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MUSIC-alien music not heard in any other episode
NARRATION: Last week, you recall, we left Dr. Smith and Will Robinson, both unaware that their every move was being scrutinized from afar by weird, alien eyes.
TEASER-visually fully recapped but missing the first few lines of dialogue but we can see Smith and Will are talking but the narrator is talking and we hear him, not them.
Will runs to under one of the tents--this one off to the right side of the Jupiter ramp. He swings a diamond necklace. He sees Smith has fixed the Robot as good as new. We do not hear them talking about any of this but see their mouths moving. Smith asks him what he is swinging. Will explains a diamond necklace he made for Penny, telling Smith the diamonds are useless stuff and that girls always like useless stuff. Will tosses it off to the side of the spaceship. He asks the Robot, "Hey, wanna play chess?" Robot says, "Affirmative." Will and the Robot move off. Smith picks up the necklace, "When I think of the worth of these rocks back on Earth---oh, the pain, the pain." We see an overhead shot of the Jupiter II, the tent, and Smith! All of a sudden, they appear on a murky, cloud like view screen in a very dark spacecraft of some kind. There are four bubble like controls. A clawed, alien hand moves over the devices! (THIS IS WHERE THE CLIFFHANGER ENDED). The cliffhanger music is not here, obviously but new music and sound effects. The alien face, elongated head, turns the screen off the Jupiter II camp and onto the surface of the planet. We hear new music, eerie and very alien sounding. The alien ship hums as the ground passes outside. Outside the Jupiter II ramp later, Judy reads a book in a chair, in front of the radar scanner screen. He turns a page and a bleep makes her call her mom three times. Maureen comes out with a clipboard and pen in her hand. She joins Judy and they both see the blip. Maureen calls Don, who is working in the garden with a hoe or rake. Don tells her just a second but she insists, "No, right now." She tells him about the scanner and he exclaims he just checked it out this morning. As he gets to them, the spot vanishes. Judy tells him there was a strange spot there. Don thinks they are seeing spots before their eyes. Anyway, any kind of blip would have to take off somewhere--it couldn't just vanish off the scope. Don walks away. Maureen says to Judy, "I guess maybe our eyes were playing tricks on us." After Maureen goes inside, Judy says, "I know I saw it. I know I did." The alien ship passes the ground, rocks, and lands. We see it sitting in smoke--we don't actually see it land. It turns a bit. Strange sounds and music, some of the background music from John's spacewalks in THE RELUCTANT STOWAWAY and ISLAND IN THE SKY is mixed with new sounds and music--making the sound track very alien sounding. Smith is hiding behind rocks, watching it. New sounds occur and a shimmering sound. Smith covers his ears from this sound. The eye shape on the strange, small ship glows. Smith turns to run away and starts out but a laser beam comes from the eye and although we don't see it hit him, he is stopped from moving by the beam. An alien face appears in the bubble eye of the alien craft.
John Williams music as Smith is seen from a new angle, less close up than the one he seen frozen in. The alien talks a strange language which sounds like English backwards (which makes sense in the context of them being anti human). Smith is able to turn around. In regular English, the alien asks if he is native to this planetoid. He points down in the valley to natives of this planet--called Robinsons. He is from Earth, he tells them. Yes, they say, they know of it--a world in a barbaric state. Smith says, "Exactly." Smith sweats as the alien explains they have a worn out guidance system circuit and need a replacement computer--a portion of a human brain! Smith says, "I'm ignorant" in an effort to con his way out of this. They say something like they will have to reduce his brain to fit the available size and space. He turns to run but is hit by a beam and drawn to the thin looking alien craft and vanishes, appearing inside. Odd camera angles and distorted lenses make Smith appear odd and in an werid place. Curtains of galaxy like material float by and shimmer. He sees a strange device. A floating head (the actor wearing totally black in a totally black area of the set) with no mouth talks to him. Smith tries to fire his laser gun at it when he moves off to consult with his other but the gun vanishes. The alien tells Smith he has treachery and cunning--not doubt noble qualities on Earth. Smith tries to use this to con his way out--saying, "I have a morbid, villainous brain." Smith tries another tactic--that of bringing a smaller Robinson whose brain will not have to be reduced. The alien says, "Very well, go and bring a small Robinson." Smith vanishes to outside. The aliens give him a small metal ball which will guide him to their ship--they are going to move to prevent betrayal. They also make a neck band appear on his neck to insure his termination if he fails--he will die in exquisite agony, they say. It lights up. The ship builds up power and vanishes. Will finds the Robot programmed to act like a scarecrow over the garden. Will goes rock hunting near the lava bed. The Robot reacts to Will's voice now. Smith just misses Will leave. After the band hurts him, Smith asks the Robot if he can remove it. The Robot can with 100,000 volts. The band tightens and Smith stops him from trying. He sends the Robot into the spaceship---telling him he prefers working without an audience--spotting Penny to con. Penny is in the garden and tells Smith that Don told her they have to be careful or the nitrogen in the atmosphere would make the vegetables grow as big as the spaceship (nice link to THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE EARTH). Smith tells her he wants to show her something when Don and Judy come up behind him; Don asking what he is up to. Smith asks where Will is. Don tells him to stay away from the boy and if he ever catches him telling Will wild stories again, he'll take action. Don threatens Smith--he's concerned every time he sees Smith with Will. Judy stops Don from getting physical with Smith, "Don, you've no right." Don backs off but Smith tells him he has no hatred in his heart for Don, only pity-sadness and pity. He puts his hand out to Don but Don tells him to just go. Smith turns and makes an aggravated and almost evil face. Will is among the lava rocks that surround the smoking pit. He passes a large boulder which is set into the rock slabs that point upward. Smith is hiding near the rocks, watching.
John flies with the parajets on his back and the helmet on (BENEATH THE 12 MILE REEF sailing music). He flies past large white rock slab pointing upward and lands amid a lot of smoke. Maureen runs out of the ship and puts her parka into the Chariot which is parked just outside the door ramp. Judy is with her and tells John about the peculiar way Dr. Smith was acting. Maureen relays the strange blip on the scanner she and her daughter saw. Don tells John that Will was sore that Don wouldn't go with him rock collecting. Maureen tells John she is worried about what Smith might do. Robot tells John who asks about Will--that Will has been sidetracked by a find of precious minerals. When John asks Robot why he didn't stop him, Robot says, "I am not programmed to be a babysitter." John asks Don if the extra rocket belt is ready. Don tells him he hasn't had the chance to recharge it yet. John says, "Aw, that's just great." Don says, "Now wait a Professor, I don't mind taking orders but I draw a line at being bossed around like a common field hand." Maureen says, "Don, that'll do. Please, let's find Will." Don apologizes and John says for him to follow as soon as he can. He and Maureen leave in the Chariot with the Robot. Smith's neck hurts, making Will find him. He fakes his hurt as he tells Will lies laced with small truths: "I tried to save them to make up for the shameful, vile, infamous things I've done." NOTE: All the past episodes. Will tells him, "You weren't so bad, honest." Smith asks for forgiveness which Will readily gives. Will wants to help Smith save himself--"You're a doctor." Smith tells Will his flashlight is an ion purifier and if Will shines it in his mouth, it will restore him. Will does this. We can see smoke coming from the lava pit. Smith cons Will some more: his loved ones might be taken by a malevolent alien power which can scoop them up and take them back to their repugnant world. "You should see their spaceship--it's out of this world." Smith stops Will from going to get Don, conning him big time: he wants Will to prove to his parents that he is a man, and can be trusted to choose his own friends. They need info on the alien spacecraft. John calls Will with a head set on and the Chariot mike on. Maureen is sitting on the right side using the binoculars. Smith stops Will from going out to the Chariot by telling him they won't let him go on the grand adventure and he pulls Will back to a rock. NOTE: In almost no other episode do we notice how many freckles Will has on his face. Smith moves Will away as the Chariot leaves, "Someday, you'll all thank me for this." The Chariot glistens in the sun. Now, Maureen is on the left side, driving, and John is in the right seat. Maureen suddenly stops the land car, seeing the alien spaceship just ahead. It vanishes and John doesn't see it. She thought it was a balloon or a spacecraft but tells John she must have been wrong--there was nothing. The two aliens watch the Chariot on their screen. One alien says, "Destroy?" The other says, "Wait, they may be of some use. We can always dispose of them later." Their screen zooms in over the Chariot top.
Maureen finds Smith's flashlight; John finds Will's rock bag and pick. Maureen mentions the strange blip again. Robot has insufficient data on where they are or if there was a strange ship. They run back to the Chariot. Robot follows. Smith takes Will down a gorge and covers Will's mouth when they see the Chariot again. He hides Will. John tells Maureen to let him drive for awhile. The chariot passes a rock ridge, away from Smith and Will. Smith tells Will to lead for a bit but then directs him under a small opening under the rock--like a small cave. Smith tells the boy it is not as close as your shadow but not as far as Texas. Will tells him he thinks he should have told his folks where he was going--he has his walkie talkie. He always carries it in case something happens. Smith smiles, lying, probably annoyed at this. He calls Will a clever young man and pats Will's head. Will smiles at this and laughs. Smith tells Will where to go as he is using the round ball the aliens gave him to find out where they are. They see twisted trees and start across a rock moat with a much lower area beneath the higher up trail. We hear the wind sound effect and see smoke beneath them. Will is pulled back by Smith from going any further into the sand-dust pit that is ahead of them, off the track now. Will says, "Ow, you hurt me." Smith tells him he saved his life--he puts on Will's radio beeper--which can be heard for miles--then throws it into the dust bog--it goes down for miles and miles. Smith tells him it is for the best--if he folks found him, they'd be doomed, "Doomed," Smith repeats. Don is on the parajets (BENEATH THE 12 MILE REEF Bernard Herrman music). He looks around and flies past a rock in what seems to be some unused footage from the unaired pilot. Will looks around and tries to touch some water in a rocky area. The water is coming out the top of a rock and filtering down. Smith tells him to stop--it is not water. But Will insists he's seen his mom using the same water to cook in. Smith tells him it would take the skin off his hand in a second. When Will says he doesn't believe Smith anymore, he also tells him he thinks Smith took him away to get even or to force his parents to take him back (to Earth). Smith turns away, goes to sit down on a rock, and tells the boy to touch the water. Will tries several times but turns and won't, apologizes, mad at himself for being so mean minded and asks Smith to forgive him!!! John helps Maureen out of the Chariot when they stop at an area and see blast burns--there was something where Maureen thought she saw it. John uses the binoculars.
The Robot says, "I detect an alien presence." Maureen asks, "Alien?" The Robot nods his body in a nod move, "ON THIS PLANET, WE ARE THE ALIENS." Maureen says, "Touche." When John asks the Robot about the aliens, the Robot asks him to be more specific. Robot tells them the beings are not human but, "Anti-human." He goes on, "From anti-Earth," and tells John, "You're thoughts are on the right track." John tells Maureen, almost mocking Robot, "Oh, now he's reading our minds." Robot doesn't deny it, "Mind emit waves which can be captured and computed back into words." When John asks if these anti-people have Will, Robot tells him he does not have the data but that it is well within the realm of possibility. They race back into the Chariot. The aliens watch again. One asks, "Destroy now?" The other says, "Not yet."
Smith and Will pass a dry trees and rocks in a dry area as well as larger ones, some turned over. Smith leads again. Will finally sees the ball he is using but it vanishes. Smith tells Will the aliens want a human for study purposes and perhaps, the aliens already have one of his sisters captured to return to their own planet with. Smith tells Will he is the agent that will infiltrate the alien control center. The spacecraft quietly appears as we see over the shoulders of the two humans. Will points to it and the ship turns. Will doesn't know the plan as Smith urges him on and moves him toward it. "Never fear, my boy, I will always be close at hand." Will goes to the alien ship, telling him his name and the planet he is from, "I'm Will Robinson from the planet Earth." Will vanishes. Smith smiles in evil fashion.
The Chariot continues the search. Smith's neck ring chokes him but he tells him Will is bright--they will need to use both his and Will's brain. They must Will's capacity. If below they may need to employ both. Smith argues against this, protesting this was not part of the deal. They relent and make the neck ring vanish. Will sees a stand under an open bubble device which circles. He is in darkness with the curtain like materials around him. An alien voice talks to him. He asks how come it is so big in here but so little on the outside (shades of DOCTOR WHO). The alien tells him: "Within this ship we are within a field of the fifth dimension where size has no meaning and is beyond your capacity to comprehend." A head appears in the open area between the curtains and behind Will who slowly realizes it. Will turns and opens his mouth in astonishment but accustoms himself to the idea of the aliens. The alien voice says, "That foolish man that brought you here made you believe you could betray us and employ our vessel to return to your own primitive planet, is that not so?" Will says, "Yes sir." The alien says, "Your moral programming is admirably straight." They will not harm Will. He tells Will they need more than the power of his brain---the aliens have been traveling from before early moments of "your planet's" history---their own mental powers are weary now and they need his youth, freshness, and curiosity. Will responds, "But I'm not curious or fresh and I just look young, honest." When the alien vanishes, Will holds onto his belt. The Chariot moves over a ridge; Maureen driving. She sees the same strange blip Judy and she saw on the scanner this morning--at a bearing of 210 degrees. We see a long shot of the Chariot moving to the ridge. Maureen and John call Will in an area of echoes as they run about it. Smith comes to them and tells them "They got Will! These creatures--they captured us both, they mumbled some rubbish about using a human brain for a computer--they kept Will. We've got to do something--they may take off at any minute!" Smith goes to the Robot (and as he does we hear a mechanical sound--which cannot be the Robot coming out since he is in the Chariot but may be him turning or something). When Smith tells Robot to compute, he mentions his brain checked out as too old, John grabs Smith and tosses him to the Chariot side, yelling at him why didn't he offer them the robot's brain. Smith yells he did. John goes to punch him but Maureen blocks his arm, "JOHN!!!" Smith tells him Will is probably plugged into their computers now--plotting the angle and velocity of departure. John yells at him to show them the way and to get into the Chariot. Will is on the pedestal under the open bubble device. The alien seems to worry about discomfort but Will tells him he is fine. He also tells Will they can, if he wishes it, erase his memory of his parents but Will tells them he wants to remember them. He also wants to go back to them now. The alien says, "Regrettably, for a time, we will need you more than they." We see the Chariot and then Don landing with the parajets--new footage and more 12 Mile music. The chariot comes and Don sees it, taking off his helmet and parajets. We see a good rare shot of the entire front of the Chariot. Maureen spots Don and leads the way out. They go to him. Don tells them Judy and Penny are fine--he told them to stay buttoned up (?) in the spaceship. They see the alien spaceship. Smith tells them, "Now, that doesn't look so monstrous does it?" Don says, "Neither do you."
The Robot comes to them, arms out, "The craft is surrounded by a forcefield in the fifth dimension which is mathematically immm-mpossible." NOTE: The Robot still talks, on occasion, with a slight electronic lag--such as MMMMM or BLEBLEBLE. John says, "I guess it take a human being to accept the impossible." Maureen yells and moves to the Robot, "Stop them! Can't you stop them?" John drags her back and orders the robot to try to stop them and has to order him to try--twice. Robot moves out but his own electronic fire--short bolts--which bounce off the alien device and one of the stray bolts hits him and disables him. Smith tells him it's just like throwing good money after bad, "If you don't mind the comparison." John says, "I do mind." He moves the gun up over the rock they are hiding behind but a blast fires from the alien ship and blows up in front of them. Will seeing this on the alien scanner, tells them not to do anything--he will promise to cooperate. He talks to them via the screen and tells them he is okay and it will be okay--ask Dr. Smith--he fixed everything up for him. Under the accusing stares of the others, Smith says, "I can explain everything...later." Will cannot compute the alien trajectory--he's trying, he claims but he can't. There are emotional blockages which he cannot clear. The other (?) alien tells him to forget his family completely but he can't. Bill Mumy does some excellent acting here---he has a tear on his cheek which wants to wipe away and moves to but doesn't since he is embarrassed to. His face and expression are well done and moving without being too sentimentally silly. The computer phase outs burn out (?) and the computer vector cycles short circuit and spark too. The alien tells him when he has helped them return to their own planet they will return him to this miserable place.
Will tells them, "I love them and I don't want to leave them at all...." The alien tells him, "You will see them again but you must concentrate." Will stammers, "I'm tryin' but I just keep thinking of...." He cries and tears now streak down both cheeks.
The alien says: "Love, what is it? Can you eat it? What does it do? Except profault (?) the clarity of the brain."
On the screen we and they see Maureen say, "Will!"
The alien goes on, "Extraordinary--it seems to be a form of madness common to all of them."
Will: I can't help feeling the way that I do.
Alien: What primitive, barbaric creatures you are. On your own planet yo slaughter each other unceasingly, all in the name of love.
Will: At least we keep trying to get better--we don't go around turning people into machines.
The taller alien returns and tells the other to let him go. The other protests that without him, the power build up when fully powered up will destroy them. The other tells him Will is useless, let him go. Will smiles--and we see that one tooth on the right side is smaller than the others--baby tooth? Outside the ship hum increases. The ship blows up into fire and smoke, making Maureen and John, who run out from behind the rock, to fall down. At the same time, Will appears outside on the ground, on his stomach (while this "appearing" effect is adequate and better than when compared to most other series of similar special effects--it is below par for a LOST IN SPACE effect--we can see movement of all the other characters in the shot when Will appears).
TAG AND CLIFFHANGER: John and Maureen go to Will. Maureen hugs him, "Oh my Will, you're alright." John picks him off his feet and twirls him around. Will says, "Hey Dr. Smith, our plan worked out okay." Smith says, "Oh yes indeed my boy, just leave it to dear old Dr. Smith." He smiles but frowns into a fearful gaze from John and Maureen's stares. He moves off and away.
Maureen asks what happened. Will says, "Welp, there were these guys and they didn't have any bodies or mouths." Maureen smiles, "No bodies?!" Will goes on, "No, and they tried to take my brain." Maureen asks, "Your brain?!" Will says, "Yeah." John asks, "Now what would they want with your brain?" Will says, "I dunno." They move off and it appears that Don has fixed the Robot.
John writes in his log book while in his cabin on the lower deck: "All trace of the alien spaceship disappeared in the explosion and with it any hopes we might have learned about this strange race from beyond the stars. Our main concern now is that our water conversion unit be protected from the extremes of heat we know are to come." He stops.
Outside, Judy is asked by Don if she is tired. She says, "Hot---there's not a breath of air." Don tells her that if they can insulate the water conversion unit from the current drought they will have water safe from evaporation. Don suddenly thinks he hears something. Judy doesn't. They listen. Don gulps. Above them (?) on a hill or mountain (?) we see rocks slowly start to slide down. Lower deck of the Jupiter II: Penny and Will set the table as cups and plates slide out of the wall unit on a conveyor belt in the middle of the table. Maureen asks Will to get Judy and Don for lunch is about to begin. On his way, Will looks at the Robot and smiles. Suddenly the deck tilts as a shock wave is heard. Penny falls and Maureen helps her up. Penny asks, "Is there gonna be a storm?" A full fledged quake hits. John and Smith, in the lab, shake. Maureen rushes to the ladder--Judy is outside with Don. John follows her up the ladder. Big rocks fall down the mountain in a cascade (stock footage which either doesn't match up or is in a different part of the mountain than anywhere near Don and Judy). Smaller rocks rain down on Don and Judy. Judy urges Don to hurry; Don urges Judy to go, "Get to the ship!" He tells her again, "Go now!" and she says, "No!" but finally, she does run with Don almost finished making the connection on the unit hose. Don runs, looking up at a giant flat edged boulder which has been threatening to rock off a smaller cliffside top which is closer to him and the area. The boulder falls off the ridge at Don!
REVIEW: For whatever reason, LOST IN SPACE and Irwin Allen didn't hold onto Shimon Wincelberg. They should have--he continued the continuity shown throughout the early episodes and also makes the alien idea very unique by making them from an "anti Earth" but this is not explored beyond that on the aired episode. Even so, this is a very good and atmospheric episode with Smith never really being as cunning and evil minded and selfish as here--giving Will over to the aliens has to be one of the worst, if not the worst, short of trying to murder the others with the Robot. That in mind, perhaps this one should have been placed before WELCOME STRANGER since Smith was a bit less evil in that one. And maybe before MY FRIEND MR. NOBODY since he redeems himself at the finale of that one. Shimon also seemed to base his aliens on the supremely underdeveloped alien pair in the very end of the unaired pilot--but in look and design they are very different as well as in conception. Shimon also kept in mind the soil is dangerous motif even if only in a throwaway line by Penny about the nitrogen affecting the plants (how would nitrogen and its contents affect the plants?) if they are not careful (how do the Robinsons manage to plant in the ground again and avoid the mutation that occurred in THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE EARTH?--they have been using the ground since WELCOME STRANGER). Also--we can note water in this episode as well as in MY FRIEND MR. NOBODY---there seem to be streams and lakes, even water they are using for cooking and drinking. Why is water then such a problem in the future? I suppose the sun could dry up the water beds and streams and such but why didn't the Robinsons prepare better for the drought that they knew might come? The alien bubble touch controls were in THE DERELICT. John and Maureen's search in the Chariot and the scene where they are calling for Will just before finding Smith are used again, later in THE RAFT. In the episode, some viewers report seeing Bob May's Bermuda Shorts between the Robot's parts. This is not very obvious and needs close scrutiny to be seen--if at all. Some of this episode's alien music sounds are used in THE TIME TUNNEL-THE GHOST OF NERO during the tunnel's haunting of the ghost.
NOTE: Another SPACE: 1999 episode, RING AROUND THE MOON, features aliens from Triton, a planet very far off, almost in another dimension--aliens without bodies but eye-like entities--which spy on the Alphans through a cloudy, misty screen--in a strange unreal ship--they use an Alphan crewman to be a link to the computer of Alpha and their own--and the crewman dies--not being able to do this. So the aliens use Helena Russell. This is not meant to denigrate SPACE: 1999, which I enjoy almost as much as LOST IN SPACE, sometimes even more but the comparison between two great series cannot be overlooked.


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Dude, the shiny side goes AWAY from the rotor.I've driven them a few times in a couple different cars and was never that impressed with them. They're better than some aftermarket pads, but I would never buy them for my car.Did you just get rid of the original pads? If not, what was in there before?
The HPSs aren't any better. You should be able to sell the PBRs easily. Get some Pagid Blues. You'll like 'em. Your car is fast enough to even warrant some DS2500s, which will resist fade better than the Blues. Although, I'd be surprised if you could get the Blues to fade on the street. I never could.
I had PRB Ceramics on the allroad, and loved them. I am going back to them on the MINI with my next pad change. I don't need high temp pads, and want quicker bite, which the PBR's did for me. I also believe PBR Ceramics are the same thing as Axxis ultimates....so that may help you class them.
I have a set of Mintex Red Box pads on order for the Saab. I have heard many good things about them, a friend has them on his 928. Probably not up for serious track duty but fine for autoX and spirited driving. I do not know when I'll get around to installing them.-Joel.
Everything is relative. What other pads is Jon comparing them to? What other pads did he use on the allroad?
Very interesting reading....i was thinking of doing the zimmerman / PBR combo on my Allroad....feeling a little nervous now?

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Rocketship Education, which runs some of the top performing elementary schools in California's low-income areas, would love to expand to Washington state, said Kristoffer Haines, vice president of national development for the seven-school organization started in San Jose, Calif., in 2006.
"We're certainly interested and excited," Haines said.
He added, however, that the process to start a new school takes time. So even if Washington voters decide to allow up to 40 public charter schools to open during the next five years, the first Rocketship schools probably couldn't open in the state until 2016 or 2017, after a thorough process, including approval by Washington authorities.
Haines, who lives in Corvalis, Ore., and was asked to look over Washington's initiative before it was proposed for the ballot, said he has had his eye on the Seattle-Tacoma area for a long time.
Initiative 1240 would allow the independent public schools to be established in Washington state for the first time. Voters have rejected the idea three other times, in 1996, 2000 and 2004.
Under the terms of the initiative, any nonprofit organization could start a charter school in Washington if their plan is approved by either a new statewide commission or a local school board that has been authorized by the state school board to approve charter schools.
The schools would need to be free and open to all students just like traditional public schools. They would receive public funding based on student enrollment, just like other schools. But public charter schools would be exempt from some state regulations, including some of the rules regarding hiring and firing teachers.
The Washington initiative was based on a model law created by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, said Todd Ziebarth, the advocacy organization's vice president for state advocacy and support. He feels it would attract successful charter organizations from other states.
Another charter organization keeping a close eye on Washington's election is Los Angeles-based Green Dot Public Schools. Green Dot, which focuses on middle and high schools in low income areas, is just starting to expand outside of Los Angeles but has yet to find a good fit on the West Coast.
The key for Green Dot would be making sure they had enough dollars to open and run schools in Washington and that the state wants to work with them, said Marco Petruzzi, president and chief executive officer.
"We would want the state to work with us and not be in the situation of being intruders," Petruzzi said, adding that he isn't intimately knowledgeable about Washington's charter schools initiative.
Green Dot, which has about 10,000 students enrolled it its 18 schools, brags about its graduation rate (85 percent in 2011) and the college acceptance rate for its graduates (91 percent in 2011).
Petruzzi said the earliest his organization could open a school in Washington, if everything is right, would be 2014.
Charter schools usually supplement their budget with foundation dollars and one of the biggest donors has been Seattle's Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Although the charter organizations said they wouldn't be enticed by the possibility of being in Gates Foundation's home town, Ziebarth didn't agree.
Aspire Public Schools, one of the largest charter management organizations with more than 30 schools and 12,000 students served, would also consider expansion into Washington state if the new law set up funding formulas and access to facilities in a fair way, said CEO James Wilcox.
Aspire, which also focuses on low-income students from its California base, has another requirement before moving to a new region: they want to partner with local school districts, not compete with them, Wilcox said.
"We're not really interested in going and fighting with the local school system," he said.
Wilcox mentioned the Los Angeles Unified School District as a good example of what districts can do to use charters as part of the mix to help make sure every kid has access to a great school.
"L.A. does some really innovative things that I'd like to see in lots of other places," he said.
The Washington initiative would make charter operators eligible for state matching funds for school construction, and they would have first dibs to rent or buy public school buildings that are not being used by the district in which the new school is located.
A conversion charter school, which is set up by a school district to take the place of an existing public school whose students have been failing to meet state education standards, would be able to use the school's existing building without paying rent to the district, according to the initiative.
Some other successful charter organizations who are not currently interested in Washington include Alliance College-Ready Public Schools and KIPP Public Charter Schools in California and New York's Achievement First.
Ziebarth said Washington state could have an opportunity to really make a difference with charters by opening new schools designed address the state's unique challenges, such as programs that focus on closing the achievement gap for Native American kids.
"The initiative creates the space for people to come forward and offer up some new and innovative things," he said.
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Kulveer Ranger, the Mayor's Transport Advisor, said:"Boris Johnson has promised to abolish the Western Extension of the Congestion Charge and he will do so next year. This was a central part of his manifesto, and is in accordance with the wishes of Londoners as expressed in a detailed consultation last spring."The details for the removal are being finalised, but there is absolutely no question of this policy being dropped."
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2014-2015 Investment Plan Update for the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program
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2014-2015 Investment Plan Update for the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. Commission Final Report. Posted May 13, 2014 (PDF File, 57 pages, 590 kb).
Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007), created the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. The statute, subsequently amended by AB 109 (Núñez, Chapter 313, Statutes of 2008) and reauthorized by AB 8 (Perea, Chapter 401, Statutes of 2013), authorizes the California Energy Commission to develop and deploy alternative and renewable fuels and advanced transportation technologies to help meet the state's goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and petroleum dependence in the transportation sector.
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Decennial redistricting adds work and costs for elections administrators
Political fights over redistricting cause delays and increase costs
Across the country, states are embroiled in the decennial process of redistricting that follows the release of the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The process is often fraught with controversy and can drag on for months.
The impacts redistricting has on local elections officials varies from state to state. Redistricting is usually, but not exclusively, more taxing for an urban jurisdiction than a rural jurisdiction. Quite often an entire rural county is included in a legislative district or a Congressional district so the amount of additional work can be minimal.
"There is a huge burden placed on the office during redistricting because it all has to be accomplished in such a short time frame," said Edgardo Cortés, General Registrar, Fairfax County Office of Elections.
According to Cortés, staff time is required to provide technical support and feedback during the process, including things like working with the GIS Department to produce maps of new district and precinct boundaries. The office is responsible for implementing all the changes in preparation for the next election. This includes working with the County Attorney's Office to write the legal descriptions for precincts; working with Public Affairs in outreach to voters to inform them of changes; and recruiting election officers and acquiring voting equipment for new precincts.
The costs associated with redistrict vary, with the bulk of the additional money going to staff overtime. In Maricopa County, Ariz., Recorder Helen Purcell says that it costs her office an additional $10,000 to handle all the necessary costs associated with redistricting.
"Apart from the time costs associated with a few permanent staff who are involved in the redistricting process, there is the direct cost of the five temporary GIS technical staff (budgeted at $138,000 per year for two years), and some computer hardware costs," explained Dean Logan, Los Angeles County registrar-recorder/county clerk. "In order to carry out the boundary line implementation, the GIS Section needed to update its computer hardware in order to utilize newer releases of the GIS software required for the effort, at a cost of $14,000."
In Fairfax County, Cortes said each new precinct will cost approximately $8,000 to $10,000 to establish and a countywide mailing of new voter registration cards will cost $350,000.
Like costs, the amount of participation local elections officials have in the redistricting process varies, although the amount of participation is usually limited to the redrawing of precinct lines within the newly redistricted areas.
"My office is totally involved," Purcell said. "We provide the maps electronically and on paper for the general public. We hold the public hearings, take suggestions for change, develop all suggestions into maps for consideration by the Board of Supervisors. Finally, we make the submission to the Department of Justice for pre-clearance. This includes Board of Supervisors, Community College Board, Special Health Care Board, Justice of the Peace, Constables and Voting Precincts."
It's been 10 years since counties have had to go through Congressional redistricting — although some of them have done local redistricting in that time. A lot has changed in the last 10 years though, which most officials asked agreed would help speed up the process.
For Boone County, Mo. Clerk Wendy Noren, this will be her fourth redistricting. The first time around all voter records were still on paper and there was no computerized street file.
In Cook County, Ill., more districts will be involved in the redistricting process this year than in 2001. In addition to congressional, state senate and representative districts, the Cook County Board of Review districts, which were originally drawn in 1997, will be redrawn this year for the first time since then.
"In 2001 Illinois did not have early voting. Now that we do, redistricting will also require that we redefine our early voting regions and sites. We have many more GIS maps now than we had in 2001, all of which will be updated. We have a much greater web presence today than we did 10 years ago; our website will need to be updated and synchronized with our voter registration system," explained David Orr, Cook County, Ill. clerk.
With a presidential election looming in 2012 and many states once again jockeying to move up their presidential primaries, counties are under immense pressure to get all the necessary work associated with redistricting done. The process can take months.
But before the counties can begin their work, the state legislature or redistricting commissions have to complete their work. Many elections officials anticipate the process ending up in the courts which can further exacerbate the time constraints for counties.
"2012 is a presidential election year. If it is anything like the nightmare 2008 was, any delays in the redistricting process will negatively impact with our ability to prepare for that election," said Larry Lomax, Clark County, Nev. registrar. "Like much of the country, our legislators are currently deadlocked as to how to deal with a huge budget deficit. As a result, although they are responsible for most of the redistricting in the state, they have not yet addressed redistricting in any meaningful manner. Thus, a delay is almost assured. With 25 percent of the positions in this department now vacant due to a rapidly shrinking budget, a significant delay will be a significant problem."
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Opinion: Congressional GOP needs to pass a budget and concentrate on tax reform
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WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) - Tax reform is next. That is the word out of the hallways of power in Washington, D.C.
While the GOP continues to try and push ahead health care reform, the White House and Republicans on Capitol Hill are eyeing the next big issue to tackle - overhauling the tax code.
Just as they have done with health care, Republicans want to reform the tax code through reconciliation - allowing them to pass the legislation with a simple majority in the Senate.
The catch: Republicans must first pass a budget in Congress to allow them to move forward with this plan. That may seem like an easy task but Congress has found it very difficult.
The House Budget Committee released its 2018 budget earlier this week and passed it in committee Wednesday night.
The plan proposes to ramp up defense spending while requiring substantial cuts to the social safety net and other domestic programs including Medicare and food stamps.
It is currently unclear whether there is enough support in the GOP alone for this budget. Like we saw with health care reform, both the conservative and moderate Republicans have deep concerns. Conservatives don't think this budget goes far enough in cutting spending. Moderates think it goes too far.
Republicans have the majority in both houses of Congress. They can choose to get things done without trying to work with Democrats, but to do so the GOP on the Hill needs to be united.
If they have learned anything from the health care struggles, it is that unity in the Republican caucus is the key to fulfilling the promises made during the 2016 campaign.
Tax reform is a complicated undertaking but it hits home for Americans in very direct, specific ways.
It impacts our own, personal budgets. The voters who supported Republican majorities in Congress and President Donald Trump expect this big-ticket item to get done. The GOP needs to find a way, either through unity or bipartisanship, to pass a budget and then concentrate on drastically changing how much Americans pay in taxes. And that's the Bottom Line.


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Power from the People
How to Organize, Finance, and Launch Local Energy Projects
Foreword by Van Jones
Over 90 percent of US power generation comes from large, centralized, highly polluting, nonrenewable sources of energy. It is delivered through long, brittle transmission lines, and then is squandered through inefficiency and waste. But it doesn't have to be that way. Communities can indeed produce their own local, renewable energy.
Power from the People explores how homeowners, co-ops, nonprofit institutions, governments, and businesses are putting power in the hands of local communities through distributed energy programs and energy-efficiency measures.
Using examples from around the nation – and occasionally from around the world – Greg Pahl explains how to plan, organize, finance, and launch community-scale energy projects that harvest energy from sun, wind, water, and earth. He also explains why community power is a necessary step on the path to energy security and community resilience – particularly as we face peak oil, cope with climate change, and address the need to transition to a more sustainable future.
This book – the second in the Chelsea Green Publishing Company and Post Carbon Institute's Community Resilience Series – also profiles numerous communitywide initiatives that can be replicated elsewhere.
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"The movement to source energy at the local level has boomed in recent years. Power from the People is a good guide for entrepreneurs looking to get in on the trend in an environmentally conscious way. Community energy has multiple facets, and this book covers them in a logical way. Part One discusses the various aspects of energy localization, including sections on "Energy and Our Communities" and "Rethinking Energy." Part Two brings the discussion down to a hyper-local level with "Your Household's Energy Resilience." This section expounds on the point that there are several steps to energy efficiency, and the first is energy conservation. The book provides concrete advice for the homeowner seeking to reduce their energy consumption and then offers ways that a homeowner can reduce their dependence on outside power generation. It covers relatively unknown topics such as geoexchange and micro-hydro and also includes tips specifically for urban dwellers. From there, the discussion expands to include the entire community. Part Three addresses the parallels and differences between consumer energy and consumer agriculture. The book details important steps to setting up cooperatives, partnerships, and community investment in the project and expands to discussion of specific types of energy. Part Three also offers specific examples of communities around the country that have successfully relocalized many forms of energy. From the Burlington Cohousing Solor Project in Vermont to liquid biogas initiatives at Quad County Corn Processors in Iowa to geothermal power plants at the Oregon Institute of Technology, Power from the People gives real-life examples of the ways that a community can energize itself. Containing appendices with extensive endnotes, a virtual library of additional resources, and a glossary of common industry terms, this book provides a great starter guide for anyone pursuing a local energy project."
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"Pahl's alternative energy guidebook, The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook (2007), urged homeowners to cut their dependence on fossil fuels and looked at communities, such as those in Asheville, North Carolina, and Sweden, where locally produced, renewable energy has already made a significant impact. With its focus on U.S.-based technologies and resources, this follow-up volume offers brass-tacks practical advice on the planning, organizing, and financing angles of implementing alternative power without waiting for big government to pitch in. In 14 impressively detailed and inspiring chapters, Pahl explains why our current reliance on fossil fuels is unsustainable and provides concrete how and where examples of coops and neighborhoods in states from Oregon to Vermont, in which such energy sources as solar, wind, and geothermal are now supplementing and even supplanting conventional power. Along with an extensive guide to grass-roots power associations and online resources, Pahl gives sound advice on how individuals can conserve energy. For any private citizen or community looking to cut the cord from corporate utilities, Pahl's manual delivers a cornucopia of ideas."
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Greg Pahl, an environmental activist who co-founded ACORN and served as an intelligence officer in the military during the Vietnam War, presents a "community resilience guide" for the local energy movement. He organizes the book into four progressive sections. The first consists of three essays that outline broad trends in energy usage and sourcing around the world, conservation and re-localization, and the need to rethink our relationship to energy. The second turns to household energy use and how to become more efficient or produce your own energy. The third and largest section explores alternative energy sources in different localities where they have been implemented. They include solar, wind, geothermal, and new fuel-sources for combustion. The very last chapter in that section turns to "exceptional community initiatives." Part four is Pahl's "call to action" and advice for preparing for action. A resource guide in the back includes energy programs, community development, and transportation. Community Van Jones provides a forward.
"Energy is at the heart of our 21st century economic-ecological crisis, but most writing on the subject is suffused either with immobilizing anticipation of doom or giddy wishful thinking. Here at last is a genuinely helpful energy book, one that's realistic and practical. If you want to actually do something about our energy future, here is where to start."--Richard Heinberg, senior fellow, Post Carbon Institute; author, The End of Growth
"Talk about down-and-dirty. Or rather, down-and-clean! Here's the actual useful detail on how to do the stuff that really needs doing. Read it and get to work!"--Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
"Greg Pahl's superb guide to community energy and how to unlock its potential is essential reading for anyone interested in the economic future of the place they live. As a Community Resilience Guide it is just that--a powerful guide showing how enhancing your community's resilience is a key form of economic development. And there is nowhere better to start than with rethinking our relationship to energy. You will find yourself waking up at 3 a.m. to scribble down the ideas and actions that this book has inspired. Make sure you keep a pen and paper by the bed."--Rob Hopkins, author of The Transition Companion
"Greg Pahl's Power from the People is an inspirational guide to the burgeoning community-power movement. His case studies of people who are making a difference are often tales of endurance and survival, but also powerful testaments to the human spirit. Bravo to Pahl and Power from the People for explaining how feed-in tariffs have produced a community-power revolution in Europe and how they can do the same here in North America."--Paul Gipe, author of Wind Power, advocate, and renewable energy industry analyst
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Niagara USA being featured on "Today" provides the region with valuable branding on one of the nation's most well-known programs. Kathie Lee and Hoda will announce the giveaway during the 10 to 11 a.m. hour this morning on NBC.
In partnership with various hospitality and tourism properties in Niagara USA, NTCC entered into an agreement with NBCUniversal Media to offer a package to the area valued below $5,000. During the fourth hour of "Today," the package will be featured as a giveaway for one lucky audience member. NBCUniversal was so impressed with the prize they selected the package to be highlighted while Hoda and Kathie Lee were filming special episodes in front of a live audience in California.
The package is valid throughout 2013 and includes:
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New, lifesaving technologies for preventing and treating cervical cancer are here, and PATH and our partners believe they should be available to women and girls around the world, no matter where they live, without delay.
That's why we're co-sponsoring the Global Call to Stop Cervical Cancer, together with a coalition of civil society and global health organizations. The Global Call is a movement to mobilize action and put an end to cervical cancer, which unnecessarily kills more than a quarter-million women each year—mostly in poor countries.
Women don't have to die of cervical cancer. The disease develops slowly after initial infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV) and, unlike most other cancers, it is preventable when precursor lesions are detected and treated.
However, millions of women in the developing world are never screened for cervical cancer—whether it is because of the day-long journey to the nearest clinic, local myths and fears, or poor health services.
Now vaccines are available to protect against the strains of HPV that cause most cervical cancer. The new vaccines will make it possible to protect women before they become infected—another line of defense for those who don't have access to regular screening. The trick is to overcome the challenges of getting the new vaccines into developing-country health systems, so that all women may benefit from the scientific advancement.
With new prevention and treatment options for cervical cancer, the world community can now imagine a future free of this disease. But realizing that future means overcoming a range of technical, financial, and political obstacles, and it's going to take all of us to make it happen—concerned citizens, policy makers, global and regional organizations, philanthropists, and business leaders. Declaring our desire and intention to stop cervical cancer everywhere, not just in wealthy countries, is an essential first step.
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LONDON, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding hit the top of the British singles charts for the first time on Sunday with her song "Burn", the Official Charts Company said.
Goulding, 26, who performed at the wedding reception of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011, sold 117,000 copies of her single to take the number one spot from U.S. singer and actress Miley Cyrus.
Lady Gaga's new single "Applause" charted at number five after it was hurriedly released on Tuesday, almost a week ahead of schedule, when a version was leaked online.
Brothers Richard and Adam Johnson, who found fame through a televised British talent show, topped the album chart for a third consecutive week with their debut release "The Impossible Dream". (Reporting by William James; Editing by Alison Williams)


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Sigur Rós - Valtari - New Album! **Updates**
The Reykjavík Grapevine - Article 26.03.2012
The internet has been bursting with joy and excitement today, as everyone's favourite non-Björk related Icelandic musical outfit, the mighty Sigur Rós, announced details of their impending sixth studio LP. Due out on May 28, the album is titled 'Valtari' (that means "steamroller") and will feature eight spanking new tracks (the titles of which are all listed below, along with semi-appropriate Icelandic translations).
This reveal was followed by the unveiling of a track from the album. The song is called "Ekki múkk" ("Not a sound") and the accompanying video is by the lovely Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir, who is a member of Seabear and an accomplished visual artist (along with Lilja Birgisdóttir she created the artwork for Jónsi's 'Go' as well as this issue of Reykjavík Grapevine). Watch the video embed below, it is very fitting to the song and in tune with Sigur Rós' established aesthetic.
The band first revealed the album title and tracklist in a short interview with UK mag Q, commenting that it was "beautiful", that it sounded "like an avalanche in slow-motion," and that its music "just kind of rolls over you. In a good way." They also note that the album is more electronic than their previous work, while assuring their many fans that they have not made a 'dance' record.
It is interesting to note that in the Q interview, the band state that 'the tourists' are the worst thing about Iceland's economic collapse, that there have never been more, due to the failed króna, and that these tourists are the only people that bother the band for autographs. If you are reading this, tourists or potential tourists, do note that Sigur Rós are not fans of giving out autographs. Try to refrain from asking for them. They have politely requested this.
The article furthermore reveals that 'Valtari' was recorded at Mosfellsbær's Sundlaugin Studios and is produced by the band along with Jónsi's partner Alex Somers.
While the internet was busy coming to terms with all these news, the following statement about the album appeared on Sigur Rós' official website:
"i really can't remember why we started this record, i no
longer know what we were trying to do back then. i do know session after
session went pear-shaped, we lost focus and almost gave up...did give
up for a while. but then something happened and form started to emerge,
and now i can honestly say that it's the only sigur rós record i have
listened to for pleasure in my own house after we've finished it." -
The tracklist is as follows:
Ég anda
Ekki múkk
Fjögur píanó
Here are our translations of the track names, which we coined using our superior grasp on the Icelandic language:
"I breathe"
"Not a sound"
"A really tight knot that probably can't be undone"
"Dead calm"
"Four pianos"
Expect more Sigur Rós news, including tour details and stuff, popping up in the near future, in line with proper buzz-cycle procedures.
* Out 28th May
* Name = Valtari
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- 25 March 2012 at 18:57
Hi Jon, how are you? What do you think about the details of this new album? It seems good for me: choir, dreamy, introverted, long songs, 'music rolls over you': progressive I guess, and the opposite to a pop album :)
- 26 March 2012 at 08:35
- Matthew said...
Excited is an understatement. Do you happen to know what magazine the article in the pictures is from?
Many thanks.
- 26 March 2012 at 19:19
- victoryrose said...
@ Alline - Im just so happy with what Ive heard...really, couldn't be happier :D
@Matthew It was from Q magazine May 2012
- 26 March 2012 at 21:35
Jon, you have listen the album? So good. i waiting the 28 May. Thanks for all the details and transcript of Reykjavik Gravepine
- 26 March 2012 at 22:56
makes me cry mourn of nowhere, sigur ros's music with me all day, with my dreams, my wife and my angel that came into my life, my son.
for me are the best band in the world.
28 May come soon!
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- 28 March 2012 at 17:07


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Fossilized remains of plants and animals have been discovered in many areas of Thailand, particularly in the Korat Plateau in northeastern Thailand. Most of the animal fossils found are of dinosaurs, which date primarily to the Jurassic era though some are from the late-Triassic, the oldest such evidence of dinosaurs in Southeast Asia.
The dinosaur bones encased in sandstone in the Phu Wiang hills of Khon Kaen province included Phuwiangosaurus sirindhornae, a gigantic plant-eating dinosaur that had a long neck and tail and a small head.
Four other species of dinosaur unearthed in Phu Wiang include Siamotyrannus isanensis, a smaller version of Tyrannosaurus rex, Siamosauraus suteethorni, a crocodile-like creature, Compsognathus, the world's smallest dinosaur, and Ornithomimosaur, an ostrich-like dinosaur.
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Sunday, July 3, 2011
Gorgonzola Cheese Stuffed & Bacon Wrapped Dates (and a few other apps) and what's on our grill for today
8 comments:
- Joanne said...
One of my classmates always brings dates like that one of our class potlucks and I love them so much! She doesn't do them on the grill, but I bet they taste even better with that smoky edge to them.
- July 3, 2011 at 4:33 PM
- Noelle Ritter said...
i would eat that whole platter. wonderful. looks like your chicken turned out well too! ps: been having a few meals lately where i forget to snap the "finish product" because people show up, we're too hungry, or there's wine involved... haha i need to focus! tell me this happens to you too?
- July 3, 2011 at 10:18 PM
- Karen (Back Road Journal) said...
If I let my husband see this blog, he is going to think he is doing without. We have a cocktail on the dock in the evening before dinner but I don't prepare any nibbles. I'll have to work on my wifely skills.
- July 4, 2011 at 5:26 AM
- bellini said...
Very addictive Debby! Have a wonderful 4th of July!!!!
- July 4, 2011 at 6:58 AM
- Cathy at Wives with Knives said...
Oh my, would I love to pull up a chair to your table this afternoon. Bacon wrapped dates are one of my favorite appetizers but I never make them. My family would turn up their noses I'm afraid and then I would have to eat them all by myself.
- July 4, 2011 at 8:56 AM
- All Things Yummy said...
yum, everything is better with bacon or butter LOL
That's so sweet that you prepare happy hour treats on Friday. Such a nice way to begin your weekend together.
- July 4, 2011 at 8:18 PM
- Allie said...
Yummmm! I love little appetizers and things that you can just pop in your mouth - especially paired with wine. And the idea of unwinding and just eating simple foods. Sounds like so much fun!
- July 9, 2011 at 10:50 PM
- Monica H said...
What a great little appetizer- I like all the different textures as well as the sweet and savory. yum!
- July 14, 2011 at 4:16 PM


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With Nokia and Samsung getting serious about smartphone cameras, Sony is looking to get into the game themselves with its established camera brand. We've been hearing rumblings of the Sony "Honami", high-end camera-centric phone, for quite a while now. Today we get a look at the device with a new render from Chinese site, ePrice. We can only see the back and one side of the phone but it appears to have a simple glass back with the camera in the upper left corner. Next to the camera is a speaker and branding for Sony's G-lenses and underneath is an LED flash. The side of the phone features some ports but they're covered by flaps which makes us think that the phone is probably water-proof like so many of Sony's recent phones.
Now we can get into the real meat of the phone. The Honami is said to have a 2.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor, 2 GB RAM, 5-inch 1080p Triluminos X-Reality display, 16 GB storage, microSD card slot, 4G LTE and a 3000 mAh battery. But the camera is really the standout feature of the phone with a 20.7-megapixel Exmor RS sensor, BIONZ image processor, and a Sony G-series lens. That's the kind of camera that makes a camera nerd like myself drool. On the front, you'll get a 2-megapixel Exmor R camera.
Clearly, the Honami will be one of the best specced phones to date, especially with that incredible camera. Sony could do a lot with the software side of the camera as well by allowing it to communicate with your Sony camera and such. For a Sony shooter like myself, its an exciting prospect that makes us eager for the phone to arrive. Sony should be announcing the Honami at its IFA 2013 press conference on September 4.
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Children's Title: Division Chief, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine ;Project Director, Pediatric Pulmonary Training Center
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"After I presented a research proposal to a small Eskimo village in Alaska many years ago, the Council Elder told me, "We will trust you with our children." I feel privileged to receive that trust from every parent of every child that I treat. I believe families deserve not only the best care but also our utmost efforts to improve that care through research and training."
"After I presented a research proposal to a small Eskimo village in Alaska many years ago, the Council Elder told me, "We will trust you with our children." I feel privileged to receive that trust from every parent of every child that I treat. I believe families deserve not only the best care but also our utmost efforts to improve that care through research and training."
Gregory J. Redding, MD, is chief of the Division of Pulmonary Medicine at Seattle Childrens Hospital. He is professor in the Department of Pediatrics and director of the Pediatric Pulmonary Training Center grant at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He earned his MD from Stanford University. He completed a pediatrics residency at Harbor General/UCLA and a pediatric pulmonary fellowship at the University of Colorado.
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Dr. Redding was an amazing doctor. I'm 33 now, but when I first came to Seattle I was really sick with my asthma. He saved my life. I was transported to children's from another hospital. I was in icu for over a week. I spent every Friday for check ups, and he used every resource to get my asthma under control. I'm so happy he continues to help at children's. He's a wonderful doctor that takes the time to know his patients. I was sad when I had to stop going there.
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Brittany Deane recalled that she and her sister spotted the Salyers twins at one of the festival's welcoming events.
"We were sitting on the bleachers and I saw just these two amazingly handsome young men that looked to be about our age," she recalled to ABC News, "and they were walking across the gym floor below."
Her sister Briana Deane recalls that her sister grabbed her by the wrist, "which we always do when we get excited about something," she said. And after a few moments, she too had spotted the brothers.
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Sadly, the twin siblings didn't cross paths until the last day of the festival for it's closing night party. "They were there at the end of the hall," Briana Deane said. "They smiled at us and we all started talking."
The Salyers twins sent the Deane twins a message via Facebook saying they couldn't wait to bump into them next year at the festival. But instead, the sisters asked, "Why wait?" The brothers then made a road trip out of it -- driving from their previous home in Clinton, Tennessee to visit the sisters in Virginia. After an amazing trip, the brothers said they knew immediately they'd propose one day.
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The effect of the fluoroquinolones on insulin secretion has been studied, and the results suggest that these antibiotics cause hypoglycemia by increasing insulin release via blockade of adenosine triphosphate-sensitive K + channels in the β cells of the pancreas [ 30 , 31 ]. This effect may not be clinically significant in all patients because of physiologic mechanisms that regulate blood glucose levels. In contrast, the mechanism of hyperglycemia is not clear. One contributing factor may be overexposure (eg, failure to adjust the dose in patients with renal insufficiency) [ 32 ]. The results of our study and of others [ 12 , 15 , 16 , 20 , 21 ], as well as this potentially common mechanism for hypoglycemia, suggest the need for caution when using certain fluoroquinolones, because the odds of hypo- and hyperglycemia appear to vary among the agents [ 33 ]. This is not unusual; differences in risk have been reported for other adverse effects with this class of antibiotics [ 34 ].
Our results are generally consistent with those presented in the literature. In a retrospective medical-record review of dysglycemia in hospitalized patients receiving gatifloxacin, levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, or ceftriaxone, dysglycemic events were more likely to occur in patients receiving gatifloxacin (relative risk, 3.29; 95% CI, 2.33–4.65) or levofloxacin (relative risk, 1.55; 95% CI, 1.29–1.88) versus ceftriaxone [ 20 ]. There was no difference in the risk of dysglycemia between gatifloxacin and levofloxacin (P=.8). However, hypo- and hyperglycemic events were combined in this study. None of the patients who received ciprofloxacin experienced a dysglycemic event. In a nested case-control study of hospitalized patients who received gatifloxacin or levofloxacin, the odds of hypoglycemia were greater with gatifloxacin versus levofloxacin (OR, 2.81; 95% CI, 1.02–7.70) [ 12 ]. No comparator antibiotic was included in the study, so the possibility of a fluoroquinolone class effect could not be assessed. In another study of elderly inpatients who received gatifloxacin or levofloxacin, gatifloxacin was independently associated with hypoglycemia (OR, 2.4; 95% CI, 1.1–5.6) and hyperglycemia (OR, 2.5; 95% CI, 1.6–3.9) versus levofloxacin [ 21 ]. Again, a nonfluoroquinolone antibiotic was not included in the study.
Dysglycemic events have also been evaluated among outpatients receiving fluoroquinolones. In a smaller, regional database review of the effect of fluoroquinolones on glucose metabolism among veterans with an outpatient or discharge prescription for any of these antibiotics, Coblio et al [ 15 ] state that gatifloxacin was no more likely to cause hypo- or hyperglycemia than levofloxacin or ciprofloxacin among patients with or without diabetes, but they did not report statistical significance. In addition, no comparator was included, so the possibility of a class effect could not be assessed. In a nested case-control study of outpatient fluoroquinolone therapy and dysglycemia requiring hospitalization, gatifloxacin (OR, 4.3; 95% CI, 2.9–6.3) and levofloxacin (OR, 1.5; 95% CI, 1.2–2.0) were associated with an increased risk of hypoglycemia versus macrolides, but ciprofloxacin and moxifloxacin were not [ 16 ]. Compared with macrolide antibiotics, only gatifloxacin was associated with an increased risk of hyperglycemia (OR, 16.7; 95% CI, 10.4–26.8). The authors' findings were similar when their results were stratified by the presence or absence of diabetes. In our study, the small number of events in patients without diabetes (despite our large sample) combined with low ORs and lack of statistical significance suggest that clinical focus regarding risk with the remaining fluoroquinolones should be on those with diabetes.
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