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I hate the NCAA. Loathe them. Just in case you are wondering, I hated them before tOSU found themselves in the cross-hairs.
So, I started thinking. I am became ruler of the football world, how would I change it.
Buckle up, because I am ripping this thing down to the frame and rebuilding.
Your job is to add in ideas and tell me what doesn't jive.
Step One: Leave the NCAA, and create new College Football League
F'em. This is for a couple reasons. First of all, this allows us to start new with the rule book. No longer do I have to care about the mundane, asinine, rules that bog down college football. Second of all, it allows us to pay the players, something I will touch on in a bit.
I am talking about all the teams in Division 1A. The teams in the lower divisions will be addressed later on.
No longer will college football, and the schools, be forced to follow Title 9. This will lie outside that scope. (If this is incorrect, please one of the lawyers here on DBN correct me). I'm not clamoring for the Basketball teams to leave NCAA, just the College Football programs.
Seriously, someone get Mark Cuban on the horn. Donald Trump. All I need is someone that knows how to run a business, because this business is going to make more money than the NFL. Damn straight I said it, but the first step is
I don't care what the new College Football group is called. For the sake of this idea, we will call it College Football League 1 & 2. Trust me, I will explain this later as well.
Step Two: Disband all Conferences
Pretty self explanatory here. No longer is your schedule 75% of the same teams. No longer will we be subjected to SEC! SEC! SEC! chants. Here in the College Football League, you stand on your own merits.
Step Three: Separate the 120 Division 1A teams, into two separate divisions and devise a schedule for the regular season and playoff
This may not make sense after step two, but hang with me. It's pretty simple, the best 60 teams, the Big Boys if you will, will go into Division A. The lower teams, will go into Division B. This is how I have it broken down:
College Football League Division A:
- Florida State
- Virginia Tech
- Miami
- Nebraska
- Mizzou
- Oklahoma
- Oklahoma State
- Texas A&M
- West Virginia
- Pitt
- UConn
- Ohio State
- Michigan State
- Wisconsin
- Iowa
- Michigan
- Penn State
- Notre Dame
- Navy
- Army
- Northern Illinois
- Air Force
- Utah
- San Diego State
- Oregon
- Stanford
- Washington
- Oregon State
- South Carolina
- Florida
- Tennessee
- Auburn
- Arkansas
- Alabama
- Nevada
- Boise State
- Hawaii
- Fresno State
- Troy
- Arizona State
- Arizona
- Cal
- Boston College
- Clemson
- Georgia Tech
- NC State
- Texas
- Texas Tech
- Mississippi State
- Syracuse
- Maryland
Realize this is not in order, these are just the teams that I believe are the 60 best from the former Division 1A. The teams not mentioned make up Division B of the CFL.
But in order to save the BS argument of "The little guy doesn't have a chance against the Big Boys" here is my twist. There is promotion and relegation between Divisions A and B. Just like the English Premier League. At the end of the season, the ten lowest teams of Division A play the ten highest teams of Division B. Winner either stays, or is promoted to Division A.
Teams like a Boise State or TCU would have been able to play themselves into the big leagues long before they were invited to the BCS. No longer do teams have to run up scores like 73-3 on San Jose State, instead they could have beaten a Clemson or Texas Tech ON the field. How novel of an idea is that?
The other quirk I would make is that teams would all play 12 game schedules. 6 home and 6 away. No more, no less. At least ten of a teams games must be played against their Division (Only 1 home and 1 away game against the other divisions). If a team wants to play down a division, they can only do that twice, and even then, is it a good idea?
Imagine if you are Ohio State. Do you want to "waste" a home game against Ohio, if it means that you have to go on the road 6 times against quality opponents? Actually I think many schools would use their road games as a chance to go on the road. How much money would it mean to Ohio if the Buckeyes came to play in their house? The smaller schools would actually benefit from playing these games in their house. More money and more exposure, and we are talking about the teams in the LOWER division.
How about the Big Boys? Again, let's look at Ohio State. Yes, they lose about 2 home games a year. That is a big blow. But how about this schedule?
Sept 3rd: UGA
Sept 10th: @ Ohio
Sept 17th: @ Clemson
Sept 24th: Texas
Oct 1st: Arizona
Oct 8th: @ Colorado
Oct 15th: @ Utah
Oct 22nd: Oregon
Oct 29th: Oklahoma State
Nov 5th: @ Boston College
Nov 12th: Illinois
Nov 19th: @ That School Up North
Seriously, how pumped would you be for that schedule? The worst games are Ohio and Illinois? After that, every weekend is stacked! And it wouldn't just be Ohio State, it would be everyone. Alabama vs. Stanford and LSU vs. Texas in one weekend?! How bad ass is this?
CFL would have games on Tuesday's, Thursday's and Saturday's. Anyone else like the idea of Auburn v. Oklahoma on Thursday night?
Now that we have the regular season figured out, we need to discuss the post season. I am still keeping the bowls but in a playoff situation. With my regular season, we are finished up by November 19th. That allows 7 WEEKS for a playoff that wouldn't keep these "student-athletes" out of school any longer than the NCAA's season. How do we use those 7 weeks is pretty easy.
First of all, we rank the top 24 teams, 1-24. We weigh schedule difficulty, performance and who you would think would win on a neutral field. Yes, I hate polls, but I can't think of a more fair way to do it.
Explaining my voters and how I picked them
My voters wouldn't be writers or coaches. Instead it would be a select group of former coaches, writers and people that pay attention to CFB. I am talking about a small group of voters that watch all the games in a central location. Think of a massive sports bar. It would be paid for by the league. This way, all the voters see the same thing, and vote on the same criteria. No longer do we have a writer following one team and voting them much higher because he has seen them more often. I chose former coaches and writers because the only boss I want them to have is the CFL.
Teams 1-8 have bye's the first week of the playoffs. teams 9-16 host teams 17-24 in a snake ranking (9 vs. 24, 10 vs. 23, etc.). These teams have won the right to host a playoff game which means $$$ for those schools.
Taking place during the third week, is the Promotion and Relegation games. The top ranked teams in Division B, plays the ten teams with the worst record in Division A (snake ranking fashion again). I went with worst record instead of rankings because I doubt many voters pay enough attention to bottom feeder teams. Winners are either promoted or get to stay in Division A the following season. While this may be glossed over, imagine the financial windfall for example Rice, if they were able to play a top schedule for a season. Could make a program.
After the second week of the CFL Playoffs, we would be left with 8 teams.
This is where the bowls come into play. All of the lower tier bowls would be able to invite any teams to play that were not involved with previous playoff or promotion games. This would allow other teams to get the "pay-off" of a bowl game and the practice time that comes with it.
This "bye week" of lower tier bowls not only reward the other teams, but it gives the remaining 8 teams two weeks to plan their trip to the bowl locations. I understand that arranging a trip like this would be a pressure situation, but this is the CFL. If a NFL can make arrangements for the Super Bowl in two weeks, we can do it here as well.
Step Four: The final Eight Bowl games and locations.
This is where another major change comes in. If the former BCS Bowls want to get in on the CFL, they need to make some room.
You know how many bowl games are played north of the Tennessee-Kentucky border? Three. The Bronx bowl in NY, The Humanitarian Bowl in Boise and the Military Bowl in Washington DC.
How is that fair? Sorry, but Ohio State, Virginia Tech, Oregon and other northern schools have to survive in the North, why decide the biggest games of the season all in the South? I'm fixing that.
Assuming the Rose, Sugar and the Fiesta want to join, they are welcome. The Orange Bowl will not be welcomed. Last year they did not sell out a game with Virginia Tech and Stanford. Miami sucks as a sports town. Why should they be awarded with a crown jewel of CFL?
No, the Orange Bowl is out. Instead, they will be replaced by the Chick-fil-A Bowl in Atlanta. Atlanta is a top notch city that is used to hosting big time College Football Events (SEC Championship) and is a hub that will be easy to reach by fans and schools alike.
New Bowl Locations:
Indianapolis, in Lucas Oil Stadium. (Yes, I know this is an indoor field, but it has a retractable roof) Seattle, in Qwest Field New York, New Meadowlands Stadium
Step Five: Selection of Bowl Games
Now, these games will rotate who hosts the National Championship game, just like the BCS does now. I think it is time for another twist.
The Bowl games would go on a rotation. Think of it like A, B, C, D, E, F and G. If A is hosting the National Championship Game, then B & C would be hosting the semi-finals the week prior. D, E, F and G would all host "Elite Eight" games.
After 3 weeks, we are left with 8 playoff teams, these teams are matched up again by seeds. Highest v. lowest and on and on. Now for the twist.
The highest seeded team gets first pick from locations D, E, F and G of where they want to play. Say Ohio State is the number one overall seed. They would choose Indianapolis to play in. Short trip for them and you would think an advantage in crowd. If the team was USC, they would choose the Rose Bowl (duh.). On and on.
The top 3 seeds get to choose where they will play.
After that, we are left with 4 teams, highest seed alive picks from the remaining locations in which to play. Pretty much, the number one overall seed gets to pick and chose where they go up until the National Championship game.
This is 5 weeks after the end of the season. This would bring us to the Holiday Season. The bowl season calendar would break down like this:
Nov 26th: 9-16 vs. 17-24 (Teams 1-8 get Bye)
Dec 3rd: 1-8 vs. remaining 9-24
Dec 10th: Promotion and Relegation games and Lower Tier Bowl games
Dec 17th: "Elite Eight" match-ups
Dec 31st: Final Four
January 10th: National Championship
So here we have a full playoff, with the National Championship Game taking place on the exact same date as last years National Championship Game. Not some mythical BS where we argue forever of who beat who, but an actual Championship that crowns a deserved winner.
Step Six: Establish a partnership with the NFL
Let's quit pretending that the NFL wouldn't be interested. They would be drooling. You want to see if Kellen Moore is legit? Have him face Nick Saban and Bo Pelini defenses on the field. They would have much, much more to go off of. Andrew Luck sets record against a top flight schedule? Saweeet.
So instead of running away from the NFL, embrace them.
The Junior rule is still a go in the CFL, but much like the NBA, a player can declare for the draft, work with the NFL coaches and get it straight from the horses mouth on what they should do. Have the NFL come and talk to these kids about a litany of things. Who to hang out with, what supplements are illegal, how to go about your life as a college football player trying to make it into the NFL.
Allow players to work in NFL run camps if they have a certain GPA. How cool would it be for Andrew Luck to be working with Peyton Manning and Drew Brees? I'm not saying that they are in mini camp, but maybe a two week passing camp. Something that the NFL and the CFL can work together on.
Step Seven: Set Rules and Payments
Damn straight I'm paying these kids. How much is based on some different factors.All money from video games and 50% from Bowl games are split among the players evenly. Division A players are paid more than Division B players. You want a light a fire under these kids in a Promotion and Relegation game? Tell them they will get more money in Division A.
When you take the roughly 137 million dollars Bowls paid out last season, take the 50%, divide it by the 120 teams 85 scholarship players (giving us 9,600 players), that is roughly a payout of $7,135.41 per player a season from just bowl money. No too much, but a starting point.
No we address the money that CFL would bring in from a Video Game. EA Sports has made over $868 million dollars off of the NCAA football game. If EA wants to make our game, they need to pony up the dollars. Let's go off of EA paying the NFLPA 35 million a season for the rights. Divide that by the 9,600 players, we have $3,645.83 a player. Add that into the bowl money, right now players would be making $10,781.24 a season.
Now we need to add in memorabilia sales. All numbered jersey profits would be split evenly between that teams members. Players would be allowed to have "Miller 5" jerseys sold at bookstores. I can't find any numbers of how much money this would be, but I assume it would be a decent number for major teams (OSU, Texas, Florida, etc.)
I'm not going to pretend that I am smart enough to give you a number, but my guess is that a decent team would end up paying out around 13-15k a player. Doesn't sound like much, but this is on top of the scholarship. I'm not saying it is the end all be all of payments, but it is a start.
Plus, I don't care if they sell their rings. You won them, you can sell them. You want to sell them? You go through the school and CFL to place them in a predetermined auction house. Player receives all money from the sale.
I would put restrictions on sales of equipment (that belongs to the school) and the sale of autographs. The School's will be allowed to host "Signing Days" once a month, in which there are set prices for players to sign customer goods. The money will go to the player, and they player alone. This doesn't mean that the player is not allowed to sign stuff if he is stopped in the mall, he just isn't allowed to accept the money at the mall. Only at signing days. Players could also charge for pictures and other services that day as well, for prices that are set by College Football League.
Let's say that a mall wants to have Braxton Miller out for autographs and pictures. They would have to go through the CFL and the School to make sure that someone is out there with them to set and enforce the limits. The player makes their money, and everyone is happy. There would have to be a limit for appearances by a player, maybe 7 a season? Don't have a good idea on a number.
This allows the player to capitalize on their popularity on the field, but keeps some sort of reasoning, doesn't allow players to just whore themselves out for any person and makes sure that the school is able to keep an eye on the people that are giving these players money.
Players also need to maintain a certain GPA and be working towards a major. Don't know enough in this area, but I assume that the NCAA's guidelines would be a good starting point.
Step Eight: Sell it to TV
No more BigTen network football. The CFL sells all its games as a package. Think NFL instead of MLB. No local sales. Directv wants to shell out the dollars? What about a Saturday ticket?
CBS, FOX, NBC, ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 can fight over the big games. Highest bidder gets first pick of games every week. Second highest, second pick and so on. Wall-to-wall football coverage on Saturdays. Show me the biggest games on Saturday, if I want to follow my team, I use the ticket. I do it for the Browns. If ABC wants to go regional with its coverage, go for it.
The Schools will split that money evenly among themselves.
Step Nine: Establish Harsh Penalties
You want to break the rules? You are going to get hammered. Not the kids who come years later, you. This is where a partnership of the NFL and the CFL will also pay dividends.
You get caught taking extra benefits? Suspended for the remainder of the season or six games, whichever is longer.
You get caught taking extra benefits twice? Suspended for good. Not only that, the NFL will not allow you to enter the draft until one season after you would have exhausted your college eligibility.
Same goes for Boosters. You get caught giving a kid extra benefits? Banned from all CFL games, events and functions five years. After five years, you are allowed to apply or reinstatement. If a school is caught allowing a banned booster into events? They will be banned.
Agents? Only allowed to contact players through the school. They can talk to kids of all ages, not just draft eligible players. Certain times, on campus, with proper supervision. Agents found to circumvent these rules? Banned for 5 years from CFL schools, allowed to reapply after 5 years.
Maybe it is too heavy handed, but I think you have to drop the hammer on this crap. You know why the NBA never has fights anymore? Because the NBA dropped the hammer on that. Same here people. No leeway.
So what do ya think? Am I on to something here? Where did I go wrong. Sorry for the length and any typos if I missed any.
God I miss football.


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Pierre-François Dutot, Tchimou N'Takpé, Frédéric Suter, Henri Casanova, "Scheduling Parallel Task Graphs on (Almost) Homogeneous Multicluster Platforms," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 940-952, July, 2009.
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Rocky Road
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Serves: 10+
Preparation time: 15 minutes or less
- Serves: 10+
- Preparation time: 15 minutes or less
- A quick and handy recipe that everyone would love to have at any occasion, or good as gifts wrapped in a gift plastic with ribbons.
250 g milk chocolate buttons (or chopped chocolate)
250 g dark chocolate buttons (or chopped chocolate)
2 x Cherry Ripe bars, chopped
2 x Turkish Delight bars, chopped
200 g small marshmallows
½ cup pistachio nuts
- Line a slice tin with baking paper, cling wrap or foil.
- Combine all ingredients (except milk and dark chocolate) in a bowl and mix well.
- Melt milk and dark chocolate in a double boiler or microwave on low.
- Pour dry ingredients into melted chocolate and mix well.
- Pour mixture into tin. Refrigerate until set.
- Cut into slices (square or triangles) with a warm knife.
Recipe notes
You can use a mixture of pistachio nuts and peanuts, and chopped large marshmallows instead of small ones. This is a great colourful recipe that is excellent to be served at parties. I also make this to be given as gifts during Christmas, Easter or on special occasions.
So easy, so delish!
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The best Rocky Road I've ever had!
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Fantastic, not too hard on the teeth
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So delicious!
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So yummy
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How to reset HTC EVO Design 4G
The more features your cellphone has, the more problems you will encounter. When you use your HTC EVO Design 4G, you may encounter persist problem, how to solve it? I think the most convenient way is to perform a hard reset on your cellphone.
After you use your HTC EVO Design 4G for some time, there will be many useless files such as cache on your cellphone, they make your device run slower than before. In this situation, you need to reset your cellphone.
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LORAIN -- Three local schools were among the top 60 in the Ohio, but much farther down the list nationally, in the 2013 ranking of the best public high schools in the U.S., announced yesterday by U.S. News & World Report.
Bay High School in Bay Village was the highest-ranked local high school at 19 in Ohio and 496 in the nation.
Avon Lake High School ranked 22 in Ohio and 543 in the nation.
Westlake High School was 33 in Ohio and 746 in the nation.
The top-rated Ohio high school was Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, which rated 87 in the nation.
Other local schools, their Ohio and U.S. rankings are as follows:
Rocky River, 74 and 1,369; Avon, 77 and 1,405; and North Olmsted, 104 and 1,930.
Only the top 125 Ohio schools out of 892 were ranked. Local schools not receiving a ranking, included Lorain, Elyria, Sandusky and Norwalk high schools.
The No. 1-rated high school in the nation was the School for the Talented and Gifted in Dallas, Texas.
U.S. News said it based its rankings on overall performance on mandatory state assessments, on how well minority and economically disadvantaged students were educated, and how well the schools prepared students for college, based on Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate tests.
The rankings were based on data from more than 21,000 high schools, according to U.S. News.
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12 years ago, hijackers flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.Stories from that September 11, 2001 continue to emerge, like this one: a man from the valley was there on business, survived and his life was changed forever.Nearly 3,000 people died, many more injured, and the United States suddenly woke up and discovered terrorism can happen anywhere.Dan Jacobson is a financial planner in Peoria, he was there on that day in tower two of the World Trade Center."I was in the south tower of the World Trade Center and I was in training with Morgan Stanley at the time."He had never been in New York City before."The first day, it was kinda of nice to take a little breakfast break, and look out at the Statue of Liberty, the first time I'd seen it."He was among 200 students on the 61st floor of the 110 story south tower, feeling safe and secure.While taking a bathroom break, he had no idea of the tragedy that was happening around him."So I washed my hands and walked out of the door, and see smoke down the hallway corridor. And there was gentleman at the emergency exit who said lets go we've been hit!"He made it to the stairwell along with hundreds of people rushing down about eight floors, desperately trying to make it out of the building."I remember counting down 46 - 45 and somewhere around there is when the building was rocked and we were moving in the stairwell all of a sudden," Jacobson said. "And that was the second plane hitting the south tower."Then suddenly he became aware - that he could die."And I began to recite the Lord's Prayer, It was the first thing that came to mind, And it was at that moment that I want to say a peace really came over me, like a warm feeling, That it wasn't going to happen today."He continued to rush down the stairwell, the building was swaying back and forth there was intense heat, from the flames. He could hear people screaming from above and below.And then something peculiar happened."They were coming up the center, and you can see an emotion on their faces, because they had already seen what was going on. They knew why they were going up into those buildings. And I just remember seeing this one gentleman's face and it looked like he had tears in his eyes already as he was running up the stairs."He made it to the ground floor and outside, but that was just the beginning."As I looked up when I got out, it looked as though both buildings were melting."And as he ran across the street - more horror..."When I reached across the street, and I wanna say that was probably the remains of someone who maybe had to jump and shop owners covering that with newspapers."When he looked up he saw people, falling to their death.He ran as fast as he could, just ahead of that giant cloud of dust from the collapsing tower. He only stopped to look back once, and that's when the second tower came crashing down. "I remember a deep sorrow, like I couldn't be sad enough... I remember crying uncontrollably and trying to make it back to my hotel."He made it back to his hotel room, called his family and collapsed on the bed, sleeping for over six hours. Dan Jacobson made out alive, and he feels there was a reason why he survived. His wife died last year of brain cancer."Now I know why God spared me to take care of her to make sure she had everything she need and I do feel there's a divine presence for that."Now there is a tribute to those events at Ground Zero in New York. It is beautiful and a fitting reminder of the lives that were lost that day and our ability to move on and grow from a tragedy like this.A tragedy that has left indelible memories especially in the minds of those who survived."It's not over yet, and we still have a problem -- It's hatred that's the problem, and I try to recoup most of that with love."
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What kind of creature will the new National Bank Supervisor be? No one seems to be entirely sure. The NYT and WaPo say that Obama wants "merge" the OTS with the OCC. Reuters and the WSJ say the OTS will be closed, but make no mention of the OCC or the NBS at all. Bloomberg says the OTS will be "eliminated", while the NBS will "assume the responsibilities of" the OTS and the OCC.
The white paper itself says that the NBS will "take over the prudential responsibilities" of the OCC and the OTS, and will "inherit" both agencies' powers.
I suspect the vagueness is deliberate, but that by the time everything has shaken out, the OCC's John Dugan will emerge as the head of the NBS, regulating federally-chartered banks, and will continue to spar with the FDIC's Sheila Bair, who will regulate state-chartered banks. Banks, meanwhile, will continue to pick and choose whichever regulator they think will have the softer touch: Goldman Sachs, for instance, has decided to go for a state charter. Is there any particular reason why Goldman should be regulated by the FDIC rather than the NBS? Of course not — it's all politics.
Meanwhile, "macroprudential" regulation of the banks — whatever that means — will be performed by the new Financial Services Oversight Council. But it's hard to see either Dugan or Bair giving much if any of their current regulatory powers to the FSOC, which increases the already-high probability that the FSOC will be a Terribly Important Body which achieves essentially nothing.
There's simply no way that this kind of structure is conducive to encouraging powerful and committed and intelligent regulators to do their job with a minimum of bureaucratic interference. Given how much such interference already exists within agencies like the SEC, I can't imagine that it isn't going to get even worse when you start getting turf wars between agencies. And remember that Congress hasn't had the opportunity yet to take the white paper and make it even more complicated and less effective.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Doctors and investors at a cancer conference starting on Friday will be keen to find out more on the effectiveness of two promising new breast cancer drugs from Swiss drugmakers Roche and Novartis.
Roche's T-DM1 and Novartis's Afinitor have been designed to treat two specific types of breast cancer and are among the latest examples of the tailored therapies increasingly being used in oncology.
A mid-stage trial has already shown recently that T-DM1, which combines Roche's Herceptin with a potent cell-killing payload delivered directly to cancer cells, helped patients live longer without their disease getting worse compared with those taking Herceptin and conventional chemotherapy.
It also showed that T-DM1 had fewer side effects. Investors will eye the more detailed data sets to see the size of the benefit and whether the reduced side effects increased patients' likelihood of sticking with the treatment.
Roche and Novartis, the top two global players in oncology, are due to present more detailed data on their drugs at the EMCC European cancer congress, which runs from September 23-27 in Stockholm.
"We have further data at the next cancer conference, and we believe they are quite astounding," Stefan Frings, Global Head of Medical Affairs Oncology at Roche, told Reuters at the group's headquarters in Basel.
Roche hopes the T-DM1 results will help it protect its multibillion-dollar Herceptin franchise even as Herceptin loses exclusivity in the coming years.
T-DM1, which Roche is developing with Immunogen, is a new kind of "armed antibody."
The fact that the drug delivers its toxic payload directly into cells is thought to be key to why it causes fewer cases of common chemotherapy side effects such as hair loss and low white blood cell counts.
"For T-DM1 we want to know more about the extent of those benefits as that ultimately has an impact on the pricing issue, which is important for Roche as they seek to combine more products to treat breast cancer," Helvea analyst Karl-Heinz Koch said.
Novartis has also sounded an upbeat note about the prospects for Afinitor, also known as everolimus, which is already approved for other types of cancer, such as kidney and a rare type of pancreatic cancer.
CEO Joe Jimenez told Reuters in a recent interview it could generate sales of at least $1 billion if it makes it to the market for patients with hormone-sensitive breast cancer. It is planning to file for regulatory approval by the end of 2012.
The interim analysis of a late-stage trial showed Afinitor taken with Pfizer's oestrogen-blocker Aromasin, also known as exemestane, extended the time patients lived without their tumor growing.
More details from the BOLERO-2 study will be presented in Stockholm.
Novartis is seeking to use Afinitor, which works by targeting the protein mTOR in cancer cells, to treat women with hormonal receptor-positive breast cancer who have not responded to initial hormonal therapy.
"After around 25 years of hormonal therapy for this type of patient population, this study represents a really innovative therapy that is a step forward for this group of patients with breast cancer," Alessandro Riva, Global Head of Oncology Development and Medical Affairs at Novartis, told Reuters.
Worldwide, there are approximately 220,000 newly diagnosed cases of ER+HER2- advanced breast cancer each year that could benefit from Afinitor, Riva said, adding the drug was well tolerated and can be taken over a prolonged period.
"The breast cancer story is a very nice journey for everolimus," Riva said. "The journey is not finished because we have a large program now ongoing in the HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer patients."
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Liberals in Media Lament Lack of 'Dirt' in Sarah Palin Emails
With headlines like "Sarah Palin's emails: Annoyingly gaffe-free" from the Los Angeles Times, reporters are lamenting the fact they didn't find the juicy details about the life of the former vice presidential candidate they were looking for in their 24,000 page stack of Palin emails.
The weekend of their release, the media had to dig deep to fabricate any kind of story from the emails. The Washington Post ran the headline "Sarah Palin e-mails: Palin maintained third e-mail account," while New York Times highlighted her brief mention of 'Transformers' being filmed in Alaska. Of course, those weren't the stories they were probably hoping to find. For the most part, all 24,000 pages of emails were about mundane politics.
The handling of the email release is now an embarrassing reflection on the standards of the media. Perhaps best summed up by Huffington Post's Jason Linkins, "it's really not hard to think that the joke might somehow be on us."
The joke is on them. Sarah Palin holds no public office and has not declared any candidacy for office, but she still remains the biggest media target. The New York Times and Washington Post had to implore their readers to sift through the emails with them, a clear mechanism designed to find hits against Palin to advance their liberal agendas.
What they found instead was a hard-working governor working to fix problems in Alaska. According to the New York Times, "After a day of frantically poring over the correspondence, with the help of millions of online readers, there were no major revelations but plenty of attempts to dissect the background of a woman who might yet run for president."
The Washington Post released a similar opinion. "Neither the crowdsourcing nor the traditional analysis by reporters produced any bombshells, but enlisting the public did help engage readers."
Slightly more begrudgingly, the Los Angeles Times even writes "a surprising thing happened after the state of Alaska released more than 24,000 pages of Sarah Palin's emails sent during her term as governor from 2006 to 2008: Like Al Capone's vault, it turned out there was nothing there."
The double standard of the media could not be clearer. They spent days and a number of resources digging through tens of thousands of Palin's emails to try to damage the reputation of a non-candidate holding no political office. When sitting Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan's emails were released earlier this year and turned up a clear conflict of interest with court cases related to Obamacare (she had previously crafted the legal defense for Obamacare as solicitor general before being appointed by Obama's administration to the Supreme Court), the same media remained relatively mum on the subject and were not out begging readers for help sorting through her emails.
The only thing publicly reading through Palin's emails did was strengthen her credibility as a diligent governor with her state's best interests at heart.
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Bias, how shocking
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 3:24pm.
In my local paper there was a fuss because there were rumors of Bristol's pregnancy that Sarah thought started with an opponent in the GOP. They made a big deal about the fact that 8 months later, Bristol's son was born. The implication being Palin knowingly accused her opponent falsely, because she knew of Bristol's pregnancy.
At one month, it's debatable if Bristol knew she was pregnant.
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Incredible...so when are the
Submitted by Liberallies on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 3:27pm.
Incredible...so when are the media, Liberals, RINOS and all other Sarah Palin haters going to start demanding and suing President Obama for his emails while he was a State Senator for Illinois and a U.S. Senator for Illinois.
When are these same individuals going to demand and sue in order to get President Obama's educational records?
Amazing how the media, Americans overall, where uninterested in Obama's background, education and otherwise, but they are so incredibly interested in the background Sarah Palin. The same interest for both should be shown!!!
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Plain answer - NEVER
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 1:05pm.
They all have a very good idea of what they would find, and they MOST DEFINITELY don't want it made public.
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Little did the know
Submitted by Bob K on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 3:35pm.
that the fact that they were going after her by this e-mail search would backfire on them. No dirt, and the e-mails revealed enough positive examples of her competence as Gov. not to mention her honest and nice personality, to even give her a bump. I think that resulting bump will even have a longer shelf life than Barry's "i killed Osama" bump. Not what the left expected at all when they began their search and destroy mission.
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With all the nothing that was
Submitted by tombaker on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 5:56pm.
With all the nothing that was going on in the emails, makes you wonder why she did not have the gusto to remain as Governor. Sure its capitalist to go Rogue and cash out, but its not very honorable a Governor put there by the electorate.
Palin could have easily fought off all the BS that D.C. paparazzi were doing in Alaska...yet she did not...she did not reload....she did not stand ground....nope....she tucked tail between legs and ran....ran away from the job she did.
Palin is a quitter, its not debatable....is that? All you have is Kool-Aid cheerleaders making excuses. Palin's contribution to the General election defeat of Republicans was no fluke.
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Tom Parrot
Submitted by Free Stinker on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 6:09pm.
Squawk! Quitter!
Squawk! Caribou Barbie!
Squawk! I am a mysogynist!
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The Palin email frenzy reminds me of a patient...
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 3:37pm.
...I treated many, many years ago when I worked with criminals committed to inpatient treatment in lieu of imprisonment. The particular patient was a severe schizophrenic with extremely violent tendencies. He was tried and convicted of attempted murder and had been sentenced to twenty to life. Once symptomatic control over his schizophrenia had been achieved with better antipsychotic therapy, he let me know that he was still very angry about the attempted murder. He was angry that his intended victim actually fought back and escaped. The media certainly need to be committed for their treatment of Sarah Palin, but it adds quite an extra element of sociopathy when they complain that her emails failed to reveal anything.
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If the media pursued Obama like they did Nixon,
Submitted by johnsonl on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 3:54pm.
this adminstration would crumble in weeks.
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Purely rhetorical
Submitted by LionKing on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 4:11pm.
Why didn't the LSM use this much diligence with Barry?
If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.
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So the LSM is upset about no news!
Submitted by phryingphish on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 4:14pm.
It's such ashame that they can't just make it up anymore. Now they have to show proof of whatever lie they want to tell.
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So the LSM is upset about no news!
Submitted by phryingphish on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 4:14pm.
sorry, double post.
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MSM needs their FOID card revoked
Submitted by MidAmerica on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 4:27pm.
Makes you wonder how many times the MSM can shoot themselves in the foot and still not learn any lesson from it.
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Sarah Palin Has Some Nerve Being as Sweet as she Appears.
Submitted by Avitar on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 4:55pm.
What New York Editor is going to put up with an honest hard working and knowledgeable Politician?
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You Betcha!
Submitted by KornKing on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 5:27pm.
The joke is on you. It's even funnier when they don't know it
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breaching the castle walls
Submitted by MidAmerica on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 5:29pm.
By their relentless obsession to 'get' Sarah Palin the media have made her wealthy and a political force. I think they are aware of this but now that they have invested so much fire power against her and she is still going strong that now... it's personal. The media has always prided itself on being gate keepers to the people seeking power. They can make or break not only a persons career but their personal life as well. Then along came Sarah who refuses to play their game and refuses to play dead and go home because the media says so. Sarah isn't just a political threat but a threat to the power of the media to control the debate on issues and who is allowed to debate them. They need to destroy Palin or their invincible power will be exposed as too weak to stand up to actual confrontation. And this in fact happening. Others are following Sarah's lead and the MSM is losing credibility. So the drive to destroy Sarah continues unabated because only by eventually destroying her can the media again posture themselves as the ultimate power.
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If the media only was
Submitted by rbosque on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 5:44pm.
If the media only was interested in salacious crap on a politician, they can go through Obama's Acorn and senate e-mails. I'm sure THOSE emails are full of fun stuff! Hey, they might find some love letters from Chris Matthews, Castro, and Olbermann. But of course they're not interested in bringing down their messiah...
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Figured it Out Yet, Mediots? She's Not Like You.
Submitted by Tenebrous on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 5:58pm.
In a saner universe, people would praise Palin for her consistency and virtue, instead of complaining that she's not as deranged and dirty as her accusers.
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They fear Sarah
Submitted by speedy on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 6:57pm.
By their vitriol they show their respect for her. They would not waste the time and attack dog mediatards resources on someone they did not fear could make a difference in 2012.
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Submitted by Emma Grump on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 8:35pm.
Sarah played those libs like a fine fiddle. She knew nothing incriminating would be found, so she just sat back laughing and let the fools waste their time poring over 24,000 pages of trivial correspondence. I heard the idiots complained that everything was in paper form, which really was annoying. I wouldn't be surprised if the NYT found a way to rummage through her bathroom waste can to find out if she's using illegal feminine products, or if she suffers from constipation, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, acne, corns, psoriasis - ANYTHING at all MUST be found to justify their liberal hatred for the woman.
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Au Contraire
Submitted by V the K on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 8:45am.
There was dirt in the emails, just not the kind they were hoping to find.
This charming email from a Palin critic came out of the document dump that drove the MFM into a frenzy last week: http://www.sondrakistan.com/?p=6355
Excerpt: "You need to be shot from one of the planes that shoot th (sic) the very wolves that you ordered. You (f-word) (rhymes with chore) ... I want to look into the eyes of a phony (c-word) witha (sic) (rhymes with chore) of a daughter and votes to overturn roe vers wade, you worthless piece of flesh...want go hunting for wolves still? let's make you run in your heels, you (f-word) ugly pig!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I just want to know who wrote that. Was it Maureen Dowd or Kathleen Parker?
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Submitted by GrannyGrump42 on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 9:54am.
I would love to see a couple of Palin staffers start a decoy email account that they let the MSM hack into, full of what looks like gossip but turns out to be about historic figures or literary characters.
Things like, "M needs to get his ass there quick before J.E. gets sucked into the R thing any deeper than she's sucked in now. Thought of alerting F, but not sure she has what it takes to step in. We know G.P. won't say anything; too afraid R will find out about that bottle."
or: "Rumors about A. and R. not likely to abate any time soon. A. not likely to let go of R, because of situation with 'Baby.' N. really needs to grow a pair and put a stop to all of it."
Let them chase their tails for a couple of months of public speculation before opening a "Spot the Character" contest.
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Well, maybe not as funny as the previous episode, but funny nonetheless. Our usual trio didn't get a lot of screen time in this episode since we were introduced to a few more characters, like the all girls school Council President and the boys' Council President. Plus, some old looking farts.
High School Boys and Eavesdropping
This gag was about Tadakuni eavesdropping on his friends - something I've always been tempted to do, I'll admit. He was curious to know what it was that they talk about when he's not around - or if they talk about him, I suppose. It was funny seeing him get worked up once they started talking dirty. He started questioning the closeness between him and his friends. LOL. But all his efforts gone to waste once he realized he was spying on the wrong people.
The two characters who happen to be Student Council Presidents? Of course they wouldn't get along! It didn't make me ROFL though.
High School Boys and the Cultural Festival 2
I thoroughly enjoyed the haunted house. Boys can be scary. Naked and all XD. That poor prez.
High School Boys and the Cultural Festival 3
This one was a little awkward. The girl was just messing with Yoshitake and putting up "airs" - making too many assumptions about boys thinking she knew it all or something. Awkward . . .
A fight to the death between girl prez and boy prez was strangely funny. The boy's only challenge was to stay up while the girl brutally tried to take him down. In the end, girl won cuz were awesome. :)
High School Boys and Counseling
Tadakuni seeks advice from his coworker about his friend troubles. *facepalm* It was hilarious to see. She tells him to man up and go to them, but when he does . . . again, he confuses them for the wrong people.
Funniest gag of the episode. Seeing them eat sweets like wild monkeys did hurt my pride a little, though. But when they asked the dude why he tried so hard to live was too funny. Why won't you die? >.<
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I know, there have been a couple posts about this already, but I just wanted to give my two cents.
So I was at work today, and one of the managers noticed my 49ers lanyard and mentioned that he appreciated it because he is one of the "faithful" as well. "Not just a fan, but a faithful," he said. And it got me thinking.
I have always been against people changing "favorite" teams. I have always thought it was a crappy habit when people can't stick to one team and just be a fan for life, no matter what. I, as well as most everybody here, has been through a lot of heartache the past decade with this 49er team. Eight straight seasons of losing records, yet we are still here rooting this team on, and we are finally reaping the benefits of it. That part right there is what makes it so sweet because we all stuck with our team and never thought of doing otherwise.
Now that the 49ers are having some success, we are seeing these "bandwagon" fans showing up out of nowhere, and the "fan" base is growing as the 49ers are becoming better and are finally a great team. I kind of saw this back when the Cardinals made their Super Bowl run as well. I was born and raised in Arizona, and nobody wanted to have anything to do with the Cardinals because they were such a bad team for so long. Well, when they finally made the playoffs I noticed something. As I would drive around, I would see these Cardinals flags attached to everybody's cars (I believe Wal-Mart was the one selling them) and each time the Cardinals got deeper into the playoffs, I would notice the amount of flags on peoples cars increased exponentially. Where did all these "fans" come from? Nobody cared about the Cardinals and then all of a sudden everyone is a die-hard fan? Sure, you can root for your home team, but nobody wanted to when they weren't good, so now since they were these people were fans? What fun is that?
So I had an epiphany today. When the manager told me he was a "faithful," he made sure to clarify he wasn't just a fan. And then I realized that I'm not just a fan. All of us that have stuck with this team through the good and not-so-good (okay, really bad) are not just fans. We are the Faithful. We are the ones truly benefiting from the 49ers success this season. Sure, you can ditch your team and come root for ours, and I won't even call you a bandwagon fan anymore. I don't care. All that means is that we know that the Niners are finally good again. Bandwagoners will come and go. It's bound to happen with any team that is successful. But I know that I will be a 49er fan for as long as I live, and nothing will ever change that. And I know that 6th Super Bowl will be that much sweeter because of that (and the 7th, 8th, 9th...). So even if you are against people changing teams, just know they won't be enjoying the success the 49ers will have for the many years to come as much as you will. To the Faithful.
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So losing sucks. That said, I think we still have a very good team. Our championship window is certainly narrowed, but I wouldn't say it is closed. Next year, we'll have a full year with Shaq and apparently a new more defensive-minded coach. Amare will continue to improve. It could be special. Likely, we're just a solid playoff team again, since no one will be able to compete with the Lakers, but that's better than being a Grizzlies fan, for instance. Two years from now? Well, considering the age of our players, that's more difficult to forecast
But in 2010/2011 (not next season or the next season after but the next one), we could be right back on top, because we're set up fabulously for that year.
Our assets
1) A solid trio of young players: Boris, Amare, and Leandro will all be 28 for that season. In other words, they will still be on the good side of their peak.
2) Cap space: Raja, Steve, and Shaq all come off the books that year, and there is no better time for them to do so. Players who will/might be available that year, depending on contract extensions:
Lebron, Bosh, DWade, Marvin Williams, Richard Hamilton, Mike Miller, Deron Williams, Chris Paul, Josh Howard, Dirk, T-Mac, Joe Johnson, Manu, Okur, Andrew Bynum, Boozer, David Lee, Andrew Bogut, Tyson Chandler, and Danny Granger.
Now not all of these players will be there (almost certainly not Paul and Bynum), but that's still an impressive crop and the Suns, always a great free agent draw, will have the space to make their pick.
Of course, this all assumes that we're not going to trade away our cap space in 09/10. But even that may not be so bad if we're getting something valuable back in return.
Now we just have to hope that in the next couple of drafts, we can get at least two or three solid contributors (not even studs) on the cheap. We'll likely have to get our studs via free agency. But alll the good teams, including us, right now have key (or even star) players who were late first round/second round picks (Barbosa, Bell, Bowen, Howard, Boozer, Parker, Ginobili, Arenas, Rondo, Kirilenko, Prince, West not to mention Powe, Landry, Bass, Milsap, Maxiell and guys of that level). We need our gems as well.
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Because the TSA assured the public that nude images of passengers would not be stored on any recording devices, there were no cameras in the I.O. room, which was also locked from the inside. So, Harrington writes, "I.O. room duty quickly devolved into an unofficial break" in which employees "gawked" at "overweight people, their every fold and dimple on full awful display."
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These behaviors were not a security concern, Harrington writes, because the "TSA was compelling toddlers, pregnant women, cancer survivors — everyone — to stand inside radiation-emitting machines that didn't work."
After the full-body scanners were installed, "[o]fficers discovered that the machines were good at detecting just about everything besides cleverly hidden explosives and guns."
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Opinions. We've all got one. Whether it be that Japanese mixed martial arts isn't dead yet, Fedor Emelianenko is the greatest of all-time, or Don Frye has the best mustache ever. Opinions fuel debate and discussions among the legions of fans across the landscape of the sport. Without them, sports wouldn't be as interesting. One opinion, in particular, has been spoken as gospel by many MMA fans since July 11, 2009. On that day, UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre defended his title for the third time, defeating Thiago Alves via unanimous decision at UFC 100 and securing the thought in fans' minds that he was unstoppable, invincible, and arguably the greatest champion the sport has ever seen.
The debate over whether stagnation exists has been a consistent one among fans. Anderson Silva, B.J. Penn, and Georges St. Pierre have all been at the head of the discussion. Silva's thirteen-fight winning streak under the UFC banner, which includes 8 consecutive title defenses, is record-breaking and the most dominant in all of mixed martial arts. Penn's reign atop the UFC's lightweight division lasted a little over two years before being stopped by current champion Frankie Edgar, and St. Pierre's run of five consecutive title defenses over the course of the last three years has led many fans to believe the UFC welterweight division will remain on lockdown in the future.
The notion that any division will remain stagnant for any lengthy period of time has been proven time and time again to be only in theory. The UFC's ability to infuse divisions with legitimate, high-level talent as well as develop talent at the basement level has consistently added to the growing number of upper echelon fighters that each division possesses. The acquisition of Strikeforce was the icing on the cake, gaining a number of credible fighters that could be injected into the UFC as immediate title contenders. It is an impressive business move that allows the UFC to move forward rather than play a waiting game while talent develops, which is always a good strategy for business.
Look no further than the UFC's welterweight division as a prime example of the progressive measures the UFC has taken to ensure the division's continued interest among fans. Once St. Pierre regained the title at UFC 83 in April of 2008, Jon Fitch was the clear cut #1 contender. Four months later, he was just another victim of St. Pierre's dominance, dropping an unanimous decision to the champion in a Fight of the Night performance at UFC 87. The UFC, realizing that they had no clear challengers for St. Pierre at the moment, threw B.J. Penn at St. Pierre five months later, driving interest from their previous encounters and statuses as best in the world in their respective weight classes. The move paid off, exploding into over 1 million pay-per-view buys at UFC 94.
St. Pierre moved on to run a takedown clinic on Thiago Alves at UFC 100, furthering the idea that his skill-set was nearly unbeatable by any challenger left in the division. The call for a super fight with Anderson Silva became a real possibility for fans. Subsequent victories over Dan Hardy and Josh Koscheck were dominant and expected, boring some fans into believing the division had once again hit a roadblock.
Enter Jake Shields. The UFC's solution to the lack of challengers to St. Pierre's crown. The idea of an Anderson Silva vs. Georges St. Pierre super fight continues to sit on the horizon, but in the meantime -- St. Pierre needs legitimate contenders, not only to continue to test his skills, but to draw interest. Fighting Jon Fitch for a second time isn't going to help the bottom line, thus the UFC successfully acquired Shields and gave him the opportunity to gain a contender spot against Martin Kampmann. It was an ugly win, but Shields edged Kampmann on the scorecards.
With St. Pierre's odds of winning on April 30th set at roughly 4-to-1, some fans still don't see the efforts of the UFC as helping the division. A few fans believe St. Pierre is ready to transition to a new weight class. Others feel he should simply take super fights until credible challengers surface. The fact of the matter is that St. Pierre's lack of competition is a promotional problem, not just a divisional problem. St. Pierre will, after all, need another challenger after Shields, just like Anderson Silva, Jon Jones, Frankie Edgar, and Cain Velasquez will all need contenders.
Solution? Buy Strikeforce. The shocking news was conveyed as business as usual, a move that should pay off greatly in the future for the UFC. As we saw this past weekend at Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley, Nick Diaz has already solidified himself as another potential challenger to St. Pierre's crown in the future as well as a possible drawing power in the division. Gilbert Melendez is easily the #1 contender in the UFC's lightweight division after crushing Tatsuya Kawajiri. The heavyweight talents that Strikeforce houses will make a nice addition to the UFC's heavyweight division, which includes Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem. Overeem may be the single fighter on the entire Strikeforce roster who could have a major impact on the popularity of the sport in the future.
Even if most of these names never attains contender status, the injection of talent adds to the development process. Fighters like Mike Pierce, Rick Story, Dong Hyun Kim, and Anthony Johnson have more challengers in the mix, and more chances to prove themselves as potential contenders. Even if St. Pierre isn't involved in a credible title match-up, it's difficult to believe that Nick Diaz fighting any upper-echelon talent in the division wouldn't be interesting to fans. His personality alone would cause some fans to buy the card.
I don't buy into the idea that the UFC bought Strikeforce because they wanted their large roster of fighters to eventually fulfill the idea of running multiple events in one weekend. I can buy into the idea that it will allow the UFC to solve major problems specific to each weight class however. Every single division gains upper-echelon talent. The heavyweight division gains significant depth. Champions like Georges St. Pierre and Anderson Silva have a few new names to worry about, and the divisions as a whole have more intriguing fights that fans can enjoy.
The UFC's progressive tactics to solve the woes of stagnation within the ranks of their weight classes has been amazing to watch. At every perceived obstacle that we believe is insurmountable, the UFC finds a way to break through it and cure the problem quickly. The depth of the heavyweight division and the lack of challengers to St. Pierre and Anderson Silva are problems that were solved this year, and I find it hard to believe the UFC won't be able to solve these problems again in the future. Division stagnation? It's a theory of the past.


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Yo Yo Honey Singh on Zee TV's Sa Re Ga Ma Pa grand finale
In order to make the grand finale of Sa Re Ga Ma Palivelier, sources say that Punjabi rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh and superstar Akshay Kumar will push with finalist Jasraj Joshi, Mohd. Aman, Shenaz Akhtarand Vishwajeet Borwankar.
It is notable that Honey Singh, who is credited for various hit numbers like Brown Rang, High Heelsamongst others, was recently in a controversy owing to one of objectionable song which had the lyrics Main Balaatkari. Meanwhile, after facing a lot of objection from all over, he is back on the work front and is to croon for Y-Films' Mere Dad Ki Maruti.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Springtime means it's time to bring the lawnmower out of hibernation, and South Carolina environmental officials say residents can swap their old equipment for something friendlier to the environment.
The Department of Health and Environmental Control says an annual exchange program gives people the chance to get a discount on an electric lawnmower when they turn in their gas-powered devices.
DHEC's Myra Reece says a riding, gas-powered mower emits as much hourly air pollution as 34 cars.
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TOI is a proud sponsor of the 7th Annual Dancing with the Doctors Saturday, July 19th at 6pm, benefiting The Boys and Girls Club of Marion County and the YMCA of Marion County. Over the past year, Dancing with the Doctors raised over $100,000 for local children; the past beneficiaries include Munroe Foundation, Boys and Girls Club, YMCA and Drayton Florence Foundation. This year, Dancing with the Doctors will benefit the Boys and Girl Clubs of Marion County as well as the YMCA of Marion County. The event will be held at the Circle Square Cultural Center, located at 8395 SW 80th St, Ocala, FL 34481. For more information or to purchase tickets, please click the image below.
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The Orthopaedic Institute hosted an official open house and ribbon cutting ceremony with representatives of the Ocala Chamber of Commerce to celebrate the opening of the new Ocala medical facility on August 11. Over 200 colleagues in the local business and medical communities enjoyed guided tours of the facility, hors d' oeuvres and opportunities to meet TOI physicians and administrators.
TOI has offered its services in Ocala since 2008 when it opened its office in the Deerwood Office Park. Only steps away from the former office, TOI's new state-of-the-art 17,000 sq ft medical facility is located on 17th Street one mile east of Ocala Regional Medical Center. The significant expansion allows TOI to offer additional services to the community, all under one roof.
The physicians practicing at this location include Adil Kabeer, M.D., Joseph R. Locker, M.D., Rodger D. Powell, M.D., Michael K. Riley, M.D., Marc J. Rogers, D.O., and Paul J. Rucinski, M.D.
In addition to clinical services, the new facility offers digital X-ray, MRI, DME, EMG/Nerve Conduction Studies, Physical Therapy and Hand Therapy.
We would like to thank all involved for your hard work and dedication in continuing to promoting our core value of Improving Lives- Everyday.
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The Orthopaedic Institute's new medical facility in Ocala opened its doors today at 1710 SE 16th Avenue, only steps away from the previous Deerwood Park Location. This new 17,000-square-foot state-of-the-art medical facility is conveniently located on 17th Street one mile east of Ocala Regional Medical Center.
Physicians practicing at this location include Joseph R. Locker, M.D., Michael K. Riley, M.D., Marc J. Rogers, D.O., Paul J. Rucinski, M.D., and visiting physician Rodger D. Powell, M.D. In addition to clinical services, the facility will offer digital X-ray, MRI, DME, EMG/Nerve Conduction Studies, Physical Therapy and Hand Therapy.
"Completion of our new medical office complex is a major step in our plan to further invest in the community and provide more comprehensive services to patients," said Eric Brill, CEO of TOI.
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The Orthopaedic Institute's new 16,275-square-foot facility will be located at 1710 SE 16th Avenue. Construction has been underway since November and will be completed in July. See the most recent construction progress here.For more information and to see the progression from November 2010 to January 2011, click here.
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In August of 2008, The Orthopaedic Institute (TOI) opened the doors of its first Ocala clinic, a modest facility in Deerwood Park. Two short years later and after the addition of three orthopaedic surgeons, the group outgrew the 6,500-square-foot building and began shopping for a new home.
The new facility will be located at 1710 SE 16th Avenue, only steps away from the current location. The 16,275-square-foot building, originally the Ocala Podiatry Center with Dr. Michael Rotstein, is more than double the size of the current facility and provides excellent visibility along 17th Street. In addition to the much-needed space, the new building will offer countless improvements for patients.
"Completion of our new medical office complex is a major step in our plan to further invest in the community and provide more comprehensive services to patients," said Eric Brill, CEO of TOI.
Construction is well underway and has made considerable progress since breaking ground on November 9, 2010. The interior is being completely reconstructed, and the exterior, which will be modeled after TOI's Gainesville, Fla., location, will be nearly unrecognizable.
The new building will have 18 exam rooms compared to the current 10. The hand therapy department will have its own space, apart from physical therapy, while the physical therapy department will have twice the amount of room. In-house diagnostic testing will be available to patients, including digital X-ray and MRI. In addition, each physician and staff will have a designated clinic and work area.
Patients will be able to easily locate the new medical complex because of its prime real estate, and they need not worry about parking, as the private parking lot provides ample space. Once they arrive, they will also enjoy a spacious, comfortable and bright waiting room, complete with Starbucks coffee.
Overall, TOI is very excited to be taking significant steps to enhance its presence, better its services to the community and provide a more conducive work environment for its staff.
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Great Update on MWC/CUSA Merger
Here is a nice piece by Jon Wilner of the College Hotline, updating the status of the Mountain West/Conference USA merger. It seems as though the politics of such a merger is causing the talks to come to a hault, and possibly just be completely written off. Now, the two conferences may be heading in a direction of merely forming alliance for scheduling purposes, instead of completely merging both conferences in all sports. For more on the situation, click on the link and read for yourself.