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Exclusive: Cancer Patient and Veteran of "The Forgotten War" Gets His Wish 60 Years Later
Robert Mountz in his Navy days during Korean War
Robert "Bob" Mountz, 85, a hardy, resilient and compassionate veteran of the Korean War, which many have rightly called "The Forgotten War," is battling stage IV lung cancer and has one simple wish: to revisit the ship at the center of his wartime memories.
Mountz, who served on the USS Midway as a corpsman caring for sick and wounded sailors from 1952 to 1954, has not seen the mighty aircraft carrier since he was honorably discharged 60 years ago. But thanks to two worthy charities, Mountz will get his wish and set foot on the legendary ship in San Diego next week.
Mountz, who was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic lung cancer last summer and started chemotherapy in July, was selected as a deserving wish recipient by Home Care Assistance, a Palo Alto-based home care company, and Wish of a Lifetime. Both companies are dedicated to celebrating the lives of older adults, including cancer patients and veterans, and giving voices and faces to an often-undervalued population.
Mountz, who's still going through chemo and lives in Hamilton, Ind., maintains an infectiously positive attitude and often talks fondly about his time on the Midway. Mountz can tell you that the ship served for an unprecedented 47 years and saw action in the Vietnam War and was the Persian Gulf flagship in Operation Desert Storm in 1991. The Midway is now resting majestically in the San Diego Harbor, where it's been transformed into a popular military museum.
The USS Midway on the open sea - midwaysailor.com
According to Mountz's daughter Laura Miller, visiting the longest-serving Navy aircraft carrier of the 20th century would highlight a part of his life that is very important to him. When I asked him what it will be like to see the Navy ship again, Mountz said he expects to feel "some kind of euphoria."
Mountz, his childhood friend Wilma Underwood and his daughters Deborah Mountz and Laura Miller will be received by a special welcoming party of museum staffers on board the Midway and get a private tour of the ship, including the sick bay where as a corpsman Mountz spent most of his time. The tour will be led appropriately by a fellow former corpsman.
Mountz, who worked on his grandfather's farm tending to cattle and crops from ages 15 through 21, joined the Navy in 1950 and was sent to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station at Waukegan, Ill., just before Christmas for boot camp.
"We didn't get any uniforms right away so we had to stand in line outside in our civilian clothes and it was 17 below zero," he recalled. "There were only two of us in a barracks that housed 240 people, as most waited to join after Christmas. So it was quite a cultural shock being home with mom and dad one day and the next sitting in a 240-man barracks with one other person that you did not know."
Robert Mountz recently on an Indiana farm
Mountz first saw the mighty Midway in September 1952 when he was assigned to the ship, which was in dry dock at Portsmouth, VA.
"At the time she was getting some refitting done and her bottom was being sand blasted and repainted," he said. "Imagine my amazement to see this huge ship out of the water. She stood 13 stories high, six decks below the water line and seven decks above. She is more than three football fields long and housed 3,000 plus personnel. She weighs 65 thousand tons and could maintain approximately 30 knots [37 mph]."
Mountz said the passageways were so intricate that the first few days he learned where he worked, slept and ate. "It was a week before I ventured topside and learned how to get from here to there," he says
At the end of his second cruise he was relieved by the F.D.R. (same-class carrier) and returned to Norfolk, VA, where he was discharged in October 1954 as a HM-3. He was honorably discharged with a Good Conduct Medal, a European Theatre Medal, and another that he has forgotten.
After discharge from the Navy he returned home to Indiana to begin civilian life. "For most of my working years I was a self-employed general contractor remodeling homes, adding room additions, and building new homes for sale," he said. "I completed my last project in September 2014 at age 85."
Mountz says he is "really excited" about boarding the Midway again after all these decades. "I look forward to getting down in the sickbay and seeing where my desk was. I've never been to San Diego before. I think I'll really enjoy the area."
As for his stage IV lung cancer, which he is still bravely fighting, Mountz takes it in stride. "I must have smoked too many Pall Mall's on the ship," he says.
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Croce's Park West in San Diego: The Coolest Place in Town
Two iconic restaurants indigenous to their respective cities -- Tavern on the Green in New York and Croce's Restaurant & Jazz Bar in San Diego -- recently closed their doors. But not to worry, both of these venerable eateries have been happily resurrected. Tavern on the Green has reinvented itself in the same lofty Central Park West locale at 66th Street with a shining $15 million upgrade by owner and filmmaker Jim Caiola. Croce's, too, has reopened. Well, sort of. It's not in the same spot and doesn't have exactly the same name. Croce's Restaurant & Jazz Bar, which was located in San Diego's historic Gaslamp District, is now Croce's Park West on Fifth Avenue in Bankers Hill, just west of Balboa Park.
Tavern on the Green has a more open, accessible feel now and has regained its buzz and legendary status. Croce's Park West, too, has a touch of urbane Manhattan, as you can see from the black and white pic above. But it still wisely reflects the So-Cal casual/classy vibe that defines everything for which proprietor Ingrid Croce is known.
Croce's Park West owner Ingrid Croce keeping the customers satisfied
Ingrid is a remarkable woman, and a singular pioneer of downtown San Diego's restaurant and live music scene. Her move to nearby Bankers Hill is good news for people like me who loved the old Croce's but didn't dig the raucous Gaslamp, which has been taken over by eternally annoying and typically drunk twentysomething hipsters.
Located a few miles away from the chaos of the Gaslamp, Croce's Park West is my new favorite destination in San Diego to eat (lunch, brunch, dinner) and hear live music with family and friends. It's near perfection. Without question the coolest place in town.
The menu is upscale but very American. Nothing too foo-foo here, but it's all about quality. The Charbroiled Prime New York Steak, for example, is one of the best steaks I've ever consumed outside my native Iowa. It's topped with gorgonzola and served with crispy brussels sprouts, Bordeaux sauce, and Park West Fries. The yummiest fries you'll ever taste, they're topped with smoked sea salt and are served with honey roasted garlic-lemon thyme aioli, agave whole grain mustard, and sriracha ketchup. I can't pronounce it, either, but trust me it's delish'.
Ingrid instinctively knows how to run a restaurant and make every customer feel right at home. She's a warm, intelligent, perceptive woman who happens to be a foodie without being pretentious. I never thought that was possible.
Dave Scott & the New Jazz Ensemble perform at Croce's Park West
While the food and atmosphere at Ingrid's new place are nonpareil, it's the music that still reigns. Croce's Park West pays perpetual homage to the melody makers (check out the music art on the wall). It's a place where musicians love to play because they know the owner respects them.
My wife and I recently caught a lively set in Croce's Expatriate Room by Eve Selis, the remarkable Americana singer with whom I was honored to have sung on "Settling Down," a duet I wrote the day I proposed to my wife. Eve is a dynamo, a powerful but also sensitive musical force of nature and crowd pleaser who's among the best singers San Diego has ever produced. If there was any justice she would be a superstar. But she has a very devoted following.
Every musician I've seen at Croce's Park West looks happy to be there. Tonight the place features sax' master Rickey Woodard, who's played with Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, among other legends. Ingrid loves and respects musicians because she is one. She was in a folk duo with her late husband, Jim Croce, who of course went on to become a hugely popular solo singer-songwriter who tragically died in a plane crash in 1973 at the height of his fame.
Talent runs in the family. Twenty years after Jim sadly died, I co-wrote a profile of Ingrid and Jim's son, AJ Croce, for People magazine. It was among the first national stories on AJ, a gifted jazz and pop singer-songwriter who still makes fantastic records. AJ was a baby when his famous father died. But he is proud of his musical heritage.
Ingrid and Jim Croce
I was shocked when I heard that Ingrid was shutting the Gaslamp restaurant's doors. It was the result of a dispute with a landlord who simply had no clue how beloved Croce's is. The music of the basement club below was apparently driving Croce's customers away. And the landlord just didn't get it.
But the new place tops the old place. It's less hectic getting in and out of there, for one thing. It's in a not-so-rowdy neighborhood yet still in the heart of the city. It is above all else California cool, a great place to meet friends, entertain out-of-town visitors, or just chill and listen to the best live music in San Diego.
Ingrid has come so far. When she met Jim in the 1960s, she was a 16-year-old artist, gymnast and folk singer and Jim was a sophomore at Villanova. He asked her if she would sing with him, they became a duo and landed a record deal with Capitol Records. And yes, they fell deeply in love somewhere along the way.
When Ingrid learned she was going to have a baby, Jim wrote "Time in a Bottle," "You Don't Mess Around with Jim," "Operator" and "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown." All four of these songs have of course become American pop classics, along with several more of Jim's compositions such as "I Got a Name" and "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song." It's preposterous that Jim Croce has not yet been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
When Jim and Ingrid moved to San Diego in 1973, downtown was mostly inhabited by drug dealers and other lowlifes. But defiantly, Jim told her that they should open their own place on the corner of Fifth Avenue and F Street. Jim died just a week later.
Ingrid, suddenly a widowed, single mom, eventually opened that restaurant and music club to honor her late husband. And the rest is San Diego history. Ingrid's success story continues. She and husband Jimmy Rock, my friend and fellow Iowa native, are in the new Croce's club most nights making sure everyone is having a good time.
They've both worked very hard to become arguably San Diego's best known restaurateurs. And the new place continues to honor Jim Croce's legacy. Croce's Park West is the ideal venue for good food and live music for grownups: Jazz. Soul. Pop. Country. Singer-songwriters. It's all there. And I'd keep writing about it here, but I don't have time: I'm heading down to Croce's right now with my wife for dinner and some music. See you there?
Renowned Chinese-American Doctor Joins Global Effort to Heal Lymphoma Cancer Patients
Dr. Helen Hu
If there were more doctors like Helen Hu, the world would be a better and certainly healthier place. With her vast experience in both Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and modern Western medicine, Hu represents the future of all medicine, which inevitably will embrace the best from both of these disparate but essential worlds.
Raised in a traditional family in Beijing, Hu came to America nearly 25 years ago with a dream of introducing Americans to TCM, which she's studied since since she was 12. Hu, whose medical practice is in San Diego, was taught by several TCM masters who inspired her and helped her establish a strong foundation. She also gained invaluable experience at an early age by treating local farmers and villagers in the rural countryside during China's Cultural Revolution that began in 1966.
After high school, Hu shifted gears and studied Western medicine at China's prestigious Hebei Medical School, where she was able to fuse her background in TCM with the principles of the modern world. Of course, that did nothing but greatly enhance her medical technique and her ability to help patients. Hu looks at the root cause of any health condition and brings the best of both Eastern and Western disciplines, and a large dose of compassion, to her patients. And yes, I am one of them.
Hu is also an acclaimed author whose remarkable new book, Chinese Food Therapy Rx for Self Healing (Volume I) and Chinese Food Therapy Rx for Longevity and Beauty (Volume II), provides hundreds of recipes to promote well being and beauty based on thousands of years of wisdom. The book is unquestionably the most comprehensive and pioneering work I've read in terms of educating the public about natural healing with food, and coaching people to achieve the ultimate goal of longevity and a healthy mind, body and spirit. Yes, folks, listen to Dr. Hu: Food really can save your life and even fight and prevent cancer.
Lymphoma On The Rise In China
Hu's vast knowledge of China's healthcare system and its people, as well as her awareness of modern advances in cancer treatment, will be of great value to me as we begin the next phase of my professional life: to inform and inspire lymphoma patients and their families in China and then, subsequently, worldwide. It's a profound and rather daunting mission, but it's something for which I believe I am qualified. For the past 15 years I've been a global lymphoma patient advocate. I've spoken to and informed and hopefully inspired thousands of cancer patients and their families, including people in China and around the world.
I can tell you with certainty that the Chinese people are hungry for more knowledge when it comes to diseases such as cancer. I can also tell you that, from what I have seen, healthcare professionals in China, including oncologists, are just as eager to get this information to the Chinese people. As I mentioned on this news blog recently, the incidence of lymphoma, the type of cancer I've battled for the last 18 years, is increasing by more than six percent each year in China. The person who has shared this information with the media is Dr. Zhu Jun, director of the Beijing Cancer Hospital's lymphoma department.
But this information still isn't widely known among the Chinese people, who are very familiar with certain types of cancer including lung cancer, but not so much with lymphoma (Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's). Jun told the South China Morning Post that knowledge of lymphoma even among many doctors in China is minimal. And I just want to change that. And apparently so do China's leading doctors.
A recent epidemiology survey concluded that lymphoma is now the ninth most common cancer among Chinese males on the mainland. That's still not quite as high as the United States, where lymphoma is the seventh most common cancer in males and females. But it is increasing rapidly, and that's cause for concern.
Much of the future lymphoma research in China will and should revolve around lymphoma. Researchers are seeing an especially significant and alarming increase in the disease among China's young people in urban areas. Lymphoma experts in China attribute that largely to environmental pollution. And that's not a surprise. As I reported for Newsweek, China's air remains dangerously polluted, especially in Beijing and other major cities.
The Project's First Phase
A cancer diagnosis is overwhelming and frightening. But it can also be challenging in a positive way and even enlightening and uplifting, especially if you are aware of all your treatment options. A cancer diagnosis certainly makes you appreciate the precious gift that is your life and the loving family and friends who we should never take for granted.
My goal is to spread this simple but vital message of hope and knowledge globally. The project begins by sharing information with the Chinese people via the existing healthcare operations and organizations in China, as well as exporting China's vast knowledge of both TCM and modern medicine to the rest of the world.
Our hope is that this project simply facilitates a new conversation in China about lymphoma.
The first phase will include the distribution of translated editions of both of my books, Hope Begins in the Dark and Snowman on the Pitcher's Mound, in China. The "Hope" book, which chronicles the lives of 40 lymphoma survivors, will be updated to include the life stories of lymphoma survivors in China.
The project is also in the process of building and designing smartphone APPS for China's cancer patients and their families that will
The project will also include the distribution of information to lymphoma patients in China and their families telling them about the disease and about currently available as well as forthcoming treatments, both from the pharmaceutical side and the TCM side.
The project is working with China government officials, several of the top cancer hospitals in China and the U.S., internationally known oncologists and lymphoma researchers, pharmaceutical and biotech companies in China and the U.S., healthcare and environmental companies, and highly-regarded nonprofit organizations.
The latter include the Confucius Institute at San Diego State University and the Asian Heritage Society, an educational and philanthropic nonprofit organization based in San Diego
Helen Hu's Work to Merge East and West
My partnership with Dr. Hu and others will ideally lead to positive outcomes for patients in China and around the world. I just want to help people who are suffering and have a desire to learn more about their options and about ways of coping when you receive a cancer diagnosis.
The other simple but powerful message I want to send is that it is imperative moving forward that we embrace all sides of medicine, from what is currently looked upon in some circles as "traditional" to what is currently looked upon in some circles as "alternative." Whatever works is what I want in my regimen. I've beaten back stage IV cancer three times in the last two decades with this philosophy.
Many doctors in America still turn their noses up at anything holistic or not drug-based. Many absurdly dismiss any and all herbs and supplements because they are not monitored by the FDA. But those days are changing. American doctors like Hu and, to some degree, my doctors at the University of California San diego -- some of them, anyway -- thankfully embrace both sides of this divide. And more will, soon. The writing is on the wall.
While practicing Western medicine in China for nearly a decade, Hu became chairman of the Department of Cardiology at Hebei Hospital, as well as the president of the Hebei Young Physicians' Association. After arriving in the States in 1991, she began conducting clinical research on Cancer and other autoimmune diseases, and also become involved in a variety of clinical trials that were published in several renowned academic journals.
In 1997 she passed the USMLE (United States Medical License Exams) and subsequently began to formally study the practice of Chinese medicine. Hu graduated with a degree in Oriental Medicine (OMD) at South Baylo University and became a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist on both the National and State of California Boards of Acupuncture and Herbology.
In ancient times, Hu says, people lived closer to nature, in more integrated communities. Over thousands of years, through observation and by surviving many diseases and natural disasters, they "discovered how various foods promoted longevity and well being. Many of these longevity-promoting foods and herbs have been recorded in the history of Chinese medicine. Since food and herbs come from the same source, the principle of healing power in the herbs applies to the whole nature of food."
New Cancer Treatments and Studies in China
Hu's goal is to "educate and guide her readers to choose the right foods and treatments from TCM and Western medicine." That's our goal, too. It is significant that despite the lack of awareness of lymphoma among many of China's people and even many of its doctors, China has recently established a number of interesting partnerships with United States drug companies to fight lymphoma, and other cancers, with new, less toxic drugs as well as with aspects of TCM:
* ChinaBioToday reports that Cellular Biomedicine Group (CBMG), a joint China-US cell therapy company, has acquired a cancer immunotherapy technology from the Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing. This will lead to further development in China of this therapy, which has shown great promise in early trials for Hodgkin's lymphoma as well as acute lymphoblastic leukemia and advanced lung cancer.
* The Beijing Cancer Hospital I mentioned above, which is one of the largest cancer research and treatment centers in China, is establishing partnerships with such prestigious American cancer institutions as MD Anderson Cancer Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
* Innovent, one of China's largest biotechs, is studying eight antibody products, including one for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
* Casi Pharmaceuticals, a US-based bio-pharmaceutical company, is focused on meeting the unmet needs of cancer patients in China with several treatments, including Zevalin, a very effective radio-immunotherapy treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. As I reported here recently, Casi has announced that it is bringing Zevalin to China.
* And as China Economic Net recently reported, two Chinese scientists, Wang Zhenyi and Chen Zhu, won a top U.S. award recently by the U.S. National Foundation for Cancer Research for creating a remarkable new treatment that combines Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with Western medicine. The new therapy increased the five-year survival rate of patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) from 25 percent to 95 percent. In clinical trials, the Chinese researchers showed that arsenic trioxide, which has been used in TCM regimens for more than 2,000 years, is effective against APL. The treatment is now a standard for APL treatment around the world, China Economic Net reported, and "has turned one of the most fatal diseases into a highly curable one."
These and other studies show that China is becoming a real player in the global treatment of cancer, both with TCM and with modern Western-style medicine. The country clearly has one foot firmly planted now in the world of modern healthcare. But the other foot remains ensconced in its ancient healing traditions. And that's a good thing.
We can learn a lot from China's ancient healing methods, and its modern medical ventures. And China and its 1.3 billion people can of course learn much from us. That is the future of medicine. Working together with some of the oldest and newest ways of healing. Many more people will be saved.
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ASOMVEL UK Tour – March 2015
Ahead of the tour, ASOMVEL play a Camden Rocks showcase gig at The Barfly on Monday 9 February.
Tickets: http://po.st/CamdenRocksTix
Event: http://po.st/CRP0209
Formed in 1993 by guitarist Lenny Robinson and bassist/vocalist Jay-Jay Winter, ASOMVEL's first drummer was ex-Cathedral/Acid Reign man Mark Wharton, but "about ten" more came and went before the band recorded their first demo in 2001. After 2007's Full Moon Dog 10″ the power trio managed to thrash out their raucous debut LP Kamikaze in 2009 to much acclaim, ASOMVEL firmly establishing themselves as underdog cult heroes of the UK HM underground. Barely a year later, however, the band was shaken to its core when Jay-Jay Winter was killed in a road accident.
Although a devastating tragedy, Lenny knew that the band had to continue in tribute to the determined spirit of their founding frontman: "ASOMVEL could've died with him, but I was never gonna let that happen," affirms the axeman. ASOMVEL headlined their own inaugural Full Moon Dog Festival in Bradford in 2011 in honour of their fallen comrade, and have shared the stage with the likes of Carcass, Anvil, Grand Magus, and Orange Goblin. Asked how the band has changed, Lenny is unequivocal: "The band hasn't changed from the day we started it," he asserts. "It's something me and Jay believed in strongly; never change…ever! It's the downfall of a lotta bands, they think they have to grow musically for some reason, but they just end up out-clevering themselves."
When Will Palmer started up Bad Omen Records in 2013, his formative ambition was to coax a new album out of ASOMVEL, sending them into the studio with producer James 'Atko' Atkinson (Gentlemans Pistols) to record their second album, Knuckle Duster. "We wrote all the stuff really quick, off the cuff," says Lenny. "All the songs came together very easy, we didn't have to force anything. I would say it took no longer than 10 minutes to get the basic songs. We didn't try to jazz 'em up, we purposely kept them very basic, cos we like simplicity and we like it in the groove." Consequently, Knuckle Duster is a focused and fat-free expression of pissed off, Tanked-up, Venomous Motörized fury, but Atko wraps it up in a first class 'iron fist in a velvet glove' production job
The band are featured on the DVD Madder Than A Full Moon Dog (a souvenir of their 2012 Full Moon Dog Festival), and have been approached to write the music for a horror film starring Dee Snider, The Calicoon, but right now writing a new album is their priority. "We got a new line-up with Ralph, who was a natural choice given that he is Jay-Jay's nephew, and Larry Paterson formerly with Blaze Bayley, and we're coming out ugly"
ASOMVEL have toured with Grand Magus, and supported Carcass, Anvil, and Orange Goblin. A recent line-up change has powered the band forward, and armed with vocalist Ralph, and drummer Larry Paterson, ASOMVEL swiftly released Railroaded, a brand new track and video to showcase this new line-up.
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Michael Ware Journalist
Early Days (1986-2001)
Tommy Evans
Yuri Kozyrev
2007 | September 2007 | July 2007
OIO: "We don't need yet another report...to tell us this."
Rick Sanchez talks to both Michael and the WaPo's Thomas Ricks regarding the GAO report card.
Watch the clip, read the transcript...
TSR: "It ain't coming back."
Wolf asks Michael about today's WaPo/AP story that says that the new GAO report will give the benchmarks worse grades now than in July.
YWT: "Welcome to the future of a post-American Iraq."
Michael discusses Muqtada al-Sadr's call for the Mahdi militia to lay down their arms -- you know what they say about things sounding too good to be true? Yeah, same here.
TSR: "Iran is using its military strategy to help its political gains."
President Bush today raised the rhetoric level against Iran, and Wolf asks Michael about the ongoing Iranian "interference" within Iraq. He also talks about another weapon being supplied by Iran: a 240mm rocket (that's bigger than the Katyushas used by Hezbollah last summer.) One such rocket that landed at a US base had a 110-pound warhead ... that's no shoulder-fired missile!
LE: Ayad Allawi continues to position himself as Maliki successor
Wolf asks Michael for reaction to the Ayad Allawi interview earlier in the show in which he spoke further about the need to replace Maliki.
TWAW: Two segments: the 'Replace Maliki' controversy and assessing the strength of the insurgency
Michael does two segments in this week's program.
First up is a discussion about the replace-Maliki whirlwind that was stirred up this week by Ayad Allawi's new $300,000 ties-to-the-White-House PR firm. Also in this segment is Bobby Ghosh, Time magazine's new World Editor and former Baghdad Bureau Chief. (Although not, as Tom says, for the past four years; he became BC when Michael moved to CNN last year.)
The second segment focuses on the insurgency and whether we are making any gains against it. Also in this segment is Seth Jones, a terrorism analyst with the Rand Corporation.
Length: 7:18 / 5:45
TSR: "There is no government here... There's nothing here for America to work with."
Wolf talks to Michael about the latest political bloc to bail from parliament.
AC: "Everyone's planning on what they're going to do once America leaves."
John King does a summation of Sen. John Warner's call for a drawdown by Christmas, the swirling rumors, the NIE, the Allawi interference... and then asks Michael for some Baghdad perspective on all the chatter.
TSR: "There is no...single political figure who has even the vaguest prospect of unifying this country."
Michael talks to Wolf about the possibility of someone replacing al-Maliki -- certainly no-one immediately jumps to mind as being the Grand Unifying Theory for Iraq.
AC: "Of all his cabinet ministers, there's only three he can actually rely on."
Anderson speaks to Michael about the prospects for settling for less than a democratic Iraq. (He also attempts to speak to David Gergen, whose microphone never works, so we get twice as much Michael.)
LDT: Shorter version of the democracy piece
A cut-down version of the piece that aired on TSR, but with more complete graphics (identifying the Iraqi interviewees, for instance).
TSR: No democracy for Iraq?
Michael delivers a stunning piece on a new reality in Iraq: democracy may not be the solution. Among the ground commanders, it has become clear that a stable and secure Iraq is far more important than a democratic one. Until the civilian population has the basic necessities of life being met -- until, indeed, their lives are not constantly threatened -- the insurgency will continue to have a base to work from and to hide among.
YWT: More on Bush/Maliki
More commentary on President Bush's speech.
NR: "...in a government where power vests in those who control militia forces, this is a man without a militia. So really, Maliki can't deliver."
Michael responds to President Bush's speech this morning in which he expressed support for Prime Minister Maliki.
CNN.com: U.S. officials rethink hopes for Iraq democracy
U.S. officials rethink hopes for Iraq democracy
From Michael Ware and Thomas Evans
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Nightmarish political realities in Baghdad are prompting American officials to curb their vision for democracy in Iraq. Instead, the officials now say they are willing to settle for a government that functions and can bring security.
LDTW: "even with the surge...there's not enough boots on the ground"
Kitty Pilgrim fills in for Lou this weekend. This piece was not shown on Saturday, but leads the Sunday edition. Unfortunately (for our purposes) we lose the beginning to hurricane coverage, the hurricane status is up throughout most of it, and the transmission pops off completely at one point. Oh, and it looks like it was edited with a chainsaw. But anyway...
Michael, Suzanne Malveaux (in Crawford, Texas), and Barbara Starr (in DC), discuss the war, the September report, the possible reactions, etc.
TWAW: "...a much more Lebanon-style civil war once U.S. forces draw down..."
Tom Foreman talks to Michael about his embed in Diyala and -- incredibly -- whether or not we have a civil war in Iraq. (Seriously... is anyone still in doubt?)
AC: "You'll never be able to tame or defeat al Qaeda. They will be a lingering presence."
Anderson talks to Michael about yesterday's horrific truck bombing in northern Iraq, which is now said to have killed more than 500 people.
TSR: The Diyala embed
Michael's prepared piece from the Diyala embed is shown in full for the first time in the US. This is another amazing glimpse into the difficult work that our troops are doing in Iraq.
LDT: "The irony of the foreign terrorist listing is extraordinary."
Michael talks to Kitty Pilgrim about the terrorist designation, EFPs, and the possibility that General Petraeus will draw down some troop levels.
TSR: "In fact, it may even spur it on."
Michael talks to Miles O'Brien about the plans to label Iran's Revolutionary Guard as terrorists and gives a preview of his recorded piece from the Diyala embed.
AAM: "There's always a price for everything."
Michael starts off American Morning covering two stories: the White House is trying to get Iran's Revolutionary Guard listed as a terrorist organization (the first time an official branch of a country's military would be so branded) and a report that General Petraeus will recommend troop withdrawals in certain areas of Iraq.
(A slip of the tongue near the end of the report -- he mentions Mosul in the north and then says "Iran" in the south...I assume he meant Basra.)
AC: "...deaths are down because it's much harder to kill each other -- until the Americans withdraw and the real battle begins."
Anderson talks to Michael about today's report that the number of al Qaeda-style attacks and sectarian killings are down. Does this mean the surge is working? Like most things in this insane war, the answer is more complicated than it first appears...
(So this time around, we aren't even going to declare victory and then get out... we're going to declare that "only" 20 people being tortured to death every day in Baghdad is an acceptable figure; that the current state of ethnic cleansing and sectarian militias is okay with us; that leaving the citizens of this country without electricity and water and schools and doctors is reasonable... as long as it isn't happening to us. All this in a country that was no threat to us and had nothing to do with 9/11. Truly, Osama bin Laden could not have dreamed he would achieve this level of victory. Our Constitution shredded, our freedoms curtailed, the Muslim world furious at us, and the blood of thousands of innocents on our hands. In the days after 9/11, people gathered in the streets of Tehran to show support to America. How did we come to this?)
TWAW: "There's a lot of stuff that has to be sorted out, and it's not going to be to an American timetable."
Tom Foreman asks Michael whether the August recess -- both in Baghdad and DC -- will have any effect on the September benchmarks, and also what it will take to get the Iraqis to meet those goals that we are using to measure progress.


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Pinned by Press For TruthPress For Truth17 hours agoFirst time around he used cannabis "legalization" as his hot ticket issue during the (s)election…this time around he's going to use "irregular" immigration as the hot ticket issue during the election…On that note Canadians HATE what cannabis legalization has turned into, so how do you think we're going to like his policies on immigration?! Hint: Trudeau and his buddy Soros have other plans for this country and it doesn't involve you!


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San Francisco: Summer of Love Venues & Locations To See
by Evgeny · May 10, 2017
The Fillmore is one of the most well-known venues in San Francisco's music scene.
On the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, San Francisco is feeling groovy
By Mary Govoni
Haight-Ashbury is an interesting place. And this year, it's about to get even more outrageous. As 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of San Francisco's Summer of Love music festival, the celebration is going to be one for the history books.
Beginning in May, the festival will host more than 60 events, performances, exhibitions, and activities for visitors and locals alike to experience music, food, and culture of the city and its history. It's going to be hip, it's going to be groovy, and it's going to be a celebration of one of America's most unique neighborhoods.
The Summer of Love festival first took place in 1967, with more than 100,000 people — mostly young hippies — converging in one San Francisco district to enjoy the arts while simultaneously protesting the Vietnam War.
The original Summer of Love festival took place in 1967, this year marks its 50th anniversary.
The original Summer of Love festival is best summed up by Bob Weir, the Grateful Dead's guitarist performing at the event when he said "this festival, and Haight-Ashbury all together is about exploration, finding new ways of expression, and being aware of one's existence".
As the 50th year anniversary of the event approaches, the information regarding the events and performances can all be found on San Francisco's Summer of Love website.
The history of the festival is a rich one; it's a history worth exploring while in the San Francisco area to truly immerse yourself in the hippie-flower-child culture that makes it so unique.
We've compiled a list of historically significant and culturally vibrant locations in and around the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. The locations all have their ties to the Summer of Love festival as past hosts of the celebration. For music lovers, history buffs, and inquisitive travelers alike, these venues are worth checking out while exploring the streets of San Francisco.
The Fillmore Music Hall
The Fillmore Music Hall, located at the corner of Fillmore and Geary Street, first opened its doors to the San Francisco neighborhood in 1912. As an old-fashioned, Italian-style dance hall, it became a popular location for Wednesday night masquerades and socials, and even more popular as a live music venue courtesy of Bill Graham's "San Francisco Sound" rock-promotion. If you hear people referring to the "Get Acquainted Society" or the "Ambassador Dance Hall", it's safe to assume they're talking about Fillmore.
Haight-Ashbury is decorated with shops and cafes all with their uniquely painted storefronts.
As the location grew in its popularity from the 1950's and 60's, it became an icon of the musical and cultural Renaissance taking place in San Francisco. Young people traveled from near and far to experience the most innovative and exciting upcoming artists.
The dance hall is responsible for giving countless artists their start and provided a number of iconic musicians the chance to perform on their stage.
Musicians such as Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, The Who, and Jimi Hendrix (just to name a few) got their start on the Fillmore Music Hall stage.
The hall became well-known as the venue that gave each of its audience members a free, psychedelic music poster of the performers after each show. This year, for the Summer of Love music festival, the dance hall will hold the Fillmore Jazz Festival.
This annual event showcases the best of the jazz legends in the Bay Area in early July. It's a concert hall worth checking out in the area, whether you see a show or just stop in to check out the display of rock & roll posters that cover its walls.
The Great American Music Hall holds the title as San Francisco's oldest operating music venue. Located in the Tenderloin neighborhood on O'Farrell Street, it is a bit outside of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, but easy to get to on San Francisco's impressive public transit system, the BART.
The Great American Music Hall is known for its unique interior design.
And it's a venue worth seeing. The hall first opened in 1907 and still displays its original architecture, known for its decorative balconies, columns, and frescoes. Its history holds records of burlesque dancing, jazz, folk, and rock and roll concerts.
Holding approximately 600 people, the Great American Music Hall is small, quintessential, and authentic to San Francisco's cultural and historical music scene. The venue still hosts up-and-coming artists and well-known musicians alike and draws a crowd on any night of the week.
The Golden Gate Park Polo Field
The city's polo field hosted one of the most iconic and memorable events in the history of the Summer of Love festival. It was the original site of the Human Be-In. This event took place on January 14th, 1967 and marked San Francisco, and Haight-Ashbury more specifically, as the epicenter of hippie and music culture.
The Human Be-In was an event where tens of thousands of people came together in a silent protest against the law that criminalized LSD. There were countless speakers, poets, musicians, and comedians that brought the event to life in 1967.
It was known as one of the first events leading up to the first-ever Summer of Love festival. Today, it's recognized historically and culturally by its phrase "tune in, turn on, and drop out".
The Summer of Love 2017 ads still portrays the same vibe as they did 50 years ago.
The Golden Gate Park Polo Field is now the hosting location of San Francisco's music festival, Outside Lands, which takes place every August. Golden Gate Park is a must-visit location for any traveler in San Francisco, and the polo field specifically is worth stopping by as well.
A number of events during the Summer of Love 50th anniversary will take place in Golden Gate Park this year, from sing-alongs at the Botanical Garden to NightLife events in the California Academy of Sciences.
The history of the Summer of Love festival is one that often goes unaddressed in history books but has played a significant role in making San Francisco the city that it is today.
San Francisco is a city worth exploring, and knowing the history of some of its musical and historical havens is crucial for understanding its culture.
With the Summer of Love kicking off its 50th year anniversary in the summer of 2017, you now have the perfect excuse to head to the Bay Area, explore the grid-city streets, and celebrate music, art, life, and love.
Mary Govoni is a freelance writer from Cape Cod, Mass. She loves traveling to find food, good conversation and good company.
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1077. That they who are here called "Ham" and "Canaan" that is, those who separate faith from charity and hence make worship consist in externals alone, cannot know what and whence is conscience, needs to be briefly shown. Conscience is formed by means of the truths of faith, for that which a man has heard, acknowledged, and believed makes the conscience in him; and afterwards to act contrary to this is to him to act contrary to conscience, as may be sufficiently evident to everyone; so that unless it is the truths of faith that a man hears, acknowledges, and believes, he cannot possibly have a true conscience. For it is through the truths of faith (the Lord working in charity) that man is regenerated, and therefore it is through the truths of faith that he receives conscience, conscience being the new man himself. From this it is evident that the truths of faith are the means by which this may take place, that is, that the man may live according to what faith teaches, the principal of which is to love the Lord above all things, and the neighbor as himself. If he does not so live, what is his faith but an empty affair, and a mere high-sounding word, or a thing that is separated from heavenly life, and in which when thus separated there is no possible salvation?
[2] For to believe that no matter how a man lives, he may yet be saved provided he has faith, is to say that he may be saved if he has no charity, and no conscience (that is, if he passes his life in hatred, revenge, robbery, adultery, in a word, in all things contrary to charity and conscience) provided only that he has faith, even if it be but at the hour of death. Let such persons consider, when they are in such a false principle, what truth of faith there is that can form their conscience, and whether it be not what is false. If they suppose that they have anything of conscience, it must be only outward bonds-such as fear of the law, of loss of honor, of gain, or of reputation for the sake of these-that make, with them, what they call conscience, and which lead them not to injure the neighbor, but to do him good. But as this is not conscience, because not charity, therefore when these restraints are loosened or taken away, such persons rush into most wicked and obscene things. Very different is the case with those who, although they have declared that faith alone saves, have still lived a life of charity; for in their faith there has been charity from the Lord.
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Q: Ember js and custom input attributes I am just getting started with Ember, I am having a tough time trying to figure out how to add custom attributes to Ember's TextField to create an input. Through Questions answered on Stack Overflow I have no problem to insert custom data attributes that look like so
<input type="text" data-something="something"/>

But what I need is ...
<input type="text" x-webkit-speech speech enabled data-something="something"/>

Furthermore It would be awesome to make this a reusable component with jQuery UI's autocomplete plugin.
Template code I have so far...
//template file
<script type="text/x-handlebars" id="components/auto-complete">
    {{input type="text" placeholder="Search Something"  class="search smallsearch" }}
</script>

I have figured out how to implement x-webkit-speech in this case.
Ember.TextField.reopen({
  attributeBindings: ['data-something', 'x-webkit-speech']
});

And in my template,
{{input value=something type="text" data-something="something" x-webkit-speech="speech"}}

This seems to work nicely. I would still like to figure out how to use this as a component with jQuery UI Autocomplete. It would be awesome to pass in some datasource identifiers to it, and search the server for content.

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In Pictures | Gio Ponti's greatest designs, from chairs to churches
The Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891-1979) is best known for his streamlined skyscraper the Pirelli Tower in Milan, Superleggera chairs and the Gran Madre di Dio cathedral in Taranto. But he also designed toilets, knives and forks; fitted out cruise liners and hotels; and co-founded architecture and design magazines. A new book titled simply Gio Ponti and published by Taschen brings together the designer's huge output as well as giving a glimpse into Ponti's family-orientated life. Below is a selection of images from the book.
Gio Ponti in 1959 at the Alitalia office
© Gio Ponti Archives/ Historical Archive of Ponti's Heirs; Photo: Dan Wynn
Gio Ponti in 1959 at the New York office of the Alitalia air line. In the background are works by Fausto Melotti, one of several ceramicists whose work Ponti used in his interior designs.
The Pirelli Tower photographed in 2019
Photo © Luca Rotondo
The Pirelli Tower in Milan was commissioned by Alberton Pirelli, the owner of the eponymous tyre company, in the early 1950s. The 127m-tall building was completed in 1960 and for a short period was the tallest building in Italy. Today it is used by the regional government of Lombardy.
Cover of the May 1952 issue of Domus magazine
Courtesy Editoriale Domus S.p.A; Photo Ancillotti
Ponti co-founded the architecture and design magazine Domus in 1928, which continues to this day. This front cover shows the main reception room at the Vembi-Burroughs office in Genoa, replete with Giallo Fantastico rubber flooring, which was designed by Ponti and made by Pirelli. Ponti later founded Stile magazine in 1941, which ran for six years. And while it was ostensibly an architecture magazine, it also published writings by artists such as Vincent van Gogh and as his friend Giorgio de Chirico, alongside Ponti's own pieces done under 22 different pseudonyms.
Gio Ponti and his son Giulio at the New York Alitalia offices
Ponti and his son Giulio photographed in 1957 at the New York office of the Alitalia airline, with two of his signature Superleggera chairs. The slimmed-down, lightweight chairs weighed only 1.7kg and were available in a variety of colours. Ponti would later explain why he thought this "poor nondescript chair" became such a success: "in the anxious drive to express oneself even in the shape of a little nail, we have moved so far away from the spontaneity of truth, from the naturalness and simplicity of things that the appearance of one single thing that is right, spontaneous, 'real,' natural, and simple, as we can see, amazes people and is the cause of an absolutely unexpected success."
The Zodiac Suite of the ocean liner Andrea Doria in 1950
Courtesy Paolo Piccione Collection
The Zodiac Suite of the Andrea Doria ocean liner was designed by Ponti in collaboration with the Italian artist Piero Fornasetti.
Interior of the Villa Planchart in Caracas, designed in 1953-57
© Antoine Baralhe
The interior of the Villa Planchart in Caracas, Venezuela, was fitted out by Ponti in the mid-1950s and includes his Mariposa leather armchairs in the foreground and a sofa from his Diamond series in the background. The large site specific work by the Venezuelan artist Jesus Rafael Soto was added later.
Church of San Francesco d'Assisi al Fopponino
© Luca Rotondo
The Church of San Francesco d'Assisi al Fopponino in Milan was constructed in the early 1960s and is covered in light grey, diamond-shaped tiles. Ponti also designed the Church of San Carlo Borromeo in the mid-1960s and later in 1970 his masterpiece, the Gran Madre di Dio cathedral in Taranto.
Gio Ponti photographed in 1964
© Gio Ponti Archives/ Historical Archive of Ponti's Heirs
Gio Ponti hard at work designing geometric ceramic floor tiles at the Ceramica D'Agostino factory in Salerno in 1964. The tiles would be used in several of his interiors, including the Parco dei Principi hotels.
The Gio Ponti book on top of the Planchart Coffee Table
As well as the regular version of the book, there is also a limited edition that costs £3,000 and comes with a set of four prints and a coffee table based on Ponti's Arlecchino table design—handy as the book is part of Taschen's XL series and weighs about the same as a small ocean liner. • Gio Ponti, Salvatore Licitra, Karl Kolbitz, Taschen, 572pp, £200 (hb)
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Marvel Heroes Dev Defends Pricing
By Marshall Honorof Legacy Author January 21, 2013
Dave Brevik thinks $200 is a fair price for all of the game's starting content.
Whether you need to buy web fluid, bulletproof clothing, or innumerable pairs of purple pants, no one ever said that being a superhero was cheap. In fact, if you're looking to pick up absolutely everything for the launch of Marvel Heroes, get ready to drop $200. While the upcoming MMORPG is free-to-play and premium packs start at $20, Gazillion Entertainment CEO Dave Brevik thinks that the Ultimate Pack is priced to sell.
"You have to realize how much you're getting for that Ultimate Pack," says Brevik, who is perhaps best known as one of the leads behind Diablo and Diablo II. He points out that people – including himself – routinely spend more money than this on games like League of Legends and World of Warcraft, and that games in this price range are hardly unheard-of. "There are plenty of Collector's Edition-type things that are well over $100. This does happen." If you want all the content that Marvel Heroes offers and don't have time to earn it, Brevik also explains that the Ultimate Pack is cheaper than buying everything piecemeal. "It's an upfront discount. That's why it seems expensive, but in the long run you'll save quite a bit of money."
The Ultimate Pack does boast a lot of content: It unlocks every playable hero, four exclusive costumes, $100 in in-game currency, early game access, permanent bonuses for XP and item collection, and forum perks. Brevik also stresses that the pack is completely optional. Not only are most premium packs much cheaper, but to jump into the game and start playing costs nothing at all. However, while players can earn every hero and most costumes through dedicated play, a few items will only be available to premium purchasers. "In a lot of ways we're giving away almost everything," Brevik continues. "I would like to say everything, but it is technically not correct. But 99 percent of everything is attainable in the game."
Fans have also levied negative charges against the beta's storyline and graphics, but Brevik assures them that these will be ironed out by the game's launch. "[The fans] have to realize it's not done yet. It is a beta. We have definitive plans." Until then, take solace in the fact that even if you buy the Ultimate Pack, it's considerably cheaper than your own private battle jet.
Source: Eurogamer


Krueger received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin, his doctorate in physiology from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Doctorem Medicinae Honoris Causa from the University of Szeged. From 1974-78 he served as a research fellow and then an instructor in the Harvard Medical School Department of Physiology, and from 1978-81 he was a research associate in the same department. In 1981, he joined the Chicago Medical School Department of Physiology and Biophysics. He worked as an associate and full professor from 1985-97 at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Tennessee. He joined WSU in 1997, and in 2007 was named a WSU Regents Professor. In 2010, Krueger received designation as Eminent Professor, the highest award given to WSU faculty. In 2012, he was named the WSU Honors College Faculty Thesis Advisor of the Year, and elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Krueger's research is focused on the biochemical regulation of sleep. He has described how many hormones and immune regulators are involved in physiological sleep regulation. These substances, and their corresponding mRNAs and protein levels, vary in brain with the sleep-wake cycle and are affected by sleep deprivation. If injected into animals, these substances increase sleep. Conversely, if they are inhibited, sleep is inhibited, and the sleep rebound after sleep deprivation is also blocked. These substances include cytokines such as interleukin-1 (IL1) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Cytokines are a group of small proteins involved in immune response regulation as well as brain functions such as brain plasticity and sleep. In brain, they are synthesized in neurons in response to neuronal activity. Collectively, his work led to a description of a molecular sleep homeostat.
Dr. Krueger's research also is concerned with sleep and infectious diseases. Although known for millennia, e.g. Hippocrates proposed that sleep benefits recovery from illness, Dr. Krueger provided the first measures of sleep over the course of infections. Dr. Krueger went on to show that bacterial, protozoan, fungal and viral infectious agents greatly alter sleep. His work determined how the presence of microbes is translated into sleep responses. Thus, bacterial cell wall-peptidoglycan is digested by macrophages, releasing somnogenic muramyl peptides (these are the monomeric building blocks of bacterial cell walls). Muramyl peptides in turn induce enhanced production of cytokines which in turn promote sleep. With virus infections, viral double-stranded RNA enhances cytokine release and thereby sleep.
Another interest of Dr. Krueger's laboratory is with sleep function and brain organization of sleep. In short, he hypothesized that small neuronal/glial networks are the organizational level at which sleep is initiated and that local sleep is dependent upon prior activity within the local network. Thus, active glia and neurons increase expression of TNF and IL1 that in turn drive increases in sleep locally. Individual cortical columns (these are the functional units of the cerebral cortex) alternate between functional states. The cortical column sleep-like state correlates with organism sleep and it is induced by TNF. In vitro mature co-cultures of neurons/glia have a default sleep-like state. If electrically stimulated, the cultures wake up. If treated with TNF the cultures, go into a deeper sleep-like state. Finally, if cells from mice lacking a key molecule involved in IL1 signaling are cultured, they fail to rapidly develop a sleep-like state and electrical stimulation fails to wake them up. These data clearly demonstrate that sleep is an emergent property of any viable network of neurons and glia whether found with a living animal or in a culture dish. The concept of sleep as a fundamental process of small networks driven by cell activity has provided a paradigm shift within the sleep research community.
Krueger JM, Pappenheimer JR, Karnovsky ML. (1982) Sleep-promoting effects of muramyl peptides. Proc Natl Acad Sci (USA) 79: 6102-6106. This was the first demonstration of a microbial product inducing sleep. We also first showed that lipopolysaccharides and influenza viral double stranded RNA induce sleep responses. Excess sleep is now considered part of the acute phase response and sleep disorders are recognized as being associated with inflammation. We identified the microbial components responsible for sleep responses.
Krueger JM, Walter J, Dinarello CA, Wolff SM, Chedid L. (1984) Sleep-promoting effects of endogenous pyrogen (interleukin-1). Am J Physiol 246: R994-R999. This was the first report of any cytokine inducing sleep. We also first reported the somnogenic properties of TNF and other cytokines and neurotrophins. TNF is the best characterized SRS varying in pathological conditions associated with sleepiness or excess sleep. Many labs confirmed our work (Am J Physiol 275:R509, 1998) in this area, (Science 294;2511, 2001) (Nature Neurosci 10;1160, 2007).
Shoham S, Davenne D, Cady AB, Dinarello CA, Krueger JM. (1987) Recombinant tumor necrosis factor and interleukin 1 enhance slow-wave sleep. Am J Physiol 253: R142-R149. This was the first report linking TNF to sleep. TNF may be the best characterized sleep regulatory substance (SRS) varying in pathological conditions associated with sleepiness or excess sleep.
Toth LA, Krueger JM. (1988) Alteration of sleep in rabbits by Staphylococcus aureus infection. Infect Immun 56: 1785-1791. This was the first report quantifying changes in sleep over the course of an infectious disease. There was a gap of 2400 years from Hippocrates mentioning of sleep changes during illness and our measurements. There are now many reports relating sleep and some aspect of the immune response; e.g. sleep loss reduces antibody titers after inoculations.
Krueger JM, Obál F Jr. (1993) A neuronal group theory of sleep function. J Sleep Res 2: 63-69. This was the first statement of the hypothesis that sleep is a local use-dependent process.
Hansen MK, Taishi P, Chen Z, Krueger JM. (1998) Vagotomy blocks the induction of interleukin-1b mRNA in the brain of rats in response to systemic interleukin-1b. J Neurosci 18: 2247-2253. This was the first demonstration that systemic IL1-induction of brain IL1 mRNA was mediated by the vagus nerve.
Kushikata T, Fang J, Krueger JM. (1999) Brain-derived neurotrophic factor enhances spontaneous sleep in rats and rabbits. Am J Physiol 276: R1334-1338. This was the first demonstration that BDNF induced sleep. We went on to show that several other neurotrophins also are somnogenic.
Brandt J, Churchill L, Guan Z, Fang J, Chen L, Krueger JM. (2001) Sleep deprivation, but not a whisker trim, increases nerve growth factor within barrel cortical neurons. Brain Res 898: 105-112. We showed that afferent activity and sleep interact to alter neuronal NGF expression thereby linking cell activity to local sleep. Subsequently we also first showed that afferent activity enhances brain expression of other cytokines, such as IL1 and TNF, and that they induce local enhancements of EEG delta power if topically applied to the cortex.
Yoshida H, Peterfi Z, Garcia-Garcia F, Kirkpatrick R, Yasuda T, Krueger JM. (2004) State-specific asymmetries EEG in slow wave sleep induced by local application of TNFa. Brain Res 1009: 129-136. This was the first demonstration that local application of a sleep regulatory substance to the cortex could induce state-dependent enhancement in EEG delta wave activity unilaterally.
Churchill L, Rector DM, Yasuda K, Fix C, Rojas MJ, Yasuda T, Hall SJ, Guan X, Krueger JM. (2008) Tumor necrosis factor a: activity dependent expression and promotion of cortical column sleep in rats. Neuroscience 156:71-80. This was the first demonstration that a sleep regulatory substance can induce a sleep-like state within single cortical columns thereby showing SRS involvement in the local sleep process. In this article we also show that neuronal TNF immune-reactivity is enhanced by afferent activity suggesting that afferent activity enhances SRS expression that in turn induces local state oscillations.
Krueger JM, Rector DM, Roy S, Van Dongen HPA, Belenky G, Panksepp J. (2008) Sleep as a fundamental property of neuronal assemblies. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 9:910-919. This is a modern update of our 1993 theory on local use-dependent sleep. This article also presents the ATP-cytokine-adenosine hypothesis for the first time.
Szentirmai É, Kapás L, Sun Y, Smith RG, Krueger JM. (2009) The preproghrelin gene is required for normal integration of thermoregulation and sleep in mice. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106:14069-14074. This work extended our demonstration that growth hormone releasing hormone is a SRS and it links metabolism to sleep. It is particularly sensational in that we showed that the lack of one gene rendered mice hibernators; when challenged with cold and food deprivation they reversibly dropped their body temperatures to ambient temperature.
Krueger JM, Taishi P, De A, Davis C, Winters BD, Clinton J, Szentirmai E, Zielinski MR. (2010) ATP and the purine type 2 X7 receptor affect sleep. Jour. Appl. Physiol. 109:1318-1327. This is the first demonstration that extracellular ATP plays a crucial role in sleep regulation. ATP released from neurons and glia as a consequence of cell activity serves to translate cell activity into a sleep regulatory signal by its induction of cytokine release via a purine type 2 receptor, the P2X7 receptor.
Taishi P, Davis CJ, Bayomy O, Zielinski MR, Liao F, Clinton JM, Smith DE, Krueger JM. Brain –specific interleukin-1 receptor accessory protein in sleep regulation. (2012) J. Appl. Physiol. 112:1015-102. We show that this IL1 receptor accessory protein is involved in sleep regulation. It was previously shown to play a role in synaptogenesis.
Krueger JM, Huang Y, Rector DM, Buysee, DJ. (2013) Sleep: A synchrony of cell activity-driven small network states. European J. Neuroscience 38:2199-2209. We show that correct learned responses are dependent upon the sleep or wake state of a single somatosensory cortical column. If the cortical column is in the sleep-like state errors are made.
Davis CJ, Dunbrasky D, Oonk M, Taishi P, Opp MR, Krueger JM. (2014) The neuron-specific interleukin-1 receptor accessory protein is required for homeostatic sleep and sleep responses to influenza viral challenge in mice. Brain Behav. Immunity. (on line 4 Nov 2014; PMID:25449578). We show that mice lacking the brain-specific interleukin 1 receptor accessory protein (AcPb) sleep less, not more like wild type mice, after sleep deprivation. Further, in response to influenza virus challenge the mice lacking the brain-specific AcPb have higher morbidity and mortality rates, including a lack of non-rem sleep responses.
Jewett KA, Taishi P, Sengupta P, Roy S, Davis CJ, Krueger, JM. (2015) Tumor necrosis factor enhances the sleep-like state and electrical stimulation induces a wake-like state in co-cultures of neurons and glia. European J. Neurosci. 42:2078-2090. We show that small cultured neuronal/glial networks show sleep homeostasis if kept in a wake-like state for prolonged periods and that a deeper sleep-like state is induced in these small networks by TNF application.
Davis CJ, Taishi P, Honn KA, Koberstein JN, Krueger JM. (2016) P2X7 receptors in body temperature, locomotor activity, and brain mRNA and lncRNA responses to sleep loss. Am. J. Physiology. 311:R1004-R1012.
Davis CJ, Zielinski MR, Dunbrasky D, Taishi P, Dinarello CA, Krueger JM. (2017) Interleukin-37 expression in mice alters sleep responses to inflammatory agents and influenza virus infection. Neurobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms 3:1-9.
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Southeast Asia Travel -11/14 – Day Sixteen: We woke up early to the news of the Paris attacks, as they were in progress; and we were instantly glued to the TV. Outside our balcony door, we could see our ship was cruising closer to the peaceful, sparsely populated island of Tioman, Malaysia… our destination for the day.
In the marketing materials for the cruise, Playbill touted (what other sources have as well) that Tioman was the island used to represent Bali Hai in the movie South Pacific but this isn't true. Those scenes were actually filmed in Hawaii. Nevertheless, this beautiful island was here waiting for us.
The island of Tioman, Malaysia.
The chaos playing out in Paris was diametrically opposed to the serenity before me. It just wasn't right.
We broke away from the TV and headed to breakfast. Only a few people had started straggling in. Of course we wondered if anyone else knew what was going on in France. Our ship is French—did the crew know yet?
We checked the news again after we ate, and then decided to catch the first tender, figuring it was only going to get more crowded if we waited for a later one. We got down to the deck only to find out it had temporarily been postponed. After an hour, the temporary delay had become a questionable, permanent decision. No Tioman.
A captivating little lagoon on Tioman. Used my zoom lens, shot from our ship. It was as close as we'd get.
The story of what actually happened will probably always be a mystery. We were told that the resort we were supposed to visit (and use their beach)– suddenly went bankrupt overnight. This was odd as we were also told that as of the night before they were excited we were coming. I should also note that the population of Tioman (in 2008) is estimated at 432. So to believe this story, you'd have to believe that a small beach resort, knowing a ship was bringing over two hundred customers for the day– suddenly decided to close shop and not even wait an extra day, collecting whatever income it could. It makes no sense.
Add to this, there were two other resorts visible from our ship and no one could be reached at either of them. From our viewpoint, the coast was completely deserted. A rumor started on our boat, early on, that initially I didn't give much credence. A few people were suggesting that because of the Paris attacks and because our ship was French; the islanders were afraid to let us come ashore. Later I had no choice but to believe it, especially after seeing movement on shore as soon as our ship started drifting further away. A few small fishing boats also started to appear. It was curious to say the least.
At noon, the crew organized a brief gathering on the rear deck to remember the people of France and lowered the French flag to half-mast. Yes, all over the world- even on a small ship floating in the South Pacific– people were touched and solidarity ruled over despair.
It was announced that at 2 PM the Broadway performers were rallying together to put on a variety show to entertain the ship. This thrown-together event turned out to provide some pretty exciting moments. All the performers (except Liz Callaway whose concert was scheduled for tonight) performed; giving us a wonderful show. For many of us, it was probably a better way to spend the afternoon than basking in the sun anyway.
All the performers, giving their all, in the afternoon's surprise variety show.
This was our last night on the ship; tomorrow we'd dock in Singapore.
The incredible Liz Callaway.
Liz Callaway's show was moved up to an hour before dinner. She pulled out all the stops and gave us a terrific show. I was especially thrilled because her final song was, The Story Goes On, from the musical Baby. Particularly poignant for many reasons. Liz is another of the many Broadway performers that gives her whole heart when she sings. It was a perfect last concert among so many great performances we received.
Following the concert, we had the introduction of the ship's crew and our final toast to the end of a great cruise. Michael and I just happened to be sitting in front of Hunter Foster and Jennifer Cody, so we got to clink our glasses of champagne with them.
I regret not getting to say goodbye to a lot of people after dinner. I really wasn't thinking about the unlikelihood of seeing many of them in the morning. We were smart enough to get most of the email addresses exchanged early though, so we'd be able to stay in touch.
We spent the last couple of hours before bed packing and dealing with the reception desk. The cruise has gone way too fast and I'm just thankful for all the wonderful memories. Luckily, we have a full day in Singapore tomorrow before we start the long journey home.
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NEW ORLEANS -- When I was a student at Tulane, I learned from experience to get out of town after Fat Tuesday because the following citywide hangover grew oppressive. It feels a little like the day after Mardi Gras here on this gray, rainy Monday in New Orleans, but more satisfying.
It feels like the end of an awesome, exhausting meal. One of the nuttiest Super Bowls in memory capped off a terrific week for New Orleans. Perhaps I stayed a couple days extra in the city with my family because I don't want to go home.
» I'll remember Baltimore Ravens Joe Flacco completing passes other quarterbacks couldn't attempt in the first half of the Super Bowl. It was a near-flawless performance, one that already seems too underrated. (Jacoby Jones for MVP talk? Really?) So few of Flacco's completions were easy. He was gutsy and smart. He played his best on the biggest stage.
» The grouchiest group of people on the planet -- sportswriters -- couldn't help but get charmed nightly by the best city in the country.
» I'll remember listening to Randy Moss talking all week, thinking I would never get tired of it. He's not the greatest ever, but it was cool to hear his honesty all week long.
» One mistake: Sitting down at a table Friday night with a young man who already was passed out sleeping on one of the chairs. I'll remember his uncle taking photos of said young man as the first-time visitor to the city puked all over Dave Dameshek's shoes.
» I'll remember the meals. It's so hard to find a bad meal in New Orleans. Coquette came out of nowhere to win best in show.
» The announced Hall of Fame class was as emotional and vocal a group as I can remember. August's induction should be a lot of fun with Warren Sapp, Bill Parcells, Cris Carter and Jonathan Ogden all in the mix.
» I was happy for Ed Reed before, during and after the Super Bowl. This was Ray Lewis' last ride, but no one had a better time on the journey than Ed Reed.
» I'll remember Marc Sessler saying he could see himself getting lost in New Orleans for six weeks or six months and knowing what he meant. Spending all day with the extended ATL crew from Sessler to Dameshek, Dan Hanzus, Henry Hodgson and Justin Hathaway made the week.
» I'll make sure that they all remember I predicted the final score of the Super Bowl right by bringing it up often during the offseason.
This wraps up my first season as editor of Around The League. It has been such a blast, grind, privilege and joy to cover the NFL for all of you this season. We love football and hope that shines through. We plan to do it so much better next season for you.
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How One School District Secured Its Distance Learning Model
Having to change course and move to a distance learning model due to COVID-19, the Anaheim Union High School District had to quickly determine how to ensure all students had usable – and secure – devices and connectivity at home.
Karen D. Schwartz | Sep 30, 2020
Erik Greenwood has had plenty of experience making sure that students have access to secure technology resources. As chief technology officer of the Anaheim Union High School District for the past 16 years, Greenwood has worked hard to keep pace with both the technological and security advancements students need to learn effectively.
Until earlier this year, everything seemed fully under control. The Anaheim, Calif., school district had about 20,000 Chromebooks, some affixed to rolling carts and some in school labs. During his first few years as CTO, Greenwood had noticed some laptop thefts (laptops were prevalent at the time) and has been using Absolute Software's Control to stop those thefts. Over time, the Absolute capabilities were expanded to all endpoint devices, including PCs, smartphones and tablets.
Along the way, Greenwood took more steps to ensure security, including using Windows Defender for antivirus and a Checkpoint firewall with intrusion prevention, application control, antivirus, anti-botnet, threat emulation and threat extraction. The school district also uses CrowdStrike for strategic nodes in the environment; Remote Desktop (RDP) for VPN users; and products from Airwave, Nessus and HP IMC to monitor network activity.
However, everything changed in March, when Greenwood got word that the school district was moving to a distance learning model, effective immediately after spring vacation, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only did the district have to make sure that all 30,000 students had usable devices and connectivity to learn from home, but it had to ensure that the devices and access remained secure.
Getting devices in the hands of all students quickly wasn't easy, but it was doable. Greenwood started by asking every family to fill out a survey indicating whether they needed devices and/or connectivity. Armed with those answers, Greenwood started by distributing the 20,000 Chromebooks currently inside the schools. For the rest, he turned to both T-Mobile's Empower ED 2.0 program and the 1Million Project, each of which provides wireless devices and connectivity, often via hot spots, to eligible schools and students.
To distribute the devices quickly, the school district followed what the Chicago Public Schools had done using G Suite. "We took that solution and created our own process using Google Forms and Sheets to be able to check devices in and out using barcodes and barcode scanners," Greenwood explained.
Taking Security Measures
To ensure security of its distance learning model, Greenwood first made sure that every device had Absolute Control installed, an always-on two-way connection that allows the IT group to track where the units are and how they are being used.
The Absolute software also was helpful in double-checking the check-out process. For example, when data was read incorrectly by the barcode scanner or wasn't manually entered correctly, the software was able to help correct the inventory. In addition, the software allowed the IT team to verify that a mobile device was being used, and how it was being used. There have already been a few incidents noted in the Absolute console, Greenwood said, that have raised red flags, prompting further investigation.
To ensure full security, Greenwood added ContentKeeper, which filters and reports content on all mobile devices. The team also has expanded its VPN security by adding Checkpoint VPN services.
Next up, Greenwood said, is moving valuable documents from on-premises locations to the cloud, and dealing with the security implications of making those files available remotely to staff.
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Cell phones have had a camera component incorporated into their platforms for years now–even my ancient Motorola RAZR flip phone has a primitive 2 or 3GB photo capability. Smart phones have raised the image capture bar even higher as camera resolution, sophistication and overall performance have inexorably improved. But it took until mid-2013 for someone to flip the equation with the introduction of a mirrorless, interchangeable lens camera running an Android operating system: the Samsung Galaxy NX.
The Galaxy NX platform is a mirrorless camera featuring a 20.3 megapixel APS-C sensor (1.5X crop factor) mated with Samsung's DRIMe IV Image Signal Processer and incorporates the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system. Samsung formally describes the Galaxy NX as a "3G/4G LTE Connected Compact System Camera (CSC)". The monitor that caught my attention when I first unpacked the camera: a 4.8 inch HD LCD touchscreen through which you control virtually all camera functions.
Beyond the basic hardware listed above, the Galaxy NX includes an Advanced Hybrid Auto Focus (AF) System utilizing phase and contrast detection as well as a speedy 1/6000 second maximum shutter speed and a continuous shooting rate in excess of 8 frames per second. The camera features 16 GB of internal memory, but user-available memory is less due to storage of the operating system and software used to operate the phone features. Actual user memory will vary depending on the mobile phone operator and may change after software upgrades are performed. The camera has a single slot which accepts microSD memory media up to 64GB in size; a separate slot accommodates a SIM card. There is a full 1080HD video component and a built-in flash; the camera is compatible with lenses utilizing the Samsung NX lens mount.
The Galaxy NX is available as a body only or in kit form matched with an 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6 ED Lens. Here's a look at both ends of that lens focal range.
MSRP on the kit is $1700; body only is $1600. The camera can currently be purchased via reputable Internet vendors for about $1500 as a kit or $1400 body only. Samsung includes a camera strap, battery and USB charging cable with 120V plug, printed Quick Start Guide and a small Handbook along with a Photoshop Lightroom 5 CD with each camera. Camera Raw 6.7 in my Photoshop CS5 did not recognize Galaxy NX RAW files, but my Photo Ninja RAW Converter did; Lightroom 5 will also.
With regard to the aforementioned Quick Start Guide and Handbook: the handbook is a brief basic photography primer and the Quick Start Guide an equally rudimentary introduction to basic camera and phone function– it doesn't, for example, explain how to format the camera memory card (among myriad other operations). Samsung offers a 212 page User's Manual on their website, and my first order of business as a new Galaxy NX owner would be to download this manual to the camera as a ready reference in the field, at least until one becomes familiar with the many nuances of this platform.
At a quick glance the Galaxy NX would appear to be a DSLR: body dimensions are approximately 5.37 x 3.98 x 1.01 inches and include an exaggerated handgrip at the right front along with a pentaprism-like bulge on atop the camera body, which in reality houses the built-in flash and an electronic viewfinder (EVF). That relatively narrow 1 inch body depth combined with the deep handgrip give the camera a somewhat ungainly look when viewed from directly above. Shooting weight (battery, memory card, kit lens) is 25.3 ounces. Camera construction is of composite materials with a metal lens mount; the kit lens features a composite barrel and metal lens mount. Both camera and lens are constructed in China.
With the kit lens onboard the Galaxy NX offers a fairly pleasant carrying weight for extended shooting trips. The large handgrip is covered with a rubberized material that is a bit smoother than I would like but nevertheless in combination with a raised lip at the right rear edge of the camera body offers a firm and solid feeling grip for the right hand. The shutter button lies almost directly under the second joint of my index finger, requiring a conscious repositioning to activate the shutter with the tip of the index finger. The Galaxy NX can be configured to activate the shutter upon a verbal command of "capture", "shoot", "cheese" or "smile" –there's a more pronounced delay than using the shutter manually, but it's an easy way to trip the shutter without having to resort to the self-timer or a cable release.
What I find most striking about the Galaxy NX is the absence of external controls on the camera body. The top left of the body contains a flash release button adjacent to the diopter adjustment knob for the electronic viewfinder. A power/lock button is positioned adjacent to the electronic viewfinder on the top right portion of the body, along with video record and shutter buttons as well as the command dial. That's it for the body–the kit lens has an "i function" button on the lens barrel that allows you to quickly select aperture, shutter speed, exposure compensation and ISO for adjustment, depending on your particular shooting mode.
With my personal camera platform a pro-body DSLR, I've grown accustomed to a wealth of external controls that allow me to change camera settings in short order, so the largely control-free exterior of the Galaxy NX was worrisome at first. However, once you get past a one-time initial setup of the entire platform, control access via the touchscreen isn't too bad. One of the initial startup settings is to select the camera operating type: "standard" or "professional". As you might suspect standard is used for basic camera operations and emphasizes automatic modes so the user shooting options and input to settings are relatively restricted. The user can access semi-automatic and manual exposure modes from the standard operating type, but the process is slower as it is accompanied by explanations of the various settings and modes and requires more steps to implement. Professional is used for more advanced camera operations, offers automatic along with semi-automatic and manual shooting options in a more straightforward way than in the standard operating type and gives the user a wide variety of inputs into camera settings and capture methods. I shot the Galaxy NX in the professional operating mode for this review.
Adjustments here include shutter speed, aperture, exposure compensation, ISO, white balance, metering mode, photo size, image quality, autofocus type, autofocus area, shooting rate, and flash deployment. Selecting the camera icon in from atop this screen brings up an additional menu that includes the above settings along with others such as viewfinder brightness, focus peaking, manual focus assist, overexposure guide, framing mode, dynamic range settings, anti-shake, noise reduction, bracketing, distortion correction and color space selection.
Generally, most camera-related controls and settings can be accessed off of the basic camera shooting screen, but you'll search long, hard and unsuccessfully trying to find the format memory card control from here. In a setup I personally find a bit puzzling, the road to format runs through the home screen: you first have to select the "apps" icon at the lower right of the screen; next, select the "settings" icon and after that go to the upper right of the screen and select the "more" permissions box. Scroll the permissions screen to "storage", select it and then scroll down to "format SD card". Three more taps and you're done! While most of the camera controls on the Galaxy NX are relatively intuitive as you wander through the various touchscreen camera menus, the "format SD card" is located in a different part of the galaxy (sorry, couldn't resist) and is one reason why I would have the complete user's manual downloaded to my Galaxy NX until I had committed such a vital function to memory.
These three scrollable pages illustrate the icons present on the camera as it comes from the package, before user customization. Probably not out of the ordinary for experienced smartphone users, but for a primarily camera-oriented buyer it's a definite wake-up call that the Galaxy NX is a sophisticated and complex platform given its range of capabilities and features.
Auto–a fully automatic mode where the camera recognizes surrounding conditions and establishes camera settings accordingly.
Smart–a collection of scene specific shooting options with the camera determining most settings; options include night, fireworks, light trace, smart mode suggest, beauty face, best photo, continuous shot, golf, best face, color bracket, kids shot, vignette+, landscape, dawn, snow, macro, food, party/indoor, action freeze, rich tone, panorama, waterfall, animated photo, multi-exposure, drama, eraser, sound and shot, miniature, creative shot, interval, silhouette, and sunset.
My mode–categorizes the various smart shooting options according to the overall nature of the option: portrait, landscape, close-up/indoor, pro-style, night scenery, or expert.
User–allows the saving of one set of customized camera settings.
Program–a semi-automatic capture mode with the camera handling shutter speed and aperture while the user is able to establish other setting parameters. Program shift is available to the user which allows the selection of different combinations of aperture and shutter speed other than that initially selected by the camera.
Aperture priority–user sets the aperture, camera sets shutter speed and the user has wide variety of other settings available.
Shutter priority–user sets the shutter speed, camera sets the aperture and the user has a wide variety of other settings available.
Manual–user sets the aperture and shutter speed and has a wide variety of other settings available.
The 4.8 inch LCD touchscreen display on the Galaxy NX offers 1280 x 720 (HD) resolution, approximately 100% coverage and is adjustable for range of brightness via slider control. Because virtually all operations of the Galaxy NX platform are handled by the touchscreen, smudging from finger use can make using the screen in outdoor light conditions problematic. Samsung states that the touchscreen is not compatible with a stylus, pointer or other artificial means; only fingers are recommended for touchscreen applications.
The camera has a bit too much screen, however. Many times, when resting my thumb/pad of hand against the back, the touchscreen was activated. This could be avoided by making the right 1/5th or 1/6th of the screen non-sensitive to touch. I even question if this can be done through a firmware update. Could it be possible to make that part of the screen unresponsive to touch only while in camera mode?
The electronic viewfinder has SVGA resolution (800 x 600), offers approximately 100% coverage and features diopter adjustment. The viewfinder is enabled as a user places the camera next to his eye.


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Every time this season rolls around it feels like it's over before you know it. Here is our top must do's for fall!! Local recommendations for Omaha area folks are included. It's easy to look forward towards more adventures while the leaves are still changing!
White Sweater//H&M Plaid Baseball Hat//local boutique via Hello, Ruby Sunnies//QuayXDesi Fringe Boots//Minnetonka Chenille Cardigan//Target Western Hat//JCrew old (similar here) Lip//Mac "Blankety"
Go Apple Picking: It is nearing the end of the season so hurry out for granny smith and red delicious apples. Also, it is not quite as busy as pumpkin patches at this time if you are looking for a more low key outing. Omaha Locals: Ditmars Orchard or Smalls Fruit Farm if you want a short day trip!
Visit the Pumpkin Patch:......seems obvious, right? Can't miss this seasonal right of passage. This is still on my list, who cares if I don't have kids to blame it on! Omaha Locals: Valas, of course!
Cook a Fall Feast: Our friends made this amazing roast chicken for us the other week with all the autumn fixings (still dreaming about it). Check out our caramel apple post for an easy fall desert! Omaha Locals: eyeing some cooking classes like this one!
Host a Bonfire: There is something really magical about a bonfire on a cold fall night with an apple cider or hot toddy in hand. If you don't have the space for a true bonfire, handy little fire pits like this one make it super easy. We use ours every week!
Watch the Leaves Turn: This past weekend I went to the park with my lab Rufus to play fetch. The trees are beyond beautiful in Nebraska right now with reds, oranges, and yellows everywhere! Omaha Locals: Elmwood Park and Lake Manawa are both really amazing right now, go see!
Any other fall activities we are missing?! Let us know, always up for new adventures. Thanks for Clocking Out with us!