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Future Chefs to Shape America's Dining Habits
The Culinary Institute of America Expands Health and Wellness Focus in Curriculum
Hyde Park, NY – As students at The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) prepare to become the leaders shaping America's future dining habits, they are finding more plant-based foods and whole grains in the teaching kitchens than ever before. CIA students pursuing a bachelor's degree also learn to bring health and wellness to their future customers through courses such as the Science of Nutrition, Flavor Science and Perception, Consumer Behavior, and Foodservice Management in Health Care.
"Health in food has never been sexy. But now it's about foods with great flavor being naturally better," says Chef Brendan Walsh, the CIA's culinary dean. "Maybe our students have never tried red quinoa, farro, wheat berries, or amaranth. Tasting these foods gives them a chance to be creative and see the possibilities of including more plant-based foods in their cooking."
These additions to the curriculum at the world's premier culinary college come out of the CIA's thought leadership conferences, such as "Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives," "Menus of Change," and "Healthy Flavors, Healthy Kids." At these summits, industry leaders discuss wellness issues facing American families and how chefs can be part of the solution. The CIA works with the Harvard School of Public Health on several of these initiatives.
"The relationship between what we eat and our well-being is now talked about in the mainstream medical community," Walsh says. "Eating can be a preventative practice, and we in the food world can make a huge difference."
Not every recipe or regional cuisine lends itself to healthier ingredients, though. In those cases, such as barbecue, the CIA teaches that portion size and side dishes can help balance a meal. Examples of making recipes better for you include replacing the cheese and butter in a classic risotto with a white bean purée and vegetables, and introducing brown rice to cuisines where white rice is a staple. Students learn the value of these changes, and realize they can be done without sacrificing flavor.
As quality ingredients become more "center-plate," Walsh notes that chefs will become less reliant on fattening sauces and will simply use herbs or lemon juice to accent already delicious natural flavors. He says employers are more aware of health and wellness, and want graduates who know both how to cook healthier and why it's important.
Students at The Culinary Institute of America are working with more plant-based foods and whole grains in the college's teaching kitchens. As the next generation of leaders in the food world, these students will be shaping America's future dining habits. (Photo credit: CIA/Keith Ferris)


Debate Rages: Is the Blogosphere Killing Thoughtful Food Journalism?
1) Yes, I do believe that most of the food chatter on the internet is less than thoughtful, rarely inspired, and lacking the depth and expertise that, given a very busy day, I would like from a good food writer or blogger. But, yes, I have made many friends on Twitter and found many of the voices there better informed on coffee-making and similar topics that I am. Plus, some of you are actually quite funny.
It's interesting that the point of Kimball's print article was so unclear (perhaps because of the need of a Times editor to "squish" it for space — a fun term we recently learned from a print editor) that he then had to go elaborate his thoughts on the Internet, where a thoughtful dialogue about the matter could occur. Clearly, Kimball knows that print and web can coexist (and it's not surprising that we'd agree, given that Grub Street works hand in glove with New York Magazine). Kimball is right that we need sources whose standards have been proven, but then again, it's been pointed out that cookbooks authored by big-name chefs and published by prestigious houses are sometimes riddled with inaccuracies. So, who to trust?
Sure, there are crap recipes on Google, but there's also something to be said for variety. If you're making something in a hurry or with a limited amount of ingredients or cooking tools at your disposal, the Internet allows you to search for a recipe that offers a few shortcuts. If, as so often happens, the phrasing of a complicated recipe is unclear, you can jump from the recipe you know and trust (say, one you found on Cook's Illustrated) to a different one for clarification.
As for editorial control over narrative features, yes, that's good to have, but on the other hand, look at a well-regarded magazine like Edible Manhattan, which we ourselves enjoy picking up. Plenty of its articles inspire and inform (we might not have otherwise known about Bill Telepan's work with public schools, for instance), but on the other hand, there are a fair share of articles that tell us what we already know.
To take a recent cover story, Robert Sietsema's history of the hot dog can't help but read like a more colorful Wikipedia entry. While an in-depth history of the hot dog would've been more revelatory (and yes, they've been written), the magazine clearly didn't have space for that.
Sietsema ends the article by pointing to contemporary hot dogs that have been mentioned over and over again on the web for years now, in any number of "haute dog" roundups. And it's not the only time we've seen web content rehashed for print. Which is fine — maybe the people who pick up Edible Manhattan at their local food shop don't read the blogs that offer hot-dog updates every other day, and maybe they don't care enough about hot dogs to have ever Googled "hot dog + history," but the point is, who's to say the print medium, or even editorial oversight, necessarily leads to more useful or even better-written features? We'd trust Sietsema's history of hot dogs whether it was printed on thick-stock paper or posted on his personal blog.
Then again, Julia Langbein made the point that Gourmet spared no expense flying her to Paris and treating her to $50 martinis, which benefited her subsequent article immensely. Clearly she wouldn't have been able to do that on her own dime, but to what degree is that a sustainable model for a magazine that also has printing expenses, etc.? In any case, Edible Brooklyn is adjusting, just like Gourmet tried to adjust by, for instance, copping our New York Diet column online. A look at Edible's homepage indicates that it is now adding daily content, meaning Sietsema's list of contemporary hot dogs might not be frozen in amber, and the history of hot dogs can evolve right before our very eyes.


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An estimated 4,500 schools out of a total of 25,000 in South Africa have pit latrine toilets.
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Joseph R. Wallace (July 29, 1990 – April 19, 1993) was a two-year-old boy who was murdered by his mother in their Chicago, Illinois apartment in 1993. Wallace's mother, Amanda Wallace, was known to be mentally ill. Despite this, Joseph and his younger brother Joshua were removed from a foster family and returned to Amanda, who killed Joseph with an electrical cord. The circumstances of Wallace's death and the ensuing public outcry precipitated large changes in the Illinois child welfare system and the Cook County juvenile court.
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April 14, 2017 | James Henry
New Book Claims FBI Obstructed Justice in Boston Bombing
Michele McPhee author of Maximum Harm. Photo credit: ForeEdge and Michele McPhee
See here for an exclusive WhoWhatWhy conversation with author Michele McPhee.
For almost four years, WhoWhatWhy has been a lone voice casting doubt on the FBI's official narrative of the Boston marathon bombing. Now, investigative journalist and Boston-based ABC news producer Michele McPhee has raised many of the same questions we've been asking since two explosions and the subsequent manhunt traumatized New England's largest metropolitan area.
In her new book, Maximum Harm: The Tsarnaev Brothers, the FBI, and the Road to the Marathon Bombing, McPhee adds weight to WhoWhatWhy's skepticism that the feds have fully disclosed their dealings with the Tsarnaevs prior to the 2013 bombing.
The reason: Many in Boston's local law enforcement don't buy it either.
McPhee, with deep connections to the rank-and-file of Boston area law enforcement, documents an apparent widespread skepticism among many of the cops who were tasked with confronting the violence and bloodshed that week.
A seasoned crime reporter, McPhee is currently the Boston producer for ABC News In the Brian Ross investigative unit and was formerly the Police Bureau Chief for the New York Daily News where she has covered corruption cases, murders, mobsters and terrorism trials. In Maximum Harm, she uses that experience to lay bare the feds' interactions with Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the years before the bombing. She comes to some disturbing conclusions.
Most shocking of all, McPhee claims that the government played a "direct role in creating the monster that Tamerlan Tsarnaev became."
In the years since the bombing, WhoWhatWhy has documented a disturbing number of half-truths, reversals, and outright lies that led us to question whether the FBI is telling the truth about what it knew about the Tsarnaevs prior to the bombing.
But the Bureau, as well as most mainstream news outlets, has consistently discouraged any inquiry that goes beyond the question of whether the Tsarnaev brothers were innocent or guilty.
No one doubts that the Tsarnaev brothers were guilty — of something. However, like a judge who refuses to admit evidence into a trial that might unduly influence a jury to consider anything beyond simple guilt or innocence, the FBI seems to be taking great pains to stifle any information that would cause the public to question the role of the feds in the events leading up to the tragedy of April 15, 2013.
Thanks to McPhee's reporting, it's now clear that many in Boston's law enforcement community have the same suspicions.
Law enforcement officials told her that they suspect "Tamerlan was an informant for the feds… [t]hey believe that he was working for the US government, motivated by the promise of citizenship." McPhee theorizes that because the government kept denying Tamerlan's citizenship application, he snapped and went on a murderous rampage.
The FBI adamantly maintains it had no idea who the bombing suspects were until older brother Tamerlan was killed in a shootout three days after the bombing. Younger brother Dzhokhar was taken into custody the following day after he was found hiding in a dry-docked boat. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2015 for his participation in the bombing.
Within hours of the brothers' identities being made public, their mother told Russian media that the FBI had investigated her son Tamerlan two years before the bombing. The Bureau put out a statement soon after, acknowledging that they had conducted an "assessment" of him in 2011. This was based on a warning from Russia's Federal security service (known in English by the acronym FSB) that Tamerlan was becoming radicalized.
It didn't take long for some observers, including WhoWhatWhy, to point out that Tamerlan Tsarnaev fit the exact description of a prototypical FBI "informant," a role often played by individuals after having been themselves the target of an FBI investigation. With Tamerlan's involvement in the bombing, the FBI felt enough pressure to put out a press release denying it had ever used Tamerlan as an informant.
And yet, McPhee claims "[N]o one really believed the FBI's denials, especially local law enforcement officials."
Law enforcement officials she spoke with believe that Tamerlan was recruited by the feds as early as 2010 and used as an informant to take down a drug running operation between Boston and Portland, Maine, with international connections. And in a bizarre twist, the pistol allegedly used by the brothers to kill MIT cop Sean Collier traces back to that same drug ring.
McPhee also theorizes that Tamerlan was used by the CIA and/or FSB in a mysterious operation that resulted in the deaths of multiple young men in Dagestan said to be associated with Tsarnaev. This scenario was considered by WhoWhatWhy as well.
Law enforcement officials also told McPhee that Tamerlan was used as a "mosque crawler" to smoke out radicals in Boston area mosques. "Tamerlan was just the man to infiltrate a mosque that had long been in the crosshairs of federal counterterrorism investigators, law enforcement officials in Massachusetts say privately," McPhee writes.
Other questions about Tamerlan Tsarnaev's prior interactions with law enforcement surfaced not long after the bombing. He was never questioned about a gruesome 2011 triple murder in Waltham, Massachusetts, despite the fact that some of the victims' friends suspected his involvement and told investigators as much. Brendan Mess, Erik Weissman, Raphael Teken were found nearly decapitated in Mess's apartment — with marijuana sprinkled all over the bodies and cash scattered about.
McPhee writes that "seasoned investigators" say Tamerlan was "too valuable as an asset" to be investigated for that murder, even though he was an obvious suspect. The case remained cold until the bombing refocused attention on him.
Boston Marathon explosions. Photo credit: Aaron "tango" Tang / Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0)
Although much of this material would likely never have been admitted into the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — and therefore would not have changed the verdict — it could have certainly raised some questions in the court of public opinion about what kinds of things the national security apparatus is up to in the shadows.
The book also contains some revelations about the night Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police that beg for further investigation. For one, many of the cops who engaged the brothers in a shootout on Laurel Street in Watertown, Massachusetts, swear they saw two different muzzle flashes, indicating they were being shot at with two different firearms. However, only one firearm was ever recovered.
Watertown cop Jeffrey Pugliese encountered a still unknown individual in the backyard of one of the houses next to the shootout who appeared to be fleeing the scene. He did not pursue the mystery man at the time because he was focused on neutralizing the shooters. Is it possible this individual was the source of the second muzzle flash? Despite FBI pronouncements to the contrary, it appears possible, even likely, the Tsarnaevs had at least one accomplice.
Also, carjacking victim Dun Meng told investigators he first saw Dzhokhar emerge from 89 Dexter Avenue, a house around the corner from the scene of the shootout and an area the Tsarnaevs would return to repeatedly that night. After loading their stockpile of bombs into the back of Meng's Mercedes SUV on Dexter Avenue, the brothers headed back to Cambridge to get gas, at a station where Meng made his escape.
According to McPhee, some cops suspect that members of a larger cell who may have helped the Tsarnaev brothers lived at 89 Dexter Avenue. When McPhee interviewed the owner of the property days after the shootout, he warned her to watch what she said because "the place is bugged by the FBI," he said.
Strangest of all, according to McPhee, two of the residents of 89 Dexter have an uncanny resemblance to both Tamerlan and Dzhokhar. McPhee claims the now infamous "Naked Man," who many still believe was actually Tamerlan Tsarnaev, but who police claim was just an innocent bystander, lived in the apartment. The other was a Saudi national who looked so much like Dzhokhar that he was taken into custody and questioned for hours. To this day, no one else has been named a suspect.
As we approach the fourth anniversary of this traumatic event, it's clear that there are still many unanswered questions and loose threads that federal investigators and the mainstream press, for that matter, seem all too happy to ignore. It's encouraging to see that many in Boston's local law enforcement don't feel the same.
McPhee's book is a brave and commendable effort to shed light on some of these questions. We hope it will inspire other law enforcement insiders to come forward with more of the missing pieces of the Boston marathon bombing puzzle.
Related front page panorama photo credit: Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from FBI Boston (FBI) and Boston police (Chase Elliott Clark / Flickr – CC BY 2.0).
13 responses to "New Book Claims FBI Obstructed Justice in Boston Bombing"
The FBI's Increasingly Odd Silence on Boston Bombing - Alternative Report says:
[…] highlighted in April, ABC News investigative reporter Michele McPhee published a damning exposé which documents the suspicion in Boston's local law enforcement that the […]
The FBI's Increasingly Odd Silence on Boston Bombing - WhoWhatWhy says:
[…] we highlighted in April, ABC News investigative reporter Michele McPhee published a damning exposé which documents the suspicion in Boston's local law enforcement that the FBI is covering up its […]
Boston Marathon Bombing Cover-Up: A Conversation with Michele McPhee - WhoWhatWhy says:
[…] Note: see here for our in-depth book review of Maximum […]
jcbrook says:
McPhee's book is very important, but there's so much that she didn't touch. And she allowed one inaccuracy to stand throughout the book, which really bugs me: That the boat was under a tarp. Even the prosecution, during the trial, maintained that fiction.
I pulled up an online article with McPhee's byline yesterday, with both an image and video showing the back end of the still tightly shrink-wrapped boat–while the robotic vehicle is ripping open the covering. I consider it a magical act that that kid climbed into that tightly shrink-wrapped boat, with an allegedly shattered wrist, leaving no blood–that Dave Henneberry noticed–on the bright white shrink wrap.
Henneberry himself finally–6 months after the fact–came forward, in an interview with the Boston Globe, to clear up some misperceptions about the boat, stating definitively that it was shrink wrapped and that there was a big square Plexiglas door behind the shrink wrap, which is clearly evident, as well, in many of the photos from the day.
There is also evidence from an infowars video that law enforcement was guarding the site of the boat all afternoon on the day of the so-called capture. Thus, there could've been a giant PLANNED test of martial law in a large urban setting going on that day. I tried to pass along the relevant transcript from that infowars video to McPhee, who was utterly uninterested and completely dismissive of my observations, as well as my attempts to correct the boat inaccuracy.
I think there was even more political theater surrounding the Boston bombings than McPhee has dared to touch upon. (I have a long list of things she neglected to touch upon.) In fact, I question whether or not the younger brother was/is an intelligence asset, as well, and whether or not he is even still in jail.
Plasma Burns says:
This entire article is pure propaganda. The truth is out and its all caught on camera – not one single drop of real blood was spilled that day by a bomb and we can prove it.
YouTube channel – PlasmaBurns
Video – "My Pursuit of Justice"
Video – "The Boston Unbombing – How and Why it was a Staged Event"
Video – "The Death of Justice – Larrow Fraudster"
Video – "Nothin but the Truth – Corcoran Fraudsters"
Video – "Legal Crimes – Gregory Fraudsters"
Video – "Boston Hoaxathon – Valverde Fraudsters"
Video – "Heroes are Scripted – Boston Lies"
The evidence laid out in these videos prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Boston Marathon Bombing was 100% scripted garbage. A Multi agency, multi national, hyper realistic drill gone live.
OPEN CHALLENGE TO ANY AND ALL – Simply show why any one of those documentaries are wrong and I will delete all of them.
JayGoldenBeach says:
Thx for this book review and interview w/the author.
It appears that "fake news" is not a new phenomenon. We were fed fake news by the main stream media throughout this entire investigation and trial. Shame on Mr. Tsarnaev's team of attorneys for not having the guts to pursue the real truth. They had to have known it was all lies.
danny j says:
And let's not forget Uncle Ruslan, who appeared all over TV badmouthing his nephews – the Tsarnaev brothers.
Uncle Ruslan Tsarni was married to the daughter of CIA Officer, Graham Fuller, "the National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia at CIA, and in 1986 Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council at CIA, with overall responsibility for national level strategic forecasting."
Later, Fuller "joined the CIA-founded and funded RAND Corporation where he was a senior political scientist for 12 years. His research focused primarily on the Middle East, Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and the politics of ethnicity and religion." …..that is, things like Chechen Muslims and their decades-long war against Russia.
Uncle Ruslan lived in Fuller's home, and ran a NGO out of that address that worked with CIA and may have funded Chechen Terrorist Groups who have been fighting against Russia since the 1990s.
Well, recently a CIA document from 1983 came to light. It outlined the plan to overthrow the Assad government in Syria, using the exact same scenario (including importing Islamic Extremists) that we have seen playing out since 2011.
Well, guess who authored that paper? Yep, Uncle Ruslan's father-in-law, Graham Fuller.
I don't think WWW is letting me post links, but all of the above is available online.
If Tamerlan was, at the end, so desperate for citizenship, then why did he buy an apartment with an empty store underneath to run a business in his home country, which he was going to move to with his wife and child in the Summer of 2013? Where did he get the money for that?
And why do reporters pick apart at 'facts' that highlight FBI incompetency but maintain the Dzhokhar is without a doubt guilty in spite of there being no evidence of such?
An innocent young man is sitting on death row for crimes he didn't do and there are people out there that know this. Dead men don't speak. Just ask Tamerlan. Oh, wait…
Happyfeeling says:
There has always been more to this story. The public was raised to an angry crowd with the reporting by our media. While we all debate and sort out this accusation this kid is sitting in a small cement cell 24/7. WhoWhatWhy should be allowed to interview him. He is not dangerous. He should be in a regular cell until all we know more and not be given the death penalty in case the FBI is uncovered at a later time. They sure want him dead, and his family quiet. I also am suspicious of the white hat. There are no pictures of Dzhokhar wearing a baseball cap, ever. He always wore a hoodie. It made me think it was someone else at the bombing. Or he was instructed by someone to wear the white hat that afternoon. People have a certain style and that white cap was not his style. The public raised up in anger to convict him and they have to raise up again to now know the truth. Boston Strong is not Boston Strong because they have been told a bunch of lies.
fredd says:
It is obvious there is no heavy object or something the size of a pressure cooker in the backpack.
Suze O says:
I thought it was unusual that Dzhokhar's lawyers didn't seem to be putting up more of a fight to defend him. It seems they were under some pressure not to. I remember the Patty Hearst case where she, too, participated in a crime and then was exonerated with the "Stockholm Syndrome" defense. Nothing like that was ever brought up with the Tsarnaevs, although I thought the younger brother was in a similar position vis-a-vis his older brother. Of course, Patty had money, fame, and wealth (and good ol' American whiteness) to get her off. The Tsarnaevs did not.
I wonder how fair the trial judge actually was? The articles I remember glossed over a number of denied motions by the defense. Americans yap about "liberty and justice for all" until the defendant is someone we have been indoctrinated to consider automatically guilty, e.g., terrorist.
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Thankyou for your comment.
To date, WhoWhatWhy produced some 12 articles concerning Judge O'Toole's conduct of the trial and the pre-trial litigation. Should you wish to revisit this aspect of the case, here's links to a couple of the articles to get you started.
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https://whowhatwhy.org/2015/02/10/heres-boston-bombing-trial-judge-thinks-good-juror-looks-like/
https://whowhatwhy.org/2016/04/05/boston-bombing-judge-speak-case-though-appeal-still-pending/


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If I were to go back through my notebooks and archives, I would find list after list of ideas and tasks, some repeated, some completed, and many forgotten.
Frustrated by my lack of progress on some of my bigger tasks, I cleared the whiteboard in my office, divided it into two for tasks and ideas, and wrote out Post Its for the most important ones.
The difference between this and my other 'lists' was that I dated everything as I added it, and I moved the completed ones to the bottom of the board when they were done.
Keeping things visible is keeping me focused, the wad of completed items gives me a positive boost, and dating them means that I know that I take, on average, a month to complete these types of tasks (slower than I would like, but at least I know).
I couldn't live without my daily lists, but for some things, only a constant reminder will do….


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Settle is a market town and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is served by Settle railway station located near the town centre, and Giggleswick railway station which is a mile away. It is  from Leeds Bradford Airport. The main road through Settle is the B6480, which links to the A65, connecting Settle to Leeds, Ilkley, Skipton and Kendal. The town had a population of 2,421 in the 2001 Census, increasing to 2,564 at the 2011 Census.

History
Settle is thought to have 7th-century Anglian origins, its name being the Angle word for settlement. Craven in the Domesday Book shows that until 1066 Bo was the lord of Settle but after the Harrying of the North (1069–1071) the land was granted to Roger de Poitou.

In 1249 a market charter was granted to Henry de Percy, 7th feudal baron of Topcliffe by Henry III. A market square developed and the main route through the medieval town was aligned on an east–west direction, from Albert Hill, Victoria Street, High Street and Cheapside and on through Kirkgate. This road led to Giggleswick where the citizens attended the parish church. The first bridge over the River Ribble was mentioned in 1498.

During the English Civil War, the Cliffords, the lords of the manor were Royalists, but their subjects were not. John Lambert of Calton in Malhamdale, was a general in Cromwell's army and his troops camped at Settle in August 1651 while on the road to an encounter in Lancaster.

Infrastructure

Daniel Defoe wrote "Settle is the capital of an isolated little kingdom of its own surrounded by barren hills." Because of its remoteness Settle saw mostly local commerce. The old roads were pack horse trails and drovers' roads along hilltops because the valley was soft and swampy before field drainage and the dredging of stream estuaries.

In the 1700s textile industrialists supported by traders and landowners campaigned for a turnpike to connect with growing industrial towns. The minute book for the Keighley and Kendal Turnpike Trust shows that most investors were mill owners from the Giggleswick district. In 1827 the trust, having miscalculated the cost of road maintenance, was in debt by £34,000. When in 1877 the trust was terminated, the investors received on average 54% of their deposit. The investors benefited because Settle was now well connected and its cotton mills boomed. The mill owners imported coal and, like the heavy industries that exported agricultural lime and sandstone masonry, welcomed the turnpike for access via carrier waggons to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Gargrave. The first passenger stagecoach arrived in 1763. The Mail Coach was running regularly in 1786. The Union coach for passengers ran each way on alternate days in the early 1800s, and daily by 1840.

Railways
The "little" North Western Railway reached  in 1847 and in 1849 the railway company constructed Station Road from Giggleswick to Settle. In 1875, the Settle to Carlisle Railway was built, opening to goods traffic in 1875 and to passengers the following year when Settle railway station opened along with a goods warehouse, cattle pens, signal box and water cranes.

In the late 18th century cotton spinning became the town's main employment. Bridge End Mill was converted from corn milling to cotton spinning. John Procter operated mills at Runley and King's Mill which were taken over by his son Thomas. He built the row of workers' cottages, Procter's Row in Lower Kirkgate. In 1835, Dog Kennel Mill and Brennand's Weaving Shed, Settle had five mills employing 333 people.

Governance
Settle is served by a town council made up of 11 councillors. The Mayor is elected annually and the current Town Mayor is Dan Balsamini currently serving his 4th year in the role having been re-elected in 2019, 2020 & 2021. The Deputy Mayor is Debbie Rymer first elected in 2021.

Settle is in the Settle and Ribblebank ward of Craven District Council. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 3,581. There are two councillors both representing the Conservative party. The town is in the Ribblesdale division of North Yorkshire, where it is represented by a Conservative councillor. It is twinned with the French Mediterranean seaside town of Banyuls-sur-Mer.

Geography

Settle was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is located in Ribblesdale, at the southern edge of the Yorkshire Dales, within a few miles of the Three Peaks. Immediately overlooking the town is Castlebergh, a  limestone crag, and to the east is Malham which was in the former Settle Rural District. The River Ribble provided power for Settle's former cotton mills, and is now being harnessed by Settle Hydro, a micro hydroelectric scheme, to provide 50 kW of power to the National Grid.

Television
Since the town is closest to the Lancashire & North Yorkshire border, local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North West and Granada Television that broadcast from Salford.

Tourism
Settle's market is held weekly on Tuesdays in the town-centre marketplace and in the Victoria Hall, a short distance away on Kirkgate. Settle Town Hall was sold by Craven District Council to a developer in October 2011. The Square is surrounded by local businesses, most of which are family-owned, with some offering items for sale unique to the Settle area.  The Naked Man is believed to be the oldest cafe in the country.

The Yorkshire Festival of Story brings internationally known and award-winning artists to the town and has a range of paid-for and free events suitable for all age ranges. The festival attracts visitors from around the world and audiences have more trebled in size since the first festival in 2010. The event is the largest of its kind in the North of England. The Yorkshire Festival of Story is produced by Settle Stories an arts and heritage charity based in the town.

The Folly is a 17th-century Grade I listed building on the main street. In 1996 the North Craven Building Preservation Trust purchased part of the Folly, restored it and opened it to the public in 2001. The Folly houses the Museum of North Craven Life and hosts exhibitions during the open season. There are permanent displays, including the Settle to Carlisle Railway, Robert (Mouseman) Thompson furniture and local history. The rest of the building has been purchased by the trust. The museum is independent and run by volunteers.

The Gallery on the Green is thought to be the smallest art gallery in the world: drawings, paintings, photographs and other works are housed in a former BT telephone kiosk. Gavagan Arts at Linton Court Gallery is situated in a courtyard off Duke Street. The gallery presents a series of temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary art.

The Listening Gallery is an audio gallery in an old phone box. The gallery has changing exhibitions and is open 365 days a year and is free to enter.  The box is maintained and was created by Settle Stories.

The district has several caves where prehistoric remains have been found, the most notable being Victoria Cave, so-called because the inner chamber was discovered in 1837 on the day of Queen Victoria's accession. The cave is a geological SSSI and scheduled monument. Victoria Cave contained fossil remains. The earliest, at 130,000 years old, include mammoth, straight-tusked elephant, cave bear and hippopotamus, Bos primigenius, Rhinoceros leptorhinus and spotted hyenas (as a bed of hyena bones). They date to an Upper Pleistocene interglacial. After the last Ice Age the cave was used by hibernating brown bear and reindeer. Associated with the later deposits were a harpoon head carved from antler; flint implements and other ornaments. The discovery of flint is noteworthy as it is not found naturally in the area. Craven Museum & Gallery in Skipton has an exhibition of items which includes a bear's skull found in one of the caves.

Cultural
The composer Edward Elgar visited Settle on many occasions to visit his friend Dr Charles William Buck. There is a blue plaque at Cravendale to commemorate this.

Education
Settle has two schools, with Settle Primary School and Settle College. Settle Middle School closed as part of the money-saving measures taken by North Yorkshire County Council.
To the west of the town is Giggleswick School, one of the principal private schools in the North of England, founded in 1512.

Notable people
Richard Bache (1737–1811), merchant, American Postmaster General and son-in-law of Benjamin Franklin
George Birkbeck (1776–1841), founder of the Mechanics' Institutes; Birkbeck, University of London is named after him
Reverend Benjamin Waugh (1839–1908) founder of the NSPCC, commemorated by a plaque on what is now the Neil Wright Estate Agents in Settle town square
George Howson (1860–1919), reforming headmaster
Francis Morphet Twisleton (1873–1917), military leader and letter writer
Theodore Rigg (1888–1972), agricultural chemist
Annice Sidwells (1902–2001), radio singer
Claire Brooks (1931–2008), lawyer and politician
Don Wilson (1937–2012), England and Yorkshire cricketer
Susan Brookes (born circa 1943/44), television chef, born in Settle
Mike Harding (born 1944), singer and comedian
Emma Lonsdale (sportswoman – skiing) (born 1984), Winter Olympian 2014
James Newman (born 1985), singer, songwriter and the representative for the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 and 2021
John Newman (born 1990), soul singer
Dr James Frederic Riley FRSE (1912–1985) radiologist and finder of the link between mast cells and asthma
James Brown, guitarist from Pulled Apart by Horses attended Settle College

See also
Castleberg Hospital

References

External links

 Settle & the 3 Peaks History
 Caves in the Settle area
 Website for Settle Charter Market. Held on Tuesdays
 North Craven Historical Research Group
 Four town walks on history of Settle – Richard Preston and the Folly
 Museum of North Craven Life at The Folly

Towns in North Yorkshire
Market towns in North Yorkshire
Civil parishes in North Yorkshire
Craven District
Ribblesdale

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Minnesota Twins: Former All-Star Jim "Mudcat" Grant dies at 85
By Otto Johnson
Former Minnesota Twins pitcher Jim 'Mudcat' Grant acknowledges the crowd against the Cleveland Indians. (Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images) /
Former All-Star Jim "Mudcat" Grant passed away at the age of 85 on Saturday afternoon, marking the second former Minnesota Twins pitcher (after Mike Marshall) to pass away in the month of June:
The entire Minnesota Twins organization is saddened by the death of former pitcher Jim "Mudcat" Grant, who passed away at the age of 85. RIP Mudcat. pic.twitter.com/C5I9Bap9Yo
— Minnesota Twins (@Twins) June 12, 2021
Grant was a key member of the 1965 Twins team that won the pennant, posting a 21-7 record and a 3.30 ERA. He became the first Black pitcher to win 20 games in an MLB season that year and started three games in the World Series that year.
He won two of them, and lost one, finishing the Series with a 2.74 ERA. Though he only pitched in Minnesota for three and a half seasons, his iconic nickname and performance in '65 made him a legend in Twins territory for years to come and he was included on the list of the Twins' best pitchers of the decade.
His legacy on baseball was felt far further than just Minnesota. Mudcat Grant played his first game in 1958, eleven years after baseball first integrated, but faced an incredibly hard fight against racism in baseball, including from his own coach. Grant persevered through it all, and when his playing career was finished (and even a little before), Grant became an advocate for black ballplayers.
Grant put together and wrote a book on the Black Aces, the fifteen black pitchers who have won 20 games in the MLB: Himself, Vida Blue, Al Downing, Bob Gibson, Dwight Gooden, Ferguson Jenkins, Sam Jones, Don Newcombe, Mike Norris, David Price, J. R. Richard, CC Sabathia, Dave Stewart, Dontrelle Willis, and Earl Wilson.
His work made him one of the most respected former pitchers in baseball, and his broadcasting abilities (and singing voice) were legendary. Grant will be greatly missed, and the Twins and all of baseball mourn his passing.
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Q: JointJS - handling a Link Delete click Once a link is created, hovering over it presents the red (X) to delete it.
Clicking this will fire a sequence of events
(collected by subscribing to the 'all' event):

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*cell:pointerdown

*link:pointerdown

*cell:pointermove (x5, seems dubious)

*cell:pointerup

after trolling through the documentation & spending too long digging into the param objects of these events, I see nothing that could be used to effectively know if the link is about to be deleted or not.
Surely I'm missing something obvious?
I could compare against the graph's links collection between pointerdown and pointerup, but that's pretty ugly.

A: If you want to listen to a remove event which is triggered by the 'X' on the link (JointJS calls these mouseover elements 'link-tool'):
You can pass an event to the SVG element, which will be triggered on your joint.dia.Paper, like this:
    let link = new joint.dia.Link({
        source: getLink(conn.source),
        target: getLink(conn.target),
        attr: {},
        router: {name: 'metro'},
        customAttr: {fullSource: conn.source, fullTarget: conn.target},
        toolMarkup: [
            '<g class="link-tool">',
            '<g class="tool-remove" event="tool:remove">',
            '<circle r="11" />',
            '<path transform="scale(.8) translate(-16, -16)" d="M24.778,21.419 19.276,15.917 24.777,10.415 21.949,7.585 16.447,13.087 10.945,7.585 8.117,10.415 13.618,15.917 8.116,21.419 10.946,24.248 16.447,18.746 21.948,24.248z"/>',
            '<title>Remove link.</title>',
            '</g>',
            '**<g event="link:options">**',
            '<circle r="11" transform="translate(25)"/>',
            '<path fill="white" transform="scale(.55) translate(29, -16)" d="M31.229,17.736c0.064-0.571,0.104-1.148,0.104-1.736s-0.04-1.166-0.104-1.737l-4.377-1.557c-0.218-0.716-0.504-1.401-0.851-2.05l1.993-4.192c-0.725-0.91-1.549-1.734-2.458-2.459l-4.193,1.994c-0.647-0.347-1.334-0.632-2.049-0.849l-1.558-4.378C17.165,0.708,16.588,0.667,16,0.667s-1.166,0.041-1.737,0.105L12.707,5.15c-0.716,0.217-1.401,0.502-2.05,0.849L6.464,4.005C5.554,4.73,4.73,5.554,4.005,6.464l1.994,4.192c-0.347,0.648-0.632,1.334-0.849,2.05l-4.378,1.557C0.708,14.834,0.667,15.412,0.667,16s0.041,1.165,0.105,1.736l4.378,1.558c0.217,0.715,0.502,1.401,0.849,2.049l-1.994,4.193c0.725,0.909,1.549,1.733,2.459,2.458l4.192-1.993c0.648,0.347,1.334,0.633,2.05,0.851l1.557,4.377c0.571,0.064,1.148,0.104,1.737,0.104c0.588,0,1.165-0.04,1.736-0.104l1.558-4.377c0.715-0.218,1.399-0.504,2.049-0.851l4.193,1.993c0.909-0.725,1.733-1.549,2.458-2.458l-1.993-4.193c0.347-0.647,0.633-1.334,0.851-2.049L31.229,17.736zM16,20.871c-2.69,0-4.872-2.182-4.872-4.871c0-2.69,2.182-4.872,4.872-4.872c2.689,0,4.871,2.182,4.871,4.872C20.871,18.689,18.689,20.871,16,20.871z"/>',
            '<title>Link options.</title>',
            '</g>',
            '</g>'
        ].join('')
    });

And then you can listen to exactly the "tool:remove", or however you called it, event:
    paper.on('tool:remove', function(evt, linkView) {
        console.log("Removing link" + linkView.model.id);
        linkView.model.remove();
    })

A: You can listen on graph remove event to see if a link was deleted:
graph.on('remove', function(cell, collection, opt) {
   if (cell.isLink()) {
      // a link was removed  (cell.id contains the ID of the removed link)
   }
})

A: //deletion of link from  diagram
paper.on('tool:remove', function(linkView, evt) {
    var confirmValue=confirm('Delete Flow ?', function(result) {
    });
    //alert(confirmValue);
    if(confirmValue) {
        var IsDeleteStep=false;
        //check whether user needs to delete the step also
        if(confirm('Do You want to delete the step also ?')){
            IsDeleteStep=true;
        }

        console.log("Removing link" + linkView);
        var pathLabel = linkView.model.attributes.labels[0].attrs.text.text;
        var destLabel=linkView.targetView.model.attributes.attrs[".tooltip"].text;
        if(typeof linkView.sourceView.model.attributes.attrs[".tooltip"] != 'undefined') {
            srcLabel=linkView.sourceView.model.attributes.attrs[".tooltip"].text;
        } else {
            srcLabel="source";
        }

        var graphJSON=gph.toJSON();
        var cells=graphJSON.cells;
        var linkid="";
        var rid="";
        var eid="";
        for(var i=0;i<cells.length;i++) {
            if(typeof cells[i].fid != 'undefined') {
                console.log("new=>"+cells[i].fid.val);
                if(cells[i].fid.val == linkView.model.attributes.fid.val) {
                    linkid = cells[i].id;
                    if(typeof cells[i].eid != 'undefined') {
                        eid = cells[i].eid.val;
                    }
                    if(typeof cells[i].rid !='undefined') {
                        rid = cells[i].rid.val;
                    }
                    //rid = cells[i].rid.val;
                    //alert("fid found=>"+cells[i].fid.val);
                }
            }
        }
        var str="";
        var stepId="";
        link=gph.getCell(linkid);

        console.log(link.toJSON().cid);
       // alert("link json=>"+link.toJSON().cid);
        //alert(link.toJSON().cid.cid);
        //alert(link.toJSON().sid.sid);
        if(typeof link.toJSON().cid!='undefined' &&
                typeof link.toJSON().cid.cid!='undefined'){
            stepId=link.toJSON().cid.cid;
        } else {
            stepId=link.toJSON().sid.sid;
        }

        if(link!="") {
            var linkjson=link.toJSON();
            var jid=link.id;

            str+="&linkId="+linkjson["id"];
            var source = gph.getCell(jid).getSourceElement();
            var target = gph.getCell(jid).getTargetElement();

            gph.removeCells([gph.getCell(jid)]);
            //if target is isolated then target to be deleted
            if(gph.isSink(target)&&gph.isSource(target)) {
                var targetjson=target.toJSON();
                str+="&targetId="+targetjson["id"];
                gph.removeCells([target]);
            }
            var sourceJson = source.toJSON();
            //if source is isolated then src to be deleted &&sourceJson["type"]!="fsa.StartState"
            if(gph.isSink(source)&&gph.isSource(source)) {
                var srcjson=source.toJSON();
                str+="&sourceId="+srcjson["id"];
                gph.removeCells([source]);
            }

            if(eid==""||rid==""){
                return false;
            }

            if(typeof link.toJSON().fid == 'undefined'){
                return false;
            }

            if(IsDeleteStep){
                str+="&stepId="+stepId;
            }

            if(link.attributes.drawnFrom.val=="source"){
                str+="&eid="+eid+"&ruleId="+rid+"&displayViewRule=true";
                str+="&flowId="+linkView.model.attributes.fid.val;
                str+="&jsonDiagram="+JSON.stringify(gph.toJSON());
                window.location.href="ManageRule.action?deleteFlow="+str;
            }
        }

    } else {
            return false;
          }
    /*
    var cnfrm=confirm(" Flow ?");
    if(cnfrm) {

    } else {
        return false;
    } */

   // linkView.model.remove();
});


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we got there fairly early so got to see all the pandas! even baby Bao-Bao!
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the zoo has a new splash pad area by the sealions - it was PERFECT on this hot day!
every 30 or so seconds, a gush of water comes from underneath that big rock as well.
my kids were basically in heaven!
we even strolled up to the elephant area right on time for a demo! the kids loved it!
it was a great day to be visiting the National Zoo!


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In British Columbia, driving without winter tires will not void an insurance policy in the event of a claim, but in a scenario in which a driver has crashed and winter tires may have helped to avoid it, it may be a deciding factor in determining fault, ICBC (Insurance Corporation of British Columbia) said.
"Drivers are always responsible for ensuring their vehicles are properly equipped for road conditions, just like making sure your wipers and headlamps are working well on dark and rainy nights," an ICBC release says.
"Driving without winter tires will not void your insurance in the event of a claim or mean that you are automatically at-fault for a crash. However, if you get in a crash where winter tires could have helped it may be a deciding factor in determining whether or how much you are at-fault."
The B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure can also designate that winter tires are required on certain roads and highways – usually in northern B.C. and the Southern Interior.
"If you are driving on these roads without winter tires, police can ticket you and make you turn back," ICBC says.
PS. For past articles relating to insurance, safety, and loss prevention, please scroll through the "read our blog – Guthrie News & Views" section in our website noted below.


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Such a plot can easily be shown in SystemModelPlot.
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Here is a limerick entitled "April Fool." Unfortunately, I did not run across this one until today. Alas.
Now we can't use the schoolhouse 'til May.
Here is the eighth installment of advice on How to be Happy Though Married. Enjoy!
Last month I shared a few oxymoronic quotations from the realm of World Literature. This month we will stay in World Literature, but focus specifically on "Shakespeare." Enjoy!
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So, You Think You Are Funny?!
Some jokes you run across really are funny; some are just lame (we sometimes laugh out of politeness, or perhaps do not laugh at all). Here are a few I ran across lately . . . you decide into which category you'd place them.
Source: AARP Bulletin, October 2018, p. 54.


Over the next few years, a lot of interesting 3D printed medical innovations are set to become medical realities. 3D bioprinted blood vessels, tissues, even organs are all on its way. However, one Nottingham PhD student shows us that 3D printing technology can do a lot more for the medical world than just bioprinting. For Fergal Coulter, a lecturer and PhD candidate at the College of Art & Design and Build Environment at the Nottingham Trent University, is using 3D printing and scanning techniques to create artificial muscles.
This project is all about a very special kind of artificial muscles: Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEA). While perfect for a variety of medical applications – he refers to examples such as cardiac assist pumps and tools that can help with sphincter paralysis - these DEAs can even be used in 3D printed bio-robotic prosthetics, so these can potentially really make a big difference.
And as he explains to 3ders.org, these DEAs are essentially rubber membranes covered with electrodes. 'DEA are created by printing conductive and stretchable electrodes on either side of a thin rubber membrane (in this case Silicone). The membranes can be stacked to become many layers thick. When a voltage is applied to the electrodes, the opposite charges on either electrode attract to each other, and this results in a squashing of the rubber and therefore an overall elongation,' Fergal explains. A video of that movement can be seen in below. But as you can imagine, these can take a lot of shapes and forms for a lot of different applications.
So where does 3D printing come into with this process? Well, as part of the project, Fergal has begun 3D scanning and 3D printing on inflated structures (silicone balloons)using multiple layers of hard silicone (Shore A 73 Hardness to be precise) to create gorgeous, but functional structures. As he explains, this makes the DEA much more efficient. 'A critical aspect of DEA is that they work much more efficiently when the rubber is stretched, and held in tension. It is for this reason that I inflate my balloons (to impart a pre-strain). To hold some of this tension I extrude a hard silicone support frame over the entire surface of the 'balloon',' Fergal tells us.
And the hexachiral structures visible in the photos are simply geometric designs capable of collapsing and expanding uniformly, a very useful when covering something that deflates and inflates. 'When the pneumatic strain is removed (i.e. the balloon is deflated) after the support structure has hardened/cured, the entire assembly can collapse in a uniform manner, without buckling or wrinkling. When the compression of the support structure is equal to the tension in the balloon membrane, this is termed a Minimum Energy Structure,' he adds.
As he explains, most of the design work revolved around scanned surfaces and Rhino3D/Grasshopper software, though he had to work with quite a lot of custom code as well. 'The toolpath geometries and movement speed GCode are generated in Grasshopper also. Rather than using Repetier or similar host software, I had to write my own, as I've a few Arduino controllers and a RAMPS system to keep co-ordinated while I print,' he says.
Check out this unusual 3D printing process here.
The idea is that this research will be continued in the near future, though Fergal is currently in the process of completing his PhD thesis. '[I'm] currently looking for a research institution or university that would be interested in continuing this work. I will be publishing my methods over the next few months, so I hope other researchers and makers can have a go printing inflated structures too. It is fun, but quite a challenge!' Let's hope he finds the opportunity to continue his fascinating (and potentially very useful) application of 3D printed technology.


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Q: Форма Javascript Как сделать так, чтобы при вводе в форму HTML(<input form и т.д.>) введенное значение сохранялось в переменной Javascript
A: Событие срабатывает, когда поле теряет фокус и его значение изменено:
<input type="text" onchange="var a=this.value; alert('Value is ' + a);">

Событие срабатывает, когда нажата клавиша:
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Massive cost, meager benefit
Evidence review reveals little, if any, clinical benefit to drug that costs Medicare hundreds of millions of dollars annually
By Erik Robinson December 13, 2021 Portland, Oregon
Physicians and researchers at Oregon Health & Science University and Oregon State University studied the costs and efficacy of the drug Acthar and found weak results. (Getty Images)
An extremely expensive drug used for multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune disorders provides very little, if any, clinical benefit, according to a new evidence review published today by physicians and researchers at Oregon Health & Science University and Oregon State University.
The review, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, found the clinical benefit of the drug Acthar (rACTH) is quite low compared to less-expensive alternatives.
The review screened a total of 41 studies. Few compared Acthar against standard medications such as corticosteroids and, of those that did, results indicated weak if any benefit compared to placebo or steroids.
Daniel Hartung, Pharm.D., M.P.H. (OHSU)
"We found no evidence where it was a conclusive slam dunk that this drug was superior to very cheap corticosteroids," said senior author Daniel Hartung, Pharm.D., M.P.H., associate professor in the OHSU-OSU College of Pharmacy.
Acthar carries a current list price of almost $40,000 for 5-mililiter vial with 80 units per milliliter. Depending on the dose, a typical course of therapy with Acthar for an adult would be 40 to 80 units a day and could easily exceed $100,000, compared with $100 or less with generic oral corticosteroids for the same condition. Repeated courses of therapy can add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. For the average person in the Medicare program, Acthar costs about $318,000 per year.
Multiple sclerosis and infantile spasms appeared to be the most potentially useful indication for Acthar, but even there results were mixed.
"In the absence of evidence from head-to-head (randomized controlled trials) comparing rACTH to synthetic corticosteroids, continued use of rACTH should be discouraged by professional societies and not covered by payers such as Medicare," the authors conclude.
The new study extends previous research focused on the accelerated cost of drugs to treat multiple sclerosis.
Researchers at OHSU and Oregon State previously published studies on Acthar in 2017. They found that a relatively small number of clinicians were prescribing a minimally effective drug that cost Medicare more than $1 billion over a five-year period and more than $500 million in 2015 alone.
"This is an excessively priced drug that has been aggressively marketed in recent years for a variety of indications," Hartung said. "We found that the evidence base is very weak at best and definitely doesn't justify the hundreds of millions of dollars that are spent annually on it by public payers, specifically the Medicare program."
Originally approved for clinical use in the 1950s, the medication has shot up in price in recent years. Although it's indicated for a variety of common conditions including rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and nephrotic syndrome, the Food and Drug Administration approved Acthar for those conditions decades ago when requirements were less strict; no clinical trials were required at that time.
The new study digs into the clinical evidence, and found it lacking based on the literature review published today in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Hartung said that Acthar may be an outlier among expensive pharmaceuticals, but it's also indicative of other drugs with marginal benefits and high costs.
"It embodies many of the worst parts of our health care system," he said.
The lead author is Kim Tran, Pharm.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the OHSU/OSU College of Pharmacy. In addition to Hartung, other co-authors include Curtis Harrod, Ph.D., M.P.H., research director for the Center for Evidence-based Policy at OHSU; Dennis Bourdette, M.D., professor emeritus and former chair of neurology in the OHSU School of Medicine; David Cohen, M.D., professor of medicine (nephrology and hypertension) in the OHSU School of Medicine and a clinician in the VA Portland Health Care System; and Atul Deodhar, M.D., professor of medicine (arthritis and rheumatic diseases) in the OHSU School of Medicine.
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Daniel Hartung, Pharm.D., M.P.H.
JAMA Internal Medicine: Characterization of the Clinical Evidence Supporting Repository Corticotropin Injection for FDA-Approved Indications
Expensive drug driving up Medicare expenditures without evidence of greater efficacy
Medicare spent more than $650 million in two years on a drug prescribed by less than 1 percent of physicians: study
Researchers find alarming rise in cost of MS drugs over past two decades


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His Vision May Be Fading, But One Homeowner's Christmas Lights Shine Brighter Each Year
By Dave Bender December 12, 2017 at 10:18 pm
Filed Under:christmas, news wire, Sacramento News
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Night 3 of the 12 Daves of Christmas featured a big, bold display from a Sacramento homeowner.
Tony Levy's lights are even brighter this year on Eagleson Court, and for a good reason.
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"I actually am legally blind. I have macular degeneration, so I don't see very well at all," he said. "As a result, I continue to add more and more lights, so that the effect is greater on me. Even though everybody else gets to see this 'wow' effect, I get the 'oh, OK, cool.' So I add more and more, so I get a chance to get that effect everyone else does."
He estimates it takes about 100 hours to put up the massive display, starting when the Halloween decorations come down.
"I get to see all the neighborhood kids come by and run through the lights and play and scream and have a good time, and it really makes me feel like I'm experiencing these lights that same way," he said.
As far as the planning, he says it's all in his head.
"I end up doing like an Einstein experiment where I do a mental envision of what it's going to look like and lay it out in my head, then go ahead and put it out on the lawn put it out in the yard and hopefully it looks exactly like what I think how it's going to look in my head," he said.
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