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Welcome to the Franchise Record Pool Mobile App
Franchise Record Pool is proud to announce the release of our long awaited mobile App. Unlike any other record pool Apps this App takes it up a notch by allowing you (our members) to not only view and listen to all tracks uploaded to your bins but to download music to your PC while on the go. Load TRACKer software on the PC you want to download music to, add the tracks to the cart in the App and the tracks are automatically downloaded to the designated folder on the PC. You can also update profile, change your password or even get alerts from our genius system. The most advanced record pool App is here with more features to come.
Mobile App Features
- View, rate and listen to all tracks added to your music bins.
- View all music videos added to the videos section.
- Update profile information.
- Change username and password.
- Download all tracks to PC remotely when on the go. No more waiting to get home to view and download music.
- Get alerts from the genius system based on the user settings (future update to App).
- View history of all tracks downloaded via the App.
- Search for Franchise Record Pool app from your mobile device app store.
- After installation log in to app using your Franchise Record Pool username and password.
- Filter track display by selecting Music Bins from the top menu or Specialty Bins just the same as the website.
- Search for any track by clicking on the search icon at the bottom menu and entering your search criteria.
- Listen to any track by clicking on the speaker icon next to each track.
- Download any track to a PC with our Tracker software running by clicking on the shopping cart icon next to each track. Tracks will be automatically download to the PC. Please note that the PC must have our Tracker software running and internet connection.
- Click on the Video menu on top to view all videos added to the pool. (You cannot currently download videos via the app).
- Click on the Account Options menu at the bottom of the app or the avatar at the top right hand corner to edit your profile, change your password, update your credit card, edit your feedback setup or log out.
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Please note that FRP App is only available for the Iphone & Ipad. Android version coming soon.
Welcome to the Franchise TRACKer Software
Members!! Download FRP's innovative and exclusive TRACKer software which allow you to connect with the labels/artist, letting them know who are, when you are playing their music getting you well deserve recognition from the direct source of music. You will also be able to connect with other members around the world, view their playlist and download instantly any tracks available on Franchise by simple clicking the download button next to each track in the list. Best of all you will be able to download music to your computer when you are on the road using our App while the Tracker in on your computer. You are now ready to be heard.
TRACKer Features
- Download music from your bins to your PC while on the road via our App and TRACKer.
- Connect with other members and chat, view playlist and download from each other.
- Search and add other members to your favorites list for quick connect.
- Search for tracks available in your Franchise Record Pool's music bins and download directly to a designated folder for quick play when playing live.
- Send alerts to the artist/label letting them know who you are and when you are playing their music live.
- Automatically post the tracks you are playing Facebook & Twitter allowing you to attract more followers.
- Export playlist in three different file formats or directly to facebook after every gig. Even export previous playlist.
- Automatic prompt to create a new gig by venue, location and length of gig every time you start your DJ software.
- Playlist is auto saved by gig name & date for future references of party rocking sets.
- Download TRACKer for your PC type below (Windows or Mac).
- TRACKer will launch automatically after install. Use your Franchise username and password to login to TRACKer
- You will be automatically prompted to log in to Twitter and Facebook with Twitter as the first prompt.
- You can toggle posting to Facebook and Twitter On and Off using the Facebook On/Off buttons or Twitter On/Off buttons at the bottom of the software.
- Create your DJ profile (One time only) by selecting Settings from the menu then select DJ Profile.
- Let TRACKer know your location by creating a gig. Select Settings then select Where I'm Playing. You will also be automatically prompted to do this whenever you launch your DJ software (Serato or Traktor).
- Start your DJ program and begin playing. Note that because you are opening the DJ program for the first time you will be prompt to create a new gig or update the current one. Because you already created one you can close out this pop up.
- Notice tracks being posted to the Live Playlist after a third track is added to the decks as the software determines which deck is actually being played.
- The Online button is a section which allows you to search and connect with other DJs using the Tracker live. The left section shows all DJs online or DJs you add to your favorites who are online. You can also search for DJs by name or location in that section as well. The right section allows you to view the profile of the selected DJ, Chat with that DJ or view their playlist where you can download tracks from their playlist in real-time providing you are a current member of Franchise and the track is available in Franchise's database.
- The Search FRP Tracks button allows you to search FRP music database just the same as the website. Here you can download tracks to any folder you choose allowing you to instantly get tracks from FRP while playing live. All you will have to do is drag the folder into your DJ software to view the files you download for instant play.
- After closing out your DJ software or ejecting the last song you will have your completed playlist you can export to Facebook or a file on your computer by selecting the Previous Playlist button and clicking on the Export button on the top right hand corner of each playlist header.
- Close TRACKer when finish. When using TRACKer again you will only need to enter your venue name and venue location. Everything is saved for quick and easy use. ENJOY.
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Police Deaf Near Far
Catey Sullivan • Chicago • Mar 11, 2000
When playwright David Rush first began penning his drama of the cultural abyss that sucks up a young deaf man, he angered more than a few members of the deaf community. Rush, a professor at Southern Illinois University, can hear. The fact that he sought to create a play centering on the life of a deaf political activist enraged those who believed a hearing man had no business telling a deaf man's tale. While the playwright was doing research, an e-mail made the rounds of the deaf community urging people not to cooperate with him. If only those angered by Rush's presumption could see the final product, now in its world premiere at Stage Left Theatre Company.
The galvanizing Police Deaf Near Far speaks volumes--sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively--about the lethal nature of cultural divides. Police Deaf Near Far focuses on the biases and prejudices of "deafies" (as deaf people sometimes call themselves) and "hearies." But the bones of the story could just as easily be fleshed out to dramatize the walls between races, age groups, or religious sects.
Thoughtfully directed by Drew Martin for Stage Left, Police Deaf Near Far opens with a chilling bit of silent black and white video footage: someone in the grainy picture is gesturing angrily while a darker figure reaches for a gun. Barely visible as an ominous gray blob, the gun is brandished, the man who was gesturing jerks backward and lurches toward the asphalt. It is a confusing and troubling scene, made all the more so by its intentionally blurry edges and by the heavy silence that surrounds it. In action movies, guns make a cartoonish, almost reassuring, racket. Here, there is no noise, only damage.
It was the 1996 death of Eric Smith, age 22, a deaf man who was shot by a Forest View police officer, which served as the inspiration for Rush's drama. But Police Deaf Near Far is definitely not the story of Smith. It is the story of Martin "Stinger" Cronin, an angry deaf man in his early 30s, scarred by a childhood of forced "mainstreaming." Stinger, the audience learns early on, is belligerently hostile towards the hearing population. In one especially moving passage, he talks about a deaf boy humiliated by a misguided attempt at mainstreaming; that is, raising and educating deaf children to adapt to the hearing world.
Stinger believes mainstreaming is, at best, an insult to the millions of deaf people in the world. His idea is provocative but eminently logical: deaf culture--a culture based on the unique beauty of American Sign Language--is as valid and vital as hearing culture. Eventually, Stinger's bitter ferocity leads to his death in a physical confrontation with a police officer, but not before the play asks why hearing people never have to adapt to deaf ways; why it always must be the deaf who are forced like square pegs into round holes.
Stage Left's production asks the questions with powerful eloquence, articulated through the strong cast director Martin has assembled. As Stinger, Robert Schleifer signs the role while it is voiced by Kevin Marquette. This set-up is difficult to maneuver convincingly because two people must merge in a depiction of one character, and because they've got to do it simultaneously. In Police Deaf Near Far, the integration works beautifully.
Schleifer is a passionately expressive actor who happens to be deaf. Marquette--dressed all in black and often speaking from the periphery of the playing space--speaks Stinger's words without distracting from Schleifer's physical characterization. Playing opposite Schleifer is Pat Parks as Roberta, the hearing woman Stinger glibly "puts the moves on" at a political meeting. She's an interpreter who is hard-pressed to resist his charm, even though she recognizes a pick-up line when she sees one. As the police officer, Peter Banterra delivers a nuanced performance as a career cop whose best judgment results in tragedy, although Rush assigns no specific blame for the shooting. There are no villains in this story, except for a large societal majority that desperately needs to be educated about deaf culture.
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The Mary Rose is a strange establishment. It's a 16th century inn stranded in the Cray Valley, largely refurbished and extended nowadays but still bearing a few traces of its history. Situated on the narrow, very Kentish, High Street in St. Mary Cray, this hotel reminded us of that Norman Bates line in Psycho, "they moved away the highway". We were stumped to imagine who might occupy the 42 rooms here, let alone the bridal, executive or Jacuzzi suites. A friendly lady behind the bar couldn't off
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FBI Shuts Down Silk Road
FBI agents have shut down Silk Road, a black market found on the Deep Web. The 29-year-old creator of Silk Road, Ross Ulbrict, was arrested at a San Franciso public library by plainclothes FBI agents. Ulbrict, also known as "Dread Pirate Roberts" on Silk Road, is facing various criminal charges including narcotics trafficking conspiracy, computer hacking conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy. The Verge has managed to get a copy of the criminal complaint, which lists the various steps taken by the U.S. authorities to identify Ulbrict as the owner of Silk Road.
An underground website that allowed users to purchase and sell various illegal products and services such as drugs, computer viruses and even murder-for-hire, Silk Road routed traffic through the Tor network. The network allowed users to browse the website anonymously and securely by directing traffic through multiple relays in order to keep users' identities secret from those conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. All transactions were processed with bitcoin, a virtual currency that leaves no traditional money trail.
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Getting into 'Character' | Highlights From Our Summer Literacy Institute
Natalie Colón is a Senior Program Manager at ExpandED Schools.
Returning tutors 'mapped' out fantasy and reality, inspired by the book Bridge to Terabithia, an MS ExTRA book club favorite.
Last week, more than 70 new and returning MS ExTRA tutors gathered for a two-day literacy institute led by our own Program and Literacy Managers. The engaging conversations and workshops ranged from how to foster good reading habits and attitudes to assessing a budding bookworm's reading comprehension. Built on best practices and using feedback from previous years' attendees, this year's sessions were designed with special attention to helping new tutors prepare for reading groups using a tried-and-true method: role playing!
Splitting up the attendees into small groups just like our MS ExTRA book clubs, returning tutors played their roles as Literacy Tutors and ran through entire lesson plans, with the new tutors performing as students. This kind of role play allowed for the newer tutors to gain perspective as the middle schoolers they were about to teach, while also gleaning insight from watching the seasoned tutors at work. Monica Ingkavet, our Vice President of Expanded Learning Schools, observed that this role play "worked amazingly. Having an immersive experience, rather than simply being lectured at, is so important to helping our new tutors practice for real-life scenarios. It also helps the new and returning tutors feel more connected and engaged with the work."
Dr. Roger Harris,
Stepping into character wasn't a technique limited to the workshops on classroom management – tutors also learned how to incorporate these lessons into reading books, using social emotional learning as a lens. By asking students how a story's character might be feeling during a certain scene or how the other characters might act in order to support the protagonist, young readers can practice their soft skills in a low-stakes environment: a story.
The two-day institute provided resources, training and inspiration, including a keynote speech by Dr. Roger Harris, a former U.S. Marine and Vietnam War veteran who has served as mentor principal to the Harvard Graduate School of Education and as Faculty Director and Assistant Professor of Practice at the Boston University School of Education's Education, Leadership, and Policy Studies (ELPS) department.
Zana, a New MS ExTRA Tutor at EFCRS
Zana, a new tutor at East Flatbush Community Research School (EFCRS) where she has previously been a group leader and activity specialist, said she is excited to begin literacy tutoring. "My favorite thing about working in schools is seeing that light that sparks when a student gets it. I used to teach art at EFCRS, and I loved seeing one girl go from frowning to 'Oh SNAP!' when she connected with the lesson. That's why I'm here – I want to do the same thing for students with reading."
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This Ringtone Allows You To Ask All Of Your Friends How Shaq's Ass Tastes
Shaq-Kobe. It's the feud that won't go away. There's even a Wikipedia page devoted to it. By now everyone knows about Shaq's freestyle rap last week. Kobe's done the smart thing – he can't fan the flames if he doesn't discuss it. But you can by downloading Shaq's rap as a ringtone!
FunMobility has the original rap as a free download and created a premium ringtone mashup inspired by the original Shaq rap, as well as a JibJab-style animation with the mashup soundtrack.I see how FunMobility, the ringtone's distributor would want to try and capitalize on this. But as a consumer, I'm confused. Sure, it's free, but you'd have to really hate Kobe pretty badly to download this. For imagine yourself at the mall, the workplace, or at someone's house when all of a sudden the phrase "tell me how my ass tastes" blares out of your phone. Is there any situation where that wouldn't be embarrassing? Yeah...hard to think of too many.
So if you download this ringtone, turn your phone on silent during your next important event, will you?


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Did Jeff Sessions Lie?
If you ever have to testify in court your legal council will invariably tell you three things.
Tell the truth, answer the direct question, and don't embellish.
So when you are questioned, "I see that you purchased a Ford automobile and have been using it for transportation during the past two years. Have you had an accident?"
You have not been in any type of accident with your Ford so you answer, "No."
"But I can show that you were involved in an accident while driving your sister's Chevy six months ago – Ah HA!" The attack is meant to construe you as a liar.
The news media reports you as a liar. Your representative describes you as a liar on every available news outlet and the Federal Department of Justice is tasked to investigate your lying about personal driving habits and attempting to cover up Chevy fender benders. Cargate becomes a major news story. Ford is implicated in the cover-up.
Watch the questions put to Senator Sessions by Senator Franken.
Sessions did not lie.
Franken already knew that the answer to, "Have you ever met with that ambassador during the last couple of years?" would be, "Yes." He had to trap his fellow Senator by wordsmithing a question that was contextually specific in terms of driving a campaign, (or Ford), so that it could be construed as misinformation. Of course they were all aware that meeting various ambassadors, (or Chevy's), is also part of Sessions duties as a Senator.
Biased news agencies, also fully aware that meeting foreign ambassadors is integral to this Senator's job, also needed a response to an obvious question given in a specific scenario they could employ to demean, smear, and falsely accuse someone of denying an act that was patently obvious and had public witnesses. The paradox of this demeaning episode is that only dishonest people will construe his answer as being dishonest.
If this makes you fearful about being questioned under oath – just remember three things.
Tell the truth, answer the direct question, and don't embellish.
Now, tell me, "When did you stop beating your wife?"
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Reuters has a short video report from a few weeks back about Japanese company claiming to be working on a car that "runs on water." Check it: "Water-fuel car unveiled in Japan".
Now, here's the beef, this quote from reporter(?) Michelle Carlile-Alkhouri: "…Genepax may well have the solution they've been looking for." No. Genepax does not have the solution they've been looking for. Simple as that. You'd think there might be a retraction from Reuters by now, and yes, a few days ago they ran a kind of follow-up: "Professor doubts water car claims"
The problem with the title of the follow-up report is that the professor doesn't just doubt the claims, he thinks it's impossible for the Japanese company's claims to be true. Now if Reuters had put these two stories together and maybe paid an editor to be a little more careful with the final product, then the news service wouldn't have anything to be embarrassed about.
As an alternative, Reuters could do a story on my Japanese water car. I won't let them see what's inside the magic engine box – they'll just have to trust me.
See you in the funny pages (or the MSM)!
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On behalf of the Local Arrangements Committee of the Canadian Society for Bioengineering 2017 Annual General Meeting and Conference, it will be our great pleasure to welcome you to Winnipeg, Manitoba next summer. Next year's 4-day conference which will include technical presentations, poster presentations, plenary sessions, workshops and technical tours, will also host the national gathering of the CIGR Section VI Bioprocesses (Postharvest Technology and Process Engineering). The conference will provide the opportunity to share professional research, experience and insights with colleagues from Canada and beyond, and will coincide with Winnipeg's famous Folklorama Festival, the largest and longest-running multicultural festival of its kind in the world.
Danny Mann, P.Eng., PhD
Chair of the Local Arrangment Committee
|Abstracts Due:
|February 1, 2017 Extended to Feb 28, 2017
|Notice of Acceptance:
|March 31, 2017
|Paper Submission:
|July 21, 2017
|Online Registration Opens:
|April 1, 2017
|Early Bird Registration Ends:
|June 15, 2017
|Online Registration Closes:
|July 14, 2017
|Deadline for Hotel Reservations:
|July 1, 2017
Each abstract is limited to 250 words. An abstract is indicative of the final paper quality. Therefore, authors are urged to prepare a well written, clear and informative abstract describing the work with emphasis on objectives and factual results. An abstract should include key words related to conference topics.
In the submission form, authors are asked to indicate their preference for an oral presentation (15 minutes) or a poster. The scientific committee will try to satisfy each author's first choice. Authors are encouraged to comply with submission deadlines and to ensure that their paper proposal is relevant to conference topics. Authors will be notified automatically of their submission. A review and decision concerning acceptance should be received by submitters by March 31, 2017.
Abstracts may be submitted in any of the following areas:
Conference Website: www.csbe-scgab.ca/winnipeg2017
Greetings to you all for this festive season as you are busily wrapping up your work and professional responsibilities for 2016. It has been a hectic and enjoyable few months since the annual meeting that was held in Halifax, NS. The planning of the next annual meeting is well underway,and will be a joint meeting with the CIGR that will be held in Winnipeg, MB (August 6-10, 2017). The local arrangements committee under the leadership of Professor Danny Mann has already sent out a request for proposals and abstracts in various themes. Please refer to the recent newsletter or the CSBE website for more details (http://csbe-scgab.ca/winnipeg2017).
Furthermore, I am pleased to report to you the following information:
I am very encouraged by the interest of youngsters to take part in the activities of our society. In addition to the visits to Halifax, Winnipeg, and Saskatoon, I am in touch with our undergrad and graduate student groups here at McGill, and with the student groups of Laval University through Professor Cristina Ratti. Furthermore, I am making efforts to contact student groups at Guelph, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island (PEI), Alberta and British Columbia. I have sent out invitation letters to both undergrad and graduate students at the above mentioned institutes.
Once again, I thank you for your support in revitalizing our society. Please circulate the newsletter to your graduate and undergrad student bodies.
Happy Holidays!!!
Vijaya Raghavan
President, CSBE/SCGAB
Salutations à tous en cette saison festive car vous achevez activement vos travaux et responsabilités professionnelles pour 2016. Cela fait quelques mois que la réunion annuelle qui s'est tenue à Halifax, en Nouvelle-Écosse, a eue lieu. La planification de la prochaine réunion annuelle, qui se tiendra à Winnipeg (Manitoba) du 6 au 10 août 2017, est en cours et sera organisé conjointement avec la CIGR. Le comité d'organisation, sous la direction du professeur Danny Mann, a déjà envoyé une demande de propositions et des résumés sur différents thèmes. Veuillez consulter l'annonce reçue par courriel ou notre site web pour plus de détails (http://csbe-scgab.ca/winnipeg2017).
En outre, je suis heureux de vous faire parvenir les informations suivantes:
Je suis très encouragé par l'intérêt des jeunes à prendre part aux activités de notre société. En plus des visites à Halifax, à Winnipeg et à Saskatoon, je suis en contact avec nos groupes d'étudiants de premier et de deuxième cycle à McGill et avec les groupes d'étudiants de l'Université Laval par l'entremise de la professeure Cristina Ratti. De plus, je m'efforce de communiquer avec des groupes d'étudiants à Guelph, à Terre-Neuve, à l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard (PEI), en Alberta et en Colombie-Britannique. J'ai envoyé des lettres d'invitation à la fois aux étudiants de premier cycle et aux étudiants diplômés des instituts susmentionnés.
Encore une fois, je vous remercie de votre soutien à la revitalisation de notre société. Veuillez faire circuler le bulletin d'information à vos étudiants et étudiantes de premier cycle.
Bonnes vacances!!!
Vijaya Raghavan
Président, CSBE / SCGAB
President Raghavan has an important message for bioengineering students.
Message to the Graduate Students - Message aux étudiants aux études supérieurs (PDF)
Message to the Undergraduate Students - Message aux étudiants de 1er cycle (PDF)
Joint meeting of CSBE/SCGAB with CIGR Section VI Bioprocesses
(Postharvest Technology and Process Engineering)
Canad Inns Polo Park
Winnipeg, MB
August 6-10, 2017
On behalf of the Local Arrangements Committee, I would like to provide an update on preparations for the 2017 joint meeting of CSBE/SCGAB with CIGR Section VI Bioprocesses which will be held at Canad Inns Polo Park in Winnipeg, MB from August 6-10th, 2017. By partnering with CIGR, we are anticipating an international audience of up to 500 attendees.
The Call for Abstracts has been circulated with abstracts due by February 1, 2017. Each of the first three days of the conference will feature invited speakers, concurrent technical sessions and poster/networking sessions. The final day of the conference will feature either professional development workshops (topics yet to be finalized) or a tour of innovative research facilities at the University of Manitoba. The Conference registration fee will include a social event at the award-winning Journey to Churchill exhibit at the Assiniboine Park Zoo. Learn more about this exhibit at www.assiniboineparkzoo.ca. You will have opportunity to purchase additional tickets for those who may be accompanying you to the conference.
The date of the conference has been selected to coincide with Winnipeg's famous Folklorama festival (www.folklorama.ca), the world's largest and longest-running multicultural festival. We will facilitate a VIP tour for conference attendees on the Monday evening of the conference (not included in conference registration fee) as an opportunity for additional networking with conference attendees. Furthermore, we hope you might consider spending a couple of extra days in Winnipeg to attend other Folklorama venues, watch talented young athletes during the Canada Summer Games (www.2017canadagames.ca), or visit the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (www.humanrights.ca). Winnipeg's professional summer sports teams are the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (football) and Winnipeg Goldeyes (baseball) – schedules for the 2017 season are not yet available.
Visit the conference website (www.csbe-scgab.ca/winnipeg2017) for further information. Online registration will be available beginning April 1st with Early Bird rates available until June 15th. Remember to book your hotel by July 1st because the block of rooms being held for the conference will disappear quickly with all of the other activities happening in Winnipeg next summer!
Danny Mann, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Chair, Local Arrangements Committee
Source: McGill Reporter http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2016/09/vijaya-raghavan-elected-president-of-rscs-academy-of-science/
The end of the year is arriving fast… but before giving you my best wishes for the year to come, I have exciting news to share with you. On March 5th 2017 (Sunday!), we are planning a regional meeting in Québec City , probably in the morning, so you'll have the afternoon off to do some sightseeing or snow activities, with colleagues or family, you'll have a great time! I'll keep you informed about the developments…
And to end… may 2017 be filled with peace, health and happiness. Happy Holidays!
Cristina Ratti
La fin de l'année arrive à grands pas… mais avant de vous offrir mes meilleurs voeux pour l'an qui commencera bientôt, je dois partager avec vous une très bonne nouvelle. Le 5 mars 2017 (dimanche!) nous planifions faire une réunion régional dans la ville de Québec, probablement sera le matin pour avoir l'après-midi libre pour faire des promenades ou une activité de neige, avec la famille ou des collègues! Ça sera certainement une rencontre conviviale… le fun! Je vous maintiendrai informés des dévellopements à propos de ça.
Pour finir… je vous souhaite un 2017 rempli de paix, de santé et d'amour! Joyeuses Fêtes!!!
Cristina Ratti


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1 lb. Country smoked sausage, par-boiled and defatted
1 ham hock, also pre-boiled for tenderness
2 cups scallions (large bulb green onions), sliced
1/4 cup finely chopped celery
2 cloves fresh garlic, minced
3 Tbsp. Fresh parsley, finely chopped
1 lb. Red beans (soaked overnight in 10 cups water)
1 pinch bacon soda
2 bay leaves
1 tsp. Thyme
1 tsp. Basil
2 tsp. Louisiana Hot Sauce
8 cups chicken broth + 2 cups water as needed
Salt and black pepper to taste
6 cups long-grain rice for tasting
First, rinse the beans well, sort through them, and toss out any broken or discolored ones. Then, in a large non-reactive pot (preferably stainless steel), soak them overnight in 10 cups of water to which you add a pinch of baking soda. Soaking will expand the bean, tenderize the hulls, and make them cook up exceptionally creamy!
Then, when you're ready to cook, take a heavy cast iron or aluminum Dutch oven, heat up the olive oil, and begin sauteing the seasoning meats. When the meats begin to brown slightly, toss in the vegetables and cook them until tender (about 5 to 8 minutes).
At this point, thoroughly drain the red beans from the soaking water and add them to the sauteed ingredients. Stir them around...but do it gently so you don't bruise the beans! Now cook for about three minutes, allowing the steam to expand the bean further.
Next add the bay leaf, tyme, basil, and Louisiana Hot Sauce, plus the chicken stock and the water. Then stir everything together well and salt and pepper the pot to taste. Go ahead and turn the fire to high and bring the water to a boil; but as soon as it boils, place a heat diffuser under the pot, reduce the flame to 'simmer,' and cook slowly for anywhere from 2 to 4 hours stirring occasionally or until the beans are soft and creamy.
Most New Orleanians cook and eat their red beans on Monday. But in all honesty, to attain max flavor they should be held in the refrigerator at least overnight! When you're ready to eat, ladle out a generous portion of beans over a plate of rice and crown with any of the 'topping condiments' listed with this recipe.
1 To tenderize the beans but mostly to de-fat the sausage, ham hocks, and pickled meat par boil them all together for about a hour, watching closely as they soften and the hulls relax.2 To make your beans even creamier, mash up about a quarter cup of the beans after they're cooked and stir them back into the pot. Or simply add 4 to 6 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil to the beans and blend it in well until smooth.


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AARP Wants You (to Buy Its Line of Products)
By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH
Published: October 28, 2005
For a 47-year-old advocacy group, AARP is acting a lot like a for-profit corporation these days.
Sure, it has long sold discounted products to its members, and encouraged companies to advertise their elder-friendly wares in AARP magazines. And such sales have long paid for its lobbying efforts on behalf of the needs and wants of older Americans.
But now, more companies are waking up to the fact that the 76 million baby boomers -- those born in the United States from 1946 to 1964 -- are moving into old age in huge waves. Indeed, some 10,000 boomers turn 50 every day, and they are entering their later years with bulging wallets and a sense of adventure.
For AARP, that means a huge number of rivals for the spending power of its 35 million members. ''We've been the voice in the wilderness, crying 'the boomers are coming,' '' said William D. Novelli, chief executive of AARP. ''In the process, we've created plenty of competition for ourselves.''
So, AARP is stepping up its own competitive heat. Look at the products it has in the wings for next year. There is an investment fund aimed at people over 50, the first such product it has developed on its own. There is a consulting service to help companies develop their own products for the 50-plus crowd. There is a ''seal of approval'' program in which, for a fee, AARP will endorse products it likes.
AARP is also talking to several drugstores about possibly selling AARP-branded items that are now available only by mail. And it is prodding companies to develop new products for older people, not just passively vetting the products that industry comes up with. For example, it is looking for a telecommunications partner to help it devise an elder-friendly cellphone service, and for vendors who will make easy-to-open luggage, better home lighting and other products that AARP can sell.
''We're finally being proactive, instead of waiting for companies to come to us with ideas, '' said Dawn Sweeney, president of AARP Services, the for-profit subsidiary that handles product sales.
Indeed, AARP Services just last week formed its own subsidiary, AARP Financial Inc., to create a range of financial products and services for members. And AARP Services has budgeted well over $10 million -- ''up from pretty much zero in 2002,'' Ms. Sweeney said -- to promote its wares. ''As we keep developing more relevant products, we'll keep investing to get the word out,'' she said.
Corporate America certainly sees boomers as a tasty new market. Pfizer created Viagra for them. Fidelity Investing has new funds for them. Procter & Gamble's Olay group is pushing antiwrinkle treatments at them, and Procter's drug division now has more than 30 products aimed at the 50-plus crowd.
''The sheer size of the baby boom population gives them an obvious importance to us,'' said David S. McCracken, a Procter spokesman.
Retailers, too, are jumping in. Home Depot just began offering free home improvement clinics for people over 50, and is working with its own vendors to develop products for older customers. And many Home Depot stores will soon have informational kiosks that sport AARP's logo, and that offer information for baby boomers on how best to use space vacated by grown children, or retrofit their aging parents' homes to make them safer.
''This 50-plus age group is going to provide more than 50 percent of the growth in the home improvement market,'' said Roger Adams, senior vice president for marketing at Home Depot, which last year began paying AARP for both marketing advice and access to its mailing list.
He may well be right. According to John D. Kasarda, professor of entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina, the boomers represent about $1.7 trillion in buying power. ''Of course companies will chase this market,'' he said.
They will find AARP in hot pursuit. ''We have to reposition this brand, make it relevant to people younger than 65,'' said Christine Donohoo, chief communications officer.
Every AARP unit is chasing that goal. AARP's monthly magazine now comes in several versions: one, with articles about fitness or pre-retirement investing, goes to members in their 50's, while another, with articles about managing money and staying fit past retirement, goes to older members. AARP's annual ''lifestyle'' conferences (the conference this year, originally scheduled for New Orleans, was canceled) now include concerts by artists like Smokey Robinson and Queen Latifah, corporate booths giving away goody bags, even mixers for singles in attendance.
Once a disproportionately white organization, AARP is actively courting blacks and Hispanics, and Mr. Novelli said it would soon pursue East Indian immigrants.
AARP's membership promotions, once somber spots emphasizing AARP's importance as the voice of elders in Washington, are now aimed at funny bones, not fears. In one, a black man says that 50 sounds old, when suddenly his big, sassy ''Fairy Godmother'' appears and, with lots of attitude, tells him 50 is beautiful. ''We've learned to present ourselves with a smile,'' said John Killpack, director of brand management.


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Nadia - posted on 11/09/2014 ( no moms have responded yet )
I'm a working mom and I work full time (9am-6pm). i leaves my 7 month son to my mother-in-law. she takes care of him, but I'm worried that he is starting to prefer my mother -in-law over me and is starting to think she is his mom. When I was home with him during my maternity leave, he smiled at me all the time and I was his favorite person in the world. Now I seem to be his last pick and it is breaking my heart. when i come home from work he doesnot want to come to me. He rarely will smile for me anymore and will smile for her instantly. Does he think my mother-in-law is his mother? I spend as much time as I can with him, but I have to work to support him. He is my world, but I'm worried I'm not his.
my mother is no more:( so i have to live in in-laws:( i live in bangladesh here daycare is not available. so only the way is to keep my son to my mother -in-laws:(. yesterday i saw that my mother-in-law kissing his leaps and says ammu(mom), i become so surprised, will she want that my son tell her mom:(. my mother-in-law all time kisses my son on leaps, i fell so upset. is that right?? please tell me.


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Robert J. ScamardellaRichmond County Republican Party Chairman
Robert J. Scamardella is a life-long Staten Islander who graduated magna cum laude, in 1972, from the College of Staten Island with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science. In 1975, he earned his Law Degree from Brooklyn Law School.
He started his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney with the Richmond County District Attorney's Office where he was the Chief of the Major Offense Bureau. In 1982, he entered private practice and is currently the managing partner of the Staten Island law firm, Russo, Scamardella & D'Amato. He is also a partner in the consulting firm, The Molinari Group, LLC.
Quite active in his profession, Mr. Scamardella has served on the Board of Directors of the Richmond County Bar Association and has chaired its Public Relations and Fee Arbitration Committees. He chaired the Association's People's Law School project and is a continuing education lecturer in the area of Commercial and Estate law.
Very active in charitable causes Mr. Scamardella has served as Board Chairmen of the Staten Island YMCA and the Eger Health Care and Rehabilitation Center. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of the YMCA of Greater New York and the College of Staten Island Foundation.
Mr. Scamardella also serves on the Executive Committees of the St George Theatre Restoration, Inc., SINY, Inc., and The Staten Island Children's Campaign. He is also a member of the Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame Committee.
Active academically, Mr. Scamardella is an adjunct professor of Business Law at Wagner College and has authored a 334 page book on the subject of amateur sports. He is also a staff writer for the Staten Island Advance in a monthly "Point-Counterpoint" series.
Involved politically, Mr. Scamardella is the Chairman of the Richmond County Republican Committee.
He resides in Sunnyside with Gail, his wife of 38 years. He has 2 children. His daughter, Leslie, is an attorney and an associate with her father's firm. His son, Robert, is the Per-Sessions Director for the Department of Education of the City of New York.


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Vínicius Sebba Patto, Gelson de Cruz Júnior, Luis Maurício Bini, Marco Antonio Assfalk de Oliveira.
This paper addresses a fuzzy model to assess the quality of the water through the use of three different indices. To compose these indices, we considered the use of the water and the characteristics of the Meia Ponte river watershed. At first, we will present the context, the assessment of water quality considering the complexity of the water, its parameters, and its application, as well as the non-significant relationship between parameters employed to assess its quality. Our main goal is to help the assessment of water quality, avoiding the influence of parameters on each other and taking into account the destination of the water. Then, we will present the model and the fuzzy inference process. At the end, a case study is presented in order to help to compare the results of the three proposed indices with the results obtained from the classical model proposed by the National Sanitary Foundation of the United States to determine the index of the water quality. To finish, we discuss it.
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Guest Author - Dountonia S. Slack
Most church meetings are anything but about my Fathers business (Luke 2:49). Often, we incorrectly place matters of insignificance, such as building projects and curtain colors, as priority over the spiritual development of the congregants or the evangelism of the lost. I have witnessed and researched enraged incidents of brethren vying for positions or embittered because the proper chain of command was not followed. I have heard speech that is less than gracious used by church leadership and excused by others who choose not to address the sin because of the one who committed the sin. And, I have experienced seemingly sincere corporate worship then watched the very same people almost come to blows at an after-service special call meeting.
Needless to say, I am not a fan of church business meetings. Maybe it is the name we call it that causes the chaos and confusion. Just because there is a summit to discuss the non-spiritual business affairs of the church should not make the gathering any less concerned about being Christ-like (Colossians 3:23). As a matter of fact, discussing and resolving these issues with grace and the wisdom of God is an expectation of those who have been placed as good stewards over all that has been given to us by God. So, to be clear, I am not dismissing the necessity of such meetings but I am outraged by the content and conduct of participants at some of these assemblies.
The church is not a business or an organization and should not be run as such. According to the Bible, the church is the body of Christ. It is an organized organism of all those who have placed their faith in Jesus Christ for salvation (John 3:16; 1 Corinthians 12:13). Local churches are gatherings of members of the collective church. The local church is where the members of the collective church can fully apply the body principles of 1 Corinthians chapter 12: encouraging, teaching, and building one another up in the knowledge and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ even when we meet for the purpose of church business. Thus, these meetings are supposed to be another form of worship because all of life is worship for the Christian.
In Acts 1:15-26, we find a model of how to conduct a biblical business meeting. Pastor Robert J. Sergent of Bible Baptist Church in Oak Harbor, Washington summarizes this passage into seven key principles we should keep in mind as the blueprint for church meetings: 1) Pastoral Initiative (verse 15a); 2) Biblical Purpose (verse 16); 3) Pastoral Leadership (verses 21-22); 4) Qualified Proposals (verse 23); 5) Fervent Prayer (verse 24); 6) Congregational Decision (verse 26a); and, 7) Heavenly Ratification (verse 26b). If we keep these precepts at the forefront of our renewed thinking, then our meetings would be less political, power-thirsty, and oppressive and more like the called out assembly Christ established.
My spirit grieves whenever the agenda of a church is more concerned about the unnecessary beautification/expansion of a temporal dwelling than helping others develop a passion for Christ. While we bicker over things that will wither like the grass, our children go off to college and do not return to our churches; new converts disappear before we know their names ; and, far too many sinners believe that their sins are too grievous to be forgiven by our Loving Father. Hence, we need to move on Christ's Agenda and daily die to self (mortify our rights, demands, and will for Christs life to be lived through us) everyday in every situation including when we come to the table for the "meeting to be called to order" (I Corinthians 14:40).


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I finished the embroidery yesterday and put the whole thing together, I am so pleased at how it turned out, the embroidery is covered with 1/32" thick plastic (off-road biking goggles).
View from the side. I used 3/32" thick wood for the top and it was quite a challenge to fit everything in.
View of the top. The embroidery was done on 60 count silk gauze with Gutermann silk thread. The chart is from the book Berlin Work Samplers & Embroidery by Raffaella Serena.
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'Freakish' weather can't stop Poulter
At last the sun shone again in the desert for Ian Poulter. After a 26-hour snow delay and two Accenture World Match Play Championships without a win for the Englishman, he progressed to the second round in typically belligerent style.
A couple of first-round exits followed Poulter's 2010 victory here at Dove Mountain; hardly a record befitting his reputation as a specialist in the head-to-head format. But Scotland's Stephen Gallacher could not emulate Stewart Cink and the Korean Sang-Moon Bae, Poulter's respective conquerors of 2011 and 2012.
Poulter was three-up with six remaining when play resumed at 1.0 and took 58 minutes to close it out 2&1. In this time the world No 11 gave the American galleries a painful reminder of the short-game which led the fightback at Medinah last year.
"I was pleased with the way I holed out," Poulter said. "I didn't want another early exit, but knew it would be tough against Stephen. It would have been easy to lose concentration because of the delays and the long wait before we could resume. But the adrenaline is good for me; it's a buzz we only usually get when we are in contention on a Sunday."
Poulter dismissed the snow as "a freak of nature" but did have one gripe with the officials.
"They told us we had to be here for 8.30am when there was five inches on the floor with the temperature in the 30s," he said.
"It wasn't rocket science and it meant us hanging around for five hours or so."
When the horn eventually signalled the restart, Gallacher had an immediate opportunity to reduce the overnight deficit, but his 15-foot putt dribbled wide. Up stepped Poulter to try halve the hole with a 10-footer.
He duly rolled in, proving once again that he can turn it on at will.
Sometimes Poulter's short-game can't rescue him, however. On the 14th, he hacked it up the rough before conceding the hole with a double bogey. Poulter bounced back on the next spinning in his second to four-feet.
But Gallacher bravely holed from 20 feet and on the par-three 16th had hopes of cutting the gap to one when Poulter found the greenside bunker.
This is where Poulter excels, splashing it out to a few inches. All it took then was to par the 17th and a second-round date with Bo Van Pelt was his. Poulter quite enjoys playing Americans.
The action was as dramatic as soon as it started. Sergio Garcia went to bed knowing that a 10-foot birdie putt on the 16th would give him a 3&2 win over Thongchai Jaidee. The Spaniard hit it six feet past and then missed the putt back for a halve. When the Thai struck a sumptuous approach to four feet on the 18th, Garcia was taken to sudden death.
It seemed all over for Garcia when Jaidee stood over an eight-footer for the win on the first extra hole. But it lipped out and suddenly it was the Asian feeling aggrieved.
That's match play for you – the momentum can U-turn in a single moment. Garcia reached the par-five second in two and this time made no error over his three-footer for the win. Garcia giggled with relief. "I was fortunate," he said.
Garcia's reward was a match with Matt Kuchar, who accounted for Japan's Hiroyuki Fujita 3&2.
Also through is the defending champion Hunter Mahan, who beat Italy's Matteo Manassero 5&4.
In the early action, some poor putting saw Padraig Harrington slip two behind Graeme McDowell after seven holes. (© Daily Telegraph, London)
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"This study demonstrates, probably more clearly than before, that the thyroid cancer incidence increase that we've seen nationwide is related, most likely, to increased use of thyroid ultrasounds and biopsy," said Jose P. Zevallos, MD, MPH, FACS, an assistant professor at the UNC School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and the study's lead author.
Thyroid cancer, which occurs in a gland at the base of the throat, is the ninth most common cancer in the United States with an estimated 62,980 new cases last year.1 The incidence of the disease has been on the rise, with one study showing the incidence nearly tripling between 1975 and 2009.2
Zevallos said some researchers have argued that better or more frequent tests are picking up on previously undetected thyroid cancers. However, others have suggested that the disease rate has increased for a yet unknown reason.
For the study, researchers analyzed data for veterans who received care through the Veterans Health Administration health system between fiscal years 2000 and 2012. They found that while the thyroid cancer incidence per 100,000 people doubled in that time period, there was a nearly five-fold increase in the use rate of thyroid ultrasound and a seven-fold increase in the fine-needle aspiration biopsy use rate.
That means that the use rates for the tests grew faster than thyroid cancer incidence. While that doesn't rule out a true increase in thyroid cancer incidence, Zevallos said, it does suggest that over-diagnosis and over-screening are playing an important role in the increased rates of thyroid cancer.
"This study wasn't designed to demonstrate causality, but it does show a strong link between the use of screening and the increase in thyroid cancer incidence," he said.
And the problem with over-screening is that health care providers may be detecting small, slow-growing thyroid cancers that would otherwise be clinically insignificant, Zevallos said.
"This may lead to unnecessary treatment including surgery and radioactive iodine therapy," he said.
Zevallos believes that the increase in the use thyroid ultrasound and biopsy tests may be driven by findings of abnormal thyroid tissue growths in patients undergoing imaging studies such as CT scans for reasons unrelated to thyroid cancer.
"I think that we need to be more judicious in our use of thyroid ultrasound and fine needle aspiration biopsy, and to develop screening protocols targeting individuals at-risk for more aggressive, clinically significant thyroid cancer," he said.
The study was supported by a Department of Veterans Affairs pilot project grant and also with resources from the VA Health Services Research and Development Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston.
The work was done partly while Zevallos was an assistant professor at the Baylor College of Medicine, but was completed at UNC-Chapel Hill along with collaborators in Houston.
Suggested citation: Zevallos JP, Hartman CM, Kramer JR, Sturgis EM, Chiao EY. 2015. Increased Thyroid Cancer Incidence Corresponds to Increased Use of Thyroid Ultrasound and Fine-Needle Aspiration: A Study of the Veterans Affairs Health Care System. Cancer. 121(5): 1097-0142.
1. National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program. "Seer Stat Fact Sheets: Thyroid Cancer." Accessed Feb. 27, 2015. http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/thyro.html.
2. Davies, L, Welch HG. Current thyroid cancer trends in the United States. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2014;140:317-322.
For Salie Babilonia, "the look" gets her every time.
"You know the one I'm talking about," said Salie, a wife and mother of three from Buxton, N.C. "You tell someone you have cancer, and you get that look of pity because it is scary and people don't know what to say.
"But you don't want people to pity you because it doesn't really help them or you. Instead, pray for fast healing."
It's that spunky spirit that has seen the 5'1" dynamo breeze through surgery and radioactive iodine therapy for the treatment of papillary thyroid carcinoma at UNC Hospitals.
Salie, a real estate sales associate and "forever 25," felt the knots in her neck as she and Carlos, 38, her husband of 16 years, were preparing for a two-week family vacation to their native Puerto Rico. Testing and scans, which included a biopsy, confirmed cancer.
She was referred to UNC Hospitals, and in June Salie had her thyroid gland and the lymph nodes on the left side of her neck removed by Carol G. Shores, MD, PhD, professor of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery in the UNC School of Medicine and a member of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
"My care at UNC Hospitals was incredible," said Salie, ever the organizer who has kept everything related to her cancer journey neatly ordered in a binder. "I was never a number. Dr. Shores herself called to tell me the biopsy confirmed cancer. It was sucky that she had to share that news, and I felt bad for her."
"Salie is very strong, very positive, and her surgery was uncomplicated," Dr. Shores said. "She was hospitalized for six days because the parathyroid glands, which control calcium levels in the blood, get moved around during the surgery and their function can be temporarily impaired. Her parathyroid function recovered, and Salie has recovered."
Papillary thyroid cancer is the only cancer staged by age, and women under age 45 are considered Stage 1 disease regardless of how much cancer in present and whether lymph nodes are involved, Dr. Shores said. "This cancer is not unusual in young women, and women under 45 have a good cure rate. They tend to do well in the long term, but the cancer can recur even 20 years after treatment, which is why life-time monitoring is required."
Salie will take thyroid hormones for the rest of her life and will be monitored by Julie Sharpless, MD, assistant professor of endocrinology and metabolism.
In July, under the care of Arif Sheikh, MD, assistant professor and director of the targeted radionuclide therapy and a member of Lineberger, Salie received radioactive iodine treatment in pill form as a standard of care to destroy any remaining cancerous thyroid tissue that could have remained after surgery.
In preparation, her thyroid hormones were not replaced for about six weeks and Salie had to adhere to a strict diet, low in iodine which equates to a no-preservatives no-salt diet as most prepared foods contain iodized salt.
And that's where the kitchen at SECU Family House came to the rescue. Carlos and Salie had already discovered the safe, supportive environment offered by the 40-room hospital hospitality house minutes from UNC Hospitals. Family House offers the home-away-from-home comfort needed by seriously ill patients and their families who come to UNC Hospitals for care.
"Essentially for those six weeks we had to prepare everything she ate from fresh, preferably organic ingredients and from scratch," said Carlos. "We could do that easily enough at home, but to be here in Chapel Hill a few days before that therapy began, we couldn't have done it without this kitchen. And the local resources for fresh, unprocessed ingredients were just what we needed."
The radioactive iodine therapy required Salie to be hospitalized for monitoring the iodine uptake and because her body was radioactive, she needed to be isolated, especially from children.
By August, Salie and Carlos were back home settling back into their daily routines and time with their children Carlos Jr.,15; Enrique,13; and Calia,10.
"North Carolina is home," said Carlos, who moved the family to Hatteras in 2009 with a career U.S. Coast Guard assignment. "We have a nice house, fruit trees in the backyard and a great network of friends who have helped us with the kids while Salie was being diagnosed and treated. The kids love it here, and even when I retire, we're staying."
"Family has always been first for us," Salie said. "We only take vacations as family, and our kids tell us they want us to be their best friends. About the only time I'm not happy is if our kids aren't happy. We've always been there for each other, putting the priorities where they need to be, learning the difference between needs and wants."
"We grew up together and have always been each other's go-to person," said Carlos who knew from first time he saw Salie in college that he would marry her. "We've been together through the happy, the sad and the in-between. We're still on the same page, but you have to work at it every day."
And just as "the look" of pity too often given to cancer patients gets to Salie, there is another look that gets to her every time.
"She's still the one, and this is forever," said Carlos, holding Salie's hand and meeting her eyes as if they were the only two in the room.
The original article from UNC Health Care can be found here.]]>
In the trial, patients' tumors were tested to confirm the mutation, and therapy was begun. Patients with the mutation who took the drug tolerated it well and patients without the mutation had no clinical benefit from the drug.
"We investigated the safety and effectiveness of selumetinib in patients with advanced thyroid cancer and found that in patients without the BRAF mutation the drug showed no evidence of activity. However, when we focused the evaluation to the 50 percent patients with the abnormal gene, we saw striking differences in the patient responses," says Neil Hayes, MD, MPH, the UNC principal investigator and first author of the study. Because of the small size of the trial, this observation requires additional studies, but has powerful implications for the design of future studies and the drugs that should be considered. Hayes is associate professor of medicine and a member of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
"We feel this provides the first evidence in thyroid cancer that targeting this commonly altered pathway may have resulted in benefit for only the patients whose tumors demonstrated the mutation. When speaking about personalized cancer therapy, this is the kind of example we are looking for." Their results were published in the April 1, 2012 issue of the journal Clinical Cancer Research.
The Phase 2 trial involved 39 patients with iodine-refractory papillary thyroid cancer for which there are few therapeutic options and no consensus standard of care. Radioactive iodine therapy is one treatment for papillary thyroid cancer when patients are given a large dose of the substance, killing thyroid cells and the cancer.
The only FDA approved drug to date used to treat the advanced stage of disease isn't always beneficial and has many side effects. A number of newer drugs have shown striking promise, but these work through a different mechanism and FDA approval is generally still pending.
Thyroid cancer incidence is increasing, rising 5 to 6 percent annually. The most common type is papillary, comprising 70 to 80 percent of the cases. Although the prognosis is very good for papillary thyroid cancer if detected early with an overall 10-year survival rate of 98 percent, once the cancer is locally advanced or metastatic or no longer amenable to surgery, the survival rate declines.
Other UNC authors are: Amy Lucas, MD; Dominic Moore, MPH; Arif Sheikh, DBSc, MD; Janelle Hoskins, PhD; Michele Hayward, RD; Ni Zhao, MS; Wendi O'Connor, MD; and Karen Weck, MD.
Other institutions are: University of Chicago Medical Center; Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia; Princess Margaret Hospital Toronto, Ontario; Vanderbilt University, Nashville; Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa; Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore.
Funding for the study was provided by the National Cancer Institute.]]>


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Gallery: Snapshots from the 46th Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest
Installing the work stations at the Bake-Off Contest
A worker prepares finalists' stations for the 46th Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest. 100 individual ovens and work stations were installed for the event, which was held on November 11, 2013 in Las Vegas.
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The finished room, ready for business
The contestants file into the Bake-Off, where all of their ingredients and tools are waiting for them at numbered work stations.
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The opening act
Yes, you are seeing that correctly: the entrants were led out on to the show floor by a percussion band playing baking utensils.
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Padma Lakshmi patrols the show
The show's host, Padma Lakshmi, was in attendance and tried several of the entries as she walked the show floor.
Finished recipe is delivered to the judges
Laura Majchrzak of Hunt Valley, Maryland, delivers her finished Berry Filled Shortbread Brunch Tart to the judges. The Bake-Off is a kind contest: as each contestant delivered their final entry, everyone paused to clap.
Photo via Pillsbury.
Pondering the bake time
Brett Youmans of Reading, Pennsylvania, a third-time entrant in the Bake-Off (three times is the maximum times an entrant can take part in the event) ponders if his chocolate hazelnut torte has baked to perfection.
Winners past and present
The winner of the 1966 Bake-Off was in attendance; here she is with the winner of the 2012 Bake-Off. Both offered helpful tips to current entrants.
Do Not Eat
Each of the entrants had the opportunity to make their recipe a couple of times, so that they could choose which one was just right for the judges. They marked dishes that were off-limits to samplers with "Do not eat" signs.
Please Sample
At a certain point, those "Do Not Eat" signs gave way to a much more pleasant one: "Please Sample". This is a blueberry sour cream pancake, with a secret ingredient in the batter: refrigerated sugar cookie dough.
The Winner is Announced
The winner is announced: Glori Spriggs of Henderson, Nevada, whose recipe for Loaded Potato Pinwheels, a savory recipe with potato fixings rolled in crescent roll dough, wins one million dollars.
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Man with 'severe gambling problems' used parents' account details to con bank into giving him €49k loans
A 42-year-old man with a severe gambling problem took his parents' bank details to defraud the Bank of Ireland in Wexford of more than €49,000.
Ten charges of deception or forgery were admitted by 42 year old Geoffrey Farrell of 22 Corish Park in Wexford, all dating back to the year 2005.
His compulsive gambling habit was blamed for the crimes he committed and the District Court heard that just €2,000 of the missing money had been paid back.
Judge Gerard Haughton had the benefit of a probation report on the unemployed construction worker before he imposed a suspended jail term which came with strict conditions.
Solicitor Tim Cummings stressed that his client had admitted his guilt from the very start of the case.
Farrell was the father of a five year old child and he was now living on social welfare, Mr Cummings stated.
Garda Sergeant Gary Rayner told how the defendant used the bank details of his parents to obtain €19,500 from the bank's branch in Wexford.
He also managed to pass himself off as his father before bank officials in order to obtain a fraudulent loan of €30,000.
Mr Cummings said the crimes were committed at a very difficult time in the accused man's life.
He was gambling heavily and he went to London for a while, living hand to mouth in England.
He was now back in Ireland where he had a young child.
Farrell told the court that he now paid €30 per week into a credit union account which paid for his golf club membership.
'That's nice,' responded Judge Haughton, prompting the solicitor to explain that his client had been encouraged to take up hobbies as an alternative to his gambling.
The judge stressed that such a fraud, involving such a substantial amount of money, was not a victimless crime.
The bill would be passed on to other bank customers by way of charges.
An 11 month jail sentence was recorded, the term suspended with conditions.
Farrell was ordered to attend Gamblers Anonymous meetings, not to enter any bookies, not to gamble on line or by telephone.
He was also instructed to open a new credit union account and set aside 10 per cent of his earnings, the funds to be passed on to the bank every six months.
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Carla Hall urged us to sample Nashville's famous dish: Hot Chicken — fried chicken brushed with a spicy paste. We tried it at Hattie B's, Bolton's, and Prince's Chicken, then honed our own recipe to help you create it at home.
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- 10 small chicken pieces
- ¾ c. cayenne hot pepper sauce
- 2 tbsp. sugar
- 2 tsp. sugar
- 2¾ tsp. granulated garlic
- 6 c. peanut oil
- 2 c. all-purpose flour
- 2 c. buttermilk
- 2 tsp. paprika
- White bread
- Pickle slices
- Place 1-gallon resealable plastic bag in large bowl. Add chicken to bag.
- In another bowl, whisk 5 cups water, hot sauce, 2 tablespoons sugar, 2 teaspoons garlic, and 3 tablespoons salt until salt dissolves. Pour over chicken; seal bag. Refrigerate 5 to 8 hours.
- Fit wire rack into foil-lined rimmed baking sheet. In 12-inch cast-iron skillet, heat oil on medium-high until 325 degrees F on deep-fry thermometer.
- While oil heats, place flour in large dish and buttermilk in large bowl. Drain chicken. Dredge 5 pieces chicken in flour. Dredge pieces in buttermilk, letting excess drip off, then in flour again, shaking off excess. Place each piece in hot oil. Cook 12 to 18 minutes, or until chicken is cooked (165 degrees F) and deep golden brown, turning and adjusting heat to maintain oil temperature. Transfer cooked chicken to rack; sprinkle with 1/4 teaspoon salt. Repeat with remaining chicken.
- In bowl, combine cayenne, paprika, remaining 2 teaspoon sugar, 3/4 teaspoon garlic and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper. Ladle 1/3 cup hot oil from skillet into bowl with spices. Stir well.
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50. Marsh, J.N., Vega-Trejo, R. Jennions, M.D. & Head, M.L. (2017) Why does inbreeding reduce male paternity? Effects on sexually selected traits. Evolution
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48. Iglesias-Carrasco, M. Head, M.L., Jennions, M.D., Martín, J. & Cabido C. (2017) Leaf extracts from an exotic tree affect responses to chemical cues in the palmate newt, Lissotriton helveticus. Animal Behaviour,
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33. Parker, D.J., Cunningham, C.B., Walling, C.A., Stamper, C.E., Head, M.L., Roy-Zokan, E.M., McKinney, E.C., Ritchie, M.G., Moore, A.J. (2015) Transcriptomes of parents identify parenting strategies and sexual conflict in a subsocial beetle. Nature Communications, 6: 8449.
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30. Carter, M., Head, M.L., Moore, A.J. & Royle, N.J. (2015) Behavioral plasticity and GxE of reproductive tactics in Nicrophorus vespilloides burying beetles, Evolution, 64(4:)969-978.
29. Vega-Trejo, R., Head, M.L. & Jennions, M.D. (2015) Evidence for inbreeding in a species with limited opportunity for maternal effects. Ecology and Evolution, 5(7):1398-1404.
28. Head, M.L., Jacomb, F., Vega-Trejo, R. & Jennions, M.D. (2015) Male mate choice and insemination success under simultaneous versus sequential choice conditions. Animal Behaviour, 103:99-105.
27. Head, M.L., Holman, L., Lanfear, R., Kahn, A.T. & Jennions, M.D. (2015) The extent and consequences of P-hacking in science. PLoS Biology, 13(3): e1002106.
26. O'Dea, R.E., Jennions, M.D. & Head, M.L. (2014) Male body size and condition affects sperm number and production rates in mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 27(12):2739-2744.
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22. Lindholm, A.K., Head, M.L., Rollins, L.A., Brooks R.C. & Zajitschek S. (2014) Causes of male sexual trait divergence in introduced populations of guppies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 27(2), 437-448.
21. Royle, N.J., Hopwood, P.E. & Head, M.L. (2013) Burying beetles. Current Biology. 23(20), R907.
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19. Tinghitella, R.M., Weigel,E.G., Head, M.L. & J.W. Boughman (2013) Flexible mate choice when mates are rare and time is short. Ecology and Evolution, 3(9), 2820-2831.
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17. Head, M.L., Kozak, G.M. & Boughman, J.W. (2013) Female mate preferences for male body size and shape promote sexual isolation in threespine sticklebacks. Ecology and Evolution, 3(7), 2183-2196.
16. Kozak, G.M., Head, M.L., Lackey, A.C.R. & Boughman, J.W. (2013) Sequential mate choice and sexual isolation in threespine species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26: 130-140.
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14. Kozak, G.M., Head, M.L. & Boughman, J.W. (2011) Sexual imprinting leads to reproductive isolation in the threespine stickleback. Proceeding of the Royal Society, Series B. 278(1718):2604-2610.
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12. Rushbrook, B., Head, M.L. & Barber, I. (2010) Flow regime affects nest building behaviour and nest composition in the threespine stickleback. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 64(12): 1927-1935.
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10. Cockburn, A., Dalziell, A.H., Blackmore, C.J., Double, M.C., Kokko, H., Osmond, H.L., Beck, N.R., Head, M.L. & Wells, K. (2009) Superb fairy-wren males aggregate into hidden leks to solicit extragroup fertilizations before dawn. Behavioral Ecology. 20(3): 501-510.
9. Head, M.L., Lindholm, A. & Brooks (2008) Operational sex ratio and density do not affect directional selection on male sexual ornaments and behaviour. Evolution. 62(1):135-144.
8. Head, M.L., Doughty, P., Blomberg, S.P. & Keogh, J.S. (2008) Chemical mediation of reciprocal mother-offspring recognition in the Southern Water Skink (Eulamprus heatwolei). Austral Ecology. 33:20-28.
7. Bonduriansky, R. Head, M. (2007) Maternal and Paternal condition effects on offspring phenotype in Telostylinus angusticollis (Diptera: Neriidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20(6):2379-2388.
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3. Head, M.L., Doughty, P. & Keogh, J.S. (2005).Male southern water skinks (Eulamprus heatwolei) use both visual and chemical cues to detect female sexual receptivity. Acta Ethologica. 8(2): 79-85.
2. Doody, J.S., West, P., Stapley, J., Welsh, M., Tucker, A., Guarino, E., Pauza, M., Bishop, N., Head, M., Dennis, S., West, G., Pepper, A. and A. Jones. (2003) Fauna by-catch in pipeline trenches: conservation, animal ethics, and current practices in Australia. Australian Zoologist 32(3): 410-419.
1. Head, M.L., Doughty, P. & Keogh, J.S. (2002) Experimental evidence of an age specific shift in chemical detection of predators in a lizard. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 28(3): 541-554.


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When indie rock band The Format announced their hiatus in early 2008, thousands of fans were devastated by the news. Luckily for them, frontman Nate Ruess had a new project up his sleeve. Teaming up with members of Anthallo and Steel Train, Ruess hit the studio a few months later to record the first fun. record, Aim and Ignite. In anticipation of the record release, the band hit the road, opening for pop rock powerhouses Jack's Mannequin and Paramore.
The eclectic and whimsical Aim and Ignite received fantastic reviews across the board and left fans in eager anticipation of what's next to come. As the band rounds out a few UK dates with Paramore and 2010's hottest new rapper, B.o.B., we caught up with Nate to find out more about the story behind fun., touring and plans for a new release.
OS: You're well known as the former lead vocalist and lyricist of The Format. For those who haven't heard fun.'s music yet, how does it differ from The Format's?
NR: Just different songwriters. Different approaches to writing songs. Different songs. Different band. Same vocals.
OS: Rounding out the fun.'s lineup are Jack Antonoff of Steel Train and Andrew Dost, formerly of Anthallo. How did the three of you come to collaborate on this project?
NR: It's something we all had talked about in the past. And the time window opened up when The Format broke up. So we flew to Jersey and got to work.
OS: Your debut album Aim and Ignite is very eclectic, at times sounding like indie pop and other times sounding like a Broadway musical. Which artists were the biggest influences on that record?
NR: The Xanadu soundtrack. Really that was all we collectively listened to at the time. Otherwise, we all bring different influences to each song. I like how unique that is.
OS: Your song "Walking the Dog" was used in an ad for Expedia.com. What was it like to see your music in a national television commercial?
NR: I didn't see it for a long time and then one day I was walking through the airport and saw it. I wanted to grab some random person, shake them, and say, "Hear that? That's me. So stop judging how I look."
OS: You've toured multiple times with Paramore and Jack's Mannequin. What do you enjoy most about touring with those bands?
NR: The music, the members, their crew and their fans. All great things.
OS: Speaking of Paramore, you've embarked on three straight months of touring, including some dates in the UK playing stadium shows with them and B.o.B. How did you prepare for those dates?
NR: I built a mock stadium in my bathroom and I just practice my arena moves.
OS: You were recently signed to Fueled By Ramen. Why did you decide to choose to sign with them and how has it changed things for fun.?
NR: The ink is still really fresh. So nothing has changed yet. Hope it eventually does though. We went with them because we've known them for a long time and thought they could supply us a nice balance of artistic creativity and sheer power.
OS: What can fun.'s fans expect in terms of a new record? Any release plans for 2011?
NR: Working on it now. Plan on really digging deep into the new songs once we get home from tour. Not sure what it's going to be stylistically. I do know these are my favorite lyrics I've written so far. Hopefully it will be out summer 2011.
Don't miss out on the fun! Check out the band on tour this fall with Steel Train and The Postelles:
11/18 – Newcastle, UK @ Metro Radio Arena with Paramore & B.o.B.
11/19 – Manchester, UK @ Manchester Evening News Arena with Paramore & B.o.B.
11/20 – Aberdeen, SCT @ AECC Arena with Paramore & B.o.B.
11/27 – New York, NY @Webster Hall with Steel Train and The Postelles
11/29 – Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rossa with Steel Train and The Postelles
11/30 – Toronto, ON @The Mod Club Theatre with Steel Train and The Postelles
12/2 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club with Steel Train and The Postelles
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's remarks, as prepared for delivery:
This stage and this moment are very improbable for me.
A New Jersey Republican delivering the keynote address to our national convention, from a state with 700,000 more Democrats than Republicans.
A New Jersey Republican stands before you tonight.
Proud of my party, proud of my state and proud of my country.