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Though a long staple of literature and film, the concept of The Proper Villain was reclaimed, riffed upon and perfected in Ocean's 11, the Clooney-as-Sinatra version. You remember the wonderful thing. It makes Las Vegas, a fake oasis in the middle of a desert, look like a new Paris (even if the fake version of the real old Paris — the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino — is just out of shot).
But the film's merits stretch beyond its aesthetic, beyond its mercury-slick cuts and glowing shots of the Bellagio fountain. Ocean's 11 has much to teach us, and the lessons begin with this line: "It'll be nice working with proper villains again."
A quick refresher: Don Cheadle's Basher is a bomb expert who, while in London on a job, encounters a dud — botching the execution of a bank robbery and finding himself pinned up against a cop car and facing time in the clink. Brad Pitt's Rusty — who's working his way through one of the best-ever let's-get-the-band-back-together montages in the pantheon of cinema — flashes phony plastic and suddenly he's the crime scene head honcho. Rusty pretends to put Basher under arrest, the other cops scatter, and the two old friends have their easy exit, off to join the rest of the Vegas heist team.
And so Basher says to Rusty, "It'll be nice working with proper villains again."
Here at Good to be Bad, we'll be providing you with advice on how to be a proper villain: to comport yourself in a way that is both intrinsically wrong and yet deeply, beautifully right. This time around, we're focusing on Basher — master thief, bomb expert, and rampant criminal who looks great wearing a scarf.
Basher favors the turtleneck and scarf look, which is risky, but very rewarding if you have the confidence to pull it off. Let's just get this out of the way: a turtleneck sweater is most definitely a thing a man can wear. I have a friend, one of the most brilliant and stylish guys I know, and he arrived to a Christmas party at my apartment wearing a turtleneck. Confusion erupted among other guests, until he introduced his date, a French fashion model studying particle physics at Columbia (who happened to be tapping her two fingers on the hem of his turtleneck).
So Basher is wearing a turtleneck, and draped around it is a scarf tied quite simply around his neck, with its knot resting by the top part of his chest, ensuring both warmth and sartorial accuracy. If you have a linen scarf, this is a great way to wear it, the low knot. There's also The Playboy, which requires a full fold from the midpoint of the scarf, halfing it. Then you lay the double-layered thing around the back of the neck so that the crease is hanging down, then stuff the two untied ends into the knot and pull. It's quite easy.
Still unconvinced? A simple Google Image search of, say, Johnny Depp or Keith Richards, with their classic nearly sheer linen scarves, should change your mind. Or check out Martin Amis, with a big silk scarf. He still looks great in just a simple wrap-over.
Anyway, it's cold out, so grab a scarf. If you wear it correctly, you'll look like a proper villain. Good work. Now go rob a casino.
[Photo credit: Getty]
Nate Freeman is the Editor-in-Chief of Good to be Bad. His writing has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Observer.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla - Members of the Jacksonville Jewish Center spent Monday night in prayer for the people of Israel.
"The Jewish community around here and the world, we feel helpless, we want to do something. We don't know what to do, we turn to God and come together and pray," said Rabbi Jesse Olitzky.
The Jacksonville Jewish Center's congregation decided in just the past day to have a prayer service after seeing the constant barrage of news reports coming out of the Middle East of the rocket attacks between Israel and Hamas. A group Rabbi Olitzky calls a terrorist organization.
"Their sole purpose is to destroy state of Israel. All Israelis want is to live without fear, they don't want their children in bomb shelters," said Olitzky.
Israeli supporters aren't the only people concerned about the fighting. At Jacksonville's Ramallah Club, Palestinian Americans are just as concerned.
"It's a tragedy the people of Gaza have been through hell the past few years. They've endured a lot of hardship as well as the Israelis, they've endured hardship too. Peace is the only answer," said John Rukab, with the Ramallah American Club of Jacksonville.
After speaking with both sides, both said they want peace in Israel, but said Americans don't always hear what's really going on from the American press.
"They never hear the Palestinian side when a Palestinian child dies. They only hear when an Israeli child dies and the numbers are probably 10 or 20 to 1. That whenever a Palestinian dies, you don't hear it in the American press," said Rukab.
Lenny Maiman arrived this morning from Israel a trip he'll never forget.
"I gained a fresh appreciation for what the people in the south of Israel have been living with for the past few years with the constant barrage of missiles," said Maiman.
Maiman traveled to the country for a charity bike ride to raise money for a Jerusalem children's hospital. He said he saw first hand what the people of Israel are going through.
"The event this year was in the south. On Wednesday night when the sirens went off consistently through the night. I know one museum that opened in the north on the weekend to let them come in for free. People in the south are coming north to friends, relatives and people who are opening their homes up," said Maiman.
Maiman joined fellow Jews Monday night at the Jacksonville Jewish Center for a prayer service where they're praying for Israel as the bombings and missile strikes from Hamas continues.
"The mood is such that everyone's tense but life does go on. I was at a cafe yesterday evening in Tel Aviv and there were people around, although in the south things are tense," said Maiman.
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Obstructive uropathy
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Obstructive uropathy is a condition in which the flow of urine is blocked. This causes the urine to back up back up and injure one or both kidneys.
Alternative Names
Uropathy - obstructive
Obstructive uropathy occurs when urine cannot drain through a ureter (a tube that carries urine from the kidneys to the bladder). Urine backs up into the kidney and causes it to become swollen (hydronephrosis).
Obstructive uropathy can affect one or both kidneys. It can occur suddenly, or be a long-term problem.
Common causes of obstructive uropathy include:
- Bladder stones
- Kidney stones
- Benign prostatic hyperplasia (enlarged prostate)
- Bladder or ureteral cancer
- Colon cancer
- Cervical cancer
- Uterine cancer
- Any cancer that spreads
- Scar tissue that occurs inside or outside of the ureters
- Problems with the nerves that supply the bladder
Rarely, the problem occurs during pregnancy. This condition is called idiopathic hydronephrosis of pregnancy.
Symptoms depend on whether the problem starts slowly or suddenly, and if one or both kidneys are involved. Symptoms may include:
- Mild to severe pain in the side of the body and the back (flank pain). The pain may be felt on one or both sides.
- Fever
- Nausea or vomiting
- Weight gain or swelling (edema)
You may also have problems passing urine, such as:
- Urge to urinate often
- Decrease in the force of urine stream
- Dribbling of urine
- Not feeling as if the bladder is emptied
- Need to urinate more often at night
- Decreased amount of urine
- Blood in urine
Exams and Tests
Imaging studies are done to diagnose obstructive uropathy. Commonly used tests include:
- Ultrasound of the belly area (abdomen) or pelvis
- CT scan of the belly area (abdomen) or pelvis
- Intravenous pyelogram (IVP)
- Voiding cystourethrogram
- Renal nuclear scan
Stents or drains placed in the ureter or in a part of the kidney called the renal pelvis may provide short-term relief of symptoms.
Nephrostomy tubes, which drain urine from the kidneys through the back, may be used to bypass the blockage.
A Foley catheter, placed through the urethra into the bladder, may also be help urine flow.
Short-term relief from the blockage is possible without surgery. However, the cause of the blockage must be removed and the urinary system repaired. Surgery may be needed for long-term relief from the problem.
The kidney may need to be removed if the blockage causes severe loss of function.
Outlook (Prognosis)
If the blockage comes on suddenly, kidney damage is less likely if the problem is detected and repaired right away. Often, the damage to the kidneys goes away. Long-term damage to the kidneys may occur if the blockage has been present for a long time.
If only one kidney is damaged, chronic kidney problems are less likely.
You may need dialysis or a kidney transplant if there is damage to both kidneys and they do not function, even after the blockage is repaired.
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Obstructive uropathy can cause permanent and severe damage to the kidneys, resulting in kidney failure.
If the problem was caused by a blockage in the bladder, the bladder may have long-term damage. This may lead to problems emptying the bladder or leakage of urine.
Obstructive uropathy is associated with a higher likelihood of urinary tract infections.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call your health care provider if you have symptoms of obstructive uropathy or suspect you may have this condition.
Obstructive uropathy can be prevented by treating disorders that can cause it.
Meldrum KK. Pathophysiology of urinary tract obstruction. In: Wein AJ, Kavoussi LR, Partin AW, Peters CA, eds. Campbell-Walsh Urology. 11th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2016:chap 48.
Zeidel ML. Obstructive uropathy. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 25th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2016:chap 123.


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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Backroads: Too Cold to Change a Flat, and other Considerations
By the time we got back to the truck after our excursion a relatively short distance out onto the playa, my fingers were freezing and my face was icy. I once again considered the chances of getting a flat from running over thorny bushes, so instead of turning around in the middle of the road, I drove a short way to a wider turnaround spot. I decided then that I wouldn't change a tire if one happened to go flat: it was just too damned cold. Instead, I figured I would immediately get into the back of the truck and climb into one of our -20°F sleeping bags. (Well, maybe I would have run the heater to warm my hands up first, but I wouldn't have wanted to use much gas. MOH, however, says we wouldn't have had a problem changing a flat, so maybe he wasn't as chilled!)
After getting back on the Monitor Valley Road, we proceeded north past Diana's Punchbowl, a travertine hill with inset bowl or depression containing hot water that will presumably boil any living thing that falls into it (reported temperatures range from 138°F to 200°F), and drove on to Potts Ranch Hot Springs, where we ultimately decided that the water was too cool for the outdoor temperature that I guessed was possibly as low as 5 or 10°F — or maybe it was 15°F with a wind of 7 mph, or 20°F with a wind of 10 mph. The average wind at the Eureka Airport was 7.4 mph that day, with gusts from the northwest, though we remember a breeze from the south.
At some point, either at the hot springs, or more likely as we were heading up the road past The Geographic Center of Nevada, we had a brief discussion about the cold and what we would do if the truck broke down on this relatively desolated, but mostly good, graveled road.
What would we do if the truck broke down out here? Would we walk to the nearest occupied ranch? Well, no, we'd stay with the truck and probably get in our sleeping bags, which were in the back inside the metal Caravan camper.
We had some food (and coffee), along with a Coleman stove for heating some of the water we had brought with us — water we had carefully preserved from freezing by placing in a large ice box. Although our food was really meant for two days and the second day was getting on toward dusk, we could stay with the truck awhile before getting too hungry or thirsty. The nearest active ranch that I knew of, the Monitor Valley ranch, was about 7 miles from Potts Ranch Hot Springs, about 11 miles SSW of the sign for the geographic center, and maybe about 14 or 15 miles back from the place where we started this conversation. Highway 50, at this point, was "only" 11 or 12 miles to the northeast. We had just passed a sign that said a ranch was off to the east up some side road, but I had no idea how far up the road the ranch might be, or whether the ranch was active.
So, had we broken down during the late afternoon or dusk of early evening, we would have stayed with the truck. We could try to spot ranch lights by dark, giving us a better idea of what we might to do by the light of the next day.
Would we activate one of our SPOTs to send a 911 message? Well, probably not right away.
I suspect that the Monitor Valley Road is fairly well traveled ordinarily, although I haven't been on it routinely for many, many years. I would expect at least one or two ranchers or other travelers to come by per day, even in the dead of winter. We would have, therefore, stayed in the truck hoping for someone to come by the next day instead of sending a SPOT 911 call right away and incurring possible search-and-rescue charges. Because we had really only packed food for two days, we might have been getting low on food by the end of the second, unless I still happened to have a stash of old canned food somewhere in the back of the truck, which I doubted.
If no one had come down the road by noon to mid-afternoon of the next day, we would have faced the same choice: walk, stay another night with our dwindling food and adequate water, or SPOT a 911 call. (There was no cell service, as far as I know.) I suspect that we might have stayed another night and then walked or sent a SPOT call for help on the third day, but we didn't end up having to make that choice.
I had been thinking about some of these possibilities since stopping at the north end of the Monitor Valley playa. There, we could have considered walking to the far side of Diana's Punchbowl, where warm or hot water flows in a creek coming from the eastern base of the spring mound. Reasons not to walk? I didn't know the temperature of the water, our trek would have taken us farther off the main road than we already were, and we would have been going away from the shelter of the truck. (One can always burn tires for heat.) I suppose we could have carried food and some water along with our sleeping bags, but in my mind, no tent means no real shelter, and we didn't have a tent to carry with us. Additionally, the warmth factor of the water, which I remembered as warm but not hot, was in question. (It turns out that the water was probably warm enough at about 110 to 120°F.) All in all, we would have faced similar circumstances and made similar choices as we might have made farther to the north: we were about 0.5 miles from the main road, about 4 miles from Diana's Punchbowl, and about 9 or 10 miles from the active Monitor Valley ranch.
Had we broken down at Potts Hot Springs, we would have stayed overnight, maybe getting warm in the springs before retiring to our sleeping bags (and maybe not, since the water was only around 100°F), leaving us to face the same choices the next day. Potts, however, is closer to the active Monitor Valley ranch — it's about 7 miles away — making it fairly likely that we would have walked the next day. Seven miles is still a fairly long hike over the repetitive ups and downs of the main road, which crosses alluvial fans coming off the east side of the Toquima Range, but 7 miles is feasible. We would have still been taking a chance by walking away from the shelter of the truck; but in this case, the truck was on a side road and probably not visible to the rest of the world, and we would have been walking down a main road, visible to anyone that might happen by.
An active ranch doesn't necessarily have people present, but if no one is home, one can presumably break in if needed, make a phone call (if there is phone service), wait for people to come, or send a 911 call via SPOT while one waits indoors.
After all this consideration during the course of two hours or less, I realized that I really haven't done much field work out in the middle of nowhere in very low temperatures during the middle of winter. Also, when I did that sort of thing at all, other field partners were likely to have been waiting back at the motel, ready to go out looking if necessary. For this wintry trip, we had blithely traversed at least 90 miles of dirt roads by the time we had reached the geographic center of Nevada, and I hadn't given the temperatures and our relative isolation a second thought until late afternoon: those roads and that area had become familiar to me over the years, although most of my familiarity dates back 20 to more than 30 years ago.
I think I'll at least take more food with me the next time I go out into the chilling cold.
6 comments:
- Gaelyn said...
I just never think that far ahead. Although I do always carry plenty of comforts.
- Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 11:00:00 AM PST
- Hollis said...
thanks for the wind chill chart -- just last week a friend and I were debating whether wind chill increased more rapidly at lower temps, as we skied in 40 mph winds :( Now we have the answer (yes).
- Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 2:29:00 PM PST
- Nina Fitzgerald said...
Interesting thought processes on possibilities. I don't have a SPOT but know it would be a good thing to have on hand.
Be prepared!wareem heipie
- Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 4:19:00 PM PST
- Silver Fox said...
Gaelyn - plenty of warm clothes/jackets etc, plenty of coffee.
Hollis - if you ever lose the chart, it's about the first hit for "windchill", which is how I keep finding it.
Nina - The SPOT is a great item I should blog about sometime. What is "wareen heipie"? Google thinks it should be "wareham hippie."
- Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 4:58:00 PM PST
- Dan McShane said...
You had good reason to be nervous. The last time I drove the Monitor Valley was in March 2006. Snowy, windy and cold and I was very nervous. My intent was to snowshoe the ridgeline of Mount Jefferson, but I much more concerned about getting stuck with the car for some long period. The two days there the only tracks on the road were my own.
- Friday, March 9, 2012 at 10:23:00 PM PST
- Silver Fox said...
Good to know how many vehicles you saw during two snowy days (zero). I think we had seen one vehicle in the distance to the south that day, or maybe one had passed us in the opposite direction - but it was sunny, not snowy.
I like having the SPOT in the truck, quite a good backup device, though it may make me a bit complacent.
- Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 7:12:00 AM PST


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Edward Alvin, 34, was arrested last week in Palm Beach, Florida after he was caught pleasuring himself at one of the most sensual, seductive and erotic places in the world -- the DMV.
An off-duty officer first told Alvin, to zip up and stop. When he ignored the order he was placed under arrest (and, boy, do we feel bad for the guy who had to place his hands in the cuffs).
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Traits in Groovy++ are a powerful but simple tool for composition of functionality by small pieces. Technically speaking, a trait is a Java interface with default implementations for some methods.
When a non-abstract class implements such an interface, it can elect not to provide an implementation for these methods, in which case the default implementation will be used.
A trait falls between an interface and a class. It is like a class in that it includes implementation of some methods, and it is like an interface in that a class can implement any number of traits. Methods implemented in traits get mixed-in to classes that inherit from them.
Groovy++ traits are different (and possibly simpler) than Scala traits.
Listing Two is a simple example in which we define two traits (WithCoordinates and WithSize) and then subclass these traits in an class named Rectangle.
Listing Two: Using traits in Groovy++ @Typed package traits @Trait class WithCoordinates { int x, y def moveTo (int newX, int newY) { x = newX y = newY } } @Trait class WithSize { int height, width def resize (int h, int w) { height = h width = w } } /* Rectangle inherits implementation from both traits */ class Rectangle implements WithCoordinates, WithSize {} def r = new Rectangle() r.resize(5, 10) r.moveTo(2, 3)
Tail Recursion
Tail recursion is when a method calls itself, and the self-call occurs as the last call in the method. Tail recursion is important because it can be converted into iteration by a compiler. This allows you the expressiveness of a recursive call with the run-time behavior of iteration.
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Mutual tail recursion between two methods is not yet supported.
Mixing Dynamic and Static Code Together
By now you've started to think about Groovy++'s answer to the classic "should a programming language be statically or dynamically typed" question. There is no longer a clear separation between the two answers, as Groovy++ allows you to mix the two. We believe in using the right tool for the job, both approaches have value, and that the approaches can successfully be mixed.
Groovy++ allows developers to use annotations on parts or pieces of their code, and the annotations declare how these pieces should be compiled. You can annotate a single method, a whole class, or a whole file, and the annotations allow you to specify these compiler options:
- statically typed
- dynamically typed
- typed in mixed mode
Mixed mode compilation in Groovy++ combines the performance and strictness of Groovy++ with the dynamic features of regular Groovy. So for example, you can mix markup builders (requiring metaprogramming) with calculations (requiring speed).
The idea is simple: If the static compiler is not able to resolve method call or property access statically, then instead of reporting an error (as it does in strict compilation mode), it immediately generates dynamic access to the method/property and assumes that the return value is of type java.lang.Object.
Listing Three illustrates the dynamic features of a Groovy MarkupBuilder to generate XML output and fast statically compiled code for fast calculations of divisors.
Listing Three: Using the Groovy MarkupBuilder new MarkupBuilder ().numbers { def divisors = { int n, Collection alreadyFound = [] -> if (n > 3) for(candidate in 2..<n) if (n % candidate == 0) return doCall (n / candidate, alreadyFound << candidate) alreadyFound << n } (2..1500).each { def divs = divisors(it) ] if (divs.size () == 1) number ([value: it, prime:true ]) else { number ([value: it, prime:false]) { divs.each { div -> divisor([value: div]) } } } } }
This code generates something similar to
<numbers> <number value='2' prime='true' /> <number value='3' prime='true' /> <number value='4' prime='false'> <divisor value='2' /> <divisor value='2' /> </number> <number value='5' prime='true' /> ... <numbers>
One of the most important goals of Groovy++ is that compiled code run as fast as if it were written in Java. From time to time, we run a set of benchmarks to make sure this is a reality.
As you can see from Table 1, the results of benchmarks run on Groovy++ are very close to Java's speed. This table shows the tests performed on 26 April 2011. All times are in milliseconds (so smaller is better.)
Our main observations from these benchmarks are the following:
- Groovy++ code is as fast as compiled Java
- Groovy++ is many times faster than Groovy (even when compared with Groovy 1.8.0, which includes some substantial performance improvements)
- Performance of pure Groovy can be unacceptably slow for some calculations and concurrent situations
Getting Started with Groovy++
Groovy++ is developed as an open source project under the liberal Apache License 2.0 — so you can download the binaries for immediate use, or build it from the sources.
When starting out with Groovy++, you'll find these links indispensable:
- Project Home: http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest/
- Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/groovyplusplus
- Source Repository: http://github.com/alextkachman/groovypp
- Defect Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest/issues/
Groovy++ currently supports both stable versions of Groovy 1.7.10 and 1.8.0 For the instructions below, we assume you're installing Groovy++ v 0.4.231.
Downloading the binaries
Groovy++ can be downloaded here.
If you already have an existing Groovy setup, all you need is to download a single groovypp-<version>.jar and place it in your GROOVY_HOME\lib directory.
If you don't have an existing Groovy setup, you can download the complete groovypp-<version>.zip archive — it includes full a Groovy setup with groovypp-<version>.jar correctly placed. Just unpack it in a directory of your choice and point GROOVY_HOME to it.
Using Maven or Gradle
Groovy++ artifacts are deployed in the maven repository. The following snippet shows the maven dependency information that can be used to include Groovy++ in your project.
<dependency> <groupid>org.codehaus.groovy</groupid> <artifactid>groovypp</artifactid> <version>0.4.231_1.8.0</version> </dependency>
Windows installer for Groovy
Starting with Groovy 1.8.0, the Windows installer of Groovy includes Groovy++ 0.4.231
Groovy++ is powerful, fast programming language designed to be easy to learn for Java developers. It builds on both Groovy and Java by combining together statically and dynamically typed code, giving developers the best of both worlds. The result of using Groovy++ in a project is expressive and simple code along with the safety and speed of a statically compiled language. Enjoy!
— Alex Tkachman is the cofounder and COO of MBTE Sweden AB, the company behind both the Bindows framework and the Groovy++ programming language, which Alex created. Alex is core committer on Groovy project. He can be reached at [email protected] and @alextkachman on Twitter. Roshan Dawrani is a Groovy expert in MBTE Sweden AB and core committer on Groovy and Groovy++ projects. You can read his blog here. He can be reached at [email protected] and @roshandawrani on Twitter.


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Anyone know where I can find the Atheist Foundation of Australia forum. This link used to work, but now I get a 404 Not Found error. Thanks.
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Thanks Praxis. I was getting a bit worried. Hope the crew get things up and running without too much more trouble.
Cheers, Michael
Freethought Blogs - new home of Pharyngula - is offline as well. I'm having trouble keeping up with the atheist news today :)
And down again... ?
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The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures has assigned the names CVE-2008-3691, CVE-2008-3692, CVE-2008-3693, CVE-2008-3695, CVE-2007-5438, and CVE-2008-3696 to the security issues with VMware ActiveX controls.
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For the first time in our entire family's existence, we are:
- Celebrating Thanksgiving.
- Celebrating together, just us four.
- Eating at home.
It wasn't as elaborate or as long-term as I'd originally planned, in light of our impromptu cross-country road trip, but the girls and I did make the much-desired thankful tree:
Some years we eat Thanksgiving dinner with family, some years we go out to eat, one year we ate one of those Stouffer's family-sized lasagnas and then went to a sci-fi convention, but this year we cooked our own Thanksgiving feast. The menu consisted of:
Made-from-Scratch Yeast Rolls
Honey Butter
Matt's Amazing Entire Turkey
Including One Turkey Leg for Each Child
Miso-Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Potatoes
And, of Course, Two Kinds of Pie
Pie #1, obviously, was pumpkin, baked with my own fresh pumpkin puree. Pie #2 was, briefly, a pumpkin-brownie pie, until Matt opened the refrigerator door with too much emphasis and Pie #2 took a suicidal nose-dive onto the filthy kitchen floor. The little sous chefs and I were very sad, until Matt surprised us with a very non-traditional pumpkin-chocolate pie combination that was so insanely delicious that I'm going to ask him to make it again for me tomorrow so that we can write down the recipe and eat pumpkin-chocolate pie FOREVER!
I Did Mention the Entire Turkey, Yes?turkey stock will be followed up upon by those who are willing to perform such kitchenly duties.
It was a happy, happy day. Some memories, such as the translation of Willow's thanksgiving leaf (which reads, by the way, "I am thankful that Gracie is purrsy"--ah, invented spelling!), may eventually fade--
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So it's turkey carcass and pumpkin-chocolate pie tomorrow, but tonight, I think we may order pizza.


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LA GRANGE PARK – The poem April Marin handed out at her son's funeral is titled, "You Took a Risk And The Risk Took You."
At about 3:30 p.m. Oct. 10, April Marin came home from work and found Steven, her youngest son, lying face-up on his bed with what looked like the whitish inside of a banana smeared across his face. Foam was spewing from his mouth and nose.
April pounded on his chest and more foam came out, this time bloody. She called 9-1-1, and watched from her front door as paramedics performed CPR on Steven in the ambulance.
After being taken to La Grange Memorial Hospital, Steven Marin was pronounced dead at 4:46 p.m. He was 20. He took a risk, and it took him.
Later, April Marin found a rolled-up piece of a page Steven had torn out of a video game magazine. She also found a small plastic bag with a powdery white substance, which police later took.
April Marin said she knew Steven had used marijuana for years and she disapproved. But heroin, she said she never suspected. She went through Steven's phone after his death and found that he had searched for instructions on how to snort heroin Oct. 8, 9 and 10.
Officially, Steven Marin's cause of death is yet to be determined, and it could take several months for the medical examiner to confirm what April Marin suspects – that Steven was trying heroin for the first time and used too much.
"He was talking about the future," she said. "It wasn't like, 'I'm depressed again, and I don't want to live.' This was an accident. He was trying something out and he died."
In addition to his mother, Steven Marin is survived by his father, Jose, and brother, Jeffrey.
The night Steven died, April Marin couldn't sleep. She scoured the Internet for answers. She started to grasp the fact that her son is one of a long and growing list of overdose victims in the suburbs. In DuPage County, for example, there had been 41 suspected heroin-related deaths this year, as of Oct. 24. Cook County's records do not differentiate between heroin-related deaths and fatalities caused by other opiates.
April Marin's message, while raw, is that the same thing that happened to Steven could happen to others. If recent history continues, it will.
Steven Marin graduated from Lyons Township High School in 2012. He was smart, and as a kid, he loved to read, his mom said. But the older he got, the more he became frustrated by school and lost interest.
Over the past five years, he was hospitalized a handful of times for depression. In September, Steven spent five days at GlenOaks Hospital in Glendale Heights. The day after being released, he started training for a job he had nailed down before his hospitalization, washing dishes at a restaurant in Countryside.
"That's why he wanted to come home so fast," April Marin said. "He was worried about losing the job."
He worked three days a week from 3 p.m. until close. He was enjoying having a job, which would help him save money to buy a car so he could enroll in a cooking program at a community college.
He thought he was in line for a position in the restaurant's bakery that would have been five days a week, but he didn't get it. Had he, he would have been scheduled to work there at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 10.
"He was talking about so much for his future," April Marin said. "He wanted to go back to school for cooking. That's been a passion of his since he was little kid, since he was baking pies with my mom for Thanksgiving."
On Oct. 14, about 30 of Steven's friends were among the standing-room-only crowd at his wake at Hitzeman Funeral Home in Brookfield. Almost an hour after the service, as April Marin and her family were leaving, a circle of Steven's friends were still in the parking lot, talking and laughing about Steven, and saying how much they were going to miss him.
"If Steven just knew that so many people cared about him," April Marin said.
After Steven's funeral, April Marin posted a Facebook message thanking his friends who attended. She also told them to let Steven's death be a message and to take care of each other, even if it means speaking up to police or other authorities when they think one of them is at risk.
She plans to keep Steven's Facebook profile active at least through his birthday, Jan. 24, and will post a photo of him from time to time.
"Just to keep him in their thoughts," she said. "To keep them coming back to the fact he's not there anymore."


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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) Osi Umenyiora and the New York Giants were feeling awful, believing they had just suffered a monumental collapse.
Upon further review, a replay overturned a Dallas Cowboys touchdown with 10 seconds left and the Giants held on for a 29-24 victory Sunday after blowing a 23-point lead, taking a firm hold on the NFC East lead.
``After going up 23-0 and having them come back like that and win, it was a very bad feeling. But thankfully, it wasn't in bounds,'' Umenyiora said. ``I don't think that's luck. He just didn't make the play.''
Dez Bryant leaped and made an impressive catch between two Giants defenders in the back of the end zone. After being ruled a 37-yard touchdown, officials watched a replay that showed Bryant's fingers hit out of bounds first when he reached down with his right hand to brace his fall.
``Everybody thought it was over,'' said Jason Pierre-Paul, who had his first interception and touchdown for the Giants.
After the overturned touchdown, the Cowboys (3-4) were unable to get in the end zone despite getting off three more plays.
New York (6-2) has won six of seven games since its season-opening loss to the Cowboys on Sept. 5, when the Giants became the first defending Super Bowl champion to lose in the NFL's midweek kickoff game that has become a tradition over the past decade.
But halfway through their schedule, the Giants are the only NFC East team with a winning record. Philadelphia (3-4) and Washington (3-5), the other division teams, both lost Sunday.
``You take that every time halfway through the season,'' Eli Manning said. ``We're happy to be here winning some close games the last two weeks.''
What almost became the largest blown lead for the Giants to lose instead became the 20th time since Manning became their quarterback in 2004 that they came from behind in the fourth quarter to win. They also did so a week earlier with Victor Cruz's 77-yard catch with 1:13 left at Washington.
The Giants improved to 4-0 at Cowboys Stadium since Jerry Jones' football palace opened in 2009 with a New York victory.
On the first day of training camp, Jones told his team's fans to come watch them beat the Giants' rear ends. He was a bit more emphatic using a different word.
``You couldn't draw it up and start a game any worse than we started,'' Jones said. ``I'm very disappointed right now. ... I thought after all that, our defense played well enough, our offense kept going and I thought we were going to get a chance to pull one out.''
The Giants quickly cleared out of Cowboys Stadium to get home with Hurricane Sandy bearing down on the East Coast.
New York led 23-0 only 2 minutes into the second quarter when Pierre-Paul broke off a block and jumped up to pluck a pass out of the air, returning it 28 yards. It was the third of four interceptions by Tony Romo, and among six Dallas turnovers.
Things were so bad then that Jones was booed when he came on the giant video screen during a pre-taped public service announcement about breast cancer awareness.
``Seriously. I'm sure the fans had the same feeling I did,'' Jones said. ``I was frustrated, mad and knew that we had dug ourselves a hole that was going to take super effort to get out of.''
But Dallas got within 23-10 before halftime, then took the lead with a pair of 1-yard touchdowns in the third quarter.
Romo, who completed 36 of 62 passes for a career-high 437 yards, scored on a fourth-down run after faking a handoff and rolling right. On the next drive, he faked another handoff and was rolling right again when he tossed the ball to tight end John Phillips.
Lawrence Tynes kicked two of his five field goals in the fourth quarter, including a 43-yarder with 10:20 left for a 26-24 lead. He added a 37-yarder with 3 1/2 minutes remaining after Felix Jones' fumble was recovered by Stevie Brown.
Brown picked Romo off for a second time with 1:03 left, but New York failed to get a first down on three running plays while Dallas used all of its timeouts.
The Cowboys got the ball back with 44 seconds left at the 30, and Bryant's apparent score sent the faithful fans who remained into a frenzy until officials changed the call.
``When they took it away, my heart just dropped. I had my mind set that if the ball is thrown to me, I don't care; I'm going to come down with it,'' said Bryant, who had five catches for 110 yards. ``And I came down with it and I thought I was in. It's frustrating.''
Tight end Jason Witten had 18 catches (for 167 yards) to break his own franchise record for a single game and tie for the third-most in NFL history. With Miles Austin catching nine balls for 133 yards, Dallas had three 100-yard receivers for only the second time.
The Cowboys play at undefeated Atlanta next Sunday night.
``Nobody's ever questioned our fight or battle, but you still have to win games,'' Witten said. ``It is the time of the season you have to start putting those wins together.''
NOTES: Cowboys LB Dan Connor, starting in place of injured LB Sean Lee, had a neck strain before halftime. Connor will have an MRI on Monday. ... Giants LB Chase Blackburn sustained a left hamstring injury, and TE Bear Pascoe a sprained ankle. ... Tynes is now the second-leading scorer in Giants history with 535 career points.
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BROOKINGS, SD -- The South Dakota State University baseball team has filled a key role on its pitching staff with the recent signing of junior college standout Chris Anderson to a National Letter of Intent.
"Chris Anderson is a winner who has shown the ability to pitch in big games," Jackrabbit head coach Dave Schrage said. "We expect Chris to fill a key void after losing our top two starting pitchers from last season."
A left-hander from Aurora, Ill., Anderson helped lead Waubonsee Community College to a third-place finish in the NJCAA Division III World Series in 2013. Anderson earned all-tournament honors after throwing a 2-0 shutout victory in the opener, retiring 21 consecutive batters in one stretch.
For the season, Anderson posted an 8-4 record with a 2.16 earned run average. He struck out 84 batters and allowed only 69 hits in 87 1/3 innings in earning first-team all-Illinois Skyway Conference honors. Anderson was a second-team all-league honoree as a freshman.
Anderson will join a South Dakota State baseball program that won the Summit League postseason tournament title in 2013 and made its first appearance in the NCAA Tournament at the NCAA Division I level. The Jackrabbits finished the 2013 season with a 35-24 overall record.
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Location: Coastal Plain Soil, Water and Plant Conservation ResearchTitle: Topographic effects on denitrification in drained agricultural fields Author
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|Lang, Megan - Forest Service (FS)
|Mccarty, Gregory
|Hunt, Patrick
Submitted to: Agronomy Society of America, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America Meeting
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/28/2012
Publication Date: 7/30/2012
Citation: Miller, J.O., Lang, M., Mccarty, G.W., Hunt, P.G. 2012. Topographic effects on denitrification in drained agricultural fields [abstract]. Agronomy Society of America, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America Meeting. http://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2012am/webprogram/Paper73645.html.
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Technical Abstract: Denitrification is affected by soil moisture, while soil moisture can be affected by topography. Therefore, denitrification can be spatially correlated to topographic gradients. Three prior converted fields on the Delmarva Peninsula were sampled spatially for denitrification enzyme activity. The upper six inches of soil were sampled from twenty points in each field. The spatial sites were selected randomly using Arc-GIS. Denitrification enzyme activity was performed in the lab using the acetylene inhibition method. The average pH, conductivity, and soil organic carbon were similar for each field, but average denitrification was greater in field H versus field B and field C. Further spatial analysis of denitrification within each field will be performed using the topographic wetness index.


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"We've been trying to treat this as a regular weekend," said Lady Bisons coach Brandon Rosenthal. "That's hard to do.
"We realize the enormity of this. Our players know how hard they hard to work to get here."
Despite the enormity of the task at hand, Rosenthal has allowed his players to have some fun on this trip, something he did not do in 2007 when the Lady Bisons made their first trip to the NCAA Tournament.
"When it is time to take it seriously we will," said Rosenthal.
The two teams will face each other at 5 Friday at St. John Arena on the campus of Ohio State. Cincinnati plays Ohio State in match two. The winners play Saturday in the second round at 6.
Rosenthal met with the team Thursday night after practice and a dinner of chicken Parmesan and various pastas at Buca Di Beppo . But the time for talking is over.
"There is nothing I can say at this point that is going to help them play any better," said Rosenthal. "We have players like Erin Pierce, a fifth-year senior who just wants to keep on extending her career one more match.
"Alex Kelly and Jake Pease come from very good club teams. They are used to winning and they want Lipscomb to gain national respect. And if you want respect you have to go out and take it."
The Lady Bisons came to Columbus more than a little upset with the decision by the NCAA Selection Committee to place them against a top 10 seed. The California players added to the intensity of the match up for the Lady Bisons by giving them a "stare down" as they walked off the court after practice Thursday.
"The girls know what is at stake," said Rosenthal. "They have been preparing for this for four months. I don't think there is one girl on this team who expects we are going to lose. We just have to play like we know how to play."


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Kids will learn a range of sports, develop life skills, increase fitness and self-esteem, make new friends and most of all have lots of fun!
When: 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month
Time: 1:00 – 2:00pm
Where: Mainview Park, corner Vibrandia Way and Mainview Boulevard
Cost: FREE
This regular activity is delivered as part of Stockland's Link & Learn Program.


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Bridging the Physical Gap for Families
When my older son was little, we lived within 20 minutes of all of our relatives – both sides of the family. He spent the first four years of his life being immersed in extended family. But, due to a job change for my husband, we ended up moving about four hours away, creating a huge gap in our families' lives and our son's. We found a way, though, to keep family close while still miles away.
In our new home, we created a "family tree" wall. We framed pictures of all of our relatives, each person with his or her own individual frame. And, along the hallway leading to my son's room, we hung these photos. Each night, as my son finished his bathroom duties and headed off to bed, we said, "goodnight" to all of our family. It was (and still is) a wonderful way to keep him in touch with those that were such an intricate part of his first few years.
As an alternative, take a group photo the next time a large number of family are together and frame this. Keeping it in your child's room will be a nice way to keep those family members close to your child. It is a great way to keep loving faces familiar (and names, too).


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Winning tip: Plage de la Perle, Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe consists of two islands, together shaped like a butterfly. Grande-Terre in the east is flat, with white-sand beaches, and resorts. Basse-Terre on the west is an active volcano – lush, mountainous and less populated. A turn off the road round Basse-Terre in the commune of Deshaies brings you to Plage de la Perle, an arc of golden sand. It is more intimate and laid back than its better-known neighbour Plage de Grande Anse. It is never busy, although it is a favourite with the locals at the weekend. Uprooted palm trees, driftwood and coral left behind by the surf make it feel like a castaway beach but there are a couple of beach bars under the palm trees.
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Cahuita, Costa Rica
Regular buses run from San José to the little town of Cahuita, in the south-eastern corner of Costa Rica. Through the village is Cahuita national park, which runs along the coast. Where the jungle stops, the beach and clear waters begin. A well-laid path winds through the forest, on to the beach, and back into the undergrowth again. Follow the sounds of howler monkeys, and watch them play in the tree tops, sit on the white sand, take a dip in the sea, then keep on walking. At the end of the trail (about 10km) is a wooden restaurant with a swimming pool and outdoor showers.
Jost Van Dyke, British Virgin Islands
This beach at Great Harbour is home to one of the BVI's most famous entertainers – Foxy, known for his storytelling calypso songs and his non-PC jokes. His bar and restaurant (pictured) is a fixture on the charter yacht circuit. Every New Year's Eve thousands of revellers join him for his famous "Old Year's night" party, complete with cocktails, limbo dancing and fireworks. Foxy has travelled the world but has returned to his roots on the best beach in town!
bvitourism.co.uk, foxysbar.com
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Bayahibe beach, Dominican Republic
Bayahibe beach is simply beautiful, with white sand, rimmed by lush vegetation, gently sloping into the sea. Frigate birds soar across the wide skies and pelicans float over myriad sea life – perfect for the casual snorkel swimmer. As the sun goes down the scent of chargrilled lobster with fried plantains drifts in from the nearby village. The finest lobster isn't found in the smart overpriced restaurants, but in turquoise shacks with barbecue pits out front.
Cayo Paredón, Cuba
On the north coast of Cuba, near popular Cayo Coco, is the tiny island of Cayo Paredón Grande. It has abundant birdlife, a charming lighthouse and a beach that stretches forever. Crystal-clear water? Check. Pristine white sand? Check. Facilities? None. There's just wilderness and solitude.
Maracas beach, Trinidad
The drive through mountains to Maracas gears up the anticipation, so that with your first view of the sea you already feel peace of mind. Make it a priority to try the street food known as bake and shark. The deep-fried shark, served in fried bread, comes with an array of condiments – from lettuce and tomato, to my favourite: fresh pineapple slices, mango salsa, a dash of scotch bonnet pepper sauce and tamarind sauce. It's the sort of delicacy that it's worth driving to the beach for even when it's raining.
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Pirate's Bay, Tobago
Tobago is blessed with many beautiful beaches but Pirate's Bay stands out. On the quieter northern side of the island, it is a 10-minute walk from the village of Charlotteville. Make your way along a dirt track and through coconut trees until the horseshoe shape of a bay appears. Remarkably, for such beauty, the white sands are often empty apart from the odd local selling mangoes.
Pigeon Point, Tobago
This unbelievable beach is a stone's throw from the airport, which means you could walk to paradise with wheelie luggage in tow. Many travellers have been left breathless trying to photograph the electric sunsets. But Pigeon Point's true beauty is that it is a beach for everyone. On any day, one can see couples canoodling in the waves, local families sharing pots of home-cooked lunch under thatched huts, friends sharing cold beers by a bar and adventure seekers stand-up paddle boarding in the bay.
Holetown beach, Barbados
The best beach I have ever been to: pure white sand and turquoise sea. Bars and restaurants next to the beach serving cocktails at sunset. It was peaceful – with only a handful of tourists. The best thing about this beach was the sunset at the end of the day and watching the fishing boats returning – paradise.
Nisbet Plantation beach club, Nevis
There is a permanent breeze at Nisbet, on the north side of Nevis, and it's a lovely plantation with a wonderful avenue of coconut trees. Three great ways of dining and zingy cocktails that have never disappointed. Cute little rooms in the grounds make it very romantic.
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CEO cites childhood and early work experience as fuel for Octo's culture
When Octo Consulting Group won a 2012 Greater Washington Government Contractor Award in November, the crowd erupted in cheers.
The company won in the under $25 million category, and when it did, the rise in volume evidenced the large number of Octo's employees in attendance.
So what's the story behind Octo, and what makes it something to cheer about?
Octo president and CEO Mehul Sanghani described three experiences that helped him shape both the company and his philosophy as an executive.
As a child, his parents borrowed money from family and friends and opened a motel in Blacksburg, Va.
"One of the things that shaped me as a leader is working in that motel with my parents," Sanghani said. "We were the maids, the desk clerks, folded the laundry, did everything."
As a 24-hour, seven-day a week operation, the motel helped Sanghani develop his entrepreneurial instincts. "It's almost like an MBA crash course," he said.
The second experience was just after college in 1998. Sanghani went to work in Silicon Valley as the dotcom era was booming, and there was no lack of entrepreneurial energy.
Sanghani worked for two different software companies over a three-year period. For a while, he worked with Dave Duffield and Peoplesoft, which at the time was a major software company before being acquired by Oracle in 2005.
He also had the chance to work at Commerce One, which was one of Mark Hoffman's two successful business ventures. Sanghani was there during the company's boom; joining the company as its 30th employee. "I had the chance to ride the wave of success," he said. But he also had the chance to watch the company "flame out," which turned out to be an important learning experience.
"But the biggest thing I learned was what really motivates people in a startup environment," Sanghani said. "What really motivates people is not just the money, but they're excited about the chance to make a meaningful impact."
The third experience came when he moved to the Washington, D.C. area. He worked at Booz Allen Hamilton and Gartner, which equipped him with the skills necessary to begin a government contracting enterprise.
Sanghani recalled a project that he took on at Gartner. "I took an assignment there that really no one in the Gartner office wanted to take," Sanghani said.
No one wanted to take the assignment because it was, in consulting-speak, "oversold," which Sanghani said meant "sold for a little bit of money, but was a lot of work."
In taking that project, Sanghani was allowed to shine. The project was with the Occupational Safety Health Administration. Seeing Sanghani in action, the administration was impressed.
"OSHA approached me," Sanghani said, and asked him if he had ever considered starting a business. After getting permission from his company, he was able to work with OSHA.
Today, OSHA is still one of Octo's clients, which is now busy "providing predictive analytics that allow OSHA predict where future fatalities might occur, and then in concert with that, where to target inspection before they occur," Sanghani said.
Today the company counts Education, Commerce, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, Labor, Defense, Justice and Interior Departments, as well as Amtrak, and the Federal Communications Commission as customers.
Winning the GovCon award, which is given annually by the Fairfax County, Va., Chamber of Commerce, the Professional Services Council and Washington Technology, is recognition of what makes Octo unique, Sanghani said.
"First and foremost, it's our culture," he said. "In the beginning, I worked very, very, very hard to create something that would be unique, stimulating and fun."
He is well aware of the challenges that companies face when differentiating themselves and how often there is "badge-switching," which refers to how easy it is for people to change from employer to employer as contracts get switched out.
Not for Octo, though. One of the reasons the company is so attractive might be its benefits package. Employees get 100 percent coverage for health care. Employees also receive $5,000 a year for tuition reimbursement, and a $1,000 dollar bonus around the holidays, half of which goes to a charity of the employee's choosing.
If not the employee benefits, though, maybe it's the company's strategic planning week, which Sanghani tries to have "in an exotic location" each year. The list of places where Octo has met for this week includes the Caribbean, San Diego and Miami.
"The last three years, we've done it in Las Vegas," Sanghani said. It's during this week that he and his executive management team make efforts to inform the company's employees of the company's plan, in order to keep everyone on the same page.
In a presentation that is called the State of Octo, Sanghani will lay out a "five-year strategic plan, and then a one-year strategic plan that gets more tactical on what we're trying to achieve," Sanghani said.
The company is six years old now, and has seen its results of its first ever five-year plan. "Remarkably, we met or exceeded in all the things we laid out when we first started the business," Sanghani said.
As for the next five years, the company's "objectives are to grow ourselves out of the small business realm," Sanghani said. "We're not just looking to get out of those set aside areas, we're looking to be a business that's around for the long haul," Sanghani said.
Sanghani hopes to grow the company at a rate of 20 percent per year over the next five years.
"The market is littered with companies that haven't been successful," he said. "And we've spent a lot of time studying those businesses that haven't been successful, and what went wrong, and looking at the businesses that have been successful, and what we need to do," Sanghani said.
From what he's seen, Sanghani and Octo have reorganized the company into two business units: "one that's focused largely on management consulting, and one that's focused on technology solutions," Sanghani said.
Octo will shape its solutions to those markets going forward, he said.
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Mark Hoover is a senior staff writer with Washington Technology. You can contact him at email@example.com, or connect with him on Twitter at @mhooverWT.
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Congrats to Washington Technology for not just pandering to the Lockheeds and Northrops and promoting a small business that's doing things the right way. I've teamed with the folks at Octo and top to bottom they are a model organization. Kudos to WT for a small business profile - need more of these!
Excellent company with dedicated visionary leadership. I had a chance to work with them a few years ago. Having been through a few successful M&As myself, Octo is a model for smaller U.S. federal consulting businesses to examine and learn from.
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Now, let me preface this by emphasizing how bad of an idea it is to ride in a car with an unpadded cage without the proper safety equipment; you could be seriously injured.
That said, intrepid CCC mechanic Ethan demonstrates the most gracefulest of ways (not graceful at all) to fold a human body into the half-caged back seat of an E30 M3.
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"OpenFlowHub" or "The Hub" (with tagline)
We are a small startup in silicon valley working on OpenFlow, a next-generation networking technology that we think will change the way that ethernet networks are designed and built.
We're looking to democratize the technology that is used in the industry by creating a community site where developers can browse, download and contribute to open source projects based on this technology.
Software developers, networking geeks... :)
The logo should incorporate some theme of openness and inter-connectedness -- we are opening up a technology area that is traditionally very closed and proprietary.
The site's look and feel (not entirely functional) is up and running already at openflowhub.org.
We are trying to attract a community of people interested in joining us -- the human/social aspect of this site is important as we hope that some percentage of our users will get interested in participating not only in code exchange but also in joint blog posts, get-togethers, etc.
The name comes from "openflow" - the research technology we're using -- and "hub" -- a networking device that sends every packet to every computer that is connected to it. We're trying to be like a very simple hub of information, serving information and code that anyone contributes to anyone looking to read/download.
We'd accept designs for either "OpenflowHub"/"OpenFlowHub" or "The Hub" if a tagline of "openflow" or "broadcasting openflow" could be worked in to the design.


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Did you know that antidepressants cause autism? Well, no one else did either—until today.
All the major news outlets are screaming about a new study which claims that autism and antidepressant use are linked. The extremely small study, which examined fewer than 300 autistic kids, found that their mothers were more than twice as likely as mothers with "healthy" children to have taken antidepressants.
Now, keep in mind that even the lead researcher is urging caution.
Time Magazine reports: "Lisa Croen, Ph.D., the director of autism research at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, a large nonprofit health plan based in Oakland, emphasizes the preliminary nature of her team's findings. "This is the first study of its kind to look at the association, and the findings have to be interpreted with a lot of caution," she says. "We can't detect causality from one study.'"
But what do you think mothers dealing with depression are going to do with these accusatory headlines? Especially when they're coupled with statements like this one from Fox News? "Results indicated a doubling in risk of autism if the mother filled a prescription for antidepressants at any point in the year before delivery."
A lot of them are going to freak the hell out, that's what.
A person dealing with depression often isn't feeling too terribly rational. Most of us are already playing the blame game—feeling guilty for being depressed in the first place, and wishing we weren't such a burden on everyone around us.
So, how big of a leap do you think it would be for a woman in that condition to decide that her antidepressant use is almost certainly dooming her unborn child to a life spent battling autism? And from there to further decide that she has to throw her pills out the window or spend the rest of eternity in Bad Mommy Hell?
All this despite the fact that we have incontrovertible proof that untreated depression during pregnancy poses serious risks to both mom and baby—risks that can also lead to developmental problems.
My point?
The media is doing both pregnant women and children a disservice by jumping to conclusions so quickly. Maybe antidepressants do aid in the development of autism. Or maybe those babies developed autism because of environmental factors having nothing to do with the antidepressant use. It's going to take more than a small study of 298 children to decide.
Can we please approach this with a tiny bit of caution? Lives—both big and small—may be at stake, after all.
*Photo courtesy of Bradley P. Johnson.