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When Katie Smith was in kindergarten, she never wanted to go inside after recess. One day, when her teachers had had enough, she was sent to the principal's office. And as little Katie sat there waiting to be seen by the principal, she leaned over to the teacher waiting next to her and whispered, "Are you in trouble too?"
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That's just one of many stories Katherine and Rick Smith like to tell of their sassy, outspoken, now 27-year-old daughter Katie, who is in Pyeong Chang, South Korea, to compete in the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games. The games begin today and end Feb. 5.
Katie was born with Down syndrome, but that doesn't prevent her from living the active lifestyle of any other young woman. She is an alpine skier from a place that rarely sees snow, works two jobs, volunteers and lives on her own during the week.
"Someone has to pay the bills around here," Katie joked. Her father is a retired area director for the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company, and her mother is a retired teacher.
Katie is a part-time mail runner at McAngus, Goudelock and Courier Law Firm five days a week and has worked there for seven years. She volunteers at MUSC Children's Hospital, putting together charts three days a week. She takes the Tel-A-Ride bus on her own to get to and from work.
On the weekends she goes home to Edisto Island with her parents to work at the Piggly Wiggly.
"I like to be busy because it makes the time go by faster," she said.
When Katie is not working, she is training. She has been doing this for the past year to prepare for the winter games.
When she's in the Lowcountry, she trains by playing sports, working out on her favorites, the elliptical trainer and treadmill, and by dancing and playing ski games on the Kinect.
She trains on snow in the Wolf Creek Ski Area in Colorado, where she has gone several times this winter to work on speed, control and turns. She has known her Colorado coach, Kelly Wilkerson, for 10 years.
"I bonded with her because she had a brother who had special needs," Katie said. "She's more of a friend than a coach."
She also has trained in New York with other skiers representing the country, and in North Carolina, which they were told has snow similar to what they will find in South Korea.
"We have a very small group that's eligible for the events. It's not one of the larger events in South Carolina," said Kelly Garrick, sports director for the Special Olympics of South Carolina.
Garrick said the state often collaborates with the North Carolina team. Katie flew with them from Charlotte to meet Team USA in Los Angeles before heading to South Korea.
Katie began skiing on family trips when she was 3. Her parents said skiing didn't become her passion just because she enjoyed it.
"Once I got the hang of it, it came pretty easy to me," Katie said.
What she liked most was competing with her brothers, Will and Jarred, spraying them with snow when she sped to the bottom of a hill and counting the amount of "nose-plants" each person made. According to Katie, her dad is in the lead.
The Smiths are firm believers in the Special Olympics motto: "Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt." Rick Smith has worn a rubber bracelet his daughter-in-law gave him with the motto on it for several years, and he never takes it off.
"It's impressive to see groups of kids with special needs with so much dedication," Katherine Smith said while telling the story of an athlete at the last winter games in Idaho. He tore his Achilles but was determined to finish.
Katie said she is very thankful for the Special Olympics and her supportive family, including "the most incredible sister-in-laws anyone could ever ask for."
"This has been a huge dream of mine. Everyone who has supported (the Special Olympics) is making my dreams come true," she said.
And support, emotionally and financially, is something the Special Olympics looks for when selecting athletes to compete.
"It's about making sure they have the community support to give them that edge," Garrick said. "Katie's family is so supportive, and so is the Charleston community."
In her free time, the self-professed "clean freak" enjoys texting and getting her nails done. She typically gets them painted to match her ski gear, and thought of getting American flags on her fingernails for the games.
While Katherine Smith said Katie was more mischievous than both her sons growing up, Rick Smith said Katie is now a "leader among her peers."
One day while the family was visiting a neighbor, Rick Smith noticed a woman crying.
"Oh, Lord. What has Katie done now?" he said to himself.
But these were not tears of sadness — they were tears of hope.
When he asked what happened, the woman, a mother of a toddler with Down syndrome, told him that she asked Katie what advice she could give her about raising her son.
"Never underestimate what we can do," Katie replied.
Reach Jade McDuffie at 937-5560 or jmcduffie@ postandcourier.com.
Provided Charleston resident and alpine skier Katie Smith is competing the in 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games in South Korea.×
Provided Alpine skier Katie Smith is competing in the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games in South Korea.×
Grace Beahm/staff Katherine Smith checks the sleeve length after alterations for the winter jacket worn by her daughter Katie Smith, 27, who is in South Korea to participate in the Special Olympics. Smith will compete as a skier for Team USA.×


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When Did You Predict A Crash/slowdown
Posted 08 March 2005 - 02:36 PM
Financially I was not in a position to buy until about 2 years ago.
Now, to be honest, I could have bought but as everyone in my office keeps telling me, at the time all I kept going on about was that houses were over priced and due for a correction. Now of course it seems the correction has arrived and all they say now is, "you've been going on about it for so long it was bound to happen some time".
Yes, I could have bought 2 years ago, but I still feel that a small correction at the end of 2002 would have prevented us from being on the edge of something potentially very nasty today (homeowners and renters alike will suffer).
Before anyone says anthing about being bitter or missing the boat, I have no regrets. It will be a shame to have to wait a couple more years to buy but I've no intention of dying in the near future so whats the rush.
Posted 08 March 2005 - 02:41 PM
Given that HP have risen by about 30% since I'm expecting something much worse, more like a 50-70% crash.
If you think that sounds crazy I think 4 bed terraced houses on Caversham heights being put on at asking prices of £450,000 is insane. They are fairly valued at about £220k, where I am confident they will be by 2008.
Posted 08 March 2005 - 02:49 PM
Posted 08 March 2005 - 02:52 PM
Posted 08 March 2005 - 02:57 PM
2002 I sold an investment property
2003 I sold another
2005 This time I feel sure but I've been wrong before
Posted 08 March 2005 - 02:58 PM
Everyone I knew was saying it will never happen blah blah house will always go up
Some friends bought houses (at peak) there starting to suffer with IR and one couple have the loss of one income due to Baby
most are now saying
"your only saying it because it been on the TV" (they must have put there fingers in their ears when I told them in 2003/2004)
"you've been say it for years it was bound to happen" (ah yes, didn't you keep saying I should get on the ladder it will go up forever)
most people have no controll over their lives, they think everyone else is doing it (spend everything/mortgage to the hilt) so I can too.
I guarantee most people will blame the government for letting the crash and credit getting out of controll happen
I'll get blamed too, it's like one of those pyramid schemes or chain letters. Who ever breaks the chain will have a curse upon them. I sorry for not be so gullible
Sir Josiah Stamp. (1880-1941) Director at the Bank of England in the 1920's, the second richest man in Britain.
Posted 08 March 2005 - 03:34 PM
I still recall the mentality then and from some people still now that there is no crash, there won't be a crash, it will go on forever, house prices never fall, etc. - that's even more extraordinary.
Posted 08 March 2005 - 03:38 PM
Posted 08 March 2005 - 04:20 PM
Print, like the Car industry seem to be affected before other industries
they are the first budget cut in any company's expenditure.
I wasn't wrong I was made redundant the following year after the
company struggled with hardly any work all year!
In 2002 I sold a property and rented to break a long and complicated chain
I wasn't trying to gain on the property market by waiting for a crash!
6 months into my rental agreement I found a property to buy.
Close to exchanging contracts, gave notice to the landlord and then was made
redundant again !!
In the period after, prices just went ballistic, so I gave up and have been waiting ever since
misinformation in the media got my hopes up several times only to be disappointed
I said to my wife once it becomes 'official' (widely reported) we'll get two bottles
of champagne one of now the other to be opened in our new home.
I've waited and put my life on hold for too long now. You tend to gauge that by
watching other people move on.
A lot of posts and links in the forum point to the obvious, but still no official consensus
Now the signs are so strong (EA's going to the wall, Banks lending 3.5x only)
If it doesn't happen this year it never will!
Responsible lending at long last, estate agents getting to know what it feels like to be priced out!
(of a job)
About bloody time. I'm off to buy two bottles
Posted 08 March 2005 - 05:20 PM
No regrets. Another few months and I'll be singing in the car (thats a dangerous sign).
Posted 08 March 2005 - 05:41 PM
I thought the market would turn in
2002 I sold an investment property
2003 I sold another
2005 This time I feel sure but I've been wrong before
I predicted slowdown in 2001 and if Binnie hadn't knocked down the trade centre, I think it may have happened
In 2001 prices were already high in the UK, but not massively and given the UK attitude on property, I think 2001 prices could have been maintained without a HPC
2001 houseprices were not cheap for FTB's, but not impossible
Then post 9/11 artificially low IR's - massive global liquidity/global HPI - we know the rest
In 2001 I didn't predict 9/11 (most people didn't)
PS Spare a thought for poor old Binnie, he used to have luxury houses and the run of Afganistan and Sudan, now he has had to downsize to a cave!
Posted 08 March 2005 - 05:43 PM
It was about that point I began to wonder what was going on. I continued looking, not sure quite what to do, then began to suspect more and more that something very wrong was on the financial horizon. I reasoned that if people were getting into such debt, they'd have to pay it off sooner or later, and that would cause them to reign in their spending. Either that or they would be like me, saving and saving and saving. This in turn would cause retail sales, house sales, car sales etc. to start slowing as people tightened their belts.
Finally, I read a Money Week article all about the bubble and got a whole load more facts and figures that confirmed my suspicions. I'm not sure when it will happen, because I think it's very hard to judge. In particular I don't think people take into account how much momentum there is in these things. But I think things are heading down, and I think by the end of the summer things will definitely be heading downwards fast.
You can't make the impossible possible by hallucinating new numbers - Dilbert
Posted 08 March 2005 - 05:47 PM
once it becomes 'official' (widely reported) we'll get two bottles of champagne one of now the other to be opened in our new home.
Heh, heh. We've been doing something similar, except we celebrated exchange of contracts and will do all the anniversaries of completion of our sale until we buy again. For buying I expect we will do exchange of contracts and completion. I may nick your idea and suggest we do the next IR rise too. Cheers!
We have decided to tone down what we say in public now, definitely heads below the parapet time. The herd will be looking for people to blame.
Posted 08 March 2005 - 05:52 PM
sold house to rent in august 2004
in my opinion the number of buyers able to afford had already dropped off by then,
no regrets, the house had increased in value by 48% in 18 months.
Posted 08 March 2005 - 11:33 PM
The FTB market continued climbing - or should I say the BTL market, until Spring/Summer 2004.
Since we have had lots of stagnation and properties selling anything from 5k to 100k below original asking prices (depending which end of the market) - sometimes (at the top end) after a year on the market.
Now we have masses on the market. And blocks of flats with For Sale and To Let boards everywhere. There is a forest of EA boards in every street. And Estate Agents going broke.
Gentlemen, the crash is upon us. It will be a rocky ride involving a very unpleasant recession.
I have a feeling this is going to make 1929 look like a mild correction.
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Matt Kenseth rounded out a near-perfect race for Joe Gibbs Racing with his fourth-place finish. Teammates Kyle Busch (second) and Denny Hamlin (third) were part of this organization's sweep of the top five.
Tommy Baldwin Racing (TBR) will finish their first partial season in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East with NASCAR Next Alumnus Brandon McReynolds (No. 21 Kent Construction Chevrolet) this weekend.
Tyler Dippel will strap into the No. 38 Chevrolet on Friday in Dover, Delaware coming off a solid seventh-place effort at New Jersey Motorsports Park on September 17.
Hunter Baize (No. 13 Chevrolet) enters the last race of the 2016 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East season as the Rookie-of-the-Year leader.
Harrison Burton (No. 12 Chevrolet) will make the trip to the Northeast looking to end the 2016 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East season on a positive note.
Justin Haley (No. 5 Chevrolet) enters Friday's Dover 125 with a 29 point lead on second-place in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East standings.
Riley Herbst will make his return to the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East as the circuit wraps up its 2016 season in Delaware at Dover International Speedway on Friday.
Morgan Shepherd, NASCAR XFINITY Series driver of the #89, will be making his 400th Series start this weekend at the Monster Mile in Dover, DE in the Drive Sober 200.
Ryan Blaney finished 12th in the Bad Boy Off Road 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, which was his fourth top-15 finish in the past five races.
Austin Dillon finished 16th in the Bad Boy Off Road 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, but he is going to need a top-10 and some help to advance to round two of the 2016 Chase.
Tony Stewart finished 23rd in the Bad Boy Off Road 300 at New Hampshire and is still looking for his first top-15 of the 2016 Chase.
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Man who escaped from courthouse nabbed
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After an afternoon on the lam, police caught up with an escaped fugitive who slipped out of one of his handcuffs and scampered down the back steps of the Randolph County Courthouse shortly after......
Ridiculous! So, who was the guard that didn't put on the handcuffs correctly? Probably will never know!!! His job should be on the line!
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They are correctional officers simply because they couldn't make the cut as janitors ...
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They are correctional officers not jailors. Sounds like to me they need retrained on how to secure a prisoners.
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"He went to use the restroom and was able to abscond out of one of his handcuffs," Brady said Thursday morning. "He still had one handcuff on and ran down the steps away from the jailer. At this time he's still on the lam." .... really Brady? ... perhaps he escaped from a handcuff, then abscoded from the courthouse?
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A tiny Southern Tier credit union, whose primary sponsor company shuttered its plant this year, has been seized and liquidated by federal regulators because it was "insolvent and had no prospect for restoring viable operations," the National Credit Union Administration said.
In the 13th credit union failure this year, NCUA closed Olean Tile Employees Federal Credit Union in Olean, which served 550 members and had $778,139 in total assets. The agency worked to quickly reassure customers that their money is protected.
Just as with banks and the better-known Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., member deposits at credit unions are federally insured by the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund up to $250,000. NCUA's Asset Management and Assistance Center will mail information to customers holding verified accounts within one week.
Members with additional questions can contact the agency's Consumer Assistance Center at (800)755-1030 or go online to mycreditunion.gov for more information about their insurance coverage.
Chartered in 1936, the credit union had served employees of the Olean Tile Co., now Dal-Tile, for 76 years. But Dallas-based Dal-Tile, the largest U.S. maker of ceramic tile and producer of natural stone, announced in October that it would close the Olean plant and lay off 174 workers because of the sluggish economy and weak sales. The unionized facility will be shuttered by the end of January, with work consolidated to a plant in Gettysburg, Pa.
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In 2009 my family adopted a child from Russia. All of our friends wanted to know how a single income family was able to save for a debt-free adoption. We are now adopting twin girls from Uganda. This blog is how God has grown our family.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Change Of Plans
The first plane we were to catch out of Nashville was cancelled (this should of been a sign of things to come). Sadie and I had to take a different path around the world than expected. The orginal route was Nashville to New York, to Amsterdam, to Entebbe Uganda. This is how we came: Nashville to Detroit, to Amsterdam, to Rwanda, and then to Entebbe Uganda. Sadie was wonderful on the planes. I could not have asked for much more considering how we were traveling. Since our flights got all messed up we did not get the nice window seats we originally reserved. I owe a bit of apologies to the Ugandan man that had to spend most of 10 hours with coke spilled in his lap and the legs of a sleeping 4 year old on him. Anyways it was entertaining and made for some memories. Photos will soon follow.
After we landed in Entebbe we drove to the next largest city, Kampala which is the capital. We spent the night there at a nice but modest guest house. We went to sleep around 1:00 am and Sadie woke me up a little after 6. Apparently, there was a chicken coop outside our window and the roosters started crowing a little after 6. We ate breakfast at the guest house.
Our driver then came to pick us up and drive us around Kampala to do some business. I purchased a sim card for my phone and a modem for the computer. I also exchanged some money. Around noon we began our car ride toward Jinja. Jinja is the town where the baby home is. The ride took several hours. Sadie road in my lap because she wanted see out the window. It was wonderfull to see the country during the drive but a bit of culture shock as well. Sadie kept saying look mom a lady with bananas on her head.
Once we arrived in Jinja we checked into the apartment which is our new home for the next few weeks. It is nice with 2 bedrooms, a bathroom, and a kitchen. This is where things begin to do a backflip for me.
The original plan was for the girls to stay at the baby house and for us to visit them daily until after court. We would gain custody of them and bring them to the apartment in early October after Chad arrived.
Wow what a good plan, God did not think so. If I must add at this point I have had approximately 10 hours of sleep in the past 3 days and some of the details are a bit fuzzy. I will regret that later but that is just how it is. After we were in the apartment a half hour Sadie was settling in well, unpacking, and finding all of the treats I had brought for her. A lady that works for our adoption agency came by and said we will go get the girls in an hour. GO GET THE GIRLS. Wait. What. It had been requested by someone unknown to me that I obtain immediate custody and by immediate I mean NOW. So within alone being at our final destination for 2 hours I had the girls. We went to the baby house to pick them up. Had a very short introduction, changed their clothes, and off we went.
So, as I sit here and write this there are three little girls in the other room all asleep in the same bed. Not what was expected but far sweeter than I could ever imagine.
For the first few hours we all sat around and looked at each other. Sadie and I were both in this stunned, sleep deprived state, yet somehow able to remain composed. The girls are overwhelmed and that shows. They are starting to warm up with us. Sadie has shared all of her toys with them. Then the power went out. And we sat in the dark for a few hours. Around 8:30pm the electricity came back on and the lady that runs the guest house cooked us some dinner. It was wonderful we ate 2 whole plates of fried chicken and fries. Comfort food was just what we need. The girls ate with these huge smiles on their faces. Shortly after dinner I was able to get them to go to sleep. I think them going to bed easy was a Gift God gave me today.
Anyways, I am exhausted and I am sure tomorrow will be another adventure. More to come.
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Holly, you have me in tears. Praying for you, for rest, for encouragement, for peace in these new surroundings, that mealtimes with the three will go smoothly, that bedtimes and outings will be joyful, that you will be able to shower and sleep regularly. Praying for you!ReplyDelete
- Patti RadcliffeSeptember 9, 2011 at 4:39 PM
Parying for God's peace to surround you and the girls so they will sense that they are safe and realize that you are their momma!!ReplyDelete
God bless you! I am very much enjoying reading your blog. My husband and myself are just starting our adoption journey (Poland). Can't wait to see your pics. May the rest of your trip be healthy, happy and smooth!ReplyDelete
Wow, Holly! I will be praying for all of you! God Bless You, AlishaReplyDelete
Holly - wow. I literally had tears when I read this. I don't know how you are doing it all by your self. Clearly God is helping you through it. I would just be a mess traveling all around the world with a child and then to find out that all the flights were changed and you had to get the girls earlier than expected. I know how much work it was for you to pack and to think that you may not have all the girls stuff since you were not expecting to get them until Chad and his mom arrived who I imagine were bringing the twins stuff.ReplyDelete


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December is right around the corner and that means Richmond is a-whirl with events and happenings. Just this weekend alone there are lots of fun-filled holiday events to attend.
Friday evening, December 3rd, the official State tree in Capitol Square will be lighted at 5 PM. Best viewing will be at the South Portico of the Capitol. Afterwards, beginning at 5:30 PM the Executive Mansion, home of the Governor, will be hold an open house between 5:30 PM and 8 PM. It's your chance to see inside this historic Virginia home!
The James Center's Grand Illumination takes place at 6 PM between 9th and 12th Streets along Cary Street. The event is free, parking is available at the deck at 10th and Canal after 4 PM for $3.
Bizarre Bazaar's Christmas shopping spree opens at the Richmond Raceway Complex, 600 East Laburnum Avenue – Thursday December 2 through Sunday December 5th. The Bizarre Bazaar is celebrating 35 years of shopping fun…..There is a preview on Wednesday, December 1 to benefit the Massey Cancer Center. Information.
Saturday, December 4th is Richmond's Annual Holiday Parade at 10:00 Am. It kicks off in front of the Science Museum of Virginia at 2500 W Broad Street and runs east to 7th Street. This year there will be a special tribute to Sgt. Santa, who distributed toys and gifts to Richmond's needy. This parade is complete with balloons and floats, music, bands, and, of course, Santa!
If parades are not your style, check out the Gingerbread and Tea Tour at Virginia House, 4501 Sulgrave Road. You'll even be able to build your own gingerbread house! 10 AM to Noon.
Sunday, December 5th, the City of Richmond Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities presents "Amahl and the Night Visitors" at the Landmark Theater, 6 N Laurel Street. FREE!
And, while you make your plans to take advantage of these events, remember Richmond's premier bed and breakfast is in the historic Fan District, right in the middle of it all!
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We celebrated our first 4th of July here by driving to California with Jeff's parents to see the Redwoods. It was a gorgeous drive along the ocean and we made it home in time to see the fireworks over our beautiful town with our new friends.
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|Structure and Receptor Specificity of an Avian Flu Antigen
To date, the H5N1 avian influenza viruses, which are currently circulating in domestic and wild birds on three continents, have only a limited ability to infect humans. However, with continued outbreaks of the virus in poultry and wild birds, the potential for the emergence of a human-adapted H5 virus, either by reassortment (the mixing of genetic material from similar viruses) or mutation, is seen as a major threat to public health worldwide. Of the three influenza pandemics of the last century, the 1957 (H2N2) and 1968 (H3N2) pandemics involved avian–human reassortments. The origin of the 1918 influenza virus (H1N1), which killed about 50 million people worldwide, is unknown. Although a number of viral factors can determine the host range restriction and pathogenicity of influenza A viruses, recent evidence suggests that hemagglutinin (HA), the principal antigen on the viral surface, is a critical factor for efficient human-to-human transmission. Researchers have now solved the HA structure to 2.9 Å at the ALS and analyzed its specificity to human receptors.
The HA homotrimer is responsible for viral binding to host receptors containing glycans (complex sugar chains) terminated by sialic acids; avian viruses preferentially bind to sugar receptors with sialic acid in an α2-3 linkage, whereas human-adapted viruses prefer sialic acids in an α2-6 linkage. The researchers utilized a number of technologies to study the structure–function relationship of an HA from a highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus, A/Vietnam/1203/2004 (Viet04). Functional HA trimers were produced in a baculovirus expression system, eliminating the difficulty and hazard of extracting the HA from live influenza viruses. Three hundred and eighty-four crystallization conditions were tested using less than 6 µL of protein material. The most promising condition based on crystal quality was translated to sitting-drop conditions, and subsequent optimization of these conditions yielded diffraction-quality crystals. The Viet04 HA structure was then solved by molecular replacement to 2.95-Å resolution from data collected at ALS Beamline 8.2.2.
The resulting Viet04 HA trimer structure is very similar to other avian, human, and swine HAs, with a globular head containing the receptor binding domain and a vestigial esterase domain, and a membrane proximal domain with its distinctive, central alpha-helical stalk and HA1/HA2 cleavage site. Comparison of human, avian, and swine HA structures revealed that the Viet04 HA is more closely related to human 1918 H1 HA than to the other HA structures, including a related 1997 duck H5 HA (A/Duck/Singapore/3/1997).
The same HA protein can also be used to analyze HA receptor specificity using a recently described technique involving a glycan microarray—a glass slide imprinted with hundreds of different glycan chains to systematically analyze their binding properties. Glycan microarray analysis of Viet04 HA revealed a preference for binding to avian α2-3 sialic acid receptors. The introduction of mutations that can convert H1 serotype HAs to human α2-6 receptor specificity only enhanced or reduced affinity for avian-type receptors. However, the introduction of mutations at positions 226 and 228, which are known to convert avian H2 and H3 HAs to human receptor specificity, permitted binding to natural human biantennary α2-6 glycans.
Thus, these mutations on the H5 HA not only reduced avidity to avian sialosides, they increased specificity for human α2-6–linked biantennary N-linked glycans, which could serve as receptors on lung epithelial cells. These combined effects could allow the Viet04 virus to escape entrapment by mucins in the lungs and increase binding to susceptible human epithelial cells. These mutations therefore provide only one possible route by which H5 viruses could gain a foothold in the human population, but other mutations are likely required to facilitate the complete switch in receptor specificity that appears to be critical for human-to-human transmission.
Research conducted by J. Stevens, O. Blixt, J.C. Paulson, and I.A. Wilson (The Scripps Research Institute); T.M. Tumpey (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention); and J.K. Taubenberger (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology).
Research funding: National Institutes of Health and Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology. Operation of the ALS is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES).
Publication about this research: J. Stevens, O. Blixt, T.M. Tumpey, J.K. Taubenberger, J.C. Paulson, and I.A. Wilson, "Structure and receptor specificity of the hemagglutinin from an H5N1 influenza virus," Science 312, 404 (2006).


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The fifth season of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's anthology series arrives, with murders, a musty Los Angeles setting and Lady Gaga.
October 7, 2015, Wednesday
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Is 'American Horror Story' the Best (Weirdest) Show on Television?
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October 20, 2014, Monday
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After the Coven, Time to Get Freaky
The fourth installment of FX's "American Horror Story" revolves around a troupe of human curiosities, including conjoined twins and a bearded lady.
October 5, 2014, Sunday
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"Tammy," a road movie starring Melissa McCarthy, is notable for actors who look like real, actual-size people.
July 2, 2014, Wednesday
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Buffet purchase of Heinz is largest ever food deal
It's a big day for big deals.
H.J. Heinz Co (NYSE: HNZ) said Thursday that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by an investment consortium comprised of Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital.
In the deal, which has been unanimously approved by Heinz's board of directors, Heinz shareholders will receive $72.50 in cash for each share of common stock they own, in a transaction valued at $28 billion, including the assumption of Heinz's outstanding debt.
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She acts as if she's full of self-confidence, but when Miley Cyrus is with her mom, Tish, she's still a little girl who needs some maternal love and care.
In a scene from Miley: The Movement, a one-hour documentary premiering Wednesday on MTV (10 p.m. ET), the pop princess, 20, shows a softer, more vulnerable side as she gets a shoulder massage from her momager.
"My mom is my homie," the newly single star says in a clip of the movie (above). "She keeps me less anxious cause I do get so overwhelmed when I'm going to perform because everything has to be perfect."
"If anyone has ever said, 'Where's her mother?' ... Right beside her," says Tish, answering a question many have asked following her daughter's infamous VMA performance and recent Rolling Stone interview where she said weed is the best drug on earth. "Through good, bad, through arguments, through crying, through I don't care what ... right there."
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OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. - Squaw Valley is kicking off winter with the Get Outside Festival on Saturday, Dec. 22. Held in honor of Squaw Valley's recent No. 1 ski resort ranking by Outside Magazine, the festival will consist of a free concert by the Gin Blossoms and grand openings at Squaw's new chairlift, Big Blue Express, two new retail stores, Parallel Mountain Sports and The Ledge Board Shop and the completely remodeled Olympic Plaza Bar. In support of something global and something local, proceeds from fundraisers throughout the day will benefit the American Himalayan Foundation and the Tahoe Fund.
"We're celebrating the designation by the esteemed and venerable Outside Magazine as the number one resort in North America along with multiple grand openings," said Andy Wirth, president and CEO of Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows. "However, as we celebrate, we see the importance of driving awareness and support towards both a global and also a local benevolent cause perspective."
The "global" designee for this event is The American Himalayan Foundation which was founded by Sir Edmund Hilary and Dick Blum. Its work in preventing the trafficking of young women from the Himalayan region and building of schools and hospitals is nothing short of remarkable. The "local" designee, Tahoe Fund, builds tremendous support and funding to restore and enhance the extraordinary natural environment of the Lake Tahoe Basin.
The Get Outside Festival will start off on the morning of December 22 with the grand opening of Big Blue Express. Big Blue Express is Squaw Valley's newest high-speed chairlift, which has replaced the old High Camp chairlift. The base terminal of Big Blue Express starts where the base of the High Camp lift was formerly located, but unlike the old chair, the new lift extends to the top of the Shirley Lake ridgeline - providing improved access to the Shirley Lake, Solitude and Granite Chief chairlifts, as well as access to expanded intermediate terrain. The grand opening of Big Blue Express will take place at 10 a.m. at the lift's lower terminal.
Following the grand opening of Big Blue, the Get Outside Festival continues with a free concert by the Gin Blossoms at the KT Base Bar at 2 p.m. The Gin Blossoms defined the 90s post grunge pop rock experience with "Hey Jealousy," "Found Out About You" and the Top Ten Billboard pop hits "Till I Hear It From You" and "Follow You Down." Today, the band continues to produce successful albums and tour the country. Admission to the Gin Blossoms concert will be free, though a donation to support the American Himalayan Foundation at the door is appreciated.
After the concert, Squaw Valley is proud to host the grand openings of the resort's two new retail stores - Parallel Mountain Sports and The Ledge Board Shop 4-7 p.m. The grand openings will include complimentary food and drinks. Parallel Mountain Sports is located steps away from the slopes, offering more than 5,000 square feet of floor space featuring the latest ski technology as well as a complete line of outdoor wear and street wear for the family. Located at the east end of The Village, The Ledge Board Shop was designed with riders in mind and features this winter's hottest items in snowboard equipment, gear and lifestyle wear. The Ledge's Burton DJ Booth will be going at full force for the store's grand opening event.
The Get Outside Festival will wrap up with the Grand Opening of Olympic Plaza Bar starting at 7 p.m. Squaw's Olympic Plaza Bar has been completely remodeled to offer a new upscale, mountain contemporary atmosphere for table service dining during lunch and apres ski. With $300,000 in renovations, the redesigned Olympic Plaza Bar pays tribute to the resort's Olympic heritage and features new comfortable, rustic-chic lodge furniture that will be perfect for relaxing after a day on the slopes.
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has any one see jack frost? the violent one? wat was ur idea of the movie
i think i saw it on syfy when i was lil...back when it was called sci fi
when the dude that was going to prison died and ended up in a snowman and started killing people :D =D
~Did you know that Your Dreams are Just Lost Pieces of Reality.~
wat was bad about it? :D =D
it was a killer snow man … Many movie directors did horror for a psychologically twist
- because it could happen- all I kept thinking was where's your blow drier or throw some hot grease on him…. ~Did you know that Your Dreams are Just Lost Pieces of Reality.~
it was badass, but it needed something. idk. wait,was there a scene where a guy gets his tounge stuck on a pole and the snowman rips him off?
what about Killer Klowns From Outer Space? LOL
just didnt like it~Did you know that Your Dreams are Just Lost Pieces of Reality.~
but it was fun to some degree, huhh?
No~Did you know that Your Dreams are Just Lost Pieces of Reality.~
ok, im done trying to convince u. im not strong enough to, ur like a rock...i like it :)
never saw killer klowns from outer space how bloody is it =)
just freaking hillarious
i'll try to get on netflix =)
its too stupid, and funny...ending is hilarious
wat happens at the end? =)
or do i just tell u the laaast thing that happens before the movie ends?
other people might though =)
well in the end after killing all the Killer Klowns, they stare up at the sky and get hit in the face with pies
its so random...u expect the camera to pan down on them, and then pies just hit their faces while the theme plays lol
Shin Megami Tensei
~(~ shoot to kill Shinso ~)~
No not random. he/she just reminded me of Jack Frost and King Frost from Shin Megami Tensei...~(~When you are hurt, you learn to hate on. On other hand when you hurt someone, you are resented, But you start to feel guilty as well. Understanding such pain enables you to be kind to others. Knowing Pain helps us grow up, to mature and to grow up means being able to think and make ones decisions on their own.~)~
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I haven't watched yet so no idea but thanks to all for their views....


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Employers Set to Quickly Reach Cap on Skilled Foreign Workers
For the first time since the financial crisis, U.S. employers are expected within days to reach a limit on the yearly allotment of applications for coveted skilled-worker visas, a sign of the strengthening economy that means some employers will rely on a lottery to fill key positions.
U.S. companies each year can sponsor a total of 65,000 foreigners with at least a bachelor's degree for a so-called H-1B visa, many of which go to programmers and other specialized workers. The program allocates an additional 20,000 visas each year to foreign nationals with advanced degrees from U.S. universities.
Government and company officials predict employers by Friday will exhaust the quota for this year's application season, which opened Monday for jobs starting in October or later. If that happens, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that runs the program, will randomly select applications that will then be considered for visas if any applications received before the cap are rejected.
The last time employers reached the congressionally mandated limit in less than a week was 2008. In subsequent years, the weak economy left thousands of H-1B spots unfilled until later in the season. Demand for the program has increased in the past two years as companies accelerated hiring overall.
The rising demand comes as the Senate moves closer to a broad immigration bill that would, among other things, revamp a series of work-visa programs. Last week, the AFL-CIO and U.S. Chamber of Commerce agreed on a new low-wage-visa program, a major breakthrough in talks. The Senate bill also includes a proposal to increase the number of H-1B visas granted each year.
Companies apply for an H-1B with a job candidate in mind, a process that typically involves immigration attorneys and several thousand dollars per petition. The H-1Bs are granted for three years but can be renewed for a total of six years.
Mark Koestler, co-chairman of the business-immigration practice at Kramer Levin in New York, said the law firm is handling three times as many applications for H-1Bs as a year ago and more than before the recession.
"There is a dramatic upswing in hiring professionals at a high level," said the attorney, whose clients include media, banking and insurance companies. "This is a bellwether for the economy."
There is a misconception that the visas are used only by technology giants such as Microsoft Corp. MSFT 0.35 % , he said. In fact, many small companies also use them widely.
The lottery concerns employers like Pocket Gems Inc., a San Francisco mobile-games company that relies heavily on the visas. About 30 of its 150 employees hold the visas, including nationals of Brazil, Kenya, India, Indonesia and Russia. Among them are graduates of Stanford and Harvard universities.
The company said it filed several applications Monday for high-tech professionals.
"Having the talent can be the difference between success and failure," said Ben Liu, Pocket Gems' chief executive. "We made sure we were ready as soon as the window opened" for filing applications.
U.S. high-tech companies for years have called on Congress to increase the cap on visas for skilled foreigners. Facebook Inc. FB 0.14 % Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is co-founding a political-advocacy group composed of technology leaders to push for federal immigration changes, among other issues.
But some critics of the visa program say it displaces qualified Americans and that companies hire foreign workers because they command lower salaries and fewer benefits than Americans.
Many H-1Bs are issued to offshore outsourcing companies, many of them from India, which critics say have a business model based on sending foreign workers to the U.S. to learn jobs and then moving them overseas.
"They are not using the visa to bring in the best and the brightest," said Daniel Costa, an immigration-policy analyst at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
A 2011 Government Accountability Office report said the program lacks enough controls to ensure employers are abiding by the rules and that many H-1B visa holders earn less than local workers in comparable jobs.
"There is always going to be a huge demand for workers who can be legally underpaid compared to similarly situated American workers," Mr. Costa said. Thus, he said the speed at which the quota is being exhausted doesn't necessarily reflect true demand for workers.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) last month introduced a measure designed to ensure American workers aren't harmed by visas like the H-1B. "The program was never meant to replace qualified American workers, but it was instead intended as a means to fill gaps in highly specialized areas of employment," he said in a statement.
Companies that use H-1B visas argue the market, rather than Congress, should dictate the number of visas issued. They also say they are hiring Americans for jobs but that the U.S. isn't producing enough professionals in science, technology, engineering or mathematics to spur innovation and growth.
Among companies lobbying Congress for more H-1B visas is Intel Corp. INTC 1.15 %
The company, which does three-quarters of its manufacturing, and research and development in the U.S., said it is bracing for the lottery.
"We have needs for very specific skills," Intel spokeswoman Lisa Malloy said. "If you increase visas you are not displacing U.S. workers. We only hire individuals on a visa when there is an identified skill shortage." She said the majority of foreigners the company seeks to hire are already in the U.S. with advanced degrees from U.S. universities.
Doug Oberhelman, chief executive of Caterpillar Inc., CAT 1.49 % called Monday on the government to issue more H-1Bs. He said that "gaps in our workforce" undermine the Peoria, Ill., heavy-equipment maker. "There are more than 100 Chinese companies looking to be the next Caterpillar," he said. "The number of H-1B visas is capped each year without regard to current market demand."
At a Duke University conference last week, a senior International Business Machines Corp. IBM 0.47 % official said the company fills many important positions with foreign graduates of U.S. universities. Still, IBM struggles to secure visas for all the workers it requires, said Nicole Hedrick, global immigration chief. "We have all these positions we cannot fill," she said.
Amrita Mahale, who earned a master's in engineering from Stanford, is among employees on an H-1B visa at Pocket Gems, the California game company. The 28-year-old from India uses advanced analytics to develop the marketing budget and also helps the firm build features to attract users to its apps.
"I want to work on what's exciting," said Ms. Mahale, who hopes to remain in the U.S. "For now, I am very happy being here."
—Sara Murray and Amir Efrati contributed to this article.
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Shoppers eying a jump on Christmas to take advantage of Black Friday sales can expect to be jamming stores tonight.
Many got an early start at popular shopping venues such as the Lycoming Mall, and the Susquehanna Valley Mall which open their doors at midnight.
Midnight openings for Black Friday are nothing new for some stores, but it marks a first for the local malls, according to Sharon Leonard, marketing manager for Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, which operates both malls.
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He may be sleeping by then, but this Santa's local home at the Lycoming Mall will open at midnight tonight for Black Friday shoppers. Santa receives a visit from Adrianna Bame, 4, and her brother Kale, 8 months. They are the children of Curiel Bame, of Hughesville.
"Normally, our openings are 5 a.m. on Black Friday," she said.
Not every store at the two malls opened at midnight.
At any rate, Leonard said she is anticipating a robust holiday shopping season, including today.
"Black Friday is one of the busiest shopping days," she said.
She noted that there will be plenty of bargains and other special offers at stores for shoppers to consider.
A midnight opening also ushered in the holiday season at the Williamsport Kohl's downtown store.
Kohl's has helped changed the ever-evolving landscape of the city's downtown.
But the malls can be expected to be where most shoppers will be tonight.
"It's not a real big day for the downtown," said Williamsport Business Association President Bernie Katz. "We get a little bit of extra shoppers in the afternoon after people are done with the box stores. Then they come downtown."
Many people who have moved away but come home for the Thanksgiving holiday find their way downtown during the weekend, he said.
It's in the downtown where they find many types of stores they might not find elsewhere.
"They can shop the big box stores anywhere," Katz said. "They might not find places like Le Chocolat or Otto's back home. They might not have been downtown in years."
Throughout the holiday season, downtown businesses will give out free parking tokens shoppers can use for street meters.
"We are all looking forward to a really, really good holiday season," Katz said.


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We dry ourselves with the towels, sleep on the pillow cases, and wear the undergarments that we wash daily – our laundry should be clean and non-toxic. Fabric softeners, dryer sheets and even dryer balls made from PVC, contain some not-so-snuggly ingredients that are doing a lot of harm to our health, our children's health and even our planet. Although these products are marketed to make us believe that the warm fuzzy bunnies, teddy bears, or babies are safe and comforting, we often overlook the fine print telling us that they contain hazardous chemicals. If you're curious about the residue left behind on your clothing, sheets and baby clothes after washing with fabric dryer sheets, try wiping a glass window with one. The chemical mess left behind will astound you!
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quote: Every other benchmark test that the LG Optimus G appears in it's either close to or ahead of the iPhone 5.
quote: And the S3 beats the iPhone 5 quite soundly in the GeekBench tests, despite the incorrect figures some sites have been propogating around the web.
quote: Although Geekbench is cross platform, I wouldn't recommend using this data to do anything other than compare iOS devices. I've looked at using Geekbench to compare iOS to Android in the past and I've sometimes seen odd results.
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ForgeRock redefines identity and access management
ForgeRock's Open Identity Stack
Identity and access management (IAM) is an integral part of online security across every industry. It is the power of effective IAM solutions that give responsible enterprises the ability to validate the identity of an individual and control their access in the organization, protecting data, information, and privacy of its employees and customers.
As the enterprise extends into mobile, social, SaaS, and cloud environments, identity and access management (IAM) needs to adapt to meet a new set of requirements. Traditional IAM platforms were designed for the intranet and deployments within the enterprise, they are complex, expensive to maintain, and not capable of scaling up to meet the high volumes of users typical in newer business-to-consumer and business-to-business deployments. It is for these reasons that a growing number of organizations are turning to open source software as a viable alternative to legacy vendor suites.
Why open source?
Traditional software development consists of a handful of engineers, writing code in a lab based on a set of requirements that were conceived months before they began coding. Because it's a very linear process, the resulting software product usually reflects a set of requirements that were defined a year or more prior to its completion. The source of innovation is constrained to the engineers hired to work on the product, engineers who will actually never deploy it and who may have never deployed an enterprise, mission critical software solution. The final stage of development is a beta program when the code is finally shared with a select number of customers who are asked to test it and provide feedback. With technology requirements changing rapidly, this slow, closed, linear approach to software development is a constraint to innovation.
The open source development process addresses many of the constraints of the traditional software development. Open source is driven by the user community, not a select few, so the sources of innovation and new ideas are limitless. This more transparent approach means that community members are able to submit code and recommendations for new features not previously considered.
Quality is ensured since a member who is able to submit code has to be approved and have the appropriate credentials. Development is an ongoing process as well, not linear, code is continually being shared, updated, and tested. Further, instead of being tested in a lab and then through a limited beta program, open source code is continually tested by community members in the "real world," and buggy code can be identified and fixed immediately. The resulting software product is produced more rapidly, it reflects current requirements, and the quality and security of the product is better since it was vetted by a wider group of testers and critiques. Finally, enterprises that opt for open sourced products, avoid the longer-term challenges of vendor lock-in. With access to the source code, enterprises are not held captive by their software vendor.
ForgeRock's Open Identity Stack
Our Open Identity Stack is based on the advantages of open source. Our vision is to redefine identity and access management for the modern web across enterprise, cloud, mobile, and social environments. As the only 100% commercial open source identity stack, we have been constantly breaking new ground in the security world.
At ForgeRock, we actively collaborate with the open source community committed to design and productize the best, most innovative stack of identity and access management solutions. While there are several companies that break down the components of identity and access management and sell them as separate products, we wanted to provide common APIs that gave organizations simple access to access management, identity management and directory service, all based on open source code.
By doing so, a developer can now utilize reusable shared services across the entire identity platform, to fulfill all the requirements of the application strategy. ForgeRock works with the open source community that relies on identity and access management to solve real world, mission critical identity, and access management solutions. We work to ensure that our customers benefit from our active partnership with the open source community as well as our team of experienced engineers who understand enterprise requirements for QA, training, documentation, maintenance and support.
ForgeRock open source community
ForgeRock's developer community includes several ways to get involved with the project:
1. Listeners are those who use the software from ForgeRock.org. As a listener, you can provide feedback to developers in the form of bug reports and feature suggestions.
2. Fans are account members on the ForgeRock.org IDP and contribute to the project in the form of code or documentation.
3. Roadies are committers, who have been given write access to the code repository trunk and are considered part of the core development team.
4. Rockstars are elected due to merit for the evolution of the project and demonstration of commitment. In addition to having write access, they also have the right to vote for community-related decisions.
5. Band: A group of Rockstars that control and direct the project.
Just like every part of the technology world, security is a constantly evolving environment and it is important for companies to develop software to keep up with the change. At ForgeRock, we believe that open source software is the best way to do this.
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Excellent article John. I agree that open source is leading innovation in the identity space.
WSO2 also has a 100% commercial open source identity stack, that is constantly breaking new ground in the security world. For example, the open source identity stack supports new web and cloud security protocols (i.e. XACML3, OAuth1a, OAuth2, SCIM, OpenID, and SAML2).
How exactly is ForgeRock the only 100% commercial open source identity stack? See WSO2 above; I work for Gluu, which has an open source enterprise identity stack; and there are others.
Either ForgeRock is blissfully ignorant to other market players... or they're defining "open source identity stack" so narrowly that they are only ones. Note, they don't really define what that means.
To be clear, Gluu's open source platform provides a way to authenticate users using open standards (SAML, OpenID Connect), to authorize users to access certain urls by creating fine grain policies, enable organizations to map existing backend user data, and enable integration with any IdM platform using the SCIM IETF standard.
Will is quite right... there are clearly other open source identity solutions out there. And its also true, that you may need to define a "stack" of open source software to meet your requirements. For Access Management, current open source identity components include Shibboleth, SimpleSAML php, FreeRADIUS (wifi / vpn), and CAS. For IDM, the answer is more complex... moving data in and out of a database according to a workflow is what many businesses due as part of their core business process. Its hard to quantify and qualify the extent of open source solutions here, but let's just say you can probably find some tools to get the job done. I know ForgeRock would like to classify itself as the ONLY open source Identity company, but its a specious claim.


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on February 10, 2013 - 12:05 AM
Shame on me.
Really, I should have known better. I should have been more suspicious when Terry Pegula purchased the Sabres and started talking about winning the Stanley Cup. I should have watched and waited before listening and believing. I should have been more skeptical. I should have realized he was too good to be true.
It was about this time two years ago in which several people from Pegula's inner circle fawned over him and insisted the Sabres would change for the better. He would clean up this mess, I was told. He was obsessed with bringing the city a championship, I was told. Actually, it was championships, plural, I was told.
Not a single person, not one in dozens of interviews, had a negative word to say about the guy. In most cases, they were right. He's a warm and generous man, like they said. He's humble and carries himself like he doesn't have a dime in his pocket, like they said. He cares deeply about Buffalo, like they said.
They also said he would restore credibility.
And they were wrong.
High-ranking people from across the league are laughing at the Sabres, just as they did last year after the season turned ugly. What people, you ask? Sorry, but their names will remain private. It's an unfortunate but necessary aspect of the media that many don't understand, but with anonymity comes unfiltered opinions.
And the general opinion from a wide range of hockey minds – general managers, scouts, agents, league officials, former players – is that Pegula's success in the real world means almost nothing in the sports world. Most are stunned Darcy Regier and Lindy Ruff have survived when common sense called for their dismissal long ago.
The general message: It's incredible.
That, of course, is the opposite of credible.
One general manager hopes Buffalo keeps Regier and Ruff because it leaves one fewer team to worry about. Another executive criticized Regier for giving Tyler Myers a contract that included $12 million for this season. It could ruin the defenseman, he said. Others are left shaking their heads or snickering or both.
The Sabres missed the playoffs six times in 14 seasons under Regier and Ruff, matching the DNQ total for Buffalo in all other seasons combined. They've missed three times in five years. They skated into Saturday's game against the Islanders in second-last place in the conference after a 2-6-1 stretch that was 1.9 seconds from being worse.
Pegulaville was supposed to be where hope turned into winning, but it looks more like Palookaville with its collection of lost souls. Several supporters who showered Pegula with praise before he arrived are now questioning his judgment. Advisers who told him to clean house are wondering why he has enabled problems he promised to fix.
Note to self: listen less to what's said and pay attention more to what's accomplished. The record almost always speaks for itself in professional sports. Nobody has definitive answers to the Sabres' problems, but it has become clear what hasn't worked for a team that hasn't won a playoff series since 2007. That, alone, is grounds for dismissal.
Ultimately, it reflects the man at the top. It always does.
Pegula can hire and fire whomever he pleases, but he's not convincing anyone that the reason for the Sabres existence is to win the Stanley Cup. Forget what he says and examine what he does. His message has become hollow the longer he sticks with a hockey hierarchy that has missed the postseason with disturbing regularity.
Looking back, it was easy to embrace Pegula as a hockey-loving fanatic rather than a shrewd businessman. He was the direct opposite of former owner Tom Golisano, who upon his arrival couldn't explain icing and upon his departure acknowledged his primary concern was the bottom line.
Pegula was an easy sell. It seemed he had the ideal combination of wealth and passion. He wasn't just a billionaire but a billionaire three times over. He wasn't just a Sabres' fan but a former season-ticket holder who drove an hour to listen to games while living in Pennsylvania and running a major company. The mere sight of the French Connection moved him to tears.
In truth, his affection for the Sabres, while admirable, has worked against him. They needed a cold, distant evaluation that would have revealed changes were in order. Members of his inner circle told him to clean house. Instead, he became smitten with Regier and Ruff. He embraced status quo and, with that, accepted mediocrity.
It's not how Stanley Cups are won.
And it's not how credibility is built.
The real kicker was Regier's contract extension, a reward for years of failure, before the season. I wonder which side approached the other. Was Pegula worried about some team stealing his general manager? Did Regier have the audacity to approach them about a new deal? Pegula has declined all interview requests since the start of the season.
Clearly, he's buying whatever Regier is selling. President Ted Black is on board, too, much to the amusement of some in the Penguins organization. Black extended Regier himself or failed to guide Pegula in the right direction. Obviously, they're convinced Regier holds the secret to winning the Cup. Otherwise, he would be gone.
It trickles down from there. Regier has refused to fire Ruff, who over time or repetition lost his voice. He might have reinvented himself again, but his players are getting coached by the same man with a message from the same lips. Players see the coach and general manager keep their jobs, and mediocrity becomes acceptable.
For the most part, the big picture looks the same.
The Sabres can continue putting an inferior product on the ice, and I'll keep writing that their product is inferior. I'm not going anywhere. Pegula isn't going anywhere. Regier isn't going anywhere. Ruff isn't going anywhere. Until changes are made, it doesn't appear the Sabres are going anywhere, either.
Shame on them.
Stamkos in good company
What's more surprising, that Steven Stamkos has scored 186 goals in his career or that he turned 23 years old last week? He's already had a full career.
Stamkos is ranked fourth all-time in goal for players on their 23rd birthday. The other three no-names were Wayne Gretzky (329), Dale Hawerchuk (220) and Mario Lemieux (215). He leads all active players. Sidney Crosby had 186 and Alex Ovechkin 163 at the same age.
"It's pretty surreal when you think about it," Stamkos said. "It's something that you work hard towards. It's not something that you set as a goal. It's an accomplishment to be up with guys like that."
Flyers buy insurance
The Flyers handed defenseman Kimmo Timonen a one-year contract extension worth $6 million partly as an insurance policy going into the summer. Last year, they pursued Ryan Suter and signed Shea Weber to an offer sheet and came away empty.
Timonen is 37 years old and has had been slowed by injuries, including surgery to his back and hip, knee problems and a blood clot in his leg. He's still a great skater and passer, which makes him a valuable asset. Now, they have one fewer headache.
"He's a strong little guy," GM Paul Holmgren said. "He has been through a lot, but he also plays through a lot. That's part of being a good pro, you just tie your skates up and get out there and play even though you might be dealing with something nagging."
Caps have problems
Washington's problems getting out of the gate start with goaltending, but they end with their penalty kill. The Capitals have been atrocious in both areas, which explains how a talented team can plummet to the bottom of the conference.
The Capitals thought they had two solid goalies in Michal Neuvirth and Braden Holtby, but neither has played well. Neuvirth had a 1-4-1 record in seven starts with a 3.05 GAA and .889 save percentage. Holtby, who was spectacular in the postseason last year, was 1-4-0 with a 4.74 GAA and .857 save percentage.
"Neuvirth is a good solid goaltender," GM George McPhee said. "Holtby played really well in the playoffs. It's time for these two guys to play. Give them lots of games and see how they do. And right now it's not going the way they had hoped."
The Caps were not interested in Roberto Luongo, as was rumored. The Caps were scared off by Luongo's contract, but their position could change if their goaltending does not.
Raffi answers bell
Coyotes forward Raffi Torres wasted little time making himself available to Blackhawks tough guy Jamal Mayers, who was intent on settling an old score.
Torres traded punches with Mayers on his first shift in a blowout loss to Chicago. The fight was in response to Torres' filthy hit on Marian Hossa last season in the playoffs. Torres ended up getting suspended for the final 21 games.
"I understand that if I'm going to go out there and run around and give some hits, then I'm going to have to answer the bell sometimes," Torres said. "That's a perfect example."
Panthers coach Kevin Dineen on the torrid pace that comes with a short season: "Pitchers and catchers are going to spring training. I saw a commercial for the Masters the other day. My clock is all messed up. Things are happening fast and furious."
Around the boards
• In case you lost track, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review counted 52,142 fountain drinks, 33,289 nachos, 26,633 pretzels, 22,258 hot dogs, 22,118 chicken sandwiches and 20,380 hamburgers were given away in the Penguins' first four home games. Another 8,680 jerseys, 18,950 T-shirts and 8,776 hats were sold at half-price.
• The Devils plan to honor longtime goaltending coach Jacques Caron, who played a big role in shaping Martin Brodeur, next month. "He's so positive and such a good hockey person," Brodeur said. "He survived all the turmoil of 11 coaches and always stayed around with me. He definitely made my life easier."
• Kings winger Dustin Penner has been a healthy scratch four times in nine games this season, leading to questions he could be going elsewhere. He's a former 30-goal scorer with size, but his reputation for being lazy is a turnoff for many teams.
• Nashville took a four-game winning streak into Minnesota after outscoring their opponents, 9-0, at even strength. Goalie Pekka Rinne is off to a great start with a 1.81 GAA and .933 save percentage. They could be a brutal team to play against if they can find consistent scoring.
• Injuries have left the Oilers thin down the middle, which could lead to defenseman Ryan Whitney getting shipped out. Last week, he was a healthy scratch for the first time in his career. He was smoked by Jaromir Jagr for the deciding goal against Dallas and was minus-6 despite getting limited ice time .
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On April 19th history was made in Hamburg, Germany, when the Hamburg girls team faced the Hannover girls team in the first ever German girls lacrosse scrimmage. The impetus for a competitive game started with Mareile Kriwall, the head of German women's lacrosse and a player on both Hannover and the German National Team. With a month to prepare, both teams, fans and proud coaches showed up with great anticipation, and ready to rumble.
We followed the model of the boys teams, who have been playing for 2 years now in Germany, and used a half field, with goals on the 'sidelines' – creating a 60×50 meter field. The 11 meter was shortened to 10, the center circle from 9-7, and the midfield was 15 meters from fan to fan. We played 7 v 7 including goalies and no restraining line – though plan to add a restrainer and keep 1 behind for the German Championship exhibition games.
The 20 minute halves overflowed with excitement – most goals were scored on fast breaks and 1v1's, or 1v none's, and the first half ended with a score of 10-5 for Hannover. As Hamburg had forgone fitness training in favor of stick skills, Coaches Amy Alvord and Katharina Freier were worried about their girls' endurance. On the other hand, they had 2 full strings of players while Hannover had no subs.
Over half of the Hamburg team started playing lacrosse only one month earlier – and the huge learning curve that beginners enjoy was evident as they turned the game around just short of 180 degrees in the second half, scoring 5 goals to Hanover's 1. Final score Hannover 11, Hamburg 10.
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A Springville man was arrested Monday by the Erie County Sheriff's Narcotics Unit for allegedly peddling large quantities of hydrocodone in and around the village, as well as parts of Erie and Niagara counties, Erie County Sheriff Timothy B. Howard said.
The arrest of Gerald Stresing, 42, of Colonial Drive, is part of an ongoing investigation into what Howard described as "a county and area-wide escalating problem of opiate abuse."
Howard said the arrest of Stresing was the culmination of a three-month-long investigation which involved an undercover sheriff's deputy making multiple purchases of prescription Lortabs from Stresing.
Stresing will remain in the Erie County Holding Center pending his arraignment later this week on several felony drug possession and sales charges, the sheriff said.


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A special Oregon Department of Transportation panel has rejected two appeals by the city of Bend for slower speed limits for stretches of 27th Street and Eagle Road, city Traffic Engineer Robin Lewis said Friday.
After hearing the city's request at a hearing in Salem on Thursday, the Speed Zone Review Panel denied a 35 mph speed on 27th Street, so it will remain 45 mph between just north of Copperfield Drive and just south of Stevens Road, Lewis said.
Another request, to lower the speed limit to 30 mph on Eagle Road, also was denied, so that speed zone will be designated as 40 mph between Neff and Butler Market roads, she said.
Lewis, who prepared presentations on the two proposals, said earlier residents had requested the lower speed limit on the roughly one-mile stretch of SE 27th Street south of Bear Creek Road.
"The design of the road is still rural, one lane in each direction, and with all the housing, much more frequent spacing of local driveways and without a center lane, we've seen a lot more rear-end crashes as people stop to make left turns," Lewis said.
Lewis said the city wanted to drop the speed limit from 45 to 35 mph for all of 27th Street, but ODOT only approved it for the stretch north of Copperfield. The city appealed the location of the transition between 35 and 45 mph, she said, wanting it extended to Stevens Road.
On the affected stretch of Eagle Road, the city proposed dropping the 40 mph speed limit to 30 mph, for different reasons.
"We're not seeing crashes, because the volumes are still pretty low," Lewis said. "Still, the design is pretty poor," with limited sight lines and hills, one with a street at the top drivers can't see until you are there.
"The potential for crashes is there," she said. "As there are more residential uses, a lot of local street connections are occurring. Along with no left-turn lane, also there's no shoulder or bike lanes, so no place for folks to walk or bike. People walk in the street, with traffic zipping past them."
Jim Wellock, who lives off 27th Street, said, "You can't have people outside the community determining what our speed limits are. I think that's what the statement is. These people come for a couple of hours, view these streets for a short period of time -- then they go back and make a judgment. We live here."
Wellock said he believed the city did everything it could to get the speed reduced, although he added that the reduction might not be needed if police better enforced the current speed limit.
In Oregon, decisions regarding speed zones are made jointly by the Oregon Department of Transportation and the authority governing the road, such as a city or a county.
ODOT has the responsibility to investigate roads for establishing new speed zones or changing posted speeds of existing speed zones. ODOT performs these investigations at the request of the road authority.
If the recommended speed is of mutual agreement between ODOT and the local road authority, the speed zone is established. If mutual agreement cannot be reached, the speed zone decision is referred to the Speed Zone Review Panel.
The Oregon Speed Zone Review Panel is comprised of representatives from the Transportation Safety Committee, the Oregon State Police, the Association of Oregon Counties, the League of Oregon Cities and ODOT.


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A 14-year-old from Long Island has died after suffering a cardiac arrest and collapsing during a cross-country race in Elma last week.
Ronan Guyer, a freshman at Southold High School on Long Island, died Wednesday night in Women & Children's Hospital, family members told Newsday.
Guyer was participating in the statewide cross-country championship at Elma Meadows, when he slipped on a patch of mud and hit the ground hard with his chest on Nov. 9, the newspaper reported. Guyer had been at the Buffalo hospital in a medically induced coma since his fall.


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Crystal Mark holder to appear on National TV
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The Will Writing Company Ltd (WWC), who were the first legal services company in the UK to gain Plain English Campaign's Crystal Mark for the clarity of their Will precedents, are appearing on national TV in March.
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Almost a third of people canvassed in the Midlands are not only bothered by the use of jargon but 'cringe' when they use it.
That's amongst the findings of a recent survey, which also found that 94% of those questioned in the East Midlands think 'we use too much jargon', with a small number using jargon to appear 'more professional'.
The 'buzz-words' in question – including 'leveraging' and 'blue-sky thinking' – are far from on the wane in offices and boardrooms across the Midlands. But at least there's a suggestion among these findings that some of those employing the terms are becoming aware of how hollow they are.
Our very own Steve Jenner suggested as much on this recent ITV News appearance.
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The Plain English awards for 2013 have now been announced. Go to our awards page to see the winners, both good and bad.
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The annual Plain English Awards will be announced on 4 December. As ever, we will use the occasion to draw attention to those doing their bit for plain English and clear communication. We will also point out a few examples from the other end of the clarity scale, including a few verbal clangers.
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Plain English Campaign, like many others, applaud the Government for planning to introduce a 'cap' on the charges for workplace pensions. However, we are amazed at their lack of foresight in not insisting that those charges are transparent.
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