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This meal comes together pretty fast. It's a very hearty meal, that goes great with a salad.
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Carbs: 27.3g | Fat: 8.4g | Fiber: 2.3g | Protein: 17.3g | Calories: 251.9
Awesome bite size muffins that wont leave you feeling guilty
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Carbs: 6.6g | Fat: 1.7g | Fiber: 0.7g | Protein: 0.9g | Calories: 43
Incredible! 5.0/5
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easy to bake
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Carbs: 22.8g | Fat: 2g | Fiber: 0.7g | Protein: 1.3g | Calories: 163.9
Incredible! 5.0/5
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A family-friendly recipe! Serve with low-fat sour cream and extra salsa, if desired.
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Carbs: 35.2g | Fat: 10.7g | Fiber: 6.9g | Protein: 41g | Calories: 400.7
We love shredding this sweet and savory chicken to turn it into tacos, but it's also delicious as is with a side of grilled veggies.
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Carbs: 33.8g | Fat: 3.4g | Fiber: 3.5g | Protein: 27.5g | Calories: 264.8
A lighter take on a pub favorite! For extra veggies, top with chopped tomatoes.
Submitted by CHEF_MEG
Carbs: 21.1g | Fat: 2g | Fiber: 1.9g | Protein: 6.9g | Calories: 128.4
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Carbs: 5.5g | Fat: 2g | Fiber: 0.3g | Protein: 1g | Calories: 44.4
Incredible! 5.0/5
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Extremely delicious & easy pizza!
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Carbs: 28.9g | Fat: 8.5g | Fiber: 5.9g | Protein: 13.3g | Calories: 241.7
Try this inexpensive and fresh version of a chicken casserole--no need for processed soups or sauces!
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Carbs: 36.1g | Fat: 8.9g | Fiber: 8.8g | Protein: 27.9g | Calories: 320.6
My whole family loves these! Although they may seem small (considering the size of muffin we can get in a bakery) but we always add a helping of fruit or yogurt for breakfast. Yummy!
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A very refreshing summer salad
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This tasty, spicy soup is perfect during those cold winter days... crunch some tortilla chips in each bowl after served for added yum!
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Carbs: 16.2g | Fat: 6g | Fiber: 1.3g | Protein: 5.3g | Calories: 135.2
This soup is packed with flavor yet low in fat. You can customize it with any vegetables or protein you have on hand.
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Carbs: 29.1g | Fat: 5.8g | Fiber: 5.9g | Protein: 22.8g | Calories: 247.5
Easy pasta dish for 2 people. Or for one with a meal for another day!
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Carbs: 41.5g | Fat: 6.9g | Fiber: 5.4g | Protein: 13.6g | Calories: 275.4


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We showed some of our favorite items from Dior's Couture runway for Spring 2013, and here's a closeup on the hair & make up. Pixie cuts & jeweled lips–tres gamine! But I'm wondering as I look at this pics, to all our readers who are hair experts—are the models in wigs?? If yes, how on earth did they achieve such a natural look?
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Narrator: This is Science Today. Technologies used in astrophysics are being leveraged at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for national security issues. Simon Labov, director of the lab's Radiation Detection Center, says they have been able to take advanced technologies used to study supernovae and adapt them for detecting radiation from nuclear materials.
Labov: We take this great scientific contribution and we said, hey, we can use that to make an inexpensive, small lightweight, portable detector system that you can carry in your pocket that can actually measure gamma rays wherever you happen to be.
Narrator: Labov says they're building a version of gamma ray detectors used in high powered telescopes for use in a cell phone/PDA combination with a GPS locating system.
Labov: So it always knows where it is and you can use that as a stand alone instrument - the inspectors and people like that may use it any time they come across something radioactive, they can find out what it is by using this instrument and making a measurement with it.
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'MacMillan has a tremendous gift for making the simple resonate; the 2001 Te Deum, a first recording, shows he also knows just how to freshen an ageing choral tradition. Some fantastic singing here; and glorious music' (The Times)
'James MacMillan's work is informed by his Catholic faith, but rarely has he communicated his spiritual message as effectively as in this large-scale piece. Perhaps Haydn's example has forced him to raise his game, or maybe it was the heartrending text: either way, this is a modern choral masterpiece, and Stephen Layton and his forces its ideal interpreters' (The Independent)
'In an ideal world, Hyperion's August disc of the month would sell by the truckload. The sheer quality of James MacMillan's Seven Last Words, the intensity of Stephen Layton's interpretation and the unrestrained, heartfelt performances of Polyphony and the Britten Sinfonia should guarantee critical acclaim' (Music Week)
'an intense, deeply felt interpretation, full of beautiful and affecting singing, with all the elements—string orchestra, featured violin, choir and soloists—nicely balanced … As ever, MacMillan incorporates all his allusions, including those to Scottish traditional music, into an utterly individual style. The performance confirms Polyphony's place in the front rank of choirs' (Gramophone)
'This splendid new performance from Polyphony also conveys dignity, and a sense (hard to explain) that the suffering is, in some mysterious way, redemptive. Easier to quantify, the singing is also remarkably secure technically, the ensemble near perfect. Beautiful, powerful playing too from the Britten Sinfonia' (BBC Music Magazine)
'… the qualities which have made Polyphony one of the finest choirs around at the moment are very much in evidence in these assured and perceptive performances. James Vivian's organ accompaniments are perfectly balanced and the overall recorded sound is exquisite. All told, this disc offers a mesmerising listening experience' (International Record Review)
'This stunning work, brilliantly performed by Stephen Layton's chamber choir Polyphony and the Britten Sinfonia, is something no serious lover of choral music should be without' (Birmingham Post)
'If you've heard them and followed the laudatory press they've gotten worldwide, you already know that this [Polyphony] is one of the world's truly great chamber choirs. Layton always gets breathtaking beauty of tone from them, as well as exquisite interpretive and dynamic nuances. They bring Macmillan's compelling sound-world to life more vibrantly than any other choir I've heard his music from. Organist Vivian and the Britten Sinfonia supply excellent support, and Hyperion seals the bargain with rich, clean SA sound that's a joy to hear' (American Record Guide)
Hyperion's Record of the Month for August by Polyphony and the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Stephen Layton portrays the ultimate dramatic event in history—the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, expressed through the raw emotional power of one of Scotland's most distinguished and vital composers, James MacMillan.
His Seven Last Words from the Cross, first commissioned and screened by the BBC in 1994, depicts the final seven short sentences Jesus uttered, from the mesmerizing opening cadences to the final disturbing hammer-blows of the nails being driven into Christ's hands and feet, leaving the listener to wonder at one of the choral masterpieces of our time.
Many years ago the same choir recorded this work on the BMG Catalyst label—the recording was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize. Now ten years later their interpretation has developed and proves that Polyphony has risen to rank amongst the world's finest professional choirs.
Also presented on this disc are two premier recordings by the same composer. On the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin for five-part choir and organ was written for the choir of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge in 1997 and is set to the stunning poetry about transformation by the seventeenth-century poet Jeremy Taylor; the Te Deum was written in 2001 to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee. In both works we have much of the essential MacMillan to savour making this issue indispensable for followers of both MacMillan and Polyphony.


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I am interested in a broad range of theoretical and applied problems in network science. My current research focuses on statistical and mathematical analysis and modeling of social networks and their connection to human health; development of metrics and methods for network analysis; network theory; and online social systems and social media.
The starting point to the application of my research to public health is the simple but powerful premise that we do not exist as atomized units. Instead, people are connected, and therefore our health is connected. I'm involved in a number of applied projects that involve network theory and network science. For example, we analyze the structure of informal patient-sharing networks of physicians to better understand healthcare outcomes and healthcare costs; we identify central individuals in large-scale online and offline friendship networks for an early detection of flu epidemics; we uncover the hierarchical structure of family relationships in a developing country setting to better understand the role of social influence in driving vaccine refusals; we develop more effective behavioral interventions to slow down the spread of HIV/AIDS; we generate better educational intervention strategies to promote healthy eating habits and physical activity; and we use mobile phone data to examine communication and mobility patterns of individuals, which at a small scale can be used to study the progress of individuals suffering from mood disorders, and at a large scale these data can inform us about the extent and impact of natural disasters and other public health emergencies.
Prior to joining Biostatistics, I spent two years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School. I was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2008 to 2009, and before that held a Junior Research Fellowship at Oxford University for two years. I obtained my doctorate at the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) in 2006, where my dissertation received the Dissertation of the Year Award from the university.
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Now in his early 30s, Elijah Wood is one of few actors to have already appeared in a role that will live on well beyond his time as an actor. As Frodo in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, Wood made his mark and secured a loyal legion of fans. Yet, over a career already approaching 100 onscreen credits, Elijah Wood has shown interest in a range of characters. In Grand Piano, Wood stars as a super talented pianist who has given up public performances due to stage fright. In this thriller, he returns to the stage after an absence only to learn that he's in the sights of a sniper and one wrong note could kill him. The film opens in theaters next month.


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Baltimore turns back Cleveland
BALTIMORE (AP) — The regular NFL officials returned to action, and the ending of their first game was eerily familiar to the one that hastened the exit of the replacement refs.
This time, however, there were no replays or arguments at the end. Just another win by the Baltimore Ravens over the Cleveland Browns, 23-16 on Thursday night.
If not for two failed desperation passes into the end zone in the closing seconds, the returning officials might have had to work overtime on their first night back.
Cleveland began its final drive with 1:05 to go on its own 10. Rookie Brandon Weeden moved the Browns to the Baltimore 33 before a fourth-down pass into the end zone fell incomplete. But a personal foul penalty on Baltimore linebacker Paul Kruger gave winless Cleveland one more chance.
That pass sailed out of the end zone.
"Too much juice," Weeden lamented.
The final sequence was not unlike the controversial ending of Monday night's Green Bay-Seattle game, when a Hail Mary pass was ruled a touchdown. That play, and the furor it created, hastened negotiations that brought the regular officials back.
The lockout ended late Wednesday, bringing about the exit of the unpopular replacement refs. And so, finally, the tenured officials were in place for Week 4.
"I felt so bad for that Green Bay situation," Ravens running back Ray Rice said. "Replacement refs, their families, I can't knock them. The scrutiny they were under. That kind of scrutiny is bad. It's hard going from like Pop Warner to the big leagues."
Joe Flacco went 28 for 46 for 356 yards, threw one touchdown and ran for another. Yet, it wasn't until Cary Williams returned an interception 63 yards for a score at the end of the third quarter that the Ravens (3-1) put some distance between themselves and the young Browns (0-4).
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McCann's Slower Bat
Brian McCann of the Atlanta Braves came back from an injury on August 14th, and but his offense has not recovered. His .174/.296/.347 slash line stands as one of the reasons the Braves have slid to a one-game lead over the Cardinals in the NL Wild Card race. McCann injured his left oblique muscle, and it appears the injury hurt his swing.
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McCann is swinging about the same amount, but missing much more. That's puts him a hole more often, which makes Brian even more vulnerable. The numbers say to me that his bat speed hasn't returned. He's timing pitches like he was healthy, but he just can get to them as quickly as he did before.
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Puppies and kittens are classic Christmas pets, but how about adding an unusual animal to your family this holiday season? Many unique animals are overlooked but can be amazing, long-term pets and can be found at local providers and many shelters in our area.
Parakeets are easy and oh-so-pretty. They are inexpensive, and you might even be able to find a parakeet in your favorite color. They are typically found in shades of blue, green, yellow and white. But when you're picking a bird, be sure all the parakeets in the cage are active and always quarantine any new bird for at least three months. The life span of a parakeet is dependent on good genes, good diet, good veterinary care and good luck. There are many that live to be about 15 years old.
Hairless skinny pigs are a surprising, not-what-you-expect-to-see-at-all kind of pet. They are not just guinea pigs, they have special mannerisms. Like a guinea pig, these guys make the cute noises and they move around the same adorable way. But the charming patches of color on their bodies and the tufts of hair on their face and feet make skinny pigs even more endearing. Skinny pigs, named so because they look like they went skinny dipping, come in white, pink, brown, black and red and in all combinations. They can live to between six and eight years. Get ready for your friends to ask you, "Like, what is that?!"
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An axolotl, from my daughter's point of view, is the very best pet for the holidays. For one, they are very easy to take care of. All you need is the minimum 10-gallon tank and some cold water. You must be able to keep the water cold. You only have to feed three times a week. Axolotls are incredibly unique animals; they live like a fish but are amphibian. Also, the reason they look so cool is because they do not go through the process of metamorphosis, so it has external gills and a large tadpole-like body. They come in many colors: black (melanoid), olive/green, white with black eyes (leucistic), and gold and white with white eyes (albino.) If you buy one that is less than three inches long, it will be cannibalistic, so they must be separated from each other for a certain amount of time. They will eat anything they can fit in their mouths. Axolotls usually live about 15 years if kept in good conditions, maybe even longer: Some are reported to have lived up to 25 years. Sadly, they are nearly extinct in the wild.
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Cooper and Charlotte, sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g. Ok, they're not in a tree and they're doing waaaay more than just kissing. Talk about strange bedfellows!
Addison makes a strong effort to remain "friends" with Pete, despite their tricky past. We can tell Pete still wants her, but he has competition from Officer Kevin, who keeps making excuses to drop by Oceanside. Fortunately for Pete, Addison has work to do.
Repeat patient Jeffrey has a low sperm count and can't get his wife, Kathleen, pregnant. Not wanting to go the adoption route, they have to pick a sperm donor. Jeffrey has found the perfect pinch hitter. It's his brother Mark. To us, Mark looks like a bad seed (no sperm pun intended). Our instincts are on the money. Mark is a jerk and when the actual "donation" time comes, the future parents call the whole thing off.
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"Their guards just outplayed our guards. If you take the two guards out of the equation we pretty much did what we needed to do on the other guys… That's a real good frontline of guys and when they make shots their hard to beat."
Fresno State held Nevada to 38% shooting from the field, but the Wolf Pack would get to the free throw line 37 times in comparison to Fresno State's 21 free throw attempts. Nevada made 30 of their 37 attempts.
"I think that speaks for itself," said head coach Rodney Terry. "Anytime that we got our defense set it was pretty hard for those guys… Anytime you put a good scorer on the line it gains confidence for those guys and kind of got those guys going early in the game."
Fresno State's three-point shooting gave the Bulldogs control for much of the first half. After failing to connect on a single three-point attempt in Wednesday's win against Wyoming, Fresno State made five of their first nine threes and finished 9-of-21.
The Bulldogs had made just 11 three-pointers combined in their three previous conference games.
"I like what we did offensively," Terry said. "I don't think the offense beat us tonight. I think our defense wasn't where it needed to be."
Fresno State's offense stalled in crunch time, however. Nevada took advantage, breaking a 54-54 tie by scoring seven unanswered points in a stretch of over three minutes leading into the final 60 seconds.
Tyler Johnson led the Bulldogs with 16 points and Kevin Foster added 15 points and seven rebounds.
"We had a chance tonight at home to put ourselves in great shape in the Mountain West Conference."
The Bulldogs fall to 1-3 in conference play after playing three of the first four games at home. Fresno State next plays at Boise State on Wednesday at 6 pm PST.
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Wonderful food, but very crowded and noisy on weekends.
EXCELLENT FOOD – Excellent sea food and authentic Peruvian dishes.
Service is good, not excellent
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Yes, it will be my first and last visit to Francesco
One of my favorites – Atmosphere is great and the food is amazing.
Terrible service – The restaurant is overpriced. The waitress was argumentative when I bill was incorrect. It was a bad experience for a birthday dinner for my whole family.
There are other good restaurants in Coral Gables.
Wonderfull seafood! – Fresh and different...Francesco presents a variety of fish and seafood, prepared with delicious sauces! The ceviche is great and I tried the artichoke risotto and it was out of this world!
My husband had the grilled swordfish and he swear he is coming back to this place! We had a beautiful greco di tufo and the nut cake was superb...wow!
Great experience, maybe the best! – Awesome!!!! This place is great! best seafood ever...If you want to enjoy excellent food this is the right place to go! not only great food but nice service... You must try their black rice and of course the salmon filled with crab meat and some kind of onions...This small coral gables restaurant combines everything what customers look for! enjoy it, I am sure you will!
Elegant, authentic Peruvian cuisine will open the eyes and perk up the taste buds. – In Short
Behind Franceso's sprightly yellow stucco facade is an equally warm and welcoming dining room, a rustic-elegant space done in tones of sunny gold offset by rich, dark wood. Peruvian cuisine is known for its abundance of seafood, inventive use of humble ingredients and the influence of its Japanese population. Peruvian tamales stuffed with tender octopus are perhaps an acquired taste, but shrimp in pepper and shrimp roe sauce is quite popular.
Best Lobster Ever! – The lobster special was the best lobster I've ever eaten. All their foods are flavorful and the wine is amazing! Highly recommended.
Awesome!!! – Food was awesome!!! simply deligthful, service very nice, lovely place, just small. Good wines, The best ceviche in town, good prices.
Escellent – The food was deliscious, real high scale Peruvian. Tasty with just the right amount of heat.
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Not Recommended – Terrible service. Our waitress had an attitude problem. She was very condescending and never checked in to see if we needed anything and lied about the food. Then we asked another waitress for a drink refill and she never returned and completely ignored our request.
Horrible food. Food was overcooked and had no taste.
avg thai food, nice decor – thaifoon is to thai food as pf changs is to chinese. americanized not so authentic thai restaurant. more trendy and about the atmosphere rather than the food. they have your usual pad thais, chicken satay, fried shrimp etc. nothing special
Go there for lunch – This place has a sort of watered-down, semi-authentic Asian menu... the Thai equivalent of PF Chang, if you will. I actually like that sort of thing, and I liked this place just like I enjoy going to PF Chang on certain occasions. I think ThaiFoon would be a bit overpriced to justify a dinner visit. But their lunch menu is fairly reasonable. They have about 8 different lunch entrees, many of which are interesting, and you can add a wonderful side salad for a nominal fee. Everything was fresh, and they used good-quality ingredients. The restaurant was very clean with a refreshing decor, and our waitress was very friendly and efficient. Overall not a bad place at all!
Mainstream approach to Thai food takes Scottsdale by storm. – In Short
Thaifoon owner Randy Schoch aims to do for Thai food what P.F. Chang's did for Chinese: make it upscale, accessible and fun. Patrons seem to approve of the easy-to-read menu and its Pan-Asian slant. Seventy-year-old monastery doors and towering bamboo trunks add a traditional touch to an otherwise contemporary setting. The bar draws hipsters who can't resist exotic drinks or the mesmerizing waterfall that cascades down a 10-foot-wide sheet of glass. Menu items are rooted in tradition without being traditional.
Don't Bother Eating Here – Being from New York, I thought I would give Thai Foon a try to compare it to the wonderful Thai food in NYC. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. Thai Foon would be out of business in less than a week in New York, if compared to what true Thai cuisine tastes like. If you are looking for good, authentic thai food, you will find none here. The staff seats you fast and tries to rush you out of there even faster. The dishes are below average, at best, and are incredibly bland. Although the atmosphere is nice, the service and food are unworthy of any sort of merit.
Even my wife didn't get it – My wife tends to like every place we go to dinner, and I tend to be the critic in the family. We walked in the door and she thought, "Oh, PF Chang but with Thai food..." and then we got the menu, and failed to find a single authentic Thai dish on it. Now I realize that people don't go to PF Chang for authentic chinese food (you have to go to china or chinatown in SF for that), but at least what you order is somewhat recognizable as chinese, althought with fresh ingrediants. At Thaifoon, we just left confused and with a lighter wallet.
Thai This! – What malevolent, disgruntled pagan god belched up this disaster of a restaurant? Those who have never sampled Thai food will be none the wiser but this is anything but authentic. It's another over-done California incarnation of mixed-up cuisines, combined with the Scottsdale Culinary Institute's "flair" for painting bits of sauce on the plate to fill in the large gaps left by a tiny blob of "food". The atmosphere is the same as any trendy-nouveau place in Scottsdale and is designed to make one forget the food experience.
our waiter was very helpful when it came to the sake types, and flavors, as well as the food. since it was our first time there it was very helpful to us, and because of him we will deffinatly be back on many occations. His name was Chris!!!!
Delish!!! – My husband, friends and I dined at Thaifoon for lunch recently and had a wonderful dining experience. The atmosphere was funky Thai with a soothing fountain behind the bar and warm, earthy colors throughout the room. The menu enticed our taste buds with juicy descriptions of the food choices. The food itself did not disappoint. It was delicious!!! I ordered the Crazy Thaiger Salad, with sliced beef, lemongrass dressing and mushrooms. It was excellent-lots of flavor and not too filling. My husband had the Pad Thai and just raved about it. The staff was very friendly and seemed enthusiastic about the food and the restaurant. I give Thaifoon a 10!
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Upscale winter resorts routinely attract celebrities, CEOs, even royalty to their slopes. But the Yellowstone Club in Big Sky, Mont., is even more exclusive.
The year-round resort is a "private residential community" for millionaires, and those aspiring to join will have to pony up.
Membership costs $300,000. Then there's the annual dues of $30,000, plus the required property purchase of a $2.5 million condo, a custom mansion, or an ranch that costs more the $10 million. (Residents can get their membership fees back if they sell their property.) There also used to be a minimum requirement of $3 million in liquid assets, according The New York Times.
The Yellowstone Club has 13,400 acres, 2,200 of which are skiable and are being used by a limited number of skiers. The club's founder, timber baron Tim Blixseth, foresaw an eventual cap of 864 members. That which means less sharing of the slopes and no lines at the lifts. On the busiest of days, there are 150 skiers and snowboarders using the mountain, according to one report.
The resort doesn't make it into gossip columns and paparazzi photos, at least partly by design. Yellowstone Club posits itself less for the jet set and more as a family establishment. Blixseth, who rose from a childhood of poverty, told the Los Angeles Times, "Our target member is a good, down-to-earth, humble person who is thankful for his or her success. ... No jerks allowed."
Some of the better-known but still relatively low-key members include politicians Dan Quayle and Jack Kemp, executives like Peter Chernin, former president of News Corp. and Steve Burke, president of Comcast unit NBC Universal, not to mention Bill Gates. Athlete members include Olympic skiers Warren Miller (the main lodge is named for him) and Hank Kashiwa, former British Open champion Tom Weiskopf, who designed the 18-hole golf course, and Tour de France winner Greg LeMond.
Among the first Yellowstone Club members were television producer Burt Sugarman and his wife, "Entertainment Tonight" host Mary Hart. And outside of the odd guest visit from a superstar such as Justin Timberlake, that's about as Hollywood as the membership gets.
The Yellowstone Club has gained more unwanted attention due to lawsuits from the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and the EPA, and in November 2008 with bankruptcy proceedings. hree months before the bankrupcy declaration, Blixseth and his wife, Edra, filed for divorce. Edra Blixseth was awarded the club in the divorce, along with its $360 million n debt, then later declared bankrupcy herself and sold the club to a private equity firm of a club member for $115 million.
This summer, Yellowstone Club made the news again with the death of Parker Regan, son of R. Christopher Regan, co-founder of health care consultancy Chartis Group, in an all-terrain vehicle accident.
The club originated with a real estate trade when Blixseth and his partners swapped 160,000 acres adjacent to Yellowstone National Park for the 100,000 or so acres in the Bozeman and Big Sky area. The partners took the timberland, and Blixseth planned to use the rest as a family compound. The idea for a private resort evolved as friends expressed interest in the land. It opened in 1999.
More than two dozen custom residences are currently listed on the Yellowstone Club website, as well as condos and lots, but none pecify a price.
The club's residences include a LEED-certified rustic log home situated on a pond, and a house with a top-level room that rotates 360 degrees. In 2007, Blixseth planned to build The Pinnacle, a 53,000-square-foot mansion on 600 acres with a private chairlift, an ice rink and underground parking to house 20 SUVs. The estimated cost was $155 million, which could have made it the world's most expensive home. Only the 1.25 mile driveway was ever made.
A few other tidbits have trickled out to the public, adding to the myths of this exclusive resort—the more than 70 runs are dusted with its trademarked Private Powder. The club used to have $1,000/head New Year's Eve parties (which appear in the Yellowstone Club-inspired novel Triple Cross).
Finally, much has been made of the Yellowstone Club's security team being ex-Secret Service members, so no need for some of the country's richest families to hire bodyguards for the slopes. But according to a regional publication most of them were from Big Sky or Bozeman. The club's director of privacy, Bruce Bales, was a veteran of President Gerald Ford's protection detail.
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Used merchandise stores employed more than 131,000 people with $2.1 billion in annual payroll and nearly $9.3 billion in sales in 2007, according to new economic census data released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
As part of the 2007 Economic Census Industry Series, these new figures for the retail trade sector provide data on the number of establishments, sales, payroll, number of employees, value of product line sales and other data items at the national level by industry.
Other findings include:
Industry Series data are available only on the Census Bureau's American FactFinder. This online tool allows users to access, filter, manipulate and extract data. Additional retail trade industries will be released through October 2009.
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JOHNSONBURG – Johnsonburg wrestling lost 54-24 to Coudersport in dual meet action Thursday night at Johnsonburg Area High School.
Just four matches were wrestled on the mat between the two teams. Johnsonburg won two matches by forfeit while Coudersport took seven bouts via forfeit.
Coudersport won by forfeit at 113 pounds as Trever Olney had his hand raises. There was no match at 120 pounds. Chris Kennedy of Johnsonburg won by forfeit at 126 pounds and Andrew Fry did the same for the Falcons at 132 pounds. Nick Ragosta took a forfeit victory for Coudersport at 138 pounds.
Ridgway boys basketball won their third straight game as the Elkers downed Brookville 51-26 Wednesday night at Ridgway Area High School.
Ridgway (4-1) set the tone early with a 9-0 run to start the game. Josh Roselli opened the game with a field goal 40 seconds in and Jeremy Breier followed with a short shot at the 5:57 mark for a 4-0 lead. After Roselli split a pair of free throws, he made consecutive field goals to up the Ridgway lead to 9-0 with 4:15 left in the opening quarter and prompting a Brookville timeout.
JOHNSONBURG – The much-anticipated rematch between two of the top five ranked teams in Pennsylvania Class A basketball didn't disappoint.
Lincoln Park would win the rematch with Johnsonburg 77-59 Tuesday night in front of an overflow crowd at Johnsonburg Area High School.
Lincoln Park came into the game ranked No. 2 in the state while Johnsonburg was ranked fifth.
The third quarter proved decisive for Clarion-Limestone in a 58-26 victory over Ridgway Monday night at Ridgway Area High School.
Things looked promising for Ridgway at halftime as the two teams were tied at 14-all. The Lady Lions then turned the game in their favor quickly, scoring eight quick points in the first two minutes. Megan Kelley and Abby Mellottz opened with quick field goals for Clarion-Limestone. After another Lady Lion hoops, Alissa Burns would score on a layup for a 22-14 lead.
A strong second quarter spurred Ridgway boys basketball on to a 46-25 victory Friday night at Ridgway Area High School.
Curwensville led 10-6 over Ridgway at the end of the first quarter. Neither team did much on offense in the first four minutes of the second quarter as Ridgway mustered four points and Curwensville was shut out to leave the score tied at 10-all with 3:52 left. A MacDonald field goal with 5:04 left broke a 7:26 scoring drought for Ridgway and two free throws from Jeremy Breier tied the game at 10.
The Elk County Catholic Lady Crusaders improved to 3-0 on the young season with a 62-31 victory over the visiting Johnsonburg Ramettes on Wednesday evening at ECCHS.
"We played a pretty good game tonight after playing pretty poorly against Kane (on Monday)," said ECCHS head coach Ken Pistner. "We started off a little slow again, but I thought our defensive pressure was really good and our rebounding was good tonight."
ECC led 15-7 after the first quarter, 31-18 at the half, and 43-24 after three.
Ridgway girls basketball lost 55-4 to Port Allegany Wednesday night at Ridgway Area High School.
Ridgway opened the game with the lead as Kiersten Hinton would score on a layup just 11 seconds in to give Ridgway a 2-0 lead.
Port Allegany would take the lead for good a minute later. After a free throw, Becca Lathrop would nail two free throws of her own to give the Lady Gators a 3-2 lead. Port Allegany would score 15 unanswered points in the first quarter before Ridgway's Elizabeth Kemick added a bucket in the pain with 1:04 left in the first quarter.
JOHNSONBURG – Some of the players were different Tuesday night but the result was still the same for the Johnsonburg Rams.
Fueled by two 24-point performances from seniors Cameron Grumley and Cole Peterson, the Rams registered their 10th straight win over visiting Elk County Catholic, 63-58.
Brockway wrestling won 35-27 over Ridgway Tuesday night at Ridgway Area High School in the home opener for the Elkers.
Brockway won six of the nine matches wrestled on the mat. The Rovers received two forfeits while the Elkers received one. Two weights had no match.
It may be a new season and a new starting lineup for Ridgway boys basketball but it was a familiar result for the Elkers.
Ridgway boys basketball opened the season with a 69-26 victory over Smethport Friday night at Ridgway Area High School on the first night of the 2013-2014 winter sports season.


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The sun is rising on a new academic year. Fall classes will commence on August 28. With that, the Lehman College campus will again come to life in a way that is only possible when it is bustling with academic and student life activities.
As is an annual ritual of fall, a new cohort of students will be entering the campus. At the same time, those from earlier cohorts will be returning.
Unfortunately, some from earlier cohorts will not be returning, even as they have not yet earned their degree. For the most recent three years for which data is available, an average of nearly 20% of first-time, full-time freshmen and almost 30% of transfer students failed to return for their next year of study.
Whenever a student fails to return, it is bad for the college in terms of academic activity, student life, and finances. It is terrible for the student. In today's economy, employment growth is increasingly centered on knowledge- or information-intensive fields. With the nation's aging population, demand for professionals in such fields as health sciences is projected to increase substantially. Most of the areas in which employment growth is concentrated require a Bachelor's degree as a starting point. Failure to attain a college degree creates an insurmountable entry barrier to those industries. In the larger context, it deprives one of flexibility to lead a more prosperous and secure life.
Bureau of Labor Statistics data consistently reveal far lower unemployment rates and much greater job security for college graduates. Even during the depths of the Great Recession, the unemployment rate for college graduates was substantially less than that for those without a degree. Below is employment and earnings data for 2012:
My advice to new students and returning students is that one should understand that the pursuit of a college degree is not always a smooth process. Invariably, many are faced with issue that could threaten one's college enrollment at one time or another.
If you are faced with such an issue, do not succumb to that temptation. In most cases, yes most cases, the issues of the day that threaten one's continuation at college are small compared to what one risks giving up in deciding not to return to college.
For those who have taken a basic finance course, there is a concept of net present value that provides a useful tool for evaluating projects. In assessing a project, one compares all the expense and income related to the project over the lifetime of that project's utility. In doing so, one applies a discount factor to account for the time value of money. Even in today's era of low inflation, a dollar tomorrow is worth a little less than a dollar today. That approach provides a disciplined framework for rationally evaluating choices. Whether or not to withdraw from college is a choice and it should be evaluated with at least similar discipline.
For illustrative purposes, the above earnings and employment chart indicated that workers with a Bachelor's degree had median weekly earnings of $1,066. Those with some college exposure, but no degree (college dropouts) had median weekly earnings of $727. Assume a scenario with a 2% inflation rate (the Fed's goal for price stability) and a continuation of the median weekly earnings through a 40-year career. The worker with a Bachelor's degree would have lifetime present value earnings of $485,000 more than the one who quit college. In other words, in today's dollars, he or she would have earned almost a half-million dollars more than the one who left college without a degree. In reality, the figure would likely be larger, as earnings rise through one's career, the worker with the Bachelor's degree would have more employment choices and opportunities for career advancement, and greater employment security (reduced incidence of unemployment).
Of course, this quick sketch does not consider additional non-financial sacrifices. For example, the reduced lifetime earnings could translate into one's residing in a neighborhood where the schools and overall quality of life is less than what otherwise might have been the case. In turn, that could translate into less educational opportunity and the associated costs of that outcome for one's children.
Without an understanding of the benefits of a college education and the trade-offs involved, one might be tempted to postpone one's studies to immediately address whatever issue confronts one. Yet, in the larger context, one usually winds up addressing an issue that is relatively minor from the lifetime perspective, but at a prohibitive cost.
Should you ever wind up in a situation where you are tempted to postpone or abandon your studies, do not make a rash decision to do so. There are a range of student support services—personal counseling, academic advisement, financial aid, to name a few—and extraordinarily dedicated people who can help you balance those issues with your studies to give you your best chance to attain your college degree.
Don't ever hesitate to seek help if you need it. That's the truly courageous course. And in the vast majority of circumstances, that's the course that is in your best interests.


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For the record fewer than 100 people showed up the protest, which ended after 35 unorganized minutes. Even those that agreed with keeping Petrino realize that a protest is not the way to go about a delicate situation such as this.
(If you read an early version of this story, please re-fresh. A "draft" when up with multiple errors. Apologies.)
Ya gotta love double-standards. Trust me, at MrSEC.com, we see 'em everyday.
If Team X's coach jaywalks, Team Y's fans want him drawn and quartered. But if Team Y's coach takes a family hostage, burns down a church and Roseanne Barr's the National Anthem — yep, used that as a verb — then their coach deserves a second chance.
And then there's the double-standard within that double-standard. Team Y's fans' look-the-other-way attitude only exists if Team Y's coach is winning. If Team Y's coach is losing, then they — like the fans of Team X — will yelp for the man's dismissal.
That very scenario is playing out in Arkansas right now. Some fans want Bobby Petrino gone because he apparently messed around on his wife. But another group want him to keep his job 'cause — let's face it — he's led the Razorbacks out of the wilderness! Arkansas is winning football games again. And even some of those who told ESPN over the weekend that they want Petrino to keep his job, admit they might have a different take if he were losing games:
As we discussed last week, we don't think the "moral" clause of Petrino's contract will be his undoing. There is a line of thinking that goes like this: "If you don't invoke the moral turpitude clause now, when do you?" Makes sense, but see the bit about double-standards above. You invoke it the next time a losing badminton coach urinates in public. Who cares if people say UA has a double-standard? Everyone does.
It's clear at this point that Arkansas wants to keep Petrino if at all possible. He's worth millions of dollars in cash and exposure — the good, football kind — for the university. If they find a way to hang onto him, yes, the school will take a few kicks to the ribs from rival recruiters and the national press, but if Petrino keeps winning — and here's betting he would — that'll all go bye-bye.
I watched Louisville reach the Final Four this season and I didn't hear anyone bring up the school's 2009 decision to stand by Rick Pitino after his sex scandal.
And Arkansas wouldn't be the first group to be right out front with its double-standard. See: Newt Gingrich backers who once went after Bill Clinton. And see: Democrats who now throw low-blows at Gingrich for doing what Clinton did. Happens every day. "My guy can do anything he likes, your guy better mind his Ps and Qs."
At this point, Arkansas AD Jeff Long is likely dealing with a number of groups as he tries to find his way out of mess he didn't make. Those people include:
1. Jessica Dorrell and her betrothed. Both work for the University of Arkansas. She can sue the school and/or Petrino for sexual harassment. Right now the school is most likely trying to find out what it will cost to keep Dorrell and her fiance quiet. (Sidenote — The folks who initially found Petrino and Dorrell on the side of the road stated that Petrino was alone. Now they've gone into silent mode. Do they have more dirt to share about what the coach and Dorrell told them? Might they want some hush money, too?)
2. Petrino himself. More than likely the school's PR wing is cooking up a statement this instant that the coach can read at a presser should he be retained. At the same time, Long has to be grilling Petrino to come clean on everything that the coach did wrong in this situation. He'll also want to know if there are any other skeletons in Petrino's closet.
3. The UA legal team and some additional group of private investigators. The school needs to be thinking of every possible lawsuit that could come its way and it needs to be ready with a defense for each should it hang on to Petrino. And remember, from Clinton to Tiger Woods, when dirt is found on a celebrity, more and more people tend to come out of the woodwork with new stories, true or not. If Arkansas keeps Petrino, the school will want to be sure tales of another "inappropriate relationship" aren't just around the corner. Also, if Petrino stays, the school will no doubt penalize the coach with a tougher contract worth less cash. All this is tied to the schools' lawyers. (If Petrino's wise, he'll take whatever lifeline the school may throw him… winner or not, it would be hard for another school or NFL team to bring him in anytime soon thanks to his various past actions.)
5. The police. The Arkansas State Police are now asking questions about the handling of the initial accident. Just how inappropriately did the officer from Petrino's in-season security detail act in order to keep Petrino's dirty laundry in the hamper, so to speak? If a police officer loses his job over all this, it'll be an even more difficult sell to keep Petrino.
6. UA chancellor G. David Gearhart and the school's board. This is a group that's well aware of the money Petino has brought into the school. It's also a group that will want to protect the University of Arkansas' name from being dragged through the mud. As a prominent booster of another school told me last week, "Usually the 'he wins' crowd holds sway over the 'he's damaged our good name' crowd." That said, some/many/all of these people might be so ticked that Petrino lied to them and put them into this mess that they're ready to part with him regardless of the fallout.
7. The school's biggest boosters. Long and Arkansas are raising money with ease these days. A new football facility is going up thanks to Petrino's on-field success. If the biggest boosters at the school threaten to hold back some of their cash pending the outcome of the Petrino scandal, that's an additional headache for Long. And it's likely that some of the biggest boosters will want the coach to stay while a few others might worry more about UA's reputation. Long probably won't get 100% backing from the Razorbacks' top boosters regardless of what he decides to do.
At this point, like Long, you should probably be keeping tabs on the police investigation into this matter. If heads roll and charges are filed on that front, Petrino's probably finished.
If the police investigation yields no further damage, we at MrSEC.com expect the school will do everything possible to keep the coach in the fold, double-standards be damned.
A couple of sidenotes on the situation this morning:
* Robbie Neiswanger of ArkansasNews.com writes that Long is in new territory with this mess.
* "Team Petrino" has formed as a support group for the coach and has launched a Facebook page calling for the school to keep him. They're also planning a Monday rally for Petrino. (See all that stuff about double-standards above. Gotta wonder how many of these "Team Petrino" folks have ripped, Clinton, Gingrich, Pitino, Woods and others?)


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He was an unfortunate dude who ticked off Zeus, who then damned him to roll a rock uphill forever. Every time he got close to the top, it would roll down forcing him to start over.
Kinda like Nevada trying to become an actual place to live rather than a superannuated boomtown mining camp with neon and indoor plumbing.
Today, the great unwashed suffer protest fatigue and the only thing endangered in Carson City is the Legislature's front lawn. And maybe a few careers.
The right wing moonhowlers bay and bloviate that legislative Democrats haven't presented an alternative to Gov. Sly Sandoval's proposed assassination of Nevada education. Translation: Please give us something new to trash.
Republicano Sandoval, running hard to become the first Latino president —something he will have to do with no Latino votes — stands by his no new taxes pledge.
Assembly Speaker John Oceguera, D-Las Vegas, has said the guv is as irrelevant this year as Gov. Jim the Dim was in 2009. Translation: Big Bad John thinks he's got the necessary handful of GOP tax increase votes to survive Sly's promised veto.
This is great theater, but now that baseball season is here, us poor peons have better things to do.
Let those clinging to the ledge do their thing. Let the corporate lobbyists make tons of money screwing the little guy. Even liberal Assemblymember Peggy Pierce, D-Las Vegas, has proposed a sales tax on services, the worst kind of tax for the least among us. Jesus of Nazareth, call your office.
So no more Mr. Nice Guy. Time to sue the bastards.
As regular readers are aware, for the last three years I've been beating the drum for what is known as an adequacy lawsuit against the state. On July 15, 2008, then-University Chancellor Jim Rogers published legal research showing that 27 other jurisdictions had been successfully busted for illegally underfunding education. That study will be available with the web edition of this column at NevadaLabor.com. Additional references are linked to the Feb. 21, 2010, Barbwire titled "Suing for Schools," also at my flagship website.
Better yet, states most likely to lose such legal action are those that have already done the research admitting guilt. Such a smoking gun was delivered in the form of an interim committee study submitted to the 2007 Legislature. Anybody who wants a copy, just lemme know.
The Nevada Constitution orders the ledge to adequately provide for a system of education. We have been in violation of the law for decades.
I have been building a coalition of groups now ready to make the old Fram Oil Filter threat: Pay me now or pay me later. Contact me if you want to join the fight.
Either the ledge will do it or we will do it for them. A federal judge has managed the western Nevada water system since 1944. Can a blackrobe do any worse running Nevada education than our governors and lawmakers have done for the past three decades?
It's crunch time. Stay tuned.
As you may have noted from the above, I'm spoiling for a fight. As I turned a corner while walking into Circus Circus for the March 31 César Chávez celebration, I was hit with a faceful of cigarette smoke. About 10 feet ahead of me walked a young family. Dad was pushing a baby carriage, mom was profusely puffing. I couldn't control myself.
"You there! You're endangering your baby. Put out that cigarette," I shouted.
Dad immediately turned and told me to commit a sexual act impossible for normal male mammals, then repeated it several times while calling me a sick old man.
I was cool, told him he was on the way to dying a hard death "but don't take the kid with you."
He ended our conversation with several obscene gestures and I thought for a moment he was going to charge like a weak, skinny, bearded rhino. But he proved a coward for not defending his kid against his drug addicted wife.
My NAACP and Communications Workers union sister Patricia Gallimore asked to address the crowd on César Chávez Day.
Sofia Guadron, a member of our union, lost her son Luis Chinchilla, 19, a Sparks resident who died in his sleep on March 30. We passed the hat — an actual hat — at the event and raised $535 for the family. Anyone who would care to contribute may call Patricia at 775-746-9453. In her spare time, she chairs the Reno-Sparks NAACP Freedom Fund Awards Dinner Committee. You can call her for reservations or buy tickets at RenoSparksNAACP.org. The event happens on Saturday, May 14. Watch the website for details.
Reno-Sparks NAACP past president, died last week at 86. His memorial service will be held at 9:30 a.m on Friday, April 15, at Reno's Second Baptist Church, 1265 Montello St. Public viewing will be conducted from 4 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 14, at O'Brien Rogers Crosby, 600 W. Second Street in Reno. Please send personal remembrances to me for web posting.
Be well. Raise hell.
Andrew Barbano is a 42-year Nevadan and editor of NevadaLabor.com. E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Daily Sparks Tribune since 1988.