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Timeless. Classic. Diverse. Words used to describe Bob Seger's musical gift — and wouldn't you know, Founders Brewing's beers. Mull that while I wax poetic. Founders Brewing has been my favorite brewer since I first dabbed a droplet of their Double Trouble IPA on my tongue, over a year ago.
Captivated, entranced and bewildered I sought out more of this unknown brewer's stock. It took no further than my third beer, and not even a departure from one style, before I decided that this could be the one — the brewer for which my palate yearns.
The Backdrop.
Founders Brewing can be found along the Grand River, in the Western portion of the State of Michigan, in a nice little town called Grand Rapids. The mighty Grand Rapids is the second largest city in Michigan and was once referred to as "Furniture City" because, well, take a guess. While it might not be the maxim of metropolis, it once was a heavy industrial area that thrived throughout the auto and lumber boom of the early 1900s.
As the auto industry boomed, so did Detroit's music scene. Berry Gordy's Motown thrived throughout the 60s and 70s, launching the careers of iconic stars like Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye. We also saw Rock & Roll take a new form in Detroit. Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Ted Nugent, Alice Cooper and — perhaps most importantly for this article — the great Bob Seger, all saw incredible success with their raw, uncensored and blue-collar version of music's greatest gift (um, Rock & Roll).
But like all great things, Michigan took a hard turn in the late 20th century. The adversity facing the Great Lakes State drove a major artisan sub-culture that helped bring Detroit out of the ashes. From that, we saw the birth of funk from George Clinton, which some say spawned the creation of techno — the Detroit spectacle that arose from Parliment Funkadelic melodic melodies. A new progressive culture remained.
Also, from the ashes came a focus on reviving dead markets. Once a major player in the beer brewing industry of the U.S., the beer production industry had shrunk to producing nothing more than Strohs by the 1970s. By 1985, Strohs' brewery was destroyed and not one brewery remained in Detroit's once vast beer industry. The company finally sold off to Pabst in 1999.
Beer came back to Michigan in the 1980s, but this time it went West. Bells Brewery began operations in 1983 in Kalamazoo, MI. After 8 years as the only (still remaining) craft beer producer, Founders Brewing joined the fold in 1991. Its funny to think that a short stretch of 50 miles of highway is all that separates two of America's pioneering, and still dominate, craft breweries.
The Brewery.
Founders Brewing epitomizes everything about survival in the craft beer industry. Two college grads who enjoyed homebrewing decided to make a go for it, quit their jobs and make beer. After years of making balanced beers to pander to blue-collar Michigonians (made that term up), they hit the brink of bankruptcy. Realizing that they had to quit or develop their own unique niche, they decided to dump the "crap" beer and move on to a bigger challenge: "complex, in-your-face ales, with huge aromatics, bigger body, and tons of flavor." (from their website)
Well hell yes! Nothing like a little American ingenuity and a dab of elbow grease to get the fire cooking on a damn good idea. By taking the plunge into uber-complexity, Founders risked utter decimation. Alas, they knew that separating themselves from the herd of 1990s lightly malted, pathetically hopped beers, was the way to go. They flourished.
Founders Brewing now takes on a bevy of intriguing, mouth watering, mind melding styles. Check out their Breakfast Stout, which by the way, is made from an abundance of flaked oats, bitter and imported chocolates, and Sumatra and Kona coffee. No big deal, its only one of the most revered beers in American beerdom (again, made up). Not enough stuff? How about the Kentucky Breakfast Stout, which adds CAVE-AGED (no lie) oak bourbon barrels at 11.2%. Don't worry, I'm sure you'd hate that 100 on Rate Beer.
But alas, it was the IPAs which made me fall on bended knee. It was the sweet taste of unearthly nectar that said — "Hi, I'm beer. Know nothing else." Founders packs a lineup of 4 incredible hop bombs. Centennial IPA is a standard used for Beer Judge training, Red Rye PA is no doubt the best rye IPA on the market (and I will physically fight you if you say otherwise. Seriously, grab a 2×4 and meet me behind your parent's house), and Double Trouble turned my head Beetlejuice style, for about 5-6 minutes. But there was one more that I had yet to try — the gem of our 4 beer panel this week: Devil Dancer Triple IPA. Just wait, I'm getting there.
The Panel.
For our tasting panel, we selected 4 amazingly diverse styles. We tried to have no beers overlap because we wanted to savor the magnificent diversity of….NAY! we just had dumb luck and it worked out that way. Hooray random success; boo excess beer terms. The board: Cerise Cherry Fermented Ale, Porter, Devil Dancer Triple IPA and 2010 Nemesis. We proceed.
This one had caught my attention during a press release earlier this Summer. The beer was marketed as a "cherry fermented ale" which to me screamed "something like a kriek." I could have not been further from actuality. I have read many that say that the beer has a slight tartness and soft fruity aroma and flavor. I'm just not there.
I had the Cerise once back in Ohio when it was fresh from the case and again during this panel, about 2 months from purchase. The first tasting opportunity brought a very rich fruit flavor that mimicked cherry soda; the panel tasting was straight blush wine. I believe that the first tasting was more of what they were going for, a fruity summery ale that packed a lot of cherry blast. Our panel version might simply have been the victim of skunk. It was interesting to see that much change in only 55 days or so, but worse things have happened.
Its not easy to diss an offering from your favorite brewer — but skip this one. I think that increasing the tartness with a wild yeast might add something to this guy, but right now its a straight fruit beer that gets easily agitated.
Again, I have danced with this guy before. Once upon a time, I was dying of heat exhaustion after trouncing the streets of Washington DC in 99 degree weather. Lugging my baggage for 5 hours had left me screaming for a beer, and as always, I plead for something new and mind-bending.
We came across Pizzeria Paradisio in Dupont Circle and had heard of its lore. A dedicated pizza and alehouse, they offered some damn good choices across the board. One of those, was this guy — Founders Porter. I placed myself in a bubble, blocked out the heat and grabbed a pint from the tap. Delicious. One of the greatest, most complex porters that I have ever seen, smelled or tasted.
Our panel got to sample a bit of the goods. As I lifted the hood on this dark, sexy vessel of black grog, it exploded all over the place (not sure if this is sexual innuendo…still mulling it over). The beer had either been primed too much or aggressively disturbed during storage and retrieval — we shall never know. But, the beer had a much more aerated body this time around, and I like the subtle difference in how it affects the flavors.
The mass of chocolate and rich caramelized sugar prevails in this guy. This is a meal in a glass and a no-brainer for any dark beer fanatic. Get this one.
Devil Dancer Triple IPA.
The lore of this beer runs rampant. Rumors of its existence had plagued me for days, months,.. ok thats it. But still, I wanted it. When I got the call that the final bottle available at our favorite Cleveland shop had been acquired — I literally shot out of my pants. Devil Dancer: how I have waited for this dance.
The beer opens perfectly and with a moderate carbonation and maximum aroma that almost blows my eyes into their sockets. The beer pours with flawless orange-auburn hue and a slight head. We can dig in quickly.
The scent is explosive and I wonder what the hop bill must have looked like. This puppy is packing 112 IBUs and 12% alcohol, but the floral aroma hides the fermented wonder inside the bottle. Devil Dancer is an exploration through hop science. 10 different types of cones dry-hop this mother over the course of 26 days, to reach hop maxim. Though the malt bill is designed to allow the hops to prevail, they aren't absent from the beer. I taste a simple butterscotch or caramel flavor that gives this monster some balance.
The resins alone will baffle you. Buy every bottle you see, inject them with formaldehyde (don't do this) and preserve them for yourself. Seriously, don't share.
What an amazing name eh? I think about this now and I say: "what's my nemesis?" and "Is the beer trying to be the drinker's nemesis, or its own nemesis?" Yep, we go that deep.
If I had to create a beer that had to be its own nemesis, I think that I would try to pack as many aromatic malts and the brightest hops in a bottle and add a psychotically active yeast. That's the ticket. Lets see who wins! Hahaha (morbid laugh). Well, that's not my own creative brilliance, because I think that is exactly what they did.
Nemesis is classified as a dark barleywine and we had some disagreement about this nomenclature. One of us called it an imperial stout (its black and 12%); one said it was a crazy ole ale (it has a ridiculous aged malt flavor) and I called it a hoppy barleywine (its 100 IBUs). Whatever you call it — you should make sure to use the adjective "spectacular" because this beer is a gauntlet of flavor.
The beer pours a deep black with almost no head. Its thick like maple syrup and has a mild burnt sugar scent. The beer develops from the first sip to the swallow, starting bitter and ending with a furious "I just ate a meal of pancakes" syrupy swarm. As the beer warmed up, I noticed that the hops became more noticeable and I thought it was a great touch. The beer somewhat resembled a dark roasty version of Avery Brewing's Hog Heaven, though more complex and inevitably better.
If you read anything above, you can guess my recommendation. Get it.
The Match.
When we do these panels, we like to think about the brewer. Each brewer has a story behind its operation; its location, history, culture and its message are oh so important to the beer's delivery. So, when I thought about which Michigan musician's music would best espouse the Founders Brewing delivery — the Silver Bullet smacked me in the face.
For decades, Bob Seger has developed a musical sound that it fights for relevance, meets the needs of the everyday man, and yet strives to remain timeless with its unique character. Seger and Founders each fought from the trenches for relevance and after many years in the game, find themselves just as beloved as the day their first single (bottle) hit the market.
For me, they are both beloved because they each speak to the common man's desire for something to love. With Seger, it was "working on those night moves" and for Founders, its working on those complex romances that fit in a glass. Kudos to you both for making Michigan proud and the rest of us happy rock & roll infused beer fanatics.
Filed under: Kalamazoo (MI), Michigan, The Brewers Tagged: Bells Brewing, Bob Seger, Breakfast Stout, Centennial IPA, Cerise, Detroit beer, Devil Dancer, Double Trouble IPA, Founders Brewing, Founders Porter, Grand Rapids, KBS, Kentucky Breakfast Stout, Michigan brewers, michigan musicians, Nemesis 2010, Strohs


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The Milky Way galaxy is bigger, heavier, and faster-spinning than researchers once thought. In work presented this week at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society, scientists reported that our home galaxy is rotating about 100,000 miles per hour faster than previously understood. The revised rotation speed also corrects estimates of the galaxy's mass, making our galaxy closer in mass to that of Andromeda, which was previously thought to be significantly bigger than the Milky Way.
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The University of North Florida was ranked in the top 100 "Coolest Schools" by Sierra magazine, the award-winning magazine of the Sierra Club,
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Each year, Sierra magazine ranks America's most environmentally-progressive colleges and universities according to their environmental practices, green initiatives and caliber of sustainability-oriented education in its annual "Coolest Schools" issue.
"Making the Sierra Club 100 Coolest Schools list is an important first for UNF," said Dr. Radha Pyati, director of UNF's Environmental Center. "We have worked hard at making our campus more environmentally sustainable, and this kind of recognition among our peers tells us that we are a valuable part of a critical global movement."
In March, Sierra magazine sent a 12-page comprehensive questionnaire to more than 900 four-year undergraduate colleges and universities across the United States. Researchers for the magazine then scored and ranked the surveys voluntarily submitted by participating schools. The questions on the survey centered on environmental goals and achievements, with priority given to achievements. Its 10 categories included energy supply, efficiency, food, academics, purchasing, transportation, waste management, administration, financial investments and other initiatives.
"This is significant recognition for all the hard work to reduce the University's energy and water consumption, reduce our waste and increase our recycling as well as striving to reduce our overall expenses associated with those reductions and our carbon footprint, while keeping our students informed about environmental sustainability and providing experiential, transformational programs for students," said April Moore, UNF Environmental Center program director.
UNF's environmental and sustainability programs and projects touch on virtually every aspect of student, staff or faculty life. The University's Grounds and Refuse/Recycling staff have recognized a 40 percent reduction in irrigation water use over the last five years as the campus has grown and simultaneously endured two years of drought. UNF has also increased the number of recycling bins, reorganized the recycling staff and implemented weekly recycling collection at each campus office. Additionally, the University has converted to green cleaning products.
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In the academic arena, UNF offers several environmental studies courses, including an Environmental Studies minor; Civil Engineering with an environmental track, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology track, Coastal Biology track and a Coastal Environmental Science track. The Thomas G. Carpenter Library, a resource open to the public, has developed digital commons, which is a digital representation of research, scholarly output and special collections of faculty and students.
Out on campus, the Department of Recreation, through support from Student Government and the Student Life fee, strives to achieve awareness of the environment and good stewardship through four of its campus units—Eco-Adventure and Eco Camp as well as the Organic Garden and Wildlife Sanctuary programs. In these programs, UNF students reach out to other students and local school children in Northeast Florida to teach awareness for the environment.
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1. This morning, at an oral thesis defense before my committee of three, I completed my master's degree in Communicating Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Superior.
The defense was like my entire graduate career at UWS: rigorous, enlightening, intellectually stimulating and thoroughly enjoyable. It was also bittersweet, because it heralds the close of my student career.
I love UWS, and I love the Comm Arts program. Over a span of many years (I'm a "non-traditional" student, which means old, and most of my career has been print journalism), I have attended Macalester College in St. Paul, the University of Minnesota in Mpls., and the University of Minnesota at Duluth. So I'm in a position to compare institutions. There is a sense of open-mindedness at UWS - of free inquiry and tolerance for new ideas and perspectives, unimpeded by academic politics - that I didn't find at the other schools. As though the fresh air that blows in from Lake Superior flows freely through the buildings and past the lovely campus trees, and right into the minds of students and teachers. I wanted a graduate program near home (I live in Duluth), and expected that UWS's would be adequate; I didn't anticipate the excellence I found.
The Comm Arts department itself comprises a diverse and lively group of extraordinarily talented people who are both demanding and supportive of students. Their overarching characteristic is a love of and dedication to learning, in the best Renaissance tradition. They have helped enlarge my vision and introduced me to new perspectives, for which I am grateful.
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2. University of Wisconsin-Superior is a wonderful school to be at. If you ever wanted a school to attend that people would recognize on a national level then UWS may not be the right place for you. But, if you want a school to attend where classes are generally small, the professors actually know you by name; surrounded by an exquisite scenery of the twin ports area, the UW-Superior is perfect. I had a wonderful experience at UWS and have been looking for ways totry to come back in a professional capacity. Upon leaving UWS, I bounced around
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3. "Obtaining my M.A. through the department of Communicating Arts at UWS was one of the best decisions I've made. As a working mom, commuter student I was able to create a customized class schedule that minimized my drive time and maximized my robust, engaging study of communication phenomena. The staff was amazing: well-educated, vibrant, empathetic yet firm. I felt I was stretched intellectually and academically while being encouraged the whole way. I strongly recommend this program to anyone who's dreamed of returning to graduate school in a communication field. As a recent graduate, I'm mourning the loss of weekly conversations with my instructors and peers but celebrating the wonderful relationships, life changing experiences, and the accomplishments of obtaining this degree!"
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4. Major in communicating Arts was the best on-the-go decision I made as a sophomore in my student career. It allowed me to approach first my teachers in a different, more efficient manner, than my parents and friends and last but not least my future employers. During my interview, I did not realize nor think about what was happening or what I was doing, behaving or reacting. All I was worried about was making a good impression on who is my employer today, which I must have since I am employed today in this economy. It was the relentless practice, and coaching that I had learn view, review in different forms and ways. Classes such as group communication and interpersonal communication allowed me to be ready to apply communication at all times, and has become part of my DNA, and makes me ready for any situation.
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Local sky-watchers are in for a celestial treat over the next three weeks as Venus, Jupiter and Mars perform a 'dance in the morning skies.'
Professor Mark E. Bailey of Armagh Observatory says from mid October to the first week of November the planets will be seen in the morning sky in the east just before dawn.
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"During this period, at approximately 06:00 (BST), the red planet Mars lies in a roughly ESE direction at a nearly constant altitude of approximately 25 degrees above the horizon.
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Compromised intestinal barrier function can also cause disease directly, by immunological mechanisms.[6-9] Increased permeability stimulates classic hypersensitivity responses to foods and to components of the normal gut flora; bacterial endotoxins, cell wall polymers and dietary gluten may cause "non-specific" activation of inflammatory pathways mediated by complement and cytokines. [10] In experimental animals, chronic low-grade endotoxemia causes the appearance of auto-immune disorders.[11-13]
Leaky Gut Syndromes are clinical disorders associated with increased intestinal permeability. They include inflammatory and infectious bowel diseases [14-19], chronic inflammatory arthritides [9, 20-24], cryptogenic skin conditions like acne, psoriasis and dermatitis herpetiformis [25-28], many diseases triggered by food allergy or specific food intolerance, including eczema, urticaria, and irritable bowel syndrome [29-37], AIDS [38-40], chronic fatigue syndromes [Rigden, Cheney, Lapp, Galland, unpublished results], chronic hepatitis [41], chronic pancreatitis [4, 5], cystic fibrosis [42] and pancreatic carcinoma. Hyperpermeability may play a primary etiologic role in the evolution of each disease, or may be a secondary consequence of it which causes immune activation, hepatic dysfunction, and pancreatic insufficiency, creating a vicious cycle. Unless specifically investigated, the role of altered intestinal permeability in patients with Leaky Gut Syndromes often goes unrecognized. The availability of safe, non-invasive, and inexpensive methods for measuring small intestinal permeability make it possible for clinicians to look for the presence of altered intestinal permeability in their patients and to objectively assess the efficacy of treatments. Monitoring the intestinal permeability of chronically ill patients with Leaky Gut Syndromes can help improve clinical outcomes.
Triggers and Mediators of the Leaky Gut
Leaky Gut Syndromes are usually provoked by exposure to substances which damage the integrity of the intestinal mucosa, disrupting the desmosomes which bind epithelial cells and increasing passive, para-cellular absorption. The commonest causes of damage are infectious agents (viral, bacterial and protozoan) [43-46], ethanol [47, 48], and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs [20, 49, 50]. Hypoxia of the bowel (occurring as a consequence of open-heart surgery or of shock) [51, 52], elevated levels of reactive oxygen metabolites (biliary, food-borne or produced by inflammatory cells) [53], and cytotoxic drugs [54-56] also increase para-cellular permeability.
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Cycle One: Allergy
The relationship between food sensitivities and the leaky gut is complex and circular. Children and adults with eczema, urticaria or asthma triggered by atopic food allergy have baseline permeability measurements that are higher than control levels [57-59]. Following exposure to allergenic foods, permeability sharply increases. Most of this increase can be averted by pre-treatment with sodium cromoglycate [32, 34, 57-59], indicating that release from mast cells of atopic mediators like histamine and serotonin is responsible for the increase in permeability. It appears that an increase in intestinal permeability is important in the pathogenesis of food allergy and is also a result of food allergy.
Claude Andre, the leading French research worker in this area, has proposed that measurement of gut permeability is a sensitive and practical screening test for the presence of food allergy and for following response to treatment [57]. In Andre's protocol, patients with suspected food allergy ingest 5 grams each of the innocuous sugars lactulose and mannitol. These sugars are not metabolized by humans and the amount absorbed is fully excreted in the urine within six hours. Mannitol, a monosaccharide, is passively transported through intestinal epithelial cells; mean absorption is 14% of the administered dose (range 5-25%). In contrast, the intestinal tract is impermeable to lactulose, a disaccharide; less than 1% of the administered dose is normally absorbed. The differential excretion of lactulose and mannitol in urine is then measured. The normal ratio of lactulose/mannitol recovered in urine is less than 0.03. A higher ratio signifies excessive lactulose absorption caused by disruption of the desmosomes which seal the intercellular tight junctions. The lactulose/mannitol challenge test is performed fasting and again after ingestion of a test meal. At the Hospital St. Vincent de Paul in Paris, permeability testing has been effectively used with allergic infants to determine which dietary modifications their mothers needed to make while breast feeding and which of the "hypoallergenic" infant formulas they needed to avoid in order to relieve their symptoms [60].
Cycle Two: Malnutrition
Disruption of desmosomes increases absorption of macromolecules. If the epithelial cells themselves are damaged, a decrease in trans-cellular absorption may accompany the increased para-cellular absorption. Because nutrients are ordinarily absorbed by the trans-cellular route, malnutrition may occur, aggravating strucutural and functional disturbances [61]. Under normal conditions, intestinal epithelium has the fastest rate of mitosis of any tissue in the body; old cells slough and a new epithelium is generated every three to six days [62, 63]. The metabolic demands of this normally rapid cell turnover must be met if healing of damaged epithelium is to occur. When they are not met, hyperpermeability exacerbates [64, 65].
Correction of nutritional deficiency with a nutrient-dense diet and appropriate supplementation is essential for the proper care of patients with Leaky Gut Syndromes. Specific recommendations are made in the last section of this review. Because of the association between hyperpermeability and pancreatic dysfunction, pancreatic enzymes may also be required.
Cycle Three: Bacterial Dysbiosis
Dysbiosis is a state in which disease or dysfunction is induced by organisms of low intrinsic virulence that alter the metabolic or immunologic responses of their host. This condition has been the subject of a recent review article [66]. Immune sensitization to the normal gut flora is an important form of dysbiosis that has been implicated in the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease and ankylosing spondylitis[67-81]. Recent research findings suggest that bacterial sensitization is an early complication of altered permeability and exacerbates hyperpermeability by inducing an inflammatory enteropathy [82, 83]. This has been most studied in the response to NSAIDs. Single doses of aspirin or of indomethacin increase para-cellular permeability, in part by inhibiting the synthesis of protective prostaglandins [20, 49, 50, 84, 85]. Hyperpermeability is partially prevented by pre-treatment with the prostaglandin-E analogue, misoprosterol. Chronic exposure to NSAIDs produces a chronic state of hyper-permeability associated with inflammation, which can not be reversed by misoprosterol but which is both prevented and reversed by the administration of the antibiotic, metronidazole [83, 86]. The effectiveness of metronidazole in preventing NSAID-induced hyperpermeability probably reflects the importance of bacterial toxins in maintaining this vicious cycle. A single dose of bacterial endotoxin, administered by injection, increases the gut permeability of healthy humans [87]. Chronic arthritis can be induced in rats by injection of cell wall fragments isolated from normal enteric anaerobes[88]. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving NSAIDs have increased antibody levels to Clostridium perfringens and to its alpha toxin, apparently as a secondary response to NSAID therap[89].
There is ample documentation for a therapeutic role of metronidazole and other antibiotics in Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis[90-98]. The mechanism underlying the response has been in dispute. In the case of tetracyclines, one group has asserted that mycoplasma in the joints cause rheumatoid arthritis, others have countered this argument by demonstrating that minocycline is directly immunosuppressive in vitro [99]. Because all patients with arthritis have used NSAIDs, and because NSAID enteropathy is associated with bacterial senisitization, it is possible that the the antibiotic-responsiveness of some patients with inflammatory diseases is a secondary effect of NSAID-induced bacterial sensitization which then exacerbates the Leaky Gut Syndrome. Altering gut flora through the use of antibiotics, synthetic and natural, probiotics, and diet is a third strategy for breaking the vicious cycle in Leaky Gut Syndromes. With regard to diet, patients whose disease responds to vegetarian diets are those in whom the diet alters gut ecology; if vegetarian diets does not alter gut ecology, the arthritis is not improved[100].
Cycle Four: Hepatic Stress
The liver of Leaky Gut patients works overtime to remove macromolecules and oxidize enteric toxins. Cytochrome P-450 mixed-function oxidase activity is induced and hepatic synthesis of free radicals increases. The results include damage to hepatocytes and the excretion of reactive by-products into bile, producing a toxic bile capable of damaging bile ducts and refluxing into the pancreas [4, 5]. In attempting to eliminate toxic oxidation products, the liver depletes its reserves of sulfur-containing amino acids [101]. These mechanisms have been most clearly demonstrated in ethanol-induced hepatic disease [47]. Sudduth [102] proposes that the initial insult is the ethanol-induced increase in gut permeability which creates hepatic endotoxemia. Endotoxemia can further increase permeability, alter hepatic metabolism, and stimulate hepatic synthesis of reactive species which are excreted in bile. This toxic bile, rich in free radicals, further damages the small-bowel mucosa, exacerbating hyperpermeability.
A Practical Approach
Suspect a pathological increase in gut permeability when evaluating any patient with the diseases listed in Table 1 or the symptoms listed in Table 2. Measure permeability directly using the lactulose/mannitol challenge test. Indirect measures of gut permeability include titres of IgG antibody directed against antigens found in common foods and normal gut bacteria. These tests may be useful but cannot substitute for the direct permeability assay, especially when one is following the response to treatment.
IF ALL COMPONENTS OF THE LACTULOSE/MANNITOL TEST ARE NORMAL, repeat the challenge after a test meal of the patient's common foods. If the test meal produces an increase in lactulose excretion (signifying hyperpermeability) or a decrease in mannitol excretion (signifying malabsorption), specific food intolerances are likely and further testing for food allergy is warranted. Once the patient has been maintained on a stable elimination diet for four weeks, repeat the lactulose/mannitol challenge after a test meal of foods permitted on the elimination diet. A normal result assures you that all major allergens have been identified. An abnormal result indicates that more detective work is needed.


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Finding Bigfoot - Alberta, Canada Field Notes
34 comments:
Sometimes you just feel like an ass! lolReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2012 at 1:19 AM
Bobo need food!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2012 at 4:31 AM
thats just a snack for BoBoReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2012 at 4:57 AM
- blurfootJanuary 23, 2012 at 5:58 AM
Photo caption: Bobo is ready with a valentines day gift for any female sasquatch he may happen to come across while roaming the area.ReplyDelete
Bobo pic caption:ReplyDelete
"Look at what Squatchie left behind for me!"
(Pun Intended :-))
mmmm...We eat good tonight!"
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2012 at 8:33 AM
thank you cliff for posting these finding bigfoot notes ,they really help clear up confusion left over from the show,,,thank youReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2012 at 9:37 AM
"Oh yeah, well what's in your wallet"?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2012 at 9:38 AM
"...no waffles!!!"ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2012 at 9:42 AM
Hi my name is Bobo. I like long walks in the forest with my pet deer, candlelight dinners in a fishing boat on raging seas, and camping with my dog "Monkey". If you're rich I'm "single" Call me at BR549ReplyDelete
I love your notes, Cliff. Its too bad alot of this stuff doesn't make the show, but I've worked on a few tv programs and know how that is, it was never easy to get fish to cooperate with filming, it has to be monumentally hard with something as elusive as a sasquatch. I'm so glad there are folks like you taking this seriously and may someday have the proof to get these animals recognized and protected. Even though its clipped for entertainment, I think the show on Animal Planet helps get people interested and aware. Keep up the good work.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2012 at 1:43 PM
"Faster! Faster, Bambi! Don't look back! Keep running! Keep running!"ReplyDelete
Caption: Bobo and Doe-doe.ReplyDelete
Comment about Mr. Standing's strange behavior... "We met Todd on a rainy day in an empty campground where several bigfoot encounters had happended over the previous several years. He refused to take a jacket or use any rain gear, claiming it was not cold. He was soon shivering in a wet, cotton shirt, maintaining his position that it was a nice day"
I'm no psychologist, nor do I play one on TV, but this strange behavior seems to me like this is someone who does NOT like to be wrong. Just my opinion.
Thanks so much Cliff for the detailed notes.It was especially thrilling for me because the Kananaskis area is where I research every weekend.ReplyDelete
Obviously I haven't found anything yet,but just being out in nature and the quiet is a reward in itself.
The Kananaskis,Bannf,Lake Louise area is vast and there have been sightings due north of the Rockies.The land is heavily forested but much more forgiving.
I'm so happy you made it to Canada and my home Province.
As for Mr. Standing,all of you made the right call.
By the way,Grizzly bears are all through the area,as well as cougars,coyotes and wolves.It's quite rare to sneak up one any of them.I'm sure you already know that though.
Thanks again!
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2012 at 6:28 PM
Bobo got his piece of tail...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2012 at 7:29 PM
Bobo, ready for date night...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2012 at 7:40 PM
Thanks for the notes. I've seen Todd's pics and videos and wondered about their authenticity. You've cleared some things up for me.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2012 at 9:47 PM
Caption: Finally i found some food.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2012 at 9:52 PM
This is my newest pet. Much better than bun bun and boon boon. I'll call it....er..deer deer.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 24, 2012 at 6:14 AM
I've heard of people doing this with sheep not deer lolReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 24, 2012 at 2:20 PM
Caption: Me Tarzan you DoeyReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 24, 2012 at 5:31 PM
Matt is up to his old games of trying to convince the uninformed audience that he knows where the bigfoot are going to be next, or that he can produce results by simply walking towards noise. Yet the editor consistently drops those story lines in hopes that the viewer will not notice that Matt does not have a clue as to what he is doing. The bigfoot know the difference between a man howling and a bigfoot, and can see infra red light, leaving you guys with no tools left in your bag. So far, after some 14 or so episodes, no convincing audio recordings have been captured, only one ambiguous thermal was captured, but we are left entirely with taking your word that you guys know how to recognize a bigfoot, despite the fact that you cannot back it up with even the tiniest sample of corroborating evidence. No wonder you have not won Renee over. And one last thing. I don't believe that anybody who knows anything about the BFRO, would not have guessed well in advance that Matt would slam a non-BFRO field researcher. Showing professionalism and respect for the work of other field researchers, has never been in the BFRO Code of Conduct.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJanuary 26, 2012 at 1:59 PM
guess we know who posted this.... someone rubbed wrong for faking a video?Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 29, 2012 at 3:03 PM
Nice try at discrediting the thoughful comment. No videos or any other type of alleged evidence submitted = no alleged evidence that can qualify as being faked..Delete
Talk all you want! She was the only one that would go out with me!ReplyDelete
"Hey, Tastes like chicken!"ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 26, 2012 at 1:57 PM
i'll show bob saget how to properly bait a bigfoot.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2012 at 1:32 PM
BoBo always left bringing up the rear!ReplyDelete
I'd have to say this was one of my favorite episodes, loved al of the noises at night. Unfortunately my 6 yr old son could make better videos than that Todd guy.
Bobo doesn't appreciate being the "butt" of everyone's jokes.ReplyDelete
ONE SASQUATCH SAYS TO THE OTHER WHILE WATCHING BFRO SET-UP AND THE GUY WITH HALF A FAKE DEER WALKS BY..." and they are the ones who supposedly evolved..."ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 22, 2012 at 4:57 AM
He may be a big guy, but when he has to Bobo can really haul ass...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 27, 2012 at 4:29 AM
" I will never squeal like a pig again!"ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 8:59 PM
"Yes, Bobo, butt..."ReplyDelete


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Inside Silent Music, an exhibition straight from the storage boxes of "accidental rock ephemera collector" Lee Reymore
Silent Music opens tomorrow, July 14th, and runs until August 14th. Opening reception at 8pm, live music by The Fresh & Onlys - at Vacation - 651 Larkin Street in the Tenderloin - ON FACEBOOK
Lee Reymore was once called San Francisco's doppelganger of Jarvis Cocker, and he's got a tantamount of wit, edge and thick-rimmed glasses to match. Omnipresent in a lineage of R&R since the late 70's, Lee has traversed through multiple city scenes, from witnessing only one of two Throbbing Gristle North American shows before their break up in 1982, drug interactions in the green room with Bobby Gilespie on the 1991 Screamadelica tour, to living in Edinburgh and modeling colonial outfits with Shirley Manson way before Garbage, and catching plenty of live debuts from buzzed San Francisco garage rock in the late 2000's.
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Silent Music, curated by Reymore and installed by partner Randy Walker, is a manifestation of the musical ephemera Reymore has accumulated through his time spent backstage, in the pit, and in the record store. Some are scored secondhand through his connections as a rare book dealer, or just by having an innate eye for scouting his taste.
"I was a thirteen year old stamp collector nerd as a kid. I had this sort of collector mentality early on. I started collecting Samuel Beckett first editions when I began working in the book industry. But I didn't set out to collect art or music ephemera. I just ended up accumulating all of this stuff and not getting rid of anything."
Reymore remembers his first acquired gem of ephemera, caught at 1979 Clash show in his hometown of San Diego on the bands first American tour. It was ripped directly off the back of Joe Strummer himself, in the heat of an intense pit moment. Twenty years later Lee saw Strummer during an in-store at Amoeba, and gave him a handmade sign to pose with that reads "I want my patch back!" Both the original patch as well as the photograph of Strummer with the sign are placed side by side in the show.
The show, on view at Tenderloin vintage boutique and gallery Vacation, is focused on multiple trajectories in Rock N' Roll throughout the years: an eclectic mix of Late 70's UK industrial, 60's San Francisco psychedelic, mid 80's SoCal punk, New York new wave, and present day San Francisco garage rock.There is a variety of mediums in the show: LPs, cassette tapes, handbills, posters, paintings and prints. And through running his own rare and arcane book business Modlit Books he has included in the exhibit selected music biographies and poetry anthologies from the likes of Patti Smith, Nick Cave, and Jim Morrison.
Each item of ephemera in the show comes with a unique backstory behind how he got it. "I had all these great original punk rock fliers from San Diego and Los Angeles from my period living there, and using, like many people do, their parents garage as storage space. My mother threw it all away. I was really pissed. So I have sought out original [1980's] San Francisco punk fliers and posters from the people that distribute them back then, for that fact that all my original ones are gone."
Some of the work is made by the musicians themselves, such as paintings or writings that necessarily the focus of their career. Did you know Ian Curtis may or may not have cut the sandpaper used to write the liner notes for a Durutti Column album? Or that Frank Sinatra could sketch a drawing inside of a book he signed?
Silent Music is dedicated to the late renowned San Francisco ephemera collector, writer and curator Steven Leiber. Reymore was invited to visit Leiber's garage, a Mecca of ephemera from artists familiar and obscure. Leiber would keep files on every artist from whom he collected, their paintings, prints, even gallery invitations. "He was interested in the full depth of the artist," says Reymore. In collecting related work beyond just the physical LPs or cassettes, Reymore shares this interest in depth and variety as well.
Their visits exploring this basement-sized treasure chest of art continued until Leiber passed away earlier this year. "We would just talk for hours and hours and I would learn so much about this artist or that artist, some I had never heard of. He had worlds of knowledge, and a genuine passion for what he did."
Leiber's collection generally was not music minded, and most of the music related pieces he did carry were purchased by Reymore, such as the original punk fliers. But for Reymore, Silent Music emulates the experience he had of viewing and learning about Leiber's collection of ephemera, yet curated with his own aesthetic and tailored to his own taste.
"None of us have the same taste, but having said that I don't think I could ever move in with someone and not be controlling the artwork on the walls. That would have to be me."
Silent Music opens tomorrow, July 14th, and runs until August 14th. Opening reception at 8pm, live music by The Fresh & Onlys - at Vacation - 651 Larkin Street in the Tenderloin - ON FACEBOOK
Vacation, opened this past June, is a vintage boutique curated by Kristin Klein, who previously manned a former Vacation storefront in Atlanta. Klein, a tour manager in the indie and garage circuit for several years, chose to intersect her passions for art and music in Vacation. The space will host an ongoing series of gallery shows and carry releases by local bands in addition to fashion.
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10 Commandments For The Smaller Firm, Part 2
Here are the final 6 guidelines for an entrepreneur's healthiest approach to future business.
By John Aberle, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Marketing San Jose State University
In this continuation of my article from last month's issue of Performance Racing Industry, we take a look at 10 of the most helpful rules in operating a small business. We only had room for the first four 'commandments' in the previous issue, so here are the final six..
The Fifth Commandment
Thou shall strive for capital gains by reinvesting in thine own firm.
The argument for the 'rightness' of this commandment is two-fold in nature: (1) your return on equity (the net worth of your firm) is far more likely to be greater than money taken from your firm and invested elsewhere; and (2) capital gains (the difference between the value of your firm when you started it and its value if you sell if after years of operation) will be taxed at a far lower rate than current income you may derive from it each year. This is even more important if your venture is organized as a corporation.
The statutory rate on long-term capital gains (the application of an investment that occurs in a period greater than a single year) will be 20% after 2012. In actuality, the rate is considerably lower because of the time cost of money. That is, a dollar to be received 20 years from now is not worth as much as a dollar received today.
A dollar received today can be invested at interest (in our situation, reinvested in your operation) and will be worth much more than a dollar after 20 years. Thus a dollar of tax paid every year for 20 years is much more tax than $20 to be paid 20 years from now. If the interest rate is 6%, a dollar a year for 20 years is 1.8 times as much as $20 twenty years from now.
Because of the value of time, the tax on capital gains is really much lower than the statutory rate of 20%. That is due to the deferral of the tax on the gain from the time the gain accrues to the time the gain is realized (in the situation, when you sell your firm)..
The Sixth Commandment
Thou shall learn to live with uncertainty.
Convince yourself that it is perfectly OK to be uncertain, because this state of mind goes hand-in-hand with being an entrepreneur. Market forces and the unknown future keep entrepreneurs guessing, and that's never going to change. The trick is to navigate successfully through uncertainty.
Right off the bat, learn to be skeptical of those who are absolutely sure they are right, regardless of their credentials. In 99 cases out of 100 the truth will be somewhere in between absolutely correct and absolutely wrong. Rather, learn to think in terms of various alternative possibilities, none of which is absolutely correct or absolutely incorrect. Consider varying degrees of plausibilities for each alternative. It is this kind of thinking that will enable you to navigate successfully through uncertainty.
The Seventh Commandment
Thou Shall Not Be An Information Pack Rat.
The problem a lot of entrepreneurs seem to be having with computers appears to be in the mass of information they pile into the computer's memory. The information is squirreled away without any thought given to use.
What entrepreneurs need to know is whether the assets they work with are earning their keep. Information is needed on product line profitability. Once profitability percentages are in hand, it is possible to decide what to discard and what to keep.
In keeping with product line profitability, total gross margin achieved by any given line during the year is another needed bit of information. It will supplement information forthcoming from product line profitability figures and greatly aid in merchandise selection.
Finally, information on cash flow is essential. Cash flow is the lifeblood of the enterprise. Once projections are made, incoming cash can be compared to the estimates on a regular basis.Retailing is basically a trading business. In your store you trade merchandise for money. You use money to pay your expenses. Any interruption of this cycle means that the firm's assets are not working hard enough.
The Eighth Commandment
Thou Shall Avoid The Folklore Of Management.
To obey this commandment, dismiss the following myths from your mind: 1) the notion that effective management of your firm requires thoughtful, precise planning; 2) the notion that you need access to complete information; 3) the notion that there is some business model that, if followed, will increase your firm's profitability; 4) the notion that the manager's role is to maintain a balanced performance by working through others; and 5) that management is a science—a systematic, analytically determined procedure.
Belief in such notion will lead any owner/manager of a smaller firm, who reviews his/her management procedures, to a monumental inferiority complex. The entrepreneur's advantage is the ability to act quickly, so be wary of processes or directions that tend to erect roadblocks rather than eliminate them.
Research indicates that top executive in large-scaled firms follow essentially the same management patterns as you do. Like you, those people have specific intentions, not well-thought-out plans. Their information comes from a variety of sources and never is complete. Also, like you, they depend largely on a data bank in their heads rather than upon some business model.
By the same token, the idea of a balanced performance doesn't 'hold water.' The research shows that large firm managers perform a wide variety of jobs, much of it 'hands on.' And, finally, these same managers have to rely on intuition and judgment, both 'far cries' from the scientific method.
The Ninth Commandment
Thou Shall Always Remember That Turnover Is Not Causative.
The ninth commandment is designed to emphasize that turnover is the result of good buying; it can't cause anything. In effect, a firm may have a high turnover and yet go broke. This is sometimes hard to understand because the most profitable stores have good turnover. By the same token, they have margins that are large enough to pay the bills and leave a profit.
The total concept works in favor because of the time cost of money. If you know what your customers want and the amount of money they are willing to trade for it, the margins will be adequate and the inventory will move.
Profitability compounds from the movement at adequate margins (not necessarily the highest) because the dollars you currently receive can be reinvested more quickly than dollars you get gat later.
In summary, good buying works hand-in-hand with the time cost of money to increase profitability.
The Tenth Commandment
Thou Shall Shed Bad Habits That Thou Has Accumulated.
Certain habitual patterns that evolve from the conventional wisdom can inhibit profits and, at worst, lead to bankruptcy. Among them are: 1) the constant striving for sales growth; 2) too great attention paid to the income statement, while the balance sheet is neglected; and 3) the assumption that the terms 'sales' and 'marketing' are interchangeable.
The objective most smaller firm owners have is to increase return on investment (ROI). This is the ratio between the profit of the operation and the assets employed to achieve the profit. The conventional view, which sees sales as the route to this objective, looks at turnover of assets and neglects profitability. An improved habit pattern would also consider pruning assets while maintaining sales. The results would be an increased ROI and a far better financial position for the owner.
Racing entrepreneurs are just naturally built to look to sales as the fastest method of increasing their profits. However, many companies with significant sales levels flounder as the result of another key aspect of running a successful business—cost control."The firms I took over and rejuvenated were profitless because of wasteful expenditures that didn't need to be made," Gary Sutton said, in a lecture I attended. It was titled, "Tight Ships Don't Sink—Plugging Profit Leaks In The Smaller Firm." As president of Knight Protective Industries, Sutton was regarded as a turnaround specialist. The techniques he used to turn these firms around can be put into practice by any smaller firm owner. I'll share the points that would tend to add most to your bottom line.
First of all, said Sutton, forget about the experts' forecast of future interest rates, inflation or the Gross Domestic Product. "Such predictions are seldom accurate," argues Sutton. Personal concern about them will interfere with decisions of the moment that you must make if your racing is to be profitable.
It makes more sense to set guidelines at the start of each year based upon your intuitive feelings with regard to interest rates, inflation and the state of the economy. If things change dramatically, adjust the guidelines.
Use your CPA as more than an accountant, said Sutton. "Auditors are your best advisors," he argues. "They know your numbers and, more importantly, how your numbers stack up against the world's. Better than you," he notes, "they know how you're doing."Before each annual audit, have your CPA firm's partner agree to spend extra time looking for a couple of extra things, such a possible cost reduction; or have the firm compare your management and operations to similar clients—reporting your relative strengths."
Woo the bankers. "Instead of cursing the bankers when times are tough, try romancing them when times are good," said Sutton. "To keep the bankers on your side, it is important to know your lending office's boss. There is so much turnover, as young lending officers move up in the bank, that you'll find yourself starting all over every two years if you don't.
"By the same token," he goes on, "always be acquainted with several different banks, to protect yourself when your banker changes jobs and forgets you.
"Every quarter, give the bankers background information on your industry. Give it to them whether or not you need money. Give them quarterly financial statements and talk with them about the future. Soon," he argues, "your bankers will anticipate your needs and ask if you need a loan.
"When things go bad," he summarized, "give the banks more information than normal. This will force you to really tighten up your actions. The bankers will feel a strong bond when you pull through."When bankers see you beat a tough time, they see you as a worthwhile investment—and less of a risk."
Fuzzy direction kills more businesses than competition. Sutton believes that the owner of a firm should build a reputation around a theme and not deviate from it. He said, "Survey your customers, employees and vendors. Figure out where your organization excels or could. Decide which most mentioned things have the greatest validity and future. Put all this into short phrases. See which stick with people. Never claim best quality, price and service together because they are incompatible. Pick one or two. Be specific. 'At 60 miles per hour, the loudest noise is the clock' said Rolls Royce. That tells more than a tired claim like quality."
Sutton has little use for consultants. He frankly advises: Don't hire consultants; you know more about your business than they do. Sutton argues that the owner of a smaller firm knows far more about his or her business; it costs less for the owner to analyze it; and he or she will be held responsible for the results. "The Captain," as he said, "goes down with the ship. The consultant rows back to dry land to seek more business from others."
Look for other areas to tighten up your ship. You and your staff have worked hard to get money into the business, it's certainly worth the time and effort to plug up leaks. —John Aberle, Ph.D.
Owners of small businesses can find valuable insights at various seminars, but some of the best advice has to do with trusting your instincts and focusing on cash above all else.


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Warp Drive:
- Description: Using a matter/anti-matter reaction (specifically deuterium/anti-deuterium for the Federation, Klingons, and others), a dilithium chamber to control the immense power released, a warp field is created the pushed the sip through space, using the fabric of subspace to move the ship at superluminal speeds without the time-dilation effects seen with going faster than light conventionally.
Pros: Course corrections can be made at speed without the need to drop out of warp, acceleration/deceleration is near instantaneous due to not using direct thrust as the ship is stationary within its warp field.
Cons: realspace navigational hazards (planetary bodies, stars, black holes, etc.) require course corrections, dangerous reactants being used can potentially become unstable, and extremely slow. Using the TNG scale, Warp 9.975 would take 120 years to fly the entire diameter of the galaxy (roughly 1,000 ly per year), needs subspace intact to work (Omega PArticle), damages subspace with excessive speed.
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Transwarp Drive:
- Description: Used exclusively by the Borg, with the Federation having experimented with it previously. The term is applied to any drive that overcomes the traditional limitations of conventional warp drive. The Borg use either pre established conduits or a transwarp coil to travel at extreme speeds, nearing or meeting infinite velocity.
Pros: Extremely fast, travelling the length of the galaxy within minutes, no realspace navigational hazards are entirely avoided.
Cons: If the conduit collapses, or the transwarp network is disrupted, travel using this drive become restricted, travel at this speed is detrimental to human DNA without proper shielding.
- Description: A massively complex system that requires relativistic shielding to protect the ship from the different time-space physics of hyperspace. Uses a jump to lightspeed to enter hyperspace.
Pros: Extremely fast, allowing travel in hours or days across the entire galaxy depending on the speed of the drive being used.
Cons: Requires established routes to use as navigational hazards may be present on unknown routes. Cannot be activated near a gravity well, allowing ships to be pulled out of hyperspace and ambushed by malicious forces, any failure of a safety system is considered fatal, cannot change course in hyperspace, requiring to drop out before a course correction can be made.
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- Description: Uses the hyperdrive to open a window into hyperspace allowing for extremely safe and efficient faster than light travel. Can be used for interstellar or intergalactic travel. Speed depends on drive effeciency and available power.
Pros: Extremely fast, real space navigational hazards are not an issue inside hyperspace.
Cons: Radiation is detrimental to organic material, cannot change course in hyperspace, requiring to drop out before a course correction can be made.
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Faster-Than-Light Engine (Destiny & Seed Ships):
- Description: A faster than light engine that uses means other than hyperspace to exceed the speed of light. It's speed and full capabilities are unknown, as the only examples of these drives are millions of years old and have been travelling deep into intergalactic space since it they were launched.
Pros: Fast and efficient, able to traverse great distances, needs very little maintenance, even after several million years of continuous use.
Cons: Shields are required to operate as the stresses on the ship's hull are too great, drive requires 4 hours of use before shutdown and a four hour cool down time before the drive can be reactivated (may be due to age), highly susceptible to realspace navigational hazards, and requires foreknowledge of the course its on.
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Wormhole Drive (Experimental, City-Ship Atlantis):
- Description: Basically the concept of the stargate attached to move a ship great distances without said stargate, opening a wormhole and traveling through it for near instantaneous travel from point A to Point B.
Pros: Near instantaneous travel between two points in space.
Cons: Needs a massive amount power (needs the output of 3 ZPMs), requires strictly exact calculations to create the wormhole and have the exit aperture in the right place.
FTL Drive (Jump Drive):
- Description: This drive uses some process (not really explained, but it involves magnets and a gyro) that appears to fold space on itself, allowing for an instantaneous jump (>1 second) from point A to point B.
Pros: Near instantaneous travel between two points in space, not effected by realspace navigational hazards during travel, cannot be attacked during jump.
Cons: Drives are required to spin up before they can be used, calculations need to be exact and cannot be pushed beyond a "red-line" where calculations become prone to errors, thus the drive's distance is limited by the capability of the computers to calculate a safe jump, jumping inside a structure or object (like a mountain) is possible if calculations are off, jumping too close to another ship can cause damage to the other ship, larger ships send out a softer shockwave, whereas fighters/small transports send out a sharper, more damaging shockwave which can cause catastrophic damage at close range, weakened structural integrity can make a ship incapable of jumping, as the forces are too great for the hull to handle (see Daybreak, Pt II).
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- Description: Uses a jumpgate or independent drive to open a hyperspace window, hyperspace shortens the distance between known points in realspace, uses navigational beacons in hyperspace to mark the point in real space. Sublight propulsion is used in hyperspace.
Pros: Fast travel, allowing for travel to the other side of the galaxy within a week, .
Cons: Entrance and exit apertures cannot exist in the same position, the results can be catastrophic, entrance and exit apertures are one way only, and can destroy a ship entering an exit aperture or vise versa, loss of navigational control (or losing contact with navigational beacons) can lead to being lost in hyperspace forever, visually disorienting known as Hyperspace Travel Syndrome, using a known network of jumpgates allows for ambushes to be arranged.
I personally see the hyperdrives form Stargate as the safest, most practical type of FTL Drive. They're fast, energy practical, and can travel in between galaxies, unlike the other drives listed here. They're also less prone to accidents and have more unconventional uses, like opening a hyperspace window to let an asteroid safely pass by a planet, or for bypassing the shields of an enemy supership using a short burst.
I would say the least safe one is the warp drive considering how much crazy shit happens when it's overused.(speed limit anyone?). Also the simple fact of the matter/anti-matter reaction being as dangerous as it is makes this one of the more volatile drives in use in science fiction.
So, which drive do you guys think is the best, or the most practical, or did I miss anything? Cause I know there are more than five sci-fi shows that use FTL Drives. Any additions to this list would be awesome! But if you do add something to the list, please be sure to provide a link to the appropriate wikia.


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New Zealand's largest cities are Auckland and Wellington in the North Island, and Christchurch in the South Island.
Auckland is by far the biggest city, with around 1.5 million people or one third of New Zealand's population. Wellington is the country's capital, and Christchurch is the largest South Island city, with around 350,000 people.
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Leading Senate Democrats and top Obama administration officials stressed the importance of passing the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act at a Senate subcommittee hearing yesterday, but Republican Senators remained opposed to the bill.
The Senate Judiciary's Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security held the hearing on the DREAM Act, which featured testimony from the Secretaries of Education and Homeland Security and Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. Long-time DREAM Act champion Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) called the hearing to highlight the need to quickly pass the legislation that would allow children brought to the country illegally to earn U.S. citizenship. DREAM was first introduced in 2001 and was recently re-introduced in both chambers of the 112th Congress.
Sen. Durbin began the hearing by highlighting the plight that undocumented minors in our country face on a daily basis, likening their situation to a "legal twilight zone" which they are in due "to no fault of their own."
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan expressed support for the bill, noting that it was a twofold issue of fairness and economic prosperity. Duncan reiterated the administration's belief that we must "educate ourselves to a better economy" and cited a recent UCLA study which estimated that DREAM eligible students would contribute $1.4 trillion in income over four decades. He also refuted the criticism that DREAM provides amnesty by highlighting the strict standards required for undocumented minors to be DREAM eligible.
The DREAM Act would only provide a legal path to citizenship for those who:
Despite these requirements Senate Republicans generally remained opposed to the bill. Republicans on the Committee acknowledged the difficult situation that undocumented minors are in, but expressed opposition on the point that DREAM alone does not solve problems with the current immigration system and believe it should not be considered in the absence of full immigration reform. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said he was concerned that passing the DREAM Act would promote more illegal immigration and questioned if the U.S. government had the administrative ability to enforce DREAM Act requirements to prevent ineligible people from exploiting the DREAM Act to become legal U.S. citizens.
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano testified in support of the bill from a law enforcement perspective, arguing that the passage of DREAM would allow for a greater focus to be placed on the undocumented who "pose great threats." Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Clifford Stanley testified that that military would benefit greatly from motivated young adults who, even though are not legal, would be honored to have the "opportunity to serve the nation in which they grew up."
The bill failed to pass in the 111th Congress, and while many consider its passage unlikely with the 112th Congress, Senator Durbin continues to move forward in the legislative process.
In response to a request by Durbin, NASFAA submitted a statement of support for the DREAM Act that was submitted into the Congressional Record as a part of the hearing.
"Congress must pass the DREAM Act for deserving students who have already been in the American educational system for years and have already demonstrated their ability and worth," NASFAA President Justin Draeger states in the submitted testimony. "NASFAA urges Congress to look to the future as well as to our past, and welcome DREAM Act-eligible immigrants to full legal status."


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Henry Theodore Kellogg was a distinguished son of Northern New York who continued a family legacy on the bench. Born in Champlain in Clinton County, New York on August 29, 1869, he was the son of Sylvester Alonzo Kellogg, a Plattsburgh lawyer, and Susan Elizabeth (Averill) Kellogg. The Kellogg family was a prominent one in Northern New York, and was said to be descended from Chancellor Kent.1 Henry Kellogg's father had been justice of the state Supreme Court and also served on the Third Department of the Appellate Division at the designation of Governor Theodore Roosevelt.2 Henry Kellogg's great-great-grandfather died of exposure and disease as result of participating in Benedict Arnold's expedition against Québec in 1775.3 The Kelloggs descended from Lieutenant Joseph Kellogg, who before 1651 came to Connecticut from England.4
Henry Kellogg prepared for college at Vermont Episcopal Institute5 and Rock Point Military Academy6 in Burlington, Vermont, and then attended Harvard, graduating cum laude in 1889, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, with the degree A.B. He received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School three years later in 1892 and returned home to Plattsburgh where he entered into a law practice in his father's law office, the firm of Kellogg, Weed and Palmer. He then became a law partner of Judge L.L. Shedden and was also associated with Charles E. Johnson. He practiced until elected county judge in Clinton County in 1903. From 1898 to 1903, Kellogg also served as a referee in bankruptcy. On March 5, 1903, Judge Kellogg married Plattsburgh resident Katherine Miller Standish Weed, the daughter of Smith Mead Weed, an attorney.7 Colleagues reported that they lived a "notably happy married life," but there are no reports of progeny.8
Kellogg resigned from county court after less than six months of service when, on June 25, 1903, Governor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr. appointed him justice of the Supreme Court, Fourth District.9 Kellogg's father previously held the Supreme Court seat, and the New York Times reported that the father resigned from the post early - his term did not expire until December 31, 1904 - in the hope that his son would be his successor.10 The younger Kellogg was elected to Supreme Court in November 1903 and then reelected in 1917 for a second term ending in 1931. He served on the trial bench until his appointment to the Third Department of the Appellate Division on January 1, 1918. Kellogg has been credited with making the Workmen's Compensation Law workable through his jurisprudence on the subject while a justice of the Appellate Division.11
Kellogg served on the Appellate Division until he became a judge of the Court of Appeals, elected in November 1926 to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Chester B. McLaughlin (1856-1929), and his term began on January 1, 1927. Although Kellogg was a Republican, he had received bipartisan endorsement.12 He had been considered for the Court of Appeals in 1923, but withdrew at that time and Judge Irving Lehman (1876-1945) filled the seat.13 Among Judge Kellogg's best-known writings as a Court of Appeals judge was Sliosberg v. New York Life Insurance Company.14 That case involved the constitutionality of a provision in the Civil Practice Act that stayed proceedings on certain insurance policies issued in Russia until after the United States formally recognized the new Soviet government. Former Governor Charles E. Hughes and John Foster Dulles represented the carrier. Like the Appellate Division below, the Court of Appeals held that this indefinite stay violated the federal constitution's prohibition on the impairment of contracts. In June 1927, Middlebury College, his father's alma mater,15 presented Kellogg with the honorary degree Doctor of Laws.16
Although his term did not expire until December 31, 1939, Kellogg resigned from the Court of Appeals on May 16, 1934 due to failing health. The same year, Judges Cuthbert W. Pound (1864-1935) and Frederick E. Crane (1869-1947) retired, leaving voters with three Court of Appeals vacancies to fill.17 Governor Lehman appointed John T. Loughran (1889-1953) of Kingston to take Kellogg's seat.18
After retirement from the Court, Kellogg returned to his house on Lake Champlain (near Valcour) where he had always summered.19 He died there on September 6, 1942 and was buried at Riverside Cemetery in Plattsburgh. Many judges served as honorary pall bearers, including Augustus N. Hand of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.20 Representatives of the Clinton, Essex, and Franklin County bar associations also attended the funeral at Trinity Church in Plattsburgh.21
By all accounts, Judge and Mrs. Kellogg had no children.
This biography appears in The Judges of the New York Court of Appeals: A Biographical History, ed. Hon. Albert M. Rosenblatt (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007). It has not been updated since publication.
Sources Consulted
Crane, "A Word of Appreciation of Judge Henry Theodore Kellogg Upon His Retirement From the Court of Appeals," 264 N.Y. v. (1934).
National Cyclopædia of American Biography, Vol. 41 (1956), p. 160.
Published Writings
We are unaware of any books or articles written by Judge Kellogg.


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I have told a number of people about this little shop in Llangollen, Wales over the years. Nobody seems to believe me that this sign and place really exist. Here, for all to see, is the photo. It says, "YSIOPFACHGARDIAUWRTHYBONTDROSYRAFONDDYFROWYYNLLANGOLLEN." You will have to click on the picture to see it more clearly.
If you do a search by the name, you find only a few hits for it on the web. I do not know why they placed it all as one word since Welsh does permit spacing when you write it. Perhaps it was to create a novelty to attract tourists. At any rate, it means something like "the card small shop by the bridge over the river Dee in Llangollen" and is to clarify just in case you should confuse it with other card shops in Llangollen. My welsh was pretty weak as I learned some of it in Wales and is even worse these days, so I hope that is kinda close.
We visited one Preparation Day in early 1999. I only lived and served in Wallasey, Liscard, Moreton, Seacombe, West Kirby, and New Brighton in the Wirral Peninsula from around the 23st of December 1998 to about the 19th of January 1999 before being assigned to Hyde. We made my first trip to Chester in Cheshire and Wrexham and Llangollen in Denbighshire, Wales. The Valentine's Day decorations in the window would seem to hint at later January. My journals would tell, but they are in Idaho.
Llangollen is a small town, probably not more than a few thousand people. I really remember very little about it. I remember seeing the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on the drive down but not a whole lot more. We drove down just to see this little store. Which, now that I have posted the picture, everyone can rest assured it really does exist.
Perhaps some day I can return to Llangollen. Maybe we can arrange it so it corresponds with the International Eisteddfod. Or maybe some day I can visit Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Only time will tell. Until then I will just have to make due with the Welsh Festival in Malad, Idaho.
FYI, I cannot pronounce either, so please do not ask.


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The Thames flows through Central London and provides a stunning backdrop to many of the city's top tourist attractions. The 2,000-year-old river harbours much of London's history, as well as providing ongoing inspiration for artists, musicians and writers. There's also a host of sporting and leisure activities you can do on and around London's waterways.
The Thames is a tidal river, rising and falling as much as 8m (26ft) between high and low tides. Although it was once the source of London's "Great Stink" (1858), today the Thames is one of the cleanest rivers in Europe, thanks to successful campaigns by groups such as Thames21.
River Thames services
River bus services are popular with visitors and commuters alike, and are a great way of beating the traffic and enjoying fantastic views. There are also river tours and cruises that feature sightseeing and commentary, dancing, music and fine dining. Schedules vary according to season. Oyster and Travelcard holders can get discounts on many routes and hop-on, hop-off tickets may be available.
Plan your day on London's waterways
Visit Thames is an independent visitors' guide to the river Thames from its source in the Cotswolds, through Oxford, Henley, Windsor and into London. There's also useful information in The River Thames Guide, which lists boat hire companies, riverside pubs and restaurants, walking and cycling routes and more.
The Canal & River Trust is the organisation responsible for maintaining the inland waterway network in England and Wales – some 3,220km (2,000 miles) in all. In London, this includes:
- Bow Back Rivers The backwaters of the River Lee are among London's lesser-known waterways.
- Grand Union Canal The single longest canal in Britain, the Grand Union links London and Birmingham.
- Hertford Union Canal This canal connects the Grand Union Canal with the Lee Navigation.
- The 45km Lee Navigation has variously served for transport, waste disposal, flood control, mill power and pleasure boating. It runs close to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
- Limehouse Cut A straight canal passing through 3km (2 miles) of industrial London.
- London Docklands Originally built around the Isle of Dogs to cater for rapidly expanding shipping, Docklands is now a bustling business and leisure district.
- Regent's Canal Linking the river Thames at Limehouse to Paddington, the 14km (9-mile) Regent's Canal snakes through a rich urban landscape including Little Venice.
- River Roding A tributary of the tidal Thames in East London, it's navigable as far as Ilford.
- River Thames London's main artery runs almost 350km (220 miles) from source to sea, has an amazing history and offers myriad leisure opportunities.
- Welsh Harp (Brent) Reservoir is a Designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest and it is an important home for wildfowl. It also features a water sports area.