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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - As the frantic 2012 election season staggers toward a climax we are entering into a new phase commonly called "get out the vote." That's the period after early voting but before Election Day where candidates, political parties, and special interest groups engage in a final effort to get voters thought to be sympathetic to their respective causes to the polls.Although early and absentee voting are becoming more and more popular (in Incline/Crystal Bay historically 60 percent vote early or absentee) early voters know who they intend to vote for . . . Election Day voters are considered "undecided" or "persuadable."The science of "get out the vote" dates back to at least 1840 when Illinois State Representative Abraham Lincoln wrote the following instructions to Whig Party county committeemen: "Make a perfect list of all the voters in their respective districts, and to ascertain with certainty for whom they will vote. If they meet with men who are doubtful as to the man they will support, such voters should be designated in separate lines, with the name of the man they will probably support. It will be (your) duty to keep a constant watch on the doubtful voters, and from time to time have them talked to by those in whom they have the most confidence and also to place in their hands such documents as will enlighten and influence them."I wonder what Lincoln would have thought of a recent giant, colorful postcard received by most Washoe County registered Republicans reading: "You are needed at the polls - STAT!" and in the small print reading: "paid for by the Idaho Republican Party." Looks like our northern neighbor's GOP had so much campaign cash they decided to spend some in Nevada. You notice that both Lincoln and the Idaho GOP targeted the message to voters likely to vote they way they wanted us to.There are also very sophisticated branches of the science: One is that of persuading folks who are likely to agree with the persuader's point of view to actually get out of the house and vote. In the Republican year of 2010 Colorado Democrats were able to rescue their appointed incumbent US Senate candidate Michael Bennet from Tea Party Republican challenger Ken Buck, who was far ahead in the polls, by identifying Democratic-leaning voters with poor voting records and sending them letters on plain white stationery simply stating that the sender looked forward to being able to thank them for voting after the election. The low-key contrast with the usual hyped political mailers caused people to actually read the letters and, out of a sense of guilt or obligation, go down and vote. Bennet won by 15,000 votes.Sasha Issenberg in her recent book: "The Victory Lab, the Secret Science of Winning Campaigns" wrote of a sophisticated 2010 election ploy that is closer to home: "One independent group backing Harry Reid used data on how neighborhoods voted on ballot initiatives (which show voter opinions on controversial issues like marijuana, taxes and eminent domain) to define the political ideology of election precincts with a nuance impossible to gauge in partisan vote totals."Along Lake Tahoe, which has become home to wealthy California refugees, Reid's allies defined pockets of rich libertarians they thought were winnable. So they downplayed Reid's statewide message portraying Republican challenger Sharron Angle as an antigovernment extremist intent on dismantling Social Security - a stance the Tahoe targets could in fact find appealing - and instead played up her conservative views on social issues. Reid won the state by five points, boosted by expanded margins in upscale redoubts like lakefront Incline Village."So, if you voted for Reid you may have been manipulated.- Jim Clark is president of Republican Advocates and has served on the Washoe County & Nevada State GOP Central Committees; he can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Katie Holmes, who is filming a movie with the hit-making singer in South Africa, joined Twitter on Friday – and seems thrilled about it, though she has a ways to go to catch up to Swift's 35 million followers.
"So happy to be on twitter!!!!!! Sending first tweets from South Africa!!!!!" the actress, 34, wrote in her first post.
She also retweeted a candid photo, posted by producer Nikki Silver, of herself and Swift standing with their other cast mates on the set of The Giver.
Holmes recently told E! News that she was "really excited" to make the science-fiction film about an obliviously dystopian society, and which also stars Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges.
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Men's Golf Places Second at Mid-American Match Play
Ball State's men's golf team suffered a 3.5 to 2.5 loss in the championship match in the Mid-American Match Play event at Lake Jovita Golf Course in Dade City, Fla.
The Cardinals finished second, while Bowling Green claimed the title after entering the tournament as the sixth seed. Eastern Michigan finished third, while Northern Illinois placed fourth. Toledo tallied a fifth place finish, while Miami University finished sixth. Akron tallied a seventh place showing and Ohio finished eighth at the event.
In the championship match, McCormick Clouser won 2 UP over Chris Melvin of Bowling Green and was the Cardinals only individual winner. Clouser went 3-0 in the tournament.
Alex Stinson, Brodie Williams and Tony Lazzara all halved their matches in the final match.
Ball State will return to action March 10-12 at the Pinehurst Intercollegiate at the Village of Pinehurst, N.C. The Cardinals will play Pinehurst No. 8 and Pinehurst No. 2 in the event.


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I may be in the minority here but I havent been all that impressed with Andersson. For having a big body, he doesnt use it alot. What does he bring to the tabe for this team? I know he is young but he certainly hasnt dazzled. I would prefer Eaves in the line-up
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Jadeveon Clowney famously knocked a Michigan football helmet from Tampa's Raymond James Stadium halfway to Key Largo. But one of the greatest players in Southeastern Conference history probably will complete his three-year stint at South Carolina without facing the SEC's top program.
"Clowney vs. Alabama" sounds like a swell film script. Sadly, it's pre-production fiction and not a documentary — unless the Gamecocks and Crimson Tide advance to the SEC championship game in December.
Clemson is an ACC championship contender in 2013. But the Tigers are not scheduled to play the teams many analysts consider the three best in the ACC Coastal Division — Virginia Tech, Miami and North Carolina. Expansion and additions have created a college football world in which conference champions prove it with lucky schedule draws as much as gritty field work.
Alabama the last two seasons, for instance.
Nick Saban's Crimson Tide won the 2011 and 2012 national championships, but defeated a team that finished ranked in the final Associated Press top 20 just once in each of those years (Arkansas, LSU).
Clowney and Alabama's Heisman Trophy candidate quarterback AJ McCarron probably won't even cross paths next week in Hoover, Ala., at SEC Media Days. In fact, it's less of a stretch to consider the SEC East and SEC West separate conferences than to present the league as a united front, schedule-wise.
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South Carolina in 2013 and 2015 will play as many regular season games against ACC teams (Clemson and North Carolina) as SEC West teams.
Clemson isn't an honorary member of the SEC (yet) but at this very moment is two-thirds through a stretch of three straight games against SEC opponents (South Carolina, LSU and Georgia).
Not that there's anything wrong with attractive non-conference games; bring on the Oregon Ducks and Ohio State Buckeyes. But all the "toughest" conference talk is tempered when teams don't face tough teams in their own leagues.
ACC commissioner John Swofford correctly points out that adding Syracuse, Louisville and Pittsburgh with an everything-but-football commitment from Notre Dame gives the ACC the best basketball conference in history.
"And our potential from a football standpoint is truly unlimited," Swofford said earlier this month.
True. But it would be a lot more exciting for fans and TV execs if the best teams played each other more often.
There is only so much major conference schedule-makers can do without a crystal football to know which matchups will be most intriguing when they align foes and formats years in advance.
USC vs. Bama spring fling
But there are some solutions, though they are not conventionally ideal and not as seasonal as autumn leaves. Tweaks that fans of competitive entertainment might appreciate:
The nine-game conference schedule. A 6-2-1 SEC format is one non-division game better than 6-1-1 (six division games, one permanent non-division partner, one other non-division game per year). Problem is, Saban is the only SEC coach in favor.
"I'm absolutely in the minority, no question about it," Saban said. "But everybody has their reasons."
Spring football fever. My decades old argument: Spring football games go from boring to interesting if intrasquad scrimmages are replaced with one team vs. another. The spring games don't have to be against foes from the same conference but, in this 2013 case, Gamecocks-Tide would have been delightful. Clemson-Miami, too.
Summer jamborees. Another overdue idea. High school kids take part, why not college teams? Invite eight teams to one neutral site for four one-quarter mini-games. Have fun, get great ratings, make money.
Thankfully, the 2013 SEC and ACC schedules do allow the best teams to take matters into their own hands.
South Carolina and Clemson can simply advance to their respective championship games, ensuring one more shot at talented foes they didn't get to play in a flawed regular season.


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By Harold Michael Harvey
He frets and struts his hour upon the stage with the best of his generation, yet he is no renaissance man. A bachelor's degree from Morehouse College in Atlanta makes him a "Morehouse Man," which for a man who grew up Southern, in Chattanooga, Tenn., is a grander distinction than being a renaissance man. He got his break in the movie industry from another "Morehouse Man," Spike Lee, who cast him as a drug addict in Lee's breakout movie "Jungle Fever."
It was a role uniquely suited for Samuel L. Jackson, who at the time was a few weeks removed from drug rehab. He knew the drug-addict motif and enmeshed himself in this role. He continues to transform himself in the various roles he has played since his maiden voyage into acting two decades ago.
In 1994, Jackson played gangster Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" and parlayed his performance into an Oscar nomination. He did not win. This year he has again teamed up with Tarantino, playing a rather smart and sophisticated "House Negro" named Stephen in the movie "Django Unchained." For this role, Jackson must have entered into the soul of his grandfather in order to pull off this Oscar-worthy performance.
"I was raised to be cautious. I went to work with my grandfather, who cleaned office buildings and furnaces, and there would be twenty-year-old guys callin' him Ed, and he called 'em Mister. My grandfather was this old guy, very dignified, but he never looked 'em in the eye. He'd look at me like, 'Turn your head down! Don't look the white man in the eye 'cause they'll think you being uppity or arrogant,'" Jackson told imbd.com.
Yet Jackson plays Stephen like he must have wished his grandfather had played the people he encountered on his job. Stephen keeps the books, writes the checks and keeps the "House Negroes and the Field Negroes" in their respective places for the plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).
Candie does not make any important decisions on his plantation without discussing it man-to-man with Stephen, who while he does not look the DiCaprio character in the eyes, does not look down either. He fixes his eyes on a distant object in the room and speaks openly and frankly with his Master.
The movie's chief critic is none other than Spike Lee, who refuses to see the film because he thinks Tarantino disrespects the slave experience of African Americans. Also, Lee takes issue with Tarantino's liberal use of the word "n*****." (My editor may edit the word, but rest assured that I intended to spell the word out in all of its wretched horror.) The word is used more than 100 times in the movie, by both the white actors and the black actors. The movie's use of the word tends to parallel its use in this century, as it was used two years before the Civil War, which is the time period "Django" depicts.
Perhaps the only character in the movie who does not use the term in reference to the slaves is Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a German immigrant who gave up his dental practice because he discovered he could make more money as a bounty hunter than he could by pulling teeth. Dr. Schultz frees Django and gives him the surname Freeman so the world knows that Django was free and a man like other free men.
One presumes, given Tarantino's proclivity to paint broad contrasts in his films, that Dr. Schultz is a German Jew, to whom Tarantino gives the first name King; perhaps symbolic of the emergence 105 years later of Dr. King on the Mall in the District of Columbia arguing for the final dissolution of the vestiges' of slavery in a way Dr. King Schultz could not do in 1858.
This leads us to the word which causes most consternation in our dear politically correct times. While on tour with the cast of "Django," trying to get ahead of the movie's critics, Samuel L. Jackson refused to address a question over the controversial use of "the dreaded word," the N-word, in the movie if the interviewer, Jake Hamilton of Houston's Fox 26 television, would not specify what he meant by the term the N-word.
Jackson asked Hamilton to clarify what he meant by the N-word: "No? Nobody? None? The word would be…?"
"I don't like to say it," Hamilton said.
"Have you ever said it," Jackson pressed.
"No, sir," Hamilton answered.
"Try it," Jackson demanded in his Jules Winnfield voice.
Following the interview, Hamilton could be seen rushing from the studio set before Jackson could rise from his seat. He later issued a statement which said, "…My crazy moment with Samuel L. Jackson (who is one of my favorite actors) doesn't impact my LOVE of Django Unchained!"
Jackson's pseudo tirade was lost on Hamilton and perhaps most Americans who fail to come to grips with what is offensive about the term. The word is simply comprised of two vowels and four consonants. Many African Americans affectionately use the terms when referring to each other. The rub comes when a white person uses the term because it connotes a time when Africans were a mere thing to whites. After slavery, blacks built up a callous on their souls, refusing forevermore to be the white man's Negro. So when a white person uses the word, it resonates as a derogatory term that somehow says to African Americans that the speaker is better than the Negro who is the subject of the speaker's words.
If Hamilton could not articulate the word in 2012, then how could he began to understand why it was important for Tarantino to depict how graphically, how cuttingly and how demeaningly the word flowed out of the mouths of white Americans as the nation rushed head-long into Civil War in the late 1850s; and how easily that word flows today in non-politically correct settings.
Thus, Jackson's insistence that the interviewer pronounce the word and let it roll off his tongue into the air of the 21st century before offering an explanation.
In unchaining Django, Tarantino and vicariously Jackson, have unchained the taboo of "the n*****" in American life and culture.


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Let me say right off the bat that no medication has ever helped me as much as my sad face-repellent pills, and that includes the anti-worm meds they gave me in the '90s after I ate a live pig at an Anthrax concert. This article is in no way intended as a warning that you should give up your medication. But there are some things you should know about antidepressants so you don't end up in a fetal position, clutching your tinfoil hat and writing love letters to pickles. For instance, before I was balls-deep in my own meds, I didn't know that ...
#5. They Can Make You More Depressed
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As a general rule of thumb, the average person who needs the help of antidepressants can expect to be on them for about a year. Those are typically cases of people who have short term depression and need a little help with correcting some chemical imbalances or suppressing their urges to silence their peers with flame. If that level of depression took the form of entertainment, it would be an Adele song, or maybe the weeks following Luke Skywalker's discovery that his dad was a murder robot.
Long term depression and its treatment is more like a full season of Game of Thrones, your mind frantically trying to organize and prioritize rapid images of throat slitting, disembowelments, fucking, and bare penises into some semblance of order. It is chaos, and it needs a much longer management plan. Here's the problem, though:
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Recent studies have found that prolonged use of antidepressants actually promotes depression. There is some science behind it that I don't understand because I'm an idiot, but don't feel bad if you don't either, because the researchers themselves aren't quite sure what causes it. So, at least in this instance, we can all say that we're basically as smart as scientists. And I'm going to.
Anyway, it's something you have to take into consideration when talking to your doctor. If you've had problems with depression most of your life, I think it's pretty safe to assume that you'll be a likely candidate for long term treatment, so you're not exactly going into the conversation blind. It's easy for us to think that because this person is a doctor, she knows everything there is to know about the medication, but that just isn't true. There is a ridiculous amount of meds out there, all with a billion side effects -- it's impossible to have them all memorized. Even with the help of a computer, there will be some things that will be overlooked. Some of these studies are so recent that the doctor may not have heard of them yet.
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"Penicillin? Are you sure you're not just making that word up?"
But the point is that it's perfectly OK to say, "I was reading recent medical articles on the subject, and there are some legitimate dangers in long term medication. And now that I've done part of your job for you, I demand that you pay me for this visit. That'll be one billion dollars."
#4. They Can Make You Suicidal
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In 2004, and again in 2007, the FDA required a "black box" label to be put on all antidepressants that warned of increased suicidal thoughts, particularly in children (later extended to the 18-to-24 age group), and especially in the first two months of use. You may recognize that label as the same one they use at the beginning of Dancing With the Stars. It has saved many a life.
If you're like me, your first thought jumped to "Well of course they're at an increased risk of suicide. They're on antidepressants, which means they're depressed right out of the gate in this study!" But those of you who are smart will read the study and see that the participants were groups of depression-afflicted teens who were given medication and placebos. The ones who were given the latter showed fewer occurrences of suicidal thoughts than those who were on the actual medication.
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Here we see a teen taking her "Prozac."
For that reason, anyone under that age cap needs to be closely monitored when taking pretty much any of this type of medication. And just to be safe, most doctors monitor all patients, regardless of age. Except the ones they don't like, obviously. They give those people extra prescriptions and tell them that swimming with sharks is a great form of stress relief.
If you're on any type of antidepressant and you find yourself having suicidal thoughts or feel that your depression is worsening, you need to talk to your doctor right away. Don't put that shit off, because there's a very good chance that you're feeling the effects of a bad match between your brain and that chemical, like your mind knows that you need more Star Wars but completely shuts down during the prequels. And for the love of Zod, don't stop taking them abruptly -- that can be just as bad, if not worse.
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#3. Combining Them With Common Medications Can Kill You
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I am on two medications: venlafaxine (an antidepressant) and tramadol (pain management for a bad back). When the doctor originally prescribed these, she told me that the two could be taken at the same time without any problems, which leads me to believe that I'm one of the patients she hates, because I later found out that it can cause serotonin toxicity, which can fucking kill you.
Understand that I've been taking the two without dying very often, so I'm not saying that the combination is guaranteed to be lethal. But the chances aren't zero, either -- in 2005, 118 people died from it. Like most drug interactions, it has levels of severity, including -- wait for it -- worsening of depression! Yay! Yet another thing that hands your original condition a pool cue and tells it that you called its mother a whore.
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You gonna just take that shit, Big D?"
This is the part that I ran into not very long ago. I had what appeared to be serotonin toxicity to a minor degree, as well as the ill effects of prolonged antidepressant use, and I just mentally crashed. I hadn't felt that bad since I was a teenager, high, alone, and listening to the Cure, thick layers of jet black eyeliner running down my pasty white face. At least I think that's when I was a teenager. That very well could have been last Thursday. Time gets fuzzy when depression takes you into the valleys. It's pretty easy to go in fully clothed but walk out the other side wearing nothing but a sequined cape, David Hasselhoff's face tattooed across your ass.
The point is that it's a good idea to not only ask your doctor and pharmacist about the drug interactions, but double check it when you get home just to be sure. Even taking something ordinary like ibuprofen in combination with my antidepressant can cause easy bruising and excessive bleeding. That's why I had to give up my heavyweight championship belt after my last UFC victory.
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OLEAN – It was a steal.
A Matthew Wright swipe and layup inside the final 30 seconds turned impending defeat into victory Saturday night as St. Bonaventure rallied past UB, 82-79, in a wild Big 4 matchup before 4,485 at the Reilly Center.
UB (2-7) owned a one-point lead when it called timeout with 50.4 seconds left and 23 on the shot clock. The Bulls never got off another attempt. Wright stole a Tony Watson pass and laid in the go-ahead basket with 24.6 seconds left. Then Demitrius Conger thwarted Jarod Oldham's pass inside to Javon McCrea, resulting in a Bona free throw at the other end with 1.1 seconds to go. UB failed to connect on a long inbounds pass, and Bona has its fifth straight win of the series.
The Bonnies (4-2) are just about as experienced as it gets in nail-biters. This was their fifth straight game decided by five points or less and victory No. 3 of that stretch.
UB looked nothing like the offensively confounded team that managed just 39 points – the lowest total since 2003 – in Wednesday home loss to Temple. The Bulls cashed 13 threes in 24 attempts and led 78-75 on a Watson three with 2:58 remaining. But turnovers, their early-season nemesis, returned when it matter most. A Demitrius Conger steal and dunk with 1:02 remaining closed Bona's deficit to one and set up the final frenetic minute.
"We got to sustain it for the whole 40 minutes," Oldham said. "Crunch time, we got to be ready to shoot the ball and that wasn't the case tonight."
Oldham led UB with a career-high 20 points while Watson added 15, McCrea 13 and Will Regan 10. Bona also put four players in doubles led by Conger with 20. Chris Johnson had 14, Wright 11 and Charlon Kloof 10.
UB actually shot better from behind the arc (54 percent) than from the free-throw line (12 of 23, 52 percent). Bona went to the line 38 times and made 22, just 58 percent. The Bonnies scored 21 points off 19 UB turnovers while the Bulls countered with 11 points on Bona's nine giveaways.
Bona's film-room familiarity with UB's offensive tendencies aided it down the stretch.
"We watched a lot of tape and we emphasize a lot of jabbing at the ball if your man doesn't have the ball to kind of stop the driver," Wright said. "On the last play I helped a little earlier and it forced him to make a decision in mid-air and I was able to steal the ball."
A Regan free throw to open the second half gave UB its first advantage at 40-39. Bona surged back and led by 46-41 on two Kloof free throws, but the Bulls wouldn't go away. Undeterred by a miss and a Youssou Ndoye block, Regan powered his way to a basket on his third shot of a possession, drew Ndoye's fourth foul and converted the free throw to bring UB within 50-48 with 14:42 left.
Soon, the see-saw went into motion. The lead changed hands three times in 33 seconds, with a Watson three putting UB on top, 58-56. When Bona drew even Oldham answered with another three off sharp perimeter ball movement with Watson.
Bona answered, UB countered, The Bulls threw a hook, the Bonnies answered with an uppercut. When the final media timeout came with 3:49 left neither team had led by more than three since the very early moments of the second half.
UB went to its bench very early in the game, first when Corey Raley-Ross turned it over twice in a blink, and then when McCrea picked up his first foul just less than two minutes in. UB's gamble in protecting its leading scorer paid off. McCrea left with the Bulls down three and returned with the deficit at four.
The threat of a blowout was at hand when McCrea picked up foul No. 2 with nine minutes remaining and Bona on the verge of building a double-digit advantage. Again, UB hung tough and then some. A Watson bomb that appeared to come after the buzzer was counted as good, lifting the Bulls into a 39-39 intermission deadlock.
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Looking for a fabulous Hanukkah present for kids six months to six years that won't cost you a thing? Urge the parents to sign up for PJ Library, a new-to-Dallas program that will allow the kids to receive one Jewish-themed age-appropriate book a month for free. You can read my story about it here.
It seemed too good to be true when I heard about this amazing program, created by Massachusetts philanthropist Harold Grinspoon in 2005, and launched locally with a commitment from Joy and Ronald Mankoff's Mankoff Family Foundation through the Center for Jewish Education in the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas (a local sponsor must pledge 50% of the program's costs to bring it to their community).
But it's happening, it's here and the first set of books I've read are fabulous. My personal favorites? The Golem's Latkes by Caldecott Honor winner Eric A. Kimmel (about a golem that can't stop making latkes) and Nathan Blows Out the Hanukkah Candles by Tami Lehman-Wilzig with Nicole Katzman (about a boy with autism who doesn't understand that you're not supposed to blow out the Hanukkah candles). Would love to hear about your favorite Hanukkah books, too!
PHOTO: Joy Mankoff reads Bagels from Benny, one of the free books sent to Jewish children through the new-to-Dallas PJ Library program, at the Aaron Family Jewish Community Center. Photo by DMN Special Contributor Nan Coulter


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The route didn't include running over the Verrazano or Brooklyn bridges – and it ended in Delaware Park, not Central Park – but Julia Burke nonetheless crossed the finish line Sunday to hoots, hollers and applause.
She did it in 4½ hours, after circling Delaware Park's Meadow Drive 15 times – a distance slightly longer than the 26.2-mile New York City marathon.
And as it turned out, she was never alone.
A total of 144 other runners joined Burke at various times as the 26-year-old Buffalo woman brought a slice of the canceled New York City marathon to Buffalo to raise money and support for the victims of Superstorm Sandy. Most of the 144 did a few laps, but six ran the entire marathon distance with Burke. Five of those six, like Burke, had planned to race in the New York City Marathon.
"This was a great idea; very emotional," said Dave Kozlowsky of Cheektowaga, who was among those who completed the 15 laps with Burke.
"You are a Buffalo inspiration," Lori Morreale, who ran twice around the park, told Burke after the run ended.
Burke trained for months for her first New York City marathon and was looking forward to running through the five boroughs in a race that includes some of the city's famous bridges and ends in Central Park. But once the deadly storm ravaged New York City last week, Burke decided – even before New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg cancelled the race Friday – that it wouldn't be right to participate in the event at a time when so many there were suffering.
So Burke floated an idea on her Facebook page: If she ran 26.2 miles in Delaware Park, would anyone join her? Any money raised, she explained, would go to the Red Cross to help victims of Superstorm Sandy.
The answer to Burke's question turned out to be a resounding yes.
The scene at Delaware Park on Sunday morning was a mini-version of an official marathon.
Friends, family and people Burke had never before met arrived at the park to either run or help out the athletes and their cause.
Kozlowsky and three local doctors – Courtenay Watt, Linda Theotokatos and Anthony Buscaglia, who planned to run in New York on behalf of the Autism Speaks Foundation – were among the runners in Delaware Park. Buscaglia and his wife, Theotokatos, have a 6-year-old son, Lorenzo, who has autism.
Jennifer Wray from Buffalo also planned to run in New York City. She and her boyfriend were on their way downstate Friday when they learned the race was cancelled. Wray ran in Delaware Park instead. Her boyfriend, John Rachuna, isn't a marathon runner, but he designed a racing bib for the Delaware park run. A local Fed Ex store donated about 100 of them for the run. Rachuna then distributed the bibs to the first 100 runners who signed up Sunday.
Wray, Kozlowsky and the three doctors were among the six who finished the race with Burke. The sixth marathon runner to go the distance was Christine Couvutsakis of Buffalo, a Sweet Home schoolteacher who ran with her dog, Mina. Couvutsakis is an accomplished marathon runner, but she said she hadn't planned to run the full 15 laps Sunday. Her dog kept going, however, so she did, too.
Meanwhile, in New York City, hundreds of runners wearing marathon shirts and backpacks full of supplies took the ferry to hard-hit Staten Island and ran to stricken neighborhoods to help. Thousands of others poured into Central Park to put in 26.2 miles after the last-minute cancellation of the world's largest marathon because of Superstorm Sandy.
"A lot of people just wanted to finish what they started," said Lance Svendsen, who organized an alternative marathon called Run Anyway. By 8:45 a.m., his group had sent off five waves of runners from the marathon's official finish line, which had not yet been taken down. "It is amazing. My guess is about 600 people have left so far."
Instead of running his first marathon, Akil Defour of Brooklyn climbed 20 flights of stairs in a building without power or heat in Far Rockaway, Queens, to deliver water, blankets and peanut butter sandwiches.
On Staten Island, where the marathon course begins, the runners with backpacks emerged from the ferry for a quick, emotional briefing.
"The devastation and damage you are about to wander into," said Staten Island resident Jonscott Turco, who paused, almost teary. "It's pretty extraordinary. The only thing I can prepare you for is they're still finding people, remains."
Mary Wittenberg, the president of the New York Road Runners, which organizes the marathon, helped deliver food to a Staten Island family whose house was heavily damaged.
"There are so many more suffering in our community who need our collective, undivided attention and all the resources we can muster," the organization said in a statement Sunday.
Back in Buffalo, others in Delaware Park included city resident Christina Mercurio, who had registered for the New York City Marathon. It was going to be her first marathon since she lost 100 pounds. But Mercurio had lived in New York City for 10 years before moving back to Buffalo last year. Once the storm hit and she became aware of the devastation, Mercurio dropped out of the race. She didn't run in Delaware Park, either, but she was among those on hand Sunday to help out – cheering on the runners, offering drinks and snacks, and taking donations.
There were, at various times, as many as 50 people at the makeshift finish line near the Meadow Drive-Meadow Road intersection helping out in similar ways.
Among them were Robert and Suzie Burke, who couldn't be more proud of their daughter.
The Burkes live in Clarence but have been staying recently in Ohio, where Robert Burke is temporarily working. They surprised their daughter and came back for Sunday's run.
"We are really proud of her," Robert Burke said. "She's always been noblesse oblige. This is her essence."
Julia Burke, in fact, was humble as she crossed the finish line, with plenty of energy left to address the crowd.
"Hi, everybody," she said. "Thank you to everyone who came out. This is one of the best things in my life. This has been amazing. It puts the word out to the victims [that] 'We are with you here in Buffalo.' "
And Buffalo was there Sunday for Julia Burke – the athletes who ran with her, the supporters who cheered the runners on, the many who donated what is expected to be thousands of dollars to storm victims and one other person, a man from South Buffalo who came and went before the race ended.
It was just 10 minutes before Julia Burke crossed the finish line, several in the park said, that a man who identified himself as Tom Caulfield from South Buffalo came to the park, carrying a medallion attached to a ribbon. Caulfield handed it to Robert Burke, asked that it be given to Julia and then, apparently, left.
It was the medallion Caulfield received for running the 1985 New York City marathon. He wanted Julia to have it, said Robert Burke, who proudly placed the medallion around his daughter's neck after she thanked the crowd for their support.
The Associated Press contributed to this story
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The Truckee boys tennis team clinched the No. 1 seed from the High Desert League of the Northern Division 1-A and a first-round bye in the regional postseason tournament after finishing the regular season with a 7-2 record.
While the second and third seeds from the High Desert and Sierra leagues waged battle in the quarterfinal round Tuesday, the Wolverines will face their first postseason action in the semifinals Thursday at the Tahoe Donner Tennis Center.
Truckee will take on the winner between North Tahoe, which is the third-seeded High Desert team, and Incline, which is seeded second from the Sierra League. Results of that matchup were not available by deadline.
Facing three divisional challengers to end the regular season, the Truckee boys dominated play.
Taking on North Valley without several starters, the depth of the Truckee squad was apparent in a 15-3 win. The first round was a sweep, with all singles and doubles teams winning starting sets.
"We mixed up the doubles teams a bit, just to have them play with different partners," said Truckee coach Rick Deeter.
Aaron Deeter teamed up with Tobie Ziegler to win 6-0. Then Ziegler teamed up with Zack Yamauchi to win 6-1 in the second round. Zach Conradson won 6-0 with Colin Gerrard and then backed it up with another 6-0 victory with Teagan Pado. Several freshman players saw action, including Jack Feick, Colter Fellows and Tanner Smith, all winning their sets.
The Wolverines faced two opponents last week, North Tahoe and Hug, and came out with two more victories, beating the Lakers 18-0 and the Hawks 15-3.
The Lakers struggled with Truckee's starting nine, giving up all six initial sets. The traveling squad quickly rotated in Addison Dvoracek and Eli Yale into singles spots, both winning 6-0 and 6-1, respectively.
Conradson teamed up with Alex Omar and Teagan Pado teamed with Brandon Flora to win doubles, 6-0. Two Tylers, Paladino and Omar, won their second-round match 6-2. French foreign exchange student Raphael Antz jumped into a singles match to win 6-1, helping lead the Wolverines to the sweep.
Hug represented the final match of the regular season. Once again, the entire team was able to contribute, with a few players taking on unusual spots. For the first time this year, Teagan Pado and Brandon Flora played singles instead of doubles, winning their sets 6-3 and 6-2.
Hug was unable to field a complete team, forcing them to forfeit three sets in the match. Hug did manage a few victories in doubles matches, but singles dominance by Yale, Dvoracek, Tyler Paladino and Yamauchi helped lift Truckee to the win.
Truckee's only two losses of the regular season came against larger Division I teams, which for the first year will compete for their own separate tennis state championships.
If the Wolverines win in the semifinal round Thursday - matches begin at 3 p.m. - they'll advance to the regional finals, scheduled for Friday at 3 p.m. at the Reno Tennis Center.
"We hope to move on to the regional finals, given our past performance," said Truckee coach Ken Cutler.
Individual singles and doubles play will start next Friday, Oct. 12, at 9 a.m., hosted by Truckee at the Tahoe Donner Tennis Center.


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Waves of Change: Climate Change Tok Stori FIlm presentationMarch 14, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
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Fever produced by LifeMosaic, UK (2010)
'Fever - A Video Guide' consists of four short films for indigenous communities to raise awareness and build knowledge about the issue of climate change and how it relates to indigenous peoples, cultures, rights and territories. In these films, we hear the stories of indigenous peoples from communities in Ecuador, Nicaragua, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Fever and Resilience will be screened and followed by a discussion panel featuring Tarcisius Kabutaulaka (CPIS), Joshua Cooper (UH West Oʻahu), and Leonard Leon (ACM).
Fever (21 mins) explains what climate change is and why it is so important to indigenous peoples. Resilience (22 mins) shows the stories of five indigenous communities who are increasing their resilience to climate change and natural resource scarcity by strengthening their traditional knowledge, customary law and agricultural systems.
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BlackBerry's Keyboard Is Back—But Will It Sell?
Sophia Cheng bought her first BlackBerry, a red Curve, in 2007, and has been a loyal user ever since.
Now Ms. Cheng, a 31 year-old public-relations consultant from Vancouver, British Columbia, is considering a switch to a Google Inc. Nexus smartphone. The only reason she hasn't yet: She wants to test out the new BlackBerry, "the one with the keyboard," she says.
Earlier this year, Research In Motion Ltd. launched a touch-screen phone three years in the making, the BlackBerry Z10. While the success of that rollout is still uncertain, RIM is gearing up for its second act of 2013: the debut of the keyboard-equipped Q10.
The device will hit Canada and the U.K. first, and the U.S. sometime after that. U.K. carriers have said the phone will start shipping as soon as Friday, while in Canada carriers and retailers like Best Buy Co. BBY 2.06 % will begin selling the phone on May 1, RIM said Tuesday.
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The Q10 looks similar to the once-popular BlackBerry Bold, which was introduced in 2009 and was the last phone to run on the company's old operating system. It will have both a classic physical keyboard and a small touch screen and will run on RIM's new operating system, BlackBerry 10. Carriers and retailers are advertising the device at roughly $200 with a multiyear plan, putting it in line with other high-end devices on the market.
RIM is counting on keyboard-loving users like Ms. Cheng to snap up the new model. There is still a big market out there for keyboard-equipped smartphones, and RIM dominates it. The big problem: It is shrinking fast.
Last year, IDC estimated that the world-wide keyboard smartphone market was 62.8 million units, down from 100.2 million units in 2011. RIM's share of that market is 47%, according to IDC.
Nokia Corp. has long been a strong player in the keyboard market, and more recently Asian phone makers like Samsung Electronics Co. SSNHZ 0.00 % and Huawei Technologies Co. have also started pushing more keyboard-equipped phones into developing countries.
The market for touch-screen-only phones, meanwhile, jumped from 372 million units in 2011 to 650.1 million units last year, according to IDC. RIM's share of that pie: 3%.
RIM executives say they understand the shift. That is why they chose to roll out the all-touch Z10 ahead of the Q10, they say. RIM can count on a loyal following of keyboard-using customers, but it had to make an extra push for its touch-screen device. Chief Executive Thorsten Heins also said RIM knew the all-touch Z10 was probably better suited to succeed in the exploding "bring-your-own-device" market, in which workers are increasingly using their personal phones for work.
Still, the decision baffled some customers and carriers.
"I do wish they came out with [the Q10] first or at the same time," Ms. Cheng says. "I think a lot of people are on the fence and want a new phone, and they may have made their decision already. I don't know why it took so long."
When RIM told carrier partners months ago that it would be launching the Z10 first, carrier executives expressed disappointment that both phones wouldn't be coming out at the same time, according to people familiar with the matter. When they asked for clarification about the staggered-launch strategy, RIM executives didn't elaborate, according to these people.
"Our approach to launching BlackBerry 10 was to focus first on bringing our all-touch BlackBerry Z10 smartphone to market, and then follow with the 'qwerty' BlackBerry Q10," a RIM spokesman said in a statement.
Since that launch schedule was relayed to carriers, the Q10 rollout has slipped a bit. It was originally scheduled to launch about eight weeks after the Z10. When the Q10 arrives in the U.K. and Canada at the end of this month, the gap between phone launches will be roughly 12 weeks.
One reason for the delay is that RIM has had a tougher time than it expected formatting the new operating system to the smaller Q10 screen, according to a person close to the company. When performing functions on the screen, "The initial thought was, 'Oh, we'll just scrunch it down,'" according to this person. "But you end up with very little screen real estate. They have had to redesign apps [for the Q10] without truly redesigning them, and that's really hard. It's taken longer than anticipated."
A RIM spokesman said it is "delivering the BlackBerry Q10 according to our stated plans."
Sales of the Z10 have been decent in some global markets. RIM says it sold one million Z10s in the last quarter, and executives have called the U.K. and Canada launches of the Z10 the company's "best ever." But the U.S. launch hasn't looked as strong.
Carriers like AT&T Inc. T -0.29 % and Verizon Wireless haven't put full-throated marketing campaigns behind the phone. In retail outlets, the Z10 is often placed behind Apple Inc. AAPL 0.78 % iPhones and Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy devices. Sprint Nextel Corp. S -0.45 % , the third biggest U.S. carrier, has said it would only carry the Q10.
Several analysts say they believe Z10 sales in the U.S. slowed down dramatically after the opening weekend, and there has already been some discounting. Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 1.00 % is now offering the Z10 for $99 with a multiyear contract. RIM has said the U.S. roll out is "meeting expectations."
All of which makes the stakes of the Q10 launch that much higher for RIM. Many analysts think sales of the Q10 will be brisk, as longtime current BlackBerry users upgrade their phones.
BlackBerry fan Antonio Torres, 33, a small business consultant in the Bronx, has been using an older touch-screen BlackBerry, the Torch. But he says he's planning to buy a Q10 as soon as it is available. "I want my keyboard back," he said. "That's what it comes down to."
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It's a sad time for actress Hilary Duff: She recently said goodbye to a beloved friend.
"RIP my beautiful Lola girl my heart is broken," she wrote on Twitter Tuesday, with a photo of herself holding her tiny Chihuahua. "Say a prayer for my little angel."
In recent years, Lola had been battling health issues. In 2012, the then 6-year-old dog had brain surgery following a bout with seizures.
"She had a shunt put in her [skull] to drain fluid off her brain and now is doing great," Duff Tweeted at the time.
And when Duff was pregnant with her now 1-year-old son Luca in 2011, Lola was rushed to the emergency room with an eye infection.
While saying goodbye to Lola has clearly been quite emotional for Duff ("Missing my girl," she Tweeted Wednesday, with a sweet photo of the dog), the starlet has found comfort in messages from her Twitter followers.
"Thank you for all your well wishes for my beautiful Lola it really means so much when you [are] hurting to know so many people care," she wrote.
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miRNAs have emerged as important fine-tune regulators of a large host of genes that play a role in many cellular processes and signaling pathways.
These molecules function in a variety of diseases, such as cancer and inflammation, highlighting their potential as therapeutics and diagnostic biomarker tools.
CHI's upcoming "microRNA: Targets and Tools for Therapeutic Development" conference will address the latest discoveries regarding miRNA-mediated disease regulation and introduce new methodologies for conducting these studies in a laboratory or clinical setting.
Much of the latest research in miRNA profiling for biomarker analysis has focused on improving methods of miRNA detection. Daniel Pregibon, Ph.D., CTO of Firefly BioWorks, will discuss the firm's latest technology, FirePlex™, a method of miRNA detection that has been used by both academic and clinical researchers.
Dr. Pregibon explains that there are two main classes of technologies widely available for miRNA profiling studies, either using microarrays or deep sequencing to profile all miRNAs in a single sample, or using single assays to examine individual miRNA expression across many samples. Unfortunately, these approaches are not suitable for performing biomarker validation studies, which are fundamental in the development of diagnostic tests.
"What we're seeing is that there was really nothing in that middle range, if you wanted to look at 25–50 miRNAs over hundreds or thousands of different samples," he says. Thus, FirePlex was designed to help researchers with high-throughput validation of a certain subset of miRNAs of particular interest for their studies.
In fact, because each researcher may be interested in looking at a unique set of miRNAs, Dr. Pregibon reported that 99% of the panels they have made are custom panels, which can be quickly prepared within one week. Additionally, FirePlex panels have been developed to run on benchtop flow cytometers, so additional equipment does not need to be purchased to run an assay.
The FirePlex technology is built on encoded hydrogel particles, instead of using a glass surface, as would be utilized in microarrays. Dr. Pregibon explains that using a hydrogel instead of a glass surface allows each molecule to have many more degrees of freedom, which is beneficial from a thermodynamics standpoint. This hydrogel base for capturing miRNAs allows for better sensitivity and specificity. Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is used as a substrate to eliminate nonspecific binding of proteins, lipids, or other complexes.
FirePlex can also be used with crude samples because the assay is based on post-hybridization labeling (the miRNAs are labeled after being hybridized throughout the hydrogel volume), so any debris will be washed away after capturing the miRNAs. Dr. Pregibon notes that minimal manipulation of the sample also reduces any bias that is introduced as a result of the RNA isolation method used, which can lead to variable RNA yield or selective enrichment. FirePlex has also been expanded to profile miRNAs in cell lysates, fresh tissue, FFPE, and serum/plasma.
SomaGenics has developed a method, miR-IDirect, for direct detection of miRNAs from a plasma sample without requiring total RNA isolation. Sumedha Jayasena, Ph.D., vp of technology and therapeutic development, says the miR-IDirect platform, which detects circulating miRNA in plasma, incorporates SomaGenics' qPCR-based miR-ID technology.
The miR-ID method provides quantification of small RNAs by first circularizing them, then generating cDNA by rolling circle amplification of the miRNA circles, and finally further amplifying the cDNA by qPCR using 5´-overlapping PCR primers. miR-ID has previously been applied to detecting miRNAs in total cellular RNA as well as purified from various biological fluids.
Validated miR-ID assays have been developed for about 100 different miRNAs to date, with more in development. The miR-ID technology can discriminate miRNAs that carry terminal modifications, such as 2´-OMe groups at 3´-ends, according to Dr. Jayasena.
He says that the miR-IDirect technology was developed to overcome certain limitations that have been encountered in analyzing circulating miRNAs as potential biomarkers. He explains that the latest wave of miRNA-based biomarker research has been primarily focused on their identification in biological fluids, especially in blood, as it was discovered that miRNAs are surprisingly stable in biofluids, and their expression profiles often correlate with particular disease states.
Current methods require total RNA or miRNA isolation, which can lead to bias against certain miRNAs and insufficient sensitivity to detect those miRNAs that are present at low levels. Further, a normalization standard, based on an endogenous miRNA, has not been established for profiling circulating miRNAs. A control miRNA can be spiked into samples, but because (unlike endogenous miRNAs) it is unprotected from attack by plasma nucleases, it is likely to be degraded to an unpredictable extent.
miR-IDirect addresses these issues, providing more accurate miRNA detection and quantification. The method "should facilitate research on circulating miRNAs, and, with minor adaptations, miRNAs in other biological fluids besides blood," Dr. Jayasena says. "Our technology will help eliminate variability associated with current methods, while improving sensitivity in miRNA quantification and accelerate clinical validation," Dr. Jayasena states.
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April 24, 2013
Saint Vincent College associate professor of philosophyDr. George H. Leiner has begun an extensive, year-long project to translate the writings of famed German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. "The power of Nietzsche's thought, both as challenge and inspiration, reverberates through the last century," Leiner commented. "In existential phenomenology, theology, psychology, post-structuralism, literature, music: Heidegger, Jaspers; Tillich, Buber; Freud, Jung; Derrida, Foucault; Hesse, Mann; Shaw, O'Neill; Mahler, Strauss; where would their work be without Nietzsche?" Yet, despite Nietzsche's enormous influence, there is no complete, English, critical edition of Nietzsche's work so a project initiated by Stanford University Press' The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche will remedy this. "My role in this project will be to translate from the original German the bulk of Volume 12 (pp. 185-582) of the Saemtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe to appear as Vol. 17 of the Stanford edition. With the support of an American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant, I will make a two-week research trip to the Nietzsche Archive, located within the Goethe and Schiller Archive, itself a part of the Weimar Classics Foundation, in Weimar, Germany this fall. The unpublished materials for which he has translation responsibilities stem from the summer of 1886 through the fall of 1887, a period particularly crucial in the development of Nietzsche's thought and a time immediately before his final, great creative outpouring. "He had paused to gather his thoughts, to bring together a central set of insights around the term 'nihilism,' insights which first emerge in ground prepared by the notions of the 'eternal return' the 'will to power' and the 'revaluation of all values," Leiner added. "Unfortunately, and due largely to the fact that these materials have only been available in English in fragmentary form, there has been much misunderstanding as to the direction of Nietzsche's thought in the last years of his working life. Much notoriety has grown up around the so-called Will to Power – a volume compiled by his sister from unpublished notes – which presents a highly distorted view of Nietzsche's thought. When the full record is available, it will be seen that the focus of Nietzsche's considerations is not on the accumulation of power, but rather on the critical and creative process of engaging and living through values which make human life worthy of affirmation and celebration." "By adopting standard practices and consistent renderings of key terms, the Stanford publication will avoid the pastiche of disparate voices and interpretive imperatives evident in previous English translations," Leiner explained. "Furthermore, textual fidelity will be of the highest priority. It will provide notes to the reader informing rather than over interpreting the text. We translators will call attention to thorny passages, such as puns and figures of speech difficult to render from the German, keeping the reader informed of alternative translations. In addition to being faithful to presenting Nietzsche and not the translator, Volume 17, as part of the Stanford work, will assure that the reader will encounter a text which has been produced as a result of focused, collaborative work among multiple translators and an editorial staff of the highest scholarly credential." The two week-long research trips to the Nietzsche Archives will be only a small part of the anticipated 12-month project Leiner is undertaking. "Leiner began full time work on the project in January, the beginning of his sabbatical year granted by Saint Vincent College, and he has agreed with Stanford University Press to complete the work by December 31. The work has four main components: translation of some 400 pages of text; preparation of an afterword; archives research; and consultation with edition co-editor Alan Schrift and members of the translation team of Adrian Del Caro of The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Babette Babich of Fordham University. "Nietzsche's handwriting is notoriously difficult to decipher," Leiner noted, "and with each pass through the materials, further corrections need to be made. By September I will have completed the bulk of the translation and will be able to productively use the time at the archives to resolve any additional complications with the text which have arisen in the work between January and September."
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Recently, I've been playing a lot of basketball. Mostly pickup games at the gym. Now, I'm not the most spectacular player by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, I'm often reminded by my teammates that I'd probably fit in better on a football field than a basketball court, but I'm still learning.
The nature of the pickup game, though, is such that there usually isn't a referee. Most often, there's nobody whose job it is to make the calls, enforce the rules, and make sure that everyone's playing fair. Because of this, it's really left up to the individual players to call our own fouls, track our own out of bounds, and watch for travelling, keep track of the score, and decide what is and isn't "fair play."
It's a raw version of Huizinga's magic circle, especially considering that, regardless of the individual players' full, half, or even just partial understanding of the rules is generally just submitted to whomever the players believe best understands them.
Put another way, I often have a hard time with the intricacies of basketball rules: Three in the key, hand is part of the ball, proper screening, hand on the back when you're defending, boxing-out techniques, foul rules on rebounds… There are just so many things that I don't completely understand the specifics of, and so I generally try to take what more-experienced players on the court tell me as truth.
All players, upon entering the court's magic circle, agree to abide by the group's consensus of calls on the court, for most anything, except for one rather specific instance.
Fouls. Everyone is expected to call their own fouls. When you foul someone, you're expected to say something, so that the offended player/team can get the ball back and everyone can start playing again.
Now, of course, because it's a bunch of human beings playing, as opposed to robots, this opens up the system to abuse, as players are allowed to self-determine what is and is not a foul. The system's effectiveness is determined by honesty, which can sometimes be difficult to ascertain when both individuals in a situation are in conflict, each with a stake in the outcome of a decision.
So, we appeal to sportsmanship, and the desire for fair play, in the hopes that our own common decency will allow us to look a little past our personal gain towards the greater goal of everyone getting back to the game and playing again.
Granted, the stake and the repercussions may not be all that high in a pickup basketball game, and so generally things go relatively smoothly. But not always.
On Facebook, forums, and message boards, or even in random conversations in real-life, I feel like we similarly enter into a "magic circle" when we offer an opinion. We agree to allow for others to look over something that we've stated, and respond to it.
Much like a game of pickup basketball, we tend to pick teams quickly, deciding for or against a given opinion, with those who don't care choosing not to enter the circle. What is interesting, though, is how quickly we end up in a foul situation, with two or more individuals battling over a "call" that was made.
The desire is not to get back to the game, instead, the game is transformed into "winning the call," and we pride ourselves on our own moral victories over another individual simply because we were "right" and they were "wrong." We delude ourselves into believing that the "call" is what's important, when the reality is that even when you have a referee, sometimes the wrong call is made. Sometimes it doesn't come out in your favor, but you've got to keep on going, and keep on playing anyway.
But so often, we don't do that. Instead, we focus on the call, we let it boil inside of us. We get angry, bitter, or spiteful that someone would dare make the call against us. Or, on the flip side, we instead make the call pre-emptively, assuming a foul before the play has even occurred. We call foul when, in fact, the play was clean to begin with.
Now, of course, the metaphor is starting to get away from me here, but I'd just like to leave it at this – We, each of us, are either playing the game, or we're standing on the sidelines watching. Each time that we engage someone else, each time that we decide to share our thoughts with others, we consciously decide to take a shot.
From that point in, you're in the magic circle, you're on the court, and you don't always get to decide who's going to be playing with you. But that doesn't mean that we can't show a little good sportsmanship. Play the game.
Because unlike basketball, there's not always a clear winner. But if we don't learn to call our own fouls, you can be sure there will be plenty of losers.


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When you lay your cold, limp cock across the face of an aquaintence while they are sleeping. Basically tea bagging someone with your dick.
As soon as he falls asleep, im getting his ass back for earlier with a cold turkey.
de TFroster 1 novembre 2009
A sexual act where a man first shaves all the hair off of his testicles (to give his genitals a turkey-like appearance) then packs ice into his hand, and masturbates onto a person with his "cold turkey"
Daaaaaaamn bitch. I heard you got cold turkeyed by Steve three times last night!
de rewriter 10 juin 2008
turkey that has been sitting out to long and has become cold. duh! assfuckers
or has been sitting in the fridge.
or has been sitting in the fridge.
Buck:Hey John, are you eating Cold Turkey?
John:Yes, this is cold turkey.
John:Yes, this is cold turkey.
de AJL,. the cool man dgjihdg 7 décembre 2006
Cold Turkey – The act of getting high by a fully fledged drug addict. A feeling similar to that of being thrown, naked and asleep, into a relentlessly cold ocean. In the dark.
"Theres no weed and i don't feel right, looks like i'm goin cold turkey"
de daesson 15 décembre 2005
What your dinner tastes like before you cook it
Turkey tastes better warm than cold
de claustrophobic chicken 3 février 2005
when you whack off and you stop right before the jiz comes out and you wait. You dick gets cold and your nuts shrivel up. Then you smack it and everything comes out.
Your gay and I'm going to cold turkey you in your eye.
de Jack Mehoff 11 mars 2005
In which during intercourse, your partner will suddenly flail about until the unexpectedly die on top of you.
"Yeah I was going to give him a blow job, but he suddenly went cold turkey on me"
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Carson Kressley charmed the crowd and judges on Dancing with the Stars, but his lack of technique has hurt him.
On Monday night, he and partner Anna Trebunskaya came in last place with 20 points, following their Pirates of the Caribbean-themed Viennese Waltz.
Did the high-energy dancing duo get the boot? Or did one of the other low-scoring pairs – Chynna Phillips and Tony Dovolani; Nancy Grace and Tristan McManus; Chaz Bono and Lacey Schwimmer – hang up their dancing shoes?
Kressley will live to dance another day. Phillips got the boot.
"I'm disappointed. I'm sad, but I have to take responsibility. I messed up," said Phillips, who had a weak performance Monday. "But I had an amazing partner. I love you, Tony ... He's been there for me 100 percent."
Dancing with the Stars Eliminates Another Contestant
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Literally, German for "shit." Commonly used in everyday language meaning "Holy Crap I can't believ that happened!"
After the girl tripped and hit her head on the desk and fell unconcious, the boy exclaimed "Sheisa!"
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i had a sheisa with that hot girl it was awsome
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The Emmy winner is set to guest-star on an upcoming episode of The Mindy Project, E! News reports.
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Former Miss Missouri, Candice Crawford, is reportedly engaged to Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo. Tiger Woods' sex scandal has been voted "Story of the Year" by the Associated Press and Donovan McNabb will be riding the bench for the Washington Redskins!
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Roadside brush takes away from world's beauty
April 25, 2013
Spring has sprung and the countryside is beautiful — except where the roadside brush has been shattered by some sort of mowing machine that leaves devastation behind....
I have to agree with the writer. When DOH "trims" back roadside growth,the armed "brushhog" just mangles everything-terrible looking mess. This mainly as it is not for cutting brushy trees back. So they just 'beat it all off" when the blades get dull, instead of mowing the grassy weedy parts then cutting down the smaller brushy trees with real saws-then they (DOH) complain here about not having enough equipment; Learn how to use and respect it ! People in BC DOH have no pride what so ever in what they do; much as it used to be decades ago--Its all about the paycheck,benefits,and "prestige". DOH complaints ? Call the Burlington WV DOH office. You WILL get results there.
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Yeah, Dirt, we try to beat them to it to but the nail was in front of someone else's property.
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" are just waiting to flatten a tire " Already done that from a nail they pulled out of an old fence post.
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Someone did an excellent job along my highway frontage. Oh, that's right, I did it. Never mind.
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I agree with the writer, I have never seen such p*ss poor job of roadway trimming. And have you noticed the many chunks of debris left of the roadway that are just waiting to flatten a tire or be kicked up to dent a car.
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no we cant....because they would raise my taxes to do it with more labor....suck it up for a few weeks. its spring...things grow pretty quickly this time of year! You wont see it in a week or 2
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Go back to the old way, even if the new way is so much better and more efficient.
Revert that program back to COBOL, C# is just way too cool for this process.
بواسطة katmax أغسطس/آب 24, 2010
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Someone who used to believe in one thing (Christianity, for example) and who then became a Muslim. In other words, someone who returned to the religion (Islam) that Allah gave to all humantiy.
I became a revert 10 years ago.
بواسطة Karen Hanson يناير/كانون الثّاني 17, 2004
a retard/pervert hybrid
the ignoramus revert molested another child right in front of a security camera.
بواسطة isdd يناير/كانون الثّاني 23, 2011
A recidivist pervert.
William was a sick revert...he couldn't resist the urge to expose himself to interns.
بواسطة harry flashman أغسطس/آب 9, 2003
Write back, reply: in other words divert my attention back to you. Indian English
I will revert to you in due course. (sign-off for a business letter)
بواسطة Scalytail مايو/أيار 23, 2005
to pinch a loaf whilst facing the wrong way on your toilet (facing the cistern)
omg i just hung a fat revert
بواسطة eadmofo إبريل/نَيْسان 7, 2005
A person who is very stupid/ignorant. Someone who does not understand anything, or is a loner.
Anders is such a revert.
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When Citadel Mall opened in July 1981, mall officials hailed the arrival of "a new era in retailing" for Charleston.
Coming up
What: Mayor Joe Riley, city planner Tim Keane and six Charleston City Council members will present plans for the West Ashley Economic Development Strategy next week at a Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce event.
When: 7:30 a.m. Feb. 26
Where: Jason's Deli, 975 Savannah Highway
Cost: $15 for chamber members; $25 for others
More information: Call 577-2510
The 1.1-million-square-foot retail center was the largest enclosed mall in the region, and one of the largest in the state, promising a sales tax bounty for its host community.
When the city of Charleston snatched the 100-acre property from the St. Andrews Public Service District in a hotly contested annexation, it was the single most valuable addition to the city's tax base in history.
More than three decades later, however, the struggling Citadel Mall has fallen on hard times, plagued by near-empty parking lots, dwindling tenants and a battered image.
Once a thriving retail center with 135 stores and restaurants now has nearly half the number of merchants, a fact emphasized by its cavernous hallways and shuttered storefronts.
The Limited and Wet Seal recently closed their stores, as did RadioShack. Amy's Hallmark, a greeting card and gift shop, plans to close Feb. 24.
City officials are busy brainstorming ways to rejuvenate the former retail jewel after the mall's most recent owners lost the property in a foreclosure auction.
But the troubles the West Ashley mall has faced in the past few years go far beyond financial neglect. Enclosed shopping malls have been failing across the country in the past decade due to a whole range of factors, from the boom of online retailing to shoppers' safety concerns following multiple mall shootings around the nation. Andrew McKee of Malone, N.Y., shopped in Citadel Mall on Thursday while in town with his wife, Mary Beth McKee. He said the mall wasn't so different from the malls they're used to shopping in.
"We're seeing the same trends up North. The malls up there have empty stores as well. It's a national trend for malls today," McKee said.
However, Citadel Mall could have the opportunity to beat the odds. The recent foreclosure revealed a grim side of the once-great retail center, but it also may have provided a much-needed change in direction.
"The problem with Citadel Mall was that the company who owned it was not attending to it. And you can see that," said Charleston Mayor Joe Riley. "That's why we were very excited about the foreclosure."
Riley has put together a task force of city officials, mall managers and retail analysts to develop a concept that would re-energize the mall and other aspects of West Ashley's lagging retail climate.
Nothing's off-limits
The plan, called the "West Ashley Economic Development Strategy," could involve any number of changes at the retail center and surrounding areas.
One option the city has suggested involves building apartment complexes or office spaces on the 100-acre site with Citadel Mall. It could mean the shopping center is partially razed and redesigned. City planner Tim Keane has even suggested a reconfiguration of the streets in the area near Interstate 526.
"I think everything is on the table at this point," Keane said. "We're analyzing the market right now to really update our regional idea about retail. Because now we've got the Tanger Outlet in North Charleston and Mount Pleasant Towne Centre. We've got to calibrate here."
Diana Permar, who owns a national real estate consulting firm in Charleston, has been hired by the city to conduct a market analysis of West Ashley.
"I remember Citadel Mall opening and what a great thing that was, but over that period of time of 30 years, there has been a lot of growth in this region, but for the most part the growth has been east of the Cooper and north following I-26," Permar said.
A majority of West Ashley's retail landscape has been in place since the mid-1980s, if not longer. Meanwhile, other parts of town have been rapidly developing. New residential projects in places such as Summerville and Mount Pleasant brought along retail centers that looked vastly different from those in West Ashley, especially Citadel Mall.
"Everything has moved to these lifestyle centers and outdoor environments like Towne Centre," Keane said.
Greg Maloney has helped redevelop hundreds of struggling shopping centers across the country as the president and CEO of the retail sector of Jones Lang LaSalle, an international commercial real estate firm. In many cases, shopping centers lose their footing in the market when "something bigger and better has been built close by," Maloney said.
Unlike Northwoods Mall, which has a consumer base that stretches across Berkeley County, Citadel Mall now has to vie for attention in a market that includes downtown's King Street and the Tanger Outlet Center a few miles east on I-526.
"If the shopper now has all they need at a different location, there's really no chance of reviving it back to what it used to be. It's going to need to change to an outlet or a specialty center, or possibly something that's not even a retail use," Maloney said.
Several malls across the country have essentially turned "inside out," transforming hallways into sidewalks and adding new uses such as apartment complexes. One example is the Factoria Mall outside Seattle, which is being redeveloped as the Marketplace at Factoria, an outdoor mixed-use community center.
Mayor Riley said there's no "direct plan for that here."
"But if you look at the big picture over time, you see that type of redevelopment in areas across the country. I think that's an option to look at," Riley said.
Comeback question
Although the property at Sam Rittenberg Boulevard and I-526 could be prime real estate for a brand new development, it's unlikely Citadel Mall will abandon its retail roots.
The large tenants - Target, Sears, Dillard's, J.C. Penney and Belk - own their parcels, and they're not likely to sell their properties anytime soon, according to the city.
"The anchor tenants are doing well, and their presence is of great value to the West Ashley residents because of convenience," Riley said.
In other words, if the mall is reconfigured, the anchors would have to be involved in and incorporated into the new design.
New York-based Spinoso Real Estate Group, which is managing the mall until it's sold, is focusing on attracting new tenants and short-term improvements, such as structural updates and better signs, according to Keane.
So far, the company has launched a more aggressive marketing campaign and a new website, www.citadelmall.net. New lease agreements have not yet been announced. Spinoso declined to comment.
It's unclear what the Citadel Mall of the future will look like, but city officials such as planner Keane are confident it can make a comeback.
"We are just now kicking off this West Ashley Economic Development Strategy ... so we can start implementing with the owner a plan for rejuvenation and a rethinking of Citadel Mall in a way that's updated to today's market and that creates a place in West Ashley where people will say, 'That's where we go,' " Keane said.
In a sense, Riley has come full-circle. The Citadel Mall annexation was one of the city's biggest projects during his first term in office. Now, in his final term, the West Ashley Economic Development Strategy is perhaps one of Riley's final marks on the city's retail landscape.
"The day I leave office I'll be working on this," he said. "There is revitalization that is going on west of the Ashley. And we are optimistic about the future because West Ashley is very strong economically."
Reach Abigail Darlington at 937-5906 and follow her on Twitter @A_Big_Gail


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one of the best singers out there great role model and awesome lyrics!
" I wanna be with you, if only for a night to be the one in your arms to hold you tight."
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Mandy Moore is a very talented and beautiful singer/actress. She also comes off as genuinely sweet in her interviews. She also has the most beautiful pair of long legs!
Mandy Moore's boyfriend is one lucky bastard!
автор: Pissed Off Paul 10 октября 2003
A girl with a pretty face. She's also probably one of the last GOOD roll model popstars out there. Where did britney and SlutTina go wrong?
автор: mehhh 11 октября 2003
a sexy singer/actress with gorgeous long legs
Any man who is not attracted to Mandy Moore is a queer!
автор: Da Nastee One 3 октября 2003
The definition of sexy.
Mandy Moore is hot.
автор: diction 9 апреля 2003
You would.
I'd give Mandy Moore one.
автор: Adrian 12 декабря 2003
actress; singer
movies: a walk to remember, how to deal
cd: so real, i wanna be with you, mandy moore
cd: so real, i wanna be with you, mandy moore
автор: Gio aka BIG Mandy fan 27 июля 2003