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BEREA -- Although his mind was jumbled, Browns rookie quarterback Brandon Weeden knew exactly where he was -- and it wasn't where he wanted to be.
Still in his uniform, but without his helmet after being forced out with a concussion in the final minutes on Sunday, Weeden turned to the team doctors in Cleveland's locker room and begged them to let him go back to the sideline to see the final snaps of a 20-14 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
They wouldn't budge, so he watched on TV.
"It was frustrating. I wanted to finish that one," Weeden said. "But it was nice to celebrate with the guys after the game."
Weeden was cleared to practice Wednesday, three days after sustaining the first concussion of his football career. The 29-year-old was limited during the workout but he will start this week when the Browns (3-8) visit the Oakland Raiders and try to snap a 12-game road losing streak.
Weeden didn't appear to have any restrictions during the portion of practice open to the media. He threw passes with the customary zip on the ball and moved around without any problems. Afterward, Weeden said he's been symptom free for several days.
As tough as it was for him to leave only Cleveland's second win in 18 games over the rival Steelers, Weeden knew it was the right decision. He had banged his head on teammate Joe Thomas' leg after throwing an interception and was slow getting up.
Once he was on the sideline, Weeden was examined by the Browns medical staff and answered all their mandatory questions to test for a concussion. However, Weeden told them he didn't "feel right" and was taken to the locker room for further tests.
Backup quarterback Colt McCoy came off the bench to close out Cleveland's win, playing the final two series as the Browns tried to run out the clock. It was an ironic twist for McCoy, whose 2011 season ended when he suffered a serious concussion on a helmet-to-helmet hit by Steelers linebacker James Harrison.
Weeden knows he may have been able to talk his way into staying in the game, but he could have endangered his health.
"You've got to be smart about it," he said. "You're talking about a brain. I don't want to be 50 years old and not remember playing in the NFL. I'd much rather sit out five minutes of a game than risk the long-term effect."
With eliminating head injuries a league priority, Weeden said it's critical for players to take it upon themselves to protect their health. The league has a strict protocol to follow once a player sustains a concussion, and Weeden feels the most important step is to be truthful.
"You just have to be honest," he said. "There's several steps you've got to work out. You've got to run, you've got to do some tests, you've got to do some things. There's a long laundry list of things you've got to do, but the main thing is just be honest and tell them what your symptoms are and tell them how you feel. They have to kind of trust you and you have to pass the test with flying colors."
Someone on the Browns' sideline took his helmet when he left the game, but Weeden doesn't think it was hidden so he couldn't go back in.
"I never want to come out of a game," he said. "I'm too competitive and I felt like I'd been hit a lot harder than I got hit. So I felt like I could still play. They always take my helmet when I come off and trade me out for a hat and jacket, so I don't know if they hid it from me. If they did, they did a great job."
Weeden has been sleeping fine since the injury, and Tuesday night he felt well enough to attend an NBA game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Phoenix Suns.
Unless Weeden has an unexpected setback, Browns coach Pat Shurmur said the 29-year-old will make his 12th straight start on Sunday. McCoy may get a few more snaps with the starting offense during practice this week so he's ready, but he won't take any away from Weeden.
"For the most part you get the starter ready to go," Shurmur said. "At this point, this early in the week he's healthy, so he goes."
Weeden finished 17-of-26 for 158 yards with a touchdown before getting hurt in his first career start against Pittsburgh's defense, which remains ranked No. 1 overall. He also bounced back after having his third pass intercepted and returned for a touchdown.
He's thrown 12 TD passes and 13 interceptions, and Weeden's 55.9 completion percentage is 32nd in the league as is his 70.9 rating. Weeden has endured criticism from some who think the Browns have yet to find their future quarterback.


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Homemade dried apples are such an easy and inexpensive way to sneak more fruit into your diet. Of course, nothing beats a fresh, juicy apple, but I like dried apples for their portability and versatility. A little bag of apples can be slipped into a small purse for an anytime-snack, and they make a great topping for salads. They're also a fantastic way to preserve a large bounty of apples through the winter. The idea came from the book How to Sew a Button by Erin Bried, and I modified the directions to fit my needs.
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Slice as many apples as you would like into pieces 1/4" thick or less. They can be as wide or long as you like. You may also peel them, or leave the peel on. I chose to leave the peel on and they came out great.
Soak the apples in a mixture of equal-parts lemon juice and water. The lemon juice not only preserves the color of the apple, but it creates depth to the apple flavor without having to add sugar.
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- Under the pilot program, only certain Medallions could be sold: those held by individuals 70 years old or older or who are permanently disabled and cannot fulfill the driving requirement. There are approximately 300 Medallion Holders who could elect to sell their Medallions on the basis of age, but no Medallion holder would be required to sell.
- Medallion buyers would be subject to the same rules as other Medallion Holders. The Full-Time Driving requirement would not change under this pilot program. When a Medallion owner dies or becomes unable to drive, the Medallion would have to be sold to the next qualified buyer within a certain period of time. The buyer or his/her family could keep any financial equity in the Medallion, but not the Medallion itself.
- The right that is purchased allows for the transfer of ownership through the SFMTA's system for transferring Medallions (not on the private market), and to keep the proceeds when the Medallion is sold.
- The SFMTA would identify the next qualified buyer by seniority. The seller could not choose his/her buyer, and children cannot not inherit the Medallion. The SFMTA would set a single price forMedallions during this pilot program to ensure that these purchases are for reasonable prices that could be financed by affordable loans.
- The Medallion seller would pay a Transfer Fee from the sale proceeds, with 15 percent going to the SFMTA, and five percent to a Driver Fund. Through consultation with the industry appropriate uses of the Driver Fund would be identified, such as assistance to injured taxi drivers. Those authorized uses have not yet been defined.
Under this pilot program, the SFMTA also could sell up to 60 Medallions from those that are revoked or returned to the SFMTA for other reasons. These SFMTA sales would generate the emergency funding that is needed for the current fiscal year. During the pilot program, for every medallion it sells, the SFMTA would also issue one to a Waiting List applicant using the same procedure that we use today. The SFMTA would not issue any new Medallions during the pilot program above the currently authorized 1500 Medallions. Any new Medallions will require a Public Convenience and Necessity hearing.
The SFMTA would also work diligently to clean up the Waiting List as fast as possible
A taxi industry advisory group made up of industry representatives, including non-Medallion holding Drivers, would monitor this pilot program and make recommendations to the Board of Directors at the end of this calendar year about long-term options for Taxi Medallion reform.
The pilot program is designed to keep future options open. However, once Medallions are transferred under this program, those Medallions would remain transferable under the SFMTA's transferability program unless the SFMTA were to repurchase them from the holders.
Proposition K (Prop K) was passed by the voters in 1978. It created the current system of Taxi Medallion distribution through the waiting list. Prop K required, among other things, that:
- (a) Medallions only go to working Drivers, not to companies;
- (b) a person could only hold one Medallion at a time;
- (c) Medallions could not be bought and sold, but would be distributed by the City to applicants based on the date of the application;
- (d) Medallions are the property of the City.
Proposition A, passed by San Francisco voters in November 2007, gave the Board of Supervisors the power to merge the Taxi Commission with the SFMTA, and as of March 1, 2009, the power to regulate San Francisco Taxis was passed to the SFMTA.
In the event that such merger happened, Prop A gave the SFMTA Board of Directors the power to adopt Taxi regulations that would override "any prior ordinance." Prop K was passed by the voters as an "initiative ordinance," and so under Prop A, regulations adopted by the SFMTA Board can legally override the provisions of Prop K as well as Article 16 of the Police Code that governs motor vehicles for hire.
The system established by Prop K has not been changed in 32 years. One of the lessons that the industry has learned over time is that the Prop K requirement that Medallions only be held by working Drivers has resulted in many elderly Drivers being unable to stop driving because they cannot afford to lose the Medallion income. This is one of many features of today's taxi industry that has remained stagnant over time.
The SFMTA welcomes the opportunity that Prop A has presented to learn from experience and to keep those elements of Prop K that are most important and discard those that have not worked well.
SFMTA staff recommends this short-term, pilot program for several reasons:
1. It would be a one-time event to allow elderly Medallion holders to leave the industry to relieve the pressure that has built up under the Prop K system and to allow the industry to move forward without Prop K "baggage."
2. It would be an opportunity to test assumptions about things such as the availability and affordability of Medallion financing, the ability to get the Waiting List/A-Card seniority system moving faster than it has in the past and to identify what unintended consequences might result from Medallion sales.
3. It would not preclude reform options for the long-term based on lessons learned from Medallion sales, positive or negative.
4. The pilot program would not affect qualified people on the Waiting List; they could remain where they are and wait for a Medallion under the Prop K system.
During the Taxi Town Hall Meetings, the participants identified the following goals for Taxi Medallion reform:
· Public service and public safety
· Driver quality of life
· City revenue: In other cities Taxi Medallions are treated as a business franchise, the use of a public resource by a private business. To identify new sources of revenue to support the surface transportation mission of the SFMTA, consideration is being given to Medallion Sales as a possible alternative to the Prop K system. In this budget year this revenue is urgently needed, and the SFMTA's goal is to generate $11 million from this pilot program during the first half of 2010.
· Business stability: Taxi companies are part of the San Francisco system. For a prosperous industry, all of its parts must be economically secure.
· Entry strategy: Career advancement opportunities for drivers to keep them in the industry, such as the opportunity to get a Medallion.
· Exit strategy: Retirement options for Medallion holders and non-Medallion holders who make their careers as San Francisco taxi drivers.
Sellers: Any pre-Prop K or post-Prop K Medallion holder who is 70 years old or older as of December 31, 2010, or who notifies the SFMTA of a disability that renders him/her permanently unable to meet the driving requirement, could choose to sell his/her Medallion. There would be a time limit for Medallion holders to notify SFMTA of interest in selling.
Buyers: All the same requirements as for a Medallion applicant today: At least four out of five years as a full-time driver. Available Medallions would be offered to qualified buyers in the order of seniority on the Waiting List, and then in order of A-Card seniority. The decision to buy a Medallion is voluntary. There would be a time limit for potential buyers to notify the SFMTA of their interest in buying as part of this pilot program.
In developing this proposal, the SFMTA held many hours of Taxi Town Hall Meetings on the subject of Taxi Medallion reform. Written proposals from the industry were solicited, collected and reviewed and published for public review. Free copies of the compiled proposals are available at the SFMTA Taxi Services office, One South Van Ness Avenue, 7th Floor.
Meeting dates are posted in advance on the SFMTA website, www.sfmta.com/taxis. The regulations that have already been adopted are also posted on the Web site, and soon they will be published with the rest of the San Francisco Municipal Code, which can be accessed through the publisher's website at www.municode.com (search their library for the San Francisco Municipal Code), or through the City's www.sfgov.org website (follow the City Services link and select "SFGTV Channel"). Free copies of the most current regulations as adopted by the SFMTA Board also are available at the Taxi Services office.
A further vote on the short term pilot program will be taken by the SFMTA Board of Directors at the meeting of March 30, beginning at 2 p.m. in City Hall Room 400.


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5 potential 'border surge' pitfalls
The "border surge" plan unveiled on Capitol Hill this week was hailed as a kind of miracle cure for the political ills plaguing the immigration bill the Gang of Eight and President Barack Obama have been tinkering with for months.
The amendment from Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.) does appear to be a kind of political panacea for the broader legislation — at least in the Senate.
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But there's no quick fix for the complex security challenges along the U.S. border. And it's far less clear that this proposal — to expand the current border fence to 700 miles, add nearly 20,000 new Border Patrol agents, and spend billions on high-tech equipment — can actually work. Indeed, the effort is so vast and so ambitious that some doubt it will ever be carried out.
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Here's POLITICO's look at five potential pitfalls facing the so-called "border surge":
1. It's so darn expensive
Costing more than $40 billion over 10 years, the "border surge" and fencing proposal is so expensive that it was virtually unthinkable just a week or two ago — until an unexpectedly generous scoring of the broader immigration bill by the Congressional Budget Office left the bill's backers with a pot of cash (at least in budgeting terms) that could be used to sweeten the deal and get more Republicans on board.
But the proposed expenditures on security are so massive, and go so far beyond what has ever taken place before, that future Congresses scraping for money for other programs or to reduce the deficit are likely to find the promises being made now tough to keep in future budgets.
With even a proponent like Corker calling the plan "almost overkill," it would seem to be a prime target for cutbacks in future years.
Sources close to the Obama administration say the Border Patrol has struggled to meet its hiring goals in recent years — and that it will be a difficult task to add another 19,200 to the force's ranks without including corrupt, incompetent or under-trained officers.
( Also on POLITICO: Countdown to immigration vote)
Just last week, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) criticized as misdirected a proposal by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) to add 5,000 Customs agents and 5,000 Border Patrol agents.
Now McCain is backing the 20,000 agent boost.
Backers of the "border surge" proposal, like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), are describing it as, in essence, a militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border— the kind of approach President Obama publicly stated in 2009 that he opposed.
Still, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney called the proposal "a breakthrough" Friday. And Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said it would "devote important additional resources to the robust border security system this administration has put in place."
Yet, despite that support, some on both sides of the debate say the scope of the proposed increase in security is so great it is implausible, perhaps even impossible.
"There's zero chance any of that is going to happen," said one of the bill's most strident critics, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies. "They might as well say they're going to hire a million Border Patrol agents or build a billion miles of fence with photon beams on top. It's all totally phony."
A backer of the broader measure, Simon Rosenberg of the New Democrat Network, says the surge proposal goes way beyond what those who work and live along the border actually want and need.
"It's a bad idea and it shouldn't happen, and I don't know that it will happen," Rosenberg said. "There comes a limit where reality actually matters here."


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Scale: 2 inches = 3 miles
Map 3 was created by Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial to represent the Little Pigeon Creek Community circa 1820. There were at least 40 families within a five-mile radius of the Lincoln home in 1820. Most of them had come from Kentucky and some, including the Carters and Gordons, had been neighbors of the Lincolns in Hardin County, Kentucky. These families formed the center of the community within which the Lincolns lived and worked during the 14 years they were in Indiana.
1. Using the scale, how many families lived within a 1˝ mile radius of the Lincolns? Make a list of their names.
2. What do you think people used as the primary mode of transportation during the early 1800s? How might transportation and the distance between farms impact social life for the settlers?
3. What other types of businesses and community buildings were in the general area? How far was the closest store from the Lincoln farm? How might this impact the Lincoln's life?
4. How does the community you live in differ from that of the Lincolns'? Are there any similarities?
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Coming weeks may prove crucial to world's faltering economies
The U.S. economy is stumbling, the global economy is slowing and the next few weeks are likely to be crucial in determining the pace of business activity for everyone from Boston to San Francisco, Beijing to Sao Paulo.
Greek elections Sunday may determine whether the European Union holds together or sinks deeper into recession. Leaders of industrialized nations, the so-called G-20, will meet Monday and Tuesday in Mexico to discuss ways to spark growth.
Later next week there's a mini-summit Thursday of leaders from Germany, France, Spain and Italy that may determine how quickly Europe moves on needed revisions, and audit results expected late next week will determine how much of a bailout is necessary for the banks in Spain, a large and teetering economy.
All that precedes a summit of the European Council scheduled for the final days of June, which may bring the kinds of serious changes that finally calm investors and allow a return to normalcy, or, absent action, accelerate the downfall of their union and send financial shock waves across the globe.
"I think the stakes are very high for them and for the rest of us," Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner acknowledged Wednesday at an event hosted by the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations.
Europe's problems weigh down U.S. exports and the global economy. Important engines such as China, India and Brazil are all decelerating. That's significant, since about 47 percent of sales for companies listed in the S&P 500 stock index come from abroad.
It's why the prominent forecaster Macroeconomic Advisers warned Thursday that the U.S. and global economies are in a precarious state.
"While weaker export demand from a renewed and deeper euro-area recession would have some negative impact, it is the adverse financial spillovers that would do the most harm to U.S. growth prospects, and indeed are already," the group said in an update to its forecast of economic developments. "Weaker growth in China and the prospect of a hard landing there only compound concerns that the global recovery is faltering."
European leaders are wrestling with whether to give up their own individual banking rules in favor of centralized European regulation, and whether to create Europe-wide bank deposit insurance, similar to the U.S. government's guarantees of bank deposits. Those two steps would calm investors' fears about bailouts and potential bank runs, but they also would reverse years of European opposition to such continent-wide rule-making.
"I believe this is very much a pivotal period in the euro area," said Jacob Kirkegaard, a researcher and Europe expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. "This is at least as, if not more, important than what we had last December, where again the market pressure was acute but did present a significant policy response."
Back then, politicians in the European Union created a fiscal compact under which they agreed never to get themselves into a situation again where some members could have balanced budgets while others ran up huge deficits. The European Central Bank also created tools to purchase government bonds so that individual governments could borrow at lower rates.
But investors are pressuring for deeper revisions again, bidding up borrowing costs for some European countries out of fear that Greek voters may elect a government that's hostile to the compact and that that eventually would lead to Greece's exit from the euro. Such a development might show the way out of the euro to other debt-challenged countries such as Portugal, Spain and Italy.
The impact of the worries can be seen in Italy's borrowing costs, which have doubled in recent weeks. Those higher interest rates only worsen Italy's debt burden.
And Italy isn't alone. The credit-rating agency Moody's Investors Service downgraded Spain's creditworthiness by three notches Wednesday and put it on watch for further action. Moody's said Spain's debt problems had worsened because of higher borrowing costs, though its rating is likely to drive the country's interest rates even higher.
"The reforms are going to take time and they will not work without countries being able to borrow at affordable rates," Geithner said, pointing to the urgency of a Europe-wide solution.
Europe's problems have global ramifications, slowing the U.S. economic recovery and hurting growth in China. That in turn has caused China to cut imports of commodities from Brazil and elsewhere that had been needed to feed what been a prolonged Chinese boom.
Incoming data point clearly to a global deceleration, particularly in the so-called BRIC nations – Brazil, Russia, India and China – large developing economies that account for an ever-greater share of global growth. Only Russia showed improved growth in the first three months of this year over the fourth quarter of 2011, and even that was slight – an annualized rate of 4.9 percent from 4.8 percent.
India's economy slowed to a growth rate of 5.3 percent in the first three months of this year, from 6.1 percent in the last quarter of 2011, according to its Central Statistical Office. Both figures are well below the developing nation's target rate of 9 percent.
Brazil's economy expanded at a crawling rate of 0.8 percent from January through March, an especially poor number given how much construction it's undertaking because it's hosting soccer's World Cup in 2014 and the Summer Olympic Games in 2016. Those projects can't offset the decline in China's imports of Brazilian food products and minerals tied to the drop in China's sales to Europe, its largest export market. Brazil's central bank projects that growth this year will be just 3 percent or lower.
Earlier this month, China cut interest rates for the first time in more than three years in hopes of spurring its economy, whose growth rate is projected to be just 7.5 percent this year, well below the 10.4 percent rate it enjoyed in 2010 and the 9.2 percent of last year.
At the massive Port of Los Angeles, spokesman Phillip Sanfield put the happiest face on the situation. "We have not experienced any downtick" in cargo shipments, he said. But holding steady amounts to a slowdown after recent years of blistering growth.
Asia-Pacific air freight carriers saw demand fall from a year before by 7.3 percent in April, the most recent reporting period, according to the International Air Transport Association. This drop in freight is felt globally, the trade group for airlines said, noting that demand in North America fell 6.4 percent, demand in Europe dropped 4.9 percent and even Latin America's freight demand fell 3.6 percent.


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San Diego, CA (PRWEB) September 05, 2012
Histogen, Inc., a regenerative medicine company developing innovative therapies for conditions including hair loss and cancer, today announced that the United States Patent & Trademark Office has issued patent 8,257,947, entitled "Extracellular Matrix Compositions Produced Under Hypoxic Culture Conditions" to the Company.
The patent, which is the Company's first patent issued in the United States, covers Histogen's method of growing cells under low oxygen and suspension conditions, and the process through which the naturally-secreted protein compositions are produced . The issuance of the `947 patent is an important milestone for Histogen, as all of its products, each with a range of therapeutic applications, are derived from this core manufacturing process.
"Acceptance of this core patent gives tremendous strength to Histogen's technology and products, and establishes them as unique from any other cell-derived therapies in development today," said Dr. Gail Naughton, CEO and Chairman of the Board for Histogen. "By altering the conditions under which cells are grown, we can actually trigger the cells to revert back to an earlier, multipotent state. This creates products with virtually limitless applications for unmet medical needs."
By growing cells under proprietary conditions that simulate the embryonic environment, particularly hypoxia, it has been shown that normal human fibroblast cells become multipotent, and express key stem cell markers including Oct4, Sox2 and Nanog. The multipotent cells secrete a variety of soluble and insoluble molecules associated with stem cell niches in the body, as well as rapid tissue regeneration and scarless healing.
It is the soluble and insoluble compositions of multipotent proteins and growth factors which make up Histogen's products. Applications for these compositions are numerous. Histogen's lead product, Hair Stimulating Complex (HSC) has shown success in early clinical trials, and is currently in a Phase I/II stage trial as an injectable treatment for alopecia. In addition, the human multipotent cell conditioned media produced through Histogen's technology process can be found in the ReGenica line of skincare products by Suneva Medical. Histogen is also evaluating a subfraction of its material as an oncology therapy with the first application in clinical trials expected to be pancreatic cancer.
About Histogen
Histogen is a regenerative medicine company developing solutions based upon the products of cells grown under proprietary conditions that mimic the embryonic environment, including low oxygen and suspension. Through this unique technology process, newborn cells are encouraged to naturally produce the vital proteins and growth factors from which the Company has developed its rich product portfolio. Histogen's technology focuses on stimulating a patient's own stem cells by delivering a proprietary complex of multipotent human proteins that have been shown to support stem cell growth and differentiation. For more information, please visit http://www.histogen.com.


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August 29, 2011
Rex Ray at Gallery 16
Join us on Friday, September 9th at Gallery 16 for the opening reception for the new Rex Ray exhibit from 6-9pm.
August 22, 2011
Piero Lissoni's Apartment Featured in DDN Magazine
Piero Lissoni's apartment was featured in DDN magazine Issue 167.
written by Elena Plebani
photography by Cristina Fiorentini
written by Elena Plebani
photography by Cristina Fiorentini
Light bathes the ample space of the apartment designed in Milan by architect Piero Lissoni. It is located on the top floor of a Rationalist building from the 1940's, in an area of the city with a specific identity rooted in the homogeneity and severity of the architecture of that period. The apartment occupies the entire floor and is open on all four sides, enjoying a full 360 degree view, where the light that enters through the large windows and glass doors determines the quality of the spaces. Its location on the top floor makes this apartment feel like a single family home on 200 square meters, surrounded by the sky. The two walls that lead to the terraces, 50 square meters each, were replaced by glass panels, giving the impression of living in a house. The outer perimeter walls were preserved, but inside all the partitions that divided the existing apartments were demolished to create a single space, where the sleeping area is distinct from the living area. The entrance door opens directly onto the living room: on one side it leads to the sleeping area and on the other to the living and dining room, and kitchen. The entire apartment creates a sense of order and continuity. The atmosphere of the home is distinguished by the style that Piero Lissoni brings to his design products as well: total respect for the human scale and for proportion, to create a balance between solids and voids, making the space essential, but not commonplace.
The strictly white floors and walls highlight the objects that tell the personal story of its inhabitant, along with the furniture, chosen specifically for its importance to the history of design. The result is an absolutely contemporary, but not trendy, home. There is very little furniture designed by Piero Lissoni, leaving much more space for the great designers: Le Corbusier, Achille Castiglioni, Ettore Sottssas, Poul Kjaerholm, George Nelson, Hans J. Wegner. Ethnic furniture and antiques are positioned with extreme care to enhance their value and their beauty. The living and dining room open with sliding doors onto the terrace; at the center of the living room stands the fireplace, underplayed by the projecting white brick wall. The other terrace is accessible from the bedroom, where the absence of curtains creates a total relationship with the outdoors and makes it possible to enjoy the light and the view of the city. The kitchen looks like a laboratory that turns ingredients into food. The man of the house likes to cook and have everything he needs at arm's length, therefore special attention was focused on the functionality. The kitchen is adjacent to the dining area: the regularity of the space is emphasized by the square table standing at the center of the space.
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Report: How GOP lost young voters
A new postmortem on the November elections from the nation's leading voice for college Republicans offers a searing indictment of the GOP "brand" and the major challenges the party faces in wooing young voters, according to a copy given exclusively to POLITICO on Sunday.
The College Republican National Committee on Monday made public a detailed report — the result of extensive polling and focus groups — dissecting what went wrong for Republicans with young voters in the 2012 elections and how the party can improve its showing with that key demographic in the future.
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It's not a pretty picture. In fact, it's a "dismal present situation," the report says.
The 95-page study, which looked at the party's views on social and economic issues, as well as its messaging and outreach, echoes a March report on the election debacle issued by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, which presented a devastating assessment of the party's current state of affairs.
But in some ways the new report from inside the GOP tent is even more scathing and ominous — since it comes from the party's next generation.
Titled the "Grand Old Party for a Brand New Generation," the report is sharply critical of the GOP on several fronts. The study slams some Republicans' almost singular focus on downsizing Big Government and cutting taxes; candidates' use of offensive, polarizing rhetoric; and the party's belly-flop efforts at messaging and outreach, even as the report presents a way forward and, at times, strikes an optimistic tone.
( PHOTOS: 15 memorable campaign slogans)
In the report, the young Republican activists acknowledge their party has suffered significant damage in recent years. A sampling of the critique on:
Gay marriage: "On the 'open-minded' issue … [w]e will face serious difficulty so long as the issue of gay marriage remains on the table."
Hispanics: "Latino voters … tend to think the GOP couldn't care less about them."
Perception of the party's economic stance: "We've become the party that will pat you on your back when you make it, but won't offer you a hand to help you get there."
Big reason for the image problem: The "outrageous statements made by errant Republican voices."
Words that up-for-grabs voters associate with the GOP: "The responses were brutal: closed-minded, racist, rigid, old-fashioned."
"[The] Republican Party has won the youth vote before and can absolutely win it again," the report says, pointing to presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush who were competitive with that demographic. "But this will not occur without significant work to repair the damage done to the Republican brand among this age group over the last decade."
( Also on POLITICO: 12 takeaways from Obama's reelection)
The report is based largely on two national surveys of 800 registered voters each, ages 18-29, and six focus groups of young people, including Hispanics, Asian-Americans, single women, economically struggling men and aspiring entrepreneurs in Ohio, Florida and California who had voted for President Barack Obama — he cleaned up with 60 percent of the youth vote — but were considered "winnable" for the GOP.
It comes several months after Priebus released the RNC's "Growth and Opportunity Project" assessment, but the CRNC — which bills itself as the oldest and largest political youth organization in America — is an independent entity claiming 250,000 members on 1,800 campuses across the country. The surveys were developed by the Winston Group, a Washington-based GOP polling firm spearheaded by a former longtime adviser to House Speaker John Boehner. Alex Schriver, who served as the chairman of the CRNC during the election and is a co-author of the report, declined to say how much the study cost but called it a "significant investment."
Leaders of the organization will publicly release the study Monday and will present their findings privately to Republican officials and outside groups, though current CRNC Chairwoman Alex Smith declined to specify who would be there.


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REAL NAME: Marty Wright
6' 2", 255 pounds
NICKNAMES: "Liar" Marty Wright
Very little is known about the pre-wrestling life of Marty Wright aka the Boogeyman, save that he had a small part in the 1999 Oliver Stone film, Any Given Sunday.
In October 2004, 40-year-old Marty Wright attempted to become part of Tough Enough IV. He attended the two-day preliminaries that took place in Venice Beach, California, which was attended by 50 competitors. During the second day of the event, he revealed that he was, in fact, ten years older that he was portraying himself to be and was quickly disqualified. However, that wasn't the end of the Marty Wright story in WWE.
Approximately a month and a half later, he was signed by WWE and sent to Ohio Valley to begin his training where, after proving himself, both in terms of his love for wrestling and his charisma and presence in the ring, he was signed to a three-year deal by the organization.
In June 2005, he showed up during a tag match that pitted Seth Skyfire and Robert Fury against Vik Delicious and Robbie Dawber. Wright quickly dispatched all four men and then dubbed himself "The Boogeyman". OVW turned his lying about his age for Tough Enough into a gimmick, claiming he had a history of psychological problems and had been in prison for bodily assault.
Within the first few weeks of his debut in Ohio Valley, Wright -- aka The Boogeyman -- was part of yet another controversy when booker Jim Cornette slapped OVW student Johnny Geo Basco, who had been a plant in the crowd who was supposed to show fear of The Boogeyman. Instead Basco laughed which Cornette felt ruined the effect. Cornette was fired for his actions.
Less than a month later, The Boogeyman was headed out on the road with the Smackdown crew, wrestling Doug Basham at live events. Meanwhile, the first vignettes for The Boogeyman were appearing on both Raw and Smackdown. Although they never showed his face, these spots warned that The Boogeyman was "coming to get you."
Unfortunately fate would delay The Boogeyman's appearance on Smackdown, as Wright hyperextended both of his knees during his matches against Basham and was out of action until October, when he returned to Ohio Valley. In his return, he attacked Alexis Laree, who was saved by Chris Cage and Bobby Lashley.
In mid-October, The Boogeyman began making appearances on Smackdown. He was initially brought in by Palmer Kirby, who said was part of a "network show" that never aired. The Boogeyman's initial appearances involved him reciting nursery rhymes and smashing a clock over his head to punctuate those promos. In terms of wrestling, The Boogeyman was still active in OVW, defeating Robert Fury on Ohio Valley television in November.
Not only did The Boogeyman scare the Smackdown roster, but with the Raw vs. Smackdown crossovers and feud, he even managed to get in Eric Bischoff's face, helped Teddy Long defeat Bischoff at the 2005 Survivor Series and even showing up at Bischoff's trial on Raw in December.
In early December, The Boogeyman did, finally, make his wrestling debut on Smackdown, defeating Simon Dean, who had to be dragged to the ring by security, and with good reason. The Boogeyman ate live worms before, during and after his match against Dean.
The Boogeyman's first feud in WWE came against JBL. Mind games aplenty abounded as The Boogeyman hounded JBL, showing up when JBL least expected and even took after JBL's assistant Jillian Hall, stuffing worms down her pants, and eating the mole off the side of her face.
All the mind games paid off as The Boogeyman defeated JBL at the Royal Rumble.
After defeating Simon Dean and Orlando Jordan, The Boogeyman crossed paths with Booker T and his wife Sharmell. Booker and Sharmell were so frightened by The Boogeyman and his fascination with worms that they tried everything to avoid him. Booker even went so far as to feign injury to avoid a one-on-one contest on Saturday Night's Main Event.
Booker and Sharmell weren't so lucky at Wrestlemania XXII as The Boogeyman defeated them in a handicap match. Shortly afterwards, however, Booker and Sharmell got a restraining order placed against The Boogeyman, who was never seen on TV again before being released in September 2006.
However, like a true nightmare, The Boogeyman would return a short while later, apparently rehired within two weeks of being released. He would haunt Mike Mizanin and Kristal Marshall, Finlay and Little Bastard -- which led to No Way Out with Fit Finlay and Little Bastard defeating The Boogeyman & The Little Boogeyman. In April and May 2007, Kane and The Boogeyman worked a program.
With the June 11, 2007 draft, Boogeyman moved to ECW, facing the likes of Matt Striker and Big Daddy V (Viscera). Through the fall, he was limited to backstage antics and skits, including him professing his desire to join Degeneration X. A torn calf forced him to have surgery, he was away from TV until October 2008 when he occasional appearances on ECW, Raw and Smackdown.
He last competed in ECW on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 (taped the night before), losing a Money in the Bank qualifying match to Kane.
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Homemade Shortbed: Totally Polished Slices Through Bondo-Ridden Bedsides
Last month, I introduced you all to Project Old School, the newest project vehicle here at CLASSIC TRUCKS. I wouldn't go so far as to say I've bitten off more than I can chew, but that's mostly because I have Chris Daley and the rest of the crew at Totally Polished to lean on. While the original plan was to perform the big window and shortbed stories there and return later for the suspension story, it now looks like the truck will remain there until it leaves as a driver. Oxnard is a long way from Orange County, but I get more work done there than in my garage.
We knew there was a good amount of body filler on the bedsides, but since it had been blocked smooth and there was some metal showing, we had been keeping our fingers crossed that there would be no issues. Man, were we wrong. While cleaning off the areas of the sheetmetal to be cut and welded, we found areas with body filler as much as 1/2-inch-deep (and not just over a dent here or there) areas as large as 18 inches in diameter! By the time we left TP, the bed was thoroughly bodyworked and even had the first coat of primer–which is why much of the bodywork for next issue's installment was performed at this time as well.
For this month, we will concentrate on the actual shortening of the bed and frame. Totally Polished has performed about a dozen of these surgeries in recent years and has it down to a science. After slicing about 20 inches out of the length of the longbed's sheetmetal and chassis, the one other item that needs to be modified is the driveshaft. We took our long and skinny two-piece shaft and left it with Rich at Drive Line Service of Ventura County, where he built us a new shorter, one-piece unit that has a larger diameter similar to the later-model GM products. Follow along as Chris and his assistant, Steve Toomey, perform magic on the battered '64 bed. And, stay tuned for next month when we start welding up holes and slingin' filler.


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Weekday breakfasts are a complicated matter.
I am not the sort of person who can have cereal, oatmeal, or toast every single day of the year, as great as they are for folks like me who are married to their computers. Sure, I'll go through week-long spells of eating one of the aforementioned foods. But then I get bored and move on to the next, and the next, until the cycle repeats itself. Every once in a while (too often, actually), I'll break down and buy a bagel. But alas, one can't do that every single day, especially with the amount of cream cheese New York bagel shops typically slather on.
Lately, I've gotten back into baking. And hopefully this will solve my breakfast dilemma. My goal is to bake at least one new (healthy-ish) breakfast item a week that can last me 3 or 4 mornings. Then maybe cereal and oatmeal won't seem so boring after all.
First up is zucchini bread, something we've adored in the US since the 1960s. I had been craving zucchini bread since Saturday, when my friend Amy told me she made a loaf to get her vegetable-phobic husband to eat something green. (He ended up loving it.) And I had been wanting to try out a bookmarked zucchini bread recipe from The American Century Cookbook. The author got the recipe in the 1970s from an Illinois woman she interviewed for Family Circle magazine. "This was my first encounter with zucchini bread but by no means my last," the author wrote. "I have been offered zucchini bread recipes by cooks from all over the country but have yet to find a finer one."Read More


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Digital Forensics
- http://www.lnx4n6.be/
- The Belgian Computer Forensic Website - Linux oriented.
- http://www.sleuthkit.org/
- Official website for The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy Browser. Both are open source digital investigation tools developed by Brian Carrier.
Non-Digital Forensics
- http://fingerprint.nist.gov/
- NIST Image Group, with many reports, including the NIST report on AFIS fingerprint testing.