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Dear raul,
The minoxidil has the same effect on me, but now I am using it only once a day on alternate days to keep away the effect. Also, I am taking propecia/finasteride twice every week to keep away the side effects. I don't know whether the above will help but still trying. My scabs also fallen out but strands remain, some strands went away, Dr. Radha has said all transplanted hair will off now, its been complete 1 month since HT. cheers tuja
tuja One HT: 2900 Grafts with Dr. Radha |
I had a minor issue when I returned to Australia and Doctor Radha was prompt with my enquiry. Many questions can be answered by researching her website or this forum. Also another good resource is is DHT Clinic because it has lots of post op information. If you have puss in you donor scar you should go to your local GP and get him to check it out. Regards rod |
Hi 1) Some times its common to find pus in donor area or recipient area. I had pus boil @ my transplanted graft. But it went off after 4 days. So no issues. My advice is never touch your hair with unclean hands. Hands may carry staphylococcus aureus bacteria which when enters inside skin can cause infection and pus. Always wash with anti-bacterial soap before you touch your scalp. You can take mild antibiotic like "Doxycycline" that should solve your problem quickly. Just check with local doctor or Radha if needed. 2) I too dont like minoxidil much because it some times accumulates dirt on scalp and forms layers of dirt if not properly washed. Its up to you again. 3) common and thats how the process works. Most of the questions can be answered by our forum members. Unless its not properly answered or emergency, you can contact your doctor. Hope this helps. Looking for your updated pics soon |
I didnt have a problem with Tugain foam. Feels normal. Pimples/Boils are very common sight for the first 2 months on me . It used to go away after a few days.
You will look like u never had a HT aka Ugly duckling for the next 2 months. As Rod once told me stop looking in the mirror for the next 3 months ....Trust me helps a lot |
Tugain foam i think hurting the scalp, a layer forms on the skin. Today i tried to remove that layer from small transplanted area, it started bleeding a little and 2-3 grafts came out. I dont know if this was normal shedding...because it had happened to me before transplant when this layer forms on the skin, i used to comb it and this used to happen slight blood use to come out. I am just hoping the grafts are still intact.
Does this happen with all of you that a layer forms on the skin because of tugain...is it dandruff or dried medicine ? I am not using any hard shampoo even now for dandruff etc as i have shaved my head very close, and dont wanna hurt the grafts.... Any advice... regards, tuja
tuja One HT: 2900 Grafts with Dr. Radha |
wish to undergo HT
I wish to undergo HT this september or october. I'm currently living in Germany and will be visiting India during August and september. I started to lose my hair long time back after I had chicken pox during my 10th std. But I have serious hair loss ever since I came here i.e. for past two years. I lost almost all my hair in frontal and crown of my head. Please suggest me about which surgeon to chose for HT. I heard Dr. Madhu from Hyd and Dr. Radha both are good through this site. Still not sure to chose which one. From your experiences I gained confident over Dr. Radha, But do you have any general opinion abt Dr. Madhu ? I'm so confused and cant face this Hair loss problem anymore. Everyone around me started to question abt it and my confidence level is so low nowdays. I'm just 24 years old and will that prohibit me from undergoing a HT ? is it advisable to undergo HT at this age ? Waiting for your reply. I tried to send a priv msg but I don knw how to do it since I just joined this site today. thnx a lot for your help |
Hi S17ch
I would go for Dr Radha, as she does only one HT per day and she's more of hands on rather than leaving it to her tech staff. Her results are good aswell. Why dont u email her few pic's and see what she has to say. |
I suggest you contact both doctors and discuss your case with them. Doctor Madhu has many cases on this forum that show mature results, whilst Doctor Radha is relatively new and has many good positive posts. In reality, there are only 2 cases of Doctor Radha's on this forum that members have shown that have the length of time post op to judge the results. Many people (like myself) have had a HT with Doctor Radha but I'm just shy of 6 months and I don't want to assess it until 8 - 10 months post op. I keep receiving enquiries both people need to realise it takes up to 12 months for the results to be mature enough for a person to assess. I went with Doctor Radha because she was trained by Doctor Pathomvanich, she does 1 HT a day, is hands on during the surgery. Doctor Madha does 2 - 3 surgeries per day and relies on a team of doctors and assistants to complete the surgery. Doctor Madha has been recommended on this forum for a couple of years and he produces good consistent results. I think both doctors would be fine but the decision is yours in the end. Regards Rod |
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State Trooper: [Sobbing] Please! I have a wife and kids.
Thelma: Oh really, well, you're lucky. You be sweet to them, especially your wife. My husband wasn't sweet to me. Look how I turned out.
Louise: [in the parking lot outside the bar where Harlan is attempting to rape Thelma] Get away from her you fuckin' asshole or I'm gonna splatter your ugly face all over this nice car.
Harlan: [Getting off of Thelma] Easy, we're just having a little fun.
Louise: Sounds like you got a real fucked up idea of fun. Turn around. In the future, when a woman's crying like that, she isn't having any fun!
Harlan: Bitch! I shoulda gone ahead and fucked her!
Louise: Why did you say?
Harlan: I said suck my cock.
Louise: [Louise shoots him]
[soft but angry voice]
Louise: You watch your mouth!
Louise Sawyer: In the future, when a woman is crying like that, she isn't having any fun.
Max: You know, the one thing I can't figure out are these girls real smart or real real lucky?
Hal Slocumb: Don't matter. Brains'll only get you so far and luck always runs out.
Louise: You remember when we first met?
Jimmy: Yeah.
Louise: What happened? Tell me what you said.
Jimmy: I said you had a nice pair of eyes.
Louise: And what did I say? Do you remember?
Jimmy: Yeah, you shut 'em. Asked me if I knew what color they were.
Louise: And what'd you say?
Jimmy: I didn't know.
Louise: [She covers his eyes] Jimmy, what color are my eyes?
Jimmy: They're brown.
Louise: Should've gone to the police in the beginning, why didn't I?
Thelma: You said why before.
Louise: What'd I say?
Thelma: That nobody would believe us. You know that jerk was really hurting me, and if you hadn't come along when you had he would've hurt me even worse. And probably nothing would've been done with him because I was dancing with him all night and everybody saw it and they'd figure I had it coming. My life would've been ruined a whole lot more than it is now, now I'm having fun. I'll tell you something else, I'm not the least bit sorry that creep is dead, I'm just sorry it was you who did it and not me.
Louise Sawyer: You finally got laid properly, I'm so proud.
Louise Sawyer: You get what you settle for.
Thelma: Driiive, Louise! Drive! Drive the car! Go! Go! Go go go go go go!
Louise: What is it? What happened?
[Thelma holds up money]
Louise: You robbed the store? You robbed the whole damn store?
Thelma: Well, we needed the money.
Louise: Oh, shoot!
Thelma: It's not like I killed anybody, for God's sake!
Louise: Thelma!
Thelma: I'm sorry, we needed the money, now we got it.
Louise: Oh shoot! Oh shoot, Thelma!
Thelma: Louise, get us to damn Mexico.
Louise: All right, oh shoot! Oh shoot! Oh shoot!
[last lines]
[with a cliff in front of them and cops behind them]
Thelma Dickerson: OK, then listen; let's not get caught.
Louise Sawyer: What are you talkin' about?
Thelma Dickerson: Let's keep goin'!
Louise Sawyer: What d'you mean?
Thelma Dickerson: Go.
[Thelma nods ahead of them]
Louise Sawyer: You sure?
Thelma Dickerson: Yeah. Hit it.
[They hug and kiss, then Louise steps on the gas. Arkansas State Police Investigator Hal Slocumb starts to chase their car on foot]
Max: Hey!
Louise: Well, we're not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here.
Thelma: I don't ever remember feeling this awake.
Louise Sawyer: You shoot off a guy's head with his pants down, believe me, Texas ain't the place you want to get caught.
Thelma: Hey Louise, better slow down, I'll just die if we get caught over a speeding ticket. Are you sure we should be driving like this, I mean in broad daylight and everything?
Louise Sawyer: No we shouldn't, but I want to put some distance between us and the SCENE OF OUR LAST GOD DAMNED CRIME!
[Thelma laughs and screams]
Thelma: Oh man! You wouldn'ta believed it, it was like I was doing it all my life, nobody woulda believed it.
Louise Sawyer: Think you found your calling?
Thelma: May-be... may-be.
[gets up in her seat]
Thelma: The call of the wild!
Louise Sawyer: [talking about their cabin vacation in the mountains later in the day] You mean you haven't asked him yet? Thelma, for Christ's sake. Thelma, is he your husband, or your father? It's just two days, for God's sake. Don't be a child. Tell him you're with me.
[grins mischieviously]
Louise Sawyer: Tell him I'm having a nervous breakdown.
Thelma Dickerson: That don't carry much weight with Darryl. He already thinks you're out of your mind.
Louise Sawyer: Where do you get off behaving that way with women you don't even know, huh? How'd you feel if someone did that to your mother or your sister or your wife?
Louise Sawyer: You've always been crazy, this is just the first chance you've had to express yourself.
Thelma: You could park a car in the shadow of his ass.
Thelma: Louise, no matter what happens, I'm glad I came with you.
Thelma: [Louise tells her the police probably tapped Darryl's phone] Tap the phones? What're you talking about?
Louise: Come on, Thelma, murder 1 and armed robbery.
Thelma: Murder 1? We can't even say it was self defense?
Louise: Well it wasn't, we got away, we were walking away.
Thelma: Yeah but they don't know that. It was just you and me there. I'll say he raped me and you had to shoot him, that's almost the truth.
Louise: Won't work.
Thelma: Why not?
Louise: There's no physical evidence, we can't prove he did it, we probably can't even prove by now that he touched you.
Thelma: God, the law is some tricky shit isn't it? Hey, how do you know about all this?
Louise: Besides, what're we going to say about the robbery? There's no such thing as justifiable robbery.
Thelma: Alright Louise...
[sees a white cowboy hat in the backseat]
Thelma: where'd you get this?
Louise: Stole it.
Louise: [Thelma's tossing a bottle of Wild Turkey out of the car] Thelma, don't you litter.
Thelma: [with her gun to the state trooper's head] I swear 3 days ago neither one of us would've EVER pulled a stunt like this, but if you'd ever meet my husband you'd understand why.
[Louise has just discovered that J.D. has stolen all of her money, and Thelma is trying to console her]
Thelma: I don't believe it. I don't believe it! Louise. You okay? Louise? I'm sorry, I mean it.
[Louise has her wrists over her face as Thelma kneels down to face her]
Thelma: Louise. It's okay. It's okay.
Louise: [Louise lifts her tear-streamed face] No, Thelma, it's not okay! It's definitely not okay. None of this is okay! I mean, what am I gonna do for money? Huh? How'm I gonna get gas? I mean, trade on our good looks? I mean
[she starts sobbing]
Louise: Thelma, oh, goddamn, it's not okay!
Thelma Dickerson: Wait. What? You want to go to Mexico from Oklahoma and you don't want to go through Texas?
Louise: You know how I feel about Texas... We're not going that way.
Thelma Dickerson: I know, Louise, but we're running for our lives! Don't you think you could make an exception just this once? I mean, look at the map. The only thing between Oklahoma and Mexico is Texas!
J.D.: Well now, I've always believed that if done properly, armed robbery doesn't have to be a totally unpleasant experience.
J.D.: So, tell me something, Miss Thelma. How is it you ain't got any kids? I mean, God gives you something special, I think you oughta pass it on.
Thelma: Well, Darryl, that's my husband...
J.D.: Darryl?
Thelma: Yeah. He says he's not ready yet. He says he's still too much of a kid himself. He kinda prides himself on being infantile.
Louise: He's got a lot to be proud of.
Thelma: Louise and him don't get along.
Louise: That's putting it mildly.
Thelma: She thinks he's a pig.
Louise: I know he's a pig.
Max: If she calls, just be gentle, you know? Like you're really happy to hear from her. Like you miss her. Women love that shit.
Darryl: [answers phone again] Yep?
Louise Sawyer: Darryl, this is Louise. Lemme talk to the police.
Darryl: Hey Louise!
Louise Sawyer: [sour tone of voice] Hi. Lemme talk to the police.
Darryl: [so sarcastically, it exposes their cover] What? What are you talking about, there's no police here.
[Hal and Max both scoff and roll their eyes]
Thelma: You said you 'n' me was gonna get out of town and for once just really let our hair down. Well, darlin', look out, 'cause my hair is comin' down!
Thelma: But, umm, I don't know, you know, something's, like, crossed over in me and I can't go back, I mean I just couldn't live.
Louise Sawyer: I know, I know what you mean. Anyway, don't wanna end up on the damned Geraldo show.
Louise Sawyer: You let her go, you fuckin' asshole, or I'm gon' splatter your ugly face all over this nice car!
Lena, Waitress: Neither one of those girls is the murdering type, Hal!
[the ladies are just starting off on their road trip. Thelma lifts out Darryl's pistol]
Thelma: Oh, Louise, umm, will you take care of this gun?
Louise: What in hell did you bring that for?
Thelma: Oh, come on! Psycho killers, or bears or snakes? I just don't know how to use it. Will you take care of it?
Louise: Put it away! Just, here, put it in my purse. Thelma, good lord!
Thelma: Good morning everybody, this is a robbery. Now if nobody loses their head, nobody will lose their head. Simon says everybody lay down on the floor, right away, right away, except you sir. You'll have a story to tell your friends, that or a tag on your toe, it's your decision. Now you take this bag and empty the cash register into it.
Store clerk: Yes ma'am.
Thelma: Let's see who wins a prize for keeping their cool. Now you sir, lay back down, thank you. Hey, throw in a couple bottles of Wild Turkey while you're at it.
Store clerk: Sure ma'am.
Thelma: Thank you, now everybody just stay down on the floor until I leave, thank you for your cooperation and have a good day.
Thelma: I've had it up to my ass with sedate.
Louise Sawyer: Is he your husband or your father?
Louise Sawyer: Certain words and phrases just keep drifting through my mind, things like, incarceration, cavity search, death by electrocution, life in prison, shit like that, know what I'm sayin', so do I want to come out alive...
Jimmy: I want to give you something.
Louise: Give it to me here.
[Jimmy pulls out an engagement ring]
Jimmy: Why don't you try it on? You didn't see that one coming, did you?
Louise: Why, Jimmy? Why now?
Jimmy: Try not to get too excited, Louise. I just flew across two states with that ring in my fuckin' hand, and uh... You know I hate to fly.
Thelma: You awake?
Louise: Guess you could call it that, my eyes are open.
Thelma: I'm awake too. I feel awake.
Louise: Good.
Thelma: I feel really awake. I don't recall ever feeling this awake. You know? Everything looks different now. You feel like that? You feel like you got something to live for now?
Louise: We'll be drinking margaritas by the sea, mamacita.
Thelma: You know we could change our names.
Louise: To live in a hacienda.
Thelma: I want to get a job, I'll work at Club Med.
Louise: Yeah, what kind of deal is that cop going to have to come up with to top that?
Thelma: Have to be pretty good.
Louise: Have to be pretty damn good.
Thelma: Come on, Louise, don't blow it.
Thelma: [to Louise] I told you to slow down, officer I told her to slow down.
Louise: Yes she did.
[gives the state trooper her license]
Louise: How fast was I going?
State Trooper: About 110.
Louise: Oh!
Louise: I'm in deep shit; Deep Shit, Arkansas.
Louise Sawyer: Besides, what are we gonna say about the robbery? There's no excuse for that. There's no such thing as justifiable robbery.
Thelma: [Pointing to Louise's hat] All right, Louise... where'd you get this?
Louise Sawyer: Stole it.
Louise: What did Darryl have to say?
Thelma: Oh, he said: Oh, hey, Thelma, I just wanted to make sure you was all right. I sure hope you're having fun. You deserve it, after all you put up with me. I love you, honey.
[She swigs from a mini-bottle]
Thelma: So, how long before we're in goddamn Mexico?
[Realizing that Thelma has committed to journeying with her, Louise grins]
J.D.: I'm the Great and Powerful Oz.

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Hi I am Liz, I just turned 15 and I want to have a better lifestyle. I been going through a rough few years and want to get myself out of it. I have tried to lose weight and eat healthier before but it hasn't turned out well due to a lack of faith in myself. I been recently diagnosed with depression and low self esteem. I am over weight and it is do to I am an emotional eater, I deal with everyone's problems and I am afraid of doing something stupid in front of my friends and pupils and saying the wrong thing. But I want to be healthier and lose weight for myself to boost my self confidence and self esteem.
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A Terraformer is a Chimeran orbital weapon in creating strong weather patterns akin to a hurricane and design in drastically changing Earth's environment in order to make it hospitable for Chimeran existence. Terraformers are at least 10 kilometers in height as one is seen to tower out of the Earth's atmosphere.
Terraformers are also used to cleanse an entire area, in which it kills anything within miles whether underground and or otherwise. Terraformers appear to also serve in pacifying human resistance cells and settlements, as one served in completely obliterating Haven, Oklahoma. The Terraformers are part of the Chimera's intentions to completely cooling down the Earth and wiping out the remnants of humankind in the process, and apparently terraform the planet suitable for the Pure Chimera.
It is with irony that the Terraformers proved to be the downfall of the Chimeran occupation when one was used to crash into the New York tower by former Sentinel Joseph Capelli, destroying the wormhole to the Chimera's star system. After the Chimera's final defeat, it is unknown what happened to the other terraformers around the world, though they were likely destroyed by the resistance or possibly kept for research.
- Part of the Terraformer that is in the Earth's atmosphere is roughly ten times larger than a Goliath.


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Have Pediatric Questions? Ask a Pediatrician.
I'd love to try to help with your question... but unfortunately, there may not be an easy solution to this.
First, it sounds like your son's diagnosis is idiopathic short stature - is that what you've been told? Essentially, that just means that a person is short without a medical reason (like kidney disease or a hormone deficiency). Usually, kids with idiopathic short stature are shorter children because their parents are shorter adults - so it's sort of "in the cards" for them, genetically speaking.
For children with severe idiopathic short stature, many endocrinologists will prescribe recombinant human growth hormone injections, as you suggest.
These injections, though, have a downside. For one, although they're effective, they're only modestly effective for children with idiopathic short stature (compared to children with growth hormone deficiency, for example). Basically, at your son's age, you could probably hope for an improvement of only a few inches versus his height without growth hormone. Another disadvantage is that the medication must be administered as a daily injection. I emphasize daily, because if you only give the medication a few days a week, the body tends to not make growth hormone on the days you don't give it - so to attain a real improvement in height takes giving the medication every single day for a sustained period of time. The injections are not especially painful, but the fact that the medication must be administered as a "shot" can be a significant hurdle for some children and families. And finally, the medication is expensive.
Generally speaking, insurance companies will only cover growth hormone for children with idiopathic short stature whose height percentiles are much lower than your son's - usually less than 3rd percentile. That means that you'll end up having to pay for the medication out-of-pocket...
To give you an idea about how expensive that might be, I just looked up the cost of Genotropin. A 5 mg cartrige for injection costs $381.99... and I would ballpark that your son would need at least one of those every 4-5 days. There are other brands on the market, so you may be able to get the medication more cheaply... but I bring it up for the sake of example to give you a sense of just how expensive it might be unless your insurance covers it.
If the cost is not a concern for your family, then I think the best advice I can give you would be to obtain a second opinion from another pediatric endocrinologist. Unfortunately, I practice on the East Coast, so I can't recommend particular physicians - but your best bet would be to look at any children's hospitals or medical schools in your area (or surrounding areas). Another endocrinologist may be willing to prescribe the medication after discussing the risks and benefits with you.
I know this was not the answer that you were hoping to hear, but I hope that this information is helpful to you and helps to put this issue into perspective.
Best wishes to you and your son...
You are asking excellent questions!
There actually have been a couple of studies that looked at delaying puberty with medications like Lupron for children without precocious puberty (which is obviously the typical reason we would use medications to delay puberty). The results were somewhat mixed.
In children who were also treated with growth hormone, the results were good - an extra 8-14 cm of height (3-5 inches) were obtained, though puberty had to be delayed for at least 2 years. Unfortunately, for children with normally-timed puberty who did not also get growth hormone, the results weren't so good. Because of that, in 2009 the American Academy of Pediatrics did not include poor growth as a reason for prescribing Lupron in its most recent consensus statement.
In real life, I think that means two things. First, you almost certainly won't be able to get insurance to cover Lupron without a diagnosis of precocious puberty. And although Lupron is much cheaper than growth hormone, it's still expensive - the generic is around $350/month. Second, I think you'll be less likely to find a physician to prescribe Lupron than you would growth hormone, since the benefits are less clear.
Personally, I don't think I would prescribe Lupron in your son's case, for two reasons. The first one is that it's not clear how well it works unless you use growth hormone at the same time. The second one is that I'm not sure I entirely agree with you that delaying puberty is "very low risk." I say that because the risk of using medications to delay puberty could be adverse social consequences for your son. It's bad enough being the short kid - but it might be even worse to be the even shorter, pre-pubertal kid for the next several years. (For this reason, most endocrinologists stop Lupron by 12 years old for boys with precocious puberty.)
L-arginine could be helpful - but there really aren't any real clinical studies on using that for the situation your son is in. (The only articles I could find were negative ones, suggesting that oral supplementation with arginine does not cause a sustained increase in the level of growth hormone.) I don't think there is much downside - other than cost - to trying that, though.
Again, I know that this information is probably not what you were hoping to hear - but it's my honest opinion, and what I would say if one of my own family members were asking me the excellent questions that you are.
If I have answered your question, please click accept - and if you have any additional questions about any of this (or anything else in the future) please do not hesitate to ask.


text: Kevin Kiermaier Hit A Liner Straight Through Eric Hosmer's GloveTom Ley7/09/14 2:46pmFiled to: highlight reelkevin kiermaiereric hosmermlbkansas city royalstampa bay rays277EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkGIF I have no idea who Kevin Kiermaier is, but he hit a baseball harder than shit last night. He hit it so hard that it went straight through Eric Hosmer's damn glove.Even if the rest of Kevin Kiermaier's career goes up in flames, he can at least tell people that he once hit a baseball so freaking hard that it went straight through a dude's glove. That's more than most of us can say.Reply27 repliesLeave a reply


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Although there is no barking of auctioneers, the CMA Celebrity Auction Silent Auction reveals just as much spirit as this high-energy event includes items generously donated by singers, athletes and television stars. CMA volunteers greet Fan Fair X attendees as they arrive, help guide them around the booth to auction items from their favorite artists and educate them on the bidding process.
Here at Booth #230 prize packs, signed guitars, merchandise, pictures and a signed lyric section adorn the tables. Sprawled on the last table are hand-written lyrics for "The River," "Merry Go 'Round," "The House That Built Me," "Carrying Your Love with Me" and "I Hold On." These manuscripts are among the most personal additions to the auction, with a low starting bid of $40.
At the opposite price range is the chance of a video gamer's lifetime, to be included as a player in Madden 2015 that comes out this August. Starting price is $2,500.
There's plenty of apparel too, whether it was a pair of Wrangler jeans signed by George Strait, a signed ball cap from Thomas Rhett or T-shirts from Dierks Bentley and Garth Brooks.
Tania Vanhoorn, 20,Chicago, Illinois, was browsing the memorabilia at the auction, looking for stuff from her favorite artist, Chase Rice. This is her fifth time attending CMA Fest and she is most excited to see Rhett perform as she credits coming back year after year to the variety of new artists featured every year.
The CMA Celebrity Auction serves an honorable cause. All the proceeds go to support the CMA Foundation to help fund CMA's Keep The Music Playing program, which helps foster and grow music education programs. This annual celebrity auction has raised over $250,000 to date.
Whether you have money burning a hole in your pocket or just want to get a closer look into the lives of your favorite artists, the CMA Celebrity Auction is an excellent place to view items that will soon be part of Country Music history.


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I find that I have to read all poetry out loud to really get it...Oh I think your poetry needs to be shared with the world!...I love your imagery...I love your cadence...
Thank-you for sharing this with us...
This reminds me of a time long ago when I took a road trip with friends to Maine...camping out at an abandoned picnic site we each stretched out on a table and watched an aurora borealis...we didn't know what it was at the time...we were lucky we got out of the camper and looked up at the skies...the aurora would have happened without us...
xo"waiting for the next
tiny speck
of the universe to fall"
This was a thrill and a treat, Gigi... You must share your poetry here more often! I was giddy with wonderment the whole time reading. You give us such a great sense of space, time, and one with the universe... BEAUTIFUL! :o) ((HUGS))


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Will we finally get The Real Deal?
Yu Darvish. He appears to be the most successful, celebrated, hyped Asian pitcher to sign with a Major League team since Hideki Irabu.
A couple of short stories about Asian pitchers and Irabu: I was announcing Yankee games in the mid-90s when I said over the air, "I wonder if we'll ever see an Oriental position player in the Major Leagues?" Dion James was playing for the Yankees at the time, and told me about an exciting 19-year old named Ichiro Suzuki who had a chance to be the first. We all know that story. Big fan of Bernie Williams from watching Yankee games in Japan. Wears number 51 because of that.
So, I get a letter about a week later from an Asian baseball fan. Not a malicious letter but scolding me gently for referring to Asian players as "Oriental." He said, "Noodles and rugs are Oriental, not people. We are Asians." Fortunately for me, he put his phone number in the letter, so I called him.
We had a pleasant conversation and I told him I certainly didn't intentionally say "Oriental' as a slur or condescending remark. It was said innocently out of ignorance. He understood. I asked him if he would be watching the next game we televised. He said he would. He was a huge baseball fan and was complimentary of our telecasts on the MSG Network. I asked if he would please watch and listen in the top of the 4th inning. He said he would. I took the opportunity to clear up the Oriental/Asian situation.
So, on to Asian pitchers coming to America with the potential to dominate the Major Leagues. Hideo Nomo, Irabu, Dice-K, Hiroki Kuroda, and Kei Igawa, the biggest disappointment of all for over $40 million. Potentially the best one I saw up close was Chien-Ming Wang from Taiwan. A near Cy Young Award-winner before he injured his foot/ankle running the bases.
Can't Major League teams take a little time to teach pitchers how to slide and make proper turns running the bases? I learned from the great George Case early in my career and was used as a pinch runner often. Even stole a base at age 41, the oldest to do it until Greg Maddux one-upped me by a month or two.
However, my most serious injuries during 25 Major League seasons were from sliding. Slid too hard into second to break up a double play and into third beating a throw from the outfield. Broken wrist on one and cracked kneecap on another. My technique was good. I just slid too hard. I figure it cost me about 25 to 30 wins. If I didn't learn from George as a young player, they probably would never had used me to pinch run. Used to pinch run for my teammates Harmon Killebrew and Greg Luzinski.
Okay, enough about me and my ill-fated slides. Wang had a devastating hard sinker. You could count on him to get at least 75 percent of his outs on infield groundouts. Stress-free motion, no hard breaking ball to put stress on his elbow. I thought he was going to be "The One" until the foot/ankle injury.
This brings me to Irabu and how the hype from Japan can be deceiving. I was preparing to announce a Yankee game in Chicago when Jim Fregosi, former All-Star Shortstop with the Angels and longtime scout and manager in the Majors, began telling me about Irabu. He had been scouting him. The phrase that stood out was when he said, "He's Clemens when Roger was in his prime." That will get your attention. Hideki had a great splitter, but his fastball didn't seem to be as fast as the advanced hype.
Now, here is one thing to look for from Darvish and I hope he can deal with it: The hitters here are bigger, stronger, and more intimidating than the hitters in the Asian leagues. I will never forget the defining moment for me when Hideki Irabu's confidence in his fastball was shattered. He gave up a monstrous home run in Yankee Stadium to Matt Williams when Matt was playing for the Indians. It was off Irabu's fastball. Our crack TV crew had a shot of Irabu from our center field camera as Hideki was facing center field. The expression on his face was priceless. Mouth open, eyes wide open like he had never experienced anything like that. And he probably hadn't.
The challenge for all pitchers — and I experienced it myself when Mantle and Colavito and other power hitters turned my best fastball around — is to have the nerves to keep challenging hitters and throw it for strikes. We have seen time and time again that the pitchers who come over here from Asia don't have the confidence to consistently challenge Major League hitters with their fastball.
All except Wang, and he is on the way back. I hope he makes it. Did you ever watch Dice-K pitch? Painful. He'd rather bite the head off a rattlesnake than throw his fastball for a strike. He was actually a long relief pitcher even when he was winning games, because with today's pitch count limitations he was over his limit in the 5th inning most of the time.
So, I'lll be keeping a close eye on Yu Darvish and see if he is finally the one to be able to challenge and dominate our bigger, more powerful big league hitters. For his and the Rangers' sake, I hope he does. It will be good for the game and the Rangers profit and loss statement!
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I was wondering how you felt about Yu Darvish. Was going to try and find contact info for you and ask, but you beat me to it with this blog entry. I too am interested. When you have time and the trade becomes official, if you have a moment, can you touch on your opinion of Mike Pineda and his future for the Bronx Bombers?
Great stuff as always Kitty,
Thank you Kitty. All of the hype from the Far East in the past twenty years haven't amounted to much. Agree that Wang has probably had the most dominance, however, Nomo had a nice run for a brief period of time. Regarding Dice-K you are so right. I hated to watch him pitch and I'm Sox fan. His fastball was not up the hype and the famed gyroball was actually a change-screwball which was relatively ineffective against major league hitters.
I believe Darvish will have success because he is a big strong guy somewhat like Wang and throws strikes. Excited about how he will do once the season begins.


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itwbennett writes "Kim Dong-cheol is a North Korean with 'a double life,' writes the IDG News Service's Martyn Williams in a story on ITworld. 'In addition to his job as a driver for a company, Kim also works as a clandestine reporter for AsiaPress, a Japanese news agency that's taken advantage of the digital electronics revolution to get reports from inside North Korea,' says Williams. 'When we started training journalists in 2003 or 2004, getting cameras into North Korea was a real problem,' said Jiro Ishimaru, chief editor of the news agency, at a Tokyo news conference on Monday. 'Nowadays, within North Korea you are able to have your pick of Sony, Panasonic or Samsung cameras.' The images they're capturing are 'often startling,' and it 'documents a side of the country the government doesn't want the world to see,' says Williams."


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Monday, May 12, 2008
Why PCI DSS is doomed.
First, the press release from McAfee indicating the obvious re-branding of McAfee Hacker Safe to McAfee Secure for Web Sites. Oh yes, dear friends, McAfee delivers the secure internet. The profound and deeply flawed arrogance continues, with a new name.
Rafal Los has already torn into this one, so I'll let you get the goods there, but after reading further I saw this gem:
Yep, full steam ahead. Now your credit cards are really going to be safe.
As you may know the previously vague PCI DSS 6.6 language has been made even more elusive with such useful language as:
"Keeping in mind that the objective of Requirement 6.6 is to prevent exploitation of common vulnerabilities (such as those listed in Requirement 6.5), several possible solutions may be considered. They are dynamic and pro-active, requiring the specific initiation of a manual or automated process. Properly implemented, one or more of these four alternatives could meet the intent of Option 1 and provide the minimum level of protection against common web application threats."
Such strong assertions: possible, may, could. We wouldn't want to actually commit, would we?
As if all of this wasn't enough, along comes the PCI mastery of the PCI Blog - Compliance Demystified, from pcianswers.com.
You'll get a 404 now, but here's the cached page.
Yep, a QSA actually debating the merits of ScanlessPCI.
"From what we can ascertain, ScanlessPCI.com is just a scam."
Really? We weren't sure.
"The larger concern is the fact that they require you to insert code into your Web site to get a copy of their certificate. Since you are inserting code into your Web page for a GIF, it is anyone's guess as to whether or not they are hacking your site at the same time they are supposedly protecting it."
Oh, scary. Common, guys. I think you should insert this picture on your website. Then your customers can feel truly confident in your services. Man, my ribs still hurt from laughing.
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- Mike said...
Please call or email me directly if you have questions about any post on PCIAnswers.com
My phone number and email address are posted on the site. I find it offensive that you didn't bother to call and identify the reason for anything happening on our site. - 1:13 PM
- Rafal said...
Mike - you find it offensive? I find it offensive that Jeff Hall is debating the merits of a FAKE PCI SPOOF site seriously with himself.
Get over it, at least you guys had enough sense to pull the post. - 3:35 PM
- Mike Rothman said...
As opposed to admitting they'd been duped, pcianswers.com decided to pull the post down. Thus, they are fair game for all the ridicule that goes for falling for ScanlessPCI.
I think they should have poked a little fun at themselves, as opposed to pulling the post down. It's not like Google ever forgets...
But alas, far too many security types take themselves far too seriously.
Mike Rothman
http://www.pragmaticcso.com - 4:20 PM
- Ten said...
They would've gotten away with it too, had it not been for you meddling kids.
I'd like to thank Russ McRee for alerting me to this issue and contacting me directly. I appreciate his openness and interest in promoting positive conversations.


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Chelsea's managers under Abramovich
Date: November 22 2012
Claudio Ranieri
Ranieri was the first manager to be fired by Abramovich. The Italian, who became known as the "Tinkerman" because of his tendency to fiddle with his team, was hired in September 2000 by previous Chelsea owner Ken Bates. He was fired in May 2004 despite guiding Chelsea to second place behind Arsenal and reaching the Champions League semi-finals.
Jose Mourinho
Mourinho came to Chelsea after winning the Champions League title with FC Porto in 2004. Upon arrival, he called himself the "Special One", and then justified the name, becoming the most successful Chelsea manager ever. In three years, he won back-to-back Premier League titles in 2004-05 and 2005-06, the FA Cup in 2007 and two League Cups in 2005 and 2007.
A power struggle with the Russian owner paved the way for his exit in September 2007.
Avram Grant
Grant didn't have the bravado of Mourinho. But despite reports he didn't have control of the dressing room, he finished second in the league. He was also the first Chelsea manager to guide the team to the Champions League final, but the Blues lost to Premier League champion Manchester United on penalties.
He was fired in May 2008.
Luiz Felipe Scolari
A new season in August 2008 welcomed a new manager in Scolari, a Brazilian who led his home country to the 2002 World Cup title. But with Chelsea underperforming and control in the dressing room once again proving to be a problem, Abramovich lost his patience after only seven months, firing Scolari in February 2009.
Guus Hiddink
Hiddink temporarily took charge of Chelsea in February 2009 while keeping his job as coach of Russia's national team. The Dutch veteran lost only one game as the team finished third in the Premier League and reached the Champions League semi-finals.
Hiddink left at the end of the season to resume his international job.
Carlo Ancelotti
Ancelotti became the fifth man to manage the club in less than two years in June 2009. The Italian was a two-time Champions League winner as coach of AC Milan, and won the Premier League and FA Cup double in his first Premier League season.
It was under Ancelotti that Chelsea paid STG50 million ($A77 million) for Liverpool striker Fernando Torres. But his second season was less successful, as Chelsea finished second, nine points behind Manchester United, and Ancelotti lost his job in May 2011.
Andre Villas-Boas
Villas-Boas started last season as Chelsea's new manager. The suave Portuguese, a former Porto coach who won the Europa League title in 2011, shared many similarities with Jose Mourinho. But he didn't live up to the same success. The club dropped out the top four, and his controversial selection decisions got him fired by March.
Roberto Di Matteo
Di Matteo was appointed caretaker-manager following Villas-Boas' departure at the end of last season. The Blues finished in sixth place in the Premier League, but Di Matteo finally gave Abramovich the European glory he had been craving.
After beating Liverpool in the FA Cup final, Chelsea went on to beat Bayern Munich on penalties in the Champions League final.
Chelsea added a number of high-profile players to the squad in the offseason, including Oscar and Eden Hazard, but Di Matteo was fired after a run of eight games in all competitions with only one win.


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Chelsea man thinks Arsenal star will struggle against Blues
PUBLISHED: 16:40 26 September 2012 | UPDATED: 17:29 26 September 2012
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Chelsea new boy Marko Marin has backed his side to keep Arsenal's Lukas Podolski quiet when they clash at the Emirates on Saturday.
Marin, who made his Chelsea debut in last night's 6-0 Capital One Cup thrashing of Wolves, has played alongside Arsenal's Podolski in the German national team.
While Marin has been hampered by injuries following his £7million summer switch from Werder Bremen, former Cologne man Podolski has netted three goals in six games for the Gunners.
But the Chelsea man thinks Blues defender Branislav Ivanovic will make things difficult for Podolski in Saturday's clash at the Emirates.
"I know Lukas from the national team and at the beginning it was all new to him but now he is doing well and has scored a few goals," Marin said.
"But we have a very good defence and Branislav [Ivanovic] will do very well at right-back.
"It will be hard for Lukas to play against him.
"Of course I am very confident [Chelsea can keep him quiet].
"I know Branislav very well, he is one of the best defenders in the Premier League. I am not scared about this."
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I have an 86 Island Packet 27 with a Yanmar 2GM20F. I keep losing prime to the raw water pump. I have moved my raw water strainer down to waterline, replaced all hoses, had the raw water pump rebuilt, and I continue to lose prime. My question is, can the raw water pump get too old to effectively be rebuilt? Should I just breakdown and buy a new ($400.00) water pump? It seems to happen when I am heeled over while sailing, not when I am upright and motoring. Wits End.
Does it happen on either tack, or just one? It sounds like the intake is coming out of the water, and that's why you're losing prime.
Rebuilt means replacing the impeller and the cam inside the pump ?
Island Packet says there is no way the thruhull comes out of the water on either tack
If you don't lose your prime when sailing or motoring flat, and you do when heeled, something is stopping the inflow of water.
Your pump is self priming. What's the problem?
Some discussion of problematic prime here:
http://www.sailnet.com/forums/gear-maintenance/39766-no-raw-water-flow-after-attempt-winterize-what-happened.html EDIT: Another thread: http://www.sailnet.com/forums/gear-maintenance/40056-engine-trouble.html |
I got a leak in my 85 2gm20f about Jan 1. the gasket went haywire. I did not have a gasket so found and made do with some gasket material. was too big, so no fluid would pump thru. Removed the gasket all together, and used some Tstat silicone tween the back and the main unit, and it works fine now. Unfortuneatly, had a small over heat issue last sunday in some 30-40 knot winds!
Otherwise, I am not sure what to say re losing the prime. As i was checking initially to see why no water would go thru. One of my tests, was to open the valve with the pump not connected, and water would flow up thru my hose. Next step was to see if any got to the inlet in the radiator part. Nothing. So that left the pump for me anyway, not working at all. Not sure why, other than maybe something is floating around in the inlet that you can not see, ie a rock, small sea shell type creature etc marty |
If your fresh water pump vains were damaged before rebuild you may have rubber pieces blocking the heat exchanger tubes.
How do you know you are lousing prime? If you are saying no water comes out the exaust when the motor is running, Then either the thru hull intake valve is closed, or the fresh water pump is bad or the power belt is loose or broke or the heat exchanger is clogged. Or your exaust elbow is cloged. I would look at the heatexchanger and the exaust elbow. Unless you have other info |
Could your impeller be fitted in wrong direction? I know the 2GM20F water pump (Johnson 810) doesn't follow the direction indicated on the pump cover plate. Mine is reverse.
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Kwacha's mission is to empower local communities, particularly youth, to elevate their economic and social status through the implementation of various development initiatives.
Organization Overview
Kwacha Afrika, an indigenous coastal phrase which means "Arise Afrika," is an organization that was founded by a group of young volunteers in 2000 who aimed to explore theater as a tool to build community awareness on issues of adolescence, reproductive health, and the negative impact of HIV/AIDS. It employs a participatory educational theatre (PET) approach to convey its messages. The organization has evolved from a purely theater-based organization to a broad resource center for behavioral change in the seven districts of the Coast Province. It is now an award-winning performance group.
Kwacha Afrika runs programs surrounding HIV/AIDS awareness, participatory education theatre outreach, microenterprise, and a girl's forum.


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Researchers in Tanzania have tapped into a novel resource for detecting tuberculosis (TB): giant rats. Using their olfactory acumen, these animals can differentiate between sputum samples from TB-infected and non-infected patients more accurately than current microscopy diagnostic techniques. Although somewhat unorthodox, these rats may eventually provide a fast, simple, and efficient method of first-line screening for TB.
In the December 2010 issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygine, Bart Weetjens, founder and development director of the social enterprise Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (APOPO) based in Tanzania, Africa, and colleagues reported on a study that found the use of sniffer rats improved TB detection by 44% over the use of microscopy alone. In the study, sniffer rats were presented with previously analyzed TB sputum samples collected from Direct Observation Treatment Short-Course (DOTS) centers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Out of 10,523 patient samples, the DOTS centers confirmed 1403 as TB-positive. The sniffer rats detected these 1403 TB-positive patients but also identified an additional 620 TB-positive patients. Samples identified as positive by the rats were all confirmed using microscopy using the Ziehl Neelson (ZN) method—a staining technique for TB testing that takes advantage of the ability of certain bacteria to resist acid de-staining procedures.
"Rat detection of TB is considered a second-line screen where samples that have been previously tested are collected from hospitals and then re-tested by rats," said Weetjens. "The real power in using rats is that they can process very large volumes of samples in a very short time. A technician can analyze 40 samples in a day, but a rat can do it in 7 minutes."
Although generally imperceptible to humans, sniffer rats with their keen sense of smell can detect minute quantities of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria responsible for TB, which emits a specific volatile compound with a characteristic tar-like odor.
"Rats have many advantages from a logistics point of view: they're easy to train, they require a low level of skill, they're easy to maintain, they don't require a lot of space or medical care, they're quite resilient to tropical diseases, they're a local and renewable resource, and they're cheaper to train than dogs," said Weetjens.
But despite the cost and time advantages, the African medical community has been reluctant to adopt rats in TB detection. "There's no real procedure for accrediting diagnostics like there is for drugs and clinical trials," says Weetjens.
In 2002, Weetjens was training the rats to sniff out landmines when he heard a World Health Organization announcement about the prevalence of TB in African. "They expected a steep increase in TB cases, going from 2 million to 8 million cases annually," he said. "Comparatively, there are 6000 to 10,000 landmine casualties annually. That immediately showed me the severity of this epidemic."
Africa comprises 13 of the 15 countries with the highest TB burden, with the epidemic exacerbated by the high incidence of HIV co-infection. In some sub-Saharan African countries, 80% of TB patients are also infected with HIV, but despite TB killing more HIV-infected people than any other disease, only 1% of these individuals are actually screened for TB.
Weetjens hopes that one day rat detection of TB will be used as a first-line screen. In the interim, he plans to expand the number of TB detection clinics from the current 7 to 26 if funding permits, as well as improve upon detection methods for second-line screening by training rats to detect TB in smear samples rather than sputum.
The paper "Using giant African rats to detect tuberculosis in human sputum samples: 2009 findings" was published in the December 2010 issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.


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California Drought: Why Farmers are 'Exporting Water' to China
While historic winter storms have battered much of the US, California is suffering its worst drought on record. So why is America's most valuable farming state using billions of gallons of water to grow hay – specifically alfalfa – which is then shipped to China?
By Alastair Leithead, February 18 2014.
The reservoirs of California are just a fraction of capacity amid the worst drought in the state's history. "This should be like Eden right now," farmer John Dofflemyer says, looking out over a brutally dry, brown valley as his remaining cows feed on the hay he's had to buy in to keep them healthy.
In the dried-up fields of California's Central Valley, farmers like Dofflemyer are selling their cattle. Others have to choose which crops get the scarce irrigation water and which will wither. "These dry times, this drought, has a far-reaching impact well beyond California," he said as the cattle fell in line behind his small tractor following the single hay bale on the back. "We have never seen anything like this before – it's new ground for everybody."
California is the biggest agricultural state in the US – half the nation's fruit and vegetables are grown here. Farmers are calling for urgent help, people in cities are being told to conserve water and the governor is warning of record drought. But at the other end of the state the water is flowing as the sprinklers are making it rain in at least one part of southern California. The farmers are making hay while the year-round sun shines, and they are exporting cattle-feed to China.
The southern Imperial Valley, which borders Mexico, draws its water from the Colorado river along the blue liquid lifeline of the All American Canal. It brings the desert alive with hundreds of hectares of lush green fields – much of it alfalfa hay, a water-hungry but nutritious animal feed which once propped up the dairy industry here, and is now doing a similar job in China. "A hundred billion gallons of water per year is being exported in the form of alfalfa from California," argues Professor Robert Glennon from Arizona College of Law. "It's a huge amount. It's enough for a year's supply for a million families – it's a lot of water, particularly when you're looking at the dreadful drought throughout the south-west."
Manuel Ramirez from K&M Press is an exporter in the Imperial Valley, and his barns are full of hay to be compressed, plastic-wrapped, packed directly into containers and driven straight to port where they are shipped to Asia and the Middle East.
Cheap water rights and America's trade imbalance with China make this not just viable, but profitable. "We have more imports than exports so a lot of the steamship lines are looking to take something back," Glennon says. "And hay is one of the products which they take back." It's now cheaper to send alfalfa from LA to Beijing than it is to send it from the Imperial Valley to the Central Valley. "We need to treat the resource as finite, which it is," he says. "Instead, most of us in the states, we think of water like the air, it's infinite and inexhaustible, when for all practical purposes it's finite and it's exhaustible."
Alfalfa farmer Ronnie Langrueber believes he's doing his bit to help the American economy out of recession. "In my opinion it's part of the global economy," he says, adding that only a fraction of the hay goes to China. "We have to do something to balance that trade imbalance, and alfalfa is a small part we can do in the Imperial Valley to help that."
He believes the whole "exporting water" argument is nonsense – that all agricultural exports contain water – and that there are few better uses for it. "Is it more efficient to use water for a golf course for the movie stars?" Langrueber said. "Or is it more efficient for farmers to use it to grow a crop and export it and create this mass economic engine that drives the country?"
Japan, Korea and the United Arab Emirates all buy Californian hay. The price is now so high that many local dairy farmers and cattle ranchers can't afford the cost when the rains fail and their usual supplies are insufficient.
Cattle rancher John Dofflemyer certainly sees it as exporting water abroad – he resents the fact hay is sent overseas. Hay trucks are a common sight heading north up the road from the Imperial Valley – despite the high prices, the cattle farmers have to buy what they can. Even with recent rains in northern California there's still a critical shortage of water. Drought is often an excuse for politicians to build dams or reduce environmental controls, but it's no long-term fix.
In those places awash with water – where global trade distorts the local market – decisions need to be made by those without something to gain. That's where it gets even more complicated.
See Alastair Leithead, California Drought, BBC News, February 18 2014.
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The painter Irma René Koen (neé Irma Julia Kohn) was born in Rock Island, IL (b. October 8, 1884-d. July 16, 1975). She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with prominent landscape painter Charles Francis Browne (1859-1920) and with leading Danish-American portraitist John Christen Johansen (1876–1964). Koen also spent summers painting in Massachusetts and Maine, most notably with the New Hope Circle Impressionists William Langson Lathrop (1859-1938) and the eminent teacher Henry Bayley Snell (1858-1943) at the Boothbay Harbor summer art colony and school in Maine. Koen painted here in Illinois, and briefly in California and New Mexico, as well as along the East Coast, and abroad in England (St. Ives, Cornwall, art colony), France, Africa, Asia, and Mexico, among other locales. She exhibited her vivid oil paintings, watercolors, and plein-air gouache landscape and genre scenes nationally and internationally at galleries and museums in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC, and in Paris and Mexico. This website is devoted Koen's life and art.
Irma René Koen exhibited and signed her paintings as "Irma Kohn" [prior to ca. 1926/27] and as "Irma Rene Koen" [after ca. 1926/27]. She also signed some works created in France and Africa as "Irma Roen" (sic) from 1923-24 which she exhibited in 1925 (Chicago & Dallas).
Her parents were Louis Kohn and Regina "Rena" Mosenfelder Kohn (Rock Island, IL).
Irma died on July 16, 1975.
Irma René Koen
"Gloucester in Autumn"
Oil on canvas, circa 1930 (approx. 36 x 40 in.)
Donated in memory of her father Louis Kohn to
Rock Island Public Library collection (IL) in 1943
~ Cynthia Wiedemann Empen, PhD
Independent Art Historian (American art and 19th-century visual culture)
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CAMELOT RESOURCES NL 1998-03-13 ASX-SIGNAL-G HOMEX - Perth +++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Directors of Teck Corporation and Camelot Resources are pleased to announce their agreement in principle to establish a new business to be known as Pacific Mining Corporation (PacMin) by consolidating ownership of all assets that are presently owned by Tack Corporation and Camelot Resources in Australia into Camelot. Teck Corporation will be issued with 343.2 million additional fully paid ordinary shares, plus 193 million redeemable convertible preference shares in consideration of the purchase of its 70% interest in the Tarmoola Joint Venture and its 6% stake in Northern Gold, so that it will hold approximately 75% of the ordinary issued capital of PacMin. Teck and Camelot will also seek to reach agreement on the transfer to PacMin at some date in the future of the existing exploration activities of Teck in South-East Asia. PacMin will have gold production from its wholly owned Tarmoola and Mt Gibson Mines and will continue to pursue the potential to commence production through the development of the Burnside Project in the Northern Territory, held through its subsidiary Northern Gold NL. Total gold production for the year from Tarmoola and Mt Gibson to December 1998 is forecast to exceed 180,000 ounces. The strategy for PacMin is to take advantage of current market circumstances to seek growth through both exploration success and the acquisition of advanced exploration properties and operating projects. PacMin will also seek to participate in the rationalisation of the Australian resources sector through mergers with other companies that have quality assets. It is proposed that Teck will appoint three of its senior executives, Dr Norman Keevil, Dr Klaus Zeitler and Mr Mike Lipkewich to the PacMin Board of Directors. The senior management of the Company will be formed from the combined executive teal-as of Camelot Resources and Teck Corporation, with Mr Steven Dean continuing in the role of Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. The restructure is subject to fulfilment of a number of conditions including approval by Camelot shareholders, FIRB approval, agreement on the restructure and establishment of new gold hedging facilities in PacMin, there being no material adverse change in the assets concerned prior to completion, and receipt of all necessary waivers from the Australian Stock Exchange and the Australian Securities Commission. Directors will also take this opportunity to propose to shareholders a consolidation of capital on a 1 for 5 basis and a conversion of Camelot Resources from a no liability company to a limited company. A meeting of shareholders of Camelot Resources will be called shortly to consider resolutions necessary to affect the reconstruction, including an Independent Expert's Report advising shareholders of Camelot on whether the terms of the proposal are fair and reasonable to non-associated shareholders. It is anticipated that the shareholders meeting to consider the reconstruction and establishment of PacMin will be held before 30 April 1998. Enquiries to: Dr Klaus Zeitler Mr Steven G Dean TECK CORPORATION CAMELOT RESOURCES NL Telephone: 0011 1 604 687 1117 Telephone: (08) 9321 0616 Mr Jim Craig MACQUARIE CORPORATE FINANCE Telephone: (03) 95655 8125 1


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The recent speech by Rupert Murdoch's son and heir, James Murdoch, in which he criticized the BBC for harming the free market in news, has sparked a tremendously useful debate. James Murdoch delivered the speech in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Thursday. It was widely reported in the British and other press on Friday, after which it lit up the blogosphere.
Let me say two things up front. First off, I contribute regularly to the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal. With that in mind, the reader can judge if my comments carry a pro-Murdoch bias. And secondly, I will perhaps disappoint some readers by saying that I found the speech highly intelligent, erudite and trenchant. Murdoch Jr. is
Speaking about the BBC's expansion into additional channels in various media, Murdoch Jr. described the BBC's "land grab" as "chilling." He said that, "in this all-media marketplace, the expansion of state-sponsored journalism is a threat to the plurality and independence of news provision, which are so important for our democracy."
He made the compelling point that "dumping free, state-sponsored news on the market makes it incredibly difficult for journalism to flourish on the Internet. Yet it is essential for the future of independent digital journalism that a fair price can be charged for news to people who value it." One can really pick any quote at random and, reading it, end up with an irresistible urge to cheer. How about this one: "As Orwell foretold, to let the state enjoy a near-monopoly of information is to guarantee manipulation and distortion. We must have a plurality of voices, and they must be independent. Yet we have a system in which state-sponsored media–the BBC in particular–grow ever more dominant."
It didn't take long for cynics on blogs and elsewhere to counter that here was a case of the kettle calling the pot black: one monopolist inveighing against another. But that is not, upon consideration, where Mr. Murdoch's argument seems to fall short. For although so much of what he says seems inspired common sense, when you lift your eyes away and look at the real world, things look a little less clear. The simple fact is, as everyone knows, the U.K. gets much better news all around, from state and commercial channels, as does Canada for example, than we do in the U.S. And everyone knows why: The very existence of a BBC or CBC forces commercial news purveyors to raise their game. The result is a higher aggregate level of news reporting and, most importantly, of news consumption.
I do not need to remind the reader of the BBC's flaws: the left-of-center bias in all things, the general drizzle effect of politically correct dust that settles on whatever topic it touches, its seemingly relentless anti-Western bias in anything resembling a clash of civilizations. There's a great deal to criticize. But have you listened to, say, the comedians on Radio 4 lately, as I do through podcasts on my laptop? They're as outspoken, even as raunchy, as anything that comes out of the mouths of Bill Maher or Jon Stewart, and often funnier. The BBC puts out a terrific product in general. The problem for Mr. Murdoch, as he seems to understand, is not that the BBC serves the public badly, but too well. For if the Beeb's expansion were badly done, it couldn't begin to successfully squeeze out commercial competitors.
We are confronted with an odd problem when state-run industries can actually outperform privately owned ones. In the first place, it is not meant to happen. The consumer is left in a perplexed state. If the consumer prefers the state-run product long enough, the end result can be most dangerous, as Mr. Murdoch points out: "We seem to have decided as a society to let independence and plurality wither. To let the BBC throttle the news market and then get bigger to compensate." But in Mr. Murdoch's paradigmatic free-enterprise universe, the consumer should not be asked to consume for higher political reasons, or for any other reason than simply choosing the best of what's offered. That is the point of privately owned competition. It is supposed to deliver the best. If the state does that, then so be it. Like the Pope, the consumer is infallible, is he not?
Here then is the rub. For as certainly as day follows night, if the Beeb delivers what people want, growth must ensue, as it should. There was a time when one couldn't say that–because broadcast media consumption could not be accurately measured. Plus, the Beeb had little competition. All that has changed. Not only do we know with some precision these days that Brits love to consume the state-run product in a highly competitive market, we also know that they generally don't object to paying the ad-hoc tax, the BBC license fee.
It's no good arguing that since the tax is mandatory, since television owners have no way to opt out, the system is an authoritarian system. In fact, the taxpayers elect the state freely and politicians can offer to scrap the BBC. They wouldn't last long if they did. Nor will it do to airily dismiss the Brits as feckless socialists with no backbone for being dependent on state-run institutions. To do so comes close to the Marxist principle of "the people are no good, disband the people."
Now let us turn our thoughts to the U.S. There's a great deal of thoroughly justified noise–much of which tends to be politically partisan–about the failures of the mainstream media, or "MSM" as bloggers call it. And this happens in an environment where no real equivalent exists to the CBC or BBC. (PBS simply doesn't compare in size, content or influence.) Despite a terrifically wide-open boisterous media environment, nobody can say that the overall quality of American news media output or consumption, especially consumption, is high enough. If it were, there wouldn't be so much critical noise. Criticism might be healthy but only if improvement results. A hundred years of critical hubbub with no rise in intellectual standards is just a lot of noise.
Let us admit that when it comes to culture, or intellectual culture, as opposed to entertainment, the free market simply doesn't deliver consistently or adequately. Too much pursuit of the maximum audience for maximum bucks leads to sound-bite news and down-market content. The sharpest talent inevitably follows the money, and quality moves down-brow. You end up with what we have now: the highly educated classes desperately trying to outperform one another in post-modern, ironic, gossip-consciousness. Conversely, from Moscow to Baghdad to Leipzig in the former East Germany, totalitarian systems kept up high standards in classical secular culture (however forcibly) and created a middle class with broadly elevated cultural tastes. It gives me no joy to say the above, but let us admit the facts.
I have commented before in this section on how the MSM has failed us, on why so many consumers opted for talk radio and alternative news sources. The pro-liberal MSM bias left over from the 1970s caused a natural backlash against the national media, not least against PBS, and ultimately deprived us of a truly national BBC equivalent. We all now assume that a public system equals a leftward bias, and that truly conservative media can only flourish on the free-market bandwidths. If so, we must conclude from the evidence that conservatism, especially of the mass-market variety, is synonymous with lowbrow cultural tastes à la Sarah Palin. And that public broadcasting is by its nature synonymous with multi-culti, multi-ethnic pan-sexual propaganda.
There is no law of nature that says it must be so. There is no reason why we cannot have a truly national state-owned broadcast network that supports conservative values, upholds classical culture, elevates tastes and standards among the general public–and among its commercial rivals. Yes, I know. What a crazy notion. But the BBC used to be entirely that way before the 1960s and '70s changed everything. Indeed, by all accounts, PBS used to be that way too in the postwar years. If Washington is hell-bent on spending our tax-dollars up the wazoo under both Republican and Democratic administrations, we might as well get a well-funded, truly representative national broadcast entity out of it.
Imagine the wondrous cultural effects: a more unified national self-identity; a new voice of America that links to ages past and reveres American achievements down the centuries; a cultural core into which immigrants can assimilate, that Americans can uphold and be reinforced by, that the world can look to as an example. And best of all, a news media standard that forces commercial rivals to raise their game. That would be real competition.
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"Comedian and Vancouver culture maven."-WestEnder "Sara is a peripatetic performer with an MA from Goldsmiths and a book, Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry, under her belt. She's restlessly creative and ebullient, moving from project to project with the same sense of dedication and enthusiasm." -Sean Cranbury – Granville Mag
Sara Bynoe likes to have fun.
She writes, acts, sings, performs, hosts, produces live events and likes to dance to early 90s dance music.
Sara trained as an actor at Studio 58 in Vancouver and has (briefly) worked with Sage Theatre, Boca Del Lupo, Upintheair Theatre, Solo Collective and the Walking Fish Festival.
Recently Sara completed a Masters Degree at Goldsmiths, University of London in Creative and Life Writing where she was tutored by some amazing writers including Blake Morrison, Maura Dooley and Bernadine Evaristo. At Goldsmiths Sara was shortlisted for the Pat Kavanagh Award for New Writers and hosted the launch of the Goldfish Literary journal.
While attending Goldsmiths Sara started writing a novel about a struggling actress who works as a street promoter and the strange relationship she develops with her boss who later becomes a male stripper. (Based on a true story, of course.) She is currently looking for an agent/ publisher for this quirky late coming of age story titled Quickie: The Quarter Life Crisis of Josephine Evans.
You might have heard about Sara because in 2000 she created the website www.TeenAngstPoetry.com: a comedic database of horrible poems people wrote when they were teenagers. The endeavor spun into hosting Teen Angst readings where adults share their embarrassing teenage poetry, journals, songs, letters and more. Then she edited an anthology Teen Angst: A Celebration of REALLY BAD Poetry (St. Martin's Press, 2005).
Teen Angst has been called 'Bloody Hilarious' (ION Magazine) and the book was nominated for a New York Library Association Books of Summer award. Teen Angst has taken Sara to the UK for the Latitude Festival, to the USA to perform at Bumbershoot and was also featured at the High Performance Rodeo and the Uno Festival in her home and native land.
Then Sara created a solo show called Sparkle Bunny: The Last Raver Dancing. This was performed in Calgary (Sage Theatre), Victoria and Vancouver (Fringe Festivals) where critics compared her comedic talents to those of Carol Burnett (Terminal City). Sara also made some silly YouTube videos where people actually think Sparkle Bunny is real and leave comments like, 'You make me want to kick a baby in the face, die raver die!' In 2011 a short film co-wrote by Sara Bynoe and Matthew Kowalchuck called Sparkle Bunny made it to the final 13 at the Crazy 8s film fest, although they did not get to make their film they are hoping to complete it this year.
Sara is very interested in fun based participatory art like Dance Dance Party Party. She was Den Mother for the Vancouver Chapter from 2008-2014. It's still running at the Mt Pleasant Community Centre.
In June of 2010 Sara created Say Wha?! Readings of Deliciously Rotten Writing. This is an alternative comedy show where performers (sometimes comedians, improvisors, actors, writers and local personalities) read from the very worst books they can find. Say Wha?! has been featured in the Courier, WE, CBC Radio, in the Vancouver Comedy Festival, Vancouver International Poetry Festival and the Olio Festival.
Sara Bynoe's career highlights include: the Teen Angst book launch at the KGB bar in NYC, selling out BAD GRAD at the High Performance Rodeo in 2006 then getting rejected at her own after party at the Ship and Anchor because the bar was too full, getting a guest role on an American TV show after she was told she was "not pretty enough for tv," packing the theatre at Bumbershoot 2008 and being quoted on NPR's All Things Considered.
Phewf. That's it. For now. If there's anything else you need to know about Sara Bynoe just e-mail her.