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Coming into Monday night's game between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Golden State Warriors, the Clippers were 4-2 in games decided by three points of less, and the Warriors were 1-6 in the same situation. So with the Clippers leading by two, 97-95, with possession and less than three minutes to go, you had to like L.A.'s chances. Instead, the Warriors scored the final nine points of the game to pull off the exciting 104-97 victory.
Monta Ellis scored 32 points to lead the Warriors, but the real hero for Golden State may have been second-year pro Ekpe Udoh. In his first start of the season filling in for a flu-y Andris Biedrins, Udoh had the kind of game that might keep Biedrins on the bench for a long time. Averaging four points per game on the season with a season-high of 11, Udoh scored 10 in the first quarter to help the Warriors get out to an early lead. He finished the game with a career-high 19 on 9-14 shooting to go along eight rebounds and two blocks.
Doing his part, Ellis was simply amazing. He shot 11 for 20 from the field, without an easy shot in the bunch. He was perfect from the line (6 for 6) and from behind the arc (4 for 4) and every shot he took was contested (except the free throws). David Lee had 24.
After blowing late leads against Portland and Memphis in the last week, it had to feel good to the Warriors to secure the win in the final minutes for once. Brandon Rush's three-pointer with just over two minutes left gave the Warriors the lead at 98-97. After a Chris Paul miss, Ellis hit a tough runner in the lane. Paul next got his shot blocked, and then fouled Stephen Curry, who made both free throws. A Blake Griffin turnover on the Clippers next possession with 40 seconds left effectively settled things.
For Paul it was a complete reversal of his recent performances. Against Portland and San Antonio in his last two games, he's started poorly, but came on strong in the fourth quarter. Monday night, he had 20 at halftime -- and finished with 24, including zero points on four shots in the decisive final period. Griffin was nearly unstoppable in the post against the undersized Warriors -- but he also battled foul trouble all night, and was limited to just 29 minutes of playing time. He finished with 21 points on 10 shots, and 9 rebounds. Mo Williams scored 22 off the Clippers' bench, making 6 of 8 three-pointers, while making just 2 of his 8 two-point attempts. It was that kind of game.
The closing seconds of the first half featured one of the more bizarre sequences you're likely to see. With the Clippers up four and in possession with 40 seconds left in the half, Golden State Coach Mark Jackson called for his players to intentionally foul DeAndre Jordan, a strategy the Clippers suspected he might employ against their poor free throw shooters. Paul overheard the instruction to foul, and put up a half court shot as the whistle was blowing -- which went in. The officials ruled that the basket did not count -- though neither Paul nor Vinny Del Negro seemed quite convinced of the reasoning. Jordan made one of two free throws, and on their possessions, the Warriors scored a Curry three. Now with 15 seconds left, the Warriors went to foul Jordan again, and Paul again launched a long shot from the hip figuring their was nothing to lose -- only for some reason, the whistle didn't blow, and the Warriors took the rebound and scored the final basket of the half, tying the game and giving the Warriors all the momentum heading into halftime. The hack-a-Shaq strategy has never worked so perfectly -- though in a most unconventional manner.
The loss was the first time the Clippers have lost consecutive games since December 29, and it drops them to 19-11. The Warriors improve to 12-17 with the win.
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HOUSTON—While many stores, like the Party City in southwest Houston, seem packed with Halloween shoppers, many people say they're watching their spending.
"We're all keeping an eye on the economy," said Edna Rice. "I have watched {the prices} more carefully than I have done in the past."
"Everyone is in a crunch right now so they are waiting until the last minute to buy candies and decorations or are using the ones they had from years before," said Rosalyn Webb.
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But not all shoppers are spooked by the economy. We found some who spent well over the $56 average the national retail federation predicted for each family's 2009 Halloween budget.
"We spend close to $100 and that's a lot compared to years past," said David Landmesser.
Because retailers expected Halloween sales to drop by at least 20 percent, stores have been trying to lure shoppers in with deep discounts.
"I know the economy has affected many customers, but with the prices that we have starting at $9.99 for costumes, we seem to have something for everybody," said Mike Patton, Party City Manager.
"I do feel the prices are a little bit lower this year," said Cookie Boeker, another Halloween shopper. "I feel like I've seen more sales on things."
While many parents say they're cutting back on things such as haunted houses, elaborate parties, pumpkins, and even candy, many are reluctant to deprive their little ones of the Halloween spirit.
"It has affected us a little bit," said Boeker. "You can't just tell them sorry you're not going have a costume."

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Maybe that college major isn't as important as we thought. At least not to about one-third of college-educated workers who've never found a job related to their major.
A new survey from CareerBuilder.com says that holds true even for seasoned workers who are 35 and older. In fact, a human resources rep for the site says most workers actually ended-up liking their new field.
The survey included about 2,100 workers from across the nation.
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WARWICK - The plows were out in force overnight, ready to clear out and clean up the snow.
"We probably deployed about 300–400 people throughout
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and probably about another
250–300 trucks and pieces of equipment," said Jason Case, President of Case Snow Management.
Crews were constantly reloading sand and salt, battling snowfall that wouldn't let up before sunrise.
"The roads are snow covered and very treacherous... so it's
making it a little more difficult than we thought, but we'll have it in pretty
good shape," said Case District Manager Tom Colucci.
Plow operators hit the roads even before the first flakes
fell, pre–treating.
But that didn't stop some from pulling all–nighters to make
sure roadways stayed clear, and safe.
"It is tough you know the long hours... they do get to you
after a little while so... our guys they are prepared for the event so they get
plenty of rest and the equipment is prepped so it's basically a turn key
operation," said Case.
Crews will continue their cleanup operations throughout the
day, finishing by removing snow banks later on tonight.
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The St. Louis Blues are attempting to stay out of an 0-2 hole in their Western Conference Quarterfinals series against the San Jose Sharks. A 2-0 lead after two periods of Game 2 is a good start.
David Backes put home a goal on a brilliant assist by T.J. Oshie in the late stages of the period, and the Blues dominated throughout en route to what looks like a fairly safe 2-0 lead. St. Louis had 17 shots to San Jose's eight in the second, and Brian Elliott, brought in in relief of Jaroslav Halak little more than a minute into the period, faced only six of those Sharks shots.
Sharks goaltender Antti Niemi, on the other hand, has faced 26 shots in Game 2.
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The vote for a proposed events center in Sioux Falls is less than a week away.
If you would like some more information the city of Sioux Falls is holding a number of presentations for the public.
There are two on Wednesday night.
One at the Oyate Community Center on West 15th Street and another at Memorial Middle School on South Sertoma Avenue.
Both meetings start at six and are open to the public.
Supporters of the events center have really made a push to educate people about the details of the events center.
To see just how much you know about the proposed events center KSFY News conducted a little quiz.
It didn't take long to find people interested, but it was surprising that just five little questions could provide such a wide variety of answers regarding this huge decision the city is facing.
We started our quiz off with an easy question.
One that is probably the biggest deal for concerned citizens, and that is how much would the events center cost?
"Is it around a million? I know it's quite a bit." Said one person.
"I'm not sure it's either $2.5 and $5 million, I read that somewhere." Said another.
"I think they said $150 million but I might be wrong."
Wrong yes, but close.
No one we talked to knew the correct answer which is $115 million.
That question lead into question two, how would the city pay for it?
"Taxes I imagine." Said one man.
"Taxpayers, they want to have a tax for the city of Sioux Falls." Said another.
"Aren't they going to do a bond issue?" Asked one person.
Yes they are, the events center would be built with no added cost to the city.
They want to use the current revenue streams to bond it out.
People seemed to struggle with the first questions but they all knew number three: where the events center would be built.
"Next to the convention center and arena." Said one man.
"Over by the arena." Said another.
"The arena site right now."
But very few people knew the specifics in question four, how many seats would go into it?
"That I don't know." Admitted one woman.
"What did they say 5,000?" Asked another.
"12 to 15 thousand?"
The events center will hold 12,000 seats which is almost double the current arena's maximum capacity.
But the most important question was saved for last.
When is the events center special election?
"Next Tuesday." Said one man.
"The 8th." Said another
"November 8th." Said one woman.
"Tuesday the 8th." Said another.
"It's this month, soon, it's probably on my phone and it will tell me when to vote."
Again, we know this is just a random sampling of the population but it was surprising that no one was able to ace our short quiz.
And with just six days to go, there's not much time left to get all the facts straight and make an informed decision when voters head to the polls.


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A Million Dollar Murder
A Crime of Passion?
The authorities considered various motives, including sour business relationships and revenge by someone who had suffered the repo mans hook. Mosslers wallet was emptied of about $500 during the deadly assault, so robbery was considered, as well.
But detectives kept coming back to the 39 stab wounds. Mossler was not merely slain. He was murdered with a vengeance. Often, such passionate overkill indicates an emotional or sexual connection between the attacker and victim. Naturally, suspicion fell on his wife and her lover.
Mossler left a record of the affair in his own diary, and he clearly understood the stakes. He wrote of Candy and Mel,
Tangible and circumstantial evidence implicated the lovers. Airline records and eyewitnesses said Powers had traveled from
A white Chevrolet spotted at the murder scene was identified as a rental that Candy had provided Powers during his visit to
On July 3, the day of Jacques Mosslers funeral,
The gems included an emerald-cut blue and white diamond ring valued at $20,000, a canary tear drop diamond pendant worth $12,500, and various other gold and diamond fripperyĀ- all gifts from Jacques Mossler to his wife.
Mossler would have choked at the idea: He had paid for the defense of his accused murderer.


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Save the date! We are throwing the OTTO Launch Party on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at WRK Design in SoHo.
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Families of 3rd and 4th graders get to enjoy some quality time together.Students learned math can be fun and took some activities home to work on.Tonight's event was to help kids prepare for the upcoming ISTEP test.
"Another tool to help our families and our students," said Principal Mike Budzinski. "I think it will help us bridge that partnership too with the families. We have great children at our school."
This is the school's second math night--the first math night was this past November.
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TNA Impact Professional wrestler Matt Morgan took time out of his busy schedule to raise money for 17-year old Saranac Central wrestler Nathan Wood, who's battling Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare form of cancer.
The 7-foot, 326-pound, Morgan, signed autographs and took pictures with local fans at the Champlain Centre Old Navy in Plattsburgh, N.Y. All proceeds fron the event went directly to the Wood family.
"I'm just honored to help out in whatever way I can," Morgan said. "I just want to raise as much money as I can."
"It's great to see TNA Wrestling come out here," Roy Wood, Nathan's father, said. "To have them support a local kid says a lot."
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California State University San Bernardino will be hosting several outdoor concerts this summer.
Kicking off the campus' musical month will be The Latin Society on Wednesday, July 3. This group has been performing in the I.E. and throughout Southern California for 37 years.
Next will be The Best of Everything on Wednesday, July 10, who perform pretty much everything. The group will be sure to perform some of their hit songs like "Night Train" and "Sway."
The Powerflex 5, a pyschobilly, ska, punk surf band will be performing on Wednesday, July 17, and Desperado, an Eagles tribute band will be performing the following week on Wednesday, July 24.
Lastly will be the Coyote Radio Best of the Bands contest winner and runner up on Wednesday, July 31, closing out the summer music Wednesdays.
All performances will be outside the campus' Lower Commons at 7 p.m.
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No, I have no idea what the Millrose games are, but Jacoby won the 60m against guys from some other sports. More importantly he gave us a good sound bite.
"They had a better chance running through the jungle with a pork chop sandwich"
Since I still need words I will just go ahead and right some random stuff about how much Tim loves Zima and Jolly Ranchers.


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Greenlees defined an abelian category A whose derived category is equivalent to the rational S 1 -equivariant stable homotopy category whose objects represent rational S 1 - equivariant cohomology theories. We show that in fact the model category of di#erential graded objects in A models the whole rational S 1 -equivariant stable homotopy theory. That is, we show that there is a Quillen equivalence between dgA and the model category of rational S 1 -equivariant spectra, before the quasi-isomorphisms or stable equivalences have been inverted. This implies that all of the higher order structures such as mapping spaces, function spectra and homotopy (co)limits are reflected in the algebraic model. The construction of this equivalence involves calculations with Massey products. In an appendix we show that Toda brackets, and hence also Massey products, are determined by the derived category. 1.


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Red Giant Put BulletProof Workflow Software Through Its Paces in Cold War Gadget Short 'Spy vs Guy'
It's all well and good setting out to create a 'proof-of-plugin' short / commercial when you have flashy effects or color grade looks to show off, but if the product is more concerned with efficient workflow, then introducing an impressive invasion scene or futuristic weapon probably isn't going to cut it. So how did Red Giant choose to showcase their offload, prep, and delivery solution BulletProof through the medium of film? Why, by creating Spy vs Guy, a live action Road Runner vs Wile E. Coyotesque film, steeped in cold war era skullduggery of course. Check out the hunt below.
As we highlighted earlier this month, BulletProof is all about the workflows that assist production throughput whilst making sure all your bases are covered. That functionality led director Seth Worley to build a story centred around loss retrieval, inspired by the real stories of CIA concealment coins which agents accidentally spent and are apparantly still in circulation today.
Where previous Red Giant shommercials (if that catches on I want full credit!) Plot Device and Tempo brought the software's capabilities to the forefront of their narratives, this time round it was the combined work of production designer Paul Conrad and prop designer Neil Hoppe that took centre stage as Steve Taylor's hapless spy unsuccessfully works his way through a parade of cold war gadgets in pursuit of his guileless quarry.
The team gave themselves a tight two month deadline to turn the entire project around, with post only apportioned four weeks in the schedule. Fortunately, after being impressed by their previous outings, Dell lent their support by providing several machines which eased processing concerns for the Premiere Pro edit. Although Spy vs Guy is a sales pitch for the workflow system BulletProof, the team did still dip into their software goody bag (PluralEyes 3, Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Keying & Effects Suites) to realize the Canon 5D Mark III shot short.
Here's a detailed behind the scenes break down of the production process for Spy vs Guy:
So how do you think the sustained slapstick of Spy vs Guy holds up against previous Red Giant shorts? Has it made you more inclined to incorporate Bulletproof into your production workflow?
Link: Spy vs Guy — Red Giant
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Jorge Cayon on 04.25.13 @ 9:57PM
I would totally keep supporting and buying Red Giant products. Although I don't think the 5dMKIII held up well for a lot of the shots. There are other options, and I know that it was probably on budget but it wouldn't have been my first choice. Who knows, could be Internet compression but it just looked way too soft for my taste. It's 2013 for god sake.
Other than that great film. I wish more companies would choose to make shorts for their products as opposed to 30-sec. spots made for those suffering from ADD.
Gene on 04.26.13 @ 1:50AM
This was a kick. The cutest and funniest thing I've seen in a while. If the writers kept brainstorming for a year they could get it up to 100 minutes and have a great movie for theaters.
I really dig all the shorts these guys have done. Solid, fun visual storytelling.
Saied on 04.26.13 @ 8:18AM
I do like the look of Red Giant software, but they do seem too fond of the MAC people (I'm a PC guy).
Sponsored by Dell and they're too fond of Mac?…
Saied on 04.26.13 @ 2:11PM
Thanks for responding Koo (and Raul). When I compare Red Giant to the Boris site , Boris seem to go with Vegas and Edius as well as Adobe. I was interested in Primatte and Pluraleyes 3 – I think that Primatte doesn't go with Avid either (?).
Not sure what you mean, I am using all sorts of Red giant plugins on PC, even this entire short was done on Dell PCs… I never even heard of any of their products for Mac only
Ok, after posting I realized I hadn't reloaded for a while and it looks like Ryan said it first…
David S. on 04.26.13 @ 9:24AM
I love Red Giant. I'm honestly a more loyal customer to them than I am to any NLE company.
BulletProof was probably the thing I was most excited about at the show this year, maybe only beaten by the BMD booth. We have been desperately looking for a powerful sort of "lightroom-for-video" organization system for our terabytes of archive media. It's certainly not perfect, and there are a dozen features I discussed with them that I wanted to see implemented, but it's the first product I've seen that's along the lines of what we are looking for. CatDV was the closest, but is a little too big and bloated (and expensive, I believe) for my taste.
Speaking of that, I just realized that there is a free update to Colorista II and Denoiser… and holy cow, what a difference it makes!
Marcus on 04.26.13 @ 4:47PM
I like their shorts, I just don't like the visuals, too videoish for my taste, but again, the shorts are good.
Dheep' on 05.4.13 @ 9:53PM
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7Bang or Bust: Hayden Panettiere
Hayden Panettiere was photographed frolicking on the beach yesterday — without her Jack and the Beanstalk giant boyfriend, Wladimir Klitschko. And though he's not pictured in these latest photographs, I thought I'd do a "Bang or Bust" on those two, 'cause they're just so damned adorable together. It was like when Gary Coleman married
Gummy McBallgag Shannon Price.
Panettiere, who I'm kind of indifferent about in her wee existence, looks banging hot in her two-piece lifeguard-looking bikini and I think it's honestly a toss-up between her and her super-sized boyfriend.
Who would you rather? Eeny-weenie midget porn or orifice-ripping boxer sex? The choice … is yours.
June 8, 2010 at 7:25 am by Sarah
11Anna Paquin: "My Bisexuality is Not a Publicity Stunt."
Remember Anna Paquin's piece for that "Give a Damn" LGBT awareness thing? Turns out it was legit. Not that I expected it not to be, but I guess a lot of people were giving her flak because they thought that her bisexuality was a fumbling grope for attention, so she spoke out recently to correct those dumb-assed haters:
"I'm not someone who endlessly talks about her personal life for no reason but obviously, as someone who identifies as bisexual, those are issues I really care about — and frankly, I don't see why everyone doesn't care about them," she told Zap2it. "So when I was asked to participate in that PSA, it was just obvious. 'Well, of course I will'."
And really, in this day and age, why is this such a big deal? She's a chick who likes dudes … and chicks. Is there something so wrong with that? I certainly don't think so. And clearly, there's a lot of other people in today's society that doesn't think so, either. But always, there's going to be few rotten, worm-infested apples with that brown, smushy stuff under the skin that always ruin the barrel and turn everything else to funk. And you guys? Get over yourselves, for real.
I love me some Anna Paquin, and I don't give a flaming, flying crap-sack of blue monkeys if she's into fucking blue monkeys, men, women or Wall Street execs, which is probably the worst of all evils.
June 7, 2010 at 9:31 am by Sarah
14Ronson + Lohan = True Love 4-Eva?
Oh, barf. Like, really. Barf.
If ever there were two people who should stay far, far from one another, it's Samantha Ronson and Lindsay Lohan. While I dig the two of them on their own (one a bit more than the other, naturally), combining their forces is like sticking a wet finger into a live light socket. Great idea, huh?
Yeah, that's what I thought, too. (And I speak from experience … I've done it. We won't talk about this again.)
At any rate, exclusive insiders at Betty Confidential claim that Sam and Lindsay are definitely back on and it's all being attributed to Lindsay's latest stint of sobriety:
… Now that Lindsay has to put down the bottle, Sam is having a change of heart.
"Sam still cares for Lindsay," says our source, "and now that Lindsay is staying sober, Sam is proud of her and knows they can at least talk without getting into any fights."
And not only are the two being civil toward one another (no nipple pinching or face-spitting or crotch stabbing), they actually talked for, like, hours the other night:
"They spent the night talking recently – all night long – and they are on their way to mending their broken relationship," our source says. "It's going to take more than one night of talking, but it's a start. As long as Lindsay stays sober and healthy, Sam will be there for her through her sentencing."
Great. I can just see how this one's going to pan out. Lohan stays kinda-sober until her probation is up and Ronson (who, in a fit of renewed dedication to her on-again, off-again girlfriend, dyes her hair blonde to match her lady love's over-processed, lackluster locks) sticks with it — and yes, by "it," I do mean Lohan — until the very first post-freedom bender occurs. Then the fur's just gonna fly. Cats within a thirty-mile radius will be running for cover and liquor stores are going to shut their doors, bolt their locks and board their windows. I'm betting that Lindsay and Sam last as long as this court-ordered sobriety does — and that's not much longer than a fortnight as it were.
June 3, 2010 at 9:21 am by Sarah
3Jenny McCarthy is a Rebound Ho
The breakup between Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey is still pretty fresh — Carrey's still experiencing the emotional fallout that's been publicized through his very public Twitter account and now I think I know the reason behind his sad, sad feelings: ex-girlfriend McCarthy is apparently fucking some dude that has a really sketchy hairline and fishbowl eyes.
McCarthy and her hand-holding "friend" were photographed this past weekend outside of a Los Angeles club, where the former girlfriend of funnyman Jim Carrey was all smiles. She also had red-painted nails, which we all know is the color of the devil.
(Sorry, I watched The Village last night and I still have a slight aversion to the color red.)
May 17, 2010 at 7:23 am by Sarah
19Nick Cannon is Still Really Excited, Optimistic About Being Married to Mariah Carey
And he just can't stop singing her praises. According to Mimi's husband, Nick Cannon, she does everything with a flair for the talented: singing, dressing, designing really fucking awful perfumes and now, cooking.
Cannon, who is to appear on Rachael Ray's show today, boasts that his wife is not only a dynamic business woman that happens to have seventy-five different octaves to her singing register, she cooked a turkey "the size of New Jersey" for their latest Thanksgiving feast:
"She cooks! People are always so surprised to see she cooks, but she's a great cook …"
Nick, hon, I wouldn't be trying too hard. I mean, it's great and all that you say you love your wife and renew your vows every fucking year, but if you're worried about the cash cow leaving you behind in the barn, I hardly think you need to. She's never going to leave you — she probably thinks that she can't do any better for some inane reason. You're in for a nice little lavish life, though, at any rate. Y'all can sit around in your sweatpants and eat chocolates until wifey's fat enough to wheel around the house in a chair and then you can take her for jaunts around your topiary. One day you'll go and take a phone call and you'll hear "Nick! NICKY!" and come running … Miss Mimoo will be on her side like a chocolate-stained bloated Elvis looking for help off of the toilet, looking up at you and there'll be a glimmer — some kind of reminder — of who the lady, the woman, Mariah Carey used to be. Or maybe it's just hunger. Or gas.
But at any rate, that'll make it all worthwhile, now, won't it?


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The Carolina Panthers finished with the 7th ranked offense according NFL.com's rankings of yards per game in 2011. We had the 3rd ranked rushing attack at 150.5 yards and were only 15 yds/game from number 1. We had the 28th ranked defense and lost most of our games because of this and special teams play.
That was last year. This year we now have a bigger need; offense.
Footballoustsiders.com (http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/ol) ranked our offensive line as the 5th best line in the NFL for rushing in 2011. Many could make the argument that we had the 3rd best line since their job is to clear room for the running backs and this aspect is largely an offensive line effort. This area of success has now become our biggest area of need. With the departure of Wharton, Schwartz and Mac Bern and the predictable injury prone Otah, the Panthers only return Kalil, Gross and Hangartner. The Panthers also picked up Mike Pollack who was listed as center for the 2-14 Indianapolis Colts.
How do we expect to be as good on offense with this kind of loss of offensive line talent? Sure we have a number of unproven no names that may be able to step in a learn as you go. Mike Pollack might be able to convert over from center and fill one starting spot. Bell showed some promise last year, but clearly we are no where near as strong as we were last year. Cam spent a good portion of his time under pressure last year with a good offensive line. The offensive line is the foundation of every high powered offense. How do you build an offensive powerhouse when you have a weak foundation?
Since we did not fill this gaping hole through Free Agency, the Panthers must have an alternate plan. Luckily there is an outstanding prospect available in the draft.
He as been described as:
CBS Sports: "Tenacious, physical and athletic, he has earned comparisons to some of the greatest guards in recent NFL history." "There's not a scheme in which he wouldn't fit and he would be an upgrade over the majority of current NFL guards. A first-round lock with top-15 talent."
NFL.com: "He could be one of the highest draft picks at the guard position in recent years, and he could easily go in the top 10." "It's nearly impossible to find many weak points in his play throughout college, and he could easily be the best lineman on his team as a rookie."
Bleacherreport: "He is strong, athletic, tenacious and fearless and he has the type of mean-streak to flourish in the NFL trenches." "He is an absolute monster as a run-blocker, as he's paved the way for some mighty successful rushing attacks over the last two years, and he's been a favorite butt to run behind throughout 2011"
Walterfootball: "At the NFL Scouting Combine, he was excellent. He had solid times, measurements and excelled in the field work. He was very smooth and fluid in the agility drills while displaying quick feet. He confirmed his high first round grade." "He was a dominant force in 2011. A fabulous run blocker, he shoves defensive linemen around at the line of scrimmage and gets to the second level of the defense to hit blocks on linebackers. He pulls extremely well to hit defenders on the run. He also is an excellent pass blocker." "In limited plays against standout Washington defensive tackle Alameda Ta'amu, the best tackle he faced this season, he beat him and opened up holes for the running backs. He also stonewalled a Ta'amu bull rush. He is an elite guard with big potential for the next level."
I give you a consensus All-American two-time all-conference selection, at 6 foot 5, 316 pounds, known as "Double-D" to his teammates and coaches, the 9th pick of the 2012 NFL draft, David DeCastro.


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HEBER - The investigation into the a Heber Elementary School janitor accused of molesting a child in one of the school's restroom last month, continues to drag on tonight.
As KSWT News 13 first reported, parents protested after school officials refused to place the janitor on administrative leave.
Police then turned the case over to the District Attorney's office to determine if charges would be filed against the janitor.
That was two weeks ago.
I went to District Attorney, Deborah Owen's office but she was not available to speak to me. Still, we also wanted to know how difficult it is to investigate cases involving accusations of sexual child abuse.
So, I sat down with former Deputy District Attorney, Ryan Childers. He tells me it is common for cases of this severity to take this long before any decision is made on whether to file charges, or to drop the case altogether.
"When you're talking about a young child, who's the victim, there are obviously some difficulties in eliciting information from a young child."
Childers says that The District Attorney's Office will not issue a warrant for an arrest or move forward with filing criminal charges until they are 100 percent confident the evidence is factual.
"The ethical standard that they have to meet when they're looking at the information & the evidence that they have is whether they can prove the charges they're going to bring, beyond a reasonable doubt".
Reasonable doubt, in this case, involving serious a claim that a school janitor physically molested a child - requires evidence beyond "he said, she said."
"There are special types of interviews that have to be done, if there are medical examinations that are done, you have to wait for that information to come back", says Childers.
And waiting for results from all tests, according to Childers, could be the number one reason the District Attorney's Office is taking its time on making a decision on whether or not to file charges against the accused janitor.
"In cases where an arrest isn't made initially, it's not uncommon to see a case go several months before chargers are filed", he says. "And keep in mind the statute of limitations on most felony cases is 3 years and child molestation cases; it can be significantly more, depending on the circumstances".
As for the school janitor, he continues to work at two Heber Elementary Schools pending the outcome of the investigation.
Heber Elementary School District Superintendent Jaime Silva has assured KSWT News 13 that the janitor does not have any contact with children what so ever. We will continue to follow this story.
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If you have been following the NBA first round playoff series, you know that former bruin Baron Davis is on fire. He is playing his best basketball of his career and has led the Golden State Warriors in taking a 3-1 series lead. One more win will eliminate the Mavericks from the playoffs. The team also features former bruin Matt Barnes who has also been surprising everyone with his performance all year. Could you imagine what kind of teams we could have had here in Westwood if we had a decent coach who would have utilized the ability and basketball talent of someone like Baron Davis? Instead we had a gas bag like Steve Lavin who squandered Davis' potential and had the team play pickup style street ball. Imagine Ben Howland having a player like Baron at the point. Wow!
I am hoping for golden state to advance to second round and then go on to win the NBA championship. That will certainly put the spotlight on our former bruins and UCLA as a result. Baron Davis has the potential to be one of the greatest NBA players. Unfortunately he has been plaqued by multiple injuries in his career.
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Well deserved, but where's Aubrey?
Well deserved. Lincecum struggling is better than most pitchers having career years. Brian Wilson is as good a closer as there in the NL under 450 pounds. Aubrey Huff gets screwed, as Manuel picks his own Ryan Howard. I hear him on the TV right now trying to make a case for Brian Bocock and Cody Ransom making the team, but I don't think the TBS guys are buying. I need five more words. Huh? Oh, saying I need five more words actually added five more words.


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Posts from the 'Surfing' Category
After 365….Archive 13
Drama Looming
Taken at Seal Rocks, NSW, Australia. I really liked the light in this one and the dramatic sky.
After 365…Archive 11
Waiting for the Right Moment
I watched this surfer for about 10 minutes as he stood waiting….waiting for the right moment.
This was taken up on the North Coast of NSW, Australia, back in December.
After 365….Archive 8
This is yet another shot that I took over Christmas, whilst we were at Seal Rocks. It's heaven for me, as far as photography goes.
Day 347 Saturday 10th March 2012
Surfing Trio
This morning I woke up at 3am! Yes, you heard me right…3am on a Saturday! Too many things on my mind.
I decided to walk to my local beach to watch the sunrise and it was beautiful.
Avoca Beach is so incredibly beautiful and I must say, I have missed witnessing the sun rise over the ocean.
I was very tempted to put one of the sunrise shots up, but as there weren't many clouds (not that I'm complaining about that….after all the rain we've had of late, a clear blue sky is welcome in my day, any day!), the sunrise wasn't as atmospheric as I had hoped and I actually rather like this capture, of 3 surfers off for their morning surf. Felt rather envious of them actually.
Day 345 Thursday 08th March 2012
My Perfect End to a Day
I had such a full on day at work today, but thankfully my commute home only took just over an hour, which meant that I was able to get to my local beach, before it got dark.
The waves today were incredible and there was some amazing surfing going on, mostly by little boys who only looked about 8 years old, yet there they were…out there in the big surf, full of confidence and enthusiasm and they showed no fear.
Not only was the water breath taking to look at, but so was their surfing. For the first time today, I felt alive! That is the power the ocean has over me, I really mean that.
Avoca Beach, NSW, Australia
Day 344 Wednesday 08th March 2012
Flower Power
After along day filled with facts and information and what felt like an even longer journey I home, it was nice to see these flowers coming to life in the garden. I am not sure what they are, I think they may belong to the onion family as that is what they smell of.
Day 275 Thursday 29th December 2011
Abstract Aqua
I was in awe of the beautiful shades of blue in the ocean today, I almost felt transfixed.
This shot was taken at a beach called Boomerang Beach, approximately 20 kilometres away from where we are staying.
On our way back, we stopped at one of the beaches at Seal Rocks and had a much needed swim. Whilst drying off, on the beach we couldn't help but watch and smile at a local dog (which we had seen at the same beach before) which was running the entire length of the beach too and fro – chasing a flying seagull! It was if they were playing a game together, for the gull, every now and again would land on the beach, allow the dog to almost reach it and would then start flying again, teasing the dog. This went on for about an hour, even as we left the beach, we left the dog chasing the gull. They really seemed like, in some way or another, they were connected…friends, well, that's the conclusion I came to anyhow!!
Boomerang Beach, NSW, Australia
Day 274 Wednesday 28th December 2011
What a Difference a Day Makes
Goodbye grey skies….hello blue!!!
Had a very chilled out day today, spent at Seal Rocks, there were some pretty amazing waves out there today and some pretty fine surfers too! Wish every day was like this! Enjoy!!
Day 273 Tuesday 27th December 2011
And the Waves Rolled In
Today, it has pretty much rained all day, which is OK with us, it's given us even more time to relax.
This photo was just taken at Seal Rocks, the surf was amazing to watch, plenty of great surfing on some big waves. I kind of thought that the grey skies made this photo rather atmospheric.
Day 271 Sunday 25th December 2011
Merry Christmas!
Firstly, apologies for the lengthy post, but it is Christmas after all!
After last nights clear sky, this morning we awoke to grey clouds. As we sat outside eating our breakfast under the little canopy of our tent, the rain got heavier and heavier. I then decided to do something that I have never done before and would highly recommend… I put on my bikini (this, I have obviously done before and is not a first ha-ha!) and took a rain shower!!
There are no showers where we are camping, no real facilities other than drop-toilets, it really is back to Mother Nature here.
I held my arms out wide and just embraced the rain and it was fantastic! The funny thing is, opposite our site, there is another couple who have a tent also, they were here before we arrived. And the lady was laughing in a nice way (I think) at what I was doing. Next thing I know, she's in her bikini and her partner was in his swimmers doing what I'd just done!! Later in the day, they actually thanked me for inspiring them!! Oh, by the way I encouraged my partner to do it as well and he reluctantly did, though be it through gritted teeth. I somehow got the impression that he didn't quite enjoy it as much as I did.
We opened our presents, which were all lovely. We are also lucky enough to have some to look forward to opening when go home.
Thankfully, the rain passed and the sky cleared to a beautiful blue and we walked to our local beach for a Christmas day swim/surf.
When we arrived back at our tent, we had neighbours! A family of 5. I think they are Dutch, 2 young boys and a girl about 8 years old, who likes playing with her dolls, toys. Seeing her in her own little world, reminded me of me when I was her age.
We had a box of Christmas crackers (they call them bonbons here in Australia) and I took out 2 for us and then gave each of the children and their parents a cracker for them to pull. They didn't know what they were for, so I explained that it's a Christmas tradition, that 2 people pull the cracker, it makes a bang noise and inside is a gift, a paper hat and a joke. The children all seemed really excited and the family sat there wearing their paper crowns and instantly became a royal family, just for a moment in time.
The highlight of my day though, was for the first time in almost 3 years I was able to see my Mum! Unfortunately my Mum has yet to embrace technology, though I am hoping that in 2012 this will change. Anyway, she was staying at my Aunts over Christmas and we managed to Skype them! I even watched Mum open up my Christmas present, which was a really large framed photograph (for those who may be curious as to which one, It's the photo that I took back sometime in April, of the clouds reflecting on the beach, which was taken where we are staying right now. I would put a link on here, if I could but I don't have much battery left, it shouldn't be too hard to find, just go to the calendar to the right hand side of this page and click on April). She loved it. It's the first photograph of mine that I have given her.
Christmas is a time when I feel very far away, when the rest of my family are in Europe, so having 40 minutes talking to my Mum face to face and also my Aunt, Uncle and their dog was the best Christmas present I could ask for.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Seal Rocks, NSW, Australia
Day 269 Friday 23rd December 2011
Surfing Dolphins
Today has been such a relaxing day, spent mostly on the beach.
As I was preparing breakfast, my partner called me outside. High up in a tree was a goanna, which looked like he'd got himself stuck, well, maybe not stuck, but he was having a bit of a hard time deciding how he was going to get himself down! It turns out that whilst eating breakfast, we saw a couple of other goannas, this time safely on the ground. One got spooked by something and ran right towards a tree that was next to our tent, so that he could scurry up it, out of harms way. The only problem for the goanna was that we had propped a surfboard at the base of the tree and a bodyboard against the trunk, so the poor goanna ended trying to scramble across the surfboard, but he wasn't going anywhere, because it was slippery! Eventually he managed to make his way up the tree. It was pretty funny, like a cartoon.
As we arrived on the beach (which is a 5 minute walk from our tent) I looked out at the ocean and straight away, the first thing I saw was a pod of dolphins surfing in the waves! They were so beautiful to watch. We were so lucky! especially as the beach goes on for as far as the eye can see and we were the only people there.
At the moment, as I write this, there are only a few other tents here, though I'm sure as Christmas day gets closer, it will inevitably get busier, so for now, we are going to enjoy the peace and quiet whilst we have it.
Seal Rocks, NSW, Australia
Day 257 Sunday 11th December 2011
Take Shelter Whilst you Can
Today has been one looooooong day. I have been awake since 3:15am!
In this time I have…
I have watched the moon, saw dawn appear, heard 1 lone bird sing – the first birdsong of the day, watched the sunrise, saw blue sky appear, watched blue sky and little fluffy clouds disappear and within 2 hours this monster of a cloud replaced them whilst I was on the beach with a beach umbrella because 2 hours prior to this cloud it was really hot and sunny. This storm cloud moved so quickly and got bigger and bigger. Needless to say, it didn't take me long to pack up my stuff and 'run for the hills' (I didn't want to get my camera wet!!)
Pretty impressive sky I think. Today, the sky made me feel so small…I felt like an ant!
Taken at Bungan Beach, Sydney Northern Beaches, NSW, Australia
Day 255 Friday 09th December 2011
The calming effect the ocean has on me…
Today, I had a rather long, busy day – followed by a mad dash to see the mortgage people, for us to sign our mortgage papers. It's all done. I posted it in the letterbox, whilst my partner went to fetch the car. For a split second, I hesitated about posting it…as I feel like I have just signed my life away (this I know is just jitters, because it's the first house for me) I am really excited, but my heart was racing and to be honest, I felt rather emotional. Sorry for mentioning buying the house yet again, but it is a pretty big step in my life.
On our way home, we stopped so that I could look at the ocean. By watching the waves rolling in, it calmed me incredibly, nothing else in my life – has such an effect on me. Like I have mentioned so many times in previous posts, I feel so content and alive when I am near the ocean.
Day 246 Wednesday 30th November 2011
Last Day of Spring
Today is the last day of Spring, although it has actually felt like Summer for a while now (excluding last week, which was just awful weather wise).
I am so looking forward to Summer and all that it brings. People, in my humble opinion seem to be happier, more easy-going and just, well…more at peace.
There were so many people jogging along the beach this morning, most were kind enough to go behind me and not right in front of me as I was taking my photographs (although some do this and I sometimes think, I know that I don't have the right of way or anything, but would it really be that difficult just to side-step me?) There's one man who every single day does this – he walks right in front of me, even if I'm right on the waters edge barefoot, he will literally go through the water (in trainers I hasten to add), instead of going behind me and he never ever acknowledges me – most other people who I say good morning to – (I usually do this) they will reply with a good morning back to me, this guy however, he doesn't want to know. Perhaps it's because he's so focused on what he's doing, I don't know. It's now kind of become my mission to try to get some sort of acknowledgement from him – even if it's "stop saying good morning to me lady!" I think if he said that to me, the next morning I'd say good evening, just to confuse him! ;)
Day 242 Saturday 26th November 2011
A Sight for Sore Eyes
As you would know from my previous post, we have had nothing but grey sky for a week now, even this morning – the heavens had opened yet again.
Today, we travelled up to Avoca Beach (where we are going to be moving to), to look at the house again (exciting stuff!) and to well…explore the area a little. In Sydney it was pouring down, by the time we got to Avoca Beach (which took about an hour and a half), blue sky was there to greet us. That's a good sign I think.
After we viewed the house, we stopped for lunch and then sat on a rock and watched the local surfers, as there were some pretty amazing waves – and some of the best surfing I've ever seen, in person.
This photograph was taken very close to where the surfers were. The power of the water was incredible.
I know that when we move here, which is most probably going to be in January, there is going to be pl-e-n-ty for me to photograph. I felt soooo in my element today and quite honestly, really really happy!
Anyway, enough of my ramblings, I hope you enjoy this photo – as much as I enjoyed watching the waves crash on to the rocks.
Day 226 Thursday 10th November 2011
Four Steps
This morning, I have to say, was the best part of my day, for today, was a day that was filled with chaos, demands and hardly finding time to breathe. It's been a really stressful week and to be honest, I will be glad when it's over. If only the remainder of my day – had been as tranquil as the start. I should be grateful really, that I had a moment of peace.
Day 225 Wednesday 09th November 2011
Sunrise in Black & White
Thought I'd try something a little different for today's post – a sunrise in black & white. I hope you like it.
Taken in Manly, Sydney, Australia
Day 224 Tuesday 08th November 2011
The sun was trying its hardest to provide me with a beautiful show this morning – the clouds were trying to do the same. I think combined, they both won.
Day 223 Monday 07th November 2011
The sky was absolutely gorgeous this morning, it actually felt rather surreal.
Day 220 Friday 04th November 2011
Rays of Light
Rays of light shining on the ocean
Stirs up feelings, needs and emotions
Watching Mother Earth put on a light show for me
Makes me feel alive….h a p p y
Day 216 Monday 31st October 2011
Gateway to Another Realm
This morning, I rushed out of the apartment (like I so often do), to the ocean so that I could capture would I could see unfolding before my eyes as I had stared out of window out across to the ocean. The sky was absolutely incredible.
For one moment, I thought that if I wished hard enough, I could magically disappear in to another realm – just for a moment or two. Needless to say, it didn't happen.
Day 213 Friday 28th October 2011
Manly – Blue Sky Friday
Oh what a beautiful morning :-) I really had to force myself away from the beach this morning.
Day 212 Thursday 27th October 2011
Beach Life
As I walked along the beach on my way home, there was so much action in the water, with surfers and other watersports activities taking place, I was exhausted just watching it all :)
Day 211 Wednesday 26th October 2011
When the Rain Subsides
It's been a funny week so far, not only in my life with its twists and turns but also in the weather. On Monday, it was so hot and beautiful – edge to edge blue sky but by Tuesday it was grey, miserable and cold, like Winter had come in for one last look. Today, it's been a mix – rain, sun, rain more rain and now some blue sky – just before the sun calls it quits for another day and the moon says hello.
This was taken on my walk back home, along the beach, paddling in the water, cooling my aching feet from wearing heels all day at work. My feet, as are the other parts of my body, far more happier near/in water, than stuck in an office in front of a computer all day.
I dream of becoming a full-time photographer – one day I hope my dream may come true. Where's a shooting star when you need one?!
Day 205 Thursday 20th October 2011
Time to Relax
Today was my first day back at work after a few days off and what a busy day it was. It was nice to come home and watch the surfers and all the people unwinding – just like me.


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It's normal for George Haines of Alburtis to grow a few tomato plants each summer. What's not normal about this year's vines is they grew as big as his house.
He estimates his plants are at least 10 feet tall, and producing tomatoes the size of baseballs and softballs. "I have to use a ladder to pick them," he says. "The plants just kept on going. It's like Jack and the Beanstalk."


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Nichole Hutton said she was certain early Monday, Dec. 3, that she, boyfriend Clinton Darling, and their two children were gong to die in an apartment fire in Hemet.
At one point, she said, flames were blocking the front door — which they thought was their only way out — and she could see smoke and flames coming down a hallway leading to the bedroom where the family had gathered. It was then that she kicked out a window screen.
As Darling attempted to lower their 11-year-old son out the window to a neighbor waiting next to a trash bin below, the boy fell and suffered a cut on his back. Then they dropped their 5-year-old daughter out the window.
"Next was me," Hutton said. "I remember turning around and seeing black smoke and flames coming down the hallway. Right before I jumped, my boyfriend almost fell face-first out the window."
Hutton jumped, suffering cuts and bruises to her right arm. Darling followed, suffering cuts and scapes on his knees, belly and arms.
The fire, which broke out about 2 a.m., destroyed their apartment and three others in the complex. Two of their neighbors were hospitalized, one with second- and third-degree burns over 30 percent of the body. Twenty-five residents, including Hutton's family, were displaced.
The Huttons, who were shoeless, lost their clothing, family pictures, their 8-month-old cat, Bozo, and nine pet lizards.
They drove to Darling's mother's nearby home, where they are staying until they figure out how to put their lives back together. Hutton, who works at a Stater Bros., has not been able to return to work.
The Red Cross gave them $800 and paid for some of Hutton's prescription medicine.
Their son, Kolten Berg, left with his fellow fifth-graders from Bautista Creek Elementary School on a three-day camping trip in Garner Valley.
Hutton said she was touched when the principal of the school went to Walmart to buy the boy clothes for the camping trip.
"We lost everything," Hutton said. "I don't know what we are going to do."
The cause of the 2:06 a.m. fire at Hacienda Apartments is under investigation, according to Cal Fire.


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Dundalk Community Theatre to Present LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, 5/2-11
Dundalk Community Theatre concludes its 40th Anniversary season with the modern family Tony© Award winning musical La Cage Aux Folles. The show is directed by Tom Colonna, choreographed by Tom Wyatt and features local favorites Edward J. Peters (as Albin) and Jeff Burch (as Georges). The show runs from May 2 to May 11. Individual tickets are $23 for adults, $20 for senior adults and $15 for students/DCT Actors/Children 12 and under.
La Cage Aux Folles made Tony Award history by becoming the first show to ever win the award three times for best production (1984, 2005 and 2010). The classic comedy by Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein tells the story of a glitzy nightclub in Saint-Tropez owned by Georges; and which features his life partner, Albin, as the glamorous chanteuse Zaza. Georges' son invites his fiancée's conservative parents to meet the "family". When his birth mother backs out of the gathering, it is Zaza to the rescue. The bonds of love and the true meaning of family are put the test. The comedy ensues as the boa feathers fly and truths are revealed.
The Cast: Edward J. Peters (Albin), Jeff Burch (Georges), J. Jeffrey Harrison (Jacob), Henry Reisinger, Jr (Francis), Randy Dunkel (Jean-Michel), Amanda Dickson (Anne), James Hunnicutt (Edouard Dindon), Kristen Cooley (Marie Dindon), Nadine Wellington (Jacqueline), Dave Minges (M. Renaud), Janet S. Mackenzie (Mme. Renaud), Ensemble: Kevin James Logan, Amy Greco, Albert J Boeren, Emily Dowdell, Ahsal Toolabi, & the Les Cagelles: J. Biernatowski (Chantal), J. Krastel (Phaedra), B. Jacobs (Hanna), A. Henry (Bitelle), K. Luchey (Angelique), M. Ghitman (Mercedes), L. Everd (Clo Clo), L. May (Dermah) and K. Vision (Carmelita).
Show times are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday - May 2 - 11 in the John E. Ravekes Theatre, K Building. For tickets and information, call 443-840-2787. Patrons requiring special accommodations are urged to notify the Box Office at least two weeks in advance. The CCBC Box Office between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, or visit www.ccbcmd.edu/performingarts/dct.html .
Dundalk Community Theatre is a program of the college, providing high-quality live theatre experiences for the entire family at affordable prices. Tom Colonna, a veteran actor and director, serves as the Managing Director for DCT. DCT is in residence at the Community College of Baltimore County, Dundalk, 7200 Sollers Point Road.
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Prudential La Jolla welcomes Patrick Ahern
Patrick Ahern has joined Prudential California Realty's La Jolla office.
"Patrick is an accomplished agent with exceptional business sense and a wide array of skills related to real estate," said general manager Nicki Marcellino. "His vast base of industry knowledge is rooted in both education and experience, which provides a significant advantage to all of his clients."
Shortly after graduating from San Diego State University with a degree in Business Finance and Real Estate, Ahern founded and operated a successful real estate brokerage. He was later recruited by one of the region's premier brokerages, where he negotiated and drafted more than 320 agreements over the course of 11 years, with a sales volume that totaled over $55 million.
He also experience in developing and managing properties.
He has served on the board for a number of organizations in his spare time, including the La Jolla Town Council, Gaslamp Quarter Association, Better Business Bureau, Friends of Windansea, Mayor's Task Force on the Homeless, and more.
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Borderline Hysteria
The History of Psychosomatic Illness: An interview with Edward Shorter
Interview by Carrie McLaren | Issue #21
In Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era, Edward Shorter sets out to illustrate a few simple ideas. Most of the medical symptoms your typical American suffers from are psychosomatic--in other words, they can't be traced to any organic cause but are rather the result of some mind-body interaction. The symptoms may be real, but the cause is psychological, stemming from depression, anxiety, or stress. Today, this manifests itself in the headaches, backaches, fatigue, diarrhea, dizziness, and joint pains that concern so many patients.
While exploring the history of psychosomatic illness, Shorter looks at how the symptoms have changed over time and at the forces behind those changes. His thesis is that psychosomatic symptoms change with the culture--meaning, among other things, that they evolve to match the prevailing medical diagnoses of the day. In the early 1800s, for example, doctors talked about "spinal irritation," believing that when a certain point along the spine was pressed or hurt, it created peripheral pains and other motor (muscular) system problems. Conse-quently, doctors increasingly began seeing patients whose problems conveniently fitted the diagnosis. These patients--usually women--complained of temporary blindness, paralysis, and other ills. Some couldn't walk, others couldn't move their arms, many remained paralyzed for months in bed. Doctors would come across patients so catatonic that it was impossible to tell whether they were alive. Unable to detect pulses or respiration, doctors found that the only sure sign of death was when the body emitted a "cadaverous smell."
Some of these patients no doubt had undiagnosed organic diseases. But Shorter convincingly argues that the majority of cases were psychosomatic.
It's a funny thing: by the early 1900s, these symptoms had virtually disappeared. Medicine had started to shift away from the spine to the brain. Also, the social position of women improved. Whereas Victorian era mores had rendered women immobile--unable to have careers or lives of their own--psychogenic paralyses were, Shorter contends, "a metaphorical way for women to convey their dysphoria." Once women won greater freedom, these kinds of symptoms became obsolete.
Psychosomatic symptoms didn't disappear, however -- they simply changed with the times. In case after case, from somnabulism to neurasthenia to "Yuppie flu," we see how medical and cultural trends alternately reinforce and erode particular psychosomatic symptoms. Shorter argues that this is because patients don't want to be seen as crazy and they therefore unconsciously or semiconsciously exhibit the "right" symptoms. Someone who complained of temporary blindness or paralyzed arms today would be sent straight to a psychiatrist, whereas head-aches or joint pain would be taken more seriously. This isn't to say patients deliberately choose their symptoms--quite the contrary. While Shorter cites historical examples of patients who controlled, or even faked, their symptoms, most of these people were most likely unaware of the mind's role. Even if patients somehow did become aware, there would be little they could do directly to stop the symptoms. Through a mysterious quirk of the unconscious, inner turmoil was masked by the common symptoms of the day. Or, I should say, is masked. Although Shorter's book says little about the contemporary experience of psychosomatic illness, it's clear that similar mind-body-culture interplay is very much alive today.
Professor Shorter is the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at the University of Toronto. The author of over a dozen books, he is currently researching the history of sexuality and the history of psychopharmacology. We spoke by telephone in June 2003. --Carrie McLaren
STAY FREE!: In a past issue of Stay Free!, we looked at how TV and advertising shape the public's understanding of illness. One of the things I thought was interesting about your book is that it shows how this process of "shaping" goes way back--it didn't begin with TV or the internet. William Whyte published a book in 1750 on nervous illness. Could you talk a bit about that and how it affected patients at the time?
SHORTER: The underlying process going on here is that patients endeavor in an unconscious or semiconscious way to produce symptoms that will correspond to the medical diagnostics of the time. Whyte's focus on nervous diseases caused lots of patients to orient themselves away from their bowels and abdomens, where humankind had been fixated for about 500 years, to the central nervous system. Rather than talking about dysphorias in terms of the spleen, patients would increasingly start talking about nerves.
STAY FREE!: Were people actually reading medical literature or did they find out about these things from doctors?
SHORTER: Whyte's book did not have a wide circulation among the public. How people pick up their medical ideas is an interesting point. Today they take them from the media, from television. Back in the 18th century, it was from the upper-middle-class drawing room, where people would talk about the newest medical fads and ideas of the day. The world of science and medicine was much more generally accessible to the literate public than it is today. It would be unusual for nonphysicians now to discuss an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, but in the 18th century it was quite common among educated people.
STAY FREE!: In your book, you mention that anorexia dates from the late 1800s, which strikes me as odd because I've always considered it a contemporary problem stemming from media influence. What was the genesis of this particular illness? Was it similar to anorexia in the modern sense in that patients wanted to be thin?
SHORTER: No, the fixation on thinness certainly did not exist then. Women's ideal weight was set about twenty pounds heavier than it is now. I think it was sociogenic; you can see it arising at the family dinner table. The whole concept of the emotionally involved family is a relatively recent construct. Before that families were much more functional. They were oriented to running the craft shop or the farm. People didn't see themselves finding their personal happiness in family life. This new type of family affected large numbers of the population around the middle of the 19th century. And not everyone was comfortable with the intense sentiment.
STAY FREE!: What do you think caused this shift in family life?
SHORTER: There are lots of theories. One is that capitalism created a hostile environment and the need for people to find some emotional place to shelter themselves against competition. There's lots of speculation on the part of academics. But, regarding anorexics, let's say you have young women who are trying to establish an independent realm for themselves, who are trying to get away from the intense parenting that would go on until they got married. With the dinner table becoming the primary family focus, food refusal is a way of declaring a kind of time out. It's a way of saying "I don't want to be a part of this scene so I'm not going to eat." Only later does the intense interest in slimness arise. That doesn't surface until the 1920s, when women started wearing revealing clothing.
STAY FREE!: Many of the treatments for medical symptoms were brutal: doctors would place burning rods on patients' backs to cure a paralyzed arm; they would cauterize the clitoris to cure hysteria; women who complained of having paralyzed arms or legs would have the limbs amputated. It makes you wonder whether the doctors performing these savage operations were aware of the psychological causes. Some of the doctors clearly were--you mentioned one doctor who gave comatose patients enemas to see if they would get up to avoid soiling their beds.
SHORTER: Well, the moment that something becomes possible in medicine, it becomes probable that it will be done. There's a fascination with novelty that doctors share with everyone else. These are the very early days in abdominal surgery, where every incision seemed like a pioneering gesture. So here come these young women that have these chronic emotional problems that doctors have rolled their eyes about for centuries, and all of a sudden it becomes possible to remove the clitoris! remove the ovaries! Often the women and their families were in favor of it, so the temptation was irresistible. The ovaries were thought to be the seat of much irritation that would flood into the female nervous system; they were removed on a massive scale.
STAY FREE!: Even in recent times there have been a lot of unnecessary hysterectomies. Do you think this is a legacy of these ideas?
SHORTER: It probably is. Many women have [various] psychosomatic symptoms around the time of menopause, and it's very tempting to associate these problems with the uterus and the ovaries. This operation usually fails if the goal is to produce some psychic relief, because things like depression and anxiety don't begin in the uterus. Nonetheless, these operations are still done on a wide scale.
STAY FREE!: "Chronic masturbation" was treated by stitching the labia together. What happened to chronic masturbation as a symptom?
SHORTER: Masturbation ceased to be something that warranted medical attention in the 1930s. In fact, masturbation is now seen as therapeutic; people are taught how to masturbate to maximize their sexual pleasure.
STAY FREE!: You wrote about how some of the most fashionable people have the most cutting edge symptoms, the ones that are most medically up to date. Can you give me an example?
SHORTER: If we're talking about today, new illnesses appear first among educated people simply because they are more plugged into medical media. These middle- and upper-class people are the first to begin monitoring themselves or their children for evidence of peanut-butter allergies or excessive tiredness. It is from these relatively small social groups that the symptoms radiate out.
STAY FREE!: What's the evidence that this is in fact the pattern?
SHORTER: Historically, you can see how the patterns form. Concern about sensitivity to peanut butter, for example, used to be confined to upper middle class neighborhoods. Now it's epidemic. Same thing with multiple chemical sensitivities.
STAY FREE!: But this in itself doesn't necessarily mean it's psychosomatic, does it? It could be that uneducated people are less likely to identify health problems or less likely to visit the doctor.
SHORTER: But the evidence is clear that multiple chemical sensitivities are psychosomatic. These are not organic problems.
STAY FREE!: There are, however, people who are actually allergic to peanuts.
SHORTER: Yes, there is such a thing as peanut allergies, but that doesn't mean that everyone with the diagnosis has them. Peanut allergies are rare, but today it's hard to find a fourth-grade class without a couple of kids who are thought to have them. It's become an object of epidemic hysteria.
STAY FREE!: What's the difference between a real peanut allergy and a fake one? How does the patient's experience differ?
SHORTER: With a fake peanut allergy, it's the parents who have the symptoms--anxiety, unrealistic attributions of illness to banal symptoms in their children. In a real peanut allergy, the child is highly symptomatic.
STAY FREE!: Among French troops who suffered from shell shock in WWI, paralyses were common, whereas in WWII, no one had paralysis, they all had cardiac and gastrointestinal troubles. What's behind this? Was there a similar shift seen among American troops?
SHORTER: American troops were not as involved in WWI as the French were, so Americans didn't have a chance to develop as deep a revulsion to trench warfare. But it's interesting that the symptoms of shell shock seen in the first World War were not the ones seen in the second. By World War II, army doctors had started to associate paralysis or Parkinsonian trembling with hysteria, so they were much more inclined to say, "Get back in your tank, there's nothing wrong with you." The main difference between the two world wars is what the doctors learned in treating men rapidly to get them back in action.
STAY FREE!: Historically, some of the most respected doctors had some of the screwiest ideas. Do you see any parallel today?
SHORTER: My research field is psychiatry and psychiatry is filled with artifactual diagnoses, doubtful remedies, and drugs that don't work very well used instead of drugs with demonstrated track records simply because the good drugs have run out of patents and the drug companies aren't marketing them anymore. The drugs that are still covered by patents are the ones that are marketed systematically to physicians. So there's a lot going on today that isn't scientific.
STAY FREE!: You've written that patients today are more sensitive to body signals; they're more likely to go to the doctor for something than they would have a few decades ago. What's the evidence for this?
SHORTER: There are surveys by the National Center for Health Statistics with comparable surveys from the 1930s showing that patients are much more sensitive.
STAY FREE!: That's ironic. On one hand people are less trusting of their doctors, but on the other, they are more trusting of medical science because they believe that they can be relieved of every imaginable symptom.
SHORTER: Our confidence in science and medicine is very well placed. It's just a shame there has been a breakdown in the doctor-patient relationship, because doctors are able to help patients with psychosomatic problems if the patients are willing to trust them.
STAY FREE!: You've said that most of the things people visit their doctors for are psychogenic.
SHORTER: At the typical family practice, about half of patients' complaints are not the result of an organic disease; they are the result of some sort of mind-body interaction. That's what drives family doctors crazy--they see all this hysteria.
STAY FREE!: There needs to be another word than hysteria. It's so stigmatizing.
SHORTER: Of course, doctors don't use that word with patients. They'll say "functional," which means "not organic."
STAY FREE!: How do you think doctors should respond to patients when they suspect their problems are psychosomatic? Do you think doctors should recommend medication of some kind to help alleviate the symptoms?
SHORTER: One thing that helps psychosomatic patients is telling their story to the doctor, so giving patients ample time is very important. But there is no specific medication for psychosomatic problems, aside from a drug like clomipramine, which lessens anxiety.
STAY FREE!: So are you saying that doctors shouldn't tell patients to take Pepto Bismol? That, if they prescribe anything, it should be antianxiety meds?
SHORTER: A doctor tells patients anything that will be therapeutic: see a homeopathist if necessary. Valium by all means. What the doctor himself thinks is, "Another case of hysteria. Psychiatric material."
STAY FREE!: Didn't doctors used to prescribe sugar pills?
SHORTER: Yes, it was once very common for doctors to prescribe a placebo, and that went on for decades and decades to the benefit of patients, I might add, because placebo remedies really do work. You destroy their effectiveness when you tell a patient, "I'm prescribing baking soda." I have a lot of problems with a particular version of bioethics we have today that says it's unethical to lie to patients. If we can help patients by lying to them, then by all means, lie to them.
STAY FREE!: I want to talk about gender, since these problems, historically and now, are especially common among women and girls. Other than sexism, what do you think is behind this?
SHORTER: I don't think sexism is behind it at all; many women who have mystery illnesses are self-diagnosed. Now, there may be something about the interaction between male physicians and female patients that makes the doctors more likely to see psychosomatic issues in a female and organic issues in a male. But I don't think that's the major motor behind this. Women are more sensitive to their bodily signals and are more inclined to see them as evidence of disease. Why is that? Well, I think it's because women experience loss and grief and trauma more deeply than men do. The loss of a friend, for example, the death of a relative--these loom larger on the female radar than they do on the male radar.
STAY FREE!: You don't think women are just more expressive of these problems?
SHORTER: No, I think they psychologically experience the loss more deeply. Men express their inner dysphoria more in the form of sociopathy. They do tractor pulls and get into barroom fights.
STAY FREE!: What about class differences?
SHORTER: The middle classes are more symptomatic than working classes because they're more plugged into the media.
STAY FREE!: Race?
SHORTER: The racial differences I'm aware of would be explicable as class differences.
STAY FREE!: Do you consider clinical depression an organic illness?
SHORTER: Yes, I believe depression is caused by some kind of brain process. It's a disease that is in a way just as organic as mumps or liver cancer--although, unlike liver cancer it has a fluctuating course. It comes and goes in waves whereas liver cancer is chronically progressive: it only gets worse.
STAY FREE!: I have a quote from you from Reason magazine, 1997, regarding Gulf War Syndrome: It's absolutely unmistakable" that "the symptoms are thoroughly psychosomatic . . . The syndrome has no scientific status. It's entirely driven by political needs and the media's need for sensationalism."
SHORTER: By the way, I'm sure we're going to see the men and women coming back from Iraq with latent symptoms as well. This has become standard; every time there's a deployment, everybody comes back sick.
STAY FREE!: Have you ever gotten in trouble for statements like this?
SHORTER: People tell me to shut up, but I have tenure.
STAY FREE!: But you're a historian, you're not a doctor.
SHORTER: I'm a medical historian. I went to medical school, but I don't have an M.D.
STAY FREE!: But "absolutely unmistakable," "thoroughly psychosomatic"--is that necessary?
SHORTER: It hurts people to hear that, but these patients from the Gulf War have been investigated exhaustively and nothing has ever been found.
STAY FREE!: But there are plenty of diseases that were once falsely considered psychosomatic: multiple sclerosis, epilepsy . . .
SHORTER: Medicine today is much better. It's very different from medicine in the 1870s.
STAY FREE!: Asthma used to be considered psychosomatic.
SHORTER: Yes, by the Freudians. Asthma and high blood pressure and hives. And there were a bunch of other things that have since been recognized as organic, but that's simply the sign of the march of medical progress.
[ Photos in the print edition from Invention of Hyster-ia: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêriere, by Georges Didi-Huberman (MIT Press, 2003). Photography helped create hysteria as a syndrome in the late 19th century. ]


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One northern Michigan school was alive with the sound of music tonight.
Budding musicians were playing the hits at the Bay Area Big Band Benefit Fundraiser.
Tonight's fundraiser, held at Forest Area High School in Fife Lake, provided listeners with some good music.
The Bay Area Big Band puts on shows locally to raise money for local music programs.
Tonight they were raising funds for the Kingsley and Forest Area music programs.
Organizers say the extra money will help enhance them.
The Kingsley Middle School band, the Forest Area jazz band, and the Bay Area Big Band all preformed tonight.


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You know it is not a good season when you are starting your third quarterback in six games, you are undefeated in England-yet have not won at all in the country you live and play in, and there is already more focus on the next offseason than the remaining, majority of the current season. But is there hope? The logical mind says, 'of course not.' Yet in the larger scheme of things; there is. As much as I and many have been a critic of the decisions made of the past few years; there has been some good things done for this team to build on. There is a solid core of players already in place that can win, but need leadership from the quarterback position and the coaching staff. And with as bad as it is now, and as even worse as it is expected to get; there are some positives that will be largely over shadowed by the end result we are all seeing week in and week out.
Many will concede the season is already over and is more than difficult to even look forward to Vikings' games each week. And the fact of the matter is; the season was really over before it actually started, and the signs were very apparent in the preseason. So, now we are headed into a primetime Monday night game in the Meadowlands followed by a Sunday night game in which whatever it is the Vikings are will be spotlighted for all of the football world to see, and Minnesota has been the worst team to perform in primetime over the past seemingly inevitable 5th season in a row. In fact the only primetime game the Vikings have won was a postponed Tuesday night game in which Joe Webb, Antoine Winfield and the Minnesota Vikings stunned a solid Eagles team in 2010.
So now with the uncertainty of the QB carousel in Minnesota, Christian Ponder is hinting that he wants to be traded, and he very well may get traded if Spielmen is offered; I would guess at least a fifth round pick, but that is purely speculation. So Josh Freeman will start likely at least the two primetime games and another one to two games beyond that even if he plays worse than Ponder and Cassel have this season with Ponder being his back up. Minnesota's season is lost and they are likely not going to win either primetime contests, but one of the first steps forward this team needs to make is much better performances in primetime games, and regardless of the very unfavorable circumstances; the Vikings must display an effort, showing as much heart as possible especially from the players that want to suit up for the purple in 2014. This is not the season where the Vikings get to the promised land, or even the post season or even a winning record, but the spotlight over the next two weeks is going to showcase which Vikings' players are a part of this franchise moving forward, and these terrible showings in primetime games is one part of this folding under pressure mindset that must be severed from this team, or at least from the players that intend on being a part of this team in 2014.
I cannot say Freeman will be the long term answer at quarterback, but I think he can give the team a spark. And not necessarily because of his talents, as he grades out very closely to the same caliber of Ponder, but has played about twice as long. It is likely Freeman has leveled out and what you see is what you get. So if there is room for either of the two to grow anymore; it is likely Ponder who has more room to grow in reaching his ceiling, and even though he will never have the arm of Freeman; he can learn from him. I think Ponder can be humble enough to play in this league as a back and learn to capitalize when he is eventually given his chances to start again. I am not so sure about Freeman; I am not so sure how long Freeman would play in this league at all as the number two guy. With that said as far as Minnesota's QBs; this team is desperate and has nothing to lose, and that should have the most effect on this team regardless of who the starting QB is and how questionable the decision making is of the coaching staff. These players have absolutely nothing to lose. They have already been counted out against a completely win less team. I would like to assume the Vikings' coaches will have at least a couple trick plays up their sleeves, and this team as a whole needs to play exactly like they have nothing left to lose, because they do not.
It is pretty apparent the entire coaching staff will be replaced at season's end, but that does not mean that they or anyone else on the team should give up. They are all auditioning for the future of their careers in the league. Though, I think if we see this same predictable, conservative approach from Bill Musgrave; I would be very surprised if he is not dismissed the game after, as much as Wilf wants to wait until season's end to fire them all. The fact of the matter is; Minnesota is going with a QB who has to learn a new system. So, why waste his and everyone else's time on learning something this team should be trying to forget, especially if we see the same ridiculous approach as he has had in the previous five games this year. Even if it is going to be an OC brought in that does not pan out and coach in Minnesota in 2014; the majority of the offensive players are in place that will be here for the next few years to come and whatever offense it is that is run the next year, the bottom line is a logical minded OC is going focus on what these players do best, and this current Musgraved system is not it. So, start trying to implement at least part of the offense the majority of the offensive players are good at that play to their strengths. Because outside of a QB and a guard or two;Minnesota is in pretty good shape. It is the defense that need many more positional upgrades at positions such as another safety, multiple corners, line backers and defensive linemen.
I think this team is not going to win the majority of the remaining games, and as much as that hurts to say and accept; I think he remainder of these games should be absolutely played to win at all costs and the players are all on audition. We all know there are ample of examples of the best players not being on the field or in the right position, but that must come to an end starting Monday night. It is Wilf and Spielman that must order Frazier and his staff to put in specific players in games especially when their deemed starting players are struggling. When a player beats out the others competing for each specific job; Wilf must order the coaching staff to inject them into the game at least until they falter worse then Frazier, Williams and Musgrave's choice. Spielman has done very well drafting for the most part and it is obvious he is not thrilled with some of the young talent he has brought in not being put on the field nearly as much as most expected and on top of the fact that the players the coaches have chosen over them are being highly criticized by many. There is obviously a clear disconnect between the players and the coaches, and there also seem to be a disconnect between the majority of the coaching staff and the modern game itself, but interestingly enough; there looks to be a difference of not only opinions, but philosophies as well. One obvious example is Rick Spielman's well known approach of wanting to build the majority of the team through the draft while keeping the roster young. Frazier and company seem to push hard to give the majority of playing time to veterans and seemingly regardless to amounts success. I don't know if there a grudge between Frazier and Spielman or not, but looking form the outside; I would say Frazier is not happy about not getting what he wanted in the draft, and would like to hope that the coaching staff wouldn't be snubbing some draft picks to spite the decision to draft other prospects instead of their favorites. I am not going to say that is what is happening, but I'm not going to say that it doesn't look like that either. I would like to think all parties are professionals being paid a lot of money so shouldn't let personal differences influence their better judgment. Though there is obviously been mistakes made by not having better judgement in the past and players and coaches alike need to be playing for their jobs. Because if they do not, it will not just be Minnesota they are not playing for next season; no one will hire an individual that lays down or refuses to adapt and overcome.