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It seems safe to say that the World Hockey championships aren't at the top of our collective minds, even though this is the State of Hockey, and we do have six Minnesotans. Some of us are currently preoccupied with NHL playoffs, and to some extent, the Twins' quest for a 151-11 season.
But I think the reason we lack a little excitement is because we know it's not the best of the best representing each country. Rest assured, if that was the case, the United States would not be winless in two games against Germany and Denmark.
But with several players battling in the playoffs, we can't really send our best. And some of those players who aren't currently playing, have already represented the country at the Olympics this year. A trip to Germany is probably not what they need (although Jack Johnson is on the World Championship team, and was a key cog for the Olympic team).
So because there is a lack of news, I figured I'd put together my ideal Team USA roster with players who did not participate in the Olympics. However, some of these guys are in the playoffs, but that's okay. I thought it'd be fun.
So, without further adieu, here is my Fantasy Non-Olympian Team USA Hockey squadron that everybody would agree to play for.
Bold = Currently on the World Championship team
Centers: Tim Connolly (Buffalo/Syracuse, NY), Scott Gomez (Montreal/Anchorage, AK), Matt Cullen (Ottawa/Virginia, MN) and T.J. Oshie (St. Louis/Warroad, MN).
Wingers: R.J. Umberger (Columbus/Pittsburgh, PA), Kyle Okposo (New York Islanders/St. Paul, MN), Lee Stempniak (Phoenix/West Seneca, NY), Brian Gionta (Montreal/Rochester, NY), Bill Guerin (Pittsburgh/Worcester, MA), Jason Blake (Anaheim/Moorhead, MN), Blake Wheeler (Boston/Minneapolis, MN) and James van Riemsdyk (Philadelphia/Middletown, NJ).
Defensemen: Tyler Myers, who considers himself Canadian but he was born in Texas, so whether he likes it or not, he's on our side (Buffalo, Katy, TX), Keith Yandle (Phoenix/Boston, MA), Mike Komisarek, (Toronto/West Islip, NY), Paul Martin (New Jersey/Elk River, MN), Matt Carle (Philadelphia/Anchorage, AK), Alex Goligoski (Pittsburgh/Grand Rapids, MN) and John Carlson (Washington/Natick, MA).
And yes, I know Komisarek and Martin were named to the Olympic team, but they were both hurt, so they're on my team.
Goaltenders: Jimmy Howard (Detroit/Syracuse, NY), Craig Anderson (Colorado/Park Ridge, IL) and Brian Boucher, who went and got himself hurt last night, meaning I may have to call in Ty Conklin (St. Louis/Anchorage, AK).
I even had trouble whittling down the defensemen. I left off Ron Hainsey, Matt Greene, John-Michael Liles, Keith Ballard, James Wisniewski, Tom Gilbert and even former UMD Bulldog, Matt Niskanen.
On the forward side, I scrapped Brandon Dubinsky and Mike Modano because I like my centers. And I looked for a spot for Robbie Earl, who hit on 20.7% of the shots he took last year, but I just couldn't find space for him.
And in goal, well, us Americans aren't very deep in goal. But we do have Ryan Miller, and nobody else does.
That team is not too shabby if I do say so myself. And really, only Gomez, Gionta, Guerin, Wheeler, van Riemsdyk, Carle and Goligoski are still playing right now. The rest should get their tails off to Germany and meet up with Todd Richards. Tell him I sent you.

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With the iPhone 5 and the Sony Xperia Z, the new HTC One is one of the best smartphones around. You have to see the HTC One to appreciate it, so here's our HTC One video review.
HTC One Design and Build
In our tests the HTC One became hot to the touch. Not too hot to hold, but enough to make us worry.
HTC One Performance
The HTC is the fastest phone we have tested. With a quad-core chip and two gigs of RAM it aced our GeekBench 2 benchmark, turning in a record score of 2721.
It smashed our GLBenchmark graphics test, too, turning in a top quality score of 34 frames per second. The HTC One offers stunning graphics. In the SunSpider 2 test that measures Javascript performance the HTC One is again close to the best with a score of 1213 milliseconds. Web browsing is swift and snappy.
You have a choice of 32 or 64 GigaBytes but no expandable storage. Amongst the connectivity options are NFC, 4G LTE and a micro-USB 2 port with mobile high-definition video link.
Head to this page for our take on the HTC One's performance and build quality. On page two we look at HTC One display, audio and media. Click through to page three to find out about the HTC One camera and page four is where you find our review of the HTC One software and setup. Or just keep watching!
HTC One Display and Audio
The 4.7in Super LCD 3 display has the highest pixel density of any phone we have seen. This full HD display crams 468 pixels into every inch. it's sharp, brilliant at rendering details in photos and video even under the strip lights of a room with no natural light. Viewing angles are good and the touchscreen responsive.
With a built-in amplifier, Beats Audio and two front-facing speakers the HTC One delivers a big sound with or without headphones.
HTC One Camera
The HTC One has only a 4 megapixel camera at the rear and a 2.1 megapixel, 88-degree wide angle lens with HDR capability at the front. A faster sensor means you can quickly capture shots - critical for a smartphone snapper. Pictures taken were good: occasionally noisy as you might expect from a camera with such a low pixel count, but good in low-light conditions.
HTC One Software
The HTC One runs Android 4.1.2 with full access to the Play Store for apps and media, but it is heavily customised with HTC Sense and a new content-flow feature called BlinkFeed.
BlinkFeed offers a cascading flow of all updates and media similar to the Hub in BlackBerry 10 or Windows Phone 8's messages feed.
HTC One Verdict
Superb performance and excellent build quality spoiled only slightly by running hot in use. You can't fault the feature set, and it matches other high-end phones on price. The interface might be an acquired taste for some, and we weren't overly impressed with the camera, but alongside the Xperia Z and iPhone 5 this is about as good a phone as you can buy. Four and a half stars.
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Mighty Quinn's: Has NYC Barbecue Come of Age?
Mighty Quinn's
103 2nd Avenue New York, NY 10003 (b/n 6th and 7th; map); 212-677-3733; mightyquinnsbbq.com
Service: Extremely friendly and accommodating
Setting: Clean, bright space with counter service, devoid of the typical barbecue artifacts
Must-Haves: Brisket, Beef Rib, Pulled Pork, Beans with Burnt Ends
Cost: About $15 per person for food; a smart beer list hovers around $6 or $7 per drink
Grade: A-
Until Mighty Quinn's opened its doors, here are the words I would use to describe the better barbecue joints in town: sincere, well-meaning, tasty, digitally derived from copious sampling across the country, deferential, and stylistically derivative. Most people would come out of any one of a half-dozen cue joints in town and say, "Hey, that was good barbecue, for New York." It'd be the culinary equivalent of damning with faint praise.
I first tasted Hugh Mangum's barbecue at Smorgasburg, where he invariably has the longest line. I arrived when the market opened, so there was no line yet. I walked up to the table where Mangum had placed a pork butt and a whole brisket. I could tell from just looking at the meat, and seeing the look in Mangum's eyes, that his barbecue was going to be serious.
And it was. Smoky, but not overly so, with a lovely black bark and a quarter inch red smoke ring underneath. Both the brisket and the pork, I noted back then, were probably the best being made in the five boroughs. (I later found out that at that time he was smoking all his meat in Pennsylvania.)
I could tell then that I was in the presence of a barbecue and food obsessive, and one with chops to boot. I later found out that Mangum was a 2001 FCI grad who cooked in serious restaurants here (Nougatine and Union Pacific) and in Bucks County for ten years. Before that he was a rock drummer for ten years (in bands like Maypole and Enemy, who toured with bands like the Wallflowers) living in Los Angeles who made barbecue on the weekends with his Texas-born father. Now that's what I call a serious Serious Eats pedigree.
Mangum told me back then he was looking for a space for a bricks and mortar restaurant in NYC, and he found one in the old Vandaag space. I wondered if he could keep up his high standards under the pressure of a larger restaurant, and based on five visits, the answer is yes. With one or two exceptions, Mangum's barbecue* will now be the standard by which all other barbecue here is judged.
* Which you can also find through the end of the month at Whole Foods' Smorgasburg section at their Bowery location.
Mangum and his partners did not barbecueify the space too much: there are no filling station artifacts, no pictures of famous barbecue joints, no signature visuals at all.
It's a simple space painted black with a few small tables and a longer one. To the side is the ordering line, and to the left is the all-wood smoker Mangum used. If you walk all the way to the back, you'll see many raw cuts of meat waiting for Mangum's minimalist treatment: just a salt and pepper rub before entering the smoker. Upstairs is an office where Mangum spends at least three nights a week tending to the meat (the briskets cook for 16-22 hours). As he told me, "There's always a high ratio of masochism to good food."
When you get on that line, you will of course want to get the brisket ($8.50/sandwich; $22/pound) for all the reasons I outlined above. This is sustainably raised smoked whole brisket with character and carriage and soul, rubbed with salt, pepper, and a little paprika. Maybe that's because, according to Mangum, his briskets talk to him. "I touch them, and they say '30 minutes more.'" Do request the fattier half of the brisket, which the polite cutters are happy to do, because the leaner, first-cut of the brisket can on occasion be dry.
But you should not stop there when it comes to beef. Perhaps even better than the brisket is his whole beef rib ($23/rib), which looks like it must have come from the dinosaur collection of Museum of Natural History. It is tender and juicy with just enough chew to require a knife. It might become Mangum's contribution to the canon of great pieces of barbecue. Just a few pitmasters make beef ribs, and Mangum does them so very well. It is not cheap, but take one bite and you'll stop worrying about the price.
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There are ribs ($8.71/three-four ribs; $23/rack), which are merely very, very good, with great porky flavor. The pulled pork ($7.25/sandwich; $18.75/pound) is phenomenal. Be bold and ask for as much outside meat as possible. The flavor in that bark is irresistible. In general this is pork that tastes like pork, which is not surprising given that it comes from Berkshire hogs.
The two weakest links among the meats were the half chicken ($8.50), which Mangum mentioned is a work in progress, and the sausage ($7.25/sandwich; $12/pound). The chicken meat is tender and juicy and moist (even the breast), but it doesn't have much smoky flavor, and the flaccid skin lacks crunch. Mangum says he needs a grill to crisp the skin, and he hopes the community board will approve a grill's installation.
The sausage tastes like a solid sweet fennel sausage that you could get at your local pork store and grill in the summer. May I be so bold to suggest that Mangum get the good folks at Southside Market to ship up their beef and pork Elgin-style sausage, which is so juicy that it spurts with every bite. They have a federally inspected plant, so it would be possible, and if it were to happen, I would dance a barbecue jig.
The sides ($3 small, $5.75 medium, $11.25 large) are where you see Mangum's chef chops. The three bean salad, made with al dente edamame, sweet peas, and sugar snap peas, caramelized onions, goat cheese, and mint, in just acidic enough Sherry lemon vinaigrette, could be served in the front room at Gramercy Tavern. That's how complex and balanced the flavors are. The beans with burnt ends, made with white beans, black-eyed peas, Nueske's bacon, and a whole lot of burnt ends, could be a meal in themselves. The sweet potatoes with a brown sugar pecan topping are unsurprisingly sweet but kind of addictive as well. Two kinds of cole slaw, one made with vinegar, the other made with vinegar and mayo, are both very solid but definitely not revelatory.
Even with the chicken-in-progess, Mighty Quinn's is setting a new standard for barbecue in this city. Briskettown in Williamsburg is also helping to raise that bar, but Daniel Delaney's very good brisket is less consistent and over-smoked to my taste. Hugh Mangum is serving seriously delicious meat born of passion, knowledge, experience, and chops, that would be considered first-rate anywhere it's served, in Texas or NC or Kansas City. It's the first barbecue joint that doesn't require the "for New York" qualifier. It's real barbecue from New York, of New York, and by New Yorkers. That's cause for celebration.
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Yung C. Shin
Donald A. and Nancy G. Roach Distinguished Professor of Advanced Manufacturing
Purdue University
585 Purdue Mall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2088
Office: ME G082
- B.S. Seoul National, '76
- Ph.D. Wisconsin, '84
Research Interests
- Laser additive manufacturing
- Ultrafast laser matter interaction
- Laser welding
- Laser assisted machining
- Laser shock peening
- Multi-physics, multi-scale modeling
- Micro-nano manufacturing
Fundamental Research Area(s)
Application Area(s)
Awards and Recognitions
- Manufacturing LEAD excellence award, SME, 1997.
- Voted as Best Reviewer for ASME J. of Manufacturing Science and Engineering 2001.
- Listed in Who's Who in America, Science and Engineering, 5th Edition, MARQUIS.
- Listed in Who's Who in America, 55th Edition, MARQUIS, 2001, 2006-2011.
- Listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, MARQUIS WHO'S WHO, 2002-2003, 2005-2006 (8th), 2010.
- University Seeds of Excellence Award, 2005.
- Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award, the best paper award for the ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, 2007.
- Donald A. and Nancy G. Roach Endowed Chair Professor of Advanced Manufacturing, 2008- present.
- Outstanding Achievement Award for the 2008 Indiana 21st Century Research & Technology Fund.
- Fellow, ASME, 2010.
- Fellow, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2012.
- Best paper of the year award, Journal of Laser Applications, Laser Institute of America, 2012.
Selected Publications
Tan, W. and Shin, Y.C., "Analysis of Multi-Phase Interaction and Its Effect on Keyhole Dynamics with A Multi-Physics Numerical Model" Journal of Physics, Applied Physics D, 47 (2014) 345501. doi:10.1088/0022-3727/47/34/345501
Zhao, X., Cao, Y., Nian, Q., Cheng, G. and Shin, Y.C., "Control of Ablation Depth and Surface Structure in P3 Scribing of Thin-Film Solar Cells by A Picosecond Laser", Trans. of the ASME, Journal of Micro and Nano Manufacturing, 2(3), 031007, Sept., 2014. doi:10.1115/1.4027733
Ye, X. and Shin, Y.C., "Synthesis and Characterization of Fe-Based Amorphous Composite by Laser Direct Deposition", Surface and Coatings Technology, Volume 239, 25 January 2014, Pages 34-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2013.11.013
Zhao, X. and Shin, Y.C., "Coulomb Explosion and Early Plasma Generation during Femtosecond Laser Ablation of Silicon at High Laser Fluence", Journal of Physics, Applied Physics D, 46(33), 335501 (2013). doi:10.1088/0022-3727/46/33/335501
Cao, Y., Zhao, X. and Shin, Y.C., "Analysis of Nanosecond Laser Ablation of Aluminum with and without Phase Explosion in Air and Water", Journal of Laser Applications, Vol. 25, Issue 3, 032002 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.2351/1.4794032.
Ding, H. and Shin, Y.C., "Multi-physics Modeling and Simulations of Surface Microstructure Alteration in Hard Turning", Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Vol. 213, Issue 6, June 2013, Pages 877-886. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2012.12.016.
Tan, W., Bailey, N. and Shin, Y.C., "Investigation of Keyhole Plume and Molten Pool Based on A Three-Dimensional Dynamic Model with Sharp Interface Formulation", Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Volume 46, Number 5, 6 February 2013, 055501. doi:10.1088/0022-3727/46/5/055501
Dandekar, C.R. and Shin, Y.C., "Multi-scale Modeling of Subsurface Damage in Laser-assisted Machining of Particulate Reinforced Metal Matrix Composite", Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Vol. 213, Issue 2, February 2013, Pages 153-160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2012.09.010
Wilson, J.M. and Shin, Y.C., "Microstructure and Wear Properties of Laser-deposited Functionally Graded Inconel 690 Reinforced with TiC", Surface Coatings and Technology, Vol. 207, 25 August 2012, Pages 517-522. Doi: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2012.07.058
Hu, W., Shin, Y.C. and King, G.B., "Characteristics of Plume Plasma and Its Effects on Ablation Depth during Ultrashort Laser Ablation of Copper in Air", Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 45, 355204, 2012. doi:10.1088/0022-3727/45/35/355204


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(CNN) -- It's often said that a real Southerner can "claim kin" with anyone.
Tony Rand and his son Ripley learned last year that some of their relatives were African-American.
Tony Rand realized the same could be true for him. Rand, whose family can trace its roots back to the 1700s, is a Democratic state senator in North Carolina. Until he watched the 2008 CNN documentary "Black in America," he had no idea that some of his relatives were black.
Although firmly anchored in the South, the Rands are spread across the country. What connects them is their link to a common ancestor -- the family patriarch William Harrison Rand.
"Hal" Rand, as he was known to most, was a white farmer and slave owner. In 1842, Hal married Sarah Ann Mullens and they had seven children. Hal also fathered seven children with his mistress, Ann Albrooks Rand, a black woman.
Every other year, hundreds of African-American descendants of Hal Rand get together at a different location for a massive family reunion. It's a time to catch up and share stories, eat barbecue and have a good time. The 2007 Rand family reunion, held in Atlanta, Georgia, was featured in "Black in America." After the program aired, dozens of viewers across the country had the same revelation -- they, too, were related to the Rands.
"I was sitting there, that Saturday night, just up reading the week's papers and watching the program," says Rand with a hearty Southern accent. The Rand family's missing link »
"Then I hear, 'We are the Rands. The mighty, mighty Rands," he recalls, referring to the words sung by family members as they embarked on their bi-annual pilgrimage.
"And then I said to myself, 'What?'"
Tony Rand listened as the family historian, Martha Rand Hix, described the family's patriarch.
"When they were talking about William Harrison Rand, I knew that was the William Harrison Rand in our family," he said. "Then they started talking about North Carolina, and I said, 'Well, God oh mighty,' ... it was just amazing."
The next day, he telephoned his 41-year old son, Ripley Rand, and asked him to contact their black relatives. Soon, Tony and Ripley Rand were invited to attend the next Rand family reunion in July in Sacramento, California. See photos of the Rand family members »
But, what Tony Rand didn't know was that his son, a North Carolina Superior Court judge, had already been diligently working on the family genealogy. Ripley Rand had begun typing out a hand-bound version of a 100-page manuscript compiled by his great-uncle, Oscar Ripley Rand III, and started to create a digital version.
Oscar Ripley Rand III was a Rhodes Scholar and retired Army colonel who spent years researching the family's history, according to Ripley Rand. Although Oscar Ripley Rand III had scoured the National Archives and spent years collecting information about the family, his memoirs contained no mention of William Harrison Rand's relationship and children with Ann Albrooks Rand.
"My whole life I have heard about the history of our family and we had no idea about [the African-American side of the family]," Ripley Rand said. "The most surprising thing about it," he added, was that his great-uncle "probably never heard anything about it."
Ripley Rand said he plans to attend the Rand family reunion this summer with his father and has updated his great uncle's research to include the story of the black side of the family.
Both he and his father say they're looking forward to meeting their cousins.
"I think it will be fun to see what the connections are," Ripley Rand said. "There's a whole group of family members who we did not know existed until last year."
The revelation has inspired a few jokes among the senator's family and friends. "I always knew you were one of us," an African-American friend told the senator with a nudge and wink.
Tony Rand is also quick to crack a joke about anything from sports and politics to food. Namely chitterlings -- a traditionally Southern delicacy made from pig intestines -- and barbecue pork. A few of the things a "Yankee" might not know much about.
"There's an old joke in the South," he explained. "If somebody was cooking chitlins and collards at the same time -- the smell was so strong that the fire would try to break out of the house."
A proud member of the Wake County Chitlin Club, a group of politically active men who gather every year at the annual Chitlin Dinner, Tony Rand is proud of his Southern heritage. Calling North Carolina barbecue "good" won't do for the senator, who insists his state has the best "pig pickin."
"North Carolina is a great place, we've got the mountains, we've got good college basketball and we've got good barbecue," he said. "What more could a good person aspire to?"
Given that barbecue is also a tradition at the Rand family reunion, there's already some common ground for the lawmaker and his kin. Even though he's "expecting to meet some interesting people" at this year's reunion, he's not expecting much in the way of barbecue "given that it's in California and all."
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Video that shows Rihanna hitting a fan with microphone at a U.K. concert Monday has gone viral.
Rihanna, singing "We Found Love," can be seen in the YouTube footage walking through the crowd to greet her screaming fans during her Birmingham performance.
But when someone apparently grabbed her and pulled her back, the 25-year-old singer turned around and struck the person with her microphone before walking away.
It wasn't immediately clear in the video whether she had whacked the fan on purpose — but Rihanna later tweeted, "Purpose! That b---- won't let me go," according to MTV UK. The tweet no longer exists.
It remains unclear whether the fan were injured or where the person was hit.
Separately on Monday night, back in Rihanna's California home, a man was spotted on the singer's roof and arrested for trespassing, The Los Angeles Times reported.
See the video of Rihanna hitting a fan below.


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Surviving valley fever
Severe case highlights importance of awareness, expert care
For seven months beginning in the fall of 2010, Virginia Cappel's medical condition was touch-and-go.
The series of events that would change her life began simply, with flu-like symptoms, which Virginia and her husband Niels initially thought was bronchitis. But about a month later, when they left their home in Davis, Calif., for a vacation in the Midwest, Niels began to notice more ominous signs: disruptions in Virginia's speech, a slower gait and confusion, such as associating the wrong words with activities.
An immediate trip to the emergency room ruled out a stroke, and during the next few weeks, the diagnosis would continue to shift. There was concern that she had bacterial meningitis, followed by viral meningitis. Finally, a neurologist diagnosed valley fever, a fungal infection that affects about 150,000 people in the U.S. each year and has been on the rise in California. According to the California Department of Public Health, the number of reported cases in California has increased six-fold, from about 816 cases in 2000 to more than 5,366 cases in 2011.
"The disease can be difficult to manage," said George Thompson, an assistant professor of infectious diseases who specializes in the care of patients with invasive fungal infections and helps direct the Coccidioidomycosis Serology Laboratory at UC Davis. "Sometimes there's a delay in diagnosis because the symptoms resemble common illnesses such as flu and bacterial pneumonia. And despite the frequency of valley fever for those living in endemic regions, few clinicians think of this disease early in the course of a patient's illness."
Advanced specialty care needed
For Virginia, the infection was diagnosed after the fungus had spread to her brain, a rare condition called valley fever-induced meningitis. Niels and Virginia sought treatment from valley fever experts in Arizona, where the disease is more common, but no one could develop a cohesive treatment plan.
"Sometimes there's a delay in diagnosis because the symptoms resemble common illnesses such as flu and bacterial pneumonia. And despite the frequency of valley fever for those living in endemic regions, few clinicians think of this disease early in the course of a patient's illness."
— George Thompson
While there, she had a shunt placed to relieve pressure in her brain, and a second surgery was performed to allow physicians to directly inject a potent medication known as amphotericin B into her spinal fluid. Despite attempts to control the raging fungal infection, Virginia got sicker and lapsed in and out of a coma. Unable to address her advanced infection and poor response to antifungal treatments, the Arizona hospitals advised Niels to find more advanced care elsewhere.
In December 2010, Virginia and Niels returned to California and sought answers at UC Davis Medical Center. After three months in the hospital, Thompson and a team of clinicians got Virginia's condition under control.
"Fungal diseases are notoriously difficult to treat as the majority of patients with severe disease have little help from their immune systems," said Thompson, who also is an assistant professor of medical microbiology and immunology. "Currently available antifungal medications are inadequate in the treatment of some of these infections and, as a result, high doses are required for a therapeutic response. Unfortunately, high-dose antifungal therapy may come with significant side effects to patients."
"UC Davis did everything right," Niels said. "We took her in on a gurney, and she walked out on her own."
A life returned
While Virginia doesn't remember any of the details of her bout with valley fever, she lives a comfortable life with the support of Niels, her close-knit family and circle of friends. The couple enjoys cooking, gardening, having friends over for dinner and taking walks. A gourmet cook before she developed valley fever, Virginia is now more the sous chef.
"The main difference for me since having valley fever is that I don't have as much energy," Virginia said. "I used to be able to get up early in the morning, go through the whole day and into the night before going to sleep. Now I have to take naps or rest sometimes. I think I'm doing better. I'm not fine, but I'm better."
Virginia's condition remains under control, thanks to regular check-ups with Thompson and the watchful eye of Niels, an entrepreneur who retired from the medical diagnostics industry and has been at Virginia's side throughout the ordeal. From Virginia's first symptoms of disease through her getting successful treatment at UC Davis, the couple spent seven months in seven different hospitals.
"If it hadn't been for Niels, I don't think that I would have made it," she said.
Research to advance knowledge, treatment options
Virginia will live with valley fever for the rest of her life until new treatments are developed that reduce the severity and duration of the illness or completely eliminate the fungus from the body.
"About one percent of those with valley fever develop the chronic version and must remain on antifungal medications to prevent recurrent bouts of infection," Thompson said. "We don't know why that happens, though it's probably a genetic predisposition."
Unfortunately, for patients like Virginia, medication choices are limited. While amphotericin B can be quite effective, it's also extremely toxic and painful to administer. Other medications are less toxic but also are less effective. To complicate matters further, there are so few chronic cases of the disease that pharmaceutical companies have very little incentive to develop more effective treatments.
"There's only a limited number of drugs, and it's a really scary thing," Niels said.
Thompson is hoping to change that. He is leading research efforts at UC Davis to better understand valley fever.
"We're interested in why some people get terrible disease and others clear it by themselves," Thompson said. "How is the immune response determined by individual genetics?"
To answer these questions, Thompson's team is using genomic sequencing to study healthy people, as well as those with acute and chronic valley fever. By determining the genetic distinctions between these groups, he hopes to find new ways to target the disease.


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Early on it looked like it was going to be another pick your poison type game where one of Ohio State's stars would score 30 points. Jared Sullinger scored the first eight points, but was held scoreless the rest of the first half. Instead it turned into a balanced effort as six Buckeyes scored in double figures as No. 2 Ohio State rolled to a 92-63 victory over Oakland.
The win improves the Buckeyes' record to 12-0. It is the best start since 1990-91 when Ohio State won its first 17 games.
Deshaun Thomas led the Buckeyes with 17 points. He also had six rebounds. Sullinger had 16 points and nine rebounds. David Lighty and Jon Diebler each had 13 points. Lighty pulled down four rebounds while Diebler dished out four assists. William Buford added 12 points and six assists. Aaron Craft had arguably his best game as a Buckeye, scoring a career-high 12 points with seven assists and four steals. He left the game with what appeared to be leg cramps late in the second half. Much of the excitement, though, came from Dallas Lauderdale's six blocked shots.
The Buckeye defense was active all night, forcing Oakland into committing 20 turnovers (10 each half). Meanwhile, Ohio State had a season-low five turnovers. The Buckeyes also had 11 steals and six blocked shots. It appeared that the fatigue factor might have had somewhat of an effect on an Oakland team that was playing its fourth game in six days. Ohio State limited the Golden Grizzlies to 38 percent from the field and behind the arc.
The Buckeyes held Oakland to three points the first six and a half minutes before the Grizzlies finally got things going. After taking a 12-3 lead, the teams scored an even 25 points the remainder of the half as the Buckeyes led 37-28. Much of the scoring for Oakland came when Sullinger picked up his second foul and left the game. Five of Oakland's field goals were of the three-point variety.
Sullinger had eight points and seven rebounds in the half while Lighty and Diebler each had seven points. Buford contributed six points and four assists. Ohio State had nine assists on 14 made baskets.
Thad Matta finally got his wish as the Buckeyes came out and hit the floor running in the second half. They went on an 11-3 run to build a 17-point lead that eventually grew to 37. The Buckeyes used a 32-5 run to put the Grizzlies away.
Oakland center Keith Benson, projected as a first round NBA draft pick by many, was rendered non-effective going up against Sullinger and Dallas Lauderdale. He fouled out with 8:3 remaining in the game and scored just eight points on four-of-eight shooting. Benson had 10 rebounds (three offensive) and one block.
The Grizzlies had been extremely competitive against Big Ten and SEC schools this season. They won at Tennessee and nearly defeated Michigan State. The Buckeyes encountered little resistance, though.
Jordan Sibert, Lenzelle Smith Jr. and JD Weatherspoon played the final four minutes. Sibert made a three-pointer while Weatherspoon had another monster dunk. Weatherspoon and Smith each had a rebound and an assist.
Ohio State returns to action Monday when they take on Tennessee-Martin at 8:30 at Value City Arena.


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Garden Club sells its Christmas Greens
NEWTOWN -- The Garden Club of Newtown will hold its annual Christmas Greens Sale from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Dec. 7. It will be at the Newtown Meeting House, at 31 Main St., right by the flagpole.
Club members plan all year for this special event by drying plants from their gardens and collecting pinecones and other items to be used in decorating wreaths, swags and table arrangements for the holiday season. Fresh plant material such as winterberry, holly, rose hips, boxwood and a wide assortment of evergreens from the gardens of members will also be incorporated into the designs, along with decorative items such as cinnamon sticks, dried fruit and nuts. There's always a focus on the beauty of nature.
Co-chairwomen Kim Verdries and Diane Baumer are well known in the club for their creativity and have inspired new touches that will be evident at the sale this year. Along with decorated wreaths and swags, there will be boxwood trees, holiday table arrangements, handcrafted ornaments, unique suet feeders for birds, fire starters and more.
Also available will be a variety of handmade gift items. More wreaths have been added this year to prevent last year's quick sellout. This is always a popular event; it's wise to come early for the best selection.
Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main St., Newtown, Saturday, Dec. 7, 9 a.m. to noon, 203 270-1108, 203 512-7320, or email email@example.com


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If you have an hour or more per week to give, Grace Healthcare Services welcomes your gifts of time and compassion.
Whether you choose to work directly with patients and families or to volunteer in one of many other ways, you can make a profound difference in someone's life, including your own. Volunteers are an integral part of the hospice team. Volunteers are needed in all areas of NJ!
Volunteer Opportunities:
Companionship Volunteers work directly with patients providing companionship, offering friendly visits, reading to patients, writing letters, offering a gentle touch or sharing a quiet moment.
Complementary Volunteers are certified/trained professionals who can provide complementary modalities of reflexology, music, imagery and touch therapies such as Reiki, massage, therapeutic touch and healing hands.
Pet Therapy Volunteers provide certified/trained pets who visit with patients. These animals provide loving memories for some and give unconditional love helping our patients feel connected to a larger world.
Administrative Volunteers provide help to the staff in our Edison office by assisting with typing, addressing cards, organizing newsletters, creating packets, collating manuals and other varied clerical duties
Craft Volunteers consist of individuals or groups who touch patients in a special way by making lap blankets, shawls, huggable dolls/bears and other articles for patients to enjoy.
Junior Volunteers consist of groups such as girl/boy scouts or young people who wish to honor our patients by making holiday cards, posters, wall hangings and memory books.
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During the grieving process the bereavement volunteer can be a valuable resource, especially for those who lack a solid support network. Hospice training classes are required for Companionship and Complementary Volunteers. They are free of charge and offered on an ongoing basis.
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Standards and Guidelines - Forensic Science Communications - April 2008
April 2008 - Volume 10 - Number 2
Standards and Guidelines
Best Practices for Archiving Digital and Multimedia Evidence (DME) in the Criminal Justice System
Scientific Working Group on Imaging Technology (SWGIT)
Introduction | Archive Creation | Archive Maintenance | Data Migration |
Archive Retention Periods | Discipline-Specific Issues | Suggested Readings | References | Notes | Disclaimer
It is essential that agencies store their digital and multimedia evidence1 (DME) in such a way and under conditions that will permit access when it is needed. Archiving is the process of storing data in a manner suitable for long-term availability and retrieval. The archiving process is more than simply the preservation of physical media. In cases where archiving is desired, it should be planned for from the moment the DME is generated, processed, or seized.
This document is intended to familiarize the reader with issues surrounding archiving DME and suggests best practices for establishing and maintaining an archiving program. This document does not cover archiving administrative documents or public records but may prove useful in archiving nonevidentiary images, video, and related files.
Why Archiving Is Needed
Archiving is needed to ensure that stored DME is available for future use. The techniques employed should be chosen to ensure that data can be located, accessed, and used. DME sometimes is required to be stored for long periods of time according to statutory requirements and/or departmental policies and regulations.
What Should Be Archived
Agencies should archive DME that they are legally permitted to possess and that may be required for future access. It may be necessary to retain original software and hardware or to transfer data from one type of media to another, in order to access archived DME in the future.
Archive Creation
Archive Standard Operating Procedures
Departments should ensure that a written archive standard operating procedure (SOP) exists and is implemented. (This SOP does not have to be a stand-alone document.) The SOP should take into consideration the department's long-term goals, planning, and needs. New technologies, court precedents, and changing circumstances may dictate an SOP change. All previous versions of SOPs should be maintained for reference.
Physical Plant
Physical-plant concerns are multifaceted. One of the biggest issues is environmental factors that can have an adverse effect on the archive. Some of these factors include temperature and humidity control, electrical surge protection, fire suppression, natural-disaster preparation, and electromagnetic field mitigation. The use of a secondary off-site storage facility is encouraged to provide a backup to the primary archive facility.
To ensure the integrity of the archive, the agency must address security policies and procedures. Security policies should address such issues as physical- and electronic-access tracking, limitation of access, virus detection, and data suitability. If an archive contains DME requiring a chain of custody, this issue should be addressed as part of agency policy and procedures.
As technology progresses and hardware and software are upgraded or changed, it is possible that the original hardware and software used to create/access the DME may need to be retained in functional condition to ensure accessibility. This is especially true in the case of proprietary systems.
In the field of imaging technology, photographic plates, films, and photographic prints have been shown to be appropriate media for archiving purposes, provided they are developed and stored according to industry standards. Videotape has also demonstrated the ability to be stored for long periods of time without degradation when stored correctly. There are many types of media to which DME data can be written for archiving purposes. These include optical media (including CDs and DVDs), magnetic tape, and servers, which may or may not include redundant arrays of independent disks (RAIDs). Serious consideration should be given to the type of media chosen for archiving.
Many law enforcement agencies have chosen to use optical media as an interim solution for storing DME. Concerns about the actual-versus-theoretical lifespan of optical media have been raised. The lifespan of optical media begins at the time of manufacture, not at the time they are first placed into service. While optical media have been shown through common experience to be sufficient for short- to moderate-term storage, they are inadequate for archiving. However, optical media used for any length of storage should be designed specifically for archival purposes, and multiple copies should be maintained. Rewritable optical media should never be used for archiving because they have the shortest lifespan. Steps should be taken to ensure the serviceability of the optical media used by periodically testing and refreshing as required. (In the refreshment process, data from the original media are copied onto new media.) When media are refreshed, multiple copies still need to be maintained. This process should continue until the DME is placed onto a different type of media, as technology advances, or until the data are to be purged.
Some types of magnetic tape have been shown to be a reliable option in the long-term storage of data, provided the media are refreshed as required per manufacturers' guidelines. At the time the archive is being planned and the use of magnetic tape archiving equipment has been determined, consideration should be given to using a magnetic tape format designed specifically for long-term archiving purposes. Many of these devices use hardware and/or software compression in their storage of data. Compression concerns are addressed elsewhere in this document.
RAIDs can be implemented using different configurations, which have varying levels of redundancy and fault tolerance. For example, RAID Level 0 provides for no redundancy or fault tolerance, whereas other levels of RAID provide for excellent redundancy and fault tolerance. When RAIDs are used, agencies should determine their long-term needs and resources and choose the appropriate RAID configuration for their archives.
Media Preservation
The advantages and limitations of storage media—such as the unknown lifetime of optical disks, print fading, hard-drive volatility, and other manufacturer research data—should be understood and incorporated into the archival structure. Agencies should use media recommended for long- term storage when archiving data; in cases where servers are used, it may be necessary to have a backup solution. Media should be handled and stored in a manner consistent with the manufacturers' recommendations.
Data Transmission
When creating an archive, consideration should be given to the individual file size to be archived and the bandwidth available on the network in which the archive is established. Large or numerous files being transferred across a network may influence network performance. If the archive is not a dedicated system, then the transfer rate of the network may be adversely affected.
Data Management
The integrity of the DME to be archived should be verified both before and after the creation of the archive.2 Archived DME should be readily accessible via cataloging and indexing. The metadata3 can be very useful for facilitating broad and accurate searches of the archive. Therefore, metadata always should be archived with the data. Storage facilities should be adequate in size for the data to be maintained as well as to allow for growth. (DME files can be very large in size, and as technology increases, file sizes will increase dramatically.)
Data Compression
Generally speaking, there are two ways to approach the compression of data within the archive: hardware compression and software compression. When compression is used, it is imperative that the hardware and/or software used to decompress the data be archived.
Compression can be either lossless or lossy in nature.4 Where practicable, it is recommended that data contained within the archives not be compressed. While lossy compression may not render an image unusable, such compression schemes are not recommended. (This is not to say that DME that was originally created in a compressed format cannot or should not be archived.) File type and content should be considered when determining the amount and degree of compression to be used.
When SOPs call for the conversion of proprietary formats to open-source formats, it is advisable to use uncompressed formats when possible. If a compressed open-source format is selected, lossless compression is highly recommended. As described above, less compression is best if the file must be compressed.
Archive Maintenance
As new versions of hardware and software are released, backward compatibility is not always ensured. Newer versions of software and hardware will not always be able to access the older data. It is necessary over time to ensure that the newer versions of software and hardware will be able to access the older data. Archivists should be aware that software providers occasionally cease support for their proprietary file formats. Long-term retrieval capabilities require that both original hardware and software be archived.
Hardware and Media
Maintenance of physical devices and/or media may require preventive maintenance on a periodic basis per manufacturers' and industry recommendations. This maintenance should be planned for at the time the archive is developed. Hardware and media should be periodically checked and/or tested for operability and serviceability. If it is found that the hardware or media are no longer serviceable or obsolescence is foreseen, steps should be taken to migrate all data to a proven, stable storage solution as soon as possible. If failures are detected, the possibility of batch failures should be investigated.
Because certain file formats or proprietary software may become unusable as technology progresses, this software should be archived as necessary to ensure accessibility of DME created by the software.
Reverse Compatibility and Interoperability
Reverse compatibility is the ability of newer versions of software and/or firmware to access older file versions. Interoperability is the ability to access data across platforms or applications. These issues should be considered when upgrades to hardware and/or software are planned.
It should be noted that upgrades to the computer operating system may cause installed programs to operate erratically or not at all. When upgrading, it is recommended that the new operating system be tested on a similar type of computer system prior to implementation into the archive system. It is recommended that when the operating system is upgraded, previous versions be archived.
Data Migration
From time to time, it becomes necessary to move data from one type of media to another or to newer media of the same type.
Media Obsolescence and Lifespan
As technology progresses, media storage will evolve. Older versions of media may no longer be readable or supported and will become obsolete. To ensure uninterrupted archive capabilities, it may be necessary to migrate the DME to current media. Additionally, no media have been shown to be completely permanent. A schedule should be implemented to periodically rewrite DME to new media based on industry standards and/or an understanding of the limitations of media.5
File Formats
Proprietary formats are formats that are primarily supported by the company producing them. These formats may not be supported as new applications become available and as technology improves. When possible, DME should be retained in its original format and in a nonproprietary format. Additionally, the original accompanying proprietary software should be retained for future accessibility as addressed above.
Archive Retention Periods
Legal/Departmental Retention Requirements
The type of DME and its retention periods may depend upon statutory requirements and/or departmental policies. These may be different, but the longer time will take precedence. Some mechanism should exist to identify this time period and should be included in departmental SOP.
Legal requirements, storage-space issues, and departmental policy may dictate a purge (complete destruction) of archived DME. The method(s) used should be adequate to ensure that the purge of the data and/or media is accomplished. Proper means of verification should be incorporated into the methodology and documentation of the purge and include the method(s) used and when it was accomplished.
Discipline-Specific Issues
Some disciplines may have unique requirements or special circumstances related to archiving and should be considered at the time the archive is planned. File size, proprietary file types, specialized software, metadata, interoperability, and bandwidth are all factors that need to be considered. Close collaboration between discipline subject-matter experts, administrative personnel, and information technologists is required to ensure that appropriate archival methods are implemented.
Suggested Readings
The following SWGIT and SWGIT/SWGDE documents may be accessed at http://www.theiai.org/guidelines/.
Section 1
Overview of SWGIT and the Use of Imaging Technology in the Criminal Justice System
Section 2
Considerations for Managers Migrating to Digital Imaging Technology
Section 3
Guidelines for Field Applications of Imaging Technologies in the Criminal Justice System
Section 4
Recommendations and Guidelines for Using Closed-Circuit Television Security Systems in Commercial Institutions
Section 5
Recommendations and Guidelines for the Use of Digital Image Processing in the Criminal Justice System
Section 6
Guidelines and Recommendations for Training in Imaging Technologies in the Criminal Justice System
Section 7
Recommendations and Guidelines for the Use of Forensic Video Processing in the Criminal Justice System
Section 8
General Guidelines for Capturing Latent Impressions Using a Digital Camera
Section 9
General Guidelines for Photographing Tire Impressions
Section 10
General Guidelines for Photographing Footwear Impressions
Section 11
Best Practices for Documenting Image Enhancement
Section 12
Best Practices for Practitioners of Forensic Image Analysis
Section 13
Best Practices for Maintaining the Integrity of Digital Images and Digital Video
Section 14
Best Practices for Image Authentication
Section 15
Best Practices for Archiving Digital and Multimedia Evidence (DME) in the Criminal Justice System
Proficiency Test Program Guidelines
Guidelines and Recommendations for Training in Digital & Multimedia Evidence
Recommended Guidelines for Developing Standard Operating Procedures
SWGDE and SWGIT Digital & Multimedia Evidence Glossary
Byers, F. R. Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists [Online]. (October 2003). Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, D.C., and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Washington, D.C. Available: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/contents.html or http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/894.05/docs/CDandDVDCareandHandlingGuide.pdf.
U.S. Library of Congress. Collections Care and Conservation. (Includes information on photographs, magnetic media, recorded sound, and film.) [Online].
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Preservation and Archives Professionals [Online]. (Available: http://www.archives.gov/preservation/. (Includes storage and conservation concerns and technical information.)
- Analog or digital media, including, but not limited to, film, tape, magnetic and optical media, and/or the information contained therein. See SWGDE and SWGIT Digital & Multimedia Evidence Glossary.
- See SWGIT Best Practices for Maintaining the Integrity of Digital Images and Digital Video.
- Metadata is information about the associated file or data. See SWGDE and SWGIT Digital & Multimedia Evidence Glossary.
- Compression of a file is the process of making the file smaller in size. Some compression schemes result in the loss of data, whereas others do not. SeeSWGDE and SWGIT Digital & Multimedia Evidence Glossary.
- See Byers, F. R. Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists [Online]. (October 2003). Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, D.C., and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or Washington, D.C. Available: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/contents.html or http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/894.05/docs/CDandDVDCareandHandlingGuide.pdf.


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kiss (someone or something) goodbye
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kiss (someone or something) goodbye
1. To give someone a kiss when parting. Come kiss your mother goodbye before you leave!
2. To lose or end something, especially suddenly; to be forced to accept such a loss or end. You were caught drinking on school property? Well, you can kiss your brand new car goodbye, mister! After my horse lost in the final race, I kissed all the money I'd won that day at the track goodbye. You do realize that you'll be kissing all your benefits goodbye if you decide to work as a freelancer, right?
kiss something good-bye
to anticipate or experience the loss of something. If you leave your camera on a park bench, you can kiss it good-bye. You kissed your wallet good-bye when you left it in the store.
See also: kiss
kiss good-bye
Be forced to regard as lost, ruined, or hopeless, as in Now that both kids are sick, we'll have to kiss our vacation in Florida good-bye. This usage ironically alludes to a genuine good-bye kiss. [Colloquial; c. 1900] Also see kiss off, def. 2.
See also: kiss
kiss something goodbye (or kiss goodbye to something)accept the certain loss of something. informal
kiss something good-bye
tv. to face and accept the loss of something. Well, you can kiss that 100 bucks good-bye.
kiss goodbye
Informal To be forced to regard as lost, ruined, or hopeless: She can kiss her vacation plans goodbye.


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A few days ago, I stumbled across this post by DesignMilk of the Real Life Instagram. Bruno Riberio has created 'real life' Instagrams by creating a series of posters that look the interface of the app. Each poster contains a photographers names, the location, a number of 'likes', the hashtags, and of course, a colour filter to influence end viewer's experience.
There are layers of meaning Riverio's project – one, just like Instagram, the posters guide one's eyes to a cropped vignette that shows us a detail or angle that would have ordinarily have gone un-noticed. Two, he uses a traditional camera – quickly forgotten by most of the Instagram set – to capture the area outside the frame and his poster. Three, he captures people with their smart phones taking a photo through the posters frame to create their own image, most likely to end up on Instagram. I couldn't pass by this on the street and not be tempted to take my own photo to Instagram, could you?
To view The Real Life Instagram on the web in the context of art and design websites gives me some pause for thought and questions arise that probably wouldn't occur to me if I encountered these posters on the street. In 'real life' I'd have the impulse to capture this interesting thing, but in seeing his photographs online, they make me question myself – How am I using my time? What am I contributing to? What is in our human nature to want capture all this? How are we living our 'real lives'? How are we showing them to the rest of the word? Why do we even want to do this?
As we move further into a human history where more and more of us live with smart phones, new apps, digital devices, and social media – how we choose spend our time online is often criticized. There is a growing dissent around the demands that social media is taking from our time. Our digital apps are intrusive; information is being regurgitated, weakened and lacks quality; we simply don't need one more photo of your lunch (unless you are a successful food blogger, that is); and a phenomenon of injury has started to emerge because people can't look up from their smart phones long enough to safely walk down the street. Riverio's project will make you question your own behaviour.
I was a late adopter to Instagram, and I use it in the most pedestrian of ways – to capture vacation photos, friend's kids, my cat, and little oddities that I experience in the city. I too am contributing to an over-abundance of images, half exchanges by hashtags with friends, 'likes', and what could be perceived of the hyper-saturated, over-edited, over captured milieu of the social web.
But the longer I process these thoughts, they matter less to me. It is easy to be dismissive of our love for technology, now that we've gotten so used to our digital devices in such a short period of years. It is easy for someone to say 'I don't DO Facebook' in a dismissive tone or to say that we don't need a million photos of breakfast, or lunch, or graffiti. I say that we do.
"Charles and Ray Eames praised the use of a finder in their teachings. A finder is a small piece of cardboard with a one inch square hole cut out of the middle. Viewing the world through this hole greatly forces you to lose context and content, and to greatly shift your perception" – Keri Smith
You don't need to be using a social network to appreciate the fact that everyone has a unique perspective to be shared. Instagram provides people the tools to do this, as does a guerilla poster campaign, as does an artists who provokes us into hyper-awareness of our online activities. What Real Life Instagram say to me, is that we are a million people with 'artist viewfinders' in our pockets. Some of us know our strengths, some of us have yet to discover them, but each of us have a unique voice. To generalize a collective activity dismisses the real life intentions behind each snapshot.


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A folk artist expanding his home business built around the words "eat more kale" says he's ready to fight root-to-feather to protect his phrase from what he sees as an assault by Chick-fil-A, which holds the trademark to the phrase "eat mor chikin."
Bo Muller-Moore uses a hand silkscreen machine to apply his phrase, which he calls an expression of the benefits of local agriculture, on T-shirts and sweatshirts. But his effort to protect his business from copycats drew the attention of Chick-fil-A, the Atlanta-based fast-food chain that uses ads with images of cows that can't spell displaying their own phrase on message boards.
In a letter, a lawyer for Chick-fil-A said Muller-Moore's effort to expand the use of his "eat more kale" message "is likely to cause confusion of the public and dilutes the distinctiveness of Chick-fil-A's intellectual property and diminishes its value."
Chick-fil-A, which trails only Louisville, Ky.-based KFC in market share in the chicken restaurant chain industry, has a long history of guarding its trademark, and the letter listed 30 examples of attempts by others to co-opt the use of the "eat more" phrase that were withdrawn after Chick-fil-A protested. The Oct. 4 letter ordered Muller-Moore to stop using the phrase and turn over his website, eatmorekale.com, to Chick-fil-A.
Muller-Moore, 38, of Montpelier, says he won't do that.
"Our plan is to not back down. This feels like David versus Goliath. I know what it's like to protect what's yours in business," he said.
So he has enlisted the help of Montpelier lawyer Daniel Richardson and the intellectual property clinic at the University of New Hampshire School of Law's Intellectual Property and Transaction Clinic.
"Bo's is a very different statement. It's more of a philosophical statement about local agriculture and community-supported farmers markets," Richardson said. "At the end of the day, I don't think anyone will step forward and say they bought an 'eat more kale' shirt thinking it was a Chick-fil-A product."
Chick-fil-A spokesman Don Perry said the company does not comment on pending legal matters.
Muller-Moore, who describes himself as a folk artist who earns a living working as a foster parent for an adult with special needs, said he started using the phrase "eat more kale" in 2000. A farmer friend who grows kale, a leafy vegetable that grows well in Vermont and is known for its nutritional value, asked Muller-Moore to make three T-shirts containing the phrase for his family for $10 each.
A few weeks later, the friend told Muller-Moore that people kept asking for the shirts. The phrase helped him get his silkscreen business going, which he later expanded through the Internet. Now, he prints "eat more kale" on hooded sweatshirts too. And he has the words printed on bumper stickers that are common throughout central Vermont.
Five years ago, Muller-Moore said, he received a similar cease-and-desist letter from Chick-fil-A, telling him to stop using the phase. A pro bono lawyer traded a handful of letters with Chick-fil-A on his behalf. After the letters stopped, Muller-Moore assumed the issue had been decided in his favor and kept making the products.
But as his business grew, Muller-Moore decided to protect the phrase that became his unofficial trademark. He filed an application last summer with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to protect "eat more kale." The application is pending.
Vermont Law School professor Oliver Goodenough, who specializes in intellectual and property law, said the kale versus "chikin" fight reminded him of a case two years ago, when a Morrisville microbrewer that makes a beer called "Vermonster" ran afoul of the Monster energy drink company. That case was settled when the makers of Vermonster agreed never to go into the energy drink business.
Goodenough said there was little likelihood consumers would confuse kale with chicken.
"This looks a bit like an example of over-enthusiasm for brand protection," he said. "There are (law) firms in the United States that take this over-enthusiasm for brand protection seriously and believe the more they can scare away the better. If folks aren't deeply committed to this and it's a funny byproduct, maybe they won't fight it."


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NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Papa John's declined on Tuesday following news of class-action certification for a lawsuit that claims the pizza chain had unsolicited text messages sent to cell phones.
THE SPARK: The lawsuit filed with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle claims Papa John's violated state and federal law when they had the marketing company OnTime4U send unsolicited text messages on its behalf to cell phones advertising their pizza products. The lawsuit says that 500,000 illegal text messages were sent to Papa John's customers across the U.S.
Papa John's faces potential damages of more than $250 million. The plaintiffs may each potentially receive $500 or more in damages for each text message.
Messages left with Papa John's seeking comment were not immediately returned.
SHARE ACTION: Papa John's International Inc.'s stock fell 34 cents to $49.10 in afternoon trading after dropping as low as $46.72 earlier in the session. Over the past year, the shares have traded in a range of $35.21 to $56.41.


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My Bookmarks and Annotations 02/10/2010
The My Hero Short Film Festival
Biblioburro: The Donkey Library
By Valentina Canavesio (5 Minutes)
'BIblioburro' follows Luis Soriano, a teacher in the small town of La Gloria, Colombia, as he travels into the hills and through the fields, on the back of his donkey, bringing with him books for children of the rural communities who have no access to any bookstores or libraries.
Exploring the Function of Heroes and Heroines in Children's Literature From Around the World
If anything has universal appeal among children, it is a good story with heroes and heroines. Stories with rich descriptions of the lives and personalities of inspiring individuals (mythical or real, contemporary or historical) entertain as well as serve as role models for children. Through heroes and heroines of different cultures, children develop an understanding of societal expectations and norms in various parts of the world (Stan, 2002; Tomlinson, 1998), and what it can mean to live in a particular region, or time period, or to be male or female (Rockman, 1993).
The purpose of this Digest is to explore how heroes and heroines in children's literature from around the world help young learners understand and appreciate different cultures. We consider how protagonists can serve as role models for children; discuss how it is possible to obtain insights into universal and culturally specific values and beliefs through stories set in a range of settings; and conclude with some resources for determining good international and multicultural children's literature.
Villain - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
1 : villein2 : an uncouth person : boor3 : a deliberate scoundrel or criminal4 : a character in a story or play who opposes the hero5 : one blamed for a particular evil or difficulty
Hero - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
1 a : a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability b : an illustrious warrior c : a man admired for his achievements and noble qualities d : one that shows great courage
2 a : the principal male character in a literary or dramatic work b : the central figure in an event, period, or movement
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Kenya's Young Refugees: Developing future leaders today (length: 9' 09'')
In the Kakuma refugee camp and its host communities, in north-western Kenya, children are at risk of diseases, gender-based violence and malnutrition. In response to this crisis, the FAO and partners have set up Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS) in East and Central Africa, where children learn about traditional and modern farming techniques, nutrition, gender equality, business skills and the sharing of knowledge. For children like Habiba Athumani, an orphan from Somalia, these opportunities bring the chance of a better, healthier and happier future.


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BENEFITING: Center for Hearing and Speech
ORGANIZER: Center for Hearing and Speech
EVENT: Via Colori Fan Favorite
Center for Hearing and Speech wrote -
Artist Hung Pham
Webster, Texas
Sponsor: Kirksey Architecture
The Via Colori Fan Favorite Contest is an opportunity for you to support Hung 's mural created at Houston Via Colori during the festival on November 23 – 24. All donations equal "votes" for the artist, and the top five artists with the most "votes" win great prizes (and we mean great)! To vote just click on the DONATE button on the right and follow the simple instructions! All donations benefit The Center for Hearing and Speech, Houston's central resource for children with hearing loss.
EVERY VOTE COUNTS – WHETHER $10 or $100 – PLEASE "VOTE" TODAY!
Voting ends December 1, 2013


text: Ramlys are universally regarded as one of the most classic and elegantly designed baseball-card issues ever produced. Issued in 1909 and catalogued T204 in the American Card Catalog , Ramlys are noted for the distinctive fancy gold-embossed borders that surround the oval photographic portraits. They are much rarer than most other tobacco-card issues from the 1910 era. Presented is a very attractive almost-never-seen complete set of this important issue, one of only several complete sets that we have ever had the privilege of offering over the past thirty-five years. The Ramly set is highlighted by fifteen Hall of Famers, including Walter Johnson, Ed Plank, and Jesse Burkett. This is a beautiful set, assembled many years ago, with cards ranging across the entire spectrum of grades. We have selected thirty-six cards (30% of the set) to be graded and encapsulated by SGC. The SGC grades are as follows: Eight EX/NM 80: Chance (HOF), Dunn, Ewing, McAleer, Mitchell, Street, Thomas, and Tinker (HOF). Six EX+ 70: Brown (HOF), Hemphill, Manning, Rucker, Schekard, and Stahl. Two EX 60: Freeman and Sebring. Seven VG/EX 50: Fromme, Graham, Jones, Moran, Newton, Nichols, and Smith. Eight VG 40: Bender (HOF), Burchell, Burkett (HOF), E. Collins (HOF), J. Collins (HOF), Huggins (HOF), Keeler (HOF), and Plank (HOF). Three GOOD 30: Cicotte ("Black Sox," It is interesting to note that Cicotte's name is misspelled as "Cicolte" on this card), Griffith (HOF), and Wallace (HOF). One FAIR 20: Shipke. One POOR 10: Johnson (HOF). The Bresnahan and Evers were both rejected for grading by SGC for "questionable color," otherwise both are in Gd condition. Ungraded Cards: Two Ex: Donovan and Dorner. Thirty-Three Vg to Vg-Ex: Blair, Bransfield, Carrigan, Coakley, Criger, Davis, Devlin, Donahue, Donlin, Elberfield, Ganley, Gessler, Hartzell, Hummell, Lindaman, Lush, McConnell, McCormick, McLean, Merkle, Milan, Murphy, Murray, Niles, Paskert, Pfeister, Reilly, Schaefer, Schulte, Steinfeldt, Sweeney, Tenney, and Wagner. Twelve Gd-Vg: Arrelanes, Bancroft (T.T.T. Cigarettes back), Beebe, Byrnes, Howard, Lobert, Lumley, Murnane, O'Hare, O'Leary, Raymond, and Schlei. Twenty-Three Gd: Anderson (rare blank-backed variety), J. Ball, N. Ball, Bates, Bell, Blankenship, Bridwell, Clymer, Coombs, Crandall, Dineen, Howell, Kahoe, Karger, Konetchey, Lord, McIntyre, Powell, Ritchey, Ruelbach, Spencer, Stephens, and Unglaub. Seven Fr-Gd: Alperman, Archer, Ferguson, Ferris, Hoblitzel (T.T.T. Cigarettes back, with a small amount of scrapbook paper on reverse), Morgan, and Sallee. Six Pr: Bowerman (trimmed), Chech, Conroy, Kleinow, Knight, and Pelty. Backs almost all Ramly Cigarettes, but also included are two examples of the rare T.T.T. Cigarettes (Bancroft and Hoblitzel). This is a set with tremendous eye-appeal, with many condition highlights, and with a considerably stronger appearance than suggested by the very respectable and accurate condition composite and individual grades listed above. This is a very rarely offered complete set of one of card collecting's most exciting and classic tobacco issues. Total 121 cards. Reserve $10,000. Estimate $20,000/$30,000+. SOLD FOR $70,500


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Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain
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Summer, 1940. The German war machine has humbled all of Europe - except Great Britain. Now, the mighty Luftwaffe plans to soften up Southern England for an invasion called Operation Sea Lion. And the RAF must wage a desperate defensive battle against a numerically superior foe. Graphically stunning, historically accurate, and thrillingly realistic, Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain resets the stage for the air confrontation of the century. Featuring multiple fighters and bombers to choose from, authentic combat action, unique replay camera, and lots of other special features.
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