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Scarborough holds on for 11th straight win
SACO—A sure victory turned into a nailbiter for the Scarborough boys' hockey team Monday afternoon, but when all was said and done, the Red Storm had another victory in the books.
It's 11th straight.
Facing two-time defending Class A champion Thornton Academy at MHG Ice Centre, Scarborough shot to a 3-0 lead after one period and was up, 4-1, with just under two minutes to play, but two Golden Trojans' goals in a 28-second span made things very interesting. The Red Storm was able to hold on, however, and improved to 12-1 with a 4-3 victory, which dropped Thornton Academy to 5-5 on the year.
"I'm going to be white-haired tomorrow," said Scarborough coach Norm Gagne. "It's a lesson learned. We have to buckle down and get better. I told the kids before that it's never over until it's over and that they have to stay within the moment."
Quite a roll
Scarborough, which lost to Falmouth in last year's regional semifinals, entered the 2012-13 season with high hopes and has lived up to the billing. After opening with a 2-1 home win over Lewiston, the Red Storm suffered its lone loss, 1-0, at St. Dom's. Scarborough's win streak began with an 11-0 romp at York and continued with a 4-3 (overtime) home victory over Falmouth, a 13-1 win at Kennebunk and a 7-1 home victory over Gorham to cap the 2012 portion of the schedule. The new year brought more triumph as the Red Storm handled host Cape Elizabeth (8-0), visiting Marshwood (6-0), visiting Brunswick (2-0), host Biddeford (3-0), host Thornton Academy (7-4) and host Gorham (6-1).
Thornton Academy has had no peer the past two seasons, but graduation has hit the program hard and the Golden Trojans have had their ups and downs this winter.
Monday, Scarborough appeared early as if it was going to run away for an easy win, but this game came down to the final horn.
The Red Storm applied early pressure, but junior Jake Gross was denied point blank by Thornton Academy sophomore goalie Andrew Huot in the second minute.
That only delayed the inevitable.
With 11:51 to go in the first period, Rousselle took a pass from Gross and fired past Huot top shelf for a 1-0 lead. Junior Cam Loiselle was also credited for an assist.
With 6:17 left in the first, Rousselle struck again, this time on the rebound. Loiselle carried the puck down the right wing and launched a shot that Huot kicked aside, but Rousselle pounced on the rebound to make it 2-0.
"It was a rebound," said Rousselle. "We work on it quite a bit in practice, getting low shots on the far pad. I just picked up the rebound and had a wide open net. We try to come out hard every game. Sometimes we don't. It's good to set the tone early in the game. We dictated the play the first period-and-a-half."
In the final minute, Scarborough made it 3-0, thanks to a highlight reel tally from senior Trevor Murray.
After Gross played the puck ahead and with Huot coming out of the cage, Murray managed to one-time the puck (with one hand) past the goalie and into the cage to seemingly put the Red Storm firmly in command.
"It was good hustle," said Rousselle. "Good things happen when you move your feet."
The second period featured seven penalties and a game misconduct.
With 11:22 to go, Scarborough got its fourth and final goal as Rousselle set up junior Garrett McDonald shorthanded.
The Golden Trojans got their first goal on the power play with 6:49 left when freshman Eliot Owen passed to junior Alex Fallon, who beat Red Storm senior goalie Dalton Finley.
The score remained 4-1 through the end of the second period, despite myriad penalties, as Scarborough missed an opportunity to ice the win.
"We haven't had a period where someone was in the box the entire time," Rousselle said. "We faced adversity and had to battle through it. We found out we have to run three lines. We had two the entire time and we got tired. We have to move our feet a little more and not take hooking and tripping penalties."
The Red Storm had a couple more power play opportunities in the third period, but couldn't score, leaving the door open for Thornton Academy, which closed strong.
With just 1:41 to go, on the power play, sophomore Tyler LaPointe scored to make it 4-2, but Scarborough still seemed safe.
That illusion disappeared just 28 seconds later when junior Owen Lemoine (assisted by Fallon and senior Cooper O'Brien) beat Finley to suddenly make it a one-goal game, 4-3.
"Faceoffs are so important, especially in your end," Gagne said. "Credit to them. They won the faceoff, got a quick shot and scored. We didn't stay in the moment and they got the shot off and scored."
The Golden Trojans pulled Huot, hoping to tie things up, but had no luck and then, their hopes of a dramatic comeback appeared dashed when senior Stephen Comar was called for a cross-checking penalty with 10.3 seconds to go.
Thornton Academy would create one final opportunity, however, and a last-second bid by Lemoine was turned aside by Finley, allowing the Red Storm to escape with a 4-3 win.
"We knew they'd pull the goalie," said Rousselle. "We were looking at the empty net and wanted to get an empty net goal. They got one and then they got another. We took timeout and got together as a team and decided what we needed to do and fortunately, we pulled it out."
"It was a lot closer than it should have been," Gagne said. "The first period was a good period. We spent the whole second in the penalty box. Both teams. It took the momentum of the game away. It got really sloppy. There was no rhythm. The third period was a little better."
Room to improve
Scarborough has the inside track to the top seed for the playoffs, but the rest of the regular season will be daunting. The Red Storm welcomes Cheverus Saturday, also hosts South Portland and Biddeford and plays at Falmouth and Cheverus.
"We're trying hard to not let it get in our heads that we're unbeatable, because we know we're not," Rousselle said. "We have to work hard in practice and not develop lazy habits."
"I think sometimes because of our record, we forget we can be beaten," Gagne said. "In southern Maine, there's a lot of parity. Anybody can beat us on a given night. We've got a long way to go. We have a big game coming up with Cheverus. They've only got two losses. Falmouth's a really good team. They only have two losses. Biddeford's a really good team with a good goalie. We have tough games and we know that."


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It was a great night of stock car racing at Sunset Speedway on July 6th. The weather was very hot and humid, but produced some very exciting nonstop racing. Hot weather usually brings hot-tempers, but the boys and girls put on excellent racing in all three classes.
Gehrig ran smooth in both of his qualifying races to maintain a top five in the point standings. He is learning how to handle his car in traffic very well.
The Mini Stock class, like the Late Models are very competitive and respectful of each other. The tight running Mini's ran side by side, 3 and 4 wide completing the 25 laps event without a caution.
In the very competitive Late Model field our team has made improvements inch by inch the past few weeks. Our crew was very excited after the final round of hot laps, looking forward to having our best night yet at Sunset Speedway.
A full field battled in the 30 lap feature. The race went nonstop from green to checker. We would have liked to make one small change on our car to make it better but in spite of having a slight push, we still had our best finish in this class in 2013.
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Welcome to "LIMITED EDITION TWINKING"!! Here you will find everything you need to know about twinking! This guide mostly focuses on Horde Tactics but also has some tactics and secrets that the Alliance can use as well! This guide has been created for you by many elite level 19 twinks in one of the best level 19 twink guilds on the Tortheldrin Server! "LIMITED EDITION"! We are always looking for experienced 19 Twinks as well as up and coming 19 Twinks that are looking for a really good level 19 Twink Guild !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now Lets Get Started!!!! =D
What Is A Twink Edit
A Twink is a character who strives to get the best gear possible, by getting uncommon, rare, Epic, and heirloom items, to dominate in PVP Events! These events can normally are Battlegrounds but can also include Arena Skirmishes, Duals, and other cool little things! To do this costs tons and tons of money and time so if you are a big saver and can't spend big bulks of money, twinking isn't for you. But if you dont mind spending anywhere from 500g - 5,000g or even more to get a ultimate killing machine then twinking is for You!!!
Funding Your Twink Edit
The first thing you need to decide is how you will fund you twink. It is recomended to have at least a level 40+ but is much easier to do it if you have a 60+. In order to fund your twink you can do multiple things! The normal method is to have your main raise the money from farming mobs, running instances, professions, or whatever you do to get gold. There are also other ways in which you can make gold to fund your twink as well such as, scamming, or buying gold. These techniques are disliked by many players (and are illegal) but it can get the job done if you are okay with these techniques.
Choosing A Class Edit
Choosing a class for your Twink can be the hardest part! Now people may say that a hunter is the best, or a rogue is the best! I tell you this from experience, any class can beat any class when it comes to twinking in the 10-19 bracket or 20-29 bracket! What determines who is a better twink all comes down to your gear, skill, and stratagy! When it comes to those 3 things any class can beat any class no matter what anyone says. I know a priest who beats all rogues and hunters that come his way and he's wearing cloth! but it dosn't matter. 1-on-1 it's anyone's game! So after saying that, I want to move on to what will help you decide your class! You need to pick something you will have fun playing because you don't want to put a ton of gold into a twink and then just have it sit there because you don't have fun playing him. Second, you need to choose what you want to do during your PvP experiences: do you want to be the killer or do you want to be the healer? Do you want to be on offense or defense. Do you want to be a flag carrier or a flag killer? It all comes down to you class. Check out some of the features I have listed below for each class:
- Rogues do maximum damage very quickly
- Rogues make good flag carriers because of their sprint ability
- Rogues have stealth ability which is great in general
- Rogues are the only class in the 10-19 bracket that can use dual wield
- With the release of WotLK rogues saw a massive decrease in their dodge abilities, which means that much more skill is involved playing them now than in previous expansions.
- Rogues now need to balance themselves with +hit enchants which can reduce their overall attack power and dodge further, although they allow the rogue to hit other dodging classes 9most notably other rogues and hunters) more often.
- Hunters get pets so if they need to flee from a melee twink they can continue to inflict damage
- Hunters have many slowing effects making them great for slowing down flag carriers
- Hunters can track both humanoids and beasts at level 19, which means they can track all other players (except invisible rogues) including druids in an animal form in pvp.
- Hunters can use Eyes of the Beast which allows then to find FC who are hiding or to look inside the enemies base without putting themselves in harms way
- Hunters are a mainly ranged class which allows them to have an upperhand on melee enemies such has rogues, warriors, and paladins.
- Hunters have aspect of the beast which gives them a speed boost (although they are instantly stunned if hit while the aspect is active) of 30%.
- Hunters are dependent upon a couple of things: mana, line of sight and hit points. If any of these are missing, then the hunter has lost a major advantage.
- Have many instant heal spells which allows them to heal themselves quickly while continuing to inflict damage
- Long survival rate because of healing powers
- Can run the flag because of their heals but are vulnerable to attacks from the very beginning due to cloth armour
- Have Good buffs
- Priests have mana shortage difficulties and even the best prepared priest needs to balance their spells in order to not waste their mana pool. Also, an increase in mana via enchants generally means a decrease in the priest's overall spellpower.
- Priests are especially vulnerable to stuns and slowing effects and because of their incredible healing capabilities they are often the first class to be slowed, stopped, stunned, polymorphed or otherwise incapacitated.
- Wear mail armor which results in a lot of HP normally
- Can heal themselves and others
- Do decent damage
- Have Bubble
- Can cast hand of freedom on themselves or others, giving freedom of movement until it either wears off or is dispelled.
- Paladins have few speed increases other than potions and a foot enchant (both of which are also available to other classes), which can make it difficult to compete with other classes unless the pally can get into melee range.
- Druids have the ability to change into different animal forms
- Druids have Bear form in the 10-19 bracket which give them great tanking skills due to extra stamina and armor also allowing them to be great Flag Carriers
- Druids have healing abilities
- Druids can use Entangle Roots spell to stop a fleeing enemy or Flag carrier in his place
- Although druids are top flag carriers and can help with heals, it is difficult for a druid to do offensive damage, although not impossible.
- Druids are vulnerable to shadow spells and fear, most notably from warlocks and priests, although hunters can also use "scare beast" to cause them to run away as well in animal form.
- Warriors last a very long time in battle due to their tanking skills, HP, and Armor
- Warriors use rage which gives you more abilities as the fight goes on compared to mana or energy where it goes down
- Warriors are good flag carriers cause they are really hard to kill
- Warriors can fight big groups at people at once
- It is very easy for a hunter to kite a warrior, especially 1v1, which means that the warrior should stay near their healer at all times.
- Once the warrior at level 19 is engaged, they no longer have a charge ability, which is their initial run and stun that instantaneously brings them to within melee range of their target. This means that a warrior already engaged with a hunter that is out of range will find it difficult to get back into range.
- Warriors with some degree of skill can fight rogues, however, their overall damage output is generally less than what a rogue is able to generate.
- Warlocks can summon Minions to fight for them
- Warlocks use the Fear spell to cause enemies to flee
- Warlocks have many curses to cause lots of damage as an enemy runs
- Warlocks have many instant spells for if you are fleeing
- Warlocks with high spellpower are able to inflict incredible amounts of damage due to their instant cast spells.
- A single potion - potion of shadow protection - at level 19 can effectively stop all damage from a warlock for up to 2 minutes at a time.
- Some abilities require the warlock to use a soul shard (such as summoning their demon pets), which means they have to prepare and have the shards
before they begin the match.
- Mages have freeze abilities to slow the enemy down
- Mages have good Buffs
- Mages do lots of casting damage
- Mages can use the Blink spell for fleeing from an enemy (in the 29s bracket, but not the 19s)
- Mages are also dependent upon their mana in the same fashion as priests.
- Although mages have superior slowing and snaring abilities at level 19, they do not have the same ranged damage capabilities that hunters do and neither do they have the same damage capabilities at close range as a rogue.


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Rock-Bottom Trade Show Tactics: Event Marketing on the Very Cheap
When a client — whose company develops vertical business software — asked me to help with the booth messaging for an upcoming trade show I was stumped.
Although I had done a ton of work over the years helping clients generate booth attendance for trade shows, I had little experience writing booth signage. So I turned to colleague Ruth Stevens and her book Trade Show and Event Marketing: Plan, Promote and Profit. What a life-saver. After reading it I learned that the trade show booth should be treated like any marketing piece and, like a headline, the booth visitor should know what that company offers instantly from seeing the sign. Since then I've noticed how often trade show exhibitors don't make their product or service clear in their signage.
In today's down economy, several clients and associates have been bemoaning how they cannot justify the cost all of the trade shows where they should be exhibiting. So, once again, I turned to Ruth for guidance. Here's the insight she shared:
"If you are a start-up, or you've burned through your marketing budget for the year, or you're simply a cheapskate, there are still plenty of ways you can take advantage of a trade show. When you consider that a trade show offers a concentrated opportunity to interact with many potential buyers over a few days, you'll recognize the need to be there, budget or no budget.
- Register as an attendee and use the trade show as a networking opportunity. You can do plenty of business by wandering around.
- If you're really cheap, buy only an exhibit hall ticket. Make appointments with your current customers and prowl around the hall together.
- Apply for a speaking opportunity on the trade show program, which will get you into the trade show for free.
- Host an off-site breakfast. The cheapest — and possibly most productive — meal of the day. The event will give you concentrated face time and the chance to pitch your wares.
- Crash parties. Ask your friends and colleagues what parties or business events they've heard about. Stop by those booths in advance and wrangle an invitation. As long as you're polite and not a competitor, you'll stand a good chance of making useful new contacts — and conserving your meal budget.
- Treat your attendance at the show as a full-blown marketing campaign. Review all the possible target audiences — attendees, exhibitors, and speakers. Set up appointments in advance, qualify prospects as you meet them around the show, nurture leads on your return to the office, and track and report on business closed. This campaign has to demonstrate an ROI like any other."
Ruth P. Stevens consults on customer acquisition and retention for B2B companies through her company eMarketing Strategy, and is the author of Trade Show and Event Marketing: Plan, Promote and Profit. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Back in 2005, the BBC had a seat calculator which showed the predicted breakdown in the westminster election for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – but not England. Given that this was a Westminster calculator, this was an oversight, and one I emailed them about at the time, receiving this response.
In 2005, I pointed out that "your excellent 'seats predictor' has subdivisions of the UK offered. These are Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Unless I've read it incorrectly, the subdivisions all relate to the Westminster vote and not to the Scottish parliament, welsh assembly etc. Why is England not represented seperately as well in this case?"
You said that: "as in other areas of our election and general political coverage, decided to give priority to parts of the UK with a representative institution – Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and of course the whole of the UK.
However, we have already decided we need to review this decision should we use the seat calculator again"
I do hope that you reintroduce the seat calculator in 2010, and that you're good to your word regarding revisiting this decision.
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A book trailer for Ani's Raw Food Essentials for a naturally effervescent probiotic drink called Water Kefir from page 56.
This healthy drink is simple to make using water kefir grains that you can purchase online. I include resources in my book, and recommend going straight to the source for the living grains. Avoid the processed, dried, packaged grains because they are not as vital as the living grains. Plus, the dry grains only brew maybe three batches before you have to go and buy more dried grains again.
It takes just 48 hours to brew Water Kefir, and it's full of friendly bacteria for building healthy intestinal flora. It helps me with digestion, assimilation of nutrients, and elimination. I enjoy Water Kefir with and after meals to help with digestion. I drink a cup on an empty stomach before bed to balance my intestinal flora.
In this video, I use a variation of the recipe in my book.
Water Kefir
Place water into a glass jar. Add sugars, ginger, pear, and stir. Add grains. Close lid, and store in cabinet for 48 hours to brew.
Pour brew through a plastic sieve to catch the grains. Remove ginger and pear. Store brew in glass bottles at room temperature to increase vitamin B levels. Or, store in fridge to chill.
Start your next batch immediately.
For weeks, friends had been calling to say they saw a poster of me on Beverly Blvd. Now I can see why. Erewhon is the greatest store in the world for everything raw. Juan Hernandez has been the Erewhon force behind this great raw department. I'm holding a print gift from Tyler Golden, my food photographer, of my Mandu Dumpling recipe from Ani's Raw Food Essentials. I love it!
Another photo in front of my poster, this time with one of my favorite actors and directors Vincent Gallo. He directed and acted in Buffalo '66 (1998) with Christina Ricci, who I love too. I attended high school in Buffalo, and enjoyed watching this film years ago. Buffalo '66 was the first time I saw the camera effect when the set stays still and the camera pans 360 around the characters. This was a year prior to the same effects in the Matrix film.
It was another packed house on a beautiful Saturday afternoon at Erewhon in Hollywood. I demonstrated how to make my Strawberry Kream Pie using dates, cashews, vanilla, and strawberries. The lovely Christy Morgan (in purple) volunteered to help me portion out the tastes and get them into the crowd. Everyone loved the dessert, it was fast and easy to make, and tasted delicious.
I talked about the importance of probiotics in our diets. In America, we take antibiotics, which kill off all our healthy intestinal flora. Probiotics will help us to regain balance in our digestive tract. My new book includes a chapter on probiotic drinks including kefir and kombuch, and another on probiotic pickled vegetables inspired from my Korean heritage.
I always love signing books after a talk and food presentation. It's when I really get to connect with people and hear their stories. These two lovelies are getting married soon, and told me they're planning to have 3 raw cakes at their wedding.
I had previously met Dana at one of the Community Services Unlimited gardens, where she was elbow deep planting greens in the dirt. Her garden is beautiful, very well maintained, and full of the most delicious plants. Read my post on the CSU, Inc gardens.
Thank you to Juan for hosting, Christy for helping, Tyler Golden for taking photos, and Raw Sangha's Brother Echo for filming yesterday's event. Brother Echo said he'd have a video up that I'll link to in a day or so. Thanks everyone for joining me and celebrating my new book!
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WORCESTER, Mass. - The Holy Cross men's hockey team (2-1-1, 1-0-1 Atlantic Hockey) will be hosting Youth Hockey Day on Sunday, November 4. Game time at the Hart Center is 4:00 p.m. and the Crusaders will be facing off against Atlantic Hockey rival Army. Any Youth Hockey player wearing their Youth Hockey jersey to the game will get in free! ESPNU will be broadcasting the game live with E.J. Hradek calling the play-by-play and Barry Melrose providing the color commentary. The Crusaders will also play Army at the Hart Center on Saturday, November 3 at 4:00 p.m.
And for you Sader Nation fans, be sure to wear your Sader Nation t-shirt on Sunday to be eligible to win great prizes.


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Willamette University and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry have partnered to bring OMSI's popular Science Pub to Salem. The monthly series will feature a presentation and discussion with a Willamette faculty member or a visiting professor.
The purpose of Science Pub is to learn about cutting-edge topics from leading researchers and scientists. Instead of a remote speaker behind a distant podium, experience an informal atmosphere where you can interact with experts and where there is no such thing as a silly question.
Science Pub will kick off at Brown's Towne Lounge with "Friends or Foes? Facing the Facts about American Crows" Tuesday, Nov. 9, from 6:30-8:30 p.m., featuring Willamette University Professor and Chair of Biology David Craig.
Craig's research involves American Crows' ability to distinguish among individual human faces. Collaborating with researchers from the University of Washington, the team's work was published in the journal "Animal Behaviour" in 2009.
Brown's Towne Lounge is open to adults 21 and over, and it is in the heart of downtown Salem at 189 Liberty St. NE. Science Pub is free, so arrive early to ensure you get a seat.
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Yesterday afternoon, Notre Dame deputy director of athletics Bill Scholl was introduced as the director of intercollegiate athletics at Ball State in Muncie, Ind. A 1979 Notre Dame graduate, Bill has served the athletic department at his alma mater for more than two decades, most recently responsible for senior-level administration, including fundraising and donor relations, divisional budget construction and growing external revenue. Bill was also the sport administrator for football team, working with head coach Brian Kelly and the Irish program on a daily basis. As seen in the photo above from last October's game against USC, Bill presented a plaque at halftime to 1987 Heisman Trophy winner Tim Brown, commemorating the Irish great's selection as one of six recipients for the NCAA Silver Anniversary Award. Having only worked in the department since August, I cannot speak much of Bill's contributions to Notre Dame, but I know his numerous accomplishments have been instrumental in developing our university's athletic programs. Several Notre Dame colleagues also expressed their well wishes on Twitter, including director of football media relations Brian Hardin and und.com's Jack Nolan. In the short time that I have known Bill, his door has always been open and he has had the best interest of the university community and student-athletes at heart - two characteristics that will undoubtedly contribute to his success when he begins at Ball State at the end of the month. For more on Bill's new opportunity, check out the official press release on UND.com. Thanks, Bill. Good luck leading the Cardinals.
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It's only mid-April, but on Friday evening, the Notre Dame cheerleading squad hosted a football pep rally in The Pit at the Joyce Center. Actually, there were several mini rallies as seven Notre Dame students tried out to be the shillelagh-holding, green-clad face of the Fighting Irish. Hundreds of students (and even a few Notre Dame Coaches Clinic participants) came out to the basketball practice facility in support of their friends and classmates trying out to be the next Notre Dame leprechaun. Events like this that remind you of the passionate spirit of the Notre Dame student body. Homemade t-shirts, thunderstix, but mostly good, old-fashioned cheering made for a great atmosphere, and had everyone thinking about football season (which by the way, is 137 days away). The tryouts began with each of the seven leprechaun hopefuls leading the crowd through a mock pep rally for the Purdue game, the first home football contest on the 2012 schedule (Sept. 8, 3:30 pm ET, Notre Dame Stadium - mark your calendar). Outgoing senior, or perhaps leprechaun emeritus Mike George emceed the event, putting the competitors on the spot and asking them to 'introduce' famous Notre Dame personalities as guest speakers - everyone from two-time Super Bowl champion Justin Tuck ('05) to women's basketball head coach Muffet McGraw. George also presented each of the leprechauns with a scenario - the band has finished playing, the fans are waiting, the team has yet to arrive and the pep rally is broadcast nationally on NBC. How are you going to keep everyone entertained? Afterwards, WNDU sports reporter Angelo Di Carlo grilled each student in a mock live interview, asking if the Irish can return to football dominance and why he or she should be selected as the 2012-13 leprechaun. The Fighting Irish expect to light up the scoreboard this fall, so of course, the tryouts concluded with a push-up contest. After the team of judges deliberated for a couple hours on Friday evening, junior Bryce Burton was selected as the new Gold Squad leprechaun for football and men's basketball. Burton was the Blue Squad leprechaun this past year, cheering for soccer and women's hoops. Sophomore Johnny Romano will take Burton's place on the Blue Squad and junior Louis Ganser will cheer for the new Green Squad. All in all, a great evening at The Pit, and a nice promotion for the leprechaun who helped cheer Coach McGraw's squad all the way to the national championship game in Denver. Check out an interview with Burton on WNDU. - Josh Flynt ('11)
Picture this: a 22-year old Springfield College graduate sells his Jeep, buys a motorcycle, straps a few possessions to the back of it and rides more than 1,600 miles from Massachusetts to Texas, in search of a coaching position. Bob Wager's life sounds like a plot line from Friday Night Lights, and that's because twenty years ago, H.G Bissinger's book inspired him to make a life-changing journey to the mecca of high school football. The Arlington Martin High School head coach spoke at the Notre Dame Coaches Clinic on Saturday morning, focusing on 'Winning the Turnover Battle.' Beyond the X's and O's and strategy of football, Wager's career is a very captivating story - from junior high coach, all the way up the ranks of Texas football from 1-A through 5-A. Like those who presented before him, Coach Wager could not say enough about the impact his coaches had on his development as a person and football player. Having lost his father at a young age, Wager specifically mentioned his high school head coach Barry Clawson, a mentor whom he keeps in touch with to this day. (Interestingly for me, Wager originally hails from Johnstown, N.Y., about 40 miles from my hometown and one of the high schools we used to compete against before changing conferences). Coach Wager also described how honored he was to speak at Notre Dame and how blessed he felt to be able to make the trip with four of his assistant coaches - Clifton Odom, Casey Thompson, Tim Mays and Ronnie Jones. Though he's not Coach Eric Taylor, watching his presentation featuring clips from drills and practices, turf fields and high school stadiums, it felt like Matt Saracen or Tim Riggins might appear at any moment. For more on Wager's story, check out Corbett Smith's article from The Dallas Morning News. The 2012 Notre Dame Coaches Clinic comes to an end later today with the football team's twelfth practice of the spring. To see photos and more on this year's clinic, check out the Coaches Clinic Facebook page. - Josh Flynt ('11)
Earlier this morning, head coach Brian Kelly spoke with more than 630 guests for the 2012 Notre Dame Football Coaches Clinic at the Purcell Pavilion. Coach Kelly addressed visitors from New York, California, Canada and everywhere in between. I had a chance to catch the last few minutes of Coach Kelly's presentation, where he talked specifically about the program's 'A-Team' philosophy. To understand a bit more about 'The A-Team,' the Isban Auditorium at the Guglielmino Athletics Complex underwent a bit of a facelift during spring break. The minor renovation added several signs to the Gug, making it recognizable to all visitors that they have arrived at the home of Notre Dame football. Three of these signs focus on 'The A-Team,' a set of principles the Irish are focused on as they prepare for the 2012 season - accountability, appreciation and achievement. The first 'A' that Coach Kelly talked about was accountability. More specifically, peer accountability, players holding one another to high standards, and having the courage to tell teammates when they have failed to live up to those expectations. From on-field attitude, to work ethic in the classroom to character in the community, Coach Kelly and his staff expect a lot from their players, as they rightfully should at the University of Notre Dame. From top to bottom, senior captain to freshman walk-on, every member of the Irish football program is held accountable to these expectations. Coach Kelly also addressed appreciation, saying he did not want to sound as if he were giving a sermon, but that he expects his players to recognize all that they have here at Notre Dame. They have the God-given talent to play Division I football, the ability to earn a college education, and a chance to represent their university, community, family and friends. Players have to 'come to work everyday' with this in mind, never to lose sight of their opportunities. The Irish head coach finished the 'A-Team' portion of his presentation by talking about achievement. The Notre Dame football program seeks to go 'beyond the call of duty,' striving for excellence in everything and every way. Coach Kelly stressed that both the head and the heart have to be committed to the team and doing everything necessary to succeed. Coach Kelly also compared 'building a team' to 'building a program.' When you're building a team he said, you go out to get the best players you can find, and you will have a few great seasons. But when you're building a program and seeking to achieve sustained success, recruiting players has to be about much more than their rankings and football accolades. You have to determine if the student-athlete understands where he is going, if he's trustworthy, if he's committed to the challenge and if he exemplifies the character traits you want represented in your players. Finally, Kelly said he and his assistant coaches "lay their cards on the table" when talking to recruits, explaining to them and their families what Notre Dame is all about. At the end, it often boils down to how a player answers the question - Can you picture yourself here at Notre Dame? Student-athletes and their families have to decide: Is Notre Dame the right fit? It's perfect for some. It's not for others. That's the way it works, at just about every college. The 2012 Notre Dame Coaches Clinic continues throughout the day and into tomorrow at the Purcell Pavilion. Participants have a chance to hear presentations from all the Irish assistant coaches, as well as several featured guests, including Greg McMahon, the special teams coach for the New Orleans Saints, and Tim Murphy, head coach of the Harvard Crimson. For more on this year's coaches clinic, check out the Notre Dame Football Camps Facebook page. - Josh Flynt ('11)
The Chicago Cubs picked up their first win of the season on Sunday, thanks to a strong performance on the mound from former Notre Dame wide receiver/pitcher Jeff Samardzija. The righty from Vaparaiso, Ind. pitched 8.2 innings, allowing four hits and three runs, while striking out eight.
This is the Cubs we're talking about, so naturally, the game was more dramatic than expected. Samardzija looked poised for a complete game one-run performance, before a two-out error and a two-run home run made it a 4-3 game.
Here's an excerpt from Paul Sullivan of the Chicago Tribune. See the entire article on the South Bend Tribune website:
As Wrigleyville held its breath, closer Carlos Marmol came in and walked the first batter, conjuring up memories of the first two blown games by the Cubs' bullpen. But Marmol induced Xaver Nady to pop out, ending a dramatic 4-3 win before 31,973 at Wrigley Field. For Samardzija, the nail-biting win was about as sweet as it gets. "I really feel like I have a chip on my shoulders, because I've talked a big game about wanting to start and made it public," Samardzija said. "I don't want to look like an idiot."Samardzija is expected to start again on Friday when the Cubs open a weekend series at the defending World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals.
Twice each year, Notre Dame students suit up for the career fair at the Joyce Center. Today, nine former Fighting Irish football players had their own job fair, except instead of business attire and resumes, it was adidas shorts, spandex and agility drills. Robert Blanton, Taylor Dever, Darius Fleming, Michael Floyd, Gary Gray, Jonas Gray, Trevor Robinson, David Ruffer and Harrison Smith worked out at the annual Notre Dame Football Pro Day at the Guglielmino Athletics Complex and Loftus Sports Center. The day began at approximately 11 a.m. in the Haggar Fitness Complex at "the Gug," where height and weight measurements, vertical jump, broad jump and bench press were all conducted. Afterwards, Pro Day moved to Meyo Field in the adjoining Loftus Sports Center, where the 40-yard dash, pro agility (20-yard shuttle), 60-yard shuttle, three-cone drill and position-specific drills took place. Representatives from 27 of 32 NFL teams were in attendance, including several position coaches, coordinators and scouts, as well as two general managers and two head coaches. This afternoon, I spoke with Notre Dame director of football media relations Brian Hardin, who provided me with a few notes on the Irish:
- Robert Blanton posted a 40-yard dash time of 4.53 seconds, a time that would have ranked as the fourth-fastest by a safety at the NFL Combine this year. Among cornerbacks, Blanton's 4.53 time would have tied for 12th. Of note is that the top two cornerbacks on most NFL mock drafts - LSU's Morris Claiborne and Alabama's Dre Kirkpatrick - ran similar times to Blanton at the NFL Combine. Claiborne ran the 10th fastest time (4.50) while Kirkpatrick was right behind him and barely ahead of Blanton at 4.51 seconds. - Taylor Dever's broad jump distance of 8'9" would have tied him for sixth at the NFL Combine. Dever, who attended the NFL Combine, improved his times in the 40-yard dash (from 5.46 at the Combine to 5.34) and pro agility (from 4.90 to 4.71). - Darius Fleming posted two very quick times and helped his draft stock at the Pro Day. Fleming's 40-yard dash time of 4.54 seconds would have ranked third among linebackers at the NFL Combine and his 11.58 seconds in the 60-yard shuttle would have been the fourth-fastest among LBs. He also ranked in the top seven in bench press, pro agility (20-yard shuttle) and the three-cone drill at the Combine. - Jonas Gray improved his bench press numbers from 20 at the NFL Combine to 22 today. Even more impressive was the fact Gray ran and cut on the practice field while catching passes, despite being less than five months removed from knee surgery. - Trevor Robinson made the most of his opportunity as he recorded numbers that would have placed him among offensive linemen in the top 10 in four different categories. Robinson would have been the only offensive lineman at the NFL Combine to have ranked in the top 10 in vertical jump (30"; t-8th), broad jump (8'9"; t-6th), bench press (31; t-8th) and 40-yard dash (5.22; 8th). - David Ruffer made 13 of 15 field goals and many of his kickoffs landed in the endzone. - Harrison Smith's 60-yard shuttle time of 11.52 seconds would have been the fastest time by a safety at the NFL Combine. - NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock attended the Pro Day and offered his thoughts: "I think the two guys that really helped themselves in terms of 40 times and measurables are Blanton and Fleming. They both ran in the mid-4.5. I've been a believer for a long time." - Mayock on the draft prospects of Michael Floyd: "In my book he is (the best receiver in the Draft). If you take the off-the-field stuff away from Michael Floyd and just watch the tape, I think he compares very, very favorably to Justin Blackmon. In my opinion, I think Jacksonville at [No.] 7 starts his interest. I don't think he gets past 16 with the Jets. I think there are some teams like Chicago hanging down there at 19 that would love to have Michael Floyd." - Mayock on the draft prospects of Harrison Smith: "I think Mark Barron, the safety from Alabama, is in the top 20. Harrison should be the next safety. I see him late first round, but probably the top half of the second round. He's 6-foot-2, 215 pounds with great movement skills. Somebody's going to get a steal with Harrison Smith." - The quarterback that threw passes to Floyd and Jonas Gray during the position drills was former Notre Dame QB and current Carolina Panthers QB Jimmy Clausen.The 2012 NFL Draft begins with the first round on Thursday, April 26. Rounds two and three will held on Friday, with rounds 4-7 on Saturday.
Nine former Notre Dame football student-athletes will be participating in tomorrow's Pro Day activities, but as reported in the South Bend Tribune, another past Irish player will also be making a return to South Bend. See the story excerpt below:
The most prominent of the pro prospects, ND's all-time leading receiver Michael Floyd, is getting a boost from a teammate out of his past - former Irish standout quarterback Jimmy Clausen. Clausen left ND after his junior season in 2009 to enter the draft and has spent the past two seasons with the Carolina Panthers. Of Floyd's school-record 37 touchdown receptions with the Irish, the first 16 were thrown by Clausen. And Clausen will be throwing passes to Floyd Tuesday at the Loftus Center during the position drills portion of Pro Day.And while we're on the subject of Clausen passing to Floyd, here's a quick look back at one of their three touchdown connections from the 2009 opener: In addition to Floyd, the other Irish players taking part in Pro Day are S Harrison Smith, CB Robert Blanton, RB Jonas Gray, OL Taylor Dever, OL Trevor Robinson, LB Darius Fleming, K David Ruffer and CB Gary Gray. Notre Dame's Pro Day begins tomorrow at 11 am in Loftus Center. The event is closed to the public, but check back to UND.com and Irish UNDerground for coverage afterwards. - Josh Flynt ('11)
Former Notre Dame captain Harrison Smith participated in last month's NFL Combine, and is currently training for April's draft. He will be back on campus next Tuesday, April 3 for Notre Dame's Pro Day in Loftus Center. Smith was recently featured in an article by Kevin Fishbain for Pro Football Weekly. Check it out below:
You need to watch only one highlight of Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski to realize how desperate some teams are for a versatile safety -- a player who can have the coverage skills to stick with the new breed of tight ends while also having the ability to be physical and stop the run in the box. Harrison Smith thinks he can be that player. The former Notre Dame safety is expected to be a late first- or early second-round pick in April's draft. He played some linebacker earlier in his college career and believes he can be the solution teams are looking for at the position. "Safety's definitely where I've felt the most comfortable because you can see everything so well, " Smith told PFW. "You can see the whole formation and where everyone is on offense and defense. You can come down and play the run and also be involved in the pass game. "It's an area where you can impact so much, even pre-snap, because you're the one making the calls and adjustments." Smith first moved to safety in Pee Wee football around the age of 10 in his hometown of Knoxville, Tenn. He had been playing corner and running back, but wanted to play linebacker like University of Tennessee LB Raynoch Thompson of the hometown Volunteers. "I thought he was the best," Smith said. Instead, Smith's coach told him to watch another Volunteer -- Deon Grant. "I started paying attention to (Grant). He made a lot of interceptions and plays. He was fun to watch," Smith said. Chuck Martin will be the Fighting Irish's offensive coordinator in 2012, but he was the defensive backs coach the past two seasons, focusing on Smith and the safeties in 2011. Smith had bounced from safety to linebacker and was coming off a rough sophomore season when Martin joined the staff. "He did not have a great sophomore year. I think that's an understatement," Martin said. "I don't think he was really ever comfortable at either spot, but he played a lot because he was a talented kid." When Martin first saw Smith on the practice field, though, he knew there was plenty to work with. "The first day in practice I saw the incredible things he could do on the field. His athleticism, length and toughness," Martin said. "Three practices into my first spring, I told him, 'If you're not a first-, second- or third-round draft choice, I know nothing about football.' His response was, 'did you watch any of my tape from last year, Coach?' I said, 'Yeah, I've watched your tape. I'm telling you that you have every tool and then some to be an incredible safety.' " As a junior in 2010, Smith made 91 tackles and hauled in seven interceptions. He had 90 tackles and a forced fumble in his senior season in '11. Playing for Notre Dame, Smith had the pleasure -- and challenge -- of going up against elite tight ends in practice. First, it was Kyle Rudolph, who just finished his rookie season with the Vikings. Last season, he had to try to man up against Tyler Eifert, who had 63 catches for 803 yards and five touchdowns. Smith doesn't have to look far for experience in covering athletic tight ends, like the ones NFL teams are desperately trying to stop. "That's something that when I started playing safety, I never thought about it. With all the tight ends that are just freaks, monsters -- they're fast and athletic with great hands -- there's really a need for safeties that can match up better with those guys than putting a smaller defensive back on him," Smith said. Martin is confident that Smith has the skill set to run with and cover the Gronkowskis of the NFL. "He's not as big as those tight ends but he's big for a safety. He's a long-limbed kid," Martin said. Smith measured 6-1 7/8, 213 pounds with a wingspan of more than 76 inches at the NFL Scouting Combine. "He has long arms, long range and incredible running ability," Martin continued. "He can run with any of them. Some guys are straight-line fast, but Harrison has body control. He's going to be athletic enough to twist and torque and try to make some plays from positions where you're behind a guy or on his back shoulder. He's used to covering 6-foot-5 guys that can run." When pressed on Smith's weaknesses, though, Martin didn't have a whole lot to offer, and neither did the scouts he has talked to. "The feedback I'm getting from guys I've known a while that are high up on NFL brass as far as drafting say, 'we don't know what the kid doesn't have,' " Martin said. "Scouts are telling me, 'what are we missing?' I said, 'you're not missing anything.' And (Smith) has done nothing but help himself with the Combine and interviews." In PFW's 2012 Draft Guide, Nolan Nawrocki wrote that Smith left his feet to make hits too often. Smith had an opportunity to respond to the report. "Obviously, a competitor is going to disagree on the negatives. Early in my career, I left my feet to make a lot of tackles. If you watch this most recent season, my tackling and technique are much improved," he said. "I don't leave my feet unless I'm going to make the tackle. I didn't miss too many tackles this past year." Smith then discussed another knock on him -- that he absorbs too much. "When I watch a football game and a running back goes up the middle and the safety brings him down, but the safety gets knocked back, they say he got run over," Smith explained. "To me, that doesn't make sense (laughs). At the end of the day, he tackled him. I don't think I get overpowered on the field. Sometimes I need to give more to get the ballcarriers down instead of going in there recklessly and throwing your body around. "There's always room to improve. I'm not going to say I'm flawless." Smith, 23, was a vocal leader at Notre Dame and has the qualities to "wow" an NFL team with his personality. "Once you meet him and interview him, you'll like him 10 times more," Martin said. "(Teams) will say 'holy cow, he's everything you said.' That's how God made him. Very gifted, very genuine." Smith's time at Notre Dame was atypical. The Fighting Irish went through two head coaches in his time in South Bend and not as many wins as the program was used to. Smith discussed what he learned from the experience. "No matter what, I control what I do. Maybe you don't win as many games as you want or things don't quite go your way, but at the end of the day you can only control yourself," he said. "I was ready to be a leader on the team, where guys looked to me for an example, a word of advice, anything really. "That whole process, the ups and downs, made me really appreciate the ups and fight through the downs, which at the end of the day makes you a better player and a more confident player." Smith already might speak like a veteran, or even a coach, and Martin told an anecdote where Smith shined in an opportunity to coach -- on the flag football field. Martin asked Smith to coach his son's 11-year-old flag football team last winter. "I knew he'd do a great job and the kids would love him," Martin said. But the team's opponent that week had previously beaten Martin's team 66-0. "I called him after the game and said, 'sorry, didn't mean to do that to you. I appreciate you helping me out when I'm on the road.' They lost 13-4," Martin said with a laugh. "I come home the next week, and they all wanted Harrison to coach them." - Kevin FishbainThe 2012 NFL Draft begins with the first round on Thursday, April 26. Rounds two and three will held on Friday, with rounds 4-7 on Saturday. The NFL Network's Charles Davis currently projects Smith as a late first-rounder, going 29th overall, to the Baltimore Ravens.
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The dramatic and remote Cantal Mountains of Auvergne offer challenging yet rewarding walks for those who like to be out in the hills all day – away from the crowds and well and truly off the beaten track.
Your route takes you through volcanic mountains, known locally as puys, linked by ridges, coated with moorland and dotted with stone shepherds' huts. Here, amid 'Le Parc des Volcans d'Auvergne', the scenery is somewhat reminiscent of the English Lake District, yet without the lakes and without footpaths scarred into the landscape, but with plenty of opportunities to spot marmots, chamois, mouflon and even wild boar.
The Auvergne is more remote, more unspoiled, and more captivating because of its very 'Frenchness'. The paths that crisscross these atmospheric mountains are less well trodden than in other regions, though you can stride out ahead with confidence using Inntravel's detailed walking notes to guide you safely from one tiny hamlet to the next.
Walk across the flanks of Puy Girou before reaching the summit of Plomb du Cantal, the highest point on the walk; wander through sunlight-dappled woodland near Thiézac to see the remarkable 41-metre Faillitoux waterfall that pours over basalt columns of hardened lava called 'orgues'; and follow the ridge over Puy Chavaroche for far-reaching views over the surrounding valleys and mountains including magnificent Puy Mary.
From the tiny village of Les Chazes, your route leads you on through Thiézac, St Cirgues, Mandailles and Le Falgoux before reaching Salers, a superbly preserved medieval town of handsome mansions where your walk ends.
As befits this enchanting mountain landscape, your accommodation consists of traditional auberges and chambres d'hôtes, where your hosts keenly welcome walkers, offer a comfortable stay and lay before you hearty food including tangy local cheeses made from the milk of the chestnut-coloured Salers cows which graze in the surrounding mountain pastures.


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Diabetes has all the makings of a modern epidemic. Almost 17 million Americans now have the disease, with about one million additional cases diagnosed each year, at an annual health care cost of nearly $100 billion. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the prevalence of diabetes has risen by almost 50 percent just over the past decade, with increases in both sexes and across all ages, ethnicities, and education levels. And we may only have ourselves to blame. "We've probably been susceptible to them for hundreds of thousands of years," says Associate Professor Eric Rimm of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease. "It's just that we didn't sit at desk chairs, eat red meat, smoke, and do all the things that we do today. It hasn't been until the 20th century that we actually had all the exposures that pushed us this way."
When it comes to diabetes, the direction we're headed is far from good. The condition can be both debilitating and deadly. Diabetes is caused by defects in the action or secretion of insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas that helps usher sugar into the cells of the body where it can be converted into energy. In the absence or dysfunction of insulin, sugars accumulate in the blood and wear away at the body's vital systems. Heart disease, kidney failure, and blindness are just a few of the effects of uncontrolled diabetes. In the past primarily an over-age-40 problem, diabetes is now hitting people younger and younger. Indeed, the scientific community actually renamed adult-onset diabetes, which accounts for up to 95 percent of all cases of the disease, Type 2 diabetes to reflect the recent shift. (The risk factors for the less common Type 1 diabetes, which generally strikes in childhood, are not well defined.) "It's devastating to hear about 11-year-olds, 100 pounds overweight, being diagnosed with adult-onset diabetes," notes Rimm, "and that people are having heart attacks at age 40 and 50 because they've already had diabetes for 25 years."
It was, in fact, this connection to heart disease that lured Rimm, a cardiovascular epidemiologist and nutrition expert, to the perimeter of diabetes research. Type 2 diabetes increases the risk of heart disease up to sevenfold in women and up to fourfold in men. Eventually 75 percent of people with Type 2 diabetes will die from some kind of cardiovascular problem. Interested in better understanding the predictors of heart disease, it was a natural progression for Rimm and his colleagues to step back and examine related--perhaps even causal--conditions like diabetes and obesity. Using the storehouses of dietary data from the renowned Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, which Rimm directs, and its sister studies, the Nurses' Health Studies I and II, they have shed new light on the risk factors for diabetes and its cardiovascular consequences.
"We found that 90 percent of diabetes could be prevented," observes Frank Hu, Rimm's colleague in the Department of Nutrition, "which was actually very surprising, because even though we suspected that many diabetes cases were caused by diet and lifestyle, we didn't know the magnitude--it's just so big." Hu, associate professor of nutrition and cardiovascular disease, has become an expert on the subset of almost 10,000 volunteers with diabetes in the health professionals and nurses studies. He has concluded that if we ate well, drank moderately, exercised regularly, and stayed lean, we could potentially live diabetes-free lives.
But isn't this old news? Not exactly, according to Hu. While there's plenty of advice to eat right and stay active, few Americans are heeding its call. Obesity is on the rise and sedentary lifestyles are the norm. And it may be that all that good advice isn't really clear at all. "Of course, it's important to emphasize eating a balanced diet, a healthy diet," Hu says, "but if you don't know what a healthy diet is, what do you do? Most people would say that exercise is good for you but when you talk about exercise, what does that mean? If people always think about exercise as always going to the gym or running marathons, then few people are going to do it and it loses its public health importance. So this is why it's really important to pinpoint the exact message you want to convey and have scientific support for that message."
Hu's work has shown, for example, that physical activity doesn't have to be vigorous to be beneficial; even regular brisk walking at least 30 minutes a day can reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes by 30 to 40 percent. His research has also illustrated the importance of distinguishing between different types of fats and carbohydrates. Overall fat intake is not associated with the risk of Type 2 diabetes, whereas trans fatty acids, often found in commercially baked or fried goods, increase it and polyunsaturated fat, in foods such as nuts and olive oil, actually reduce it. "The low-fat campaign was clearly misleading," notes Hu.
Alcohol is another surprise. Not only do healthy people who drink moderately have a 30 to 40 percent lower risk of developing diabetes, but even those with the disease have almost half the risk of having a heart attack if they drink moderately as opposed to teetotalers. The protective effects, regardless of the kind of alcohol, improve with more frequent consumption (4 to 5 times per week). The results fly in the face of the traditional view that alcohol is bad and, in particular, harmful for diabetics who were often advised to avoid it altogether. "It's alcohol so it's nothing you are necessarily going to prescribe to people," remarks Rimm, who has become something of an expert on the subject, "although there are cardiologists who tell their diabetic patients to drink if they don't. But it really would have to be on an individual basis." In the big picture, however, alcohol's a bit player. It will provide greatest benefit only to those who are already at high risk for conditions like diabetes and heart disease, and other factors clearly outweigh its advantages. "If you got rid of obesity in this country and got everyone to exercise and eat a prudent diet, you'd get rid of 80 to 90 percent of diabetes," asserts Rimm. "So a lot of the things that we study, like alcohol--great, big deal, it lowers your risk by 30 to 40 percent. But if you could lower your risk of diabetes by 90 percent, the further impact of alcohol would hardly matter."
Obesity. Diabetes. Heart disease. The connections between these seemingly disparate conditions keep cropping up again and again. But Rimm and Hu's large observational studies can't tell us much about what's going on behind the curtain biologically to produce these effects. That's where another Department of Nutrition faculty member comes in. Associate Professor Gokhan Hotamisligil is a molecular geneticist looking at a cluster of diseases from the gene on up. Known as metabolic syndrome, or syndrome X, this cluster includes, as he puts it, "all of the horrible things you can think of all together"--diabetes, obesity, insulin resistance, high cholesterol, hypertension, atherosclerosis. By studying their molecular and genetic foundation, he hopes to understand why these conditions occur together and why one tends to increase the risk for the others--so he can ultimately break them apart, using the "good old divide and conquer strategy." Using virtually every organism on earth, from fruit flies to humans, to tease out culpable genes, he and his coworkers identify critical pathways of disease, then "knock out" the genes from the DNA of mice, and observe the outcome with respect to the disease in question. If mice deprived of a certain gene get sicker or healthier, then the gene and the protein it codes for are suspect; if the mice remain as they were, it's evidence that the gene is likely a bystander.
Hotamisligil's research group has found a couple of knock-out knock-outs in this regard. The first is a gene that codes for tumor necrosis factor (TNF), a cytokine produced excessively in fat cells, which, after years of work, they suspected was involved in blocking the action of insulin. When they bred mice that were both obese and lacking TNF genes, they found that, despite the extra weight, the mice were less insulin resistant and less diabetic than their obese but genetically intact counterparts. In addition to establishing a genetic link between diabetes and obesity, these discoveries have also improved the genetic understanding of what Hotamisligil calls "the inflammatory connection" in metabolic syndrome. TNF, for example, is released in the inflammatory response of the body's immune system--a response that has also been strongly implicated in cardiovascular disease. "My personal view is that all of these diseases develop from a joint venture between the metabolic system and the inflammatory system, which are coupled together very tightly," says Hotamisligil. "We think the reason for this is evolutionary--that they all emerged from one single functional entity, act in concert on many occasions, and hence have maintained many common elements."
Hotamisligil's "new darlings" are the fatty acid binding proteins (FABPs), a unique class of molecules that bind to lipids. When one of the FABP genes, thought to be specific only to adipocytes, or fat cells, is destroyed, as in the TNF case, the resulting knock-out mice become resistant to diabetes. Recently, the FABPs have also done their part in substantiating Hotamisligil's inflammation theory. Hotamisligil has found the gene that produces FABPs exists not only in the fat cell, as originally presumed, but in the macrophage too; hypercholesterolemic mice lacking the FABP gene in these immunoregulatory cells become dramatically resistant to atherosclerosis.
With a great deal of time and effort, Hotamisligil has found that by blocking certain combinations of FABPs in adipocytes and macrophages, he can create mice that won't become obese, or diabetic, or atherosclerotic no matter how unlimited or unhealthy their diet--a pretty appealing scenario for those of us who like to have our cake without the consequences. But unfortunately it's not as simple as all that. First, it remains uncertain if such a scenario would be possible in humans. Second, completely knocking out genes may have unintended negative results or may be compensated by other genes designed to back up their function. "We want to go deeper into the pathway, we want to be more specific," says Hotamisligil, "because we can't possibly propose that we get rid of immune system genes and we'll be all set. It would be like proposing, let's cut off your head and you'll never have a headache."
Now Hotamisligil is working closely with population scientists like Rimm and Hu on projects to help put a genetic face on risk. Looking at the combination of genetic susceptibility and environmental variables will ideally provide a more accurate picture of both their additive and synergistic effects on our increased risk of diabetes and related diseases. "What we're trying to do is to make the bridge between the discovery of genes and their function in mouse models and the discovery of genetic variation of these same genes in human populations to identify patterns of susceptibility to diabetes," says Rimm. "Hypothetically, once you do that, there are several avenues of public health intervention. You could screen people to find someone who would benefit from a tailored diet or develop a drug that would mimic the function of a certain gene." While cooperation between epidemiologists and basic scientists is relatively new in public health, Rimm, Hu, and Hotamisligil all believe that it's something that comes naturally in the School's Department of Nutrition, where conversations over a cup of coffee or lunch spur new ideas and projects. Down the road they would like to see something more formalized to seal their joint efforts--collective grant proposals, perhaps even a center--to improve fundraising and better communicate their results to the public. But until that time, be it from the heart, the stomach, or the gene, these three hope that their more informal teamwork will pay off in advances that improve the prevention and treatment of diabetes for all. How sweet it is!
Alexandra Molloy
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Service will feature music by composers Duke Ellington, Thad Jones, Horace Silver, and Charlie Parker
Bethlehem, Pa., February 8, 2007—For the first time ever, the Moravian College Jazz Faculty Quartet, Moravian Choir, and Women's Chorus will present a Jazz Vespers Service on Sunday, February 18 at 4 p.m. at College Hill Moravian Church in Bethlehem, Pa.. Dave Bennett, college chaplain, will preside over by this unique new worship service using jazz selections as worship music. He specially designed the liturgy to include jazz choir anthems, congregational singing of hymns (arranged in a jazz style), and instrumental selections.
Featured in the Jazz Faculty Quartet are saxophonist Neil Wetzel, assistant professor; pianist Skip Wilkins artist/lecturer; drummer Gary Rissmiller, artist/lecturer; Al Gaumer on trumpet, and special guest bassist Greg Eicher. The Moravian College Choir is under the direction of Dr. Paula Ring Zerkle, and the Women's Chorus is conducted by Mr. Eduardo Azzati.
The choir will sing "This Little Light of Mine," a familiar Gospel tune, "The Spirit Moves in Marvelous Ways" written by Thomas Lloyd, and Come Sunday written by jazz legend Duke Ellington. The jazz faculty will perform "A Child is Born" by Thad Jones, "Heaven" by Duke Ellington, "Song for My Father" by Horace Silver, "The Blessing" by Ornette Coleman, and "Confirmation" by Charlie Parker.
Wetzel has performed in other church services around the east coast area with the Eric Mintel Jazz Quartet, and comments that he believes "this the first time that a worship service of this kind has been offered in the Lehigh Valley area. Many jazz musicians have made forays into sacred jazz music; Duke Ellington wrote and performed several sacred selections that became known as the Ellington Sacred Concerts, featuring chorus and his jazz orchestra. Dave Brubeck also wrote sacred works including an oratorio titled A Light in the Wilderness."
The concert is free and open to the public. A free will offering will be collected. College Hill Moravian Church is located at 72 W. Laurel Street, Bethlehem, Pa. Moravian College undertakes this event in collaboration with College Hill Moravian Church.
Moravian College is a private, coeducational, selective liberal arts college located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Tracing its founding to 1742, it is recognized as America's sixth-oldest college. Visit the Web site at www.moravian.edu.


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COLLEGE PARK--Something spectacular emerged from twenty minutes of running and jumping and shooting between Maryland and Wake Forest on Tuesday night at Comcast Center. My goodness, they began to play organized basketball.
After overcoming a slow first half that featured three shot clock violations and 18 turnovers between the two teams, Maryland's offense finally clicked. The Terrapins used a 16-3 run over a five-minute stretch in the middle of the second half to take control for good in a 71-60 win over the Demon Deacons in College Park.
Nick Faust helped to keep Maryland afloat in the first half as it navigated the doldrums, then powered the second-half push. He finished with a career-high 20 points on 7-of-11 shooting and added five rebounds and four assists.
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Maryland 71, Wake Forest 60
Mark Turgeon is sticking with what works and what works is Charles Mitchell in the starting lineup. After putting in work on the block against Duke, Mitchell was Maryland's primary offensive option on its first two possessions and it worked for much of the night.
He finished with 12 points on 6-of-8 shooting and seven rebounds.
For much of the first half, Maryland-Wake Forest was a struggle. Before Maryland's 11-2 run to end the half and enter the locker room up by five points, it was mostly a showcase for turnovers, missed free throws, and sloppy offense.
Need evidence? Maryland shot 1-of-6 from the free throw line, Wake Forest committed three shot clock violations, and the two teams combined for 18 first-half turnovers.
Stuck in neutral for much of the first half, Maryland broke out in the second. Evan Smotrycz and Nick Faust helped to key a 16-3 run that put Maryland up and, save a late push that got Wake Forest back within single digits, essentially sealed the game.
With five games remaining in the season entering Tuesday night, two of which come against ranked opponents, Maryland could not afford a loss against a team over which they were heavily favored.
Maryland is now 15-12 on the season and an even 7-7 in ACC play. Their next opponent? Undefeated and No. 1 Syracuse.


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9 CIS member states to launch joint network college
Nine member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) agreed to launch a joint virtual college following the 19th ministerial conference in Yerevan.
At a news conference on Friday, the education ministers of Armenia, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Moldova summed up the results of the meeting.
Armenia's Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan said the conference helped the participants raise the existing problems and agree over new projects.
"We agreed, in particular, to create a joint network college of CIS states," the minister said, promising that the project will promote the professional development of the education sector.
Ashotyan said they had proposed a plan for opening a free rating agency that would offer students an opportunity to rate the higher educational institutions across the region.
"The free rating agency operating on the CIS territory will help objectively evaluate the activities of all the higher educational institutions in the member states, allowing entrants to decide which university to apply," he said, adding that a proposal had been made to offer double-diplomas to graduates as a measure to promote the inter-university program.
"Art education was discussed first. The educational program Eurostudent, which aims to study the students' life with all its socio-economic aspects (housing, education) was also in the ministers' spotlight," Ashotyan added.
Speaking further, Belarusian Minister of Education Sergey Maskevich said the next session to be hosted by their country in 2014 will focus on high schools. He expressed hope that the virtual college will have been launched by then, enabling the member states to prepare highly qualified human resources by using one another's potential.
Considering the Yerevan meeting successful, President of the National Academy of Kazakhstan Alma Abilkasimova noted that the member states can use their Soviet heritage to build a new system through collaboration.
Tajikistan's Minister of Education Nuridin Saidov recommended his country's universities to the Armenian youth.
"Anyone can select profession in Tajikistan. Our country is always open, and we are ready to admit Armenian students," he said.
At the end, the Tajikistani and Armenian education ministers signed a joint agreement on extending bilateral cooperation.
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