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Your tune might change if your own child were to suffer a stage-three concussion on the ice. In addition to all of the common symptoms, this would also make him tremendously more susceptible to future concussions.
Since you arrogantly presume to tell me how I might feel about my own child... let's take your logic and run with it. Your assertion suggests I should support removing checking from hockey entirely, at any level...because after all, whether my child is in peewee or in the NHL, they are still my child. Or perhaps your assertion is that stage three concussions are only an issue (more harmful?) at the peewee level?
Rather, I would offer up an alternative view point relating to my own child. That is, instead of trying to alter the game of hockey, I will put my son in hockey knowing that he unfortunately runs a risk of a concussion... because hitting is a part of the game. As well, teach him to play smart, keep his head up, and protect himself.
Edit: As well, the onus needs to be on the leagues and the parents to effect rule changes (slow the game down) and harsher penalties to limit concussions.
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"Frozen cells are very much the industry trend at the moment," according to Bob Kendall, Ph.D., development scientist at GE Healthcare Life Sciences. "Researchers are adopting cryopreserved cells for a number of assays, and it seems to be the goal to convert all assays to a frozen-cell format." The main advantage, he added, is that it decouples scheduling of large batches of cells from actual screening and improves assay performance by eliminating batch-to-batch variation. "It's something we picked up on as being a potential niche market. We're providing proprietary cryopreserved cells or we take customers' cells and grow them to bulk in single batches." The company is using microcarriers in combination with bioreactors to culture cells, explained Dr. Kendall. The microcarriers have several advantages over roller bottles and stirred tanks, including increased surface area, improved exposure to nutrients, increased purity, protection from shearing forces, as well as a reduction in culture medium costs and labor, he reports. A complete screen requires about 2–3x1010 cells and up to 15 m2 of plastic, Dr. Kendall stated. "That's why we're interested in the microcarrier culture; it's a small footprint with a controlled environment for growing cells." Fully validated 1010 cryopreserved cells are available in six to eight weeks from a seed vial. The company's custom cell services called Cell Factory range from assay design and optimization, transient cell engineering, cell provision, membrane production, and high-content secondary screening to custom image analysis.
One major roadblock in the drug discovery pipeline is whether a compound will be effective in a patient. "Our screening service can determine in preclinical stages whether a drug being developed interacts with other receptors that may cause side effects," explained Blaine Armbruster, Ph.D., product manager at Millipore. The GPCRProfiler service is the first complete, cell-based functional platform using a common, validated readout for more than 130 GPCRs, which represent all three GPCR classes and more than 55 ligand families, Dr. Armbruster pointed out. It is based on the company's ChemiScreen™ Stable Calcium Optimized GPCR cell lines, which were developed for cell-based functional assays. In the past, Dr. Armbruster noted, radio-ligand binding assays were used for drug specificity. "These are limited in that they can give you a yes or no answer in terms of whether a drug interacts with a receptor but not the functional consequence of that interaction." An example is the 5H2b receptor. If a drug is developed that interacts with this receptor, it could lead to heart disease. An agonist will cause disease, but an antagonist won't. The GPCRProfiler has the capability to distinguish this characteristic. The company also offers a Flex Lab service, which is not part of the standard GPCR service but provides custom assays and screens. Millipore is also developing a screening platform to identify allosteric modulators, which work at different sites on GPCRs than most native ligands and can modulate the receptor in a noncompetitive manner. Dr. Armbruster said that these molecules are gaining more interest in cases where a disease state is due to low receptor activity.
Merck Serono has been involved in a research effort with the WHO since 2004 to develop leads for neglected diseases like malaria and sleeping sickness. Academic groups suggest potential drug targets that are then forwarded to the company for screening. "The plan was for us to take in some postdoc fellows and train them to perform the screens," said Dominique Perrin, Ph.D., group leader, molecular and cellular lead discovery. "We chose a relatively low-tech approach, so if the fellows returned to developing countries, they could set up screening activities with low-tech technologies." For the program, three main potential therapeutic targets were presented. Two were for malaria: the kinase PfCDPK1 and a protease PfSUB1. The third target, a phosphatase called TbPTP1, was for sleeping sickness. The screening platform for the phosphatase and the protease was a fluorescence intensity-based assay, and a simple luminescence reader was used for the kinase. Dr. Perrin's group performed the primary screen for the kinase, and positive dose response and analogues were synthesized. Dr. Perrin said that his group will continue to characterize these compounds and then send them out for testing on parasite assays. One of the difficulties with the program, he noted, is that few of the labs proposing targets were willing or able to provide enough active protein for testing. "It's a unique bottleneck that I think reflects the difference between the perspective of academia versus industry."
Instead of focusing on the traditional, druggable targets, Avalon Pharmaceuticals developed a screening platform, HITS® (high-throughput integrated transcriptional screen), that allows for blind, initially hypothesis-free screening to discover targets and access novel mechanisms of action in key disease pathways, according to Reinhard Ebner, Ph.D., principal scientist. "We believe there are instances where our platform can produce lead compounds faster than traditional approaches and discover compounds that affect targets that could not be discovered by traditional target-based screens." The process starts by generating signatures that report on desirable physiological changes that the compounds elicite. "One way we select the signatures is by comparing the gene expression of a cancer cell to a normal cell," explained Dr. Ebner. "Then, we screen for compounds that make a cancer cell look more like a normal cell." Another way to do this involves pathways that are generally recognized as playing an important role in disease but have been overlooked because the targets are often adaptor molecules, which interact with many other proteins. "We mimic the knockout of key nodes in that pathway to see what a gene-expression profile looks like if the pathway is suppressed. Then we screen for compounds that elicit a similar profile change." An example of this process is the company's beta-catenin lead series program. Beta-catenin plays an important role in cancer and is key in colorectal cancer. It is not an enzyme with readily measurable activity. Using transcriptional screening, however, Dr. Ebner's group discovered several lead families that interfere with this pathway and may be promoted for preclinical development.
Researchers at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research developed a protease platform that combines biology, medicinal chemistry, and structural biology. It enables target validation, protein production, assay development, protein crystallization, hit finding, hit validation, hit-to-lead chemistry, and lead optimization. "It's buoyed by institutional memory around a particular single-target family," explained Lorenz Mayr, Ph.D., executive director, Novartis Pharma. The platform is organized to facilitate close interaction with other platforms as well as all disease areas. Proteases are considered a difficult target family, because proteins can make significant confirmational changes and not all targets have easily accessible active sites. To address this challenge, the group uses tools that contain three main elements for lead discovery: HTS, fragment-based screening, and in silico structure-guided drug discovery. Another challenge is that many compounds, when removed from an organic solvent and placed into an aqueous buffer, form aggregates and create artifacts. Many compounds also have fluorescent properties that may interfere with HTS and the readout of an enzyme. Dr. Mayr's group developed several methods to reduce artifacts. These include using microfluidics instead of HPLC and enzymatic assays with a series of red-shifted dyes such as Rhodamine-110 that reduce interference.The team also uses fluorescence lifetime (FLT) in HTS for effective compound profiling. For this technique, a high-energy laser is pulsed thousands of times per second, and the time a molecule remains in an excited state is the FLT. It can be used to follow the enzymatic cleavage of an enzyme substrate labeled with the appropriate dyes. "We believe we are the first ones to use FLT on a routine basis in drug discovery in 384-well and 1,536-well microtiter plates," Dr. Mayr stated. "It was previously used mostly in academic labs in single cuvettes for basic research." HTS has become a standard technology for finding hits. The step from hit to lead optimization, however, remains difficult, requiring a broad range of approaches. As companies continue to develop innovative HTS platforms, this will help ensure the discovery and development of novel drug candidates.
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Events in Florence
Florence ice cream festival 2014
Firenze Gelato Fair is a roadshow dedicated to homemade italian ice cream.
From from 01/05/2014 to 04/05/2014 at Palazzo dei Congressi gardens, opposite the Santa Maria Novella station, over 100 exhibitors ready to compete in races of creativity to the sound of tastes in the most beautiful squares in Florence.
At the end of the four days in Florence, the Best Italian Ice-Cream Parlour 2014 will be elected.
Dates of this event 01/05/2014 - 04/05/2014
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
I love Christmas. Its the shopping and the crowds and the stress that set my teeth on edge.
I love the majestic Christmas Eve services at the Episcopal church I dont attend often enough. I love being able to provide gifts for the less fortunate. I enjoy baking for friends and wrapping presents. But braving maniacal crowds and hearing Muzak carols for six solid weeks? Not so much.
My mother used to go all out for Christmas. She decorated outside, inside and in-between. (Lights on the doghouse, my hand to God.)
She hung wreaths; trimmed live and tabletop trees; put out Christmas china and dishtowels and napkins; used cotton batting to simulate snow; and carefully assembled vignettes with sparkly miniature reindeer, wooden snowmen, sleighs and fruit. I never understood why glittery fake pears said Christmas to her, but to each his own. It made her happy.
Another thing that made her happy was stuffing our Christmas stockings. I think she enjoyed shopping for the toys, nuts and candy more than we enjoyed emptying the stockings. Per tradition, the last thing we found, tucked down in the toe, was a tangerine.
My brothers got BB guns, Matchbox cars and tennis racquets. My sister got transistor radios, makeup and one breathless year, a genuine rabbit-fur stole. I got books and dollsDawn, Skipper and Barbieuntil Mom tired of me pulling their heads off to throw at my brothers. (Dont judge.)
One year I got a toy typewriter and a ceramic piggy bank, two items that would define my life. (I love to write, and hate spending money.)
I often got animals as gifts: Hamsters, ducks, a manic miniature poodle, and, one unforgettable snowy Christmas, a spotted pony. He was a green-broke gelding, and he cost $100. I named him Smokey and had him for 15 ye
To the day I die, Ill remember being carried into the backyard where my dad stood in the falling snow, holding the halter of a dream come true.
Another standout was the year Dad gave Mom her first dishwasher. (She was 40.) Her hands flew to her mouth and her eyes almost popped out on stalks. My oldest brother pulled up a chair and said, Sit, as she collapsed. She bragged about that dishwasher for 20 years.
Most of us can summon dozens of Christmases memories. Some experts say we conflate them, that what we think happened at age eight is actually fragments from age four, six and nine. But that doesnt make the memories any less real.
My brother T-Bob cherishes a tattered, black- and-white photo of us taken one Christmas morn. Hes five, Im three, and the shutter caught him precisely as he bopped me over the head with his brand-new Lionel train engine. I never saw it coming. T-Bob swears Mom had to pry my tiny hands from his throat. We laugh ourselves sick over that photo today.
There was the Christmas it was 80 degrees and we rode our new bicycles in shorts and flip-flops. There was the year Mom, for some unknown reason, crammed our stockings with full-sized Three Musketeers and Milky Way bars. I ate four Three Musketeers before 11 a.m., and have not touched one since.
I also love the legends that surround Christmas. One is that livestock kneel in their stalls at the stroke of midnight on Dec. 25, to honor the newborn King. And theres an old Indian sayingOjibway, I thinkthat says, All lost things come home at Christmastime.
Whatever youve lost, I pray you find. Merry Christmas.
Julie R. Smith, who will be shopping at Walgreens on Christmas Eve, can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com
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For several excruciating seconds the monster kokanee salmon thrashed about behind the boat.
Realizing the normal 14-inch kokanee net wasn't going to cut it, Captain Scott Carey frantically tried to free the bigger net that is normally reserved for mackinaw. He had been waiting to catch a record-breaker for 22 years, and by the looks of it, this one would go down in Tahoe history.
But first he needed to net the beast, and the fish was now dangerously close to crossing another line and freeing itself.
"You let a fish like that flop around on the surface and he's going to be gone," Carey said. "He's going to wink at you and you'll never see him again."
Carey pulled the mackinaw net loose and lurched toward the fish. He thrust the net out as far as possible, nearly falling in the water. His net found fish, however, and he pulled.
"He flipped it onto the deck and our breath was taken away by how huge this kokanee was," first mate Scott Hoffman said. "Captain Scott Carey has worked half his life for a day like this."
At 2:10 p.m. on Saturday, July 20, the Tahoe Sports Fishing crew and angler Bill Brush of Nevada City, Calif., hauled in a new California and Nevada kokanee record at 5 pounds and 2 ounces. The catch broke a record that stood for 40 years, almost to the day. On July 31, 1973, Dick Bournique pulled a 4-pound, 13-ounce kokanee out of Lake Tahoe. It was a record that some said would never be broken.
Jack Martin, a fishing guide who has fished Lake Tahoe for nearly 60 years, didn't think he would ever see the day that record was broken.
"The kokanee salmon record will never be broken," he said in a 2000 fishing guide article. "Over the years, they have actually changed their spawning habits and they've had some major losses due to the controlled water flow out of Taylor Creek. A couple years ago they didn't have enough water in the creek and a lot of the kokanee eggs dried up."
The new record flies in the face of Martin's realistic theory, however, and Carey thinks it's because this particular fish skipped the normal three-year spawning cycle. He guesses the fish is 5 years old, but the department of fish and game still needs to take samples to determine the exact age.
The kokanee was reeled in off Baldwin Beach with a double whammy lure and corn. It rang in at 5.10 pounds on a digital scale right after it was hauled on deck. About 15 minutes later, another scaled called it 5.8 pounds. The crew knew that weight would drop quickly, however, as the fish continued to lose moisture and blood. They needed to find a certified scale quickly.
Hoffman packed the fish in ice and started making phone calls. He called every wildlife department he could think of, but they were all closed for the weekend. He even went so far as to call the police station where it was suggested he could just take a picture of the fish with whoever caught it.
He was about to give up, but decided to make one final call to Overland Meat & Seafood Company. Miraculously, the market had a certified scale and the Tahoe Sports Fishing crew rushed the kokanee in by 3:30 p.m.
The fish officially weighed in at 5 pounds, 2 ounces, beating the 40-year-old record by 5 ounces. Five pounds hardly sounds like a show-stopper, but the average kokanee weighs less than a pound and is usually 14 inches long. This monster measured 24.75 inches.
"Everyone on the boat besides the captain and I thought it was an ordinary fish," Hoffman said. "Scott Carey has been looking for the record-breaking mackinaw, also known as lake trout, for over 22 years. Little did he know that he was targeting the wrong record-breaker this whole time."
Carey is still going after that elusive mackinaw, but now he already has one for the fishing ages.
"We thought we had something special a couple weeks ago when we got a 19-inch kokanee, until we saw this 24-and-three-quarter-inch kokanee thrash his head out of the water," Hoffman said. "Absolutely incredible is all I got to say."
Carey and Hoffman had the fish certified with the fish and game department on Monday.


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Serves 14 |
Prep Time 20 minutes |
Cook Time 35 minutes
1 box lasagna noodles
Tofu Ricotta
2 pounds organic extra firm tofu, drained
1/2 cup water
2 Tbsp Eden Ume Plum Vinegar
1/2 cup scallions, chopped
1 tsp Eden Shoyu Soy Sauce, or to taste
1 package frozen chopped spinach, 10 oz., thawed, squeeze out excess water
50 ounces Eden No Salt Spaghetti Sauce, 2 jarsor Eden Spaghetti Sauce - Salted
1/4 cup Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 medium onion, diced
1 1/2 cups button mushrooms, sliced
1 cup zucchini, diced
1 tsp Eden Shoyu Soy Sauce
Cook the pasta in a large pot of boiling water until almost done, al dente. Rinse, drain and set aside
Preheat the oven to 400°. To prepare the tofu ricotta blend the tofu, water, ume plum vinegar, scallions and shoyu in a blender until smooth. Place the tofu in a medium mixing bowl, and mix in the spinach.
To prepare the sauce, heat the oil in a large skillet or saucepan and sauté the garlic for 1 minute. Add the onions, mushrooms and zucchini. Sauté another 3 to 5 minutes. Add the sauce and shoyu. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
To assemble the lasagna, first lightly oil a baking dish, then place a thin layer of sauce in the baking dish. Layer cooked lasagna on top. Place another layer of sauce on top of the lasagna. Next, spread a layer of tofu ricotta on top of the sauce. Add another layer of lasagna. Repeat until you have three or four layers. The bottom layer and the top layer should always be sauce. Cover the baking dish.
Bake for 30 to 35 minutes. Remove the cover and bake another 10 minutes to brown. Remove and slice.
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Sandy Hook Elementary School's Demolition Nearly Complete
More than three weeks after it began, the demolition of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. — where 20 children and six adults were slain by a gunman on Dec. 14 – is nearing completion.
A new school, expected to open in 2016, will be built on the same site.
Newtown officials threw a blanket of secrecy over the project. Construction workers were not allowed to take any materials — including items like bricks, glass and doorknobs. As The Wall Street Journal reported in October:
Construction crew members have signed nondisclosure agreements forbidding them from speaking about their work or photographing or taking video recordings of the site. All materials from the school will be either demolished on site or destroyed elsewhere to ensure none of it is sold or collected. Officials declined to say where the material will be disposed.
"You don't want to see a brick from Sandy Hook School on eBay," said Robert Mitchell, chairman of the town's public building and site commission.
Mr. Mitchell later added: "We still consider it sacred ground."
Here's the progress of the demolition as seen in aerial photographs. First is from Dec. 14, 2012, before the process started:
This photo is from Oct. 28, 2013, shortly after the demolition began:
This final photo is from Nov. 13, 2013:


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Create three breathtaking wedding cake designs with renowned cake artist Wendy Kromer, and get tips for adjusting the look and feel to fit your clients' big day. Start with the charming Calico Cake, featuring an alluring arrangement of small floral and graphic stripe patterns on the bottom tiers and bold blooms dotting the top tier. Make the Meringue Hydrangea Cake, whose gorgeous piped hydrangeas cascade down a shimmering pearl backdrop. Finally, go in depth as Wendy guides you step by step through a Lambeth Sampler Cake that pairs an eye-catching two-toned background with the elegance of royal icing roses, miniature grape clusters, draped swags, graceful over-piping and more. Deliver the perfect wedding cake for an unforgettable celebration.
Meet your instructor, cake designer Wendy Kromer, as she previews the three exquisite cakes you'll make in this class. Then, get started with the Calico Cake as Wendy shows you how to use fabric as design inspiration and offers tips for cutting, thinning, forming and coloring the delicate five-petal flower that is the heart of this cake. Finally, cut along with Wendy as she creates all the stripes used in the decorative gum paste band.
Complete the Calico Cake as you apply petal dust to mimic a watercolor effect on the bottom of your cake, attach all of the stripes to create the band, hand-pipe the vines and place the flowers. Add royal icing accents and a piped dot border as this dream wedding cake becomes radiant reality.
Learn the secrets behind making perfect Swiss meringue as you start your next cake, then pick up pointers and advice for piping the hydrangea blossoms. Wendy will show you how to start flat, move to piping on a flower nail and finally how to pipe multiple flowers on a single nail.
Discover how incorporating risers into your design will give your blossoms the feeling that they're floating in midair. Then, Wendy offers a road map for doweling this cake and tips for handling the blossoms in a variety of climates. Finally, Wendy demonstrates her method for attaching all of the blossoms you made in Lesson 3 to ensure even -- yet random -- coverage.
Wendy walks you through the components of her amazing Lambeth-style cake, then shows you which decorations can be made days -- even a month -- in advance. Pick up tips for working with royal icing, pipe cones and blossoms and master the art of the classic piped rose as Wendy walks you through every petal.
Create flawless drop swags, the foundation for professional-looking Lambeth cakes, as you move tier-by-tier through the marking and piping of these essential elements. Then invoke an Old-World feel as you dust your tiers with antique white and learn Wendy's family secret for keeping tiers from sticking once they're stacked!
Grow your piping skills exponentially as you gain confidence building up your over-piped designs. Build out the drop strings you created in the previous lesson and lay down perfectly straight latticework. Add scrolls, rope borders and fleur-de-lis accents.
Your finished cake will be the hit of the reception! Pipe the final elements of this lavish design as you add the topper, a scallop border and attach all of your premade decorations as Wendy offers a plethora of design advice.
"I love this class. ... I wish I had the time to do one of these cakes every week. I took the other Lambeth class and it is by far my favorite type of decorating. I enjoy piping & making structures from icing, and the more classic look to a cake."
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Monday, January 14, 2013
Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly. There is talk, laughter, merriment, perfect freedom. The universe is their drawing room, the sun their lamp. - Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin, French Gastronome, 1755-1826. - Cavaillon, Provence, FRANCE
Market heaven
On a sunny Sunday morning in Provence Im happily lost.
Today is Cavaillons outdoor market, where elegantly dressed housewives shop for fresh oysters, spicy olives, golden mushrooms, and flaky croissants. Curious kids peer into a giant wok of bouillabaisse resplendent with pink prawns and saffron rice. Sweet melons, petite lime trees and fragrant rosemary bushes perfume the air. Where is Matisse? Where is Monet? I wish they were here, painting emerald green beans, purple artichokes, and ivory wheels of goat cheese.
Havent met a French cheese I dont adore, says Pat Baker, one of the women on our culinary tour. She bites into a rosemary crusted wedge. Ummm, heaven.
Gastronomic tour
Warren and I are on a week long gastronomic stroll through Provence with The Wayfayers, a company specializing in walking tours. Well shop farmers markets in centuries old stone villages. Hike forest trails alongside Roman ruins and imposing castles.
Well study French history and culture while ambling through vineyards and fields of wild rosemary. Best of all, were invited into the kitchens of Provences most creative chefs, to cook and feast on legendary French cuisine.
Eric Bonal, our tour leader, exudes French charm. Having served 27 years in the French Army, 17 years as a helicopter pilot, he tells us, When I retired, I yearned to be working outside, not at a desk.
Now I show my country to new friends. It is perfect, yes? I love talking about French art, culture, food, women. Our women delight in life, you know? They are.... how you say? Well that, my dear Madam, is private!
French food festivals
Every July, Cavaillon hosts a Melon Festival, in honor of the fragrant fruit growing so abundantly here. Chef Jean Jacques Prevot hosts lucky guests in his award winning restaurant, and offers his unique cookbook, Le Melon: A Small Anthology of Provence Gastronomy, featuring recipes for melon soup, melon salads, melon entrees, even a melon aperitif called, Melanesia.
In fall, villages surrounding the town of Vaison-la-Romanine host The Soup Festival: 12 evenings where a different soup is served, followed by a five-day festival, Les Journees Gourmandes, - The Delicious Days.
In January, truffles are celebrated in Retrenches village at the feast of St. Anthony, patron saint of truffles. (Who knew there was a Saint of Truffles?)
During Mass, devout parishioners place their prized truffles in the collection basket as a special offering. Truffles are served throughout the festival in stews and with foie gras.
French health secrets
In France, we enjoy so many varieties of bread, explains Gerard Auzet, owner of La Banette, a boulangerie in Cavaillon . Garlic, olive, pine nut, whole wheat, apricot.... how can you choose?
We taste a bite of each. Sweet apricot is a delight. Warren loves the soft pungent garlic bread. Monsieur Auzet puts us to work baking navettes: crispy cookies made with sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla and lemon zest.
The bakery logo attests to the familys devotion to bread and pastries: 20 Ans de Passion- 20 Years of Passion. At lunch, hungry locals devour the fresh mushroom quiche, raisin brioche, peach tart, chocolate eclairs, and baguettes stuffed with meat and goat cheese.
Over a salad with warm goat cheese and toasted walnut bread, I ask Eric how the French stay so slim. Walking, Madam. After lunch, we will enjoy a beautiful walk. Smell this wild rosemary, Eric calls. I love what Chef Alain Ducasse says about Mediterrean food: Chefs must be humble because we take second place behind the produce of this region.
We must be alchemists, giving back to the sun and the wind what they have given to us.
Who knew a French army helicopter pilot had the soul of a poet?
Happy hikers
By midweek, laughter, long country walks, and sumptuous French meals have transformed us from exhausted Americans to exuberant gourmands. One happy hiker says, My legs are walking, but I forget where I am. Im in some other wonderful place.
On a leisurely walk through Bonnieux, we admire stone lions adorning ancient houses in the shadow of purple Luberon mountains.
The village cat escorts us to La Coste, where Chef Lillian Segura teaches us her legendary La Soup au Pesto. Chef Segura demonstrates how to shell giant bean pods, chop massive carrots, slice crunchy zucchini.
We pound garlic cloves with fresh basil, grated Parmesan, tomatoes and olive oil into an intoxicating paste.
This is a country soup, Chef smiles, you eat it with your eyes. When you taste La Soupe au Pestou, think of Provence.
I hope all of you will make this soup at home- please send me a postcard if your soup is a success.
We savor our beautiful soup in silence. We raise our wine glasses to Madame Segura and our guide, Eric. We toast French garlic, rosemary, cheese and truffles. We toast the sun and the wind of Provence. We toast Life.
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Lafayette High School's uniqueness as the educational site for many of Buffalo's international students took center stage at a public meeting Wednesday to address a turnaround plan for the school.
"Lafayette is a place to learn about the world," said Robert Jones, a 2013 Lafayette graduate. "I've learned more about the world from students here. They help me understand what's happening elsewhere."
"You tell me what other school can take on 45-plus languages and still persevere," said Corey Branch, another 2013 graduate.
Jones, Branch and about 150 other former and current students, teachers, administrators and parents met with district officials at the school, two days after a similar meeting was held at East High School. Both are among the district's poor performing schools.
With graduation rates at both schools below 50 percent for the past three years, State Education Commissioner John B. King Jr. has directed the district to give Erie I Board of Cooperative Educational Services a role in turning them around. King told the district it must allow students from Lafayette and East to attend vocational programs at Erie I BOCES – on a voluntary basis – or have Erie I BOCES serve as the "educational partnership organization" for the schools. Other scenarios would involve Johns Hopkins University, either as the educational partner or in a supportive role to BOCES.
Last year, only 21 percent of seniors graduated on time from Lafayette. Two years before that, in 2010, the on-time graduation rate at Lafayette was 36 percent, and it was 31 percent in 2011.
For this year, the school is reporting its on-time graduation rate at 23 percent – a 2 percentage point increase over 2012. Of the seniors who did not graduate this year, 46 percent were learning English as their second language.
Schools Superintendent Pamela Brown told the audience that other statistics at the school have improved. For instance, she said, the average daily attendance increased to 85.07 percent in the 2012 school year, from 83.6 percent the previous school year.
Still, Lafayette has the worst on-time graduation rate in the district as well as the highest percentage of immigrant and refugee students. Between 65 and 70 percent are non-native English speakers.
During Wednesday's meeting, which lasted more than 2½ hours, Brown explained the two options from which the district has to choose.
Under Option 1, the school district and BOCES would be in partnership, or the district and Johns Hopkins University and BOCES would be equal partners; or Johns Hopkins would be the educational partnership organization to work with BOCES, Brown said.
Johns Hopkins was to have been the lead manager of a turnaround plan at both Lafayette and East high schools, but King denied the district's application for a grant to pay John Hopkins.
However, the state did allow the schools to use some money to pay the university, which has been working with faculty and staff for about a year and a half.
Under Option 2, BOCES would be the educational partner and Johns Hopkins would provide services.
Brown said the challenges to the options include increased transportation costs to BOCES facilities in the suburbs and the cost of tuition for each student at BOCES, which is $7,600, compared with about $1,500 per student in the city school district.
Up to 50 percent can be reimbursed in two years, Brown said.
The concern among many in the audience was the extra layer of challenges that Lafayette's sizable immigrant and refugee student population might experience by busing them to the suburbs.
"The students try their hardest, and the faculty has worked so hard," Jones said. "So you take all this from them and have them face another challenge on top of the one they're already facing – a language barrier.
BOCES will hold an open house for parents at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 15 at its Harkness Career & Technical Center in Cheektowaga.
Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown and mayoral candidates Bernard Tolbert, a Lafayette alum, and Sergio Rodriguez were among those attending Wednesday's meeting.
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on January 8, 2013 - 12:02 AM
Buffalo's professional sports teams weren't even playing last weekend, but there was a victory, anyway. It belonged to the fans.
An agreement between the National Hockey League and the NHL Players Association has salvaged a rump season of play, while the Buffalo Bills, in a move that was at least creative, hired a new head coach from the college ranks. For Buffalo sports fans, it was a weekend of joy and hope.
The agreement to restore a shortened NHL season came as a relief not just to players and owners, but to hockey fans everywhere, including the tens of thousands in Western New York.
But no one, we suspect, is more grateful than the business owners and employees whose income is tied to game-night action. Restaurants and bars, in particular, will be able to replenish at least some of the revenues that the 113-day lockout cost them.
The agreement covers 10 years, which will provide a bulwark against yet another lost season for beleaguered hockey fans. It is expected to be ratified by players and owners and could lead to play beginning as soon as Jan. 19.
More intriguing, if less certain in its outcome, was the Buffalo Bills' hiring of Syracuse University head coach Doug Marrone to lead the Bills back to respectability. The decision was the first major one made by Russ Brandon, newly minted boss of the Bills, and while it was unexpected, it has been generally well received.
Marrone remade the SU team into a contender, winning two bowl games in his four years at the helm. He previously worked with the New York Jets and the New Orleans Saints, where he was offensive coordinator.
It was a risky move by Brandon, but not without some sense to it. Marrone has NFL experience, after all, and he turned around the fortunes of a well-loved college team. And it's better – potentially – than the old game of hiring a failed coach fired by some other team.
It's been a rough year for sports fans in Western New York, a region that could stand up to any other for its devotion to its teams. Whatever hard feelings may linger from the NHL dispute are all but certain to vanish the moment the first puck drops.
Bills fans, meanwhile, have some reason to hope that they have seen the last of the pathetic play of the last several years. It's been a lot to ask of fans who saw their team reach the Super Bowl four consecutive years. Whether Marrone can bring the team back to glory is an open question; whether fans will be expecting it is not.


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Listen up, Jennifer Hudson. You've now got an Oscar in your hand, but what next? For an idea of what not to do, check out Premiere magazine's gallery of the worst-ever post-Oscar career choices. Among the cautionary tales: Cuba Gooding, Jr., who followed up his win for Jerry Maguire with Chill Factor, Snow Dogs and – gulp! – Boat Trip. Helen Hunt also followed up her Oscar (for As Good As It Gets) with a trifecta of clunkers: Pay It Forward, What Women Want and Dr. T and the Women. And of course, Halle Berry, who, fresh from nabbing Best Actress for Monster's Ball, made Catwoman. On purpose. (At least she had a sense of humor about it, and good-naturedly accepted her Razzie Award.) J-Hud, you've been warned!
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Like any parent having a grown-up night on the red carpet, Jimmy Fallon couldn't resist saying hi to his new baby from the Emmy Awards – his new puppy, that is.
While chatting with Ryan Seacrest on the pre-show arrivals line, Fallon gushed about Gary, the female golden retriever he brought home earlier this month.
"It's like having a baby except no diapers," Fallon said of life with Gary. "It's my first puppy ever."
In a Tweet posted earlier Sunday, Fallon called Gary his "new best friend," and reinforced the point with Seacrest.
"It's amazing, it's a life changer," he said. "I love her so much. She's my best friend."
Fallon then waved to the camera and said hi to his pooch, who he said was watching.
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The 8 Most Shameless Attempts to Cash in on 9/11
The 9/11 Quilt
Kevin Held raised almost three quarters of a million dollars to construct a vast 9/11 memorial quilt capable of covering 25 football fields, possibly as an early TSA test to see if shouting "terrorism" really could let you get away with anything. Even if it wasn't a scam, it was the worst charity of all time: His plan was to raise money to make blankets that were no use to the people who might need them. If charities get tax breaks, he should have had to pay the government extra.
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Left: The real heroes. Right: The opposite.
He raised $713,000 to make a quilt, then moved into a $660,000 house and didn't make a quilt. Then he moved out of the house when the Associated Press noticed. He claimed the quilt hadn't been completed due to "tough economic times," which included charging the charity $37,000 rent on office space in the house he had bought, paying himself $175,000 and his own family $74,000 and spending $170,000 on travel expenses. This guy's "tough economic times" sound an awful lot like anyone else's "winning the lottery." Bedding hasn't been so horrifically misused since smallpox.
9/11 Wine for $9.11
Lieb Cellars are selling "September Mission" wine for $9.11 a bottle, because a novelty drink price point is the most tasteful place to commemorate tragedy, and a "9/11 Memorial" wine for $19.11 a bottle, because even getting the date right is less important to them than making an extra 10 dollars. Either that or this doubles as a tribute to the Italo-Turkish War.
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We shall never forget Tripolitania, Fezzan or Cyrenaica!
The problem is that no one orders wine to commemorate mass murder outside of a hollowed-out volcano lair. In fact, if someone does gaze across the romantic candlelight to toast you with terrorist-attack wine, well done on dating the baroness, but you've already been poisoned. The New York Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services found out this was being sold in restaurants and called Anthony Bourdain to do something about it. These people responded to 9/11 itself, but this wine was such a travesty that they needed external help. The way 6 to 10 percent of sales go to charity only reminded people that about 92 percent doesn't, and that shouting "charity!" doesn't actually undo disrespect. Bourdain responded in his trademark calm and reasonable manner:
He went on to inquire, "Holy F***! What kind of piece of shit would create such a product?" describing it as "exploitative" and "vomit-inducing." When Anthony Bourdain is calling you the asshole, and he's right, you've invented more new kinds of assholery than Sodom's first proctologist.
$9 + $11 Silver Coin Certificate
The $20 silver coin certificate was released in 2008 and is made up of a $9 and an $11 certificate. That's more disrespectful to victims and capitalism than the "$9.11 for Rudy" campaign and couldn't be more anti-American if it killed Apollo Creed. The National Collector's Mint combined tackiness and numerology into a solid anti-respect -- if you rub these certificates on royalty, they become commoners.
This travesty has less chance of being worth $20 than a $10 bill, and not just because they sell it for profit at $19.95. The National Collector's Mint has already been censured for deceptive business practices in 2004 with their Freedom Tower Silver Dollar Coin, and again in 2011 for the 10th Anniversary Dollar, so if you think they dabbled in legality in between, well done on picking the one thing they probably aren't guilty of.
As before (and after), it comes with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it's non-circulating currency in Liberia. You couldn't push dollar bills into uselessness faster with a lighter (although at least that way you'd gain some warmth for your money).
Hand-Held Game
9/11 was an incredible challenge to Americans: Should we give up basic human rights to fight attacks that were already very illegal under the laws we had? This was a challenge airports would fail, but not as hard as hand-held LCD game makers (who are by definition exempt from, and unaware of, anything after the release of the Game Boy).
Laden vs USA was made in China and can at best be considered financial judo, with China using America's capitalism against us. At worst, it's battery-powered hatred. Someone had clearly been stuck with a warehouse of hand-held electronic parts since 1989, and the most appalling terrorist attack on American soil was when they thought "NOW I REVENGE MYSELF AGAINST CAPITALISM!" It was converted so quickly the instructions still describe it as a boxing game, and being repeatedly punched in the head is still better than playing it. The makers only had enough time to Photoshop news footage of actual 9/11 wreckage on the box and only had enough brain cells to think that it was a good idea.
If you actually beat a level, it plays "Deck the Halls," because if you play this game for an entire level you deserve to have every kind of happiness poisoned by the memory.


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The S.C. Legislature talks a big game about making the state more business-friendly with tax breaks, incentives and the right to work.
Missing on that list in recent years has been the state's commitment to superior, accessible higher education.
An analysis by The State newspaper found that only in six states do public four-year colleges charge more than in South Carolina, one of the nation's poorest states.
And shockingly, only two states contribute less to their colleges than the Palmetto State does.
College officials lament the situation and say they have no choice but to increase tuition and fees. They also have increased enrollment.
But some legislators say colleges just need to tighten their belts. Of course, colleges, like other public agencies, should always be looking for cost efficiencies. There is little question that they could find functions to combine, eliminate or pare down — just as families have to do. There is surely duplication among schools.
But it is more than a stretch to think the gap between South Carolina's funding and that of other states could be closed simply by economizing.
And if the General Assembly and the governor are to deliver on their promises to bring business here and increase jobs, they will have to work harder to fund colleges adequately.
If they don't, South Carolina's students will find other states that offer a better deal.
One thing that could help raise awareness of college needs and instill confidence in the function of the overall system would be for South Carolina to adopt a board of regents system for statewide oversight of colleges and universities. It could serve to remove some of the politics from funding decisions.
At present, the University of South Carolina gets about 40 percent of state money earmarked for four-year colleges. Clemson receives about 24 percent.
The remaining 10 four-year public colleges get to share the scraps.
Gov. Nikki Haley has a good idea to address the problem: Fund schools based on their performance in a number of areas, including student retention, graduation rates and financial health. But a bill to that effect did not get through the General Assembly.
And even if state government were to redistribute higher education dollars according to merit, it wouldn't altogether solve the problem.
Generally more aid is needed for state-supported colleges and universities. Meanwhile, higher ed growth needs to be curtailed where it isn't warranted. Projects like the third state medical school in Greenville need to be strictly limited.
If South Carolina is to reduce its high unemployment rate and advance the median income of residents, it must focus more on higher education institutions.
A good place to start is a coherent governance system for higher ed that can make rational, not political, choices.


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Release: 01/10/2007
A member of the 1988 United States Olympic Team and one of the best dual throwers in U.S. track & field history, Randy Heisler enters his ninth season as the head track & field and cross country coach at Ball State University in 2014-15.
In his eight previous seasons, Heisler has coached his student-athletes to 12 Mid-American Conference indoor and 10 MAC outdoor event championships. In addition, his student-athletes have made seven appearances at the NCAA Championships, with Amber Williams becoming the latest NCAA All-American in program history for her effort in the 100m hurdles at the 2007 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Aside from the accomplishments of his athletes, Heisler's greatest legacy to date is the role he has played in bringing his sports back to Ball State's campus. In the spring of 2012, the outdoor track & field team defeated Bowling Green by a score of 121-36 in an April 14 dual meet at University Track which marked the program's first outdoor home event since March 29, 2003.
Earlier in the year, the cross country squad hosted both the Ball State Invitational (Oct. 14, 2011) and the 2011 Mid-American Conference Cross Country Championships (Oct. 29, 2011) at the Muncie Elks Country Club. The BSU Invitational was the first scored event the Cardinals had hosted since the 1996 MAC Championships (Nov. 2, 1996). Ball State had not hosted a scored regular season cross country meet since the Sept. 18, 1992 Ball State Invitational.
During the 2012 outdoor season, Thekla Lorenz earned First Team All-MAC accolades by winning the league title in the heptathlon with the second-best individual score in program history at 5,142. Lorenz would also pick up Academic All-MAC accolades for her effort, while MaryKate Mellen was named to the academic squad for the indoor season. The outdoor campaign also saw Rebecca Lomax advance to the NCAA East Preliminary Round for the second consecutive season in the high jump, where she placed 44th overall by clearing 5-5.75 (1.67m).
Lomax capped a stellar freshman campaign in 2011 by winning the MAC outdoor title and earning First Team All-MAC honors in the high jump with the second-best individual mark in program history at 5-10 (1.78m) which also earned her a slot at the NCAA East Preliminary Round. Lomax would finish just shy of qualifying for the NCAA Championships, placing 18th at the meet by clearing 5-8.75 (1.75m). Meanwhile, Lorenz picked up Second Team All-MAC and Academic All-MAC accolades for both the indoor and outdoor seasons, by placing second in the pentathlon (indoor) and heptathlon (outdoor) at the league championship meet.
In the 2010 season, Katie Johnson won her second career MAC outdoor title in the 100m hurdles, posting a time of 13.71 in the finals to earn First Team All-MAC honors. The effort qualified her for the NCAA East Regional in Greensboro, N.C., where she placed 44th overall. Johnson also earned second team All-MAC accolades during the indoor season, while Jenna Schmitmeyer and Lorenz garnered second team status during the outdoor season.
During the 2009 cross country season, Heisler helped coach junior Ali Bishel back to the NCAA Championships, as she placed 67th at the meet with a career-fast 6K clocking of 21:04.7. She also earned All-MAC First Team and Academic All-MAC accolades after placing fourth at the 2009 MAC Cross Country Championships with a 6K time of 22:33.0.
The 2009 track & field season saw Heisler led the program to a third-place tie at the MAC Indoor Championships, while placing sixth at the MAC Outdoor Championships. Combined, his student-athletes captured MAC individual titles in seven events.
At the 2009 indoor meet, Williams was named the Women's Most Valuable Performer after capturing titles in the 60m dash (7.44), 60m hurdles (8.24) and the 200m dash (24.27). Bishel earned the Women's Most Outstanding Track Performer award after winning the two longest events, the 3,000m run (9:43.23) and the 5,000m run (16:39.80). Both Williams and Bishel earned First Team All-MAC honors for their efforts. In addition, Lorenz was named to the All-MAC Second Team after placing second in the pentathlon (3,758).
Williams would also advance to compete at the 2009 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, where she placed 12th in the 60m hurdles (8.46).
At the 2009 outdoor meet, Heisler helped Williams add two more event titles, as she won both the 100m dash (11.66) and the 100m hurdles (13.60) to earn All-MAC First Team accolades. Bishel and Johnson picked up All-MAC Second Team honors after placing second in the 10,000m (35:59.11) and 100m hurdles (13.68), respectively.
Both Williams and Johnson advanced to the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Mideast Regionals hosted by Louisville. Williams placed 19th in the 100m dash (11.86), while not finishing the 100m hurdles race. Johnson placed 18th in the 100m hurdles (13.86).
In addition to her on-track accolades, Bishel was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District V Women's Track & Field/Cross Country Second Team after racking up Academic All-MAC honors for both the indoor and outdoor campaigns.
In his first full year as the director of the program in 2008, Heisler led his student-athletes to eight MAC Championships, while the team placed fourth at the 2008 Indoor MAC Championships and tied for ninth in the 2008 MAC Outdoor Championships.
At the 2008 indoor meet, Bishel collected individual event titles in the mile (4:53.72) and the 3000m (9:40.59), while joining Lisa Arrowsmith, Schmitmeyer and Brittany Ade to capture the distance medley relay title with a clocking of 11:44.33. In addition, Lorenz became the first athlete in program history to win the pentathlon, posting 3,797 points. Ra'Jae Marable and Terri Abraham also picked up event championships at the meet, winning the 60m hurdles (8.58) and long jump (19-8 3/4), respectively.
At the 2008 outdoor meet, Amanda Barnhart leaped 20-2 1/4 to take home top honors in the long jump, while Johnson logged a time of 13.69 to win the 100m hurdles.
In addition to the MAC Champions, Heisler coached Barnhart and Bishel to appearances in the NCAA Championships. At the indoor championships, Bishel represented the Cardinals with a 16th-place effort in the 5,000m, while Barnhart placed 26th in the long jump at the outdoor meet.
Aside from the league accolades, Heisler helped coach Amber Williams to a fourth-place showing in the 60m hurdles at the 2008 USA Track & Field Indoor Championships. Williams, who redshirted at Ball State, posted a personal-best time of 8.16 in the event finals.
Earlier that year, Heisler's first BSU cross country team placed fifth at the MAC Championships, with Bishel running second overall. Bishel went on to compete at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, where she placed 52nd with a time of 21:12 on the 6K course.
In his first season as the track & field coach in 2007, Heisler helped guide Williams to All-America honors, as she placed 18th in the 100m hurdles at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Williams, who also placed 15th in the 60m hurdles at the NCAA Indoor Championships, was a three-time MAC individual champion (Indoor: 60m hurdles; Outdoor: 100m dash & 100m hurdles).
Heisler, who officially started his duties at Ball State Jan. 4, 2007 after spending 18 seasons as a coach at Indiana, also coached Rose Lehe to BSU's first outdoor 3,000m steeplechase championship in 2007. During his first season, the program finished third at the 2007 MAC Indoor Championships and fourth at the 2007 MAC Outdoor Championships.
Heisler's success at Indiana included four NCAA Top 10 team finishes, five NCAA National Champions, 63 NCAA All-Americans and 76 Big Ten individual champions.
Heisler was named the NCAA Regional Coach of the Year four times and the Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year three times. Indiana won three Big Ten Conference titles with Heisler as a coach.
Heisler started as an assistant coach for Indiana's men's and women's track & field team in 1989. In 1999, he was named head coach and in 2004, he was named director of men's and women's track & field.
A 1984 graduate of the University of Indianapolis where he earned a bachelor's degree in health and physical education, Heisler earned his master's degree in sports science from Indiana in 1989.
Heisler, who retired as an athlete in 1996, was one of the top U.S. discus throwers for over a decade, representing the U.S. in international competition on 13 occasions. These include his efforts for the 1988 Olympic team and two World Championship teams, where he won a bronze medal in 1995.
Heisler's personal bests are 221-10' in the discus and 65-7' in the shot put, making him one of the best dual throwers in U.S. track and field history.
As a student-athlete, Heisler was a three-time NCAA Division II National Champion at Indianapolis. Since 1994, Heisler has been inducted into the Indiana High School Track and Field Hall of Fame, the University of Indianapolis Athletic Hall of Fame and, most recently, the NCAA Division II Track and Field Hall of Fame.
Heisler and his wife Tammy, have three children Lindsey, Kiley and Cameron.


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U.S. Rep. Shelley Capito, who represents the Second District of West Virginia in Washington, has an excellent sense of timing. Her announcement this week that she will run for the U.S. Senate in 2014 is proof of that.
Capito, a Republican, will be seeking - and winning, in my opinion - the seat now held by U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat.
By the time Rockefeller comes up for re-election in November 2014, he will be 77 years old, after a long career in public service that included stints as secretary of state and governor in his adopted state. As one of the richest members of Congress, he has plenty of money to retire and perhaps reflect on how West Virginia has changed since he won his first election for the Senate in 1984.
Democrats still hold an edge among registered voters in the state, but it isn't what it was back then. Democrats once were two-thirds of the registered voters in the state. Now, they barely top half. Nearly one-fifth of Mountain State voters are registered as "no party," and many of those are conservatives or libertarians.
Rockefeller's only tough Senate race was his first one, in 1984. Then, he faced a familiar name, Morgantown businessman John Raese, who garnered 47.7 percent of the vote. Rockefeller won with 51.7 percent (a third-party candidate took the rest).
Since then, Rockefeller has run against sacrificial lamb-type Republicans of whom most West Virginians had never heard until they stepped into the voting booth.
That won't be the case in 2014. Capito is well known throughout the state, having served in the House for more than a decade. She won re-election this month by a margin of about two-to-one.
Back to Capito's timing: Rockefeller has lost popularity during the past four years because of his support for President Barack Obama. How disliked are the president's policies? Well, on Nov. 6, he didn't win in a single one of West Virginia's 55 counties.
Yet Rockefeller has backed Obama's energy policies, including the White House war on coal. By 2014, as more and more utilities announce plans to close coal-fired power plants because of the Environmental Protection Agency, electric rates will be going up. That won't help Rockefeller on Election Day.
Also in 2014, all the provisions of the national health care law - "Obamacare" - are scheduled to be in effect. Many West Virginians already don't like the law. Wait until they see how it affects their health insurance rates and health care choices in 2014.
Rockefeller has been a staunch supporter of Obamacare.
Bottom line: The 2014 Senate race is Capito's to lose.
Well, more accurately, it's West Virginia conservatives' to lose.
It seems conservatives here are taking their cue from counterparts elsewhere. Apparently they'd rather keep the liberal Rockefeller in office than elect a conservative who doesn't agree with them 100 percent of the time.
Capito has been something of a pragmatist on Capitol Hill, usually adhering to conservative principles but occasionally straying. It took just a few days after her announcement this week for ultra-conservatives to condemn her for that.
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In 1967, Buckley commented on whether conservatives should insist on ideological purity in a candidate. "The wisest choice would be the one who would win," he said, adding, "I'd be for the most right, viable candidate who could win."
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A judge in Oxnard, Calif., is taking extra precautions before handing over legal control of Amanda Bynes's life to her parents.
Ventura County Superior Court Judge Glen M. Reiser stated that, because the actress is currently under a 14-day psychiatric hold after a reported driveway-burning incident, an emergency decision wasn't necessary.
Rick, 68, and Lynn Bynes, 66, appeared somber as they attended the Friday hearing along with their attorney Tamar Arminak, who stated that the reason for the conservatorship application was because the parents feared their daughter would be released following her three-day hold.
"My clients only want the best for their daughter," Arminak tells PEOPLE. "They love her very much."
Reiser set a new hearing for Aug. 9, when he hopes Amanda would be present in court, facilitated by her court-appointed attorney, Mary Shea.
"I need to have a dialogue with [the actress] to gauge the propriety of a conservatorship to move forward," Reiser said. "There are issues of liberty and property."
It appears the actress's parents have limited access to their daughter in the hospital because Arminak told the judge the facility forbade them from giving formal notice to the actress of the conservatorship application.
Legal experts say that even though an adult is having a psychiatric episode, if the patient does not sign a consent to allow family members to get involved, a hospital by law must honor the patient's privacy.
However, when asked if it's correct to assume the parents have had limited access to their daughter, Arminak simply replied, "No."
She added: "They're hoping to get some privacy until we sort this all out."
In the meantime, the judge ordered a routine court investigation of the case, which includes a formal report from Bynes's doctors.
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He was certain his papa was still looking down on him now, as certain as he was before that airplane took off and, despite never getting high enough off the ground, still landed in heaven.
Daddy was watching from above back then, too. He knew it. Why else would Mama have told her little boy to smile his biggest smile into the camera and wave?
Sitting on the other side of the world, Ruslan Salei would wave back at his laptop screen, his eyes and his heart having returned home again even as his body and his tomorrows remained in Russia.
Mama never really had cared if her little boy played hockey. That was her husband's life, Bethann Salei always figured, and a 4-year-old shouldn't have to worry about doing anything more than being a 4-year-old.
But everything changed in September when that plane fell from the Yaroslavl sky, taking 44 of the 45 souls onboard. Now, it mattered. The game mattered. Hockey mattered. A father's memory depended on it.
So, to get little Aleksandro back on the ice after the accident, after he had decided he didn't want to play the game anymore if his papa couldn't play the game anymore, Bethann had to bribe him.
With a balloon.
Every day before practice, for three weeks, they would stop at Pavilions, buy two balloons one for Aleksandro and one for his sister, Alexis go outside, allow the strings to slip through their hands, tickling their tiny fingers, and watch as the balloons floated away.
Higher and higher and higher still, until finally disappearing.
"It's gone, mama," Aleksandro would say then. "Papa caught it."
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"Ruslan was going to travel that day by car. The team was playing in Belarus and he had made plans to visit his family there, had arranged for a driver and everything. But then, no. Since it was the regular-season opener, since he was one of the sports' veterans and one of the team's newcomers, he decided it was more important to be a good teammate. He would travel with the boys."
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I also watched the story about it on "Real Sports" on HBO. There was almost a cavalier attitude on the part of the guy from the KHL that they talked to. I understand why she's looking for someone to be mad at. They said that she should get some money next month. I hope she does. It was also good to see Barry Smith - I wonder what he's doing these days? Apparently he's not coaching in Russia.
Posted 26 February 2012 - 09:10 PM
Just a sad, sad story from every angle. Thoughts and prayers to all who are affected and suffer daily from this tragedy.
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"To whom much is given, much is expected."
"Play them six times, they might win four, but not this game. Not tonight."
"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."
Posted 27 February 2012 - 02:00 AM
Dammit, I'm agnostic and don't even believe in that kind of "they're still with you and keeping an eye on you" but dammit if these stories don't get me
yeah, sorta same here, it's the sentiment that gets to you... and damn does it get to you ha : /
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Hamilton, whose band The Wondergirls also performs the song "Let's Go All the Way" on the soundtrack with Robbie Williams, says he's "really grateful for somebody giving me an opportunity again. I just didn't have that before."
The 38-year-old son of George Hamilton has had more than his fair share of troubles when it came to drug and alcohol abuse.
After staying sober for more than six years and getting his career back on track, Hamilton found that he still had one serious problem that needed attention.
"I suffered from bulimia and anorexia," he tells PEOPLE, speaking publicly for the first time about the eating disorder he's had since he was a teenager. "I believe it was my problem before I got into drugs and alcohol. I used the drugs and alcohol to control the food addiction."
Still StrugglesWithin the past year Hamilton sought treatment for his disorder, which he admits he still struggles with.
"I don't have it perfect now. I've been free from bulimia for years but I still struggle with food, restricting or overeating. That's been the hardest for me in sobriety," he admits, noting that during his teen years at Beverly Hills High School his nickname was Fatley.
"When I speak at meetings I have people come up to me and say I suffer from it, too, but I'm too afraid to talk about it because it's so painful. It's almost like drug addiction is totally acceptable to talk about in Hollywood. But food addiction? Nobody wants to talk about that. It's really shameful as a man to have that."
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Treatment ChallengesAt times, the 6-foot-3 actor says his weight fluctuated from 180 pounds to 250 pounds. And even now, after he's sought help, Hamilton says he's not quite at 100 percent yet.
"With food it's not black and white. It's: 'Oh, my behavior around food has been better this month,' " he explains. "You can't live without food. You're surrounded by food constantly and you have to eat. There are so many people in our country suffering from this. It's an emotional problem and that's been the struggle for me through sobriety."
Hamilton's longtime friendship with Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr, who had his own longtime struggles, "helped open the door" to Hamilton's work on the movie.
"But he said 'I can't do it for you, Dude,'" Hamilton explains. "I said, 'That's ok. I just need somebody to give me the opportunity to trust in me sober-wise and give me a shot of this magnitude.' I'll forever owe him for that."
Now, says Hamilton, "I'm just more in a place of gratitude." He's currently working on the feature film Tranzloco, and a play.
"When I was younger it all came so easy and I didn't appreciate it," he says. "I didn't feel like I'd earned it, you know? Now I feel like I've earned it and I've really worked for it."


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I have lived here forever with the exception of D.C. Pretty cool place to live if your not in the extremely rich make you feel broke areas like Ashburn, Countryside, Cascades, Chantilly, these areas are packed with rich kids that will piss you off as is the same with Tyson's Corner. Loudoun County period is by far the worst. But everything past that is pretty cool. Alexandria, Falls Church, Arlington, Baileys Crossroads, and Skyline ect ect. Are pretty cool places if you're not in the Ghetto Immigrant populated areas like Culmore and parts of West Falls Church and lomans plaza falls church . There is allot of Gang bullshit here but it's mainly 18thst and MS13 Bullshit. There are allot of GD'S as well. But the gang shit isn't really anything to worry about in my opinion ive lived here my whole life and only gotten stabbed once. Yes there are fine women its just too bad the good looking ones live in Ashburn and are rich and will piss you off. Personally I like D.C. and Baltimore a lot more. But its home here to me. Plus there is ALOT of good ass weed here especially in the rich areas.
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dodane przez nshawn85 kwiecień 19, 2008
Totally different from southern VA... Full of fake people who all only care about money. Teens are in cliques all they do is drink, smoke pot, do crack, have sex with one another sober and not. They think there life sucks when in reality it really doesn't. They just don't have goals and everything is given to them. Home of fake tans all year round. And don't really let newcomers in the cliques. I would know, i've lived here for a total of 9 yrs. (I lived other places this is by far the worst) Chicago(5yrs) was pretty good... Tennessee(3yrs) was pretty good to. But geez here it sucks.
northern virginia is filled with super rich parents who give there kids whatever they want when they want it. Also filled with teens who do whatever they want whenever they want.
dodane przez Cali is loveeee marzec 25, 2008
a place people love to hate on apparently LOL
a place that is actually pretty awesome..soooo everyone writing all those LONG hateful definitions should get a liiiiife
a place that is actually pretty awesome..soooo everyone writing all those LONG hateful definitions should get a liiiiife
"I'm from northern virginia, & people...hate me for it?? Eff you, I love this place!"
dodane przez clevereyecandy kwiecień 01, 2008
Home of Latino gangs such as MS-13 ,South side locos, and 18th Street. If you don't believe google it!
In Northern Virginia, where police estimate MS-13 gangs have over 2,500 members in Fairfax county. People think Northern virginia have no gangs but they do!!!! try living in an area where you got to watch your back from gang members who would chop off your hands and fingers also they have enemies such as South Side Locos, 18th street, and crips such sets as GD, UGC, and 33rd.
dodane przez Uknown Va październik 20, 2006
The area of the Commonwealth of Virginia, with about 3 million people or so next to Washington DC, that should to do the rest of Virginia a favor and seceed to Maryland. It's an urban hell on earth and the epitome of urban sprawl gone ammock. Unlike the rest of Virginia, it is generally liberal, highly diverse, highly urbanized, a ridiculous cost of living, has ungodly traffic congestion, too much urban sprawl, a highly skilled and young workforce, and too many arrogant yuppies who live close to DC. The most jobs are in the Federal Government, high-tech firms, healthcare, law, and communications. Asians and Hispanics live everywhere. As much as Northern Virginia sucks, the best places to live are in Centerville, Chantilly and Leesburg. The people are very materialistic, fake, shallow, stuck up and think the country revolves around them. There is a megamall called Tyson's Corner near the 495 Beltway that only rich people are allowed to patronize, and the regular middle-class ilk are mocked. The people are up in the clouds and often forget they are SOUTH of the Mason-Dixon line and part of the old Confederacy. It is northern Virginia that gives the state a bad name.
Northern Virginia should do the rest of the Commonwealth a favor and become Maryland. I lived there for a year about 3 years ago and hated everything about it.
dodane przez krock1dk marzec 27, 2008
The part of virginia that supports all the other parts of virginia and gets nothing back. If we weren't part of virginia the rest of virginia would be screwed.
northern virginia is the only reason that virginia isn't a run down shitty state
dodane przez nova is the best czerwiec 11, 2011
The most affluent and educated region in the nation. Generally refers to the Virginia portion of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area including the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William, and Loudoun as well as the independent cities of Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax, Manassas, and Manassas Park. Several other outlying counties and cities can also be included such as Stafford and Fauquier Counties and the City of Fredricksburg. Having 2.6 million residents, it is the most populous region in Virginia, the Washington Metropolitan Area, and the Baltimore-Washington Combined Statistical Area. There are literally almost no ghettos or real crime. Do not move to this area if you make under a $100,000 salary or you will be considered poor. It is generally the Beverley Hills of the East Coast because it is not uncommon for 16 year olds to be driving brand new $60,000 BMWs and Mercedes. Mostly everyone is white and has everything they want. The region does not have international status as the most rich and educated due to surrounding jurisdictions trying to keep NoVA under wraps so it cannot become overpowering. People from Northern Virginia are literally better than everyone else.
Bobby: Hey babe. Sup? You look new. Where you from?
Melinda: You're kinda cute. I'm from Fairfax County, VA right outside DC in Northern Virginia. What about you?
Bobby: I'm from Suffolk, VA in the south.
Melinda: Oh sorry we could never date because you're automatically poorer and less-educated than me and everyone else in my area. kthnxbye:)!
Bobby: Oh man you're so right. Sorry for even talking to you. It's a privilege than anyone from NoVA would even grace my presence.
Melinda: You're kinda cute. I'm from Fairfax County, VA right outside DC in Northern Virginia. What about you?
Bobby: I'm from Suffolk, VA in the south.
Melinda: Oh sorry we could never date because you're automatically poorer and less-educated than me and everyone else in my area. kthnxbye:)!
Bobby: Oh man you're so right. Sorry for even talking to you. It's a privilege than anyone from NoVA would even grace my presence.
dodane przez NoVA B!tch sierpień 06, 2011