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In the opening game of the new season, and with her team playing without its best player, sophomore Jordan McClendon scored 12 points and grabbed seven rebounds to lead John Burroughs to a 33-15 win over Lift for Life Academy.
That magnificent season debut earned McClendon a nomination in this week's Patch MVP Athlete of the Week voting.
And with a strong showing of support from the JBS community, McClendon won the ballot this week (nabbing a whopping 70 percent of the votes cast) to become the third JBS student-athlete to win Patch MVP this year.
Football players Peter Schnuck and Ezekiel Elliott received the Patch MVP honor earlier, and the jovial Jordan McClendon has joined them.
Earlier this week, we caught up with Jordan and were able to find out a number of cool and interesting things about the Bombers' two-sport standout. (She also competes in track and field).
Here's just a little bit of what we found out about the Winter sports Week 1 Patch MVP Athlete of the Week, Jordan McClendon of the John Burroughs girls basketball team:
Patch: How did you get started playing basketball?
JM: I have been playing club basketball since the second grade.
Patch: When did you know that you were a good player?
JM: People have told me that I am a good player but it is something that I really don't think that much about. When I am playing, I am pretty focused on doing what I can to help my team win.
Patch: How is your current season going?
JM: I think my season is off to a good start. One of my goals for the season is to be a more consistent player on offense and defense.
Patch: What is the favorite thing you like about being on your team?
JM: I really like how cohesive our team is. Everyone on our team comes from different skill levels and we all work hard to support each other during practices and games.
Patch: Comment on any special accomplishments this season so far. At 2-1, with a very young roster, you guys are off to a wonderful start. Tell us about it.
JM: I that think our biggest accomplishment this year is how well we've managed to bond as a team in such a short amount of time.
About half of our players are new to the team this year and getting a bunch of high school girls to work together at the varsity level isn't an easy thing to do. I'm proud of how quickly we have managed to gel so quickly.
Patch: Tell us about your biggest fan. Who out there roots for you the hardest? And how does that make you feel?
JM: I don't really like to think of having a "biggest fan". I think that there a lot of people out there supporting me and I am very grateful for that.
Patch: Who are you a big fan of? Could be sports, movies, music, anything. Tell us about your most favorite person.
JM: I'm a big fan of musical artists Lana Del Rey and Kid Cudi.
Patch: Now tell us why you are you're such a fan of this person.
JM: hey have overcome struggles in their personal lives and have found a way to be successful despite their challenges.
Patch: What is the favorite tune in your I-Pod?
JM: I love music so much that it's so hard to pick a favorite song, but right now my favorites include "Electric Feel" by MGMT and "Just What I Am" by Kid Cudi.
Patch: Last question, what is your go-to karaoke song? Meaning if you were trying to win a contest like American Idol or X-Factor what song would you sing to make the audience vote for you as the winner?
JM: I'm not the karaoke type but I would have pick a song by Marina and The Diamonds.
McClendon and the Bombers will be out at Whitfield High in Creve Coeur, for three games next week in the Whitfield Round Robin Invitational.
On Monday, JBS will play Crossroads Prep at 6 p.m.; on Wednesday, the Bombers will face St. Elizabeth at 7:30 p.m.; and then on Friday, it'll be JBS against tournament host, Whitfield, in another 7:30 p.m. contest.


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Pareve Passion Fruit/Passiflora Recipes for Rosh Hashanah?
If you have an ice cream maker, I would suggest sorbet. It's as easy as it gets, but I don't know how to do it without a maker.
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re: almond tree
My recipe for all the fruit sorbets I make is basically the same:
2 cups of the fruit puree (or even juice, like grapefruit juice), 1 cup water, and 1 cup sugar. Mix together and process in the ice cream maker. I imagine you could just freeze it in a shallow pan, and, as you said, beat it several times during the freezing process. I happen not to like passionfruit, by my husband does, and he says this is one of my best sorbets. (Though my kiwi-lime is his absolute favorite.)
Re: your temps in the 30s. I hope people realize you are talking Celsius; most of us in the US are probably thinking temps in the 30s would be pretty chilly!
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I have seen him make reference to doing sorbet the same way and have done it , it worked fine. immersion blender is the trick.
Well, I put together the making of a passionfruit sorbet, using the various suggestions here. Had hoped to do before Erev RH but didn't work out that way.
Getting the pulp was something of a potchkerei and from 10 fruits, I ended up with a scant cup, which seemed to be mostly seeds. Blended the mixture -- seeds didn't get chopped up Finally took out about 2/3 of the seeds with my fingers and put the whole thing in the freezer. (Of course I couldn't taste it to check the amount of sugar, otherwise it wouldn't be a shehechiyanu for me.)
Shana tova.
The sorbet was excellent, very clean tasting and refreshing among all the heavy holiday food.
I used queenscook's proportions (thank you) & then simply beat the mixture with a fork several times during the freezing process. Very smooth texture, though it would have been even better had I removed *all* the seeds.
Now I want to try it using different fruits. Maybe fig or persimmon?


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NORMAN — Graveside services for Lorene Hayes Marti, 87, of Norman, will be 2 p.m. Monday at Blackburn Cemetery. Lorene was born April 18, 1926, in McCurtain County and died Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, in Norman. Arrangements have been entrusted to the care of Primrose Funeral Service.
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Ford COO Mark Fields details the turnaround of an iconic American automaker during inaugural Handleman Lecture.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Ford Motor Co.'s turnaround from losing $12.7 billion in 2006 to a profit of $5.66 billion in 2012 didn't happen by chance. As COO Mark Fields explained, the to-do list included critical decisions around brand focus and product excellence, but also the simple-sounding concept of "working together."
"That sounds strange," Fields told a packed Blau Auditorium at the inaugural Handleman Lecture, Feb. 11. "Why would you need to make that a priority?"
Chalk it up to 109 years of history with a top-down culture, where reporting bad news made you vulnerable. In 2006, Alan Mulally left Boeing Co. to become CEO of Ford and worked to change that culture.
At a weekly business status meeting early in Mulally's tenure, charts from top executives didn't indicate the company was in any trouble. Ford uses a color code for topics — green for good, yellow for a potential issue, red for a problem — and everything was green. Mulally thought that odd for a company losing billions.
Meanwhile Fields, then president of the Americas, had an issue with a product launch that year. The new Edge had a liftgate problem that threatened to delay its critical debut.
"I said, 'Code it red,' and they said, 'Are you sure you want to do that?'," Fields said. "I said, 'This is what Alan wants. Let's go for it.'"
Finally it was Fields' turn — Edge launch: bright red.
"I could feel the chairs move away from the table," said Fields. "I said we have a problem, and I'd love to have help from manufacturing and quality to help resolve it. Alan turns to me and starts clapping. The next week, everybody's chart was like a rainbow. Working together has been so crucial for us to get through a very difficult time and work through our issues on our own."
The turnaround took a number of other hard decisions, some of which involved closing plants and laying off employees. Fields outlined the steps to Ford's recovery:
The culture change and the new strategic direction also were aided by a major financial decision — mortgage the company's assets, including its iconic blue oval logo, to borrow $23.6 billion. Fields said the automotive business is a cash glutton — every product launch requires a massive capital investment. Fortunately, Ford's turnaround started before the financial markets melted down in 2007 and 2008.
The culture change and strategy decisions paid off. In addition to better products, higher sales, increased profits, and better consumer ratings, Ford also got its investment-grade rating back last year.
The lesson, Fields said, is to be "relentlessly dedicated to knowing the reality of your business."
Ford still has some hurdles. For one, it's trying to re-image its luxury Lincoln brand, which Fields admitted will take some time — years, not months.
"We worked on the Ford brand, improved the lineup and reputation, and we want to do the same for Lincoln," he said. "To be a successful global automotive company, it's important to have a global luxury brand. If you look at the successful companies, they have a healthy mass market brand and a luxury brand. So we're investing capital to revamp the lineup."
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Something happened this week that made me wonder if I've begun to get old, if I've lost touch with the "in" crowd.
I guess if I have to ask it's probably too late.
You see, I've been on my way to a premature style demise for a while now. Some years ago I decided skinny jeans are the most ridiculous fashion fad to be regurgitated from the bowels of history. And I refuse to allow my 5-year-old son, Spencer, to wear his baseball cap in any direction other than the right one. But something in a wire news story Monday sealed my fate.
"Twerking, what's that?" I asked.
"It's a dance move," replied another Record-Eagle editor before he explained that Miley Cyrus made a fool of herself "twerking" Sunday night on stage on national TV.
The fact that I had to learn about the revamped form of butt jiggling from a man twice my age is bad enough, but once I Googled and watched the video, I realized I'm way out of my depth.
Note how I used Google properly as a verb in the context above. Surely that's got to count for something, right?
Somehow, I find little reassurance in my stellar Google usage, and even less as the instant replay of the awards show scrolled across my computer screen.
Cyrus, who was in third grade when I graduated high school, shed most of her clothing save beige underwear and began to perform a song and dance that seems more appropriate for the stage of a strip club than a televised music awards show.
Immediately, I launched into one of those "back in my day" rants in my head. A few words into a mental tirade about how, when Will Smith still was rapping they just called it "booty shaking," I stopped.


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For many in Seattle, New Year's Eve plans are pretty simple: have a party at your home with good friends and family, and then saunter out to the deck or backyard to watch the Space Needle fireworks. For those not luckily enough to live with direct views of downtown, some prefer to watch the fireworks on television.
But aren't those fireworks, impressive as they are, pretty much the same every year? Looking for something new and different this New Year's in the Puget Sound? Let us suggest:
Mozart for New Year's Eve at St. James Cathedral
St. James Cathedral is not merely one of Seattle's most gorgeous old buildings, it hosts some of the best music, secular and sacred, in the Northwest. This New Year's Eve the cathedral choir and soloists will perform Mozart's Solemn Vespers, Regina Coeli, and Missa brevis d-Moll. Start your 2011 experiencing some of the most beautiful music on earth in a wonderful and welcoming setting (no, you need not be an Episcopalian).
Where: Capitol Hill
When: 11pm
How much: $22 suggested donation. Students, seniors, and the unemployed pay as able.
New Year's Eve Dinner and Dancing at Century Ballroom
Fellas, want to really impress your lady this year? Go for Century Ballroom's Dinner and Dancing Combo. Dinner is three courses, including champagne, soup, lobster, grilled lamb, homemade dessert, and coffee. At 9:30 after dinner dancing begins in three different halls: salsa, tango, or west coast swing. The floor will be packed so the reluctant dances among us can really disappear into the crowd without feeling on display. Elegant and semi-formal attire, gentleman: no jeans.
Where: Capitol Hill
When:Dinner: 7:00pm - Dancing only: 9:30pm
How much:Dinner: $65 - Salsa dancing: $45 - Tango: $30 - Swing: $20
New Year's with the Seattle Symphony
Ring in the New Year with Beethoven's sensory overload Symphony No. 9 (featuring the "Ode to Joy"), the Seattle Seahawks Drumline, and Maestro Gerhard Schwartz (in his last New Year's with the Symphony) leading the countdown. Also performed will be Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever and Strauss's Radetzky March. The perfect combination of elegance and boisterousness. Dinner is also offered separately before the concert.
Where: Downtown Seattle
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Ashanti Is Red Hot in Manhattan
Ashanti lit up the streets of New York City during her visit to the "Today" show on Thursday (Sept. 29). The Boys & Girls Clubs of America spokeswoman waved to photographers as she posed in a knee-length red dress and Chanel brooch, showing off her legs in glittery heels.
After keeping her fans waiting, she finally revealed that "No Good" will be the first single from her upcoming fifth album. "It's so phenomenal, oh my gosh!" an excited Ashanti gushed to Hoda Kotb and Nick Lachey.
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Email Unto Others
In some ways, my experience is a microcosm of so many who work in the creative fields of publishing and entertainment. I receive emails daily – dozens and dozens – asking me questions, giving me feedback, asking me to read a script, manuscript or treatment. Asking my advice, asking me for freebies, connections or promotions, asking me to do a guest blog. I am very flattered to receive such a plethora of requests. That you think I know what I am doing floors me, in a good way
I enjoy speaking with writers and creatives all over the world.
Writers and creatives are in frequent communications with those who can help them. They send queries, promotional items, trailers, Kickstarter campaign information, headshots – all manner of accoutrement. It's great how easy it is to reach out to others who may have more experience than ourselves and seek the help we need. I definitely recommend contacting those you admire and seeing if they would be willing to share some wisdom with you.
But like you (and everybody else on God's green earth) I am busy. Time management is a constant challenge for me. Why should I stop what I'm doing, read your email and respond to you? If the shoe were on the other foot and you had to have some kind of filter for how often you get interrupted with requests, what would your impulse be?
I use the customized Nice (or at least Sane) Person Filter. ™ Which is to say that if you are nice to me, by say, asking how I am, or pointing out a recent blog post or FB update that you liked, and THEN ask me your question, in a friendly, polite way, also mentioning that if I don't have time, that is also cool, and also attaching a picture of a kitty (no, I'm serious, I am easily bribed by cute or funny things), then giiirrlll - I'm yours. I cannot resist polite, friendly, warm, witty emails. People say to me all the time – I can't believe you took the time to email me back and be so chatty! I don't actually have time to be so chatty, is the bottom line. If I am chatty and friendly, it is because you charmed me.
But you would be shocked – SHOCKED – by how often I get emails that are minimally brusque, and sometimes demanding and outright rude. Ask Dianna Zimmerman, the JFEME Competition Coordinator, about some of the emails we get vis a vis the competition. Can we resubmit this? Can we find and identify that? Can we … fill in the blank. We should have a hall of shame of emails that are just – wow.
I have to assume that the Rude, Cursory, Impersonal Email Requesters contact many, many other people outside of myself, asking the same advice or favors. And I imagine their success rate is very low. Why should I guest blog on your blog? In what world do I have time for that, given my own schedule – ohhh a kitty? Well, that's different. Most everybody is a sucker for a nice person. Oh and sane – act sane, even if you aren't (writers.. you know it, I know it…)
So as we get going in 2013, a year full of writing goals and aspirations, I know that you will be doing a lot of communicating. And I want you to do it well. This particular blog post applies to the minority of you, by the way, but those of you who don't take the time to correspond by putting your best foot forward – take note and slow down enough to do it right. You may be surprised and delighted at the number of people who respond positively, providing you with exactly what you wanted or needed.
While I'm on a roll, I have another beef as well – email addresses that are long, incomprehensible, hard to remember or spell and silly on top of all of that. I emailed a writer earlier this week whose email address was an approximation of this: firstname.lastname@example.com. Fundaddy? This is a writer who wishes to have a career in Hollywood? And that's his email address? There's a thin line between clever and… just plain silly. Take a look at your email address today. Is it simple, clear, easy to say and to spell? Or does it contain some kind of inside joke or allusion to your marital or parenting status or a hobby of yours? Err on the side of professional and you won't regret it.
Make it easy and pleasant for people to email you back and your response rate will skyrocket.
When you query or otherwise email any professional and you need advice, direction or their services, be more than polite, be warm and friendly. Personalize your email. Use some genuine flattery - I am emailing you because I really love your film/blog/book. Get to the point but be self-effacing and humble. Recognize that you are indeed asking a favor. And go out of your way to persuade whomever you are emailing that they really do want to help you.
Here's a quick check list:
- Personalize your email: tell the recipient that you admire their work and why. This shows that you did your homework and are making an honest and authentic effort in your query.
- Use an email address that is simple and professional.
- Include relevant contact information.
- Be clear in stating what you want and if you have a deadline of some sort, make it a generous one.
- Be clear about why you approached that particular person and why the favor might benefit them as well. If is a pure favor, say that too.
- Sign off in a friendly yet casual way. Understand that they are busy and say that.
Avoid the spam folder. Email unto others are you would have them email unto you.


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The low-lying city of 50,000 across the Hudson River from Manhattan was badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Mayor Dawn Zimmer wants to city to serve as a model for how to develop a uniquely urban approach to extreme storm preparation.
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Total Players: 160 (including the No. 32 pick in 2008)
Gigantic Hits: 18 (11.25%)
Hits: 68 (42.5%)
(Total Good 'Uns: 53.75%)
So-So/Too Soon To Tell: 40 (25%)
Whiff: 34 (21.25%)
(Total Bad 'Uns: 46.25%)
Gigantic Hit
(2) Ndamukong Suh (DT, Lions)
(14) Earl Thomas (S, Seahawks)
(15) Jason Pierre-Paul (DE, Giants)
(3) Gerald McCoy (DT, Bucs)
(4) Trent Williams (OT, Redskins)
(5) Eric Berry (S, Chiefs)
(6) Russell Okung (T, Seahawks)
(7) Joe Haden (CB, Browns)
(9) C.J. Spiller (RB, Bills)
(12) Anthony Davis (OT, Niners)
(17) Mike Iupati (G, Niners)
(18) Maurkice Pouncey (C, Steelers)
(19) Sean Weatherspoon (LB, Falcons)
(21) Jermaine Gresham (TE, Bengals)
(22) Demaryius Thomas (WR, Broncos)
(23) Bryan Bulaga (OT, Packers)
(24) Dez Bryant (WR, Cowboys
So-so/Too Soon To Tell
(1) Sam Bradford (QB, Rams)
(10) Tyson Alualu (DT, Jaguars)
(11) Ryan Mathews (RB, Chargers)
(13) Brandon Graham (DE, Eagles)
(16) Derrick Morgan (DE, Titans)
(20) Kareem Jackson (CB, Texans)
(26) Dan Williams (NT, Cardinals)
(27) Devin McCourty (CB, Patriots)*
(28) Jared Odrick (DT, Dolphins)
(29) Kyle Wilson (CB, Jets)
(32) Patrick Robinson (CB, Saints)
(8) Rolando McClain (ILB, Raiders)
(25) Tim Tebow (QB, Broncos)
(30) Jahvid Best (RB, Lions)
(31) Jerry Hughes (DE/OLB, Jets)
Gigantic Hit
(22) Percy Harvin (WR, Vikings)
(26) Clay Matthews (OLB, Packers)
(1) Matthew Stafford (QB, Lions)
(6) Andre Smith (OT, Bengals)
(8) Eugene Monroe (OT, Jaguars)
(9) B.J. Raji (DT, Packers)
(10) Michael Crabtree (WR, Niners)
(13) Brian Orakpo (OLB, Redskins)
(14) Malcolm Jenkins (CB, Saints)
(15) Brian Cushing (ILB, Texans)
(17) Josh Freeman (QB, Bucs)
(19) Jeremy Maclin (WR, Eagles)
(20) Brandon Pettigrew (TE, Lions)
(21) Alex Mack (C, Browns)
(23) Michael Oher (OT, Ravens)
(25) Vontae Davis (CB, Dolphins)
(28) Eric Wood (C, Bills)
(29) Hakeem Nicks (WR, Giants)
So-So/Too Soon To Tell
(3) Tyson Jackson (DT, Chiefs)
(7) Darius Heyward-Bey (WR, Raiders)
(12) Knowshon Moreno (RB, Broncos)
(18) Robert Ayers (DE, Broncos)
(27) Donald Brown (RB, Colts)
(30) Kenny Britt (WR, Titans)
(31) Chris "Beanie" Wells (RB, Cardinals)
(32) Evander "Ziggy" Hood (DT, Steelers)
(2) Jason Smith (OT, Rams)
(4) Aaron Curry (LB, Seahawks)
(5) Mark Sanchez (QB, Jets)
(11) Aaron Maybin (OLB, Bills)
(16) Larry English (OLB, Chargers)
(24) Peria Jerry (DT, Falcons)
Gigantic Hit
(1) Jake Long (OT, Dolphins)
(3) Matt Ryan (QB, Falcons)
(18) Joe Flacco (QB, Ravens)
(24) Chris Johnson (RB, Titans)
(2) Chris Long (DE, Rams)
(10) Jerod Mayo (ILB, Patriots)
(12) Ryan Clady (OT, Broncos)
(13) Jonathan Stewart (RB, Panthers)
(15) Branden Albert (OT, Chiefs)
(21) Sam Baker (OT, Falcons)
(26) Duane Brown (OT, Texans)
(30) Dustin Keller (TE, Jets)
So-So/Too Soon To Tell
(4) Darren McFadden (RB, Raiders)
(9) Keith Rivers (LB, Bengals)
(11) Leodis McKelvin (CB, Bills)
(15) Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie (CB, Cardinals)
(17) Gosder Cherilus (OT, Lions)
(20) Aqib Talib (CB, Bucs)
(22) Felix Jones (RB, Cowboys)
(23) Rashard Mendenhall (RB, Steelers)
(25) Mike Jenkins (CB, Cowboys)
(27) Antoine Cason (CB, Chargers)
(31) Kenny Phillips (S, Giants)
(5) Glenn Dorsey (DT, Chiefs)
(6) Vernon Gholston (OLB, Jets)
(7) Sedrick Ellis (DT, Saints)
(8) Derrick Harvey (DE, Jaguars)
(14) Chris Williams (OT, Bears)
(19) Jeff Otah (OT, Panthers)
(28) Lawrence Jackson (DE, Seahawks)
(29) Kentwan Balmer (DT, Niners)
(32) Phillip Merling** (DT, Dolphins)
Gigantic Hit
(2) Calvin Johnson (WR, Lions)
(3) Joe Thomas (OT, Browns)
(7) Adrian Peterson (RB, Vikings)
(11) Patrick Willis (ILB, Niners)
(14) Darrelle Revis (CB, Jets)
(29) Ben Grubbs (G, Ravens)
(6) LaRon Landry (S, Redskins)
(12) Marshawn Lynch (RB, Bills)
(13) Adam Carriker (DT, Rams)
(15) Lawrence Timmons (ILB, Steelers)
(18) Leon Hall (CB, Bengals)
(19) Michael Griffin (S, Titans)
(20) Aaron Ross (CB, Giants)
(21) Reggie Nelson (S, Jaguars)
(23) Dwayne Bowe (WR, Chiefs)
(25) Jon Beason (ILB, Panthers)
(26) Anthony Spencer (OLB, Cowboys)
(28) Joe Staley (OT, Niners)
(31) Greg Olsen (TE, Bears)
So-So/Too Soon To Tell
(5) Levi Brown (OT, Cardinals)
(9) Ted Ginn Jr. (WR/KR, Dolphins)***
(10) Amobi Okoye (DT, Chiefs)
(24) Brandon Meriweather (S, Patriots)
(27) Robert Meacham (WR, Saints)
(1) JaMarcus Russell (QB, Raiders)
(4) Gaines Adams (DE, Bucs)
(8) Jamaal Anderson (DE, Falcons)
(16) Justin Harrell (DT, Packers)
(17) Jarvis Moss (DE, Broncos)
(22) Brady Quinn (QB, Browns)
(30) Craig "Buster" Davis (WR, Chargers)
(32) Anthony Gonzalez (WR, Colts)
Gigantic Hit
(6) Vernon Davis (TE, Niners)
(12) Haloti Ngata (DT, Ravens)
(29) Nick Mangold (C, Jets)
(1) Mario Williams (DE, Texans)
(2) Reggie Bush (RB, Saints)
(4) D'Brickashaw Ferguson (OT, Jets)
(5) A.J. Hawk (sigh)**** (ILB, Packers)
(7) Michael Huff (S, Raiders)
(8) Donte' Whitner (S, Bills)
(11) Jay Cutler (QB, Broncos)
(17) Chad Greenway (ILB, Vikings)
(19) Antonio Cromartie (CB, Chargers)
(20) Tamba Hali (OLB, Chiefs)
(23) Davin Joseph (G, Bucs)
(24) Jonathan Joseph (CB, Bengals)
(25) Santonio Holmes (WR, Steelers)
(27) DeAngelo Williams (RB, Panthers)
(28) Mercedes Lewis (TE, Jaguars)
(30) Joseph Addai (RB, Colts)
(32) Mathias Kiwanuka (DE, Giants)
So-So/Too Soon To Tell
(9) Ernie Sims (ILB, Lions)
(13) Kamerion Wimbley (OLB, Browns)
(14) Brodrick Bunkley (DT, Eagles)
(22) Manny Lawson (OLB, Niners)
(31) Kelly Jennings (CB, Seahawks)
(3) Vince Young (QB, Titans)
(10) Matt Leinart (QB, Cardinals)
(15) Tye Hill (CB, Rams)
(16) Jason Allen (CB, Dolphins)
(18) Bobby Carpenter (OLB, Cowboys)
(21) Laurence Maroney (RB, Patriots)
(26) John McCargo (DT, Bills)
-How good are the Ravens? They got three Gigantic Hits (Joe Flacco, Haloti Ngata, Ben Grubbs) and one Hit (Michael Oher) in their four picks. Nobody had a better ratio, although the Jets, Lions, Vikings and Niners all collected two Gigantic Hits each.
-In fact, the Niners had four Hits (Anthony Davis, Mike Iupati, Michael Crabtree, Joe Staley) to go along with their two Gigantic Hits (Vernon Davis, Patrick Willis); together with a So-So (Lawson) and a Whiff (Balmer), they led the NFL with eight first-round picks in five years. The Broncos were right behind with seven: Thomas (hit), Tebow (whiff), Moreno (so-so), Ayers (so-so), Clady (hit), Jarvis Moss (whiff), Cutler (hit).
-How awful are the Raiders? In five picks, they had one Hit (Michael Huff), two So-So (Darren McFadden, Darius Heyward-Bey) and two huge whiffs (JaMarcus Russell, Rolando McClain). I don't think anybody did worse.
-The Bears somehow had only two first-round picks: Greg Olsen (hit) and Chris Williams (whiff). They did give up two first-round picks to poach Jay Cutler (hit) from the Broncos, so I guess there's that.
-I was kind of stunned at the Browns, who collected a Gigantic Hit in Joe Thomas, plus two Hits in Joe Haden and Alex Mack. Yeah, Kamerion Wimbley was so-so and Brady Quinn was a bust, but you'd still expect them to finish better than fourth place in their division more often than twice in the last eight years. In fact, the last time they won their division was 1989, and the last time they spent two consecutive years better than fourth place was 2001-02.
-Sixteen "good" players have changed teams, including 15 of 68 "hits" (36.7%). The "hits" include Vontae Davis (Dolphins to Colts), Mario Williams (Texans to Bills), Reggie Bush (Saints to Dolphins), Donte' Whitner (Bills to Niners), Jay Cutler (Broncos to Bears), Antonio Cromartie (Chargers to Jets), Santonio Holmes (Steelers to Jets), Greg Olsen (Bears to Panthers), Joseph Addai (Colts to Patriots)*****, Jonathan Joseph (Bengals to Texans), LaRon Landry (Redskins to Jets), Marshawn Lynch (Bills to Seahawks), Adam Carriker (Rams to Redskins), Aaron Ross (Giants to Jaguars) and Reggie Nelson (Jaguars to Bengals).
-Ben Grubbs (Ravens to Saints) is the only Gigantic Hit to change teams, although Jake Long (Dolphins) and Joe Flacco (Ravens) are free agents this year. One can expect more players from '08-'09-'10 to do so as their rookie contracts expire; the bulk were from '06 and '07. In fact, 14 of the 30 "hits" from those years changed teams, a rate of 43% which may be closer to the NFL norm; from '08 to '10, among "hits" whose rookie contracts mostly either have yet to expire or expired this offseason, the rate is 2.6% (one player out of 38, Vontae Davis).
*Now as later, players are listed as their college position, not what they subsequently converted to (safety, in McCourty's case).
**No. 32 pick in 2008; the Patriots forfeited their selection that year due to Spygate, so the first round had only 31 picks.
***Returning ability was treated as a bonus. If you have it, like Ginn, that's considered; if you don't, no big deal.
****I've never been a Hawk fan, but I couldn't justify downgrading him to "so-so".
*****Although he was cut before the regular season.


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John Warren Barnhill, M.D.
Honors and Awards
Dr. Barnhill graduated magna cum laude from Duke University and received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, where he won the Alumni Award for Service.
He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Fellow of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and has been elected to the American College of Psychiatrists.
Since 2003, Dr. Barnhill has won the full-time faculty teaching award from Weill Cornell's psychiatry residents, the John F. O'Connor Award for medical student student teaching from the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, the Nancy C.A. Roeske Certificate in Medical Student Education from the American Psychiatric Association, and twice won an excellence in medical student teaching award from Weill Cornell Medical College.


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GT-S7500 user manual This product meets applicable national SAR limits of 2.0 W/kg. The specific maximum SAR values can be found in the SAR information section of this manual. www.sar-tick.com Using this manual Thank you for purchasing this Samsung mobile device. This device will provide you with high quality mobile communication and entertainment based on Samsung's exceptional technology and high standards. This user manual has been specially designed to guide you through the functions and features of your device. Read me first ● ● Please read all safety precautions and this manual carefully before using your device to ensure safe and proper use. ● ● The descriptions in this manual are based on the default settings of your device. ●
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Guest blog by Caroline Buhler
Owner of Flymydarling Marketing
You've probably heard the hype by now: blogging is all the rage when it comes to a successful digital marketing strategy for your business. Blogging helps new customers discover your brand, it connects you with industry thought leaders, and it might even lead to successful business partnerships via guest bloggers. But writer's block happens to the best of us, even when you're writing on a topic related to your own business.
Brainstorming ideas for a successful article topic is much like planning a party. When coordinating a fiesta, you find out what's hot, come up with a theme, choose decorations, and send out the invitations. Think about writing a blog as a similarly fun and creative process, only you're working at making your readers feel like the guests of honor. Here are six questions, gleaned from good ol' party planning, that can be applied to the blog brainstorming process, as well.
1. What are the hot trends? Like planning a party, one needs to know what the current trends are when it comes to planning your blog. Are the 80's back? Do people like stupid humor again? Or is being intellectual the way to go today? With an article, you need to know what topic and title will attract the most people in this very moment, since that's what makes people likely to click on your blog. The way to brainstorm ideas is to use the Google Keyword Tool. Start typing in possible hot topics, then click search. The Google Keyword tool will tell you, on average, how many people are searching those terms that you type in. Type in words, and look through Google's suggestions for other phrases. Once you see a hot keyword with hundreds of thousands of search hits — better yet, millions of hits — then that becomes a topic with great potential for your blog.
2. What themes are you passionate about? Just like throwing a party about something you love, such as the flapper culture of the 1920's, gives you a ton to work with when preparing your shindig, picking a theme you're an expert on will make the blog planning process that much easier. Parties need quality themes with multi-dimensional concepts and ideas you can expand on. For example, if you plan a party, and the theme is "Party, Mexico-Style," you're instantly provided with lots of ideas for colors, props, types of drinks, food, music — you name it. Same goes for a successful article idea — your hot topic needs to be something you could almost write a book about — something you know so much about, that writing 500 words will be a cinch.
3. What can people leave with? Where are the goodies? Putting together a party means coming up with cool giveaways. What kind of information do you want to give to your readers? What are your party favors? What do people want to know about with your particular topic? Give 'em the good stuff. Search articles related to your topic, see what people are missing in their articles, and fill in the missing pieces with your unique content. Stand out as a blogger who gives readers takeaways they'll want to tell their friends about – then those friends will want to be "invited" to read your next blog.
4. How will you create the most engaging atmosphere? Choosing the style and decorations for a party is essential. You need to give a fun and cool vibe with your party's style and décor. If your crowd is hip and modern, you need to pick out the coolest place in town and hire a pro for the interior design. And when writing an article, if your crowd is cutting-edge and has high standards, your article photos need to be up to par — the pictures need to pop! The style of your writing needs to match the crowd, as well. If you're writing for an intellectual audience, it's a good idea to include facts and figures in your post and write in an intellectual tone. If the blog you're writing for is more focused on fun and light-hearted material, follow suit accordingly.
5. How will you invite people to join the merriment? Hello, how can anyone attend your hot party if they never received an invitation? Just like you might consider sending an evite, creating a Facebook event, or mailing an actual printed card to get people to come on over to your party, visualize all the ways you can invite readers to visit your article. Some ideas are blasting your contacts via e-mail, sharing your blog on social media, and submitting the content to article directories. If you're featuring a guest blogger, look at the blogger as your party planning partner-in-crime, and recruit the blogger to help you spread the word.
6. How will you get people to keep coming back for future fun? After the party is over, your work as a host isn't done. If you want people to come back to future celebrations, you'll most likely thank them for coming and might even add them to a "Future Partygoers" list so that they're notified first about your next party. Likewise, don't invite people to read your blog and then ignore them in the future. Respond to blog comments, thank people who share your blog on social media, send interested people related content, and invite people who have strong responses to your blog to further the conversation – either by giving you insight into how to make future blogs better, or even by writing a follow-up blog themselves.
Planning parties by yourself can be stressful, and so can writing articles – but follow these steps, and you're on the way to ensuring you'll be the host, or writer, with the most.
Caroline Buhler, founder of Flymydarling Marketing, adores inspiring people all around her and sparking motivation. As an Internet marketing strategist, she has helped companies organize their leads and implement streamlined conversion plans with the purpose to maximize the company's potential.


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MNU Blogs
Blogs by MidAmerica Nazarene University staff and faculty.
Erase Those Fears
For decades, neuroscience has been in full agreement on this issue. Once a memory has weathered the vulnerable early stage of neural processing, it becomes almost immutable. With ease of effort, we can now filter through a massive collection of personalized memories along with the necessary facts for our life's maintenance; social security numbers, passwords, addresses, and the car we drive. We delight in the brains capacity for retaining and retrieving this precious commodity we call memory.
But, it can also be a curse. Consider the bank cashier. Quietly, two disguised men walk into your bank brandishing guns. They order everyone to the floor, bind your hands behind your back and demand you give them the combination to the safe. Not knowing it, you try in vain to convince them of the fact. A crack to the back of your head with the butt of a gun tells you they are not convinced. You feel the warmth of your life's body fluid flowing down past your ear and pooling onto the floor. You hear another attacker say: "Go ahead and blow his head off if he doesn't tell you". You're convinced they will do just that, right there as you lay on the cold marble floor of the bank. But they don't. For some reason they run out empty-handed. You are safe. But your ordeal has just begun: violent nightmares, terrors at the mere hint of another persons aggressive behavior. You are no longer at east when behind the tellers window. You know you will soon have to quit your job. If only you could just forget this single frightful day.
Amazingly, brain researchers now believe this is possible. Each old memory, they are now finding out, when retrieved goes through the same vulnerable stage as it did originally. This is a re-consolidation phase of the memory retrieval. Some drugs, such as propranolol, when given following a memory retrieval seem to interfere with the re-consolidation processing and blunt the remembering. Some forms of behavioral therapy seem to be effective also in memory erasing.


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White-Collar Crime
Ex-Lawyer Faces Felony Charges for Allegedly Failing to Complete Promised Legal Work
Posted Jun 5, 2012 11:58 AM CDT
By Martha Neil
A former West Virginia lawyer was arraigned Monday on five felony charges of obtaining money by false pretenses, as well as forgery and uttering of a public record.
Kenneth J. Ford, 37, is accused in the Berkeley County Circuit Court case of accepting money from multiple clients to perform legal work that was not completed, reports the Martinsburg Journal.
He is also accused of forging a family court order.
Ford, who has pleaded not guilty, is free on bond.
His law license was annulled earlier this year by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
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Every Huntington resident knows the big white building that stands at 410 New York Ave. How can you miss it? What you might not know about the Aboff building is the historic land it sits on.
The property on the corner of New York Avenue and Fairview Street had been in the Scudder family for generations before it was a hotel. Reuben Scudder's home was located on this corner while his son, Charles, lived on the other end by Carver Street since 1895 and also bought the property on the south corner in 1923 from his sister, Juliet.
Later in 1924, Charles sold the whole block from Carver Street to Fairview to a group of Huntington investors for $110,000. Shortly after the purchase, it was sold to a Manhattan company for $155,000. This helped pave the way for the commercialization of New York Avenue.
The property sold two more times within that year and by the end of 1928, contractors started to build the Huntington Hotel. The architect and First World War veteran, August H. Galow, was chosen for the project. He graduated from Huntington High School in 1912 and two years later attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn as well as Columbia University's School of Architecture.
Two buildings he designed were a Henry Perkins Hotel and the Suffolk County Historical Society Building in Riverhead, which is included in the National Register of Historical Places.
The Huntington Hotel opened its doors for business on June 16, 1929. On July 2, before the grand opening, they held a gala of 150 guests and celebrated one of the finest hotels on Long Island. With 60 rooms, including three private dining rooms, it expressed historic style by showcasing murals by H. Willard Ortlip, a local artist.
This time was a huge turning point for Huntington because of the hotel's success. Even in its first week, all the rooms were rented. Soon organizations like the Girl Scouts and the Chamber of Commerce planned dinners and conferences there as well as the high school prom. The first two years were profitable until the Great Depression took hold.
For the next several years it was leased to corporations until 1950 when Oppenheim Collins leased the building and had it renovated into a department store. The third floor was removed and a new one-story addition was made to the building costing $150,000. The store opened during Christmas of 1951.
Again, business changed its course and Oppenheim merged with City Stores Company in 1966. The year after, the property was officially owned by Millicent Kalt Glen Cove Inc., a high-end women's clothing store, until it was bought by Robert Woolley and Frank Cascio in 1976 who changed the name to Woolley's.
This building went through so many changes. It is a pure example of how a community can undergo devastating times and find a way to rise to the top.
Business is business and the property brought Huntington much money and success. Since 1984, the building continued to pass from owner to owner and ended up in the hands of RHG Realty LLC in 2003 with intentions to restore the historic landmark to its original condition.
Today, the issue is yet another business venture. This November, TD Bank submitted plans to demolish the historic building and build a one-story bank in its place. With a modern design and three ATM drive-thru windows, the bank feels that it will benefit the area. Keep in mind, their are plenty of banks in town.
Many residents continue to fight to keep the landmark on the corner.
The zoning board said the new plans meet all the standards and passed the request on Dec.16 under the condition they make the parking lot accessible when the bank is closed. The historic preservation commission is scheduled to meet Jan. 24 and there will also be a Town Board meeting on Feb.1 at 7 p.m.
Town historian Robert Hughes stated the importance of the building for Newsday last month. "It plays an interesting part in the development of the town in the 1920s. It was a culminating event in the town's explosive growth just before the Depression." We all know Huntington is a historical city and with that comes fascinating stories, valuable memories and priceless pieces of architecture.
When you learn about the past and history of an area, it helps you to see the future more clearly. Having an understanding of your environment and its importance is key to keeping that history alive.
Check the town's website for updates. To keep up with what residents are saying you can visit the Facebook page, Save the Historical Aboff Building in Huntington. For more information on the history of the building you can contact the Huntington Historical Society or .


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Advocate South Suburban Hospital is pleased to offer free community health lectures.
Almost everyone starts the New Year with a resolution. Come join us as Rita Oganwu, M.D., discusses the tools needed to personalize a weight loss plan to fit your life-style. Get tips on healthy weight loss and how to manage your successes. You will also learn how to make healthy choices and avoid yo-yo dieting.
Where: Advocate South Suburban Hospital - Auditorium


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Ottumwa Courier
---- — OTTUMWA - The recent cold weather provided excellent conditions to bring more eagles to the Des Moines River in time for the Wapello County Trails Council's eighth annual Eagle Watch.
The event, a celebration of the eagles that make Ottumwa their home during the winter was held at Bridge View Center. The purpose of the event is to celebrate Ottumwa's spectacular eagles in residence, hike along the river trail, learn about birds of prey and enjoy talented works by local photographers on exhibit.
More than 20 exhibitors had displays to share, including live birds of prey. Exhibitors included everything from the Department of Natural Resources and Ottumwa Convention and Visitors Bureau to the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and 4-H groups.
Viewing scopes were available inside Bridge View Center. Visitors brought their cameras to capture the eagles perched along the trail, feeding along the levee and flying over the Des Moines River.


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Dallas Municipal Court
An ISO Certified Department
Court & Detention Services - Deferred Disposition
When a Defendant successfully completes Deferred Disposition by paying the required fee and complying with all terms of the probation, his or her case will be dismissed and there will be no conviction entered. However, if any term of Deferred Disposition is not met by a Defendant, a judgment of "Guilty" may be entered and a conviction may be entered.
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Defendants have 21 days to enter a plea on all citations issued in the City of Dallas. If no action is taken on a citation, a warrant of arrest may be issued. Defendants are eligible to request Deferred Disposition by mail within 60 days of receiving a citation, even if the case is in Alias Warrant status.
You may request deferred disposition via mail by entering a plea of Guilty or No Contest and submitting Documents 1 4 below:
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With regard to Frederick Parker's Feb. 13 Point of View "Not buying the traditional Republican message": I was surprised that Parker could arrive at such an erroneous conclusion about competition.
I have observed a number of members of the "cupcake generation" over time. Certainly, while young, many were pleased getting trophies regardless of performance, and many enjoyed the no-lose video games. But, once they entered the game of life, while they might have started by avoiding competition and participating collaboratively, they quickly discovered there can be only one team captain who generally listens only to two or three "influencers." Once this fact became obvious, especially in an environment of competing ideas, the cupcakers quickly learned how to compete.
Frankly, I doubt the cupcake generation can suppress the human race's thousands of years of genetic programming of "survival of the fittest." Especially in the face of the global economy where many cultures are mightily striving to supplant U.S. exceptionalism.
The one wild card is that seemingly three generations of folks living on government subsidies have mostly lost the drive to succeed. Given this example in our society, I suspect the GOP's message about excellence through competition is on point.
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Hank Green
|This biographical article relies on references to primary sources. (January 2014)
|Hank Green
Hank Green at Vidcon, 2014.
|William Henry Green II
May 5, 1980
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
|Missoula, Montana
|Alma mater
|Youtube Vlogger, Musician, Biochemist.
|Known for
|Blogging, vlogging, green technology, singing
|Notable work(s)
|Vidcon, VlogBrothers, Project for Awesome, 2D Glasses, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, SciShow, Crash Course, DFTBA Records, EcoGeek.
|Katherine Green (m. 2006)
|John Green (brother)
William Henry "Hank" Green II (born May 5, 1980) is an American entrepreneur, musician, biochemist and vlogger, well known for his YouTube channel, VlogBrothers[1] where he regularly uploads videos along with his brother, John Green. He is also the creator of the online environmental technology blog EcoGeek, and the developer of Subbable. He is involved with several other channels on YouTube, including Crash Course, SciShow, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, The Brain Scoop, and Sexplanations.[2][3][4][5]
Personal life[edit]
Green was born in Birmingham, Alabama,[6] and his family soon moved to Orlando, Florida, where he was raised.[6] He graduated from Winter Park High School in 1998, then earned a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from Eckerd College and a Master's degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana.[7] He currently resides in Missoula, Montana with his wife Katherine Green, their cat, Cameo, and dog, Lemon. He has chronic Ulcerative colitis, and copes with his disease well.
Brotherhood 2.0 (2007)[edit]
From January 1 to December 31, 2007, Green and his brother John ran a video blog project titled Brotherhood 2.0.[8][9] The original project ran daily for the entire year, with the premise that the brothers would cease all text-based ("textual") communication for the year and instead converse by daily video blogs, made available to the public via their YouTube channel Vlogbrothers and on their website. If, for some reason, the video was over 4 minutes or uploaded late, then punishments would be set out for the offender. The initial idea for the project was John's when, during an instant messaging conversation between the two, he pointed out they had not gone past the realms of communication via phone conversations, e-mails, and instant messaging for nearly a year.[10]
Recurring themes included "Nerdfighters", adding the phrase "in your pants" to the end of book titles, "Song Wednesdays", "Question Tuesdays" (these normally did not take place on a Tuesday, which led to video titles such as "Question Tuesday on Friday"), punishments for breaking the rules, clips of Hank 'humping' various items, the DFTBA initialism ('Don't Forget To Be Awesome'), and featuring intercourse between giraffes as the thumbnail for videos.
By December 31, 2007, the brothers had decided to continue vlogging even though the project had ended.
Post-Brotherhood 2.0 (2008-present)[edit]
In 2008, John and Hank met up with their fans, known as "Nerdfighters". The first gathering was a last minute decision, but despite the short three-day notice, nearly a hundred people attended. In August, John and Hank were invited to the Google office in Chicago to talk about the project.[11] That same day, they filled the Harold Washington Library with some four hundred young adults.[12] Following John's tour to promote his third novel, Paper Towns, the brothers went on a national tour in November. With events in 17 different cities, they met thousands of Nerdfighters at local libraries and community centers. During this tour, Hank released his first album of Nerdfighter-themed songs, titled So Jokes.[13]
The Green brothers have been interviewed on PotterCast and have been recurring keynote speakers at the Harry Potter fan convention LeakyCon.[14]
The Brotherhood 2.0 project succeeded in its original mission. The two brothers have come to communicate more thoroughly with each other, and have a larger influence in each other's lives than before the project was initiated. The brothers talked on the phone once or twice a year before Brotherhood 2.0, but, according to Hank's wife Katherine, they now "talk almost every day."[15]
John and Hank continued to post vlogs every Tuesday and Friday on their channel. As of April 18, 2014, they have posted 1,170 videos.[16] With over two million subscribers, they are the 149th most subscribed directors on the website. Their videos have been watched over 400 million times.[17][16]
Other web projects[edit]
In January 2012, John and Hank began new projects, YouTube web-shows "Crash Course" and "SciShow". "Crash Course" is an educational series, with weekly episodes consisting of John teaching World History, U.S. History, and Literature, and Hank teaching Biology, Chemistry, Ecology and Psychology. SciShow features Hank updating viewers on scientific knowledge and news.
On April 9, 2012, Hank Green and co-creator, Bernie Su, premiered a new web series, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. This series is a modern adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, his wife's favorite book, and is conveyed through the form of vlogs. The series stars Ashley Clements, Mary Kate Wiles, Laura Spencer, and Julia Cho. The channel has over 160,000 subscribers, with more than 22.5 million video views. The series also bridged other online media, such as Twitter and Tumblr pages under the names of characters and entities from the series.[18] Green was also one of the writers of the series.[19]
In his VlogBrothers video uploaded on December 7, 2012, Green featured Emily Graslie, a curatorial assistant at the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum. In this video, she showed Green a wide variety of specimens in the lab. Due to her ease in front of the camera, enthusiasm, and fan comments, Graslie was offered her own YouTube channel "The Brain Scoop" as a part of the Nerdfighter family. The series debuted in January 2013. Her work on the series has been described by journalists as "articulate and hilarious", as well as enthusiastic.
More recently, Green has been working as executive producer on a new YouTube channel called "Sexplanations" with Dr. Lindsey Doe, a qualified sexologist, to try to educate people about and open up a safe space to ask questions about sex, relationships, sexuality, contraceptives, and anything else that needs to be discussed. Their first video debuted June 10, 2013, introducing Dr. Doe and opening the conversation to the world.[20]
Project for Awesome[edit]
In 2007, John and Hank introduced the charity project titled the Project for Awesome (P4A),[21] a project in which YouTube users take two days, traditionally December 17 and 18, to create videos promoting charities or nonprofit organizations of their choosing. In 2012, they raised a total of $483,443, surpassing their goal of $100,000.[22]
VidCon is an annual conference based around online video. The conference was created by Hank Green and his brother John in response to the growing online video community. Hank states, "We wanted to get as much of the online video community together, in one place, in the real world for a weekend. It's a celebration of the community, with performances, concerts, and parties; but it's also a discussion of the explosion in community-based online video."[23] The event draws many popular YouTube users, as well as their fans, and provides room for the community to interact. The event also contains an industry conference for people and businesses working in the online video field.
Throughout high school and college Green created and designed websites for himself and local clients. His first project, the "Mars Exploration Page" in 1994, experienced minor success on the heels of the Mars Pathfinder Mission. Later website, IHateI4.com, brought press from local news channels and the Orlando Sentinel.[24] Green continued as a web developer after moving to Montana for graduate school, focusing on developing websites for educational institutions (including the University of Montana) and environmental non-profit organizations.
While in graduate school, Green created "EcoGeek", a blog focusing on technological advancements that would benefit the environment.[17] Starting out as a class project,[25] EcoGeek evolved into a major environmental publication.[26] EcoGeek caught the attention of Time,[27] where it was described as "porn for hardcore science, tech and enviro freaks". Writing about environmental issues, Green has been published on numerous environmental blogs, including Treehugger.com, Yahoo! Green, The National Geographic Green Guide, Scientific American, The Weather Channel, Planet Green, NPR[28] and in the New York Times.[29]
During the mid-2000s, Green wrote regularly for Mental Floss and co-authored one of their books, Mental Floss: Scatterbrained.[30]
During the Brotherhood 2.0 project, Green accepted a challenge to perform bi-weekly an original song (known as "Song Wednesdays") and he has continued, though less frequently, to write, record, and perform songs since then. His songs include "I'm Gonna Kill You," "Baby, I Sold Your Dog on eBay," and "What Would Captain Picard Do?". Green's first successful song was "Accio Deathly Hallows", which was featured on YouTube's front page preceding the release of the final Harry Potter book,[31] and has been viewed over one and a half million times.[32]
Green's first studio album, So Jokes, was released in 2008 and reached number 22 on the Billboard Top 25 revenue generating albums online.[33] He has since released four other albums: I'm So Bad at This: Live! (2009), This Machine Pwns n00bs (2009), Ellen Hardcastle (2011) which was named for the winner of a 2010 charity raffle, and Incongruent (2014) with his new band, Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers.[34] The album was released on May 7, 2014. [35]
In 2011, Green created "2-D" glasses, which allow one to watch 3-D movies in 2-D. The glasses were originally created for those who experience discomfort watching 3-D movies (such as Green's wife) and consist of either two right or two left lenses from a pair of regular 3-D glasses.[36]
DFTBA Records[edit]
DFTBA Records (an initialism for "Don't Forget to Be Awesome")[37] is a record label that was co-founded by Green and Alan Lastufka in 2008. Its main focus is music generated by prominent YouTube stars, such as Green himself, Dave Days, Charlie McDonnell, Chameleon Circuit, Molly Lewis, Rhett and Link, VenetianPrincess, NicePeter, Jason Munday and several others. Distribution of records by DFTBA Records is largely independent; Lastufka himself generally oversaw most of the distribution during his tenure as co-owner.
The goal of the record label, as Lastufka stated in a video on the subject, is to provide a distribution network for talented artists of YouTube and to make sure their music reaches out to the "largest audience possible."[38] The record label claims to aid a bigger audience in connecting with the artists, and make the "YouTube experience" more lucrative, more exciting, and more fun.
The offices of DFTBA Records were in Manhattan, Illinois,[39] until early 2013 when they were moved to Hank's hometown of Missoula, Montana.[40] In Illinois, the company had operated out of Lastufka's home. Upon moving to Missoula, they set up their warehouse in a small building that was formerly a preschool, but soon moved to a larger warehouse. During this time, they increased their number of employees from five to ten, and started another webseries called The Warehouse,[41] hosted by warehouse manager Matthew Gaydos. On June 19, 2014, Lastufka announced that he had sold his entire stake in the company and resigned as president, to pursue other projects. [42]
Hank Green
|↙Studio albums
|↙Live albums
- So Jokes (2008)
- I'm So Bad at This: Live! (2009)
- This Machine Pwns n00bs (2009)
- Ellen Hardcastle (2011)
- Tour de Nerdfighting (2012)
- Thinking About Christmas Songs (2013) (only available from the 2013 P4A)
- Incongruent (2014) (With The Perfect Strangers)
Also appears on:
- Wrock for Darfur (2008)
- DFTBA Records, Volume One (2009)
- DFTBA Records, Volume Two (2010)
- DFTBA Records, Volume Three (2012)
See also[edit]
- ^ "Vlogbrothers channel". YouTube. Retrieved January 11, 2012.
- ^ "Crash Course". YouTube. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
- ^ "SciShow". YouTube. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
- ^ "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries". YouTube. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
- ^ "The Brain Scoop". YouTube. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
- ^ a b Hank Green (May 16, 2007). "Brotherhood 2.0: May 16". VlogBrothers. YouTube. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
- ^ "Hank's MySpace". Myspace. Retrieved January 11, 2012.
- ^ Brothers Reconnect Using Video Blogging, NPR, All Things Considered, January 20, 2008
- ^ Brotherhood 2.0. (Description,), Point Click & Go, Fox News Mobile, August 14, 2007
- ^ How 2 Brothers Turned a YouTube Experiment Into a Charitable Mission, KDKA (CBS)
- ^ Nerdfighters: Insider View from a YouTube Persona, Google Tech Talks, YouTube
- ^ Vlogbrothers bring message to Chicago,video, CBS 2 News, August 8, 2008
- ^ Hank Green releases So Jokes, DFTBA Records
- ^ Keynote Speaker Announcement, The Leaky Cauldron
- ^ The Missoulian, Big Sky nerds[dead link]
- ^ a b "Vlogbrothers on StatSheep". Statsheep.com. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
- ^ a b Recession-resistant jobs - Missoula Independent
- ^ "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries | A modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice". Lizziebennet.com. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
- ^ Jenna Colozza (May 7, 2013). "A modern spin on an old classic". Times Union. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
- ^ Doe, Dr. Lindsey. "Sexplanations #1 - Meet Lindsey!". Sexplanations. YouTube. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
- ^ John Green; Hank Green (2011). "Home". Project4Awesome 2011. Project For Awesome. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
- ^ "Project For Awesome". Indiegogo. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
- ^ John Green; Hank Green (31 December 2009). "VidCon Questions Answered". YouTube. YouTube. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
- ^ ""Road Rants Go Online"". Articles.orlandosentinel.com. 2003-08-22. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
- ^ EcoGeek Makes a Splash in Debut Jonathan Weber, NewWest.net
- ^ Catone, Josh (October 15, 2007). "The Top 35 Environmental Blogs". ReadWriteWeb. Retrieved January 11, 2012.
- ^ Green Websites, Time
- ^ Shell Opens Hydrogen Station In L.A. - NPR, 2008-07-07
- ^ Notes on a sick planet - New York Times, 2007-10-14
- ^ Editors of mental floss (2006). Mental Floss: Scatterbrained. New York: Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-088250-1. Green read part of the novel he is working on on a livestream video to raise funds for an indiegogo project by The Harry Potter Alliance
- ^ Heilman, Elizabeth E. (2009). Critical perspectives on Harry Potter. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-96484-5.
- ^ "July 18: Accio Deathly Hallows", YouTube
- ^ May TuneCore Charts [1], Shore Fire Media
- ^ http://edwardspoonhands.com/post/82939926853/ok-so-we-did-it-its-happening-hank-green-and
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC0m31P_qyk
- ^ Browning, Skylar (June 16-June 23, 2011). "Two D's Better Than Three: Hank Green Finds a Place in Hollywood's Excesses", Missoula Independent, Vol. 22, No. 24, p.8.
- ^ "DFTBA" Music Video, Youtube
- ^ "187: Books, DFTBA Records and Holidays" YouTube
- ^ Lastufka, Alan. "DFTBA Offices". Retrieved 2010-07-22.
- ^ Green, Hank. "Little Infinity Packing at DFTBA". Hankschannel. YouTube. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ^ ""The Warehouse" - Episode 1 "YouTube
- ^ "This morning I sold my entire stake in DFTBA Records." Tumblr
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At 5:04 a.m. Sunday, two Milwaukee men, ages 19 and 20, and a 15-year-old Milwaukee boy were arrested for theft from an auto and possessing or receiving stolen property after a police officer parked in the lot at , 1615 Wauwatosa Ave., saw one of them try to enter a pickup truck parked on the street while the other two disappeared up a driveway in the 7700 block of Milwaukee Avenue. The three were stopped and searched, and two of them had GPS units that were traced to residents in the area whose cars had been rifled overnight. The three suspects had a variety of other items, including phones, an iPod, chargers and loose change that had been stolen. The three admitted in to police that they had entered about 20 cars that night, and had targeted that area of Wauwatosa because "it was easy."
A 30-year-old Wauwatosa man who lives in the 1000 block of North 119th Street was arrested for battery after he got drunk at a Milwaukee Brewers game and beat up his fiancé, who lives with him.
At 5:53 p.m., a Wauwatosa girl who is a student at reported seeing two boys abandon one bicycle and take another from a rack at the school. The abandoned bike had been reported stolen from East High by another student on Wednesday. The girl thought the two boys she had seen were freshmen at East and thought she would recognize them.
At 1:43 a.m., a 45-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for theft after he left the . without paying for a bag of candy bars. He and two other men left in a car but police arrived quickly enough to tail them for several blocks, and then Milwaukee police reported seeing car pull into an alley. The suspect was captured on foot a short distance away, and officers recovered evidence from the car that may identify the other suspects.
At 6:34 p.m., police were called to the clubhouse of the golf course, where a clerk had reported that her wallet and a large amount of clubhouse cash receipts had been stolen. She said that she had put the cash in a separate drawer beside the cash register a short time earlier and had then briefly gone outside to park some golf carts. While doing so, she had noticed a man near the clubhouse whom she did not recognize as having been a customer. When she returned to the clubhouse, she found her purse rifled and the wallet missing, then checked her drawer and found the cash missing. Video showed a man entering just after she stepped outside and going straight to her purse and then to the drawer, removing the wallet and money while keeping an eye out for the clerk.
At 6:28 a.m., a resident of the apartments, 4724 N. 100th St., reported that overnight someone had stolen her car from the lot in front of the building. She found broken glass where her car had been and could account for all keys to the vehicle. A neighbor came forward to say that she had noticed the broken glass when she came home at 9:42 the evening before. At 4:50 p.m., Milwaukee police found the vehicle a short distance away, in the 4300 block of North 110th Street, with two smashed windows and the steering column "peeled."
At 8:17 p.m., a Milwaukee woman reported that her purse had been stolen from her while she was seated at the bar at restaurant, 6030 W. North Ave. She said she had set her purse on the stool next to her and that a man had entered and set his backpack on the same stool, then suddenly left a few minutes later, taking her purse with him. A server remembered the suspect and said he had asked for a job application. She remembered thinking it odd he would set his backpack on top of the woman's purse. She said he suddenly grabbed his pack and left, but she did not mention noticing the purse go missing. The victim and the witness described the suspect as being an African-American man 20 to 25 years old, 5'11" to 6'0" tall, weighing 145 to 160 pounds, light-skinned and having "a turned-up nose." He was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans and appeared "dusty or dirty."
At 3:29 p.m., a 47-year-old Milwaukee woman was arrested at , 6950 W. State St., after she tried to leave without paying for a $16.99 bottle of tequila and 26 bars and cans of deodorant worth $125.99. At the time of her arrest, she said that she was stealing the deodorant for family members who needed it; the tequila, she said, was for her. Later, when being booked at the station, police recorded this as her complete, official statement: "I went to the store and took stuff."


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Although Mesocestoides species were first described in 1863, we still do not know the complete life history of these parasites. Species of Mesocestoides occur worldwide. Mature tapeworms live in the small intestine of a variety of birds and mammals, including domestic dogs
and cats (Table 1). It appears that some type of coprophagous invertebrate is the most likely first intermediate host. The typical metacestode
stage, the tetrathyridium, occurs within the second intermediate host, which includes amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
These tetrathyridia tend to localize within the peritoneal cavity, lungs, and liver. When eaten by the definitive host, they
mature in 16 to 21 days. Certain strains of the parasite can asexually reproduce within the intestinal tract of the definitive
host as well as within the tissues of the intermediate host. One study showed that ingestion of 500 tetrathyridia could result
in as many as 17,000 mature tapeworms in the dog.
Intestinal infections in the definitive host are not usually associated with clinical signs. However, dogs and cats can also
serve as second intermediate hosts, and infection in dogs can lead to a condition called canine peritoneal larval cestodiasis (CPLC). Clinical signs of CPLC range from none to abdominal enlargement, ascites, anorexia, vomiting, and peritonitis. Ascites
is the most common presenting sign, followed by anorexia and weight loss. CPLC is an incidental finding in approximately one-fourth
of all cases.10-12
Peritoneal lavage or surgical removal of cysts is recommended before the initiation of anthelmintic therapy, especially in
cases where large volumes of fluid and parasites are present. The current suggested anthelmintic treatment is fenbendazole
at 100 mg/kg orally, twice daily for 28 consecutive days.10 It may be necessary to re-treat animals if clinical disease reoccurs in the months or years following initial treatment.
Praziquantel (5 mg/kg) is used to treat mature, intestinal infections with good results.
Lora R. Ballweber, DVM, MS Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-1644