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I was wondering if anyone had a good security incident checklist they would be willing to share? I am a one person shop where I work and assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
A couple of good resources:
Blue Team Handbook. Can get off Amazon. You'll want vol1, as vol2 is about SOCs. Website for it http://www.blueteamhandbook.com/ (hope this link works)
From NIST, the Computer Security Incident Handling Guide, SP800-61R2, which you can find here: https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-61/rev-2/final
The BTH may be more useful. Gives checklists and the like for the 6 steps of incident response from SANS and most other groups. NIST basically compresses three of the steps as 1.
Thank you.
Thanks. I ordered the book.
I created a checklist using a randomware attack vector that i can share.


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Torque Converters
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For a great improvement in your 2003.5-2007 6.0L Ford Powerstroke's pulling capabilities, check out the Banks Power Billet Torque Converter. When the factory torque-converter in your vehicle is tested against heavy tow-loads, there is a possibility for the poorly designed part to fail. If this happened, it would damage your transmission and because most aftermarket parts have smaller clutch surfaces, their poor construction leads to higher transmission temperatures and clutch wear. Thanks to the Banks Power Billet Torque Converter's unique RaceLock design, this component was built to withstand the toughest of situations.
Unlike the competition where some manufacturers weld the torque converter's turbine fins in place that leaves gaps susceptible leaking and loosening, the Banks Power Billet Torque Converter was brazed in a furnace ensuring the ultimate durability and performance. It comes with a three-tiered clutch system and a bulletproof billet steel cover that maintains contact without any flexing. These factors allow the system to triple the capacity of torque in comparison to stock from 600 to 1800 torque.
Due to the lockup clutches slip-resistant design, your vehicle's transmission fluid stay cooler thereby extending your transmission's lifespan. The torque converter was made specially to match the Duramax's torque band, which gives your wheels the most power possible and cuts almost a second off of the time it takes your vehicle to get from 0-60 MPH. This diesel system is the most reliable in terms of longtime transmission preserving against fluid contamination and overheated fluid.
With all these special features and designs, you've go to be wondering how there could be any other dealer of aftermarket upgrades when Banks has everything you'll ever need for great prices. Not only are the parts immensely reliable, but having that special pricing is just icing on the cake. So if you're ready to make the leap and join the world's best auto parts industry then go online at Banks Power Products, using the search bar located at the left-hand side of the screen or call at 714-848-2170.


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Class Action - In Brief
Leaky buckets
Recent work by Minneapolis Fed economists explores the causes, consequences and potential future of economic inequality in the United States.
- Inequality has increased substantially over recent decades, but the most common explanation appears not to account fully for this trend or the evolution of U.S. labor markets.
- Moreover, the substantial increase in income inequality hasn't
led to dramatic increases in consumption inequality. Economists suggest that credit markets have evolved, allowing people to "smooth" consumption.
- Theoretical models of inequality show that a liberal criterion of fairness is compatible with extreme inequality of opportunity and result, but also implies social mobility.
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Tips on Setting up Xbox Live: The Basics
Setting up Xbox Live for your Xbox 360 is about the best thing you can do for your system. Consider that you'll then have access to all the great content such as downloadable games and DLC that others have been enjoying for the past 3-4 years and the $60 a year fee seems paltry in comparison.
If you're ready to hook up your system to the internet, just follow these easy steps:
Materials List
An Xbox 360
An Ethernet cable or a Wireless Adapter (for your internet connection)
A Router
A PC (to configure the router in the event that things don't go right)
A Credit Card to Pay for the Subscription Fees associated with Live's Gold Service
How to Hook up Your 360 to Live
Ensure that the 360's initial setup has been performed, also make sure that the router I mentioned above is connected to your internet connection and working perfectly.
Next, run either an Ethernet cable up to your router or connect the wireless adapter to the system via USB.
After that, we're going to run a network check
Go to your System Settings under the "Games" tab of the system and go to network settings
If you're working under a wired connection, just go ahead and select "Test Network"
If you're working under a wireless connection, go to wireless settings and check that your network is the one being used by the wireless adapter.
Once you have the Xbox 360 seeing your network and confirming the connection through the internet connection test, it's time to sign up for Xbox Live.
Go back out to the Games Tab and over to your account
Select "Sign Up For Xbox Live" to start the process
If your internet connection is working, the Xbox will take you through a series of prompts asking you to enter your username (Pick a good one! Changing it costs money) and your credit card information.
Once you've paid your subscription fee, your Xbox 360 will be on Xbox Live for a year before you need to pay for the subscription to Live once again.
Head back out to the "Marketplace" tab and start browsing games!
Now that you're hooked up to Xbox Live, my next suggestion to you would be the buy the greatest game the online service has ever produced: Shadow Complex. Its mix of the Metroid-vania formula is so refreshingly new that even old-school gamers have been flocking to the Xbox to try out this game. Or, you could just boot up your copy of Halo 3 and start getting up-to-speed for when ODST hits shelves this September. Or better yet, boot up and appreciate the new adventures of Tim Shafer in Brutal Legend's new demo.


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Series: Shillings Agency #3
Published by Entangled: Brazen on December 15th 2014
Pages: 221
Buy on Amazon
Protecting a princess is not what former marine Gordon Waybrook signed up for when he joined the Shillings Agency. But instead of the spoiled, regal little creature he expects, Isabelle VanGuard is a fiery, sexy-as hell woman who's been denied what she needs for too long. And he's just the man to break through her frozen public facade and give it to her.
When she's with Gordon, all Isabelle can think about is pleasure. Their blistering chemistry is immediate and intense, but volatile. In fact, the only thing they agree on is that their one night together is just that—one night. Even after it becomes more. But tempers and temptation can't disguise reality. Isabelle is a princess, and a hot, hard, and tattooed bodyguard isn't the Prince Charming her country expects…even if he's exactly what she needs.
Not one that worked for me, unfortunately. The characters lacked depth – in this case, sex equated to love – and I couldn't wrap my head around the fake countries and the funny name that Isabelle had.


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November/December 2011 Table of Contents
Table of Contents
The Value of Business Analytics
By Evan Stubbs
Most organizations have a relatively immature understanding of what "business analytics" is, let alone how it creates value.
Intelligent Augmentation
By Russ Vane and Doug Samuelson
Making better, just-in-time decisions by combining human and computer intelligence.
Portfolio Decision Analysis
By Ahti Salo, Jeffrey Keisler and Alec Morton
Improving resource allocation is one of many promising avenues for research and applied work in PDA.
Analytics Applications
By Ming Zhang, Clay Duan and Arun Muthupalanippan
Consumer credit, retail marketing present ripe opportunities to impact the bottom-line with advanced analytics.
Soft Skills: "Killer App" for Analytics
By David Leonhardi
Six new abilities every analyst needs to know and how to deploy them in the execution of projects.
Sports Analytics, Part 2
By Benjamin Alamar and Vijay Mehrotra
The role of predictive analytics, organizational structures and information systems in professional sports.
Inside Story
By Peter Horner
Executive Edge
By Chris Fry
Profit Center
By E. Andrew Boyd
Analyze This!
By Vijay Mehrotra
Five-Minute Analyst
By Harrison Schramm
Thinking Analytically
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by Karina Halle
Paperback, 323 pages
Published May 1st 2011 by Metal Blonde Books
There's always been something a bit off about Perry Palomino. Though she's been dealing with a quarter-life crisis and post-college syndrome like any other twenty-something, she's still not what you would call "ordinary." For one thing, there's her past which she likes to pretend never happened, and then there's the fact that she sees ghosts. Luckily for her, that all comes in handy when she stumbles across Dex Foray, an eccentric producer for an upcoming webcast on ghost hunters. Even though the show's budget is non-existent and Dex himself is a maddening enigma, Perry is instantly drawn into a world that both threatens her life and seduces her with a sense of importance. Her uncle's haunted lighthouse provides the perfect catalyst and backdrop for a mystery that unravels the threads of Perry's fragile sanity and causes her to fall for a man, who, like the most dangerous of ghosts, may not be all that he seems.
Buy Darkhouse by Karina Halle: Amazon (Print) / Goodreads (epub) / Kindle
Guest post by Karina Halle:
Embracing Character FlawsMy novel Darkhouse, the first book in the Experiment in Terror Series, focuses on the main character, 22-year old Perry Palomino, and her ghost hunting partner-in-crime, Dex Foray. But even though the story is steeped in mystery and supernatural sensibilities, the aspect that most readers comment on is how relatable, realistic and likeable the characters are. You can't have a world with ghosts and spirits without characters who are firmly rooted in reality (or at least their version of reality).
The reason I believe why my characters are so believable is simply because they are flawed. Some of these flaws are slight and some are downright ugly, but even the most perfect-looking people have blemishes on their personality.
Let's start with Perry. Readers have said:
*"She's insecure and flawed and reminded me of Marilyn Monroe. Strange, maybe, but like Marilyn, Perry has this sadness in her and this inability to see her real worth"
*"Perry is a reliable character: flawed, insecure, impulsive, but despite her own roadblocks she has a determination that the audience can clearly see even if she does not (yet)"
*"She's stumbling through life, trying to find herself…She's not a petite drop-dead gorgeous kick ass heroine either – her references to her "thunder thighs" and her "fat ass" had me nodding and saying "I hear ya, sister!"
*" She's always been struggling to find herself, her place…Perry totally needs a BFF to have her back, 'cause the girl's life has felt like one big slap in the face"
* "Perry Palomino is a real person, a hard rock chick who is unsure of herself but willing to take any and all chances that life sends her way"
Of course, not all readers "get" Perry, and that is reflected as well:
*"She just irked the shit out of me with her indecisiveness and over-analyzing tendencies. I found myself wanting to yell at her "just go for it!""
*"Perry's tendency to constantly be a victim made it hard for me to like her. I actually wanted to slap her! But it is that exact feeling that told me I had to keep going. Somewhere between the first and 100th page I started to care about her."
But that's what makes Perry who she is. If you're a super strong, confident type with a great self-image, you probably will not relate to her. But most of us aren't those people. If she started off, in Book One, as a kickass heroine with no apologies…well, where is there for her to go? Besides, I didn't want to write that story. There are enough of those stories already. Perry is not a passive character and she drives the story forward but yes, she needs to work on herself. I wanted to take a relatable, real young girl and place her among highly unreal circumstances. That's the real "experiment" here.
Same goes for Dex: "He's a character I want to like, but I can't work out if I do", "He was rude and distant", "I believe this was the point when I messaged Karina and told her I wasn't a fan of him. It had nothing to do with the writing, but rather his cocky attitude." In fact, I'm devoting an entire blog post to what people think of him because he either pulls you one way or the other. He can be a hard pill to swallow and though I personally love him to death, I can understand why a lot of people (females, mostly) have a love/hate thing with him. Because he is abrasive, he is rude at times, he takes the weirdest things seriously, he is impulsive, moody, quiet, secretive, deceptive and sarcastic. He's a lot of things and most of all, he reminds people of someone they once knew, and it's usually someone who screwed them over. But there's also weird gentlemanly way about him and he has a good heart, somewhere inside. I think this is what Perry picks up on and that's what keeps her intrigued (aside from him being all broody, hot and unavailable).
So with characters who have copious amounts of baggage, who don't always do the right thing and don't always make the right choices, do they still make good role models? I'd like to think so. Despite their shortcomings, both Perry and Dex (yes, Dex) are good people with good intentions. It might take a few books to see that, but like the best of us, it's just waiting for the right moment to come out. Not that any literary characters need to be anyone's role model, but if someone can relate to a character and then watch that character overcome their own problems, I think it sends a great message that the rest of us stand a chance too. Only by accepting and acknowledging your flaws can any of us really change.
Buy Darkhouse by Karina Halle: Amazon (Print) / Goodreads (epub) / Kindle
Karina's sadly neglected personal blog can be found here: http://www.ontheblogbandwagon.blogspot.com/
Karina's not so neglected writing blog can be found here: http://www.experimentinterror.com/


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IF: 1.262 5-Year IF: 1.518 SJR: 0.814 SNIP: 1.18 CiteScore™: 1.6
ISSN Print: 1044-5110
Volumes:Volume 29, 2019 Volume 28, 2018 Volume 27, 2017 Volume 26, 2016 Volume 25, 2015 Volume 24, 2014 Volume 23, 2013 Volume 22, 2012 Volume 21, 2011 Volume 20, 2010 Volume 19, 2009 Volume 18, 2008 Volume 17, 2007 Volume 16, 2006 Volume 15, 2005 Volume 14, 2004 Volume 13, 2003 Volume 12, 2002 Volume 11, 2001 Volume 10, 2000 Volume 9, 1999 Volume 8, 1998 Volume 7, 1997 Volume 6, 1996 Volume 5, 1995 Volume 4, 1994 Volume 3, 1993 Volume 2, 1992 Volume 1, 1991
Atomization and Sprays
DOI: 10.1615/AtomizSpr.2013008340
pages 841-860
Daniel Duke
Argonne National Laboratory; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Clayton VIC 3800, Australia
Alan L. Kastengren
X-Ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
F. Zak Tilocco
Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 USA
Andrew B. Swantek
Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 USA
Christopher F. Powell
Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
Cavitation plays an important role in the formation of sprays from small nozzles such as those found in fuel injection systems. However, cavitation occurs over very short time and length scales, and is difficult to measure in situ. Precise experimental measurements of cavitation vapor distributions in three-dimensional nozzle geometries are valuable tools for the improvement and validation of numerical simulations. The primary quantity of interest is void fraction or local density, which is difficult to measure using visible light diagnostics. X-rays have been used to make precise measurements of the projected mass distribution of sprays, and these same techniques can be extended to cavitating flows. In this paper, we present the preliminary results of an x-ray radiography experiment on a model nozzle of 500 µm diameter. The advantages of a focused x-ray raster scanning method over traditional flat-field x-ray imaging are demonstrated. The raster scan radiography experiments achieve a spatial resolution of 5 µm and a temporal resolution of 3.6 µs. The vapor distributions are found to be very steady; time-resolved measurements indicate that rms fluctuations are not more than 1% of the mean. The spectral content of cavitation is concentrated at small Strouhal numbers on the order of 0.001 to 0.1, suggesting a steady cavitation inception and mixing process without any large-scale fluctuations. Substantial void regions at the nozzle centerline where cavitation is not expected to occur have been investigated, and may be due to dissolved gas in the fuel coming out of solution as the static pressure drops. We propose that dissolved gas is an important variable to consider in fuel spray experiments.
KEY WORDS: cavitation, x-ray, radiography
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Apparently pushed into an early and perfunctory announcement by the veracity of this week's rumors, Nintendo announced this morning the newest iteration of the Nintendo DS, the DSi. And hey, what do you know: almost all of those rumors were right!
The DSI will retain its two screens and expand them, each now seventeen percent larger than the DS Lite's. Contrary to earlier reports, the DSi does not have dual touchscreens, but he DSi will gain dual cameras: one, a dinky .3MP camera on the outside of the lid, and an additional one built-in to the hinge, which will probably be used mostly for some sort of remedial Pictochat video conferencing.
Additionally, the DSi will feature an SD memory card slot, which should prove interesting once custom firmware hackers figure out how to run unsigned code off of it. Nintendo's also introducing DSiShop, a Shopping Channel for DS games and other software (DSiWare). Nintendo's using the timeless points method to set prices.
To allow for the shopping channel, the DSi will feature a built-in browser... I'm guessing Opera's. The DSi will also be usable as an MP3 player.
An unfortunate casualty of the DSi's slightly improved thinness over the DS Lite is that the GBA slot has been eliminated. That's a pity, not only because the GBA's game library has aged well, but because it means things like Metroid Prime Pinball's vibration pack or Guitar Hero: On Tour's guitar add-on won't work.
Unbelievably, the battery life is significantly worse than the DS Lite's, by up to 20%. That's unforgivable.
Japan will get the DSi in matte white and black come November 1st for around $180. There's no release date yet for the rest of the world. Nintendo's handhelds have never been region-locked though, so there should be nothing stopping you from importing one.
No word on whether or not the DSi will finally gain the ability to connect to WPA-protected wireless networks: my biggest pet peeve about the DS Lite.
Frankly, there's not a lot here to force (or even tempt) an upgrade. The improvements to the screen and thickness of the DS Lite are extremely marginal, the cameras are pretty crummy, the battery life is worse than its predecessor, and the loss of the GBA expansion slot isn't worth the slight benefit of being able to play camera-oriented games.
I'm relieved by the DSi's relative crumminess: I love my lime-green DS Lite, and would have loathed to part with it. It matches my favorite shirt.
(Numerous corrections here, thanks to my friend Brian "LOL" Ashcraft for setting me right on some key facts.)
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What happens when 2 besties love Christmas sooooooooooo much that they want to celebrate it all year long?!
This week we had a party for our kiddos (who also love Christmas just as much as us) to celebrate Christmas, and it was so much fun. It seems like our country lately has had soooo much……..junk happening lately that it's hard to find anything good or to celebrate, so why not celebrate something as wonderful as Christmas?! We had so much fun that we decided to make this an annual event. Having a half-way point in the year to check in and prep for the upcoming holiday season sounds perfect, right? On Monday we wore our Christmas jammies and had Christmas morning breakfast together. We cranked the A/C, read Christmas stories, sang carols, watched Elf, decorated cookies, colored Christmas pictures, drank hot cocoa & Christmas coffee, and talked about Jesus in the manger. Santa made a mid-year pit stop by our house to drop off 1 gift each to help us get ready for the real Christmas in December (wooden advent calendars & manger scene). It was awesome and I highly recommend it.


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Oral History and Education
Theories, Dilemmas, and Practices
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Part of the Palgrave Studies in Oral History book series (PSOH)
Part of the Palgrave Studies in Oral History book series (PSOH)
This book considers if and how oral history is 'best practice' for education. International scholars, practitioners, and teachers consider conceptual approaches, methodological limitations, and pedagogical possibilities of oral history education. These experts ask if and how oral history enables students to democratize history; provides students with a lens for understanding nation-states' development; and supports historical thinking skills in the classrooms. This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of oral history education – inclusive of oral tradition, digital storytelling, family histories, and testimony – within the context of 21st century schooling. By addressing the significance of oral history for education, this book seeks to expand education's capacity for teaching and learning about the past.


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BOULDER — The 5A state runner-up Fairview High School girls swim team had an incredible season in 2013-14. But after this year's National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association of America National Dual Meet Team Rankings were released, the Fairview girls have reason to believe it could have been their best yet.
In the NISCA national rankings, which are determined objectively by a weighted point scoring system for individual performances, the Knights finished 15th in the overall team scoring for public schools with enrollment over 1,900.
"That's great news for us," Knights head coach Bob Smartt said. "We got 5,931 power points and that's the highest total that we've ever had and we've been entering this for 13 years. So, this is an objective way to say we had the best team we've ever had this past year."
The Knights' highest ranking came in 2004 when they won the Colorado 5A state title. That year, the Knights were in the public schools with enrollment of 1,401-1,900 and ranked first in that category.
Though they ranked higher and were at the top of their category in 2004, the Knights topped that year's 5,554 total points with an altitude-adjusted 5,931 in 2014.
"It shows you how much swimming is getting stronger everywhere," Smartt said.
In-state rival Regis Jesuit, which edged the Knights by 6.5 points for the 2014 Colorado 5A state title, ranked 20th with 5,811 total points.
The Knights' highest-scoring individual performance was 2014-15 senior Julia Box's time of 55.29 seconds in the 100 butterfly from the 5A state meet. Her effort earned her 154 points. Brittney Beetcher scored 146 points for her 1:50.87 in the 200 freestyle at the 5A state meet and the Knights' 400 freestyle relay earned 465 points for its runner-up 3:28.63 at the 5A state meet.
In the boys public school with enrollment over 1,900 category, the Knights boys group was ranked 19th with 5,482 total points. In the combined rankings, the Knights were 15th with 11,413 points.
"Pretty much all our submitted performance times are league times, Boulder County times and state times," Smartt said. "We send out their individual performances and they assign a point value to each one based on their objective scale. You total them all up and then your team gets a point value and every swimmer gets a point value. We had a ton of good performances this season."
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Halls department store announced Tuesday they will close their Country Club Plaza location next summer and move to a new, 60,000 square foot location at the Crown Center.
With a $10 million investment at the center, the new store will be the sole retail tenant on the third level of the Crown Center Shops and will feature the current Halls departments as well as an in-store café, Halls announced.
The existing Halls store inside Crown Center will close early next year to allow for construction for the new store, the company said.
"It is exhilarating to be a part of the ongoing revitalization of both Crown Center and downtown Kansas City. Halls operated out of several downtown locations for 50 years before opening the Plaza store in 1965 and the Crown Center store in 1973. As the store evolves into the new Halls, we will transcend the traditional retail landscape, creating instead a vibrant, one-of-a-kind shopping destination," said Halls President Kelly Cole.
Current tenants on the third floor of Crown Center will meet with the company about the individual store's plans, a message said on their website.
Below is a look at the proposed store:


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Dell has announced that sales in the first quarter will beat earlier estimates, thanks mainly to higher demand in Asia and Europe. The company said its quarter sales will be $11.4bn - some $200m higher than the company predicted on 12 February. The new sales guidance also marks a 20 per cent rise over what Dell posted in the same quarter a year ago. Dell's earnings-per-share forecast was unchanged at $0.28 per share, around 22 per cent higher than it reported last year.
Kevin Rollins, Dell's president and chief operating officer, said growth in markets outside the United States helped bolster sales. "Customers around the world want powerful, reliable technology at great prices," said Rollins. "That's true in markets like China and Japan and France, and in the US, England and Canada, and why we're seeing rapid, profitable growth."
The fastest-growing business segments have been servers, storage systems and professional services, Rollins claimed, adding that Dell's new printing and imaging business has helped drive revenues.
With its update, Dell said that it would increase its share buyback scheme in the current quarter. The company said it now expects to spend about $1.1bn to repurchase its common stock during the three-month period that ends in April, up from a planned $600m at the start of the quarter.
The good news from the computer maker came just hours after Internet company Yahoo posted healthy results and a two-for-one stock split. Both announcements should help the tech sector bounce back from several disappointing announcements earlier in the week, including poor Seagate results and a profit warning from Nokia. Prudential's decision to lower its forecast for Dell rival Hewlett-Packard also dragged down high-tech stocks during the week.
More details about Dell's buyback plan and the company's expectations for the current quarter will be given during a conference call on Thursday afternoon (2pm GMT).
For nine straight quarters, Dell has seen revenues grow and in five of the past six quarters the company has met or surpassed forecasts. And the dazzling growth - much of it in the face of a major economic downturn - prompted Dell to set ambitious targets last year, including a doubling of sales to some $60bn. Analysts note that the sales target could be achieved by as soon as 2007 if Dell averages 15 per cent growth per year. In the year ending in January 2004, the company's sales came to $41.4bn.
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This incredibly delicious bacon and crab bread pudding Benedict almost never happened. The original request was for crab cake eggs Benedict, but since we'd already done crab cakes, poached eggs, and hollandaise videos, I decided to go in another direction, while still somewhat honoring the aforementioned food wish.
It's one of the best decisions I've ever made, and that includes growing the mustache. Not only do I think this is far superior to crab cake eggs Benedict, it's way easier, and you get a lot more mileage out of the same amount of crab.
I only used four-ounces of crab, which would have made just two small crab cakes. Here it was enough for two large ramekins that seemed to be loaded with crab. Instead of just sitting on top of the English muffin, the crab flavor permeated the bread cubes during the baking time, and the results were spectacular.
This would certainly make any brunch special, especially a Mother's Day brunch, which will be here before you know it. So, whether you're desperately trying to finally gain your mother's approval, or just want something awesome for breakfast, I hope you give this a try soon. Enjoy!
Ingredients for 2 portions (I used 10 oz ramekins):
3 cups small dry bread cubes or plain croutons
1 tsp vegetable oil
1 strip bacon, sliced
1/4 cup minced onion
1/4 cup minced red bell pepper
1/3 cup chicken broth or water (more as needed)
1/3 cup cream
1 tsp fresh lemon zest
juice of 1/2 lemon
1 tbsp fresh chopped tarragon
1 large egg
4 oz fresh crab meat
1 large egg
4 oz fresh crab meat
salt and pepper to taste
cayenne to taste
2 or 4 poached eggs
1/4 cup hollandaise sauce
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The shrink.dll is a SHRINK DLL.
This file is part of Microsoft® Windows® Operating System. Shrink.dll is developed by Microsoft Corporation. It's a system and hidden file. Shrink.dll is usually located in the %SYSTEM% folder and its usual size is 105,984 bytes.
The shrink.dll process is safe and disabling it can be dangerous, because programs on your computer need it to work correctly.
Author: Microsoft CorporationProcess: SHRINK DLLPart Of: Microsoft® Windows® Operating SystemCommon path(s): %SYSTEM%
subfolder in %WINDOWS%Keywords(s): systemFilesize(s): 105,984 bytes
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text: It's almost the end of the work week, and we're finishing it off with some authority, Maisto Design: Authority to be exact! More specifically, we're showing off the three current Police variants of the Yamaha FJR1300A motorcycle we have to offer! These 1/18th scale die-cast bikes feature some authentic police decoration with a steerable fork, as well as a moveable side stand! Take a look below to see each one, and when looking for them at your local retailer, keep an eye out for our custom Maisto Design: Authority packaging seen above color-coded Blue and labeled AUTHORITY!


text: Promises pioneered the "Malibu Model" when they opened their first private residential treatment program in Malibu, California. The Malibu Model diverged from group-based treatment models of the past that treated each client the same way. The Promises treatment team recognized that each individual has his or her own issues that must be addressed. The Malibu Model offered specialized clinical services and was the first integrative addiction treatment model. As the Malibu Model matured, the initial client assessment became a critical part of the treatment process. This allowed the treatment team to create the most effective treatment plan for each individual client. Over the last two decades Promises has built its reputation by building treatment teams that include leading addiction psychiatrists, internists, and specialty providers so that each client has the therapeutic services they require without needing to go outside the program. The Malibu Model also began with the understanding that one of the most difficult aspects of treating addiction is getting clients to stay in treatment for a sufficient period of time to gain the benefits of the therapeutic process. Affluent clients in particular often find a traditional, clinical environment to be off-putting. The Malibu Model embraced a more familiar environment: the home. By creating a warm, comfortable environment that felt more like home than a hospital, the founder, Richard Rogg, believed clients would be more inclined to complete treatment. Promises Malibu is situated on a private, gated estate that allows clients to recover in a serene and exceptionally private refuge. The Malibu Model focuses on restorative treatment \u2013 helping clients heal physically, emotionally, and spiritually - and offers a well-rounded treatment program in which staff members serve as role models. In creating this refuge overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Promises pioneered the holistic approach to addiction treatment. The elements of traditional addiction treatment are complemented by outdoor activities, yoga, acupuncture, equine therapy, and cutting-edge therapies such as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). By focusing on the whole person, the Malibu Model gives clients a full spectrum of tools to improve their lives and discover the possibilities of full, joyful living without drugs or alcohol.


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September 30, 2015 – Richmond, British Columbia, Canada – Empower Technologies Corporation (TSX.V: EPT) ("Empower") has granted its directors and officers stock options of 8,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.05 per share for five years.
The stock options granted is subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval.
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The Global Leadership Award is given annually to a local business, organization or citizen who has shown leadership in promoting international knowledge and understanding in our community and expanding New Hampshire's global connections, advancing our state and the world.
Global Leadership Award recipients:
Dawn Wivell, CEO, Firebrand International (2014)
Jim Smith, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (2014)
Senator Jeanne Shaheen (2015)
Senator Kelly Ayotte (2015)
Joseph Keefe, CEO, Pax World (2016)
Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett, President, Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice
& Ambassador Richard Swett (2017)
Dr. Paul LeBlanc, President, Southern New Hampshire University (2018)
Howard Brodsky, C0-Founder, CCA Global Partners (2019)
The Global Leadership Award was created in honor of the Council's 60th anniversary in 2014. The inaugural recipients, Ambassador Jim Smith (left), and Dawn Wivell (second from right) are pictured here with Executive Director Anna Berry, Congresswoman Annie Kuster and former Council President Kathryn Muirhead (L to R).
Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett, President of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice, was one of the honorees in 2017, along with her husband, Ambassador Richard Swett FAIA.


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LOS ANGELES (CBS4)—Many of us think drinking diet soda is good for our health because it helps cut down on calories but a new study, whose lead researcher is from the University of Miami, raises concern about diet soda, because it may actually increase the risk of having a stroke or heart attack.
The beverage findings should be "a wakeup call to pay attention to diet sodas," said Dr. Steven Greenberg, a Harvard Medical School neurologist and vice chairman of the International Stroke Conference in California, where the research was presented on Wednesday.
A simple solution, health experts say, is to drink water instead.
Doctors have no chemical or biological explanation for why diet soda may be risky. It could be that people who drink lots of it also fail to exercise, weigh more, drink more alcohol or have other risk factors like high blood pressure and smoking. However, the researchers took these and many other factors into account and didn't see a change in the trend.
"It's reasonable to have doubts, because we don't have a clear mechanism. This needs to be viewed as a preliminary study," said lead researcher Hannah Gardener of the University of Miami.
But for those trying to cut calories, "diet soft drinks may not be an optimal substitute for sugar-sweetened beverages," she said.
The numbers come from the Northern Manhattan study, which enrolled about 2,500 adults over 40 in the New York area from 1993 to 2001 through random phone calls. Half are Hispanic and one-fourth are black, making it one of the few studies to look at these risks in minorities, who have higher rates of stroke.
Participants filled out a standard survey about their diets at the start of the study, and their health was tracked for nearly 10 years. In that time there were 559 strokes or heart attacks, 338 of them fatal.
Daily diet soda drinkers (there were 116 in the study) had a 48 percent higher risk of stroke or heart attack than people who drank no soda of any kind (901 people, or 35 percent of total participants). That's after taking into account rates of smoking, diabetes, waistline size and other differences among the groups.
No significant differences in risk were seen among people who drank a mix of diet and regular soda.
Earlier studies have tied diet and regular soda consumption to greater risk of diabetes and a group of weight-related problems called the metabolic syndrome.
Some diet soda critics have suggested it can promote a sweet tooth, affecting behavior and how much of a person's diet comes from sugary sources rather than healthier fruits, vegetables and grains.
These sorts of studies just observe groups of people and are not strong enough evidence to prove risk.
"It's too preliminary to suggest any dietary advice," but other big studies should look at this question, Gardener said.
Greenberg, of the stroke association, called it "a real-world" look at possible risk.
Dr. Maureen Storey, senior vice president of science policy for the American Beverage Association, said in a statement that there is no evidence "that diet soda uniquely causes increased risk of vascular events or stroke."
"The body of scientific evidence does show that diet soft drinks can be a useful weight management tool, a position supported by the American Dietetic Association. Thus, to suggest that they are harmful with no credible evidence does a disservice to those trying to lose weight or maintain a healthy weight."
The beverage group's statement also noted researchers didn't adjust their results for family history of stroke. Gardener, the researcher, said that's not "a substantial weakness."
The same federally funded study also looked at a more conventional health risk — salt. It found higher risks for people eating more than 1,500 milligrams a day. That's the limit the American Heart Association recommends, but last week's new dietary guidelines from the government say it's OK to have a little more.
Researchers found that stroke risk rose 16 percent for every 500 milligrams of salt consumed each day. Those who took in 4,000 or more milligrams of salt had more than 2.5 times greater risk of stroke compared to those who limited themselves to 1,500 milligrams.
A teaspoon of salt contains about 2,300 milligrams of sodium. About three-fourths of the salt we eat, though, comes from processed foods, especially tomato sauce, soups, condiments, and canned foods.
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Asparatame used in diet sodas is very dangerous. At one point the militray banned it. Look it up and what it breaks down to in your body after you consume it.
Recently, I went shopping with my 11 year old nephew, and was shocked and unprepared for the experience. Like other kids his age, he preferred diet sodas containing aspartame and brominated vegetable oil (BVO). He also preferred processed foods high in MSG. I found myself protesting his choices, explaining the dangers of food additives, and removing these items from the shopping cart as fast I could. These food additives are harmful to health, and represent a minefield at the Supermarket waiting for the unsuspecting consumer. Since the 1981 approval as a food additive, aspartame has the dubious honor of the most complaints reported to the FDA's Adverse Reaction Monitoring System, accounting for 75 per cent of all complaints. Aspartame is a chemical sweetener in diet sodas such as diet Coke and Diet Pepsi with names such as Nutrasweet, Equal, etc. These are chemicals which act as excitatory neurotoxins, thus explaining the connection between aspartame consumption and increased risk of stroke found in the Steven Greenberg report.
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The article discusses the new policy announced by St. Luke's Hospital and Health System in Pennsylvania, which will no longer hire smokers as of this May. According to the article, the justification for the new policy is that it is intended to promote a healthier workplace.
"The hospital's news release also says Pennsylvania is one of 20 states where anti-nicotine hiring policies are legal, but there may be a case to be made with regard to privacy laws, a Bethlehem attorney said Tuesday. John Harrison, a labor law specialist with Broughal & DeVito, said, "I would not be surprised if you see someone challenging this statute who is a smoker and doesn't get a job and says this is an invasion of his privacy," Harrison said. "That what somebody does on their own time at home is considered your own time."
"But Gary Asteak, an Easton lawyer, said he doesn't believe there's a right-to-privacy case to be made about St. Luke's new policy. "Not any more than drugs. They can drug test people," he said. "I think they have every bit the right to decide who they want to employ, and I don't believe an individual has the right to a job at that hospital. They have the right to work, but not necessarily at that hospital."The Rest of the Story
As this article makes clear, a central argument necessary to defend smoker-free workplace policies is that there is no right of an individual to pursue employment at a particular workplace. While smokers have a right to work, they don't have a right to seek employment at any specific workplace. Thus, it is acceptable for employers to discriminate against smokers.
Without this argument, the justification for smoker-free workplaces disappears. Because if individuals have a right to seek employment at any workplace when they are qualified for such employment, then it violates individual rights to deny employment to someone on categorical grounds that have nothing to do with their job qualifications.
Here is the problem, and the rest of the story: If one accepts the argument that an individual has no right to seek employment at any particular workplace, then it becomes acceptable to allow employers to hire only smokers and thus to obviate the need for workplace smoking bans if cases in which the employer agrees not to hire nonsmokers (or to only hire nonsmokers who agree to be exposed to tobacco smoke).
In other words, the justification for banning smokers in the workplace completely invalidates the argument for banning smoking in all workplaces.
If it is true that no individual has a right to pursue employment at a particular workplace at which they are qualified for employment, then it is also true that there is no violation of individual rights if you tell nonsmokers that their services are not wanted at restaurants that allow smoking.
Let me put it this way to illustrate what I'm saying: Suppose I approached an anti-smoking group and made the following argument. There is no need to ban smoking in all restaurants. We simply need to ban smoking in some restaurants. We can allow restaurants to permit smoking as long as no one who works there is a nonsmoker. Why not simply amend smoke-free laws to allow certain establishments to allow smoking, under the condition that they hire only smokers or nonsmokers who agree to be exposed to secondhand smoke at work?
I can argue against such a proposal, because I believe that all individuals have the right to seek employment at any workplace for which they are qualified to do the work. Thus, it would violate individual rights to tell nonsmokers that they are ineligible to apply for employment at a particular restaurant, or that they are only eligible for employment if they agree to be exposed to secondhand smoke. I believe that either of those policies would violate individual rights, and is therefore unacceptable and inappropriate.
However, anti-smoking groups and advocates who are defending smoker-free workplaces cannot make the same argument. Their support for such policies relies upon the contention that there is no individual right to work in a particular workplace if one is otherwise qualified for employment. To paraphrase Asteak above, one would have to argue that individuals have the right to work, but not at any particular restaurant. It's fine to make that argument, but if you do so, you have just conceded that there is no need for 100% smoke-free workplace laws.
Thus, the rest of the story is that in their zeal to support the non-hiring or even firing of smokers on categorical grounds, I believe anti-smoking groups have undermined and perhaps destroyed their own arguments in support of workplace smoking bans.


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In the Shadows of the American Century
The Rise and Decline of US Global PowerBook - 2017
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A thoroughly researched book on the dirty tricks of America past, present and future. Talk about war crimes, with Canada marching right along with them - America's patsies right? Chris Hedges recommended this book.
In The Shadows of the American Century is a sober look on America's possible future. It's broken into three parts with the the author's personal history and interaction with the American Empire, a breakdown on how it formed and functioned, and scenarios of how it unfolds into the 2030's.
The first part is absolutely riveting with Mr. McCoy having gone toe to toe with the Central Intelligence Agency in the past. His family and person have been shaped by the American Empire, with sad consequences but with interesting lessons.
Mr. McCoy breaks down how the Empire functions, with one of the most sophisitcated and rich intelligece networks around the globe. Past successful coups and counter-intelligence operations have won America important allies abroad. When it fails, mostly on the part of the CIA, the U.S. risks losing an entire region.
McCoy briefly covers the serious damage of these failed operations, along with recently and poorly planned foreign policy adventures like The War on Terror. Being published in 2017, it is fantastically up to date with recent debacles of the torture prison system in Iraq, and even a failed operation in the Phillipines.
Finally, McCoy predicts the likely downfall of Washington as a superpower by around 2030 with many wounds self-inflicted. This a rather depressing chapter in the book. The millennial generation will likely face a very stressful adulthood.
Without many suggestions for a corrective course, it's a fairly dark reading but it gives the reader an idea of what specifically the United States has been foolishly chasing the last few decades. It's a left leaning reading. McCoy seems to push for a more diplomatic approach while lambasting the neo-conservative approach to foreign policy several times. He gives a rather positive review of Obama's foreign policy while admitting some of Obama's limitations. Though McCoy curiously ignored the disaster of Libya and its fall into lawlessness.
No easy choices for what's up ahead, better to have a clue of what could happen.
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OK, historian, Prof. McCoy has done it again with a most remarkable book where he touches upon ALL the most important of issues [actually not that long, but appears larger due to his most comprehensive notes section].
I might take exception with his statement of the number of covert ops President Kennedy ordered: this derives from CIA data, and they do have a lengthy record of falsifying and destroying information. [One of the recurring news reports from our vaunted Fake News - - now reporting everyone else is fakey - - is that with the latest release of so-called JFK files from the National Archives - - which you may recall had a number of files stolen from it by Sandy Berger, formerly with the Clinton Administration, and a whole bunch of others destroyed in a fire in 1978, when James Moore was chief of the Audio-Visual Division where it started {Moore having formerly identified himself as J. Walton Moore, when he was the CIA man stationed in Dallas, TX, on November of 1963} - - is that even Richard Helms was asking questions about the JFK assassination {Helms was censured by the US Congress for committing perjury, and also was guilty of destroying the majority of MK ULTRA files kept at the Chestnut Lodge Sanitarium, in Rockville, MD, USA, so not a necessarily valid source}.]
Otherwise, a fantastic read of the past, present and probable future - - no thanks to the so-called National Security Establishment [CIA, NSA, DIA, FBI, NCTC, et cetera] which have allowed OVER 3 billion 270 million hacks since 2012 of American companies, retail chains, individuals and government agencies!
Interestingly, Prof. McCoy mentions cocaine trafficker, Alan Hyde [although cannot find any connection between him and Hyde Shipping Corporation, he certainly appears to have a connection to Mariscos Hybur and the freighters used by Hyde Shipping???], after the last entry from the CIA's IG report, suggesting Hyde may have been stealing weapons from the Contras he was smuggling for the CIA, Alan appears to dissapear. Was he knocked off by the Contras, the CIA, other cartel competitors, or did he change identities and hide out?!?! No trace of him on the Earth after 1993??? Alan Hyde was smuggling in arms to the Contras at the same time Ruth Hyde Paine was in Nicaragua, ostensibly for charitable/activist purposes - - wonder if there was any connection?!?!?
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Abraham Lebenthal, M.D.
Dr. Lebenthal is an expert in mesothelioma surgery, having trained under Dr. David Sugarbaker in general thoracic surgery at the Brigham and Women's hospital. He is himself a veteran, and currently works at the Harvard and Boston University-affiliated West Roxbury VA hospital, where he is pleased to give back to a community which has given so much for its country.[1]
Anne Tsao, M.D.
Dr. Tsao works as an associate professor in the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas in the Department of Thoracic and Head & Neck Medical Oncology. Her expertise is in treating patients who have both thoracic cancers and cancers of the head and neck. As a clinician and scientist, she is involved in clinical research as well as translational lab research with a focus aimed at the identification of novel therapies and the development of new strategies for treating malignant mesothelioma and aerodigestive cancers.[2]
Brian Loggie, M.D.
Dr. Loggie is a physician and researcher most noted for his work in pioneering a treatment for malignant mesothelioma called heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy in the 1990s. The treatment–which is now growing to be more widely-used than ever before due to its effectiveness in eradicating many types of cancers–involves a combination of hyperthermic chemotherapy medications and surgical procedures.[3]
Daniel Sterman, M.D.
Dr. Sterman is a physician specializing in critical care and pulmonology. He currently serves in several positions at New York University's Langone Medical Center and Perlmutter Cancer Center. His positions allow him to work directly with patients, to be an educator, and to lead and direct research. His research into cancers, including gene therapy to treat mesothelioma, has gained him international recognition and the admiration and respect of both peers and patients.[4]
David Bartlett, M.D.
Dr. Bartlett is an expert surgical oncologist who specializes in managing complex and advanced abdominal diseases, abdominal sarcomas, gastric cancer, and liver and bile duct cancer. He serves as vice chairman of the David C. Koch Regional Perfusion Cancer Therapy Center as well as vice chairman of surgical oncology and gastrointestinal services at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is also the director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute's Multidisciplinary Disease Site Clinical and Research Programs.[5]
David M. Jablons, M.D.
Dr. Jablons studied medicine at the Albany Medical College of Union University New York, having won a preceptorship studying under Dr. Steven Rosenberg at the National Cancer Institute in his fourth year of study there. His training with Dr. Rosenberg sparked a deep interest in translational science, and Dr. Jablons currently serves as the chief of General Thoracic Surgery, director of the Thoracic Oncology Lab, and program leader of Thoracic Oncology at UCSF as well as being the Nan T. McEvoy Distinguished Professor of Thoracic Surgical Oncology.[6]
David Rice, M.B. B.Ch.
Dr. Rice received his medical degree at the School of Medicine, Trinity College, the University of Dublin. Then he completed his internship at St. James Hospital, Dublin, Ireland in 1992. Dr. Rice joined the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center where he is a Professor of Surgery. His clinical interests include: thoracic malignancies, thoracic surgery, and video assisted thoracoscopic surgery in thoracic malignancies.[7]
Eric Vallieres, M.D.
Dr. Vallieres studied medicine at Quebec's Université Laval and was a resident at the University of Toronto. He later completed a fellowship in Bordeaux, France under the tutelage of Professor Louis Couraud. Dr. Vallieres currently serves as surgical director of the Lung Cancer Program at Seattle's Swedish Medical Center, focusing his research on surgical treatment of lung cancer and induction chemotherapy. He specializes in malignant mesothelioma, chest wall tumors, hyperhidrosis, bronchoscopy, and esophageal achalasia.[8]
Harvey Pass, M.D.
Dr. Pass is the chief of thoracic surgery at NYU's Langone Medical Center where he was instrumental in creating a fellowship in thoracic surgery. Also a researcher focused on mesothelioma, he leads the Early Detection Research Network Biomarker Discovery Laboratory for Mesothelioma and the Mesothelioma Pathogenesis Program Project, funded by the National Cancer Institute. In his research, Dr. Pass has helped to develop the use of photodynamic therapy, an innovative cancer treatment that uses light-sensitive drugs to target tumors.[9]
Hedy Lee Kindler, M.D.
Dr. Kindler's medical specialty is in treating several forms of cancer, such as gastrointestinal stromal tumors, pancreatic cancer, and mesothelioma. She is also actively involved in research endeavors that focus on investigating new agents for treating these cancer types, and designing and leading various clinical trials for patients who suffer with these illnesses.[10]
J.F. Pingpank Jr., MD, FACS
Dr. Pingpank is a surgical oncologist specializing in cancers of the gastrointestinal tract and peritoneum. He is an associate professor and surgeon at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. Among his areas of specialty, research, and treatment expertise is the care of patients with peritoneal mesothelioma. He has contributed to the development of HIPEC, one of the most successful treatment strategies for peritoneal mesothelioma. He is one of few specialists offering this kind of treatment, which includes surgery and direct chemotherapy.[11]
Jacques P. Fontaine, M.D.
Dr. Jacques Fontaine is a surgeon and Montreal native of Lebanese descent, board-certified by both the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. As well as being the lead thoracic surgeon at the Moffitt Cancer Center's Mesothelioma Research and Treatment Center, he also teaches at the University of South Florida as an associate professor of surgery. Dr. Fontaine is also a Fellow at both the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada and the American College of Surgeons.
Dr. Fontaine's clinical interests include lung cancers, mesothelioma, esophageal cancers, and thymoma. As an experienced thoracic surgeon, he is an expert in utilizing minimally-invasive technologies to treat various chest-related malignancies. He believes strongly in a multidisciplinary approach to treatment and research and continues to actively contribute to clinical research endeavors.[12]
John Chabot, M.D.
Dr. John A. Chabot has achieved expertise in the surgical treatment of both abdominal mesothelioma and pancreatic cancer with almost thirty years of medical experience. He is the head of the Division of Gastrointestinal and Endocrine Surgery at the New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan as well as the executive director of the Pancreas Center there. Dr. Chabot is not only a practitioner, but a teacher, as he serves as the David V. Habif Professor of Clinical Surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.[13]
Joseph Friedberg, M.D.
Dr. Friedberg received his undergraduate education at the University of Pennsylvania and completed his medical degree at Harvard Medical School. He obtained his training in general surgery from Massachusetts General Hospital and is a board-certified general surgeon and thoracic surgeon, having attained his specialization at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Friedberg currently serves as the Charles Reid Edwards, MD Professor in Surgery and division head at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.[14]
Lee Krug, M.D.
Dr. Krug is a medical oncologist and the director of the Mesothelioma Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the same facility in which he completed his oncology fellowship as a student. His leadership in research and patient treatment is making real strides in helping patients live longer and more comfortably. Dr. Klug's clinical and research interests and specialties are multi-modal treatment of mesothelioma and thoracic cancers, vaccine treatments, and leading clinical trials of novel treatment strategies.[15]
Marcelo DaSilva, M.D.
Dr. Marcelo DaSilva is board-certified as a critical-care, cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon and serves as the Chief of Thoracic Surgery at Chicago's Loyola University Medical Center. Previously, he worked as a thoracic surgeon at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and as a surgery instructor at Harvard Medical School. He also did work as a consultant for Boston's Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Dr. DaSilva serves as the program director of the International Midwest Mesothelioma Program as well as being the president elect of the Thoracic Surgery Society of Illinois. He is the co-director of the Cardinal Bernadine Cancer Center's Lung Cancer Center and is both a thoracic-cardiovascular surgeon and general surgeon with the Stritch School of Medicine at Chicago's Loyola University Medical Center.[16]
Matthew Steliga M.D.
Dr. Matthew Steliga is a thoracic surgeon specializing in cancer and mesothelioma. He is an instructor and surgeon at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas. He trained and taught at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, a leading facility for the management of mesothelioma. Dr. Steliga specializes in minimally invasive surgeries and is known for providing his patients with multiple treatment options and compassionate care.[17]
Paul Sugarbaker, M.D.
Dr. Sugarbaker's renown comes from his years of service as a clinical investigator, lecturer, and mentor as well as a colorectal cancer surgeon and gastrointestinal oncologist. He is also an expert in rare disorders such as peritoneal carcinomatosis, peritoneal mesothelioma, abdominal sarcomas, and pseudomyxoma peritonei. He has spearheaded the development and use of specialized treatments such as cytoreductive surgery using heated intraoperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy and hyperthermia techniques utilizing the Thermotron RF-8. He is also widely published, with over 780 academic journal articles, textbook chapters and textbooks including a text about sarcoma surgery which has been published in five different languages.[18]
R. Taylor Ripley M.D.
Dr. R. Taylor Ripley is a thoracic oncology surgeon at Baylor College of Medicine's Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Division of General Thoracic Surgery in Texas. He works out of the Baylor Clinic and the Baylor St. Luke Medical Center. He is also the leader of the Lung Institute's Mesothelioma Treatment Center. Dr. Ripley is a board-certified thoracic surgeon who specializes in robotic surgery and mesothelioma. He works at Baylor as part of a multi-disciplinary team helping improve surgical treatments for mesothelioma patients.[19]
Raffit Hassan, M.D.
As a senior investigator and medical oncologist at the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Hassan has developed new therapies for treating mesothelioma. He currently conducts clinical trials for two new immunotherapies targeting mesothelin, a tumor agent involved in mesothelioma development. He serves as chair of the Science Advisory Board at the Meso Foundation and received Career Development Awards from both the National Institutes of Health and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.[20]
Raja Flores, M.D.
Dr. Flores is noted as a leader and pioneer in the treatment of malignant mesothelioma, and currently serves as the Chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery as well as the Ames Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. He utilizes a minimally-invasive surgical technique (VATS lobectomy) to effectively treat patients with lung cancer.[21]
Raphael Bueno, M.D.
Dr. Raphael Bueno is a leader in mesothelioma research and patient care. As a director of the International Mesothelioma Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, he is leading cutting edge research and treatment for this rare cancer. He worked alongside Dr. David Sugarbaker, the previous director, for ten years and learned from this world-renowned expert in mesothelioma care. Dr. Buenos research interests focus on better diagnostic techniques for mesothelioma, surgical procedures for cancer, and the use of chemotherapy drugs along with surgical treatment.[22]
Robert B. Cameron, M.D.
Dr. Cameron is a surgeon at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center. He heads the Comprehensive Mesothelioma Program at UCLA and serves as an advisor to the Pacific Mesothelioma Center. Dr. Cameron has helped to pioneer lung-sparing surgeries for mesothelioma patients, helping them avoid more radical, dangerous procedures while still enjoying a longer life with a better quality of life and fewer risks and complications.[23]
Rodney Landreneau, M.D.
Rodney J. Landreneau, MD is a board-certified cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon. Dr. Landreneau completed residencies in both general surgery and thoracic surgery, at the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, respectively.
Dr. Landreneau is noted for his years of experience in managing pleural mesothelioma and surgically treating disorders like myasthenia gravis and other mediastinal illnesses. His clinical expertise includes minimally-invasive and video-assisted surgery, treatment and surgery of lung cancer patients, esophageal cancer patients, as well as treatment of non-malignant esophageal disorders such as gastric reflux, among others.[24]
Shanel Bhagwandin D.O.
Dr. Shanel Bhagwandin is a surgical oncologist and doctor of osteopathic medicine specializing in difficult and recurrent types of abdominal cancer, including peritoneal mesothelioma. He trained in surgical oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and is one of only a handful of doctors that are board certified in complex general surgical oncology. Currently working as the director of the Gastrointestinal Surgical Oncology Program at Jupiter Medical Center in South Florida, Dr. Bhagwandin has expanded the department and introduced the innovative new treatment known as HIPEC to patients in the region.[25]
Sophie Dessureau, M.D.
Dr. Dessureau is a professor of surgical oncology at the University of South Florida and a gastrointestinal surgical oncologist at the Moffitt Cancer Center. Devoted to both patient care and student training, Dr. Dessureau spends her time treating patients and educating fellows and residents. She specializes in rare anal and colorectal cancers as well as cancers of the peritoneum, including peritoneal mesothelioma. She is one of few surgeons who performs HIPEC, an innovative and effective treatment for combining surgery and chemotherapy to treat peritoneal mesothelioma.[26]
Tawee Tanvetyanon, M.D.
Dr. Tanvetyanon practices medical oncology, specializing in chemotherapy for all types of malignant mesothelioma (pleural, peritoneal and pericardial). He is a proponent of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy and utilizes many novel treatment methods via his work in clinical trials. He is an Associate Professor of Oncologic Sciences at the Moffitt Cancer Center at Tampa's University of South Florida, and is widely published with various academic articles penned on patient survival and treatment outcomes.[27]
Valerie Rusch, M.D.
Dr. Rusch is a board-certified expert in thoracic surgery – one of the first women in the country to become such – with more than twenty-five years of experience in this arena. She specializes in diagnosing and treating patients with tracheal, bronchial, esophageal, pleural and lung cancer, as well as those with cancers of the chest wall and mediastinum.[28]
W. Charles Conway II, M.D.
Dr. Conway received his medical degree from Wayne State University. Having received his internship and residency at Wayne State University, he also went overseas to Ghana to complete international studies. Dr. Conway is board certified in general surgery. His clinical interests include peritoneal malignant mesothelioma, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, gastric cancer, GI oncologic surgery, gallbladder cancer, metastatic disease to the liver, carcinoid tumors, abdominal sarcoma, and liver surgery.[29]
Mesothelioma Treatment Centers
The physicians listed above and many others provide treatment at some of the nation's leading cancer and mesothelioma treatment centers. These include:
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Brigham & Women's Hospital's International Mesothelioma Program (IMP) is one of the leading treatment centers in the world. Its focus on multi-modality treatment, which uses a combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, has been highly successful.
Pacific Meso Center
The Pacific Meso Center is on the forefront for pleurectomy/decortication surgery. This lung-sparing treatment is just one of the cutting edge protocols used at the Pacific Meso Center. The Pacific Meso Center is located in Los Angeles and is a part of the Pacific Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Located in Houston, Texas, M.D. Anderson's Mesothelioma Program has earned respect for its innovative radiation therapy center as well as its state-of-the-art research programs.
Mount Sinai Hospital
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If you have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, the most important decisions you will make will be where to seek treatment and who your doctor will be. Not only does your decision need to be based on the doctor's expertise, but also on your level of comfort with them and their entire treatment team.
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This has been on my list for years and I'm so happy I've finally completed it! It was very easy to make and only took me 3 days to do. The leotard I made has snaps in the crotch area so it's like a big onesie for easy removal and is made out of white jersey knit stretch fabric. The skirt, fuku, bow and arm bands are made out of red Casa fabric. The heart I just added red dye, resin and backed with shiny paper for a added effect on the bow.
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So, the annual 'exchange of baked goods' marathon has finally reached an end. Or, in the case of my small cul-de-sac, a temporary reprieve until pie-like fruits and berries are widely available. The final results: I am ahead in the production quality of chocolate chip cookies, although lagged sadly behind in sheer quantity. I blew away the competition in spritz and lemon cookies, in part because I'm the only one of German descent and makes the blasted little spritz, and the only one who made lemon cookies as well. Although it was widely agreed mine are the best. It's true. On that note, The Girl managed to break the indestructible cookie press I have to use for spritz. She swears it was an accident and I believe her because they're her favorite. Also, she's accident prone.
I lost the race in pies and cakes, having not made any. But I am moderately ahead in meringues, not because I was the only one who made them, but because I was the only one who shared. Oddly, there was a suspicious lack of sugar cookies this year. I didn't make any, and I didn't receive any, and The Girl's friends in the neighborhood reported they also had not seen any. Bizarre.
As compensation for the cosmic lack of sugar cookies, we did receive more than the usual amount of boxes of chocolates. I take this as a sign people were not withholding sugar cookies in a subtle effort to tell me I've put on a couple pounds during the seasonal bake-a-thon. (I've always been of the opinion that you can't gain weight by eating meringues because they're mostly air.)
Oh, and toffee. I missed the toffee and vanilla caramels. Not that I can't make them myself, but that I usually don't. Unfortunately, I had other confections slated for production that I didn't get to. This creates a problem. I have all this unrefined sugar and accessories on hand, so I sort of have to make them. Pecan-brittle, for example. (I prefer not to put peanuts in my brittle and instead use pecans or almond slivers. I'm a brittle snob.) But if I make it, I have to eat it or find a suitable occasion to pass it off on others. Everyone's still recovering from feast and sugar-induced indigestion, they don't need more. And in a couple days, everyone will swear off calories and call it a resolution.
Of course I do have two teenagers in the house. Last year I wasn't successful at bribing them into doing extra chores with sugar at a time that's overflowing with sweets, but I can give it another shot. What do you think? Toffee for vacuuming, caramels for dusting, brittle for putting away their laundry which they should be doing already . . .


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The founder of legendary New York club CBGB's has died.
Hilly Kristal passed away yesterday (August 28) from complications due to lung cancer.
CBGB's was a legendary club in the 1970's, and was the first place to launch the careers of the likes of Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, New York Dolls and Television.
The venue opened in 1973 in Manhattan's Bowery neighbourhood. It closed in October 2006, with Kristal discussing plans to move the venue to Las Vegas, reports MTV News.
You can check out Hilly Kristal's obituary on NME.COM.


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Yoga practice is believed to be over three thousand years old. The word yoga comes from the Sanskrit word yui. While different types of yoga are practiced throughout the world, the three most common methods in the West are: asanas, pranayama and mediation. Together these are often referred to as hatha yoga. The ultimate goal of hatha yoga is to harmonize the mind and body. The different yoga postures increase the body's store of prana, or vital energy.
Yoga Practice for body, mind and spirit.
In modern medicine, the charkas correspond to particular glands of the endocrine system; including the adrenal, pineal, pituitary and thyroid. The teachings of the ancient yogis in India refer to the energy centers of the body, called charkas, which are located in ascending order from the lowest part of the pelvis, through the lower belly, waist, heart area, throat, brain and the "third eye" located in the centre of the forehead. Each energy centre has a color, a sound, an animal and a lotus flower with a certain number of petals assigned to it. Beautiful ancient paintings often show the charkas and their locations in the body.
Studies are beginning to show that certain postures actually stimulate the related glands, increasing circulation in those areas. Of course, the yogis knew all of this thousands of years ago.
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I Checked Out Pornhub's Virtual-Reality Smut, Here's What Happened
It sounds like every adolescent boy's dream come true: a virtual-reality porn headset that puts naked ladies in front of your eyes, inside your parents' basement. What a time to be alive!
After the announcement that Pornhub would be partnering up with BaDoink to launch a VR channel (spoiler alert: extremely NSFW!) my over-excited brain got me wondering what this virtual-reality smut would look like. One thing led to another, and I called upon my piping-hot connections with the porn giants and got myself a free pair of Google Cardboard goggles to try it all out for myself.
The headset
So, the VR channel itself has launched on a bunch of different platforms for the multitude of porn lovers who get off on a variety of devices. You can watch VR porn on Android, iOS, and Oculus Rift. You can watch the videos on desktop and drag your way 180 degrees around inside the video.
I can't speak to the view inside the Oculus, but the Google Cardboard is a little too... cardboard-y. Maybe it's the ridiculous size and shape of my nose, but I found the headset to be a little too constricting and clunky, keeping me from fully enjoying myself and allowing my brain to be immersed in the splendors of virtual reality.
The VR
This is really easy to set up in iOS: just download the FreeVRPlayer app, go to Pornhub's VR section, and choose a video. There are plenty of videos, too. Look, I'll be the one to just come out and say it: I wasn't blown away. Because of how uncomfortable the cardboard headset is, I found it hard to concentrate... plus, the porno footage itself is a little hard to watch. OK, not too hard to watch, but I just didn't feel like I was there. 3D video is hard to shoot; and this footage was pretty blurry and glitchy at times. As one writer put it, depending on how the thing fits on your face, the actress can look like a naked giant.
Furthermore, there wasn't actually a true 360-degree view; and the 180 degrees were set against a black backdrop. I couldn't look behind me, which would have maybe bummed me out even more if I was actually curious about what the back of a porn set looks like.
The videos
You can tell that Pornhub + BaDoink really care about the users. There are dozens of videos available and each one is a blast to watch, regardless of the shoddy VR situation. Most of them revolve around a woman coming into a room and seeing you -- as the viewer -- lying down. She takes off her clothes, touches herself, does a little mouth stuff, and rides ya like there's no tomorrow.
There are variations, of course, but that's generally how it goes. Sure, you certainly don't feel like you're in a Jacuzzi with a sexy lady -- but you definitely feel like you're an exclusive member of an elite Eyes Wide Shut sex party. It's the kind of sex guys have after they win a Golden Globe.
Some of the videos are shot in a true POV fashion, where the camera takes the place of the subject's eyes, and some just offer a front-row seat to the NSFW adventure.
The future
As one coworker (who wasn't in the room with me while I was watching porn) put it, "I bet this will be really good in a few years." I couldn't agree more. This is very much the beta version of what Pornhub is capable of, and I can't wait to see how explicit and graphic this gets in the not-too-distant future.
I mean, it already has a TwerkingButt with simulated body heat that comes with VR goggles, so it's not too far off from a full-fledged masturbatory hologram. It'll just take some time and patience.
Doesn't matter -- I'm in it for the long haul.
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Jeremy Glass is a writer for Thrillist and can't get the goggles off. HALP.


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Pentagon: Missile defense test successful
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said its sixth test of its missile defense system Friday was a success, meaning it intercepted an intercontinental ballistic missile in space about 30 minutes after it was launched.
The Ground-based Midcourse Defense system was formerly known as the National Missile Defense system. Pentagon officials called Friday night's test a "major step" in the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's test program.
They said this test was similar to a December 3 test, which resulted in a successful missile intercept. But in this case, the latest ballistic missile carried three decoy balloons designed to confuse the "exoatmospheric kill vehicle," the device that seeks out the ballistic missile. In the December test, only one decoy was deployed.
"The test successfully demonstrated EKV flight performance and 'hit to kill' technology to intercept and destroy a long-range ballistic missile target," a Pentagon statement said.
Pentagon officials said the performance of all systems involved -- including ground and space-based radars, sensors and the interceptor itself -- will be examined in the coming days.
Step by step
The first phase of Friday night's test was the launch of a modified Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 9:11 p.m. EST. About 20 minutes later and 4,800 miles away, an interceptor was launched at 9:32 p.m. from Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
The kill vehicle separated from its rocket booster more than 1,400 miles from the target warhead.
After separation, the interceptor used its on-board infrared and visual sensors, augmented with the X-Band radar data provided by Battle Management, Command Control and Communications (BMC3) via the In-flight Interceptor Communications System, to locate and track the target.
Sensors aboard the interceptor also successfully selected the target instead of the decoys. Only system-generated data was used for the intercept after the EKV separated from its booster rocket.
A C-band transponder aboard the target warhead did not provide any tracking or targeting information to the interceptor after the interceptor was launched. The intercept took place about 10 minutes after the interceptor is launched, more than 140 miles above the central Pacific Ocean.
It will take about a week for experts to analyze the data and decide whether all test objectives were met.
Previous test results
The first intercept test of the GMD system research and development program, on October 3, 1999, resulted in the successful intercept of a ballistic missile target.
The second test, on January 19, 2000, missed an intercept because of a clogged cooling pipe on the "kill vehicle," but officials said the launch did provide a good test of the integrated system of elements.
The third test, on July 8, 2000, missed an intercept because of unsuccessful separation of the "kill vehicle" from the booster rocket.
Both the fourth test, on July 14, 2001, and the December test successfully intercepted ballistic missile targets.
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