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Federal charges have been dropped against a West Virginia man accused in the spring of sending racist letters to the White House threatening to kill President Barack Obama and his family because they're black.
A federal judge on Friday dismissed an indictment against Ryan Kirker, 21, after a handwriting analysis by the U.S. Secret Service determined he didn't write the letters.
Federal prosecutors filed the motion to dismiss after determining that they didn't have enough evidence to proceed, although they said the investigation is continuing.
The indictment was dismissed without prejudice, meaning it can be re-filed.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Wheeling could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Mr. Kirker's lawyers, whose own handwriting experts reached the same conclusion as the Secret Service, did not respond to requests for comment.
A federal grand jury in Elkins had said Mr. Kirker, of McMechen, mailed a letter in April addressed to "President B. Obama" at the White House in which he said he would kill the president, his daughters and his wife. The motive, federal agents said, was that he didn't like black people running the government.
The letter closed with "KKK forever."
The Secret Service arrested him in May after agents compared the letter to another they believe he had written in March to a friend named "John" in which he asked John to meet him so the two could drive to Washington to shoot the president.
In that letter, the author also mentioned a specific gun, a 30.06 semi-automatic, and said he had the ability to obtain armor-piercing ammunition.
The letter also indicates that the Secret Service had visited his house the year before to investigate a third letter to the White House in which the author invited Mr. Obama to visit McMechen so he could "have 'a shot' at him." The author said that if Michelle Obama comes along, she will be killed, too, because she's black.
Based on the spelling, style and racial epithets in each letter, agents believed Mr. Kirker wrote them all.
In court filings, the government said a variety of circumstances pointed to Mr. Kirker.
For example, several of the letters make reference to drug use, and in one case the author apologizes for being "so high." The writer also indicates he is staying with his mother and father and at the home of "McGee." Mr. Kirker lived with is parents, and prosecutors said McGee was a misspelling of McKee, a drug associate of Mr. Kirker who was slated to be a government witness.
Prosecutors said Mr. Kirker was a heroin user enrolled in a methadone clinic and had been known to rant "openly and loudly" about political and social issues, often using racial slurs.
In addition, the FBI had received an anonymous letter in June, signed "A Patriot," in which the writer said he had used drugs with Mr. Kirker and that Mr. Kirker told him he hated the president and could get armor-piercing ammunition from his uncle.
"He also hates blacks and Jews and was called Krazy Kid Kirker," the letter said.
A magistrate in June ordered Mr. Kirker detained without bond pending the outcome of the case, agreeing with the government that Mr. Kirker was a threat to the community and the president.
He was released on electronic monitoring in October.
In all, he spent more than five months in the Northern Regional Jail at Moundsville, during which time his terminally ill father died.
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A website from the Massachusetts Historical Society; founded 1791.
Adams Family Code Names
Papers of John Adams, Volume 1
Docno: ADMS-06-01-02-0082-0001
Editorial Note
In the first week of June 1770, Adams accepted a seat in the Massachusetts House, a step which at the time he considered "a devotion of my family to ruin and myself to death" (
Diary and Autobiography
). The doubtful honor devolved upon him when James Bowdoin, chosen in May as a member of the House from Boston, was elected to the Provincial Council, vacating his seat in the lower chamber of the General Court. At a special town meeting on the morning of 6 June, Adams scored an easy victory over John Ruddock, a wealthy businessman with a strong following among "the Tradesmen and Mechanicks." Adams made a brief acceptance speech to the town meeting at Faneuil Hall and set out to take his place in the House (
To assume his seat in the legislature, Adams was forced to journey across the Charles River to Cambridge, for the General Court had been moved out of Boston to Harvard College; its "removal" overshadowed every other issue in the first four months of Adams' service. (See Donald C. Lord and Robert M. Calhoon, "The Removal of the Massachusetts General Court from Boston, 1769–1772,"
, 55:735–755 [March 1969].) Gov. Francis Bernard had ordered the transfer in June 1769, acting on instructions from Secretary of State Hillsborough that he exert his "constitutional Authority" to summon the General Court outside Boston in order to rescue the legislature from the influence of the town's "licentious and unrestrained Mob" (Hillsborough to Bernard, 30 July 1768,
:Transcripts of Instructions to Governors of Mass., 1768–1775). After Bernard's return to England later that year, Lt. Gov. Thomas Hutchinson received somewhat ambiguous instructions to continue the General Court at Cambridge only if developments arose "of such a nature as to outweigh" two considerations that Hillsborough mentioned: the continuation of troops in Boston and the behavior of its citizens (Hillsborough to Hutchinson, 9 Dec. 1769,
:Transcripts of Instructions to Governors). In March 1770, Hutchinson called the General Court into session at Cambridge.
"Only from absolute Necessity,"
the legislators agreed to proceed to business during that brief session, and they refused to concede the right of the acting governor to change their meeting place (
House Jour.
, 1769–1770, p. 101).
When a new House was chosen in the annual elections of May 1770, Hutchinson continued his policy. The House met in Cambridge on 31 May, and, although the representatives agreed to elect a Council, opposi•
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tion to their "removal" hardened. Before Adams took his seat on 6 June, the House had submitted a message challenging Hutchinson's right to remove the legislature, and the Lieutenant Governor replied with a message asserting his legal and constitutional right to hold the assembly where he wished. In a second exchange on 5 June, the House demanded to see the instructions under which Hutchinson acted; he refused, both because of the ambiguity of Hillsborough's instructions and because other instructions forbade him to make such communications to the General Court (
House Jour.
, 1770–1771, p. 15–16;
Thomas Hutchinson
, p. 172–173).
On the morning of 6 June, only a few hours before Adams joined the House, debate opened on the report of a committee charged with considering "what may be proper further to be done while the General Court is held out of the Town-House in Boston." As soon as Adams took his oath that afternoon, the House resumed debate, and Adams cast his vote with the majority of 96 representatives who adopted the resolution that "it is by no Means expedient to proceed to Business" while the assembly was "thus constrained" to meet outside Boston (
House Jour.
, 1770–1771, p. 16–21). Adams' appointment to the committee charged with preparing an address to Hutchinson after the adoption of this resolution (see calendar entry for
7 June
, below) was the first indication of the part he would play in this controversy between the House and the executive.
That drama continued throughout the summer. The first session of the House ended in stalemate, and the legislature was prorogued on 25 June, only to be recalled for a brief second session, 25 July-3 August (see calendar entry for
31 July
, below). By 26 September, when the Lieutenant Governor recalled the Court for its third session, he had received more specific instructions. Hutchinson's decision to continue the General Court at Cambridge had been approved by his superiors, and he was directed to maintain that policy unless it "should be attended with any such inconvenience as may make it adviseable to hold it in some other place," in which case he might "remove it to any other Town in the Province except Boston" (Hillsborough to Hutchinson, 6 July 1770,
:Transcripts of Instructions to Governors).
In the third session of the General Court for 1770–1771, the opposition continued the fight to maintain the House's refusal to do business outside Boston (see calendar entries for
Oct., below). But in a vote taken during Adams' absence from Cambridge on 9 October, the House agreed to proceed to official duties "only from absolute necessity" (
House Jour.
, 1770–1771, p. 88–91). On 16 October on the motion of James Warren, the House gave leave to "Members who were absent at the Time
9 Oct.
when the Resolution pass'd to proceed to Business out of the Town-House in Boston ... to declare their Opinion thereon in the House." Both Warren and John Adams took advantage of this opportunity to express their opposition to the change of stance in the House (same, p. 97–98).
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Even as Adams protested the House retreat on the issue of "removal," he was named to committees which dealt with other conflicts between the General Court and the executive. The old issue of the presence of British troops in Boston was revived in the dispute over the command of Castle William (see calendar entry for
23 Oct.
, below). Hutchinson's refusal to disclose his instructions, and the style of enacting provincial laws also drew Adams' attention that session (see calendar entries for
Oct. and
Nov., below). Committee appointments arising from the failure of the nonimportation movement (see calendar entry for
16 Nov.
, below) and the appointment of a new agent in London (see calendar entry for
17 Dec.
, below) reflected broader aspects of the local conflicts.
The third session of the legislature ended on 20 November, and the General Court did not meet again until 3 April 1771. Adams was relatively inactive in this fourth session; his attendance was not recorded until 10 April, and his diary shows that he attended no meetings after 17 April, nine days before the session's close (
Diary and Autobiography
). In this session, the most important committee on which Adams served was undoubtedly that which drafted a bill for Hutchinson's salary as lieutenant governor (see second calendar entry for
10 April
, below). This bill forced the newly commissioned governor to confirm suspicions that he expected support directly from the Crown, thus becoming financially independent of the legislature.
Adams' service on committees in the House for 1770–1771 is described below in a list of calendar entries for those committees for which there is some documentary record of their work. (Committees about whose recommendations the record gives no hint and those with ceremonial duties, such as the delivery of messages and votes, are not described; for a check list including many of these other appointments, see
, 2:233–236, note.) The calendar form has been used because the absence of draft versions of these reports prevents their attribution to Adams or to any of his colleagues.
Adams left no record of his work as a legislative draftsman in 1770–1771, although he did recall that "this was to me a fatiguing Session, for they put me upon all the Drudgery of managing all the disputes" (
Diary and Autobiography
). In listing his published writings in 1783, he concluded with the remark that "these . . . are all that I recollect to have ever written in America, excepting in a public Character, as a Member of the Legislature of Massachusetts or of Congress, which it is unnecessary to mention here" (letter to the Abbé de Mably, 17 Jan. 1783,
Adams Papers
). "Unnecessary" as such a list may have seemed to Adams at the time, it would have been of more than passing interest to students of his career two centuries later.
Cite web page as:
Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses,
ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2017.


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The First Annual Gomie Awards!
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Hello, and welcome to Game of the Year!
I'm Little_Socrates, and I'm gonna be presenting a series of awards for games that are, well, awesome. Before I publish a full version of my Game of the Year list (which is in my lists on the site, with short descriptions,) let's rip into some special awards, eh?
Okay, he's a goofy looking potato-man throughout most of your playthrough. But those who have played Fez for a significant amount of time know the exact moment Gomez turns from doofy doughboy to OH MY GOD LOOK AT THAT HE'S SOOOOO CUUUUUUTE. When those eight little cubelets turn into one full, golden cube, or after collecting a devious anti-cube, Gomez's face effectively turns into a smile of joyous size. And there's one other moment in the finale where he takes on pretty monumental cuteness, too.
Maybe it's just the fact that Gomez's cutest moments are at such rewarding points in the game. It's always just after you've solved something especially devious, or explored a large section of Fez's gorgeous world, or when you've just completed the game! And perhaps it's to his benefit that he's the star of one of the few nonviolent games that are any good. But Gomez's cuteness should probably have faded away at some point in my brain, and it never did. He's adorable!
In fact, he's so adorable, that I'm gonna let Gomez present the rest of the awards. We'll call them The Gomies.
You know what else is adorable? Costumes. And super-heroes are hot in movies these days, so Gomez has a pretty wide range of X-Men costumes to present these awards in! Sure, it might be more topical to have him dressed up as The Avengers, or Batman, or pretty much any super hero other than the X-Men, but I didn't find fan art of Gomez dressed up as any super-heroes other than the X-Men, so he's gonna dress as them, dig?
Runners-up: Wanderer from Journey, Monkey from Rhythm Heaven Fever, Clementine from The Walking Dead, Pomeranian from Tokyo Jungle
I feel weird recommending Hotline Miami to anybody who hasn't seen the film Drive. It's not so much that I think the "true value" of Hotline Miami is lost to those who aren't familiar with Refn's recent masterpiece. I think the reason would be that I know someone who enjoyed Drive won't be disgusted with me for explaining what makes Hotline Miami so incredible.
Hotline Miami is a brutal, addictive, messy game where your sap of an assassin has gotten involved in something way, way over his head. Whether he's a hitman of his own free will or a prisoner of psychopaths, he's walking into house after house after office building after sleazy 80's club and murdering all of the faceless thugs inside. There's no quarter and absolutely no restraint. The gore is gross for a game presented in pixel art. The game plays with the nature of reality, too, which fits the game's drug-addled 1989 club atmosphere.
The addictive nature of the game comes through in its core gameplay and music. The electronic drone of Hotline Miami makes you feel like you're on some sort of intense and powerful drug, and the gameplay is so directly responsive that it's very easy to fall into a trance-like state. Some people talking about Hotline Miami talk about getting keyed up while playing, to the point they felt near cardiac arrest. This wasn't my experience. I tuned out the world around me during my playthrough, riding on an adrenaline-filled high.
The morning after my first night with Hotline Miami, I took ill. The rush had fallen off, and reviews of the game were beginning to ooze out of the outlets I read most commonly. With, well, glowing scores. I felt terrible. How had I enjoyed this game so much? It's a disgusting and violent game, no matter how great the game's feedback loop.
Then I looked up the most memorable song from the soundtrack.
Not a minute into the song, I was at my desktop, headphones on, booting the game. I finished it in the second sitting.
Hotline Miami is savage towards its denizens and its players. It doesn't just treat its characters with disdain, but it hates the player equally. And while other games carried similar narrative intentions of disdain towards video game violence, no game makes the player as complicit to violence as Hotline Miami, nor does any game make such a good case for us enjoying it.
(This spoiler tag is for those who want to know a little more about the game's narrative. It is spoiler-y. If you're not going to play the game, read away.)
First-person shooters don't really do it for me most of the time. Occasionally, a game like Halo 3 or the original Modern Warfare will come out and force me through its campaign in a rush. Other times, games like Singularity and BioShock will entice me enough to play through them, with just-solid-enough gunplay and excellent enough level design to get me through to the finale. The Darkness, released in 2007 against BioShock, Halo 3, Crysis, and the original Modern Warfare, was not one of those games. Its ambition and neat aesthetic were something I've appreciated from afar for some time, but I've never finished the game. Its gunplay is just a bit too wonky, and its only really effective characters are Jenny and Mike Patton's excellent performance as The Darkness itself.
But somehow, The Darkness II is a successful and greater sequel than anyone could have imagined walking out of The Darkness. It's got an incredibly engaging and empathetic cast of characters, a strange, post-modern storyline that helped segue into this year's more reflective games, and pitch-perfect gameplay.
Enjoying my time with the characters of The Darkness II was pretty incredible. I feel comfortable saying that Jenny Romano, your girlfriend, is absolutely one of the best-written female characters in games. I wouldn't go so far as to call her strong, or independent, or even defiant of the tropes that led to the incredible #onereasonwhy games feminist movement earlier this year. I just found her to be legimitately…human and feminine. She felt honest to me, in a way most game characters do not.
And, strangely, the game seems precognitive of this year's largest video game themes. The exhaustion for violence in games is reflected in Hotline Miami, Spec Ops: The Line, Max Payne 3, and, if you believe its lead writer, Far Cry 3. Those are, unsurprisingly, also the nominees for Most Savage Game. But I think Jackie Estacado might actually have said it best.
Jackie Estacado said:
"Once The Darkness gets ahold of you, you start to lose control. You start to wonder what the fuck you're doin'. Time slips away from you. And then, all of a sudden, it's like you're sittin' in a theater, watchin' a movie of your own life. And you're up there on the big screen. Big as life, you're a fuckin' movie star. And you're killin' all the bad guys, tearing them limb from limb. And you feel good. You look good. Fuck, you are good. And then you realize something. Everyone else in the theater: they're screamin', 'cuz they're watchin' a horror movie. And you're not the hero...
You're the monster..."
I think the thing that is most tragic about The Darkness II is how greatly its shooting has been overlooked. Most people seem to agree that The Darkness II's storyline and presentation are pretty great, but the gameplay is just this awesome twitch-shooting arcade romp. The evolution of Jackie's powers over the game is pretty amazing, too, and there are so many awesome powers in the game that it eventually gets challenging to figure out where to specialize your character first (answer; go for Dark Armor, always.)
In a year filled with power fantasies, The Darkness II made me feel by far the most powerful. In fact, I don't think a shooter is the proper follow-up to The Darkness II; by the end, I felt so powerful that I felt the next game would properly be a Devil May Cry or God of War-style character action game to account for the diversity of It also had a great cast of characters, and turned me from a Darkness nonbeliever to the top editor on the Jenny Romano page. And while I don't think Digital Extremes has let the electricity out of the glass receptacle yet based on their fantastic ending, I think they're probably going to have to put that bottle in storage for some time now. The game…didn't really sell all that well. It sounds like it did slightly better than Catherine. That's good-ish, I guess. But not necessarily good enough to greenlight another The Darkness game.
Hopefully, we'll get The Darkness III. Either way, my eyes will be on Digital Extremes' next project. But, until then, I feel content in saying that this game is the kind of masterwork that won't strike twice.
Runners-up: The Walking Dead, Sleeping Dogs, FTL: Faster Than Light, Fez
Stay tuned for more awards throughout the week! And, for those looking for more contentious Game of the Year deliberations than those which appeared on Giant Bomb this year, subscribe to the Nerf'd Facebook Page or the podcast itself on iTunes! Our Game of the Year deliberations should be up by Friday, but due to some recording issues, we're guaranteeing it'll be up by next week. Follow the Facebook page for the official release, as well as our panel's personal Top 10 lists!
You can find links to the other Gomies posts here:
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- - How many forum members does it takes to change a light bulb?
How many forum members does it takes to change a light bulb? How many forum members does it takes to change a light bulb? 1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently 7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs 1 to move it to the Lighting section 2 to argue then move it to the Electricals section 7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs 5 to flame the spell checkers 3 to correct spelling/grammar flames 6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" ... another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid 2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is "lamp" 15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that "light bulb" is perfectly correct 19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum 11 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum 36 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique and what brands are faulty 7 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs 4 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the corrected URL's 3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group 13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers and signatures, and add "Me too" 5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy 4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?" 13 to say "do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs" 1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again. |
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Luckily we usually haven't a atmosphere like that here... :lol: But I know some forums where we have. |
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LITTLE ROCK —Two Republicans said Tuesday they plan to run for the 2nd District congressional seat.
Banker French Hill of Little Rock, and Conrad Reynolds of Conway are the first Republicans to announce for the seat since incumbent U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin, R-Little Rock, announced last week that he would not seek a third term in 2014.
Republican state Rep. Ann Clemmer of Benton is to announce her candidacy Wednesday during a news conference at the state Capitol.
Democrat Patrick Hays, former North Little Rock mayor, has already announced for the seat.
Hill, chief executive of Delta Trust and Bank, filed paperwork to establish a committee with the Federal Election Commission Tuesday, according to a campaign announcement. Hill had previously announced a run for the state House, but he changed course after Griffin said he would not seek re-election.
"I'm running for Congress because we need more business leaders in Congress, not more career politicians. I grew up in the 2nd District and live and work here today," the 56-year-old Hill said. "Everyday at my business my priorities are helping Arkansas' entrepreneurs start and grow their own businesses and encouraging families to save and invest."
Hill said he knows first-hand the challenges businesses and families in Arkansas face, "and in Congress, I will fight every day for policies that spur economic growth and job creation …"
Hill is a 1975 graduate of Little Rock Catholic High School and a 1979 magna cum laude graduate in economics from Vanderbilt University.
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Last week the House passed with bipartisan support the Protect Life Act, which amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) to assure that no taxpayer dollars will be used to fund abortion. It also assures that health-care providers that do not wish to provide abortions are not forced to by government.
The bill's Republican sponsor, Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., had co-sponsored essentially the same amendment along with then-Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., when Obamacare was in the making in 2009.
Because a similar provision was not in the Senate version of the bill, and had no prospect of making it through the Senate, Stupak stood as a major obstacle to the passage of Obamacare.
In the end, the ways of Washington prevailed, and Stupak caved to pressure from the White House. He agreed to support the health-care bill without his anti-abortion provision, in exchange for President Obama issuing an executive order prohibiting the use of taxpayer dollars for abortions in health care provided in the framework of Obamacare.
An executive order is a flimsy substitute for law; thus Rep. Pitt found another pro-life Democrat, Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., to co-sponsor his amendment, which has now passed the House 251-172.
However, Pitt's new bill faces the same prospects as the amendment that he cosponsored with Stupak in 2009. Its chances of passage in the Senate are remote.
So why bother?
After the bill passed, I was asked on a PBS talk show, "To the Contrary," if Republicans were being frivolous in taking up congressional floor time to deal with abortion when what Americans want today is congressional action on the economy.
My response was "no, we can walk and chew gum at the same time, and actually in light of Obamacare, it is critical for lawmakers to protect health-care workers and hospitals with a conscience clause."
In fact, the attention the bill has gotten in the short time since it passed the House indicates that the level of interest in abortion, and the potential use of taxpayer funds for it, remains high.
Two high-post Democrats – former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., Democratic National Committee chairwoman – issued statements criticizing the bill shortly after it passed.
According to Pelosi, the provision assuring that health-care providers, including hospitals, are not forced to provide abortions, even though they receive Medicare and Medicaid funding, means "that women can die on the floor and health-care providers do not have to intervene."
Wasserman Schultz said, "This extreme legislation is dangerous for women's health and does nothing to address the jobs crisis facing American families."
Liberals love to frame the killing of developing humans as being about women's lives, health and rights.
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Hey Eric, The shacks look sweet! Where did you get the plank wood to make them out of? Is it old barn wood or something else? Awsome job!
Nick, good luck this year, you have your work cut out for you but it sounds like you have a good team in place already. Keep us posted.
Terrormasue, it's awesome that you continue to plan long term and keep your eye on a goal to open in 2010. I know how tough it can be with working full time. I spread my work out over the entire year so it isn't so overwhelming at the end, then have to take vacation from my job to set up the haunt and on the event nights. Most of my weekends I do something haunt related even if it's an hour or two. Actions speak louder than words, keep telling yourself you can do it but also do a little something each day like if it's too hot to build, work on your web site or marketing campaign. Pretty soon, by next year you will have a ton done on the project. Good luck and the people around you will see that you are serious and you will open whether they like it or not. More than likely they will become involved when they see it coming to life.
I found a few more progress shots.
The first one is some of the coffins I was talking about. They are all different sizes, the one I'm in the back is 7 feet tall. We built them in my basement this winter and bring them to the farm to make more room for other projects down there. The other shots were taken 2 weeks ago when we were moving the sheds into the corn field. Thank God for that tractor! The landscape really changes when the corn grows tall, you can't even see the sheds at that point until you come upon them in the maze. We will build another tunnel structure in there this year.
It's raining today so I can work on the big skull heads some more. Lets see if we can load this thread up with progress shots and build photos.
Hey Eric, The shacks look sweet! Where did you get the plank wood to make them out of? Is it old barn wood or something else? Awsome job!
I have been very lucky with the planks for these particular sheds. My grandfather who turns 100 next month sawed these wide pine boards with a home made saw mill when I was a kid. They sat around all this time, and he finally gave them to me for the haunt. They are like gold because of the natural weathering.
You can also go to saw mills if there are any in your area and ask for rough slabs that haven't been plained or bad planks and leave them out in the weather. Like you said old barn boards from demo sites look great because of the old layers of paint and natural weathering. You can do it with new rough sawed wood also and make nicks and cuts with a chain saw, stain it and lightly spray paint the edges black for a weathered look. Also rub real mud on the boards.
Here's how these sheds looked in the corn field last year. Lighting and fog make a huge difference. The actor was on stilts and people thought he was a prop until he banged a chain against the shed. Very effective in the cornfield setting.
Last years entrance to the queue line.
Corn field lighting
Another shack in a different area, chainsaw guy coming out.
So here is a couple for you Eric. One is my swamp there are several swamp houses there. This pic was took standing on the covered bridge that our guest walk across. When you come out of the mansion you have to go through the swamp before you go back into the second half of the haunt. When you come out the second part then you go through another outdoor area of a cemetery. Both outside areas are surrounded by the haunt they are giant courtyard areas if you can imagine. None are visiable to the public till they go through the attraction. At night the pond has a fogg chiller that keeps the fog on the pond and its lit with laterns all around!
These were taken a couple of weeks ago and they are really cool! A added a couple more of just some close ups of a couple of props!Hope you enjoy! Shane and its I am going to make a wall photo of the swamp for the house LOL! Shane this time!
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Why is Anthony Bourdain sleeping in your coffin?
If you guys haven't seen 'No Reservations' you're missing out; your guy could be Bourdains body double! - can he cook?
Wow Shane, those are great! The swamp house at night must look fantastic with the fog chiller and lanterns. I love the texture of the skulls. I wish I could leave detailed stuff set up like that. Maybe someday we will have an indoor section of the haunt to leave good scenes up so they don't get destroyed by the weather. The Shotgun blast in the back prop is insane looking. it looks like it could be many shot gun blasts to do that much damage, lol!
I can't wait to read about your haunt coming up. The stuff looks amazing, thanks for posting the photos. Let's hope every one else posts some to this thread. It's really inspiring to see others work and works in progress this time of year. It's still early enough in the season so that most people can post photos. I know when it's crunch time I'm not at the computer much or am to tired to bother uploading any photos.
Who's build photos will be next?
That's a riot twin Locusts! Tom will get a kick out of it. People tell him all the time he looks like Anthony Bourdain.
Yeah, it's like at a glance so obvious. It looks like you guys have a lot of fun!
You're corn maze photos and sculpted props absolutely rock. There's something very very appealing about a dark open sky above a haunt. Your photos are the first that have had me doing weather research and cost benefit analysis of rainy weekends vs. the freedom and creative potential of an outdoor haunt. I'm in pre-production for 2010 and nothings off the table for theme and build.
The other outstanding presentation of an outdoor haunt I've seen online was in Phoenix, those guys have it made out West. Cool nights and very little chance of rain. Post more photos, your work is inspiring.
EDIT: Approaching a haunt from an outdoor perspective makes you sort of re-think what a haunt can be, which is a good exercise. It also makes you start listing potential challenges; things that may have an equivilent with indoor haunts but take wing outdoors.
It seems like securing the location would be challenging, not so much to property loss but to vandalism.
There's got to be a real potential to kids hiding out in the field until after closing.
Flow management would have a whole new life outdoors.
I used to consult several city art councils and metro art boards, airports, etc. The first thing we spoke about when reviewing comission submissions was material and construction. The saying in this industry was that outdoor artwork had to "be able to withstand the meanest and dumbest people in the world for at least the next fifty years" - thus a hell of a lot of bronze sitting around outdoors.
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Great Swamp scene Shane.............. I want one!.............. Eric?!
"Why is Anthony Bourdain sleeping in your coffin?"
I don't look THAT old do I? It must have something to do with the coffin
"your guy could be Bourdains body double! - can he cook?"
I can cook a little Italian but I wouldn't eat any of the strange crap that AB eats.
I am out of work at the moment so any takers on my celebrity impersonation of AB?
As for keeping this on topic..." People where are you? "...Eric & I were going to head over to the farm today to work on the corn maze que line but the weather isn't cooperating. I am bored.
Yesterday I and Dan B. (another Haunted Overloader ) went to a help out our good friend Tim Dunne at Fright Kingdom in Nashua. He's hosting the East Coast Haunt Club gathering at his Haunt this year on August 1st. Anybody going? We all plan to be there!
Tomorrow Eric & I plan on continuing to work on the Grim Reaper figures for 'Soul Taker's Burial Ground'. Those coffins we built will be in the scene along with the GR figures.
Here's a pic of me working on the bones for the GR hands from last week.
Please tell me I don't look as old as AB does in that pic!
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However, if one considers that the rear spkrs are placed in a very different location (behind you), the same exact musical wave form will sound very different hitting the back of your ears, and that rear spkrs work best well above ear level (not on the floor), the "exact" same spkrs will not sound the same. Have we forgotten that acoustic variables and spkr placement have a huge effect on the "exact " same spkrs? Read Richard Vandersteen's views on this subject at his excellentweb site. Vandersteen Audio is the very very rare designer who actually builds various spkr models to tonally match in variable location. dfair |
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I have similar rear, front and centre channel speakers from the same manufacturer (Sonus Faber) but couldn't afford the same speakers all around (all though they would fit the room). I have moved from different amps to the same mono-blocks for all speakers. My "matched" speakers don't provide complete uniformity. The different "voice" of the rear speakers is very noticeable, and the centre is very noticeable with music, but not so much with dialogue or sound effects. Moving from different amps from the same manufacturer to the same amps did improve the uniformity a little, but the speakers themselves (and positioning) are the main contributor to their "voice".
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You assume we will ever have a 'good catalogue' of MCA.... In the mean time enjoy your system, I love your amps and have my mind set on getting some of the Ref 1000 to use in my system soon, they sounmd great are small and look super cool! KT
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Some Retrieving Shots - Just for Fun
Pinot: I got it! I got it! I got the bone first!
Pinot: Baxter move out of the way! Can't you see I'm trying to take this to Mom?!
Elsie: Okay, Little Squirt. I AM still the Mom here!
Kenya: Come on, Guys, do you really have to run so fast ALL the time?!
Kenya: Look, Mom, I still get to the bone before Pinot does sometimes! And I'm still a GREAT retriever!
Baxter: Retrieve? Who? Me? You must be kidding! Let the girls do it.
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- Finn's Dad said...
Those guys are so lucky to have such a wonderful yard to retrieve in. Finn wishes he had such a wonderful place to romp as well, but he has to settle for dog parks.
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- Joan said...
I don't know, Finn's Dad. It sure seems like Finn has some great places to retrieve, too!
Our gang (the LabTails gang: Baxter, Elsie, Ridge, Kenya, and Pinot) doesn't travel nearly as much as Finn does (maybe we're lazy BECAUSE we have the yard).
Oh, they get walks on country roads and romps at the hunt club and swims at the cottage (during the summer months), but usually our training and retrieving is just in the back yard. They don't get to go to the beach or the ocean or to dog parks out here.
Finn's one lucky dog to have a owner like you!
Best regards to you, to Finn's Mom, and of course to Finn (give him a good butt-rub or ear-scratch from the gang out here in PA).
Enjoy that CA weather!
And thanks for commenting -- it's good to hear from you!
- shawnandlaci said...
We need a nap now....We're kinda girly girl dogs and we like to leave the retrieving to the REAL retrievers.
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Being the first time owner of a chocolate lab, (one and a half year old Chester) I happened across your blog in search of "all things lab" a while back. I have come to love your blog and check in as frequently as work allows. It got me to thinking, if we could just harness that lab energy it would solve the fuel crisis and if we could capture and bottle the lab happiness there would be no more wars. Thanks for all the great pictures and stories! Chester's Mom
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Chester's Mom,
I LOVE your solutions to our energy crisis and world conflict.
If only...
Chester's pretty lucky to have a mom like you!
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Sunitinib Malate to Treat Advanced Eye Disease in Patients With Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome (VHL3)
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Last updated: November 14, 2011
Last verified: November 2011
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This open-label study will pilot the use of systemic sunitinib malate, a dual inhibitor of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and platelet derived growth factor (PDGF), in five participants with Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) to investigate its potential efficacy as a treatment for retinal angiomas. Participants will have visual dysfunction with either visual acuity loss or visual field loss from retinal angiomas secondary to genetically confirmed VHL. This open-label study will pilot the use of systemic sunitinib malate in five participants to investigate its potential efficacy as a treatment for retinal angiomas associated with VHL. Participants will receive nine months of sunitinib malate therapy (six cycles total - one cycle consists of 50 mg oral dose once daily for four weeks followed by a two week rest period). The primary outcome will be a change in the best-corrected visual acuity of more than or equal to 15 letters from baseline to the Week 36 visit. The secondary ocular outcomes will focus on retinal thickness and leakage of the retinal angioma at the Week 36 visit. Optical coherence tomography will document changes in retinal thickening and fluorescein angiography will be used to determine leakage of the retinal angioma.
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Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome |
Drug: Sunitinib Malate |
Phase 1 Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Non-Randomized Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Pilot Study of Sunitinib Malate for Advanced Ocular Disease of Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome |
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Change in Best Corrected Visual Acuity (BCVA) From Baseline to Week 36 [ Time Frame: Baseline and 36 Weeks ]Visual acuity was measured using the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) protocol. Acuity is measured as letters read on an ETDRS eye chart and the letters read equate to Snellen measurements. For example, if a participant reads between 84 and 88 letters, the equivalent Snellen measurement is 20/20.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Change in Retinal Thickness From Baseline to Week 36 [ Time Frame: Baseline and 36 Weeks ]Retinal thickness was assessed by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (Cirrus HD-OCT; Carl Zeiss Meditec, Dublin, CA), a non-invasive imaging technique that uses long-wavelength light to capture micrometer-resolution cross-sectional images from biological tissue.
- Change in Retinal Angioma Leakage From Baseline to Week 36 [ Time Frame: Baseline and 36 Weeks ]Leakage of the retinal angioma was calculated after manually outlining the inner and outer borders of the subretinal fluid packet in the optical coherence tomography (OCT) images using the "Edit Segmentation" function of the Cirrus HD-OCT software. In cases where a pigment epithelial detachment was present, the volume of the pigment epithelial detachment was included in the calculation of leakage volume.
Enrollment: | 2 |
Study Start Date: | May 2008 |
Study Completion Date: | February 2011 |
Primary Completion Date: | February 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: Sunitinib Malate
Participants were expected to receive 9 months of sunitinib malate therapy administered in 6 cycles. Each cycle consisted of a daily oral dose of 50 mg sunitinib malate for 4 weeks followed by a 2-week rest period).
Drug: Sunitinib Malate
Participants were expected to receive 9 months of sunitinib malate therapy administered in 6 cycles. Each cycle consisted of a daily oral dose of 50 mg sunitinib malate for 4 weeks followed by a 2-week rest period).
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria
- Participant must understand and sign the informed consent.
- Participant must be at least 18 years of age.
- Participant must have genetically confirmed VHL disease.
- Participant must have an optic nerve angioma secondary to VHL in one or both eyes.
- Participant must have an optic nerve tumor that has caused any visual field depression on microperimetry-1 that correlates with the retinal angioma OR the participant clinically may have hard exudates correlating with the retinal angioma OR has best-corrected visual acuity of 20/40 or worse in the study eye.
- Participant must have clear ocular media and adequate pupillary dilation to permit good quality stereoscopic fundus photography.
- All women of childbearing potential must have a negative urine pregnancy test at baseline, and have regular negative pregnancy testing while taking sunitinib malate. (Sunitinib malate has the potential for teratogenic or abortifacient effects, and no data regarding its safety in pregnant women are available).
- All women of childbearing potential who are sexually active and all men who are sexually active are required to use two forms of birth control during the course of the study.
- Participants must have normal organ and marrow function as defined below: WBC count ≥ 3,000/µL, absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/µL, platelet count ≥ 100,000/µL, HGB> 10g/dl, serum creatinine ≤ 2.0 or measured 24 hr. creatinine clearance > 50 ml/min, AST and ALT < 2.5 x ULN, total bilirubin ≤ ULN (< 3 x NL in participants with Gilbert's disease).
- Participant must have a negative HbsAg and nonreactive HCV.
- Participant must have a negative HIV-1, as potential pharmacokinetic interactions of drugs used to treat HIV, such as anti-retroviral drugs, with sunitinib malate are unknown.
- Participant must be at least four weeks from completion of any investigational therapy for VHL.
- Participant must have an ECOG performance score of 0-2. (See Appendix 3 - ECOG Performance Criteria).
- Participant has recovered from the acute toxicities of prior treatment for VHL.
Exclusion Criteria
- Participant has a history (within past five years) or evidence of severe cardiac disease including heart failure that meets New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III and IV definitions, uncontrolled dysrhythmias, dysrhythmias requiring anti-arhythmic drugs or has active ischemic heart disease including myocardial infarction and poorly controlled angina within 12 months of study entry.
- Participant has a history of serious ventricular arrhythmia (ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation, ≥ three beats in a row) or left ventricular ejection fraction ≤ 40%.
- Participant has a history of serious intercurrent medical illness.
- Participant had transient ischemic attacks or cerebrovascular accident within 12 months of study entry.
- Participant has hypertension that cannot be controlled with medications (persistent elevation of systolic BP > 150 or diastolic BP > 100 mmHg despite optimal medical therapy).
- Participant is on therapeutic anticoagulation, including aspirin.
- Participant who is breast-feeding, as there is an unknown but potential risk for adverse events in nursing infants secondary to treatment of the mother with sunitinib malate.
- Participant has received any major surgical procedures within one month of study entry or has surgical scars that have not healed.
- Participant has a known serious allergy to fluorescein dye.
- Participant is currently taking drugs or ingesting food that affect sunitinib malate plasma concentrations: strong inhibitors of the CYP3A4 family (e.g., ketoconazole, itraconazole, clarithromycin, atazanavir, indinavir, nefazodone, nelfinavir, ritonavir, saquinavir, telithromycin, voriconazole, grapefruit juice) and/or inducers of the CYP3A4 family (e.g., dexamethasone, phenytoin, carbamazepine, rifampin, rifabutin, rifapentin, phenobarbital, St. John's Wort).
- Participant has had a prior or concomitant non-VHL-associated malignancy with the exception of adequately treated basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or any other malignancy from which the patient has remained disease free for more than five years.
- Participant has had chemotherapy or radiotherapy within four weeks (six weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) prior to entering the study or those who have not recovered from adverse events (to Grade 1 or less toxicity according to CTCAE 3.0) due to agents administered more than four weeks earlier.
- Participant is receiving other investigational agents.
- Participants with known brain metastases (except when adequately controlled, i.e., have not grown in size, for ≥ 6 months before enrollment), not including hemangioblastoma, a known VHL complication of the brain.
- Participant has a known bleeding disorder.
- Participant is currently taking sunitinib malate or has taken sunitinib malate in the past.
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below.
For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00673816
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00673816
United States, Maryland | |
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike | |
Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
National Eye Institute (NEI)
Principal Investigator: | Catherine Meyerle, MD | NEI/NIH |
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Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 29, 2017
Patyna S, Peng G. Distribution of sunitinib and its active metabolite in brain and spinal cord tissue following oral or intravenous administration in rodents and monkeys. European Journal of Cancer Suppl 4(12):21(Abstract 56), 2006.
Responsible Party: | National Eye Institute (NEI) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00673816 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
080129 08-EI-0129 ( Other Identifier: National Eye Institute ) |
Study First Received: | May 6, 2008 |
Results First Received: | September 27, 2011 |
Last Updated: | November 14, 2011 |
Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):
Von Hippel Lindau Sunitinib Malate Sutent Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome VHL |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Von Hippel-Lindau Disease Syndrome Disease Pathologic Processes Neurocutaneous Syndromes Nervous System Diseases Angiomatosis Vascular Diseases |
Cardiovascular Diseases Sunitinib Antineoplastic Agents Angiogenesis Inhibitors Angiogenesis Modulating Agents Growth Substances Physiological Effects of Drugs Growth Inhibitors |
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Cancer Genetics |
Very Strong Family History and Adenomas08/06/2009 |
My mother passed away at 52 from lung cancer. My dad was 61 at diagnosis of bladder cancer and 66 at his death. My sister was 35 at diagnosis of breast cancer and is still in the middle of her fight 2 years later. My grandfather died around 50 from brain cancer. A pituitary tumor, I believe. I am 31. I am just wondering if my family history puts me at a strong risk for cancer. And what should I look out for? I have had adenomas removed from my breasts and ovaries. I started my period at 8 years old and have always had irregular, weird periods. I smoke minimally - about 1-5 cigs per day. I am currently on Chantix to stop all together. I have smoked for almost 20 years. All of my docs are aware of the history. Lately though I am wondering if I should be doing more to keep an eye on things. My questions are, does all of that family history increase my chance? and what cancer is most likely?
This family history is certainly concerning, but does not really demonstrate a clear pattern suggestive of a hereditary condition. Your sister's breast cancer certainly occurred at a young age, and this increases your breast cancer risk. Based on her age of diagnosis, you should certainly be getting regular clinical breast exams and annual mammograms. There are hereditary breast cancer syndromes (most common is Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer syndrome), but with only one case of breast cancer, although young, this may not explain the cancers in your family.
If your mother was not a smoker, her young lung cancer is concerning. There is a very rare condition known as Li Fraumeni syndrome that increases cancer risk, but again, it's not clear that your famiily meets the criteria for this syndrome either. Your grandfather's brain cancer may fit, but I don't know if he is your mtoher's or father's father. Your father's bladder cancer seems less concerning as far as heredity is concerned, since his age of onset was later.
Genetic counseling may be helpful to clarify your risks. You can find a genetic counselor in your area by asking your doctor or the link provided.
Doreen M Agnese, MD Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Internal Medicine College of Medicine The Ohio State University |


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Nutritional Info
- Servings Per Recipe: 6
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 71.7
- Total Fat: 4.5 g
- Cholesterol: 3.4 mg
- Sodium: 299.1 mg
- Total Carbs: 7.9 g
- Dietary Fiber: 1.2 g
- Protein: 0.8 g
View full nutritional breakdown of Coleslaw calories by ingredient
Submitted by: ZINASP
Number of Servings: 6
3 cups finely shredded crisp green cabbage
1/4 cup minced onion
1 small carrot, shredded
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1 Tbsp. vinegar
2 tsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. celery seed
Put cabbage, onion and carrot in a bowl.
Prepare the dressing with the remaining ingredients and stir well to dissolve the sugar. Pour over cabbage and toss lightly. Serves 6
Number of Servings: 6
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user ZINASP.
Prepare the dressing with the remaining ingredients and stir well to dissolve the sugar. Pour over cabbage and toss lightly. Serves 6
Number of Servings: 6
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user ZINASP.
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I've always made mine w/light mayo & fat free sour cream.
It makes it very creamy and fewer calories. I also add 1/4 cup of both red & green peppers for added crunch & extra
veggies for those who WOULD NOT normaly eat them.
Give it a try. It's always a big hit at all the gatherings when I bring - 9/2/09
it was good--but got spoiled by the next day :( - 9/4/08
Reply from ZINASP (9/20/08)
You say the coleslaw got spoiled by the next day. Hmmmm? Did you leave it out of the fridge? I've made this for over 30 years and it's never let me down. We eat it for several days with no problem. . .wonder what could have happened!! Z
I make this using light miracle whip 2 or 3 tablespoons and apple cider or rice vinegar whichever I have handy ,start with 1 tablespoon vinegar then add more as i mix and taste to get the tang that we desire . Use 2 teaspoons of sugar no matter how much vinegar i use and husband loves this . - 7/1/09
To avoid mayo & sugar --- try a vinaigrette style dressing, sweeten with honey, agave, or other artificial sweetener. Another interesting ingredient - add crushed pineapple . . . adds flavor. Plain nonfat yogurt makes a good dressing 'base' -- adjust your taste buds to something different! - 8/13/14
I haved used a very similar recipe for years. My mom made it and passed it on to me. If you don't like the taste of day old slaw (it can get a little juicy), or if you are making it for just one, mix up the dressing and apply it to fresh grated ingredients each time. I add black pepper also. - 8/29/12
Sounds similar to what I have made. I use the rice vingar in mine and like that of others I use the artifical sweetners and sometimes add the peppers etc...just whatever I have...also if I put in a creamy base it's the light mirclewhip that I use. I like the idea of pineapple and think I will try. - 6/30/11
I used a bag of "Rainbow Salad" mix by MANN'S it has hearts of broccoli, cauliflower hearts, carrots, & red cabbage. It saves a lot of time. I used red onion, red wine vinegar (2 TBSP), light mayo, sugar, and salt. I used a hand held blender to mix all and spread it over the rainblow salad. - 5/1/11


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Los Bagels Lime Corn cookies are one of the freakishly good items that you can only get at Los Bagels. The recipe was developed years ago by our long time baker Jodie Harriel and to date, this is our best selling sweet treat. This cookie is the epitome of a multicultural experience...are there any other cookies on earth that get referred to as "zesty" ...we think not.
The magic taste of this cookie has traveled outside Humboldt County. Tierra Vegetables in Windsor California is a fan, we hear someone is working on a Gluten Free version and now you can purchase them straight from the source and we will ship them right to your door.
If you are ready to get in the kitchen and make them yourself (they are incredible right out of the oven!) here is the recipe. This is taken from Los Bagels Recipes and Lore.
Whether you call them "Lime Corn Cookies" or "Corn Lime Cookies" we don't mind, just remember the first place you tried the original zesty cookie.
Since 1984, Los Bagels has been making traditional boiled, then baked bagels deep in the redwoods in Humboldt County, California. Find out what new products we are working on, and get some insight in the seedy underbelly of this multicultural hot spot. Los Bagels is located in Arcata and Eureka, on the far side of the "Redwood Curtain" www.losbagels.com
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A mid-morning stop by police of a suspicious person followed with some additional investigation resulted in the arrest of an Oakdale resident for possessing stolen property from an earlier theft from Medlen's House of Beef.
Average retail gasoline prices in Modesto have fallen 6.7 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.72/gallon Sunday, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 201 gas outlets in Modesto. This compares with the national average that has fallen 8.3 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.57/gallon, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.
Police are investigating an early morning Dec. 10 shooting they believe is a continuation of an earlier assault from Quik Stop Market.
The Stanislaus County Office of Education is hosting the Stanislaus County Area Manufacturing Maintenance Joint Apprenticeship Program Workshop on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 12 and 13, at the Stanislaus Industrial Technology Institute at 635 Walnut Ave., Patterson.
Delete - Merge UpFlood Watch in effect from December 10, 10:00 PM until December 12, 10:00 PM PST
Last week two new laws in neighboring Manteca went into effect aimed at dealing with the city's homeless population and the problems caused by their makeshift encampments within the city.
Troops both abroad and stateside will be treated to a touch of home this holiday season.
Local doctors have reported seeing an increase in pneumonia cases in the city as the wet and cold weather of winter hits the Central Valley.
New blood was injected into the Oakdale City Council with the swearing in on Monday night, Dec. 8 of newcomers Cherilyn Bairos and J.R. McCarty, replacing journeyman council members Farrell Jackson and Michael Brennan.
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will continue its work in the Oakdale area this week.
The 2014 CIF Sac-Joaquin Division III Section Champions, the Oakdale High School Mustangs, received notification Sunday that they will also take part in the CIF NorCal Division II 2014 Regional Football Championship Bowl Game. The Mustangs (13-1, 6-1) will travel to Concord to take on the Ugly Eagles of Clayton Valley Charter (14-0, 5-0).
Early morning Thursday, Dec. 4, Stanislaus Consolidated Fire Protection District (SCFPD) firefighters were dispatched to the 13000 block of Horseshoe Road in Oakdale for a horse in a pond that needed rescuing. Upon arrival, SCFPD firefighters requested additional assistance from Modesto Fire Department and within about an hour, they rescued Sassy, the 24-year-old horse, from the cold water.
A pair of canned food drive efforts are taking place locally, the first one hosted by the Oakdale High School S Club and the second by the Central Valley Association of realtors.
The addition of one new police officer and two dispatchers joined the ranks of the Oakdale Police Department in November, as the depleted agency strives to add personnel lost to injuries, departures and other vacancies.
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The Modesto Junior College Civic Engagement Project (CEP) invites the community to a screening of the documentary 'Beginning Again: Syrian Refugees Settle in Modesto' on ...
Story Time Sessions will continue through March.
A Friday night accident along River Road claimed the life of an Oakdale man, as his vehicle hit a tree west of Cleveland Avenue.
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Although there has been a drop in meth labs in the state, people are still using the highly addictive drug.
A lot of it is coming from super-labs in Mexico and through existing drug cartels.
This summit is hoping to spread the word and put an end to the drug problem that has swept across Wisconsin.
"It's the first time we really attempted to pull together sectors of the community and ask people to engage in solving this problem, said Julie Keown-Bomar of U-W Extension.
Meth plays a role in draining the government's resources and changes the quality of life in communities where meth is prevalent.
Meth Summit
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Sands to direct film about Brazilian werewolves
Scott Steindorff's Stone Village has acquired "Lobo," a spec script for an action thriller by Dikran Ornekian and Ryan Colluci about a colony of werewolves in Brazil. Ezna Sands has been set to direct.
The film has been fast-tracked for an Oct. 15 production start and will shoot outside Rio de Janeiro. Pic's under-$15 million budget will be financed independently. Essential Entertainment has been retained to sell international territories. In the film, a man receives a photo and letters from his mother's will, then heads to an isolated town in the Amazon to discover his roots. There, he discovers a near-extinct species of werewolves and his true identity, and he helps the werewolves wage a battle for survival. "The stylized nature of the film is what drew me, because it's far less a monster movie than a Western in the mold of Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in America,' " Sands said. "I have the opportunity to bring back to audience the kind of hero they had in the '70s, someone as dark and conflicted as the new James Bond or the Dark Knight. Our intention is to tell a single story over three films, and this first chapter is a guy who makes a massive revelation." Steindorff will produce and Dylan Russell and Scott LaStaiti are executive producers. The film has begun casting, and IPG is packaging a companion graphic novel that will be written by the scribes. Sands just completed his feature directing debut, an untitled thriller that mixes elements of fiction and reality. Stone Village is shooting "Stan Helsing" and recently produced and financed "Love in the Time of Cholera."


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The way Aynsley Rosenbaum sees it, Melikke Van Alstyne is the gift that keeps on giving, yard by yard.
"We're blessed to have him," said Rosenbaum, the offensive coordinator at Framingham State University.
Rosenbaum is still fascinated that the senior from Salem is suiting up for the Rams, a Division 3 football program.
With his 28-carry, 105-yard effort in a 14-12 win at Western Connecticut on Saturday, Van Alstyne surpassed the 5,000 career rushing yards, just the fifth player in New England to reach the mark. The Rams (3-1) pulled out the win on a 16-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter from Matt Silva to former Dracut High teammate Jared Gauthier.


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RENTON, Wash. (AP) -- Russell Wilson and the Seahawks offense haven't exactly produced impressive numbers during the past month.
But ask Wilson and coach Pete Carroll if there are worries heading into Sunday's NFC championship game against San Francisco and, while they say they would like to see more consistency, they say the numbers aren't the important thing.
Seattle advanced to the NFC championship game despite getting a career-low passing performance from Wilson, who threw for 103 yards in the Seahawks' 23-15 win over the Saints. It was the fourth time in the past five games that Wilson failed to top 200 yards passing and the Seahawks had less than 300 yards of total offense.
AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org


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Two jailed in deaths of two women
8/1/2014, 7:31 a.m.
Two suspects sought in the mid-May fatal shooting of two women whose bodies were found in Decatur are in custody.
Frankland Henderson and Michael Hasker Jenkins, both 21, were wanted on two counts of murder in the May 19 shooting deaths of Sonia Williams, 21, of Norcross and Shaniqua Camacho, 20, of Lawrenceville. The women's bodies were found at a Walden Pond townhouse complex on Shellbark Road off Snapfinger Woods Drive.
Henderson, who lives at 3141 Belgreen Way in Decatur, and Jenkins, whose address is listed as 1752 Holliford Court in Charlotte, N.C., were arrested on June 10 by the DeKalb Sheriff's Office Fugitive Squad and the DeKalb Police Department.
Demetre Mason, 20, was arrested on the same charges earlier in June.


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Health Resources and Services Administration
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
HHS announces new Teaching Health Centers Graduate Medical Education Program
Eleven centers will support primary care residency training in community-based settings
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the designation of 11 new Teaching Health Centers in the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education program, a 5-year program that will support an increased number of primary care medical and dental residents trained in community-based settings across the country. These Teaching Health Centers will be supported by funds made available through the Affordable Care Act and will help address the need to train primary care physicians and dentists in our nation's communities.
With the funds, these Teaching Health Centers can seek additional primary care residents through the National Resident Matching program this month and will train 50 additional resident full-time equivalents beginning in July 2011. While 3 months of funding totaling $1,900,000 is being awarded this first program year, in future years the annual funding will increase to cover the full-year costs, as well as additional residents. These investments provide an important platform for expanding the primary care workforce and creating more opportunities to prepare physicians to practice primary care in community-based settings, while ensuring primary care services are available to our nation's most underserved communities.
"The Teaching Health Center program is an integral part of our mission to strengthen the nation's primary care workforce and ensure that all Americans have adequate access to care," said Secretary Sebelius.
The new Teaching Health Centers are distributed around the nation and will train residents in family medicine, internal medicine, and general dentistry. Teaching Health Centers will receive up to 5 years of ongoing support for the costs associated with training primary care physicians and dentists. HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will administer the program.
"Participating in this program not only provides top-notch training to primary care medical and dental residents, but also motivates them to practice in underserved areas after graduation," said HRSA Administrator Mary Wakefield, Ph.D., R.N.
Eligible Teaching Health Centers are community-based ambulatory patient care centers that operate a primary care residency program, including federally-qualified health centers; community mental health centers; rural health clinics; health centers operated by the Indian Health Service, an Indian tribe or tribal organization; and entities receiving funds under Title X of the Public Health Service Act.
For additional information, visit Teaching Health Centers.
2011 Teaching Health Centers
Organization | City | State | Award |
Valley Consortium for Medical Education | Modesto | Calif. | $625,000 |
Family Residency of Idaho | Boise | Idaho | 37,500 |
Northwestern McGaw Erie Family Health Center | Chicago | Ill. | 300,000 |
Penobscot Community Health Center | Bangor | Maine | 150,000 |
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center | Lawrence | Mass. | 112,500 |
Montana Family Medicine Residency | Billings | Mont. | 37,500 |
Institute for Family Health | New York | N.Y. | 150,000 |
Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education | Scranton | Pa. | 225,000 |
Lone Star Community Health Center | Conroe | Texas | 37,500 |
Community Health of Central Washington | Yakima | Wash. | 75,000 |
Community Health Systems | Beckley | W. Va. | 150,000 |
The Health Resources and Services Administration is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HRSA is the primary Federal agency responsible for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable. For more information about HRSA and its programs, visit www.hrsa.gov.


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Law School Admissions / Re: Another Waitlist Question
« on: June 01, 2008, 12:40:55 AM »
iku07, same here. I got off two waitlists by doing almost nothing at one and sending a LOCI to the other. I've visited two other law schools and sent them LOCIs in person but have not gotten off their list yet. It is all a matter of standing out at this point. Law schools are loathe to hand out acceptances to people they arent sure will attend. Additionally, most schools use the WL to round out their class numbers, so splitters benefit greatly.


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XItems from new and backlogged e-mail,after the jump, including DVD news about "Glee" and "Julie & Julia," and some grim kids-TV news from Nielsen.
American children aged 2-11 are watching more and more television than they have in years. New findings from The Nielsen Company show kids aged 2-5 now spend more than 32 hours a week on average in front of a TV screen. The older segment of that group (ages 6-11) spend a little less time, about 28 hours per week watching TV, due in part that they are more likely to be attending school for longer hours.
You can find more details here.
The first 13 episodes of "Glee" will be on DVD just before the end of '09 (and after they have all aired). From the official word:
Give a cheer for TV's hottest, funniest and most talked-about new series when "Glee" Season 1: Road To Sectionals debuts on DVD December 29 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. ...
"Glee" Season 1: Road To Sectionals DVD will also include the Director's cut of the pilot episode; exclusive behind-the-scenes featurettes; audition videos from the talented cast and the hit music topping the charts at iTunes such as cast versions of Queen's "Somebody To Love," Heart's "Alone," Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'," Céline Dion's "Taking Chances," Rihanna's "Take A Bow," Carrie Underwood's "Last Name," Jazmine Sullivan's "Bust Your Windows," Kanye West's "Gold Digger" and REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling.". "Glee" Season 1: Road To Sectionals will be available on DVD for the suggested retail price of $39.98 U.S/$49.98 Canada. Prebook date is December 2.
"Julie & Julia," which I still think of as half a good movie, will be on DVD and Blu-ray in December. The announcement:
Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, and Chris Messina star in the delightfully delicious hit comedy Julie & Julia coming to Blu-ray™ and DVD December 8 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. ...
Blu-ray and DVD special features include commentary by writer/director Nora Ephron and the behind-the-scenes featurette "Secret Ingredients: Creating Julie & Julia," which features interviews with the cast and crew.
The Blu-ray Disc is packed with exclusive features that will make mouths water. Included is "Julia's Kitchen," a tour of Julia Child's one-of-a-kind kitchen now housed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, which was custom built by her husband Paul Child to accommodate her 6' 2" frame and to serve as a television soundstage for her cooking shows. Also included is "Family & Friends Remember Julia Child," which picks up where the film leaves off and chronicles her public life including other published works, her numerous television shows, her founding of the American Institute of Food and Wine, the many accolades she received, her philanthropy and her rarely discussed private life: the love story with her husband, her sense of humor, her amazing work ethic, and her love of teaching. Lastly, there's "Cooking Lessons" with master chefs Julia Child, Jacques Pépin, Mark Peel, Suzanne Goin, Steven Lewandowski and Drew Nieporent demonstrating how to make such mouthwatering dishes as Braised Beef Short Ribs and Butter Poached Maine Lobster.
The Blu-ray Disc also features movieIQ with "Julia's Recipe Collector," where viewers can bookmark and email select Julia Child recipes featured throughout the film. movieIQ also allows viewers to access updated information on cast & crew while exploring relevant trivia such as production facts, music and soundtrack information.
Julie & Julia will be available on Blu-ray™ for $39.95 SRP and DVD for $28.96 SRP.


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