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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
A strange thing happened in Alberta on the way to that Conservative majority in Ottawa.
But while many of us in Alberta were working hard in any we we could trying to get that majority in Ottawa, a funny thing happened. We let our guard down and ignored what was happening in our own backyard as the party that most of us have supported for up to 40 years, the PCAA, became something other than what I would call conservative.
They started passing more nanny state laws, making government bigger, harming the economy by tinkering with electricity, land rights, royalties, spending more money than we have, going as far as to abolish law that their own party passed saying that they would not run deficits, and as we have seen of late have been involved in multiple (50+) shady dealings regarding donations and the soliciting of donations.
It is like I am back in 2006 but only this time it isn't the Liberals, it is the so called Progressive Conservative Party of my own province that are the culprits.
The PC's have gone off the rails conservatively, fiscally, ethically and after 40 yrs have run out of ideas on how to govern other than by increasing government size and power while claiming (how I enjoy it when my gov't lies to me) that it is either for our own good or that it is what 'Albertans have asked' them to do. They have lost sight of the line that exists between party and government and are treating Alberta as some type of fiefdom where they can spend our money at will and where party cronies are appointed to almost every board, agency, committee and position out there.(Mar, Hughes,and Charlebois being prominent examples)
Even the arrogance has reached a level that rivals that of the Liberals of '06.
The PC's rarely if ever admit that they are wrong; when confronted with details of illegal donations they are quick to blame those that gave the money rather than look to themselves, when promises of fixed election dates and judicial health inquiries get morphed into something not even close to the original promises they smile and say that they have 'fulfilled' those promises and paint anyone who suggests otherwise as angry. They go on a cross province taxpayer funded cabinet tours one week and then to Jasper the next meeting up with unelected PC candidates treating us as fools when they say that it is not campaigning or partisan. Even Thursdays budget is going to contain the whopper that our budget will be balanced in 2013, though I have yet to meet a single person who actually believes this to be true, the PC's will maintain that they're speaking the truth and because of their belief that they are the natural governing party of Alberta will also assume that Albertans will ignore their record/promises and will once again be sheep returning the PC's to power they feel that they are somehow entitled to hold.
Well sorry PCAA but it is not going to be that easy this time around. People are starting to pay attention and they don't like what they have been seeing. It is going to take more than some vague vacuous promises in a throne speech to get them to again vote PC in the hope that this time a PC government will somehow be different.
We in Alberta do not change governments often, but when we do, we do so in spectacular fashion. Lets hope that in election 2012 that we can do so again and reclaim our government back from a PC party that can't manage to balance a budget with $100 oil and takes its citizens for granted by ignoring them and treating them as idiots with their political games and ridiculous spin. This is no longer the party of Lougheed or even Klein and for the first time that I can remember people are openly speaking of change and after 40 yrs of one party rule the time for change may have again arrived.
So to my readers who come here looking for something related to federal politics I would like to apologize in advance for the lack of posts on the federal scene as something happened in Alberta on the way to getting that Conservative majority in Ottawa and I have to turn my attention to Alberta for the next few months and try to change what I and many others here have ignored for far too long. Our own government.
Comments are always welcome but as I have been attracting plenty of attention lately from PC staffers and party hacks (they don't like it when their fiefdom gets challenged and their BS gets called out) comment moderation will be turned on. Sad really because even during the last 3 federal elections the left wing trolls didn't post half as many vulgar comments as these so called conservatives have.
15 comments:
- Natasha said...
Here's hoping you guys oust Red Ali and her group of CINOs. Ontario failed to get rid of one of the most unpopular premiers in a long time (though that was mostly Hudak's fault for being such weak competition). Of course, Alberta isn't Ontario, so I'm hopeful a true conservative party -- Wildrose -- will lead the way.
- Wed Feb 08, 09:15:00 AM
Well I for one will be voting for the Wildrose Party....Ms Redford is just itching to raise taxes and Iam not in favour of that move
- Wed Feb 08, 09:20:00 AM
- Roy Elsworth said...
you guys in alberta get rid of redford bye electing wild rose alliance and in B.C were gonna have a Conservative uprising it is happening now the bc liberals are being replaced bye the bc conservatives we could see a conservative official opposition with an NDP minority government or a Conservative minority. hopefully better but things are happening in BC rite now to.
- Wed Feb 08, 09:28:00 AM
So which party will you support?
- Wed Feb 08, 09:54:00 AM
- Ardvark said...
The one that will not raise my taxes or plan to make government bigger and more intrusive.
Since there is only 1 party out there that fits this description it should be clear who gets my vote.
- Wed Feb 08, 09:59:00 AM
Be careful what you wish for. Vote splitting is perilous.
In BC in 1972 and 1996 we got a NDP gov´t which thrust BC into two separate decades of decline.
The governing BC Liberal Party, now very unpopular, has been a coalition of Conserv and Libs and now John Cummins is reviving the old provincial carcass of the BC Conservatives.
It´s very existence will split the next vote and fully insert the NDP back into government in BC.
Alberta, carry on at your peril. WRP will require more than one election to win the popular vote. Do you really want to risk that?
- Wed Feb 08, 10:44:00 AM
The missing bits......
Big difference of course is that you are only pushing back against the PC party.... not the provincial NDP.
- Wed Feb 08, 11:40:00 AM
- wilson said...
thanks for your warning, but I don't see a "risk".
Unless you are suggesting a possible coalition of losers between Redford and the Libs/NDP?
In that case, a Wildrose majority is absolutely Albertan's only option.
I am 110% behind Wildrose,
leader Danielle Smith and her highly qualified candidates are ready to govern.
- Wed Feb 08, 12:12:00 PM
- Blame Crash said...
Oh I can just imagine the rage that many of the slop-trough PC's have to anyone who shows any kind of dissent to their iron fisted rule. Being under threat is a new thing for them and it shows. The though of losing the easy life is absolutely horrifying, especially when the books are thrown wide open and they show everyone what has really been going on and who's been naughty and who's been very naughty.
The PC Gravy Train is now a Runaway Train and it needs to be derailed in the upcoming election. If we don't, all of these new left-wing fair-weather PC Coalitionistas will do it for us, but only after they've gone off the rails by burying the next generation in massive debt.
It's "Time's Up" for both the new and old PC's.
- Wed Feb 08, 04:08:00 PM
- Blame Crash said...
Great post by the way. I'm sure all the usual suspects are not going to be very amused.
- Wed Feb 08, 04:11:00 PM
- Ardvark said...
Re-posting this comment with a the hideous typos corrected.
Sue: The vote splitting angle is one that I hear all of the time related to BC but not much for Alberta. While there may be something to it I personally could not hold my nose and vote for a party that has abandoned me and basic conservative ideals just to stop another party from sneaking in. No party is worth it IMHO.
As for your comment on it taking more than one election for the WRP to gain power; you may be correct on that and it may be the best thing in the long term for the WRP for them to become the official opposition, perhaps in a minority situation, but I can't let that be the deciding factor in how I will vote. As I noted in the post, we don't change governments often in Alberta, but when we do, we do so in spectacular fashion. I am hoping that in 2012 that we do so again.
- Wed Feb 08, 07:24:00 PM
- Thucydides said...
This just goes to show how important it is to clean house. Progressives taking over the party is one thing, but you also need to contend with the Bureaucracy, Academia and the Legacy Media in Alberta.
Electing Wildrose party candidates will be a good first step, but the bureaucracy needs to be pruned and many powers removed, Alberta's education system needs to be closely looked at to see where pockets of Progressive indoctrination are lurking (and funding needs to be removed from there and applied to parental control and student funding as opposed to institutional funding in higher education), and the Legacy media needs to be called on their BS and fought directly with advertiser boycotts. And that is just the start.
Best of luck to you Ardvark, and all your friends. I lived in Calgary back in the 80's and thought it was a wonderful change from Ontario.
- Wed Feb 08, 08:16:00 PM
Wildrose may not win the next election, but once people take some time from their busy lives to see what's really going on, I don't see why the WA can't win the next election after that. Vote splitting? Possibly. But it's short term pain for long term gain. If there's any province where a small-c conservative party can win, it's Alberta. I'm in Ontario but if I were an Albertan I would definitely vote WA in the next election.
- Wed Feb 08, 09:00:00 PM
It's not that Albertans can't understand what's happening - they just don't want to.
IMHO the PC's new MO is that of a spousal abuser "I wouldn't hurt you if I didn't love you."
- Thu Feb 09, 10:42:00 AM
Redford's claim that she and PC's are "listening" to Albertans is a sham.
Reminds me of the old saying "Don't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes."
AB PC's take-away: That way you'll have his shoes and be a mile away from him.
- Thu Feb 09, 12:39:00 PM


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President Obama today carries on the White House tradition of pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey, as well as its "alternate." But for the first time, the White House is letting the public decide which turkey gets top billing.
The White House is encouraging people to go to its Facebook page to vote for their favorite turkey -- Cobbler or Gobbler -- by "liking" and then "sharing" their pick.
"Born on the same day on a farm in Rockingham Country, Virginia, Cobbler and Gobbler may look alike, but they're no birds of a feather," the White House wrote on its blog. "Cobbler craves cranberries, is known for his strut, and enjoys the musical stylings of Carly Simon. Gobbler, a patient but proud bird, loves to nibble on corn and enjoys any music with a fiddle."
The winner will be announced at the pardoning ceremony at 2 p.m. ET.
According to the White House's "definitive history" of turkey pardons, Americans have been sending the president holiday turkeys since the 1800's. In 1947, the White House started holding official turkey receiving ceremonies in the Rose Garden. The tradition of sparing the turkey's life may date as far back as the Lincoln administration, but not every bird was let off the hook -- both Presidents Eisenhower and Johnson ate the turkeys presented to them. When President Kennedy's 1963 turkey came with a sign around its neck that said, "Good Eatin', Mr. President," the president decided to let him live.
President George H.W. Bush was the first president to officially pardon a turkey. "Let me assure you, and this fine Tom Turkey, that he will not end up on anyone's dinner table - not this guy," Mr. Bush said in 1989. "He's granted a presidential pardon as of right now -- and allow him to live out his days on a children's farm not far from here."
Whether Cobbler or Gobbler "wins" today, both birds will be sent to George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens to live out the rest of their days in a custom-made enclosure. The White House has sent the Thanksgiving turkeys to Mount Vernon since 2010, but just one of the four turkeys sent there -- "Liberty," who was pardoned by Mr. Obama in 2011 -- is still alive and "continues to thrive," Mount Vernon spokesperson Rebecca Aloisi told CBSNews.com. Liberty's companion, Peace, fell ill recently and was humanely euthanized, she said.
Judy Pederson of Frying Pan Park in Virginia -- a farm which until recently took in the "pardoned" turkeys -- told CBSNews.com that the turkeys typically die shortly after leaving the White House. "They're bred to taste good, not to live long," she said, explaining that the turkeys are usually too fat to survive more than a month or two after the Thanksgiving ceremony.
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), meanwhile, sent a letter to the White House, asking the president to skip the "pardoning" ceremony. The event, PETA said in a release, "makes light of the slaughter of millions of birds and is essentially an endorsement of the environmentally destructive factory farming industry."


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Ten of the 14 SEC schools had a member on the first-team All-SEC squad. Alabama led with six, while Florida had five and Texas A&M with four.
LSU, South Carolina and Texas A&M had five total members on the annual list, while Mississippi State was next with four total selections.
Coaches were not permitted to vote for their own players.
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TE - Mychal Rivera, Tennessee
OL - Luke Joeckel, Texas A&M
Chance Warmack, Alabama
D.J. Fluker, Alabama
Jake Matthews, Texas A&M
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WR - Cobi Hamilton, Arkansas
Jordan Matthews, Vanderbilt
QB - Johnny Manziel, Texas A&M
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Eddie Lacy, Alabama
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Sam Montgomery, LSU
Damontre Moore, Texas A&M
Sharrif Floyd, Florida
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C.J. Mosley, Alabama
Kevin Minter, LSU
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Matt Elam, Florida
Eric Reid, LSU
Johnthan Banks, Mississippi State
PK – Caleb Sturgis, Florida
P – Kyle Christy, Florida
RS – Ace Sanders, South Carolina
TE - Jordan Reed, Florida
OL - Larry Warford, Kentucky
Gabe Jackson, Mississippi State
Chris Burnette, Georgia
Dallas Thomas, Tennessee
C - T.J. Johnson, South Carolina
WR - Ryan Swope, Texas A&M
Justin Hunter, Tennessee
QB - AJ McCarron, Alabama
RB - Todd Gurley, Georgia
Zac Stacy, Vanderbilt
AP - Ace Sanders, South Carolina
DL - Barkevious Mingo, LSU
Sheldon Richardson, Missouri
John Jenkins, Georgia
Corey Lemonier, Auburn
LB - A.J. Johnson, Tennessee
Jon Bostic, Florida
*Cameron Lawrence, Mississippi State
*Alec Ogletree, Georgia
DB - D.J. Swearinger, South Carolina
Bacarri Rambo, Georgia
Robert Lester, Alabama
Darius Slay, Mississippi State
PK - Drew Alleman, LSU
P - * Dylan Breeding, Arkansas
* Richard Kent, Vanderbilt
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Nobody celebrates fall like Half Moon Bay, Calif., a.k.a. the World Pumpkin Capital.
On Saturday and Sunday it hosts its annual (now in its 43rd year) Art & Pumpkin Festival, featuring a display of Volkswagen-size champion pumpkins, the Great Pumpkin Parade (noon Saturday) with grand marshal J.T. Snow, a San Francisco Giant fan favorite; live music; a Haunted House; a new zip line; 5k and 10k Pumpkin Runs and more than 3,000 tons of pumpkins waiting to be picked from patches around town.
You can also get your fill of the orange orb with a number of pumpkin-flavored treats (new this year -- warm pretzels with a pumpkin sauce and pumpkin seeds) as well as stews, roasted turkey legs and chili. Even local brewer Half Moon Bay Brewing Co. gets into the act with its Mavericks Pumpkin Harvest Ale made with locally grown pumpkins.
Half Moon Bay showcases its creative side with the "Made on the Coast" Locals Block, featuring the creative works of area painters, photographers, potters and jewelry makers, among others. New to "Made on the Coast" on Sunday is a book and authors booth.


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Cooler Master Storm Scout Review
Choosing a new case can be a simple task, a few easy steps can be to inspect the interior and exterior, make sure it has a proper cooling system, and most of all, make sure it fits your needs. If you're an average Joe, maybe any case will suffice...maybe. Some enthusiasts prefer full tower cases to house all of their expensive gear, or maybe they'd settle for a tech station. Now, if you're a gamer, specifically an avid LAN gamer, you might be in luck. Today we will be looking at another offering from Cooler Master's Storm lineup. In case you didn't know, both the Storm Sniper and Storm Scout are engineered with Storm Tactics, a dedicated focus on strength, security, and control. The Storm line from Cooler Master assists in offering true LAN-ready gaming chassis, specializing in mobilization and security. Let's take a closer look and see if Cooler Master can back up its words.
Closer Look:
The Cooler Master Storm Scout comes shipped in a large box with a law enforcement-style theme. The front of the box features the front panel of the Scout case along with the Cooler Master Storm logo and motto, "Swift Intelligence - Secure Mobilization." The back of the box has a figure that reminds me of a character from the game Killzone. The top left hand corner has a Storm Tactics approval label; this ensures unbeatable, secure reliability. At the bottom left hand corner are approvals from professional gaming teams, which include Team Fanatic, Kode5, and MouseSports. Last, but not least, you have the features of the case, as well as a few pictures. The specifications table is located to the side of the case, as well as a full body shot of the case to opposite side.
The packaging is like that of any other case, it comes packed with Styrofoam on each end to protect the case during shipping, and comes wrapped in a plastic bag to prevent scratches or harm.
Along with the Scout case, you also get an installation manual, bags of assorted screws, zip ties, washers, 5.25" to 3.5" meshed panel, sliding rails, and two HDD brackets.


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Oyster River Superintendent of Schools Dr. James C. Morse, Sr.'s response, published on Dec. 1, is misleading, deceptive, and woefully incomplete; and according to statements publicly made by Newmarket Superintendent of School Jamie Hayes, which are contradictory, possibly untrue.
While Dr. Morse addresses the allegation of "secret meetings" in his response, he failed to address the more serious allegation of "illegal meetings designed specifically to circumvent Right to Know laws."
Dr. Morse informs readers that the meeting of "representatives" occurring on Octo. 22 was "open, cordial, honest, and forthright" and that the purpose was to discuss "openly" accepting tuition students from Newmarket.
The assertions by Dr. Morse that the meeting was cordial, honest, and forthright may be true but are irrelevant and inconsequential. However, for Dr. Morse to state the meeting was "open" and its purpose to "openly" discuss … does matter because those assertions are untrue.
The preamble to NH Right to Know laws says it all: "Openness in the conduct of public business is essential to a democratic society."
Where is the agenda for the meeting occurring on Oct. 22? Where are the minutes? When and where was the meeting posted 48 hours before the meeting occurring? Why was the meeting held at the SAU office and why was it not recorded?
Simply stating that he announced the meeting for two months and had it posted on the ORSD School Board agenda that representatives of Oyster River would be meeting with representatives of Newmarket, even if true, fails to satisfy Right to Know Law, ORSD policy, and thus the meeting was illegal.
Likewise, ORSB has no authority to authorize its members or superintendent to participate in any meetings which would violate RTK laws.
The ORSB certainly can direct Dr. Morse to have discussions with surrounding communities regarding any issue they desire. However, the manner in which Dr. Morse carries out that directive must be in compliance with state laws and local school board policy.
Dr. Morse should have been on Newmarket School Boards' agenda or Dr. Hayes on Oyster River's where each could have spoken publicly to the board; the board could have discussed it openly etc. This is how the system is supposed to work.
Attempting to justify the illegal meeting by discussing the important work of the long-range planning committee and addressing declining enrollment projections is disingenuous.
With statements like: "should recommendations be made, they will be made in public with the full knowledge of the citizens." Dr. Morse speaks as if the residents of Durham, Lee, and Madbury exist only on a need-to-know basis with him as the decider of what they need to know; this is troubling.
Superintendent Morse should not shoulder the blame alone; every member of the OR school board who attended the meeting on the Oct. 22, as well as those who knew it was taking place and failed to take a stand in favor of residents Right to Know share equally in the blame.
Regarding the validity of my assertions of multiple secret meetings having taken place, and Dr. Morse's adamant denial, Dr. Hayes has previously stated that he, along with NMSB member Chet Jablonski, facilities committee member Eric Bottermen and others met with representatives from ORSD to include the chairman of the school board and others, where they discussed a merger and jointly decided to hire a consultant to analyze the prospects of a merger.
Being "intimately aware" of what has transpired between Oyster River and Newmarket school systems, perhaps Dr. Morse can confirm or deny if any such meeting took place and if so, provide the minutes of the meeting.
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Pet Beds: Cozy Dens for Furry Friends
You're happy with your home decor. The pillows and accessories are just right. The color palette has good vibes. But. There's fur everywhere from your four-legged friend! Many times, keeping fur off your sofa is as easy as giving them a more attractive alternative like a den or bed of their own. Cats and dogs will feel safe and cozy, and less inclined to spread fur all over your fantastic sofa.
As cats and dogs are particular about location, place your pet den at a good spot near the offending location like the sofa, bed or armchair. In addition to fur management, some of these pieces double as furniture! Photo 1 is also a side table, and Photo 2 is an ottoman. Photos 3, 4 and 5 may not double as furniture, but their advantage is their compact size and washability.
Shown above from left to right:
1. Igloo Wicker End Table Dog Bed, $176.26 from Mibella Living
2. Pet Ottoman Den, $249.00 from Front Gate
3. Cute colorful small puppy dog cat pet house kennel bed SML, $16.99 from Lovepet789
4. Petco Pyramid Cat Bed in Black & Brown, $29.99 from Petco
5. AlphaPooch Napper Cat Den, Black Berry Branch Fabric with Black Solid Interior, $29.99 from Alpha Pooch
• Only the Best for Your Pet: Stylish & Eco Friendly Beds
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This package contains a generic transaction implementation for Python. It
is mainly used by the ZODB, though.
Note that the data manager API, transaction.interfaces.IDataManager, is
syntactically simple, but semantically complex. The semantics were not
easy to express in the interface. This could probably use more work. The
semantics are presented in detail through examples of a sample data manager
in transaction.tests.test_SampleDataManager.
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Security continues to be one of the hottest topics in IT. The Internet and protocols such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and XML have driven constant-connection computing to new levels. And as new technologies make your systems more accessible, the threat from viruses and intruders has never been greater. Here are seven steps to setting up better security for your SQL Server systems.
7. Establish Physical Security
Physical security means that your SQL Server system is running in a controlled-access environment in which only approved personnel have physical access to the system. If you don't have physical security, you don't have a secure system.
6. Give SA a Strong Password
You must ensure that the sa account has a strong password. If your SQL Server sa account isn't password-protected or uses a weak password such as "password," your system and possibly your entire network are easy prey for intruders.
5. Strengthen Your Firewall
To stop direct Internet access to your SQL Server system, block TCP port 1433 and UDP port 1434 at your firewall. Also, block any other ports you're using (e.g., for multiple instances). This one action would have stopped the SQL Slammer worm.
4. Enable Windows Authentication
Windows authentication provides stronger cross-network security than the mixed SQL Server security model. With Windows authentication, you don't need to embed logins and passwords in the application code where intruders can find them. Windows authentication also helps prevent Internet intrusions by allowing access only to domain accounts.
3. Limit Special Accounts' Rights
Set up special accounts, such as MSSQLServer and SQL Agent, to run as Windows domain users with regular user privileges, not as administrators. Many exploits target these accounts, so your network's at risk if these services have more authority than necessary. When you're setting up security, remember the principle of least privileges: Don't assign more rights than any account or service needs. If you don't need SQL Agent, reduce your attack surface by not running it.
2. Apply SP3a
The newest service packs always include the latest security fixes. Network intrusions often originate well after known problems and fixes are published. However, when creating exploits, crackers count on many organizations never applying the fixes.
1. Run a Security Analyzer
Several tools, such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer, scan your network and servers for known security exposures, including those I've mentioned here. The tool you use isn't important, but instituting a regular routine of scanning for security problems and fixing them before someone else finds them is.
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The 2013 TransAM Premier Resort Award goes to Park City Mountain Resort
Every park manager and crew will tell you that kicking off a nine stop contest tour with the first build is always the hardest. No one really wants to step up first because everyone after you will have the advantage of seeing what you built, having more snow, dedicating more time and labor, and striving to make your build look second rate. After all, the TransWorld SNOWboarding TransAm Premier Resort Award is on the line, with every resort in competition to have the best stop on tour. Luke Mathison and the Waterville Valley Park Crew are anything, but second rate. They gladly step out in front of everyone to kick off the tour with the intentions of doing the best they can do regardless of what is built at the other locations to follow. The respect is in their dedication to making such awesome features as the Zumiez Couch close out rail set up. Of course Mathison kicked off the tour with other awesome features that served as an example of how to build a fun set up, but the couch close out in particular was epic, take a look back at the pictures for proof.
Each builder is given a list of key ingredients for what each feature should entail, but how they use those ingredients is up to them. Mark Tremain took his build one step further that other resorts tried to emulate and he personally made sure sponsors took note. His hand made wooden bar set up put a whole new twist on the Ride Snowboards "Get Buck Wild" feature. Riders could ride through the wild western double door and slide across the top of the old western bar. The amount of time and hard work that Tremain put into that feature was a standard set for the rest of the stops and builds. Jeremy Anderson and the Seven Springs Crew fought Mother Nature and her warm temperatures relentlessly to make a course out of one hundred percent man made snow. Anderson was not backing down to anyone and proved that with his rendition of the Coal Headwear combination feature. The feature stood alone in the corner of the park with a huge up rail to wooden hitching post to a large down box. It had riders flipping sometimes unwillingly.
Onward we traveled to Minnesota and Powder Ridge. Michael Weiner made it all happen with a very limited crew and build time. He worked over night to smooth things out for the contest stop. Weiner can build wooden stairs on the fly like a true carpenter. He set up his signature wooden stairs next to the Giro Helmets down rail that gave the illusion of an actual urban set up. Kevin Laverty and the Keystone Park Crew were hungry for the best build award and they spent countless hours in the rocky mountain sunshine perfecting their set up. It dumped snow the day of the contest, which was a blessing for the resort. Laverty pulled out the huge metal corrugated drainage pipe that could be ridden through the middle or hit from the side. It was a feature of epic proportions and turned heads as the contest tour moved west. The meat and potatoes portion of the tour was in full serving with park crews getting bigger and snow in abundance as we traveled west. Mt. Bachelor is known for powder filled days more than you can count on both hands and feet. It puked through the weekend, but Parker Bohon and the Bachelor Park Crew were dead set on giving everyone a run for their money. Bohon built the first snow boom box that held the Skullcandy cassette tape, a feature that would later be emulated by Bear. Most notably, Bohon took the Anon feature and put it into a redirect feature so that you could hit it going up and down.
In sunny Northstar California, Mike Schipani built a castle-sized course that could not contain the wildest of riding beyond its walls. Schipani made the course rideable from every angle and spread around the Muscle Milk feature for all the kids to enjoy. The fence pieces could be ridden or ollied over and the Tower of Triumph could be topped off even by the smallest of groms. Everyone looked ahead to Bear to see what Clayton Shoemaker and the Bear Park Crew would put together to defend their Premier Resort title. Shoemaker took the boom box one step further with a dedicated huge wall ride with antenna and speakers that the Skullcandy Cassette tape sat in. The Bear crew took everything that screamed Bear and put it into the TransAm Park. It would again be the park to beat and Jeremy Cooper from Park City I am sure knew it. Cooper had started his build plans months ago, contacting me to get the layout details while on the road transporting a rail to be used in a morning show in NYC. Cooper knew finals would be big at Park City and he also knew Shoemaker was gunning to silence any questions on who would get the Premier Resort Award this tour.
We would get to Park City days before the contest to realize Cooper had gone insane. His crew was hand shaping a skate bowl on snow from top to bottom. It was like a skate park on snow and the result was something that left an impression on the moon. Cooper set the bar higher than we could have even imagined proving Park City was not just a catchy name. The Sanuk wave at the top corner of the bowl had a C rail at an angle for riders to jib across the lip of the wave. Riders would criss cross throughout the bowl under the Utah sun and we were not only amazed by the riding, but by rideability of the set up. With smiles bigger than the High Cascade Snowboard Camp Marshmallow the riders from across the nation faced off in a flawless park build. Speed was kept throughout the course not just from the plethora of Wend Wax, but because each transition was meticulously hand crafted. Congratulations Jeremy Cooper and Park City, you are this season's TransWorld SNOWboarding TransAm Premier Resort Award winners. We will be back next year with a new round of features and a renewed build off between the greatest park builders across the nation.


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Here, illustrator Ciara Phelan shows you how to hone your cut-out skills to prepare images for collaging. You'll also learn some handy tricks to give your images a vintage look.
You will learn how to adjust the contrast and colour levels as well as shifting the channels to create a litho printed effect – a very useful technique to learn as it can be applied to imagery you have sourced yourself, making it appear to be from a 1950s journal.
This gives you flexibility with the images you can use, saving you hours of trawling through old magazines and encyclopedias. This tutorial focuses on transforming the photograph of the stag in the above example, but these techniques have been used on all elements in this artwork.
Step 1
Open the image of the stag in Photoshop. As the stag will be used in a collage you need to isolate it from its surroundings – select the Pen tool, and on the toolbar along the top select Paths. Zoom into the image and use the Pen tool to draw a path around the stag.
Step 2
Once you have created a cutout path select Window > Paths. In the dropdown menu of the path dialog box, click Make Selection. In the box that appears, change the feather radius to 0 and tick New Selection; click OK to create a marquee selection around the image.
Step 3
Now that just the stag is selected, copy and paste it into a new A4 CMYK document, with the resolution set to 300dpi. (Edit > Copy, then File > New, then Edit > Paste, or Cmd/Ctrl + C, Cmd/Ctrl + N, Cmd/Ctrl + V).
Step 4
Vintage imagery tends to have a higher contrast than digital. To create this effect click Image > Adjustments > Curves. Change the curve line from straight to a slight S. This brings out the white and makes the shadows darker. To add more contrast you can also adjust the levels to bring out the black and whites. Select Image > Adjustments > Levels. Slide the arrows inwards to add more contrast.


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FAQ Guide: Data Backup & Security Pain Points
Storage admins know how important securing their backed up and stored data is, but even though it's important, it's still rather challenging.
This expert FAQ Guide can help you sort out your data backup and encryption confusions and frustrations. Read on now to find the answers to questions about:
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Don't be a victim of today's blame and claim culture
People who receive medical attention now have a greater awareness of their rights to receive quality care.
If the standards are not met, they are more likely to persue claims for negligence against health care professionals or companies, very often resulting in expensive court actions.
PIA Commercial are experts in arranging Medical Malpractice and Legal defence insurance and are also able to provide specialist in house advice and assistance.
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We all like to eat, drink and be merry.
It is in that vein that today we welcome you to the inaugural Best of Bluffton-Restaurant edition.
We separated the places to eat, drink and be merry from the rest of the Best of Bluffton categories after careful consideration and a lot of discussion.
The decision to separate restaurants, signature drinks, dishes and other food-related categories made sense after looking through a Best of Bluffton ballot that had nearly 100 questions.
Focusing on where people like to spend time hanging out with friends, trying new food and learning about new cuisine is fun.
Food can be fun.
We all have limited disposable income so when it comes to spending it out at a restaurant or at the local farmers market getting fresh food to use to prepare a meal, we wanted to know where people go the most or like the best - if they had to choose. And choose they did.
We had more than 2,000 people vote for their favorites. We thank you for that. Your favorites also will appreciate that vote of confidence.
We hope you enjoy the section. Lowcountry resident and food expert Sue Ade was a perfect choice when it came to writing about food, restaurants and service.
We appreciate your support and feedback.


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Janet Long Trinkaus, 76, of Bellingham, Wash., was born Mother's Day, May 9, 1937, the second daughter to Nellie (Biggs) Long and Paul E. Long and the third granddaughter of Theresa Miriam (Blitz) and George Newhart Biggs of Stroudsburg.
Janet spent her first nine years in Wilson Borough. Her father always called her "Butch," a nickname that stuck with her. Her family relocated to Pottsville and then New Kensington, where she graduated from New Kensington High School. As a child, Janet spent many summers at Camp Hagan, a Lutheran camp, in Shawnee-on-Delaware, as did her sisters and female cousins.
The Long girls took piano lessons, but Janet was the one who did extremely well and subsequently studied music at Westminister College. She transferred to Syracuse University, where she majored in business administration. On July 3, 1959, she married George Belden Trinkaus Jr. at St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Syracuse, N.Y. She had met him while he was a student at Colgate University. They moved to New York City, where Janet began her business career at PepsiCo world headquarters in Manhattan. Their son, Stephen Long Trinkaus, was born Jan. 1, 1965. She moved from Greenwich Village with her son after her divorce.
Janet and Carl Meyer owned a furniture manufacturing business in Morristown, N.J., and later owned and operated a restaurant in Killington, Vt., much to the delight of her skiing friends and family.
In 1981, she relocated with her son to Washington state, where she briefly lived on a farm, was involved with commercial real estate and managed Overlake Radiation Oncology.
In 1988, she founded Rise n' Shine, a nonprofit agency which supports children and families who are affected by HIV/AIDS. She continued to serve as Rise n' Shine's founding director until the end of her life. During her tenure at Rise n' Shine, she received many accolades for her accomplishments. On the 20th anniversary, the focus was expanded and renamed Inspire Youth Project. The strength this nonprofit leaves behind will assure that Janet's legacy of helping children in need will live on.
Janet is survived by her son, Stephen Trinkaus and his wife, Jillian Suzanne (Shellenberger); her grandson, Cody Alexander Trinkaus; and her sister, Nancy Long Stratford and her husband, Ray. She was predeceased by a younger sister, Mary Katherine Long Sickmond.
There will be a celebration of her life Thursday, Aug. 15, at Seattle's Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle.
Memorial donations may be sent to Inspire Youth Project, 417 23rd Ave. S., Seattle, WA 98144.
Janet Long Trinkaus
Janet Long Trinkaus, 76, of Bellingham, Wash., was born Mother's Day, May 9, 1937, the second daughter to Nellie (Biggs) Long and Paul E. Long and the third granddaughter of Theresa Miriam (Blitz) and George Newhart Biggs of Stroudsburg.


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As the summer approaches and most sensible people around here turn their thoughts to the lake or the links or a patio on Corydon Avenue, Kevin Cheveldayoff has a more than a few meaningful jobs on his to-do list for the off-season.
One of the primary tasks at hand will be to decide precisely how to handle the RFA status of Ondrej Pavelec. The 24 year old is coming off of a season where the local media anointed him the team MVP, but a deeper look at his performance suggests that the team shouldn't be too hasty in signing Pavelec to an expensive deal.
Performance In Context
Before I proceed any further, exhibiting a degree of caution when signing any goalie always seems in order, given the wild swings in SV% that so many NHL netminders post from season to season, and this playoff season is replete with object lessons showing the folly of presuming that an expensive goalie guarantees consistent output.
Marc-Andre Fleury, Ilya Bryzgalov, and Corey Crawford were amongst the notable goalies that scuffled this year and all of them continued their shaky play in round one, with the Penguins stopper the worst offender. Those three gents play for wealthy teams that might be able to bury their mistakes at some juncture, but not every team has that luxury when things sour in the net (cough Steve Mason cough).
The Jets, nice financial numbers from this year aside, don't appear to be the sort of team that would send a player off to Europe to burn off a few years of a lousy deal, a la Cristobal Huet, so the need for the club to get matters right on contracts is more acute than it might be for some of the league's high rollers.
Beyond Winnipeg's state as a middling earner, though, there are a number of on-ice factors that would make me a bit leery of tossing a big pile of cash towards Pavelec over the long term. Since he's only played about 190 games in the NHL, it isn't the worst idea to examine his performance before he reached the bigs to give a fuller picture of his performance to this point.
Pavelec's first full AHL season was 07/08, where he was the primary goalie on the Calder Cup champions. He posted a .911 SV% in 52 games, placing him 18th among goalies that played at least 25 games, which certainly isn't anything special. By way of comparison, Jaroslav Halak managed a .929 SV% in 28 games for a Hamilton team that finished 11th in the Western Conference that season.
In 08/09, Pavelec improved to a .914 SV% in 40 outings, a number was once again only good enough for the 18th best performance by AHL goalies that played at least 25 games. Cory Schneider finished that season with a league leading .928 SV%, so Pavelec still seemed to finish quite a ways up the track relative to the league's elite tenders.
One thing of note is that AHL EVSV% aren't as readily available as in the NHL, so there's always the chance that Chicago was a terrible PK team that drove his overall percentages down. The Wolves were the 7th best PK team in 07/08, but in Pavelec's better season of 08/09, the Wolves were 23rd on the PK, so it's at least plausible that the Wolves' PK work hurt his overall numbers. Still, nothing on the surface stands out as incredibly untoward.
09/10 saw Pavelec graduate to the NHL, where he shared time with Johan Hedberg. Scott Reynolds from the Copper and Blue has recently done some fine work attempting to assess what a replacement goalie's SV% should look like, and at EV for 09/10, that figure was .909. Pavelec finished that season with a .908 mark at EV, so his performance was nothing special, even for a backup. Hedberg finished the season with a .921 EVSV%, right in line with the .920 league average for starters that year, so Atlanta's lousy team play can't automatically be held responsible for Pavelec's SV%.
Last year, Pavelec became the Thrashers' primary goalie, and his season, at least at EV, was quite good. He finished with a .914 overall SV%, and his EVSV% was .928, which is a very solid number. As Derek Zona's post from a couple of weeks back showed, the average performance by a NHL goalie was .921 at EV in 10/11, so Pavelec's body of work in 58 games was fairly laudable. Atlanta was a below average team at preventing shots against when playing 4 on 5, right in line with their past efforts when down a man, and there's at least a smidgen of evidence that shot quality might exist on special teams, so I'm not inclined to ding him too much for the hit a .852 PKSV% made on his overall SV%.
Moving along to 11/12, Pavelec posted a fairly pedestrian .906 overall SV% this past year, which was a fairly steep fall from his output in 10/11. His EVSV% went right down the hole as well, dropping from .928 in 10/11 to .917 this past year. As I mentioned above, Derek's post suggests that .917 at EV isn't a number that one would associate with the league's better keepers.
This is normally the juncture where apologists would wave away any complaints about Pavelec by pointing to the poverty of Winnipeg's defensive zone play in 11/12. They aren't necessarily wrong about the lousy d-zone coverage the Jets offered up on most nights, but it should be noted that 11/12 saw Winnipeg cut over 2 shots/60 off of their 10/11 totals in Atlanta, and while there are any number of phrases I might use to describe the Thrashers' own-zone play in 10/11, "air-tight" likely wouldn't be amongst them.
In other words, it seems less than plausible that the Jets were markedly worse in their own end than the 10/11 Thrashers, and yet Pavelec's own performance slid precipitously. Had Pavelec replicated his 10/11 EV performance, Winnipeg would have saved approximately 19 goals from this year's figure. 6 or 7 extra points might not have got the club to the post season, but stopping a few extra shots versus Ottawa alone might have aided matters tremendously in that regard.
One argument made on Pavelec's behalf was that he was likely overworked, since 68 games is the most he's every played in a season, and his fatigue apparently played a role in his decision to decline his country's invitation to the World Championships. I'm normally a bit sceptical about claims that fatigue damages goalie performance, but in this case, there might be something to that line of thinking.
Parsing the Season
Timeonice.com shows that Pavelec posted a .923 5V5 through the Buffalo game on March 5th, the 55th game of his season. That night was also when the Jets were in the most favourable position they would be all season in terms of the playoffs, 3 points ahead of Washington with the Caps holding 2 games in hand. .923 is obviously just OK 5v5, but it's a figure that's a least presentable for a regular goalie.
From that point onward, he batted .906 5v5, with a particularly ghastly .883 when the game was tied. 5v5 SV% and the NHL EVSV% aren't always perfectly in tune because the NHL numbers obviously include 4v4 play, but they're close enough for these purposes. In any case, that's not a number that particularly flatters Pavelec, and the Jets fell out of the race despite scoring about 3 goals a game down the stretch.
It's also worth mentioning that the Jets actually were marginally better at outshooting during Pavelec's last 13 games as well, going from an overall Fenwick % of .503 through his first 55 games to .505, and their Fenwick tied in front of Pavelec went from .492 to .509. The Jets did give up a couple of more shots per game in that stretch, but most of that seems linked to the fact that they were chasing games early on, and there certainly isn't anything suggesting the extra volume was solely composed of ten bell opportunities for the bad guys.
In any event, we know that Fenwick and scoring chances tend to run together fairly closely, so the fact that the skaters weren't operating at a significantly diminished level doesn't really fit the narrative of a team that was markedly worse 5v5 in the final stretch. Pavelec's own performance, on the other hand, hit the skids, so I won't discount the possibility that fatigue might well have played a part in his late-season struggles.
With everything tallied, Pavelec has likely had one above average year as a goalie in his 5 pro seasons, along with a few poor ones. I don't doubt he was a better option that using Chris Mason this past season, but it's always wise to rememeber that there's a significant difference between simply being Winnipeg's best option and being a legitimate top 15 NHL goalie.
I'm not running anything, obviously, but on the off-chance my opinion were requested, I might advise the Jets to look at Pavelec in the same manner the club regarded Zach Bogosian last summer. Bogosian was a player of great promise that hadn't quite put the pieces together, so rather than trying to sign him to a long term deal, Bogosian and the team agreed to a two year bridge deal for 2.5M per season. Blake Wheeler was in roughly the same boat, and the club took the same approach in his case, avoiding arbitration by inking him to a two year deal for 2.6M per year.
Those contracts appear to be excellent value, albeit with a bit of risk for the club over the long haul since the Jets will have to head back to the table with both players next summer, and both of them will have significantly enhanced bargaining power when that happens. That's a risk that any team has to take with RFAs, though, and it's one I'd take in Pavelec's case.
Of course, arbitration is also an option in this case, and although that option always seems fraught with the possibility of damaging the player-club relationship, the Jets can't fear taking Pavelec to a third party. You can't use video, and the only stats permitted are ones readily available on NHL.com can be used, so there won't be any high-light reel stuff to be offered on the player's behalf. As for the numbers, save percentage would be the primary stat in play, and his 11/12 season was not up to snuff by that criteria, especially at EV. Allan Walsh is a creative gent, but I'm not sure he'd relish the task of defending a goalie that posted one of the worst figures in the league of any starter in front of a team that cut its shots against total by over 100 from 10/11.
In the end, my primary fear is that the Jets end up regarding Pavelec in the same manner Pittsburgh assessed Marc-Andre Fleury. The two do appear to share the twin penchants for spectacular saves borne from an over-reliance on athletic skill, often equally matched by dreadful play driven by shaky positioning. Having paid close attention to the media coverage this season, I don't doubt for a second that it's those flashy saves that appear to fool people into thinking that they're a cut above most stoppers.
The essential aim of a goalie is simply to not allow pucks to pass him by, though, and style points aside, Ondrej Pavelec's actual performance at the basic task of a goalie would have me cautioning any team against locking him in to deal beyond a couple of seasons.


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A look at the headlines on the front pages or sports pages of some newspapers across the country:
Boston Herald
Today's Boston Herald Wrap pic.twitter.com/eCBcenfX8o
— Boston Herald (@bostonherald) February 6, 2017
Boston Globe
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New York Post
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— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) February 6, 2017
New York Daily News
Here's our @nydnsports back page. @weei @nesn @patriots @apse_sportmedia @nfl #superbowl #tombrady @nfl @nflnetwork https://t.co/hLHk59kUcJ pic.twitter.com/xZJ1SDo8kq
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Monday, Feb. 6 @PhillyDailyNews Front Page -- pic.twitter.com/QU7UiWze41
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Tomorrow's Washington Post Sports front page featuring the Patriots' historic Super Bowl win https://t.co/35d1R4xNlj pic.twitter.com/asNblTmDkS
— Post Sports (@PostSports) February 6, 2017
Houston Chronicle
Monday's @HoustonChron front page. pic.twitter.com/I7ku2ROvsV
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) February 6, 2017
Dallas Morning News
QB Tom Brady leads comeback from 25-point deficit to give Patriots a 34-28 OT win and fifth Super Bowl title ... in Monday's SportsDay. pic.twitter.com/cDO3y5Z4aN
— SportsDayDFW (@SportsDayDFW) February 6, 2017
Des Moines Register
The @DMRsports cover tomorrow from @jllovett and @markpawlakMP. What a game. Oh my. @APSE_sportmedia pic.twitter.com/a0d2pn9pZr
— Jeremy Gustafson (@JLGus) February 6, 2017
The Salt Lake Tribune
Tomorrow's sports cover features #SB51 and the Utah Jazz: Read it all at https://t.co/I5oI7MfyNS pic.twitter.com/2MO1ltK6IX
— SL Tribune Sports (@sltribsports) February 6, 2017
The Toledo (Ohio) Blade
.@Patriots win #SuperBowl @DBriggsBlade @ToledoMBB @BGathletics @OhioStateFB @APSE_sportmedia @BladeSportsEd @toledosports pic.twitter.com/BYnptvngJq
— Donn Walden (@waldo9939) February 6, 2017
Lebanon (Penn.) Daily News
Sneak peak of the @LDNews sports cover for tomorrow. What. A. Game. #SuperBowl2017 #SB51 #Patriots #Falcons @APSE_sportmedia pic.twitter.com/HJgVyoD3F7
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Meet Julie CeballosJulie Ceballos is one of those colleagues you know you can depend on. "Over the seven-plus years I've known and worked with Julie, she has consistently demonstrated her willingness to help anyone across campus who needed her Web expertise," says her nominator, Lois Jenkins, Marketing/Communications program coordinator. "Learning how to use OmniUpdate for campus websites has been much less difficult with her cheerful coaching and guidance than I nervously anticipated."
Ceballos says two sayings have been true for her: When one door closes, another one opens. And life is a journey, not the destination. "I also know that being in the right place at the right time helps, and that is pure luck," Ceballos says. "I started as a temporary employee in fall 2006 before filling the permanent Web content developer job a year later. My being there to fill a vacated position was the lucky part."
As a lifelong learner, she immediately started taking classes at De Anza when she moved to Sunnyvale in 1989. Many of those classes, including a couple Environmental Studies classes in the early 1990s, helped her along her winding career path from retail to corporate facilities into IT customer support.
As well as all the individual department and program websites that she works on every day, Ceballos has worked on some major projects with the Web Team and other departments. Milestones include implementing OmniUpdate as De Anza's Web content management system; creating an online Virtual Tour for Outreach; refreshing the De Anza website with Marketing; serving as the De Anza representative for the districtwide MyPortal rollout and improvement team with ETS and Foothill; and developing technology solutions for faculty with OmniUpdate and Course Studio.
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promotes sustainability, on campus and off. She worked with CEAG to develop the Sustainability
Management Plan, the first of its kind for a community college.
What Ceballos likes most about her job is that she is constantly learning. "It's a requirement from the technology side of things. But it's more than that. My perspective is constantly changing through website projects and committee work that I do. I feel good when I'm presented with a question or problem and can help sort through to win-win solutions that work," she says. "I also believe strongly in continual improvement, always checking in on processes and how they can be tweaked for better results. I feel I have the power to do that in the work I do with the Web Team. Also I love that I am part of an educational community, one where I can give back to the system that I've benefitted from in so many ways."
Jenkins says Ceballos is a vital employee. "Without her work the college would not have the essential Web presence so necessary for our students. I'm only surprised that Julie hasn't already won this award."


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SAN DIEGO -- An abnormal protein associated with Parkinson's disease appears to accumulate in the submandibular glands, opening the way for the first good lab test for the condition in living patients.
In a pilot study, nine of 11 patients with established Parkinson's disease diagnoses had phosphorylated alpha-synuclein in biopsy samples taken from the submandibular gland.
The study, conducted by Charles Adler, MD, PhD, of the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., and colleagues, is scheduled to be reported here at the American Academy of Neurology's annual meeting in March.
Adler told MedPage Today in a telephone interview that the two patients without positive findings were not necessarily false negatives. He pointed out that clinical symptoms -- currently the only way to diagnose Parkinson's disease in living patients -- are not the gold standard for diagnosis of the condition.
It can only be diagnosed definitively at autopsy, he said. Previous studies have shown that, when checked against autopsy findings, clinical diagnoses are only about 80% to 90% accurate.
Parkinson-like symptoms can have a variety of causes, with actual Parkinson's disease -- the progressive death of dopaminergic neurons in certain brain regions -- being just one.
Consequently, Adler said, an accurate diagnosis would have important clinical implications, as well as benefits for research on the condition.
Invasive, expensive treatments such as deep brain stimulation and gene therapies would ideally be given only to patients with actual Parkinson's disease. Moreover, patient selection for clinical trials of therapies for the illness would be improved if people with conditions misdiagnosed as Parkinson's disease could be weeded out.
Earlier research led by Adler and Thomas Beach, MD, PhD, of Banner Sun Health Research Institute in Sun City, Ariz., had shown that phosphorylated alpha-synuclein selectively concentrates in the submandibular salivary gland in Parkinson's disease patients.
That prompted additional studies, including the one to be reported here, on whether biopsy samples from the gland could be used as a clinical diagnostic.
In the current study, Adler, Beach, and other researchers recruited 15 patients who had lived with Parkinson's disease diagnoses for at least 5 years (mean 12).
Submandibular biopsy samples turned out to be inadequate in the first four patients enrolled, prompting a change in the sampling method to collect more tissue. In the succeeding 11 patients, samples from nine showed extensive staining for the abnormal alpha-synuclein protein.
The minor salivary glands were also biopsied. Most of these samples were negative for the protein.
The test's specificity in living patients still remains to be evaluated, Adler said.
However, in a separate study presented at another conference last year, the group found that postmortem needle-biopsy samples of frozen submandibular salivary glands from 38 individuals without Parkinson's disease -- including some with Alzheimer's disease as well as individuals without neurological diseases -- were uniformly negative for the protein, whereas all samples from 26 Parkinson's disease patients were positive.
Adler told MedPage Today that his group hadn't looked at whether the abnormal alpha-synuclein protein is also present in saliva. But he thought it would be unlikely, since the protein is mainly found in nerve fibers that, even within the salivary gland, are somewhat remote from the saliva-producing cells.
The study was funded by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
Adler declared that he had no relevant financial interests.
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Intel 'Moorestown' UMPCs to feature single-chip CPU/GPU
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Intel announced its 'Moorestown' system-on-a-chip platform for UMPCs and internet tablets back in April this year, but it kept the details close to its chest. Now they've leaked out.
Moorestown will comprise two chips: the SoC, codenamed 'Lincroft', and an I/O part called 'Langwell'. According to a report on Japanese-language site PCWatch, Lincroft has an integrated memory controller that connects to a bank of DDR 3 memory.
When it first mentioned Moorestown, Intel said the platform's processor would contain other components, and in addition to the memory controller, Lincroft will also sport its own GPU.
How Lincroft connects to Langwell remains unclear, but we can say they won't link up over a frontside bus as the current A100/A110 and the upcoming next-gen, 45nm UMPC CPU, 'Sliverthorne', do. Now that we know Intel it looking at a DMI bus to connect its 45nm 'Nahelem'-architecture mobile processors to their I/O chips, it's highly likely the chip giant is planning to use the same technology in Moorestown.
Langwell will incorporate controllers for USB, PCI Express, ATA peripherals and other system basics.
Intel has pledged that Moorestown as a whole will deliver performance enough to run Windows Vista yet consume a twentieth of the power a Celeron M CPU does today, or a fifth of what next year's Silverthorne-based 'Menlow' platform will require.
At the most recent Intel Developer Forum, held last September, the company reiterated its plan to release Moorestown in the 2009/2010 timeframe. The latest roadmap data suggests it may have brought the part's release forward to mid-2009, ahead of the introduction of processors based on the 'Westmere' architecture, the 32nm die-shrink of Nahelem.
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The Acid3 test tests against various standards that are not yet actually standards, as they're in draft at the W3C, and not yet agreed upon and and approved. Because of this, Hodge states that it does not make sense to fully support Acid3 just yet. "The concern Microsoft has is that if we burnt [draft standards] into Internet Explorer 8 and passed Acid3 with 120 percent and then deploy it on so many machines, especially in the enterprise, [we have made draft standards de-facto standards] when the W3C will then want to innovate on the [evolving] standards," Hodge explained, "We passed Acid2 with 100 percent which tests against recommendations from the W3C. Acid2 is about recommended standards, standards that are locked and loaded."
He went on to say that Microsoft learnt its lesson with Internet Explorer 6. "Our learning comes from IE6. With IE6 we adopted some non-recommended standards and interpreted them in a certain way. The end result of that has been painful web development."
It surely is an interesting view on things, but it's also a flawed one. The standards tested by Acid3 might not be official standards just yet, but with Opera, WebKit, and Gecko all working towards supporting it, Trident could've just followed and make it the standard. This would've certainly earned Microsoft some good karma, something it could use in the browser market (what, with IE bleeding market share like a decapitated bunny).


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Tech We Take for Granted in Healthcare
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
Every once in a while I like to take a step back and think about all the tech that we take for granted. Yes, it's easy to get stuck in the discussions of what's missing from our tech life or ways in which tech could be implemented better in healthcare. However, there's a whole series of technologies that we use all the time and barely give it a second thought.
Certainly there are some rural areas of the country where their internet connection isn't very good, but for a large portion of healthcare a nice internet connection is just a feature. Most clinics don't give their internet connection a second though. It just works. They go online and do what they need to do. Sure, you might have an outage here or there (and those are brutal), but most of the time the internet just works.
Related to this is Wifi. Unless you're in a clinic where the wifi implementation isn't very good (and there are still plenty of those), you roam around with your laptop, tablet or other wireless device and it just works. It's amazing to watch my kids, because they really don't have any idea on how it works. They just open up the iPad and watch movies as they wish. They literally have no idea what's required to make that possible. Yep, they take it for granted because the tech has become so good.
We're now starting to see the next level of ubiquitous internet with 4G speeds being nearly as good as Wifi for many applications. Soon we'll be taking for granted that we can get good internet speeds almost everywhere we go. The same is true for cell phone connection. The only time I can remember looking at my phone to see how many bars I had was when I was deep in the heart of a National Park. Yes, there are a few places in the wilderness where phone coverage is not likely to hit. However, for 99% of most people's activities the phone just works.
Another great example is email. I totally take for granted that email just works. If I send an email I assume it's going to be delivered. Sure, there are times when your email service provider goes down and we have to deal with spam folders, but I don't really give much thought to whether my email is going to work or not. I just do it all day every day and it just works.
Instant Messenger is another application I use that just works. I know some healthcare institutions that use it, but so far not for PHI. It's amazing technology that I can see whenever someone is online and send them a message. They can reply almost instantly. The beauty is that most people have become really mature with the use of this technology. It's a use as needed thing. I don't greet every person that comes online, but it's there if I need to get a hold of someone quickly.
Often related to IM is video chats. Unfortunately this hasn't taken hold very much in healthcare and it's unfortunate. Video is built into most IM platforms: Skype, Gchat, MSN Messenger (or whatever it's called now). With video cameras built into so many laptops or desktop cameras available for as cheap as $30, doing a video chat with someone is almost trivial. Add in things like FaceTime on the iPad and the idea of doing a video chat with anyone anytime you want is almost here.
I'm sure there are a hundred other technologies that I could list. The reason I find this so fascinating is that I think we're going to have the same thing happen with EMR. In the next 5 years, EMR is just going to be another technology that we use without really even thinking about it. We're not there yet, but it will happen.
I look forward to the day when we start to take EHR for granted.


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Wrap It Up: Last Minute Gift Wrapping Ideas
It's not the gifts that usually blow my holiday budget, it's the wrapping paper. It's not uncommon to find me sprinting to the corner drugstore moments before I have to leave for a party for tissue paper, a glossy party bag and ribbon which, although it's easy and festive looking, is not particularly cost-effective. The other day, Lindsay and Kathryn suggested some creative ways to spruce up a brown paper bag. Here are some other suggestions:
- 4 Simple Wrapping Ideas for Any Occassion: Dress up simply wrapped gifts with these festive touches.
- 6 Alternatives to Wrapping Paper: Fabric, waxed paper and delivery menus are some of the things that easily sub for gift wrap.
- How to use a reusable bag to wrap presents: Since the whole movement towards byo grocery bags began, I seem to have accumulated dozens of reusable bags. Here's a way to use them to wrap up your gifts (in a pinch, you can also use a nice plastic bag).
- How to Wrap a Gift Bag in Fabric: If you use decide to wrap your gifts in fabric, here's how to do it so it looks cool rather than clumsy. This is a great use for old shirts, t-shirts, napkins, sheets, scarves and dishtowels.
- Newsprint Inspired Christmas: Craft paper, newspaper and twine can look festive rather than sad if you use layering and greenery.
- Other ideas: Use road maps, pages from books and magazines and cans with colorful labels
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