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Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae
NGC 104, also known as 47 Tucanae, is a prominent globular cluster located in the constellation Tucana in the southern sky. It is one of the largest globular clusters and the second brightest in the Milky Way galaxy, making it easily visible to the naked eye from dark locations.
First recorded in 1751 by Lacaille in his deep-sky catalogue, it was later identified as number "47" in Johann Elert Bode's catalogue who reorganized Lacaille's listed objects by constellation and Right Ascension, a number which is widely used still today.
47 Tucanae is distinguished by its compact and intensely bright core. With millions of stars concentrated in about 120 light-years of diameter, it is one of the most massive globular clusters in the galaxy. It is estimated to be about 11.5 billion years old, making it one of the oldest known globular clusters in the Milky Way.
Despite its proximity to the Small Magellanic Cloud, which appears adjacent to it in the sky, 47 Tucanae is over fifteen times closer.
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NGC 6520 & Barnard 86 Area
Did you ever have a day when it felt like a dark cloud was following you around? For the open cluster of stars NGC 6520, every day is like this. On the left of the above picture are many of NGC 6520's bright blue stars. They formed only millions of years ago - much more recently than our ancient Sun which formed billions of years ago. On the right is an absorption nebula, molecular cloud Barnard 86, from which the stars of NGC 6520 surely formed. This nebula contains much opaque dust that blocks light from the many stars that would have been visible in the background. Surrounding NGC 6520 is part of the tremendously dense starscape in the bulge of our Milky Way Galaxy, the extended halo of stars that surrounds the center of our Galaxy. NGC 6520 spans about 10 light years and lies about 5500 light years away toward the direction of Sagittarius. (Text adapted from APOD).
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M41 (aka Little Beehive) in Canis Major
Messier 41 is an open cluster in the Canis Major constellation, first discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna in 1654 even if was perhaps known to Aristotle already in 320 BC. It lies about four degrees south of Sirius, covering an area around the size of the full Moon while its actual diameter is estimated to be between 25 and 26 light years. Easy spotted with naked eyes under rural skies, it is a beautiful object in binoculars, with about 25 bright stars and many fainter ones scattered in a field as large as the full Moon, including several red giants, the brightest having an apparent magnitude of 6.3 near the cluster's center.
Much less known to most is that the milky way surrounding M41 is rich of faint HII emission that I was able to capture in the image above thanks to a quite long CCD integration through a Ha filter.
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NGC 2451 and NGC 2477 in Puppis
NGC 2451 (right) and NGC 2477 (left) are a gorgeous couple of clusters in the costellation of Puppis. NGC 2477 is a glorious open cluster grouping over 300 members in an area almost as extensive as the full Moon. It has been called "one of the top open clusters in the sky", like a highly resolved globular cluster without the dense center characteristic of globular clusters. Although it is smaller than M46 (also an open cluster in Puppis), it is richer and more compact. It was discovered by Abbé Lacaille in 1751.
NGC 2451 is far closer and sparser compared to his compact neighbor and has around 40 stars well dispersed with its brightest star being c puppis, a yellowish giant of magnitude 3,6. The cluster was discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna in 1654. Only in recent years it was confirmed that NGC 2451 was actually two open clusters that lie along the same line of sight, labeled NGC 2451A and NGC 2451B, located at distances of 600 and 1,200 light-years respectively.
The sky background is filled with faint Hydrogen emission of the GUM Nebula, giving the whole area a nice contrast.
Named after Colin Gum, a late Australian astronomer, the Gum Nebula is an huge emission region that covers over 40° of the sky. It is believed to be a still expanding remnant (or remnants) of one, or more, supernovae that exploded millions of years ago.
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The Pleiades (M45)
Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city. Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of the brightest and closest open clusters. The Pleiades contains over 3000 stars, is about 400 light years away, and only 13 light years across. Quite evident in the above photograph are the blue reflection nebulae that surround the brighter cluster stars. Low mass, faint, brown dwarfs have also been found in the Pleiades. (Text adapted from APOD).
This object was imaged from my southern Australian observatory, with a maximum elevation from the horizon between 30 and 35 degrees..
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The Butterfly Cluster (M6)
To some, the outline of the open cluster of stars M6 resembles a butterfly. M6, also known as NGC 6405, spans about 20 light-years and lies about 2,000 light years distant. M6 can best be seen in a dark sky with binoculars towards the constellation of Scorpius, coving about as much of the sky as the full moon. Like other open clusters, M6 is composed predominantly of young blue stars, although the brightest star is nearly orange. M6 is estimated to be about 100 million years old. Determining the distance to clusters like M6 helps astronomers calibrate the distance scale of the universe (text adapted from APOD).
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M7: Ptolemy Cluster
M7 is one of the most prominent open clusters of stars on the sky. The cluster, dominated by bright blue stars, can be seen with the naked eye in a dark sky in the tail of the constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpius). M7 contains about 100 stars in total, is about 200 million years old, spans 25 light-years across, and lies about 1000 light-years away. The M7 star cluster has been known since ancient times, being noted by Ptolemy in the year 130 AD. Also visible are a dark dust cloud and literally millions of unrelated stars towards the Galactic center (text adapted from APOD).
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Omega Centauri: The Brightest Globular Cluster
This huge ball of stars predates our Sun. Long before humankind evolved, before dinosaurs roamed, and even before our Earth existed, ancient globs of stars condensed and orbited a young Milky Way Galaxy. Of the 200 or so globular clusters that survive today, Omega Centauri is the largest, containing over ten million stars. Omega Centauri is also the brightest globular cluster, at apparent visual magnitude 3.9 it is visible to southern observers with the unaided eye. Cataloged as NGC 5139, Omega Centauri is about 18,000 light-years away and 150 light-years in diameter. Unlike many other globular clusters, the stars in Omega Centauri show several different ages and trace chemical abundances, indicating that the globular star cluster has a complex history over its 12 billion year age (text adapted from APOD).
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M46 & M47: Star Clusters Young and Old
Many stars form in clusters. Galactic or open star clusters are relatively young swarms of bright stars born together near the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Separated by about a degree on the sky, two nice examples are M46 (lower left) 5,400 light-years in the distance and M47 (upper right) only 1,600 light-years away toward the nautical constellation Puppis. Around 300 million years young M46 contains a few hundred stars in a region about 30 light-years across. Aged 80 million years, M47 is a smaller but looser cluster of about 50 stars spanning 10 light-years. But this portrait of stellar youth also contains an ancient interloper. The small, colorful patch of glowing gas in M46 is actually the planetary nebula NGC 2438 - the final phase in the life of a sun-like star billions of years old. NGC 2438 is estimated to be only 3,000 light-years distant and likely represents a foreground object, only by chance appearing along our line of sight to youthful M46 (text adapted from APOD).
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The Wishing Well Cluster (NGC 3532)
NGC 3532, also known as the Wishing Well Cluster, is an open cluster in the constellation Carina and one of the Southern Sky's finest Jewels. It got the name because through a telescope's eyepiece it appears like dozens of silver coins twinkling at the bottom of a wishing well. NGC 3532 was discovered by Nicholas Louis de Lacaille on January 25, 1752 from South Africa, and cataloged as Lacaille II.7.
About 1,300 light years distant and consisting of approximately 150 stars of 7th magnitude & fainter, NCG 3532 was the first target ever observed by the Hubble Space Telescope on May 20, 1990. It lies between the Southern Cross constellation and larger but fainter "False Cross" asterism with X Carinae the nearest star right next to the cluster but not a member and Eta Carinae & its famous nebula not too far away along with a bunch of other nearby deep sky objects (text adapted from Wikipedia).
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The Southern Pleiades (IC 2602)
The Southern Pleiades IC 2602 (aka the Theta Carinae Cluster or Caldwell 102) is an open cluster in the constellation Carina. It was discovered by Abbe Lacaille in 1751 from South Africa and can be seen with the naked eye. Theta Carinae, the brightest star within the open cluster, is a third-magnitude star with an apparent magnitude of +2.74. Like its northern counterpart in Taurus, the Southern Pleiades spans a sizeable area of sky, approximately 50 arcminutes, that at an estimate distance of 480 light-years makes its real size about 14 light years. The small cluster visible at the bottom of the image is Lorenzin-Melotte 101. At an estimated distance of 6,800 light years, it is 14 times more distant than IC 2602 and has a diameter of roughly 25 light years. So if the Southern Pleiades cluster were removed to the distance of Melotte 101 it would only look 60% as wide as the latter. The long Ha exposure added to the image reveals some faint nebulosity permeating the whole area, a feature very seldom imaged (text adapted from Wikipedia).
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Dusty Ophiucus
What slithers there? The dark winding lanes visible in part of the constellation Ophiuchus belong to the Snake Nebula. The Snake Nebula is a series of dark absorption clouds made up of Interstellar dust. Interstellar dust grains - composed predominantly of carbon - absorb visible starlight and reradiate much of it in the infrared. This absorption causes stars behind the clouds to be obscured from view, hence the appearance of starless voids on the sky. (text adapted from APOD). In this celestial portrait are visible several dark nebulae cataloged by Barnard: B72, B78 (part of the Pipe Nebula), B272 (the dark "scorpion" above the snake), B63 etc. Click here for a detailed chart of this FOV (from the original plate n.20 of Barnard catalog)
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Jackson Pollock is one of my favorite artists—the depth and delicateness of his paint dribblings is simply sublime. Argentinian art collective Mondongo carries on his artistic legacy but without paint. Instead, they use Plasticine—melted modelling clay.
Mondongo—"tripe" for those of you who don't speak Spanish (*raises hand*)—consists of Juliana Laffitte, Manuel Mendanha and Agustina Picasso. The trio actually specialize in the Plasticine medium, carefully melting and molding the stuff into extraordinary pieces like that above. Just look at the nuances in color—that's not something you find in a Play-Doh set, not even the 36-color packs.
Mondongo's new works are being displayed at Art Basel Miami later this week if you live in the area. Be warned though, a lot of their art borders on porn—you'll know it when you see it—so leave the kids at home. [Collossal]
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text: Why does public conflict over societal risks persist in the face of compelling and widely accessible scientific evidence? We conducted an experiment to probe two alternative answers: the "Science Comprehension Thesis" (SCT), which identifies defects in the public's knowledge and reasoning capacities as the source of such controversies; and the "Identity-protective Cognition Thesis" (ICT), which treats cultural conflict as disabling the faculties that members of the public use to make sense of decision-relevant science. In our experiment, we presented subjects with a difficult problem that turned on their ability to draw valid causal inferences from empirical data. As expected, subjects highest in Numeracy—a measure of the ability and disposition to make use of quantitative information—did substantially better than less numerate ones when the data were presented as results from a study of a new skin-rash treatment. Also as expected, subjects' responses became politically polarized—and even less accurate—when the same data were presented as results from the study of a gun-control ban. But contrary to the prediction of SCT, such polarization did not abate among subjects highest in Numeracy; instead, it increased. This outcome supported ICT, which predicted that more Numerate subjects would use their quantitative-reasoning capacity selectively to conform their interpretation of the data to the result most consistent with their political outlooks. We discuss the theoretical and practical significance of these findings.


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First i wanted to install a second PCTV 461e Tuner at my AS5102T. That did not work with more than one Kodi-Client (the TV screen frozed at both Kodis).
Then i updated first my Asustor ADM to Version 3.0.3.RAI4. After upgrading ADM my TVSource USB-Receiver PCTV 461e is no longer detected.
Then DVBLink 5.5.0 to 6.0.0. Trial. TVSource USB-Receiver PCTV 461e is still not detected.
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- PCTV 461e is detected again with my registered DVBLink 5.5.0 Version
- confugure two PCTV 461e to watch or record more than one TV-Chanel at one time?


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Monarch Butterflies Nectaring at Pink New Enlgand Aster, Gloucester
Thank you so much to our most awesome community for participating in the Cape Ann Monarch Milkweed and Aster Project. Today was a huge and wonderful success and we were non-stop with folks dropping in to pick up their seeds and learn more about how they can help the Monarchs. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
And my most heartfelt thanks to Joey. He nudged me into doing the sale again this year by inquiring just about a month ago if we were planning a repeat of last year's plant sale. Joey's hospitality and interest in everyone who stops by makes Captain Joe's a wonderfully fun place to have a community event!
Note to anyone who could not pick up their seeds or who was planning to have them sent via a self-addressed stamped envelope: You will recieve an email with information on where to send the check and order amount total. Thanks again to everyone!
Fun fact about butterflies: Butterflies do not grow fur. The fur-like structures that you see on butterflies are many single cells conjoined to form one long string.
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In case you misplace the instructions on how to prepare your milkweed seeds for spring planting ~
How to Vernalize Milkweed Seeds for Spring Planting
Seeds of most temperate plants need to be vernalized—in other words, exposed to cold temperatures. The best way to vernalize is by stratification, which means subjecting seeds to a cold and moist environment for a short period of time. By stratifying, the seed's natural break of dormancy that occurs when the seed spends the winter in the ground is simulated.
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Open the bag of seeds and place them between very slightly moistened paper towels in a plastic bag in the refrigerator. After vernalizing for 3-6 weeks, the seeds can be planted out in the garden in warm 70º soil.
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Place ¼ cup of sand mixed with ¼ tsp. of water in a plastic bag. Add the seeds and mix again. Store in plastic bag in the refrigerator. After vernalizing for 3-6 weeks, the seeds can be planted out in the garden in warm 70º soil.
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INCORRECT ACCIDENT numbers used by transit officials are another sign the Highway 101 interchange project in the Greenbrae corridor needs to go back to the drawing board.
Nearly 160 accidents actually were in the San Francisco area. Corte Madera Mayor Diane Furst noticed the error when she drilled down in the numbers and didn't recognize dozens of street names where accidents occurred.
Transportation Authority of Marin officials blame a consultant for pulling the wrong numbers. Furst also questions the validity of transit officials citing two deaths in accidents in 2001 and 2005 — the only two fatal accidents in a 10-year period in the project area. She says it appears other medical conditions could be why both people died.
Improving safety in the congested stretch of freeway from Sir Francis Drake to Tamalpais boulevards is a big reason why the $143 million project has been on the drawing board for years.
The inflated accident numbers come on the heels of a mounting public outcry over the project, including plans for a large concrete flyover to reduce congestion southbound and the removal of a pedestrian crossing that won't be replaced.
Dianne Steinhauser, executive director of the Transportation Authority of Marin, has proposed setting up a seven-member committee with two members each from Larkspur and Corte Madera to to examine alternatives and look at past ideas that were rejected. The panel would have to produce a recommendation within six months, she said.
She also warned the money set aside for the project could be lost if local decision-making takes too long.
That is the wrong message to send, especially now. This project has become controversial in part because of poor communication by transit officials and now by the use of faulty and misleading data discovered late in the process.
Transit officials need to rebuild public trust and confidence, not issue warnings about money for the project being at risk.
Marin residents should not be penalized because of problems created by transit officials. And some of the money for this project will come from their pockets.
Money would come from Regional Measure 2. In 2004 voters approved raising tolls on state-operated bridges (including the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge) for transportation improvements.
This project has been discussed, off and on, for 10 years. The one-mile stretch could use some traffic improvements, but they need to be the best ones possible — especially for all those local residents who will have to live with what is built for decades to come. There's nothing wrong with spending a little more time to get it right.


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WARSAW/LONDON—Poland has arrested a Chinese employee of Huawei and a former Polish security official on spying allegations, officials and sources told Reuters on Jan. 11, a move that could fuel Western security concerns about the telecoms equipment maker.
However, a spokesman for the Polish security services told Reuters the allegations related to individual actions, and were not linked directly to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
Huawei, the world's biggest producer of telecoms equipment, faces intense scrutiny in the West over its relationship with the Chinese regime and U.S.-led allegations that its equipment could be used by Beijing for spying.
No evidence has been produced publicly and the firm has repeatedly denied the claims, but the allegations have led several Western countries to restrict Huawei's access to their markets.
Stanislaw Zaryn, a spokesman for the Polish security services, said the country's Internal Security Agency (ISA) detained a Chinese citizen and a former Polish security official on Jan. 8 over spying allegations. The two men have heard charges and will be held for three months, he said.
"This matter has to do with his actions, it doesn't have anything to do with the company he works for," Zaryn said of the Chinese man.
A person with knowledge of the matter said a Huawei employee called Wang Weijing had been arrested but not charged.
A LinkedIn profile for Wang showed he has worked for Huawei's Polish division since 2011 and previously served as attache to the Chinese General Consul in Gdansk from 2006-2011. Wang did not immediately respond to a request for comment via the social media site.
Polish public TV channel TVP said the Polish man was a former ISA officer and that security services had searched the offices of his current employer, telecoms firm Orange Polska. Huawei's local offices were also searched, TVP reported.
China's foreign ministry said it was "greatly concerned" by the reports, and urged Poland to handle the case "justly."
Huawei said in a statement it was aware of the situation but had no immediate comment.
Orange Polska said in a statement security services had on Tuesday gathered materials related to an employee, whom it did not identify. The company said it did not know if the investigation was linked to the employee's professional work, and that it would continue to cooperate with the authorities.
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Huawei has come under intense scrutiny in recent months as countries including Australia, New Zealand and Japan have followed U.S. moves against the company, citing security concerns.
Canadian authorities in December also arrested Huawei finance chief Meng Wanzhou at the behest of U.S. authorities as part of an investigation into alleged violations of U.S. trade sanctions, raising tensions with China at a time when Washington and Beijing are engaged in a broader trade war.
The West's security concerns surrounding Huawei, and fellow Chinese telecoms equipment firm ZTE Corp, center around China's National Intelligence Law. Approved in 2017, the law states that Chinese "organizations and citizens shall, in accordance with the law, support, cooperate with, and collaborate in national intelligence work."
This has sparked fears Huawei could be asked by the Chinese government to incorporate "backdoors" into their equipment that would allow Beijing access, for spying or sabotage purposes. Some experts also see a risk that Chinese intelligence may develop an ability to subvert Huawei's equipment.
Ewan Lawson, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London, said the arrests in Poland could bolster Western concerns.
"It does point at the sort of connections that may exist between the state intelligence enterprise and private Chinese companies," he said.
The European Commission is aware of the reports of the arrests and will reach out to the Polish authorities for further information, spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic told reporters in Brussels.
Norway said on Wednesday it was considering whether to join other Western nations in excluding Huawei from building part of the country's new 5G telecoms network.
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Ever since it closed in January, Avalon's future has been uncertain. There were rumors of a mall, a restaurant, you name it. Now Steve Lewis brings official word that the venue will again be called Limelight but it most certainly won't reopen as a club. Says Joe Dirosa, owner of New York Artist Series, "My company has worked out a joint venture with [landlord] Ashkenazy to exclusively handle renting the space formerly known as Limelight as a place for film, TV, corporate, and special events, and what I call branded experiences. I SAY THIS WITH NO UNCERTAINTY THAT THE PLACE WILL NOT BE A NIGHTCLUB." He continues, "I would truthfully like to see the place eventually become a NEW YORK ARTISTS SERIES GALLERY AND EVENT SPACE." We suppose we can live with this, since we haven't been paying customers at the Slimelight for some time. Nothing wrong with being able to hit the place for some open-bar-fueled, corporate-sponsored nostalgia.
Back in the Limelight [Good Night Mr. Lewis]


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Kings Dominion Gets Two New Flat Rides for 2009
Last year, Kings Dominion received the B&M floorless coaster Dominator from the defunct Ohio park Geauga Lake. Now, Kings Dominion will get two new-ish flat rides for 2009. Cedar Fair is harvesting the Americana Ferris wheel and a swinging pendulum ride called El Dorado from Geauga Lake.
Some think that it's hard to believe that this is Kings Dominion's first Ferris wheel in it's 30-plus years in existence. But there are many modern theme parks about that are about the same age Kings Dominion without the those amusement park staples.
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|The Original Flat Top Steel Beer Can - Churchkey Can Co. (photo courtesy of Churchkey Can Co. 2012)
Because It's Worth the Effort: Churchkey Can Co. Revives the Original Flat Top Steel Beer Can
Join us in an ode to the past as Churchkey Can Co. brings you the most original beer experience you have ever had – a quality craft beer in the original flat top can
PACIFIC NORTHWEST – (March 21, 2012) – Back to simple times with simple tools that change an interaction into an experience. For the first time in nearly 50 years, craft beer lovers in Seattle and Portland can once again experience beer from the original flat top can. Offering a unique, handcrafted Pilsner-style beer in authentic 12-ounce steel cans, Churchkey Can Co. – a new craft beer-can company based in the Pacific Northwest – is on a mission to offer this forgotten beer experience once again.
"We are here to bring you a beer we are proud of, in a can we are honored to share," said Co-founder and Creative Director Justin Hawkins. "It's about the joy of drinking good beer – from the people you drink it with to where you drink it and, now, how you open it. We didn't make these traditions, but are keeping them alive with Churchkey."
Co-founded by Portland-native Justin Hawkins and actor Adrian Grenier, Churchkey Can Co. began as the desire to someday experience a great beer in a simple can as the generations before had. Quickly realizing the flat top can – introduced in 1935 and a standard in the beer industry until the pull-tab came to market in the mid-1960s – was all but a memory, Hawkins and Grenier set the wheels in motion to found Churchkey Can Co.
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To get the flat top can just right, Churchkey turned to the Ball Corporation, the largest supplier of beer cans in the world and a company that played a key role in the evolution of the beer can. Made from highly recyclable steel, protecting the beer from both light and oxygen, the Churchkey flat top can provides an airtight seal and must be opened with a churchkey. This opener, which obtains its name from its similarity in style to the large old fashion keys formerly used to open a church, is used to punch two small triangular holes into the top of the can allowing for aeration and pouring of the beer.
Inside each can, craft beer lovers will find a delicious Pacific Northwest-brewed Pilsner-style craft beer. The recipe for which was originated by Portland-based home brewers Lucas Jones and Sean Burke – who have been crafting home brewed beer in their garages for many years, and are passionate about their beer and the community they cultivate with it – the Churchkey Pilsner is made using only the highest quality ingredients. The body of the beer comes from the light, grainy pilsner malt taste, accented by a smooth clean bitterness. The Saaz hop taste and aroma featured in the Churchkey Pilsner make for a uniquely complex, yet sessionable beer at 4.9 percent ABV and a 29 IBU.
To bring the beer to market, Churchkey Can Co. turned to Joel VandenBrink, a skilled craft brewer based out of Seattle. Head brewer at Two Beers Brewing Co, the first Washington brewery to produce 12-ounce cans, VandenBrink and his team embody the Churchkey philosophy. They love what they do and work hard to bring true craft beer to their community. As part of this unique partnership and friendship, Churchkey Can Co. works together with Two Beers Brewing to produce and package its Churchkey Pilsner.
Beginning April 15, Churchkey Can Co. Pilsner can be found at a variety of retailers and drinking establishments throughout Seattle and Portland, available for $9.99 per six-pack – with a churchkey opener included – and between $3-$5 at bars and restaurants. For a full list of bars, restaurants and retailers carrying Churchkey cans, visit www.ChurchkeyCanCo.com (Our #pdxbeergeeks senses tell us that the previous launch date of April 1 has been exceeded! It's live, now!).
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Launching in April 2012, Pacific Northwest-based Churchkey Can Co is a new craft beer-can company on a mission to reintroduce beer lovers to the original flat top steel can. For the first time in 50 years, Churchkey Can Company offers this forgotten beer experience once again. Because in the tradition of the great men and women before us, we know it's worth the effort. Follow Churchkey Can Co on Facebook and Twitter. For more information, visit ChurchkeyCanCo.com.
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No more pills
End of chemo
Easy fitness
Custom organs
No-scar surgery
Fixing DNA
Brain training
Sharing data
Personal sensors
New super drugs
In medicine, innovation is life and death.
Every advancement means another mother, another brother, another grandparent who could be saved. A new drug could cure cancer. The next surgical tool could prevent patients from bleeding to death on the operating table. A DNA discovery could free thousands from chronic pain.
They say hope is the best medicine. That hope lies in the hands of scientists working in labs around the country.
Bioengineers at the University of Michigan who are creating organs with a 3-D printer.
Oncologists in Pennsylvania who are turning cancer patients' own cells into warriors.
Surgeons in Washington state and Alabama who are learning to operate without making a single cut.
They hope that by doing so, they can save lives.
But in order to truly heal the future, we have to do more than treat the sick and fix the broken. We have to make wellness a priority. So architects are working to design better communities; computer programmers are developing smart devices to keep us on a healthy path; neurologists are learning how to train the brain to stave off dementia.
As part of our focus on innovation, CNN is featuring 10 inventions or people that are changing the world. We've looked at cars, startups and visionary women. Now it's time to honor innovations that will affect your body and your mind.
These 10 ideas are revolutionizing health care -- from the operating table to the kitchen table. Even those that don't come to fruition as imagined will have forged a path for another that will one day save a life.
May we present The CNN 10: Healing the Future.
Editor's note: Which idea or invention do you think will have the biggest impact on the future of medicine? Vote here and explain why in the comments below.
Did you take your meds today? At the right time? All of them?
Following your doctor's orders can be cumbersome, especially if you're supposed to take more than one pill a day.
That's why scientists are working to develop microchips that can be preloaded with medications and implanted in our bodies, programmed to administer drugs at a given time, interval and/or dose. A doctor would theoretically be able to adjust the dose, or stop the drug altogether, by remote control.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers Robert Langer and Michael Cima started working on this idea with John Santini in the 1990s. Langer and Cima are on the board of directors of MicroCHIPS, a company trying to make the idea a reality.
In a 2012 study, they implanted a chip under the skin below the waistlines of eight women with osteoporosis. Over four months the device delivered regular doses of an osteoporosis drug normally given by injection. The study showed this method was safe and effective.
Since then the device has improved considerably, says Robert Farra, MicroCHIPS president and chief operating officer. The current version is about the size of a Scrabble tile and can deliver more drugs than before.
The company is aiming to release its first product to the public in 2017, which will likely be a hormonal contraception device that can be turned on and off wirelessly and releases a consistent daily dose. It will have the ability to offer progestin and estrogen together, like a combination birth control pill.
The first version of this device will likely last five years, but it's possible to create one that could remain in the body and effectively deliver drugs for up to 16 years.
"The MicroCHIPS implantable drug delivery device is the greatest advancement in delivering medicine since the first tablet pill was developed in 1876," CEO Bradley Paddock says.
Another device is being developed for other chronic conditions, including multiple sclerosis. It may even lead to new therapies, Langer says, because the device protects unstable drugs.
The device could also transmit data to hospitals and doctors so "you could have permanent records of exactly what you took when."
Further down the line, the chip could serve as a rescue device, releasing medications for heart attack, stroke or allergic reaction in at-risk patients.
Editor's note: Which idea or invention do you think will have the biggest impact on the future of medicine? Vote here and explain why in the comments below.
When 14-year-old Nick Wilkins' leukemia resisted chemotherapy, radiation and a bone marrow transplant, his doctors turned to the real pros: Nick's own immune cells.
Using an experimental treatment, the doctors taught Nick's immune system to attack his cancer in much the same way he'd fight off the common cold. Two months later, Nick went into complete remission.
Twenty-one other young people received the same treatment, and 18 of them had similar responses to Nick's.
The University of Pennsylvania and other medical centers are testing the targeted approach in more patients, and doctors are cautiously optimistic it might work to treat other types of cancer.
"This is absolutely one of the more exciting advances I've seen in cancer therapy in the last 20 years," says Dr. David Porter, a hematologist and oncologist at Penn. "We've entered into a whole new realm of medicine."
In the last five years the Food and Drug Administration has approved more than 20 targeted cancer therapies for tumors with specific genetic markers, according to the American Association for Cancer Research.
One approach deprives cancer cells of essential nutrients. A drug using this approach was approved in February after a clinical trial showed it shrank tumors in nearly 58% of patients with a rare blood cancer.
There are also drugs that contain man-made antibodies that glom on to cancer cells and, once inside, release toxic chemicals.
"I call them smart bombs," says Dr. Patricia LoRusso, who investigates experimental drugs at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit and helped develop a therapy approved last year for late-stage breast cancer.
A similar concept still in the early stages of experimentation loads a drug onto star-shaped particles of gold 1,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair to cause DNA damage inside the nucleus of cancer cells.
"If you shut down the brain (of the cancer cell), the whole cell is going to die," says Teri Odom, a materials science professor at Northwestern University.
In time, researchers hope to use a lot less chemotherapy to fight cancer.
"These more elegant and targeted approaches will ultimately do away with the less elegant, less targeted traditional (therapies)," says Dr. Renier Brentjens, director for cellular therapeutics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
Editor's note: Which idea or invention do you think will have the biggest impact on the future of medicine? Vote here and explain why in the comments below.
Living a healthy, active lifestyle today is hard. It requires planning. Willpower. Perseverance.
But in the future, fitness might not be so difficult. Experts are working to change our environment so that the healthy choice is the easy choice – or not a choice at all.
"A healthy city … makes it easy for people to get fresh air, exercise and meet people," says Jeff Risom, a partner at Gehl Architects, which is leading the way in designing public spaces that naturally increase wellness.
Imagine: Instead of jumping on the treadmill for a half hour at 6 a.m., then sitting all day at work, you bike to and from the office and skip the gym altogether. Instead of watching The Food Network while reheating a frozen pizza, you walk with your partner to eat with friends at the little farm-to-table café near your condo.
"You can change the built environment to improve health," says David Burney, chairman of the board for the Center for Active Design. "It's just finding ways to reverse this culture where we always drive everywhere, always take the escalator … and make people more active in their everyday lives."
The Center for Active Design focuses on four areas: transportation, active buildings, recreation and food access.
This means creating safe bike lanes, crosswalks and sidewalks. It means placing stairs more prominently than elevators. It means increasing access to public transportation and to parks. It means offering tax incentives for supermarkets to open in food deserts so families can easily buy fresh produce. These changes are being implemented across the country in hotels, schools -- even affordable housing units.
And changing our environment is about more than just fighting obesity. Wellness real estate company Delos recently debuted its first residential building, which features supportive flooring to protect your back, vitamin C-infused showers, circadian rhythm lighting to help you sleep, and germ-prevention kitchen countertops.
While these New York lofts sell for millions of dollars, the concepts could eventually be used in houses and apartment complexes around the country. Delos has developed a WELL Building Standard, along the lines of the LEED certification for environmentally green buildings, so other companies can follow suit.
Editor's note: Which idea or invention do you think will have the biggest impact on the future of medicine? Vote here and explain why in the comments below.
The long metal table in the University of Michigan biomedical engineering lab is covered by a film of white dust. Scattered across the table are opaque-colored objects shaped like ears, noses, vertebrae, and jawbones – all made from biological material.
A few feet away, a small room houses a quietly humming 3-D printer – about 6 feet tall and almost as wide. In a windowed opening near the middle of the machine, a metal platform, piled with the bio-material, moves up and down as a laser transforms the dust into a tiny splint.
That splint will prop open part of a dying baby's lung.
"It's magical," says Dr. Glenn Green, a pediatric otolaryngologist at U-M who later implanted the splint. "We're talking about taking dust and using it to build body parts."
It's called bioprinting, and it is one of medicine's most exciting frontiers. Eventually these machines could be used to print fully functioning organs, using a patient's own cells. In other words, custom-made organs.
Today, researchers at Cornell University are bioprinting ears using human cells. A 3-D printed skull recently replaced a 22-year-old's diseased one at University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands. Wake Forest researchers are studying how to print skin directly onto burn patients. And at U-M, two babies have had bronchial splints implanted.
"If you would have told me 10 years ago that we could get a patient image, make a model, design and print it in a span of a day and a half, it would have blown me away," says Scott Hollister, a professor of biomedical engineering at UM who engineered the splints.
For now, 3-D printing of viable solid organs like hearts, lungs, livers and kidneys still dwells in the sci-fi realm. Figuring out how to make it real will likely take decades.
But lab-created flat and tubular organs – think skin, windpipes, and blood vessels – could be routine options for patients in as little as 15 to 20 years, says Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
"We are just starting to see the real potential of these technologies for the future," he says. "It's going to open up so many different avenues not just for what we can think of today, but things we never before thought possible for patients."
Editor's note: Which idea or invention do you think will have the biggest impact on the future of medicine? Vote here and explain why in the comments below.
"We probably won't be doing surgery anymore," says Dr. Bradley Needleman, director of the Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery at the Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center, when I ask him about the future of surgery.
Come again?
Three things have plagued surgeons for centuries, he explains: bleeding, pain and infection. But minimally invasive techniques are reducing these threats, and endoscopic procedures are expected to evolve until nearly all surgeries are done without a scalpel.
Surgeons will be operating on everything from the heart to the brain through one of a patient's natural orifices, like the mouth. It's called natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery, or NOTES. Fewer incisions mean fewer infections, less risk of excessive bleeding and shorter recovery times for patients.
Clinical trials are under way on NOTES gallbladder removal, but a surgery to correct acid reflux disease is the only one frequently performed this way today.
Without a clear view of your insides, doctors will need better technology and imaging to assist them in the OR, says Dr. Carlos Pellegrini, head of the department of surgery at the University of Washington.
Today, when a surgeon operates on a tumor, it's difficult for him or her to distinguish between cancerous cells and healthy cells.
But what if surgeons could superimpose a virtual MRI image on top of the real-life organ?
What if they could inject a patient with a dye that makes deadly cells glow?
"You could see exactly where the tumor is and you could make a perfect resection," says Pellegrini.
Surgical robots are becoming smaller and more precise; a surgeon may eventually be able to perform an entire operation by controlling a robot with his or her mind. Scientists are even experimenting with virtual reality in the OR.
An orthopedic surgeon in Alabama, for instance, recently did a shoulder replacement with the help of a surgeon in Atlanta using Google Glass and a technology called VIPAAR.
"It's not unlike the line marking a first down" on a televised football game, Dr. Brent Ponce says. "Using VIPAAR, a remote surgeon is able to put his or her hands into the surgical field and provide collaboration and assistance."
And while surgeons may be doing less cutting to treat patients, they won't be out of a job altogether. Pellegrini says preventive surgeries especially, such as the ones we've seen for breast and ovarian cancer, will increase dramatically as DNA testing becomes more common.
Editor's note: Which idea or invention do you think will have the biggest impact on the future of medicine? Vote here and explain why in the comments below.
Patients dealing with devastating genetic conditions like cystic fibrosis or sickle cell anemia today can do little except manage their symptoms. But in the future, doctors may be able to address the root cause of these diseases by infusing a copy of "correct" genetic material to patch up the problem, cell by cell.
Experimental gene therapy has advanced in recent years to treat blindness and Parkinson's disease in people. Current therapies strap "good" DNA to the back of a virus, which carries it to cells throughout the body.
Compared to early attempts, which had dangerous side effects, the results have been promising, says Mark Levin, a partner with Third Rock Ventures, which is bankrolling several new gene therapy companies.
One of those companies, Voyager Therapeutics, is targeting Parkinson's and other neurological disorders. Another, Bluebird Bio, is running a clinical trial for patients with childhood cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy, the disease that inspired the movie "Lorenzo's Oil."
But delivery by virus is still a blunt approach. The holy grail, says Bluebird boss Nick Leschly, is the ability to replace faulty DNA. That's the long-term goal of Editas Medicine, whose technology literally edits out harmful mutations – at least in a test tube.
"Some people describe what we do as molecular surgery," says Kevin Bitterman, Editas' interim CEO. Eventually, he hopes to develop DNA repair therapies for everything from Alzheimer's to heart disease.
As genetic technology becomes more accessible, doctors could become more like computer programmers than pharmacists, says Austen Heinz, who runs Cambrian Genomics. The company uses 3-D printing to make synthetic DNA for drug companies. With a few keystrokes, Heinz says, a future doctor/programmer could rewrite our genetic program and print off a few million copies on a laser printer.
The biggest hurdle, say Heinz and others, is knowing which genes to target. "The next step is to edit the embryo to fix simple disorders, like cystic fibrosis or Huntington's, that are caused by a single gene," he says. "But most diseases are really complex. In the near term, it's beyond human comprehension."
Yet he says the challenges can be overcome. "The good news is that you don't have to totally understand autism or mental disorders to fix them. You just have to clean up the (genetic) code."
Editor's note: Which idea or invention do you think will have the biggest impact on the future of medicine? Vote here and explain why in the comments below.
Whether you're a baseball player looking to improve your eyesight or a baby boomer hoping to prevent dementia, science wants you for a few brain training experiments.
Researchers are trying to develop ways to sharpen perceptual, reasoning and memory skills using computer programs and phone apps that challenge those capabilities.
A recent study, for example, used 19 college baseball players to test an app called UltimEyes. The app exercises the brain area that controls vision, the visual cortex. The players improved their vision by 31% on average; some even developed eyesight that tested better than 20/20.
Still, these are early stages for brain training. Many programs have been commercially released without any scientific evidence behind them, says Susanne Jaeggi, who leads the Working Memory and Plasticity Laboratory at the University of California, Irvine. There is no one game that's scientifically proven to boost brainpower for everyone.
"I don't think we will ever get one game that we can just throw at people, and it will work for everyone and make people smarter," Jaeggi says. But "it looks like people can get better in problem-solving and reasoning, under certain circumstances."
So far, the beneficial effects -- beyond getting good at one game -- are measurable but small. Her work has seen the most gains in people who begin at a disadvantage, such as older adults and children with attention problems.
In a children's game that Jaeggi works on, the user watches a frog jump between lily pads, and must press a key when the frog is on the pad it had been on just before. This gets harder as the user is asked for the frog's position two jumps prior, three jumps prior, etc.
This is called an "adaptive dual n-back" task, which involves deciding whether stimuli you are given match stimuli that were presented in a previous instance. It is aimed at improving reasoning and problem-solving abilities.
The principle can be found in games by Lumosity, Brain Fitness Pro and BrainTwister, according to a 2013 study.
It's not foolproof, however. While Jaeggi has published research showing that this kind of training does improve some intelligence measures, a separate 2013 study failed to confirm the benefits on the same kinds of tasks.
As for preventing dementia, no program has proven effective – but researchers are still trying.
Editor's note: Which idea or invention do you think will have the biggest impact on the future of medicine? Vote here and explain why in the comments below.
What is "helping fight cancer," Alex?
After a stellar performance on "Jeopardy!," IBM's supercomputer Watson has turned its smarts toward a more ambitious goal: putting cancer patients into remission. Watson will be helping oncologists find DNA-based treatments for glioblastoma, a rare aggressive brain cancer, in a new partnership between IBM and the New York Genome Center.
It's all part of the era of "big data." Electronic health records are being used to recognize disease patterns, boost doctor coordination and assist with diagnosis and information-sharing around the globe.
Although the technology already exists to identify DNA-based treatments for patients, the process is difficult and time-consuming. Determined doctors must correlate data from a patient's individual genome sequence with information from scientific journals and clinical records.
That's where Watson comes in. The cloud-based system can analyze thousands of patients' data to match similar symptoms and gene mutations, and will continue to "learn" as new patient scenarios and research data come along.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology is working on a similar initiative called CancerLinQ.
"Today, we know very little about most patients with cancer – from the molecular characteristics of their tumors to the outcomes of their treatments – because these details are locked away in unconnected electronic and paper records," according to ASCO. The system will coordinate that data, allowing doctors and patients to access more personalized treatment options based on real-world patient experiences, and give researchers a wider pool of clinical trial candidates.
While the benefits of experts working together are unquestioned, the rise of electronic health records and their growing use raise a host of issues about patient privacy and ethics.
For big data projects, "built-in" security is mandated by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. But "there's a hacker out there one step ahead," says Joan Kiel, chairman of HIPAA compliance for Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.
Those with terminal or chronic diseases, however, may see privacy as a secondary concern.
"Most healthy people are extremely protective of their privacy and they want confidentiality," says Richard Bookman, senior adviser for program development and science policy at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. "Sick people want to get well."
Editor's note: Which idea or invention do you think will have the biggest impact on the future of medicine? Vote here and explain why in the comments below.
How did you sleep last night? OK, that's an easy question. But do you know your blood sugar, oxygen and hydration levels? Are you coming down with a cold? Does your body need more protein?
Thanks to sensors that track our every move and send detailed health information to our devices, we know the answers to many of these questions. And wristbands are only the first incarnation. The newest sensors will be sewn into your clothing – or even implanted under your skin.
So-called biohackers are tinkering with implant ideas that are growing ever more sophisticated. An internal compass can lead injured hikers to the nearest doctor; retina implants are helping the blind to see. One CEO embedded a microcomputer in his arm to collect and transmit temperature data via Bluetooth.
A New Zealand company is in the early stages of developing a bandage that will change color or use noise to let you know if it's too tight or too loose. Another company is developing socks that record foot pressure, body temperature and heart rate as you exercise, and send that data to a device attached to the sock's cuff.
Activity monitors may soon be prescribed by your doctor and synced to your electronic health record to ensure you're walking the recommended daily mile, says Shane Walker, associate director of medical devices and healthcare IT for IHS Technology. Also on the horizon: constant analysis of urine, stress hormones and blood oxygen levels.
While it's one thing to collect such data, the next step is figuring out what we do with it, says Mike Abbott, general partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Sensors in the future will be able detect patterns and offer suggestions – recommending you turn in early, for instance, since you didn't sleep well last night, or telling you to drink more water after measuring an increase in your basal temperature, Abbott says.
A sensor may warn you that you're getting sick, Walker says. It could advise athletes on daily exercise for maximum performance – or recommend they rest to avoid injury. Contact lenses may help monitor and treat glaucoma. Ingestible sensors may tell you more about your digestive system.
Sensors are "a must-have" thanks to the rising cost of health care, Abbott says. "We've got to invest more in preventive medicine."
Editor's note: Which idea or invention do you think will have the biggest impact on the future of medicine? Vote here and explain why in the comments below.
Not all bacteria are bad. There are approximately 100 trillion good bacteria inside our bodies that outnumber our own cells 10 to 1. They help us digest food, make vitamins, even fight cancer.
In fact, less than 1% of bacteria cause disease in humans. But in mere decades, humans have managed to turn this 1% into a group of superbugs. We've helped them evolve into deadly, unstoppable killers by prescribing antibiotics when they won't work and using them to raise bigger pigs and cattle.
Conservative estimates suggest in the United States alone, 2 million people get antibiotic-resistant infections each year, and at least 23,000 die because the drugs we have no longer work.
Yet as dire as the warning signs are, there is hope.
Earlier this year, the FDA announced that all but one antibiotic manufacturer in the United States would stop selling antibiotics over the counter for nonmedical purposes.
And after a real dry spell in antibiotic development, there's a treasure trove of potential new ones in the research pipeline, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who heads the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Fourteen new antibiotics are in clinical trials. By June, two of them may get FDA approval. Though not all the others may make it that far, the chances are looking good for having more anti-bacteria weapons in our medicine cabinets.
There's another fascinating approach on the horizon that may help us stay ahead of superbugs: mining other bugs for their natural antibiotic capabilities.
They're called actinomycetes. These good superbugs have learned to survive by secreting antibiotics to fight off other microbes. Preliminary studies indicate 80% to 90% of the antibiotics produced by these actinomycetes have yet to be discovered.
But rather than growing an army of actinomycetes to fight deadly bacteria, scientists are studying their genes -- looking for the key to making these natural antibiotics. If they find it, the genetic code could help humans match wits with superbugs for years to come.
Editor's note: Which idea or invention do you think will have the biggest impact on the future of medicine? Vote here and explain why in the comments below.


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n this actual play of 'Engine Heart', G.M. Austin Ramsay takes
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The weirdest food I have ever eaten was probably Orange Ice Cream that was served up in an orange. I had this at an Indian restaurant in Sydney many years ago.
The Orange Ice Cream was quite OK and I would have it again should I ever come across it.


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The Beer Nut: Hooked on Courage after a single sip
Inspiration for the weekly Beer Nut column can come from many places. It can be a new brewery that made its debut or it can be a particular brewery I read about, or it can even be something that I pulled from my head.
Or it can be a single sip of a fabulous beer that blew my mind. That is the case this week. I recently took a sip of Courage Imperial Russian Stout and immediately said I have to write about this beer.
The Courage Imperial Russian Stout is a legendary beer in England, but it had not been brewed since 1982, until this year.
The Wells & Young Brewing Company, the largest brewery in England, purchased the Courage line of beers in 2007 from Scottish & Newcastle (brewers of Newcastle Brown Ale).
Wells' head brewer, Jim Robertson, who used to brew Courage, brewed the new version, which debuted in the United States Sept. 30.
In 1982, I was 8 years old, so I have no way to compare the 2011 version of Courage Imperial Russian Stout to the original version. But what I can tell you is that it is one of the best stouts I have ever tasted.
The beer itself is dark as night, with a strong espresso-like taste. There are also hints of chocolate and smokiness. It also has a lot of fruity flavors such as berries and pears.
At 10 percent alcohol by volume, it is a big beer, but it has no alcohol burn at all. It is one of the best imperial stouts being brewed today and worth seeking out.
The only negative is the cost. An 8-ounce bottle will cost you nearly $8. I typically do not recommend a beer that costs $1 an ounce, but I will make an exception for this beer. It is too good to miss.
Wells & Young also brews some other worthy beers, so don't forget to try their other beers.
The Young's Double Chocolate Stout is another classic. I know several people who say they do not like beer but really like this one. This is a full-bodied stout, but unlike many chocolate stouts this is not an imperial. The 5.2 percent ABV will allow you to have more than one beer during the night. The flavors are really well balanced.
The Double Chocolate Stout is brewed using real dark chocolate. The dark chocolate adds a slight bitterness to the beer. The chocolate flavors really come through, but it is not overly sweet or syrupy like many chocolate beers.
Another interesting beer from Wells & Young is the Wells Banana Bread Beer. If you like banana bread, this is the beer for you because it lives up to its name –– it tastes like liquid banana bread. It's is a pale ale with tons of banana flavor. If you do not like sweet beers, this may be too much for you. Overall, I think it is a tasty beer.
Want a treat? Pour about a quarter glass of the Banana Bread Beer and then fill the rest with the Double Chocolate Stout and you've got yourself a chocolate-banana dessert beer.
Not all of Wells & Young's beers are flavored.
Wells Bombadier Ale is an English bitter. It has a great malt body, with enough peppery hops to give it a well-balanced flavor. The beer comes in both bottles and cans. The beers are slightly different for some reason. The bottled version is 5.2 percent ABV, while the canned version is 4.3 percent ABV. The taste differences are slight, so if you like one, you will like them both.
Young's Special London Ale is a 6.4 percent ABV Extra Special Bitter. It is a nicely carbonated beer, where the bubbles are almost dancing on your tongue. That helps bring out the bitterness, and some yeasty/bready flavors make this a nice beer to drink.
Wells & Young beers are definitely worth seeking out.
Norman Miller is a Daily News staff writer. For questions, comments, suggestions or recommendations, email email@example.com or call 508-626-3823. Check out The Beer Nut blog at http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/beernut/ or follow the Beer Nut at his Twitter page at www.twitter.com/realbeernut.


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LOS ANGELES – Joe Lauzon, Mike Swick and Jamie Varner each earned $50,000 bonus awards for their performances at Saturday's "UFC on FOX: Shogun vs. Vera" event.
Swick earned the "Knockout of the Night" award, Lauzon and Varner each earned "Fight of the Night" awards and Lauzon even double-dipped with a "Submission of the Night" bonus and took home $100,000 in total.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) learned of the winners and bonus amounts at the night's post-event news conference, where they were announced by UFC officials.
UFC on FOX 4 took place at Staples Center in Los Angeles, the promotion's third trip to that venue. The event's main card aired on FOX following prelims on FUEL TV.
With his pair of bonuses, Lauzon (22-7 MMA, 9-4 UFC) upped his total to 10 – passing Anderson Silva and putting him in a tie with the retired Chris Lytle for most bonuses in UFC history. Lauzon needed to go into the third round in a back-and-forth fight with Varner (20-7-1 MMA, 2-2 UFC), but eventually was able to lock up a triangle-choke.
Swick (15-4 MMA, 10-3 UFC) won for the first time since June 2009 and snapped a two-fight skid, but it took a bit of a comeback to stop DaMarques Johnson (16-11 MMA, 4-5 UFC). Johnson found himself in several dominant positions in the first round. But in the second, Swick caught a kick from Johnson, sending Johnson off balance and heading to the canvas. Swick followed him down, landing a right on the way down, then a much bigger right hand once Johnson was on the canvas. A pair of follow-up fight hands were academic before the ref could get in to stop the fight.
For more on UFC on FOX 4, stay tuned to the UFC Events section of the site.
(Pictured: Jamie Varner)


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Iran says nuclear talks with powers 'substantive and useful'
VIENNA/ANKARA - A senior Iranian official said on Friday that expert-level talks between Iran and six world powers on Tehran's nuclear program had been "substantive and useful".
VIENNA/ANKARA - A senior Iranian official said on Friday that expert-level talks between Iran and six world powers on Tehran's nuclear program had been "substantive and useful".
Seeking to build on an interim agreement reached late last year in Geneva, Iran and the major powers aim to hammer out a final settlement of the decade-old dispute over Tehran's atomic activities by late July.
The March 5-7 meeting at the United Nations complex in Vienna, which ended around mid-day on Friday, was to prepare for the next round of political negotiations on the issue later this month, also in the Austrian capital.
Both sides have made clear their political will to reach a long-term accord and have scheduled a series of meetings in the coming months. But they also acknowledge that there are still big differences over the future scope of Iran's nuclear program and that success is far from guaranteed.
"The talks are very serious and substantive and useful," the head of the Iranian delegation at the expert-level talks, senior Foreign Ministry official Hamid Baidinejad, told Iran's Fars news agency ahead of Friday's session.
There was no immediate comment from either side after the meeting ended.
Officials said experts from Russia were taking part in this week's meeting in Vienna, suggesting there was no immediate impact on the nuclear negotiations from the crisis in Ukraine.
A senior diplomat from one of the big powers said this week there had been "no suggestion by anyone" that the crisis would impede discussions on Iran or other issues such as Syria where the United States and Europe are trying to cooperate with Russia.
Western officials want Iran to significantly scale back its uranium enrichment activities to ensure that it would be unable to build an atomic bomb quickly if it ever decided to do so.
Iran denies allegations that it is seeking the technical know-how and means to assemble nuclear weapons and says it will not shut any of its nuclear sites, which include the uranium enrichment plants at Natanz and Fordow and a planned heavy water reactor at Arak.
An official of Iran's atomic energy organization earlier this week said the negotiations would be "time consuming".
"We want to continue our activities. Some on the other side have imaginary concerns about us veering from non-peaceful use (of nuclear energy). We are studying ways to remove that," Behrooz Kamalvandi told Iran's IRNA news agency on Wednesday.
Iran wants Western and U.N. sanctions that are severely hurting its oil-dependent economy lifted, having won limited relief in exchange for curbing its most sensitive nuclear work under the six-month Geneva deal, which took effect on January 20.
Uranium can be used to fuel a planned network of nuclear power plants, which is Iran's stated goal, but also provide fuel for bombs if processed to a high fissile concentration, which the West fears may be Iran's ultimate aim.
Chief negotiators from Iran and the powers - the United States, France, Russia, Britain, Germany and China - are to begin their next round of negotiations on March 18 in Vienna. The meeting is expected to last two to three days.


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Dear David Slade,
We're 70 days out from Eclipse. SEVENTY. We've had one trailer (I think), a few stills, a lot of drama & rumor after rumor about so much stuff I can't keep facts and rumors straight anymore.
Let's think back to what was going on 70 days before New Moon released. I did a calculation (literally I checked it like 12 times & I'm probably still wrong) and figured out that was on September 10, 2009 (you remember, around our 10 month 9 month anniversary!)
70 days ago, Moon broke down ALL the best news in 10 words of less, signing off her Death Cab for cutie news section with my all-time favorite moonism ever:
Dear Chris Walla of Death Cab,
I think I'm in love, you called Edward an "A-hole."
I will follow you into the dark,
We had the New Moon trailer released at the MTV movie awards and the LA times New Moon insider pictures. David you started your infamous twit pics of shadowy shapes of nature & pieces of grass, we had a soundtrack preview and more Jortspack pictures than we could handle. We were inundated with New Moon mania.
Sure, Chris Weitz is a DILF and you can't compete with that- he rode the Summit PR train like Cathy Hardi rides Rob in her dreams. Eclipse WAS still filming during New Moon mania giving us double overload with Summit-released saga info as well as fan released Eclipse goods. And we know you're doing reshoots in the upcoming days, so maybe you just don't have anything good enough to give us. And speaking of reshoots, let's vamp (ha!) on that for a second. Summit came out and acted like it wasn't a big deal saying there were no major scenes to be re-shot. I think I'm gonna call your bluff. Not a big deal? We're 70 days out- you're in full on editing mode and there are some changes big enough that flying a few cast members to Vancouver is necessary? I'M GONNA CALL THAT A BIG DEAL.
As I've been kept awake late into the night thinking about WHY you might possibly need to re-shoot some scenes I've come up with only one possible explanation: You're finally convinced the LEGHITCH is important and your half-assed attempt at it wasn't good enough
You've been hearing our cry for a year now. You've seen our threatening tweets. Sure you didn't believe us in the beginning and you tried some fancy new dry-hump scene where Bella feels the special tingles down there for the first time and tried to play it off as the leghitch, but that's not what we asked for. That's not what we need. It was simple. It was our only request- It's the mother effing leghitch. And if my speculation is right and that IS why you're going back up to Couve, then by all means, get it done, son! But just in case that wasn't your plan and the LEGHITCH the RIGHT WAY still isn't a part of the movie…… Here are some things I promise to do if there's not a mother effing LegHitch, just the way we want it:
- Make cardboard cut outs of Chris Weitz & you and note the difference in their height with a big ass sign above their heads saying "BIG MAN vs SMALL MAN." Then I will sleep out for as many days necessary to get up in the FRONT of the red carpet at the premiere where I can display my cut-outs proudly
- Boycott your movie (aka only see it once OR buy tickets for Sex in the City 2 and sneak into Eclipse without paying)*
- Track down your home address & give it to Catherine Hardwicke, telling her you were hoping she'd 'stop by for a visit,' margaritas in hand, to retell the story of how she was responsible for the love affair that is Robsten. If you're extra bad I'll tell her you want to help her make a new Robsten video for You Tube.
- Cut the blades of grass you were so adamant about taking pictures of during filming. You have a love affair with nature? Watch what I do to nature. Snip, snip.
- I will convince the VPs at Summit (and I'm VERY convincing (read: I got a new shirt that shows off the 'girls' real well)) that you want to direct Breaking Dawn SO badly that you're willing to do it for free.
So to recap, Eclipse is coming up SOON (70 days, 70 days) and I feel like we know very little about it. I'm scared to hear you're doing some reshoots so late in the game, yet encouraged if they are to fix major issues that will give us a frownsmile if they are allowed in the final cut. If you HAD other plans for your time in Vancouver and you DON'T currently have an amazing leghitch scene of epic proportions currently shot, then I suggest you quick grab a couple sheets of screenplay paper & your teeny, tiny pencil and write us a mother effing leghitchscene to end all leg hitch scenes
Or else.
What do you think? Are you nervous they are doing reshoots? Are you still afraid we're not going to get the leghitch we all dream of? Is this top priority on our fasting & praying list?
*once in college I snuck into a 2nd movie after paying for the first one with some friends & I still live with the guilt, so I probably won't be doing option #2
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It has been 20 years since the launch of the first BMW M5. After three generations, more the 35,000 sales and countless attempts by competitors to emulate its performance and success, the BMW M5 still makes its position as the benchmark. Each successive generation has extended the bounds of both performance and luxury. The last generation M5, the most successful ever, significantly pushed the performance envelope with the first V8 from BMW M, mated to a six-speed transmission.
The all-new fourth generation M5 pushes that envelope even further with the first V10 engine to power a production sedan. The new V10 produces 507 horsepower and 383 lb-ft of torque by European measure. This new engine is mated to a seven-speed SMG transmission. With this new powertrain the M5 offers the best power-to-weight ratio in its class. In the tradition of BMW M, the chassis has been engineered to keep up with the power while the exterior treatment is subtle, yet distinctive.
First high-revving engine to be featured in a production sedan
This is the first application of a V10 engine in a regular production sedan, if it's possible to call any product from BMW M "regular." It once again sets the benchmark in its class. This engine was engineered to rev, with a redline of 8,250. With 25 percent more power than the previous M5's V8, this new engine offers 100 horsepower per liter of displacement, pure race car territory. The 90o V10 is designed for maximum stiffness and minimum vibration.
The new V10 features double-VANOS variable valve timing. Each cylinder has its own electronically controlled throttle butterfly. The new MS S65 engine management system uses the most powerful processors currently approved for use in automobiles. It has been designed specifically to deal with the V10's high output and high revs as well as the comprehensive controls that are required.
Seven-speed SMG gearbox features Drivelogic
The driver of the new M5 is able to maximize the potential of the new V10 engine with a seven-speed SMG gearbox. Like other BMW SMG gearboxes shifts can be made from either the lever on the center console or the paddles on the steering wheel. Compared to the previous SMG, gear changes happen 20 percent faster with this latest generation SMG, making for smooth, crisp shifts.
With Drivelogic, at the driver's disposal are eleven program options. This enables the SMG's shift characteristics to be tailored to suit the driving situation and the mood. Six of these programs can be selected in the sequential manual gearbox mode (S mode). These programs adjust shifting speed and style because, in the S mode, the driver does all the shifting. In the Drive (D mode) the transmission shifts automatically, depending on which of the five programs is selected, the driving situation, the road speed and the position of the accelerator pedal.
Taken together the drivetrain of the new M5 provides truly awe inspiring performance. From rest 60 miles per hour will be reached in well under five seconds. The rush of acceleration never lets up until the electronically limited top speed of 155 miles per hour. The top speed may be limited but with the speedometer reaching all the way to 205 mph, the mind conjures intriguing possibilities.
The perfect blend of ride comfort and agility
The M5 has long been known for handling that matches its performance, carefully blended with impressive ride comfort. More than just a "tuned" 5 Series suspension, the aluminum suspension on the M5 has been engineered to match its performance. The suspension is mated to 19-inch wheels with performance tires. Keeping power on the road is critical, so the M5 features the Variable M differential lock. By constantly monitoring and comparing the speed of the rear wheels, the Variable M differential lock can ensure that power gets to the drive wheel with the most traction even in extreme driving situations. Its benefits are particularly apparent when accelerating out of a corner.
The Dynamic Stability Control system in the M5 has been designed to suit its performance. Of course, the DSC can be deactivated at the push of a button. The M5's DSC also offers the choice of two driving dynamics programs. One allows DSC to function the way it always has. At the touch of a button, the M Dynamic Mode is engaged which lets DSC facilitate more spirited driving.
To ensure that this level of handling does not compromise ride quality, the new M5 features Electronic Damping Control, with three program modes (comfort, normal, sport). EDC constantly adjusts the suspension to suit the driving conditions.
To complement its performance potential, the M5 is equipped with generously sized high performance brakes with perforated compound brake discs. The aluminum twin-piston brake calipers have been designed for minimum unsprung weight and maximum stiffness. They will haul the new M5 to a stop from 62 mph (100 km/h) in under 120 feet and from 124 mph (200 km/h) in just under 460 feet.
Styling is subtle but purposeful
In the tradition of BMW M, the exterior styling of the new M5 follows the "wolf in sheep's clothing" philosophy. The casual observer may not, at first glance, recognize the M5's performance potential. The less casual observer instantly will. The modified front spoiler and rear apron are instant giveaways. So too are the modified side sills. The wheel arches are more prominent in order to house the generous wheel and tire package. Following BMW M's recent traditions, the new M5 has more aerodynamic exterior mirrors, four tailpipes and exclusive wheels. Similar to the latest M3, the M5 features exclusive gills incorporated into the front fenders.
The exclusive leather interior features sports seats. Other styling touches, from the instrument cluster to the center console and the steering wheel are all unique to the M5. Even the optional head-up display is M-specific.
The all-new BMW M5 once again combines the comfort and amenities one expects of a luxury sedan with the performance capability and driving experience that can be provided by few cars of any type.
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A comparative evaluation of the innervation paths of the free functional muscle transplants used in the reanimation of the irreparably paralyzed face
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Objective: We have reported on the role of the masseteric innervation of free functioning muscle flap (FFMT) used in the reanimation of the irreparably paralyzed face. In this report we conduct a comparative analysis of the outcomes obtained by using (a) the contralateral facial nerve and (b) the masseteric nerve for purposes of reinnervating the FFMT.
Methods: Twenty-six patients with irreparable unilateral complete facial nerve paralyses were included in the analysis. In all patients a FFMT (23x gracilis; 1x latissimus dorsi; 2x serratus anterior) was used for oral commissure reanimation. Among them the FFMT's of 12 patients were innervated via the contralateral facial nerve, whereas in the remaining 14, the masseteric nerve was used for reinnervating the FFMT's. To address the lid closure, all patients received a temporalis muscle transfer at the same or in a further sitting. The mean follow-up is 22 months (range: 12–48 months).
Evaluation criteria: The commissural excursion index (CEI), a dynamic system to monitor the level of excursion of the oral commissure and the self evaluating facial grading system were used.
Results: Use of the masseteric nerve showed clinical innervation of the gracilis flap within the first three months of follow-up in 13/14 patients. The CEI showed consistent normalization within 6 months of surgery in this group. However, a hypercorrection (supernormal innervation) was observed after one year in 8/14 patients. No downregulation was requested by the patients. Contrarily to these results innervation with the contralateral facial nerve showed prolonged times for muscle recovery. In 9/12 patients the CEI still showed levels below normal 1 year post-OP, whereas the remaining 3 showed complete failure in reinnervation of the FFMT. 3/26 patients requested additional weight implants for enhancement of eye-lid closure at later stages.
Irrespective of these objective results all patients showed high values of self evaluation.
Conclusions: Success in facial reanimation depends on the appropriate combination of method and technique of surgical treatment. Innervation of the free muscle flap through the masseteric nerve is quicker, and synkinesis is a relative phenomenon, which disappears with time.


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text: Since its premiere in 1874, Die Fledermaus (The Bat) has been one of the most beloved operettas ever written. Among Johann Strauss' most famous overtures, this delightful selection abounds with memorable melodies that your audience will surely recognize, and the shifts in tempo and meter will give your student musicians a chance to develop a wide variety of playing techniques. A great concert opener or closer, and a wonderful contest selection, this arrangement sounds like the original while staying well within reach of younger musicians. Includes a full complement of percussion parts as well as parts for Violin III (Viola, treble clef), Alto Saxophone, and Piano Accompaniment.


text: The Associated Press gives us an awesome behind the scenes look at the wild DSLR camera rigs that are being used at the London Olympic Games. The remote controlled rigs are being paced in locations that photographers just aren't able to be in. Though I don't see a price on the rigs, they aren't cheap. If you look close you can see metal arms that reach out to the focus and zoom rings to control remotely.