vegetable garden with tomatoes, garlic & herbs each year.
2. I don't have any sisters but I have three brothers.
3. I like to make birthday cards for friends & family.
4. We have three children; no two live in the same state.
5. I am a lifetime member of the Girl Scouts and have been a scout since I was a Brownie.
6. Maeve Binchy & Elizabeth Berg are a couple of my favorite authors.
7. I had walked beaches on both the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans.
8. I've been to several islands in the Caribbean and French Polynesia.
9. Quilting, genealogy, photography & reading are favorites of mine.
10. My husband & I take ballroom dance classes.
11. I love my family!
11 Questions for my nominees:
1. Do you have a favorite family branch? Which one?
3. What location [state or county] have you found to be very difficult to research?
4. What location, associated with your research, would you like to visit?
5. Is there anyone in your family who may want to become the family's next genealogist?
6. What message[s] or tip[s] would you give your family's next genealogist?
7. Who is the best person in your family for sharing stories of the past?
8. Do you have a funny genealogy tale to share?
9. How do you balance genealogy & other hobbies/pastimes?
10. Would you like to write a genealogy book?
My 11 Nominees:
1. Margel at 2338Washington Blvd.
2. Teri at Genealogy Jottings
3. Bryna O'Sullivan at Explorations in Connecticut Genealogy
4. The Dead Librarian
5. Wendy At Jollett, Etc.
6. Deborah at Help! The Faerie Folk Hid my Ancestors!
7. Jim at GenealogyBlog
8. Kerry at Clue Wagon
9. Lisa at A Light That Shines Again
10. Philip at Blood & Frogs:Jewish Genealogy & More
11. Jacqui at A Family Tapestry


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