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After unexpectedly earning the admiration of Ty Webb, I have had the good fortune to see my regular golf match turned into a Frisbee golf match, wherein the disadvantage presented by my lack of thumbs will be neutralized and my mad jumping and mouth-catching skills will come to the fore. I now have every confidence that I will be back in my office before the end of the day, curled up on my egg crate bed with my favorite stuffie while undergrads queue up outside to be regaled by tales of my adventures. Let the game begin!
As we prepare for our match, my opponent, Thornton Melon, begins trying to find reasons why the match should be postponed, or even canceled.
But I, being Dennis the Vizsla, who never gives up, see through Thornton's ploy. The match will go on as scheduled! However, I soon learn that the weather report on the iPhone should not be treated so cavalierly as I had done …
The never-before-seen confluence of a bolt of lightning, my metal-festooned hat, and the external antenna on the iPhone 4 produces a bizarre result.
Meanwhile, I find myself in a strange new world … but at least I still have my Frisbee.
The Disc Match of Death? That doesn't sound like what we were planning to do! It appears that I have somehow been transported into Thornton Melon's iPhone, where I must play some bizarre game for stakes that are much higher than a simple office! Fortunately I am Dennis the Vizsla, and I never give up, not one single bit!
Oh, no! It's a good thing you never give up, Dennis.
Oh Dennis! I wonder what kind of app secrets you can grab while you're in there! We're cheering for you to win. I had no idea the stakes were going to get so high!
Yodeling! *snicker* We need to see a movie of that! I feel the same pain when Lilac starts her barking at about the same hour!
I have every confidence in you, Dennis, to get what you want.
Hooray for Dennis the Vizsla!
Frisbee golf is SOOOOOOOO much better 🙂
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good luck with that Dennis. I am pretty good at frisbee, call if you need help. Just make sure you talk to me, not Maisie, she really sucks at frisbee.
Trog Frisbee anyone???
OMGCB: Dennis Boxleitner??
LOL! I wonder what will happen! And now I have the sudden urge to go watch Caddy Shack. 🙂
Golly Gosh Dennis, did that lightning bolt make you ee yourself. I've heard that can happen
Stupid keyboard it was supposed to say "Pee yourself" Did the lightning make you pee yourself
maybe you can fix the iPhone antenna issue while you are in there, Dennis. Just think what a hero you would be.
Woos ~ Phantom, Thunder, and Ciara
Dennis you and your dad are alike…. you neither one Ever give Up. I saw your comment on Sallie's blog. My mom has EVERY Single Rejection Slip she Ever Ever got. And the One.. PHONE CALL… just lives in her bestest ever MEMORY BANK. hehehe
I was going to say that hat was pretty cool, but I guess it got really hot for a second there. I hope it survived, it made you look so… debonaire!
Oh my Dennis…this one sounds dangerous…I'm rooting for you! 😉
LOVE frisbee golf too, Dennis (and Ma just watched C'Shack last evening heheh)- we know you will never give up – this story is just too good! (Sawries again that we've been so MIA – a lot much has been going on over here and we've barely blogged or commented and feel furry badly…) Yeahyeah… Ma's goin' through her guilt thing again!
Woofs xoxoxo
Sammie and the crew
Cool post. Hee he has a blue laser.
Hey dennis it's your fav reeder norwood
Maybe you should download the extra lives app- just in case the trog game ends quickly!
Check you out, wow!
There is an ap for that?


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Baseball And 9/11: Continuity, Not Healing
When the anniversary was a week and not a decade, baseball resumed, and as with everything else about the game, it began to cover itself both in glory and shamelessness. Even on this very day MLB is to some degree — apparent or not — selling its role as national healer in the wake of the nightmare here in New York.
It is an exaggeration to say baseball healed the country, or helped heal it – let alone the city. Any true healing has come through love, and friendship, and counseling, and faith, and heroism, and public service. After the World Series ended, the longest winter in the history of New York began, it wasn't any shorter because games had resumed on September 18, 2001.
I'm being this brutal for a purpose. I have never been comfortable with baseball's insistence that it provided this role of healing, especially because in fact it provided something more enduring and even useful. This isn't to single out the sport, or any sport: the then-Commissioner of the NFL Paul Tagliabue insisted he was postponing the games of September 16-17 out of respect for the victims, when he'd been told by the airlines and the FAA on a conference call that the resumption of air traffic would be so chaotic that no power on earth could guarantee him that all his teams could get to all their destinations (or back) on time.
There is no shame in not being "the healer" of 9/11. If you were healed by baseball, a) you probably weren't in New York, and/or b) you probably weren't that wounded. I came no closer to personal loss than having two college acquaintances lost in one of the buildings, and a professional friend on each of three of the four airplanes – and my experiences as a radio reporter covering the scene for the first 40 days – and baseball has been part of the fabric of my being since 1967, and I'm not yet "healed" from 9/11. A friend just sent me an mP3 of one of my stories today. It was the first time I had been able to gather the strength to listen to the piece since 2001.
Baseball didn't "heal" any of us. What it did – far more importantly, I feel – is provide continuity at a time of total derangement from routine. Games outside the city provided Americans elsewhere to hold up "We Are All New Yorkers" signs – a spirit that quickly dissipated but which was of great value in the first week. Players, especially those of the Mets and Yankees, provided extraordinary public service in the days after the attacks and were of unique support to the first responders. It's almost never stated but there were people who left New York, some forever. Not one of the athletes did – and it is imperative to remember that the assumption here was that we would be attacked again (as we were, though clearly separately, with the anthrax mailings).
There was great courage in this. And the same credit extends to the fans, at a time when public gatherings of 50,000 people in hard to control public venues like Yankee Stadium or Shea Stadium seemed the easiest target for terrorism. We are talking about a time when a smoke bomb causing absolutely no damage could have started a stampede with untold consequences, and yet by the time of an interfaith prayer service at Yankee Stadium on September 23, the Mets and Braves drew a larger crowd at Shea.
As somebody who was at the first game back at Shea, and at all of the World Series games, and who had his press pass grabbed by a police captain who looked at it and me and said a little too excitedly "They could kill him, steal this, and get inside," I thought that Sunday Mets' attendance was a wonderful sign. People were picking up their lives and remembering to enjoy themselves again.
What baseball was providing was not healing but sameness. In saluting the victims, baseball and its players were not just reminding us how much had been lost, but also how much, much more remained. Baseball was essential not for magic curing powers, but because it is our primary link to whatever simpler or better or just younger days have gone before, and it can be our connection to those who have passed, and because of the unstated symbolism of our place in the crowd: our place as part of humanity. The crowd, in a way, is mankind.
But ultimately, in simple words requiring very little interpretation, baseball's role after 9/11 – indeed its role after any tragedy, national or personal – was eloquently expressed on the morning of September 18. I had been downtown at the crack of dawn to cover the eerie reopening of Wall Street, and the juxtaposition of men and women in expensive suits, tracking through streets covered by this awful paste-like coating of debris from the Trade Center and the still-burning pyre, marching like prisoners past police and national guard with machine guns.
It had been a long, long morning and I was preparing to go home for awhile, when I was approached by a policeman who obviously knew me from my ESPN days. "This is something," he said as we stared at the giant American flag hanging from the Stock Exchange, still occasionally obscured by gusts of smoke coming from the Ground Zero fire. I agreed with him. "But I've got one question for you." I braced myself. "Do you think the Mets can do it? Can they come back and win the Division? They were really getting going till last week."
I remember freezing for a moment and then giving him some poorly-devised and no doubt self-contradicting answer. Then I asked him how, given all he'd seen, given what he'd be seeing the rest of that day, and all the days and months to come – how it could possibly matter.
"It doesn't, not really," he admitted without hesitation. "But I'll tell you what. All day today, all weekend, I've been thinking, 'At 7 O'Clock on Tuesday night I can put up my feet and watch the Mets in Pittsburgh and pretend for a little while that none of this has happened. So, that way, it does matter."
And that – not healing – was baseball's gift and baseball's role, and what baseball can rightfully claim as the part it played.
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Great post. You can say the same thing for football, even though it is once a week.
Baseball for me is a part of memories mixed with important times in my life.Moments I share with my Dad.
Your words as always reach through the cyber realm…They open our minds…They touch our hearts. Thank-you for sharing them with us.
The same cogent point was made today at Faith & Fear in Flushing:
Great interpretation, opinion and just sheer excellence in expressing yourself.. Baseball football etc, is one of the things that is still pure and unassuming.. At least it still feels that way.. Now more then ever these hours spent watching cheering are individually ours, there is freedom still left,for us sports fans.
Keith, this was one of your best blogs I have read. We all need those things in our life that bring us back to "sameness" and keep us grounded and help us move forward. I'm passing this one on to everyone in my address book. Thanks!
Your eloquence always goes right to my heart. Thank you Keith for making sense of the world when it is difficult for the rest of us to.
This one cuts to the marrow. What a gift you have, Mr. Olbermann. Forget as a marvelous writer. You are a visionary. Whatever hitting your head on the subway door did to your depth perception on a physical scale, is compensated, far outweighed in fact, by what you see with your heart. It gives me chills to read your words that so accurately and acutely describe what is found when we embrace the space as opposed to what's in it. Awe and thanks! 🙂
I'm a Vietnam combat veteran, and this event affected me far worse than anything I experienced there. Watching the continuous coverage on 9-11 was extremely wrenching, my heart was literally breaking each time they repeatedly showed the impact of the planes or the fires and devastation. Perhaps my experience in Vietnam helped me to cope with the magnitude of the disaster. We had a saying – "they can kill us, but they can't eat us, that's against the law!" Black humor, but it help me deal with horrible situeations
Baseball and other sports helped to normalize our life after a traumatic event. One of the things that helped me as a vet was returning to me normal way of life. Like all of us, the most important thing we could do after 9-11 was return to our jobs and our way of life.If you live in fear, it will consume you. Quoting FDRm "The only thing we have to fear..is fear itself". It was true on 9-11 and it is more true today.
I have my own take on 9-11 and baseball on my blog http://baseballdreamin.blogspot.com/
As a member of the US military I love what baseball means to the US!


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Richard Petty's long relationship with Chrysler ended with the Dodge Magnum, and in fact for the first time since 1960, Petty racked up nary a single Grand National win in 1978 while driving that car. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Magnum comes from that same winless year, but will its price earn the checkered?
For almost two decades Chrysler and Richard Petty went together like STP and bell-bottom wearing TV cops, even driving a 'Cuda in NHRA during NASCAR's short-lived Hemi ban. But that all stopped with the '78-'79 Dodge Magnum. Sure, the Charger that preceded the Magnum was a tough act to follow on the super speedways, and it really wasn't that the new car was all that bad - it's just that Chrysler's financial woes at the time simply prevented the company from investing in the development of either the Magnum, or that of its 360 engine.
Because of that, Petty left Mopar for Chevy, and pretty much never looked back. But we don't have to be so petty, and can look back - back on today's 1978 Dodge Magnum, a car that sports all the right pieces, and has enough NASCAR bling to give any fan of that moonshiner-born sport a major pants tent.
The Magnum derived from Chrysler's Cordoba, but while that smooth operator had a fantasy island's worth of fine Corinthian leather and Ricardo Montalbán to its name, the Magnum was saddled with a Ziggurat grille, clear fold-down headlamp covers, and Mopar's entire NASCAR bona fides riding on its square shoulders. No pressure, really.
It turns out the big coupe wasn't up to the task either on the track, or on the street, the Cordoba outselling the Magnum by a big margin. That was probably made easier by the fact that Dodge was selling concurrently the Charger which by now was nothing more than a Cordoba with a different grille and badging. The Magnum looked significantly different, sporting not just that more rectangular nose, but also substantially flared fenders, front and rear, as well as a more sporting interior with full instrumentation and an available floor shifter for the standard Torqueflite.
This one has all that plus the vinyl landau roof and T-tops, which together represent an interesting mélange of blast from the past kitsch. Outside it also sports deep dish wheels upon which are mounted some meaty BFGs and a homage to Dodge's NASCAR days of thunder in the form of a massive wing and equally loud and proud DAYTONA tat on each hip. The Magnum may have never made its name on the super speedways, but that doesn't mean, like a lardastical fan rocking his favorite b-ball player's jersey, it can't show its support.
The bodywork looks straight, although the Canyon red paint does seem as though it could use some of that infomercial miracle wax that brings back the luster with just a spritz, if you act now!
No interior shots are offered - never a good sign - but the seller does note the presence of power windows, and locks, as well as cruise control and a factory AM/FM/CB radio, good buddy. It also has the floor shifter for its 3-speed A727, which is apparently bolted to the back end of the reliable as the sunrise 360-CID V8. Unfortunately, atop that 360 is Chrysler's lean burn 2BBL carb, which is like getting an ice cream sundae topped with a hairy cat turd. Drivability issues and a tepid 155-bhp might make that carb a good candidate for the scrap heap, and replaced by a nice 4BBL and better flowing manifold. Anything might help move the car's 3,856-lb weight.
The seller says the tires are new, as well as other undisclosed parts and that the car is in excellent daily-driver condition. There's no mention of mileage in the ad, but you can be certain whatever they are, they weren't collected on the track.
Chrysler's history with NASCAR is rich and deep - Dodge even being the first make to top 200 miles per hour on the big ovals. This '78 Magnum lacks that history and performance, and I fact would struggle to top triple digits, but that doesn't mean it's not of interest, and it does come with that Daytona, and past glories-evoking, wing. But is it interesting enough (remember, t-tops!) to command an eight thousand dollar price tag? That's where the seller has set his starting point, however he does say that he's willing to deal.
What do you say, is $8,000 low enough for this NASCAR never-was put it on your pole position? Or, does that price make you think, like King Richard, that this isn't the year to run a Dodge?
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Congressional changes: Leaders change, but issues are the same
Congressional changes: Leaders change, but issues are the same
Redistricting efforts mean that Alameda will have a new Congressional representative come November for the first time in two decades. So how different will the representation of our likely new rep, Barbara Lee, be from our current one, Pete Stark?
"I don't think it will change that much," said Elizabeth Bergman, an assistant political science professor at California State University, East Bay.
While their signature issues are different – Lee became famous for casting the sole vote against granting then-President George Bush the authority to go to war against suspected terrorists in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and Stark, for his decades of work toward universal health care – both legislators were identified by one website, www.govtrack.us, as being far-left Democratic leaders. Another site, www.opencongress.org, showed that over the past five years the pair cast the same votes 95 percent of the time.
"They're very similar, as most members of the California Democratic delegation are going to be," Bergman said.
Both reps have called for lower defense spending and have worked to improve health care and increase spending on social services, and each is a frequent co-sponsor of the other's legislation, the representatives' websites and The Library of Congress' Thomas website show. But neither has had much success passing legislation under the Republican-led House of Representatives.
Lee, a onetime social worker who entered Congress in 1998, has so far sponsored 47 bills during the 2011-2012 Congressional session, including bills to pull the American military out of Afghanistan and Iraq; extend unemployment benefits; establish diplomatic relations with Iran; allow people convicted of drug crimes to be eligible for food stamps; and draw grant money to hire and train police to serve in high-crime communities, to create day programs for disabled adults, and to pay for school-based mental health services.
Just one of her bills – a bill requiring the President to report to Congress on aid and reconstruction efforts following a 2010 earthquake in Haiti – passed the House this session.
Stark, a former banker who joined Congress in 1973 (our district is his third, according to Govtrack), has penned 14 bills this session, including bills that would cap military spending, offer tax breaks on medical marijuana sales, eliminate a one-year time limit for immigrants to apply for political asylum, impose a tax on carbon emissions and exempt single parents from welfare time limits until their children are three years old. None of Stark's bills has passed out of committee this session.
The leadership change comes in the wake of a redistricting effort that saw Lee lose the San Ramon Hills portion of her old 9th District and gain Alameda and San Leandro. If she wins in November, Lee will retain portions of Oakland as well as Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville and Piedmont, all of which are now the 13th Congressional District.
Stark, who has represented Alameda since 1993, would gain Lee's old Castro Valley turf plus San Ramon, Pleasanton, Dublin and Livermore if elected to serve the 15th District in November. He will retain Hayward, Union City and Fremont if elected.
Lee's district will retain its urban and political makeup, while Stark – who faced stiffer competition than Lee for his new seat – is competing for his new seat in a much redder district than he represents now, interactive maps on the Sacramento Bee's website show.
Lee bested second-place finisher Marilyn Singleton in Tuesday's primary, earning 82.3 percent of the vote to Singleton's 12.4 percent. They'll face off in November's general election. Stark edged out a victory over fellow Democrat Eric Swallwell, garnering 41.8 percent of the vote to Swalwell's 36.2 percent. They, too, will face off in November.
Even in new districts, Bergman said she thinks the candidates will stick to the issues they have long championed. On their respective campaign websites, each touts their support for gay rights and an end to the Afghan war, health care and the environment. Lee's campaign issues include equity in the criminal justice system and environmental justice, and efforts to fight poverty and AIDS. Stark's campaign site notes his support for unions' right to bargain and for money to prevent teacher layoffs, his support of the stimulus bill and opposition to the Patriot Act.
"I think they're going to continue to work on the key issues they've been focusing on for a long time," Bergman said.


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Former MLB first baseman and Diamondbacks color commentator Mark Grace is going to jail because he can't stop driving around Arizona while drunk. Earlier today, Grace pleaded guilty to endangerment and DUI, and was sentenced to four months of work-release jail time and three years of supervised probation. Before reaching a plea agreement, Grace was facing a potentially lengthy prison sentence. From USA Today:
Grace pleaded not guilty in October to four aggravated DUI charges. His August DUI arrest was his second in Scottsdale in 15 months.
Grace faced from one to 3.75 years in prison on each count, Jerry Cobb, spokesman for Arizona's Maricopa County Attorney's Office, said recently.
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Everyone who has found success in a big league uniform has at least one special game that he will never forget. For some, trying to pick just one can be difficult.
For 87-year-old Bob Miller, the right-handed pitcher with the 1950 Whiz Kids, his game to remember was an easy choice.
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Miller's first big league victory began a streak of eight consecutive wins, a Phils rookie record. His first loss came on July 16 in the second game of a doubleheader against the St. Louis Cardinals.
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"Figuring I had a pretty decent rookie year, I went in to negotiate a contract for the next season with [team owner] Bob Carpenter. He offered me a $1,000 raise. Fortunately, later on, he upped it to $4,000," Miller said.
Miller relieved Robin Roberts when his streak of 28 consecutive complete games ended on July 9, 1953, against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
"Robbie gave up two runs in the eighth inning, and I relieved him. I walked one and got two fly balls. We scored two in the eighth, and I wound up the winner," Miller said.
"We went out to dinner after the game. What a great teammate and leader he was. After our careers ended, we coached against each other. I was at the University of Detroit and Robbie was with [the University of South Florida] in Tampa. We'd go south in the spring to play a bunch of games, and many were against USF."
In Miller's 10-year career with the Phils, his Aug. 9, 1953, start at Wrigley Field also stands out. It was the first game of a doubleheader against the Cubs. He not only pitched a six-hit shutout, but went 4-5 with two runs and an RBI.
"I loved playing in beautiful Wrigley Field. I had real good stuff that day -- a lot of ground balls, as my sinker was working. Smoky [Burgess] was my catcher. Every time he got a hit, I did the same. His fifth AB was a home run. I tried to follow, but grounded into a double play," Miller said laughing.
A few years ago, the Cubs, responding to a family inquiry, sent a letter verifying that Miller was the only pitcher in Wrigley Field history to pitch a shutout and get four hits.
A Detroit native, Miller played sandlot ball with Stan Lopata, another Whiz Kid. Following high school graduation, Miller enlisted in the Army. After two years in the military, he enrolled at the University of Detroit, where he was scouted by the Phillies. Miller signed a $2,500 contract late in 1947 and reported to the Phils' affiliate in Terre Haute, Ind., the following season. In 1949, he was 19-9 when he was promoted to the Majors.
Miller's big league debut came on Sept. 16, 1949, pitching in relief in the eighth inning of a 2-1 loss at Cincinnati. Few have a memory of that game, as attendance was 1,185.
Miller stayed with the Phillies organization for his entire career, from 1949-58. He finished his big league career with a 42-42 record and a 3.96 ERA.
"There's not one day in my life that I'm not thankful for my time with the Phillies," said Miller, who was one of more than 50 alumni covering five decades who attended August's Alumni Weekend at Citizens Bank Park.


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I have been working on this program to calculate a sales commission and failing miserably. I need to get this program working so I can then modify it to add an array to calculate and compare the sales info for 2 sales people. And it's all due Monday!!
Someone PLEASE take a look at this code and tell me how to fix it. I am at my wits end here.
Thanks in advance for your help!!
package compensation; import java.text.DecimalFormat; import java.util.Scanner; /** * @author Rick Sebastian */ public class Compensation { public static double main(String[] args) { int salary = 60000; //Defines base salary of $60K double targetSales = 120000; //Defines the target sales object to determine commission double sales; //Defines sales amount double commission = 0.025; double accelerator = 0.0125; double minSalesamt = 960000; double compensation; //Defines compensation object that combines salary + commission double overSales; double regCommission; double aclCommission; final int INCREMENT = 5000; //Defines sales increment to calculate potential compensation int total; // To hold the total sales in total DecimalFormat formatter = new DecimalFormat("#0.00"); Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in); //Code needed to prompt user to enter info on keyboard System.out.print("Enter total annual sales figure: $ "); //Prompts user to enter sales figure sales = keyboard.nextDouble(); { if (sales < minSalesamt) { compensation = salary; return compensation; //This represents everything less than the 80% of the $1.2M sales goal where no commission is paid } if (sales > targetSales) { overSales = (sales - targetSales); aclCommission = (overSales * (commission + accelerator)); sales = targetSales; } else { aclCommission = 0; } regCommission = (sales * commission); compensation = (salary + regCommission + aclCommission); System.out.println("Your total annual compensation is $" + compensation); //This code displays the total compensation including salary + commission System.out.println("Potential Total Sales\tMax Potential Salary Total"); // Display the table headings. System.out.println("------------------------------------------"); for (total = (int) sales; total <= sales * 1.5; total += INCREMENT) // Loop to calculate the Total Potential Sales and Total Potential Compensation { System.out.printf("%20d\t\t%,.2f\n", total, compensation); // Display the Potential Total Sales and Total Potential Annual Compensation } } return 0; } }


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Viciedo day to day with jammed left thumb
White Sox left fielder suffers injury on diving attempt in first inning
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin.
CHICAGO -- White Sox left fielder Dayan Viciedo exited Monday's game against the Yankees in the bottom of the first inning with a jammed left thumb. Viciedo suffered the injury while diving for Robinson Cano's single in the top of the first.
Viciedo couldn't make the catch, but threw out Cano trying to stretch his single into a double. Alejandro De Aza pinch-hit for Viciedo and struck out with runners on first and second and then took over in center, moving Casper Wells to left field.
X-rays were negative and Viciedo is listed as day to day.
"It was one of those that we wanted to make sure nothing was wrong. He's fine," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. "They had X-rays and he's good."
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A few pieces of the Kentucky Derby puzzle fell into place in weekend racing while a showdown between sprinters went to a long shot.
On the Kentucky Oaks front, there were minor upsets in California and New York. But on Florida's Gulf Coast, form ruled.
Internationally, the Dubai-based horses are starting to sort themselves out for World Cup night, now less than two months away. And another Hong Kong star may have stamped his ticket to the desert.
Let's ride.
Kentucky Derby trail
Saturday's $250,000, Grade III Withers Stakes at Aqueduct was billed as a virtual match race between two promising New York-breds -- Samraat and Uncle Sigh. And so it came to pass. Uncle Sigh showed the way with Samraat right behind and four others nowhere in the picture. At the quarter pole, Samraat moved to the lead and the two battled down the stretch until Samraat finally edged clear late to win by a length, remaining undefeated in four starts. It was 10 1/4 lengths back to Scotland in third. Samraat, a Noble Causeway gelding, finished 1 1/16 miles on a fast track in 1:46.31 under Jose Ortiz -- 2 seconds faster than the winner of the earlier Busher Stakes for 3-year-old fillies. Uncle Sigh, an Indian Charlie colt, now has a win and two seconds from three starts. Winning trainer Rick Violette said it's good to have a tough stretch battle "before you get to the bigger races. They have to learn how to fight ... . This was a tough race." He said he might wait for the Grade I Wood Memorial on April 5 for Samraat's next start. "If he's kind of kicking the walls down, he can come back in the Gotham" on March 1. Or, he said, he might opt for the Louisiana Derby on March 29. "There are a lot of options." Gary Contessa, trainer of Uncle Sigh, agreed about the value of a tough race. "Maybe he got me on experience today," Contessa said. "I look forward to 'Rocky II' ... Hopefully he comes back in the Gotham. I'll be there."
On the Florida Gulf Coast, another desperate stretch battle played out at the end of Saturday's $250,000, Grade III Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs. Twelve-to-one long shot Vinceremos got to the lead in the stretch after tracking pedestrian early fractions and Harpoon, with a late rush, fell just a nose short of catching him. Cousin Stephen made all the early going and held on for third. Vinceremos, a Pioneerof the Nile colt, ran 1 1/16 miles on a fast track in 1:47.34. Edgar Prado rode for trainer Todd Pletcher -- who also handles Harpoon. Vinceremos now has two straight wins after finishing second in his first race. "It was a great job on Edgar's part," said Randy Gullatt, racing manager for the winners. "We're learning about him every time." He suggested the $350,000, Grade II Tampa Bay Derby "would be the next logical race." Pletcher assistant Ginny DePasquale added, "A dead heat would have been perfect. You never know when they are going to step up to the plate and he [Vinceremos] obviously did it at the right time."
Wildcat Red had way too much for eight rivals in Saturday's $200,000, Grade III Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfsteam Park, rallying from a pace-stalking position to win by 4 3/4 lengths. Cee Z was second and Pablo Del Monte finished third. Vinceremos was cross-entered in this race but opted for the longer challenge across the peninsula. Wildcat Red, a Florida-bred D'wildcat colt, ran 7 furlongs in 1:22.21 with Javier Castellano aboard. He was turning back in distance after winning the 1-mile Gulfstream Park Derby on New Year's Day. Despite that, trainer Jose Garoffalo said he will try to get Wildcat Red to go farther. "If you look at his pedigree, he doesn't show much stamina," the trainer said. "But the way he's training, the way he relaxes now, I think we could try him around two turns and see what happens." He said he is considering the Fountain of Youth, especially since Cairo Prince is expected to pass on that 1 1/16-mile event on Feb. 22.
Harry's Holiday took charge on the turn in Saturday's $60,000 96ROCK Stakes at Turfway Park in Kentucky and rocked on to an 8-length victory. Artemus Coalmine was the best of the rest, a nose in front of Bisque. Harry's Holiday, a Harlan's Holiday colt, ran 6 1/2 furlongs on the all-weather track in 1:16.72 with Rodney Prescott riding. It was his first race over an all-weather surface and his first stakes start. "We thought it was a good fit for him," said winning trainer Mike Maker, who shipped the colt up from Florida. Maker said Harry's Holiday may remain at Turfway to contest the John Battaglia Memorial on March 1, the final local prep for the Grade III Spiral Stakes.
3-year-old fillies
Fashion Plate led all the way to a mild upset in Saturday's $300,000, Grade I Las Virgenes Stakes at Santa Anita, holding off the previously unbeaten, even-money favorite, Streaming, by a half length under the wire. Arethusa was third with a late rush. Fashion Plate, a daughter of Old Fashioned, ran the mile on a fast track in 1:37.22 with Gary Stevens up. She was coming off her maiden win, scored Dec. 29 over the same track. "When they came to her, she really dug in and tried real hard," winning trainer Simon Callaghan said. "Gary put up a great ride ... . We'll look at the Santa Anita Oaks and, if she does well there, maybe we'll take her to Kentucky." Fashion Plate is owned by Arnold Zetcher and Michael Tabor. Streaming's trainer, Bob Baffert, said, "Turning for home, I thought we had it. That's why he [Stevens] is the best, though. He's tough."
Joint Return filed notice in Saturday's $100,000 Busher Stakes at Aqueduct that she's going to tax the patience of some rivals. The Include filly, a 7-1 long shot, raced at the back of the pack early, swung five-wide and ran by them all and on to a 4 1/4-length victory. Vero Amore was he best of the rest, with Ketel Twist third. The favorite, Ballylee, ran evenly and finished fifth. Joint Return ran 1 1/16 miles on the fast inner track in 1:48.49. She now has three straight wins after finishing third in her career bow. "We left there and she put me in a good position," winning rider Kendrick Carmouche said. "Being 4 1/2, 5 lengths off of it is a good place for her and I thought from there they couldn't beat her."
Please Explain certainly didn't need any excuses after Saturday's $100,000 Suncoast Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs. The Curlin filly saved ground down the backstretch, found room on the rail to take the lead turning for home and won by a comfortable 6 lengths. Nesso was second and Light Bringer was a neck farther back in third. Please Explain, with Julien Leparoux in the irons, got 1 mile and 40 yards on a fast track in 1:44.94. She ran second twice at Churchill Downs and third once at Keeneland during her 2-year-old campaign and finally found the winner's circle in her first start of 2014 at Gulfstream Park. Trainer Tom Proctor said he wasn't counting his chickens before the race, although, "If you go somewhere, you have to be able to beat these kid of horses ... . This filly looks like she wants to go two turns and a couple of workouts over this track means a lot." He said he has no set plan for the filly.
Aragorn Ami overhauled pacesetting Euphrosyne heading around the stretch turn in Saturday's $100,000 Martha Washington Stakes at Oaklawn Park and the two battled to mid-stretch, when Aragorn Ami edged clear to win by 1 1/2 lengths. Ireland was third and the favorite, Kiss Moon, got home seventh. Aragorn Ami, a daughter of Aragorn, ran 1 mile on a fast track in 1:41.20 with Norberto Arroyo in the irons. A claim of foul against the winner for alleged stretch interference was disallowed. "For the first time on that track, I thought it was an extremely good performance," said winning trainer Josie Carroll. "It's a little bit of a tiring track and I thought, for her to win in that company, first time on that track, really showed her class." Carroll said there is a "good possibility" Aragorn Ami will stay in Arkansas for the 3-year-old filly series.
International action
(By RICHARD GROSS)
A full month into the Dubai World Cup Carnival, fun yielded to serious business as a pair of Group 2 races presaging Dubai World Cup day runners highlighted Thursday's card at Meydan. Fields became larger and outcomes more interesting as trainers try to find which horses to point toward which Dubai World Cup Day races March 29.
Godolphin put another certified star in the winner's circle when Certify literally ran away with the featured Group 2 Cape Verdi Stakes over 1,600 meters on the turf. It was the fifth win without a defeat for the now 4-year-old daughter of Elusive Quality, returning to the track after sitting out her entire 3-year-old season due in part to a six-month suspension because of steroid use in Great Britain by her former trainer.
There was nothing elusive about the quality of her first run since 2012 as she was kept well back until the stretch run by a very confident Mickael Barzalona who pulled the trigger and shot past her small group of five quality rivals including eventual runner-up L'Amour De Ma Vie in the final 200 meters without ever using the whip. The 3/4-length hand-ride win was just 0.09 seconds off the track record at 1:36.09. The 2012 Cartier Champion 2-year-old filly in Europe scored her first Group 2 win in the UAE to go along with her previous Group 1, 2 and 3 victories in Great Britain.
"We always thought she was very good and she did that in the style of a classy filly," trainer Charlie Appleby said following the impressive effort. "Hopefully, she can go on to justify the ultra-high regard in which we have always held her."
The highly anticipated match had Certify pitted against new Godolphin hope Shuruq, the first filly to win the Al Maktoum Challenge 1 on the opening night of this year's Carnival. The new star took the early lead but faded in the stretch to an exhausted last-place finish.
The evening offered an unusual second turf feature, the 1,800-meter Al Rashidiya. Also unusual was a false start caused when the stalls failed to open in unison. The race got under way after a delay and a gate test and perennial-winning Meydan trainer Mike de Kock scored a one-two win for owner Sheik Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum and his sixth win in this event when Mujaarib, guided by Christophe Soumillon, was a neck better than stablemate Mushreq and jockey Dane O'Neill in a crowded 12-horse field.
Saxo Jack made it a double for Godolphin and jockey Barzalona, holding on for a half-length win over stablemate Haafaguinea in the 2,000-meter Potlines Trophy turf handicap. The 2012 UAE Derby winner, Daddy Long Legs again came up flat-footed, finishing 12th in the 14-horse field racing without the shoes trainer Mike de Kock believed were responsible for the horse clipping and cutting his own legs while running.
De Kock and Soumillon still gained a double when Zahee earned a 1-length win over Gold City and nine other fortune seekers in the 1,400-meter Casthouse Trophy handicap over the all-weather Tapeta. Veteran local trainer Satish Seemar was rewarded with a victory when Richard Mullen guided Ottoman Empire to a conquering 1-length win over String Theory in the Billet Trophy handicap across 1,900 meters on the all-weather.
The evening began with an excellent finish in the 1,000-meters Excellence Trophy handicap turf sprint as Saudi invader Alsaaeqah, with William Buick aboard, hung on by a short head over Beat Baby, who in turn, beat Medicean Man by only a neck with Abstraction finishing fourth, a neck ahead in the race over Racy. The win was the first in 39 attempts in the UAE for a horse raced by Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud and the first win on the turf by 7-year-old Alsaaeqah.
Hong Kong
Akeed Mofeed, making his first appearance since lifting the Group 1 Longines Hong Kong Gold Cup in December, shrugged off a 133-pound impost to win Sunday's HK Group 3 Centenary Vase. Ashkiyr, toting 20 pounds less, mounted a late run but fell a neck short of catching Akeed Mofeed, who clearly was getting geared up for later objectives. "We knew we were the best horse in the race," winning trainer Richard Gibson said. "It was just a question of whether he'd had enough work ... . It was a good workout, which he needed." Gibson said the HK Group 1 Citibank Hong Kong Gold Cup in three weeks' time "is the No. 1 objective" although Akeed Mofeed also is entered for both the Group 1 Dubai World Cup and the Group 1 Dubai Duty Free on March 29. "After the Gold Cup, we'll make a decision about Dubai," Gibson said.
Back in the USA
Sunday's $200,000, Grade II Palos Verdes Stakes at Santa Anita looked like a match race beween Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Secret Circle and Met Mile victor Sahara Sky. But it was Wild Dude who rallied from off the pace and outfinished Secret Circle in the final yards to win by a neck. Sahara Sky was never involved and finished last of five despite some late effort. Wild Dude, one of three saddled by Jerry Hollendorfer, ran 6 furlongs on a fast track in 1:08.09. He is a 4-year-old colt by Wildcat Heir. Wild Dude won his third straight race but the Palos Verdes was his stakes debut. "Yes, it was a big step up for him," Hollendorfer said. "But he's been doing good and the race came up light so we decided to go with three horses instead of two." Hollendorfer also trains Sahara Sky and commented, "I hope nothing's wrong. I don't think it is." Secret Circle's trainer, Bob Baffert, said he thought his horse had the race won. "He ran well off the layoff. He just got beat," Baffert said. "I just don't think he saw that other horse."
Candyman E got by pacesetting favorite Dads Caps in the final yards to take Saturday's $150,000, Grade III Toboggan Stakes at Aqueduct by 3/4 length. Non Stop finished third. Candyman E, a 7-year-old Candy Ride gelding, ran 6 furlongs on the fast inner track in 1:10.34 with Charles Lopez in the irons. It was his third straight victory. "The plan was to not let [Dads Caps] get away," winning trainer David Jacobson said. "Chuckie did a great job of stalking him, staying with him, and we were able to run him down in the last few jumps."
Filly & Mare Sprint
Lion D N A took the lead into the stretch in Saturday's $100,000 Correction Stakes for fillies and mares at Aqueduct, opened a daylight advantage and held off Delightful Quality at the end to win by a head. Masasi finished third. Lion D N A, a 4-year-old, Illinois-bred Lion Heart filly, finished 6 furlongs in 1:11.32 with Charles Lopez up. He now has three straight wins and, before that skein, had three straight second-place finishes.
Guys Reward got by the odds-on favorite, Salto, in deep stretch to upset Saturday's $150,000, Grade III Lambholm South Tampa Bay Stakes, winning by 1 1/2 lengths. Golden Sabre was third. Guys Reward, dispatched at odds of almost 15-1, ran 1 1/16 miles on yielding turf in 1:43.44 with Abdiel Jaen up. The 7-year-old son of Grand Reward had not won since taking the Grade II Firecracker Handicap at Churchill Downs in July 2012. Owner Michael Bruder said he was nervous about the course condition. But, he added, "I'm sure Dale [trainer Dale Romans] was confident or else he would have sent him somewhere else ... . He's had some hoof issues but we've finally got him to where he's right."
Winning Prize waited well behind breakaway leader Regally Ready in Saturday's $200,000, Grade I Arcadia Stakes at Santa Anita, got to even terms at mid-stretch and went on to win by 1 1/2 lengths. Tom's Tribute put a neck in front of Regally Ready to get place money. Winning Prize, a 5-year-old, Argentine-bred son of Pure Prize, ran the mile on firm turf in 1:32.89 with Rafael Bejarano riding. The Neil Drysdale trainee picked up his second win in four tries since immigrating to the United States last year. It was his first start since Nov. 29. "There wasn't anywhere to run," Drysdale said of the layoff. "Plus, it's going to be a long year for him so there was no rush."
Turf Sprint
Kiss to Remember stalked the pace in Saturday's $60,000 Battle of New Orleans Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, rallied to the lead when prompted by jockey Rosie Napravnik and drew clear to win by 4 1/4 lengths over Mizzen Moon. Toni's Hollyday rallied from well back to finish third. Kiss to Remember, a Big Brown filly, ran about 5 1/2 furlongs on good turf in 1:05.80. Tom Amoss trains for owner Maggi Moss.
Wicked Tune stalked the pace in Saturday's $75,000 Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint, then found running room inside to advance to a 3/4-length victory. Travelin Man came from last to finish second, 3/4 of a length better than Determinato. The favorite, Tightend Touchdown, was bumped at the start and never figured in the running, getting home eighth. Wicked Tune, a 7-year-old son of Concorde's Tune, ran 5 furlongs on good turf in 56.98 with Elvis Trujillo riding.
Delta Downs
Louisiana Premier Night found no shortage of excitement for the state-breds. The track was fast and it was a night for favorites. Favorites won eight of the 12 races on the card and of those eight winners, six were odds-on. The stakes results:
In the marquee event, the $200,000 Championship, Sunbean continued to prove he's found his niche at the top of the Louisiana-bred heap. With Richard Eramia providing only light encouragement, the 4-year-old Brahms gelding, the prohibitive favorite, easily went by the leaders in the lane and drew off to win by 4 lengths. Hit the Road Lee was second with Populist Politics filling out the trifecta. Sunbean ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:44.04. That broke the stakes record set by the renowned Star Guitar in 2011 in the third of his four consecutive Premier Night Championship victories.
Sittin At the Bar provided an equally popular victory in the $100,000 Matron, stalking the pace, then clearing to win by 2 lengths over Wire Me Bessie. Fast City was third. Sittin At the Bar, a 4-year-old Into Mischief filly, ran 5 furlongs in 57.67 seconds with Colby Hernandez up.
Tensas Harbor delivered a rare upset victory in the $150,000 Distaff, putting a head in front of Little Ms Protocol under the wire. The favorite and pacesetter, Guadalupe High, faded to finish third. Tensas Harbor, a 4-year-old Private Vow filly, got 1 mile in 1:38.63 for jockey Mark Guidry.
Another heavy favorite, Heitai, won easily in the $100,000 Sprint, making all the going before a 5-length victory. Knockitdownhard and Folsom Fire were second and third. Heitai, a 4-year-old gelding by Fusaichi Pegasus, finished 5 furlongs in 56.69 under Diego Saenz.
Yet another favorite, Ide Be Cool, was the easiest of winners in the $125,000 Prince for 3-year-olds, opening up in the lane to score by 9 lengths. Angel Avenger was along for second and Coteau Ridge finished third. Ide Be Cool, an Ide gelding, ran 7 furlongs in 1:24.95 with Chris Rosier up.
Closing Report closed late to take the $125,000 Starlet for 3-year-old fillies by 1 3/4 lengths as the mutuel favorite. Hatainsroyalrouj led briefly and held second with Jais Pal third. Closing Report, with Rosie Napravnik up, ran 7 furlongs in 1:26.90.
Fair Grounds
Warm Breeze led from the early going in Saturday's $60,000 Happy Ticket Stakes for fillies and mares and just did hang on to win by a nose over the onrushing favorite, Same Cross. It was another 9 1/4 lengths back to Ire in third. Warm Breeze, a 4-year-old Street Sense filly, ran 6 furlongs on a fast track in 1:10.33 with Leandro Goncalves in the irons.
Sam Houston Race Park
Wampas Kitty got through between horses in the stretch run in Saturday's $50,000 Tomball Stakes for Texas-bred distaffers and kicked away to a 2 3/4-length victory. The odds-on favorite, Smiles Golden Song, was second and Mescalaress finished third. Wampas Kitty, a 6-year-old daughter of Captain Countdown, ran 1 1/16 miles on firm turf in 1:44.37 for jockey Alfredo Contreras.
Sunland Park
Homerun Berti, the odds-on favorite, showed the way in Saturday's $50,000 Budweiser Handicap and won by 2 1/4 lengths over City Sage. Grand Move was another 4 lengths back in third. Homerun Berti, an 8-year-old Forestry gelding, ran 5 furlongs on a fast track in 56.45 seconds with Ry Eikleberry riding.
News and notes
The Kentucky Derby may be "presented by YUM! Brands" but it's also "dominated by Todd Pletcher". At least, Pletcher dominates the early Triple Crown nominations with 42 of the 413 3-year-olds on that list coming from his operation. That total would fill the starting gate twice, with two "also eligibles" left over and breaks Pletcher's own record of 32 nominations in 2013. This year's list also includes 18 from Bob Baffert's barn, 13 from Steve Asmussen and 12 from D. Wayne Lukas. Despite his proliferation of nominations, Pletcher has sent out only three winners in Triple Crown races -- the filly Rags to Riches in the 2007 Belmont Stakes, Super Saver in the 2010 Kentucky Derby and Palace Malice in last year's Belmont. Early nominations cost $600 per horse. Late-bloomers can be made eligible for $6,000 each any time on or before March 22.


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InauguralVaccine Quality throughout the Life Cycle
Managing the interface between process change implementation,
analytical characterization and regulatory strategyAugust 13-14, 2012
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This event brings together specialists from Process Development, Analytical Characterization, CMC, and Regulatory Strategy amongst others to examine the important interface between the process, vaccine characterization, and interaction with the regulatory authorities. Attendees will discover how the experts adapt the process and set up panels of characterization tests for robust potency assays, physicochemical characterization, and for release. We plan to cover all stages of development, a range of prophylactic areas, a selection of cell lines and a variety of vaccines.
Monday, August 13
12:00 – 1:30 pm Main Conference Registration
1:30 Chairperson's Opening Remarks
Jane Halpern, Ph.D., Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Novavax, Inc.
Process Management for Vaccine Quality
» Opening Keynote Presentation
1:40 Scale Up and Product Comparability for a Legacy Vaccine
Richard W. Welch, Ph.D., Vice President, Process & Analytical Development, Emergent Biosolutions- Biography
The current production process for BioThrax® (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed) is based on 1960's technology, has remained relatively unchanged, and is executed at a scale that does not permit Emergent BioSolutions to meet the USG's stated requirement of 75 million doses of a general use prophylaxis vaccine for the prevention of anthrax. Emergent Biosolutions has built a modern facility for the production of BioThrax; included a 12 fold increase in scale, a number of process improvements designed to increase process control, and capability of meeting the US government requirement of 75 million doses.
2:20 Managing Change from Bench to CTM Production – A Case Study
Mario Amacker, Ph.D., Head, Process Development and Manufacturing, Pevion Biotech AG - Biography
We have designed virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine "virosome" technology specifically for the development of safe and effective subunit vaccines. Virosomes are particularly well suited for addressing new vaccine indications. The transition of our current vaccine candidate against recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (RVVC) from the bench-scale to the CTM production will be reviewed, with focus on upscaling and change implementation.
2:50 Technology Transfer during Facility Construction – A Real Life Story at Medicago
Todd L. Talarico, Ph.D., Vice President, Manufacturing, Medicago-USA - Biography
Medicago is expanding the production capacity for its Nicotianabenthamiana-based vaccine production platform. This expansion included building a facility in Research Triangle Park, NC on a tight timeline, scaling the process approximately 30-fold and transferring the production technology to the new facility from Quebec City, Canada. In addition, the project was tied to deliverables for DARPA which included the promise of producing 10 million vaccine doses within a 30-day period to demonstrate the success of the construction and technology transfer operations. The challenges and successes of the project will be reviewed and examples of lessons learned will be presented.
3:20 Refreshment Break
3:45 Managing Process Changes and Improvements for a Recombinant Influenza Vaccine
Albert Price, Ph.D., Technical Director, Process Development, Protein Sciences Corporation - Biography
FluBlok® is a recombinant trivalent influenza vaccine produced using the baculovirus expression system. The vaccine is currently under regulatory review by the FDA. The technical, quality and regulatory challenges of adapting to seasonal influenza strain changes are magnified by the desire to also implement process improvements for more efficient production. This case-study will examine options for future FluBlok yield improvements and the strategies for evaluating their benefits and risks from process development, manufacturing, quality and regulatory perspectives.
4:15 Achieving Consistency and Quality in cGMP DNA Plasmid Downstream Processing
Robert J. Juba, Senior Director, Manufacturing and Clinical Supplies Management, Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Biography
We have developed a downstream manufacturing process to enable DNA vaccines simultaneously targeting multiple antigens and/or pathogens. The process includes a streamlined recovery process, highly selective plasmid capture and polishing chromatography steps, and transmembrane filtration for plasmid concentration. The end result is a process that is readily scalable to commercial capacities and final drug products that are highly reproducible and easily characterized through validated assays. Products manufactured using this process have translated into human clinical trials for multivalent HPV therapy and seasonal/avian influenza.
4:45 Applying QbD in the Development of Critical Quality Attributes
Mike Schwartz, Ph.D., Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs, GlaxoSmithKline-Biologicals - Biography
The biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing strategy for a vaccine are guided by the product's quality target product profile (QTPP). Quality by Design (QbD) principles are applied from the onset of product definition and development, and intended to ensure that the product is designed to meet patient safety and efficacy requirements. Potential CQAs are selected on the basis of prior knowledge and current understanding of structure-function relationships, and a risk-assessment tool is developed and applied to each quality attribute. CMC-related activities focus on refining structure-function relationships and their impact on safety and efficacy; this information is used to iteratively update the CQA risk assessments throughout the product lifecycle.
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I blame it all on public transportation.
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Today, I got up at my chosen time and left the house when I needed to. Did everything right. I even made an earlier train from Fordham to Stamford.
But the 11:51 train toward New Haven from Stamford was delayed indefinitely for a mysterious reason that was later revealed to be police activity.
The train finally came at about 12:34. I was at least pleased that they did not ask for tickets, but at the same time pissed at losing a half-hour of wages.
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What does a $250,000 ticket to space with Virgin Galactic actually buy you?
By Daisy Carrington, for CNN • Updated 16th August 2013
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For decades, none but a few privileged -- and highly trained -- individuals could dare dream of traveling beyond Earth's orbit. All that's set to change as Richard Branson brings space exploration to the (mega-rich) masses.
In April,
Virgin Galactic
-- a subsidiary of Branson's Virgin Group -- hit a milestone. The rocket motor the company had been testing on the ground was fitted into SpaceShip Two, the spacecraft that, from next year onwards, will bring space travel to the general public.
"We lit the rocket motor for the first time in the air and the spaceship went through the sound barrier," recalls Stephen Attenborough, Virgin Galactic's commercial director.
"It was a hugely significant milestone for us, and in many ways, the last big piece of the jigsaw."
Read more: Virgin Galactic one flight closer to space tourism
Though a ticket aboard SpaceShip Two doesn't come cheap -- a seat currently costs $250,000 -- Attenborough maintains that as things stand, the fare is a relative bargain.
Business Traveller gets a taste of space travel and explores how Emirates wants to inspire aviation enthusiasts.
Ayesha Durgahee explores the future of drone-based passenger aircraft while Richard Quest road-tests a water jet pack.
CNN's Richard Quest tests the world's first water powered jet pack which lets you fly 30 feet in the air.
"It's still about 1% of the price you would have needed to pay to go to space as a private citizen before now," maintains Attenborough. Indeed, in the past, the privilege cost civilians a fair share. When Dennis Tito, the world's first "space tourist" bought a seat aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2001, it allegedly cost him nearly $20 million.
Read more: What does it feel like to be weightless?
Though flights won't commence until next year at the earliest, Virgin Galactic has already sold 640 seats to space enthusiasts the world over. For some, the cost is negligible. Others, though, have taken second mortgages on their homes to pay for the tickets.
So what does $250,000 buy you?
The experience starts with three days of training at Spaceport America in New Mexico.
"There's a lot to do with getting you psychologically prepared for a trip that is absolutely about sensory overload," says Attenborough.
Read more: Google goes inside the A380
The flight itself accommodates six passengers, lasts two and a half hours, and culminates with congratulatory champagne at the spaceport. Space travelers get to leave their seats to experience several minutes of zero-gravity, and perhaps the most iconic view ever afforded mankind.
"Ultimately, you get memories to last a lifetime -- a trip I think will just blow people away. When talking to professional astronauts of the past, they don't talk about (their experiences) for a day or a year, they talk about it for the rest of their lives."
Still, there are many enthusiasts eager to see the price drop, not the least of whom is American astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Aldrin recalls the first time he heard the concept of private space travel debated in a meeting room 25 years ago.
"Somebody said, 'How are we going to select (who gets to fly to space)?' Someone in the back of the room said, 'How about a lottery?' Man, my ears perked up at that, and I became a devotee of a lottery to select people."
The civilian lottery is the basis of Aldrin's non-profit, SpaceShare.
"I wasn't interested in a big pay-off of the profit made. I was interested in exposing space to a large number of people," he says.
Attenborough himself is eager to see the price drop.
"This is not just a business for Virgin. It's about the creation of a new and important industry that is going to transform space access. One of the byproducts of that is there will be competition, there will be economies of scale, and we should see the price go down," he says.
"Hopefully there will be a large, thriving, vibrant industry that will make it possible for most people to go into space in my lifetime."
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'Project Runway' Star Tim Gunn Joins Twitter, Makes It Work
Beloved Project Runway mentor Tim Gunn joined Twitter and celebrity Twitter client WhoSay Friday. His first tweets are humble and friendly, like his real-world personality.
Since his first tweet at 10:41 a.m., Gunn has gained more than 4,000 followers.
Gunn is a fashion consultant and a former faculty member at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. But he is most famous for his presence on fashion reality show Project Runway, where he has advised competing designers since the show's first season in 2004.
In his first tweet, Gunn posted the above image via WhoSay. @TimGunn has also tweeted @NinaGarcia, Project Runway judge and Marie Claire fashion director. However, the countdown begins: When can we expect Gunn to tweet his signature mantra — Make it work!?
Now that's worth a retweet.
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Drones – coming to a neighborhood near you
Worried about the security of your home or business? Wondering how safe your neighborhood is? Curious about how well your crops or livestock are doing? neighborhood is? Curious about how well your crops or livestock are doing? The answer may be drone technology – the same technology that has been used in the fight against terrorism and to patrol our nation's borders.
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(BPT) – Worried about the security of your home or business? Wondering how safe your neighborhood is? Curious about how well your crops or livestock are doing?
The answer may be drone technology – the same technology that has been used in the fight against terrorism and to patrol our nation's borders.
As knowledge about drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, becomes more mainstream, public safety officials, companies and individuals are exploring how drones could perform a variety of jobs.
Because of the potential and controversial uses of drone technology, which range from military-style Predator drones to camera-equipped flying devices the size of birds, 43 states have proposed or recently enacted laws to define what a drone is, who is authorized to use them, and how they can be used, according to WestlawNext, the nation's leading online legal research service.
Compiled through research on WestlawNext, here is a breakdown of what states have enacted or are currently proposing:
* 39 states have laws or bills addressing search warrants for law enforcement's use of drones.
* 18 states have laws or bills that limit the use of drones for surveillance by non-law enforcement personnel, such as corporate security personnel or private investigators.
* 17 states have laws or bills that prohibit drones armed with weapons, such as guns or tasers.
* 20 states have laws or bills for a private right of action by individuals aggrieved by violations of drone rules.
* 16 states have laws or bills defining criminal penalties for violation of drone regulations.
* 17 states have laws or bills providing exceptions for the use of drones in cases of emergency.
The legislation, both enacted and proposed, address real-life questions such as whether a local police department can issue speeding tickets based on a digital recording of the car's speed from a drone flying overhead, the use of drones by the news media to record footage for a story, or if you need a license to shoot video with a remote-controlled aircraft for commercial purposes, such as real estate or to record large public events for advertisers.
On the other side of the issue, a debate is emerging about the legality of an American citizen destroying a low-flying drone that crosses a property owner's private property. According to a February 2013 Reason-Rupe poll, 47 percent of Americans think they should have the right to shoot down a drone that's taking video of their home.
"There are a number of issues surfaced by the various legislation, but clearly privacy and public safety top the list," says Michael Carlson, reference attorney at Thomson Reuters. "The wide-ranging points of legislation demonstrate multiple views, perceived opportunities and a variety of concerns surrounding the use and development of drones."
Through research on WestlawNext, some of the unique legislation being discussed and debated in statehouses across the United States regarding drones includes:
* Proposed legislation in Virginia would make it unlawful to use drones to "impede the lawful hunting of wild birds or wild animals."
* In Massachusetts, a bill would prohibit the use of drones to "collect or maintain information about the political, religious or social views, associations or activities of an individual."
* At least three states, North Carolina, Utah and Virginia, have called for the investigation of, or express concern for, the authorized use of drones against U.S. citizens by the U.S. government.
* Some states, such as Nevada, Ohio, Texas and Washington, are encouraging the development of drone technology within their state.
* At least two states, Nevada and Washington, noted tax incentives or abatements in their legislation for aircraft businesses or the aerospace industry. The legislature in Nevada also endorsed "the promotion of efforts to support the establishment of Nevada as the 'Silicon Valley' of unmanned aircraft systems education, testing, research and manufacture."
These various pieces of legislation seek to address an ever-changing landscape as the application for drone use, and their technological capabilities, ever-widens. In 2015, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, in coordination with agencies such as the Federal Aviation Administration and aviation industry representatives, is expected to announce rules and regulations regarding the use of drones. In the end, drones, and legislation tied to them, have become part of our everyday lives.
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Last week in I began to relate my quest for an online e-commerce solution, a saga that makes "War and Peace" seem short and pithy.
I discussed my exploration of osCommerce and then my evaluations of shopping cart solutions recommended by Intuit, which included Go Daddy, ProStores and Homestead. By this time I was feeling somewhat disheartened.
Thus it was I turned to the last of the Intuit-recommended services: Network Solutions. I have never been a fan of this company, my opinion shaped by its outrageous service pricing, the various dubious business practices it has indulged in over the years and its recent ethical lapse in holding unregistered domain names hostage. But I needed a shopping cart and my assumption was that I'd be making a safe choice as Network Solutions was, in effect, vouched for by Intuit.
I signed up for the Pro service (US$99 setup fee and US$99.95 per month) and began configuring the service. Things went fairly well, although the built-in help was not very helpful and the organization of features takes a little getting used to.
One major issue with the interface is it is slow. Ignoring the actual performance of the Internet between it and me, the workflow is ridiculously inefficient. I'm sure Network Solutions would defend this by arguing that it caters to less-skilled users, but I would disagree. For example, adding a product to your shopping cart requires too many steps and, as there's no built-in online bulk update features, you might wind up using the alternative; downloading a comma-separated variable file with the product data in it, editing that file in Excel, and then uploading. This process might be fine if it were actually documented and didn't have a serious bug, which I'll come back to in a second.
The problem with the download method of editing product details for use in this e-commerce shopping cart is the form was designed by some demented engineer. It consists of a "master" line for each product that lists its internal database number, various other attributes and a field that lists all of the "variants" for the product in the following way: "Size| Large; X-Large; XX-Large".
Accompanying the master line are additional lines, one for each variant listed in the master line. For example, if you have a line for a product named "T-Shirt" and its variant list is "Color| Red; Green; Blue;" then there will be three more lines in the file with product names "T-Shirt| Color| Red", "T-Shirt| Color| Green" and "T-Shirt| Color| Green". And not only is this format complex, it is undocumented! And when you download the file the order of products and variants is not always sequential.
Moreover, whatever you do, don't make a mistake when you change anything in the file; otherwise when you try to upload it you'll get a complex, engineering-style error message that doesn't help at all.
Another gotcha: I realized after setting everything up that Network Solutions has an attribute for each product variant called product number -- what the rest of the world calls the Stock Keeping Unit, or SKU. In an attempt to avoid the tedious editing of  each product via the Web interface -- and on the advice of a guy in tech support -- I downloaded the product list, added SKUs and nothing else, uploaded the file, and got the totally unhelpful error message.
On inspecting the original downloaded file I realized the variants field for one product was corrupted and yep, that's the bug. I have since found out the company has known about the bug for some time but did the tech warn me? Of course not.
Next week, what else could go wrong?


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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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- Reverse Fountain Cytoplasmic Streaming in Rhizopus Oryzae
- Diné Research Practices and Protocols: An Intersectional Paradigm Incorporating Indigenous Feminism, Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies and Diné Knowledge Systems
- Developing an Augmented Reality Solution for Mapping Underground Infrastructure
- Characterization of 2D Human Ankle Stiffness during Postural Balance and Walking for Robot-aided Ankle Rehabilitation
- Using Molecular, Cellular and Bioengineering Approaches Towards Understanding Muscle Stem Cell Biology
Continuing and increasing reliance on fossil fuels to satisfy our population's energy demands has encouraged the search for renewable carbon-free and carbon-neutral sources, such as hydrogen gas or CO2 reduction products. Inspired by nature, one of the objectives of this dissertation was to develop protein-based strategies that can be applied in the production of green fuels. The first project of this dissertation aimed at developing a controllable strategy to incorporate domains with different functions (e. g. catalytic sites, electron transfer modules, light absorbing subunits) into a single multicomponent system. This was accomplished through the rational design of 2,2'-bipyridine modified dimeric …
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Richard Garriott de Cayeux published his first computer game in 1980, making him, author of the best-selling Ultima series, including Ultima Online, the first major commercial success in the online games market, a true veteran of the computer gaming industry. Throughout his career, Richard has received extensive praise and numerous awards including Computer Gaming World's "15 Most Influential Industry Players," Next Generation's "America's Elite," PC Gamer's "Game Gods," PC Games' "Designer of the Year" and "Entrepreneur of the Year." In an industry that now rivals the movie industry in popularity, Richard Garriott de Cayeux is one of the few well-known "stars."
In 1983, the Garriotts'- including Richard and his brother, Robert -established Origin Systems™, Inc. The company, based in Austin, Texas, is recognized as one of the innovation leaders in the ever-changing world of entertainment software. In 1992, Origin merged with Electronic Arts™, a global leader in the entertainment software industry.
"Lord British™" is a trademark of Richard's, and the pseudonym under which Richard created the Ultima series. Lord British also appeared as a principal character in the storyline. The Ultima saga transpires in the realm of Britannia, and he was the benevolent ruler of this oft-beleaguered land. Spanning two decades, the Ultima series is one of the longest and most successful series in the history of entertainment software - selling millions of copies and winning innumerable awards throughout the world. In 1997, the Ultima series ventured into the realm of the Internet with the release of the technologically groundbreaking title, Ultima Online.
Richard "retired" from Origin/EA last April and formed Destination Games with his brother Robert. In May of 2001, Destination Games became part of NCsoft, a Korean company that is the world's leading publisher of online-subscription based games. Richard has one of the largest fan bases that follow his work closely and are eager to hear of his next game.
Mr. Garriott de Cayeux is the Vice Chairman of Space Adventures, Ltd., the leading space travel company.


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When Nike unveiled the celebratory "Cork" LeBron X last month, they described it as the first of multiple Sportswear versions of the shoe. Perhaps the next is this "Denim" pair, shared by LeBron earlier tonight on Instagram. In addition to the denim upper, the shoe features buttery brown leather on the tongue and inner lining, leather laces and fuschia-like hits on the Dynamic Flywire, visible Zoom and outsole.
No word yet on whether or not this is a future NSW LeBron X drop, but we'll keep you up to date here at Sole Collector. If the "Denim" X does hit retail, will you be picking up a pair?


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Use Haas avocados if available; their buttery creaminess makes for the best guacamole.
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- Makes about 4 cups
- 12 medium tomatillos (about 1 1/4 pounds), husked, rinsed
- 1/2 cup finely chopped white onion
- 1/2 cup finely chopped fresh cilantro
- 4 serrano chiles, seeded, minced (about 2 tablespoons)
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 2 pounds avocados (about 3 large), peeled, pitted, coarsely chopped
- Preheat broiler. Line rimmed baking sheet with foil. Place tomatillos on prepared baking sheet. Broil until tomatillos are just blackened in spots and tender, about 8 minutes per side.
- Combine onion, cilantro, chiles, and lime juice in large bowl. Add roasted tomatillos and any juices from baking sheet to onion mixture. Using fork, mash coarsely. Add avocados and mash with fork until mixture is very coarsely pureed and some chunks remain. Season guacamole to taste with salt. (Can be made 4 hours ahead. Cover and chill.)


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Shailene Woodley Thinks You Should Eat Clay
May 2, 2014 -- intro: Shailene Woodley is passionate about her natural way of life.
The 23-year-old "Divergent" star speaks with zeal about sustainable living, natural herbal remedies and homemade beauty products.
"As a teenager, I started researching factory farming and genetically engineered foods and agriculture, and I found myself asking, 'What's the point of environmentalism if we keep separating ourselves from nature?'" she told the latest issue of Natural Health magazine. "The message was, 'We've gotta save the Earth!' when, in reality, we are nature and we are the Earth."
Woodley continued, "As human beings, we're just another creature. But luckily, we're gifted with consciousness and a mind that can manufacture change. If we plan to save the planet, we have to start with ourselves."
How Shailene Woodley Is Following in Jennifer Lawrence's Footsteps
Not only is Woodley starting with herself, but she has no problem sharing her lifestyle with others.
"I think everything about my lifestyle is fairly alternative," she told Flaunt magazine in August. "I gather my own spring water from mountains every month. I go to a farm to get my food. I make everything from my own toothpaste to my own body lotions and face oils. ... I make my own medicines; I don't get those from doctors. I make my own cheese and forage wild foods and identify wild plants. It's an entire lifestyle. It's appealing to my soul."
Keep reading for some of Woodley's advice on living naturally.
quicklist: title: Be a Sovereign Human text: "People have told me my thinking on this is kind of post-apocalyptic, but I think it's important to be a sovereign human in today's world because there are so many things we don't know," Woodley told Natural Health. "Take GMO foods - I don't necessarily think they're great for us, but I could be wrong; we just don't know yet. Regardless, the fact that we are not allowed to know what's in our food is huge. For me, having my basic necessities covered and being able to take care of myself is reassuring. If the power goes out, I know how to make a fire and where a water source is and how to find my own food."
quicklist: title: Check Out What's in Your Backyard text: "When I started researching agriculture in America, I thought, 'People say meat's bad for me, but so are vegetables because of pesticides, but I can't afford organic.' Ahhhh! So I decided to research what Native American cultures ate in Southern California, as well as other indigenous cultures from around the world," Woodley told Natural Health. "I found that not only were they hunter-gatherers, they were also healers who relied on the plants around them. I thought that was really profound, so I started learning about all the wild plants in my area, as well as all of the wild medicines that I could gather and create for myself. I was in control of my body, and I could feel what was happening. It was eye-opening."
quicklist: title: Eat Clay text: "Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body," Woodley told beauty website Into the Gloss One in March. "I've discovered that clay is great for you because your body doesn't absorb it, and it apparently provides a negative charge, so it bonds to negative isotopes. And, this is crazy: it also helps clean heavy metals out of your body. My friend starting eating it and the next day she called me and said, 'Dude, my s*** smells like metal.' She was really worried, but we did some research together and everything said that when you first start eating clay, your bowel movements, pee, and even you, yourself, will smell like metal. You should obviously be careful about your source."
quicklist: title: Sunbathe Nude text: Woodley also prefers to sunbathe nude to provide a little sun to her nether regions. "Another thing I like to do is give my vagina a little vitamin D," Woodley told Into the Gloss with a laugh. "I was reading an article written by an herbalist I studied about yeast infections and other genital issues. She said there's nothing better than vitamin D. If you're feeling depleted, go in the sun for an hour and see how much energy you get. Or, if you live in a place that has heavy winters, when the sun finally comes out, spread your legs and get some sunshine."
quicklist: title: Make Your Teeth Whiter Naturally text: "You can do something called 'oil pulling' where you swish coconut or sesame oil in your mouth when you wake up and spit it out. It's amazing!" Woodley told Into the Gloss. "It really makes your teeth whiter, because the plaque on your teeth is not water soluble, it's fat-soluble. So the lipids have to dissolve in fats, which is why oil works in your mouth. I prefer sesame oil, but they're both good."


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Sharing is caring - but what about the finances?
So you have a joint bank account. How's that working out for you? Are you happier and more in love than ever?
At some level, sharing is behind every couple's decision to shack-up, get hitched, or have kids. From bodily fluids to building finances, yours-is-mine living is desired because anything less is considered unloving.
Which is why a couple who make a joint decision to un-share something get flooded with a deluge of criticism from the mainstream – "it's a sign you don't love each other anymore".
But can a separation of something once shared ever be good for your love life, or is it always a harbinger of doom?
I say hear this: Demergers aren't definitively dire. From unshared bank-accounts to unshared bedrooms, there is plenty of good to be got from a little bit of splitting up.
Why and how? Read on.
From latent communism to the Hapsburg chin, history has shown too much sharing can cause civilisations to crumble, and I'm surely not the only one who loathes over-sharing on in-your-Facebook. There's only so much of someone else's life we can take before our own lives are adversely affected.
And, despite all that business about absolute oneness and total togetherness, the same idea about superabundance being super-annoying applies to our romantic relationships.
Yes, it is right to want to be all about someone else, yes commitment requires cooperation. But degrees of autonomy need to be maintained otherwise the whole thing is burned up by all-consuming passion - no longevity there.
Let's look at money as an example.
A couple I know – who are wed and very clever mind you – have decided to shelve the single joint bank account idea in favour of a mutual kitty for household spending complemented by separate, individual accounts with which they might do as they each pleased.
Both working professionals, both fairly evenly fiscally endowed, this couple saw it as a way to get around those niggling, every-other-night squabbles over spending habits – the kind of irritating power-struggles which are so problematic because no-one is ever to blame, and everyone stands to become frustrated.
They copped a lot of flack from their friends who thought it was a sign things weren't going so well. Perhaps they didn't trust each other? Was there something he or she was trying to hide? Smells like an affair, or worse, an online shopping addiction!
Of course, those most critical fail to realise that decisions sensible couples make about how to organise the things we cannot avoid – such money, or domestic space – may actually be the result of open, honest, reasonable and (my favourite) rational conversation. Just because they choose to do something differently doesn't necessarily mean they're on the rocks.
And when you consider more couples argue about cash than chores or children, and those who regularly squabble about dollars and cents are over 30 per cent more likely to get divorced, innovations about monetary management make, well, sense. Unsharing, where necessary, might just make the most of it.
Indeed, when you consider the other common complaint about long-term-relationships exceedingly well represented on this blog - lack of sex in the master bed – such innovative unsharing also makes sense. Unsharing of the master bedroom that is (though unsharing your master sex partner also works for swingers).
Of course, demergers aren't right for everyone. Which is kind of the point – everyone, and every relationship is different. I just wish we lived in a world where such difference was actually considered the norm.
But until we do, I wonder – where do you stand?
Could you ever unshare, or demerge, something which had been shared previously? Could you give up jointness if it meant you were less disjointed? Cooperative unco-operation - smart move, or a fatal folly?
Katherine Feeney is a journalist with the Nine Network Australia. She is also one of Australia's leading commentators on sex, love, dating and relationships via her popular blog CityKat.


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