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How Do You Roll @ Sawgrass Landing
13775 W. Sunrise Blvd.
Sunrise, Florida 33323
Web Site: http://www.howdoyouroll.com
Twitter: @how_do_you_roll
Quick Serve Restaurants, or QSR's, are all the rage right now in casual dining. The trend of serving "faster, but higher quality" food items than what is served fast food establishments can largely be attributed to Chipotle, which is now a huge success story in the food and restaurant industry.
Since Chipotle made it big, others are trying to figure out what the next big QSR concept is. A lot of stuff since has been various re-spins on the burger concept. Asian cuisine, particularly sushi, is not something QSR as a whole has attempted to tackle yet, due to much higher sanitary standards as well as issues of keeping fish fresh.
How Do You Roll, a QSR chain that originated in Texas (and was profiled on the TV show "Shark Tank") is attempting to recreate Chipotle's "Roll your own" model and success but with sushi and other Asian items. There are currently two locations in Florida, one in Sunrise and the other in Gainesville.
Rachel and I had the opportunity to visit the Sunrise HDYR location on a torrentially rainy saturday night with a group of sushi fans from Meetup.com when business was slow, so we got a chance to observe the franchise under optimal conditions for photography but not necessarily to see how service would perform under busy conditions.
As I mentioned, HDYR is a "Roll your own", QSR restaurant where you pick from a list of ingredients and the sushi chefs put together your custom sushi roll, rice bowl or ramen soup.
HDYR is most definitely a "beginners" sushi place because there are only 3 raw fish types you can choose from, Tuna (Maguro), Salmon, Escolar (a bland white fish, sometimes referred to as "White Tuna"), and "Spicy" variants of the same. Additional proteins that can be rolled are cooked Beef, Chicken, Crawfish Tails, Surimi ("Krab Sticks"), Shrimp, Eel and Tofu.
There is also a nice variety of fruits, vegetables and a number of different sauces and toppings/condiments which allows for a good combination of things for the diner to create. Pre-designed roll combinations range from $3 to $7, so you're looking at about half of what a mid-range sushi restaurant charges for similar items.
Like at a Chipotle, or a sub shop chain, you order at the counter and they give you a number and you sit down. When your number is called you either go up to get your order, or depending how busy the place is, they bring it to you. The place was so completely dead that evening due to the weather that we got first class table service.
Is How Do You Roll a fresh or a dead fish? Click on the "Read the rest of this entry" link below for more.


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President Barack Obama sheds light on the problems of young minorities in America.
A federal appeals court ruled that it wasn't unconstitutional to ask students to remove shirts with the American flag during a Cinco de Mayo celebration in 2010 at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill.
You ever watch a movie on Netflix and fall asleep in the middle? And when you wake up, you can't remember where you left off? It looks like some engineers found a solution.
Wanna know what Jaws was like? Some researchers got the scoop …
"I was shocked at the depth of addiction here," James W. Baker, former director of the Vermont State Police, said in regards to Vermont's current heroin "epidemic."
Just in case you missed the basketball game, watch an Eldorado High School girl score the winning shot from 70 feet away, with only 1.7 seconds on the clock. It's pretty awesome.
A state auditor claims that the Human Services Department cost New Mexico millions of dollars by mismanaging funds.
Albuquerque police are looking for a woman that is stealing from the elderly.
To the Lobo fan who threw a cup at an opposing player at a basketball game … they're coming for you.
A man who was pronounced dead woke up later in a body bag in the morgue … reminds me of that movie Death Becomes Her.

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Citing 'flithy' conditions, state shuts down psychiatric ward
State reacts after surprise visit to Quincy Medical Center in May
State regulators temporarily stopped admissions to Quincy Medical Center's psychiatric ward for seniors after inspectors found filthy conditions there.
The Boston Globe reports that inspectors also found unattended patients during a surprise visit on May 23.
The state closed admissions to the unit for about a week.
Inspectors said patients were being ignored and left in bed without covers while wearing only hospital gowns. In one room, a woman in bed was covered in feces while her calls for help were unanswered.
Hospital leaders acknowledged serious problems in a June 11 letter to the state, which said some staff members had been fired. The letter said remaining staffers will undergo ongoing training.
The unit is licensed for 22 beds and typically serves patients over 55 with cognitive disabilities or dementia.


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$11 Trillion Increase in Federal Debt in One Year
Written by Gary North on August 10, 2012
The unfunded liabilities of the U.S. government grew in one year by $11 trillion. So says Prof. Lawrence Kotlikoff of Boston University. He is using figures provided by the Congressional Budget Office. He makes a good point. Republicans and Democrats in Congress a year ago could not figure ways to cut $210 billion a year […]Continue reading →


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Geithner to huddle with Hill leaders
Republicans and Democrats privately agree on one thing this week: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner trek to Capitol Hill Thursday is more optics than substance.
Key congressional players say there hasn't been any real movement in the debate to avoid tax hikes on all Americans and massive spending cuts. Democrats think they're sitting pretty, keeping the battle squarely focused on hiking taxes on the nation's wealthiest.
Republicans are trying to refocus the debate on what they see as a lack of specifics from the White House on entitlement changes and spending cuts.
Within hours of Geithner and chief White House lobbyist Rob Nabors' visit with congressional leaders being announced, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) office both released statements saying that they hoped the treasury secretary would lay out spending cuts and entitlement changes.
McConnell's office said he is "eager to hear the administration's specific plans for protecting jobs and growth while reducing the national debt through strengthening the entitlement system, reducing Washington spending and preventing a tax hike on every American taxpayer."
Boehner's office said, "We accepted this meeting with the expectation that the White House team will bring a specific plan for real spending cuts – because spending cuts that Washington Democrats will accept is what is missing from the 'balanced approach' that the President says he wants."
If Geithner doesn't bring a plan to cut spending and reshape the nation's complex entitlement structure to Capitol Hill, the GOP is almost certain to argue that the White House doesn't have a plan.
Geithner's trek to the Hill is noteworthy because he is a member of Obama's cabinet. He will sit down with Boehner, McConnell, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Boehner is bringing Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).
But if the two sides were truly close to a deal, it would be President Barack Obama himself who would be sitting down with Boehner, not one of his emissaries.
Geithner's visit will come a day after Erskine Bowles and several corporate CEOs took turns ducking into leadership offices on both sides of the Capitol. Just hours before that round-robin, Boehner privately urged his House colleagues not to waver from their position to keep tax rates frozen, calling it a "principled position."
"It's important that everyone in this room continue to be clear with our constituents about what that position is," Boehner said in a closed meeting of the GOP Conference.


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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lowe Enterprises, Inc.
As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lowe Enterprises, Inc., Mr. Lowe oversees the operations of this multi-faceted real estate company. The business activities of Lowe Enterprises include the management of real estate investments for pension funds and other investors; the development and management of commercial properties; the development and management of resorts and hotels; the development of residential properties; and the general management of complex real estate problems and organizations on behalf of institutional clients. Mr. Lowe was the principal founding shareholder in 1972 of the corporation which became Lowe Enterprises, Inc. Prior to establishing the Lowe group of companies, he held various management positions in public and private corporations.
Mr. Lowe is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College with a degree in Economics, Cum Laude; and the Stanford Graduate School of Business with an M.B.A. He attended Stanford on an H.B. Earhart Fellowship.
Current Directorships and Affiliations
• Director and past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Metropolitan YMCA
• Member and past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Real Estate Roundtable
• Member of the Board of Trustees of Claremont McKenna College and past Chairman
• Chairman and co-founder of the Lowe Institute of Political Economy of Claremont McKenna College
• Director of AECOM Corporation
• Director of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
Past Affiliations
• Chairman of the New Los Angeles Marketing Partnership
• Appointed by Governor Wilson to serve on the California Economic Strategy Panel
• Appointed by Governor Wilson to The Military Base Reuse Task Force of California
• Vice Chair of the Economy and Efficiency Commission for Los Angeles County
• Member of Blue Ribbon Children's Planning Committee of Los Angeles County
• Member of Young Presidents' Organization and past President of the Los Angeles Chapter; currently member of Chief Executives Organization
• Director and member of the Executive Committee of the Economic Development Corporation of Los Angeles County
• Elder in the Presbyterian Church
• Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce "Lifetime Achievement" Award
• City of Hope "Spirit of Life" Award, 2000
• UCLA and Los Angeles Times' 2000 Real Estate Forecast Award.
• Boy Scouts of America "Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, 1998
• National Real Estate Entrepreneur of the Year for Real Estate and Construction, 1997
• Greater Los Angeles Area Real Estate Entrepreneur of the Year 1997
• Los Angeles Mayor's "City of Angels Award", 1996
• National Conference of Christians and Jews Real Estate & Construction Industries Humanitarian Award, 1993
• Selected 1988 "Entrepreneur of the Year" by the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Los Angeles Chapter


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by Victoria E. Bynum, author of The Free State of Jones (University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
This second installment of my review of Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer's State of Jones (Doubleday, 2009), focuses on the book's Civil War chapters. To view the first installment, click here. To view the third installment, click here.
The old tale that Newt Knight and his band of renegades drew up a Constitution during the Civil War that declared Jones County, Mississippi, to have seceded from the Confederacy has been a favorite of journalists, folklorists, and even a few historians since the late nineteenth century. Until historians finally shattered this myth, its effect was to paint the men of the Knight Company as hyper-secessionists rather than Unionists; i.e. as good old Southern white boys on a tear against any and all authority—rebels against the Rebellion, if you will.
The subtitle of State of Jones: "The Small Southern County that Seceded From the Confederacy," revives this myth for a modern audience, but one searches in vain for any description of the alleged imperium in imperio inside the book. Instead, Jenkins and Stauffer forsake the promise of their subtitle and maintain that members of the Knight Company were staunch Unionists who in late 1863 declared their allegiance to the United States government before a county official. So why the false advertising? Why do the authors restore a distorted and thoroughly discredited image of this important Civil War uprising if they don't believe it themselves?
Not only do the authors resurrect the old myth of secession-within-secession in their subtitle, but they also eagerly offer a new myth: that Newt Knight served at Vicksburg. Jenkins and Stauffer offer no evidence for this assertion; in fact, they dismiss evidence that disputes it. In 1870, five men of the community swore before a court official that Newt Knight had deserted the army once and for all by May 1863. If their sworn letter was true, Newt was not likely at the siege of Vicksburg, which began on May 18. Furthermore, Newt himself never claimed to have been at Vicksburg, nor do his military records place him there. In fact, no one before Jenkins and Stauffer ever suggested such a thing. The authors concede that "a case can be made" that Newt was not at Vicksburg, but press their claim anyway, arguing that Newt was "purposely vague on the subject of his Confederate experiences" because it was "in his best interest to minimize his rebel service as he pursued a federal pension as a Union soldier." Likewise, they postulate, his friends "may have wanted to aid him [in winning federal compensation] by understating his time in rebel uniform" (note 99, p. 344). In other words, the authors suggest, Newt and his friends lied about his military service.
This unfounded, surprising claim presumes a conspiracy of silence among a multitude of men who testified on behalf of Newt Knight before the federal Court of Claims over a thirty-year period. For the authors, though, it serves a purpose: to justify their stirring fifteen-page foray into the battle of Vicksburg. Their narrative of Vicksburg is only one example of their continual efforts to provide a context for the Jones County insurrection which instead takes the reader far afield. In fact, one member of the 7th battalion of the Confederate Army, O.C. Martin, testified under oath on March 6, 1895, that Newt Knight deserted the 7th battalion at Snyder's Bluff, Mississippi, just before their unit moved on to Vicksburg.*
Perhaps if the authors had written their history more as a community uprising, as their title suggests, rather than the saga of one Great Man, they would have found it unnecessary to distort Newt Knight's military record. After all, many future members of the Knight Company indeed WERE at Vicksburg. Such men, however, appear only fleetingly as bit-players in this paean to the book's leading man.
Several factual errors suggest that State of Jones was written in haste. For example, Jenkins and Stauffer give the wrong figures for Jones County's secession vote. Relying on Tom Knight's error-ridden biography of his father rather than official returns available at the Mississippi State Archives, they claim that there were 374 votes for the anti-secession candidate and 24 for the pro-secession candidate (p. 73). The official numbers are, respectively, 166 and 89.
Their erroneous statement that Stacy Collins, who died in 1853, "had spoken out vehemently against secession" (p. 15), reflects a careless misreading of their cited sources, Bynum, Free State of Jones p. 59, and Tom Knight, Life and Activities of Captain Newton Knight, p. 60.
The list goes on. On pp. 50 and 195, the authors misidentify James Reddoch as William Reddoch. On p. 155, they inexplicably claim that Newt's wife, Serena, fled the state during the war, erroneously citing Bynum, Free State of Jones, p. 100, as their source (I did not argue this, and I've never before encountered this story). On p. 198, they mistakenly claim that Newt's brother, Franklin, was executed by Col Lowry's troops. On p. 249, while quoting from Ethel Knight's Echo of the Black Horn, they mistakenly refer to her as a descendant of Newt Knight. On p. 307, they state that Newt's son Mat helped to bury him, when in fact, Mat predeceased his father (here, the authors uncritically used the statement of a Knight descendant; on Mat's death, see Bynum, Free State of Jones, p. 168).
Finally, the authors claim that on October 13, 1863, "the men chose a name for their unit: they would be the 'Jones County Scouts'" (p. 138). They cite no primary source for this assertion. My own research indicates that this name was first applied to Newt's band of guerrillas in 1887, when lawyers representing Newt's federal claim case inserted it in place of the "Knight Company." Apparently, the lawyers thought the new name had a more authentic Unionist ring to it. When Newt Knight's case was closed in 1900, the name "Jones County Scouts" seems to have disappeared, too—until now.
State of Jones was clearly written to appease the insatiable public appetite for Civil War history. Serious students of that war, however, will be disappointed in a book that decidedly is not the "investigative account" promised on the book's dust jacket.
*This review was edited on 9/8/14 to include O.C. Martin's remarks.
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Kale, Butternut Squash and Baked Eggs
Squeezing the lemon juice adds a nice hit of acidity while the avocado on the side adds an extra creaminess to pair with the runny yolk, making this a dish that could easily double as a breakfast or brunch.
Recipe Facts
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 cups peeled and cubed butternut squash (about 1 pound of squash)
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 medium onion, thinly sliced (about 1 cup)
- 1 jalapeño pepper, deseeded and minced (about 2 tablespoons)
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon dried red chile flakes
- 1 bunch curly kale, leaves removed from stems and cut into 1-inch ribbons (about 5 packed cups)
- ½ cup water or low-sodium vegetable broth
- 2 teaspoons grated zest and 1 tablespoon fresh juice from 1 lemon
- ¼ cup roasted pumpkin seeds
- 4 to 6 eggs
- Pecorino Romano, for grating
- 1 avocado, sliced (optional)
Turn on the broiler and place the rack about 6 inches from the heat source.
Heat the oil in a 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add the butternut squash, salt and pepper and cook until the squash begins to brown, about 2 minutes. Push the squash to the side and then add the onion and jalapeno and a generous pinch of salt. Cook, stirring, until softened, 3 to 4 minutes longer. Add the cumin and chile flakes and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the kale in batches, stirring to combine, and then add 1⁄2 cup water or broth until the liquid has cooked down.
Squeeze the zest and juice on top, sprinkle with the pepitas and create wells for the eggs and crack them in. Place under the broiler until the whites have set but the yolks are still runny, about 4 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with cheese and serve with sliced avocado (if desired).


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Marano poet; born at Tavira, Portugal, about 1530; died in 1591. Going to Spain in his youth, he studied the humanities at Salamanca, where he formed a friendship with the poet Luis de Leon. He was talented in many ways, and was endowed with an unusually retentive memory, being able to reproduce verbatim a discourse heard but once. Pursued by the Inquisition, he left his wife and child at Tavira, and went first to Rome, and then to France, where he openly professed Judaism and took the name of Moses.
The poems of Jean Pinto Delgado are distinguished for grace, sublimity of style, and variety of meters; "parts of them are written not only with tenderness, but in a sweet and pure versification," says Ticknor. In addition to various poems, he composed poetical versions of certain books of the Bible, which were published together under the title "Poëma de la Reyna Ester, Lamentaciones del Propheta Jeremias, Historia de Rut, y Varias Poesias" (Rouen, 1627), and dedicated to Cardinal Richelieu. The view of J. A. de los Rios and Ad. de Castro that there exists an earlier edition, published at Paris, is very questionable. Barbosa Machado says that Delgado translatedparts of Petrarch into Portuguese. Daniel Levi de Barrios says of him:
"Del Poema de Hester en sacro coro Mosseh Delgado da esplendor sonoro, Y corren con su voz en ricas plantas De Jeremias las Endechas santas."
- J. Amador de los Rios, Estudios Sobre los Judios de España, pp. 500 et seq.;
- Ad. de Castro, Hist. de los Judios en España, p. 195;
- De Rossi, Hist. Wörterb. der Jüd. Schriftsteller, p. 265;
- Barbosa Machado, Bibl. Lusitana, ii. 393, 722;
- Ticknor, Spanish Literature, ii. 46;
- Kayserling, Sephardim, pp. 153 et seq.;
- idem, Bibl. Esp.-Port.-Jud. p. 41.


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Hello-Hello… and greetings from the Prepatorium on another busy day!
Despite the fact we have yet to put away all of our summer clothing, we begin with an early look at next Spring's fashions from the Gap.
The retailer showed next year's styles at a show in Tokyo yesterday. As is generally the case, some things looked darling….
Others not so much….
We keep thinking a lot of Liberty-style prints have been seen on this fall's runways.
There will be a lot to choose from, in a variety of pastels and and other pretty colors.
Just so everyone knows that TP is clear on what season we're in, we close out this section of the post with an Adventure in Argyle from Gap's fall line, their Women's V-neck Sweater, available in a number of colorways.
This one is available now, both online and in stores.
We have been meaning to ask if anyone purchased pieces in the Vera Bradley Canvas collection?
We remember seeing a good number of advertisements for the line, but haven't seen any in stores. An online search generated a number of eBay links so we thought we would ask readers if they knew what became of the collection?
Some readers may recall our July post talking about 'when logos attack,' featuring the upcoming Lacoste holiday collection; we have an update on the collaboration between the preppish retailer and Brazilian brothers Fernando and Humberto Campana, who designed the polo shirts for this 4th Holiday Collector's Series. (We wouldn't be surprised to see work from the Campana brothers when Brazil hosts the Olympics in 2016.)
Prices will run from $165 to $7,000. The 'special edition' polo seen below showcases a 'logo' of eight crocodiles.
This shirt will retail for $165 and "only 20,000" have been manufactured, available November 1 at Lacoste online and the boutiques, as well as the Manhattan Barneys. The motif is based upon a chair the brothers previously designed.
Only 250 of this version have been created:
Contemplating this as a Christmas gift for Bitsy or Chip? You will need to tap the trust fund for $1,900 if purchasing the women's model, or $2,900 if acquiring the men's version.
You will also need to send your trusted assistant to the Moss store in either New York or Los Angeles to purchase one, the only place they will be available.
But do not forget the super-dooper-double-dipping-doppler-radar-version:
(Okay, that may have been a little over the top.) This is the ultra-limited-edition, only 24 have been created. The 'fabric' consists of hundreds of crocodile logos handstitched together, almost creating something akin to a Lacoste lace.
And as we wrote in July,
"If wondering about our Logophobia, we can only say "non, non, non, ce n'est pas un problème," for these appear to be done with an artistic eye, yes… an outlook accompanied by a touch of whimsy. They do not appear to take themselves too seriously. Very, very witty."
Unfortunately they are also $5,000 or $7,000 depending upon the female or male version and clearly in the conspicuous consumption zone.
Today's Pretty in Pink showcases the Prescriptives Pink Ribbon Palette for Cheeks and Eyes, our link is to Nordstrom, but it is available in many locations. Prescriptives will donate $20,000 to the BCRF (Breast Cancer Research Foundation).
Prescriptives will donate $20,000 to the BCRF as part of Breast Cancer Awareness month.
We leave with a photo seen in today's Times, perhaps recognizable to some readers as originally being featured on the popular Cake Wrecks blog.
The Times' story looks at the popular blog and a new book coming out featuring 250 of the best wrecks. (That still looks like a lovely concoction compared to many of our baking endeavors!)
We'll be back tomorrow!


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Reds use pink bats to raise cancer awareness
CINCINNATI -- Three Reds players used pink bats in Sunday's 4-1 victory against the Rockies: center fielder Billy Hamilton, second baseman Brandon Phillips and catcher Tucker Barnhart.
Hamilton was particularly effective with his bat, dropping down a perfect bunt single to lead off the game (and advancing to third on an error), and later driving a triple to the right-center-field gap in the seventh inning.
Pink shoes, wristbands and bats were worn by many players as part of Major League Baseball's Going to Bat Against Breast Cancer initiative.
Reds starting pitcher Homer Bailey actually received pink shoes from two shoe companies for the Mother's Day game. Because Bailey could not wear both at the same time, he gave one pair to Hall of Fame sportswriter Hal McCoy and asked McCoy to wear them in the press box Sunday.


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http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_24037189/raiders-stadium-site-preference-could-hasten-exitRaiders stadium site preference could hasten A's exit
OAKLAND -- The Raiders and A's have thrown a new monkey wrench into Oakland's efforts to keep both teams.
Despite their home field being surrounded by acres of parking lot, the Raiders want to build a football-only stadium at the exact location of the current Coliseum, officials said. That would leave the A's with no home field -- not that the A's, who are still eager to move to San Jose, would mind.
"We would not inhibit someone from building a brand-new football stadium if that is what they want to do," A's co-owner Lew Wolff said. When asked where the A's would play if the Coliseum became a construction site, Wolff replied, "That's our business."
City and county leaders have been surprised by the Raiders' stadium site preference and its potential to push the A's out of town. "I can't say why the Raiders would like to have the facility built on the existing footprint," said Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, who sits on the board that oversees the Coliseum complex. "That would interfere with the A's ability to stay there."
Oakland Councilmember Larry Reid, who also sits on the board, said the Raiders' stadium preference would give the A's added leverage in the team's bid for permission to move to San Jose. "Lew Wolff would be happy if that was the scenario that played out," Reid said. "He could tell Major League Baseball, 'See, they didn't want us. Look what they're doing for the Raiders.'"
The Raiders declined to comment Friday on their stadium plans or where they would play while a new stadium is constructed other than to reiterate in a prepared statement that the team and city are determining the viability of a stadium project and that "there is a real sense of urgency for both parties."
Of the three teams that play at the Coliseum complex, the Raiders are the only one that has stated a preference for staying, although team owner Mark Davis has said he's also discussing potential stadium deals in Los Angeles. The team's lease in Oakland expires at the end of this season.
The A's are negotiating a new lease at the Coliseum that would have an out clause depending on the Raiders stadium plans. Oakland has proposed the Coliseum parking lot and a former shipping terminal near Jack London Square as viable sites for a new ballpark, but Wolff, who would have to finance the construction, has repeatedly said neither is feasible.
A football-only Raiders stadium also might not pencil out in Oakland. The Coliseum's oversight board was informed in July that a 56,500-seat Raiders stadium would cost about $800 million to build and that the team would likely contribute only $300 million.
The specter of a public stadium subsidy could give the city and county more leverage to decide exactly where at the Coliseum complex a Raiders stadium would be built. "Whatever the Raiders want doesn't mean that they're going to get what they want," Miley said.
Andy Dolich, a longtime sports executive, said the Raiders should be willing to build a stadium adjacent to the Coliseum, but added that the status quo could remain in place for years to come.
"These teams are in Oakland," he said. "And there needs to be tremendous mountains to be moved from a finance standpoint, from a league standpoint and from a legal standpoint for them to go anyplace else."


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EU-AIMS general approach and strategy
Our overall strategy reflects our belief that neither top-down clinical and translational studies, nor bottom-up model system analysis can impact on ASD alone. Rather, we need to integrate proven technologies around (for example) animal models and PET, together with new approaches (e.g. functional MRI (fMRI), induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and multi-omics). To achieve this we plan 5 major deliverables (figure, below) which strike a pragmatic balance between advances that are more certain in the next 3-5 years (enhanced and enriched animal models, new imaging techniques, advanced analyses) and lines of research that may carry more risk but will be transformative over a longer timeframe (genetics, transcriptomics and proteomics for patient stratification and response prediction).
To facilitate the organisation and management, EU-AIMS is structured in 6 workpackages (WPs), which together comprise the project. Each WP has an academic and an EFPIA lead who is responsible for the management and the results of their WP.
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In martial arts classes, students are often taught to treat weapons as extensions of their own body. But this is more than just a metaphor. It turns out that when we use tools - not just swords and spears, but toothbrushes and rakes as well - our brain treats them as temporary body parts.
According to some psychologists, our brains rely on a mental representation of our bodies called the "body schema", which allows us to coordinate our various parts and to interact with the world around us. Now, Lucilla Cardinali from INSERM, France has found that we incorporate tools into this mental plan after using them for just a few minutes. It's confirmation of an idea that has been kicking around for almost a century.
She recruited 14 volunteers and asked them to grab a block in the middle of a table, that was always the same distance away. Then, they had to repeat the same actions with a grabber - a long, mechanical lever tipped with a two-fingered "hand" - and then a third time, with their own hand again.
Small LEDs on the volunteers' hands allowed Cardinali to track their movements and calculate the speed and acceleration of their arms. She found that they reached for the block differently after they had been accustomed to the grabber, taking longer to accelerate their hands more slowly and to seize the block (although once they actually touched the blocks, they grasped them in just the same way as before). The delays even affected the speed at which they pointed at the block, a behaviour that wasn't "trained" by the grabber.
To Cardinali, these results suggested that after using the grabber, the volunteers' had included it into their mental representation of their own arms. Because of that, they felt that their arms were longer than they actually were and reached for the block more slowly.
Before accepting that interpretation, Cardinali had to rule out the possibility that they were simply a bit more tired in the second session. To do that, she repeated the experiment with another group of volunteers who used a grabber while their wrist were weighed down with 300g weights. Despite the extra load, this group of volunteers showed the same changes as the previous lot who used the lighter tool - clearly, their delay wasn't affected by the weight of the device, but the fact that it was used in the first place.
But the clearest evidence for Cardinali's theory came from a final experiment, where she touched the volunteers on their wrist, elbow or middle finger and asked them to use their opposite index finger to point directly above the point of contact. This simple request showed that after using the grabber, the volunteers overestimated the length of their arm. Their pointing fingers indicated a larger distance between their fingertip and elbow, or between their wrist and elbow, than they did before they had used the tool.
These studies show that our brains are quick to update our body schemas when tools fall into our hands, and that the revised representations last for at least 10-15 minutes. This ability to quickly treat tools as our own body parts probably underlies our vaunted aptitude with tools.
Reference: To be published in Current Biology
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You know how sometimes when you squint at a piece of toast really hard, at just the right angle, a fully realized flesh and blood Jesus is suddenly sitting on your coffee table? No? Uh... yeah, totally, me neither.
The rest of this week's top web comedy videos, including a weapon of choice, a terrible first AD, and the return of Very Mary Kate, can be found over at Splitsider.
Other highlights from the week in comedy:
- Stand-up Patrice O'Neal passed away this week after suffering a stroke last month. We remembered his brilliant comedy and pre-ordered his new album.
- We interviewed standup comic and pro podcaster Greg Fitzsimmons.
- We wheeled out the Sycamore Hollow Welcome Wagon.
- Mike Drucker is reviewing one holiday special a day, starting with The Dick Van Dyke Show's Christmas episode, A Charlie Brown Christmas Special, South Park's A Very Crappy Christmas, A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas, and Mork and Mindy's "Mork's First Christmas."
- We remembered Victoria Jackson's SNL contributions.
- We wondered if the dragtastic new ABC show Work It is sexist.
- We took a trip to Peru to clown around.
- We want you to watch The Maurizio Show.
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Pick any large set of random data you like. Look at the first digit of all the numbers. You're going to see a lot of ones. It's not just a coincidence. It's the law.
Benford's Law was discovered by Simon Newcomb, who was thumbing through a book of logarithmic tables. He noticed that the pages which contained tables of the digits beginning with low numbers were far more worn than the ones beginning with hi numbers. In modern times, that would just mean that people started with the low numbers and had wiped the pizza grease off their hands by the time they got to the higher ones. Since it was 1881, though, Newcomb figured that the low numbers were used far more often than the high numbers. Since the book was in a library, it had presumably been used by a random assortment of people for a random assortment of problems. Newcomb found other books, in other libraries were worn in a similar way.
Clearly, people needed data on numbers beginning with low numbers more than they did high numbers. That didn't make sense. If the world is random, the beginning digit of the numbers looked up to describe the world should be the same way. Digits one through nine should each be used 11 percent of the time, and the book's pages should all be equally worn.
They aren't, and they weren't.
The digit 'one' is likely to begin any number based on a survey of real thing thirty percent of the time. Frank Benford was the gentleman who actually got his name put lastingly on the law, rediscovered this trend, and he broadened the amount of evidence to support it. Among the data he gathered was newspaper circulation, river area, death rates and the addresses of people listed in the book "American Men of Science." One appeared roughly 30 percent of the time. More than that, low digits were far more likely to appear than high digits in the leftmost place of any number.
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Benford's law isn't always applicable. The number sets have to be big enough. There also can't be any specific outside influence, such as 'human thought.' Prices, for example, are designed to appeal to customers, and therefore aren't subject to Benford's law. If you were to analyze purchases of, say, packets of potato chips, you would find that certain numbers would come up again and again. People see different prices on the shelf and make decisions based on those prices. However, if you were to follow many people around during their week long vacations, and add up all their purchases and pay-outs, you would find a Benford distribution – so long as they didn't have a specific budget in mind. A single purchase requires thought. A number of different purchases should add up to a 'random number,' which is not random at all.
But when data sets get big, the biggest giveaway that you're not being presented with random numbers is being presented with completely random numbers. Benford's law was used to detect fraud in Iran's elections. It's also widely used to detect financial fraud. Expense claims, financial pay-outs, tax fraud, and accounts payable all conform to Benford's law when they're legit. Checking these numbers against the law is so common that software is sold to do it.
Via DPS guide, Mathworld, Physics World and UIC.


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"How are you?"
"I'm fine."
"How was school?"
"It was fine."
Have you ever noticed how most people always answer with the word 'fine' when asked something? Not 'great', not 'good', not even 'okay'. But 'fine'. You probably do it too. I know I do.
For someone who chooses all her words very carefully, I've always found that word to be a bit strange. Have you noticed how that word says a lot without really saying anything at all? What does it mean really? Does it mean that you're great? That you're doing really well? Or atleast doing okay? Or.. Does it mean that you're not okay at all? Or maybe it means that you're just tired of everything and how nobody even seems to notice.
Sometimes, all we want when we say we are 'fine', is for someone to call us out on your bullshit. For them to take a good look at us and say "you're not fine." The reason most people are reluctant to show how they really feel, is because nobody actually cares. This is also the reason why most people are happy with that answer. I mean, if you say you're fine, you must be, right? They don't really want to know how you're doing. It's just basic courtesy, so that they can sleep better at night knowing they've done their job. So that they don't feel guilty. They did their job, and now they have other things to worry about. Like, why that guy isn't texting them back when he said he would. Is it because he doesn't like them? Or did he lose their number? Maybe he was never interested in the first place, and was just trying not to hurt their feelings. See? So many problems of their own. Not enough time to worry about yours too!
But then, there are others, who actually care when they ask what's wrong. Who would be there for you and listen to your problems even if we have hundreds of our own. Who would stay up all night just to listen to you ramble on about the same things again and again. The people for whom their problems always take a backseat in favour of yours. The people who are "just fine." The people like me.


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Cane-fu and '50s music: Special gyms open up for US baby boomers
America's aging baby boomers are getting into shape and new fitness centers — with age-specific machines, classes, and classic tunes — are popping up across the country.
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Baby boomers, the generation that vowed to stay forever young, are getting older, designing senior-friendly gyms, and becoming their own personal trainers.
In exercise havens for the over-50 set, the cardio machines are typically low impact, the resistance training is mainly air-powered and some group fitness classes are taken sitting down.
At Welcyon gyms, founded by husband-and-wife boomers Suzy and Tom Boerboom, the average age of members is 62.
"The environment is really designed for those 50 and over," said Suzy Boerboom.
The couple created Welcyon, which has locations in Minnesota and South Dakota, in 2009. It has no tread-mills and no free weights and workouts are customized to members' levels of fitness. A smart card sets resistance, counts repetitions, and adjusts workouts.
An important attraction for many boomers: background music is a combination of '40s, '50s, and '60s tunes played at a much lower volume than in traditional gyms.
"It was something I could manage," said 66-year-old Bill Zortman, one of an estimated 78 million baby boomers, defined as the group born between 1946 and 1964, who make up about 26 percent of the US population, according to US Census reports.
His thrice-weekly workouts at a Welcyon in Sioux Falls, S.D., consists of riding a bicycle or using air-powered resistance machines to strengthen his legs, arms, and back.
"They make sure I'm not overdoing it," Zortman said of the staff, who Boerboom said are often boomers themselves.
The absence of clanging free weights also cuts down on the racket, Boerboom said, noting that many people over 50 prefer a quieter gym.
Group fitness classes for boomers are also modified.
"We're just beginning to develop a group fitness interval training program," Boerboom said. "It will be four to six people and low impact."
The American Council on Exercise says many of their fitness professionals are baby boomers who specialize in working with older adults.
"People in their early 60's are becoming personal trainers and group fitness instructors," said Todd Galati, ACE's director of credentialing.
But they are far from the majority, as the average age of ACE's 50,000 certified fitness professionals is 42, and more than 37 percent are 40.
"Every year I talk to newly certified personal trainers, retired from their career in another field, who want to help people their age become more fit," Galati said.
A recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine showed that a sample of baby boomers had higher rates of hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and high cholesterol than their parents' generation.
"There is a big bad myth about the boomer generation being more fit," said Dr. Sheldon S. Zinberg, founder of Nifty after Fifty fitness centers for older adults. "In fact, the boomer generation is less fit than their parents were at same age."
The chain has locations in Arizona, California, Nevada, Texas, Virginia, and New York. Its programs target muscle power, muscle strength, reaction time, balance, and cognitive skills, he said.
"At age 40 people lose 0.8 to 1 percent muscle mass each year. By age 60 this accelerates to 1.5 percent," Zinberg said.
At Nifty after Fifty, group fitness classes range from yoga and Zumba to seated volleyball and cane fu, a self-defense class in which participants use a cane.
As with Welcyon, there are no tread-mills. "We used to use tread-mills, but we had people falling off," Zinberg said. "We use recumbent stair steppers, among other exercisers."
He advises people to get fit in their 40s and 50s, "and when you do become older, enjoy a supervised, customized program."
Boerboom said Welcyon plans to open more gyms later this year. "There are over 70 million of us boomers," she said, "and we have to take care of ourselves."


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KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Astros reliever Jesse Crain threw off a mound on Friday, a significant mark as he nears his first bullpen session as he comes back from offseason right biceps surgery and a right calf strain. The catcher was closer than normal.
The calf strain, suffered at the very beginning of spring training, has been a non-factor for a week or two, Crain said. The righthander hopes to be able to throw his first full bullpen session — with a catcher sitting a standard distance away — at the end of this upcoming week.
"I'd say end of April, beginning of May, somewhere in that time frame," Crain said Saturday of his overall timeframe for a return. "I still got to throw a bullpen, throw breaking balls, and get into some games. But so far, it's going well."
Crain won't be throwing anything but fastballs until he settles on the mound.
"Probably end of the week I'll throw a bullpen for the first time," Crain said. "The leg really hasn't been an issue for a week or two. But there's not point of rushing it, so we just kind of took it easy."
Crain was able to continue building strength in his right arm while dealing with the right calf injury.
Crain expects he'll need at least five or six bullpens before he could progress into game action.
"Oh yeah, for sure," Crain said when asking if he was anxious to return. "Especially with the season getting started, I want to be out there. But I know in the big picture … I want to make sure I'm ready."
He will start the season on the 15-day disabled list. Astros pitchers Asher Wojciechowski (right lat) and Alex White (Tommy John surgery recovery) are also both slated to start the season on the disabled list. The Astros do not expect either pitcher to be placed on the 60-day disabled list because they're situations likely don't make it necessary. A move to the 60-day DL would, however, open up a 40-man roster spot for the Astros.


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While African-American filmmakers have been a staple of the cinematic landscape since the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux during the '20s, none have had the same cultural or artistic impact as Spike Lee. As a writer, director, actor, producer, author, and entrepreneur, Lee has revolutionized the role of black talent in Hollywood, tearing away decades of stereotypes and marginalized portrayals to establish a new arena for African-American voices to be heard. His movies -- a series of outspoken and provocative socio-political critiques informed by an unwavering commitment toward challenging cultural assumptions not only about race but also class and gender identity -- both solidified his own standing as one of contemporary cinema's most influential figures and furthered the careers of actors including Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, Samuel L. Jackson, Angela Bassett, and Laurence Fishburne. Along the way, Lee even cleared a path for up-and-coming black filmmakers such as John Singleton, Matty Rich, Darnell Martin, Ernest Dickerson (Lee's one-time cinematographer), and Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes.
Born Shelton Jackson Lee in Atlanta, GA, on March 20, 1957, he was raised in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn. The son of jazz musician Bill Lee, his first love was sports; an obsessive fan of the New York Knicks basketball club, his initial goal was to become a major-league baseball player. Only while attending Atlanta's prestigious Morehouse College did Lee's affection for film begin to surface, and while earning a degree in mass communications he returned to New York to make his first movie, 1977's Last Hustle in Brooklyn, a portrait of the area's Black and Puerto Rican communities shot with a Super-8 camera during the height of the disco craze. Upon graduating from Morehouse, he enrolled in New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, earning his Master of Fine Arts Degree in film production. His senior feature, 1982's Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, was the first student effort ever showcased in Lincoln Center's "New Directors, New Films" series, and also garnered the Student Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The success of Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop encouraged Lee to hire representation at the William Morris Agency, but when no studio contracts were forthcoming, he began exploring alternate means of independent financing. After a series of setbacks, he managed to secure 125,000 dollars to produce the stylish and sexy 1986 comedy She's Gotta Have It, which took the Prix de Jeunesse award at Cannes and earned close to 9 million dollars at the box office. Hollywood soon came calling, and in 1988, he released his major studio debut School Daze; however, it was his third film, 1989's Do the Right Thing, which launched Lee to the forefront of the American filmmaking community. A provocative, insightful meditation on simmering racial tension, it was among the year's most controversial and talked-about films and went on to net an Oscar nomination for "Best Screenplay" (although not a nod for "Best Picture," a slight in and of itself the subject of much outcry). The jazz world was the subject of '90s Mo' Better Blues, which opened to lukewarm press; however, with his next effort, the following year's Jungle Fever, Lee was again at the center of controversy over the picture's subject matter, interracial romance. Upon the movie's completion, he began work on his long-awaited dream project, 1992's Malcolm X. Shot at various points across the globe (including Mecca), the three-hour biopic of the slain civil-rights leader reached theaters in its intended form only after celebrities including Bill Cosby, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, and Prince helped defray financing costs in the wake of Warner Bros.' mandate that Lee trim the film's running time by half an hour. After so many politically charged pictures, Lee next shot the change-of-pace Crooklyn, a relatively light serio-comedy based largely on his own experiences growing up in Brooklyn in the early '70s and written in tandem with his sisters Joie and Cinqué.
Next up was 1995's Clockers, a highly regarded urban crime drama based on the novel by Richard Price. In 1996, Lee released two very different features. The first, Girl 6, looked at the world of a young actress forced to accept work as a phone-sex operator, while the other, Get on the Bus, paid tribute to the historic Million Man March on its one-year anniversary, with financing courtesy of figures including Danny Glover, Wesley Snipes, and Johnnie Cochran. While a long-planned biography of baseball great Jackie Robinson continued to languish in limbo, in 1997, Lee did realize another dream with 4 Little Girls, a documentary about the racially motivated bombing of a Birmingham, AL, church that killed four pre-teens in 1963. Upon signing a three-year, first-look production contract with Columbia, he then began work on He Got Game, a study of the politics of high-school basketball starring his frequent leading man Denzel Washington. The film opened to mixed reviews, which did little to diminish the anticipation surrounding Lee's next film, Summer of Sam. Set in Brooklyn during the long, hot summer of 1977 when serial killer David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz terrorized the city, the film looks at the murders through the eyes of various borough inhabitants, played in part by Adrien Brody, Jennifer Esposito, Mira Sorvino, and John Leguizamo. The film generated mixed responses, eliciting the love-it or hate-it reactions so common among critics when reviewing Lee's work. The director's subsequent project, Bamboozled (2000), incurred a similar reaction: an excoriating satire on the images of blacks in (predominately white) popular culture. The film won over a number of critics even as it alienated others, yet it was another testament to Lee's status as one of the most complex and divisive filmmakers of both the late 20th century and the early 21st century.
In the following years Lee would tackle a quartet of more personal projects with A Huey P. Newton Story, Come Rain or Come Shine, Jim Brown: All-American, and a ten-minute segment of Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet before again turning to feature films with The 25th Hour. A rare film for Lee in that it basically eschewed his usual topic of racial issues for a rather straightforward adaptation of David Benioff's popular novel, The 25th Hour. The film found Lee branching off to surprising effect, even if it didn't score a direct hit at the box office. After stepping behind the camera to direct the Showtime gang drama Sucker Free City in 2004, Lee moved back into feature territory with the 2004 comedy drama She Hate Me.
In 2006 Lee enjoyed his biggest box office success in a few years with the crime thriller Inside Man, and earned critical raves for When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, a documentary about Hurricane Katrina that he followed up four years later with the sequel If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise. Lee returned to Brooklyn for Red Hook Summer (2012). He directed the English-language remake of Oldboy in 2013, but was reportedly unhappy with the studio edit of the film and removed his trademark "Spike Lee Joint" from the movie. Lee helmed Amazon Studio's first film, Chi-Raq, released both in theatres and online in 2015.


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Bill Keller Can Talk Trash Too, You Know
In your tripping Thursday media column: Bill Keller hollers back at the WSJ, Sharon Waxman's upset at every little thing, National Journal keeps hiring, and the Deseret News welcomes its future as a Mormon PR operation.
- NYT editor Bill Keller is talking shit about the competition! "If the Journal is gaining market share I'd guess it is more at the expense of USA Today than the Times," he tells Sarah Ellison. "It's a small-town news section in a big city." The NYT, trying to play in the mud, just a bit! Kudos to them. In response, the WSJ is expected to illustrate a story about child molesters with Bill Keller's photo.
- Sharon Waxman is discombobulated! She will get angry and flabbergasted about anything that her competitors do! This time, she's outraged that she read in the Village Voice yesterday that The Hollywood Reporter offered Richard Johnson $1 million. That is so much money! And meanwhile THR's editor is saying the word "bitch," in print! Sharon Waxman will have a heart attack soon if her competitors don't stop doing things she doesn't approve of, for vague reasons!
- National Journal is on a hiring spree. They recently hired Major Garrett and Michael Hirsh, and today they've hired Miami Herald political writer Beth Reinhard. Who will they hire next? Maybe you! Though it's statistically unlikely.
- How is the Deseret News going to implement its big plan to "refocus the quality and reach of its product" and "enhance its digital coverage" after laying off 40% of its staff? Step one, allow Mormon church PR people to be your new "reporters."
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U.S. Senator Barack Obama re-enacts being sworn-in by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 4, 2005. With him are his wife Michelle and their two daughters Malia and Sasha.
Senator Obama talks with his daughter Malia, 6, outside the U.S. Capitol after he was sworn in on January 4, 2005. Chicago Tribune photo by >> Pete Souza <<
Sasha almost not shaking hands with Cheney? One of the very great moments!


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Thursday, November 21: Route 62
Sometimes it's worth skipping the interstate and taking the slow road: one that features scenic views and colorful communities that can go overlooked. Take Massachusetts Route 62, for example. We did – from Barre to Beverly – and made some interesting discoveries, from a fossil museum to what Yankee Magazine calls the best farm to table restaurant in the state. Plus, who did Oprah Winfrey call when she wanted to have a yard sale? We found out.
Route 62 begins, or ends, in the central Massachusetts town of Barre. The other "end" is in Beverly by Mackerel Cove. This is not a route most would think of traveling from end to end but we did. The result…some fascinating finds.
Dr. Allan Russell
Russell's Fossil Museum
PO Box 593
Barre, MA 01005
Tranquil and alert is Barre's motto. The town is named for Colonel Isaac Barre author of the phrase "sons of liberty."
Barre Historical Society
18 Common Street
Barre, MA 01005
The pristine town of Princeton is known mostly for Mount Wachusett but venture slightly south of 62 and there's fine dining to be had.
Sonoma Restaurant
2-6 Worcester Road
Princeton, MA 01541
David Gibbs, Curator of the Sterling Historical Society
7 Pine Street
Sterling, MA 01564
In Clinton remnants of a bustling mill town share the landscape with the tranquil beauty of Wachusett Reservoir. The dam built here 100 years ago created what was Boston's sole water supply until the Quabbin came on line in the 1930's. The reservoir is first and foremost a source of drinking water but it's a great spot for fishing.
Also in Clinton, a much welcomed comeback for a local landmark…the Strand Theatre.
Strand Theatre
58 High Street
Clinton, MA 01510
Berlin is picture perfect and agricultural. Tom Corbett and Ryan MacKay were just 21 when they started Lilac Hedge Farm. They raise grass fed beef, lamb, goat as well as pastured pork and poultry that they sell through a meat CSA and at farmers markets.
The farm includes a lot of pets including a Camel named Joshua.
Route 62 passes through Maynard named for the man who built a complex of mills and turned the town into the largest per capita wool producer in the world. Today it is Clock tower place named for the local icon that has stood watch since 1892. It remains one of, if not the only mechanically wound clock in the country.
Clock Tower Place
Main Street
Maynard, MA 01754
In Concord, Route 62 and Main Street are one. At Monument Square where roads diverge, 62 continues past Sleepy Hollow Cemetery the final resting place of many famous Concordians.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
34 Bedford Street
Concord, MA 01742
Mention the town of Middleton and two words spring to mind…ice…cream. Ice cream is fun but the focus is the farm that dates back to 1690.
Richardson's Ice Cream
156 S Main Street
Middleton, MA
We end our tour of 62 in Beverly, the most urban spot on the route. Here…a hidden gem. Make that many gems.
Kaminski Auctions
117 Elliot Street
Beverly, MA 01915


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Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JP Morgan Chase, sent the following memo to all of his employees today. In it, he vows to simplify the firm's structure and avoid more screw-ups like those that have recently plagued the company. "Never before have we focused so much time, effort, brainpower, technological power and money on a single, enterprise-wide objective," he writes toward the end of the memo, first posted by the Financial Times (pdf).
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Message from Jamie Dimon
Dear colleagues,
I hope you all enjoyed your summer and were able to spend some quality time with your friends and family. Unfortunately, we are all well aware of the news around the legal and regulatory issues facing our company, and in the coming weeks and months we need to be braced for more to come. In this note, I will discuss in detail how we are aggressively tackling these challenges. But before I do, I want us all to remember why we are here–to serve our clients and communities. On that score, we have accomplished a great deal and have a lot to be proud of.
Focusing on our clients and communities to better serve their needs
During the recent financial crisis and throughout our 200-year history, JPMorgan Chase has always been there for our constituents around the world–not only in good times, but more critically in the toughest of times when strong banks are needed the most. However terrifying events became, we never wavered in supporting our clients and communities. In fact, we did many bold and unprecedented things including acquiring Bear Stearns and WaMu, as well as raising capital and providing credit for not-for-profits, states, municipalities, hospitals and universities during times of trouble. While we made mistakes along the way, we never lost sight of why we are here.
Our business continues to be strong. In Investment Banking, we help our clients grow their businesses. So far this month, our unparalleled capital and advisory capabilities were used by several clients in ground-breaking transactions. In consumer banking and credit card, our customer satisfaction scores continue to rise and our customer attrition is at an all-time low. In Asset Management, we see new investment in-flows as more clients trust us to manage, keep safe and grow their money. And in Commercial Banking, we continue to gain market share as we help great American companies expand–both here and around the world. But even with many aspects of our business performing well, we're always looking at what we can do better and fixing what we haven't done so well.
Adapting to a new global financial architecture
JPMorgan Chase must continue to adapt to the new complex global financial architecture–one that will affect every client, every product, every system and everything we do. Adjusting to the new regulatory environment will require an enormous amount of time, effort and resources. We fully intend to follow the letter and spirit of every rule and requirement. A lot has changed for the better since the financial crisis. As a result of the new regulations and changes in the marketplace, the global banking system today is much safer, more transparent and more accountable–which is good for everybody.
You have all seen these changes–both large and small–and many of you have had to work longer hours, and late nights and weekends. We cannot thank you enough for your tremendous effort. This company has successfully tackled other immense challenges and prevailed–and we will again. This huge investment is worth it because we are making permanent, positive changes to make our company better, stronger and healthier for the long-run.
Facing our issues and rolling up our sleeves to fix them
If you don't acknowledge mistakes, you can't fix them and learn from them. So now, as in the past, we are recognizing our problems, rolling up our sleeves and fixing them. As I said in my annual letter to shareholders earlier this year, our control agenda is priority #1. We have re-prioritized our major projects and initiatives, deployed massive new resources and refocused critical managerial time on this effort. We are ensuring that our systems, practices, controls, technology and, above all, culture meet the highest standards. We have made changes in our organizational structure to ensure we get this done properly and as soon as possible. Eventually, most of these new processes will be embedded permanently in how we conduct our business.
Here are just some of the critical steps that we have already taken.
1. Simplifying our business
• One key initiative across our enterprise has been to simplify our business and to refocus our priorities. On the business side, we have been asking our senior people to eliminate products and services that are not essential to serving our customers and are not core to our business. We recently announced that we will be exiting the student lending origination business and most of the physical commodities sales and trading business. Additionally, we no longer sell identity theft protection and credit insurance to customers.
• We are conducting an in-depth review of our foreign correspondent banking business. While we will continue to focus on serving our clients properly around the world, we will strengthen our controls–particularly around "Know Your Customer" and transaction monitoring–to better protect our company and our country.
• We have also taken tangible steps to improve our oversight of outside vendors. If a vendor or partner engages with our customers, we need to be as vigilant about their practices as we are about our own, particularly if they interact directly with customers. We are also proactively trying to decrease the number of vendors we have, which reduces complexity in our business and creates more jobs internally.
2. Adding resources and training
• We will have increased the number of employees dedicated to our control efforts (Risk, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Technology, Oversight & Control and Audit) across the entire firm by 4,000 employees since the beginning of 2012 (including adding 3,000 in 2013 alone).
• We have increased our total spend on controls by about $1 billion this year.
• For example, we have dedicated more than $750 million to address several of our consent orders and assigned close to 5,000 people to ensure we meet or exceed all that is expected of us.
• We have 500 dedicated professionals and several thousand others contributing significantly to the resubmission of the Federal Reserve's capital stress test or Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR). These individuals working together developed and reviewed more than 100 new models and sub-models, conducted more than 130 independent assessments, and established new permanent functions and processes to enhance the firm's overall capital planning process.
• We have provided approximately 750,000 hours of Regulatory and Control-related training to employees across our franchise, on topics ranging from how to understand new regulations such as Dodd-Frank, to Anti-Money Laundering (AML) training for Operations employees.
• We are also deploying unprecedented resources, dedicating senior managerial time and prioritizing efforts to build and maintain an industry-leading AML program. We've made progress in strengthening our ability to measure AML risk, are improving how we onboard clients and perform customer due diligence, and are enhancing how we monitor client transactions to detect potentially suspicious activity. The AML teams must be empowered to make decisions swiftly as we review and adjust our company's risk appetite for certain types of clients to meet our enhanced standards.
3. Utilizing technology in this effort
• We have increased spending on technology in the Regulatory and Control space by 27% since 2011.
• We have built a state-of-the art control room in our corporate headquarters to provide streamlined data analysis and reporting capabilities of control and operational risk data across the firm.
Working with our regulators
In addition to these major initiatives, we are building a more open and transparent relationship with our regulators. Each Operating Committee member and many of their direct reports meet regularly with regulators to share information and to hear directly from them about any concerns they may have.
In May and June, I held town halls for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Federal Reserve Board (FRB) and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Examiners in Charge and their teams. I personally meet with our banking examiners on a regular basis. I also hosted a town hall in June for several hundred senior leaders of the firm who regularly interact with regulators. We discussed our culture of transparency, stressing the necessity of fully and accurately reporting material issues to our regulators in a timely manner and responding promptly to their requests. These efforts come on top of our regular bi-weekly meetings with the FRB, OCC, FDIC and others–in the U.S. and around the world–to review progress and address open issues.
In closing
All the steps outlined above represent an unprecedented effort for our firm. Never before have we focused so much time, effort, brainpower, technological power and money on a single, enterprise-wide objective. Make no mistake–we are going to get this right. In the weeks and months ahead, members of the Operating Committee and I will provide periodic updates to you about our progress towards creating a best-in-class operating system.
This is what it takes to be the industry leader. Thank you for all you have done and for doing so without losing focus on our clients, customers and communities.


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The CEO of TicketNetwork Inc. faces a hate crime charge after he hurled racial insults at an Oscar party, police said.
Donald Vaccaro, 49, of Clark Hill Road, Glastonbury, was charged with second-degree hate crime, second-degree threatening, breach of peace, first-degree criminal trespass and interfering with police, police said.
Vaccaro could not be reached for comment, but in a statement released by a public relations firm, Vaccaro said, "This was a very unfortunate incident. I am deeply concerned about what has been reported and I am taking the allegations very seriously."
According to police, officers were called to Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., about 12:10 a.m. Monday for an assault complaint.
Vaccaro called police himself, according to an incident report. When an officer arrived, Vaccaro was in the parking lot, and he showed the officer "a tiny scratch on the heel of his palm and a small smear of blood" and claimed that a bouncer had assaulted him, the report states.
The officer smelled alcohol on his breath, and Vaccaro's speech was "slightly slurred," the report states.
The bouncer told police that Vaccaro was being watched during the event "because he was being disrespectful to several women," the report states.
"He touched several women, kissing them on both cheeks," the bouncer told police. "It didn't seem to bother the women, so I didn't mess with the guy."
But at the end of the event, Vaccaro "grabbed one last woman and asked her what designer she was wearing, as if she was on the red carpet and he was interviewing her," the bouncer told police. "He turned her around so that he could look at the whole dress and then he grabbed her around her waist and pulled her close … kissed her on both cheeks and then he grabbed her breasts with both hands."
"At that time, she looked over at me and she had a look of terror on her face," the bouncer told police, according to the report.
The woman told the bouncer that she was extremely uncomfortable. The bouncer told police that he asked Vaccaro to let go of the woman's hand, but Vaccaro refused. Then the bouncer "pried his hand off of hers and I asked him to leave," the report states.
Vaccaro said he would leave after he finished his wine, but the bouncer escorted him out the front door, he told police.
Then, Vaccaro said, "You never should have touched me, you black mother-[expletive]," the bouncer told police.
Vaccaro took out his cellphone and said he was going to call his driver, who would "come and kick my ass," the bouncer told police. But the bouncer "smacked the phone out of his hand" and Vaccaro "threw his hands in a fighting stance," the report states.
At that point, the director of Real Art Ways came outside and asked the bouncer to return inside, he told police.
Vaccaro also refused to provide information for an arrest report, according to the incident report, but he did ask why that "black mother-[expletive]" wasn't being arrested as well.
Will K. Wilkins, executive director of Real Art Ways, said he hopes the arrest doesn't overshadow the party, which was a "spectacular success." The event raised money – it's still being counted, he said – for both Real Art ways and for the Connecticut AIDS Resouce Coalition.
He said he did not see the incident. Neither his organization nor the security guard called police, he said. Vaccaro called them, Wilkins said.
In a statement released by Duby McDowell Communications LLC, Vacarro said, "People who know me are well aware that my approaches to life and work are highly inclusive and the comments reported do not reflect my values."
He has asked Jim Wade, of the Hartford law firm Robinson & Cole, to represent him, according to the statement.
TicketNetwork, which Vaccaro founded in 2002, has been one of the most aggressive growth companies in central Connecticut over the past few years. The company operates an online marketplace for tickets to sports and entertainment events.
In July, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy named TicketNetwork as one of his "First Five" companies, offering $6.3 million in low-interest loans after the company promised to add at least 200 jobs.
Malloy issued a statement through his director of communications on Monday saying: "If these allegations prove true, they are reprehensible. Mr. Vaccaro should be ashamed of himself."
TicketNetwork at the time had 330 employees, and Vaccaro said it would have at least 400 in 2012 and would eventually add 600. Soon after, the company held a job fair.
Vaccaro proved to be a generous donor to local politicians, some of whom announced in the wake of his arrest that they would donate the money given to them to charities.
U.S. Rep. John Larson, one of the recipients of Vaccaro's donations, said Monday he plans to make a $2,400 donation to a charity. Larson, a Democrat representing the 1st District, received that sum from Vaccaro in October, 2010, according to spokesman Chris Licata.
The campaign is still working on the logistics of which local charity will be receiving the contribution, Licata said.
House Speaker Chris Donovan, who is running for the 5th District Congressional seat, said he, too, will be donating $1,000 given to him by Vaccaro to a women's shelter in Meriden.
The office of U.S. Rep. Joseph Courtney on Monday also said it would steer Vaccaro's 2010 $2,400 in campaign donations to charity: $1,200 to the New London Homeless Hospitality Center; $1,200 to the Hockanum Valley Community Council in Vernon.
Vaccaro has been outspoken on behalf of the company, and TicketNetwork has been involved in several high-profile legal disputes.
Last year, TicketNetwork filed a lawsuit against The Bushnell, alleging that David Fay, president of the Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall Corp. in Hartford, made disparaging comments about TicketNetwork and Vaccaro during testimony before the state legislature. That lawsuit is pending.
Also last year, TicketNetwork moved to the former headquarters of Gerber Scientific Inc. in South Windsor, a few hundred feet from the Vernon town line. Vaccaro had previously been in a dispute with the town of Vernon after the planning board rejected TicketNetwork's application for an outdoor amphitheater on the same large parcel as the company's headquarters. Vaccaro accused the town of accepting improper information about the plan.
In 2010, TicketNetwork sued the Better Business Bureau, alleging that the agency discriminated against non-members by rewarding higher ratings to member firms. BBB agreed to stop awarding the higher ratings.
Vaccaro continued with the lawsuit, saying, "We think more issues will come out of this investigation. … We see this as a bigger issue than just us. This is a nonprofit organization where executives are making a six-digit salary."
Courant Staff Writers Jon Lender, David Owens, Daniela Altimari, Dave Altimari and Stephen Busemeyer contributed to this story.
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The United States has four major organizations that certify medical assistants. You only need one certification in order to become a certified medical assistant. Getting certified means that you have undergone specific training that can assist you in fulfilling the role of a medical assistant. Once you have completed the program, you are eligible for a computer-based examination, which is available in the leading testing centers across the United States. Once you pass this examination, you will be certified. Those who have passed this examination can earn the title certified medical assistant (CMA).
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There is a training program that can help you prepare for a position like this. It is a certificate or diploma course which could take one or two years. It helps individuals who want to become medical assistants understand the medical terminology, the human anatomy and a few things about physiology. It also tackles very important aspects of the job that can help someone better prepare for this type of career. It also includes an internship where one can work as a student medical assistant in medical clinics in order to get hands-on-training.
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Memory Changes Everything July 12, 2010Posted by mwidlake in Architecture, performance.
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I've got this USB memory stick which I use to carry around my scripts, documents, presentations, Oracle manuals and enough music to keep me going for a few days. It is on an 8GB Gizzmo Junior and it is tiny. By tiny I mean as wide as my little finger, the length of a matchstick and about the same thickness of said matchstick. So small that I did indeed lose the damn thing for 6 months before I realised it had got trapped behind a credit card in my wallet.
It cost me ten British pounds about 15 months ago (less than most 4GB USB sticks seem to cost now, but then it is nothing more than the memory chip and connectors wrapped in plastic) and it highlights how cheap solid-state "storage" is becoming.
Connected to this, I was looking at buying a new PC this week and this machine comes with 10 USB slots, if you include the ones on the supplied monitor and stubs on the motherboard.
10 USB slots, 8GB gizzmo memory sticks… That would be 80GB of cheap and fast storage. Now get a few USB hubs and bulk-buy a few dozen cheap USB2 sticks and you could soon have a solid-state database of a few hundred GB for a thousand pounds. Then of course you can have fun seeing where the pinch-points in the system are (USB2 has a maximum speed per port and going USB3 right now is going to break that 1 grand barrier. But give it a year…).
This really started me thinking about when memory-based storage would take over from spinning disk as the best option for enterprise-level storage and my gut feeling is in about 5 years. I think it will be both technically possible and financially viable in much less than that, say as little as 2 years, but the cost of solid-state storage per MB will still be higher than disk by then but potentially much faster. A few considerations going through my mind were:-
- Disk is getting a lot slower in relation to acreage. By this I mean that, for a single disc drive, capacity is doubling about every 18 months but seek time has hardly reduced in a decade and transfer rate (reading from the physical platters to the units buffer) is again almost stationary, at about 120MB/s for 10,000rpm disk and up towards 180 for those very expensive and noisy 15,000 rpm disks. Being a tad ridiculous to make the point, with modern 3TB disks you could build most Oracle database on one disc. Let's make it two in a raid 10 configuration for redundancy. My point is, your 3TB database could well be being run right now, for real, across say 5 physical disks with a total sustainable physical throughput of around 500MB a second.
- Solid state storage seems to be halving in price in more like 8-10 months.
- IO subsystems are made faster by using RAID so that several physical discs can contribute to get towards the 300MB or so speed of the interface – but solid state is already that fast.
- IO subsystems are made faster by building big caches into them and pre-fetching data that "might" be requested next. Oh, that is kind of solid state storage already.
- Solid state storage, at least the cheap stuff in your USB stick, has the problem that you can only write to each bit a thousand or so times before it starts to get unreliable. But physical disk has exactly the same issue.
- There are new methods of solid-state memory storage coming along – "New Scientist" had a nice article on it a few months ago, and these versions will be even higher density and more long-term reliable.
- Seek time on solid-state memory is virtually zero, so random IO is going to be particularly fast compared to spinning disk.
Solid state memory needs less power, and thus less cooling, is silent, is potentially denser and is less vulnerable to temperature and humidity fluctuations. I can see it not needing to be kept in a specialist server room with the need for all that air con and ear defenders when you go in the room.
Just somewhere with normal air con and a lock on the door should suffice.
We do not need Solid State storage to match the size of current disks or even be as cheap to take over. As I have already pointed out, it is not acreage you need with physical disks but enough spindles and caches to make it fast enough in relation to the space. Further, we can afford to pay more for solid state if we do not need to keep it in such expensive clean-room like environments.
I can see that in a couple of years for a given computer system, say a mixed-workload order processing system, to support the storage needs we will have maybe a dozen solid-state chunks of storage, perhaps themselves consisting of several small units of memory in some sort of raid for resilience, all able to flood the IO channels into our processing server and the issue will be getting the network and io channels into the server to go fast enough. So don't, stick all the storage directly into the server. You just got rid of half your SAN considerations.
I'm going to stop there. Partly because I have run out of time and partly because, in checking out what I am writing, I've just spotted someone did a better job of this before me. Over to James Morle who did a fantastic post on this very topic back in May. Stupid me for not checking out his blog more often. Jame also mentions that often it is not total throughput you are interested in at all but IOPS. That zero latency of solid-state memory is going to be great for supporting very high IOPS.