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For more than 10 years we have been worried about the FDA's ability to oversee the quality of generic drugs. That concern arose because of letters, email messages and comments posted to this website from patients who reported all manner of problems with a vast array of generic drugs.
Although we have shared our fears with executives at the FDA, hospital administrators, physicians and pharmacists, we have not been able to generate much alarm. Most health professionals seem to think that the FDA knows what it is doing and is taking care of business.
Today that complacency has been shattered once and for all. Katherine Eban is an award-winning investigative reporter. Her most recent article was released today by Fortune Magazine. It is called "Dirty Medicine: The epic inside story of long-term criminal fraud at Ranbaxy, the Indian drug company that makes generic Lipitor for millions of Americans."
Ranbaxy is one of the largest generic drug companies in the world, with over 14,000 employees. It supplies dozens of different products to U.S. patients, including the hugely popular atorvastatin (the generic version of Lipitor). This Indian company (now owned by a Japanese multinational drug firm) makes more than $1 billion annually from its U.S. sales. Earlier this week Ranbaxy pleaded guilty to seven felony counts involving the manufacturing and selling of its pharmaceuticals. The company agreed to pay $500 million, the largest amount ever paid in fines, penalties and civil settlements by a generic drug company. Here is a list of the drugs implicated.
That is only the tip of the iceberg. The actual story of Ranbaxy's skullduggery is one of woe and intrigue. Katherine Eban spoke with a former employee, Dinesh Thakur, who started working for Ranbaxy in June of 2003. This whistleblower was a U.S. trained engineer who had worked at Bristol-Myers Squibb in New Jersey for a decade before moving to India to work for Ranbaxy. He was hired as director of research information and project management.
Starting in 2004, he discovered evidence that Ranbaxy researchers were "cooking the books" to make their generic drugs look better than they were. He filed the whistleblower complaint in 2007, after trying unsuccessfully to get the leadership of the company to address the problems he uncovered.
What makes this story so astonishing is that the FDA did NOT discover the problems at Ranbaxy on its own. Had it not been for Thakur, it is entirely possible that the FDA would be unaware of the fraud to this day. The FDA was apparently incapable of detecting forged data. Crucial tests had never been performed and the FDA didn't discover that its house of cards was teetering dangerously. In fact, agency inspectors gave Ranbaxy a clean bill of health during an inspection in December, 2004. That was after key Ranbaxy executives had concluded "that crucial testing data for many of the company's drugs did not actually exist and submissions to regulators had been forged."
Not an Isolated Event
This is not the first time that the FDA has completely missed serious problems in testing and manufacturing. This problem is not limited to foreign countries. Several weeks ago, a ProPublica investigation revealed that a Houston testing laboratory called Cetero Research had also been cooking the books. Cetero performed laboratory analyses and ran clinical trials for both generic and brand name pharmaceutical companies around the world.
Although the FDA had inspected the lab on numerous occasions, it had not discovered anything really serious. But when a former employee blew the whistle on the company in 2009, claiming that some of the chemists were manipulating and falsifying data, agency inspectors realized they should take a closer look. By 2011, two different investigative teams from FDA had confirmed the allegations and determined that drug tests conducted at Cetero between April 2005 and June 2010 were unreliable. When confronted, the company admitted its wrongdoing, but without the whistleblower's alert, it is unlikely FDA would have discovered what was going on.
When another generic firm, Teva, brought out a generic version of bupropion (Wellbutrin) under the name Budeprion, hundreds of patients complained that it did not work the same as the brand name medication. In this case, there is no allegation of fraud, and there was no whistleblower. But if it had not been for the persistence of The People's Pharmacy forwarding these complaints to FDA officials over five years, it is doubtful that the agency would have acted to investigate whether Budeprion was truly bioequivalent to Wellbutrin. The study FDA conducted demonstrated that the drugs were not in fact bioequivalent, and Budeprion was taken off the market in October, 2012.
Nor are the problems restricted to generic manufacturers. Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline was found guilty in 2010 of making contaminated drugs at its manufacturing facility in Cidra, Puerto Rico. How was this problem discovered? A whistleblower notified the FDA of manufacturing irregularities. The firm ended up paying $750 million in civil and criminal penalties.
In each of these cases, the FDA investigated serious issues in bioequivalence, testing procedures, manufacturing practices or quality control only after someone outside the agency uncovered them. Keep in mind that the cases we describe above involved huge pharmaceutical manufacturers like Ranbaxy, GSK and Teva. What about small chemical firms and drug companies in countries like China, India, Thailand, Indonesia and Slovakia? The FDA frequently has to notify these companies weeks if not months in advance that it is coming to inspect. Does anyone really think these inspections reflect what happens when an inspection is not imminent?
Let's face it, the system is terribly flawed. Despite reassurances by the FDA, pharmacy chains and insurance companies that generic drugs are fine, the Ranbaxy story by Katherine Eban should send shivers down your spine. To learn more about the generic drug fiasco, you may want to check out our book, Top Screwups Doctors Make and How to Avoid Them. In it, we detail our evolution from total believers in generic drug quality to determined advocates for change to the system.
It is time for Congress to act.
Here are our recommendations. Please pass them on to your representative.
1) Country of origin labeling. You should know where your medicine comes from!
2) The name of the manufacturer of your medicine should be on the label.
3) The FDA should release its bioequivalence curves for all generic drugs. These data should not be kept secret, as they currently are.
4) We must demand unannounced inspections in all countries that wish to export pharmaceuticals to the U.S. market.
5) Every foreign drug manufacturing company must be inspected every two years, just as U.S. manufacturers are inspected.
6) Doctors should be allowed to write "dispense as written" and not have insurance companies second-guess the doctor's decision and force patients to pay exorbitant prices.
If FDA is truly to protect the public health, it needs to increase its investigative capacity. This has an impact on every one of us, so it is up to us to lobby Congress to increase the agency's authority and resources so that it can do the job it should. And the FDA must become more transparent. Instead of protecting generic drug companies and allowing them to use the honor system, we need the agency to verify that the data are accurate and then make it available so that we can all see for ourselves.
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After releasing Six Piece Orchestra to high ratings, Personal is back on The DJBooth with the eclectic single's visual counterpart. A collaborative effort with Hush Cosmetics and entrepreneur/model Jessica Sutherland,... Read More
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The Edits
Four Editing Notes
- The musical issues that marred the first volume of the WrestleMania Anthology have been taken care of for the most part. The only notable musical edit I noticed was for Ricky Steamboat's theme in one match.
- Thankfully, the intermission clock has been edited off of the set. For those unfamiliar with the clock, the WWE used to have an intermission during their early PPV events.
- The first attempted Rick Rude interview at SummerSlam '89 has been edited off the DVD. That interview featured the SummerSlam sign fall and Mean Gene cursing.
- When an announcer says WWF, there is an edit of the F.
How many of these matches are available elsewhere?
How do these matches hold up over time?
The one big thing I noticed was how much better tag team wrestling was during this era. One of the highlights of this set for me is watching the Hart Foundation, Demolition, the British Bulldogs, and the Rougeau Brothers. After watching their matches on this set, I can't wait for the upcoming WWE DVD Allied Powers: The World's Greatest Tag Teams.
Overall Recommendation
If you decide to buy this set, make sure that when you open it up that the package is facing up. Each disc comes in a sleeve and can easily slide out of its protective area if the package is not held properly.


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Childhood and Early Career:
Lukasz Gottwald, aka Dr. Luke, was born in Rhode Island September 26, 1973, but he spent much of his time growing up in New York City. He wanted to be a drummer, but his parents refused to allow a drum kit in the house. Instead, Dr. Luke picked up his older sister's guitar and taught himself how to play.
First Hit Record:
Dr. Luke was a student at the Manhattan School of Music for two years. He auditioned for a spot with the Saturday Night Live house band and beat out the other competition. Beginning in 1997, Dr. Luke played for the next ten years on Saturday Night Live. He also began making a name for himself working on commercial jingles and producing hip hop records. At one point Dr. Luke met Swedish producer Max Martin. A friendship blossomed when Dr. Luke was invited to give Max Martin a tour of New York City clubs. In 2004, the pair co-wrote the #1 smash hit single "Since U Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson.
Top Dr. Luke Projects:
- 2004 - Kelly Clarkson - "Since U Been Gone"
- 2006 - Pink - "Who Knew"
- 2007 - Avril Lavigne - "Girlfriend"
- 2008 - Katy Perry - "I Kissed a Girl"
- 2008 - Britney Spears - "Circus"
- 2009 - Kelly Clarkson - "My Life Would Suck Without You
- 2009 - Miley Cyrus - "Party In the U.S.A."
- 2009 - Flo Rida - "Right Round"
- 2010 - 3OH!3 - "My First Kiss"
- 2010 - B.o.B. - "Magic"
- 2010 - Taio Cruz - "Dynamite"
- 2010 - Ke$ha - "Tik Tok"
- 2010 - Katy Perry - "California Gurls"
Dr. Luke - Star Producer:
After hitting #1 with "Since U Been Gone," Dr. Luke's production and songwriting began to take off and then looked more like a snowball rolling downhill. In 2006 he helped Pink generate two top 10 pop hits "Who Knew" and "U + Ur Hand." The next year he co-wrote and co-produced Avril Lavigne's first #1 pop single "Girlfriend," and he quit his position on Saturday Night Live. Katy Perry's breakthrough #1 smash "I Kissed a Girl" in 2008 was produced by Dr. Luke. 2009 continued the hit parade, and by the summer of 2010 Dr. Luke was involved in production and songwriting on four out of the current top 10 pop singles.


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Dear members
I ride a Trek Madone 5.9 full carbon bike (2004 model), which came with the blue San Marco Aspide saddle with Team United States Postal Service embroidered on it.
Recently, I have noted a creaking sound when I pedal (sitting), and my riding buddy and I believe we correctly isolated it to the saddle. Thinking the seat may have been cracked, I have replaced it with a SELLA ITALIA SLR KIT CARBONIO.
Today we went for a ride and definitely much less creaking (none for the first 20 kilometers), but then it started again, but only very infrequently.
I thought the problem may be where the rails join the seat's shell at the front and the back.
Is there any chance of damaging the saddle (SELLA ITALIA SLR KIT CARBONIO - carbon & vanox rails, carbon shell) by lubricating (with a synthetic oil - Protecta) the points where the rails join the shell?
If not, I'm gonna try it.
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WS1042 Combines Smallest Step Size, Highest Q and Extreme Voltage Handling
BARCELONA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- WiSpry, Inc., the leader in high-performance tunable radio frequency (RF) semiconductor products for the wireless industry, today announced the WS1042 tunable RF quad capacitor array optimized for tunable filter applications. This passive, non-fixed device enables RF designers to build adaptive frequency wireless networks, leveraging the highest possible Q that is required for widely tunable filter applications. The WS1042 boasts very high linearity, enabling the chip to be used in both receive and transmit chains. Capacitance step size is 25 fF - the smallest step size in the industry and the WS1042 can change filter center frequency in less than 20 us. Exceptionally high voltage handling as high as 100V further cements the WS1042 as an industry first. For more technical information, visit http://www.wispry.com
During Mobile World Congress, WiSpry will demonstrate the new WS1042 in a tunable filter application using equipment from National Instruments.
"National Instruments recognizes WiSpry as a leading provider of tunable RF filter technology," said Charles Schroeder, Director of RF Product Marketing. "We were extremely pleased to help WiSpry demonstrate the 20µs capacitance tuning speed of their WS1050 device using the industry-leading measurement speed of our PXI vector network analyzer technology."
"Never before have our customers had access to capacitance technology so optimized for Tunable RF filter applications," said Jeff Hilbert, president and founder of WiSpry, Inc. "The WS1042 delivers the highest Q performance, extreme voltage support, smallest step size, and high linearity - designed to allow tunable filters, free of traditional constraints. Now our customers can truly build Tunable RF filter networks into a consumer wireless system."
WS1042 Technical Features and Benefits
About WiSpry
Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., WiSpry, Inc. provides tunable RF products that revolutionize wireless technology. The fabless RF semiconductor company utilizes microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology to design reconfigurable products, enabling wireless product and infrastructure manufacturers to support higher performance, next generation multi-band and multi-standard device and network architectures. Leveraging standard RF-CMOS process flows, WiSpry integrated components and modules deliver optimal flexibility and tunability without sacrificing performance. WiSpry is backed by a global group of investors specializing in innovative technology for growth markets. For more information, visit www.wispry.com.
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WiSpry, Inc. launches the industry's first RF capacitor array for tunable filters in consumer wireless applications. The WS1042 combines the smallest step size, highest Q and extreme voltage handling enabling adaptive frequency wireless networks. (Graphic: Business Wire)


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News: Mister Cee Gives A Very Important Message: "I Got A Little Situation For You" [Video]
Friday, May 10, 2013 3:30PM
Days after Hot 97's Mister Cee stepped forward and came clean on his sexuality, the renowned deejay has released a public service announcement which stresses the importance of safe sex.
In the video, Cee refers to his addiction to prostitution and said any sexually active person needs to take an HIV/AIDS test.
"What's going on everybody, it's Mister Cee representing Hot 97. As all of you know, I've been through a lot this week with my situation and my addiction. I can honestly say I have an addiction and that's something I'm going to have to deal with as I move forward in my life. But to all of you out there, I know there's a lot of y'all that got y'all situations that y'all go through sexually. Whether it's fellas messing with two or three women at a time or even some of you women. Women are just as much as cheaters as men out there. I mean, let's just be honest, man. Everybody is not living a righteous lifestyle out there. Even myself. What I wanted to do today is to talk about the importance of safe sex, talk about the importance of using a condom, just talking about the importance of being healthy in your life as far as taking an HIV test. Now when I say taking an HIV test, the first thing people think about is that, 'I don't want anybody to know my business.' Well, I got a little situation for you. You can go to AIDS Healthcare Foundation." (Hot 97)
He also mentioned a local Brooklyn health facility for New Yorkers to check out.
"Now at AHF, your business is your business, as it should be," Cee added. "Private and confidential. There are professionals to help you with your situation. AHF has all new facilities throughout Brooklyn all the way to Amsterdam. Matter of fact, there's a facility right on Atlantic Ave right in Brooklyn." (Hot 97)
Earlier this week, Cee's former co-worker DJ Envy talked about how vital it is for him to seek help in light of the multiple prostitution crimes.
"I've known Mister Cee from working at the other spot, very cool individual. He was probably the only person I respected who was cool up there and I don't care what his personal preference is, women or men. That doesn't bother me. What bothers me is him out there soliciting prostitution. Not only because he could catch something, a disease, putting himself in a situation he can't come out of but there's also a lot of crazy people out there. And I would hate for him to lose his life or to be injured by one of these crazy prostitutes or even get injured. And I'm asking anybody -- that's his frieds, his true friend -- needs to put his arm around him and say, 'Homie, you have a problem.' Take him to therapy, take him to get help because I'm sure if I was in a situation up here -- I'm sure my family would help me." ("The Breakfast Club")
Earlier in the week, MC came clean on his sexuality and Big Apple local busts.
"I am not gay," Cee said in the interview. "Thursday night, Friday morning, I was approached by a female undercover cop. A female, Latino, undercover cop. Not a male cop. The female undercover cop, I have her badge number. So I know who it is. Why did the story first start off on Saturday, because I think everything kind of first jumped off on Saturday with the first story. If you do your diligence and you do your research, the first story that came out, in the Daily News was undercover, female officer. Then, from out of nowhere, it changed into male undercover officer. ... I can't answer why it changed from that. But there is enough information out there, available, where one day it said female officer and it changed. ... The incidents that happened in the past with me, the three incidents or whatever you want to say, there was one person brung up in those three instances that was a male. You never heard anybody else's name being brought up in any other incident -- that male person put out two different videos. One video saying, 'I don't know Mister Cee, I never met him, the only time I ever seen him was when I was locked up in a cell with him. I didn't engage in any sexual activity with him.'" ("Cipha Sounds & Rosenberg Show")
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Boston Urban Forest Council Meeting, Mar. 20
The next meeting of the Boston Urban Forest Council will take place March 20. BNAN is pleased to announce Special Guest: Victoria Wolff of the Urban Ecology Institute who will join us to talk about recording and tracking tree plantings in Boston. Upcoming meeting topics include: Caring for community trees, projects for Boston Shines, Earth Day, and Arbor Day in April. Updates on Elm Bark Beetle boxes will be provided.
The BUFC is for all those interested in improving and expanding Boston's Urban Forest. Become a part of a resident based stewardship & advocacy group whose goals are to plant trees and educate the public about the benefits of trees. Meetings are free and open to the public. Please register for this event by calling 617-542-7696 ext. 20 or emailing firstname.lastname@example.com
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Right about now you very well could be scrounging around the Internet for a kickass New Year's Eve party recipe. Well, the Internet gods have spoken and you've arrived at the right place. Tonight is the big night, but this doesn't mean you need to eat big. For the most part NYE is a bite-bite-bite holiday (also, with a little glug-glug-glug), as...
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Physicians for Human RightsUsing science and medicine to stop human rights violations
For Immediate Release
Medical Doctors and Mental Health Personnel at Guantanamo Neglected and/or Concealed Evidence of Torture and Ill Treatment
Cambridge, Mass - 04/26/2011
Cambridge, Mass. – April 26, 2011 – In an article published today by PLoS Medicine, PHR experts show that medical doctors and mental health personnel assigned to the Department of Defense (DoD) neglected or concealed medical evidence of intentional harm at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
According to the article (pdf), Guantánamo health providers should have been in a position to observe and document physical and psychological evidence of torture and ill treatment. However, PHR's investigation found that, despite noticing the detainees' physical injuries and psychological symptoms of intentional harm, medical personnel failed to question or document the causes.
It is well established that Bush Administration policy makers revised the US definition of torture to include specific pain thresholds which required the medical monitoring of all "enhanced" interrogation practices, but they failed to provide any duty or guidelines for medical personnel to document the possibility of torture. According to the PLoS Medicine article, through their neglect of the evidence of intentional harm, DoD clinicians who were charged with the care of Guantánamo detainees, instead, concealed evidence of severe and prolonged physical and psychological pain.
"The review of Guantánamo medical records makes it apparent that those who authorized torture did so in a way that ensured the cooperation of medical personnel, not only in designing and implementing torture but in turning a blind eye to the medical evidence of its effects," said Frank Davidoff, MD, MACP, Interim Chief Executive Officer of Physicians for Human Rights. "The fact that these medical professionals ignored the obvious signs of torture and ill treatment is troubling and requires immediate investigation."
PHR reviewed Guantánamo medical records and relevant case files of nine people. In each of the nine cases, the detainees alleged they had been subjected to abusive interrogation methods that are consistent with torture as defined by the UN Convention Against Torture. In the article, PHR's experts state that the detainees' allegations of torture, as well as the physical and psychological symptoms that were consistent with these allegations, were ignored.
"When mental health professionals at Guantánamo noticed psychological symptoms in the detainees, they often attributed it to personality disorders and routine stressors of confinement, despite the detainee's allegations of torture," said Vincent Iacopino, Senior Medical Advisor at PHR. "These medical personnel were there to treat the detainees, but they failed to fulfil their ethical duty as physicians when they neglected to question or document the reason for the injuries and psychological symptoms they observed."
PHR calls on:
- President Obama to establish a bi-partisan, blue-ribbon commission designed to independently investigate the issues outlined in the PLoS Medicine article and to develop bipartisan proposals to close Guantánamo.
- The U.S. to allow a visit by the Special Rapporteur on Torture to Guantánamo.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) is an independent organization that uses medicine and science to stop mass atrocities and severe human rights violations. We are supported by the expertise and passion of health professionals and concerned citizens alike.
Since 1986, PHR has conducted investigations in more than 40 countries around the world, including Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, the United States, the former Yugoslavia, and Zimbabwe.


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In June of 1929, Enright House opens, and at an informal gathering, a photographer captures Roark looking up at his creation. It seems to have the feeling of the sublime about it, but the photographer's editor buries it in the photo morgue. The house is rented to tenants who love it, but the house has many critics. Toohey refuses to comment about the house in his column, even when a reader writes in to him. Roark finds work building the Norris country house and the Anthony Cord's fifty-story skyscraper. However, people criticize his work style as cold and inhuman, his workers find comfort in his pure and unsullied appreciation of competence. Those who stay become his friends for life.
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Anybody notice anything fishy going on with Carlos Boozer this year? Looks like he took extended vacation time to buy a new hairline. It was clearly evident during yesterday's nationally televised Bulls v Celtics game on ABC.
Take a look at Carlos Boozer from half a year ago to the new Carlos Boozer. This is why your kids root for LeBron James, Carlos. Poor Kevin Garnett had black stains all over his jersey after guarding The Booz.


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Texas Farm Ranch Wildlife Expo set Tuesday and Wednesday
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Tuesday morning, thousands will visit Abilene for the Texas Farm Ranch Wildlife Expo.
Organizers say over 150 booths will be manned by over 70 exhibitors at the annual expo
Festivities begin Tuesday morning at 9, and continue till 6pm. They end at 4 p.m. on Wednesday.
All activities are scheduled at the Taylor County Expo Center. One of the popular events is the naming of the farm family of the year during the annual luncheon. Tickets must be purchased in advance.
Admission to the Expo Center is free both days.
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Everyone knows someone who sports a striking shade of sterling—to say nothing of Jamie Lee Curtis, Emmylou Harris, and the rest of the silver all-stars. And these gorgeous women don't lack for sex appeal (71% of respondents in a Prevention.com poll say women with gray hair can be sexy, whereas 78% say the same for men). But even though many of us admire gray hair on others, we're often averse to trying out the look ourselves, according to a 2010 study in Ageing & Society.
Many experts are wondering why: "Women can do so much to keep their faces and bodies looking young—there's no need to think gray hair will necessarily make you look older," says Rita Hazan, owner of the eponymous salon in New York City.
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Pretty ridiculous topic, I know, but who are your all-grit players. The picks can be arbitrarily based, and without logic, but I think it would be fun to see everyone's picks.
Local 54, for those of you who do not attend ISU football games or mock announcers with my friends and I, is the name of the fictitious union of gritty players. It started with the metaphor used by many announcers that the player was like a steelworker who had grabbed his thermos/hardhat/lunch pail, and had punched in for work. This morphed into the player being a "card carrying member of Local Number 54".
So have at it. If I get enough entries I'll tally the teams and give an official Royals Review "Local Number 54 team" with a bio for all the players. Maybe one of you smarter statisticians could run some analysis on the players to see how this Local 54 team would actually perform.
Maybe this is dumb, but I thought I'd give it a shot.
I'll start with my picks. (players do NOT have to be active)
1b- Mark Grace
2b-Bill Mazeroski
3b-Gary Gaetti
SS-David Eckstein
C- Jason Kendall
CF-Jim Edmonds
RF-Pete Rose
LF-Raul Ibanez
SP-Jeff Suppan
M-Sparky Anderson
I googled all-grit after struggling to find a left fielder, and came across a similar article by the Brew Crew site. http://www.brewcrewball.com/2008/7/14/571285/the-all-grit-team And here was the team he put together. Not surprisingly we both liked the players who don't wear batting gloves/ are sub 5'5".


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On Feb. 6, NFL player and best-selling novelist Tim Green discussed his professional football career and his sports-oriented books with students at Rochambeau in the morning and Memorial Middle School in the afternoon.
Each middle school's PTO sponsors an annual author/illustrator visit because the program is a powerful way to help students make a personal connection to books and reading. This year, with the assistance of each school's PTO, Rochambeau Middle School Reading Consultant Amy Pottbecker and Memorial Middle School Library Media Specialist Sharon Petti selected Tim Green to present his experiences as an athlete and a writer to the students.
Green's books are based on sports, specifically baseball and football. His novel Baseball Great is a 2012 Nutmeg Nominee and New York Times bestseller.
"It's nice to have an author who writes great reads for boys in mind but we selected him mostly because his book is a Connecticut Nutmeg Nominee that was chosen by students across our Nutmeg State," said Mrs. Petti.
Mrs. Pottbecker felt that Green's books not only are inviting to the middle school male sports enthusiast, but they are fun and accessible for boys and girls alike.
"Each of Tim's novels has a middle school male main character who works side-by-side with a strong female character: best friend, cousin, or school acquaintance who turns best friend. The novels are packed with sports action and details while running a gripping plot with plenty of action and problems to solve."
Green studied writing and was an All-American football player at Syracuse University. He was a first-round draft pick for the Atlanta Falcons and a top defensive player for eight years. While playing professional football, he studied to become a lawyer and published his first of dozens of books.
Green delivered a powerful message about the importance of education, reading books, and good character—even though his own childhood dream was to become an NFL player—he had another dream equally as powerful to become a writer. He urged the students to put school before sports and to think about success in terms of personal relationships and kindness rather than fortune and fame.
"Both Mrs. Pottbecker and I were happy that the students enjoyed Tim Green's school presentation and hope they have a lasting memory of meeting an author and professional football player," said Mrs. Petti.
As a courtesy to families, PTO members Eileen Studdert and Yarel Marshall coordinated advanced sales of Green's autographed books.


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Now in its 15th season, the Orange Bowl Youth Football Alliance (Orange Bowl YFA) presented by Sports Authority kicked off its annual Park of the Week program by visiting five sites.
The highlight of the day was a visit with City of Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado and Police Chief Manuel Orosa at Curtis Park. The Orange Bowl YFA Park of the Week program recognizes select youth football parks across South Florida each Saturday during the fall to show its continued support to the community.
This Park of the Week schedule included visits to five Miami Xtreme Youth Football members – the Hialeah Cougars, Miami Police Athletic League, North Miami Beach Sun Devils, Ives Estates Miami Thunder and Dania Beach Bears. At each stop during its Park of the Week program, Orange Bowl members, ambassadors and staff distribute promotional items and discounts from official Orange Bowl YFA sponsors and present each park with a commemorative plaque and a financial contribution towards park improvements.
More than 16,000 young football players and cheerleaders in 10 football leagues across South Florida directly benefit from the Orange Bowl YFA. More than $5 million has been invested by the Orange Bowl Committee in youth sports in South Florida since 1999. In addition to its continued support of the Orange Bowl YFA, the Orange Bowl directly supports locally-based festivals and events, including those that provide participatory opportunities to youth from all over the world. These events include the Junior Orange Bowl, Orange Bowl International Youth Regatta, Orange Bowl Lacrosse Classic, Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships, Orange Bowl Swim Classic and the Orange Bowl Paddle Championships.
Celebrating its 80th anniversary, the Orange Bowl has been one of South Florida's leading civic organizations, driving tourism and economic development, while supporting scholarships and community athletic facilities. Inspiring thousands of student athletes every year, the Orange Bowl's activities help foster youth confidence, celebrate student achievement, engage the community and enhance the South Florida economy.
The Orange Bowl YFA is presented by Sports Authority, with additional sponsors American Airlines, Doctors Hospital, Florida Blue, FOX Sports Florida / Sun Sports, Hampton Farms, MetroPCS, Nike, Sparkling ICE, Sun Life Stadium and The Miami Dolphins, The Miami Herald, Toyota, and Wells Fargo.
For more information about the Orange Bowl Committee and the Orange Bowl Youth Football Alliance, please visit www.orangebowl.org.
Kendall Hammocks Warriors
The Kendall Hammocks Warriors hosted the Doral Broncos in Week 2 action of the Miami Xtreme Youth Football League. Both teams brought out the fans as a large crowd opened the 25th year of football at Devonaire Park.
The results were:
PW: Doral 26, KH 14; 8U: KH 25, Doral 6; 10U: Doral 32, KH 0; 12U: Doral 30, KH 0; 13U: KH 20, Doral 0; 14U: KH 31, Doral 0.
In highlights, Julian Harris and Shamar Munroe returned punts for touchdowns in the 14U victory and Diamonte Howard converted three points after touchdown. In the 13U game, Emmanuel Griffin blocked a Doral punt allowing Sam Alonso to pick up the block and score from the 40-yard line. Nick Macias scored two touchdowns.
The Warriors next host Ives Estate and North Miami Beach. The Warriors are part of the Kendall Hammocks Optimist Club.
Palmer Trinity athlete
Wins at Triathlon
Palmer Trinity School Senior Alejandro Rodriguez Santilli finished as the Male Overall winner at the Mack Cycle Triathlon Sprint Trilogy No. 3 on Aug. 19 at Virginia Key.
The Mack Cycle Triathlon Trilogy – South Florida's longest running triathlon series – is a four-part series where athletes have a chance to race each month from June to September. This is Alejandro's second Sprint Trilogy Triathlon of the series, and the second time he has taken home first place Male Overall.
Next month, Alejandro will be representing Palmer Trinity and the Youth Division of Team USA as he competes at the London World Triathlon.
8th-grader wins
kart race in N.C.
Palmer Trinity School 8th-grader Juan Manuel Correa captured first place in the Junior Division at this year's U.S. Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Nationals kart race in Mooresville, NC. The Rotax series is the largest international sanctioning body in the world of karting. Juan Manuel went up against 59 other racers in winning first place.
USA Triathlon
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USA Triathlon aims to return multisport to its roots with the inaugural USA Triathlon Retro Tri Series, which debuted this spring with 10 beginner-friendly events – one in each USA Triathlon region including Miami.
The focus of the Retro Tri Series is participation, rather than competition. The aim of the events is to introduce the sport of triathlon and educate race participants about the healthy and active multisport lifestyle. The events are open to first-timers, seasoned veterans and those looking to stay active – swimming, biking and running in a safe atmosphere. Each event is sanctioned by USA Triathlon.
"Our new Retro Tri Series events offer something for anyone interested in participating in the sport of triathlon," USA Triathlon CEO Rob Urbach said. "These races can be for athletes who want a good, safe workout, or for someone who may feel intimidated by going to a larger race. We're looking forward to this year's events and can't wait to introduce more and more newcomers to the multisport lifestyle."
The Retro Tri Series events are geared toward adult and youth competitors age 13 and older. Each race will feature a 300- to 400-yard swim, 5- to 10-mile bike and 2- to 5-kilometer run.
USA Triathlon Retro Series Schedule
Sept. 8: FIU Triathlon, North Miami.
Nov. 3: Old Dominion University (ODU) Triathlon, Norfolk, Va.
For more on the USA Triathlon Retro Tri Series, visit www.usatretroseries.com.
Pop Warner football
Tackles nutrition
More than 400,000 kids nationally are taking to the field this fall and in an effort to further educate parents and coaches about sports safety and nutrition, Pop Warner Little Scholars and DSM Nutritional Products have teamed up on a multiyear program called, "Eat Smart, Play Safe."
By pairing Pop Warner's expertise in athletics with DSM's vast knowledge in nutrition, "Eat Smart, Play Safe" is laying the foundation for how families think about young athletes' health and safety – both on and off the field.
The initiative has pulled together a panel of nationally recognized experts, connected to the medical, nutritional and football communities, each of whom provides unique perspectives on sports nutrition and safety for young athletes.
Dr. Julian Bailes: Dr. Bailes is the chairman and medical director of the Pop Warner Medical Advisory Board, co-director of the NorthShore Neurological Institute. As a former NCAA and NFL physician, Dr. Bailes can address how nutrition plays a role in injury recovery as well as safety concerns parents have.
Sarah Hasselbeck: A former collegiate athlete, Hasselbeck is the wife of Pro-Bowler and National Football League quarterback Matt Hasselbeck and a mother of three active, school-aged children. As spokeswoman for the campaign, nutrition and active lifestyles are very important to her to ensure her kids' minds and bodies are nourished and healthy.
Elizabeth Somer: A registered dietitian and author of four nutrition titles, Somer is well-versed in nutrition research and is a nutrition consultant to the program. She is an expert in identifying the nutrients children need in their diet and ways to get kids to eat nutritiously without the fuss.
Jon Butler: Executive director for Pop Warner for more than 20 years, Butler is also vice president of the National Council of Youth Sports and is an honorary member of the American Football Coaches Association. He can provide information about Pop Warner, why there was a need to educate families about nutrition and why this organization connected to DSM Nutritional Products on this initiative.
In addition to providing families with health and safety information, DSM Nutritional Products is providing a grant to Pop Warner to further its scholarship program.
USTA Florida has teamed with the City of Homestead and Friends of Miami Tennis to bring an array of new tennis programs to JD Redd Park.
The park is one of seven facilities across the state to participate in USTA Florida's new "Tenis para Todos" initiative, which is focused on bringing tennis to more Hispanic families in Central and South Florida.
Through this partnership, JD Redd will offer USTA Leagues and Junior Team Tennis at the park. Additionally, Friends of Miami Tennis is partnering with Special Olympics to have year-round programming at the site. Programming officially begins Sept. 1, and USTA Florida and Friend of Miami Tennis will host a series of events this fall to invite families to experience tennis at the park.
"This partnership is really an outstanding example of how USTA Florida is working with our community partners to grow tennis here in South Florida. With the support of the City of Homestead and the direction of Friends of Miami Tennis, we can reach out, not only to Hispanic families, but the entire community of Homestead," said Cathy Nordlund, USTA Florida Tennis program coordinator.
Event details:
Sept. 7: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Free Family Tennis Festival will feature the University of Miami women's tennis team on court and racquet demonstrations with Babolat.
To register visit http://jdreddtennisfestival.eventbrite.com
Oct. 5: Junior Tennis/PlayDay, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
To register visit: http://jdredd11uplayday.eventbrite.com/
Check www.JDReddTennis.com for more details.
For information on "Tenis Para Todos" and a full list of events, visit www.USTAFlorida.com/español.
More tennis
Florida tennis facilities can bring the power of Nickelodeon to tennis events and get more kids playing by hosting a USTA Free Tennis Play Event any day through Sept. 30.
Events will receive television exposure on Nickelodeon with millions of players and family members driven to www.YouthTennis.com to find events in their area.
Florida events will join thousands of USTA Free Tennis Play Events occurring throughout the country in an effort to get kids active in celebration of Nickelodeon's Worldwide Day of Play.
Schools that host a Kids' Tennis Club and USTA Free Tennis Play Event can receive an equipment package of 12 racquets, 24 youth tennis balls and a portable net.
Visit www.YouthTennis.com/Host to register or call 1-800-990-8782.
Florida Soccer Expo organizers will bring an estimated 8,000 fans to Sun Life Stadium on Sept. 14-15 in Miami Gardens. This celebration of "the beautiful game" will host the soccer community including soccer clubs, associations, tournament organizers, coaches, trainers, referees, soccer families and players from throughout the world.
The event features hosting a trade show, an indoor soccer tournament and interactive areas where the soccer public can participate in numerous soccer-related activities, organized by Florida Soccer Expo partners, sponsors and other exhibitors. This highly anticipated show will include coaching clinics, referee and nutritional and health seminars.
Several key soccer associations have been invited and are joining the efforts as Institutional Partners and will contribute with the promotion and success of this event, these include:
CONCACAF, American Youth Soccer Organization, Women Premier Soccer League, Miami Dade Soccer League, Miami-Dade Sports Commission, Florida State Referees, Florida State Soccer Association, SunLife Stadium and Miami Dolphins.
The expo includes six indoor soccer fields. For those interested in soccer shopping, the event features more than 80 exhibitor booths available at the event, including a wide variety of soccer and sports-related products, gear and equipment, food and drinks sampling, and other consumer goods and services. Exhibitors interested can contact the organization via email at firstname.lastname@example.com or send a message at www.floridasoccerexpo.com.
For information: email@example.com, www.floridasoccerexpo.com or call 305-280-2088.
WWE in Miami
A WWE pay-per-view will be in South Florida on Oct. 27 at the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami.
This is the first pay-per-view at the arena since WWE's Survivor Series in November 2010. The AmericanAirlines Arena is a long-time host of WWE events including the first SmackDown of 2013, the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony during WrestleMania Week in 2012, the Raw after WrestleMania in 2012 and the Rock's birthday on Raw in 2011.
Tickets are on sale at the arena box office and via TicketMaster. Keep posted at http://www.wwe.com/events.


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Book Club Picks: Give 'Em Something To Talk About
Making suggestions for your book club can be gratifying — or terrifying. If everyone loves the book, you're a hero. On the other hand, if your pick is a turkey, it takes a while to live it down. I had a pretty good run in my book club this year. All my suggestions seemed to get a warm reception. Then I recommended Ian McEwan's Solar to the group. Though McEwan has written some great novels, this was not one of them. But I found it amusing, and I thought the subject matter would interest the group. As it turns out, they were interested in the subject (a man at wits' end trying to harness the power of the sun), but they pretty much hated the author's take on it. And where I chuckled at the main character's excesses, most of the group seethed. I've been lying low ever since — but that is not going to stop me now. So here are a few books that might get you talking. You might even like some of them.
Parrot And Olivier In America
By Peter Carey; hardcover, 400 pages; Knopf, list price: $26.95
This novel is a riff on Alexis de Tocqueville's famous book Democracy in America, and, like its source, it is an insightful look at post-revolutionary America. But it is also a delightful romp with of two of contemporary fiction's most memorable characters. There's Olivier, a sickly and overprotected young aristocrat raised in the ever-threatening shadow of the French Revolution, and Parrot, the son of an itinerant British printer, who suffers an early tragedy that spins his life in unexpected directions. When the two become unlikely companions, they bicker and grumble their way through America until finally realizing that this new world really is entirely new and completely different. The aristocratic Olivier thinks he has found love. The plebeian Parrot wonders if this is a place where he can finally rest. For those who like to fall into a big, sprawling novel and get lost, this book is for you.
By Dolen Perkins-Valdez; hardcover, 304 pages; Amistad, list price: $24.99
Of the many inexplicable aspects of the institution of slavery, one of the hardest to fathom is the relationship between slave owners and the slaves they took as mistresses. It is this relationship that Dolen Perkins-Valdez explores in the novel Wench. She sets her story mostly in a resort in the free state of Ohio, revealing a little-known slice of slave life — the phenomenon of Southern slave owners vacationing with their mistresses. The false air of normalcy and the tantalizing proximity to freedom that results has a profound effect on four women whose lives are utterly dependent on the mercy and whims of their owners and lovers. For one of these women, the hint of freedom is also an invitation to escape, upending the carefully constructed lives of both owners and slaves. This is a fascinating and tragic story that is also a compulsive read.
Faithful Place
By Tana French; hardcover, 416 pages; Viking Adult, list price: $25.95
In Faithful Place, Tana French takes readers into a corner of Dublin where families do their best to suffocate dreams and cops are to be avoided at all costs. Detective Frank Mackey escaped from there long ago, but the discovery of a body in an abandoned house brings him back to the old neighborhood. When the abandoned body turns out to be a girl Mackey thought had jilted him on the night he ran away years ago, he is forced to face his past and the family he hoped he had left behind forever. French has a way of creating characters whose own lives are as mysterious as the crimes they are involved in solving, a reason her books can be interesting even to readers who are not normally attracted to detective stories. Faithful Place is as much as study of the complexities of family relations as it is a crime novel, and as everybody knows, families are endlessly fascinating and always surprising.
The Imperfectionists
By Tom Rachman; hardcover, 288 pages; The Dial Press, list price: $25
This kaleidoscopic look at a Rome-based English language newspaper is both hilarious and surprisingly moving. Through a series of interlocking stories, we glean the life of a newspaper from its heyday to its decline. From the young publisher who inherited his role and has no idea what to do with it to the obit writer who discovers his own ambition in the worst of possible ways to the avid reader who is years behind in keeping up with the news, we fall for this cast of characters and the paper that has sustained them over the years. If you still harbor a secret love for the days when news wasn't delivered instantaneously, and also accept the fact that the people who brought it to you were neither villains nor cardboard heroes (but merely flawed humans), then you may find a place in your heart for The Imperfectionists.
Sunset Park
By Paul Auster; hardcover, 320 pages; Henry Holt, list price: $25
At a time when lawns are littered with for sale signs and lives are being devastated by foreclosures, it's noteworthy that a writer like Paul Auster would use the nation's housing crisis as a backdrop for his latest novel. As Sunset Park opens, its main character, Miles Heller, is working for a company that "trashes out" foreclosed homes, getting rid of the things families left behind in their haste to abandon what they once called home. Heller has been living in self-imposed exile from his own family in New York, but soon enough circumstances force him to return home. He takes up an offer to squat rent-free in a dilapidated house with a group of young people and is reunited with his estranged father, who has longed for his return. All this provides Auster with the material for a meditation on the meaning of home and the fragility of life with, or without, a safety net.
Paul Auster Tackles Homelessness And Broken Hearts
When the writer Paul Auster turned 50, he started thinking about his own mortality, and his writing reflected that obsession. Now, Auster�says, he is more interested in the problems facing young people today. In his latest novel, Sunset Park, he uses the nation's housing crisis as a backdrop for the story of a group of young people who are squatting in a house in a down-at-the-heels section of Brooklyn, not far from the tree-lined, prosperous neighborhood where the author himself resides.
The meaning of home (and homelessness) is at the core of Sunset Park — Auster says that home is a place where you should feel absolutely safe. "It's the place where you don't really have to defend yourself," the author says, speaking from his Brooklyn brownstone. "I think that's the idea everyone holds in his head, is that this is the place you are welcome no matter what you've done, no matter how rocky things have become for you. And unfortunately not everyone has this refuge."
Auster says that in the novel, he wanted to explore what happens when the sense of security that comes with home is taken away. The main character, Miles Heller, lives in self-imposed exile from his home and family in New York. As the book opens, Miles is working in Florida, clearing out the possessions of families�who have been evicted.�Circumstances force Miles to return to New York, where he takes up an old friend's offer to squat free in a rundown house in southern Brooklyn, a house that Auster based on a real one he saw in Sunset Park.
The neighborhood that captured Auster's imagination is an urban mix of small businesses, warehouses and residential buildings, with none of the charms of Auster's own tony neighborhood. It is not, as Auster says, "a desperate place," but instead he describes it as "mournful." The house that he channeled in the novel has since been demolished, but Auster remembers what it looked like the day he found it.
"It looked like a farmhouse from the Midwest built about 120 years ago," he says. "I thought this abandoned house would be the perfect place young people would want to break into and live there. And so I used that as the model in my head as I was writing the book."
The young people in Auster's imaginary house do break in and take over the house illegally, but do so for differing reasons. Bing, the instigator of the squatting, sees it as a political act. "Bing is a contrarian," Auster explains. "He's against everything that's happening, so he wants to strike a blow for some future world where there is more justice and more kindness. ... He conceives this as the best way to do it."
Auster touches on several political and modern-day issues in the book, squaring his fiction not only in a real neighborhood but in the middle of real-time events. At this moment in history, the author says, the sense of displacement in the book comes with the economic uncertainty that all too many people are experiencing.
"The germ of this book was the idea of someone being expelled, thrown out of the place where�he lived," Auster says. "But the more I thought about it, the more I meditated, the more I saw that this problem was growing into an enormous social problem in the United States simultaneously. And so the inner condition of being dispossessed and also the outer condition of so many people living in this terrible�flux of broken mortgages ... all coalesced into what the book became."
This sudden social consciousness is a departure for Auster, who is not known for addressing the issues of the day. Still, the novelist does not see Sunset Park as a deviation from his previous work. "History is present in all my�novels," he says. "And whether�I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it."
Sunset Park: A Novel Read An Excerpt
By Paul Auster
Hardcover, 320 pages
Henry Holt
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Midway through Sunset Park, Paul Auster's exquisitely crafted, surprisingly tender new novel, book publisher Morris Heller eats breakfast on New Year's Day 2009 at Joe Junior's, a diner in the West Village where he last spoke with his estranged son Miles. The painful precision of how long it has been since he's seen his son — "more than two thousand seven hundred days ago" — resonates for anyone who has been on either end of a serious parent-adult child rift.
Sunset Park brings us a new Paul Auster, shifting from the intellectually exhilarating, elevating realms of metafiction and postmodern detective fiction to a story grounded in the potent emotions of love, loss, regret and vengeance, and the painful reality of current-day calamities like evictions and bankruptcies.
Miles Heller walked away from home one morning, at age 20, after overhearing his stepmother, Willa, say to his father, "He's a bright boy, I won't dispute that. But cold, Morris. Hollowed out, desperate. I shudder to think about the future."
After bouncing around the country, Miles has gone to work in south Florida "trashing out" houses after banks have foreclosed on their owners. He is doing a series of photographs of the abandoned things left in the wake of eviction, and living with a precocious 17-year-old named Pilar. (This relationship is the weakest link in the novel.)
Sunset Park is named after a section of Brooklyn, Auster's longtime home borough, a place he has written about at length — most recently in his 2005 novel, The Brooklyn Follies. Sunset Park is also among the more expansive novels in Auster's repertoire, offering half a dozen viewpoints (as opposed to the solitary writerly alter ego central to many Auster novels, beginning with his first in 1982, The Invention of Solitude).
So in addition to the Heller father and son, we hear from Miles' biological mother, a film actress who is staging a comeback on Broadway; his friend Bing, a "sloppy bear of a man" who runs the storefront Hospital for Broken Things, in Park Slope, and two women: Alice, a graduate student who works at PEN American Center in SoHo, and Ellen, an artist whose work is growing eerily more erotic. Bing, Alice and Ellen are squatters in a small frame house across the street from Green-Wood Cemetery. Bing calls at an opportune time, and Miles joins them.
Auster fans and newcomers will find in Sunset Park his usual beautifully nuanced prose and his unerring sense of structuring a story for dramatic intensity. This time around, his storylines converge in a tremendous crash bang of an ending.


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Charlotte Parry, who stars as Catherine in Roundabout's Broadway production of The Winslow Boy, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
Parry previously appeared on Broadway as Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest, Young Thomas Ledbury in Coram Boy and Debbie in The Real Thing.
Other theatre work includes the Bridge Project's Cherry Orchard and A Winter's Tale, As You Like It (London/ BAM), Equivocation (MTC), Rainbow Kiss (Play Company), The Master Builder (Irish Rep), Pygmalion (Old Globe) and The Turn of the Screw (Westport).
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BLUEFIELD (WVVA) - The Bluefield Police Department is on the lookout for a man who allegedly took a woman's purse after church Sunday.
Patrolman J.D. Shrewsbury says the incident occurred outside the Long John Silvers restaurant on Cumberland Road at 12:40 p.m.
A white male, described as younger, approximately 6'3" with no facial hair, attempted to grab the woman's purse. A struggle ensued before the suspect cut the strap and fled with the purse.
The suspect left in a silver Chevy Malibu.
The purse contained approximately $550 in cash, as well as checks and other personal items.
If you have any information on the suspect, contact the Bluefield PD at 304-327-6101.


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NOTE: New emergencies will be updated here as information comes into the newsroom.
Adams - State of Emergency from 3 pm Friday to 3 pm Saturday. No parking permitted on side of streets. Any vehicles disrupting the removal or plowing of snow will be ticketed and towed. No pushing or shoveling of snow during this event. Town of Adams Library, Visit Center, and Municipal Offices will be closed during this time.
Albany - Snow Emergency LIFTED in Albany.
Amsterdam - The City of Amsterdam has declared a snow emergency effective 6 p.m. Thurs. Feb 7th. No parking will be allowed on the city streets for a period of up to 36 hours after snowfall ends.
Athens - The Village of Athens has issued a snow emergency beginning Friday, February 8th at 10:00 am through Sunday February 9th. Snow emergency parking rules are in effect
Brunswick - The Town of Brunswick has issued a snow emergency from 6:00 a.m. Friday, February 8, 2013 to 6:00 p.m. Sunday, February 10, 2013. No parking will be allowed on any town street or highway during this time.
Castleton on Hudson - The Village of Castleton on Hudson is issuing a snow emergency from 3:00 pm Friday February 8, 2013 until 3:00pm Saturday February 9, 2013.
East Greenbush - The Town of East Greenbush has declared that a Snow Emergency will be in effect beginning on Friday, 2/8/13 at 7:00 a.m. Vehicles are prohibited from parking on any public street during this snow emergency. Vehicles in violation of this local law will be subject to ticketing and/or towing. The Snow Removal Emergency will be continued until Sunday, 12:00 noon, 2/10/13.
Glens Falls - The City of Glens Falls declared a snow emergency commencing at 10 p.m. Friday and extending until noon, Saturday. During the snow emergency, on-street parking is banned to allow plows to clear the streets.
Greenport - The Town of Greenport has issued a snow emergency starting midnight Thursday, Feb. 7th until midnight Saturday, Feb. 9th.
Hudson - The City of Hudson has declared a snow emergency effective Friday, 2/8. Parking restrictions will begin on Friday at 8 a.m. with no parking on the even side of the street for 24 hours. On Saturday, 2/9, starting a 8 a.m. there will be no parking on the odd side of the street for 24 hours.
Lanesborough - The town of Lanesborough has a snow emergency in effect from Friday 7 a.m. until Sunday morning 7 a.m. - no parking on the streets.
Lenox - The town of Lenox, Mass. has declared a snow emergency beginning Friday, Feb. 8th at 4 p.m. until Saturday, Feb. 9th at 2 p.m. Any vehicles parked on any streets town-wide will be towed at owner's expense for snow removal purposes.
Massachusetts - Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) declared a snow emergency and parking ban on all DCR roadways and parkways posted for snow emergency starting at noon on Friday, February 8 and remaining in effect until further notice.
During the emergency, parking is prohibited on any DCR road, street, or parkway that is posted with "Snow Emergency" signs. For a list of DCR roadways, visit www.mass.gov/dcr/winterstormplan.htm
Mayfield - A snow emergency is in effect for the Village of Mayfield from 6:00 AM Friday February 8, 2013 until further notice. There is no parking allowed on village streets in order for the streets to be plowed. Any vehicle parked will be towed at owners' expense.
Mechanicville - The City of Mechanicville is declaring a snow emergency. The snow emergency will be in effect at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, February 8, 2013. Vehicles are to park on the even side of the street for the first 24 hours. At 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 9, 2013, they are to be moved to the odd side of the street.
Menands - LIFTED as of noon Saturday, Feb. 9.
Pittsfield - A snow emergency has been declared for the City of Pittsfield as of 6:00 PM, Friday, February 8, 2013 through 7:00 AM, Sunday, February 10, 2013. No vehicle is permitted to be parked or to be allowed to stand unattended on any street or way that is required to be plowed by the City except North Street where parking is allowed between the hours of 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM during the snow emergency. No vehicle is permitted to park or stand unattended on any open municipal parking lot between the hours of 12:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m., so the lots may be plowed and sanded. For the duration of the snow emergency, individuals who have no off-street parking available may park their cars in the three-hour public parking areas of the McKay Center and Columbus Avenue parking garages without penalty.
Ravena - The Village of Ravena has declared a snow emergency from Friday at noon until Monday at 6 p.m in which there will be no parking allowed on Village streets.
Rensselaer - A snow emergency has been declared in the City of Rensselaer. No parking on the odd side of the street beginning on at 8:00 p.m. February 8, 2013 until 8:00 p.m. February 9, 2013. No parking on even side of the street beginning at 8:00 p.m. On February 9, 2013 until 8:00 p.m. February 10, 2013. Even-odd is determined by house numbers.
Rotterdam - The town of Rotterdam has declared a snow emergency in effect from 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8th through 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9th.
Saratoga Springs - The City of Saratoga Springs has declared a snow emergency beginning at 9 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8th. Beginning at this time, all vehicles on city streets, except alternate side parking streets, must be moved to a plowed or cleared area within 12 hours. Accordingly, all vehicles must be moved by 9:00 a.m., Saturday, February 9, and every 12 hours thereafter until 9:00 p.m. on Monday, February 11.
Schodack - The town of Schodack has issues a snow emergency beginning 6:00 a.m. Friday, February 8, 2013 until 6:00 a.m. Sunday, February 10, 2013.
Stillwater - The village of Stillwater has a snow emergency in effect Friday, February 8th at noon time until further notice. No parking on village streets.
Troy - Downtown residents are encouraged to park their vehicles in City-owned lots and parking garages after 5 p.m. Friday as crews work to clear Downtown streets. Parking in these spaces is free and permitted after 5 p.m. & on weekends. Use of these spaces allows for more effective and efficient plowing in the Downtown area. The available parking garages and lots include:
• 5th Avenue parking garage
• State Street parking garage
• The Y-Lot (2nd St. between Broadway and State)
• Congress Street and Fifth Avenue parking lot
• Front Street lot
Waterford - A snow emergency is in effect for the Village of Waterford from 06:00AM Friday February 8,2013 until all streets are plowed and pushed back. Any vehicles not moved or interfering with snow plow operations on Village streets or the Village parking lot will be towed at owners expense. Alternate parking is NOT in effect in the Village of Waterford.
Watervliet - The city of Watervliet has declared a snow emergency starting at 8:00 am Sunday February 10, 2013. All residents must be prepared to move their vehicles for plowing. Any vehicles not moved for plowing will be towed.


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Tom Tobin is the education editor at the Tampa Bay Times, formerly the St. Petersburg Times.
The latest Truth-O-Meter items from Tom Tobin
Obama says America is great, but let's "try to change it."
"We have more coal reserves in the United States than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia."
"I supported the surge when you didn't."
"We reduced abortion. We increased adoptions by 135 percent."
"I saved the taxpayers $2-billion on a bogus Air Force Boeing tanker deal where people went to jail."
"Our children's safety is potentially at risk because nearly half of the apple juice consumed by our children comes from apples grown in China."
"Going to public financing really disadvantages Democrats because you're not able to raise funds between the day you win the primaries and the time you're officially nominated."
"Fences have not worked. The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall. That's not good among peoples, especially friends like the United States and Mexico."
"When I was mayor of New York City, I encouraged adoptions. Adoptions went up 65-70 percent. Abortions went down 16 percent."
If African-Americans vote their percentage of the population in 2008, "Mississippi is suddenly a Democratic state."
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Bill Richardson and other critics overstate the drawbacks of John Edwards' decision to take public financingA divide over fences
To illustrate his concerns about a fence between the United States and Mexico, Bill Richardson cites problems with the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall. But the history of those famous fences is not so clear.Giuliani's "culture of life," defined
Giuliani has been an adoption advocate, but now he says that's the same as being an abortion foe.Obama: I'm a magnet for turnout
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3rd Annual "Toys for Tots" Tennis Mixer December 8th
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Mark your calendars for Saturday, December 8th for the 3rd Annual "Toys for Tots" Tennis Mixer which will be held at the Joe Eakes Park tennis courts. The format of the Mixer will be timed rounds of progressive partner doubles. Progressive partner doubles has players changing partners for each round of play. A change for this year, the Mixer will have two divisions of play.
• 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Players with NTRP ratings of 2.5 - 3.0
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Officers from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife arrested five men on suspicion of poaching deer at a ranch along the Merced River recently.
Those cited were Alfredo Martinez, 25, of Atwater, Martin Abarca, 24, and Horlando Martinez, 22, both of Snelling, and Manuel Vargas, 24, and Silvestre Guadarrama, 53, both of Merced.
They were cited on suspicion of various crimes, including unlawfully killing a deer out of season, killing a doe, unlawfully using a light to kill a deer and killing a deer at night, said Warden Mark Michilizzi.
All the citations are misdemeanors.
The investigation started when Wardens Glenn Rodriguez and Steve Chase heard gunfire while they were patrolling near the Merced River about 8:45 p.m. Feb. 26, Michilizzi said.
They found an SUV parked along a private ranch road and saw several rifles and shotguns in the vehicle, along with spent cartridges and beer cans on the floorboard, he said.
As they were checking the SUV, the wardens saw Abarca and Alfredo Martinez walking out of a field and toward the vehicle, Michilizzi said. The wardens talked to the men, one of whom was an employee of the ranch, and they said they were hunting for wild pigs.
But Chase used a night-vision monocular and spotted Horlando Martinez, Vargas and Guadarrama dragging a deer toward the vehicle, Michilizzi said. Once they got to the vehicle, they were detained.
Another man was seen running into the woods after he realized wildlife officers were present, Michilizzi said. Deputies from the Mariposa County Sheriff's Department helped the wildlife officers search for the man, but he wasn't found.
During a follow-up investigation the next morning, officers found three more deer that had been killed and signs of at least two more that had been shot before running into thick vegetation near the river, Michilizzi said
He said the ranch manager was cooperative during the investigation.
According to Michilizzi, the circumstances indicated that the men were poaching for meat.
One rifle, four shotguns, ammunition and a butcher's knife were seized during the investigation.
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Six Flags Entertainment Stock Hits New 52-Week High (SIX)
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Six Flags Entertainment (NYSE:SIX) hit a new 52-week high Friday as it is currently trading at $50.78, above its previous 52-week high of $50.77 with 130,058 shares traded as of 10 a.m. ET. Average volume has been 311,200 shares over the past 30 days. Six Flags Entertainment has a market cap of $2.7 billion and is part of the services sector and leisure industry. Shares are up 15.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Six Flags Entertainment Corporation owns and operates regional theme, water, and zoological parks. The company's parks offers various selection of state-of-the-art and traditional thrill rides, water attractions, themed areas, concerts and shows, restaurants, game venues, and retail outlets.
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Training for a marathon can help cut the risk of cardiovascular disease among middle-aged men.
Researchers studied 45 recreational runners participating in an 18-week marathon training program.
After completing the program, the men showed improvements in the size, shape and overall function of the heart.
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Bishan Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Bishan, Singapore with a capacity of 4,000 people. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Home United FC in the S-League. The stadium was constructed in 1998 and is managed by the Singapore Sports Council. The public can use the facilities from 4:30 am to 8:30 pm daily unless it is exclusively booked for a sporting event. An indoor sports hall with facilities for badminton, table tennis and gymnastics lies adjacent to the stadium.
Situated in the central part of Singapore, Bishan Stadium is part of the Bishan Sports & Recreation Centre, which includes Bishan Sports Hall and Bishan Swimming Complex.
Since its opening in 1998, Bishan Stadium has been the ground of Home United Football Club, a professional football club in Singapore. From 2004 to 2006, the Stadium was used for the team's home matches in the Asian Football Confederation Cup tournament. In September 2006, Bishan Stadium was one of two venues for the Asian Football Confederation U-17 championship hosted by Singapore. The Australian national team also used the Stadium as its training base for two weeks in June 2007 before it left for the Asian Cup. Bishan Stadium was used as the athletics venue of the 2010 Youth Olympic Games. The Stadium will also be the venue for the 35th Singapore Junior Athletics Championships 2009, which will be held in May.
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Teachers and inspirers commended by students
The students at the Institue of Technology and the Faculty of Health Sciences have handed out awards to their favourite teachers. This year's Golden Carrot ("Gyllene Moroten") prize – awarded by the technology students – went to Ingrid Andersson, while the Faculty of Health Sciences handed their Teacher of the Year prize to Kajsa Johansson.This year there is also a new award: Excellent Inspirer ("Utmärkt inspiratör").
Ingrid Andersson (pictured, right) primarily teaches thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and mechanics to engineering students. She has received the award for "passionate interest in her subject, which she enthusiastically shares with her students", for being responsive and showing great interest in each student's knowledge development. In their statement, the students also write that the course has a clear structure that instils confidence because they know exactly what is expected of them.
"I feel very honoured. Receiving an award from the students is very gratifying and encouraging, and I am even more motivated to continue my work," comments Ingrid Andersson at IEI, the Department of Management and Engineering.
Kajsa Johansson (lower picture) teaches subjects including musculoskeletal diseases, pain and pain treatment at the physiotherapy programme's basic, advanced and post-doctoral levels. The Faculty of Health Sciences students mention that "she has an infectious enthusiasm for physiotherapy as a scientific field on the rise, and manages to keep her lectures at a level that is neither too high nor too low."
"I am happy and proud to receive this award. I am passionate about conveying theoretical and practical knowledge and I really value that the students have shown their appreciation in this way. I see this award as part of my pedagogical resumé," says Johansson.
This year also marks the first time that the Consensus student association at the Faculty of Health Sciences has awarded the Excellent Inspirer prize.
"Seeing as we only have one teachers' award, we wanted to highlight other people who contribute to a good educational environment, like study advisers for example," says Therese Björn Johansson at Consensus.
This year the Excellent Inspirer award goes to: Jane Holstein – occupational therapist programme, Andreas Eriksson – pharmacology, Maria Malmsten – clincal speech pathologist, Jonas Andersson – histology teaching assistant, Karin Persson – pharmacology, Paul Erixson – physiotherapist programme, Ann-Christin Josefsson – student unit and Patrik Rytterström – nursing programme.
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Vanessa Hudgens, who stars in the upcoming movie "Sucker Punch," is upset over a new batch of leaked nude photos, which were taken nearly four years ago, reports E! Online.
"Vanessa is deeply upset and angered that these old photos, which were taken years ago, continue to resurface," Hudgen's attorney Christopher Wong said in a statement. "It is particularly disturbing that whoever got hold of these private photos seems to be intent on illegally leaking them out over a long period of time. We are actively working with law enforcement to determine who is responsible and hold them accountable for their actions."
The former star of Disney's "High School Musical" franchise apologized to her young fans in 2007 after the first nude photos appeared online.
"I want to apologize to my fans, whose support and trust mean the world to me," Hudgens said in a statement to E! News. "I am embarrassed over this situation and regret having ever taken these photos. I am thankful for the support of my family and friends."
Hudgens recently starred in the "Beauty and the Beast"-inspired film "Beastly" and told OnTheRedCarpet.com that she "loved" looking at and kissing her "Beastly" co-star, Alex Pettyfer, even with his gruesome makeup.
She was also recently romantically linked to her "Journey 2: Mysterious Island" co-star Josh Hutcherson ("The Kids Are All Right") but has yet to comment on the reports.
Hudgens stars in the upcoming action film, "Sucker Punch," a Zack Snyder movie about escaped female insane asylum inmates who live in an alternative reality in the '50s. "Sucker Punch" is set for release on March 25, 2011.


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I didn't see this anywhere and thought i would post it. It upsets me that Josh Gordon is doing this, especially when you were just suspended by the league.
It hurts but LeCharles let him know quick, he wasn't playing around. What do you think? Was LeCharles wrong, or is Josh Gordon?
@JOSH_GORDONXII: Y'all can find me atvthe champions parade on the #winners float.. #sorry
that was the initial tweet that had LeCharkes upset