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Trial Periods - a handy tool or a double edged sword?
Employers and new employees may agree to a trial period of up to 90 days in which the employer can dismiss without fear of the employee claiming it was unjustified.
Sound simple enough? Trial periods have been touted as a "get out of jail free" card for employers, but unfortunately for many employers they have created more problems than they have solved.
In Parkes v Squires Manufacturing Ltd the employee agreed to a trial period orally but not in writing until after she had started work. The employer didn't sign the agreement until after it dismissed her. The Authority decided the trial period was ineffective because it needed not only to be agreed to but also signed in writing by both parties before Ms Parkes started work.
In another case (Hart v 32 Gems Dental Care Ltd), a trial period was agreed to,recorded in the employment agreement and signed by Mrs Hart. The problem came about because the employment agreement said that the trial would start on the 9th of February 2011 (Mrs Hart's scheduled first day) but Mrs Hart actually started work on the 8th. This rendered the trial period ineffective because Mrs Hart was not a new employee when the trial began.
In Wilson v Promotional Systems Ltd, the trial period was ineffective because it didn't state that if dismissed, Ms Wilson couldn't pursue an unjustified dismissal claim. The fact that the employer also miscalculated the days and dismissed her on the 91st day didn't help either.
In each of these cases, because the trial period was ineffective, the Authority scrutinised the dismissals and considered whether the employer could justify the reason and way it dismissed their employees. The employers were each ordered to pay between $5000 and $7500 to their employees in hurt and humiliation, along with lost wages of up to $8,000. Keep in mind that these are financial awards to employees who have (generally) worked less than 90 days for their employer. Consider also that they were potentially eligible for reinstatement…
If you have queries about a 90 day trial period, your Business Central consultant or solicitor can help.


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At first glance, the expansive space at RANGE by Bryan Voltaggio looks like Magneto's plastic cell with farm-to-table rations. This completely glass-enclosed restaurant feels suspended in mid-air, looking down onto the glowing pink atrium of Chevy Chase Pavilion.
Lots of wood, marble and masculine colors warm up an otherwise futuristic space, and no one gets hurt here (unless they run out of house-made marshmallows). There's something for everyone–a bakery, a raw bar, a charcuterie station, a rotisserie, and a wood-fired hearth. The open kitchen stretches from one end of the 14,000 square feet dining room to the other and all 300 diners can watch the flurry of activity.
RANGE loves fresh, local game, fowl, and seafood straight outta the Chesapeake. Standouts include colossal muscle-bound shrimp ($16), kimchi linguini ($14) with sea urchin and bay scallops, and rotisserie savoy cabbage ($10). See the complete dinner and dessert menu.
The bar, which doesn't play second fiddle here, is equally impressive, procuring some of the city's best talent, like Owen Thomson, formerly of Jose Andres' ThinkFoodGroup, as the Beverage Director, and Sam Babcock, formerly of Graffiato and Bandolero. There are 13 wines by the glass and 10 beers on draft, but come here for the punches, housemade sodas and updated classic cocktails like The Urban Conformist ($11) and Mexican Warhead ($11). See the complete beverage menu here.
Want to cook like Bryan Voltaggio? There's a retail shop with kitchenware and gadgets, piping-hot bread, peppermint bark and those housemade marshmallows (!), as well as a weekly selection of items from Voltaggio's favorite Mid-Atlantic purveyors.
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Private equity firms circle Treasury
Treasury Wine Estates is attracting interest from other private equity players following Tuesday's revelation about a $3.1 billion takeover bid from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, with chief Michael Clarke's plans for turning around the troubled winemaker already winning early support from potential bidders.
Mr Clarke is particularly well known to the New York-based KKR who hired him only nine months ago to help advise on a £1.5 billion ($2.75 billion) bid for drinks brands Lucozade and Ribena, owned at the time by GlaxoSmithKline.
Far from throwing slings and arrows at each other from behind their battlements, relations between Mr Clarke and KKR remain cordial, insiders said, and it is believed if the iconic US private equity firm eventually grabs control of Treasury Wine they will keep Mr Clarke on to run the business for them and endorse his strategy to resuscitate the winemaker's earnings.
Mr Clarke is well known within private equity circles. Since stepping down from running British food giant Premier Foods Plc in June last year has worked with a string of private equity firms including KKR which is now circling Treasury Wine after approaching the board in April with an offer of $4.70 per share.
He is credited for turning around consumer goods company Kraft fortunes in Europe, and in particular has a track record for hacking away at costs - something which private equity gets very excited about.
Helping to entice KKR, and other private equity firms, to throw a bid on the table is Mr Clarke's previous work with the close-knit global private equity firm industry who see merit in his initial plans - also revealed this week - to slash costs by $35 million at Treasury Wine and pump the savings into a 50 per cent boost on brand marketing.
Shares in Treasury Wine have rallied nearly 25 per cent since KKR's bid was made public, signalling investors are expecting a better bid from the US fund or for another player to soon join the auction with a price set at least above $5 per share.
Treasury Wine was slightly weaker in afternoon trade today, down 7¢ at $5.
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JimD posted <20060329135203.1de782ba@××××××.localdomain>, excerpted below, on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:52:03 -0500:> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:14:55 -0700 > Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: > >> Meanwhile, with the iommu=soft switch, I can run 2.6.16 kernels with >> full memory, just as I could .15 kernels. > > Do you know of any other issues with memory and or amd64 and the 2.6.16 > series? I have run into a weird issue. > > I have an AMD64 3200+ that runs at 2 GHz and runs *very* cool at about > 34c. My motherboard makes it pretty easy to overclock so I have > overclocked the 3200+ to 2.2 GHz and it has been running very stable > and still only around 39c, though a long compile job did get it to 41c. > > When I was runing overclocked in 2.6.15 cat /proc/cpuinfo would show: > > jim@keelie$ cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > vendor_id : AuthenticAMD > cpu family : 15 > model : 47 > model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ > stepping : 2 > cpu MHz : 2200.000 > cache size : 512 KB > fdiv_bug : no > hlt_bug : no > f00f_bug : no > coma_bug : no > fpu : yes > fpu_exception : yes > cpuid level : 1 > wp : yes > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr > pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 > syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni > lahf_lm ts fid vid ttp tm stc > bogomips : 4409.17 > > > Now with 2.6.16 it shows: > jim@keelie$ cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > vendor_id : AuthenticAMD > cpu family : 15 > model : 47 > model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ > stepping : 2 > cpu MHz : 2000.000 > ^^^^^^^^^^ > <snip> > bogomips : 4409.17 > > > The bogomips are showing the same though the kernel is not reporting > the correct MHz. > > Does anyone have a clue what could be causing this?I'd say look at the changelogs. If whatever it is isn't extremely obvious (grep cpu speed or similar), they get rather huge to go thru, so do the usual binary elimination thing. If you know .15 did one thing and .16 does another, go download the second rc (the majority of the changes will be before that) and try it. Then try either rc1 or rc4 (say), depending on the results, until you either get a specific rc or get a changelog that's moderately sized enough to do a better search on. You can if you wish break it down beyond rcs, into days between rcs, with the gitX snapshots. Thus, before rc1, the snapshots would be 2.6.15-git1, git2, etc, for each day. ... What I'm suspecting happened is that cpu info is /supposed/ to report what the CPU says when queried -- that is, what it thinks it is regardless of the clock rate it's actually running at. If it's reporting the clock rate it's actually running at rather than what the CPU actually says, it's playing into the hands of the counterfeiters that will try to sell you a 2 GHz as a 2.2 GHz. Somebody probably figured out that it wasn't reporting the right figure, and changed it. The BIOS should say what it's running at boot, and with the speedstep, coolNquiet, or whatever, I'm guessing the running speed info is avaiilable from there. /proc/cpuinfo, OTOH, should report /rated/ CPU info, as burnt into the chip and available with CPUID, /not/ actual clocked speed, which is available elsewhere. If that's what it was and it wasn't just a config change on your end (turning on CPUID in the kernel config, for instance, so it can actually read it), it should be in the changelog as /something/ related to that. As for general amd64 issues, remember, the full releases are several months apart, and Andy Kleen, the kernel AMD64 guy, always has a bit of a backlog by the time of release and opening up of the tree again to bigger changes (which are supposed to happen in a two-week period after kernel release, before rc1, after which they get stricter about letting in big changes). You'll see several AMD64 entries, normally by Andy Kleen, in every kernel release. They do try to test them, but if nobody runs the rcs and gets back to them about their corner case, sometimes regressions do slip in. What I'm running is mine, not for some mission critical application at some corporation, and I enjoy testing, so while I don't hit every rc, I do try to get at least rc1 or 2, and then one later in the cycle, say 5-ish. The .16 cycle was however the first time I actually filed a bug, as it appeared in rc1 and hadn't disappeared by rc3 or so, which meant they might not be catching it, and indeed, they weren't, so it was a good thing I filed it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- firstname.lastname@example.com mailing list


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Hi, there!
One of the holiday traditions my son and I enjoy together is watching The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971). This made-for-TV movie starred Patricia Neal and Richard Thomas and depicted one Depression-era family, the Waltons, and their special Christmas. (By the way, this movie served as the pilot for the long-running TV series The Waltons.) When asked what she wants for Christmas, Elizabeth, the youngest child, replies, "A whole page of dolls from the Sears catalog!"
The more things change, the more they stay the same. I remember making my Christmas list by going through the Sears Christmas catalog. I'd write down the item numbers and give my list to Mom. She'd place the order and run down to the Sears pick-up center when it arrived. Fast forward 30 years to when I had my own young son. Cameron used to sit at the PC and search the web for what he wanted. When he found it, he'd write down the web address, item number and price. Technology had changed since I was a kid, but the method Cameron used was basically the same.
Now, more than ever, I prefer to do all my holiday gift shopping online or by phone. I will only go to a store (other than the grocery store) after Thanksgiving as a last resort. I see nothing merry about full parking lots, long lines at the register and picked-over merchandise. Of course, there are those dedicated shoppers who love the hustle and bustle of traditional shopping and I say more power to them! It's just not for me.
That's why I was so excited when I saw all the great jewelry, toys, apparel, electronics, handbags, beauty and more that was going into the November InsideQ magazine! There's something for everyone on your gift list. Here's a sneak peek at what Members will see in the issue, which should be arriving soon.
To find out more about these and other wonderful gift giving ideas, visit QVC.com/aboutInsideQ. When you subscribe (just $1 a month!) you'll have access within 24 hours to our members' only web page where you can shop from the current and previous two issues of InsideQ magazine.
And not only can you do your shopping from InsideQ, you'll also find decorating ideas from Valerie Parr Hill and Lisa Robertson, holiday looks from Isaac Mizrahi, and Thanksgiving Day tips from Rachael Ray.
How do you shop for the holidays: Online or at the mall?
Look for my next blog in a couple of weeks when I share my friend Clare's recipe for pineapple bread pudding. And for advance news about what's coming up in InsideQ and on InsideQ Online, follow my tweets at Twitter.com/QVC.
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Created by Isaac Zal, the Harmonic Generator is a new experimental electronic instrument. It consists of five main components:
Each of the 32 motors, hovering over the chromatically tuned piano strings, rotates a paint brush from 600-2000 revolutions per minute, which stimulates pure harmonic sound. The 12 sound pickups hover over the strings, shooting the sound back into the metal body of the instrument in order to induce harmonic feedback.
The resulting sound of this new instrument can only be described as a symphony inside the belly of a whale!
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BARRIE, Ontario, May 9, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Student Transportation Inc., ("STI" or the "Company") (TSX:STB) (Nasdaq:STB) today reported fiscal year results for the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal year 2013, ended March 31, 2013. All financial results are reported in US dollars, except as otherwise noted. "The good thing about our contracted business is we can forecast most of the 180 school days of revenue we will receive during the fiscal year pretty well, but the exceptions seem to be in which quarter weather events will occur. Except for the impacts of weather, our results for the first nine months of fiscal 2013 are in line with internal expectations and as our history has shown we will make up those lost days. I can also say we are right on plan with another strong finish for our year end in June," said Denis J. Gallagher, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Third quarter revenue and adjusted EBITDA* were $120.5 million and $25.9 million, respectively, compared to $113.3 million and $25.5 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2012. The reported net income for the third quarter of fiscal 2013 was $1.8 million, or $0.02 per share compared to $3.0 million or $0.05 per share for the third quarter of fiscal 2012. Revenue for the first nine months of fiscal 2013 increased to $301.4 million from $265.5 million for the fiscal 2012 interim period and adjusted EBITDA* increased to $50.8 million from $46.8 million for the prior year interim period. Net loss for the first nine months of fiscal 2013 amounted to $2.9 million or $0.04 net loss per share compared to a net loss of $7.0 million or $0.11 net loss per share per share for the first nine months of fiscal 2012. "We came into the third quarter with a $2.0 million revenue deferral primarily due to Superstorm Sandy and various early winter storms. We then saw that revenue deferral increase to $5.0 million by the end of the third quarter due to the continuation of the severe snow storms that hit the Northeast and Mid West in the third quarter. While these storms have made a winter that seems to be never ending, we are fortunate to have solid contracts in place that provide for a fixed number of school days from July to June. That's why I have always noted that it takes 12 months to make a year," said Gallagher. "That certainly is appropriate today as we are already making up days currently and fully expect to recover the contracted $5.0 million revenue deferral of missed school days which are made up in the fourth quarter of the current fiscal year. As is the case in past years, when this happens we will be running right through the end of the school year in making up these days and our results will be as we expected. Our fixed costs are expensed as incurred so the "make up days" see a substantial amount of that revenue fall to the bottom line. Our year-to-date revenues have increased $35.9 million, or 13.5%. As we add back the revenue deferral, we once again anticipate being right on plan with the 15% increase in annualized revenues for fiscal 2013 that we have previously stated along with similar or slightly improved margins over last year."
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Panasonic Panaboard UB-5335 50" Electronic Whiteboard
The Panasonic Panaboard UB-5335 is a 50" Electronic Whiteboard with Built-in Monochrome Printer and USB Interface for direct scan to PC or USB Flash Drive. The UB-5335 comes with a rotating endless screen with 2 writable surfaces. Includes 1 Set of Panasonic Dry Erase Markers and eraser.
Put an end to meetings where everyone has to take notes, written on a dry erase board. The Panasonic UB-5335 electronic whiteboard with built-in printer allows you to simply print your notes or directly save them as a PDF/TIFF file on a PC or USB flash memory device. This makes meetings more efficient by eliminating the time spent on handwriting notes. The low profile whiteboard body of the UB-5335 saves space, and the control panel is easy to use. Plus, the Panasonic UB-5335 electronic whiteboards is designed to consume as little energy as possible, even when the unit is in standby mode.


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Tuesday's Kentucky primary election will not just narrow the candidates in each race, but in many cases, the winner will likely take the seat because they are unopposed in November.
In Kenton and Campbell counties, voters will generally decide the judge-executive races – although voter turnout may be so low that just a few thousand people will choose who will lead their county for the next four years. The Boone County judge-executive could face a Libertarian and Independent candidate, but the primary candidate will have a strong head start.
Many commissioners races, along with county clerks, jailer and magistrates will be decided in this election.
Polls are open 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Also important for this election: Your polling place may have moved. The Kentucky Legislature redrew district lines across the state, shifting some state politicians into different communities, and forcing precinct lines to be redrawn as well. Be sure to check your polling place before heading out to vote.
This guide offers information on some of the bigger races in the three-county area.
Come to Cincinnati.com Tuesday night for live results and visit our elections page for full coverage.
Campbell County clerk: Four in race for Campbell County clerk
Campbell County sheriff: Campbell sheriff's race focuses on experience
U.S. Senate: Who is Matt Bevin?
U.S. Senate: Mitch McConnell keeps shifting right
U.S. Senate: Republicans in NKY seek unity when Senate primary ends
Kenton County judge-executive: Kenton judge-executive race hotly contested
Kenton County Commission District 1: Sewell challenged by Bell for Kenton Co. commission seat
Kenton County sheriff: Kenton sheriff's race a repeat of 2010
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winchester model 97
What do you guys know about the model 97? Had a 30 inch barrel, my biggest question is can you use any modern shells? I believe mine was made in 1928...I've never shot it, was my grandpa's and now it's mine. Took it to a smith to get cleaned up and looked over to make sure its safe to fire, here said it probably had 40 years of dust and dirt but its good to go. Thinking about taking it turkey hunting this year. Its the e series which from what I read but any other interesting info would new greatly appreciated
The old 97 had short chambers in 12 Ga. Modern shells will fire OK. A problem occurs when the longer shell is fired the crimp becomes tight in the chamber. The additional force needed to remove the spent shells over stresses the extractors and they are often broken. It is easy to have the the chamber "opened" up to accommodate the modern shells.:)
The Winchester 1897 is one of my favorite shotguns. You'll see them in many westerns like The Wild Bunch, The Professionals and early gangster films. Mine's the riot version "C" series made in 1900 and normally I use birdshot, but I've shot oo buck as well. They're fine with modern ammo, but do not use steel shot, only lead. For home defense I'd recommend oooo buckshot.
They are great old guns. Modern shells are fine. Do not use steel shot, however. One of John Browning's greatest inventions.
Modern shells are fine I have a Winchester 1911 made in 1919 and I have shot the 2 3/4" baby mag Turkey shells out of it just fine
My grandpa gave me his 97 as well, I removed more dirt from that gun than every other gun I have cleaned in my life put together. I took it to my local gunsmith to have it check and he told me to shoot light loads only, so I wouldn't use it for turkey hunting, you wouldn't be able to safely use a powerful enough shell, it would have to much pressure.
I just don't wanna do anything that could hurt the gun in any way, its too old and been in the family for too long to take any chances. I also took mine to a gun smith to be cleaned and gone over by a pro, he said it probably had 40 years of dirt in it. And there's no telling how long it sat in many grandpa's attic below he passed a few years ago. It probably hasn't been fired in atleast 20, quite possibly much longer
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Google Analytics New Social Reports: An Update
Google Analytics released an update this morning providing more details on use-cases for their new suite of social reports. In my last update on the social reporting suite, I primarily discussed the pending Activity Stream report as the most robust and exciting of the reports (which I still haven't seen in person), but I have to say I'm starting to see a real benefit to some of the reports that I initially found underwhelming.
Social Sources
I'm finding this new report to be the most helpful. This helps to identify all of your social traffic sources in a way that not even a really thorough advanced segment could. In the below screenshot, you can see traffic from a wide array of sources, some of which I may not have thought to include in an advanced segment. What a great way to find new social opportunities!
Social Pages
Although this report is not as thorough as the social pages report already provided by Google Analytics in an older update, it is a very nice, more succinct snapshot of which pages have the most interaction with social networks.
Old Social Pages Report
While this report is an oldie at this point, I still feel it is worth reviewing in the context of these other new reports. This is very similar to the new social pages report, except that it breaks down the social interaction by the actions you are tracking on your website, which to me is a little more insightful.
The new social pages report is also including social interactions with other social sites it is partnering with even if you don't have their button installed on your site (i.e. if it is being shared on Blogger even though users aren't clicking on Blogger share buttons on your site), but at the moment I don't see a great way to break it down by which social source is interacting with which page. It would be great to see a "Secondary dimension" drop-down option in these reports just like you can do with 99% of the other reports in Google Analytics, so that you can view sources for these interactions. We are submitting this suggestion to Google and hopefully will see a solution in the next round of updates.
Any other features you'd like to see in these new reports?
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Medical marijuana activist and proclaimed Marina mayoral candidate Kevin Saunders, at times sobbing, lost a rambling bid on Thursday to lift a court order banning him from the Monterey College of Law.
Saunders, who openly operates a medical marijuana growers collective in Marina, was a third-year law student whose expulsion was upheld this week for disruptive conduct — primarily emails that school officials said were aggressive, harassing and menacing.
College president and dean Mitchel Winick obtained a temporary court order on Sept. 19 to bar Saunders, 43, from the law school's Seaside campus and ordered him to refrain from harassing faculty, staff and students.
On Thursday, Monterey County Superior Court Judge Robert O'Farrell granted the college's request to extend the restraining order for three years. The judge said school officials established that Saunders — who accused Winick and others outside court of mounting "a political hit" against him — engaged in harassment and credible threats of violence.
Most of the two-hour hearing was devoted to testimony by Winick under direct examination by law school attorney Stephen Wagner and ragged cross-examination by Saunders.
Several times, the judge directed Saunders to save his arguments for the hearing's end and to ask Winick questions.
Winick, president of the 43-year-old law school for eight years, said he became concerned Sept. 13 when he received an email that Saunders sent to a professor apparently about a low mark Saunders' girlfriend received in a class.
The email referred to one of the professors as "a little twerp" and told the other that he ignored him on campus, but if he ran into him in town, "I might not be so gracious."
That kicked off an investigation into whether Saunders violated the school's honor code, Winick said. That led to more emails from Saunders to Winick, other staff members and students.
Winick said one email made a reference to the college president's family and caused him to bring a specially hired security guard to his home to check on their well-being.
That was "fundamentally frightening," Winick said.
For his part, Saunders apologized for his "salty language" and said "it hurts my soul" to think he caused fear in women and children.
"Obviously, I'm not Mr. Congeniality," Saunders said. He said he is disabled, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and is undergoing therapy and anger management counseling.
Saunders said he has dedicated his life to providing medical marijuana to AIDS and cancer patients.
Saunders asked Winick if he considered him "a bad dude."
"No, I wouldn't consider you a bad guy," Winick said.
But Saunders contended Winick defamed him by warning a security guard he could be an "Aurora-type shooter." Winick said he did not.
Saunders said five college law students live at his home and 11 are members of his medical marijuana collective. He said the restraining order prevented him from fighting "the lies being told about me."
Shaking with sobs and pulling back his hair, Saunders said he believed Winick "is purposefully trying to ... silence me."
Before the hearing, Saunders said he was preparing a civil suit against the college.
Saunders thrust himself into the news a year ago when he began tussling with the Marina City Council over its ban on medical marijuana dispensaries. He has been saying for months he will run for mayor in 2014.
Saunders sent The Herald an email Thursday reiterating his mayoral ambition, which included a campaign sign-like image with a "humorous" message. It said, "2014 — It's not just an election. It's a restraining order."
Last winter, the city of Marina unsuccessfully sought a restraining order against Saunders after he allegedly made threats against Mayor Bruce Delgado in a Facebook post.
In June, he was escorted from the Marina council chambers when his pro-marijuana dispensary comments veered into personal attacks on Police Chief Eddie Rodriguez.
A few weeks earlier, the city sent Saunders a warning that he faced possible legal sanctions if he violated the dispensary ban.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer thinks Jonathan Crompton is capable of managing a big-time SEC rivalry game. Now Crompton just has to prove it.
Fulmer said the junior quarterback, starting his second SEC game against No. 4 Florida on Saturday, has to play smarter to handle the pressures of conference play.
Crompton has little room for error with UF followed by No. 10 Auburn and No. 3 Georgia in two of the next three weeks.
"He's made some outstanding plays for us in two ball games. He's really shown his ability to throw the ball and manage a game. He's also made three or four plays that will get you beat," Fulmer said.
"The most important thing for Jon to do is manage the game and not turn it over."
Crompton missed part of practice Tuesday as trainers gave him treatment for a sore right ankle. He participated in all of Wednesday's practice.
Crompton started slowly and inconsistently in an opening loss at UCLA. He went 19-for-41 for 189 yards, an interception and no touchdowns as he struggled with his timing with receivers.
Offensive coordinator Dave Clawson was encouraged by Crompton's progress in a win against UAB, 19-for-31, 240 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions.
Crompton has been trying to put the pressure of the SEC schedule in perspective.
"It's really no pressure," he said. "Pressure is being over in Iraq fighting for your life for your country."
Oklahoma: Defensive tackle DeMarcus Granger will be out at least four weeks and perhaps the rest of the season with an injured left foot. One play after the Sooners' top run stuffer committed a personal foul Saturday, three Washington linemen teamed to push Granger to the ground then piled on top of him, causing the injury. Coach Bob Stoops said the Sooners would not "whine'' about the triple team.
PENN STATE: Starting defensive linemen Maurice Evans and Abe Koroma were each charged with a count of possession of a small amount of marijuana, according to a criminal complaint filed by the university police. A typical resolution is probation. Both were already suspended for two games for the incident. Team spokesman Jeff Nelson said there was no change in their status. On Tuesday, coach Joe Paterno said: "We'll let that situation develop. And if there's something to say, we'll say it."
WAC MISTAKE: Western Athletic Conference commissioner Karl Benson said the replay official in the Wisconsin-Fresno State game made a mistake when he overturned a Fresno State fumble during the third quarter. Wisconsin won.


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Iran announced the mass production of a new cruise missile Wednesday, the latest in a series of belligerent-sounding proclamations from that country in the face of its increased isolation by a Western-led group of nations worried about Iran's nuclear program and avowed hostility toward Israel.
Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, Iran's defense minister, said the new missile, first unveiled a month ago and known as the Qader, which means Able in Farsi, had been mass-produced "as quickly as possible," the country's state-run media reported. The missile, designed to destroy warships and coastal targets, has a range of about 125 miles, the media said.
The announcement coincided with front-page headlines in a number of Iranian newspapers quoting the head of Iran's navy, Rear Adm. Habibollah Sayyari, as saying he intended to deploy Iranian warships close to the Atlantic coast of the United States to reciprocate for the patrols in the Persian Gulf by the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet. The patrols are a constant source of irritation to Iran.
"Like the arrogant powers that are present near our marine borders, we will also have a powerful presence close to American marine borders," the official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted him as saying.
The admiral gave no indication when such deployments might happen or how many ships he intended to dispatch. Nor was there any explanation of how the vessels, thousands of miles from home in unfriendly territory, might refuel or replenish supplies.
Obama administration officials played down the Iranian admiral's remarks. Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, told reporters in Washington that the United States did not take them seriously "given that they do not at all reflect Iran's naval capabilities."
In another slap at the United States, Vahidi also rejected any thought of creating a telephone hot line between Tehran and Washington. The idea that was floated a few weeks ago by Adm. Mike Mullen, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as a way of avoiding an accidental confrontation in the Persian Gulf, where American and Iranian naval vessels and aircraft sometimes operate within sight of each other.
Mullen noted that even "in the darkest days of the Cold War" the United States and Soviet Union had such a relationship and that he worried about the absence of a hot line connection with Iran.
"We do not need such a line in the region," Vahidi said, according to Iran's Fars News Agency. "They are seeking to set up a hot line in order to solve any potential tensions, whereas we believe if they leave the region, there will be no tension."


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Each year, the Southwestern Conference wrestling coaches present an appreciation and service award to a member who has been a contributor to SWC wrestling.
This year's recipient was longtime Olmsted Falls High School Athletic Director Bob Theiss. In his 25-year tenure at OFHS, Theiss organized and directed more than 15 SWC championship tournaments, more than 20 Northeast Ohio sectional tournaments and more than 20 Olmsted Falls Open wrestling tournaments.
"Bob Theiss was instrumental with his insight and leadership in the development of SWC wrestling," said Bill McGrain, the recently retired Olmsted Falls head wrestling coach. "He had so much pride in running events. It was not uncommon for him to help clean mats and he would sweep the bleachers on his own. His pride showed as his events were always first class."
It was announced during the ceremony that Theiss had great insight as an athletic administrator, and his innovations and pride at running quality events set a solid foundation for SWC wrestling.
Former winners of the SWC Coaches Appreciation Award
2013: Bob Theiss (athletic director)
2012: John Ramsey (coach)
2011: Drew Pariano (three-time state champion and head coach of Northwestern University)
2010: Joe McFarland (two-time state champion and head coach of the University of Michigan)
2009: Alex Stepanovich (state champion and former Ohio State University and Cincinnati Bengals football player)
2008: Paul Reynolds (coach and official)
2007: Mike DeAnna (All-American and National Championship runner-up at the University of Iowa)
2006: Jake Percival (state champion, All-American and National Championship runner-up at Ohio University)
2005: Tom Bauer (official)
2004: Judy Asp (Elyria Chronicle-Telegram)
2003: Dave Barberic (tournament director)


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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.—Vanderbilt's NCAA Tournament run came to an abrupt halt in Continental Arena on Friday night, as Georgetown's Jeff Green banked in a short jump shot with 2.5 seconds left, giving the Hoyas a dramatic 66-65 win over the Commodores in a Sweet 16 game.
Vanderbilt had just re-taken a one-point lead after Dan Cage sunk two free throws with 18 seconds left, leaving the Hoyas one last gasp. Green got the ball near the right side of the free throw lane, and appeared to travel before banking in a shot from about eight feet.
Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings declined comment on the play, and instructed his players to do the same.
On the ensuing possession, the Commodores threw the ball in to point guard Alex Gordon, who threw up a shot just inside mid-court over a pair of Hoya defenders that was tipped by Jesse Sapp and missed by several feet.
Seniors Cage (17 points) and Derrick Byars (16) led Vandy in scoring in 38 minutes of action. Junior Shan Foster also scored 16 in 38 minutes.
"It was a terrific college basketball game, and we're very disappointed to have not come out on the good end of it," said Stallings. "But, I'm very proud of our team and very proud of all of the individual players, and their spirit and their competitiveness, and how they gave us a chance to win this game."
The Commodores fell behind 4-0 out of the gate, but then went on an 18-2 run keyed by two 3's and a 2 by Cage. Vandy built the lead to 13 at one point, and took a 32-24 advantage to the locker room.
The Hoyas quickly closed the lead in the second, tying the game at 36 on a DaJuan Summers 3, then took a 39-38 lead on Green's layup moments later at the 14:12 mark.
The lead changed hands several times throughout the half, and Vandy seemed to have the advantage when Roy Hibbert fouled out late in the game after fouling Byars on a 3 with 3:58 remaining.
Byars hit two of three shots to give Vandy a 60-57 lead, but the Hoyas battled back. Green got an offensive rebound and a put-back and was fouled, then hit the ensuing free throw. Moments later, Sapp converted a fast-break layup for a 62-60 Georgetown lead with 2:04 left.
Ross Neltner answered with a free throw to cut the lead to one at 1:36, but the Hoyas' Jonathan Wallace hit a long 2 just before the shot clock expired with exactly a minute left.
Byars converted a pair of free throws with 49 seconds left to pull Vandy within one (64-63), then the Hoyas' Summers pushed Cage in the back on a rebound on the Hoyas' next offensive trip.
Cage nailed both free throws, setting up Green's heroics.
The Commodores (22-12) saw a magical season in which they knocked off five-straight ranked opponents at one point come to an end. The Hoyas (29-6) advance to the Elite Eight after beating Vandy for the second time this season.


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A graveside service for Lois E. Zimmerman, 78, of Lodi, who died Oct. 10, will be held at 1 p.m. today at Lodi Memorial Cemetery, 5750 E. Pine St., Lodi.
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The South African 4x400 metre relay team succeeded in their appeal to be awarded a place in the final after they failed to finish their Olympic heat on Thursday.
"The Kenyan athlete committed an obstruction which is in rule number 163.2 of the IAAF, so we appealed, based on that rule," the team's manager Hezekiel Sepeng said.
Shaun de Jager ran the first leg and was in fifth position when he exchanged the baton with Ofentse Mogawane for the second lap.
Mogawane tripped when Kenya's Vincent Mumo Kilu cut in front of him. The South African stepped on his opponent's heel and both athletes fell.
"We've got the result now and we won that appeal and we will be participating as team number nine in the final."
High expectations had been placed on the team after they won the silver medal at last year's Daegu World Championships.
The quartet of De Jager, Mogawane, Oscar Pistorius and Willie de Beer felt crushed after Mogawane stumbled near the 300m mark.
"I just saw myself falling and tumbling and landed on my shoulder and dislocated my shoulder," Mogawane said, his left arm in a sling.
"We were all bunched together and, in the last 100m, everybody wants to make a move and I was too close to the Kenyan guy.
Mogawane's initial reaction was that he thought it was just an accident.
"I wanted to make my move because he's short and I am tall. I'm running with long strides, he's running with short strides and I wanted to overtake him.
"Then I bumped into his leg and that is what caused the accident."
Mogawane's injury has opened the door for 400m hurdler LJ van Zyl to compete in the 4x400m relay final, after he crashed out of his specialist event last Friday.
Van Zyl said his bags were already packed for his trip back to South Africa after his failure in the hurdles. Then he saw the relay team's heat.
The team's passage into the final gives De Beer his first opportunity to participate at the Games, as he was the only member of the quartet yet to run.
Pistorius made history last Saturday as the first amputee to compete on the track at the able-bodied Olympics. He made it through to the 400m semi-finals, but failed to advance to the final. – Sapa


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There is but one concern, well, my biggest concern with Destiny thus far is the inclusion of Aiming Down the Sights, ADS for short, or the ability to look directly down the sights of your weapon. ADS is not wholeheartedly a flawed mechanic, but used in the wrong type of game it can be game-breaking. You may all be familiar with this mechanic, but a refresher. By ADS of your weapon, your accuracy is drastically increased and your movement speed is drastically decreased. When not ADS, or Hipfireing, the opposite is true, you have good movement speed and poor accuracy, and by poor, I mean you only really have hope a hitting a target at point blank. Now this is great for tactical shooters, (generally with longer engagement distances, such as ARMA, Red Orchestra, Ghost Recon, etc.) as it forces the player to move cautiously and use cover, considering when you stop to shoot you are a sitting duck. If Destiny ends up being a shooter of this nature, then great, I have no problem with ADS, but I think most of us are expecting something else. Where the ADS mechanic falls flat on its face is fast paced games with shorter engagement distances. We need not look any further than our beloved CoD. Lets look at an encounter from a few perspectives, imagine two players run around a corner and meet each other and proceed to engage. [b]Option 1[/b], they both hipfire, they both have good movement speed so they can try and strafe, but considering the terrible accuracy of their weapons, the winner of this encounter is decided primarily by luck, with an edge given to the player with a weapon more suited for this situation, skill is hardly a factor here. [b]Option 2[/b], they both ADS, meaning the two players are standing more or less still shooting at one another, given the short range they hardly need to aim, and assuming they both ADS at the same time, this encounter is won by having the better or faster killing weapon. Again skill is only a factor is one player goes for a headshot, but considering the other player is already shooting at them, headshots have to be achieved extremely quickly. [b]Option 3[/b], one player decides to start shooting immediately and hipfires, the other takes time to ADS. The player that is hipfireing only needs to hit a stationary target, the ADS has better accuracy but has to take the time to ADS. Either the guy that is hipfireing gets lucky and wins, or the ADS player wins with an easy shot, neither requiring much skill. What you might ask, is a good way to get an advantage in this type of encounter? Well if you've played CoD you might be aware of it. If you are ADS before you see your enemy, you have a clear advantage, but doing so means you can hardly move, so what is the solution? Something we all love, Camping. Long distance is not much different, the only real option being to ADS, meaning near stationary players are shooting at one another, lowering the skill gap tremendously. Now obviously we can compare this to a game without ADS, such as Halo, and we all know how the encounters go, it's about footwork and aim, trying to get your enemy to miss while having better aim, meaning the winner is determined by skill and weapons, with a touch of luck, sure. So while ADS might be a great mechanic for some games, when it's implemented into a fast paced game with short engagement distances and players running around the map, it doesn't work in my book, resulting in a game about luck, weapons, or annoying tactics. However, assuming Destiny is a fast paced game, there are way in which ADS can work. [b]Option 1[/b], get rid of the standard features of ADS, meaning ADS works just like it does in Halo, your accuracy doesn't change, nor your movment speed, the changes lies in your zoom, optics, and FoV. [b]Option 2[/b] I like this one, get rid of the accuracy penalty, meaning hipfire doesn't suck, and instead add a recoil bonus (reduction) to ADS. The movement penalty can remain. This is great as you can engage an enemy and any distance with hipfire, but if you want to zero in on an opponent that is far away and get a faster kill you have to ADS, which can get you a faster kill but puts you at a disadvantage as you are now a sitting duck. Additionally, the guy you are shooting at can return fire (not as effectively as you of course) while still trying to get cover. Well, that was a bit of a read, but the implementation of ADS is a bit of a concern, and I want to have a discussion about it with you all. Bungie is a great developer, and I believe they will implement it correctly, but there is still a bit of a fear that it can really hurt the game. Please, I would love to hear your thoughts.
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Great post, Happy Jack. I'm also curious about the ADS functionality in Destiny. From their E3 demonstration, it looks like the burst fire rifle that Joe Staten was using has significantly less kick while fired ADS. He fired the rifle from the hip a lot, but it definitely did not look very accurate while doing so. It's premature to be making assumptions based on simply watching a brief demo. But I'll continue for the sake of discussion. I agree with you that having accurate hip fire is more fun in fast-paced, arena-style shooters. Accurate hip fire allows players to be deadly while moving and turning quickly. (I say "turning quickly" because usually ADS decreases turn speed. Decreasing turn speed while ADS is helpful because that allows players to aim more easily/carefully, but I'll get into this more later.) But having inaccurate hip fire forces players to be all of the following to achieve accuracy: slow moving, slow turning, and narrow visioned. So, as you said, encounters will mostly boil down to opponents shooting each other while standing almost still. One thing that I enjoy about games with accurate hip fire (Halo, TF2, UT, Quake, etc.) is that I can jump around a corner, turn quickly, fire from the hip, and still be as accurate as an enemy camping around the corner. Accurate hip fire may seem like a trivial thing, but it changes the entire flow of combat by not penalizing players that move quickly and aggressively. [quote]But, what I noticed for a mere second, the player was strafing with ADS, and I'm happy to report he had a pretty decent movement speed.[/quote] I agree that fast ADS movement is nice, but I don't think it's a total solution on its own. In fact, CoD has fast ADS movement via Perks or weapon attachments. With those Perks/attachments, players can move at normal walking speed while ADS, but they still have slow turning and narrowed vision. The slow turning and narrowed vision forces players to check corners slowly while ADS - encounters still come down to relatively static ADS standoffs. There are other problems revolving around slow ADS turning. I've already stated that slow ADS turning is helpful because it lets players aim more easily. But if ADS is the only way players can accurately shoot, then players are forced to turn slowly to be deadly (unless of course players can independently adjust ADS turn sensitivity and bump it up to be equal to hip fire turn sensitivity). Let's say hypothetically that a player in CoD is trying to shoot a fast-moving object. That player might not be able to turn fast enough while ADS to aim at that fast-moving object (unless that player has set their stick sensitivity very high). In Halo, shooting a driver in a full-speed Warthog isn't a problem for most players - turning while shooting from the hip is easily fast enough to track the Warthog. Scoring a killing headshot on a Warthog driver with a DMR while firing from the hip? Tasty. TLDR: accurate hip fire gives players options so that combat doesn't devolve into the same stale ADS face offs. This isn't an argument against having ADS in Destiny. ADS is good (also, Halo has ADS, it just seems like a different thing because it doesn't show a weapon model with optics and it toggles on/off very quickly). I simply think nerfing hip fire limits combat options. Also, this post is a commentary on shooters in general. I don't know what kind of gameplay Bungie is going for in Destiny, and they'll do what's best for the kind of experiences they want to create. Thoughts? Thanks! P.S. once again, great post, Happy Jack.
Great post and ideas and reflections here. I must say I agree with you and like option 2 if it where implemented in Destiny. But the E3 demo shows the warlock player shooting hipfire several times and, I might be wrong, but to my keen eyes it looks almost like its abit "Haloesque" in that hipshooting. So, again I might be wrong, but I dare to speculate that perhaps we will see something similar to Halo and in your option 2 in this brilliant post.
It looks like it is a hybrid between circle strafing and ADS. Though the circle strafing seems to have less range and expand the reticule more.
ADSing is not a game breaking mechanic for destiny. Online not working as seamlessly as they explain is a game breaking mechanic. ADS is a choice. If you don't want to do it learn to play without it. It's there and it fits in the game as I don't want to hip fire at someone who is 100 yards away. That isn't realistic at all.
That's a first person shooter game issue, not really a substantial issue with Destiny.
The issue for me on the player level is getting used to that radar in the top left of the screen Im so used to halo being on the bottom of my screen.
Actually Destiny's biggest issue is them being PS4's slave.
[u]Community's biggest issue.[/u] Calling Destiny's biggest issue a year before release and with 12 minutes of gameplay.
So I got some more potentially good news. I was watching a recent stream with the same session but played differently, so I wasn't what we saw during Sony's conference. But, what I noticed for a mere second, the player was strafing with ADS, and I'm happy to report he had a pretty decent movement speed. Still no idea on how the accuracy is improved in ADS, but ADS could potentially be cosmetic, or offer subtle adjustments to movement speed and accuracy. Again, we need to see and hear some more info before we know anything for sure, but I'm fairly confident we are far away from something along the lies on CoD.
ADS will be a good change for a Bungie game. Plus we don't know if all guns have ADS
Any FPS enthusiast/enjoyer will completely dissagree with you. ADS is a) Realistic for people who want to hit their targets b) Becoming a standard feature in FPS games and c) Is common sense. Bungie have needed to include ADS for a long time now but couldn't with Halo without an uproar.
Well, there's your gameplay. What do you guys think? Hipfire in the very least is useable at short range, but there is a good amount of bloom, I think ADS might be a little more important that I had hoped.
Edited by True Underdog: 6/11/2013 11:40:03 AMHip firing looks like it may be a viable option at short - mid range, which it should be. ADS will yield higher accuracy at all ranges but hip firing looks like it might have its place. I don't see it being much different than zooming in for long range. I get the concern and it might be something you have to get used to but it looks fine to me, based on the gameplay we saw. Also, it might be a good idea to reserve judgement on competitive play and how it will handle til we see the competitive gametype.
Edited by Zayah117: 6/11/2013 3:22:44 AMThe OP. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS7nqwGt4-I
How about we wait untill we see actual gameplay, like on Monday, before we start talking about "Big Issues"?
Games without ADS tend to have better enemies, in my opinion, you can't deny that games like Halo and Half-Life have more interesting and varied enemies than games like CoD and Battlefield. I don't care if people have gotten used to ADS and hate reticles because they got destroyed in Halo or Counter-Strike multiplayer. ADS games have terrible enemies compared to games with classic shooting mechanics.
I'm sorry, but Destiny isn't based primarily around PvP. And Borderlands, Fallout, and various other FPSRPG's seem to include ADS and it works just fine. And with PvP, I'm sure there isn't going to be a problem with ADS. I don't think Destiny is going to have arena style PvP, it will probably be more of a 'tactical' shooter.
I want to clarify this with everyone. We are talking about two different types of shooters here. We have Arena style shooters (Halo, Quake, etc) and "tactical" (excuse this term for lack of a better one) shooters, often with ADS (ARMA, Red Orchestra, etc). One is not better than the other, and I personally enjoy them both, but they play differently; Arena shooters being more about reflexes and aim, and Tactical shooters being more about, movement, positioning, and tactics. Personally I think we run into problems when developers try and combine the two. Games like CoD started as a more tactical shooter and turned into an Arena shooter, and I think it has become a poor combination of the two, as discussed earlier. Obviously we have seen very little of Destiny, and to discuss it on this level is going to require assumptions. Now I am assuming Destiny is going to be an Arena shooter, much like Halo, in which case, I have reason to be concerned about the inclusion of ADS. I am NOT saying ADS won't work in Destiny, I am attempting to discuss how ADS may or may not be a issue in Destiny.
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Edited by VorTeX7756: 6/7/2013 11:17:47 PMI would want a recoil on larger weapons like a sniper rifle, but that should apply always (scope or not), and you shouldn't be slow when you are looking down the sites or through the scope, or a recoil of automatic weapons, your a guardian, you should be trained to hold your weapon still while aiming.
Edited by Shark-4: 6/7/2013 4:53:57 PMThe maps are going to be 3x3 KILOMETERS. This game will have huge maps and, therefore, is not an arena-type FPS like Halo. Yes, CoD is also an arena-type shooter, but it mixes tactical with fast-paced gameplay. The sights and scopes are also interchangeable, which allows for different uses and aesthetics. Also, considering that this game is also like the Borderlands series (which also uses ADS aiming, and the weapons are interchanging with sights and scopes), it wouldn't make much sense to have different weapons sights and scopes and NOT be able to look through them. I mean, I suppose I could just admire that crosshair on my gun as I try to hipfire a Fallen enemy in the middle of combat, but what good would that do me?
I use to play cod competitively as well as halo 2 and 3. I am a much bigger fan of ADS. Black ops 2 to me was absolutely ruined because of hip fire accuracy. That game requires no skill and no requirement to aim. Modern warfare 3 was the best cod yet because of the hip fire perk which even with that on was still not giving you bo2 accuracy, but it allowed you to play differently. I like a bit of realism in my games and while it completely logical to hit a target from your hip in real life firing I just don't like it. It is called triangulation aiming by the way. None of it matters when it comes down to servers, hosting, and Internet speeds. Your scenarios only matter based off who is host sadly. All in all I would like to see Ads with moderate hip fire accuracy. Like 10 meters max. Ads makes it feel more real and I think hip fire players are garbage just to throw that in.
I most enjoy the Halo/L4D style of no ADS, but I recognize that with a game like Destiny, it might be an essential mechanic.
The point of ADS is to influence a gamers skill have him make smart decisions, be tactical stop running into the heat of battle you will die, be careful about your moves think on your feet. Taking out ADS is a mistake it encourages faster, more dimwitted, skilless gameplay.
I disagree. ADS is perfectly fine. i would hate if Destiny was like Halo in not letting you aim.
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Panel Chair: John D. McConnell, M.D., University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center.
Guideline Release Date: February 8, 1994.
In 1994, AHCPR released a clinical practice guideline to identify the most effective
methods of diagnosing BPH. A multidisciplinary, 13-member private-sector panel based the
guideline on syntheses of structured reviews of the literature on BPH. The guideline
that patients consult with their doctors and decide on a treatment based on likely treatment
outcomes unless there are specific BPH complications (which usually require surgery).
BPH Guideline Contents (Spring 1995)
BPH, a noncancerous enlargement of the prostate gland, occurs
as part of the aging process in most men. By age 80, one in four men in the United States will
require treatment for the relief of symptoms associated with BPH (most commonly, difficulties
with urination).
Current treatments include the following: watchful waiting (no active treatment, but
periodic examinations to evaluate progression of disease); alpha blockers (drugs that can relax
the smooth muscle of the bladder and prostate); finasteride (a drug that can reduce BPH);
balloon dilation (a balloon inserted into the urethra is inflated to stretch it so urine flows more
easily); and surgery. Prostate surgery includes transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP);
transurethral incision of the prostate (TUIP); and open prostatectomy (removal of the benign
prostate tumor through an incision).
After reviewing more than 1,200 abstracts from the literature, the BPH guideline panel
analyzed 200 papers in depth and combined data from a variety of treatment studies. A survey
was conducted to determine what treatments patients prefer if given extensive information on
probable treatment outcomes. The guideline was peer reviewed and tested in clinical practice
before its release.
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A patient-centered approach to treatment is central to the guideline. Unless patients have
specific complications due to BPH, they should, in consultation with their doctors, decide on the
treatment after understanding likely treatment outcomes. To decide on a treatment, a patient
must consider how bothered he is by his symptoms and weigh how he feels about the likely
benefits and risks of each treatment.
Open communication, shared decisionmaking, and patient-centered care are integral to the
guideline's recommendations for treatment:
After the release of the BPH guideline at a press conference in Washington, DC, on February 8,
1994, there was nationwide coverage on ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN as well as on
ECO/Televisa and Univision (Spanish-language cable networks serving the United States and
Latin America). Local television and radio stations in such major markets as Boston, Chicago,
Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and San Francisco also carried reports.
Press coverage in major daily newspapers nationwide included the Chicago Tribune, Los
Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and
USA Today. Wire services and news syndicates covering the story included the
Associated Press, Gannett News Service, Medical Tribune News Service, Reuters, and Scripps
The guideline received coverage in several major market African-American newspapers,
including Afro-American (Washington, DC), Amsterdam News (New York),
Muslim Journal (Chicago), and Philadelphia Tribune, as well as on American
Urban Radio Network and Black Press Service.
In all, 37 African-American print and broadcast outlets carried stories, for an estimated
audience of 4.5 million persons.
A video news release was produced by the American Association for Retired Persons and
sent out by satellite following the press conference. All or part of the video was used by 35
television stations; it was seen by 2.68 million viewers on the 13 stations with audience figures
Trade media and professional journals that covered the BPH guideline include American
Medical News, AHA News, Harvard Health Letter, Lancet, Medical Marketing and Media,
Medical News Tribune for the Family Physician, Nurseweek, and Urology Times.
American Medical Television produced a half-hour program for physicians on the guideline.
CNBC aired the program, which carried continuing medical education credit.
The guideline was distributed to subscribers of Medical News Network, an interactive
computer-based news service available to doctors and other health care providers in their offices.
To disseminate its materials more widely, AHCPR has worked with private-sector firms.
Kimberly-Clark reprinted the guideline for attendees of the AUA and American Urological
Association Allied (AUAA) annual meetings. Aetna Health Claims has agreed to reprint the
Consumer Version of the guideline and distribute it to up to 300,000 men covered by
Medicare in the State of Washington. Aetna will compare the volume of TURP procedures
before distribution of the guideline and 18 months afterwards.
To date, AHCPR has mailed out 623,000 copies of the guideline in its various versions for
both providers and consumers. Bulk mailings were sent to hospitals, managed care
organizations, and medical schools. Other bulk mailings were sent to national and State-level
professional societies, including the American Hospital Association, AUA, Florida Nurses
Association, Health Care Association of New York State, Kansas Academy of Family
Physicians, Medical College of Virginia, Mid-Missouri Urologic Association, and San Francisco
Veterans Hospital.
Organizations endorsing the guideline include the AUA, AUAA, American College of
Radiology, American Society of Radiologic Technologists, and Society of General Internal
The AUA took the lead in promoting use of the guideline and the AUA Symptom Index
(recommended by the guideline) to its 8,000 members. In addition to mailing the guideline to
members, AUA incorporated it into postgraduate activities of the AUA's Office of Education.
Three different sessions at the 1994 annual AUA meeting and two AUA weekend seminars
highlighted the guideline. Also, AUA's monthly newsletter, Health Policy Brief, carried
information on the guideline during its development and promoted its use after publication.
Internationally, a draft of the guideline served as a template for BPH recommendations issued by
the World Health Organization in Paris in 1993. The panel chair and two panel members gave
separate presentations on the guideline at the Society of International Urology meeting in
Sydney, Australia, in September 1994.
It is too early to know whether the BPH guideline is standardizing the treatment approach or
increasing the level of patient involvement in treatment decisions, but demand for the guideline
publications is strong. For example, in the 4 days after the press conference, AHCPR's
Publications Clearinghouse handled almost 6,700 calls for copies of the guideline.
The BPH guideline is meant to alter the treatment of BPH so that the decision to have
treatment becomes patient-driven. The Consumer Version, Treating Your Enlarged
Prostate, and the BPH Shared Decision-making Program, an interactive video disk based on
findings from studies funded by AHCPR, provide information about risks and benefits of BPH
treatments to enable men to make informed choices.
The BPH Consumer Version is being distributed by consumer education groups such
as the American Foundation for Urologic Diseases Clearinghouse, Mayo Clinic Health Education
Library, and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Clearinghouse.
In addition, Abbott Laboratories is incorporating the AUA Symptom Index and guideline
messages into consumer advertising.
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Diagnosis and Treatment (Clinical Practice
Guideline). Publication No. AHCPR 94-0582. Rockville, MD: Agency for Health Care Policy and
Research, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, February
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Diagnosis and Treatment (Quick Reference Guide for
Clinicians). Publication No. AHCPR 94-0583. Rockville, MD: Agency for Health
Policy and Research, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
February 1994.
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Diagnosis and Treatment (Consumer Version).
Publication No. AHCPR 94-0584. Rockville, MD: Agency for Health Care Policy and
Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, February 1994.
Tratamientos para la Inflamación de la Próstata (Spanish Version of
Version). Publication No. AHCPR 94-0585. Rockville, MD: Agency for Health Care
and Research, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, March
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. (1994). Benign prostatic hyperplasia:
Diagnosis and treatment guideline overview. Journal of the National Medical Association
86(7), 489-549.
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Guideline Panel. (1994). Clinical practice guidelines, quick
reference guide for clinicians. Benign prostatic hyperplasia: Diagnosis and treatment.
American Family Physician 49(5), 1157-1165.
Roberts, R.G. (1994). Benign prostatic hyperplasia: Assessing severity, helping patients
choose among management options. Consultant (July), 1077-1085.
Roberts, R.G. (1994). BPH: New guidelines based on symptoms and patient preference.
Geriatrics 49(7), 24-31.
Roberts, R.G. (1994). Novel idea in BPH guideline: The patient as decision maker
[editorial]. American Family Physician 49(5), 1044-1046, 1051.
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I was remiss when I posted my books in discussing the "why" aspect. For the Rinker Buck and Oliver Sacks books, they both manage to recapture the childhood state, which is simultaneously magical, mythical, and vividly, directly "real". I think it is extremely important for adults, as cliché as it may be to say it, to see the world through child's eyes. ...
I hope you'll forgive me for bringing J.K.Rowling into the subject, and making comparisons to Oliver Sacks, however in the case of her Harry Potter books I personally believe your comment regarding a "child's eyes" is the actual answer to the question of her popularity with adults as well. For all the criticism some people (including myself) might wish to offer the Harry Potter books (and this is not the place to elaborate on it), I believe this is at the crux of their popularity amongst children and adults.
I think that people make a mistake when they say that the adult popularity is because "she is writing for adults too". Rather, I think that she is seeing an alternate "world through a child's eyes" and that adults are either unnecessarily defending their reading of a "kids' book" or not realising that they still always retain the ability to see through the eyes of their own childhood. That's a Good Thing.
As for Oliver Sacks...I'll shamefacedly offer that he has been a writer on my TBR-list for many years, and yet I have managed to not get to him at all so far. I'll be sure to amend that, my surety emphasised by your comments.
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Jackie Kallen is not your typical boxing manager. In fact, she is not even likely to be mistaken for a boxing fan.
Despite appearances, Kallen, who has two sons and two grandsons, has twice been nominated for manager of the year.
Most famous for breaking into the male-dominated world of boxing and managing James Toney to an International Boxing Federation middleweight title, Kallen's life is the subject of a movie, ''Against the Ropes,'' starring Meg Ryan. The movie was released Friday.
''I was not quite sure that she could play tough and feisty,'' the 57-year-old Kallen said of Ryan. ''I'm not a cute little tousled-hair kind of casually dressed person. I've always gone more for the glamour.''
But it was not the glitz of fight night that drew her to boxing.
In 1977, Kallen was working as an entertainment reporter for a newspaper in the Detroit area and covered a Tommy Hearns fight. As a suburban mother, Kallen had not paid much attention to boxing, but she says she was immediately struck by Hearns's intensity.Continue reading the main story
''Tommy had an especially ferocious way of looking at somebody,'' Kallen said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles earlier this month. ''I thought, 'He's the meanest person I've ever seen up close.' ''
But what Kallen said she found particularly interesting was the boxers shaking hands after the fight.
''What kind of intensity, focus and concentration that it takes to be able to go from one extreme to the other,'' she said. ''I was just intrigued by it.''
Her curiosity led her to the famous Kronk Gym in Detroit, where Hearns trained and where she got a job doing publicity on the side. She eventually spent more and more of her free time at the gym.
''I just loved every day of it,'' she said. ''It was hot and sweaty. God knows what I liked about that.''
After 10 years at Kronk learning from the trainer Emanuel Steward and the fighters around the gym, she got her license to become a boxing manager. In the late 1980's, she found her first fighter: Bobby Hitz, a heavyweight most famous for losing to George Foreman.
Six months after signing Hitz, she signed Toney, a relative unknown from the streets of Detroit, and her career was on its way.
What separated Kallen from many other managers and what brought fighters her way was her style of managing. She took an interest in her fighters outside the gym and was fond of inviting her friends from the gym over to her house for barbecues.
''On a Sunday, we'd be at her house, and me and Emanuel Steward would be making ribs on the grill,'' said Hitz, who runs Hitz Productions, a boxing promotion firm in Chicago. ''She lived in this nice, quiet, quaint, predominantly Jewish upper-crust kind of neighborhood, and we infiltrated it, all the guys.''
She also helped her fighters learn some of the life lessons that the streets of Detroit failed to teach. For example, she helped Hitz establish a good credit rating and taught G.E.D. classes to fighters.
''What she tried to do is give us some direction, set us up for life after boxing,'' Hitz said. ''So many guys just focus on the boxing aspects of it, there's no game plan after that.''
But Kallen was not running a charity. In 1991, Toney knocked out Michael Nunn to win the I.B.F. middleweight title and Kallen had her first championship. That year, she received her first nomination for manager of the year.
''It was so much validation,'' Kallen said. ''I use that word a lot, but that's what it was. It was saying you're not just a good manager for a woman, you're a good manager.''
Kallen received another nomination in 1994 and had other champions, like the superwelterweight Bronco McKart, and she even signed Hearns later in his career.
But just when it seemed as if she was on top, things began to unravel. She had an acrimonious split with Toney after he lost his title in 1994 to Roy Jones Jr., and her marriage of 30 years dissolved. She also had to deal with the scare of two lumpectomies.
As a result, she worked less with fighters and said she relied increasingly on the lessons that she learned at the gym to help her through this rough period.
''I realized through boxing that all the metaphors that I learned and all the trite little expressions became very applicable to my life,'' Kallen said. ''I actually ended up writing a book about it called, 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot.' ''
The book's success led to many speaking engagements, and then Paramount came calling, wanting to turn her life into a movie. The movie says it is ''inspired by'' rather than based on Kallen's life and takes many liberties with the facts. But for Kallen, seeing the movie rekindled some old memories. She was also the commissioner of the International Female Boxing Association and she is still managing some fighters.
''I really got the bug again,'' she said. ''At the premiere, I mean seeing that movie again just made me hungry for another champion.''Continue reading the main story


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Part of Joss Whedon's genius is his ability to bring out the best in those he works with. I would posit this as a necessity for a great television artist. It struck me only recently one of the great themes of the show—the importance of community, trust, friendship—is found not only in the episodes but in their creation. . . . Joss Whedon in effect created a school of writers (cf. a school of painters) who grew more and more sharply skillful with Whedon's support. . . .
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VATICAN CITY — A few hours before Rome's Jewish community was to begin its Passover observances, Pope Francis sent a brief note praying that God would bless them and asking community members for their prayers.
"May the Almighty, who freed his people from slavery in Egypt to guide them to the Promised Land, continue to free you from every evil and accompany you with his blessing," the pope said in the message delivered March 25.
Passover, the eight-day commemoration of God freeing the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt, was set to begin that evening.
Thanking Rabbi Riccardo di Segni, chief rabbi of Rome, for attending his inaugural Mass March 19 and a meeting with religious leaders the next day, Pope Francis said, "I am particularly pleased to extend to you and the entire Rome community my most fervent wishes for the great Passover feast.
"I ask you to pray for me, while I assure you of my prayers for you, trusting that we can deepen the bonds of esteem and mutual respect," the pope said.
On the website of Rome's Jewish community, Rabbi di Segni said he appreciated the message and planned to respond with a message wishing the pope and Rome's Christians a happy Easter.


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Burgundy & Grey
I made this cake for my niece's birthday. I chose these colors as she loves burgundy roses. They are the color of her birthstone (garnet) and I used a light grey for the cake. It's winter still and I've been wanting to do a cake in gray so this was the perfect time. Fondant over buttercream and gumpaste roses and leaves. The cake is carrot with cream cheese filling. TFL!


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Research Topics
Genomes and Genes
F Mackay
Affiliation: Biogen Inc
Country: USA
Detail Information
- Induction of germinal centers by MMTV encoded superantigen on B cellsW J Simmons
Department of Pathology and Comprehensive Kaplan Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, NY 10016, USA
Dev Immunol 8:201-11. 2001..Anti-TNFalpha had no effect. These results suggest that endogenous vSAg mediated GC formation is independent of antigen trapping by FDCs...
- Both the lymphotoxin and tumor necrosis factor pathways are involved in experimental murine models of colitisF Mackay
Department of Immunology, Inflammation and Cell Biology, Biogen, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
Gastroenterology 115:1464-75. 1998....
- Mice transgenic for BAFF develop lymphocytic disorders along with autoimmune manifestationsF Mackay
Department of Immunology, Inflammation and Cell Biology, Biogen, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
J Exp Med 190:1697-710. 1999..This phenotype is reminiscent of certain human autoimmune disorders and suggests that dysregulation of BAFF expression may be a critical element in the chain of events leading to autoimmunity...
- Signaling through the lymphotoxin beta receptor induces the death of some adenocarcinoma tumor linesJ L Browning
Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Biogen, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
J Exp Med 183:867-78. 1996..The delineation of a biological signaling event mediated by the LT-beta-R opens a window for further studies on its immunological role, and furthermore, activation of the LT-beta-R may have an application in tumor therapy...
- BAFF binds to the tumor necrosis factor receptor-like molecule B cell maturation antigen and is important for maintaining the peripheral B cell populationJ S Thompson
Department of Molecular Genetics, Biogen, Incorporated, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
J Exp Med 192:129-35. 2000..Moreover, culturing splenic cells in the presence of BAFF increased survival of a percentage of the B cells. These results are consistent with a role for BAFF in maintaining homeostasis of the B cell population...
- Lymphotoxin but not tumor necrosis factor functions to maintain splenic architecture and humoral responsiveness in adult miceF Mackay
Department of Immunology, Inflammation and Cell Biology, Biogen, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
Eur J Immunol 27:2033-42. 1997..Therefore relative to TNF, the LT system has the dominant influence on splenic organization and anti-SRBC Ig formation in the adult mouse...
- Lymph node genesis is induced by signaling through the lymphotoxin beta receptorP D Rennert
Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Biogen, Incorporated, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
Immunity 9:71-9. 1998..Therefore, LTbeta-R signaling during gestation is not sufficient to establish normal cellular microarchitecture. We conclude that LT and TNF play critical roles in the genesis and cellular organization of lymph nodes...
- Lymphotoxin beta receptor triggering induces activation of the nuclear factor kappaB transcription factor in some cell typesF Mackay
Department of Cell Biology, Biogen Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
J Biol Chem 271:24934-8. 1996..Thus, like several other members of the TNF receptor family, the LTbeta-R can activate NFkappaB following receptor ligation in some but not all LTbeta-R-positive cells...
- Cytotoxic activities of recombinant soluble murine lymphotoxin-alpha and lymphotoxin-alpha beta complexesF Mackay
Department of Immunology, Biogen, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
J Immunol 159:3299-310. 1997..Combined, these observations suggest that secreted mLT alpha may not play a role in the mouse via interactions with TNF-R55, and the ramifications of this hypothesis are discussed...
- Maturation of marginal zone and follicular B cells requires B cell activating factor of the tumor necrosis factor family and is independent of B cell maturation antigenP Schneider
Institute of Biochemistry, BIL Biomedical Research Center, University of Lausanne, Epalinges, Switzerland
J Exp Med 194:1691-7. 2001..This demonstrates a crucial role for BAFF in B cell maturation and strongly suggests that it signals via a BCMA-independent pathway and in an APRIL-dispensable way...
- Targeted inactivation of Gh/tissue transglutaminase IIN Nanda
Molecular Cardiology and Enzyme Research Units, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, 2010, Australia
J Biol Chem 276:20673-8. 2001..These results indicate that G(h) may be importantly involved in stabilizing apoptotic cells before clearance, and in responses such as wound healing that require fibroblast adhesion mediated by extracellular matrix cross-linking...
- BAFF, a novel ligand of the tumor necrosis factor family, stimulates B cell growthP Schneider
Institute of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
J Exp Med 189:1747-56. 1999..These results suggest that BAFF plays an important role as costimulator of B cell proliferation and function...
- Differential responses of fibroblasts from wild-type and TNF-R55-deficient mice to mouse and human TNF-alpha activationF Mackay
Central Nervous System Department, F Hoffmann La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland
J Immunol 153:5274-84. 1994..act. than human TNF-alpha (recognizing only mouse TNF-R55) in wild-type fibroblasts, whereas both mouse and human TNF-alpha had similar cytotoxic activities in WEHI 164 cells...


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GOLF: NOTEBOOK; Mickelson's on Target, Except on Greens
By DAMON HACK
Published: August 20, 2006
After two days of jousting with Tiger Woods and Geoff Ogilvy, Phil Mickelson sat in front of a video screen on Friday night and watched film of a golf swing out of sync.
On Saturday in the third round of the P.G.A. Championship at Medinah Country Club, Mickelson's swing was finally clicking, but his putter let him down. He shot a four-under-par 68 to fall six shots out of the lead.
''I'm still a low round away, and if I can just shoot seven-, eight-, nine-under par, I should have a chance,'' Mickelson said Saturday. ''But it's going to take a really low round coming from as far back as I am.''
Mickelson and Rick Smith, his swing coach, spent more than an hour Friday night poring over a swing that deposited golf balls on both sides of Medinah's fairways in the first two rounds.
They went over video ''from when I was playing well and when I struggled this week, and we noticed a couple of glaring differences,'' said Mickelson, who played alongside K. J. Choi of Korea in the third round. ''I was able to get it ironed out today. I hit a lot of good shots. Unfortunately, I just didn't get the putts to go after those shots.''
STROKE OF LUCK -- Joey Sindelar had a simple explanation for his double eagle on the 537-yard fifth hole.
''They're all luck,'' he said.
Sindelar holed his second shot on the par-5 hole, a 3-wood from 241 yards, to achieve what is considered the rarest score in golf. It was the third double eagle in P.G.A. Championship history and the first in a major championship since 2004, when Gary Evans of England had one at the British Open at Royal Troon.
The previous double eagles in the P.G.A. Championship were recorded by Darrell Kestner, in 1993, and Per-Ulrik Johansson, in 1995.
Sindelar's double eagle highlighted an otherwise pedestrian round. He shot 73 on a day when many in the field broke par. Sindelar, 48, made seven bogeys and three birdies and was at one-over-par 217.
Sindelar, a seven-time PGA Tour winner, said the double eagle was the first of his career.
''When I made contact and looked up and saw it was up in the air, I thought, 'Oh, that ought to be pretty good,' '' Sindelar said. ''My caddie was going, 'Be right, be right.' Then when it hit the deck, people started going, 'Oh, oh.' You could hear them escalate as the ball got closer and it dropped in.''
OGILVY STILL ON A ROLL -- Geoff Ogilvy kept step for step with Tiger Woods and outplayed Phil Mickelson when the three played together in the first and second rounds. On Saturday, Ogilvy continued to play well without them.
Ogilvy, the United States Open champion, shot a 68 while paired with Davis Love III. He trails the co-leaders, Woods and Luke Donald, by three shots.
After he won the United States Open in June, Ogilvy said that he had always believed that his first major championship would come at the British Open. He finished tied for fifth at St. Andrews in 2005 and tied for 16th at Royal Liverpool Golf Club last month.
If his solid play at Medinah continues today, Ogilvy will finish in the top 20 for the sixth major in a row. He tied for sixth at last year's P.G.A. Championship at Baltusrol, and tied for 16th at the Masters in April.
His surprising victory at the United States Open at Winged Foot Golf Club in June was his first major title. His second could come at Medinah.
LOVE KEEPS EYE ON RYDER CUP -- Davis Love III holed two bunker shots for birdies in his bid to win a second major championship and earn his seventh trip to the Ryder Cup.
Love, who won the 1997 P.G.A. Championship at Winged Foot Golf Club, shot a 73 Saturday and was eight shots out of the lead.
Love, who has just one top-10 finish this season, admitted that the pressure to make the Ryder Cup team has hurt his play. Love is 15th in the Ryder Cup standing.
Photo: Phil Mickelson shot a four-under-par 68 in the third round yesterday, an improvement over his 71 on Friday, but fell six shots out of the lead. (Photo by Donald Miralle/Getty Images)


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Girls on the Run of St. Louis picked up the pace to for their Adventure Gala held at the Third Degree Glass Factory. Co-chaired by Courtney Nolan and Meghan Green and emceed by KMOX radio talk show host, Charlie Brennan, the evening offered music and dining along with a live auction with proceeds going directly to support the Girls on the Run scholarship program.
Girls on the Run of St. Louis is a non-profit program for girls in grades 3 through 8 and encourages pre-teen girls to develop self-respect and healthy lifestyles through running. The program is delivered through an interactive curriculum combining self-esteem enhancing lessons with uplifting workouts aimed to develop the whole girl. Young girls are empowered with positive self-awareness and increased confidence; a sense of achievement by training for and running a 5K; and giving back to their community through a service project each season. Girls on the Run's goal is to serve more than 1,500 girls in 2009 and provide $74,000 in scholarships.