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In the 1899 classic, A Message to Garcia, Elbert Hubbard described the travails of Rowan, a soldier with the United States Army during the Spanish-American War. Rowan is tasked by President McKinley to deliver a message to General Garcia who is somewhere on the island of Cuba. After an arduous and danger-filled three-week journey, Rowan does in fact deliver the message and re-emerges on the other side of the island a success.
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It was just what Lehman girls basketball coach Craig Hall had been waiting to see and what Covington coach Craig Maschino has seen far too often.
In the opening game of the Buckeye Insurance Group Holiday Classic, Lehman rallied from a 26-12 defcit late in the first half to pull out a 40-35 victory over Covington.
Lehman will play Russia in the championship game at 7 p.m. tonight, while Covington will play Piqua in the consolation game at 4 p.m.
"Our defense is the key to our team and it was again tonight," Hall said. "We got a lot start. I know we have five seniors, but they don't have a lot of experience. We are starting to jell. Things came together for us tonight."
For Covington, it was the fifth time in nine games, the Lady Buccs had loss by five points or less.
"We are close," Maschino said. "We have to find a way to finish these games. What happened tonight is something that has happened in about seven other games."
Brooke Jones got two big baskets late in first half to close the Lehman deficit to 26-16.
And while Lehman turned the ball over on three of its first four possessions in the second half, the Cavaliers defense limited Covington to two second half points in 11:33, before Carly Shell broke the ice with a three from the corner.
But, by that time Lehman had played itself back into the game, trailing just 31-27.
"We left them in the game and they took advantage of it," Maschino said. "We weren't taking good shots like we were in the first half."
Julia Harrelson, who had five points in the third quarter, answered with basket and Jordi Emrick scored to tie it at 31 with 3:57 remaining in the game.
Points came hard to come by at that point, with both teams missing from the line.
Ava Schmitz hit one of two free throws with 2:05 remaining to make it 32-31 and with 1:20 to go Allison Hall grabbed a rebound of shot that was well short and put it back in to make it 34-31.
"I told the kids, there were a lot of different moments down the stretch that could be called game-changing moments," Hall said.
Brooke Gostomsky hit two free throws to get Covington within 34-33 with 45 seconds to go, but Schmitz answered with a breakaway layup seven seconds later.
Cassidy Cain would score for Covington to make it 36-35, but Harrelson and Schmitz calmly hit four straight free throws to ice the victory.
"It is that way in practice," Hall said. "We struggle at the line, but when we need to make them, we do."
Maschino could only think about what could have been.
"We were able to score at the end, but then we had to foul them," he said. "The Harrelson girl is a nice player and we had trouble stopping the ball when she had it."
With Cain scoring 11 points in the opening half and Shell adding five in the first quarter off the bench, Covington had led 26-12.
"Sometimes, we play like one of the best basketball teams around," Maschino said. "We have to find a way to be more consistent."
Covington had led 13-3, before Lehman scored nine in a row, only to see the Lady Buccs score 12 in a row.
But, it was a different story after that.
"I told the girls it was game of streaks," Hall said. "We would go on a run and then they would go on a run. The second half was probably the best defense we have played all year."
Harrelson had 18 points to lead Lehman, while Cain paced the Lady Buccs with 13.
Covington (35)
Arianna Richards 1-0-2, Brooke Gostomsky 2-2-6, Heidi Cron 1-2-4, Cassidy Cain 4-5-13, Morgan McReynolds 0-0-0, Carly Shell 3-0-8, Lexi Long 1-0-2. Totals: 12-9-35.
Lehman (40)
Ava Schmitz 1-5-7, Julia Harrelson 6-6-18, Jordi Emrick 1-0-2, Brooke Jones 4-0-8, Kassie Lee 0-1-1, Jenna Kroneberger 1-0-2, Madeline Franklin 0-0-0, Allison Hall 1-0-2, Sara Fuller 0-0-0, Katie Heckman 0-0-0. Totals: 14-12-40.
3-point field goals — Covington: Shell (2).
Score By Quarters
Covington 13 26 28 35
Lehman5 16 25 40
Records: Lehman 2-6, Covington 2-7.
Reserve score: Lehman 26, Covington 20.

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|Ross Jeffries
|Paul Ross[1]
1958 (age 56–57)
United States
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Ross Jeffries is an American author, writer and television personality featured on such programs as The Dr. Phil Show, The Montel Williams Show, The Jane Whitney Show and The Daily Show, and a self-described speed seduction expert.[1][2][3]
Jeffries was profiled on Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends.[4][5][6] Ross Jeffries is also known for Speed Seduction program that helps men in gaining women's attention.[7]
Tom Cruise's character in the film Magnolia was said to be inspired by Jeffries according to the film's writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson.[8][9][10]
- How to Get the Women You Desire into Bed, ISBN 0963037900, September 1992[7]
- Secrets of Speed Seduction Mastery, ISBN 055738849X, May 11, 2010[11]
- ^ a b Campbell, Duncan (15 January 2000). "Dating game turns ugly". The Guardian.
- ^ Barnes, Cecily. "The Rap Trap". Metroactive.
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- ^ The Independent
- ^ Daily Mail
- ^ a b "Talk Softly, Keep Eye Contact, Save Country.". The Stanstead Journal. Feb 25, 1998. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
- ^ Konow, David (January–February 2000). "PTA Meeting: An Interview with Paul Thomas Anderson". Creative Screenwriting.
- ^ Riverfronttimes.com
- ^ Miaminewtimes.com
- ^ "Books, Courses and Coaching by Ross Jeffries". Retrieved 19 January 2014.
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Quaternary structures of recombinant, cellular, and serum forms of Thymidine Kinase 1 from dogs and humans
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Thymidine kinase 1 (TK1) is a salvage enzyme involved in DNA precursor synthesis, and its expression is proliferation dependent. A serum form of TK1 has been used as a biomarker in human medicine for many years and more recently to monitor canine lymphoma. Canine TK1 has not been cloned and studied. Therefore, dog and human TK1 cDNA were cloned and expressed, and the recombinant enzymes characterized. The serum and cellular forms of canine and human TK1 were studied by size-exclusion chromatography and the level of TK1 protein was determined using polyclonal and monoclonal anti-TK1 antibodies.
Canine TK1 phosphorylated the thymidine (dThd) analog 3'-azido-thymidine (AZT) as efficiently as it did dThd, whereas AZT phosphorylation by human TK1 was less efficient than that of dThd. Dog TK1 was also more thermostable and pH tolerant than the human enzyme. Oligomeric forms were observed with both enzymes in addition to the tetrameric and dimeric forms. Cellular TK1 was predominantly seen in dimeric and tetrameric forms, in the case of both dog TK1 from MDCK cells and human TK1 from CEM cells. Active serum TK1 was found mainly in a high molecular weight form, and treatment with a reducing agent shifted the high molecular weight complex to lower molecular weight forms with reduced total activity. Western blot analysis demonstrated a polypeptide of 26 kDa (dog) and 25 kDa (human) for cellular and serum TK1. There was no direct correlation between serum TK1 activity and protein level. It appears that a substantial fraction of serum TK1 is not enzymatically active.
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The latest study results were "rather surprising -- diabetic women who use HRT have lower total cholesterol levels and lower fasting glucose [blood sugar] levels, major risk factors for cardiovascular disease," study author Carlos Crespo, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology at Buffalo State University of New York, tells WebMD.
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Crespo's study involves data taken for six years from 2,786 women across the U.S. -- all postmenopausal and between ages 40 and 74 -- who had numerous laboratory tests and a complete physical exam. In that group, diabetics were 60% less likely to be taking HRT than nondiabetics.
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Diabetic women -- whether they took HRT or not -- had worse glucose levels than the other women. They also had higher overall cholesterol levels and lower HDL levels, says Crespo.
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'This is the top' _ Dutch singer on Broadway debut
NEW YORK There's a little bottle of champagne in Willemijn Verkaik's dressing room. It sits unopened - she's already plenty giddy.
Verkaik, a Dutch actress who has played the role of Elphaba in versions of "Wicked" in Germany and Holland, last month made her debut on Broadway as the green-skinned witch for a 15-week stint.
"This is the top. This is what little girls dream of," the actress says backstage before a recent performance at the Gershwin Theatre. "You never dare to dream of the possibility to be here. It's great."
It's been a long road for the singer who has played Elphaba for more than 1,000 shows since 2007. She started with a two-year stint in Stuttgart in southern Germany, before jumping to the western German city of Oberhausen for a year, then made a triumphant homecoming in the Dutch city of The Hague, where she played Elphaba for about 18 months.
That run ended in mid-January and the creative team from the Broadway show, which had cast each European production, tapped Verkaik to come to New York. She is now the only actress to have performed the role of Elphaba in three languages - Dutch, German and English.
"It's a tremendous feat. It's her third language. Who else can do that?" asks Lisa Leguillou, the show's associate director, who helped prepare Verkaik in every city beginning in Stuttgart. "I have a tremendous amount of respect for her. I'm seeing a whole other performance here. It's taking her out of her comfort zone and it's allowing her to find new things in her Elphaba."
Leguillou is soon off to cast and direct a South Korean version of "Wicked." If she has trouble finding a suitable Elphaba, might we suggest one who speaks Dutch, German and English?
"I know!" Leguillou laughs. "I told the creative team, `I don't know. She's so good, maybe she can learn Korean. You know Willemijn - she'll learn it in four weeks.'"
"Wicked," based on Gregory Maguire's cult novel, tells the story of two young witches-to-be, one a green brooder who will be the Wicked Witch of the West and the other blond and bubbly, who will be Glinda the Good Witch.
With a score by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman, "Wicked" has been one of Broadway's biggest success stories since it arrived in 2003 starring Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda and Idina Menzel as Elphaba. The newest Broadway Elphaba thinks she knows why it's so unstoppable.
"It tells you a lesson that people can recognize from their own lives, even if it's in the Land of Oz - to believe in yourself and to stay true to yourself," says Verkaik. "I think a lot of people in the audience get that and that's why they keep coming back. And that's why it works in Holland and Germany and Singapore and here."
Verkaik, 37, was born and raised in The Netherlands outside the city of Eindhoven. In school she was taught both German and English; she brushed up on each before tackling Elphaba in Germany and now on Broadway.


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The days of burly prototype NBA enforcers like Charles Oakley and Xavier McDaniel ended somewhere around the turn of the century when the NBA was desperate to find its post-Michael Jordan era footing. Rather than throwing elbows and showcasing mild, controlled violence to prove who was 'The Man,' keeping star players upright and healthy was the focus as everybody was anxious to anoint a new basketball hero.
Los Angeles Clippers forward Matt Barnes is a throwback type player who operates in the spirit of Oakley and McDaniel even if he can't match their raw power. In a sprawling discussion about the Clippers' success in the 2012-13 NBA season and what goes on behind the scenes of the NBA logo, Barnes offered one of the clearest pictures of the relationship between NBA players and how his toughness got him where he is today.
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WASHINGTON In a choreographed diplomatic squeeze play, President Barack Obama, the leaders of Britain, France and Germany and the European Union joined Thursday to demand that Syrian President Bashar Assad resign, saying his brutal suppression of his people had made him unfit to lead.
The coordinated messages from Washington, London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels were accompanied by a U.N. recommendation that Syria be referred to the International Criminal Court for investigation of atrocities and by tough new U.S. sanctions freezing all Syrian government assets in the U.S. and targeting the country's lucrative energy sector.
The moves intensified already mounting pressure on Assad, who has refused to ease his regime's ruthless crackdown on a five-month old opposition uprising and has backed away from promises of reform. Instead, he has unleashed his security forces on numerous cities, killing nearly 2,000 people, many of them innocent civilians, according to rights groups.
The resignation calls were the first explicit demands from the U.S. and its allies for Assad to step down although condemnation of his actions had been mounting for weeks since the regime ordered a sustained assault on its opponents on the eve of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that began in early August.
In a written statement released by the White House, Obama said Assad had lost all credibility as a leader and had to go.
"His calls for dialogue and reform have rung hollow while he is imprisoning, torturing, and slaughtering his own people," Obama said. "We have consistently said that President Assad must lead a democratic transition or get out of the way. He has not led. For the sake of the Syrian people, the time has come for President Assad to step aside."
"It is clear that President Assad believes that he can silence the voices of his people by resorting to the repressive tactics of the past. But he is wrong," Obama said after signing an executive order that gives his administration authority to impose sweeping new sanctions on Syria intended to further isolate the regime.
The order immediately bans the import into the United States of any Syrian petroleum or petroleum products. Syria is not a huge source of oil for the U.S., but if European allies join the effort, it could significantly affect one of the regime's top sources of revenue. Syrian crude oil exports go mostly to European countries such as Germany, Italy, and France, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency.
Obama's order also denies Syria access to the US financial system, freezing all Syrian government assets that are subject to U.S. jurisdiction. It also prohibits any U.S. citizen from engaging in transactions with the regime, investing in the country or exporting services to Syria. Under the order, the Treasury Department also could impose sanctions against persons who give support to Assad's government.
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The Dussehra festival has brought cheers to the city-based automobile and two-wheelers dealers who are expecting double digit growth in the number of deliveries of cars and bikes on Wednesday.
Simultaneously, a sharp rise in booking of houses is also expected with around 70 schemes launched during Navratri and eight more to be launched on Dussehra. That is not all. Around 2,000 families are likely to enter their dream home on this auspicious day.
Ahmedabad is expected to see 3,500 more bikes and at least 1,100 additional cars on roads, on the day considered most auspicious for buying assets. Compared to previous year, sales this year are up by at least 15%.
Last year, around 3,000 bikes and scooters were delivered in city alone. However, industry is expecting to deliver 3,500 two-wheelers, said the dealer of a leading two-wheeler and car brand in Ahmedabad.
However, the automobile dealers were not as hopeful at the onset of Navratri. "Sudden rise in demand has been pleasantly surprising. On Wednesday, we are delivering around 400 Honda two-wheelers in Ahmedabad and have seen 25% growth compared to previous Dussehra," said director of Punjab Honda, Devendra Bagga.
While in cars, the growth is estimated to be between 10% and 15%. There are more options for consumers in small car segment, SUVs and sedans with new launches in last three to six months. The demand for new cars has gone up. Manan Autolink, which sells two-wheelers as well as four-wheelers has set a target of at least 15% growth in sales of Bajaj bikes and Maruti cars in Ahmedabad on Wednesday. "We are delivering 125 cars and more than 1,100 bikes on Wednesday," said CEO of Manan Autolink, Sandip Kumar.
The dealers of luxury cars too expect good demand for deliveries on Wednesday. According to COO of Audi Ahmedabad, Anil Chhatwal, "We are witnessing great response this festive season. With around 75 vehicles, our sales are 20% higher this month than the same period last year."
Housing is not far behind either. "During Navratri, around 60 schemes have been launched and 20-odd more schemes are likely to be launched on Wednesday. Majority of the schemes will be for middle income group people as real demand comes from this segment. We are expecting launch of around 2,000 units in this festive season," said Pravin Bavadiaya, CMD, City Estate Management.


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The two are Chamber ambassadors, two of many representing the Chamber by welcoming new businesses to town, recruiting new members and attending chamber events, among them ribbon cuttings and Chamber "after hours," and recognizing business owners in the area who, like them, go out of their way to make their community better. They pitch in where needed, going so far as to set up for events and even making side dishes to take to Chamber gatherings.
Members of the Washington-Beaufort Chamber of Commerce came together last night for its 112th annual banquet at the Washington Civic Center.
At the banquet, Catherine Glover, executive director of the Chamber, welcomed all members and guests and a dinner catered by Ann Martin with the Meeting Place in downtown Washington was served. The banquet is held each year to celebrate things that have happened in the past year, as well as to hear about and look forward to things that are coming up in 2015, Glover said.
An educated guess, based on a verse in the Bible, resulted in the Lee Chevrolet Buick team winning the Trivia Bee for adults Tuesday night at P.S. Jones Middle School in Washington.


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NEWPORT – The last few years have been challenging for North Country Hospital, including the year 2013, which included some troublesome issues.
The hospital has a new facilities director who is evaluating all of the entities under North Country Health Systems Inc. to make sure everything is functioning properly and in compliance. Making sure everyone is protected and safe is a top priority, hospital CEO Claudio Fort said in a recent interview.
Please see The Newport Daily Express Monday for the complete story.
Please see The Newport Daily Express Friday to read who the first baby is and who her parents are.
The flu virus H1N1, formerly called the swine flu that emerged in 2009, is rearing its ugly head once again; although it really never left the world.
It is being referred to as pH1N1 with the "p" standing for pandemic.
Please see The Newport Daily Express Friday for the complete story.
NEWPORT CITY - CNN, a popular news network, has named the Northeast Kingdom Tasting Center as one of the top 50 places to visit in the United States in 2014.
Last week's ice storm damaged numerous trees and left some Vermonters in the dark for several days. While many have recovered from the damage, maple producers across the state have to wait and see what, if any, the long-term effects will be.
FEMA In Town Today
Two people died as a result of the ice storm last week that devastated the area by ransacking trees and power lines.
Please see The Newport Daily Express Thursday for the complete story.
COVENTRY - Fire destroyed a home and garage on the Coventry Station Road Wednesday morning.
Newport City Firefighters responded to the Ryan Roberge residence at 4:17 a.m. for a porch fire.
WESTMORE - The only thing warm at North Beach of Lake Willoughby yesterday were the hearts of the 56 individuals and their supporters who braved single-degree temperatures to take part in the annual Willoughby Lake Dip.
NEWPORT CITY - For 25 years Diane Colburn has brought the thrill of dancing to residents of the Northeast Kingdom.
Phil White, an attorney, former president of IROC, and the founder of Kingdom Games was chosen as the Newport Daily Express Person of the Year for 2013.
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Europe Launches Call for New Astronauts
Europe has put out the call for new
astronauts, signaling expectations for future manned missions to the International
Space Station, the moon and more distant destinations.
European Space Agency's (ESA) selection process begins on May 19, with
candidates welcome from the agency's 17 member nations.
"We want to
find high-caliber men and women in Europe to prepare to meet the challenges of ISS exploitation and human
exploration of our solar system in the 21st century," said Michel Tognini,
former astronaut and chief of the European Astronaut Centre. "As of May
2008, ESA will be searching in each of its 17 member states for the best
candidates to make this vision a reality."
ESA's astronaut
recruitment drive appears to anticipate a new wave of European human
spaceflight missions – although NASA's space shuttle fleet will retire in 2010,
a gap between then and the first launch of its capsule-based Orion successor
in 2014. That leaves the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and perhaps private companies
to provide space access for the duration.
The agency
built the space station's European Columbus laboratory, which astronauts
delivered in February, and successfully
delivered Jules Verne — the first of at least five Automated Transfer
Vehicle (ATV) cargo ships — on April 3.
double-decker bus-sized ATV space freighters will haul
fresh supplies to the ISS for ESA, the U.S.
and other station partners in return for European astronaut slots on future long-duration
crews. A similar ESA astronaut hunt in 1992 stemmed from the agency's Columbus laboratory project, the agency
Astronaut applicants
will have to provide the same medical examination certificates as private
pilots, as well as undergo psychological and professional aptitude evaluation,
medical evaluation, and a formal interview process before an ESA selection
board. Final appointments will receive their official announcement in 2009.
Thiele, head of ESA's Astronaut Division and a former spaceflyer, said
prospective candidates should be competent in a science discipline, such as life sciences, physics, chemistry
and medicine. Engineers or pilots are also welcome to apply, he added.
addition, characteristics expected of all applicants include a good memory and
reasoning ability, concentration, aptitude for spatial orientation, and manual
dexterity," Thiele added.
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wants applicants fluent in English, although Russian-language skills are a
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agency's Web site starting May 19, on the first step in the formal
application. U.S. citizens who want to try for NASA's 2009
astronaut class still have until July 1 to apply.
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Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced, the second part of the popular and comprehensive series, updated for CS5, follows internationally renowned Photoshop guru Deke McClelland as he dives into the workings of Photoshop. He explores such digital-age wonders as the Levels and Curves commands, edge-detection filters, advanced compositing techniques, vector-based text, the Liquify filter, and Camera Raw. Deke also teaches tried-and-true methods for sharpening details, smoothing over wrinkles and imperfections, and enhancing colors without harming the original image. Exercise files accompany the course.
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I'm still working away inside of California coast.dng and in this exercise I am going to show you how to infuse a black -and-white image with color using the Split Toning controls. Now a couple of notes upfront. First of all, we are not doing this for the sake of the special effects. We are doing this because we want to be able to render out as many luminance levels in print as possible. So by adding some color to our image, we bring in the other inks whether we are printing to an inkjet printer, or we are sending the image out for commercial reproduction, and so instead of relying on a single black ink which might render out maybe 50 or 60 luminance levels, we are bringing in a bunch of other inks as well, which vastly increases our dynamic range.
So if you are working along with me go ahead and click on the Split Toning icon, in order to bring up this panel of options here. Now I will say that this is not the most powerful method for infusing a black-and-white image for color. That would be the gradient map adjustment layer inside Photoshop. And as we discussed in the previous chapter, gradient map allows you to add colors to any luminance levels inside of the image. And you can add as many colors as you want theoretically. However, if you want to get all work done inside of camera, this option isn't half bad because Split Toning allows you to assign one color to the highlights, another color to the shadows, and then strike a balance between the two.
So what I am going to do is infuse the highlights with a yellowish orange and infuse the shadows with a low saturation blue. Now I could go ahead and dial the orange in is a Hue value and I want a Hue value 45 degrees here. Problem is that's not going to make any change to my image because the Saturation is currently set to 0, which always delivers gray. So let's go ahead and take that Saturation value up, and I don't want to go too high with it, but I will take it to 30% and then press the Tab key, and that will infuse those highlights as well as much of the Mid tones with a kind of sepia color.
All right now I am going to dial on a very low saturation color, just 5% saturation. And then I will change the hue value to 240 degrees and even though that infuses the shadows with a rich blue here, even though it's a low saturation blue. It's hard to see that inside of the image. The image almost has a green tone to it. And the reason for that is because you're ultimately painting a gradient across the image from this yellowish orange all the way to blue. And so by definition you have to travel through some very low saturation greens.
Anyway, and now when I strike a balance, and I want to emphasize the oranges, that is the sort of sepia color here, over the blues. I am going to do that by dragging this slider triangle over toward the highlights as you can see me doing here. And I am going to take this value all the way up to 75, which produces the effect you see here inside the image window. All right so that's almost it just one more thing if you take a look at the Histogram you can see by virtue of the fact that I've dialed in these various subjective colors into the gray scale mix and I've added this low saturation blue here to the shadows, I've made my shadows a little weaker.
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DURHAM, N.C. -- Another top-10 opponent, another tight game for Duke. That's when Jasmine Thomas is at her best -- even if it was a teammate's turn to hit the go-ahead shot.
Thomas overcame a rough shooting night and scored 24 points, and the third-ranked Blue Devils used a late surge to stay unbeaten with a 54-48 win over Kentucky (No. 11 ESPN/USA Today, No. 10 AP) on Tuesday night.
Freshman Chelsea Gray added 11 points and put Duke ahead for good by scoring off a defender's fingers with 39.9 seconds left. Thomas finished 8 of 24 from the field but sealed the win by blocking two shots in the final 2 minutes and hitting four free throws in the final 14.7 seconds.
"I just try to be aggressive and really contest shots," Thomas said of her shot-blocking knack. "If they put it out there, my hand is up, so I try to get a hand on it if I can."
The Blue Devils (14-0) closed the game with an 8-0 run and used a 52-36 rebounding advantage to overcome both 17 turnovers and 26.5 percent shooting to keep themselves among the four undefeated teams in Division I and extend their winning streak at Cameron Indoor Stadium to 16.
"We have got to be able to do all things to be a special team: rebound, play [defense], score and attack," Duke coach Joanne P. McCallie said.
Keyla Snowden scored 15 points and Victoria Dunlap added 10 for the Wildcats (11-2), who were held to a season-low point total, matched a season high with 22 turnovers and had their six-game winning streak snapped.
This was the latest in a string of early-season nonconference top-10 tests at home for the Blue Devils, who beat then-No. 7 Texas A&M by three points last month before topping then-No. 4 Xavier by one -- both behind dramatic performances from Thomas.
Once again, she came up with most of her team's timely plays.
"Just to keep attacking. I know my pull-up [jump shot] is good for me, but I was just trying to get as far into the paint as I could, and if I had to settle for the pull-up, to take it," Thomas said. "But defense was really what I was thinking about. ... Down the stretch, when every basket was so important, just getting stops."
She blocked Snowden's layup with less than 2 minutes left, hit a jumper from the free throw line to tie it at 48 with 1:30 left and pressured Snowden into a turnover with about a minute remaining to set up Gray's winner. Gray drove the left baseline and said she was passing to teammate Allison Vernerey but Kentucky's Samantha Drake got a hand on the ball and inadvertently tipped it through to put Duke up 50-48.
"That last shot, I just really don't know where it came from," Gray said.
After the Blue Devils forced a stop on Kentucky's next trip downcourt, Thomas hit a free throw to make it a three-point game and then swatted Snowden's tying 3 with about 9 seconds left and added 3 of 4 free throws the rest of the way.
"She is more than impressive, even. Wow, 24 points," Kentucky coach Matthew Mitchell said. "She just absolutely dominated us. ... We let her get up 24 shots. That's a bad job on our part."
A'dia Mathies had 10 rebounds while Dunlap, the Southeastern Conference player of the year last season, was held to half her scoring average. They helped Kentucky rally from a nine-point halftime deficit by holding Duke without a field goal for nearly 8 minutes.
The Wildcats forced 12 straight misses before freshman Tricia Liston hit a 3 with just over 12 minutes left for the Blue Devils' first basket of the half. Duke missed 18 of its first 19 shots in the half.
That came after Kentucky had a couple of serious droughts of its own. The Wildcats were held to one field goal in an early 7-minute stretch, then went without a basket for the final 8½ minutes of the half -- both eternities for a team that averages more than 80 points.
"We learned that we need to put a complete game together," Snowden said. "We can't take breaks. ... We've got to come to play every minute that we're out there."
The Blue Devils led 31-22 at the break after closing the half on a 13-2 run keyed by Thomas. She hit three baskets in a 90-second span to bounce back from a 1-for-10 shooting start. That finished off an ugly opening 20 minutes in which the teams combined for 29 turnovers.
Both teams face quick turnarounds before their conference openers. The Blue Devils play host to No. 14 Maryland on Thursday night in the renewal of one of the Atlantic Coast Conference's fiercest rivalries, while the Wildcats visit Arkansas the same night.


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Hundreds of higher secondary school teachers in the city on Monday protested against the recent policy change made by Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB), Gandhinagar, wherein class VIII will be included in primary and class IX to XII will be in one unit under secondary section.
The teachers staged a dharna in front of the office of the district education officer (DEO) of the city. The same protests were reported in 25 other cities of the state.
The agitating teachers contend that the quality of education will go down at the secondary level as unqualified teachers will come in this category due to the change.
"They (the board) have not discussed the policies in detail with our education minister or with us. This is simply autocratic," said Jagdish Bhatt, president of the Gujarat State Higher Secondary Teacher's Federation (GSHSTF).
Bhatt said that by implementing the change, there will be administrative and expenditure problems for the government and the quality of education will be compromised. "Due to this change, the state government will have to spend an additional Rs102 crore as more 14,000 higher secondary school teachers will have to be recruited," he said.
However, the state education department rejected the claims of the teachers. Hasmukh Adhia, principal secretary of education department said that having class IX to class XII as one unit will involve only administrative changes and not academic ones.
"All the members are agreeing with the new policy, but GSHSTF is opposing it due to its vested interests. Till now, the workload of higher secondary school teachers was very little compared to secondary school ones," he said.
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On account of its LAN connection, this multiplexer can be accessed for viewing and control over a network using the provided software package. In an ideal network environment, images can viewed at frame rates of up to 60 FPS for each camera. There is also an RS-232C connection for controlling this unit from a local PC.
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The Delhi High Court on Monday reserved its verdict on a petition for a direction to the Centre for granting of permanent commission to serving women officers like their male counterparts in the armed forces.
A Division Bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Mool Chand Garg reserved the final order after hearing arguments from the counsel of the Centre as well as the women officers who sought the direction.
Today, the Centre's counsel expressed the government's inability to grant permanent commission to serving women officers in the armed forces.
The counsel said government's new policy for granting permanent commission for women officers, who were to be recruited in future, was still under its consideration.
Whether the policy would be implemented or not from this year was still not clear, he added.
Also rejecting the plea for pension in case government was not willing to grant permanent commission to the women officers, the counsel said short service commissioned officers after serving the nation for 14 long years were given an option to join a business course at top schools like Indian Institutes of Management.
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Before you know it, you're on the 17th floor of 20 West 43rd Street with the ghosts of William Shawn, who edited The New Yorker for 36 years, and Tina Brown, who has been accused of running it into the ground. But Tina deserves a place in the pantheon, Seabrook suggests, because she "represented the coming of Nobrow to the magazine," in which "the old distinction between the elite culture of the aristocrats and the commercial culture of the masses was torn down, and in its place was erected a hierarchy of hotness."
When Tina asks him what he wants to write for her New Yorker, Seabrook proposes a "process piece" about giant bluefin tuna. But before long, he recalls, "that quiet yearning for good taste was beginning to sound like death to me." He begins writing profiles of David Geffen and George Lucas, stories that not only please Tina, but later become fodder for the book. Along the way, he fashions a concept that will allow him to synthesize all this experience into one self-referential account. The result is Nobrow: The Culture of MarketingThe Marketing of Culture, just out from Knopf.
Nobrow is neither an elegy for the old New Yorker nor an indictment of the new. Instead, Seabrook pays homage both to Shawn's vision of independence (in which staffers choose their own subjects and "say what we believe to be true") and to Tina's quest for profitability ("So one had to do a little promoting. So that was the real world"). The author stops short of declaring Shawn's magazine dead, but he's not lying about how it stayed alive. "Independence was the price we paid for survival," he winks. These days, he reflects after viewing an erotic video, art "is an ad for the artist."
In the end, profitability proves elusive, and Seabrook finds himself playing Ishmael to Tina's Ahab as she disappears into the Bermuda Triangle that is Harvey Weinstein's private plane. He tells a good yarn, with no footnotes to mar the illusion. But don't be fooled: Nobrow is both entertainment and history. A short index follows:
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Williams was courted to write a weekly op-ed column by Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt. "She's smart, she understands politics, and she can write where the personal and the political intersect," he says. Hiatt has also just hired Charles Lane as a full-time editorial writer. Prior to his stint as editor of The New Republic, Lane was a foreign correspondent for Newsweek; Hiatt is putting him on the foreign policy beat.
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